The Unbreakable Bond. (Edited Version.)

The Prince Returns.

There was an eerie atmosphere outside the palace as the King stood by the palace doors with his guards, neither spoke a word as they all maintained their focus on the vessel in front of them. Their hands pressed against their foreheads to shield their eyes from the bright lights that flashed from the ship and they waited patiently for it to land before sauntering towards it.

The prince was the first to take a step out with Nappa and Raditz soon following behind him. He clenched his fists and did his best to mask his fears as glanced over at his father smiling widely at him. Last thing he wanted was to alert his father about the threat towards his unborn child. It was more of a personal matter that he felt confident to take care of without panicking the rest of the warriors.

"Ah! My son has returned!" The king welcomed him in open arms.

Vegeta stood there folding his arms and scowled at him. "Cut the crap father, what happened whilst I was gone?"

Nappa and Raditz preserved their distance as they could sense an awkward tension between them both.

"I haven't seen you in a while and this is how you approach me?!" The king sneered at his son. "If you must know, your mate is now bearing your cub." He stated so matter of factly that induced his son to roll his eyes at him.

"Anything else?" Vegeta questioned while flicking his wrist as he started to follow his father back into the palace.

"I had Bardock to stay here to keep an eye, the low-class beta would've just harassed me otherwise. We were made to believe you'd have been gone longer?" The king looked at his son, who was staring ahead as they entered the corridor.

"He no longer required our assistance, for now so allowed us to come back here" the Prince didn't really want to talk about what had transpired or the degradation he endured. He looked at his father and saw his face contort to consternation.

"I see," he paused and stroked his beard while quirking a brow, they continued to walk along the corridors till they approached outside Vegeta's chamber. "well, I shall leave you to rest son."

Vegeta just nodded at his father and waited for his father to stride away before entering his room. He gently closed his chamber door behind him and took a deep breath closing his eyes till he heard a groan coming from where the bed is. He opened his eyes and could see Kakarot huddled up in the bed with blankets and ambled toward him..

"What's wrong with you?" Vegeta asked as he sat on the edge of the bed and rubbed Kakarots arm.

There was a short exasperated sigh from Kakarot before he turned to face him and slowly propped himself up on his elbows. "Well I'm pregnant..."

"Shit! No way? Aren't you supposed to have sex for that to happen?" Vegeta replied in a satire tone before snickering as Kakarot pouted at him and huddled himself up in the blankets again.

"Glad you find this funny!" Kakarot huffed, cradling his stomach with his tail.

"You're not wrong, Kakarot... I find it hilarious!" he chuckled some more.

"When were you going to tell me about joining Freiza?" Kakarot slowly sat himself back up, he saw how quickly the prince's facial reaction diminished, from the smirking and chuckling to no emotion.

"Kakarot, you don't need to know about things like that!"

"You know, it's not fair! I would love to be given the chance to fight, instead I'm busy spewing my guts up..."

"Oh poor you!" Vegeta snorted and got up from the bed. He stripped down to his underwear. There was a small muffled squeal heard behind him and he pivoted around noticing Kakarot hiding his face under the blankets.

"What's the matter? You are behaving like you've never seen another man's body before," Vegeta smirked and gradually climbed into bed next to his pregnant mate.

Kakarot pulled himself to sit up more. He sighed, looking down at his mother's pendant. Vegeta watched as he took the chain off and placed it on top of the bedside table. It was the first time Vegeta had ever seen him take the chain off. Kakarot then curled up on his side again with his back facing Vegeta.

Vegeta sighed and coiled his tail around Kakarot's, and stroked Kakarot's arm with his hand staring at the back of him.

"Vegeta..." came a muffled voice from the coiled up saiyan.

"Hm?"

"Do you...love ...me?" Kakarot bit onto the blanket, blushing hard for even asking that.

Taken back by what he was asked, Vegeta moved his hand back to himself, but left his tail wrapped around Kakarot's. Whenever he heard those words, it would unsettle him slightly. He wasn't one for expressing such emotions. Kakarot could sense the awkwardness as silence permeated the room once more and he pursed his lips.

"Sorry, it's just something my mother always said to me, and it invariably left a warm feeling in my heart."

"Could've just been indigestion," the prince retorted

There was a hiatus. As silence filled the place again and neither saiyan knew what to say next. Kakarot let out a small whine as he felt his stomach lurch and gurgle. He uncoiled his tail from Vegeta's and ran to the bathroom. Concerned, Vegeta sat up and looked in the direction his mate ran to.

"Kakarot?" Just as he called out his mates name he heard retching. He quickly got out of bed and rushed towards the en suite bathroom, there he saw Kakarot leaning over the toilet, throwing up. He crouched down to rub Kakarot's back.

Kakarot's tail curled a slight as he felt his back being rubbed and he slowly eased himself back up. He looked at Vegeta giving him a funny look it wasn't like Vegeta to be so caring like that. Vegeta got up and started to fill the bath, while Kakarot leaned against the cold bathroom wall that gave him some relief after sweating so much from vomiting. He peered at Vegeta smiling a meager but was met with a glare.

"What?!" Vegeta scoffed at him and averted his glance away.

"Nothing, it's just...you are being so nice to me."

"Hn, that's only because you are carrying my cub low class," Vegeta swirled his hand around the bath water to check the temperature, feeling content with it he glanced back at his mate. "Your bath is ready," He said and dried his hands on the towel.

Just as he was about to head back into the bedroom. He felt Kakarot grab him, that led him to raise a brow as Kakarot stared intensely into his eyes.

"Thank you..." Kakarot softly spoke while cradling his stomach.

Vegeta responded with a curt nod and left Kakarot to take a bath in peace. As Kakarot was laying in the bath, with the warm water soothing his stomach. Vegeta was stood on the balcony looking up at the starry sky. Flashbacks from his mission came flooding in, causing him to tense up.

"You know monkey prince, you should really know not to ever speak to Frieza like that!" Zarbon had Vegeta chained up by his arms, and whipped across Vegeta's bare skin, the sharp intense pain caused him to scream out in agony. "Such an ugly thing" he whipped again. The whipping continued that led to Vegeta passing out and whenever he did he had ice-cold water thrown at him to wake him up.

Vegeta gritted his teeth. He had to endure a lot for confronting the tyrant. He knew how powerful Freiza is, his fists shook in anger remembering how the tyrant said he'd have his cub. He had to train if he wanted to have any chance to protect what's his.