A Stolen Kiss

By Wynora

Chapter Five; a Reunion Between Old Friends

“Why did you keep this Bansho fan in the first place?” Krillen asked his old former Sensei. “Because!!” the old man named Master Roshi yelled, “I figured that by the time the Ox King needed it, he would sent his wife to get it!”

Krillen raised an eyebrow, “The Ox King actually has a wife?” he mumbled.

“Yes and I can tell you, that woman was a very delicious looking female!” the old perverted man said with a huge grin on his face, “However, she died more then a few years ago…” he sighed, “Such a shame…”

“If she died a few years ago, how come you decided to give the Bansho Fan back to the Ox King only today?”

“I ran in to it today!” he yelled at the little monk, hitting him on the head with one of his magazines.

“So you want me to go back to his castle and bring him the fan?” Goku asked, his hands behind his head as he laid spread out on the couch, “Yes, you said you were bored weren’t you?!”

Goku sat up straight and grinned, “I did say that.”

Krillen shook his head, “You just defeated Junior two days ago! You barely survived that battle and now you already feel like going out on ‘another adventure’?!”

“Yeah?” Goku asked.

“Oh brother…” the short bold monk sighed, “But I am not coming with you, your fight with Junior was enough excitement for me to call it a week! Or maybe a month… or maybe a fricking life time!”

“Fine, I’ll go out by myself then.” Goku said and jumped up, “So where’s that Bansho huh?” Master Roshi handed out an odd looking thing wrapped up into old sessions of newspapers.

“Now don’t unpack it and go waving it around, it’s a dangerous thing and if handled the wrong way it can cause many disasters!” Master Roshi said shaking his index finger at the young warrior in front of him.

“Don’t worry! I won’t do it; I’ll just head to the Ox King’s castle and then hand him the fan and go straight out.” He turned to Krillen, “You sure you don’t want to join me?” he asked his best friend.

“No thanks just go a head already.”

Goku shrugged his shoulders and grinned, “See ya!” he yelled at his best friend and the old man standing in the corner of the room rummaging through an old box, “Yeah, bye!” the man mumbled with his head sticking in to the open box. He laughed loudly as he had managed to find an old magazine he loved way too much.

Walking out the Kamé House Goku looked up, “Flying Nimbus!” he yelled and with in seconds he could hear his friend tittering down towards the sky and landing straight in front of him. He jumped up, “To the Ox King’s castle Nimbus!” he said and the cloud took of with high speed.

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The trip towards the Ox King kingdom was longer then he remembered, his tired eyes scanning the grounds below him and Nimbus as they moved forward. “We should have been there by now…” he mumbled bored.

They had reached a blank land filled with sand, in the distance there was nothing moving over it. His eyes were starting to shut despite themselves. The sun kept on burning on his body, causing every muscle in his body to whine. He tried to look just over the clouds, counting them and restraining himself from wanting to jump off Nimbus and hop over every single cloud he encountered... But, after a long sigh, decided against it, he tried that once and he could remember how that ended up. He grinned and rubbed his eyes. Just a little longer, with another yawn he peeked over the Nimbus again.

There was nothing there….

Just long blank lands filled with sand and… Goku blinked as he saw someone moving over the yellow sand. He could clearly see it was a human being, wearing something blue, he leaned further over the cloud, squinting his eyes slightly to get a better view.

It appeared to be a young woman, walking there with out a care in the world.

Nimbus felt his rider wanting to get closer to the girl that was walking over the fields, speeding up he had gained in on her with in seconds. Goku stood up and jumped of Nimbus, all of his energy spurred straight into his limbs, “Hey!” he said cheerfully causing the young woman to scream and jump up in fright.

“Wow… don’t worry!” Goku held up his hands and grinned nervously, “Didn’t mean to scare you.”

“W-who…” she spluttered then turned her head slightly, “G-goku?” she stood up, her eyes wide.

He blinked, “Yeah, how’d you know?”

She squealed and jumped up running right towards him and with out giving Goku the time to response she threw herself against him hugging him tightly.

“I thought I’d never see you again!” she yelled as Goku stood frozen to the spot his hands waving about in panic, “D-do I know you?!” he panicked and tried to pry her off but the woman held on tightly.

“Oh silly!” she finally released him, Goku let out a sigh of relief.

“Don’t you remember me?!” she asked him, Goku only blinked and looked at her face.

“Nope, no bells.”

“Oh come on!” she yelled her voice reaching up causing Goku to flinch, “Did I truly mean that little to you?!” her face turned red and Goku felt himself lost. First screaming and hugging, then screaming and looking like she wanted to pound his skull with her fists.

How he disliked yelling women.

“Goku, we met here years ago!” she yelled, frustrated.

He blinked again, and then looked at the girl in front of him. She had black hair tied up in a pony tail, bangs falling around her face. Wearing a blue… well something that resembled a good fighting gi.

“I am sorry…” he finally said, there was nothing familiar about the girl to him.

“Unbelievable…” the young woman sighed and shook her head, “After what we have been through, I thought you’d at least remember me…” she mumbled.

“Fine... I am ChiChi, the Ox King’s daughter?”

Goku’s eyes grew wide, “ChiChi!” he exclaimed, “But… you don’t… what- hey what happened to your helmet and the armour and-“ ChiChi smirked, “So you –do- remember me.”

He chuckled, “Well… you’ve changed.” He said sheepishly, “I’d say, you haven’t changed a bit though… other then being a full grown man.” She replied smiling.

He laughed and placed his hand behind his head, “Yeah, couldn’t stop –that- from happening.”

ChiChi shook her head and, which was really mind puzzling to Goku; her smile disappeared from her face which was immediately replaced with a scowl.

“I am, however really disappointed in you Goku.” She said in a solemn voice.

“D-disappointed?” he asked and swallowed hard, the look on her face was unnerving. “Yes, very much in fact!” she spat, “You rushed off to get the Dragonballs and never even came back! Ever!”

He grinned sheepishly, “Well, I was kind of he-“

She waved him off, “It doesn’t matter.” She sighed, “The old witch Babba told us how you defeated the Red Ribbon Army.” With a little struggle she managed to smile, “I shouldn’t be angry with the boy who saved the world from the Red Ribbon Army.”

Goku felt a wave of relief course through his body, “So you’re not?” ChiChi shook her head, “But, I do think you should at least stay for the next two weeks.”

“Two weeks? But I only came back to give your father the Bansho fan and then head back to Kamé Island.”

“Oh come on Goku!” ChiChi grabbed his arm and dragged him towards the forest, “Just for old time sake! You owe us this much.” She kept on talking and dragged the troubled teen with her, “After all, if it weren’t for you none of us would have been around to see the day! You have to see how the village is doing, how father is doing and you should most definitely stay for my wedding!”

“W-wedding?” he stammered and shot a pleading looking to his Nimbus friend in the air which was still tittering above them. “Yes, you do remember that day at the forest with my fiancé do you? We’re getting married next week. Oh Goku,” she pulled him closer as she squealed in delight, “The day is finally arriving. I am getting married and I want you as my friend to be there to see the day. It would mean so much to me!”

Goku swallowed hard, smiled at the Princess which was attached to his arm, “Alright, I’ll stay until the wedding.”

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To say that the Ox King was surprised to see his daughter come back home with Goku was absolutely an understatement. He, just like his daughter, threw his large arms (al though they were four times larger then his daughter’s arms) around the startled young man and practically crushed him.

“My fellow Ox villagers!” the Ox King’s strong voice roamed over the rest of the village, “The young boy we all know as the conqueror of the Red Ribbon Army has yet again set foot into our village as a young man!” villagers all over jumped up and cheered for Goku who stood their in awe.

“My daughter has just informed me that he will be staying here for two weeks, so, if you please help me make him feel welcomed it would be greatly appreciated!”

Cheers of ‘It would be an honour’, ‘You’re our hero Goku!’ and even a ‘Please marry my daughter!’ echoed through the village as more people jumped and waved with grins on their faces.

Goku took a step back and swallowed hard, “Well you are a hero.” ChiChi’s voice sounded in his head as she chuckled at him.

Never in his life had he felt this uncomfortable to be amongst people. Every body greeted him with a bow or wide eyes, gaping mouths and over and over again had to refuse several offerings from villagers a like. The offerings consisted either out of flowers, pots and pans made out of gold and once, which made ChiChi laugh really loud, a girls hand in marriage…. For the third time that day.

But there was only one thing he could not refuse, one thing he eagerly accepted.

Food.

Once the villagers found out that he only accepted food, he was over thrown with the amounts of dishes that were brought to him. Yet again he was digging himself into the piles of food, the discomfort disappeared and he nearly buried himself alive in it.

But even his stomach, surprisingly enough even to Goku ended up filled to the max. But refusing the food he did not, once he had been given his own room he had pilled up all the food in it. Saving it for later.

“Wow…” Goku managed to say once he and ChiChi had made it to the palace garden.

“You could say that again, I told you, you should have returned right away.” ChiChi grinned at him.

“Heh, if only I knew sooner.” He gulped and patted his full stomach.

“I still wonder though.” ChiChi eyed his stomach, “Where do you put all of that food?!”

He grinned and placed his hands behind his head, “Where everyone puts it.” He stated simply.

“Naturedly,” sitting down on the bench she waited for Goku to join her. He did and he stretched his legs, waving absent minded at a small group of children that were cheering at him from a distance, “But you’d think your stomach would have been twenty times large then even my father’s!”

They fell into a comfortable conversation and Goku soon forgot all about the stares of the villagers that passed him. He had told ChiChi about everything he had gone through since he last saw her as ChiChi told him how she, her father and the villagers gathered their lives together and rebuilt their homes.

“It is strange isn’t it?”

“What is?” Goku asked his eyes on the sun settling down for the night.

“We are part of the same world, we breathe the same air yet know or see so little of each other.”

Goku looked puzzled. “What do you mean?”

“I always thought, right after I heard you defeated the Red Ribbon Army, I thought that that was your greatest challenge. When, listening to the rest of your story, that was merely the beginning.”

Shrugging his shoulders, “It isn’t all that-“ “Now don’t you dare getting all noble or whatever on me Goku, I heard your stories. You’ve faced death and apparently saved us all from many more dangers then we initially thought!”

“You’re a hero Goku.” ChiChi smiled, her bright eyes looking into his, “I am proud of you.”

For just a few seconds, the world froze and the smile and bright eyes looking back at him caused his heart to skip a beat.

“ChiChi!” a voice called out and the moment burst up like a bubble, Goku turned his head to see a man walking through the garden in haste. “Ré!” ChiChi called and jumped up, the moment he reached her she flung her arms around his neck, “You’re back!”

“Couldn’t stay away for too long now could I?” the man named Ré replied as he hugged her back, “So this is Goku!” he exclaimed the moment his eyes landed on Goku who was watching the two with an eyebrow raised.

“Yes this is Goku; he’s going to stay here for the wedding!” ChiChi said happily and moved to the side, Ré, with his dark eyes and short black hair reached out his hand. Goku stood up and shook his hand, “Hello.” He said and smiled. The man was just about his height, looking pretty dressed up, wearing something which Yamucha only would wear during ‘special occasions’ with Bulma.

“I heard many stories about you; I thank you for saving my fiancée’s life.” Goku shrugged his shoulders, “It erhm, was nothing really….”

To Be Continued…

A/N : I decided to post this chapter up a lot sooner, because I know, with in two weeks I won’t be able to work or update anything yet. Since we bought a new house and need to move everything etc. Whoa… I am definitely not looking forward to that.

Either way, before any one starts to question something in this chapter. Such as Goku knowing what marriage was, in my story he got to find out a little sooner what marriage was. ChiChi explained it him; I hope you caught that in my story. XD

Anyway, we’re heading to the good part of the story! Please bear with me people! Leave me a review, please?? XD