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First Thoughts - Bulma

I was utterly terrified of him at first. He nearly destroyed the earth at one point in time, a heartless killer, with no mercy on innocent lives. But now he lives on the planet he was about to destroy, with a son, and a wife. Hmmm... Times change, no?

It was on planet Namek when I first saw him. Saw him clearly anyway. He had angled features and a small stature. If he wasn't so powerful I could probably drop kick him. I watched helplessly as he and another alien named Zarbon fought it out to get the dragon ball that Krillain had just received from Guru. At first I thought Zarbon was our savior, and really cute too. But now I'm glad that Zarbon was killed. He defeated Zarbon, and while Krillain and I tried to get away, he threw a couple of energy rays and we were trapped. We had to give up the dragon ball. He took the ball from us, with a smirk on his face. But when he looked at me... I sensed a sudden stop in his thoughts. His smirk started to disappear, but then he returned to his evil ways and flew off with our dragon ball, laughing. Then Gohan returned with the four star ball and told us of how he got kneed in the stomach by a particular saiyan prince...

Later that week, after Krillain had taken Gohan to see Guru, Krillain came with him and Gohan. They just took the dragon ball from me, without telling me what was going on. After that, I just waited in my cave, until I finally decided to after the dragon balls one my own. Then Namek started to have a whole bunch of earthquakes. After we got teleported back to earth, Gohan told me that it was Goku and Freeza fighting it out that was making the planet shake. I was surprised, when he stepped out from behind a tree and started saying that both Goku and Freeza were dead. All the Nameks had been teleported with us and so were the dragon balls. I wondered about how I was supposed to bring back the lives of Yamcha, Tenshin-han, Chao-tzu, Krillain and Goku, with only three wishes. The Nameks said that they would stay here as long as it takes to make our wishes come true.

As I was pondering how to wish the others back, he surprised me by stating that to bring life back to Krillain and Goku that I would have to wish for their remains to be brought back here. I still can't believe that I didn't think of that on my own. So I did as he suggested. But we had to wait 130 days for the dragon balls to reactivate. I invited everyone to stay with me in Capsule Corp HQ. I looked back at him. "Hey, you can stay with us too. You're kinda cute!" I winked at him and he just humphed and turned his head. But I think I saw a bit of pinkness on his face...

Krillain was brought back to life, but the news of Goku still being alive shocked everyone. 130 days later, we brought back my beloved Yamcha, and 130 days after that we brought back Tenshin-han and Chao-tzu together. Now all we had to do was wait for Goku to return.

When Mirai Trunks came to our world, I was wondering why he had lavender hair and blue eyes like me, but with those angular features like him. I was very stumped. I thought he was good looking. But of course, I had no idea he would be my future son.

Yamcha still lived with in Capsule Corp, but I was spending most of my time with someone else... him. He was so different, but in a way, so much like myself. He was obsessed with strength and power, and I was obsessed with beauty and inventions. I don't know what drew me to him, but whatever did, I'm glad of it.

He practically forced my father to build him a training gravity chamber, and he trained in it constantly. I was worried about him, more than I thought. One day, the chamber exploded, and I rushed out. I started to dig through the rubble when a hand came out. I freaked and jumped back, but he climbed out and stood up. I let out a breath I didn't realize I was holding, until he fell back down. I ran up to him and held him up in my arms. He wouldn't have it of course, and tried to get up again. But he fell back unconscious, and Yamcha and I carried him to the house. I hooked him up to the oxygen tanks and bandaged his wounds. My parents left the room, and I turned to leave as well when I heard him call out Goku's saiyan name. I decided to stay, and watch over him. I fell asleep and I don't know when he when he woke up, but when I awoke, he was gone. I knew where he had gone. The training chamber. I immediately called him and told him to get the hell back inside, but he yelled back at me, saying he had to be the strongest. I decided that talking to him was hopeless, so I cut off the communication. But I think he changed somehow, I couldn't place it then but...

Things did begin to change after that. He began to have feelings, emotions. The night when he said that he liked me, well, let's just say that night (and the rest of that week for that matter) was filled with teaching him a lot of stuff (wink wink).

After the birth of my Trunks, he started to be softer. He wouldn't just call me 'woman' anymore like he used to. After the defeat of Cell, he also showed his feelings a little more. He started to care somewhat about Trunks and even showed his affection towards me a little bit.

The threat of Buu took my husband away. When Goku told me that he had died trying to save the world, I cried out loud, but only for a little while. I had to be strong, to make sure that everyone else wouldn't give up hope. But that night, I cried softly, wishing his body was still next to mine... I can't remember a worse time. Then Buu killed us all. When we were resurrected, I was surprised to find that Goku had gained his life back, and that my husband was alive again. I ran to him, and for once he didn't back off, he even let me cry in his arms for awhile. That's when he said those three words to me for the first time. He whispered in my ear, "I love you Bulma." I smiled, my heart filled with happiness. "I love you too, Vegeta."