Chapter 016

Goku strode morbidly out of her bedroom. Bulma had just explained to her everything there was to know about the woman's menstrual cycle, and what it was for. Goku found the whole thing very unpleasant. In Goku's opinion, it was scary enough that babies came out of such a little teeny-tiny hole.

Goku could still remember very clearly what she thought when she found out everyone at one point in time had to journey out of that place. She had almost thrown up her last meal. She was so unbelievably grateful that she didn't remember the journey out.

Goku paused her stride for a moment, a look of complete and utter shock growing on her face, "Wait a minute. Now that I'm a girl, that means that I could get pregnant!" she mumbled, her arms trembling at her sides.

"I don't want to have to pop a baby out of that little hole! I don't want to be big and fat for 9 months!" Goku squealed, pointing her index finger down at her crotch for emphasis.

At the moment, Gohan had been passing by her. He immediately froze right where he was at, and looked at his father with a look of horror written on his face.

"But Mom told me that a big bird called the stork brings babies when mommies and daddies want them," said Gohan in shock.

"That's what she wants you to think, Gohan, to keep you innocent. But really, that's not what happens. It kind of doesn't even make sense," replied Goku, her shock wearing off as she realized that she'd have to have sex with a man to actually get pregnant.

"So then, where do babies really come from, dad?" asked Gohan, greatly intrigued with the subject.

Goku's face visibly paled at the question her son had just asked her. "Well, um," she responded awkwardly, "How about I tell you later, okay buddy?"

"Why later?" asked Gohan.

"I need to… go… do stuff," replied Goku, zipping out of the room in an instant.

Bulma approached Goku perfectly calm, although, all of Goku's disgusted expressions that were shot at Bulma when she had explained all about a woman's period were still fresh in her mind. She had tried to explain to Goku how to use both pads and tampons, but the tampons didn't go over too well. Well, she'll learn in due time.

"Goku, why don't we go into town, and get you some clothes of your own today. You were practically half naked when you came back from fighting with the androids. Maybe it would be best if you were covered up at least a little bit more. We could get you some girl fighting gis!" persuaded Bulma happily.

"Okay," replied Goku, grabbing hold of Bulma's hand, and transporting them to the shopping area in West City.

Once Bulma had regained her breath from her near heart attack due to surprise, she looked toward Goku, and smiled.

"I'll go get you some underwear, and you can go pick out a couple fighting gis," said Bulma, "Oh, and Goku, please look for clothes that actually fit your new body!" she added in, as Goku started to leave.

Goku walked off to the store she had always bought her gis in, and on instinct, headed straight into the men's section. She grabbed five orange gis and blue undershirts of all sizes, unaware of her own, and went straight to the counter.

There was a handsome young man at the counter, probably in his early 20's. He had spiky brunette hair, and sparkling blue eyes. He was tall in stature, and had a pretty good physique, which wasn't surprising, considering he was working at a martial arts supply store.

The man at the counter looked Goku up and down and smiled, "How are you doing today, little lady? What brings you here?" he asked kindly.

Goku smiled sweetly and replied, "I'm doing fine thank you, how about you? I came here to buy myself some fighting gis."

"But… pardon me, might I ask what your name is?" asked the man.

"My name? Oh! Yeah, My name's Goku! What about yours?" she chimed in response.

"But, Goku, those are men's fighting outfits. Here, let me show you the section that would fit your slender body," he professionally suggested. "Oh, and my name's Koshin, a pleasure to meet you, Miss Goku."

He paused as they entered the women's section, a very small section at that. Goku looked in front of her, and saw only three different assorted gis and undershirts for women. There was pink, blue, and purple. They also had the same color undershirts, just a bit lighter.

Goku frowned, picking up a blue undershirt, and said, "There's no orange."

"Oh, I'm sorry, Goku. We don't carry orange in our women's inventory because it isn't very popular with the lady's tastes. Well, I can see that you were holding a blue undershirt. Why don't you get a blue gi, and a lighter blue undershirt?" suggested Koshin.

"Well, ok," said Goku solemnly, "I really do wish you had orange gis, though. I would have bought all you had!"

"Here, why don't you try these sizes on in the changing room. They're the only two sizes we have that might fit you. The others would be too big on you!" he said, slyly putting his hand in hers and directing her toward the changing room he spoke of previously.

Goku tried on the two different sizes. One was way too loose, and it slipped off of her easily! The other size was a much too snug fit! She didn't like the fact that it made her cleavage show. Though, too tight was way better than too loose, because she reasoned that the loose pair would show everything when she bent down! That would make Bulma really mad again.

Goku strode out of the dressing room with a pout on her face, and a pair of the snug-fitting blue clothing secured in her arms.

"So what will it be?" asked Koshin with a large smile stretching across his face.

"I want five of this size," replied Goku, dropping her pout immediately, and returning with a big grin of her own.

"Okay, no problem," stated Koshin, grabbing four more identical pairs, and heading toward the check-out counter.

After she had bought the clothing she had come for, she noticed a nervous look apparent on the Koshin's face.

"What's wrong?" asked Goku sympathetically.

"Well, it's just… I… uh—" began Koshin, twiddling his thumbs together nervously.

"What is it, Koshin? You can tell me," replied Goku, with an air that told any stranger to the both of them, that she had known him for a very long time, even though she had just met the man.

Koshin cleared his throat, "In that case, I was wondering if maybe you'd like to go out to dinner with me tonight?" blurted out the man nervously.

"Dinner! Why sure, I'd love to go out to eat," replied Goku, completely oblivious of what Koshin was really getting at.

"Wonderful, where do you live?" asked Koshin, leaning up against the counter, and trying to act nonchalant.

"Um… you wouldn't happen to know where Capsule Corporation is, would you?" questioned Goku.

Koshin took on a look of surprise and replied, "Of course I know where Capsule Corp. is, it's only the biggest building for miles! That's where Dr Brief and his family live! Are you a relative of the family?"

"Oh, well, I guess you could say that, but technically I'm just a really close friend of Bulma and her parents of course," answered Goku.

"That sounds pretty cool," replied Koshin, nodding his head smoothly, "Then I guess I'll pick you up around 7:00 PM?" he continued.

"I don't have any plans tomorrow. It sounds good to me!" chimed Goku, beginning to head toward the exit, "I'll see you then!"

"Yeah, later, Goku," replied Koshin, making a short wave as she left the building.

The second the door closed behind Goku, Koshin balled both his hands into fists, and jumped up into the air, shouting, "Yes!" in victory.

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Not long after exiting the martial arts supply store, Goku met up with Bulma, and showed her that she had indeed bought some female fighting gis. Even though she had taken the time to remind Goku, Bulma was still a bit surprised that Goku had actually gotten a size that fit her.

"No orange this time, huh?" questioned Bulma.

"They didn't have any in women's apparel," muttered Goku somberly.

"I'm sorry, Goku, that's too bad! Oh, and here's the type of underwear, and bras I bought you," pointed out Bulma, opening up one of various shopping bags she had and showing the merchandise to her friend.

"Bulma, how come they have flowers on them? Also, they're really small again," complained Goku with a pouty frown on her face.

"Goku, women's underwear is different from men's. You'll eventually get used to the new type of fit," reminded Bulma, "Oh, I almost forgot, I also got you some casual clothing for when you go outside the house."

Goku sighed and thought aloud, "I wonder if Vegeta would want to train with me?"

For a moment, Goku let the events that had occurred between the two the previous night slip her mind.

"Somehow I doubt that, Goku. He never seems to want to train with you or anyone else other than himself," mumbled Bulma, "But then again you never know. That man sure is a hard to read book!"

Bulma then realized how different Vegeta had been acting around Goku lately. He doesn't think of her that way… no, he wouldn't… would he? she thought to herself.

For the first time in her whole entire life, Bulma felt a tinge of jealousy toward Goku.