AN: lol this started on tumblr but a lot of people preferred to be here instead and who am i to disappoint

So Into You 1

"Will you come back and make me your bride?"

Goku for some reason just couldn't get that sentence out of his head. They were heading towards the location of the last dragon ball, and Chichi's words kept repeating in his head. He didn't know why but for some reason it's just not leaving him.

"Na, Bulma," he suddenly said, leaning his body against the seat in front. "What's a bride?"

Without warning, the girl suddenly stepped on the brakes as he and Oolong gripped on the car for their life. Goku even falling in the tiny space between the front and back seats.

"Hey, what's the deal?" he asked as he rubbed the back of his head that he hit somewhere.

"What?!" Bulma exclaimed as she turned to look at him. "You don't know what a bride is?"

"Yeah," he answered, sitting back down. "What is it?"

Oolong scoffed and turned up his nose. "I can't believe you don't know what a bride is."

Goku chose to ignore him. "Is it something to eat?"

"Oh Goku," Bulma chuckled as she started the car once more. "A bride isn't something to eat," then she started giggling weirdly to Goku's confusion. "Although, if you played your cards right, hehehehe…"

She shook her head and continued on with her driving. "But anyway. A bride is someone who's getting married to the love of their life."

"Married? Love?" Goku repeated in confusion. "Granpa always tells me he loves me. Like that?"

"No silly," Bulma said. "It's a - different sort of love. It's the kind of love that makes your heart beat fast, and takes your breath away, and gives you all these feelings in your stomach. Oh I can't wait what kind of man the great dragon would give me!"

"So it's not something to eat?" Oh poop, so Chichi didn't want to eat with him? And here he thought he could get to eat something delicious...

"Nope!" Bulma repeated. "Once you get older, maybe you'll understand what it is then. Anyway, we're getting closer to the dragon ball!"

What about our wedding?

Goku woke up with those words in his head. It's been awhile since he saw Chichi and he could not for the life of him figure out why he was suddenly dreaming of her. And it's usually the same thing every time. It would always start out the same thing, with him napping beside Chichi by the lake as she rambled about weddings and flowers and that bride stuff (even if Bulma already explained it to him all those years ago, he still didn't know what it was). But then he would wake up and Chichi would turn to him, except this time, she would just smile and lean closer to him. Even if it's a dream, for some reason it almost felt real because he dreamt that he could feel. He didn't get it, but as she came closer, he could feel her soft skin against him, how smooth it was pressed against him. He could feel her breath ghosting on his lips as he looked down to her, a smile on her face. Suddenly his arm would wrap around her hip without him knowing (and her soft, smooth skin just felt so good under his touch) as he would try to pull her closer to him. She would only giggle and lean away, saying those words that still puzzled him before he would wake up with his dongle painfully straight up in his pants.

What about weddings indeed.

He walked out of his room in the Lookout to try and calm himself down, and probably not sleep for the time. He would just have the same dream again and again. Man couldn't Chichi just make him sleep?

He walked around the place until he saw Kami and Mr. Popo standing by the edge. They seem to be talking, but with how far he was from them, he couldn't exactly hear them.

"-eddings are always fun, aren't they Kami-sama?" Mr. Popo asked the god as Goku neared them. The two of them didn't seem to notice him, or if they did, they didn't mind him.

"Indeed," Kami-sama nodded. "Humans may be fickle at times, but this sacred ritual of forming a bond with one another is one of the beautiful things they have done."

"Whatcha looking at?" Goku asked as he made himself known.

"Oh hello, Goku," Kami-sama greeted him as they turned around to face him. "We were watching a wedding."

Wedding? Like the one Chichi was talking about? Maybe this could be a good time to find out what it was!

"Oh can I see, can I see?" he asked eagerly as he stood beside the green being. Kami-sama only chuckled let him have a view of the celebration going on. He looked down and immediately saw all the food served. Wow, was that what weddings were? A place where there's lots of food? Why the heck didn't he let Chichi do it the last time he saw her?

"That's a lot of food!" he exclaimed excitedly as his eyes twinkled. That roasted pig looked delicious.

"Of course," Kami-sama said patiently. "A celebration like this deserved quite a feast after all."

"What are they celebrating?" Goku asked as he forced himself to turn away from the food (it was very hard).

"See those two people," Kami-sama pointed to two girls wearing really large and pretty white dresses. "Those two have just gotten married."

"Married?" Didn't Bulma say something like that back then?

Kami-sama nodded. "It's when two people love each other join together to spend their lives together for as long as they live."

That's an awful long time to be together…

"Both of these brides promised themselves to one another a few hours ago, making an oath to care for each other and love one another."

Love, there that word goes again. What was it really? Bulma said it's not like how his Grandpa loved him. Was the love between those two girls different too?

"What's love?" he suddenly blurted out, looking back down to the two girls who had their arms around each other, swaying gently as their foreheads touched together.

He looked back towards Kami-sama, the god having a curious expression on his face.

"My grandpa always told me he loved me when he was still alive, but my friend Bulma told me that love was different. I don't get it." he scratched his head, getting confused about this whole thing all over again.

"Love is a complicated thing, I agree," Kami-sama chuckled. "Even I sometimes don't understand what it is, but I suppose the heart knows what it wants."

Heart? What did have to do with anything?

"See, Goku, the love your grandpa showed you was a kind of love, the kind that was shared between family. Because he loved you, you shared a special kind of bond and affection with him one can only feel with family.

"Your friend Bulma was talking of another kind of love, a love shared between two people who built a bond so special they feel all sorts of things."

"Like fast hearts, and weird feelings in your stomach?" Goku remembered Bulma's words.

"It can be," Kami-sama answered. "But sometimes, it can make you feel the opposite, that just by being with this person is enough to make you feel calm and be at peace. Sometimes, it can be both. Like those two girls," he pointed back to the girls. "Those two have had those feelings you described, but at the same time, they are also at peace together. Marrying each other was their way of showing how much they love each other by devoting themselves for each other for the rest of their lives."

Goku observed the two girls sharing smiles together as they looked at each other's eyes. Goku didn't think that they had their hearts beating fast, but he could see what Kami-sama could see what he meant by being at peace.

He remembered his times with Chichi, his last time spending time alone with her. When he saw her by the lake, he immediately felt so happy to see her, and maybe he did feel his heart beat fast for a second and his stomach feeling weird. But he only ignored that his heart and thought that his stomach was just being weird because he was still hungry even though he already ate lots of apples that time.

But when he slept by her, hearing her soft rambles as he napped, Goku couldn't remember any other times where he felt so peaceful.

"You seem to be in deep thought," Kami-sama remarked, interrupting his thoughts.

"Hmm?" he blinked as he looked at the guardian. "Oh, I was just thinking about my other friend. She wanted me to make her my bride."

"Oh my," Mr. Popo gasped. "And what did you say Goku?"

"I said okay," he answered simply.

"Oh dear."

"But that was when I thought it was something to eat!" he exclaimed. "I didn't know what a bride was!"

He looked away from them, only to turn back to the two girls in their pretty dresses. Would Chichi wear something like when she became his bride?

"Well, now that you know what it is, would you still be like her to be your bride?"

Did he?

"I- I don't know," Goku confessed quietly. "I still don't get everything, and this whole love thing is still making me confused, but when you told me all that thing with being at peace and weird stomach feeling, I feel like maybe I do, but at the same time, I still have no clue what everything means."

"Kami-sama only chuckled and patted his head. "Don't worry, Goku. I'm sure you'll figure it out one day. You're still young. You have all the time in the world."

Goku could only nodded as the three of them went back to the celebration, watching as the girls finally let their lips touch, smiling against them.

There was a fleeting image of him sharing that kind of act with Chichi, and for a moment Goku thought that spending his whole life with Chichi would be an amazing adventure to have.