It was the dead of night in the Satan City residential area. Gohan laid in the bed of none other than Videl Satan. His eyes were fixated on the ceiling wondering how he would get himself out of this predicament. He was tired. Completely exhausted in ways that he never imagined were possible.
He looked down at the beautiful girl in his arms. His heart fluttered, but his brain wanted nothing more than for her to move somewhere else. Why did she need to sleep on him anyways? She had spent the entirety of her life sleeping without him. Why start now?
It wasn't fair he decided. First this young lady decides to completely drain his energy, then she decides that she can't possibly sleep anywhere else?
Sure. It was cute for the first hour, but he literally cannot sleep while she is there.
Maybe he could just shut his eyes and try to rest.
Yeah. That must be better than nothing. Right?
Right.
He puts his plan into action. Slowly, very slowly, he closes his eyes. It takes a few moments but finally his eyes are fully shut.
Finally. Peace.
This peace lasts for a few minutes. While he still can't sleep, he does seem to be having something of a dream. Just flashes of images that don't make any sense, but he finds them relaxing for some reason.
Then she starts to move around. His eyes snap open again.
He looks down at the girl and dimly sees her deep cerulean eyes looking right back at him. Can't a guy get a break?
Apparently not.
His wide eyes consider her groggy ones and he sees that she isn't fully awake. The last thing that he wants is for her to wake up again. He can't do it again. She's just too demanding when she's awake.
Briefly he wondered if Hercule had the same trouble with this girl's mother years ago.
Then he realized what a weird thought that was.
God he's tired he reflected.
Right then. Her eyes are still open. Drowsy, but open.
Pondering this for a few seconds, he develops a plan of action.
Moving his hand from its place on her side to her back, he begins to gently rub her trying to comfort her back into sleep. Seeing some moderate success, he attempts to increase his efforts. As smoothly as he can, he rubs her back and culls her back to sleep. It's working.
Now for the final nail in the coffin.
Ever so slowly, he raises his head and brings his lips down to her forehead.
One sweet kiss on the forehead does the trick.
Her eyes close fully.
Bringing his head back down to the pillow, he gives a sigh of relief.
He closes his eyes once more and finds what comfort he can. Sleep is still out of the question.
This lasted all of five minutes.
She's starting to move again.
Awesome.
He grunts in frustration and pulls out his phone. Loading in the browser he does a search for ways to calm a sleeping girl.
Narrowing his criteria, he finds an entire forum board of men complaining about his exact predicament.
Scrolling through the conversations, he feels some sort of kinship with his fellow man in that he's not the only one to have experienced this.
Finally, he finds his answer. Apparently, some girls can't sleep well without "white noise".
He'd try anything at this point. It's been hours since this started. He's getting desperate.
Finding the recommended application he scrolls through the list of noises and settles on "light rain"
Turning it on he brings the phone to sit on the bed next to his side.
The girl's face scrunches up. Her eyes open.
"Gohan! Turn that thing off!" He hears Videl's voice command him.
But the forum told him to be persistent. Seeing that this noise wasn't working, he tries to go to something else. "Rain forest"
"I'm serious Gohan! Are you trying to wake my father?!" He hears her harshly whisper.
Come on.. work! Just a few more seconds! After all, the internet had never been wrong before.
Eyes on the girl, her expressions are getting worse. Desperate, he scrolls through the list and accidentally lands on "Extreme thunderstorm with hail and car alarms".
His eyes bulge out of his sockets and he looks at the phone in horror as the loud unruly noise makes itself apparent throughout the entire mansion.
However. The internet advise prevails. She girl calms down. In seconds, her expression goes from one of discomfort and anger to peaceful sleep.
This might just work!
The advise did say after all that once you have the white noise going, you can pretty much get them to sleep on their own.
Exactly what he was looking for.
Feeling a bit brave now, he moves the girl so that she is fully supported in his arms. Not a hard feat for him to accomplish. Sure his strength may have gone down in recent years, but it did have its advantages.
Standing up, he places the girl back down on her mattress and leaves the phone laying next to her.
Success! Very pleased with himself he happily goes back to his self-designated side of the bed and lays down.
The entire mansion is still echoing with the sounds of lightning and car horns, but the girl is at peace.
Closing his eyes, he begins to fall asleep.
At that moment, Videl jumps on him and pounds his head in with a frying pan.
"ARE YOU FREAKING KIDDING ME GOHAN! TURN THE DAMN THING OFF!"
From the bassinet at the side of the bed, little baby pan starts crying.
Videl's maternal instincts kick in and she goes to coddle her baby girl. The second she is in her arms, Pan falls asleep.
"Here Gohan, can you hold her for a bit? I'm exhausted and need some sleep." She hands Gohan the baby Pan and smashes his phone with the skillet. "And don't pull this noise dodo again. My father is nice enough to let us stay here for support and the least you can do is be grateful by letting him sleep!"
She roughly laid back on her side of the bed and little baby Pan cuddled with her daddy.
Gohan stood in the room for what felt like hours. He got tired of standing and laid back onto the bed with the small girl laying back on his chest.
Right back to square one.