AN: The following is a collection of short drabbles about the four main couples of DBZ: Videl and Gohan, Bulma and Vegeta, Goku and ChiChi and Krillin and 18. It was a little challenge I set myself in order to get away from my regular, longer fics. The chapters are short and light: nothing too serious or consuming. Each is set at different times and they're all totally separate from each other. You can read your favourite couple or all of them, I really don't mind.
This first chapter is Gohan and Videl's chapter: Summer.
Disclaimer: All characters used in these stories are property of Akira Toriyama.
Natsu Yasumi
"Summer Holidays"
Videl stared out the open widow idly, blue eyes scanning a landscape she didn't quite see, a book lying forgotten on her lap. Summer. It was such a welcoming time of year. Hot, lazy days without school. Eating ice cream at the fair. Hour after hour of sunshine and blue skies.
Yes, it was very welcoming.
Videl could quite happily say she lived for summer. If it were possible, she would follow summer all around the planet and back again, just to feel its happy embrace. Because it was hard to be unhappy in the summer: with all that heat it was too exhausting to be unhappy. Well, for Videl it was at least.
The sun was setting now, dipping gracefully into the horizon that lingered behind the towers and buildings of Satan City. That was something else she liked about summer: summer nights were always welcomed, perhaps more so than the days. You couldn't look forward to night during winter or autumn or even spring, because why would you want it to get dark and cold and scary?
No, in summer, night was always welcomed. It was a relief when the moon replaced the hot sun, bringing a cool breeze that matched the diamond array of stars in the dark sky. Of course, you couldn't see many stars in a city like Videl's, but other people could.
I'm sure Gohan will be able to see them in the country.
She smiled to the sunset. Yes, Gohan was the kind of person who would enjoy seeing the stars at night. He was just that kind of guy.
"Videl? Are you alright?" Videl snapped back to attention and looked up at Gohan, sat cross-legged on the window ledge.
"Oh, yes sorry. I guess I drifted off again, huh?" She laughed softly and picked up her book again, trying to work out where she left off in the thick novel.
Gohan watched her, legs tucked under her where she sat on the window seat, a pillow against her back. She curled a bothersome lock of hair behind her ear, the short tuft falling back again almost instantly, only to be pushed away once more.
He smiled and looked back to his book.
When he looked up again he had read another six pages of the small black script, but Videl was staring into the distance again, and her book, still on the same page she had been on half an hour ago, was forgotten all over again.
"It's such a nice sunset today, don't you think?" She said, smiling up at him. Gohan had to smile back. She's so… cute. He looked out over the city, rays of evening sun settling over the buildings and roads and houses.
"You're right."
"Gohan, I can't read this book." Videl stated, nodding her head decisively. "I have no wish or intention of reading this book." Gohan laughed nervously.
"Erm, but Videl, our teacher said that we-"
"I don't care." She slammed the book dramatically. "This book is boring. And it's summer vacation. And we've not had to write a book report since seventh grade. Therefore, I see no reason to read the book. In fact…" She kneeled up on the window seat and heaved the book into the air. Gohan and Videl both watched as the thick tome sailed through the air, before landing in a heap on the grass. "There. Ahh, I feel better now." She set her head in her arms and lent her elbows on the widow ledge, watching the sunset again.
Gohan looked from Videl to the book and back again.
"Erm, Videl… what about the report? Vacation ends next week and it does still need to be handed in…"
Videl sighed and rolled her eyes.
"Gohan," She turned her blue eyes to him and smiled cockily. "Don't worry about it for once. It's the summer for crying out loud, you're allowed to take a break."
"But, Videl what about-?"
"Ahh!" She moaned and leapt up, climbing up onto the window ledge, her bare legs dangling over the edge. "Stop with the worrying already! Just enjoy your freedom while you have it, alright?" She grinned at him.
"I know… but-" She put her hand, palm first, in front of his face.
"Ah! No! I don't want to hear it. Look, see?" She pointed down to the book in Gohan's hands, the same as the one she had just thrown out of the window. "What does that say? Right there?"
Gohan blinked at the book. What did she-? Suddenly, she kissed him on the cheek, her lips soft and warm against his skin. He froze.
"Steal!" She pulled the book easily from his hands, holding it victoriously over her head away from him.
"Wha? Videl, give me back my-" He reached for the book, his face blushing bright red.
"Nope. You're not getting it back until you chill out." She laughed giddily.
"But, Videl?"
"Ha ha, nope!" She stuck out her tongue and jumped into the air. "You'll have to catch me if you want it back!"
Gohan stared at her, cheeks still flushed, then laughed and jumped after her.
In the morning, Videl would pick the book up from the lawn and she would open it up again and start reading. But for now, she could pretend that summer would never end. Her summer with Gohan.