Disclaimer: Gohan's Dilemma is a story created by WingedFreedom622, I merely wrote this because I was inspired by his works. The Characters used in the story are owned by Akira Toriyama and Masashi Kishimoto, Toei Animation, ViZ Media, etc. I do not own anything that I am about to write unless it is my own original idea. If WingedFreedom622 wishes for me to take down this spin-off story, I will gladly do so. Also, this story is not Canon to Gohan's Dilemma. I will try to give you the same feeling Gohan's Dilemma is famous for while reading, but I will try not to just completely emulate Winged's style.
(I have arranged his scene to fit after Gohan had killed Orochimaru, even though this scene never happened in Winged's story.)
Constructive Criticism is highly encouraged.
The young Uchiha sat in his bed, utter jealousy pumping throughout his veins. These past couple months have been complete hell. No longer was he the strongest, most revered shinobi in town. No, Konoha was taken by storm by some bastard who came out of nowhere. Literally. He was outshined not only by him however, Naruto, Dead-Last Uzimaki, was as strong, if not stronger than him, and Sakura, she was coming along so fast that in no time she would surpass him, and that would've been the last straw. But no, something else just completely consumed him with rage.
Itachi, his brother, had the balls to reenter the village and search for Naruto, trying to steal the Kyubii's power. Naruto had something that Itachi wanted, he wanted Naruto, not him. But that was not the worst of it. Gohan, the person he envied, and hated the most, stood up to Itachi and actually gave him a run for his money, forcing him to retreat.
Sasuke's eyes leered with anger at this, as he threw the covers off his bed and stared at himself in the mirror.
What he saw was a conflicted boy, stuck between two choices. Both would drastically change him for the rest of his life. He looked older, his childish ignorance gone for good, drowned by his selfish way of life. His eyes however, were darting all over the place, as if looking for some kind of escape from this trap, and trying to come up with a decision. Sometimes they looked worried, as if he wasn't sure what to make, and others they would be stained with malice, just at the thought of Gohan's face. The anger was overwhelming, and finally he made his decision, the decision that would drown him in darkness.
His eyes flashed red, Sharingan reacting on sheer hate.
He needed to leave this fucking village before it softened him up permanently. He needed power, the Curse Seal tingling with satisfaction at his choice. He stared back at the mirror.
"After I leave this godforsaken place, I am going to get stronger. After that, before I kill Itachi, it's going to be you Naruto, and especially you Gohan." He sneered, his mouth full of distaste of even mentioning his name out loud. Then we will see who's the strongest. I don't care what damn dimension you came from, I am going to crush-" he almost yelled, but was interrupted by a knock on his door.
He stood for a second, his Sharingan reverting to normal from the quick interruption. Tension built as he slowly walked to the door, his feet padding softly against the wood floor of his apartment. Perhaps someone was listening in, and they were here to question his strange speech. He gulped at this. It was the last thing he needed, was another damn psychiatrist. He had enough of them asking why he attacked his own teammate, but he merely didn't say anything, leaving a few frustrated doctors to just give up on the teen.
The door knocked again as he got closer, his heart skipping a beat. The unknown blazing his curiosity. What if it was a messenger for Orochimaru, hearing his lust for power. This motivated him a bit,and he slowly reached for the knob, and grasping it. Taking a breath, he slowly turned it, the clicking of metal ringing in his ears as the knob did it's job and the door cracked. Slowly, he opened and and light flooded his apartment.
"Yo What's up Sasuke!" Said an orange-clad ninja clapping him on the shoulder with a big grin on his face, accompanied by the others that were the rest of his team. It appears his words from earlier did not leave the room.
"Hey Sasuke-kun," Sakura said with a warm smile, still feeling a little buzzed around him, but she knew her heart had belonged to someone else. "Hope you didn't think we forgot about you." She was holding a parcel in her arms.
Gohan merely smiled. He was back in his original clothes, the purple Gi, except that instead of the cape he wore a white neck scruff, the same outfit he had worn when he had fought against Broly. He had forgiven Sasuke awhile ago, but it still felt a little odd to be around him. Sasuke had that kind of grudgeful aura.
Sasuke looked past the other two and stared daggers at Gohan. You could almost see the hate radiating off of him. Gohan caught on this, and gave Sasuke a glance back, a warning.
Sasuke's lip curled with anger at this, but was interrupted by Naruto, which successfully relieved the tension between the two.
"Mind if we come in?"
Sasuke glared at Naruto in return, but opened the door wider, the best welcome you will ever get from the Uchiha. Naruto was used to it, and bounded right on in. Sakura walked in second, placing the parcel on the small table in his apartment. Gohan finally walked in afterward, and it seemed like the longest steps in the Saiyan's life.
As he walked in, Sasuke did not take his eyes of him, staring at him the entire time, turning his head as Gohan walked past him. Gohan felt like an alien in Sasuke's house, for one that he had never been there before, and two that he was being watched like he carried the Bubonic Plague. Sasuke, still looking at Gohan, closed the door, the light now completely sucked out of his house, and from his heart.
Naruto flipped a light switch and Sasuke's room was illuminated with light, but nothing like the warm sun outside. This light was dim and flickering, like Sasuke's alignment a few minutes ago.
Unlike Naruto and Gohan's man-cave, Sasuke had lived rather neat and tidy, his clothes were folded neatly, and there wasn't a piece of trash laying around his room, as Nosy-Naruto inspected the place like he usually did.
"Hey you've been doing pretty well for yourself for being under house arrest eh Sasuke?" Naruto laughed as he plopped himself on the young avenger's couch, Gohan and Sakura following suit "I would have gone off the deep end."
"Not a moment too soon," Sasuke would have said out loud, but the tension in the air was keeping the Uchiha silent, not saying a single word since their arrival.
"I brought you some cookies," Sakura said with a cheery smile, sensing the tension slightly, but unaware of it's roots. "They're a mix, I didn't know what were your favorites."
The parcel she was carrying was no doubt the cookies, as she opened them up and a faint aroma wafted throughout the room. "I made them this morning, Gohan's wanted to come see you today, so I thought you could use a little treat."
Gohan chuckled uneasily. He instantly regretted coming here the minute Sasuke's eyes met with his.
Sasuke scowled slightly. He was in his OWN house. This trash had stepped foot in his house, and the anger was boiling. "What a surprise." The Uchiha managed to let out, each word laced with annoyance.
"Hey Sakura, can I have one of the macadamia ones?" Naruto said reaching in the box but instantly being clobbered over the head with Sakura's fist.
"They're for Sasuke-kun Baka!" She snarled. "Wait until he has one."
"I'm not hungry." Sasuke admitted. "Naruto can have them I don't care."
Sakura, instantly cooled down and bit her lip, "Um, Okay." She said, slightly crushed.
Sasuke stood in the same spot, not swaying one bit, glaring at Gohan. Naruto was bad too, but his current grudge was with Gohan' existence, Naruto was a secondary matter after he would deal with Gohan.
Naruto, grabbing a cookie, said to Sasuke, "Jeez Sasuke we haven't seen you in a month the least you can do is just say h-,"
"Fight Me."
Dead Silence.
All three of them stared at Sasuke, trying to figure out what he had just said, and who to.
Naruto broke the silence, the Cookie frozen in his hand. "What?"
"I said fight me!" He said with more annoyance, but he wasn't looking at Naruto, he was staring straight at Gohan, his eyes vividly glowing red from the Sharingan trying to reveal itself.
That shut Naruto up, and Sasuke bit her thumb, wondering what to do.
Gohan sighed and closed his eyes, he knew who he was talking to the entire time. "I'm not going to fight you Sasuke."
This fueled Sasuke's anger even more, he closed his eyes and growled before barking,
"SHUT UP AND FIGHT!"
Sharingan now fully ablaze, his fists shaking with utter rage. He was going to wait until he got stronger, but he just couldn't stare looking at the bastard's face anymore.
"I won't." He said more sternly, his intense onyx eyes piercing with force.
This enraged Sasuke lost it. Slamming his fist against the wall, cracking the wood on impact, his teeth bared to a look of utter hate.
"FIGHT ME NOW!"
Gohan had had enough. Instantly rising with force, he stared Sasuke down dead in the eye, and merely said one word.
"No."
The steel and venom laced in those words rivaled his Super Saiyan 2 attitude, and immediately the tension in the air skyrocketed. Sasuke was even taken aback by his sudden change of attitude. The room darkened slightly, and the walls groaned, as if trying to sustain the immense power of one word. Sakura and Naruto stared wide-eyed at Gohan. Nobody had lived to tell the tell when they messed with him when he was like this.
However, Sasuke quickly recovered from his verbal assault and repaired his face with a scowl.
"What's the matter Gohan-kun," saying the"kun" with complete hate "Afraid to man-up against your own squad mate? Huh? Is that it?"
Gohan didn't say a word.
Sakura, trying her best to make amends fast and breaking from the trance of Gohan's earlier word, reached and grabbedparcel of cookies from Naruto's frozen hands.
"Here Sasuke, take a cookie," she said holding the box out in front of him. "I'm sure it'll make you fee-"
"I don't want...your FUCKING cookies!" He yelled smacking the box out her hands, the cookies, crashing across the floor, leaving a completely mortified Sakura empty handed.
Naruto's eyes bulged.
"I just-"
"WHAT!" Sasuke barked, causing her to turn her head and shut her eyes.
"You just what!" He continued. "Everything you do is pointless!" He snarled, causing Sakura to gasp, but not from shock, but from being completely hurt. Sasuke was now using her as a vent for all of his rage.
"No matter what you do, no matter how hard you try, you are still going to be useless! Just a thorn in everybody's side! A burden! Why don't you do what your best at and just GIVE UP!"
Tears now flowed in Sakura's eyes. She was devastated, her body shaking from being verbally abused from the man she had once loved.
"And crying," he said with calmer, but more smug. "That's another world record you hol-"
Instantly, a hand wrenched itself around Sasuke's neck, and slammed him against the wall, causing him to gasp and sputter for air, the wind completely knocked out of him.
He couldn't even remember seeing what had happened, but it all made since when he saw that Naruto and Sakura were still standing there, so he slowly looked down.
Cold, dark eyes fiercer than they had ever been in his entire life, faintly flashing green, drilled into Sasuke's gaze, and Sasuke's face was full of legitimate fear.
Son Gohan was at the verge of just completely loosing control, lightning crackling around his body, the last sane part of his mind trying it's hardest to hold it all in, but it was almost becoming impossible.
He managed to let out a few words, words of mutual hate, but surprisingly soft. "You take that back...NOW!" He screamed, tightening his grip around Sasuke's neck and slamming him against the wall once again.
Sasuke gasped and sputtered as this happened, trying to pull Gohan's finger's off, but it was like trying to open a statue's fist.
The Uchiha, cleared his throat, as if trying to say something, and Gohan put a tiny bit more slack on his grip.
Gohan expected an apology, but instead was treated to a spit in his face from the person he had once called his friend.
"Go to hell!" He managed to croak.
That did it.
Gohan had snapped like a twig. His eyes turning white with complete loss of control. Pulling the Uchiha off the wall, the Saiyan put all of his force into a mighty throw, yelling with no remorse.
The avenger, yelled with pain as his body exploded through his wall and out into the street tumbling head over heels, scrapping his body against the asphalt. When he finally stopped rolling, he released a gush of blood from his mouth, and struggled to stand up.
Gohan walked through the hole he had just made, Sakura and Naruto frozen in shock.
Sasuke had just made a big mistake, and Gohan was not going to pull a single punch.
Wiping the spit from his face, Gohan managed to let out one final phrase.
"Watch your face." He sneered.
In a flash of golden light, Gohan sped toward him in blind fury, Sasuke just wondering what the hell had gotten himself into.
Well that's it for now, Part 2 will be coming out very very soon I assure you!
And remember, Gohan's Dilemma is not owned by me and this Spin-Off is not Canon to WingedFreedom624's story.
Peace-
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