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Authors note: Some of you might have already read my story "After Cell" and that was the first story I wrote, but this was supposed to be my first story on FanFiction. And it's written like it's my first story, so, read it like it is. Anyway..... I don't own DBZ or any of its characters, I'm just a fan. I wish I did though.....Anyway, this is my first fanfic, so if u don't like it or find it really good, please, R&R me so that way I know what I'm doing wrong or doing right. Also, feel free to criticize me, it helps me as a writer, I know it sounds weird but everyone has their own way, right. And another thing, tell me what, "u" as a reader want to read about, if u tell me, then I'll be able to give u what u want. I know the story and characters very well so don't be afraid to ask me about writing a story about Yamcha, when I mainly write stories that revolve around Gohan. Another thing, (sorry, I'm almost done) I try my very best to write good stories that religiously, or at least closely, follow the DBZ story line, the characters and their attitudes. And on top of that, I try to write with proper English, correct spelling and punctuation, so if u see something that ya think needs to be fixed, just tell me in a review.
Okay now about the story. It takes place a few months to a couple
years after the Cell games. Everything's the way it should be, Goku's
dead, (don't take that the wrong way, Goku lovers) Krillen and 18 are
just starting out in their "relationship" Chi Chi is pregnant with
Goten, and Future Trunks is back in the future. Everyone is happy it's
just that, Gohan, is going through......puberty (shudders) what will
happen?......I wonder? (smiles big) This "should" be at least a little
funny (tell me if it's not) Don't let the title mislead u......have fun!
Your Mom!
Puberty......A time of great change within ones self. A time in which we leave our childhood behind and blossom into that of adulthood. A time, of maturity, and getting the body you've been waiting for!
Well, besides that last little bit......No!!! Puberty is one of the worst, most utterly annoying, uncontrollable, embarrassing, miserable, emotional filled time of our short lived lives! It's a nightmare! Between the mood swings, and finding out that you have even "more" to add to your already complicated anatomy, it's enough to make you sick. Infact, it does! It stresses out the person who's going through it, and even the people in their lives...... depending on just how bad your attitude and mood swings are, or can be.
Well, this is exactly what Gohan was going through, during this particular time in his young life. He was of 11 years, or actually 12, including that fact that he was in the Hyperbolic Time Chamber for about 10 or 11 months. He's a nice, polite, courteous, and fun loving boy, it's just that......he had recently "lost" his father in a battle against a horrible creature, that was known to him and the rest of the world as, Cell. So, as you can imagine, it was hard on his mom, friends and especially hard on him. And, on top of that, he was starting to go through puberty. And as we all know, it is a powerful thing, and it did not help him or his family and friends in the least bit when it came to certain matters. Matters such as personal feelings, emotions, coping with there losses, asking Gohan a question, etc.
At first everyone was in question as to why he was so out of character, but after some thinking, it was clear to them......
"What's up with Gohan?......He's been acting......a little weird lately......" Yamcha said. He was sitting on a couch in the main living room of capsule Corporation. His chin was resting in the palm of his hand, and his elbow was resting on the arm of the sofa. He was a pretty well sized man in his early forties, with scares on his face, rather big muscles and black hair that poked straight up. He wore a tight, short sleeved, blue shirt, dark blue dress up pants and socks.
Yamcha fumbled around with his fingers. "Wouldn't ya say?....." he said turning to Krillen, who was lying on another sofa. Across the room and parallel to the one that Yamcha was sitting on.
Krillen looked at his friend. He breathed in deeply. "That's an under statement." He sat up and through his legs over the edge of the couch to firmly plant his feet on the floor. "He's been acting "really" weird lately......" He said putting inflection into the word really. Krillen was a, to put it nicely, a "little" person. He's not a very attractive person, but he's still cute in his own special way. He was a bald man in his mid thirties, his muscles were far from being big, but he had nice medium/small sized muscles that added to his odd cuteness. He had on a loose royal blue T shirt, and a pair of very unattractive white shorts. All and all though, he was just a loveable guy who was often confused.
Pretty much the whole Z gang was at Capsule Corp., minus Piccolo, Yajaroby, Dende and the son family.(For those of u who don't know. Son, is Goku's last name, in Japan) Gohan "was" there, but had minutes ago left the large, yellow, dome shaped house, in a silent rage of mixed emotions. He tried not to let it show, but the others could tell that not all was well with the boy and had known it for the past couple of months. They had all recently been noticing a change in his behavior and it was starting to worry them, at least Yamcha, Puar, Krillen and Roshi. Gohan was now on the journey back home to his mother, who was 8 months pregnant with his unborn sibling. So, knowing that he wasn't going to be making a surprise return any time to soon, Yamcha chose to arise the subject of Gohan's...sudden change.
They, were sitting on two identical white leather couches that could be smelled from every where in the large room. Puar, a blue cat like creature, was seated by Yamcha, on one of the leathery, but soft cushions of the sofa. Roshi sitting at a table a few feet behind the couch, was sipping a coup of black coffee while listening to his "former pupil's" conversation. Oolong was walking aimlessly around the building, lost. Bulma was in the kitchen, right next to the living room that Krillen, Yamcha, Roshi and Puar were in. She was washing dishes with her mother and making chit chat. Mr. Briefs was in his laboratory working on a new experiment and talking to the black cat perched on his shoulder. Despite the fact that the only reply that he ever got from the cat was "meow" he was always, somehow, managing to make conversation with it. And Vegeta, of course, was in his gravitational room yelling, screaming, sweating, swearing, meditating, bulging his muscles, etc. Or to put it all into one word, his definition of the word training.
Back in the living room
Krillen sat staring at the floor looking very puzzled, while Yamcha sat looking at Krillen with the same look on his face.
Puar looked back and forth between the two men before she noticed Roshi sitting at the table. She floated off the couch, over to the table and sat on it, by Roshi. Puar was absolutely adorable, and Roshi couldn't help but briefly smile when she looked up at him with sad puppy dog eyes. (hee, cat, puppy dog eyes)
"I've been noticing it to." Roshi said, surprising both Yamcha and Krillen. Neither new that he was even in the room. Yamcha and Krillen turned their heads to look at the old man. He wore big sun glasses with a red plastic rim, a long sleeved orange shirt, blue warm ups and black shoes that were so tight that they could pass as Dance shoes. He was an odd little man, physically and mentally. His head had no hair but he did have a beard, eyebrows and mustache that were as white and fluffy as clouds. This is the Roshi that Krillen and Yamcha had always known, he hadn't changed from the day they had met the old geezer, about...oh...20 years ago or so. The old man had some how come across a "special" water, where who ever drank the water would become not immortal, just given eternal life. He obviously drank the water.
Krillen blinked momentarily in surprise at seeing his former martial arts master in the room, before saying anything.
"So......do ya know what's wrong with him Master Roshi?
Roshi gave a weak smile "......No, but whatever's wrong with him, I'm sure that it's nothing to be to worried about."
"Yeah!" Yamcha said with a big smile plastered on his face. "Besides, if there really were something wrong with him, I'm sure that he, or his mom, would have told us." His voice was now back to its normal "Californian surfer dude" sound and pitch. He got up off the couch and walked over to Roshi, where he pulled up a chair, opposite of Roshi, sat init, leaned back and put his feet up on the table. Compared to his previous state, he now looked very relaxed.
Krillen, still sitting on the couch, shook his head and smiled for a moment at his friend's sudden change of attitude. "I guess you're right." He said in a low depressed sounding voic. "But, it seems like he's uncomfortable, and he makes more trips to the bathroom then usual. And, it seems like he doesn't wanna talking to us anymore, he just......shuts us out......"
Yamcha's smile was whipped off his face. He sat, waiting to hear more from Krillen.
Krillen spoke louder and faster this time. "He's acting more like a Saiyan every day, and smelling more like one too!. At least, that's what I think. He even hangs out with Vegeta more then he used too and he barely spends time with us anymore. His moods change often too, and very quickly. I mean he doesn't completely act like a Saiyan, but it's like, one minute he's happy and then the next he's depressed. And "then" the next thing I know, he's going after me like Chi Chi goes after Goku with a frying pan!" He chuckled at thought. But his laughter soon subsided when he remembered where his best friend now was......dead.
In the kitchen, Bulma had finished washing the dishes. Her mother had left the room, and Bulma was now listening in on this little conversation. She too had noticed Gohan's behavior, but she knew exactly what he was "going through". And she's known what he's been going through ever sense Vegeta told her that during one of his training sessions with Gohan, he noticed that he smelled a lot more, manly like and that he had......arm pit hair. (Hee, hee. It's obvious, right?)
Roshi and Yamcha had their eyes fixed on Krillen as they too remembered where Goku was and how he died, or more appropriate, how he was "killed". An odd silence spread through out the room that sent chills down Puar's spine as she flung herself into Yamcha's arms. He put a hand on her head, and a thought popped into his brain. "Hey......Maybe he just misses his dad a lot." Yamcha stated.
Krillen looked over to him and raised an eyebrow. "Duhhh......" He said in a stupid sarcastic voice. "Don't we all?!"
Yamcha looked at him in hurt confusion. "Well, yeah, but I...ya see I, you......" He stuttered. "Yes! But I just, ya know......" He trialed off.
"No, I don't." Krillen replied, yet again sarcastically.
Yamcha looked to Roshi for help, but all he did was rais his eyebrows and back away. Yamcha lowered his head in defeat. He let out a heavy sigh.
"Never mind......" He said in a small voice.
Krillen smiled at his victory, but quickly discarded it so Yamcha wouldn't be able to see it. He then returned to the previous subject.
"I'll never forget that day......" Krillen said, seeming to be talking to the floor that he was looking at. The others nodded their heads in agreement.
This is when Bulma decided to make her entrance.
"I won't either." She said confidently as she stood in the doorway of the kitchen, and taking a cigarette out of her pocket and lighting it.
All four turned their heads to see Bulma with a cocked smile on her light pink lips before putting the disgusting cigarette (I don't like cigarettes) in her mouth.
"Bulma!" Krillen half yelled and squeaked. "How long have you been standing there? Not that there's anything wrong with it......" He trailed off.
"Sshh......" She whispered, while keeping the cigarette locked between her teeth the whole time. "Trunks is sleeping a few rooms down."
She was a blue haired beauty, wearing a tight, short sleeved, red top and white Capri pants. Her hair was shoulder length and her eyes were the biggest and bluest of all eyes.
Bulma giggled and removed the cigarette from her mouth. "Well, long enough to hear you all talking about Gohan and how "worried" you all are about him." She walked over to the table and stood by Yamcha, smiling, until she noticed his feet on her good dinning room table.
"What? You aren't worried?" Yamcha asked. She didn't answer him, instead she smacked him over the head.
"OUCH!!!" Yamcha wailed. "What'd do that for!" He whined with tears in his eyes.
Bulma looked like she was going to smack him again. "Feet "OFF" the table mister!" She yelled at him.
Yamcha looked at his feet and then at Bulma. He smiled sheepishly and slowly took his feet off the table, not taking his eyes off the enraged women. Her glare quickly vanished and she taped on her cigarette over Yamcha's head letting ash fall in his hair. "Thank you Yamcha! That's more like it." She said in a soft Snow White like voice, acting as if nothing had happened.
Yamcha looked at his feet, yet again, accepting defeat.
"Well, to answer your question....." Bulma replied and took another inhale of her cigarette. "Of course not."
"What?! Why not?!" Krillen asked extremely confused. Considering the fact that she was the only person in the room who was a mother, he assumed that she would be worried about it more then the rest of them.
Bulma looked at him as if he were stupid, which was kind-a the case. "Why should I be?"
Yamcha sat up in his chair. "Because he plays a major part in our lives, protected us and saved the world from Garlic Junior and Cell! And not just that!" He yelled at her amazed by her lack of emotion toward the whole situation.
Krillen stood up. "Yeah, and not only that Bulma. You and I both know that Gohan's as sweet as they come, but for some weird reason that Gohan doesn't seem to be there anymore, or at least not right now." He sounded very concerned.
Bulma looked at the three men and hovering cat surrounding her. She couldn't hold it in any longer. She turned slightly pink and her previous expression turned into an inside out smile before she burst out laughing, in the process her cigarette falling out of her mouth and onto the floor.
At first the three men and Puar just stared at her before looking at each other with confusion written all over their faces.
"What's so funny?" Roshi asked with interest in his voice.
Bulma kept on laughing for a while before she said anything. "Boy!" She said still laughing. "You guys really are clueless!" She said before, laughing again. "When I was over hearing your conversation in the kitchen, I thought that "maybe" you'd eventually get it, but, boy, was I wrong!!!" She started to laugh again but quickly gained control over herself.
"......Uhhhh......What exactly are you trying to say, Bulma?" Krillen asked before he walked over to sit on the couch that was closer to her and the rest of the group.
"Okay guys, I'll tell you," She bent down to pick up her cigarette. "and you're ganna feel really stupid too." She said with a giggle.(She laughs a lot, huh) "Now, you all know that Gohan is 11, practically 12, right?" She asked them.
"Right......" They all replied in unison. She paused before asking the next question.
"......Okay, and what usually happens to kids around that age?" She waited a minute to see if anyone's light bulb would click on. She saw none.
"uhhh......" was all she heard.
"Alright, why do you think Gohan's been going into the bathroom more then usual?
"Uuhh......"
"Why do you think he smells more then he used too?"
"Uuhh......"
"...Right. Why is he having mood swings?"
"Mood-swings? Hum? Uuhh......"
"HHUUuuu......" Bulma groaned. "Why do ya think he has "arm pit hair"?"
'They have to get it now.' She thought.
"Arm pit hair?" Krillen asked.
"Gohan has arm pit hair?" Yamcha chuckled in amusement.
"Yes, arm pit hair!" She yelled at them. (Wow. That's a lot of arm pit hair.)
"Hum......arm pit hair......uuhh......"
Bulma was as wide eyed as an anime character could get, and that's big. 'Oh my Lord!' She thought to herself. 'I know these people aren't very sharp, I've always known that, but this is beyond "not being very sharp"! This is just retarded!' She thought to herself.
"......Well?......"Yamcha said forgetting how fast Bulma "could" changed temperature. She didn't find this funny anymore, oh no, she now found it very annoying, and annoying Bulma is one of the biggest no, no's you can do! Besides annoying Chi Chi, but that's a different story.
Krillen, Yamcha, Puar and Roshi could see the anger boiling up inside of her and were about to take cover when she yelled "PUBERTY!!!!! He-is- going-through-PUBERTY!!! My God! Isn't it obvious?!" She said trying to calm down.
"Well, uh......I guess......" Roshi started to say before Bulma butted in.
"I mean, think about it! The mood-swings, the anger management, acting more like Vegeta, asking a question and having his only answer be "Your Mom!" She yelled at the top of her lungs.
"Oh, yeah! Well I, I, I guess......yeah!" Yamcha said smiling.
"Guess, I never thought about that being a possibility." Krillen said blushing, feeling embarrassed about not figuring it out sooner.
"I guess I was thinking that Gohan's mind was slowly being taken over by some sort of evil power, or something." He said while laughing, but stopped when he noticed that no one else was.
"You're such a dork Krillen!" Bulma told him taking another rather larg inhale of her cigarette to try and calm herself down a bit. "Every time something out of the ordinary happens you get all "oh my god, some evil thing is coming to get me!" She said while trying to do an impression of Krillen.
Krillen's checks were as red as Bulma's shirt. "Well......I've just gotten so used to there being someone to fight that......" He was cut off by Yamcha.
"Yo! Don't sweat it Krillen, we understand. I know exactly how you feel man." He told his short friend.
"Thanks man......" Krillen said as the red started to fade from his face.
Bulma smiled at her friends. "Still I can't believe that you people didn't get it sooner......hu, and Men run our country, haha!" Bulma and Puar laughed for a moment, while the men in the room, stared at the floor trying to hid the red that covered their entire faces.
"Oh, come on guys." Bulma said while whipping a tear from her eye. "I'm just messen with ya." At that moment, she noticed her husband, Vegeta, walking into the room, through the entrance that was connected to hall way. He held a towl in his hand and was wearing his usual tight blue outfit, without the armor. It was torn hear and there, and the right leg of the suite was missing, from the nee down
"Well, hello Mister solitude. Have a nice training session?" Bulma asked him. He didn't answer.
"Uh?...HELLO! Vegeta! I'm talking to you!" She yelled at her husband, as she put her hands on her hips and started walking towards him.
"I heard you talking about Gohan." He said in his deep gravely voice. Bulma stopped mid walk.
"Well, yeah, but that has nothing to do with what I was asking you!" Bluma snapped at him. Vegeta removed his gaze from the towl in his hand to lay his eyes upon what, he called, his "mate" or woman. He looked at her coldly for a moment.
"There are things that the boy will need to know about, that none of you will be able to explain to him."
"Things? Things like what?" Roshi asked.
Vegeta smirked at the old man. "Like his Sayin anatomy." He told him.
"Oh......" Yamcha said in a low voice that could barely be heard.
"I'm sure that the fact that Kakarot's Brat is half Sayin and half human will make puberty a very interesting event for him, and be very interesting to observe." Vegeta said with a big grimace on his face.
"You actually want to "help" Gohan?" Krillen asked confused.
"I don't totally hate him...... I find him to be annoying and a totally unstable child, but I can tolerate his attitude more then I can his idiotic father's." Vegeta said with hate in his eyes.
"Don't talk about Goku or Gohan that way!" Krillen yelled shaking a fist at Vegeta.
"Oh, take it easy "Little Man". Besides, I'm doing this mostly for my son's benefit. His time will come as well and when it does, I want to have some preconceived idea as to what's going on with him." Vegeta told Krillen, annoyed with his reaction.
Vegeta gave a death glare to everyone in the room except for Bulma. "Does anyone else want to ask me, "Why"!"
"Yes! I do!" Bulma snapped at him. He dare not let his "woman", not have a say in the matter. For he knew what would happen if he were to talk back to her, he wouldn't get fed for a long while. She did it to him once, and she was bound to do it again if she felt the need to.
"What woman." He groaned.
"First of all, I have a name, you know it, and I'd appreciate it if you would call me by my name. And secondly, if you've been noticing that Gohan has needed help for so long, WHY DIDN'T YOU HELP HIM SOONER?!!!"
Vegeta felt the erg to back away, but his stubbornness and pride kept him standing tall.
He didn't really know what to say. "Well, I ah......uh, I thought that......"
"You thought that, well let me tell you something Vegeta, You thought wrong!!!" His wife yelled at him.
Vegeta was puzzled. "...Thought wrong? What?"
'I'll never understand the female species.' He thought to himself before Bulma said.
"Yeah. You thought wrong." Everyone was confused by Bulma's words. "Now, get your butt in gear and go help out our Gohan!" She yelled at him so loudly that she caused Trunks to wake up.
"Bulma looked down the hall in the direction where the crying was coming from.
"Oh! Now look what you made me do!" She yelled at a confused Vegeta. She gave her cigarette to Vegeta and started running down the hall.
"Me?" He said in a small voice. Bulma stopped and turned around.
"No, Your Mom!" Bulma said sarcastically. Roshi, Yamcha, Puar and Krillen chuckled at Bulma's impression of Gohan, that is until Vegeta sent a death glare in their direction.
"Excuse me! Look at me when I'm talking to you!"
Vegeta looked back at his "mate" and cowared. "Yes ma'am...I mean! Aahhh!!!" It was too late to save himself from his words. Now everyone, except Bulma, was uncontrollably laughing.
"Oh." Bulma said, flattered to hear Vegeta use such words toward her. She smiled up at him.
"Well, with an attitude like that. I'm gonna have to do something "special" for you tonight." A wide smile grew upon Vegeta's face.
Bulma noticed his smile and new what he was thinking. "Not necessarily that kind of "special." His smile disappeared.
"But non the less, I'm sure you'll like it. Now, enough talking, I'll go take care of Trunks, if you go take care of Gohan, agreed?" She said, giving Vegeta the best puppy dog eyes that she could. It worked, on any other person it wouldn't have, but on him, it always did.
"Oh!......hhh, Oh! Alright!"
"Good." Was all that Bulma said before running down the hall to her screaming baby. Vegeta stood, looking down the hall for a long while.
"Well, are you gonna do it?" Krillen finally asked.
Vegeta spun around. "Of course I am! I was going to in the first place, I just got lost and confused in the Womans......Bulma's! Words that I, I......ah......never mind!" He said stomping down the hall to his shared room with Bulma to change his out fit.
"Good luck dude!" Yamcha yelled to him. "You're gonna need it!" Was the last thing Vegeta heard before he slammed the door to his room.
Well. What did you Think? R&R me if you have time to do so. I'd be very much obliged. Make a story request, ask me a question, criticize me, whatever. Oh! And this chapter may not have been that funny, but the next ones are supposed to be. Don't know if they will be, their just supposed to be.
On the Next Episode/Chapter: Does Vegeta really go to help out Gohan? And if he does, what's Gohan's attitude and reaction towards the whole idea. Find out next time on "Your Mom!"
P.S: I have Fan art from this story and "After Cell". If you want to see it, tell me in a review and I can e-mail it to you. And don't worry, it will be worth it, at least that's what my friends who've seen my art say...Not trying to toot my own horn or nothin'. And one last thing, forgive my typos, I have Dyslexia.
Authors note: Some of you might have already read my story "After Cell" and that was the first story I wrote, but this was supposed to be my first story on FanFiction. And it's written like it's my first story, so, read it like it is. Anyway..... I don't own DBZ or any of its characters, I'm just a fan. I wish I did though.....Anyway, this is my first fanfic, so if u don't like it or find it really good, please, R&R me so that way I know what I'm doing wrong or doing right. Also, feel free to criticize me, it helps me as a writer, I know it sounds weird but everyone has their own way, right. And another thing, tell me what, "u" as a reader want to read about, if u tell me, then I'll be able to give u what u want. I know the story and characters very well so don't be afraid to ask me about writing a story about Yamcha, when I mainly write stories that revolve around Gohan. Another thing, (sorry, I'm almost done) I try my very best to write good stories that religiously, or at least closely, follow the DBZ story line, the characters and their attitudes. And on top of that, I try to write with proper English, correct spelling and punctuation, so if u see something that ya think needs to be fixed, just tell me in a review.
Okay now about the story. It takes place a few months to a couple
years after the Cell games. Everything's the way it should be, Goku's
dead, (don't take that the wrong way, Goku lovers) Krillen and 18 are
just starting out in their "relationship" Chi Chi is pregnant with
Goten, and Future Trunks is back in the future. Everyone is happy it's
just that, Gohan, is going through......puberty (shudders) what will
happen?......I wonder? (smiles big) This "should" be at least a little
funny (tell me if it's not) Don't let the title mislead u......have fun!
Your Mom!
Puberty......A time of great change within ones self. A time in which we leave our childhood behind and blossom into that of adulthood. A time, of maturity, and getting the body you've been waiting for!
Well, besides that last little bit......No!!! Puberty is one of the worst, most utterly annoying, uncontrollable, embarrassing, miserable, emotional filled time of our short lived lives! It's a nightmare! Between the mood swings, and finding out that you have even "more" to add to your already complicated anatomy, it's enough to make you sick. Infact, it does! It stresses out the person who's going through it, and even the people in their lives...... depending on just how bad your attitude and mood swings are, or can be.
Well, this is exactly what Gohan was going through, during this particular time in his young life. He was of 11 years, or actually 12, including that fact that he was in the Hyperbolic Time Chamber for about 10 or 11 months. He's a nice, polite, courteous, and fun loving boy, it's just that......he had recently "lost" his father in a battle against a horrible creature, that was known to him and the rest of the world as, Cell. So, as you can imagine, it was hard on his mom, friends and especially hard on him. And, on top of that, he was starting to go through puberty. And as we all know, it is a powerful thing, and it did not help him or his family and friends in the least bit when it came to certain matters. Matters such as personal feelings, emotions, coping with there losses, asking Gohan a question, etc.
At first everyone was in question as to why he was so out of character, but after some thinking, it was clear to them......
"What's up with Gohan?......He's been acting......a little weird lately......" Yamcha said. He was sitting on a couch in the main living room of capsule Corporation. His chin was resting in the palm of his hand, and his elbow was resting on the arm of the sofa. He was a pretty well sized man in his early forties, with scares on his face, rather big muscles and black hair that poked straight up. He wore a tight, short sleeved, blue shirt, dark blue dress up pants and socks.
Yamcha fumbled around with his fingers. "Wouldn't ya say?....." he said turning to Krillen, who was lying on another sofa. Across the room and parallel to the one that Yamcha was sitting on.
Krillen looked at his friend. He breathed in deeply. "That's an under statement." He sat up and through his legs over the edge of the couch to firmly plant his feet on the floor. "He's been acting "really" weird lately......" He said putting inflection into the word really. Krillen was a, to put it nicely, a "little" person. He's not a very attractive person, but he's still cute in his own special way. He was a bald man in his mid thirties, his muscles were far from being big, but he had nice medium/small sized muscles that added to his odd cuteness. He had on a loose royal blue T shirt, and a pair of very unattractive white shorts. All and all though, he was just a loveable guy who was often confused.
Pretty much the whole Z gang was at Capsule Corp., minus Piccolo, Yajaroby, Dende and the son family.(For those of u who don't know. Son, is Goku's last name, in Japan) Gohan "was" there, but had minutes ago left the large, yellow, dome shaped house, in a silent rage of mixed emotions. He tried not to let it show, but the others could tell that not all was well with the boy and had known it for the past couple of months. They had all recently been noticing a change in his behavior and it was starting to worry them, at least Yamcha, Puar, Krillen and Roshi. Gohan was now on the journey back home to his mother, who was 8 months pregnant with his unborn sibling. So, knowing that he wasn't going to be making a surprise return any time to soon, Yamcha chose to arise the subject of Gohan's...sudden change.
They, were sitting on two identical white leather couches that could be smelled from every where in the large room. Puar, a blue cat like creature, was seated by Yamcha, on one of the leathery, but soft cushions of the sofa. Roshi sitting at a table a few feet behind the couch, was sipping a coup of black coffee while listening to his "former pupil's" conversation. Oolong was walking aimlessly around the building, lost. Bulma was in the kitchen, right next to the living room that Krillen, Yamcha, Roshi and Puar were in. She was washing dishes with her mother and making chit chat. Mr. Briefs was in his laboratory working on a new experiment and talking to the black cat perched on his shoulder. Despite the fact that the only reply that he ever got from the cat was "meow" he was always, somehow, managing to make conversation with it. And Vegeta, of course, was in his gravitational room yelling, screaming, sweating, swearing, meditating, bulging his muscles, etc. Or to put it all into one word, his definition of the word training.
Back in the living room
Krillen sat staring at the floor looking very puzzled, while Yamcha sat looking at Krillen with the same look on his face.
Puar looked back and forth between the two men before she noticed Roshi sitting at the table. She floated off the couch, over to the table and sat on it, by Roshi. Puar was absolutely adorable, and Roshi couldn't help but briefly smile when she looked up at him with sad puppy dog eyes. (hee, cat, puppy dog eyes)
"I've been noticing it to." Roshi said, surprising both Yamcha and Krillen. Neither new that he was even in the room. Yamcha and Krillen turned their heads to look at the old man. He wore big sun glasses with a red plastic rim, a long sleeved orange shirt, blue warm ups and black shoes that were so tight that they could pass as Dance shoes. He was an odd little man, physically and mentally. His head had no hair but he did have a beard, eyebrows and mustache that were as white and fluffy as clouds. This is the Roshi that Krillen and Yamcha had always known, he hadn't changed from the day they had met the old geezer, about...oh...20 years ago or so. The old man had some how come across a "special" water, where who ever drank the water would become not immortal, just given eternal life. He obviously drank the water.
Krillen blinked momentarily in surprise at seeing his former martial arts master in the room, before saying anything.
"So......do ya know what's wrong with him Master Roshi?
Roshi gave a weak smile "......No, but whatever's wrong with him, I'm sure that it's nothing to be to worried about."
"Yeah!" Yamcha said with a big smile plastered on his face. "Besides, if there really were something wrong with him, I'm sure that he, or his mom, would have told us." His voice was now back to its normal "Californian surfer dude" sound and pitch. He got up off the couch and walked over to Roshi, where he pulled up a chair, opposite of Roshi, sat init, leaned back and put his feet up on the table. Compared to his previous state, he now looked very relaxed.
Krillen, still sitting on the couch, shook his head and smiled for a moment at his friend's sudden change of attitude. "I guess you're right." He said in a low depressed sounding voic. "But, it seems like he's uncomfortable, and he makes more trips to the bathroom then usual. And, it seems like he doesn't wanna talking to us anymore, he just......shuts us out......"
Yamcha's smile was whipped off his face. He sat, waiting to hear more from Krillen.
Krillen spoke louder and faster this time. "He's acting more like a Saiyan every day, and smelling more like one too!. At least, that's what I think. He even hangs out with Vegeta more then he used too and he barely spends time with us anymore. His moods change often too, and very quickly. I mean he doesn't completely act like a Saiyan, but it's like, one minute he's happy and then the next he's depressed. And "then" the next thing I know, he's going after me like Chi Chi goes after Goku with a frying pan!" He chuckled at thought. But his laughter soon subsided when he remembered where his best friend now was......dead.
In the kitchen, Bulma had finished washing the dishes. Her mother had left the room, and Bulma was now listening in on this little conversation. She too had noticed Gohan's behavior, but she knew exactly what he was "going through". And she's known what he's been going through ever sense Vegeta told her that during one of his training sessions with Gohan, he noticed that he smelled a lot more, manly like and that he had......arm pit hair. (Hee, hee. It's obvious, right?)
Roshi and Yamcha had their eyes fixed on Krillen as they too remembered where Goku was and how he died, or more appropriate, how he was "killed". An odd silence spread through out the room that sent chills down Puar's spine as she flung herself into Yamcha's arms. He put a hand on her head, and a thought popped into his brain. "Hey......Maybe he just misses his dad a lot." Yamcha stated.
Krillen looked over to him and raised an eyebrow. "Duhhh......" He said in a stupid sarcastic voice. "Don't we all?!"
Yamcha looked at him in hurt confusion. "Well, yeah, but I...ya see I, you......" He stuttered. "Yes! But I just, ya know......" He trialed off.
"No, I don't." Krillen replied, yet again sarcastically.
Yamcha looked to Roshi for help, but all he did was rais his eyebrows and back away. Yamcha lowered his head in defeat. He let out a heavy sigh.
"Never mind......" He said in a small voice.
Krillen smiled at his victory, but quickly discarded it so Yamcha wouldn't be able to see it. He then returned to the previous subject.
"I'll never forget that day......" Krillen said, seeming to be talking to the floor that he was looking at. The others nodded their heads in agreement.
This is when Bulma decided to make her entrance.
"I won't either." She said confidently as she stood in the doorway of the kitchen, and taking a cigarette out of her pocket and lighting it.
All four turned their heads to see Bulma with a cocked smile on her light pink lips before putting the disgusting cigarette (I don't like cigarettes) in her mouth.
"Bulma!" Krillen half yelled and squeaked. "How long have you been standing there? Not that there's anything wrong with it......" He trailed off.
"Sshh......" She whispered, while keeping the cigarette locked between her teeth the whole time. "Trunks is sleeping a few rooms down."
She was a blue haired beauty, wearing a tight, short sleeved, red top and white Capri pants. Her hair was shoulder length and her eyes were the biggest and bluest of all eyes.
Bulma giggled and removed the cigarette from her mouth. "Well, long enough to hear you all talking about Gohan and how "worried" you all are about him." She walked over to the table and stood by Yamcha, smiling, until she noticed his feet on her good dinning room table.
"What? You aren't worried?" Yamcha asked. She didn't answer him, instead she smacked him over the head.
"OUCH!!!" Yamcha wailed. "What'd do that for!" He whined with tears in his eyes.
Bulma looked like she was going to smack him again. "Feet "OFF" the table mister!" She yelled at him.
Yamcha looked at his feet and then at Bulma. He smiled sheepishly and slowly took his feet off the table, not taking his eyes off the enraged women. Her glare quickly vanished and she taped on her cigarette over Yamcha's head letting ash fall in his hair. "Thank you Yamcha! That's more like it." She said in a soft Snow White like voice, acting as if nothing had happened.
Yamcha looked at his feet, yet again, accepting defeat.
"Well, to answer your question....." Bulma replied and took another inhale of her cigarette. "Of course not."
"What?! Why not?!" Krillen asked extremely confused. Considering the fact that she was the only person in the room who was a mother, he assumed that she would be worried about it more then the rest of them.
Bulma looked at him as if he were stupid, which was kind-a the case. "Why should I be?"
Yamcha sat up in his chair. "Because he plays a major part in our lives, protected us and saved the world from Garlic Junior and Cell! And not just that!" He yelled at her amazed by her lack of emotion toward the whole situation.
Krillen stood up. "Yeah, and not only that Bulma. You and I both know that Gohan's as sweet as they come, but for some weird reason that Gohan doesn't seem to be there anymore, or at least not right now." He sounded very concerned.
Bulma looked at the three men and hovering cat surrounding her. She couldn't hold it in any longer. She turned slightly pink and her previous expression turned into an inside out smile before she burst out laughing, in the process her cigarette falling out of her mouth and onto the floor.
At first the three men and Puar just stared at her before looking at each other with confusion written all over their faces.
"What's so funny?" Roshi asked with interest in his voice.
Bulma kept on laughing for a while before she said anything. "Boy!" She said still laughing. "You guys really are clueless!" She said before, laughing again. "When I was over hearing your conversation in the kitchen, I thought that "maybe" you'd eventually get it, but, boy, was I wrong!!!" She started to laugh again but quickly gained control over herself.
"......Uhhhh......What exactly are you trying to say, Bulma?" Krillen asked before he walked over to sit on the couch that was closer to her and the rest of the group.
"Okay guys, I'll tell you," She bent down to pick up her cigarette. "and you're ganna feel really stupid too." She said with a giggle.(She laughs a lot, huh) "Now, you all know that Gohan is 11, practically 12, right?" She asked them.
"Right......" They all replied in unison. She paused before asking the next question.
"......Okay, and what usually happens to kids around that age?" She waited a minute to see if anyone's light bulb would click on. She saw none.
"uhhh......" was all she heard.
"Alright, why do you think Gohan's been going into the bathroom more then usual?
"Uuhh......"
"Why do you think he smells more then he used too?"
"Uuhh......"
"...Right. Why is he having mood swings?"
"Mood-swings? Hum? Uuhh......"
"HHUUuuu......" Bulma groaned. "Why do ya think he has "arm pit hair"?"
'They have to get it now.' She thought.
"Arm pit hair?" Krillen asked.
"Gohan has arm pit hair?" Yamcha chuckled in amusement.
"Yes, arm pit hair!" She yelled at them. (Wow. That's a lot of arm pit hair.)
"Hum......arm pit hair......uuhh......"
Bulma was as wide eyed as an anime character could get, and that's big. 'Oh my Lord!' She thought to herself. 'I know these people aren't very sharp, I've always known that, but this is beyond "not being very sharp"! This is just retarded!' She thought to herself.
"......Well?......"Yamcha said forgetting how fast Bulma "could" changed temperature. She didn't find this funny anymore, oh no, she now found it very annoying, and annoying Bulma is one of the biggest no, no's you can do! Besides annoying Chi Chi, but that's a different story.
Krillen, Yamcha, Puar and Roshi could see the anger boiling up inside of her and were about to take cover when she yelled "PUBERTY!!!!! He-is- going-through-PUBERTY!!! My God! Isn't it obvious?!" She said trying to calm down.
"Well, uh......I guess......" Roshi started to say before Bulma butted in.
"I mean, think about it! The mood-swings, the anger management, acting more like Vegeta, asking a question and having his only answer be "Your Mom!" She yelled at the top of her lungs.
"Oh, yeah! Well I, I, I guess......yeah!" Yamcha said smiling.
"Guess, I never thought about that being a possibility." Krillen said blushing, feeling embarrassed about not figuring it out sooner.
"I guess I was thinking that Gohan's mind was slowly being taken over by some sort of evil power, or something." He said while laughing, but stopped when he noticed that no one else was.
"You're such a dork Krillen!" Bulma told him taking another rather larg inhale of her cigarette to try and calm herself down a bit. "Every time something out of the ordinary happens you get all "oh my god, some evil thing is coming to get me!" She said while trying to do an impression of Krillen.
Krillen's checks were as red as Bulma's shirt. "Well......I've just gotten so used to there being someone to fight that......" He was cut off by Yamcha.
"Yo! Don't sweat it Krillen, we understand. I know exactly how you feel man." He told his short friend.
"Thanks man......" Krillen said as the red started to fade from his face.
Bulma smiled at her friends. "Still I can't believe that you people didn't get it sooner......hu, and Men run our country, haha!" Bulma and Puar laughed for a moment, while the men in the room, stared at the floor trying to hid the red that covered their entire faces.
"Oh, come on guys." Bulma said while whipping a tear from her eye. "I'm just messen with ya." At that moment, she noticed her husband, Vegeta, walking into the room, through the entrance that was connected to hall way. He held a towl in his hand and was wearing his usual tight blue outfit, without the armor. It was torn hear and there, and the right leg of the suite was missing, from the nee down
"Well, hello Mister solitude. Have a nice training session?" Bulma asked him. He didn't answer.
"Uh?...HELLO! Vegeta! I'm talking to you!" She yelled at her husband, as she put her hands on her hips and started walking towards him.
"I heard you talking about Gohan." He said in his deep gravely voice. Bulma stopped mid walk.
"Well, yeah, but that has nothing to do with what I was asking you!" Bluma snapped at him. Vegeta removed his gaze from the towl in his hand to lay his eyes upon what, he called, his "mate" or woman. He looked at her coldly for a moment.
"There are things that the boy will need to know about, that none of you will be able to explain to him."
"Things? Things like what?" Roshi asked.
Vegeta smirked at the old man. "Like his Sayin anatomy." He told him.
"Oh......" Yamcha said in a low voice that could barely be heard.
"I'm sure that the fact that Kakarot's Brat is half Sayin and half human will make puberty a very interesting event for him, and be very interesting to observe." Vegeta said with a big grimace on his face.
"You actually want to "help" Gohan?" Krillen asked confused.
"I don't totally hate him...... I find him to be annoying and a totally unstable child, but I can tolerate his attitude more then I can his idiotic father's." Vegeta said with hate in his eyes.
"Don't talk about Goku or Gohan that way!" Krillen yelled shaking a fist at Vegeta.
"Oh, take it easy "Little Man". Besides, I'm doing this mostly for my son's benefit. His time will come as well and when it does, I want to have some preconceived idea as to what's going on with him." Vegeta told Krillen, annoyed with his reaction.
Vegeta gave a death glare to everyone in the room except for Bulma. "Does anyone else want to ask me, "Why"!"
"Yes! I do!" Bulma snapped at him. He dare not let his "woman", not have a say in the matter. For he knew what would happen if he were to talk back to her, he wouldn't get fed for a long while. She did it to him once, and she was bound to do it again if she felt the need to.
"What woman." He groaned.
"First of all, I have a name, you know it, and I'd appreciate it if you would call me by my name. And secondly, if you've been noticing that Gohan has needed help for so long, WHY DIDN'T YOU HELP HIM SOONER?!!!"
Vegeta felt the erg to back away, but his stubbornness and pride kept him standing tall.
He didn't really know what to say. "Well, I ah......uh, I thought that......"
"You thought that, well let me tell you something Vegeta, You thought wrong!!!" His wife yelled at him.
Vegeta was puzzled. "...Thought wrong? What?"
'I'll never understand the female species.' He thought to himself before Bulma said.
"Yeah. You thought wrong." Everyone was confused by Bulma's words. "Now, get your butt in gear and go help out our Gohan!" She yelled at him so loudly that she caused Trunks to wake up.
"Bulma looked down the hall in the direction where the crying was coming from.
"Oh! Now look what you made me do!" She yelled at a confused Vegeta. She gave her cigarette to Vegeta and started running down the hall.
"Me?" He said in a small voice. Bulma stopped and turned around.
"No, Your Mom!" Bulma said sarcastically. Roshi, Yamcha, Puar and Krillen chuckled at Bulma's impression of Gohan, that is until Vegeta sent a death glare in their direction.
"Excuse me! Look at me when I'm talking to you!"
Vegeta looked back at his "mate" and cowared. "Yes ma'am...I mean! Aahhh!!!" It was too late to save himself from his words. Now everyone, except Bulma, was uncontrollably laughing.
"Oh." Bulma said, flattered to hear Vegeta use such words toward her. She smiled up at him.
"Well, with an attitude like that. I'm gonna have to do something "special" for you tonight." A wide smile grew upon Vegeta's face.
Bulma noticed his smile and new what he was thinking. "Not necessarily that kind of "special." His smile disappeared.
"But non the less, I'm sure you'll like it. Now, enough talking, I'll go take care of Trunks, if you go take care of Gohan, agreed?" She said, giving Vegeta the best puppy dog eyes that she could. It worked, on any other person it wouldn't have, but on him, it always did.
"Oh!......hhh, Oh! Alright!"
"Good." Was all that Bulma said before running down the hall to her screaming baby. Vegeta stood, looking down the hall for a long while.
"Well, are you gonna do it?" Krillen finally asked.
Vegeta spun around. "Of course I am! I was going to in the first place, I just got lost and confused in the Womans......Bulma's! Words that I, I......ah......never mind!" He said stomping down the hall to his shared room with Bulma to change his out fit.
"Good luck dude!" Yamcha yelled to him. "You're gonna need it!" Was the last thing Vegeta heard before he slammed the door to his room.
Well. What did you Think? R&R me if you have time to do so. I'd be very much obliged. Make a story request, ask me a question, criticize me, whatever. Oh! And this chapter may not have been that funny, but the next ones are supposed to be. Don't know if they will be, their just supposed to be.
On the Next Episode/Chapter: Does Vegeta really go to help out Gohan? And if he does, what's Gohan's attitude and reaction towards the whole idea. Find out next time on "Your Mom!"
P.S: I have Fan art from this story and "After Cell". If you want to see it, tell me in a review and I can e-mail it to you. And don't worry, it will be worth it, at least that's what my friends who've seen my art say...Not trying to toot my own horn or nothin'. And one last thing, forgive my typos, I have Dyslexia.