Hello! Demeter Fenir here with a new story! This one has been on my mind for some time and I'm here to share!
Gohan Son sat in his room alone. He was looking around the room with a desperate glance as he rubbed and scratched at his hands. They itched with a burning hatred for him at the moment and for the past few weeks. At the age of fourteen, he knew much about the body and what would cause an action such as an itch and he knew of methods to solve that problem, but nothing he tried worked.
Gohan growled at his hands, baring teeth as he would a foe to scare them but the outcome was just him scratching more. He began running his hands against the fabric of his bedding, trying to cool down his heated flesh. He sighed as it cooled and calmed him, the fabric was like silk against his throbbing digits.
~ It seems that materials are a good cure for an itch.~ He mentally chuckled as he sighed again and began to grip the covers with a bruising force. He began paying attention to how the fibers felt like and how it soothed away his discomfort.
~ How does Mom and Dad's bedding feel? What is it made out of?~ He thought as he began to let go of his own bedding; now bored of it, and slowly walk into his parents room. He slowly rose from his bed; dropping the covers and made his way to the chamber. Gohan was nervous; he wasn't allowed in this room of the house and yet here he was. His heart raced with excitement as he stepped into the room and quickly rolled over to the mattress.
His small hands slowly reached out to touch the forbidden fabric and sighed as his fingers laced with the satin on their bed. He sighed to himself as the itching went away, but know he came across another problem.
He wanted it. All of it. To himself. To steal the covers right off their perfectly made bed and just hide it away within his room. Gohan was concerned with this urge. He never wanted to steal anything in his life and now he wanted to steal from his own mother?!
He backed off from the comforter and stumbled a few feet before falling on a loose floor broad. Gohan looked down to see that the floor broad was not only loose, but out of place!
~* Outside of Chichi's Bedroom*~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Chichi gasped; Her little boy finally found it. The secret that she had been hiding from him and his father for so many years now. She watched as he slowly picked up the old book and their family's cane. She could stop him now and 'ground' him for nothing, or she could let read the many stories inside the book and finally discover his calling.
Chichi sighed to herself. This is the reason she pushed him so hard to study, so he wouldn't feel the urge to do what he will eventually start doing now. Within that book held all of her families secret lives. It told every crime every family member committed; which meant it told of all the items everyone stole.
Yes; her family line are the most known thieves in history, but not only because everyone became a well-known thief, but because no one has ever been caught before. Now her son had a very tough choice to make: become the master thief he was born to be or stray not from the moral path he was taught to live by.
~* Inside Chichi's Bedroom*~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Gohan held the ancient book carefully in his hands. The leather binding was more than just chipping away and the metal buckle looked almost rusted off. The thick book weighed at least thirty pounds or so and was there for very thick. Setting the book down at his side, he gently lifted the cane, or at least what he thought could be a cane.
It was long and very light, as well as thin and curved at the tip. The cane looked like it was made to slip right into a pocket to fish out what might be inside.
" MOMMA! Where are you?!" A small voice cried.
The voice belonged to Goten; Gohan's little brother. He was only three and a half so he cried out very often. Goten was born not too long after the defeat of Cell which was a blessing on both parts due to the heavy depression that both mother and son suffered.
Goten's cry awoke Gohan from his thoughts. Chichi would have to pass this room in order to reach Goten; which meant if he didn't cover the broad up and get out he'd have a massive headache due to that frying pan!
Gohan quickly placed the broad back in its spot and ran into his room, though not aware that he didn't place the book and cane back but held them tightly in his hands. He could hear his mom talking to Goten and sending him back to sleep with her soft words, so he couldn't run back and bury the items he...stole.
~ I just stole from my mom! I can't believe this!~ He placed the items under his bed and began to pace the floor in frantic thought. What was he to do? Go back and risk being caught or keep the items in his room for the time being and return them when it was safe? The latter sounded good; he would do that.
Chichi walked by his room and smiled sweetly at him before she spoke.
" Are you being good?"
" Yes, Momma." He replied as he smiled.
The statement made her smile more due to the fact that she knew he was beginning...Curious, lacking for a better word. She gave him a small peck on the cheek and was gone.
Something in the pit of his stomach told him something was up, but he just smiled and cast his gaze toward the book.
A little peek wouldn't hurt...Right?
The end of chapter one! What do you think so far, huh? Let me know and I hope you like it!!
