Son Gohan: Expert Babysitter
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When there is 4 pairs of the letter "Xa", it means a break in the story.
Chapter One:
WARNING: If you read any further, I am not responsible for the damage this may cause to your brain. It's incredible stupid, but it's supposed to be that way.
Son Gohan stared at is mom and Bulma in disbelief. He blinked. Gohan then turned and looked at his 4 yr. old little brother Goten and Bulma's son Trunks, who were playing nearby. Gohan blinked again then looked back at his mom and Bulma.
"Let me get this straight," Gohan said. "You want me to baby-sit them?"
Both women nodded eagerly.
"Ano… I don't know," Gohan said. "Aren't they-?"
"Oh, they're perfect little angels!" Bulma exclaimed.
"It'll only be for a day, Gohan-chan!" Chi-Chi added.
"WE NEED A BREAK!" Both cried at the same time.
Gohan thought for a moment before nodding hesitantly. The women shrieked and jumped up and down with joy. Then they profusely thanked Gohan and said that he would be needed to baby-sit tomorrow. After telling him this, Bulma and Trunks went back to Capsule Corp.
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(Son house, 8:00 am)
"Okay, Gohan-chan, the boys need to take their naps at-"
Chi-Chi was interrupted by Trunks saying, "I'm a big boy, I don't need to take naps."
"Whatever," Chi-Chi said, waving a dismissive hand. "There's breakfast for Goten in the fridge for when he gets up, lunch is in a capsule on the top of the fridge, dinner's in the capsule next to it, and," she lowered her voice to a whisper, "naptime's after lunch." She raised her voice back to normal level. "Bulma's cell phone number and a list of other emergency numbers is next to the phone. We'll be back by 11:00. Bye-bye, Gohan-chan, oh, and make sure Goten doesn't get any sugar. You remember what happened last time."
Gohan grimaced at the memory.
Bulma bent down and pulled her son into a hug and kissed his cheek. Trunks squirmed and said, "Okaasan, you're embarrassing me!"
Bulma rolled her eyes. "Whatever you say, dear. Now, you be a good boy for Gohan, okay? No destroying things or setting things on fire, got it?"
Trunks nodded obediently. Both women smiled and nodded. They headed out the door, shouting out last good byes and Chi-Chi yelling other random items that Gohan should do during the day. When the door was closed and Bulma's hover car out of sight, Gohan turned to Trunks only to find him not there. He walked back into the house and looked around. He wasn't in the kitchen, so that must mean Trunks was in the living room. Ah ha! There's the little demon child now!
Trunks was sitting on the couch, channel surfing. He stopped momentarily on PBS, but changed it again. The channels appeared only as blurs to Gohan, and he wondered how Trunks was seeing what was on. Finally, the 5 yr. old turned off the T.V. and turned to Gohan. In a very bored, drawling voice, that reminded Gohan a lot of Vegeta, if he had been a 5 yr. old, Trunks asked, "So waddya have to eat, 'round here?"
"Ano… if you want, I can get you something from the kitchen," Gohan stated.
"Okay, Gohan-san."
Now, contrary to popular belief, not all Son men are helpless in the kitchen. Gohan could make scrambled eggs, something he was very proud of considering that his father could hardly even work the microwave. So, Gohan made Trunks some scrambled eggs in saiya-jin portions for his young charge, only to not be able to find hide nor hair of the young boy. He looked in the bathroom, backyard, his mom's room, his room, and Goten's room. Gohan wandered back into the kitchen and gave a surprised jump. Trunks was sitting at the table wolfing through the eggs in a decidedly saiya-jin fashion.
"Where the heck did you come from?" Gohan asked.
"I came from Capsule Corp.," Trunks answered around a mouthful of egg.
"Ha ha, very funny, you know what I mean."
Trunks gave him an innocent smile that Gohan immediately didn't trust. "No, I don't know what you mean."
Before Gohan could say anything, his little brother Goten walked into the room, still looking asleep. He glanced around the table at them and when he saw Trunks he gave a happy cry. "Ohayo gozaimasu, Trunks-kun! What are you doing here?"
"Goten, okaasan told you last night that he was coming over today," Gohan answered before Trunks could.
"Huh? Honto ni(1)?"
Gohan rolled his eyes before nodding at his brother. Goten seemed to be satisfied with this and sat down at the table. Gohan took that as his hint to grab the food that Chi-Chi had made for him. He crossed the room and grabbed the pre-made breakfast from the fridge. It consisted of a healthy portion of pancakes, eggs, bacon, and orange juice. Gohan reheated the food and gave it to his brother, who started to eat it like a man deprived of food for a week.
After breakfast, Goten sat in a corner of the living room, while Gohan worked on his school work. If he had been paying attention, then Gohan would've noticed the way the room had become suspiciously silent and how Trunks and Goten kept glancing at him out of the corners of their eyes. It was only when Goten let out a happy giggle that Gohan glanced up from his work. He only gave them a suspicious glance before going back to his work. This only spawned more giggling from Goten. Again, Gohan looked up but all he saw was Trunks and Goten making silly faces at each other. He raised an eyebrow and went back to his work.
"Oniichan?"
Gohan looked up at Goten. "Hai, Goten?"
"Can Trunks-kun and I watch T.V.?"
Gohan looked at him with a confused expression. Since when did Goten ask to watch T.V.? Shrugging and figuring that Goten was still sleepy Gohan nodded his consent before going back to his studies. A few minutes later, for yet a fourth, Gohan was interrupted from his work, only this time to the most terrifying thing he had ever heard. Slowly, Gohan turned to the T.V. and stared at with an expression of horror upon his face. It was… BARNEY!
He gulped and listened with dread as the words from that infamous song drifted over to him.
"Barney is a dinosaur from our imagination/ And when he's tall/ he's what we call a dinosaur sensation/ Barney's friends are big and small/
They come from lots of places/ after school they meet to play/ and sing with happy faces/ Barney shows us lots of things/ like how to play pretend/ ABC's and 123's/ And how to be a friend/ Barney comes to play with us/ whenever we may need him/ Barney can be your friend too/ If you just make-believe him!"
Gohan gave a grimace and looked over at Goten and Trunks. They were thoroughly enjoying themselves, tapping with and occasionally singing along with the song. He looked at the T.V. and then tried to look away but he couldn't. The stupid purple dinosaur had started dancing around and talking to the kids. The acting was over enthusiastic and cheesy, in Gohan's point of view.
Oh crap, Gohan thought. They're starting another song!
This torture went on for what seemed like forever to Gohan. Occasionally, and much to his horror, Gohan found himself humming along with a few of the songs. Finally, Barney ended or… it looked like it did. Gohan's eyes widened with horror when he realized it was a two hour marathon. He desperately tried to go back to his school work, only to find that he had somehow gotten tied up. He then did the next logical thing that came to him. He closed his eyes only to have them forced open again. He felt someone shove a couple pills down his throat and when he again attempted to close his eyes, Gohan found that he could not. He made a desperate attempt to try and move his head but couldn't.
"Isn't this a great show, oniichan?"
"Yeah, aren't you loving this, Gohan-san?"
Goten and Trunks looked at him with their eyes glazed over. An insane thought struck Gohan. The show had possessed Goten and Trunks. He contemplated this for a moment until he realized that Goten and Trunks were staring at the T.V. singing the Barney theme like possessed people. If that wasn't an obvious enough clue that he had to turn that T.V. off, then what was? Struggling, Gohan managed to break his bonds. The boys looked over at Gohan and then leapt on him in an attempt to stop him from going near the T.V. This started an all out brawl that Gohan seemed to be loosing.
TBC-
"honto ni" means "really"
Okay, sorry for the very non-Japanese breakfast. I finished writing this at 1 am, so it really isn't that good. I'm also sorry for the shortness of the chapter. I apologize for the cheesiness and stupidity of this, but it really was meant to be that way. And no one diss the Barney part to much, you have no idea what I went through to get those stupid lyrics. shudders I have to say that Barney does not really possess little kids… I think.