Only this first chapter will be in Gohan's POV, the rest will be in third person.


"Wait, guys, don't bring me back to life!" Everyone heard my father's voice in their heads.

"Goku? Why? You need to be here to protect the Earth!" Krillin replied. I was confused. Why could my father possibly want to stay dead? Isn't he the protector of the Earth?

"Well, I was thinking about it, and I realized that all of the threats to the Earth came because of me, so if I stay dead, they'll stop coming!" Goku cheerily said, and I realized something. Nobody is going to stop attacking Earth just because Goku is dead. Most of the threats to the Earth came for entirely different reasons! He probably just wanted an excuse to train without having to take care of my mother and I. But before I could speak up, the others were already nodding and agreeing to the idea.

"Right, so if we're all agreed, don't bring me back to life, and use the wish for something better. Trust me, it's safer this way." I'd had enough. I flew off as Goku's voice disappeared from our minds. That coward. He doesn't even deserve to be called my father. He didn't even help with the fight against Cell, simply standing down and leaving it to me, refusing to let anyone else help. Not that they wanted to. They were all cowards.

If they weren't going to help, then why the hell should they even be training? They were too weak. Goku trained me as hard as he could, but he didn't even train himself as much as possible. It's as if he knew that he would be able to leave the fight to me if he trained me hard enough. He could have easily defeated Cell on his own if he'd bothered training, but no, it was all about making me stronger.

I'd bet everything the others didn't train as hard as they could either. They probably believed Goku would take care of it.


After a short flight around the world to clear my head, I opened the door to our small home in the mountains and called for my mother.

"Mum! I'm home!"

"Gohan! Are you okay? Where's Goku? He'd better not be off training again!"

"He is gone." I snarled as I referred to him. "We're not even worth his time. He died against Cell and when we were going to bring him back with the dragon balls, he decided to stop us, in favour of being able to train in the Otherworld, while spouting some excuse about 'the threats only coming because of him'." My mother was shocked at my tone.

"Gohan! Don't joke about this! This is serious! If my Goku isn't home by dinner time I'm going to give him a taste of my wrath!" She tried to keep up a serious face, but I could see tears forming in her eyes. Soon enough, she was beginning to break down in tears and was sobbing while hugging me.

I simply stood there, letting her cry while I hugged her back. "It's going to be alright mum, it's going to be alright. We don't need him here, we can live on our own."

She started choking out some more words. "No, Gohan, you don't understand. We do need him here. Vegeta and Bulma once explained to me that once a Saiyan mates, a bond forms and if one dies, the other dies within three days."

I started feeling faint. "No. No, that can't be true. I can't lose you as well mum! Don't leave me alone!"

"Don't worry Gohan, you'll always have the others. They can take care of you after I'm gone."

"No! I can't trust them! They didn't even help me when Goku forced me to fight Cell! They just stood there and watched me get beaten, all in the name of their petty 'fairness'! The fate of the world was on the line! Why the hell did the battle have to be 'fair'! Then afterwards, they didn't even protest when Goku made the decision to stay dead!" I angrily shouted at my mother, and then stopped as I realized who I'd shouted at. "I'm sorry mum! I didn't mean to shout at you. J-Just don't die and leave me here alone. I don't want you to die!"

I broke away from my mother and rushed up to my room, lying on my bed and crying myself to sleep. All of the fatigue of the day finally caught up to me and I fell asleep.


It was early morning before I woke up again. I shot out of bed, quickly getting dressed and rushing downstairs to where my mother was cooking in the kitchen. I could already see her condition worsening, and I could hear her ragged breathing from the doorway. "Mum, are you okay? Please tell me you were joking when you said you were going to die."

"Gohan, I'm sorry, but I was telling the truth." She was about to start crying again. "I don't want to leave you alone either, but I can't control it."

"It's okay mum, I'll be able to take care of myself. I won't need the help of those... cowards."

She suddenly gasped and collapsed to the floor. "Mum!" I carried her up to her room and put her on the bed, feeling her head for a fever. I paled. It was life threatening, and there was nothing I could do about it.

It took a few hours for her to wake, and she slowly rolled her head to look at me. "Gohan... It looks like I'm going to die... earlier than I thought." Tears slowly rolled down her cheeks onto the pillow. She started coughing violently. "Take... care of yourself, okay? Promise me that you'll go to a school and... and make some friends someday. You'll need friends your own age."

"I promise, mum. I don't know when, but I'll go to school. But... I'm also going to keep training. Those cowards can't deal with any threats to the world, so I'll train myself to deal with them."

"That's... okay... Gohan..." My mother's eyes slowly closed and I heard her breathing stop. I reached out with my ki to sense her, but it was gone.

"No! No, mum! Come back!" I started shaking her, but it soon became obvious she wasn't waking up. I curled up on the ground, shaking angrily with rivers of tears running down my face.

"This is their fault... It's their fault! They should have helped! If they'd helped this never would have happened! I hate them! I hate them! I hate them! Cowards!" I could subconsciously feel a change happening to my ki, but I was too angry to notice it.

"AAAAARRRGGGGHHH!" I suddenly powered up and was shocked when I looked at myself, because where the Super Saiyan aura would usually be, there were shadows swirling around me. The shadows looked as if they were sucking in the light. Was it my ki? I tried firing off a ki blast outside and that, too, was a shadowy colour. It seems like my entire energy has changed, but it's also made me stronger. Feeling my strength, I figured that because it was so strong, nobody would be able to ignore it.

However, as I extended my senses, I couldn't feel anyone heading towards my home. Does that mean that they can't sense this energy? But even so, if they can't then they would have just felt my ki disappear. Looks like they really don't care about me after all. I smirked. When I see them again, I'll teach them the meaning of power.


Alright, so that's the first chapter of my new story. Before anyone asks, my previous stories aren't going to be continued anymore. That means that there will be no sequel to my first story and my one-shot will stay a one-shot. The reason for this is because I don't think I can work with the storyline of the one-shot enough to continue it, since it was always intended to be a one-shot. The sequel is cancelled simply because the idea I had for it was very bad. I acknowledge that my first story wasn't very good, which makes sense because it was the first time I was properly trying to write a story. Honestly, I think I realized that while I was writing it close to the end, but I wanted to at least finish it. After I put this up I'm going to mark the one-shot as complete.

Anyway, I hope you guys enjoy the story that this will hopefully turn out to be!

Also, the reason that I'm giving for Chi-Chi not dying when Goku dies with Raditz is because she knew he would be coming back.

I don't know how frequently I'm going to update this, but now that it's uploaded I'll probably get around to writing more chapters. This has been sitting on my computer waiting to be uploaded for about a month and a half now.