AN: Ok… so like I said, at least the first few updates will come pretty fast. As always I appreciate any reviews, and I have nothing left to say here really, so here's the chapter.
Chapter 2: A Pleasant Surprise

As Gohan walked through the front gates beside Videl, he couldn't help but feel a tingle of excitement. He looked around in wonder at the numerous school buildings. He saw some robots at work outside that even he had never seen before. 'I guess Bulma came out with a new model recently.' He could tell that this was going to be a good year.

After walking around for a while, with Videl pointing out a few places of interest, they reached the location of their dorm rooms. All the juniors had dorms in the same area, so Gohan's dorm was in the same vicinity. In fact, as he figured out when they reached his dorm, Videl's was right across the hall. When Videl saw this, her small smile increased subconsciously. She had taken a liking to Gohan over the past hour or so. She didn't usually warm up to someone so fast. 'It's nothing… he's just a nice guy. That's all.' she tried to tell herself.

Sharpener and Erasa had to go a little farther to get to their dorms, so they said bye to Gohan and Videl and kept going down the hallway. Videl took her bags into her room and placed them on her bed as Gohan strolled around the hallway, noting the comfortable "living room" type area at the end of the hallway. It was fully equipped with a refrigerator, T.V., some video games, plush leather couches, and a nice little bar set. 'Wow… Bulma sure did do a good job on this place. I wonder how much building this whole school actually cost her.'

"Hey Gohan." Videl's voice broke him from his thoughts. "Let's go see what your dorm looks like.

He turned around. "Sure, Videl." He noticed that she had taken the opportunity to change out of her other clothes and into her school uniform. It had a nice white and blue top with a relatively short skirt for a school uniform. It only enhanced the beauty that he had noticed on the bus, although he had been trying to ignore it for the past hour.

Videl noticed him looking. "Yeah… I hate these uniforms. We have to wear them everyday except Friday. Oh well… come on, let's see what you've got in here."

She walked into the room with Gohan behind her. "… Wha?" stuttered Videl. Gohan groaned as he walked in. It appeared that Bulma had taken it upon herself to decorate his room for him, and she had gone all out. Now that he thought about it, the common room was nothing compared to his room. He could have started an electronics store with all the things she had installed in his room. 'Well… I guess at least I'll have something to do when ever I'm in here.' he thought, looking at the huge entertainment system.

"Gohan… what is all this stuff?" Videl managed to get out while spinning around, taking in all the high-tech gadgetry around the room.

"I don't know… I guess my mom sent it over." he lied.

"Wow… she must be crazy. But who cares? This is awesome. It's even better than my room back home. I'm going to have to come over here more often." Videl replied in wonder.

"Yeah… sure." Gohan chuckled, moving over to the closet. A bunch of neatly packed school uniforms just like Videl's (except in a guy's style) lined the wall.

As he inspected the uniforms, Videl noticed that if she pressed a red button on the bed side table, another bed slid out. If she pressed the green one, the bottom bed slid in. There was a ladder on the side of the wall that allowed the person on top to get up to their bed.

"Hey Gohan, you didn't tell me you had a roommate."

"What makes you think I do?"

"Well there are two beds here."

"Oh… well my mom did the paperwork. I guess she signed me up for a room with a roommate. Do you have one?"

"Nah… I like my privacy."

"Yeah, me too, but at least it'll be interesting to see who my roommate is."

"I guess so. Come on, I'll show you my room."

"Okay. Hold on." Gohan replied, throwing his shirt back on the stack. This knocked over the pile, and had he stayed, he would have seen the pile of dresses similar to those that Videl was wearing folded behind his own clothes.


After checking out Videl's room, which was obviously nowhere near as cool as Gohan's was, the two headed out to look for Erasa and Sharpener. Since it was the first day, classes started after lunch, so they had plenty of time to spare.

They walked for a while until they heard a voice from behind them. "Are you still hanging out with nerd boy, Videl?"

"Well… only because you weren't here for me to beat the hell out of." she replied, rolling her eyes at Gohan.

"Hey, Hey. No need for such hostility. I was just kidding." Sharpener answered, not sounding like he really meant the last part.

"Wow… hostility. That's like… oh my god… nine letters Sharpener! Good Job!"

"I'm not stupid…" Sharpener grumbled as he and Erasa caught up to them.

"And neither is Gohan apparently. I heard two teachers talking about you as I was going to my room." She said, poking Gohan on the nose, and then slipping her arm under his. "Gohan here apparently got perfect scores on the entrance exam guys."

"Really? Wow Gohan, you must be pretty smart." Videl addressed him, forgetting that moments before she had been giving her best friend a death glare at her show of affection for Gohan.

"Hehe… not really." Gohan answered, flashing his son grin and rubbing the back of his neck with the hand that Erasa wasn't coiled around.

"Hey… cute, smart and modest. This one's a catch, huh Videl? Erasa laughed as Gohan's face turned bright red.

Sharpener saved Videl from having to answer by snorting and crossing his arms over his chest. "Spare me."

"Don't be jealous, Sharpener."

"Yeah right, Erasa. Me; jealous of him. That's going to happen."

"Whatever, Sharpener." Videl cut in, forcing Sharpener to huff and turn his head the other way.

"You know, the only reason I'd ever be jealous-" he started; only to be cut off by Erasa's squeal.

"OH MY GOD! KARAOKE!" she screamed, running over to a karaoke booth that she had seen near the side of what Gohan assumed to be the gym entrance.

The others followed her reluctantly as she dragged Sharpener on the stage. A crowd began to gather around as they heard the music blaring from the karaoke booth. By the end of their song, a rather large crowd surrounded the stage.

"Hey Videl! Why don't you and Gohan come up and do a song?" Erasa called across the stage.

Videl blatantly refused, but the blonde kept asking her until she finally gave in. She couldn't resist that stupid puppy dog look. "So… what do you say, Gohan?

Gohan waved his hands across his chest. "No Way! Not in front of all these people! I think I'm going to head back and see if my roommate has stopped by yet." he said hastily.

"Umm… okay," replied Videl, slightly disappointed that he didn't want to sing with her. "We'll drop by later so Erasa and Sharpener can see how cool your room is.


Gohan slipped the key card he had been given into the slot near the doorknob, and then re-entered his room for the second time that day. Amazingly, he was even more surprised this time then he had been upon entering the room the first time. It looked like St. Patrick had broken in and had a field day (AN: Haha… it's St. Patrick's Day right now). On one complete side of the room was covered with every shade of green that he had ever seen before. He stepped into the room and stopped short with his eyes wide open.

Across the room, stepping out of the bathroom was a very attractive girl, with nothing on but a towel on. He watched stupidly, as she closed the door behind her, and almost drooled as he followed the small drops of water rolling down her back with his eyes. Oddly enough, his genius I.Q. was not enough to alert him to the fact that this girl, whoever she was, would not appreciate him staring at her while she was half naked.

"AHHHH!" she screamed, holding her arms over her chest, although she was technically covered.

Her shriek brought Gohan back to his senses. He turned around and covered his eyes, stuttering "I –Ii- I'm Sorry!"

The sight of him cowering in the corner was quite amusing, but it didn't completely cure her anger. "WHAT ARE YOU DOING IN HERE?"

Gohan half-turned around, and then turned back hastily, remembering why he was looking the other way in the first place. "This is my… room?" he stated somewhat hesitantly, not wanting to provoke anymore of that ear-splitting racket that caused his acute saiyan hearing so much pain.

A sweat drop rolled down the back of the girl's neck, since at this point, Gohan was in a near fetal position; he had obviously forgotten that not all girls were equipped with frying pans like his mother. She chuckled hesitantly, and asked: "It is? So I guess you're my new roommate."

She slipped on some underwear and a long t shirt that she found in her suitcase and looked over at his quivering figure. Sigh… "You can open your eyes now…"

Gohan opened his eyes slowly, and saw a girl with light brown hair staring back at him with somewhat of an amused expression on her face. He immediately noticed that she wasn't wearing any pants, but decided not to say anything out of fear that he would offend her.

"Wow… you must be pretty whipped if you hide in a corner like that every time a woman yells at you. Your girlfriend must be pretty rough." She noted that despite his lack of tact, he was fairly handsome, even though he was wearing what looked like extremely baggy clothing. 'We'll just have to get rid of those.' She thought, with an evil smirk forming on her face.

Gohan saw the smirk, and started to get worried. He hoped he was just seeing things, but you never know… "Ummm… I don't have a girlfriend." he replied.

"Oh," -'that's a plus'- "Well I find that hard to believe, but anyway… I'm Lime. And you must be…" She looked at a name engraved on his suitcase. "Gohan? That's odd… I used to know a boy named Gohan. But you can't be him… he had blonde hair…" She started mumbling to herself.

Gohan looked at her in disbelief. He too had known a girl named Lime. He had not forgotten her, because he didn't really know that many people that were his age. 'What? That can't be that same girl I met before the cell games… She was loud –oh wait, that fits. I don't remember her looking like THAT? Well… I guess people can change a lot in five years. I wonder if I should tell her that I was that kid. Maybe I'll just wait for a while. I'm sure I'll figure out what to do eventually.'

As Gohan sorted through his thoughts, Lime had come to a conclusion. "You know, you do look kind of familiar. Would you happen to be that boy I met all that time ago?"

Gohan didn't know what to do here, so he resorted back to the patented son family grin and replied, "Ummmm… I'm not sure I know what you're talking about."

"Oh… hey! Wait just a minute! I remember that stupid grin. And you're still a pervert too! I knew it was you!"

Gohan nearly face faulted. Stupid grin… what was he going to do now? But… wait… "Hey! I'm not a pervert… I thought we set that straight!"

"So you're saying it WAS you. I knew it! I knew it!" she started to sing.

Gohan really did face fault this time. How could he have been so stupid? Damn teenage girls and their stupid logic…

"So… it was you. And I remember now. I saw you on T.V. at the cell games. And I thought…" She stared at him for a second, and her eyes seemed to glitter. "It was you, wasn't it? You were the one who finally defeated Cell, weren't you?" She looked at his face and got all the information she needed to know from his expression.

"I knew it!" Suddenly her smile faltered. "But why didn't you come and visit stupid! I thought you said I was your friend?" While she said this she walked towards him, hitting him a few times (although by now she had realized that it wouldn't really hurt him).

Gohan kept backing up. "I'm sorry… I guess I kind of forgot about you for a while (She hits him again, and he stops moving) … after my dad died." At this a pained expression clouded his face for a few seconds. "But I'm really sorry; I still should have come back and visited."

Apparently this was too much for her to take. She stepped back and looked at his face, then burst out crying. "Oh Gohan! You shouldn't be sorry. I'm sorry. I'm so stupid. Here I am yelling at you, when you saved my grandfather; when you saved all of us." She suddenly hugged him and started crying on his chest. Out of surprise, he stepped back again and tripped over a certain red stick and both of them fell onto the bed. 'Stupid power pole…'

Lime didn't seem to have noticed that they had landed on the bed. She continued to cry into his chest, and he tried to console her, but nothing seemed to get through. In the end, he resigned himself to waiting for her to stop. He leaned back against his pillow, and felt pretty comfortable with her just lying there on top of him. After a while, he looked at her, and she appeared to be done. Her green eyes looked back at him curiously.

"So Gohan, why is your hair black now?" she asked as she reached out to touch it, as if to make sure it was real.

"Well, it's this thing I can do. I sort of power up, then my hair turns yellow like that." he replied. He didn't want to give too much away yet, maybe he'd tell her the whole truth some other time.

"That's so cool… can you do it now?" she asked.

"Err… I don't think so. I don't want to break anything in here."

"It would do that? Wow. You'll have to show me some other time then."

"Ummm sure… but Lime?"

"Yes?"

"You know that no one knows that I beat Cell, right? And I don't want them to either. Same goes for the golden hair thing. Promise not to tell anyone?"

"Sure, it'll be our little secret." She moved a little closer to him and propped her head up with one of her hands. "So… what do you want to do now?" she asked with a smirk, winking suggestively.

"Hehehe… I don't know…" Gohan said, blushing and accidentally banging his head against the head board as he backed up.

Lime rolled her eyes at this. "You're like a little kid, Gohan. I was just kidding…" he sighed in relief. "Sort of…" she mumbled under her breath, unaware that he could hear her. He chuckled nervously.

"Well, I guess we should probably get up now. It has to be at least 10:30. Class will start soon." she said reluctantly, looking out the window. "But first, I just remembered that I never actually said thank you for what you did all those years ago. So thank you." she said sincerely, giving him a light kiss on the cheek. She then moved her head back to look at his face, and found that he was no longer blushing.

"You're welcome." he replied, looking back at her. They stayed there for a moment, unmoving, until Gohan heard the door open.


"Hey Gohan? You in here?" he heard Videl's voice call out as they walked in. The three of them froze in place as they took in the scene in front of them. Ignoring the neon green decorations floating around everywhere, and the amazingly high tech condition of the room –which Videl had already seen, they all stared at Gohan. He was leaning back on the bed, with a girl lying on top of him. The girl was wearing no pants, and it looked like they were about to kiss.

Videl broke the silence first. "So this is why you didn't want to sing with me…" she said, raising her eyebrow. She and Erasa both had a look of jealousy on their faces, although Erasa's was more obvious because she had been doing it on purpose.

"Wha… no! Crowd –people and Lime… but, we were talk-" he blabbered, unable to explain anything in coherent sentences, until Lime hit him in the face with a pillow.

"Yeah… don't talk Gohan. What Gohan here is trying to say is that nothing was happening here… we were just talking. In fact, I was apologizing for yelling at him when he came in, because I thought he broke in to see me naked or something." She got up and pulled her shirt down a little self-consciously. "Anyway, I'm Lime, Gohan's new roommate. Nice to meet you."

The others just stared at her for a second, although Sharpener was staring slightly lower than the other two. Videl noticed this and slapped him in the back of the head. "Pervert…" she mumbled.

"Yeah, nice to meet you too. I'm Videl. This is Erasa, and that's Sharpener." she continued. The other two said "Hi.", and Sharpener was still cradling the back of his head where Videl had hit him.

"So this is weird… I didn't know that they let guys and girls share a room." Erasa added.

Lime turned to her. "They don't. I sort of 'accidentally' said that I was a guy. I'm just going to change it later today. I doubt they'd bother to change my room now anyway."

"Wow! You're so lucky… I wish I'd thought of that." Erasa said, giggling while Videl rolled her eyes.

"Haha… yeah. And I guess I got lucky. Gohan and I have met before. He saved my grandfather from getting shot by some freak with a gun once." she said, smiling at him.

"What! Nerd boy did that?" Sharpener asked. Now he was staring at her legs since she had turned around.

"Nerd boy? For your information Gohan is the one wh-" A glare from Gohan cut her off. "Err… what I meant to say is Gohan is probably way stronger than you are. Much more polite too…" She added, noticing where his eyes were looking. "Are you seriously going to keep staring like that? It's not like I'm not wearing underwear! I do it all the time… pervert!" At this she went to get some pants, and left Sharpener looking at Gohan like he was the luckiest man in the world. Videl noticed this, and hit him yet again.

When Lime walked in, she saw Sharpener on the floor, holding his head. This didn't surprise her too much, so she ignored it and asked out loud, "So what do you guys want to do? We still have an hour left."

"Well… we could eat lunch." Videl replied.

At this, Gohan jumped up said "Yeah! I'll make it!" He then set off running around the room, picking up capsules, then throwing one down to reveal a shiny looking stove. All three girls watched him curiously as he went about cooking a meal (Sharpener was still on the floor). With in five minutes, Gohan had set up what looked like a 10 course meal on a blanket on the floor of their room.

"Well? What are you waiting for guys? Let's eat!" he whined impatiently. He waited for them to all take some of the food that was sitting there, and then dug in. It never occurred to him that he was eating at an abnormal pace, until he finished 10 minutes later and saw them all staring at him, food untouched.

"Anything wrong guys?" he asked.

They just stared at him, shocked, until Sharpener spoke up. "Yeah… you just ate enough to feed several people for a couple of days. Besides that, you finished it in less than 15 minutes…" The others nodded in agreement and Gohan flushed.

"Oh… I forgot. It's sort of a hereditary thing. I just eat a lot more than most people. Sorry about that… I'll try to slow it down next time I guess."

"Whatever dude…" Sharpener mumbled as the rest of them went back to eating their food.


After they all finished it was almost time for their first class, so they headed out and walked towards the science building where luckily enough, they all had the same first class. As they walked along, several students called out to them, welcoming them back. Most of them were talking to Videl, especially since both Gohan and Lime were new to the school. Erasa didn't seem to mind, however, since she got her fair share of whistles anyway.

"Wow Videl, you're pretty popular around here." Gohan commented.

"Yeah… most of them are just sucking up though. I doubt they'd even talk to me if I wasn't 'Hercule's daughter'." she replied

"I wouldn't bet on that…" Gohan answered back.

"Pshhh… you haven't been around here long enough." she said doubtfully, waving to another random person whose name was a complete mystery to her.

They finally reached their class room with a few minutes to spare, and the five of them moved towards the back of the room. They sat there idly chatting, until the teacher called them to attention.

"Hello kids, welcome back to C.C. I'm Mr. Mann, your teacher for advanced biology this year. Since we don't have much time, we're just going to do a brief overview of the course today. First, however, it has come to my attention that we have two new students in here this year. Hmmm… let's see here. We have a Mr. Green and a Mr. Son. Both of you please come up here."

Gohan and Lime got up and walked to the front of the room. "Sir, I think they made a mistake on my records. I'm obviously not a boy, so I'll probably have to go and change that."

"Of course. Just introduce yourself and then you may go to the main office."

"Okay. Hi, my name is Lime. I'm 16 years old and…" Lime finished her introduction after a few minutes then headed out the door to find the coordinator's office to change her gender.

Gohan introduced himself to the class afterwards with his goofy son grin seemingly implanted on his face. He was extremely nervous with every one staring at him, and stumbled on the way up the steps to his seat in the back, eliciting a few giggles from the girls in the room. After he made his way back, the teacher began the overview of the class, which seemed mildly interesting to Gohan. The rest of the class listened respectfully, since no one was keen on getting in trouble on the first day of school.

The rest of the day passed fairly quickly, since the classes were shortened to a little over 20 minutes each. Gohan was happy to find that Videl was in all of his classes, and Lime was in most of them. Erasa and Sharpener were also in quite a few of his classes, but not all of them, because they hadn't been approved for a few of the higher level courses he had taken.

After they had finished all their classes, they walked outside, wondering what to do. It was 4:00, meaning that they had a good 6 or 7 hours before curfew, and there were plenty of things to do on the campus. Bulma had made sure of that. Unfortunately for Gohan, when they walked by the gym, Videl remembered a certain promise he had made her.

"Hey Gohan…"


AN: Well… there's my second chapter. Yeah… not too much action yet. I'm building up to it though don't worry. Vegeta's getting impatient anyway, so I'll probably stick him in there soon, along with some fight scenes. Anyway… next time: Videl's fight with Gohan is pretty much inevitable, Vegeta has a little fun, and Gohan makes a new friend. Of course… I pretty much just typed that stuff for no reason, so unless I can incorporate any of it in, it won't happen. The fight with Videl is coming though, and I'm going to stop rambling now. So anyway… please read and review! I'll probably update soon, if not tomorrow, because if I'm doing this I have an excuse for not doing AP work!