Chapter 2

As Goten lazily snoozes on his brother and sister-in-law's couch, he suddenly awakes when his rambunctious four-year-old niece Pan comes crashing down on top of him.

"Gah!" he screamed as unexpected pain rushed through his stomach. He opened his eyes to see Pan on top of him grinning.

"Hey Uncle Goten! Let's do something!" she cheerfully says, jittering up and down on her uncle. Goten runs his hand through his hair and squeezes his eyes shut, mumbling.

"Alriiight… did you just now wake up or something?" he said as he sat her on the couch next to him, standing up.

"Yes; just right now!" she happily exclaims as she tugs on Goten's pant leg. He sighs but smiles down at his happy niece none the less.

"Well, uh…," Goten was at a loss of words. This was his first time babysitting Pan and he forgot everything Gohan and Videl lectured him about the day before in preparation. He was looking back and thinking it might've been a good idea to not have volunteered babysitting for Pan and just let his mom watch after her, but shrugged it off. He rarely got to see his niece since Chi-Chi usually stuffed him in his room with a book every day of his life. "Are you… hungry?"

"Yeah!" she says as she continuously tugs at her uncle's leg. Goten gave a long sigh but smiled down at his niece before placing his hand behind her back and walking her to the kitchen. "I want cereal!" Pan happily shouts as she reaches for a box on top of the counter.

"Alright… sounds simple enough!" he said with an easygoing smile. "Maybe this isn't going to be so hard after all!" he cheerfully thinks with a smile as he grabs a bowl from the dishwasher and a carton of milk from the refrigerator.

Within minutes, a happy Pan is eating her cornflakes at the kitchen table while Goten tries to stay awake in the living room, flipping through the channels ever so bored. 'There's gotta be something fun we could do…,' he thought to himself, trying to find ideas to keep Pan occupied until Gohan and Videl get back from their Capsule Corp. meeting aswell as havin a good time himself. Suddenly it hit him as soon as Pan finished her cereal.

"I'm done Uncle Goten!" she says as she wipes her mouth clean from the milk. The young four year old took the bowl and flew over to the sink, dropping it in there before lowering herself on her feet.

"So what do you want to do now? We have the whole house to ourselves for the next few hours!" Goten tells her with a smile, stretching his arms out so he could waken up a little. Pan thought about it for a moment but the four-year-old was stumped.

"I don't know Uncle Goten, what can we do?" she cheerfully asks with a bright smile. Goten looks over at the window and smiles as he sees a sunshine blasting through the dark unlit house.

"Do you want to go outside and play a game of tag?" Goten asked, still smiling at his niece. Pan immediately flew up and touched her uncle on his shoulder.

"Tag, you're it!" she giggly says before blasting off outside of the house. Goten suddenly alerts himself as his eyes dart open wide.

"I'm coming for you!" he says with a smile as he runs off outside after his niece. They played and flew outside the entire yard, even flying through the neighbor's yard in a carefree game a tag, giggling and laughing. Their playful activities went on for around two hours, right around when Gohan and Videl arrived back home.

"I don't think I could ever sit through another one of those boring conferences ever again," Gohan said to his wife as he sighs, parking into the driveway. Videl smiles at him as she unbuckles her seatbelt.

"It could have been worse; at least we didn't get fired," she replied.

"Bulma would never fire us, Videl…," he says to her whilst they make their way into the house. "Goten, Pan, we're home!" he hollered throughout the house. Soon after not getting a reply, Gohan walks to the kitchen and looks out the window seeing if they were outside. "Hey Videl, they're out here playing in the garden," he tells his wife who walks over into the room with him.

"With how hot out it is today they must be thirsty, I'll pour them lemonade and take it out to them," she said to Gohan, moving over to the refrigerator and pulling out the pitcher.

"While you're doing that, I'm going to go over next door and see how Mom and Dad are doing; love you honey," Gohan says to Videl right before he brings her into a nice embrace after she sets the lemonade pitcher down on the counter, pressing his lips against hers before walking out of the house.

With Videl smiling as her husband leaves, she goes back to bring two glasses out of the dishwasher, pouring the ice cold lemonade into both, also sliding a straw in Pan's glass before she makes her way outside. As she opens the door with her shoulder, she stops herself from going any further. What had stopped her wasn't Goten and Pan doing anything they weren't supposed to be doing, but merely just seeing Goten out in the blazingly hot sunlight with his shirt off.

"Oh my…."

Well, I hope you guys enjoyed this chapter. I know it isn't very long, but I did what I could to get some heavy work into the story.

So I guess you know what the surprise pairing is now, right?