Here's a chapter about Gohan and Videl! :D By the way, if you happen to not like some of these pairings, go ahead and follow the story anyway and just skip the chapters that you don't wanna read! Because it's a collection of oneshots, there still might be something else out there for you! Right now, I'm starting with a few romance ones, but soon there will be other kinds of oneshots too! :) Enjoy!

Theme #81: A Place to Belong

(The Briefs' nature reserve, a year or so after the defeat of Majin Buu)

Videl looked at the people around her. They were laughing and talking and eating loudly. Everyone was celebrating and having a good time. And it was a good time. She just felt a little...insecure around all these people sometimes.

Up until fairly recently, she lived her life thinking she was the second strongest in the world, just beneath her father. Then with that whole "Great Saiyaman" incident, she met Gohan, and she learned she was nowhere near the strongest. Even with his flight and ki coaching, she knew she would never be able to measure up to all of these people around her. It always made her feel a little out of place.

She had confessed these feelings to Gohan once or twice before, and he just smiled and said, "Don't worry abut it! There's no need to compare yourself to the others! You are an amazing person! If it makes you feel any better, I probably won't be able to reach the same level as some of these people anymore either!" Then he would laugh and rub the back of his neck.

The words themselves weren't all that much comforting, but Videl did find comfort in the fact that her boyfriend loved her the way she was. Except he wasn't her boyfriend anymore. They were now tied together by the most official bonds of love; marriage. In fact, it was right now in the Briefs' nature reserve at their wedding reception that she was beginning to have all these doubts again.

"What's wrong?" Gohan asked, suddenly sitting beside her.

She shook her head and looked at the ground. "It's nothing. You should go back to talking with Krillin."

He grabbed her hand. "I'm done talking with Krillin. Now I'm with you. What's wrong?"

She shook her hand out of his grip and held in a sigh. "I told you. It's nothing. I just would rather have gone home than have come to this silly reception. I mean, we're married now, so why do we have to celebrate it with all these people?"

"These guys are my friends, and they really are great people. Some of them are kind of strange at first, but at heart, every single one of these guys cares about us. That's why they showed up in the first place!" He stood up with a cheery smile and offered her a hand.

Videl turned him down. "I think I'll just stay here. You should talk to them. They are your friends after all."

He looked down at her with a sad expression. "Is this about you feeling out of place again? I promise you, these guys won't even care whether you're strong or not! Heck, Bulma's not even a fighter! If anything, they'll look up to you for coming so far and even learning how to fly!"

"But-"

"Shh. Don't doubt yourself! You may not be the strongest in the room, it's true, but neither am I! And I'm not letting that get me down. Videl, this is our wedding reception. It's supposed to be full of good times and celebration, not second thoughts about how we compare to the others around us. I love you, and that's all that matters. I think you should try and interact with some of these people and just enjoy yourself a little more!" He ended by offering his hand to her again.

She grabbed onto his hand and stood up. She glanced around nervously. Everyone was talking loud and eating a lot. Her father was even enjoying himself, perhaps a little too much. If her father could have a good time, then she could too. Gohan was right. This is her wedding reception, and she's supposed to enjoy it!

He gave her a comforting smile as they walked up to Krillin, Yamcha, and Tien who were all talking very loudly. They got a little quieter as the newly wedded couple approached them.

"There she is!" Krillin exclaimed. "We were just talking about how you disappeared at your very own reception!"

She tried to fake a similar enthusiasm. "I was actually just sitting over there! I was just thinking about how nice it was for the Briefs to let us use their nature reserve."

Yamcha grinned. "We always come here for pretty much any social event, but yeah, I guess it is pretty nice of them!"

"Videl, have you even gotten anything to drink?" Krillin asked. "It's your own reception, you should relax! You look so tense!" He laughed loudly, and she wondered if he had a little too much to drink. "I can't believe that you and Gohan got married before Yamcha did!"

Yamcha frowned. "Tien's not married either."

Tien tried to back out. "Hey! I'm not the one who had an on-and-off girlfriend for years, and then she suddenly decided to ditch me for an alien."

Krillin laughed loudly. "Don't worry, Yamcha! Sometimes being married isn't as easy as you think it should be." He turned to the couple. "Yep. From experience, I can tell you that there will definitely be moments where you completely hate each other!"

"I heard that," 18 said, walking up behind him and giving him a light bonk on the head.

He rubbed his head and frowned. "Hey! It's true though! We have some pretty rough arguments, but in the end, we still love each other. Right babe?"

"Krillin, just how many drinks have you had?"

"I dunno. A couple? Heh. Couple...like the two people that got married."

She rolled her eyes. "He's an idiot." Then she looked directly at Videl. "It's true that you'll go through some rough times, but that's just a part of marriage. Having doubts about everything is normal, just don't let Krillin's stupidity scare you too bad. In the end, it's with each other that you belong." She looked over at her drunken husband and gave a small smile as she shook her head at his behavior.

Videk was genuinely surprised at the android's words. 18 had dragged Krillin out of the conversation at this point, but her words still rang through Videl's ears. For someone who wasn't fully human, she certainly understood human emotions and knew just what to say. Although it might have just come from 18 scanning her emotions, the words actually did comfort Videl quite a bit. She was beginning to feel much better about her company.

She knew that she loved Gohan and wanted to be with him, but she was definitely still having some doubts about being surrounded by all these other people. "It's with each other that you belong." She realized that it didn't matter so much that she was surrounded by the others because she had Gohan, whom she could always rely on and listen to.

Videl admitted to herself that Android 18 had been one of the more intimidating people of the group, but now she was feeling a lot better about her after those simple words of encouragement. Perhaps if 18 wasn't all that bad, maybe Gohan was right about the rest of them too. She should have listened to her husband sooner, but she was still learning how marriage worked. After all, it was only a few hours ago that the official ceremony took place.

She had found a place to belong within Gohan, so it was possible that she could find a place to belong within the entire gang. She just had to trust what Gohan believed about his friends. Just as he told her earlier, it shouldn't matter how different she was. If they really were as good of people as he said they were, they wouldn't mind her at all. She was determined to become an official part of the group.

"What do you want to do?" he asked her softly. "I'm not going to make you talk with all these people if you're still not comfortable in their company."

She smiled a little. "How else am I supposed to get comfortable with their company except for talking with them?"

She laced her fingers through his as she worked up the nerve to socialize with the strongest people in the world. She was just about to join the large and loud group gathered at the picnic table full of food when she noticed someone else sitting all alone under a tree.

"You should go join them," she told Gohan. "I'll be over in a sec."

She walked over to the strange green creature resting under the tree. What was he? A Namekian or something? It didn't matter what he was, just who he was. And he was Piccolo. Videl had been very intimidated by him at first, but she had learned about how much Gohan respected him.

Videl didn't really know what she was going to say to him. "He really looks up to you, you know. Even now as an adult."

Piccolo opened one eye slowly, then the other. "I was his first real teacher. Goku never could teach him to fight because Chi-Chi was so strict on that kid."

"If it weren't for you, he would never have become the fighter that stopped Cell for good in the end though. I feel like I owe you my thanks." She sat down next to him.

He smiled a little. "Nobody owes me anything. It was that kid who changed my heart for the better. If anything, I owe him something."

"You weren't always one of the good guys, right?"

"Not even close. I had tried to fulfill my father's evil desires and wanted to destroy Goku. We had an epic battle once, and just when he should have killed me, he showed mercy and let me escape. I thought him to be a fool for the longest time. I wanted to train harder and grow stronger to defeat him, but the Saiyans showed up and kept me from seeking my rematch."

"I remember Gohan telling me about the Saiyans before. First a man named Raditz who kidnapped him as a small boy. He said that he was so scared, but you guys defeated that man. Then two more came. He even told me that one of them was Vegeta."

He nodded and smiled. "It's true. Vegeta was also one of the villains for a while. Most of us were at some point actually. Yet even with all these different backgrounds, we've all somehow managed to come together and accept one another."

She felt a lot better about the green man. His words were comforting to hear. The more and more she was talking to people, the more and more accepted she felt. It was very consoling, and she was grateful for it.

Just as she stood up, thanked him for his words, and began to walk away, he stopped her. "Videl. Be good to Gohan for me. I trust that you will."

"I will," she said with a nod. Then she ran up to the large group of people where Gohan was.

"You went to talk to Piccolo?" he asked with surprise.

"Yeah. He doesn't seem as intimidating one-on-one."

He laughed. "No one here is. With the exception of Vegeta maybe. But even he's not all that bad once you get to know him!"

Vegeta scoffed, overhearing that comment. "You hardly even know me then! I am not as soft as the rest of you! Now hand me that ham, Kakarot!"

Videl always found it strange that he referred to Goku as Kakarot, but her father-in-law never seemed to mind. He just laughed a little and held up the ham. "What, this ham? No can do! It's all mine!"

Vegeta let out a huff of air. "Hand it over or I swear-to-Dende I'll-"

"Catch!" Goku shouted as he threw the ham in Videl's general direction. She wasn't the one who was supposed to catch it though. Gohan did, who was standing right beside her. They were both a little unsure of what to do now.

"So the kid can catch a ham, but not one petty little earring?" Vegeta taunted as he walked toward him.

"Shots fired!" Krillin yelled from somewhere in the distance. 18 rolled her eyes.

"Not so fast! Back to you, Dad!" Gohan held tightly onto the ham before sending it back to his father. He made sure that Vegeta didn't get a hold of it. Now his hands were all gross though...

Goku caught it and cheered. "For once, I don't think I even want to eat this one! I just want to see how long we can keep it away from Vegeta!"

The prince of all Saiyans growled. They were making a fool out of him! "Give me that ham!" He jumped over the table and ran toward Goku, who had already thrown the ham again, except this time toward Krillin.

His reactions were slowed because of the alcohol in his system, and the ham hit the ground hard only after bouncing off of Krillin himself. 18 facepalmed throughout the entire ordeal. "Don't try to get a drunk man to catch anything!"

Vegeta rushed over to where they were standing at and tried to pick up the ham for himself. 18 beat him to it and used her extremely fast reflexes to quickly kick it over to Trunks. She smiled and received quite a bit of pleasure from keeping it away from him actually.

"You kicked it to my son?" He laughed. "Smart move, rust bucket!"

"You take that back!" Krillin exclaimed. "Or- Or- Or I'll fight you!" 18 lightly whacked the back of his head to remind him that he was in no condition to fight. She didn't care about his stupid insults anyway.

Trunks had actually caught the ham and wasn't sure what to do with it. He could give it to his father, or he could keep the game going. In a weird way, he kind of liked seeing his father's pride get hurt though. But he didn't have much time, and he needed to make up his mind.

Vegeta slowly approached his son as if Trunks were a rabid dog. "Come on, son. Just give me the ham. If you do, we can go to the park or something."

"Don't listen to him!" Goten yelled far off in the distance. "Throw it over here!"

Without even really thinking, Trunks threw the meat far into the distance where Goten caught it. Vegeta tried to dive for the ham, but his timing was way off. Everyone laughed as he fell flat on his face.

"This is not funny!" Vegeta shouted in frustration as he picked himself back up.

Gohan decided to tease him a little. "What? You can't catch one petty little ham?"

The laughter roared, and Videl lightly nudged her husband, though a bit amused. She soon found herself laughing along too, especially when Krillin shouted, "Roasted!" 18 whispered something softly into Marron's ear. No one heard except for the little girl, but she said, "Your father is going to be in big trouble when we get home."

Even Bulma joined in on the fun to tease her husband. "It's like a giant game of monkey in the middle, with an actual monkey in the middle!"

Everyone laughed even harder and Vegeta's face flushed. "Shut up, woman! You don't know what you're talking about! If I really wanted the ham, I would have it right now!"

"That's bull crap!" she yelled back at him. "Everyone here knows this is a pride thing. I don't really think that you can catch the ham!"

He growled and grumbled some before storming over to where Goten was in the distance. Goten had thrown the ham again though. "Catch Videl!"

Videl froze. Everyone was counting on her to catch it. It was like the world was in slow motion. The ham was hurtling slowly through the air toward her as Vegeta had slowly spun on his heels to chase after it. Then a miracle happened, and she actually had caught it. But what to do now? Vegeta was approaching quickly and-

"Over here Videl!" Goku shouted from across the picnic table.

Vegeta was practically right in front of her, but she somehow managed to throw the ham around him. Except, because she had to aim around him, her trajectory and distance wasn't the greatest. Vegeta made a quick dive to catch the meat and he did...but flopped on top of the table in the process.

The man may have been small, but with the force he used to catch the ham and dive, the picnic table snapped in half, and the rest of the dishes splattered everywhere, covering Vegeta. Everyone laughed and cheered despite the giant mess. Videl felt the need to apologize, and she did, but nobody seemed to even mind. Only her father, who had seen it all, simply just raised his brows.

Out of pure frustration, the Saiyan stood up from the table mess and threw the ham high in the air. Then he shot a ki blast at it, so he would never have to deal with the humiliation that meat had caused him again. He brushed himself off as best as he could.

Oolong squealed. "My kin! Now look at what you've done!"

Vegeta rolled his eyes and began to walk out of the nature reserve. "Whatever. We were probably just going to eat it anyway, pork chop."

He exited the room and Bulma looked out after him. "I should probably go...help him." She ran off too.

"Nice one, Videl!" Yamcha said with a pat on her back.

She gave a confused grin. "Yeah... What about the rest of the food and the table?"

"Who cares?" Gohan told her. "We've made our wedding day one to remember, right?"

She smiled and gave him a quick kiss, semi-embarrassed about doing it in front of everyone. Chi-Chi hugged onto Goku and couldn't believe that her little baby had finally grown up and found such a nice girl to settle down with. It was as if it were just yesterday when he began to talk and read.

"This is certainly one day to remember," Videl told him with a sly smile.

He furrowed his brows. "What? Why are you looking at me like that?"

She placed her hands behind her back and walked backwards to where the table was...or used to be. "No reason." She quickly bent down and placed her hands in the mashed potatoes, and then she flung some at Gohan, who was still in his nice tux.

"Hey! Why'd you do that?" He wasn't upset though. He just smiled and laughed as the potatoes dripped off of his suitcoat.

She grinned. "Just making it a day to remember!" Then with another laugh she flung some more food at him. "And if we're throwing ham, we may as well throw other foods as well!"

"Oh I see how it is!" he ran up to the table and dipped his hands in the gravy, splashing it on Videl's white wedding dress.

"That was her mother's..." Mr. Satan said softly to nobody in particular.

She yelled in surprised and laughed with him. She threw some more food at Gohan, who then threw some at Goku. Only moments later, a full-blown food fight was occurring and everyone, except for Piccolo who was still at the tree and Bulma and Vegeta who were inside, was throwing food and getting messy.

"Oh sure," Oolong said with his usual attitude. "It's fine to have a food fight now, but when I try to have one earlier, it's not acceptable!"

Even the old Master Roshi had joined in and flung something strange at the pig. "Stop being so bitter!"

"Throwing food," he grumbled. "Let's throw shade too. Let's throw me under the bus. Let's throw up. Let's throw down. Let's just throw everything that we can." He kept grumbling under his breath, but he still participated in the fight.

Everyone was having a fun and messy time, and then Bulma and Vegeta walked out of the house together. "Alright guys," she said. "Vegeta's all cleaned up now and is wearing a nice, new suit so-"

Everyone froze and stared at them. They blinked and stared back. Nobody made even the slightest move for the longest time. Videl was even beginning to wonder if she would be in trouble for starting all of this.

The silence broke when Trunks yelled, "Mom and Dad are clean! Get 'em!"

The food began to get thrown again, covering both Bulma and Vegeta in particular. "Well, so much for your new suit..."

And the laughter and good times continued to take place until Gohan scooped a mixture of foods off of Videl and threw it toward Piccolo. Quickly reacting, he swatted it away before it even hit him. Once again, everyone grew silent except for Krillin, who yelled, "Oh snap!"

Piccolo stood up from under the tree and walked over to the group of people. Videl began to worry. What would he do? She had just talked to him earlier and he seemed nice enough, but what if he was angry? There was absolutely no expression on his face, and he just stood in front of all of them.

"I didn't want to participate in your stupid games," he spat. "But since it was Gohan who threw it at me..." He smirked as he bent over and found a pie that was still somewhat contained in the tin. He marched over to his young friend and smashed the pie in his face.

Gohan was stunned for a second before he wiped the cream out of his eyes, then a smudge off of his cheek and placed his finger in his mouth. "Well, at least it tastes good!" Everyone began to laugh again, but no more food was thrown.

Videl walked up to her husband and kissed his pie-covered lips. "You're right! It does taste good!"

"EW! GROSS!" Goten shouted. "She kissed you and ate what was on your face! That's DISGUSTING!"

"Shh," Chi-Chi told him. "They're married now. They can do whatever they want."

He wrinkled his nose. "Yeah, well you and Dad are married, and you guys never do that!"

The laughter continued a little longer until Chi-Chi cut them off. "Should we even attempt to eat the wedding cake? Where is it? Is it inside?"

Vegeta and Bulma shared a glance that didn't go unnoticed by Gohan. "What happened?" he asked slowly.

"I thought you were going to get it!" Bulma yelled at her husband.

"Me? Why would I get it?!" he shouted back.

"Because I asked you to!"

Videl spoke up. "It's fine, guys! We don't need a cake! If we had one, it would probably just get thrown in each other's faces anyway!" She smiled and looked over at Gohan, who was still trying to wipe off all of the pie.

"In that case, let's go straight to the dancing!" Bulma shouted. She ran inside to turn on the music.

The rest of the night was filled with loud laughter and crazy dancing. It got real when Goku challenged Vegeta to a dance battle. That man refused to lose anything. Their moves were ridiculous, which just made it all the more entertaining to watch.

They ended the night with a slow dance, and all the couples paired off. Gohan and Videl swayed lightly with the music. Neither of them were very graceful dancers, but that couldn't keep the smile off either of their faces.

He beamed brightly. "See? I told you they were all great people! Wasn't that fun?"

"Yeah," she said quietly. "It was. I take back everything that I said about not belonging earlier. This has definitely been the best day of my life."

They slowly drew closer into kiss. Videl smiled as she could still taste the pie on his lips. In the end, she had nothing to worry about. Everyone here was very accepting and didn't seem to mind at all that she was a little different than them. Everyone in this group was super unique in their own way anyway. Videl decided that she liked being here among all of her new friends.

She had finally found a place to belong. And what a strange, yet magnificent, place it was too.

Wasn't that a fun little oneshot? I hope you guys enjoyed it! I can only hear the Team Four Star voices of certain characters...is anyone else the same? Especially with Goku and Krillin! Anyway, be sure to follow/favorite/review!

-TOW

P.S. I was actually planning on posting a Krillin/18 oneshot instead of this one, but there have been a few difficulties with it... Hopefully that will be the next one, but no guarantees! :)