Two of a Kind chapter 2

Disclaimer: don't own Dragonball, Dragonball Z, Dragonball GT or anything related to these series. If I did, Gohan would have had a much bigger and better part in the story.

As he looked over his shoulder to keep himself from falling asleep in yet another boring Physics lecture, Gohan once again saw Videl looking at him. Once they made eye contact, Videl blushed for a second before winking and turning back to face the teacher.

This had been going on for a while now; Gohan would catch Videl staring at him and then winking, something she had never done before. And when they were talking, Videl would sometimes cling to him a bit, holding his hand and once even linking arms, although admittedly that had been done as a joke. All in all, Videl was acting different ever since the weather had started turning bad about three weeks ago, being much more open with attempts at flirting with him.

Normally, this would have made the Son boy overjoyed, but there were too many questions roaming his mind at the sudden change in behavior. Once again, he started to list them in his head as he zoned out the teacher.

'Why does Videl suddenly flirt with me openly? Did someone say something to her? Or did she realize that she's feeling the same things for me as I feel for her? Or,' a very Sharpener-like voice in his head said, 'maybe she's realized how hot I am, as Erasa says, and wants to date me? But isn't this all wrong?' he continued without pause. After all, his mother had raised him with some old-fashioned believes and he still had his masculine pride. 'I should be the one who's going after Videl, not the other way around… Maybe I should start returning her affections now instead of doubting myself this much. She's obviously showing some kind of interest in me, now might be my big chance of finally going out with her… '

Just Gohan was preparing himself to have another whispered conversation with Videl, in that he could try to casually ask her if she had anything to do this Saturday and if not, she might want to join him to the cinema, the half-breed noticed someone else watching him. Looking around, he saw a couple of other girls in his class all looking at him with a look in their eyes similar to the one Videl wore when staring at him. This had also been happening with an increasing rate lately.

'Maybe they're all in love with me?' Gohan thought to himself, swelling with pride for a second. 'Nah, who am I kidding? That's just hopeful thinking… although it would be very nice if that was true.'

XxX

As soon as Videl entered her room she angrily tossed her bag on her bed and walked up to the punching bag hanging from her wall. Her fist crashed into the bag, swinging it backwards violently, and the Satan Girl began to relief her stress. She was beginning to get extremely frustrated with the object of her affections and all her dreams: Gohan.

The boy was an absolute enigma, he was unable to be read at all and he was completely unpredictable. If she didn't know any better, she'd almost say that there were two different Gohan's running around.

Whenever Videl met Gohan at school, sporting his usual geeky outfit and acting in his usual mild-mannered way, he was acting almost the same as he did a year and half ago, when he first came to school. He was nice, pleasant to be around and always interested in whatever you had to tell him, but whenever she attempted to flirt with him he didn't even react, sometimes appearing more shocked then anything else. The biggest difference was that Gohan was now paying her more attention then before, but she still wasn't actively returning her affections. He was still highly attractive, very cute and adorable in his geeky-ways, but it was frustrating because of what Videl knew.

Outside school, the Son boy made a full one-eighty in both his appearance and his behavior: instead of geeky and colorful clothes, he wore basic black-and-white clothing and was far cooler. He openly flirted with her a lot during the few times that they had met and wasn't afraid to show off a bit of muscle when he had the chance. The behavior of Gohan like that was surprising, challenging Videl and making her long for him that much more.

The difference between them was enough to seriously confuse and annoy the teenager, but there was something else that fueled her anger even more: Videl had long ago resigned herself to the fact that she was, in fact, in love with Son Gohan. But now it seemed that just about every other girl in their class, even Erasa – who had never, ever, tried to go after the same boy as Videl before -, were often staring at the black-haired teenager with longing in their eyes.

Videl's frustration was partly from the fact that everyone was ogling her man like that, but mostly from the fact that she couldn't stop them ogling him: after all, Gohan was officially still a single and therefore no-one could lay claim on him.

With one last furious kick, Videl tore the sandbag to shreds before turning to take a shower. Maybe that would help her relieve some of the stress?

XxX

As winter was fast-approaching them, Son Gohan once again dashed into the classroom a minute before the bell rang. As he moved towards his seat, he noticed the low number of people actually in class: it seemed like almost all the girls, excluding only Videl and two girls that Gohan didn't know, had not shown up for this class.

'That's odd.' Gohan thought as he reached his seat. 'Erasa's never missing from class.'

The blond girl might do more gossip then actual studies, but she had never before missed a class. Her attendance record matched Gohan's perfectly: Erasa was a firm believer that if you heard something during a lecture, even when you weren't paying attention, you'd be able to remember it at an exam or some other stressed out period.

"Morning guys, how're you?" He cheerfully greeted as he sat down next to Videl. The black-haired girl gave him a friendly nod and a "Good morning" as well, while Sharpener only waved lazily as he balanced his chair on its hind legs.

"Where's Erasa? Normally she'd already be here." Gohan remarked as he sat down. Seeing that the lesson was about to begin, Sharpener moved the chair back into its original position before leaning towards Gohan and Videl.

"Erasa called me this morning and said that she wasn't feeling too good." The blond stated. "She said she'd had a rough night and isn't coming to school. She sounded like she had a really bad cold too. But then again, she isn't the only one is she?"

"No, she probably has the flue. It's winter after all, so there's usually a flu epidemic abound again." Videl dully replied. "Don't teachers ever understand that nine in the morning is too early for my brain to function properly?" she added in complain as the teacher started writing down several very complicated English sentences.

"Yeah, but it looks like it's mostly girls that are ill." Gohan observed. "There are only a couple of girls left in the class, but none of the guys have disappeared."

"Maybe it's a smart virus that only goes after intelligent creatures." Videl teasingly remarked.

"Well, that would explain why you haven't been infected yet." Sharpener immediately returned, shutting Videl up.

"Anyway, I'm going to go drop by Erasa's place and see how she's doing after school, you guys wanna come with me?" the blond muscle-bomb continued.

Both raven-haired teenagers shook their heads, declining the offer.

"I can't." Videl explained. "My dad has another press conference this afternoon that I have to attend. It's a live broadcast so I can't slip out of it either. I'll call her tonight and ask how she's doing. But tell her I said hi and want her to get better quick ok?"

"Will do; babe." Sharpener said, turning his attention on Gohan instead. "And what about you Brains? Why can't you come?"

"Well, my mom told me I have to babysit my brother and his best friend this afternoon… and if I'm not there when my mom tells me too, our entire house will be demolished before I even have a chance to ask what happened." Gohan quickly explained. "But give her my regards as well and tell her I hope she gets better quick."

"Sure thing; But Brains, you have really got to grow a pair and tell your mom that you're not her servant-boy. Get a little freedom and enjoy life, you know."

"Easy for you to say, you don't know my mom."

"True; true." Sharpener said, shaking his head in fake thought. "But judging from the stories you tell me about her, I don't think I want to know her."

"Is there something you would like to share with the entire class Mr. Pencil?" the teacher suddenly asked, surprising the three teens. When there was no answer from the group, the teacher spoke up again.

"Now that you're little tea-party is interrupted, may I continue my lesson again?" he asked with heavy sarcasm. "Thank you!"

XxX

'What am I going to do about that guy?'

Half past ten that same day, Videl was lying in her bed, staring at the ceiling in her normal sleeping clothes: a wide T-shirt and boxers. Videl had always worn boxers to sleep, claiming that she simply didn't like panties.

Still staring at the ceiling, there was once again only one object on her mind: the attractive, cute, muscular, smart and polite Son Gohan.

'I don't know if I want to hit him, or kiss him sometimes. No matter what he does, he's always really cute and hot. But why does he have to act so different when he's inside school? Or is that the real him? AARGH, we girls are supposed to be the ones that are impossible to understand!' Videl almost shouted in frustration. 'Guys are supposed to have an easy, one-tracked mindset, shouldn't they? Why do I have to fall in love with the ONLY guy in the world that is more difficult to understand then any girl?'

Videl had actually intended to do something she had never done before today: she had planned on asking Erasa on advice for approaching Gohan and confessing her feelings. Although there had been no less then twelve people who had confessed their attraction to Videl in the past five years alone, Videl had never quite realized the pressure that came with so simple an act.

'Maybe next time some guy confesses to me I should reject them a bit kinder…' Videl realized as she went over yet another scenario in her head for how to confess. This time, it included Gohan being captured by some bandits, Videl beating up said bandits and in the heat of the moment, both would confess their undying love for each other.

'Damn, I've really been watching too much crappy movies…' The Satan Girl scolded herself. 'But now that I've decided I'm going to do it, I have to do it. If I wait for Erasa to get better, we might be a few weeks along… and for all I know, someone else might get to Gohan first. I doubt he has it in him to reject anyone when they say something like that…'

"Wait a second I still have to call Erasa!" Videl said as she sat up. She had, of course, tried to call her earlier, but it had been Erasa's mom Elanor who had picked up the phone. Elanor had said that Erasa was asleep and had asked Videl if she wanted to call back later or come by the day after herself.

So, now that it was as dark as could be outside, Videl got out of her bed to pick up the cell-phone that was lying on her desk. Reaching out to the mechanical device, she opened it and had already typed out Erasa's home-number when there was a sudden knock on her door. Surprised, Videl turned around to look at her door.

'What does Daddy want this late at night? I thought he said he was going to go to bed early?' She thought as she put down her phone again and walked to the door. None of the employees were still around at this hour, except for the cleaning crew but they never bothered her in her room: it was always cleaned during the day, when Videl was at school.

So Videl had half-opened the door, showing her head and part of her torso, and already asked "What is it dad?" before she realized she wasn't standing in front of her father.

Standing on the other side of her door, stood Gohan. But this was the Gohan she always met on the streets: he as wearing his white jacket, the sleeves still rolled up to show his lower arms, and the black shirt. He had a strange look on his face, but Videl could hardly register it.

'Wha? Wh-why's he here?' her thoughts raged. 'And why now? I'm SO not dressed for this.'

"Hey Videl, do you mind if I come in?" The young man suddenly asked. There was something strange in his voice, as if he was under some heavy strain. The tone of his voice, combined with the shock of suddenly finding him standing there, made Videl open her door and step back a step before she had even realized it.

"Sure, just gimme one second and I'll be ready." She said as she turned around and reached for her slacks. She heard the door creak open, a heavy foot being placed on the floor behind her and the door being closed all of a sudden.

It wasn't until she had the feeling that there was someone standing right behind her, that Videl suddenly felt very uneasy. Before Videl had time to stand up and turn around, there were two big, strong hands that grabbed her arms very roughly. The iron-like grip was crushing into Videl's arms, preventing her from moving, but before she could even struggle against the grip, she was roughly pulled into a solid and big chest. The impact on Videl's head, now that her entire body had tensed up, was similar to hitting her head against a brick wall.

"Don't bother." Gohan's voice whispered in her ear, but it was unlike normal. Now, instead of soothing Videl, her voice send cold shivers down her back as she was forcibly maneuvered towards her bed.

"Up you go." Without any sort of explanation, Videl was suddenly thrown forward, landing on her bed and catching herself with her released and already bruised arms. But before she had a chance to get up or even kick at her sudden attacker, Gohan grabbed Videl's shoulder and turned her around before pinning her down by jumping on top of her. Each of Videl's small limbs was now being held down by one of Gohan's as they looked each other in the eye.

There was a strange look on Gohan's face, a look of pure ecstasy as he looked Videl over. Suddenly, Gohan's right arm released Videl's arm and instead moved up into a much more inappropriate area: straight under her shirt. Gasping at the sudden touch, Gohan immediately lunged and captured Videl in a rough and painful kiss.

Gohan released Videl after nearly half a minute, leaving the defenseless girl shocked and painful: the Son boy had been so rough that he had left Videl's entire mouth numb, she hardly had any air left and she was left with a sense of dread and fear that she was quite sure should not happen when you're kissed by a boy for the first time in your life.

Still staring down at her, thoroughly enjoying everything that was going on, Gohan spoke up again, but his next words caused Videl to nearly break down then and there.

"And now, it's time for some fun."

XxX

At a quarter to nine in the morning, Son Gohan was flying towards Satan City as he always did. Not even caring to look where he was going, Gohan was scanning some of his notes on history as he flew at supersonic speeds. He had neglected to go over his notes last night, so he had to read them now while traveling. Not that he particularly minded, his energy shield kept the winds, shockwaves, bird droppings and what not away, allowing Gohan to read as easily as if he was sitting in the train.

As Gohan sensed an increase in the humans in his area, he realized that he was nearing the city, so he put his notes back in his backpack and carefully maneuvered himself to his usual alleyway, five minutes walk away from the school. He had discovered this particular alleyway about two months back: it was far closer to the school then his old one – which was a ten minute walk – and just as well-hidden.

Gohan landed between a couple of old buildings in a dirty, used alleyway that no-one ever looked at or walked through. It was the perfect spot for disappearing when he wanted too and no-one would look twice if he walked in or out of the alley.

So, walking at a leisure pace, Gohan easily strolled up to the school gates, stopping on the corner to buy a coffee to make sure he was awake for history class and walked up to the front gate. As he walked, however, Gohan noticed a couple of things.

Gohan had the strange feeling that almost everyone was looking at the half-saiyan, which seriously unnerved him. 'Did someone play some stupid prank or something? Or did they announce the current line-up of all-time high scores and am I somewhere in the top?' he thought, trying to think of a reason why everyone was looking at him.

The second thing Gohan noticed was that none of the people who were staring at him were looking even remotely nice or envious. In fact, most of the guys were openly glaring at the confused Son boy, while most of the girls backed away from him to hide behind friends or to simply place as much distance between them as they could. Almost all the girls had a very scared look as they stared at him, almost like they were terrified that he was going to literally bite their heads off if he got close to them.

Feeling more and more intimidated by the glaring and cowering crowd, Gohan tried to step into the school quickly, hoping to get away from the angry student body.

Just before he entered the door however, he saw the tell-tale long, bushy red hair of Angela and out of reflex Gohan looked over in her direction, seeing if she had already recovered or not.

The moment he made eye-contact with Angela, the girl seemed to break down immediately and, sobbing, crashed to her knees. Without even needing to look around, Gohan could feel that he had stepped over some forbidden line as he felt most of the male students all closing in on him. Not waiting to see what they want, Gohan immediately stepped into the school and rushed towards his locker.

It was, if possible, even worse inside the school then outside. Every eye was still upon him, but in the closed corridors Gohan felt like there were far more people looking. But everywhere he went, people parted for him as if he was carrying a disease that they would catch if they got anywhere within two meters of him.

'What on earth is going on? They're all looking at me as if I murdered someone… Wait, did someone reveal the truth about what happened at the Cell Games? No, then they wouldn't be this pissed… What's going on?'

Still confused, Gohan saw the tell-tale long blond hair of Sharpener and, right next to him, the shaking figure of Erasa. They had their backs turned to Gohan, so they didn't see him approaching, but for some reason even seeing his best friend didn't calm Gohan down. If anything, it made him feel even more nervous and, dare he admit it, scared.

Just as he reached the two, Gohan's voice finally regained it's capability to produce words.

"Hey guys, do you know what's going on?" he asked, his voice unexpectedly shaken, "Everyone see-" but he broke off his sentence mid-way as the two blonds turned around and looked at him.

Gohan was no expert at seeing the emotions of others but even he couldn't miss the wide array of emotions that his two friends were showing. Shock, anger, fear, surprise, horror, disbelief, resentment and probably a dozen other emotions that Gohan couldn't place flashed over their faces as they looked at the half-saiyan.

Within the same second that Gohan had closed his mouth and witnessed all the emotions that flashed across their faces, Erasa suddenly burst into tears much like Angela had done and buried her face in Sharpener's shirt. At once, the muscular teen wrapped his arm around Erasa protectively, supporting her, as he glared at Gohan once again.

"What's going on?" The half-breed asked again, but Sharpener didn't answer. Instead, Gohan's best friend spoke in the coldest and most hateful tone that he had ever uttered.

"Get the fuck away from us before I can't stop myself from killing you, you sick son of a bitch!"

Despite knowing that no-one at the school, heck no-one in that city, could even come close to harming Gohan, the demi-saiyan got scared at the tone of Sharpener's voice. Without even thinking, Gohan allowed his primal instincts to take control over him as he stumbled back and, ungracefully, fell on his behind. Feeling each of Sharpener's words and every glare as heavily as if it was a physical hit, Gohan had difficulty getting up for a few seconds as he scrambled on the floor.

Finally managing to push himself back up, Gohan turned around and fled from his locker, running away from his two more-then-angry friends. Before he had even moved more then ten meters however, Gohan was forced to stop again.

Videl was standing before him and the look in her eyes was by far worse then anyone else's, even Sharpeners. Defeat, pain, anger, hatred and humiliation were all radiating off her, but the tears that were also threatening to spill over from her eyes were the worst of it all.

"Videl, what's going on? Eve-"

-SLAP-

The sudden slap to Gohan's face, completely unexpected, forced his head to the side, though more out of shock then actual pain.

Dumbstruck and still feeling a sting in his cheek, Gohan slowly turned his head back to face Videl, who was now looking more furious then ever.

"HOW DARE YOU!?" she shouted at the top of her voice as she lunged at him again. "HOW DARE YOU COME UP HERE AND ASK ME WHAT'S GOING ON!? HOW DARE YOU STILL SHOW YOUR FACE AROUND ME AFTER WHAT YOU DID!?"

"What?" Gohan said, not believing what he heard, not even trying to stop the hits that Videl was now delivering onto every part of his body.

Hearing Gohan speak apparently already caused great pain for Videl, because she stopped her punching, kicking and scratching at every inch of him, instead backing down and looking more hurt then ever.

"Now what? You want me to say it out loud, you sick bastard? You know full well what you did last night… and you did it to someone else every other night. I heard everything that you did this morning and I assure you that you will pay for it!"

Now Gohan was even more confused, but still he couldn't come up with a sensible response.

"But..." he started, "what'd you… what happened?"

"YOU RAPED ME YOU ASSHOLE!" Videl suddenly shouted.

Suddenly, it was as if someone had dropped a bomb on Orange Star High: All the other students started shouting at him, a hundred or more different voices all cursing and yelling insults at him, many of them yelling death threats to the young warrior. Many girls, mostly from Gohan's own class, shouted that he had used them as well.

But none of the words they were shouting at him even registered. There was only one thought running through his shocked mind, a terrifying message that suddenly made him understand the glares.

'Videl thinks I raped her…'

There was no other thought then that in his mind, there was only that one line that made no sense whatsoever. Gohan had never hurt Videl and he never would hurt her either. How could they ever believe anything different?

Gohan was, typically, pulled out of his sudden trance by the one sound that always managed to draw his attention: the bell ringing to indicate the start of classes. As he was shocked back into a semi-awake state, Gohan saw the looks of pure loathing that were now apparent on the faces of all the students.

'I have to get out of here'

Without even acting consciously; his mind still in shock over the sudden and impossible news, Gohan started to move his way though the halls again, moving back the way he had originally came. Just as before, people were making a wide circle around him to avoid him, but now they were all yelling, cursing at him, some even throwing books or drinks at him, while others were spitting at him.

Gohan didn't even notice what they were doing; he didn't even know how he was walking. At one point, he had left the school and continued walking, but no-one seemed to follow him outside of the school grounds.

Before Gohan had even realized it, he was sitting on lowest of the stone steps in the centre of Satan City Park, almost twenty minutes walking away from the school, and he was still in shock as he looked at the fountain. He didn't notice the young girl who had walked by and pointed Gohan out to her mother, nor the old man who had given him one look before walking away with a look of disgust on his face.

But there was, just like it had been at school, one sound that suddenly pulled Gohan out of his trance. A voice suddenly spoke up from behind the teen.

"Well, don't you look like you just got slapped by the love of your life?"

The voice was oddly familiar, but at the same time it sounded very strange. Gohan looked around in surprise, but he didn't see anyone standing around him. Then, he suddenly felt a shadow looming over him, compelling the confused teen to look up the stairs. He immediately found the source of the strange voice and, at the same time, knew why it sounded so familiar.

There, standing at the top of the twenty or so steps, stood another black-haired teenager. He was wearing black suede shoes, white pants that looked like they were made of silk or something similar, a black, low-cut t-shirt that showed a bit of his sternum and clavicle and over them; a white jacket, made of the same material as the pants.

His hands were placed in his pockets, giving him an appearance of calm control and high arrogance. Because the sleeves of his jacket were rolled up a bit, Gohan could see that this man's arms were just as scarred as his were. It was a perfect mirror image of Gohan's own arm. But the same could also be said about his face: the stranger dressed in black-and-white had the exact same face as Gohan himself.

That was why the voice sounded so familiar: it was Gohan's own voice that he had heard and, just like when listening to a recording, it sounded very strange to hear his own voice while not uttering any words.

"Hey," the lookalike said; a smirk on his face as he burst into arrogant laughter. "Pleasure to meet you; I am the evil twin brother you never knew you had."

Second chapter done and the darkness now sets in. this chapter also shows the first of many reasons why this fic is rated as M.

Much thanks to my beta Kushin-eX for betaing this chapter for me and discussing many of my ideas with me.

Glad to see that the first chapter was so well-liked, and this one really gets the story going.

As response to the reviews:

Sorry Demonkid, but rapes won't just be insinuated, they're a crucial part of the plot. But I won't turn this into a lemon or anything of the sort, there will be no detailed descriptions of any sexual scenes, willing or not.

And for Anime-Starwars-fan-zach: this story assumes that the Buu arcs never took place, so Goku is still dead.

As always please review and tell me what you think.