All the Little Bit Harder
Disclaimer- Sadly I don't own Dragonball z, I wish I did though. Oh and sorry if it's not any good, that's one of the many reasons why I would never ever own it!
Note- Death, it comes and goes. It happens to everyone yet being wished back alive happens scarcely and only when something bad happens. It's not every day where someone refuses to return. It's happened twice to Gohan, first his father refused because he thought it would be best for the human race if he didn't return. Secondly to his mother, who was unable to return with the Earth's Dragonballs yet she could have been brought back by a simple trip to the planet Namek. She wanted to stay with her true love, his father thus leaving Gohan on Earth defending everything he knows and loves including his little brother. Yet danger is constantly Following Son Gohan which makes his life all the little bit harder.
Chapter Two - The Remaining Saiyan's Are All Princes
The next morning it was an extremely bright and sunny day. Gohan awoke being surprised that he was in a Childs hospital ward with Bulma and Vegeta asleep on two separate chairs that had been pushed in together. Trunks lay sprawled out across his parents, his head rested on his mother's lap. He noticed Gohan looking at him so he started crying to get his parents to wake up and so that Vegeta could remove his arm from around the boy's waist. His plan worked as both Bulma's and Vegeta's eye's opened wide.
"I see your awake Brat." Vegeta smirked as he said this. He quickly pulled Trunks onto his lap and started stroking his purple hair.
"Gohan, Please don't do anything like that again, you scared the living day lights out of me." Bulma cried. "And to let you know me and Vegeta, well we adopted you and Goten last night, is that okay kiddo?"
"Yeah that's great, thank you and I'm sorry for disappearing and draining all my energy."
Vegeta stood up holding onto Trunk's. He muttered something on the lines of getting some food and he disappeared. Bulma pulled out a capsule and released it. Inside was some clothing for Gohan and clothing for herself with all of her beauty products.
"I'm going to the loo so I could get ready. You better get change as well Gohan. Oh and put some sunglasses on" She said with a smirk then she was gone. Gohan followed what she said and got changed into black jeans and a grey top. He placed the pair of shaded sunglasses on and waited for Bulma, Vegeta and Trunk's to return. It was the two saiyan's that arrived back first then about ten minutes later Bulma returned. In her arms she was holding onto Goten.
"Right, are we ready to go then boy's "She asked and saw they nodded their heads. "Vegeta you better not attack any of the reporters on the way out. Somehow they know I have adopted the boys. Oh and Gohan the press know you by your middle name Oxander and Goten's which is Oxten. Oh and your last name Briefs."
"What they know I am the Ox Kings grandson. Do they know our first names?"
"No, we are keeping anything to do with your father and mother safe in the capsule Corp security system. Only Me and my father have access to your files so don't worry kid."
"Wait Brat, does that mean you're a Prince" Vegeta asked. Both Gohan and Bulma nodded their heads. "Hah the remaining saiyan's are Princes yet I am better for mines of an entire race. Mawhahmawa"
"VEGETA what have I said about that laugh?"
"Sorry onna"
"I told you it's Mawhahahahaha not your Mawhahmawa" She said in a evil tone, Gohan just stood there surprised that Bulma was laughing like a mad scientist.
The newly established family of five went to the desk in the Childs ward where Bulma quickly filled out more forms on Gohan's and Goten's discharge. She told the staff that the two kids will be going to Capsule Corps own medical wing which none of them disagreed on because they knew that the establishment that Bulma was on about was the very best medical care system on the planet. They then left the hospital to be greeted by hundreds of reporters
"Miss Bulma Briefs, is it true that you have adopted two boys?" The hundreds of reporters called out. Gohan stared at the large crowd gathered, he wasn't expecting there to be this many people. Bulma stepped forward; she was holding Goten in her arms.
"Yes it is true, I have adopted my godsons. This little one her is Oxten Briefs and the older one is Oxander Briefs." Both Gohan and Vegeta moved closer to Bulma, Vegeta had a look that could kill someone on his face. He had always hated large crowds of people, especially reporters.
"Onna lets go before I blast these people to the HFIL." He stated.
"Miss Brief's one more question, Why did you choose this psychopath over the great Yamcha the Baseball Bandit." Vegeta started raising his hand and pointed it to the reported that called him a psycho and mentioned that low life Yamcha.
"VEGETA, Hand down and you, I am not going to ask that question. Now let me through or do I have to let Vegeta find me and my sons a way through you people." With that everyone in the crowd made a pathway where Vegeta led the way. They reached the Capsule Corp Limo where the group of five got in and left hundreds of reporters without a good enough story to sell. They all wanted to know who Oxander and Oxten Briefs really were so many of them went home that night researching the boys. Especially Oxander who should have a record on who he was but didn't.
After a boring Limo drive which took an hour to reach capsule Corp, the four saiyan's were fast asleep. Bulma smiled to herself knowing that for some reason car journeys sent most of the saiyan's asleep. What she thought was funny was how Vegeta was 'cuddling' Gohan. It looked as though the boy was a teddy bear and she knew that whilst Vegeta slept, he like cuddling something which in her case was always her or baby Trunks.
"Vegeta cares about the kid." She sang in her head over and over again in her head.
When they eventually stopped, the four saiyan's woke up. Gohan, Vegeta and Trunks rushed out of the limo whilst Bulma walked out carrying Goten. She looked at her oversized dome for a home and a workplace and she felt a sense of accomplishment.
"Gohan sweetie, choose any of the empty room suites that are left." He nodded his head and started walking off into the mansion until Vegeta walked up behind him and put his hand on his shoulder.
"Brat, Be in the GR in ten minutes and get change into something you can take a beating in" Again Gohan nodded his head and rushed off to find a room. He chose the biggest room which was still free then he wondered into the capsule Corp laundry room where he got changed into the saiyan armour .He made his way over to the Gr where Vegeta was waiting for the boy. Seeing Gohan had arrived three minutes early he smirked once again as the two saiyan's bowed to each other. Vegeta then made the first attack against the boy.
"Brat...Why...Didn't...You tell...me that you can...advance...to the next...LEVEL" He panted as he swung his right arm into the boy's gut. "I..saw..you..do it...last night"
"I..Didn't know...I could...advance" He replied this time he kicked Vegeta in the gut and threw him across the room. Vegeta recovered quickly as he charged at the half breed, this time they were receiving and giving each other a number of blows which seemed equal in strength.
"It's...cause..your...Harpy of a...mother was...to weak.." Yet before Vegeta could finish what he was saying, he sensed Gohan power up even more. Now the boy was in super saiyan one so the Prince of all Saiyan's joined him.
"DON'T..EVER...INSULT...MY..MUM AGAIN!" He said as he powered up past super saiyan two. Vegeta watched as the boy started transforming to the third level before his eyes. Bolts of lightning struck out of his body, his hair tripled in length and his eye brows disapered. From the sheer power coming of Gohan, the gravity room blew up in a matter of seconds. Both Vegeta and Gohan got buried by the rubble. Vegeta was all right yet he could sense Gohan's Ki start to drop dramatically. He fainted for using up all of his energy in that state which he had no control over.
The Prince Of All Saiyan's stood up from the rubble, he walked over to where the boy was and pulled his body up from the ground. even though Vegeta was unharmed from the explosion, Gohan wasn't. He must have dropped out of the third transformation just before the GR blew up.
"Shit, That Onna's gonna make me sleep on the couch tonight." He said "Damn you half breed for being too strong"
About fifty feet from the remains of the Gravity room, the rest of the Z Fighters emerged. They all sensed Gohan's power sky rocket last night and then again only minutes ago. They were surprised to see Gohan cradled like a baby in Vegeta's arms with blood all over his body. Krillin, Yamcha, Tien and Chiaotzu all walked towards Vegeta. Piccolo landed directly next to him.
"What happened?"Krillin asked
"Gohan's somehow ascended to the next level again but it was too much for his puny body to handle." Vegeta replied, he decided to give Gohan some respect and call him by his rightful name.
"But how, don't you saiyan's need a stimulus to ascend?"
"yes I insulted his dead mother who died only last night."
Piccolo then turned to face Vegeta. "Well that explains how his done it twice in a short time.." yet before the son of the Demon King could reply Bulma came running out with an angry look upon her face. She was completely unaware that they had guests and unaware with the fact that Gohan knocked himself out again.
"VEGETA, YOUR SLEEPING ON THE COUCH TONIGHT AND I AM NOT MENDING THAT CONTRAPTION THAT YOU LOVE" she yelled almost deafening the Z fighters. "AND GOHAN YOUR GROUNDED" She was now close enough to her husband and adopted godson to see that Gohan was out cold. "VEGETA WHAT THE HELL HAVE YOU DONE TO HIM?"
"WOMAN, CALM DOWN."He yelled back at his wife. "I DIDN'T DO THIS TO THAT BRAT, HE DID IT HIMSELF." She looked completely surprised and unbelieving that Gohan would do this to himself. She looked around and noticed the other Z Fighters then she released that this must of been true or why would all the other's be here and not training themselves. "Well I did kinda put him up to it" He finished of muttering in a voice low enough for no human to hear.
"Oh urm Hi Guys. Why are you all here "She curiously asked
"Well Bulma we felt Gohan's Ki sky rocket and we come here to see him beaten badly by Veggie head over there." Yamcha evilly said. He was still annoyed with the fact that Bulma chose the monkey prince over him and he loved getting Vegeta in trouble.
"VEGETA" Bulma's voice started to rise.
"I didn't do this to him, he did it himself like what I said." He defended himself "Anyway it was more the Brat beating me up"
"THEN WHY IS HE IN THIS STATE AND YOU LOOK UNSCRATCHED"
"BECAUSE ONNA HE ASSENDED TO YET ANOTHER LEVEL AND COULDN'T CONTROL IT SO HE BLEW UP MY BABY."
"He blew up Trunks?" Chiaotzu childishly asked. Vegeta just glared at the idiotic shrimp ready to attack anyone who made a wrong move of poor choices to words. Tien noticed that he was ready to attack even with Gohan in his arms so he decided he should butt in and save their rears from the intimidating prince of all saiyan's.
"No Chiaotzu, not Trunks but his gravity room." Tien quickly said as he grabbed onto Chiaotzu and left before Vegeta could attempt to kill them.
"Fine, I believe you Veggie. Gohan's of the hook."
"WHAT BUT HE DID THIS NOT ME."
"Yes but knowing you Vegeta you said something to provoke him" She replied seeing right through him.
"Well I say he should do the grounded thing as I am his adopted father now or maybe I should give him an old fashion saiyan beating."
"WHAT"Krillen,Piccolo and Yamcha shrieked at once as they heard that Vegeta adopted the boy, Bulma just laughed.
"I was surprised as well, I was going to adopt them anyway and I was about to make him sign the adoption papers when he did it himself "She stated then she had an evil smirk on her face that made Vegeta slightly cower. Yamcha seeing this laughed, one of the strongest and scariest fighters on earth was afraid of Bulma Briefs. "He was actually cuddling Gohan this morning"
"I did no such thing woman" he growled.
"Yes you did, someone's embarrassed to admit that he cares for the boys, here I got a picture" She sang as she pulled out the picture of Vegeta hugging Gohan and passed it to the Z fighters. They all started to snigger as Vegeta started turning a shade of red.
"If any of you mention this again I will blast you to HFIL" They all nodded their heads in agreement with Vegeta's proposition accept Bulma who carried on laughing. "WHAT WOMAN?"
"If you blast me to HFIL, you won't get your little punishment I give you everynight" She said seductively as she placed her hands on his cheeks. He continued to blush more and by this time he had forgotten that Gohan was in his arms. The remaining Z fighter's looked in disgust at Bulma's last comment, especially Yamcha. He looked like he was about to break down crying. He still had feelings for her and he felt as though she was torturing him for his idiotic mistake by being with Vegeta. Meanwhile she went behind Vegeta and whispered something in his left ear. Piccolo looked more disgusted because he was the only one who heard this. With the thought of hearing more of Bulma's and Vegeta's personal life, he flew off into the horizon. With what Bulma said it had caused him to drop Gohan on the floor as he turned a deeper shade of red.
"Fine woman, you will be the only one." He muttered. "Now does anyone have a sensu bean that we can feed the brat"
Krillin walked up to the recently dropped child and crushed up the bean as he fed it to Gohan. The saiyan half breed jumped up shortly after. He was aware that he had knocked himself out by using too much of his power yet was unsure to why some of the Z fighters were here. They didn't stay for that much longer, leaving Gohan behind with a slightly mad Bulma and an embarrassed Vegeta.
"Gohan, come with me kiddo. I need to teach you everything I know" She smiled sweetly at him then started walking off. Gohan started following Bulma but stopped when she did. She turned around and yelled at the prince of all saiyan's. "VEGETA I WANT ALL THAT MESS CLEANED UP OR YOU WON'T GET IT AND YOU WILL NOT PUNISH GOHAN IN ANY WAY" Vegeta obeyed his wife's command and Bulma and Gohan continued into the house where they sat down in the study room.
"Okay Gohan, one of the things that your mother would of wanted was for you to continue your studies. Before she died she asked me to teach you everything I know and she wanted me to give you an internship here at Capsule Corp."
"But Bulma I want to train and be strong. I'm smart enough as it is."
"Kid you're the strongest creature on Earth at the moment. Remember that and anyway I don't want you to train twenty four hours every day or I won't have a husband left."
"True but Bulma I know a lot anyway" He replied sweetly " Any way if I don't train Vegeta overtake me in power which could only be bad if he does"
"Gohan he will not overtake you, he is two whole levels behind you. Jeez what's with saiyan's and competing in power?"
"It's for our pride onna" Vegeta growled as he walked into the room. He was also pissed off because his wife in some way's insulted him. "How about the brat does both train and study?"
"Good idea Vegeta, I didn't think you would be smart enough to come up with that" Bulma and Gohan sneered as they insulted him.
"Yeah and you're meant to be the smart ones" Vegeta mumbled. Gohan picked this up with his saiyan hearing whilst Bulma didn't even hear it.
"You're lucky Bulma is in here Veggie head" He whispered in a voice so low that only Vegeta could hear it. The Prince of all Saiyan's mumbled almost the same thing back but instead of Veggie head it was Kaka Brat numero uno. Both saiyan's smirked knowing that as soon as Bulma left both of their sights, they were both going to train/ Beat the living daylights out of each other.
However it didn't look like Bulma was going to be leaving the two saiyan's alone together for today because of what occurred earlier when they were last left alone. She got on to teaching Gohan advance physics whilst Vegeta grew bored of listing to her speak utter nonsense to the eleven year old boy. For the rest of that remaining day Bulma was either tutoring Gohan and showing him how to make different types of capsules or eating the daily meals with both saiyan's under her watchful eye. By the time she went to bed would of been the first time since the incident this morning that she left Gohan alone (well she left him alone to go to the toilet but she waited outside) yet she moved onto watching her husband so that he wouldn't sneak off with Gohan to train.
The next few years are going to be hard with two saiyan's that adore fighting and four saiyan's that adored eating everything edible in sight. She was glad in some ways that her mother, Bunny Briefs, was completely obsessed with looking after baby Goten and little toddler Trunks. At least it was two saiyan's less to stop the havoc and destruction that they tend to leave in their paths. Bulma had massive plan's for Gohan, she knew his level of intelligence was far superior to her own when she was the same age and for some reason she doubt that Trunk's would even be this smart. She heard that by the time Gohan was a year old he was speaking fluently which proves the boy's intelligence is going to be far greater than anyone one else's on the luxurious planet.
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Authors note- sorry to anyone if they think this chapter is kind of dull, I am trying to build it up to a more intresting point to the story and I have tried my best to make it more intresting. So sorry if my best isn't good enough.