Another chapter done and over with. I'm pretty darn positive that I already looked over these earlier chapters to rid them of the typos. Well, less work for me I guess. I did add a little extra beef to it, but still pretty much the same. Reading this fic for me now isn't as interesting as re-reading it was at one point... Well, I'm obsessed with Naruto fics at the moment so I guess thats a little expected.
As they were exiting the small cake shop, someone ran into Gohan. She fell over as a result. Gohan helped her up and apologized. The girl who had fallen over had two long braids of glossy brown hair going down her back as well as bright green eyes. Gohan immediately recognized her as Lime.
"Gohan!" she said happily. "Your mum let you come to school! Thats great!" She said while hugging the demi-saiyan. Videl, Erasa and Sharpener were at a loss for words.
Gohan felt he needed to give introductions. "Guys, this is Lime. She is the only friend that I've ever made who is my age. Lime, these are my new friends Videl, Erasa and Sharpener." They all greeted each other and soon became friends as well.
"A friend, huh?" Erasa said raising her eyebrow.
Lime began to blush, but Gohan had no idea what she was talking about. "Yeah, a friend." he said clearly. "I don't know why you find that so interesting."
Lime jabbed her elbow into his stomach, only to recoil in the pain it caused her. It took a few seconds for her to to get over it, but then she spoke "Gohan, she thought that we were a couple!" The blush that had temporarily vanished was on her face once more.
"Oh!" Gohan said stupidly. "Well thats not right. Lime is just a friend." A hint of red could also be seen on the young saiyan's face. But it wasn't as obvious as Lime's ruby cheeks.
"The guys got brains, but apparently none for girls." Sharpener said, taking this chance to make fun of the new addition to their group.
Videl stuck her elbow into his stomach and managed to deal him much more damage that Lime had been able to with Gohan. "Shut up Sharpener!" She said loudly as the blond crouched to the floor in pain. "I think its sort of cute." And now she was the third with the hint of red on her creamy face.
"I agree!" Erasa shouted, happy as ever.
"Well guys," Lime said, directed at the two blonds and Videl "I wanna hang with Gohan for a bit, talk about some stuff. He lives close to my old village you see. So we'll be going." As she said that she grabbed Gohan by the arm and dragged him away.
He could have easily broken free, but he didn't want to harm his friend. "Bye guys! I'll see you all tomorrow." he said to them, hand raised in the air.
They waved back at him and smiled. "Poor guy." Erasa said.
"Yeah, if she's his only friend, I don't want to see what his enemies are like" Sharpener said, still staring at the spot where the raven haired teen once was.
"Well I just want to know more about that guy!" Videl said cheerfully. Her two friends gave her a questioned glance. "Well, his dad was the old champ, so he must know some things about fighting!" She blurted out, trying to excuse her previous comment. 'Maybe I'm liking him a little too much to be normal on the first day we met,' she thought.
"Oh yeah!" Erasa exclaimed "He did look really buff under that shirt of his!" There was an eerie glow in her eyes. Videl noticed that this was now the man-hunter Erasa, all traces of innocence were now all but gone.
'Gohan, you better watch out around these girls,' Videl commented in her mind.
"So," Lime began, Gohan walking freely beside her "What class are you in?"
"I'm in 1-C" he said calmly. He knew that he didn't need to ask her in which class she was herself, she would answer on her own.
"Thats too bad. I'm in 1-A... on the other side of the school." She did seem pretty upset about that fact. Unlike Gohan she couldn't run across the school in a matter of seconds.
Gohan patted her back, a futile attempt to comfort her. "Don't worry, Lime." He said in the kindest voice he could manage. "We can still have lunch together. And I heard that Gym class is the whole year together!"
Lime cheered up rapidly. 'Talk about mood swings,' Gohan thought. "Okay!" She said giving him a wide smile. "You wanna come see my apartment? Its a little small since its just me, but I like it!" And she was once again pulling him by the arm. Looks like he didn't really have a choice.
If Gohan didn't have iron strong bones, he was sure that his arm would've been ripped off by now. They walked until an apartment complex came into sight. It wasn't the most modern thing, actually it seemed pretty old and modest. But Lime, as a mountain villager, would most probably not like one of those modern houses where little was needed to be done by the resident.
She led Gohan to the top floor, being the 9th. There were three apartments on that single floor. She opened the door to her's to show a living room with a sofa and an old TV. Behind the couch there was a table that could fit four people. There were three more doors other than the one in which they came in. One was definitely the bathroom. There other two were probably for the kitchen and bedroom.
It was small, but it had everything that someone needed to live well. Lime gave Gohan a small tour and then they sat down at the table with some tea.
"Gohan?" Lime asked. Gohan nodded in acknowledgement. "Are you glad that Chichi let you come to school here?"
He smiled. Of course he was. Its not like he needed to study, but he just wanted to have more friends, to have some more fun while he was still young. He laid back on his chair a bit and let his power level rise a bit. His muscles grew significantly as well and seemed to relax. Being in his suppressed state for all that time really tensed up his body.
Lime was a little shocked at first. But then she remember that it was Gohan in front of her. Gohan, the one who saved her from drowning. The one who really killed Cell and saved the world. If it where anyone else alone in her little house with her, she would be scared. If it were anyone but Gohan. He was like a big brother to her. Though they were the same age, he was too mature and too strong to be anything other than an older sibling.
"Why did you have your power suppressed all day?" She asked curiously. Was he trying to hide? Sure, the fact that he was half alien was something worth hiding, but him being strong wasn't.
"Did it seem like that?" He asked. Lime nodded and motioned for him to go on. "I'm not really trying to hide anything. I just thought that if I could suppress all my power for the eight hours I was at school, then that could be good training in a way."
"I see." Lime said. "But Gohan, you're going to school for only social reasons. You don't have to pay attention in class or anything. I think its a good idea to train while at school, but if you keep doing this, I'm scared that you'll end up hurting yourself."
Gohan sighed. 'Only Lime and mum worry about me this much,' he thought. "Don't worry about it Lime. This does no more harm to me than staying Super Saiyan for a while. And you remember, I met you in my ascended state, I held that for like ten days straight! Theres no way that suppressing my power for a while would do me harm." Lime was so much like a sister to him, he just couldn't take it. He hoped that when his father came back, and he was sure he would sometime, that they didn't decide to have another child. Goten and Lime were hard enough to handle.
"Fine." She said. A little disappointed that her worries didn't even phase him. "Enough with the boring talk." A smile began to form on her face. "So which one do you like? The cheerful blond or that girl with black pigtails?" Little sister time was over. Now it was time for the nosy, gossip girl side of Lime to take over.
'I swear,' Gohan said to himself. 'This girl changes her mood and personality so fast and so many times that I don't know what to do with her!' He sighed again. "I don't like either of them. Their just my new friends."
She felt disappointed once again. "So its just coincidence that two of your three new friends are girls?" She rose an eyebrow.
"Well," Gohan began "Here is what happened. I got into the class late 'cause I was wondering about the school. The teacher got mad at me and told me to sit down. I looked around the class to find an open seat. The only one was one next to Erasa, in the back row. When the teacher left we all started talking, and there. Thats the story." He took a deep breath. He had spoken too fast and he knew it. Lime would probably ask him to repeat it now. Great.
"I get it." She said. Apparently she understood his fast rant. "Still is a little suspicious to me. Did you know that Videl was the daughter of the guy that took your credit?"
'Interesting,' Gohan thought, 'She talks just as fast or even faster, so she can understand when I talk fast too... thats useful' He brought his attention back to the question his friend has asked. "Yeah I knew. They called her name when she had to get her test. 'Satan, Videl' he said." Lime then looked at him weird. Gohan sighed for the third time in that conversation "How many times have I told you that I don't care if he took my credit. He'll pay for it eventually. If not in this life then King Yama'll take care of it." He was tired of explaining it to her that he didn't care for the recognition. If he did he would have entered the World Tournament to get it back four years ago. Lime was making a bigger deal of it than Vegeta had. He dropped it a while ago, she didn't.
"Fine" she pouted.
"So what score did you get on your test anyway?" Gohan inquired.
Lime turned away with a slight blush "If I tell you, you promise not to rub it in my face?" She said.
The demi-Saiyan chuckled a little before answering, "Yeah, I promise."
The green eyed girl turned but to her surrogate brother and said " I got a 79% on it." There was a pause. "Yeah I know that it wasn't the best score. But the schools back home weren't all that good. And my mother wasn't a freak that wanted me to study University level topics by the time I was eight."
The look in Gohan's eyes softened. "Yeah I know that Lime." he said. "Don't worry about it, you're here to study and you're a determined girl, you'll be getting great grades before you know it."
Lime smirked at that. "Believe it or not Gohan, I'm here for pretty much the same reason as you. My village is small and there aren't that many people my age around. So I came here to make friends and have fun. But I need to study to keep my grandpa happy." She said.
The demi-Saiyan wasn't actually all that surprised. The village from where Lime came from was indeed small, as were all the other villages in the area. So as you'd expect, Lime would want to be around more people, just like he himself did. Though the girl did come to the conclusion of moving to a city and attending a high school there before Gohan came up with that idea. To be honest, if Lime hadn't have decided to move to Satan City, Gohan would have most likely ended up going to West City. But that really didn't matter much at that point.
"I see." was all that he answered to the girl.
The two continued chatting for a while longer. Topics ranged from the weather to the school to super powers to unicorns. All the topics that teenagers love to discuss. Both were enjoying being in the presence of the other greatly.
Eventually, their conversation was interrupted by a beep. Lime turned to the clock on the wall and Gohan followed her gaze. It was already 5:30PM. Gohan panicked. "Damn." he said.
Lime laughed. "You better get going before either Chichi kills you or Goten dies of boredom." She opened the window for him to fly out of.
Gohan ran all over the place to get he shoes, his school bag and anything else of his. He gave Lime a quick hug and said "G'bye. I'll see you at lunch tomorrow. We could eat on the roof." then he jumped out of the window and flew off in a quick pace.