Disclaimer: I don't ownany of this...just the plot and my wicked mind. That's all.
Summary: Goku and ChiChi have been apart for 2 years, and Goku is dejected. He meets Raina, and things start to look up. But what is this dark cloud hovering over the world...again. Rated M for later chapters.
A/N: Goten is a little...how should i put this..mean...influenced...in this fanfiction. You'll see what I mean, so don't be surprised. Well, he's misunderstood for one, his family is a mess, he has problems with his dad, and hates his mom's new husband, and has good reason. Yeah, so...bless his little heart. Enjoy!
Chapter two-
(This chapter will not jump...to much drama on this end as it is...enjoy!)
ChiChi wasn't happy. Goten...her little baby( Geez, the boy is TEN) was growing up to be just like his father. He didn't want to study...because he would rather fight. He didn't want to go to school...like his big brother Gohan. And he didn't like to...Seems the only thing he hated more was Ronald. Chi-Chi felt a involuntary shiver dance up her spine at the thought of her husband's name. Gathering herself, Chi-Chi shuffled down the grandstair, mindfull of her footfalls. Chi-Chi forced herself to think about her youngest son, pushing all esle to the back of her mind. It seemed the one thing he loved was reading those stupid Manga...and drawing! Well, at least he wasn't a karate bum like his dad. Now, ChiChi couldn't deny that when it came to her son's little doodles that he was...talented. But. That didn't get you anywhere in life. An Educationdid. And by Kami! Goten was going to school! For his own good...and his wellbeing.
Said Demi-Saiyan sat in his room, reading said stupid manga, Rurouni Kenshin. He was almost done. Kenshin was about to leave..
"Hey, little bro..."
Goten ignored his older brother, and continued to read. (if you want to know what Goten is reading about...i suggest you pick up a manga of Rurouni Kenshin :P. It's pretty good stuff. Or you could watch the anime)
"Little bro? Goten?"
Goten frowned. He turned the page.
"Goten!"
With a growl, Goten snapped the book shut.
"What?" Irritation was clear in his already changing voice.
Gohan leaned against the doorframe, and looked at his brother's dark face. The boy had changed over the two years. Once happy, loud and eccentic (like their father, Gohan thouhght) was now angry, quiet, and...well,the boy kind of reminded him of Vegeta. They stared at each other for a whole two minutes until Goten's frown deepened.
"Well?"
Gohan brows raised. Scratch that, he was more like mom now.
" Mom wants to talk to you...with Ron"
Goten's frown turned into a fullblown scowl. He really didn't feel like it today, not ever really. However, the sooner he went down to see them...the sooner he could leave, and finish his book. Standing up, Goten sulked out of his room without another word to Gohan. He took the staircase at the slowest pace he could manage. When he got downstair, and into the kitchen he was met with the two people he liked least, save his father. ChiChi had a almost identical scowl on her face (hers were meaner...being Chichi and all), while Ron had a small smile on his face. Kami! How Goten hated that man.
"Hey, Kiddo" The man said. Ron had blonde hair that was cut neat, not a hair out of place. His green eyes were merry, but there was something cold in their debts. He had a firm build, but not like Goten's dad. Ron was also tall, but a couple inches shorter than...him. Some might even called Ron ...handsome.
Oh, how his mother's new friends positively swooned him, their voices disqustingly syrupy.
" Your sooooo lucky, Mrs. Henderson to have a good man like Ronald!"
"Oh, I wish 'my' Nelson was as handsome as your Ron!"
"You're a very selfish woman, Chi-Chi, to have stolen our dear 'Wonny' off the single' market!"
Goten could've gagged. They were sick out of their friggin' minds. From the beginning, the young Demi-Saiyan had never liked the man...Ron, and to tell the truth, he knew the feeling was quite mutual.
"Mother" Goten said, taking a seat, and pointedly ignoring Ron. The man's smile faultered a little to show his distate, but other than that he kept up a good show.
"Say hello to Ronald, honey" ChiChi said tensely. Goten bearly refrained from rolling his eyes.
"Alright" He said slowly "Ronny..."
"Goten, I have had just about-"
" It's o.k, sweetie, he doesn't mean it" Ron said, putting a hand on her healthy stomach. Goten sure as heck did mean it. Taking a deep breath, ChiChi patted her husband hand, and rested it on his own on her abdomen. Goten sweared...if he didn't get out and quick...
"Alright, Goten, we wanted to talk to you"
There was silence. Goten look at his mother, and raised his brow.
Well?
ChiChi bit the inside of her cheek. That boy...
"We decide that it would be best..."Ron intervened. He looked right into Goten's eyes, letting the malice slip through. "We decide it would be best to send you to that nice boarding school in America"
Goten's eyes widened, then narrowed; his spine stiffened. The Demi-Saiyan beheld the older man with a solid gaze...and the prick had the audacity to grin?
That son-of-a-
"Yes, sweetie...we think you'll do better. It seems i can't get you to do what you're suppose to do so-"
"So, you're sending me away" Goten said tightly, turning to glare his mother. ChiChi cringed. "No, baby, never that...it's just..."
"Just what?" He asked, his eyes flashing the briefest teal green.
"Mommy just wants the best for-"
"You couldn't mold me into the little obedient son, so you decide to get rid of me? Who idea was this. His?" Goten turned his eyes on Ron who was silently glaring at him.
"Well, he brought it up...and we talked about it-"
Goten snorted. "You mean he brainwashed you"
"Don't you talk to your mother like that." Ron stood, leaning over the table so that there faces were right in front of eachother. Goten could feel it...that familiar rush...coming...
"Get out of my face Ron" He said slowly carefully, so that the other could hear the threat...the danger. Ron visibly flinched, but he didn't budge. If he didn't move...now..
"Ron, no-"
"No Chichi...this boy needs to learn his place..."
Goten snapped. He reached out and grabbed Ron by his crisp collar, and pulled him forward. The suprise on Ron's face was priceless, but Goten was way to serious to think it funny.
"I don't like you"
"Goten...stop"
Gohan was standing right inside the door, his arms crossed, a stern expression on his face. Goten turned to look at his brother, the tendons standing out on the elder's neck. He was disappointed, mad even. Goten didn't care. He looked back at Ron, who was gaping at the small boy. Goten let him go, not because Gohan told him so, but because his mom...his mom was crying silently on the other side of the table. Their relationship might have been on the outs, but...this was his mother, and he still loved her. He stood, and tried to pass his brother, but Gohan held out his hand.
"Apoligize" He said simply.
Goten could feel the tears coming now. Was no one on his side anymore?
"For what! they're trying to send me away...to a boarding school...in America!"
Gohan frowned. What?
"What are you talking about?" He asked slowly. Goten had to take a deep breath before continuing.
"They want me gone, Gohan. Mom wants me gone-"
"That's ridiculus, Goten. Mom's not sending you to a boarding school, are you mom?
Gohan looked at his mother for reassurance...and saw the guilty expression on her face. Gohan's eyes widened.
"It was Ron's idea. He never liked us anyway, Gohan. Since you are about to go to college he doesn't have to worry about you...and me...well...it's just gonna take to long for me to leave..."
"It's not like that Goten, baby we-'
"We don't have to explain ourselves to these children, ChiChi." Ron stepped in. He looked at the two boys from across the table, all walls down. A look of pure loathing clouded his feature, and he couldn't have been any more hideous.
"You are going to that boarding school boy and there isn't a damned thing you can do about it"
"Ron maybe we should reconsi-"
"Shut up ChiChi" The command was obvious, and ChiChi fell silent, looking at her hand that rested on her belly.
Gohan couldn't believe his ears. This man...was a...was a...
"You asshole" Goten said, his voice spat venom. Gohan was to distraught, but absolutely horrifed at Goten's choice of wording. Where in the world was this boy watching on television, anyway. But Gohan couldn've said it any better.
"Who in the hell do you think you are talking to my mother like that! You want to get rid of me, so you can what beat my mom...again."
Ron looked unfazed, while ChiChi looked up, as if she had just been slapped in the face.
"He hit...mom-"
"Yes he hit her...and i saw...mom saw me...made me promise not to tell you...I should have killed his sorry..." Goten looked Ron straight in the face his voice erriely calm for a little kid.
"...And next time I will. I'm not going to that school...and i'm not staying here...I would rather go back to live with my real dad. So you to can live however the hell you want"
Ron sneered. "Yes, go back to your deadbeat daddy"
Goten's little muscles flexed, but Gohan touched his tiny shoulder
"Go up stairs, Goten" Gohan said smoothly, however Goten could here the coldness underneath. With one last look at his at his sobbing mother Goten left. As he took the stairs, Goten could feel his brother's Ki steadily raising. Gohan may have been his mild mannered older brother, but when it came down to his family...Kami help whomever.
"He tried to tell me...what you were...but i didn't listen..."
Gohan was about to pop. It was obvious with the way the house tremored slightly. ChiChi looked at her oldest son; could see the evident signs. She shook her head no. Ron didn't know about her sons Saiyan heritage, and she didn't want him to know. Not that she was ashamed of her babies...it was just...she knew what kind of man Ron was. ChiChi didn't want her sons life to be in danger; rather her than them.
"Gohan, stop it" She said, mustering as much authority in her voice as she could. Gohan focused his now teal green eyes on her, frightenly cold, their depts. "Leave it be."
Gohan gaze at his mother. He asked the simple question. "Did he hurt you?"
ChiChi didn't say anything, and that was answer enough. Gohan was going to kill him.
"I said...stop it. This is neither of yours or Goten's business...I think it best for Goten to go stay with, Goku. You can stay here-Ron snorted- until you graduate in June or...you could live with him as well."
Gohan stood silently, his uncanny eyes heavy on his mother. ChiChi...who taught him so many things. Manners, hard work, school work...the difference between right and wrong. Where was that woman now? What had happened to her. ChiChi looked at her son...begging...pleading...for him to just let it go. Gohan sighed, and closed his eyes. When he opened them they were their normal onyx color. The Demi-Saiyan looked at his mom with a grave expression; he seemed years older than he was, and he felt that way,too.
"I'll stay mom" He said...Because if you touch my mother again.... "And Goten?" He asked softly.
ChiChi sighed. "Could you take him to his father?"
"As soon as possible" Ron said, darkly. "The sooner the better, if you ask me"
"No one asked you" Gohan said coldly. He ignored his stepfather's snide commet. Somthing along the lines of...bitch ass momma's boy. "Mom?" Gohan asked again.
"Could you take him with you this weekend, Gohan." Chi-Chi sighed. " I'll talk to him tomorrow...I don't want him to leave with us on such bad terms. I didn't want it to be like this.."
Gohan nodded. He didn't want it to be like that either. The Demi-Saiyan turned around tracing his younger brother's room.
ChiChi exhaled. Maybe she could keep Gohan and Goten safe...if they were away from Ron. When ChiChi first met Ronald Lincoln he was such a well mannered man. Handsome, sweet...just wonderful. Then they started dating, and ChiChi fell in love with him. Or so it seemed. They married only four months after they started seeing each other. And everything started going downhill from there. Ron had met Gohan and Goten in the beginning, and he had been nice to them..buying them things...taking them to games. Trying to win them over. For some reason, Goten had always cold towards Ron, saying that he was no good, and that his aura was off. Gohan was alright with him, civil and mannerly. But Goten...ChiChi wished she had listened to her youngest son.
ChiChi could feel her husband's eyes on her; she heard him shift, walk towards her. He long his firm hands landed on her shoulders, and put unnecessary pressure on them. ChiChi tried to move away,but he held her in place. How had she come to this. This weak shell of a woman who couldn't fight for herself. What had happened to ChiChi...the strongest woman in the world.
She was a woman...beaten.
"Something tells me that you are keeping something from me ChiChi. Those brats of yours... I've been watching them, you know. I've noticed things. Mind enlightening me?"
ChiChi's heart frozed. "What are you talking about Ron?" She asked, dumbly. She had to keep her boys safe. Ron laughed softly, but ChiChi could hear the menace in his voice. His grip tightened.
"Don't play me for a fool, woman. I know they're special...inhuman even. Interesting eye color...green? I wonder where they got that from?"
ChiChi had been praying that Ron would mistake that with the play of the light. Apparently, he had been more perceptive.
"I've seen them, you know, transform..It's Interesting... if i do say so myself. A trait of their father's maybe"
ChiChi breath swooshed out of her chest. He knew. But how? They had been so careful. Only training in the forest...where no one could see it clicked.
"You followed them" She said tonelessly.
"Yes, i did" Ron said, darkly. "I had that right...I am their stepfather after all?"
ChiChi shuddered. "What do you want?" She asked, fearing the answer. Ron was silent for a while. He rested his chin against ChiChi's head, almost lovingly. ChiChi knew better.
"A simple blood sample would do" He said, eventually. "I'd like to see what these boys are made of"
ChiChi would be damned. "You son-of-a-bitch...if you think-"
The woman was quieted with a harsh yank of her hair. ChiChi bit her botttom lip to stop from crying.
"I really hate treating you like this, love. I do. But you need to learn a woman's place. You should never speak out of term like that...that's why you first marriage failed. That no good man you had before...he didn't dicipline you as you had ought to been. Like I do. Like my Papa always said, keep your bitch in line with a lots of loving...and a firm hand."
ChiChi whimpered, and let the tears flow freely. "I won't let you..."
Ron laughed without humor. "We'll see. Now, go up stairs and freshen up...I'll be up in a bit."
ChiChi stood on autopilot. She made her way up the stairs, until she came to her children's room. She knocked on Gohan's door, but received no answer. ChiChi let herself in to find the room empty. Closing the door, she went to Goten's. She knocked softly. No answer. Worrried, ChiChi pulled the door open. On the bed, Goten lay asleep. From the doorway, ChiChi could see the dried teartrails on her son's cheeks.
I'm sorry, baby...but...it was the only way i could keep you safe, and away...
She could hear footsteps coming up the stairs. Closing the door swiftly, ChiChi scurried off to her bedroom...their bedroom. ChiChi swung open the door, and closed it quietly. She quickly went into the bathroom, and locked the door behind her. Tonight was going to be one of those night. Where Ron put his daddy's words to good use. ChiChi could just feel it. Helplessly, ChiChi ran the bath, shuddering at the sound of the bedroom door as it creaked open.
A/N: Well, how's that. ChiChi has big problems. Ron is a asshole, and the two Demi-Saiyans can't do a thing about it without hurting their mom. Don't worry, even though I'm not very partial to ChiChi, she'll have a alright ending. Yes, I know Goten has a very foul mouth..much to do about the T.V. Kids these days...watching what they ought not (shakes head..*tsk*.). Reviews, please, are very welcome!
Sincerely, dear reader
-Rashakra Nara.