A/N: Update, sorry for such a short chapter.

"AH!"

Chi-Chi was screaming, she had felt sharp stabbing pains that jolted her awake from a deep sleep in the middle of the night. And she knew this pain, it was a pain she had known all too well. It meant that the baby was coming. She thrashed in the bed until the sheets came untangled from around her, in the meantime Bulma had been jerked away and rushed out of her room and towards Chi-Chi's guest room.

"What, is something wrong?" She gasped, trying to catch her breath.

"The baby! Ah! Oh it's time, it's coming!" Chi-Chi panted, it felt like she couldn't breathe, she was turning red in the face and she was covered in sweat. "OH!" She groaned in pain, clutching her watermelon sized stomach.

"Oh my gosh, you're a few days early, I must've miscalculated!" Bulma moaned sadly, she felt terrible but she didn't have the time to dwell on that now. "Ah hurry, we have to get you to the delivery room!"

"Bulma, is everything alright?" The professor looked half asleep as he shuffled into the bedroom, his cat frowning tiredly on his shoulder.

"Chi-Chi's going into labor, quick get a wheelchair!" Bulma whirled around, ready to bark orders. "Tell mom to be ready in delivery."

"Bulma, what's the commotion?" Gohan mumbled, he let out a huge yawn as he rubbed the sleep from his eyes. "I heard yelling, what's going on?" He suddenly gasped and was fully awake when he saw his mother. "Mom, what is it!"

"The baby is coming Gohan, I'll need your help!" Bulma cried.

"AH!" Gohan gasped, completely concious now.

"Get my mom and go with her to the delivery room, I'll need towels and hot water. My mom will know what to do."

"AH!" Chi-Chi screamed, causing Gohan to go as pale as a ghost from the sound of her pain.

"Hurry, her contractions are getting stronger!" Bulma yelled.

"Ah, got it!" Gohan rushed off, he bolted down the hall and found Bulma's mother already awake and starting to move around in the halls. "Mrs. Briefs, it's my mom!" He panted. "She's going into labor, the baby is on its way!"

"Oh my." She gasped, but smiled. "I had a feeling that's what the commotion was about. I'm already going to get things ready, why don't you come and help me?"

"Okay!" Gohan nodded, his heart was racing and his stomach was in his throat, he was so afraid that something would go wrong.

"Just hang in there dear, you'll be alright." Mr. Briefs had brought a wheelchair and they were rushing her down the hall towards the delivery room.

"AH!" Chi-Chi sobbed, the pains were getting closer, she felt so scared to do it alone this time. Sure it was her second child and she knew what to expect, and she had all of her friends there to help her, but she didn't have Goku with her, and that pain hurt the most of all.

"We have to hurry." Bulma turned to her father.

"Don't worry, we delivered Trunks and Gohan fine didn't we?" He gave a nod of reassurance.

"Yeah, that's right. I trust you, we trust you." Bulma grinned back.

"Oh." Chi-Chi wailed as they arrived in the delivery room.

"Mom!" Gohan yelled, he dropped what he was doing and rushed over to her. "Are you alright, mom? Mom, everything's going to be just fine!"

"Ah." Chi-Chi cried. "The baby is kicking me like crazy!"

"Ah!" Gohan gasped, horrified. Was that a bad thing?

"It's okay Gohan, that's normal. It'll be a feisty child alright, just like his dad." Bulma smiled.

"Oh, uh, okay…" Gohan stammered, he was still freaked out of his wits.

Mrs. Briefs came up, "Gohan, it's o dark in the morning, you're just a bit frazzled. Why don't you take a break?"

"I can't, my mom needs me!" Gohan turned around, tears in his eyes.

"You probably shouldn't be in here while she's giving birth…" Bulma glanced up at her parents, Chi-Chi was in too much pain to think, but she probably wouldn't want her son to see her like this, even if it was the miracle of life and a great learning experience for a future scholar. "Why don't you call everyone, let them know what's going on? I think Krillin is at Master Roshi's tonight, and he can call Tien and Yamcha. And don't forget to call your grandpa, he'll race over her quick I'll bet. Wait up for him. Alright?"

"Oh, okay." Gohan nodded, trying to swallow the dryness in his mouth. He took a step back, "Don't worry mom, I'll be right back." He rushed off.

Bulma smiled, she turned to see her mom getting Chi-Chi ready while her father got things prepared, "We'll be alright here Gohan, and by the time you come back, we'll have a baby waiting for you."

Hours later…

Gohan had made his phone calls, Krillin told Master Roshi and called Tien and Yamcha, then Gohan called his grandpa, who of course like Bulma had said, told Gohan to wait for him because he'd be 'right there'. Vegeta was grumbling and walking around, muttering about how 'that woman' was making enough noise to wake up everyone at Korin's Tower and the lookout. Surprisingly enough though, Trunks didn't stir, he slept through it as if it were nothing. Gohan was shaking uncontrollably, he wiped sweat of his forehead. Every time he heard his mother cry out, he wanted to rush in there to be with her, to hold her, to make sure everything would be alright. He kept reminding himself that Bulma and her parents were there, they had delivered him and so he knew the baby would be alright. He couldn't help but wonder though, had he giving his mother that much pain, had he given her more? Was it worth it? Was he a good son after all the work and pain she had gone through? And not just in labor, but in life as well.

"Gohan, Gohan!" The knocking at the door and the doorbell ringing throughout the house drowned out Chi-Chi's cries, and Gohan knew that was the Ox King.

"Grandpa!" Gohan bolted over and opened the door.

"Did I miss it, did she have the baby yet? Is it a boy or a girl!" He quickly ducked into the house, his arms overflowing with large plush teddy bears, boxes of gifts and a full aray of balloons.

"No, she's still screaming, so I guess it's still in her stomach." Gohan sighed.

"Oh don't worry, women are strong, and nobody's stronger than your mother." Ox King realized that he would have to be strong for Gohan, he could tell Gohan was shivering with fear and uncertainty. "You don't know how long her labor was with you, she screamed like crazy. In fact, she hurt Goku."

"My dad!?" Gohan gasped.

"Some strongest man, she grabbed his hand so hard I think it was broken, he screamed and ran off and, well… he was gone for hours. But when he came back, he went right back to her side until you were born. Come to think of it, I don't think she crushed his other hand... Heh, you should've seen their faces when you finally came out. After all those hours and hours of terrible pain, when you were finally born, the look of pure loves was in their eyes."

"Did I, hurt her really badly? Was it really that long, longer than this baby?" Gohan frowned.

"Oh don't worry, that's part of being a mother I suppose, you don't remember the pain, no matter how bad or how long it may have been. All that matters is the baby is finally here, happy and healthy." He sat down on a couch, putting down his arm load.

Gohan sat down in a chair, "Do you think that it was worth it?"

"Huh?"

"Do you think…" Gohan looked up with glassy eyes at his grandpa. "That I was worth it? All the pain? Of child birth, and the pain or grief I gave her in life?"

"Gohan…!" Ox King was surprised, he was so shocked to hear such a question from his grandson. It took him a moment to finally snap back to reality and give him an assuring answer. "Gohan… your mother loves you more than anything in the world. You can't realize how much a parent loves a child. The love is so strong, any pain or grief or sorrow felt at any time during childhood, that love erases them all. Growing up is filled with pain, with sorrow, with anger, but the happy memories always replace them. So were you worth the pain? No." He smiled. "You're worth a million times more."

"Ah, grandpa…!" Gohan gasped upon hearing his words.

"Trust me, I know. I'm sure you'll understand one day when you have a child."

"Yeah, I guess…" Gohan sighed, that did make him feel a little better, but he still felt anxious. How good a dad would he be? Or more importantly, how good a big brother would he be? He was an only child, and now without Goku around, he'd have to help out a lot more.

"Gohan, Gohan!" Bulma panted as she rushed down the hall. "Ox King, you're here! Good, come quick you two!"

"Huh!?" The two boys gasped, they'd been talking so much that they'd forgotten all about Chi-Chi screaming, they hadn't realized that it had stopped. "Oh!" They rushed down the hall after Bulma and they arrived in the delivery room. "AH!" They both gasped in awe, Chi-Chi was lying in a hospital type bed, she had a happy and relieved, loving look on her face, and in her arms she was cradling a blanketed bundle of joy.

"Hey you guys, hope I didn't worry you." Her smile was so radiant it warmed the whole room, she was completly different from the person she was just a few hours ago. "Come on over Gohan, dad, I want you to meet the new addition of the family."

"Oohh…" Gohan and Ox King crept over. This was the moment, the moment that everyone had been waiting for. Bulma and her parents were smiling in triumph, they already knew the answer. The answer to the question that had been plaguing them for nine months now. "It's a…" They peered over Chi-Chi's arms and looked at the tiny face of the sleeping baby. "Ah!" They gasped, a grin beaming from ear to ear. "IT'S A BOY!"