Gohan looked from Videl to her father, then shrugged his shoulders and said, "There's really not much to tell, I'm really not that interesting. I live up in the mountains in my dad's childhood home with my mom and younger brother."

While Videl asked him, "What about your dad?" Gohan could see out of the corner of his eye Hercule pull a piece of paper out of his sleeve and consult it. He figured that it was probably a list of questions made up by Videl, after all she and Erasa had guessed that Hercule would scare him so much that he would answer anything that he was asked, but in order to make sure they must have decided to have Hercule ask the questions.

Gohan closed his eyes and leaned back on the couch before finally answering, "My dad died seven years ago so, it's just the three of us."

"I'm sorry I didn't mean to bring up bad memories."

As she watched Gohan smiled sadly and then answered without opening his eyes, "It's alright. It doesn't bother me so much as the way he died…Dad was…a good person. He may have been a little strange and slightly challenged when it came to technology, but he was the best. I've never met anyone else, quite like him. As for his family, they're all dead. I know that he was raised by his grandfather, but he died years ago and Dad had an older brother, but they didn't exactly get along and he died a while back too."

Then Hercule broke in, "So, Gohan what does your mother do for a living?"

"Mom stays at home and takes care of my younger brother."

"Then how does your family get by?"

"I have a part-time job and you don't live in the mountains without knowing how to take care of yourself."

"Do you train in the martial arts?"

"No sir. I haven't trained in the martial arts." At least not in the past seven years, Gohan thought to himself. I wonder what Dad would say if he saw me now. Would he agree with Mom about how I should study instead of fight or would he be disappointed? I guess I'll never really know.

While Gohan answered the question, Videl paid extreme attention to his answer because she accidently walked into him once when he'd abruptly stopped dead in the street. It felt like she'd run head first into a brick wall. Nobody's body was that rock hard naturally. Therefore Gohan had to train. But why would he lie about it? And why had she never seen him fight before if that was the case. It just didn't make sense. After all, the guy seemed like a total wimp. So, what exactly was he hiding?

Gohan opened his eyes and stared at Hercule as he asked his next question: "Why don't you train?"

At this Gohan's eyes narrowed and at that moment both Videl and Hercule felt a rather menacing aura and sensed for a fraction of a second that he could be extremely dangerous if he wanted to be, then the sensation vanished as if it had never been there to begin with. Gohan then answered the question with a calm demeanor and a small amount of force in his voice, "I DON'T like hurting people."

That was something that Videl could actually believe. Gohan was too kind hearted and meek to want to do anything to hurt anyone at all, like ever. That was also all that he would say on the subject. So, since neither of them could think of anything else to ask Gohan, Hercule decided to show off some of his old movies of his past fights.

After having the screen set up and getting the projector rolling, the three of them stared intently at the screen watching the fight. During the whole thing Videl kept glancing at Gohan who, much to her surprise was paying extreme attention to the fight and had a strange gleam in his eyes as well as a smirk plastered on his face. She'd never seen him look like that or even seen that look on his face before. It was unusual for him as far as Videl knew, but to her man…did he look strong, confident, and cool. God! He was HOT! As she caught herself thinking that Videl felt her face heat up, thankfully for her both Gohan and her father were paying extreme attention to the film.

Gohan meanwhile was nearly laughing at the fight that was being shown on screen. Both of the fighters were terrible! Neither had a decent guard and both of them wouldn't stand a chance in a serious fight. He was completely unaware that he had gotten the look on his face, that always tended to show up whenever he was in a fight or watching one; he was also unaware that Videl was watching him, luckily for Videl and unluckily for him. If Gohan had known that Videl had been watching him, he would have made sure to keep his expression neutral.

Hercule on the other hand, had been reliving his glory days as he watched the fight on screen. He also narrated the whole time, the movie was on. This was very annoying to Gohan until he managed to focus on the fight and tune everything else out. When it finally ended, Hercule tried to ask him some more questions from Videl's list, but Gohan carefully avoided answering them. Videl tried as well, but could not get a satisfactory answer out of him.

Since it was very late and Gohan had to travel a long way to get home, he said good-bye to Videl and Hercule and headed off. As they stood there at their front door watching Gohan walk off, a confused look came over Hercule's face as if he was trying to remember something long since forgotten. When Videl asked him about it, all Hercule would say was that Gohan vaguely reminded him of someone he'd seen before.

Much later that night Videl was on the phone with Erasa and was telling her how the interrogation had went:

"So, what did you find out about him, Videl? Anything good?"

"Despite all the questions that we asked, I hardly learned anything about him. I mean, I learned that he lives with his mother and younger brother up in the mountains in his father's childhood home. And that his dad died seven years ago. Apparently he's also got a part-time job to help his family get by."

"I take it Gohan never trained in the martial arts, either? I really don't understand why you suspect that he is. I mean it totally doesn't seem like him at all. If you ask me it seems to be the exact opposite of his personality."

"You don't understand, Erasa. I accidently ran into him one day when he stopped dead in the street. It was like I'd run head first I into a brick wall. Nobody is naturally as tough as that. Gohan would have had to undergone some kind of training. But he told Dad and me that he hadn't been trained in the martial arts. Then Dad asked him why and the strangest thing happened."

"Don't keep me in suspense girl! What happened?"

"Well here's where it gets weird. He narrowed his eyes and for an instant it was like he was radiating some kind of aura and it felt like he could be EXTREMELY dangerous, if he wanted to be. Then, he told Dad that the reason he hadn't been trained in the martial arts is that it's because he doesn't like hurting people. Gohan said it rather forcefully too, but that's not the only strange thing that happened. When we ran out of questions to ask him, Dad decided to show one of his old fights to us. And here's the strange thing. When Gohan was watching the fight, he crossed his arms, got this strange gleam in his eyes, and SMIRKED!"

"Hold the phone! Videl, you were watching him the whole time, instead of watching the fight? You really like Gohan, don't you?"

"Erasa, wait a minute! It's not like that between us! I was just –"

"-What did you think of him? I mean, was he cute?"

"NO. Yes. I mean, I didn't think he was cute, actually I kinda thought that in that moment Gohan looked HOT. BUT that was only because I'd never seen him like that before. It was like he was someone else and not the Gohan, I knew."

"You really LIKE him, don't you Videl?"

"I told you before that it's not like that between us, Erasa. Anyway, I still think he's hiding something. Even though Gohan answered most of our questions, the truth is I still didn't learn anything really about him. Gohan's good at evading or manipulating questions, but he shouldn't let his guard down just yet, I'm on to him."

"Okay, then. At least tell me what your dad thought of him."

"Dad, of course thought that he was a total wimp, but he liked Gohan a great deal. Probably because Gohan listened to all of his stories without saying a word and then watched that old fight with him. Most likely Dad likes him because there's absolutely no way I would date him. Dad even invited him to come back over next weekend, but Gohan turned him down saying that he already had plans to get together with some old friends. Then Dad suggested that he tutor me in math and that I teach Gohan martial arts as payment in return. Gohan agreed to tutor me because I really did need to catch up to the class, but refused martial arts lessons. He said that if necessary, he could tutor me next weekend if I don't mind meeting his family friends. It's nice of him to offer, but it's still embarrassing that Dad tried to invite him over, without even consulting me and then set him up to be my math tutor! Though I guess Dad does need some friends of his own, but that doesn't mean he needs to take mine!"

"Anyway Erasa, I need your help. I need to find out more about Gohan and his family. I'm actually surprised that I didn't think of this before…but I'm gonna search the Son family on the Internet. But I don't want to do it here because if Dad found out, who knows what he'd think."

"Don't worry Videl. Of course, I'll help you. You can come over tomorrow and we'll find out all we can about Gohan. Truth be told you've got me interested, but wouldn't it be easier to ask him directly or meet his family to find out more about him and them?"

"They would just cover for him and there's no way Gohan would admit to anything if he can help it. Oh, and thanks Erasa. I'll see you tomorrow."

As promised I've tried to make my chapters longer. I hope you guys liked it!

z (): It's incredibly likely that I got the name of the mountain area where Gohan lives wrong. I actually think you're right and it's th 439 mountain area, but for the sake of consistency I'm gonna keep it as the 40-40 mountain zone in this story. Thanks for the heads up though.

I would also like to thank everyone else who has read/reviewed my story. I'm glad you like it!