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Okay, by popular demand and the fact that I realized the other stories wil probably have too slow a start to really get any support, so A Fallen Hero is now one of my official stories. Have fun reading this story's first official chapter.

Chapter 4

It's been a good eight weeks since Gohan had first appeared at OSH. He was known for two things, one being that he scared most of the student body. It wasn't through his violent actions that he did this, it was the rumors that had spread about him since they heard about his actions against a group of crooks. Then if you add in his constant change in personality, at one moment he seemed as if he couldn't hurt a fly and in another he was about ready to rip someone's head off. The second, being that he was the only one willing to stand up to the two strongest people in the school: Marker and Videl. It spread that as soon as Marker returned from his suspension he confronted Gohan only to get knocked out from a simple tap to his temple. In Videl's case, just as Gohan predicted she didn't let him get away and told him that he had to fight her until she could beat him. Everyday in gym they sparred and every time she lost, but not for nothing. Gohan tended to tell Videl where she would make mistakes and the next day she would have improved.

"I hope you're ready to lose today," Videl said taking her stance.

They both stood in the ring and like always he never took a stance. THe other students surrounded the ring and they all cheered for her to wind. They may have been afraid of Gohan, but that didn't mean they wouldn't be happy to see him finally fall to Videl's hand. Marker watched with his own special intensity. He despised Gohan because he, Marker, believed that Videl was his and Gohan was getting in his way.

"Well, there's always a first time for everything," he said shrugging.

Videl growled and the moment that the coach called for the match to begin, she lunged forward aiming a punch at his face. He redirected the attack with arm and turned slightly to let Videl by him. The moment she recovered she dropped down and turned to sweep kick him, but he jumped above her head and landed behind her.

"Need some help up?" he asked extending his hand.

Once again growling she jumped off of the ground and began a furious barrage of punches and she even threw in a few kicks when she could. Unfortunately, well for her at least, he dodged each one with varying ease. Even if she cornered him, he managed to end up behind her in an instant. It was frustrating and then came an idea. Gohan did a slow roundhouse(to him) and that was when she saw her chance. Seeing the attack, she jumped up and then using his leg as a springboard she jumped even higher.

"I will not lose this time!" she declared.

She drew her fist back for her aerial attack. The only thoughts on her mind were that she could not lose. Even if it was just this once, she had to win. She concentrated all of her feelings into her fist as she descended, or at least that was what she thought it was. Gohan however could see exactly what she was doing. He felt her ki spike and he could see it slowly take form around her fist. Narrowing her form she descended fast and aimed her punch at Gohan, but at the last second he jumped back. So instead she punched the ground causing a crater to form in the arena and cracks to expand from the center to its edge.

"Guess I'm stronger than I thought," she said as she tried to stand back up.

However, as soon as she stood straight, she fell to her knees and collapsed. There were gasps by everyone, but it was more for the damage that she had caused with that one punch. Both Sharpner and Erasa ran to their friend to check on her, but they soon found Gohan standing over them.

"Move, I'll take her to the infirmary," he demanded softly.

"You'll take her?" he heard Marker growl behind him, "You're the reason she's like this."

The musclehead got up into the ring and charged him throwing punch after punch, but none of them landed. Gohan phased behind him and then turned to what appeared to be him slamming the back of his fist into Marker's temple. Instead he stopped just short and tapped it with the joint of his finger and everything went black for Marker.

"If anyone else would rather attack me than help Videl then I hope you've written your will because if you stop me, I'll put you six feet down," he said coolly.

That made the entire class including the coach gulp because they all thought that he was easily capable of doing exactly as he promised. Without further interruption he picked the female fighter up into his arms and carried her to the Nurse's Office. He set her down on the empty bed and removed the glove on her right hand to reveal that some of the skin had been torn away from the knuckles area. He took her hand in his and could instantly tell that her hand was busted.

"Guess I shouldn't have pushed you so hard," he whispered.

Gohan was no idiot and could read the girl like an open book. She was not only intent on beating him, but figuring him out. That is probably what made her so entertaining. The fact that she wanted to get to know him intrigued him because he always made it a point to annoy her. Normally, that would make them stay away, but it only brought her closer to him. That was something he couldn't allow and yet, it felt right to have her near him. Like he said, he was not an idiot, he knew what love was and she was it.

"You really are full of trouble," he chuckled slightly.

He sat there for two hours before she began to stir. He eyes fluttered slightly as they opened. As she awakened, the first thing that saw was a blur of dark blue and maybe some black. As her vision became more focused, she saw that it was Gohan sitting beside her with one leg held up against him. He seemed to be watching her with concern and longing in his eyes, but his eyes soon turned cold.

"Looks like you're finally awake," he commented.

Videl tried to sit herself up, but then noticed the pain in her right hand. She looked down to see that it had been bandaged.

"What happened?" she asked,

"Well, that depends on what you remember," he replied back to her.

Videl placed her hand against her head as she tried to recall exactly what happened, but after she threw that punch, everything went blank.

"You did something that many people spend years trying to learn how to," he explained, "But since you have no control, you ended up using all of your power and you busted your hand"

Pointing to the bandaged part of her body, "If you want my opinion I'd say you should wait two weeks before you take off the gauze. By then your hand should be fixed and given a little stretching it should be in perfect condition."

"Well," she said feigning a sweet attitude, "If I wanted your opinion, I would ask for it."

Gohan got up from the chair and walked up to her and leaned in close until their faces were only inches apart, "Too bad for you, I like to make my opinions known."

He pulled away and walked over to the door before gesturing for her to follow him. Despite how she felt, she did just as he wanted and waited as he guided her up to the roof to ask him any questions. He opened the door and for a minute it seemed as if he was basking in the warm light.

Finally he turned to face her, "Before I do anything further, I want you to try and flex your hand."

She looked at him quizzically, but did as he said. The moment she even tried to bend her fingers further than natural, her entire hand hurt like hell.

"Okay, I don't think you'll be using that Jet-Copter of yours anytime soon," he said and then turned to yell, "FLYING NIMBUS!"

Videl looked at him as if he were insane and was about to turn around until she heard something whizzing through the air. Further out in the sky she could see a yellow line that seemed to be heading towards them. The line then curved as it closed in on them and within a few second a big, fluffy, yellow cloud was floating in between her and Gohan.

"Videl, allow me to introduce you to Nimbus," he said indicating the cloud, "He's going to be your ride from now on, both to and from school."

"Well, as nice as that sounds," she said trying to ignore the seriousness in his voice, "What exactly is this thing?"

Gohan smiled at her reaction, "Exactly like I said, this is Nimbus. When I was a kid I used to fly on this guy all the time. I haven't used him in the last couple years due to personal reasons, but until your hand heals he's at your command. As long as you can ride him that is."

Videl was poking at the cloud suspiciously and for the most part she was slightly tempted to test whether or not someone could really ride on this thing. That was until she realized that last thing he said about "As long as you can ride him."

"What do you mean by that?" she asked, "Don't I just hop on?"

"You could, but you see Nimbus is very picky," Gohan smirked slightly, "He's made from the purest material and as such only someone with a pure heart devoid of evil intention."

This made Videl suddenly worried. Would the cloud think of her snooping around trying to find Gohan's secrets out as an evil intention. Then again, it made her wonder...

"Can you even ride this thing?" she asked giving him her own smirk, "Could your personal reasons be that you started having evil thoughts?"

Gohan shrugged and then jumped up on top of the cloud without sinking through.

"I believe that answers your question," he said, "Now let's see if you can do it."

Jumping down he offered her his help, but she obviously declined it as she made her own leap and found that she had settled at the top of the cloud. The girl inside of her was squealing throughout her head, but the tough girl on the outside just grinned at her companion.

"Not bad," he said, "He'll take you where you need to go. Don't ask how, but he'll know where that is. The embarrassing part is that you'll have to yell real loud if you want him to show up."

"I see," she gulped thinking of all the wild stares she would receive if someone heard her calling for it, but she was soon called from her thoughts as she found a navy blue button up shirt being handed to her.

"You better take it," he said, "It gets pretty cold up in the air."

Videl took it and put it on. She felt confused by just how warm it was, although most of the warmth seemed to be coming from inside of her rather than from the shirt.

"Thanks," she said her face becoming red, "I guess I'll get going now."

"Yeah, see you tomorrow," he said, "Take her home Nimbus."

As soon as the command had left his mouth, the cloud blasted off to her house, or rather mansion, and it even made sure to go directly to her balcony window. Videl immediately went to her bed and fell asleep clutching at the shirt Gohan had given and with an odd smile on her face.

(The Next Day)

The entire day people were coming up to Videl and wondering about that fantastic punch she threw. She heard from many people that if it had landed on Gohan there was no way that the guy would survive let alone be left standing. She on the other hand had no idea what they were talking about since she couldn't really remember what had happened that day and was hoping that he would explain it. No such luck. She was beginning to wish she was still at her doctor's getting her hand checked out, if only because he didn't keep asking what happened.

"So Vi," Erasa said cheerfully, "What did your doctor say about your hand?"

"Nothing really, just repeating what I already knew," she told her.

She wasn't lying. The doctor only told her what Gohan had already said yesterday. The only difference is that Gohan couldn't provide a note that got her out of Gym activities. However, she really didn't want that. She wanted to fight, she wanted to fight Gohan. Not only that, but she needed an excuse to return his shirt without anyone noticing. If people saw that she had it, they would think the two of them were dating, but would that be a bad thing. Yes! yes it would. She already had to deal with the paparazzi because of her dad, she was not going to let them attack her due to some stupid boy.

"Well, lucky for you," said a new voice, "That it looks like the ring won't be fixed until that hand of yours is alright. Which means our fights have been put on hold."

Videl turned and saw Gohan standing behind her wearing a semi-long sleeved t-shirt with a skull on the chest. Everything else was his usual style that seemed to conceal the muscles she was sure he was hiding. He definitely still had that cocky grin on his face that he always did.

"Although, fight may be too strong a word to describe what happens in that ring," he said as he revealed a toothy grin, "Maybe slaughter is more accurate. Yeah, that is definitely it."

He sat in his seat and could easily tell by the changes in their kis that those who had heard him were currently disgusted with his actions. The problem was that Videl wasn't phased. In fact, this action made her curious. After he had helped her yesterday, she was sure that he was more kind-hearted than he seemed, but now he was acting like a total jerk.

"What happened to the ring?" she asked trying to change the subject, "I mean, it couldn't be that bad, could it?"

Gohan raised an eyebrow and then nudging his head he indicated her friends that were looking at her shocked.

"WHAT?!" she yelled.

"You'll see during gym," said Erasa.

This only made Videl glare at everyone, but eventually she conceded to waiting. Then the promised time had come and she was absolutely shocked to see that the ring had practically been broken into four disfigured triangles.

"Who did this?" she asked hoping that someone would tell something different than she was expecting.

"That would be your handiwork," Gohan smiled at her.

"Oh," she practically choked out, "So what do we do while the ring is being repaired?"

The coach was easily convinced that Videl should rest considering the injury to her hand, but apparently he thought that he could get Gohan to still work. Gohan simply refused to do anything since there was no ring to practice in, though he probably didn't care about that. His other excuse was that there would be no point in training if he didn't have his sparring partner.

"You have to do something!" the coach exclaimed.

"And I am," Gohan said trying to soothe his mood, "It's called relaxing. You should try sometime."

Leaving his coach screaming about he wondered why someone like Gohan was so disobedient. This was funny considering how long he had been in school. One would think that the teachers would have learned that he was not your typical smart kid. He went over to the bleachers and sat next to Videl.

"So, what do we do now?" he asked her.

Erasa interrupted him, "We're planning Videl's birthday party."

That made the female fighter want to hide herself at the way her friend Erasa had said that. It was obvious that she wanted to make it clear to Gohan that he wasn't exactly liked by her or the others. She looked at her sparring partner and could see that he either didn't notice her tone or just didn't care. More than likely it was the latter.

"Birthday, huh?" he seemed curious, "When is it?

That stunned Videl, but she still managed to answer, "It's in two weeks."

"Wow, so at least you won't have to worry about an injured hand at your party," he said as if lightly cheering for her, but his calm demeanor never changed.

"You know I would enjoy it more if maybe you showed up," she said.

Videl, Gohan, and everyone else nearby suddenly stared wide-eyed in many directions. The crowd turned their attention to Videl and Gohan. Erasa stood confused as to what just happened. Normally, she would simply tease Videl about liking a boy, but the boy this time was Gohan and there just wasn't anyway that she would like him. He treats her and everyone else as if they are below him. Videl hates people like that. That same female fighter sat in shock as realization struck about what she had said to him. She not only pretty much invited him, but she had also said that she would like it if he went. That was practically like begging the guy to show up and a Satan does not beg. That left Gohan alone in his feelings and thoughts. As much as he appreciated her kindness, he wasn't exactly excited about attending a gathering where everyone hates him. On second thought, that wouldn't be all too different from being at school.

"I'll think about it," he told her and then left.

Author's Note

I'm not sure whether or not this chapter is up to par, but hey have fun with it. A few things to say about the romance element. I tend to get annoyed reading a GV story where both characters deny their feelings and then two chapters later it's solved. In this my hope is to have Gohan aware of the attraction, but Videl will continue to struggle with it for at least a few more chapters. Also, I know the story is moving fast, but that's more or less me because I don't think this story will last more than thirty chapters and length of each tends to change. This may cause me to rush some chapters and slow down in others.

Review responses

Darkswordsman Kirito: First, thank you for the constructive criticism. I prefer it a lot more than the people who simply write about how my story is an insult to the DBZ franchise, so again I thank you. As much fun as having the stupid aggressive character is, everyone is pretty much too scared of Gohan in this fic. There is Marker, but he appears briefly a few times and then I probably won't even write him in. I don't know, it really does depend on how the story develops.

As for the Piccolo thing, I get that normally Gohan would never do it even if he were depressed. The problem would be that Gohan isn't depressed, but rather certain things have happened and the green man touched a very sensitive topic.

The attitude, let's face it Gohan has always been a little bipolar.

As for the rating, don't worry about it. I'm not going to get mad over someone's opinion and as long as you enjoy the story then I'm good.

dcp1992: I wish I could tell you what happened between the three of them, but that would spoil the fun of discovering things later.

: Yes, Gohan has been training for the last seven years. Trust me if he didn't I wouldn't be able to write this story.