A/N: Hey, once again I had to break this down into multiple chapters. Sorry but I'm writing more than I expected. I hope you all enjoy this chapter! R/R! Let me know what ya'll think of it. I added a slight twist to add to Gohan's character a little. I'm also trying to add a little more detail, my wife had said it wasn't descriptive enough so let me know if this is a bit better. Sorry It took so long but there was a lot going on over here to say the least. Anyway here it is, ENJOY!
"Speech"
'Thought'
Authors notes
Flashbacks
Special Emphasis
Chapter four
Happy birthday Trunks! Part two.
Gohan finally manages to stand back up although his lower body is still regaining the rest of it's feeling so Gohan is a bit shaky. He sighs in disbelief, the way Videl had been acting was so unlike her. A million thoughts were racing through his head. Was he wrong this whole time about her? Was she a good girl in the eyes of the general public but a bad girl once you actually got to know her? Was she trying to get him to ask her out? The more Gohan thought about these possibilities the angrier he got. The discomfort and awkwardness seemed to be fading from his mind, and fast, replaced by anger and disappointment. He balled up his fists and squeezed them so hard that his whole frame began to shake. Gohan shook his head and tried to clear his thoughts. Whatever was up with Videl, he would find out. With the feeling in his legs back he turned and glides out of the kitchen, his normal goofy happy expression now replaced with a hardened look. He would try and be as cheerful as he could, today wasn't about him. Today was Trunks birthday and his anger would not ruin that. Or so he hoped. Gohan finally emerges into the large main room and he glances around the room and quickly spots Videl who is chatting with his mother. He watches her for a moment and tries to push back the heat from his anger. He silently walks walks over to one of the tables across the room from Videl that Bulma has set up and takes his seat.
"Ah nice of you to join us Gohan."
"Ya, sorry Bulma I guess I was a bit thirstier then I thought." Gohan says with a cold hard tone. He glances around the room again this time keeping his eyes away from Videl and starts to calm a little at the sight of how cheerful everyone looks. His momentary calmness comes to a sudden halt. When someone chuckles in the background and speaks.
"Right thirsty." Gohan and Bulma turn their attention to Krillin who has a wide grin.
"Yeah, I hope the water was cold enough for you Gohan, I know it can get pretty hot sometimes." Yamcha says doing the best he can not to burst out laughing. Both he and Krillin have matching grins.
Videl gasps and immediately breaks her conversation with Chichi off and looks down at her feet and blushes. She can feel the sweat forming on her forehead and her insides drop.
'How do they know what I was doing in there?'
"What's wrong Videl?" Chichi asks with worry in her tone.
"Um, N-Nothing! It's nothing!" Videl nervously says.
Gohan grits his teeth. He knows his friends all to well. 'Great, one of them must have seen us in the Kitchen and since I was to distracted I didn't notice them. I have to get to them before they say anything else.' Gohan shifts his weight a bit in his chair and get's ready to spring up at a moments notice if one of his friends happens to say anything else that they shouldn't.
Videl raises her head slightly and looks over at Gohan and her heart feels like it's dropped a few inches. 'Gohan must think I'm horrible, I guess maybe I went a little bit to far. He looks so angry. I need to talk to him.'
Videl begins to try and move closer to Gohan but finds that any such motion is much harder than she would have thought. She tries to move again however before she can even finish summoning the will to move A harsh voice rings out.
"Well, are we just all going to sit around here or are we going to get this pain in the ass started!" Vegeta calls out from the corner that he's standing in with his arms crossed and his permanent scowl on his face.
"VEGETA! Watch your mouth around the kids!" Bulma shrieks out. She then looks over her shoulder to her son. "Well Trunks, are you ready for your presents?"
Trunks eagerly shakes his head up and down with a huge excited smile. "Uh huh! I sure am!"
Goten stands next to his dad and leans against the wall with his hands behind him looking sad. Goku looks down and notices the look on his youngest sons face and asks.
"What's wrong Goten?"
"I wish today was my birthday." He says in a pouty voice.
Goku ruffles his hair a bit and smiles down at his son. "Aw don't worry, it'll be here sooner than you think. I tell you what though, I'll take you out fishing tomorrow hows that sound?"
Goten doesn't say anything however he nods his head and smiles a little.
"OK, now which present should we give you first." Bulma glances around the table crosses one arm over her chest and puts her other hands index finger up to her cheek. "Ah this one looks like a good one."
Bulma grabs a gift from the table and looks at the tag on it. "From Krillin, 18, Marron and Roshi." She hands the gift to Trunks who begins to rip the paper away.
"Wow it's a digital camera!" Trunks says excitedly.
"That's an interesting gift for a nine year old." Chichi says with mild surprise. Krillin smiles and looks over to her and says. "It was kind of a requested gift." He says happily.
Bulma walks back over to the table and grabs the next gift. "This ones from Yamcha." She hands the gift to her son and the cycle continues.
Over a dozen gifts and one very happy nine year old half saiyan later...
"Well I guess that's all of them Trunks." Bulma says as she walks over towards the kitchen.
"Good, now I can go back to doing something important." Vegeta irritatedly says. He glances over to Bulma and she shoots him a were not really done here you idiot look and says.
"Vegeta, we still have to serve the cake and ice cream." Bulma says with a hint of aggravation.
Vegeta groans and looks the other way. "Fine."
Bulma continues her relatively short walk over to the kitchen door and calmly walks in. A few moments pass and Bulma sticks her head back out the door and calls out to her son with a bright smile.
"Oh Trunks?" She sings.
"Yeah mom?" Trunks asks as he turns and looks over his shoulder as he takes a picture of Goten with a weird face.
"I think we forgot one gift."
"Really? Who's it from? What is it?" He asks excitedly turning completely around.
"Well you'll see what it is in a second and it's from." She pauses and glances over at Vegeta who isn't really paying attention. "She's from your father Trunks!" She says with a wide grin.
Vegeta snaps his head towards his wife. "WHAT?" He yells.
Trunks tilts his head sideways in confusion. "She?"
Without another word Bulma opens the kitchen door the rest of the way and a little ball of black and white fur comes zipping in and all to perfectly tackles Trunks and begins to lick him in the face almost uncontrollably.
"A DOG!" Trunks yells between licks with more excitement then ever before.
A series of 'awwwws" and laughs radiates in the room. The only ones not showing much emotion are Videl and Gohan. Vegeta is showing emotion even although his is an emotion of disgust from his wife making such an accusation as to say that he would go out of his way to buy his son a filthy creature such as this.
"OOOO WOW A PUPPY!" Goten almost as excited as Trunks yells.
"WOMAN! HAVE YOU LOST YOUR MIND!" Vegeta yells as his body tenses up. Bulma puts her hands on her hips and walks over to the enraged saiyan and whispers to him. "Look just say you got him the puppy and try to mean it and I'll do what I offered you in the gravity room OK?" Vegeta growls and then finally relaxes a little bit and looks forward.
"Fine, I'll play along with this stupid charade. But you ow me woman." He smirks at Bulma with a wicked grin and she returns a playful one back to him.
"THANKS DAD I LOVE HER! WHATS HER NAME?" Trunks yell's happily still being assaulted by the wrath of the puppy toung.
"Well shes your dog Trunks, you need to pick out a name for her." Bulma says with a smile spread across her face.
Trunks gently pushes the puppy off and much like the way his mom had done before when trying to find the fist gift to give him, he crosses one arm and puts the finger of his free hand to his cheek. Meanwhile the puppy zigzags from one person to the next pouncing on each one getting the maximum amount of attention possible. The puppy runs over to Goku and jumps up on the gentle warrior. Goku smiles at the puppy and squats down and scoops the little puppy up and is then assaulted by the terrible toung. Goku laughs and hold the puppy straight out.
"Your a little fireball aren't ya girl?" The puppy stares back at Goku wagging her tail. Goku then sets her back down and the puppy continues her effort to get much attention.
"Hmmmm, I got it!" Trunks calls out, gaining everyone's attention. "Her name is Scrappy!" Trunks says happily, proud of the name for his new puppy.
"Hey that's a good name for her, right Vegeta?" Bulma says, then turning to Vegeta whom up till now had been tucked away in his corner.
"Sure, why not?" Vegeta asks although it comes out more like a statement.
Vegeta pushes himself off the wall and walks into view and glares down at the hyper puppy. The puppy takes one look at the saiyan prince and without hesitation leaps over to his feet and then of all things, she rolls over and lays still. Vegeta's scowl turns into a pleased smirk.
"Humph, maybe this miserable creature isn't as dumb as it looks. Even it knows to bow at the feet of royalty!"
Vegeta continues to glare at the puppy, however his face suddenly begins to flush with anger and humiliation. His hands drop down to his sides and he balls his fists. The puppies tail begins wagging uncontrollably and she begins to whimper, wiggle and kick her feet as she pee's on Vegeta's boot. Everyone in the room goes quiet and stare in disbelief.
"THIS DISGUSTING MISERABLE BEAST OF BURDEN! HOW DARE THIS THING PISS ON MY BOOT! I'M GOING TO BLAST THIS FU-" Vegeta's rant gets cut short by the mighty frying pan.
"WATCH YOUR MOUTH AROUND THE KIDS MISTER!" Chichi shrieks still gripping her now bent frying pan.
"YEAH AND DON'T YOU THINK ABOUT HURTING SCRAPPY OR I WON'T FIX THE GRAVITY ROOM EVER AGAIN!" Bulma screams out at her husband whom is still crouching down gripping his head.
Scrappy meanwhile jumps to her feet and sprints back off to Trunks and calmly lays down at his feet. Trunks smiles and leans down and picks Scrappy up. She rests her head on his shoulder and begins to fall asleep. Trunks pets her lightly and looks back over to his father. Vegeta stands back up with his left hand still rubbing the area where he was hit glaring at the two women. Vegeta grits his teeth so hard he almost breaks them.
'Where the hell does she hide that damn thing!' Vegeta turns and scowls at his wife. "Woman! Don't you have something to bring out!"
Bulma relaxes a little and she turns on her heels and storms off into the kitchen. She mumbles something under her breath that sounds something like jerk before she disappears into the kitchen.
"Gohan! Did you see the puppy! I want one now, do you think mom would allow it?" Goten excitedly shoots his brother question after question so fast they begin to blur into one sentence.
Gohan doesn't really acknowledge his brother and just continues to stare over at his friends. 'Man how can I keep them quiet without making a big scene. What a mess, why did Videl have to act that way? Why can't Krillin and Yamcha ever keep their big mouths shut. Everything is just a big game to them.' Gohan fumes over the events of the past twenty four hours and already he can feel the heat burning inside of him. Vegeta glances over at him and for the first time during the party takes a mild interest in the oldest half saiyan.
'What has the brat so wound up?' Vegeta slowly looks around the room as he follows Gohan's stare. He finally sets his sight on Krillin and Yamcha. 'He's staring at them like he wants to hurt them.' Vegeta smiles a half smile. 'Maybe he isn't such a screw up after all.' Vegeta glances around the room a bit more and settles his eyes on Videl. 'That one looks like her cat just got run over.'
Goten stops his excited rant and looks at his brother thoughtfully. "Hey, Gohan? Whats the matter? How come you aren't saying anything?" Goten stops his question assault when he notices his brothers eyes flash teal for a moments then back to their onyx color. Goku glances at his son with a serious look and begins to step over to his son to find out whats wrong. However before he can the lights shut off and the kitchen door swings open. Everyone turns their attention to the kitchen and sees a huge cake getting wheeled out. Everyone's eyes grow wide once they see the cake. Instead of a normal cake this one is a three layer green cake, each layer is made to look like the eternal dragon with the top layer being it's head. Replacing the normal decorative flowers are the scales and seven dragon balls. The top of the cake has ten candles that closely resemble a super saiyans hair. Everyone in the room sweat drops.
"Wow now that's a cake!" Goku calls out wile pointing a finger at it. Forgetting all about his oldest son.
A few minutes later everyone is sitting or standing around the room enjoying cake and ice cream. Goku and Goten have a table all to themselves stacked with cake three feet high and about two gallons of ice cream for each one. Vegeta and Trunks have a table as well with about the same amount of cake and ice cream.
"So Gohan, what's with the serious look?" Krillin scoots his way over to Gohan speaking to him in a teasing tone. Yamcha follows his lead and slides next to Gohan on the other side.
"Yeah, are you looking for a way for you and a certain someone to escape for a few minutes of alone time?" Yamcha asks wile holding back laughter.
Videl was standing over by whats left of the cake with a plate in her hands when she hears the duo's teasing. She snaps her head and almost drops her plate. Gohan has his eyes fixed on her but his expression sends a chill down her spine.
'He looks like he's about to explode. If those two don't stop then Gohan may just do that.'
"Videl? Are you OK?" Chichi asks when she notices the pained expression on Videl's face.
"UH, I don't..." Videl looks down. 'Damn, I don't want to talk about this out here.'
Chichi looks back over at Gohan and notices his expression. She doesn't wait for Videl's response and turns on her heels to go ask her son what was wrong with him. She crosses the room within just a few seconds.
"Gohan what's wrong? Why do you look so worked up son?" Chichi asks with a worrisome tone.
Gohan opens his mouth to respond however he's cut short by a smirking Krillin.
"I think Gohan wants to find a place where he can have some alone time with a certain someone."
"Yeah, I think Gohan and Videl would just love to ditch this party."
Gohan's eyes slant a bit and his eyes once again flash teal for a brief second. Goku and Vegeta stop eating and turn their attention to Gohan.
"What are you talking about? Gohan is there something you would like to tell me?" Chichi gets a smirk on her face. Videl's face turns dark red.
"Well I guess it's no wonder that Gohan wouldn't want to say much to his mother." Krillin says.
"Seriously, this isn't the kind of thing that someone normally talks to their parents about." Yamcha says.
Gohan finally manages to speak up. "You guys need to stop. Please." Gohan's tone is deep and serious.
"Aw come on Gohan, it's not like you two did THAT."
"Did what? What are you guys talking about?" Chichi asks.
"Well, Krillin over here was going into the kitchen to get Gohan and Videl and man oh man wait till he tells you what he saw."
Goku tries to jump out of his chair when he feels Gohan's energy skyrocket but it's already to late. With a blinding flash of golden light Gohan finally erupts. He goes super saiyan and knocks Krillin, Yamcha and even his mother to the ground with the force of his power up.
"I TOLD YOU TWO TO STOP AND YOU JUST COULDN'T! I THINK YOU ALL SHOULD LEAVE RIGHT NOW!"
Without hesitation most of the group runs out of the room as fast as they can without question with the exception of Goku, Vegeta, Chichi, Videl, and Bulma. Scrappy begins to bark at Gohan but is quickly scooped up by Trunks on his way out. Goku and Vegeta take a defensive stance but not a fighting stance. Chichi begins crying, Videl looks scared and Bulma scowls.
"WAHHHH! MY SON IS BECOMING A THUG!" Chichi cries from her spot on the floor.
"Gohan! Calm down right now! What's in the world's come over you!"
"Kakarot grab your woman and get out of here, he isn't going to listen to any of us. It's best if we just leave him be for now."
"HEY! GOHAN! WHO ARE YOU TO TELL ME TO DO ANYTHING IN MY HOUSE GOHAN! I don't know where you got this attitude but you had better straighten up!" Bulma screams at the top of her lungs.
"Come on Woman! Were leaving!" Vegeta yells out.
"NO, I WILL NOT LEAVE!"
"IT WASN'T A REQUEST! NOW IF YOU WON'T COME WILLINGLY THEN YOU WILL LEAVE ME WITH NO CHOICE!"
"VEGETA YOU WOULDN'T DAR- HEY PUT ME DOWN!" Bulma continues her rant but gets cut short on the first half of her rant when Vegeta picks her up and throws her over his shoulder unceremoniously. Vegeta begins to walk out with Bulma still beating his back and screaming things like jerk and stupid man. Goku runs over to a still crying Chichi and scoops her up and follows behind Vegeta. Goku pauses for a moment and glances over his shoulder at his son then over at Videl.
'Whatever has him so wound up must have something to do with Videl. Poor thing looks scared to death. I hope she gets out of here soon. Just to be safe though I had better not go to far.'
And with that, Goku bolts out of the room. Videl is the last one in the room. Gohan has his teal eyes fixed on her and his gaze has her frozen in place. She can feel the weight of her legs increase each time she tries to move them. Her heart feels like it's in a vice. The pain, the anger, the overall rage that is emitting from Gohan is all a result of her actions and she knows it.
'Oh man, I can't believe how mad he is. And it's all my fault! I went to far and actually hurt him! Why does this make me feel this terrible though? I know I should feel bad but I feel like I could just die right now and with the way Gohan is looking at me I just may.'
'I have to calm down! It's just us now! So why-can't-I-just-stop! She looks terrified of me right now! DAMNIT! I need to get out of here for a wile, I need to go some place else! I can talk to her tomorrow at school but-' Gohan stops his thoughts and yell's. "NO VIDEL! GET AWAY FROM ME!
Gohan had been in the middle of his thought when he noticed that Videl had begun to take very shaky steps towards him. Fearing for her safety he begins to shout at her to not come near him. His shouting causes her to snap back from the harshness in his voice. She nearly falls to the floor. Although she does stop advancing she doesn't leave ether and tears begin to stream down her face.
"I-I'm so S-S-Sorry Gohan I."
Gohan hears her words and when he notices her tears he gasps. He had scared her! He had truly scared her and now because of him, she was crying. Gohan relaxes for one brief second but that's all and then with a bright flash of golden light he powers up to the next level and just as fast as he powered up, he vanished from the room. Leaving a very frightened, very depressed Videl. Gohan speeds back toward his home however he doesn't intend on going to his house, not any time soon. Within a few minutes he arrives at the top of mount Paozu. Gohan lands on a flat surface near the summit and immediately begins to meditate. A single tear running down his cheek.
'I scared her. I almost hurt her to. I can not lose control like that again, I won't! I just hope that tomorrow she will let me explain everything to her.'
'I can't believe myself. He must hate me. I wouldn't be surprised if he never wanted to speak to me ever again.'
Videl takes off out of the house and flies home, a stream of tears trailing behind her. Back near Capsul corp. The rest of the group is gathered on a near by roof top.
"They're both gone now. Gohan's home and Videl is on her way to her home." Goku says with only a hint of stress in his voice.
"What made Gohan explode like that!" Trunks demands.
Krillin and Yamcha immediately tense up and glance at each other. They both begin to try and tip toe away when two small strong hands yank them back.
"HOLD IT RIGHT THERE!" Chichi yells as she yanks Krillin back.
"JUST WHERE DO YOU THINK YOUR GOING!" Bulma yells as she does the same to Yamcha.
The two fighters land on their backside and immediately put their hands up, palms out and begin to shake their hands.
"Bulma wait! I can explain!" Krillin desperately yells.
"Chichi don't! Not the" THUD! "Frying pan." Yamcha tries to beg but to no avail. Within seconds Krillin meets the same fate. Chichi hovers over the two, slightly dented frying pan in hand and ready for another swing.
"Now, you two are going to tell us exactly what you did to make Gohan so mad!" Chichi yells.
"Yeah, and every time we so much as think your lying or not telling us every detail then Chichi here is going to make sure you two don't leave here consciously! Got it! Bulma threatens.
The two fighters nod several times and withing seconds begin to tell everything. Goku nervously stands off to the side and chuckles nervously with his hand behind his head. Vegeta gets a huge grin at the sight of his wife being so mean, so cruel, so vicious, he was loving every second of it. Ten minutes later and four thuds each and the two almost unconscious fighters have said everything. Bulma and Chichi glare at the two before insulting them one more time. "Pigs." Is all Bulma can say to the two. Her and Chichi were the only ones who could really hear what was said as the rest of the group wanted nothing to do with the interrogation.
"I'm so sorry about Gohan Bulma. I promise that as soon as he's cooled off he will come and apologize."
"It's OK Chichi it wasn't even really his fault. It's those to scoundrels that I'm mad at."
"All the same, The next time you see Gohan he will apologize."
"Well OK then. Are you going to talk with him about, ya know, what he and Videl were doing?"
Chichi smiles wide. "No, I think I'll leave the two of them be. I just hope that Gohan didn't scare the poor girl off."
"Nah I doubt it, she's a tough girl. I think she'll be fine."
"I hope your right. Well it's getting late. I'm sorry about all of this Bulma. I'll see you soon though!"
With that, everyone parts ways, Krillin being assisted by 18 and Yamcha getting help from master Roshi. The sun is beginning to set and fatigue from the party and Gohan taking effect. Within minutes they have all left each others sight.
Videl finally gets home and lands on her balcony. She doesn't feel like getting the third degree from her dad tonight, she was already stressed out enough as it is. She get's undressed and takes a shower, slips into her night cloths and crawls into her bed.
'Tomorrow, I'll find him and apologize. I hope he accepts it.' Within a few moments, sleep overcomes her.
Gohan lands on his front lawn and slowly walks into his house. He's to ashamed to even look up at his parents as he passes them by in the kitchen. He makes just crosses the threshold to the next room when he is stopped by a firm hand He cringes slightly but still doesn't look up.
"It's OK son." Goku speaks warmly to his eldest son. "It's OK to be mad every once in a while. I'm very proud of you for handling it the way you did.."
Gohan finally speaks up to his father, his voice is slightly hoarse from exhaustion. "I could have hurt somebody today dad. I could have hurt Videl even, or worse." Gohan's voice trembles a little on the last word. Goku Simply smiles and says.
"You could have, but you didn't. Gohan you have the power to do many things. Today you showed me that even when your truly angry you still have control and because of that I'm proud of you."
Gohan looks up at his father and smiles warmly back at him. "Thanks dad."
"Hey no prob. Now you go get some rest, you have a busy day tomorrow."
Gohan frowns a bit and responds. "Ya, tell me about it." He then proceeds to head off to his room to get some sleep.
'I don't even know if I can face Videl after what I did. I hope at the very least she still want's to be my friend. So much for any hopes of anything more though.'
Almost as soon as Gohan's head hit's his pillow he falls asleep.
A/N: Well once again this chapter went on longer than I thought it would so I am cutting the second half of this chapter out and making it an extra chapter. Sorry it took me so long to update, between helping a very close friend with a very serious problem and my dog having eight pups it's been a very busy weekend. Because my chapters are becoming longer than expected I am no longer going to include spoilers for the next chapters but I will put the next chapter's title. I hope that everyone liked the little twist there with Gohan growing a set just not the way everyone would have expected. Don't worry, he will be giving Videl a taste of her own medicine still a bit later on. Let me know what you all think so far! Oh ya before I forget, I know I put ten candles on Trunks cake even though it's only his ninth birthday, always have to have one to grow on lol. Thanks guys! R/R.
Chapter five:
Gohan's surprise!;