Time for another chapter of Wrapped in Shadows! I'm kind of surprised at how much I've been writing fanfiction recently. I've been thinking about ideas while I'm at school, so I've been able to get them written afterwards.

Videl's consciousness slowly returned her senses to her, and her eyes opened. She was in a white room. The hospital? What happened? Her body hurt everywhere.

Her eyes started roaming, and she spotted Gohan? Of all people, Gohan was the one next to her bed? He looked at her.

"You're awake. It's about time. Seventeen told me to bring you here and wait until you woke up. It's been an hour since then. You woke surprisingly fast for what happened." Videl was confused. What had happened again?

"I feel like I've been hit by a truck..." Suddenly the door slammed open and her father ran in, angry and concerned.

"Sweet pea! Are you okay? I came as soon as I heard what happened!" Videl laughed.

"Everything hurts, dad. Did somebody get the license plate of that truck that hit me?" Gohan brought a hand to his face, shaking his head.

"You've got several broken ribs and a broken leg. You wouldn't have survived being hit by a truck." The tone in his voice seemed to be mocking her, and she became angry.

"Why the hell are you here anyway? You don't need to be here!" Her father turned to look at Gohan.

"Who are you, kid? Why are you here?" Gohan glared at her father.

"I'm here because the teacher told me to bring her here after what happened. Were you informed of what happened?" Her father seemed to remember.

"Oh, right! That lie! Videl, I was told that somebody sent you through the wall of the gym during that mock tournament you said you were going to win. Of course that didn't happen, after all, you're the strongest in the world after me!" Gohan clicked his fingers, drawing his attention.

"I can confirm what happened."

"What really happened, then?"

"She got sent through a wall by her opponent. For the record, the wall was a metre and a half thick and completely made of bricks. Impressive, isn't it?"

"Don't lie to me, boy! I'm the strongest man in the world! I could break you in half with a flick of my fingers!" Gohan smiled creepily, his eyes glinting.

"What reason do I have to lie, Mr. Satan?" He stood, crossing his arms. "After all, the opponent that sent her through the wall was me." Mr. Satan stood to confront him.

"How dare you tell me such blatant lies! I could beat you with half a hand while blindfolded! I beat Cell, too!" Gohan glared back at him.

"Yes, I'm sure you did beat Cell, fraud. In another universe where you were many thousands of times stronger than you are in this one. Oh wait, that universe doesn't exist."

"Who do you think you're calling a fraud! I beat Cell, you're just some scrawny kid who doesn't know-"

There was a crash. Thankfully, there was nobody in the next few rooms over. Mr. Satan was soon hooked up to life support in the same room as Videl, Gohan grinning.

"You beat Cell? What a lie. Seven years ago, you stole that credit from a child. How shameless can you get? Also, your daughter took that attack better than you did. She's stronger than the supposed strongest in the world. Nowhere close to my level, though. That wasn't even one thousandth of my strength."

Mr. Satan fainted. So did Videl.

The doctors made sure that nobody found out about the incident for now. It wouldn't do for the world to know that something like this had happened.

"Honestly, Gohan. Not only did you send his daughter through a wall, but you sent the fraud through a wall as well? What happened to you in the past six and a half years?" Seventeen was shaking his head, grinning slightly.

"I changed, Seventeen. Goku refused to come back, and then mum died. The rest of them were too weak to defend Earth from anything, so I left to train. I'm only at school to fulfil my promise to mum." Seventeen was shocked. Gohan didn't refer to Goku as 'dad', just as 'Goku'. Did he not consider him as a father anymore?

"Either way, you shouldn't do things like that."

"Shut up, I do what I want. They were annoying me with their antics." Seventeen stared at him.

"As your teacher, I order you to go and give them some Senzu beans." Gohan scowled.

"You can't make me do that. Besides, they deserved it."

"Do it, or I'll tell Bulma and the others that you're alive."

"You wouldn't dare."

"I would."

"You wouldn't get the chance. You'd be in pieces before then, Android."

"Just do it, Gohan. If you don't, the incident will get out to the media soon enough, and they'll find out anyway." Gohan sighed.

"Fine." He returned to the hospital, where doctors were fussing over Videl and Hercule. "Move, doctors." The head doctor turned and looked at him.

"Please leave, we're in the middle of an operation here." Gohan pushed them out of the way, before bringing out the Senzus. The doctors gasped at seeing the bag appear out of nowhere, with just a black void signalling its presence before it appeared. Gohan opened the bag, pulled out two beans, and stood next to Videl's bed.

"First, the girl." The doctors protested, asking what he was doing, but he ignored them, dropping the bean into her mouth. Her eyes snapped open almost immediately, trying to choke out the bean. "Don't try and throw it up, idiot. Seventeen told me to give it to you, otherwise the incident will get out to the media." Videl stopped choking at the mention of her gym teacher's name. Swallowing tentatively, she gasped as she felt her bones start getting stitched back together.

"What the hell did you just feed me?"

"Something that will instantly heal all wounds and keep you fed for more than a week." The doctors blew up in confusion, protesting that there couldn't possibly be a medicine like that. They were silenced when Videl stepped out of bed, perfectly fine. She looked over at Gohan, who sighed.

"Guess I have to give one to the fraud, don't I?"

"Stop calling my father a fraud!"

"But he is one." She didn't even see him move, but suddenly he was by her dad's bed, dropping a bean into his mouth. Her dad took a few seconds, before suddenly shooting up.

"Kid! I challenge you to an official match!" Then he looked around, suddenly surprised at being kicked out of his dream. Gohan chuckled darkly.

"Gladly. It will have to wait for the world tournament, though. I'll be competing. It's only in two and a half weeks. The time will fly." The man paled as he realized what had happened. "What, having second thoughts? Too late. I already accepted."

Videl gaped. "H-How did you move so fast?" Gohan looked at her. Then he was gone.

"What, like that?" She spun. He was behind her. "I suppose there's no point hiding anything anymore. I did send you through a wall with this strength." Suddenly there was a black ball in his hand. She looked at it closely, then gasped.

"You! You're a trickster! I won't fall for your tricks!"

"How are they tricks when I used them to send you through a wall? Oh wait, that wasn't anything to do with this. That was just raw strength. What I can do is surround people in them, making them unable to move or breathe." Videl gasped.

"That was you that did that at the bank yesterday!" Gohan grinned.

"Yes, it was! You finally figured it out! No wonder he wasn't surprised, I'm sure you're thinking. After all, I was the one who did it!" He deadpanned a cheer, voice sounding very dull. "I don't care. I could kill you whenever, I'm letting you live because you don't deserve to die, unlike your father."

"Why the hell does my father deserve to die? What did he do to you?" Gohan smiled weirdly at her.

"What did he do? Oh, nothing much. He only stole my credit for beating Cell."

Videl gaped. What the hell was he talking about? He had to be joking. Her father beat Cell, right?

Right?

End of chapter! Gohan doesn't really feel like hiding anything, does he? Stay tuned for the next chapter!