I struggled a bit writing this. It was difficult actually putting this stuff down in a way that made sense but hopefully I managed it. Well I'll let you guys tell me what you think. And now it's typo free, enjoy.

Disclaimer: I do not own Dragonball Z nor any of its super special awesome characters.

If she was being honest to herself, Videl had been scared. She'd been scared that maybe Gohan hated her, and was only pretending to be nice. She didn't know why the thought scared her so much. She didn't care if anyone else hated her. And there were lots of people who pretended to be nice to her in the hopes of sucking up to her father. Vegeta had said her father belittled Gohan's. And even if he refused to tell her what her father had done, and even said Vegeta was exaggerating, she was under no illusion that meant her father was entirely innocent either. It was until the day after the party she realised there were bugger questions. Vegeta, the angry man, had thrown a person at least fifty feet into the air, and crushed a gun between his fingers. But when Videl tried to focus on this she found that she didn't really care. That stuff could come later. Right now she wanted to find out if Gohan was really her friend. He'd said she was. They went to see a movie together, played games together and they'd even sparred together. Although that last one had more with Videl wanting an excuse to kick his ass more than be friends with him. She'd avoided her father when she got home. He wouldn't give her any answers. He never did.

Three days later Videl wasn't any closer to discovering the truth. Gohan wasn't giving her any answers. Just told her not to worry about it. Erasa had noticed Videl's sullen mood too, but she wasn't about to discuss the problem with her. Not when Gohan was so deeply rooted into them. Well maybe telling her a little wouldn't hurt.

"Do you think Gohan's really my friend?" asked Videl. Her usually fiery temperament had been absent the last few days. Not that she wasn't quick to anger, but she'd stopped scaring anyone who looked at her for more than three seconds.

"Of course he is," said Erasa, not really getting how this could be Videl's problem. "Well we don't really eat lunch with him. Or see him outside of school. Oh my god Videl, we never invite Gohan anywhere do we?"

"I went to the movies with him once."

Uh oh, thought Videl, honing in on her mistake as soon as she said it.

"Just the two of you? Videl did you go on a date with Gohan?"

Erasa was smiling a sly smile at her as they walked down the school's hall.

"It wasn't a date," Videl reprimanded, blushing slightly.

"Sure it wasn't," said Erasa, still smiling.

They carried on walking for a few seconds in silence.

"So, did you two kiss?"

Videl almost tripped on her own feet.

"What, No we did not!" Videl burst out a little angrily, glaring at her so called best friend.

Erasa giggled.

"Then did the two of you at least cuddle?"

Videl went to retort again, but an image of her flinging her arms around Gohan a few days ago instantly filled her mind.

Videl hesitated a little too long, and Erasa honed in on it straight away.

"You did," Erasa squealed.

Videl blushed profusely trying to avoid her friends twinkling gaze. She knew talking to Erasa about it was a bad idea.

"He was upset, I was trying to cheer him up," Videl said in an attempt to diffuse what conception Erasa's mind was working up.

"So you jump the verbal stage and go straight to the hugging stage?" said Erasa wryly, a semi evil grin plastered on her face.

Videl found herself blushing again.

"It was kind of instinctual," she said, not realising that probably wasn't the best thing to say.

"So you instinctually jumped into his arms? Wow Videl, you must really like Gohan."

Videl shook her head angrily.

"I DON'T LIKE GOHAN AT ALL!" burst out Videl angrily.

Everyone in the hall seemed to stop what they were doing to stare at her. Including the black haired, onyx eyed teen who'd just exited his classroom.

Videl turned away from Erasa to stare straight at her classroom, finally noticing Gohan staring back at her. He raised an eyebrow, turned on his feet and walked off down the hall. Videl left her mouth hanging open as she watched him go.

"Wow, nice going Videl," said Erasa with a whistle.

"Grrr, this is your fault!" Videl growled at her friend.

"Sure it is. But rather than standing here pointing blame, don't you think you should, you know, go after him?"

Videl fixed Erasa with another glare, but then silently stalked off after Gohan.

It didn't take too long to find him. He was at his locker, grabbing stuff out of there and putting it in his bag. Videl crept up behind him as silent as possible. Obviously not silent enough, because Gohan quickly closed his locker and turned to face her with a smile.

"Hi Videl," he said, not losing his grin.

"Err, hi Gohan," replied Videl, suddenly feeling small. How was she going to explain herself.

"Did you want something?" he asked, raising an eyebrow at her when she didn't say anything.

"Yeah. I didn't mean too… that is…"

She had no idea what to say. She sighed to herself and turned her head to avoid his gaze.

"Would you like to eat lunch with us today?" she tried. She still didn't turn to face him.

"I thought you didn't like me?" asked Gohan with a mischievous smile.

"That was… not what I meant," said Videl quietly, looking at the floor.

Gohan smiled a big a smile at her.

"I know," he said happily.

Videl was suddenly looking him in the eyes.

"You what…?"

Gohan chuckled to herself.

"I don't know if you noticed but I'm on the receiving end of a lot of teasing myself, so I can recognize the different reactions people have to it at least. I'm really smart remember?"

"Really?" asked Videl, raising an eyebrow. "You seem pretty dense to me."

It was true, he didn't realise how going to the movies, just the two of them could be seen the wrong way, or how he confused going out with going outside.

Gohan pouted at her.

"Am not!"

Videl giggled at his reaction.

"Whatever, class starts soon so don't be late."

She began walking off again.

"And sit with us at lunch today."

The group watched in awe as Gohan devoured his meal.

He'd sat with Videl and her friends today, just like Videl had asked.

Erasa, Sharpner, Angie, Jazz from her gym and his friend Richards were sat down with them too, Jazz and Richards being two years older but still at the school.

All of them could only stare in shock as they watched Gohan devour his meal. Of course Videl had seen the stack of hotdogs he had at the party but she'd thought he was handing them out or something. Now she could see that she was wrong.

Gohan had brought his own lunch in the form of a capsule. Or six capsule's… and counting. Every capsule seemed to have an assortment of about five large dishes. Every time he finished off a capsule's worth of food, he'd put it away and bring out another one. Finally after his seventh capsule worth of food, Gohan seemed to stop eating, rubbing his stomach and leaning back into his chair with a sigh of content. Only then did he notice the others staring at him.

"What?" he said innocently.

The group of friends, minus Jazz and Angie and Richards, were heading out of school. Videl was still worrying over what Gohan thought of her. Not that she wanted him to be in love with her or anything, but it's be nice to know that he was definitely friends with her and not just pretending to be nice only to reveal he'd been plotting revenge the entire time later on. The quickest way to sort this out would be to beat the crap out of him and force him to be her slave, she decided. She frowned to herself. Why did she keep thinking that?

She shook her head trying to clear away the strange thoughts.

"Hey Gohan, do you want to go to the movies with us tomorrow," asked Erasa suddenly. Videl whipped he head round. They were going to the movies tomorrow? And no one informed her?

Erasa noticed her staring.

"You're going too Videl."

Videl pouted at her but didn't say anything.

"I'd love too," said Gohan brightly from behind her. "But I'm busy tomorrow."

"Oh," said Erasa with a frown.

"But, if you're doing anything after that, then please invite me," Gohan said with an apologetic smile.

Erasa smiled back at him. "We will. Won't we Videl?"

Videl was caught out by the sudden question but didn't let it show.

"Sure," she said with a shrug off the shoulders.

"Well I don't mind just so long as I don't have to foot his food bill," said Sharpner, earning a blank stare from Gohan and a giggle from Erasa. Videl ignored his existence, pretending he'd never spoken.

They said goodbye to Gohan on the way back, as he had to head in a different direction to get back to Capsule Corp. The three friends watched him go then continued on their way.

"I've got to break of too," said Videl after a minute.

"Why?" asked Erasa, looking at Videl with an inquisitively raised eyebrow.

"Because someone suddenly sprung on me that we're going out tomorrow so I need to get some money." She said, shooting a glare at Erasa.

Erasa, having long since gotten used to Videl's glares, only giggled.

"Alright then, shoo," said Erasa with a giggle, making shooing motions with her hand.

Videl pouted at her friend's antics before she began walking down a different road without a word.

Videl withdrew money from the ATM machine just outside the bank. Like all teenage girls in movies she carried her father's card around. She quickly put the zennie in her wallet (Videl doesn't have a purse) which she then stuffed in her pocket. But when she turned around she noticed a large group of people moving into the bank. Two of them were holding bags and they all had their faces covered by masks. Suspicious much? How did they get through town without being arrested, looking like that?

Sure enough a minute after they entered the bank she heard screams from inside and yells from the would be robbers for all of them too shut up. She heard gunfire and the screaming stopped. If they'd shot someone there would be more screaming so that meant they'd shot in the air to get people's attention. Videl quickly pulled her phone out and called the police, informing them of what was happening. Next she quietly approached the door, taking a peek inside through the see through doors. All the people were on the floor with their hands on her head. The robbers were walking round pointing some seriously big guns at the people on the floor. The one that looked like the leader, because he was the one not doing anything yet, had his own gun slung round his shoulder and seemed to be issuing commands. She wandered if there was a way she could sneak inside without being seen. The sound of sirens interrupted her thoughts.

"Shit!" she thought. There's no way they'd let her go in. But then did she really want too. If the crooks just had pistols then maybe she could do something, but assault rifles and SMG's were a bit harder to deal with.

The cops were there seconds later and had dragged her away from the door. Eventually negotiations began. With a fat cop with a speaker phone yelling deals at the crooks inside the bank. Videl was getting annoyed. There had to be a quicker way. She wasn't entirely confident about taking out all the robbers, but they could always try calling her dad. He'd definitely do something. She hoped.

Videl was getting frustrated. Maybe she should do something after all. She'd just have to convince the police chief to let her. But before she could do anything a man brushed past her. She could only see him from behind, but he had something red tied round his neck and a long brown coat that fell down to his ankles.

'Just needs a Stetson,' thought Videl. The man simply ignored the police who didn't notice his presence until he'd stepped out and started approaching the bank.

"Hey you there, stop there is a robbery in progress!"

The new guy didn't seem to register what the police chief shouted, just ignored him in favour of going in the bank. The man grabbed the handle and strolled on in without a care in the world.

Videl expected to hear gunfire. She didn't. Maybe he was their ally.

One of the robbers was suddenly flung through the glass door screaming. He landed with a heavy thud at the fat cops feet.

The cops were in shock for a second before orders started to be issued. The fat cop was waving his hand with a pointing gesture and several cops closed in on the bank. They all stood to the side of the door, with the two in the lead peeping through the Brocken window.

"Robbers are all down," one of them screamed over. Suddenly all the police descended on the place.

Videl followed them without any of them seeming to notice. She stepped over the broken glass into the bank. The police seemed to be helping people up or cuffing the unconscious/groaning thugs. She looked around searching for the strange man who'd went in moments before. She spotted him at the counter, apparently demanding the scared lady behind the counter to serve him.

"I said I want you to put this in my vault!" he bellowed, slamming his hand down on a duffle bag he'd placed on the counter.

Videl carefully approached him, trying not to daw much attention to herself until she reached him.

"I'm sorry sir, but we're still in lockdown, and without the managers approval I can't do anything at the moment," the frightened girl said back. The man growled at her before turning to face the approaching Videl. It was the first good look she'd got of him. He looked about twenty, with shoulder length straight black hair. His eyes were pale blue and glaring down at her. He wore an orange bandanna around his neck over a black shirt and with his long brown coat. He wore tattered jeans with green socks and white sneakers.

"Hello," said Videl nervously.

"What do you want," asked the man, glaring at her.

"Erm, what happened?" Videl asked innocently, doing her best not to be intimidated by his glare.

"To what?" replied the man raising an eyebrow.

"Erm, the robbers?"

"Robbers?" questioning the man, looking round to see the crooks being carried off by the police. "Oh them, well they were really loud so I shut them up a bit," he replied casually.

Videl let her mouth hang open. Did the guy seriously not realise they were bank robbers. The police chief walked over to them, or waddled over depending on how you look at it.

"Well young man it seems we have you to thank for stopping these villains," the police chief said politely.

The man smiled at the chief, turning to face him.

"Looks that way. So how much do I get?"

The police chief gave him a confused stare.

"Excuse… me?"

"Well I stopped the robbers right. Surely I get a reward for that?"

The police chief didn't really seem to know what to say.

"Umm, well you'll get a medal of appreciation," he said with a bit of uncertainty.

The man lost his smile.

"What, that's it? Laaame. Alright I'm out of here."

He quickly picked up the duffle bag.

"I'll be back tomorrow," he said to the lady at the desk. Then he walked off out the bank. Videl frowned and ran after him.

"Hey, wait up," she yelled. He stopped about half way up the street and turned to face her. Videl stopped in front of him. She was still wearing her weighted clothes, but she was getting used to them. She still found herself a little out of breath though.

"How did you do that?" she asked once she'd caught her breath.

"Do what?" the man asked, feigning ignorance.

Videl growled at him.

"Beat up those robbers so quickly, before they could even fire at you."

"I punched them," he flat lined, earning him a glare from Videl.

"So you're a martial artist," she said with a puff. To her surprise the man laughed at her.

"Martial arts? Nah, I don't have time to waste on that bullshit. And practicing all those forms and techniques? Boooring. What I did was Violence, pure and simple. No martial arts kid."

Videl frowned. To her that didn't make any sense. You could only get good enough to fight off armed thugs through martial arts. Just being strong isn't going to cut it.

"Do you have a lot of fighting experience?" she tried, figuring that it might make more sense if he did.

"Not really," the man answered with a shrug of his shoulders. "Haven't found anyone fun to fight in years. Haven't really fought anyone since before Cell either."

"So you don't beat up large groups of robbers often?" Videl asked, hardly believing this man. Was she really supposed to believe someone that strong just… existed?

"That doesn't count as fighting," the man said back. "That was just a one sided beat down."

The man then turned round and continued walking, having apparently lost interest in her. Videl ran till she was next to him then kept pace.

"How did you get so strong then?" she asked, honestly curious despite his rude attitude.

"Born like it," the man replied, continuing to walk.

"How can you be born strong? No one's born strong. They have to build themselves up to it. Train and work hard."

"Well I've never done any of those things," the man said.

"Well you've got to have done something to get that strong," said Videl, not backing down.

Suddenly the man turned on her.

"Look kid, what I have or haven't done is none of your Business, now shut up and leave me a-,"

Suddenly he stopped talking. He was staring at her as if he'd just seen her for the first time. He tilted his head, and Videl felt herself shift uncomfortably under his gaze.

"What's that you got on under your shirt?" he asked.

Videl felt her cheeks flush.

"Erm, waited clothes," she said. She'd left her jacket undone, and a bit of blue could be seen peeking up under her shirt

The man seemed to regard her for a second. Then he grinned.

"I see," he said at last. "Well I've got to be on my way. Don't bother following me kid or I'll beat you into the ground too. See ya."

He turned round with a wave, heading round a corner. Videl fumed. How DARE he threaten her!

She quickly ran round the corner and stopped.

"Where'd he go," she said aloud. The street was empty but there wasn't anywhere he could have gone.

"Well I've got one clue on who he is."

He recognized Master Roshi's clothes. She'd have to ask the old pervert about it the next to he saw the geezer. She turned round and headed back the way she came, intent on finding out who the man was.

Up in the air Android Seventeen watched with a grin on his face as he watched the girl turn on her heels and head back. He'd been so bored lately.

'I think I'll have some fun with this girl.'

He gave a chuckle before disappearing, leaving the sky empty once more.

Yes, Seventeen makes an appearance. Just like every other teen Gohan story. But the question is, is he an ally or an enemy. Find out, at some later point. It's not going to be next chapter. But it might be the one after that. Nah, maybe the one after that. You know what I can't decide, but you'll find out eventually. It's come to my attention that 10 reviews seems a little too easy for you guys, so in an effort to get myself a day of, I've come up with a new proposal. Let's all try aiming for 14 reviews. Within hours of you guys managing that I solemnly swear I will update the next chapter. Unless I'm asleep, which does account for about 60% of my day. So you guys up to the challenge. Let's find out. R&R.