Far From Perfect!

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Chapter 6 - Shopping!

The sun shone through the double doors of Gohan's balcony waking him up. It was late April and the weather was getting warmer by the second. It had been two and a half weeks since Bulma's business party. Trunks' birthday had come and gone, his big party had been cancelled due to the events before it.

Gohan's eyes flickered open as the sun reached his eyes. Mumbling a stream of curses, Gohan got out of bed and made his way over to the balcony doors to pull down the curtains. Gohan then headed downstairs for breakfast.

"Morning Gohan," Bulma greeted as she placed several plates of 'food' on the breakfast table for herself and her sayian company.

"Morning Bulma, morning Vegeta," Gohan replied as he sat down at the table.

"Brat," Vegeta greeted.

"How's the food?" Bulma asked expectantly.

"Oh..um..it's great," Gohan replied trying his best not to gag.

"Be honest brat, it's disgusting," Vegeta mentioned in between bites.

"Grr, don't be so RUDE Vegeta, I don't see you cooking any better," Bulma yelled now standing up.

"Whatever," He replied as he got out of his seat and went to the gravity room to train," I will expect you to be in the GR in ten minutes brat!"

"Sorry Vegeta, but he's going to be busy today, you'll have to play tomorrow!" Bulma replied sitting back down to her 'meal'.

"I am?" Gohan questioned.

"Yep, I'm taking you, Goten and Trunks on a shopping spree!" Bulma stated getting excited.

"Yes...well... I expect you to be in the GR as soon as you get back!" Vegeta announced as he walked out of the room.

"Shopping spree huh," Gohan said.

"You bet, you need new clothes, and I'm the best when it comes to shopping. Plus Goten is outgrowing all his clothes, so is Trunks for that matter. You can help me get Goten and Trunks clothes too if you want," Bulma stated as she called a cleaning bot to clear the table.

"Speaking of Goten and Trunks, where are they?" Gohan asked looking around.

"Oh, I already fed them, they're watching T.V. in the lounge," Bulma answered.

" Now you go get changed and I'll get the chibi's ready and I'll meet you here in ten" Bulma said as she went to find Goten and Trunks.

"Deal," Gohan agreed.

So Gohan headed straight up to his room and got into more clothes than his boxers. It was a Saturday, so the shops were going to be packed full of people. Hopefully they could just hop in, get their clothes and hop out. He doubted it would be that easy though.

*~~~~Ten minutes later, in the lounge! ~~~~~*

"Ready?" Gohan called.

"You bet, if we go nice and early we might be able to beat most of the crowd," Bulma said picking up Goten as they walked out the door.

"Most?" Gohan replied.

"Gohan!" Trunks said running up to Gohan as fast as his little legs would carry him.

"How's my favourite guy today?" Gohan asked as he picked up Trunks and spun him in the air.

Trunks was laughing like no tomorrow all the way to the car as Gohan spun him around and threw him up into the air.

"Um...we're taking a car?" Gohan asked shocked.

"Gohan, trust me, you'll be glad we brought a car once we're done shopping," Bulma stated getting into the drivers seat.

"If you say so," Gohan replied unsurely as he buckled Trunks in next to Goten in the back seat.

Gohan got into the front seat, and they sped of down the road to the Shoperama,(does it get any lamer ^-;) the biggest shopping complex in all of west city.

The trip there was a disaster. Goten was screaming the entire way, and Trunks was blocking his ears singing 99 bags of sugar on the wall. Not to mention Gohan was fighting with Bulma over the radio station all the way there. By the time they decided on nova 93.7 ( It's a real station in Perth W.A. where I live) they were already there.

When they finally got to the shoperama it took them over an hour to find a car park, when they finally did, it was miles away from the entrance. Apart from that and the above mentioned things, the day was going just great.

"Still glad we took the car?" Gohan asked.

"Don't be a smart ass," Bulma replied as she helped the chibi's out of the car.

"Come on, let's just get this over with," Gohan said as he walked towards the shopping centre holding Trunks' hand as he walked.

"Trunks has taken a real shine to you ever since you moved in," Bulma stated joining Gohan with Goten in her arms.

"Yeah, I'll say, he use to be friendly to me but not like this," Gohan replied.

"I've never seen him grow so attached to anybody," she stated.

"I should feel pretty lucky then," Gohan answered.

"You bet," Bulma said as they walked into the shopping centre.

"Oh, come on let's go in here!" Bulma said as she rushed into the nearest clothes store.

" This is gonna be a long day," Gohan told Trunks.

Trunks just laughed at Gohan and put his arms up to be carried. They, Gohan, Trunks, Goten and Bulma, walked around the shops for about an hour, before Trunks decided it was time for a rest.

"Mummy?" Trunks asked.

"What is it honey?" Bulma replied looking over at Trunks.

"I'm hungry," he stated.

"Oh alright, I suppose we can stop for a drink and morning tea," Bulma stated as they found a cafe to stop at.

"How about there?" Gohan asked.

"Alright, why not," Bulma stated as they all walked in, well all except Goten who was now being carried by Gohan.

"Would you like to follow me m'am, and I'll find you and you sons a seat?" The waiter asked.

"Sure, but um. there not my-"Bulma started.

"Will this table do?" the waiter interrupted.

"It's will be fine, but can we get a high chair if that's possible?" Bulma asked as Gohan sat down with Trunks on his lap.

"Sure thing m'am," he replied as he went to fetch a high chair.

"So, how much longer is this going to take!" Gohan whinned.

"Geez, your just as bad as Vegeta! We've only just began I'd give it another two hours at least," Bulma stated placing Goten in the highchair.

"How wong is dat Gohan," Trunks asked.

"Too long!" he replied.

"Oh stop complaining, or I won't buy you any gi's!" Bulma threatened.

"I'm sorry," Gohan apologised.

"That's better!" Bulma said before she turned to the waiter and order a round of drinks and food.

After they finished their morning tea, they went back out into the war zone, and continued to look for clothes. They went into a 'lot' of stores, buying several items from most stores.

They were making there way through the hordes of people, when they heard a bunch of giggles from behind them. Bulma ignored it, thinking it was just a couple of young kids playing chasey or something.

Gohan, however was more curious and turned around to see what it was. When he turned around all he saw was a bunch of girls around his age talking to themselves, but no giggling. So he turned back around, only to here the giggling again. He turned back really quick to see what it was, but again when he turned it stoped.

Bulma, seeing Gohan's troubles turned around to see what the giggling was all about, only to find the same bunch of girls, giggling and talking about how cute some guy was. Thinking nothing of it she turned back around, and dragged Gohan into another clothes store.

"Alright, I let you look here, and I'll be over there looking for clothes for Goten and Trunks," Bulma said as she walked away into another shop.

Gohan sighed out of boredom, and started flicking through the rack of clothes. He pulled out a pair of baggy Fubu jeans, and a sleeveless white rip curl shirt.

" That's really nice, I'll bet you'll look really hot in it," came a girls voice from behind him.

He turned around to see who it was, only to see it was one of the girls from outside the store. The rest of the girls were a couple of metres away pretending to look at bathers.

"I beg you pardon?" Gohan replied, "Hey, your one of the giggling girls."

"Um..yeah I guess you could say that, and I said I'll bet you'll look really hot in that outfit," the girl repeated," I'm Sarah, it's nice to meet you."

"Okay, I'll just go and look at these clothes over here now," Gohan replied as he walked away.

"Oh, um...I'll join you," Sarah stated following Gohan.

"No! I mean, no that's okay I'll be fine by myself," Gohan corrected himself.

"Oh, well, here's my number why don't you call me sometime?" Sarah asked nervously as she wrote down her number on a piece of paper.

"Yeah sure," Gohan replied putting the number in his pocket.

"Oh, I never got your name," she said.

"It's Gohan," he answered.

"Well, it was nice meeting you, call me. Oh yeah and definitely buy those clothes!" Sarah replied as she walked back over to her friends and they walked away.

Gohan was slightly shocked to say the least. A girl he had never met before, came up to him, called him hot, then gave him her number and she didn't even know his name. He could get use to that!

She was cute he'd give her that, medium length brown hair and blue eyes. She was slightly above average height, only slightly shorter than him. Hey, you never know, maybe he would call her. He 'would' however definitely buy the rip curl top and fubu jeans.

"Hey, Gohan how did you go? See anything you like?" Bulma asked.

"Yeah. I was thinking these jeans and this top. What do you think?" Gohan replied.

"Yeah, nice. Is that all you like from this store?" Bulma answered.

"Welll..." Gohan replied.

"Should I get out the gold card, or the platinum?" Bulma asked jokingly.

" He he he, the gold will do just fine," Gohan answered as he showed Bulma all the clothes he wanted plus shoes and bathers.

"Gohan, your just as bad as me when it comes to shopping!" Bulma laughed.

"I'll take that as a compliment!" Gohan replied.

"Take it however you want," she stated.

They continued shopping for a further three hours, including lunch and resting breaks. Trunks and Goten both fell asleep after two hours of shopping, and were being carried into a range of different shops, from clothes shops to C.D. shops.

"Well, after many hours of war, I think we are finally ready to go home!" Bulma stated as she capsulated her latest ten shopping bags.

"'Bout time too!" Gohan complained.

"Oh don't be like that, it wasn't that bad and you enjoyed it anyway. When we get home you can rest and lay around for the rest of the evening!" Bulma said as they made their way back to the car.

"I wish, I have to meet Vegeta in the G.R. as soon as we get back, and I doubt he wants to have a tea party!" Gohan whined.

" He probably forgot about it anywayz," Bulma replied getting into the car after buckling in the sleeping Goten and Trunks.

"I highly doubt that," Gohan said as he put his head up against the window and closed his eyes. It didn't take long before he joined Goten and Trunks in their nap.

"Poor kid, he's exhausted. He's been such a big help with Trunks and getting over everything that's happened and all, not to mention all the shopping. It did him good to get out though," Bulma thought out loud.

Bulma had pulled out of the Shoperama, when three loud snores we heard through out the car.

"Figures," Bulma stated as she put on the radio so she couldn't here the three sets of snores.

It was a quiet ride home apart from the constant snores from three of the four corners of the car. Bulma pulled into the capsule corp driveway about ten minutes later. When Bulma got to the end of her kilometre long driveway, she noticed a familiar car. Yamcha's car.

"I wonder what he's doing here?" Bulma pondered.

Not wanting to wake up the sleeping sayians, she left them in the car while she went in. The gates were locked, and they had top security, so it wasn't a worry about leaving the toddlers in the car with only a sleeping teen.

When she walked into the lounge she noticed that not only was Yamcha here but so was Krillin and a pregnant Eighteen.

"Hi guys, what brings you here?" Bulma asked.

"Oh we thought you might be home, we wanted to see if we could stay for dinner and catch up. You know, she how Gohan's doing and all. Where is he anyway?" Krillin explained.

"He's asleep in the car," Bulma stated as she placed about twenty full capsules on the counter.

"Why's he asleep, and what's in the capsules?" Yamcha asked.

"He feel asleep with Goten and Trunks when we were driving home from the shoperama, and clothes, shoes, C.D's, more clothes, and toys for Goten and Trunks are in the capsules," Bulma explained.

"Oh, well that explains why Gohan fell asleep," Yamcha announced laughing.

"Where's the brat!" Vegeta demanded announcing his presence.

"He's asleep in the car," Bulma repeated as she rolled her eyes.

"What! A sayain, half breed or not does NOT fall asleep in this 'car' you speak of like some weakling human!" Vegeta yelled as he made his way out to the car.

"BRAT!" Vegeta yelled but didn't get a response.

"Grrr BRAT!!" Vegeta yelled even louder... still no response.

"BRAT!!! WAKE THE **** UP!!!" Vegeta yelled even louder than before but still didn't get a response.

Having enough of yelling, Vegeta unbuckled Gohan seatbelt and carried him up to the door. Just as he reached the door however, he remembered the other two 'brats'.

He walked back over to the car and placed the sleeping chibi's on top of Gohan and carried them all inside. When he got to the lounge he dumped the three sleeping demi sayains on the floor in front of Krillin's feet.

"Call me when the brat wakes up!" Vegeta demanded as he walked back to the G.R.

"Who's the 'brat'?" Yamcha asked.

"'The brat' is Gohan, he doesn't even mention Goten and Trunks. Well sometimes he calls Trunks 'my brat' but he's never really talked to Goten before," Bulma explained.

"Did you want me to carry Gohan to his room?" Krillin asked.

"Would you?" Bulma asked.

"Sure, lead the way," Krillin said as he picked up Gohan.

Bulma walked up to the pile of demis and picked up Goten and Trunks. They placed both of the chibi's into there beds, then made their way to Gohan's room.

"So how's Gohan doing?" Krillin asked Bulma, worried about his friend.

"He's doing pretty well considering. He took it pretty hard when Chi-Chi chose to stay in the otherworld over coming back to him and Goten. I think he felt more sorry for himself then angry at Chi-Chi, I can't say he isn't angry at Goku though. I recon he blames Goku for Chi-Chi's staying in the otherworld," Bulma explained.

"Poor guy, I hope he's okay. It's hard to know what to think about the situation. From our view, Goku did something really noble and is a hero that we all look up to. From Gohan point of view, Goku was a hopeless father, who chose to stay alone in the otherworld than to be with him. To make matters worst to Gohan, Goku stole his mother too. It's hard to know what to think, and who to blame," Krillin reasoned as he placed Gohan on his bed and looked at his sleeping form.

"I think it's as simple as Goku was a hero and champion fight, but a terrible father and husband," Bulma announced.

"Yeah, I guess your right," Krillin said as they walked out of the room.

They made there way back to Yamcha and Eighteen, talking about all sorts of things, mainly about Krillin and Eighteen's soon to be baby. When they made it back to the pair, they all sat around and talked for hours, before they all decided it was time for dinner.

Just as Bulma was about to head upstairs to get Gohan and the chibi's, they came around the corner. Gohan was wiping the sleep out of his eyes, when he noticed the visitors.

"Good of you to wake up Gohan," Krillin laughed.

"How long was I asleep?" Gohan asked.

"I'd say a good three and a half hours," Yamcha answered.

"Shopping with Bulma will do that to you," Krillin joked.

"Oh, very funny," Bulma stated sarcastically.

"I was just about to wake you, dinners ready," Bulma continued.

"Dinner!" Trunks announced.

They all sat in the dinning room, eating there tons of food set on the table. Everybody was casually chatting amongst themselves. Then suddenly the subject changed to a subject that caught Gohan's attention.

"So, I think we should pay our respects to Goku and his heroism by building a monument for him. The anniversary of his death is coming up and all," Yamcha suggested.

Suddenly the conversation stopped when the sound of glass shattering was heard. They looked at what was a vase five seconds ago shocked to find it was now in hundreds of pieces.

"What the hell just happened?" Yamcha asked.

"I don't know?" Bulma asked as she grabbed onto Vegeta.

"Get off me woman! I bet it was the brat, I felt his ki spike," Vegeta accused.

"It couldn't have been one of us, we would have sensed a ki blast," Krillin stated.

"Oh well, never mind I'll just get a bot to clean up the mess. Where were we?" Bulma asked.

"Oh, um, we were talking about the anniversary of Goku's noble decision and building a monument," Yamcha reminded," So don't you guys think it's a great idea, it gives Goku the recognition he deserves."

Just as Yamcha finished talking, all the glass in the room shattered and a large crack was heard from above. Suddenly another crack was heard and everybody looked up, only to see the grand chandelier shatter into pieces and fall onto the $50 000 dinning table.

Luckily everybody was fast enough to move out of the way, except for Gohan who hadn't moved an inch since Yamcha's little speech. They could see Gohan sitting under the mountain of broken glass, still not moving an inch.

"GOHAN!!!" Bulma yelled.

Suddenly the glass began to levitate in the air as a 'very' bloody Gohan glowed a fierce firey red, but still Gohan didn't move. The strange thing about Gohan's transformation however was that his ki never changed, it didn't get higher, it didn't lower, hell it didn't even spike!

Then just as suddenly as everything happened, the glow around Gohan disappeared and he collapsed onto the floor and onto the pile of glass worth over $10 000 000.

"GOHAN!!! OH MY GOD IS HE OKAY?" Bulma screamed as she ran over to him.

"He seems fine, it looks like he just passed out," Krillin stated.

"Do you think it was him that made all the glass shatter and the chandelier to smash?" Yamcha asked.

"Don't be stupid, of course it wasn't. His ki didn't even change, only that once when you mentioned Goku being a hero and how courageous he was. What are you crazy the poor boy was sitting right there!" Krillin yelled.

"Guys, now isn't the time. Get him to the emergency ward right NOW!!" Bulma demanded as Vegeta picked up Gohan, after dusting of all the glass, and carried him to the emergency ward.

They all rushed to the emergency ward, and after an hour of waiting for answers on how Gohan was, they finally got them.

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Ohhh, cliffy!!! I updated real quick, did ya notice huh huh?!?!?!?!?!?!? I like how this chapter turned out, and you'll hear more from Sarah later. Will Gohan be okay? And what's this about all the shattering glass and mysterious transformations!!! Everyones at the emergency ward wanting answers, but will they get them?!?!?!

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P.S. 12 PAGES!!!! Maybe even more next chapter!!

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