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Chapter 10
The day of the tournament had arrived, all of the z fighters were informed that some major shit might go down at it. In finding out that there was even one; some of them decided they too would join in the festivities of it.
It was still early in the morning. Chichi woke up her sons, "you two have to get up and get ready for the tournament now!" she said eagerly.
Slowly they got up and did the morning things that they had to do. After they ate Gohan got into his disguise; it had black boots with red lining, baggy black gi pants, a red sash, black gi top with long sleeve under shirt, a red cloth sort of like a turban on his head, and red wrist bands. To top it all off he was super so his eyes were a different color too. When he went downstairs to leave Chichi looked at him surprised.
"Is that what you're wearing?" she said still looking his disguise over.
"Yes, I think it should hide my identity pretty well. No one should suspect a thing."
"Right well we should be going; we have a long drive ahead of us." They got in the car and started off for their long journey. So Gohan had time to think of a name, so it wasn't completely ridiculous not being the first thing that came to his mind.
Despite how early they left they still only got there an hour before it started. Right when he got out of the car Gohan felt an unnerving presence there. It didn't really feel evil or unwelcoming, just unfriendly he figured it was just Vegeta so he shrugged it off. 'I can't forget what dad said though still.' He went to go look for the registration table.
"Hello, I would like to sign up for the tournament" he greeted the person at the registration table.
"Alright, you'll need to fill these out then. When you're done doing that you can go ahead and go into the waiting area with the rest of the already signed in fighters" the person said as he handed Gohan the papers.
"Thanks", he said as he gave the person back the papers.
When he entered the waiting space, there were already quite a few fighters in there and amongst them was Videl who looked like she was looking for something or someone. 'There's no way that she'll be able to know it's me.' Amongst her searching her eyes came across him, she glared at him for a moment but continued on. 'Phew the last thing I would need would be for her to blow my cover. Now I just have to hope that Goten wont.'
Recognizing his ki Krillin came over to him "hey I haven't noticed anyone that would pose as a threat yet", Krillin said to him.
"Well, they might not come here but remember just be on your guard for something. When I got here though I felt something unfriendly."
Krillin nodded "it might have been Vegeta", he paused and looked at Gohan, "it that really what you're wearing bro?"
He rolled his eyes, annoyed that he kept getting asked that "yes it is, you didn't know it was me by looking at me did you?"
"well no…"
"Alright then", was all he said and walked away. He didn't want to get angry before the tournament even started. The only thing that he pretty much only wanted to think about was whether or not he would remember his name by the time they start the qualifying rounds.
He was getting a few looks from people, he couldn't tell if they were good or bad but it still irked him. And it wasn't until one individual dressed similar to him, but with green where the red was bumped into him that he got completely unnerved. Not only did it seem intentional since there was plenty of room around him, but the person glared at him something fierce.
'Alright dad, you have to tell me something more about who or what this threat is!' he yelled in his mind not really expecting an answer either. The person that ran into him looked back at him and glared again, before he turned the corner. It was then that he noticed that person even had the same colored eyes as him. 'What the fuck is going on here? We're dressed alike and have the same eye color and if I'm not mistaken we even are the same height. Dad talk to me seriously, now would be good thanx!'
"Gohan!" Goten shouted and ran over to him. Gohan jumped not paying attention to what was going on around him, also not expecting to hear his name.
"Shh! You can't call me that, I'm incognito remember? Anyway what is it?"
Goten tilted his head at the word incognito, "I thought that I was just talking to you, but then I realized that you weren't wearing green. That's not all he sounded like you but he was a real jerk."
Gohan's heart skipped a beat that, now he was really on edge "I told you to be aware here, from now on don't talk to anyone unless you're fighting them or recognize their ki alright?"
Goten nodded, "right! Will do… umm what do I call you anyways?"
"Call me bob."
Goten raised his eyebrows, "Bob? I liked Saiyaman better" he walked away shaking his head and went to get a snack.
Minutes passed and they had to draw numbers to see who would go against, and when.
"Alright… the preliminaries will begin now!" one of the monks announced.
The first to competitors walked up to the ring and one of them was the guy who was dressed like Gohan. Before they began their matched he glared at Gohan again. 'what's with this guy? And why am I actually getting afraid of him?'
"Fighters 1 and 2 begin!" the first fighter charged the person dressed like Gohan, in the blink of an eye though he leveled his opponent. Everyone gasped not knowing how he did it, but the poor guy was lying on the mat unconscious. "Fighter 2 advances!" before he got off the ring he gave Gohan an evil smirk.
That person was so bothersome to Gohan and unnerving that he had to tell the other guys to beware of him. The attention that he was giving him was so unnatural it was like he knew who Gohan was. The only ones the knew though were ones that could recognize his ki, and he didn't know this guys so it was safe to say that he didn't know him. 'Any help up there? Any at all would be great!' he yelled in his head again trying to get some answers from the only people who might know something, but they weren't responding to him.
"Hey you!" he was thrown from his thoughts and turned around to be faced with no other than Videl.
"Me?" he said while pointing at himself, it caused her to glare at him.
"Yes you, you wouldn't happen to know a Gohan would you?" she asked in a knowing tone. He jumped a little surprised that she would ask that and shook his head. She rolled her eyes "right well someone told me that I should ask you where he is. Any ideas?"
He laughed nervously "no of course not, I don't even know who that is", luckily his number was called so he had to go fight someone.
'It has to be him why else would someone say that? well I'm gonna watch him fight then I'll know.' She thought while watching the fight. Once again as soon as it started it was over and she approached him once he got down. "alright drop the act, I know it's you Gohan."
"Shh, you can't say that, fine it's me. But who told you?"
She shrugged, "I don't know who it was, I thought it was you, he even sounded like you. He told me that you were you though."
His eyes almost shot out of his head at that. 'how could he possibly know who I am?' "Are you sure about that Videl? Are you sure that he didn't mean someone else and you just guest me?"
She rolled her eyes "he definitely meant you; he said the person dressed like me. Why can't I know who you are I won't tell anyone."
"What the hell? I guess it's alright that you know. From now on though call me Bob."
She looked at him like he was crazy, "Bob?"
He sighed, "yes Bob."
"You couldn't think of anything better than that?"
He was getting a bit pissed now, "don't you have to go fight now or something?"
She smirked, "why yes Bob I do", she walked to the ring laughing at the name he chose.
'God what a bitch.'
'Gohan watch your mouth!' he jumped at the voice that intruded his mind and then got annoyed with it.
'Sure now you decide to show up; and I didn't say anything I thought it.' He waited for a response and got nothing. 'Well isn't that just nice, stop spying on my mind if you're not going to help me!' he felt crazy yelling at his head, but he felt that is had to be done at that moment.
Besides the odd occurrences with the mystery person the preliminaries were going nice. Everyone was advancing not having to fight each other yet, which meant that there would be problems in the finals potentially. Chichi was expecting him to win after all, luckily they had two chances at the finals though with Goten advancing as well; but the mystery person was also advancing irking Gohan even more. Though there was something vaguely familiar about his presence more and more as the fighting went on, but no one could put there finger on it.
They also started to feel that he was also friendly, which was odd since he wasn't nice to well anyone. Because of this they figured that he wasn't the threat that they were warned about; but they weren't going to just void him off completely; it was mainly because of his unhealthy interest in Gohan.
