Author's Note:

I am too tired to even type. Alright, I decided not to put any spoiler at the end of each chapter. It's too distracting even for myself. Thanks for the reviews by the way. :)


Chapter 9: Those kids… who are they?!

Two days passed in the blink of an eye. At the current Earth, the squirts still need to attend school despite Gohan's death.

Both of them attended the same school but in different grades and class since Trunks was older. Half-way through, the small version of Goku couldn't take the boring class anymore and decided to escape. Despite not able to fly, skipping lesson was easy for him since he can hid is presence well enough. Unfortunately, he was about to step out of the school, the older Saiyan landed in front of him and caught him in the act, smirking at his friend. "Yo! Where do you think you're going, brat?" he followed his father's famous tone."

Goten pointed back. "And where do you think you're going along with your bag too, Trunks?"

Both of them laughed in unison as they have planned to skip school together. Since they already had skipped lessons, they went to a nearby shopping mall for a walk.

While on the way, Trunks suddenly talked. "Hey Goten, wanna go check out that chick that Krillin told us about?"

"You mean Brother's girlfriend?"

"Idiot! Didn't you listen properly? Gohan being the Golden-haired warrior which is the Super Saiyan form is a secret and that girl doesn't know about it. Gohan doesn't want her to know it too. So you have to refer Golden-haired warrior as the boyfriend of that girl, not Gohan!"

"Sounds confusing!" Goten responded and frowned. "Why does he want to hide his identity anyway?"

Trunks slapped his forehead and sighed. He always knew that Goten is a slow learner, well, more like slow in almost everything which seemed to passed down from Goku – a personality that seemed so innocent and naïve. "Arg nevermind! Krillin told us to watch over her since it was Gohan's last request before he died. Now that Krillin is out of space, we'll have to take over him. And for goodness sake, please remember about this. You must never expose that we're related to the 'Golden-haired warrior' and neither of us can we transform in front of her, understood?"

The chibi smiled. "Okay!" For once, he looked like he understood his best friend's words. "I just have to pretend I'm Son Gohan's younger brother right?" He said excitedly and paused. "Huh? But I am Son Gohan's bother!"

"…" Trunks gave up in explaining. Now he has to make the plan goes smoothly. That is if Goten doesn't make stupid careless mistakes.

"Okay." Said Trunks. "Our mission is to watch over her and protect that girl in replace of Gohan. But first, we need to gather information about her! Knowing that she is the daughter of Mr. Satan is not enough."

Goten widened in shock as if this was the first time he had heard of it. "Eh?! She is the daughter of that famous champion?!"

Trunks stared and widened shock. How can his friend be this foolish? But it's more like Goten doesn't focus things around him even if he has been told once. He seemed to have a bit of problem in learning things. Trunks had a feeling of worried. Did Goten even listen to the whole story which Krillin had told the both of them?

...

"Trunks, why are we at Orange High School?" Goten asked dumbly as Trunks finally couldn't take it and smacked his head. "Ouch!"

"How dumb can you be?! Your stupidity and dumbness are making me insane! At least remember what we are doing! Since that girl happens to be classmate of Gohan, we can observe her from school!"

Still rubbing his head, Goten replied with a tone of sadness. "But now he is dead. He didn't even attend school. Won't that girl suspect anything?" Now he finally said something sensible.

"Hmm…" Trunks had a thought. "We'll just observe her first. Let's see what she'll do."

And so, the squirts waited at the school gate for about an hour until the bell for the break time chimed. "Okay! Let's sneak in!"

"Eh?!" Goten shrieked. "But we're kids!"

"Idiot! I thought of an excuse so don't worry!"

After he assured his friend, both of them sneaked in. Honestly, they have no idea who Videl is but they did know how she looked like. "Krillin said her ki may be small but it's higher than most people in the city. We'll just have to find the highest ki, got it?"

Goten nodded.

They passed by the basketball gym and soccer field but ignored the students who seemed to notice about them. "Trunks, they're staring at us!"

"Ignore them. Just look for the girl." He ordered.

It wasn't long before the kids sensed a ki that was slightly higher than most people in the school which was at the second level. "Let's go Goten!" said trunks as he flies up.

"Ahhhh! Not fair!" Goten pointed upwards. "I can't fly yet!"

Slapping his forehead again, he pulled his friend up with him and went through the window, landing their feet on the second level. "Gee, Goten. You need to learn how to fly soon."

They walked around the second level and slowly followed where the highest ki was but just as they were about to reach to a classroom, a man blocked their way and stopped them. "Hey! Why are two kids here? Both of you are not allowed in this school!"

Both of them stared up at the old man who seemed to stare at them dangerously. But Trunks managed to reply. "Uh… my cousin forgot to bring her lunchbox and I came here to pass it to her!"

The man who seemed to be a teacher, fixed his specs up and lowered down at the kids. "Where is the lunchbox then?"

Crap. Thought Trunks. "Uh…" he rolled his eyes everywhere. "I accidentally ate it on my way so I cam here to inform her about it and wan to apologize for eating her lunch!" It was a last minute idea while his friend hide behind him.

But he didn't took his words. "I don't believe you. Now both of you, come with me to the office!" He grabbed Trunks and Goten by their collar of their shirt and trying to pull them with him but they refused and retreated back away. "Why you two!"

"What's going on?" a voice broke in as the kids smiled in relieved.

Goten! It's her! Said Trunks through telepathy.

"These two kids are here with a suspicious reason!"

Trunks took the chance and cut in and hold tight of Videl's hand, surprising her as she stared down. "Ahhhh! Videl! My most gorgeous and caring cousin in the world! I'm so sorry I ate your lunchbox!" He cried with a kid tone.

Videl blinked and stared down at the kid whom she has never met before.

"So your cousin is Videl?! Then I supposed it's alright!" The man slowly retreated away and left.

Videl couldn't stop him from leaving. Her eyes stared down as Trunks released her hand. "Okay kid, since when do I have a cousin with lavender hair and…" she paused and stared at the boy hiding behind him. "Huh? I swear that I've seen that face of yours before." But she snapped off quick. "Who are you two? Why are you both here?"

Trunks smiled back. "We're here to inform that Gohan will be taking temporary leave in school because he got something up!"

Goten stared at his friend in shock as he had no idea about that. Well, it was a good answer anyway.

"Gohan?" she raised a brow. "Oh I see… that explains why he hasn't been in school. But why does he need to send two kids just to inform this?"

"Brother…" Goten sobbed. "He couldn't come…" Goten slowly recalled about Gohan's death. "Brother… couldn't come… because he…" He was nearly crying.

Trunks noticed that and thought his friend might leak out. He wrapped his arm around his friend's neck and another hand covered his mouth. "Gohan has an urgent meeting with his great-grand father who lives VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY FAR away from here and that's why he had to miss school!" It was another last minute thought since Goten almost lost his control when speaking about Gohan.

She didn't like how the purple-haired kid to use violent against his friend and removed his hand from Goten. She lowered and squatted down to Goten's level and observed him. "You're Gohan's brother? No wonder you look familiar. Why do you sound so sad?" Hmm… he does look like Gohan. But… somehow… he looks more like someone else… a kid I've seen somewhere. I can't put it to words yet…

"Brother… couldn't come…" Goten continued sobbing when he noticed Trunk's 'I'LL KILL YOU IF YOU KEEP ON CRYING' stare. "Ah yeah! He couldn't attend school so I feel very sad! WAHHHHH!"

Trunks almost slipped after seeing his friend having such lousy acting skills.

Aww… he looks so cute! "You don't have to cry like that!" she felt sorry for him. "If he can't come then it's alright. He has perfect scores anyway so it's okay if he missed schools for some time."

"That's all!" said Trunks as he grabbed Goten's arm. "We have to go back home now! Or else our Moms will kill us!"

"Alright…" she stands up and blinked.

When the two kids disappeared from her sight, she narrowed her eyes suspiciously about the kids. Forget about Trunks. That younger boy who looks a bit like Gohan reminds her for someone. Yes. There was someone who looks EXACTLY like him! That weird unique hairstyle and face is like the splitting image! But… where? She was sure she had seen this boy someone quite a longtime ago. But it couldn't be right?

"Atchoooooo!" Goku sneezed and pulled himself back in air from Gohan. Gohan paused in surprised and laughed at his father who just sneezed! Now that the teen think about it, will dead people sneeze?

"Dad… are you okay?"

"Hmmm… yeah." He rubbed his nose. "I don't think I sneeze often but if I were to count, it's the second time since I died. Did someone just say something about me?!"

...

The school bell rang as Videl was about to leave when she passed by a group of people gossiping. It was never her interest to do that but something caught her attention.

"I saw it! Those two kids came here around break time! I saw that kid with purple hair pulled the other boy and fly up to the second floor!"

Videl quickly stepped into the conversation. "What? Did you just say that the purple-haired kid fly up with another boy?"

"Yeah. We saw it together!" Another one replied.

She felt something just sunk her heart down as she heard that. One of the kids can fly? No how can this be? This is crazy! Why are more strange people popping out with the ability to levitate?! Not only the people from Cell games, the Golden-haired warrior admitted he was one of the people, now another two kids came from nowhere and one of them can fly! Don't tell me that kid has something to do with him?

...

Deep in the Universe, the monster who killed Gohan landed on a planet called Yewkil, along with the Dragon Balls that were floating around him. He landed on the planet that seemed to have no gravity like Earth. After making sure there was no life-force on the planet, he felt safe and blasted on the ground, creating a hole fit enough to fill in about 10 people. Using a finger, he used his physic power and floated one Namek and one Earth Dragon Ball into the hole, sealing it by using a part of his body to form into clay. To the monster, though it was not a necessary to go to this point of having games with the group but as what Dende and King Kai had predicted, this monster seemed to afraid of surprises. "Saiyans are dangerous creatures. I must beware of every risk that may arise whether if he is Son Goku or Son Gohan."

Flying all the way to different planets and hide the Dragon Balls was his plan. One reason was to make it not possible to find it easily like how the group tries to search it on Earth. Next, he will have more time to device his next plan while the group spend their time searching for the Balls. The third reason seemed to be the critical reason. He can't destroy the Balls. When he recalled back how he stolen the Namek Dragon Balls before he attack Gohan, he tried to use the Balls to have a wish but he failed as he had no clue how to use it. He sensed that Freeze might known about something but the memories he holds only include Cell. The only thing he inherited from Freeza was his cells and not memories. The option was left with having the group to get the Dragon Balls and find out the password.

After he had hidden the Balls, he took the rest with him to another planet.

...

On the other hand, at the spaceship, Krillin was still holding onto the Dragon Rador, staring it and hope that the Rador can sense the Balls. Now, it has been two days since they left but there was still no detection of any of the Dragon Balls.

Vegeta, being impatient for the past two days, wanted to end this journey as fast as possible. "How long are we going to find those balls?!"

"Be patient…" said Krillin. "Searching the Dragon Balls on Earth wasn't easy already so don't expect searching in the space is going to be any easier."

"Tch!" Vegeta growled. "Can't this spaceship go any faster?! I fly even faster than it!" he snorted.

"That is if you can survive in the space, my prince." Said Krillin in a matter-of-fact tone. "Piccolo is doing fine over there. Learn from him."

"I don't need you to tell me that!"

Sadly, he failed to realize that Piccolo was only hiding his inner emotions. He has been floating in a sititng position alone at the corner with his eyes close. Frankly, he was as impatient as Vegeta.

"Yayayayayayayayayaaaaaaahhhhh!"

"Gohan! You improved but not there yet!" Goku blocked all of his son's attack away.

Gohan continued his attacks. "I know! It's been about a week and I don't think I have reached to the standard yet."

Goku caught Gohan's fist and stopped the fight. "Okay, let's stop now. I'll teach you something else."

Both of them descended as Gohan wondered what technique his father is going to teach him. He had already learned Kamehameha so he was thinking that his father might teach him the Kaioken or Genki Dama whom he learned from King Kai. Unfortunately, he forgot another technique his father had. "I'll teach you the Instant Transmission Movement."

Gohan had always been interested in that technique as he smiled in pleased.

"This technique is a very useful technique and can help your battle a lot if you are able to use it efficiently. Honestly, it's better than to use the Kaioken or Genki Dama."

"OI GOKU! Don't forget who taught you those two techniques!" King Kai, who heard that, was definitely unpleased. He was at the corner but his ears were pretty sharp.

"Sorry." Said Goku. "But using this technique is less risky and more convenient for Gohan to use. Using Kaioken too much can harm the body and Genki Dama uses too much time to create one and leave a hole for the enemy take advantage of. That's why I think this is the best technique for Gohan. Besides, we don't have time to learn those dangerous techniques."

King Kai was left speechless since Goku has a point.

"Gohan, listen carefully. It took me a year to complete the technique but I believe that you will be able to learn it quicker than I do."

Gohan, who heard that, felt anxious about it. "You took a year and that's too long. If it needs that long, how can I learn it in time?!"

Goku corrected back. "You're wrong. The aliens from Yardrats only taught me the basics but did not teach me how to apply and control it. They have rules that they have to learn everything by themselves and I am not exception. That's why it was difficult for me and I had take half year to apply and half a way to complete. But since I'm going to be teaching you with what I know, this means I'll be guiding you everything and thus, you won't need that long to learn."

A filled of hope lit up in him. "Really? Then let's start right away!"

BEEP BEEP BEEP

The Dragon Radar finally had sound emitting out. Krillin was surprised and got panic. "G-Guys! There are two… huh? I mean there are two Dragon Balls ahead!"

It sound suspicious but Vegeta ordered like a Prince. "Faster land!"

The spaceship detected the planet was as safe as on Earth, able to breathe and the gravity is the same. The three of them went outside of the spaceship as they looked around the empty planet. It was dark and emptiness and there are only rocky stones around and not a single piece of grass. Vegeta and Piccolo just stayed quiet as they looked around while Krillin just followed the direction where the Rador was pinpointing the Dragon Balls. Within a few minutes, he found the spot. "They're under this strange clay?"

The other two walked to Krillin as they indeed felt something was under this strange Clay. It wasn't hidden very well and the Clay seems weak as Krillin dug the Dragon Balls out and placed it aside.

"I knew there was something wrong when two Dragon Balls are together." Said Piccolo.

"I guess he did this on purpose to provoke us. It's like he's telling us to play a game by allowing us to get the Dragon Balls. Obviously, it's a trap!" said Krillin.

Vegeta was quite quiet before his eyes focused on the Namek's Dragon Ball. For some reason, he planted a smirk and put a foot on the ball. "Let's see who will fall for whose trap!"

Clay, who had Freeza's cell of ability to survive in space, had heard every single thing from the group's conversation. While floating, he smirked and laughed. "Sooner or later, you guys will be falling into my trap in collecting all dragonballs." Suddenly, he couldn't hear anything from the group anymore. It was silent like hell. He tried to communicate with the bug he had planted on Namek's dragonball but still, it was silent.

"Damn it, have they found out?!"

Vegeta eye-contacted with Krillin and Piccolo to stay silent for awhile while he grabbed the bug made from Clay. He took out a small container that Bulma had given him and then locked the bug inside. "This Clay must be really stupid not realizing that I had figured out about the stupid bug he had planted. It was so obvious to detect it because of its ki! There shouldn't be any kis other than us on this empty planet so the tiny ki is easy to detect. For some reasons, it seems that whatever that Clay guy makes into a thing, it automatically has its own lifeform."

"Vegeta! You're really clever to figure out that!" Krillin praised him for that.

Vegeta smirked. "He may have my cells but he doesn't have my brains! What an idiot he is!"

After that, the group went back to their spaceship and continued their journey for the next dragonballs. Vegeta took the container and placed it at a machine and Piccolo got curious and asked what he was planning to do with the bug. Vegeta answered, "Can't you see? I'm transferring this bug to Bulma to let her check this up."

Krillin got curious and came to look at it too.

"Hmp! Bulma didn't tell you? She created this teleport machine to teleport some stuffs. Just in case if we found something, we can teleport the stuff to her and let her examine it." Vegeta then started to press many buttons here and there and the container disappeared. Within a few seconds, a TV machine appeared and a screen of Bulma was on it.

"Bulma!" Krillin yelled.

"Vegeta! What is this thing you transferred to me? I have never seen this kind of substance before?"

"Bulma! This is a part from Clay's body. Examine it to see if it can be destroyed or any of its weaknesses." Vegeta said to her.

"Well, alright, I'll check. But since I haven't seen this kind of thing before, it may take sometime to determine the results." Bulma said. "So anything else?"

"Nothing else." Vegeta turned back and was about to leave when Bulma stopped him. "Vegeta! Are you alright in space? Have you taken that special pills mainly for space?"

For some reasons, Vegeta is not turning back to answer.

"Have you eat or sleep well? Did you take a bath at least once a day? Don't try to train too hard until you're exhausted okay? And…"

Vegeta finally couldn't take it and turned back, yelling. "OI WOMAN! I am a proud saiyan race! I have been in space more than you do so the space is not a big deal! And don't expect me to give you the answers that you want! All of that is none of your concern, DO YOU UNDERSTAND?!"

Krillin and Piccolo was somehow shocked to see Vegeta yelling at Bulma like that.

But Bulma's response was even unexpected. Instead of being mad, she was the opposite. "Well, I had expected your answers to be like that so I am glad! You must be doing well! Alright then, I'll go check it up now!"

The screen was off and it automatically closed by itself.

Vegeta noticed that the both of them were staring at him. "WHAT?! You haven't seen this before?!"

"Hahaha… I have never seen a husband yelling at his wife and the wife responded nicely as if there's nothing wrong…" Krillin laughed.

Piccolo, who has no clue about relationships, ignored the whole thing and pretended he hasn't see or hear at all.

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PS:

Sorry it's not Kaioken or Genki Dama! For now, Instant Transmission Movement is more important so yup... and take note that 'how Goku explains the technique to Gohan that the Yardrats only teach him basic' is nothing but fictional, nothing relates to DBZ. Anyhow, there's no explanation how Goku managed to learn that technique so I made it up.