Chapter :10

Videl Arrives on the Scene

It was the next morning, the gates were quiet this morning. The perennial Chunin gate guards Izumo and Kotetsu were lounging around for another quiet morning of guard duty. But then things got a little more out of the ordinary when a lone figure of a young small girl suddenly walked up through the front gates. She had raven hair in a short haircut and wore a large white t-shirt that covered most of her body as well as black bike shorts and carrying a small brown cylinder-like bag under her right arm.

"Hmm? So this is the Hidden Leaf Village huh? So this is where Gohan is?" the girl muttered to herself as she walked in and gazed at the sight of the Hidden Leaf Village for the first time. Indeed this girl was Videl Satan herself.

"Hey, hey! Izumo, get a load of this?!" exclaimed Kotetsu, as it being out of the ordinary for even them to see a lone little girl walk up all by herself up to the gates. Not to mention her clothing seemed a little strange to the people of a Shinobi village. They decided to walk up to her to investigate and find out what was up with her and why she had walked up here all alone.

"Hey little girl, what are you doing out here all alone? Are you lost?" politely asked Izumo, talking down to her like she was a little girl, leaning down with his hands on his knees and looking down a her with a charming smile.

Videl however, wasn't amused, as she frowned at this and turned to them as if they were a pair of annoying idiots, in specifically at Izumo. You see she didn't like being talked down to like that and treated like a little kid. If only they knew who they were dealing with.

Kotetsu however managed to pick up on her displeasure and promptly bumped his partner out of the way. "Sorry about that. What my partner means is. What is your business out here in the Hidden Leaf Village? And we just wanted to find out why is a young lady such as yourself out here all alone without an escort?" Kotetsu made up for his partner.

Videl for her part just sighed in relief as she saw that at least one of them had some brains in addressing her. "If you must know, I'm here to look for my boyfriend. He said he would be visiting this place and I'm here to go look for him. He seems to have been gone long enough and I want to know why. And as to you question as to why I'm out here without an escort? It's because I'm perfectly capable of taking care of himself. I don't need any protection." responded Videl. Placing her arms at her hips and looking at them with a huff.

Kotetsu and Izumo just took a step back as this response seemed to surprise them a bit. They hadn't expected that answer. Izumo and Kotetsu just looked at each other with wide eyes. Now, while it was certainly out of the ordinary to find a girl at her age having a boyfriend, but however neither was it all that uncommon to find one or one even younger having boyfriends. So Izumo and Kotetsu let it slide.

"So your looking for your boyfriend? Well maybe we can help you point him out for you?" suggested Izumo, trying to be helpful. "Sure, his name is Gohan?" pointed out Videl.

Now this definitely shocked both Izumo and Kotetsu. "Wait!? Your saying Gohan's girlfriend? As in Prince Gohan Son from the Ox Kingdom?" exclaimed a shocked Kotetsu, trying to make sure she wasn't mistaking it for someone else.

"Yeah, that's right. So can you guys tell me where he is, yes or no?" demanded Videl, and the tone of her questioning coming down with a frown with an edge to it that promised A LOT of PAIN if they didn't answer correctly.

"Ummm? Well we don't know exactly where he is. But we have heard that he's been spotted at the training grounds over the past number of days." immediately responded Izumo. And while they knew they shouldn't have to feel threatened by a little girl, at the same time they felt that there was just something about this one. That and plus they both knew that look in a woman's eyes very well, and it promised trouble every time.

"Thank you gentlemen." simply thanked Videl, and she then made her way into the village.

Izumo and Kotetsu both breathed a sigh of relief. "Boy, that Gohan kid looks to be heading for all sorts of trouble." commented Kotetsu to his partner. "Yeah, you can say that again." replied Izumo as they both shared a chuckle and then went back to their booth.

Meanwhile, at the Hidden Leaf training grounds, Gohan was indeed at that very moment busy training. There was zipping and zapping all around as Gohan zipped in and zapped out while moving at speeds that were invisible to the naked eye. And every now and then he reappeared somewhere in the middle of the open fields, shadow boxing and shirtless, as he'd taken off his shirt so he could work out better. Beads of sweat caking his body as he worked out shadow boxing and or rapidly performing his flawless katas.

But unknown to him was the fact that he had an audience. Hidden somewhere in a bush, watching his every move was a party of fangirls watching his every move, led by Ino herself. "Mmmmhhh... I could watch this for days... " said one girl in the party as they swooned over the sight before them.

Now most of the time they couldn't even see him as he moved around, but whenever he stopped and they could see him, the sight of his body all caked with sweat was all the sight they needed. It was a feast for the eyes to these girls. "Yeah... I know what you mean." muttered their "leader" Ino as she too watched with a lovesick expression and then they all let out a fawn together.

"Excuse me? But what do you think you're doing?" came a interrupting voice in an accusing tone from behind them. They looked behind themselves and found Videl looking at them with her arms on her hips and looking cross at them.

And while she had a somewhat roughed and tomboyish look to her, the girls didn't pay her much mind despite startling them by her arrival. She was one of their own they figured, and so could understand and appreciate what they were doing.

"Oh nothing. Just checking out one of the hottest guys EVER in the village. Pull up a chair and come join us if you want to see the show?" responded one of the girls before going back to their spying on their target and ignoring Videl.

Now, Videl was ticked off for them ignoring her like that. But however instead of getting back at them first, she went instead to look at what they were looking at and see what was drawing their attention so much. But to her horror Videl found that it was in fact Gohan, her boyfriend that they were oogling at. Now this didn't sit well with her AT ALL!

Now this wasn't so much of a surprise to her that this was happening. In fact it wasn't unordinary or that unexpected to find some girls eyeing him up or oogling him at places he went. Not that she would really blame them. Gohan was even by her own admission one hot commodity as far as eye candy came for girls.

But finding some girls shamelessly stalking him and spying on him while he trained was something new and totally inappropriate. Jealous instincts started to take over as the first thing she finds him in in this village is him in this situation? Questions about what he's been doing here swirled in her head.

'What has he been doing here? With his senses he should be aware of them? And if he is, you are in sooo much trouble Gohan Son.' angrily thought Videl to herself. And while Videl was angry with Gohan, but her ire really went to these girls.

"I can't believe you people! You've got to be kidding me! You guys are hiding behind a bush checking out some guy? What is wrong with you!? This is indecency!? You should be ashamed!" cried out Videl, disgusted by their behavior.

The outburst was so loud it startled the girls and they tumbled out of the bush in a heap. They immediately got back up and confronted Videl with a series of heated glares for ruining their "moment".

"Oh? And who are you to condemn us? I'd bet you'd do the same thing, you're a girl just like us. And besides, what is it your business if or when we look at a guy? Who are you? I've never even seen you around here before!?" confronted Ino, walking up to Videl and bending down a bit to look her in the eye due to the fact of the corresponding height due to Ino being several inches taller than her and poking her at the top of the chest. (I think you guys know the pose*Wink*.)

"I'm Videl Satan! And that guy you were all just looking at was my boyfriend!" affirmed Videl furiously.

Now that revelation bowled all the girls over. They all had looks of horror plastered on their faces with their mouths in giant "O's" as if they were screaming in their heads 'It's not true. It's not TRUE!' in denial of the fact that their dreamboat was already taken.

"W-What d-did you say!?" stammered out Ino. "He's my boyfriend. B-O-Y-F-R-I-E-N-D, boyfriend! And I'm his girlfriend, Videl Satan." repeated Videl.

Though despite even after hearing this, Ino and the girls weren't quite ready to give up yet. "Wait a minute, how do I know that your not just making this up and just saying that just to throw us off and have him all to yourself? If you really are who you say you are? Then prove it." challenged Ino, once again getting into her face.

"Gladly." responded Videl with an almost evil smirk as she gladly accepted the challenge. To which she then promptly called out and yelled out to Gohan to make his way over.

The other girls were horrified to see Gohan stop in mid maneuver, as he had apparently been too busy in his workout to notice their encounter in the distance, having caught the signal and started to come on over to see what was going on.

"Hey Videl! What are you doing here?" Gohan greeted casually as he arrived. The girls were shocked to see how casually he greeted her and seemed to know her. To their horror they realized that maybe Videl was telling the truth.

"Wait!? You mean you know her?" asked one of the girls as their hopes were being blown right out of the water.

Gohan however, being oblivious and unaware of the implications surrounding him, didn't see any problem with affirming the truth, and so he did. "Yeah, this is Videl, my girlfriend from home. But more importantly, what are you doing out here Videl?" asked Gohan, turning back to Videl as if it didn't even register yet that there were other girls there.

Meanwhile the girls looked positively horror stricken at hearing from Gohan himself that she was in fact his girlfriend. Videl for her part just glanced smugly at the shocked expressions by the girls behind her. "Oh me? ~Nothing~? I just found these girls stalking you from behind this bush." sweetly and innocently sounded Videl, using the question to evilly stick it to these girls one last time.

"Uh? Gotta go!" excused one of the girls, namely Ino their leader. Now caught and exposed in front of their crush, they then fled and scattered from the scene. Like cockroaches, in Videl's opinion.

"Man, they just keep getting worse." muttered Gohan lamely. Commenting on that this was just the latest in a series of "attacks" by female admirers as of late.

Now normally he had gotten somewhat accustomed to having female attention nipping at his heels, but this latest one was something different. He had never before encountered where they were in a group and they were so brazen about it as to do it in broad daylight right near around him. This was something new to him. This whole "fangirls" thing was getting out of hand in his opinion.

"And so? What have you been doing while I was away?" asked Videl, eyeing him suspiciously, dangerously suspiciously.

Gohan noticed the dangerous tone in her voice and could tell that jealousy was rearing it's ugly head again. "NOTHING! Nothing at all, really!" desperately denied Gohan, sweating bullets and smiling awkwardly.

"Oh really? Nothing? And what were doing when I got here? The first thing I see when I find you is that your being watched on by a bunch of strange girls!? I know that with your senses you should've been aware of them the moment they got there. And yet you didn't do anything to stop them? Were you actually enjoying their attention on you that much? So I ask again, what is it that you've been doing in this village while I've been gone? Have you been, flaunting around with the girls to inspire this behavior?" accused Videl.

"Videl! Honestly I didn't even know they were there! I was just so busy concentrating on my excercises that I shut down my senses and I never even knew they were there! And you know that I don't inspire these types of behavior. You know well that they just happen around me! And it's just this village, they congregate here. This Hidden Leaf Village is just special like that." Gohan explained himself. Thankfully, Videl seemed to calm down and believed him.

"Oh really? Well I guess that explains it. And yeah, I should know by now that you're not that type of guy. But yeah, in my brief time here up to this village up to this point, it feels like a pretty special place." admitted Videl.

"Yeah, I'll say. But hey? Tell me, what are you doing all the way out here in the village?" casually and cheerily asked Gohan.

"Well, you've been gone a whole lot of time. And so I decided to come get you and see for myself what it is about this place that makes you stay?" explained Videl.

"I haven't been gone that long have I? But, I guess it's probably due to the fact that there's something about this place? There's something about the people that I've met here and the friends I've made here that I just, somehow, find intriguing? But tell you what? I've got a sparring match with a guy called Neji coming up later today. Why don't you come with? Watch it for yourself?" suggested Gohan.

"Really? Is this guy going to be that good as that you would actually allow yourself to have a sparring match with him? This Neji guy must be something really incredible for you to even consider it?" said Videl.

"Well... He is one of the ones they consider a genius on his clan. And I've seen him fight before in a demonstration match and I think he has a really good and intriguing style. But I just think it's going to be an interesting match. It should be a really excellent opportunity for you to watch how ninja fights." explained Gohan.

"Really? Then I guess it sounds interesting... Okay! I'll go! Sounds like it'll be actually something worth to watch." agreed Videl.

"Great! It should be as great a place as any to start for you to see what makes this village special." cheered Gohan. And then they cuddled up to each other, Videl's head leaning on Gohan's shoulder, and then they walked out of the training grounds together.

Author's Thoughts: So now Videl has come, to be part of the story. For some time I wondered about weither putting her in at all, or where to put her and for how long? But the thought of her coming in and showing up all those fangirls what's what, was just too good to pass up. So now I had to accomodate her for scenes she wasn't designed to be in. Great... But anyway, I hope it was fun having her come over in that way. It just goes to show that Gohan didn't tell everyone back home his exact plans, if you know what I mean.

Now just to be sure, Gohan has dealt with fangirls back home before. But with what is special about this place is that the girls group up and are more determined and organized than what he's used to. Plus he's usually had Videl to either ward them off or scare them off or even beat them off if they by then didn't get the hint.

Even when it was public knowledge that they were together and he was 'taken', that still wasn't enough for some girls to forge making their attempts. But with that that was usually on an individual basis. Like I said, Konoha is unique to him in that it's his first encounter with the infamous "Fanclubs". So it's very strange behavior for him. And as you can see in the aformentioned chapter above, if you haven't been keeping track up 'til now Gohan failed to specifically mention to them that he already had a girlfriend, so that sheer fact should deter most of them, for now at least. But trust me, we haven't heard the last of the "Gohan Fanclub" just yet. Let's not underestimate their resolve quite yet. Since when is a guy being taken ever stopped another girl from taking him still?