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At Each Others Throat

Chapter 9: Fall Out with The Injured

Light enveloped him, hurting his eyes so Gohan decided to keep them closed. After a few seconds he could focus a bit clearer and he realised, everything hurt. His whole body felt like it had been beaten for hours. He was aware of every agonizing muscle and had to bite his lip for a moment to let the pain pass and block it out.

"Guess I shouldn't have used my ki, this hurts like hell!"

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Goku's head snapped up, his eyes widened in disbelieve. Everyone around him looked startled at Goku and even a bit afraid for him when he didn't react to their callings. Without a glance at anyone, Goku use IT and disappeared from their sights.

Everyone jumped up at this, intending to go after him. Piccolo too had gotten up, but he had noticed what Goku had. He had felt Gohan's ki, it was stronger than it had been ever since he went into a coma. He hadn't imagined feeling Gohan, after all. Gohan had tried to wake up sooner, but only now managed it.

Just as Piccolo was about to follow after Goku, worry edging all over his skin, a very angry voice hissed over the Look Out.

"Why did no one inform me that the brat was in a coma! You, Namek, we made a deal! Even the woman knew before me!" Vegeta hissed while glaring daggers at Piccolo.

"Why do you care?!" Bulma demanded. Her nerves were on edge with Gohan being in a coma and she sure as hell was not in the mood for Vegeta's temper tantrums.

"Why do I care?! You imply I don't care about my own race! That brat is, unfortunately, half saiyan which makes him one of the last saiyans alive. I'd like to keep my race from being completely EXTINCT!" Vegeta yelled back at Bulma, almost sounding like he was growling.

"Doesn't look like it to me, you didn't bother to show up!" Bulma bit back coldly. Everyone was watching in stunned silence as the couple argued like they were out for the other's blood.

"Because I didn't know, WOMAN! Stay right there Namek!" Vegeta snarled. Piccolo had been on his way inside, but Vegeta wouldn't have any of that.

Bulma was about to heatedly respond to Vegeta's snarl when she was interrupted. "Not now Vegeta!" Piccolo responded coldly before trying to leave again.

"Yes, NOW!" Vegeta yelled punching Piccolo in his face taking him by surprise and flooring him. He ignored the screams from the women and z-fighters and placed a foot on the Namek's chest glaring deadly at him. "Explain!"

"Vegeta! Let him go!" Bulma shrieked with rage at his behaviour.

"Not before someone tells me what happened!" Vegeta spoke in a deadly whisper.

"Oh come off it, you know what happened!"

"I already told you I DIDN'T KNOW!" Vegeta yelled his patience wearing thin.

"How the hell did you not know! Everyone else sensed trouble and turned up!" Bulma suddenly froze shutting up instantly. When she spoke again her voice was soft, almost a whisper. "You didn't sense it, I forgot about the….."

"Indeed, as I said, I didn't know!" Vegeta swiftly cut her off. But just as quickly as she had grown quiet she now grew very hostile again.

"See I told you, I told you that was dangerous, there is always something happening on earth!"

"Now isn't the time woman! Just tell me what has happened!?" Vegeta tried to redirect the argument.

"Wait!" Yamcha cut in confused, stopping Bulma from answering. "How could Vegeta not sense what happened? Gohan's power went sky high earlier. It was impossible to not notice"

Before Vegeta could stop her, Bulma happily explained.

"Because Vegeta insisted on me creating a device to block out all ki from his Gravity Room. Said it was so he wasn't distracted by everyone else's training. Goes to show how much concentration he possesses, he can't even block out other trainings" She paused with a smirk on her face.

"Woman!- " Vegeta snarled but got cut off again.

"Or, there is the reason he didn't want to feel how high everyone's powers were since it would remind him how far out of his league he still is" Bulma finished smugly.

"That's it!" Vegeta snapped in a cold, low voice. His ki flared up highly as he stepped off Piccolo and advanced on Bulma.

"I wouldn't do anything if I were you. Remember I'm the mother of your son!" Bulma responded without a single thread of fear at Vegeta's advance.

"ENOUGH! All of you! We don't have time for this. Goku went to see Gohan!" Piccolo hissed agitatedly.

"Why should that bother us, or does even a coma not stop their fall outs?" Vegeta asked for once actually curious.

"No, because Gohan just woke up!" Piccolo said.

Everyone was silent letting it sink in. Before anyone could react when it sunk in, their attention was distracted by two familiar ki signatures flaring up intensely. Goku and Gohan had gone Super Saiyan!

They all raced towards the entrance, but before they reached it the ki signatures appeared above them. Abruptly they stopped and looked up and their faces paled. Father and son were fighting above the Look Out.

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Gohan heard the door open and tried to push himself up a little to see. That single movement caused pain to flair all over his body and he resigned to laying back down. Footsteps resounded through the room as someone entered. The mere sound echoed around in Gohan's head, making the pounding in his head grow intensely. A few feet from his bed, the footsteps stopped.

"About time" A cold voice spoke. Gohan's eyes widened as the identity sunk in. Goku, his dad.

Goku watched expectedly at the young hybrid laying in bed. In his head he expected an immediate response, but surprisingly the brat did not respond immediately. One…..two…..three….four…..

"You're one to talk!" Gohan suddenly erupted. Goku smirked. That was better. "What are you smirking about, you coward!" Goku's smirk got instantly replaced by a glare, a very angry glare.

"You'll pay for that, you brat!" Goku snapped back. Gohan showed no reaction, it was almost as if he hadn't heard him. Once more Goku counted in his head; One….two….three……Then Gohan surprisingly, smiled.

"Is that the best you can come up with? Ha, you're pathetic!" Goku glared daggers at his so-called son.

"Pathetic he, I'll show you pathetic!" Goku yelled. He immediately started increasing his power level. Gohan seemed once more in a daze, but he didn't pay it much attention. A few seconds later and Goku had reached Super Saiyan. "Time to pay –" Goku began to say, when Gohan had jumped out of bed and in less than a second had transformed into Super Saiyan as well. Goku grit his teeth in anger.

"You were saying?" Gohan smirked at Goku. With an angry yell, Goku charged at Gohan and punched him in the face, sending him up against the wall, where he kept him by the front of his gi.

Goku was beyond words form his own anger at the brat's insolence and simply glared heatedly in his eyes, trying to break his spirit. Gohan however looked dazed once more. Just like before it took several seconds for him to snap out of it and fight back, which he did, with a vengeance.

With enough force to break a leg, Gohan kicked out at Goku, who in the last second managed to dodge causing his leg to be grazed instead of taking the full impact. Still, the damage was there. He could feel the bruise appearing. He turned around with hatred in his eyes to see the brat's leg had gone through the floor.

Pure onyx eyes stared up at similar eyes. Both looked angry, both looked ready to fight and both looked amused at the other. They both knew they were going to fight, they both looked forward to it. Knowing this, Goku made a decision.

He rushed forward unexpectedly, grabbed hold of the boy roughly, before IT'ing out of there.

They reappeared in the air, outside. Momentarily stunned by the sudden change of environment, Gohan looked around him. When he looked down, he saw many familiar faces. But before he could register anything a strong punch had him flying through the air. Gohan stopped himself from hitting the building and then hung still in the air for several seconds.

Goku took advantage of this by coming close enough and kicking him the other way followed by a barrage of ki balls. Gohan got hit by them all, but stayed airborn.

Gohan shook his head trying to clear the daze. Something was off about this. No it wasn't! He was going to kill that bastard!

In a spur of anger, Gohan charged his so-called father and aimed a punch at his face. Goku dodged below and aimed for Gohan's gut. Gohan dodged that by flying upwards and turned upside down to fire a ki blast at his unsuspecting, following father. The blast hit head on, impossible to avoid and Goku went crashing onto the Look Out.

Gohan doubled over and started coughing suddenly. He vision grew blurry and he had trouble sensing anything. He vaguely sensed his father crashing into the Look Out and his friends' distressed signals. Before he could recover this sudden illness, a =n energy blast hit him in the back. This time Gohan went crashing into the Look Out.

He caught himself on his hands and knees and gasped for air before spitting out blood on the ground. His vision cleared and he looked around himself. He saw his stunned friends and Piccolo was coming towards him as was Trunks. But before they could reach him a strange feeling came over him.

"You bastard! I'll kill you for that!" Gohan yelled as he stood up and turned his glare on his father in the sky.

Piccolo and Trunks froze in their steps and watched Gohan shooting into the sky and continue his fight with Goku. A thud behind them, followed by Bulma's shout told them, Chichi had fainted. It was expected. Hearing her son saying all that, it was quite a shock, to all of them, even Vegeta wore a stunned expression.

"He….that….we should…..maybe…" Trunks couldn't get the words out, he was too stunned. Sure they had heard Gohan and Goku's fall outs before, but the way Gohan just yelled it with every meaning to go through with it, it was rather disturbing.

"We should stop them before one of them truly dies" Piccolo answered calmly. Trunks looked up and the Namekian disbelieve in his eyes.

"You really think, it'll get to that?"

"Yes Trunks. Their saiyan sides are beyond consoling. This is how saiyans deal with disagreement or problems. They fight until one wins" Piccolo answered emotionless. He couldn't afford to feel worry or concern. They needed to split those two up and soon.

"Guys, I think something is wrong with Gohan" Krillin interrupted. Everyone looked up at the fighting due of father and son.

They watched as Gohan remained motionless for several seconds time and time again. When Gohan snapped out of it and got a ki blast in, he seemed in pain.

Piccolo recalled Gohan spitting up blood moments before when he was on the Look Out. He studied the fight for a moment longer, watching the slow reactions of Gohan, the signs of pain from using ki or even physical attacks and the rather weak energy level, which kept fluctuating every now and then.

He's still hurt from his coma! He's fighting while still very much injured!

"Trunks, Vegeta, we' are going need to get them apart, out of seeing and hearing distance, immediately!" Piccolo ordered. Trunks nodded and surprisingly so did Vegeta, without a single complaint or angry remark.

The other z-fighters knew they couldn't do much with two super saiyans, but they still stood at the ready to help in any way, should it be necessary.

Vegeta and Trunks powered up to Super Saiyan while Piccolo increased his power level. Together they flew straight into the fight, trying to block the father and son from each others sight. It wasn't easy, since both were quickly confused by the sudden appearance of their friends and asked them what they were doing. So Goku and Gohan kpet hearing each other.

"Goku! IT inside now!" Piccolo yelled above Gohan's sudden angry yell at Goku. Piccolo managed to get over Gohan's yell resulting in Goku focussing on Piccolo's voice. "NOW!" Piccolo screamed now that Goku was momentarily himself again.

Goku complied sensing the urgency in Piccolo's voice and disappeared along with Trunks and Vegeta, who were holding on to him, trying to restrain him.

They reappeared inside a big hall at the back of the building. "Gohan! Where is he?! Is he okay?! He woke up!" Goku anxiously asked.

"Take it easy, Goku. Piccolo is with him" Trunks answered. He didn't want to say Gohan was fine, since he had no idea if he was.

"I went to him, but I can't remember….wait that means…" Goku froze as the realization dawned on him. The only way he could forget what happened, was if he saw or heard Gohan. When Gohan had been unconscious, or in other words in a coma that rule didn't apply anymore, but….Gohan had woken up. He had felt it himself, so that meant…..he had gotten into another fall out with his son.

"I have to know id he's fine, really fine. Please go see, Trunks" Goku almost begged.

"Stay with him and keep him inside. I'll go see that brat. I've been kept out of the loop for too many times now" Vegeta responded trying to sound harsh but failing. The others knew him too well these days to be fooled by his hard exterior. Ignoring the look Trunks was undoubtedly carrying, Vegeta left the room.

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"Mr…..Piccolo….?" Gohan asked confused and weak. All of a sudden Gohan had found himself in the air with Piccolo in front of him and his body felt like he'd been in a fight. He remembered waking up and seeing his dad. After that he only remembered vague flashes of his dad and The Look Out.

Piccolo sighed knowing what conversation was bound to come. Before he could do anything though, Gohan cringed in pain and spit out blood again. He abruptly released his Super Saiyan form and if it wasn't for Piccolo he would have fallen to the ground.

Piccolo laid him gently on the Look Out, supporting his upper body. Gohan was breathing heavily and blood dripped down from the corner of his mouth.

"Gohan, can you hear me?" Piccolo called to his former student. Slowly Gohan's eyelids opened.

"What hurts, Gohan" Bulma suddenly interrupted in a gentle voice. Gohan's eyes turned to the scientist tiredly. He was losing consciousness and she was very aware of this as were the others.

"Everything" Gohan answered in a scratchy voice. The pounding footsteps from far away caused Gohan to gasp.

"Gohan!" Bulma shouted alarmed unknowingly hurting Gohan even more.

"What's happened?!" Vegeta's angry growl penetrated the tense air.

"Sorry…mr. Piccolo" Gohan whispered with his eyes open in mere slits. Piccolo looked confused at Gohan prompting Gohan to continue. "For not listening…to you. I couldn't….let him…win"

"Who are you talking about Gohan?" Bulma asked.

"I met him….in my head….."

"Met who?" Piccolo asked, although he had a firm idea of whom Gohan was talking about. He just needed to have it confirmed.

"I met……the other me" Gohan answered before he slipped out of consciousness.

Okay, now don't be alarmed. You are not dreaming. It's true, I am updating again, still slowly, but already three times in about a month, except for my Harry Potter story, but ah well. Don't be afraid though, be thankful and especially to Super Saiyan Angel, how is the very reason I am updating again. Somehow she gets me writing again. Thank her!

Okay then, it's an okay chapter, not sure about the last part though. Let me know what you think, please please please.

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Next Chapter: Goku will be informed of what has happened one way or another. Gohan is going to have to explain what happened during his coma. And Piccolo will face another angry Son. Will this problem ever be solved? Only I know! *Evil Laugh*

Next chapter Title: Fall Out with The Student