Disclaimer: I don't own Dragonball Z. Duh. HOWEVER! I /do/ own these stories! P.S. I do not own Juicy Juice Grape Juice.
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Hello! Heeheehee. This is my evil chapter.
Another little rant: spell check sucks. Bangs head on keyboard rgiijge;rjiogoihoaer
Oh! And: Personally, I don't think that this unveiling is as great as the Lip-Locked one but they do find out something extra 'bout Gohan and Hercule... I know that if you're following this story it should be in the middle of January... however, they see something about a Valentine's Day Dance so, though I know that doesn't coincide, Valentine's Day is in a week and I plan on writing something for it so tough.
BEST FRIENDS FOREVER
CHAPTER TEN
THURSDAY NIGHT
Gohan entered his house at eight o'clock. "Mom, I'm home!"
Videl came into the room, reading a large book, probably a textbook since she was making up the work she`d not done while absent. "She's in the laundry room," Videl stated, noticing Gohan was in his Saiyaman outfit, a rather dirty purple stained looking one, too.
"What happened?" Videl questioned. Gohan sighed.
"Word of advice, never stand by the Juicy Juice Grape Juice when people are shooting guns at you, for the juicy juice cartons will break and you will get soaked," he explained as he removed his sunglasses and turban.
Videl laughed. "Alright, well, g'night Gohan. I'm going to bed."
"Okay, `night."
Gohan walked into the laundry room. "Hey, mom."
"You smell like Juicy Juice."
Gohan nodded. "Cause I'm covered in it. I was just going to wash this," Gohan said, removing the green Saiyaman cover. (A/N: Heh heh heh... Gohan: ^_^() )
Chi-Chi took it from him. "I'll do it, it can go in the load I'm washing right now."
"Great. Goodnight, mom."
"Goodnight, Gohan."
Gohan transformed back to his normal school clothes, walking into the bathroom. He saw Videl, her face covered in soap suds with her eyes closed, medicine cabinet open, washing her face. He grinned and crossed his arms, leaning against the doorjamb.
Gohan watched as Videl rinsed off her face, shut the medicine cabinet, patted the counter for a towel and found it.
As Videl dried off her face, Gohan moved forward so he was standing right behind her. Videl put the towel down, opened her eyes and screamed at the reflection in the mirror as Gohan wrapped his arms around her, laughing as she tried to hit him.
Frantic, Videl grabbed a bottle of bubble bath and squirted it at Gohan. Gohan screamed, trying to rip the bottle out of her hands while turning on the shower. He pushed her under the cold water, Videl shrieked and pulled him in with her under the spray, still squirting bubble bath at him.
"Well, I'm glad to see you feeling much better," Gohan remarked.
Videl grunted a response as she ran out of bubble bath and grabbed shampoo. "You scared me, Gohan!"
To this he laughed.
Goten ran in from his bedroom. "Fight!" He exclaimed, jumping into the fray, and following Videl's example as he armed himself with conditioner.
"Kids," Goku remarked walking by.
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FRIDAY MORNING
BEFORE FIRST HOUR
Gohan and Videl entered, taking their respective seats, speaking of a sign they saw for a Valentine`s Day Dance at Orange Star. (By the way, the teacher, just to give him a face, is the one that made Gohan hold the buckets.) Both teenagers were glaring at each other with grins on their face.
Sharpner grabbed Gohan's arm. "Please tell me we didn't have a lab!" He exclaimed.
"We didn't have a lab," Gohan stated.
"Are you just saying that?" Sharpner demanded.
"Since you asked me to, yes."
"NOOOOO!"
Sharpner looked at him. "Gohan!" he whispered loudly. "I need help! I didn't finish my lab paper and it's do next hour. Can I copy yours? Please, please, please, please, pleeeeeeease?"
Gohan laughed and rummaged through a folder of his. "Here, he said, handing Sharpner a neatly written lab.
"Thank you!!!!! You have saved my grade."
Gohan laughed and opened his English book, thinking. He remembered when Sharpner couldn't stand him. Sharpner had once thought Gohan was a little show off and nothing more. Now, they were best friends. Gohan almost had fun being one of the least cool people at the school. Sharpner and Erasa liked him as a friend and that's really all he needed. As well as Videl, who knew everything, but still liked him... she /loved/ him.
"Okay, class. Ahem, class!" The teacher shouted. "Who's not here today... Mark, Ahodu...."
Gohan sighed and began writing a note to Videl.
Hey,
Wazzup, girlfriend? Did that sound like something Sharpner would say or what? It's so boring sitting two seats down from you. Is it exciting over there, four feet away from me? So... what'd'ya wanna do when we get home? Spar? (He drew a mean face.) Eat? (He drew a smiley face.) Backseat? (He drew an evil face.) Just kidding, you know that. Well, if this note isn't proof of how bored I am... never mind. This makes no sense. (Smiley face with tongue sticking out) I am taking you to that dance! Love ya, Videl.
(Signed.) Gohan.
P.S. I so won the fight last night!
Gohan handed the note to Erasa, who handed the note to Videl.
As Videl read it she laughed. When she finished she took out a pencil and scrawled a reply.
Gohan- you're so full of shit... but I love you. You're also such a badass! What's up with that? First, you 'drink' at Mark's party, them you `strip' at a department store, /now/ you want to `backseat'? I'm for it. Just kidding. You bet you're taking me to the dance!
Tag you're it, Videl
P.S. I kicked your ass last night, Gohan.
Erasa rolled her eyes as she passed Videl's note to Gohan.
Gohan read it and quickly wrote something else on it. Erasa passed it to Videl.
It read: Tag. /You're/ it.
Videl sent one to Gohan: You're it. Touch blue, make it true.
Gohan was about to reply when Hercule and Mark showed up.
"We have a lead on the identity of the Great Saiyaman! Is there a Son Gohan here?" Mark said, smirking.
Everyone turned to look at Gohan who was in the process of ducking under his table-desk, painfully realizing he was conscious as all eyes followed him. He stood up. "I'm here."
Just then, Mark and Hercule appeared. "Yes, that's him," Mark said to himself.
The kids in his class were now starting to whisper. One boy stood up. "Are you the Great Saiyaman?" He asked.
Gohan sighed and cast a quick glance at Videl. Videl looked away, knowing he wouldn't lie. Not to a big group like this.
"Yes."
"You're the Great Saiyaman!" Erasa exclaimed, jumping up.
"Everyone needs a hobby," he responded.
"Prove it!" A girl shouted. Gohan shrugged and pressed a button on his watch. Light filtered through the room and then there stood the Great Saiyaman...In less then perfect attire.
"That's not the Saiyaman costume!" The boy exclaimed. Gohan's face scrunched up in question.
"You bet it is-"
Then he realized it... as a few girls started to swoon.
Oops.
All he was wearing was the black undersuit. All of the sudden he felt very exposed.
Erasa grabbed his arm, pinching him. "So are these real or what?" She asked, indicating his muscles.
"They're real!" Gohan exclaimed.
Hercule was pissed. They were suppose to be making fun of him, or... or... something!
"Bah- Wah- NO! Okay, fine! You all want to know the truth, I'll tell you the truth! He's an alien!" Hercule boomed. "He's dangerous!"
"Wha?!" Gohan exclaimed.
Videl stood up. "Dad!"
Gohan was breathing quickly. "I suddenly had the feeling that I was plummeting to my death. But I'm not."
"An alien?" Sharpner asked, backing away. Erasa stopped touching him and recoiled in fear as well.
"Yes!" Hercule replied in response to Sharpner's question.
Sharpner looked at Videl. "And you're going out with him? You can't do that."
"To hell I can't!" Videl shouted back at him.
"You knew about this?" Erasa questioned. Videl didn't respond.
Hercule continued. "Something called a Saiyan. Why don't you ask him?"
All eyes were once again on Gohan. "Ah, um..." He looked at Videl again, she moved closer to him for support.
"It`s true."
"Ha!" Hercule shouted. "I vote to get his alien ass kicked out of the school!"
Erasa gathered her courage and moved closer to Gohan. "But, but, he fights crime, and helps people out and..." she moved closer.
Sharpner did likewise. "And he's helped everyone here with their homework at some point or another!"
"Thanks guys," Gohan said weakly, smiling at them. Nice try, Gohan thought.
Mark stepped forward in front of Hercule. "Are you really going to listen to them? I say we get rid of the Sai- Sai-'
"Siayan," Gohan supplied.
Mark glared at him. "I say we get rid of this little Saiyashit. We don't need him!"
A few people nodded.
Hercule smirked. "I'd say it was nice knowing you, but that would be a lie, see ya around."
Hercule began to walk towards them. There was nothing they could do, if Gohan hurt Hercule, then he would only be proving that he was dangerous. If he became a super Saiyan then that would just freak the class out. Videl, in a desperate attempt to do anything, grabbed Gohan's hand, pulled him to her, put her hand on the back of his head, pulling his face towards hers and kissed him.
Videl smiled inwardly, aware that everyone was looking at the two of them. She opened her eyes, looking into Gohan's, blushing at the intensity of them. Her cheeks went hot.
Gohan was pulled into her kiss and eyes immediately. Ignoring everyone, he wrapped his arms around Videl, purposely holding her close to his own body. Take that Hercule, he thought.
"This is two weird for words," Sharpner commented.
"Weird good or weird bad?" Someone asked.
"Weird WEIRD!" Sharpner replied.
"Can anyone say `tabloid`?" Erasa asked.
Videl felt Gohan's arms snake around her and smiled through her kiss. Gohan had never kissed her in `Mr. Saiyaman' mode, as she thought of it, before.
Sharpner was now laughing. Hercule, if he were Saiyan, would have gone Super right there.
As it was, he charged up to their desk pulling the two apart.
"Videl! Stop acting like some- some- skank in front of your whole class! Do I have to remind you he's an alien."
"I know that already, dad."
"But you care about that don't you? Huh? He's a freak! He had a tail!-"
Gohan cut him off, looking at Videl. "You care about that?" He asked, hurt.
Hercule saw what his words had done, so had Mark. Before Videl could answer, Mark spoke up. "You bet. She's the one that told us you were alien and the Great Saiyaman. She can't stand you, she's just playing you for all it's-"
Gohan took a step back. "Videl?"
"No! I do not care that you're an alien! No! They're lying. And I definitely didn't tell them you were the Great Saiyaman!"
"Did you tell them I was alien?"
"No! You know my dad knows that from seven years ago!"
"VIDEL!" Hercule shouted.
"What happened seven years ago?" Someone asked.
"NOTHING!" Videl, Hercule, and Gohan shouted.
Videl continued. "I swear to you, Gohan. I do not care! Do you understand? I do not care that you`re an alien!"
"Marry her," Sharpner whispered.
Videl turned her attention to her father. "You both," she said motioning to Mark. "Have no right doing what you're doing, I don't care /what/ you were talking about downstairs that night you ran into us at dinner!"
Gohan took another step back. "You knew they were going to do this Videl?" He looked at her with distrust.
"Gohan, I'm sorry, I didn't think that- I don't know- It's just- I'm sorry, I mean-"
Gohan began to look like a caged animal. The only ally he thought he had knew about this and never even mentioned it? "Any thing else I should know, Videl?" He asked. "Any other surprises? Huh?"
Videl turned to her father and Mark. "Why'd you lie? Why /do/ you lie?"
Videl turned around to the whole class, looking at everyone as she spoke.
"Goku always says not to think badly of anyone until you give them a chance. What does it matter if Gohan /is/ part alien? I'd hate to sound cliché but what matters is what's on the inside. And you know what? On the inside," she looked back at Gohan. "Gohan has heart."
Hercule laughed. "Goku, by the way, is Gohan's father, he`s alien too."
Sharpner sat up. "Wait, Goku's the guy that did really good in all those martial arts tournaments."
"Yeah," someone else said.
Sharpner looked at Gohan. "I remember him!"
Hercule's eyes widened as his statement about Goku was turning against him. "Goku is a weakling! Remember when he tried to beat Cell? He-"
"Don't speak about Goku like that," Videl said, voice low and calm.
Gohan, however, was not. "That`s my dad! You can talk about almost anyone however you want to- but you do not call my father a weakling! He /died/ fighting Cell! Hercule! Are you listening to me? Hercule, who really beat Cell?"
Videl grabbed Gohan's shoulder roughly. "What are you doing?"
Hercule stammered, "I-I beat Cell. O-O-Of course."
Gohan laughed in his face. "If you're going to lie, at least sound like you believe it."
"What are you talking about?" Hercule asked nervously. "No one will ever believe you..." he added to Gohan under his breath.
Gohan grinned slyly. Hercule's eyes widened. "I can prove it," he said, breath a whisper.
"What?" Videl questioned.
"Super Saiyan."
"Gohan..."
Gohan stood up straight. "You know as much as anyone that I don`t want anyone to know, but telling everyone that I beat Cell to save this planet is the only way they're going to believe that I'm not here to hurt people."
"Saiyaman..." Videl offered.
"That didn't work."
Videl saw his point. "Fine..."
Gohan hesitated a minute looking at Videl. Then, once again a flash of light filled the classroom. A blast of air blew all papers against the walls. Gohan concentrated on thinking of something that angered him. Like Mark, for example. The Super Saiyan form gripped him and his hair turned gold and his eyes, green. Underneath the black undersuit, Gohan's muscles grew to accompany the new power he had brought out.
Needless to say, Mark screamed like a girl. And Hercule was quickly backing up as he was repeating, "I'm not afraid of you! I'm not afraid of you!"
"Famous last words," Gohan said.
Gohan looked at Hercule venomously . "Who beat Cell?"
"I did."
Gohan expanded his power, his energy bursting once again.
"You did," Hercule said immediately.
Videl continued to watch her father, upset. Everyone's eyes widened.
Gohan shut his eyes and powered down.
"Did he ever mean to harm anyone?" Videl asked.
"N-No, but-"
"No `buts' dad!" A sob escaped her lips. "Why would you say anything like that?"
"What's the big deal?" Hercule asked.
"Everything! Gohan wouldn't hurt anyone and neither would his family! I can't believe you'd say something like that about him when everything is really your fault!" Gohan walked up to her and hugged her, holding her head against his chest.
"Calm down, Videl," he said soothingly. "It's okay."
"No it's not," Videl said weakly. "People know who you are now. You didn't want that and-"
"It was the only way, you agreed."
Videl shook in his arms. "But if dad hadn't said anything, your secret would still be safe."
Gohan shut his eyes and rocked Videl back and forth. Everyone else in the room watched uneasily. For seven years the hero of the world had been Hercule. Hercule had done it, he had saved everyone from Cell. They owed their lives to him. He was the world champion! But now, what was this? It had actually been an eleven year old boy who was almost too scared to have done anything?
Gohan opened his eyes, still holding Videl, to look at everyone else. He stared them all right in the eye.
/This/ was the most powerful man on the earth?
/This/ guy, who was made fun of on a daily basis?
The antisocial loser who had never had any friends his own age until a year ago?
/This/ was the guy they owed their lives to?
Gohan sighed. Of all the things he wanted to do right now, one really jumped out at him. And that was getting rid of Mark and Hercule immediately.
He let go of Videl. Unceremoniously, he picked up Hercule and Mark by the backs of their shirts, not hiding his power, and walked to the door, placing them outside the classroom.
"I just want to tell you- and I think I speak for everyone- when I say-" Gohan slammed the door in their faces.
When he turned back to the class everyone was in their seats and looking at him with awe.
"You really beat Cell?" A voice asked.
Gohan nodded as he walked over to Videl. Her face was contorted in sorrow. "Why? Why couldn't he just leave you alone... now there's going to be reporters and- oh, why did he have to do that?" Gohan smiled bravely.
"Videl? Hey! Don't worry...I've found in this world that you have to laugh- you have to see the best in each situation- because if you don't laugh...you'll cry."
Gohan sat down in his desk, looking as if nothing had happened. He looked over at his teacher, who looked frazzled. It wasn`t everyday you find out that you have an alien that had saved the world in your class.
One girl spoke out. "Are there any other aliens?"
"To answer your question," he said. "Yes. Too many to list right now."
"Are any green?" A few people laughed. Gohan smiled.
"His name is Piccolo. He's a Namek. He's tall, and, well, green..."
"Can you really fly?" Another girl asked.
"Yes." Gohan hovered off the seat and flew up to touch the ceiling. "Videl can, too."
A boy stood up. "If there was another bad guy would he be dangerous to fight, or are they weak?"
"It would be impossible for a human to fight someone with Cell`s strength." Gohan said. "...impossible for a normal person. "
Videl laughed. "So, you're saying that you're a freak?" She kidded.
"Yep." He said. " And you know what they say about freaks."
"What?"
"He who hangs out with a freak, is a freak." He said.
"Hmm. So Goten is a freak too?" She said, lifting her eyebrow up.
"Who's Goten?" Someone asked.
"Gohan's kid brother," Videl replied.
"So can you kill people easily?"
"Yes, but I don't."
"Who else is Saiyan?"
"I don't want to disclose that information."
"What did Hercule really do at the Cell games?"
"For the most part, cower in a corner."
"Really?"
"Yes."
"How do you get a body like that?"
Gohan raised an eyebrow, noticing he was still in the partial Saiyaman costume, hit the button on his watch. "I work out."
(A/N: I do push-ups and sit-ups and drink lots of juice!)
Another kid raised his hand. "So what do you do?"
"Everything a normal human does. I have to eat, sleep, study, work... I'm the Great Saiyaman by day." He stood up and struck a Saiyaman-type pose, putting both hands on his hips.
"And by night?" The kid asked.
Gohan chuckled. "I annoy my baby brother and scare Videl."
"What?" The kid asked.
"I live with him."
"Y-You do?"
Videl nodded.
"She does," Gohan confirmed.
"Are you guys going out?" A girl asked. "Cause she kissed you and all."
Gohan smiled proudly. "Yes."
Videl laughed.
"Do you guys ever, you know-"
"NO!" Gohan and Videl both shouted. Sharpner and Erasa laughed as the whole class joined in. Maybe this wouldn't be so bad after all...
FRIDAY NIGHT
Videl walked out of the bathroom wearing khaki shorts and an army green T-Shirt, with a towel wrapped around her head, having just got out of the shower. She plopped down on her bed and took out the novel they were reading for English. She was just about to begin reading it when a tall figure appeared in the door.
It was Gohan.
Gohan wore a black turtleneck and jeans. His hands were nervously fidgeting. Hesitant, he cleared his throat.
"What's wrong, Gohan?"
Gohan kind of shrugged, allowing his hands to drop at his sides. He leaned against her wall and looked away. Videl stared at him, trying to ignore how incredibly handsome he was.
"Gohan? Is it about today? No one really seemed to care and there`s no reporters following us-"
He nodded.
Gohan looked as if he were on the verge of telling her something but just couldn't get it out. Videl jumped off her bed and hugged him.
"I am so sorry about today, Gohan, honestly. But, that whole Super Saiyan thing was not a good idea. Luckily no one seemed to care... they thought it was kind of cool."
Gohan tightened his hold on Videl a bit. "I know. I'm not saying it was a good idea... I just snapped !It won't be `kind of cool' when the Satan City Police or the newspapers get a hold of it, though, our class loved it. I felt like I should be on some show called 'Twenty Questions with an Alien... Your host: Son Gohan!' "
Videl laughed. "Don't worry, you'll get through this and I'll be there for you."
"I know." Gohan smiled.
"And," Videl added. "How about a day of sparing... just you and me. Tomorrow's Saturday, no school."
"Let's see: sulk around house in a state of disbelief after what's happened today BEFORE saving the world from evil forces and convincing my mother to let me go hang out for a whole day with you and do nothing but fight? ... ah you're worth it."
Videl laughed. "Then it's a date."
"You bet."
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Okay, next chapter... a day of sparing and a funny revelation for the z team...well Krillin seems to think so... oh yeah, and the fact that Gohan's school is going to know who he is by sundown is going to make for interesting plot devices at the Valentine's day dance... eViL gRiN
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Hello! Heeheehee. This is my evil chapter.
Another little rant: spell check sucks. Bangs head on keyboard rgiijge;rjiogoihoaer
Oh! And: Personally, I don't think that this unveiling is as great as the Lip-Locked one but they do find out something extra 'bout Gohan and Hercule... I know that if you're following this story it should be in the middle of January... however, they see something about a Valentine's Day Dance so, though I know that doesn't coincide, Valentine's Day is in a week and I plan on writing something for it so tough.
BEST FRIENDS FOREVER
CHAPTER TEN
THURSDAY NIGHT
Gohan entered his house at eight o'clock. "Mom, I'm home!"
Videl came into the room, reading a large book, probably a textbook since she was making up the work she`d not done while absent. "She's in the laundry room," Videl stated, noticing Gohan was in his Saiyaman outfit, a rather dirty purple stained looking one, too.
"What happened?" Videl questioned. Gohan sighed.
"Word of advice, never stand by the Juicy Juice Grape Juice when people are shooting guns at you, for the juicy juice cartons will break and you will get soaked," he explained as he removed his sunglasses and turban.
Videl laughed. "Alright, well, g'night Gohan. I'm going to bed."
"Okay, `night."
Gohan walked into the laundry room. "Hey, mom."
"You smell like Juicy Juice."
Gohan nodded. "Cause I'm covered in it. I was just going to wash this," Gohan said, removing the green Saiyaman cover. (A/N: Heh heh heh... Gohan: ^_^() )
Chi-Chi took it from him. "I'll do it, it can go in the load I'm washing right now."
"Great. Goodnight, mom."
"Goodnight, Gohan."
Gohan transformed back to his normal school clothes, walking into the bathroom. He saw Videl, her face covered in soap suds with her eyes closed, medicine cabinet open, washing her face. He grinned and crossed his arms, leaning against the doorjamb.
Gohan watched as Videl rinsed off her face, shut the medicine cabinet, patted the counter for a towel and found it.
As Videl dried off her face, Gohan moved forward so he was standing right behind her. Videl put the towel down, opened her eyes and screamed at the reflection in the mirror as Gohan wrapped his arms around her, laughing as she tried to hit him.
Frantic, Videl grabbed a bottle of bubble bath and squirted it at Gohan. Gohan screamed, trying to rip the bottle out of her hands while turning on the shower. He pushed her under the cold water, Videl shrieked and pulled him in with her under the spray, still squirting bubble bath at him.
"Well, I'm glad to see you feeling much better," Gohan remarked.
Videl grunted a response as she ran out of bubble bath and grabbed shampoo. "You scared me, Gohan!"
To this he laughed.
Goten ran in from his bedroom. "Fight!" He exclaimed, jumping into the fray, and following Videl's example as he armed himself with conditioner.
"Kids," Goku remarked walking by.
***
FRIDAY MORNING
BEFORE FIRST HOUR
Gohan and Videl entered, taking their respective seats, speaking of a sign they saw for a Valentine`s Day Dance at Orange Star. (By the way, the teacher, just to give him a face, is the one that made Gohan hold the buckets.) Both teenagers were glaring at each other with grins on their face.
Sharpner grabbed Gohan's arm. "Please tell me we didn't have a lab!" He exclaimed.
"We didn't have a lab," Gohan stated.
"Are you just saying that?" Sharpner demanded.
"Since you asked me to, yes."
"NOOOOO!"
Sharpner looked at him. "Gohan!" he whispered loudly. "I need help! I didn't finish my lab paper and it's do next hour. Can I copy yours? Please, please, please, please, pleeeeeeease?"
Gohan laughed and rummaged through a folder of his. "Here, he said, handing Sharpner a neatly written lab.
"Thank you!!!!! You have saved my grade."
Gohan laughed and opened his English book, thinking. He remembered when Sharpner couldn't stand him. Sharpner had once thought Gohan was a little show off and nothing more. Now, they were best friends. Gohan almost had fun being one of the least cool people at the school. Sharpner and Erasa liked him as a friend and that's really all he needed. As well as Videl, who knew everything, but still liked him... she /loved/ him.
"Okay, class. Ahem, class!" The teacher shouted. "Who's not here today... Mark, Ahodu...."
Gohan sighed and began writing a note to Videl.
Hey,
Wazzup, girlfriend? Did that sound like something Sharpner would say or what? It's so boring sitting two seats down from you. Is it exciting over there, four feet away from me? So... what'd'ya wanna do when we get home? Spar? (He drew a mean face.) Eat? (He drew a smiley face.) Backseat? (He drew an evil face.) Just kidding, you know that. Well, if this note isn't proof of how bored I am... never mind. This makes no sense. (Smiley face with tongue sticking out) I am taking you to that dance! Love ya, Videl.
(Signed.) Gohan.
P.S. I so won the fight last night!
Gohan handed the note to Erasa, who handed the note to Videl.
As Videl read it she laughed. When she finished she took out a pencil and scrawled a reply.
Gohan- you're so full of shit... but I love you. You're also such a badass! What's up with that? First, you 'drink' at Mark's party, them you `strip' at a department store, /now/ you want to `backseat'? I'm for it. Just kidding. You bet you're taking me to the dance!
Tag you're it, Videl
P.S. I kicked your ass last night, Gohan.
Erasa rolled her eyes as she passed Videl's note to Gohan.
Gohan read it and quickly wrote something else on it. Erasa passed it to Videl.
It read: Tag. /You're/ it.
Videl sent one to Gohan: You're it. Touch blue, make it true.
Gohan was about to reply when Hercule and Mark showed up.
"We have a lead on the identity of the Great Saiyaman! Is there a Son Gohan here?" Mark said, smirking.
Everyone turned to look at Gohan who was in the process of ducking under his table-desk, painfully realizing he was conscious as all eyes followed him. He stood up. "I'm here."
Just then, Mark and Hercule appeared. "Yes, that's him," Mark said to himself.
The kids in his class were now starting to whisper. One boy stood up. "Are you the Great Saiyaman?" He asked.
Gohan sighed and cast a quick glance at Videl. Videl looked away, knowing he wouldn't lie. Not to a big group like this.
"Yes."
"You're the Great Saiyaman!" Erasa exclaimed, jumping up.
"Everyone needs a hobby," he responded.
"Prove it!" A girl shouted. Gohan shrugged and pressed a button on his watch. Light filtered through the room and then there stood the Great Saiyaman...In less then perfect attire.
"That's not the Saiyaman costume!" The boy exclaimed. Gohan's face scrunched up in question.
"You bet it is-"
Then he realized it... as a few girls started to swoon.
Oops.
All he was wearing was the black undersuit. All of the sudden he felt very exposed.
Erasa grabbed his arm, pinching him. "So are these real or what?" She asked, indicating his muscles.
"They're real!" Gohan exclaimed.
Hercule was pissed. They were suppose to be making fun of him, or... or... something!
"Bah- Wah- NO! Okay, fine! You all want to know the truth, I'll tell you the truth! He's an alien!" Hercule boomed. "He's dangerous!"
"Wha?!" Gohan exclaimed.
Videl stood up. "Dad!"
Gohan was breathing quickly. "I suddenly had the feeling that I was plummeting to my death. But I'm not."
"An alien?" Sharpner asked, backing away. Erasa stopped touching him and recoiled in fear as well.
"Yes!" Hercule replied in response to Sharpner's question.
Sharpner looked at Videl. "And you're going out with him? You can't do that."
"To hell I can't!" Videl shouted back at him.
"You knew about this?" Erasa questioned. Videl didn't respond.
Hercule continued. "Something called a Saiyan. Why don't you ask him?"
All eyes were once again on Gohan. "Ah, um..." He looked at Videl again, she moved closer to him for support.
"It`s true."
"Ha!" Hercule shouted. "I vote to get his alien ass kicked out of the school!"
Erasa gathered her courage and moved closer to Gohan. "But, but, he fights crime, and helps people out and..." she moved closer.
Sharpner did likewise. "And he's helped everyone here with their homework at some point or another!"
"Thanks guys," Gohan said weakly, smiling at them. Nice try, Gohan thought.
Mark stepped forward in front of Hercule. "Are you really going to listen to them? I say we get rid of the Sai- Sai-'
"Siayan," Gohan supplied.
Mark glared at him. "I say we get rid of this little Saiyashit. We don't need him!"
A few people nodded.
Hercule smirked. "I'd say it was nice knowing you, but that would be a lie, see ya around."
Hercule began to walk towards them. There was nothing they could do, if Gohan hurt Hercule, then he would only be proving that he was dangerous. If he became a super Saiyan then that would just freak the class out. Videl, in a desperate attempt to do anything, grabbed Gohan's hand, pulled him to her, put her hand on the back of his head, pulling his face towards hers and kissed him.
Videl smiled inwardly, aware that everyone was looking at the two of them. She opened her eyes, looking into Gohan's, blushing at the intensity of them. Her cheeks went hot.
Gohan was pulled into her kiss and eyes immediately. Ignoring everyone, he wrapped his arms around Videl, purposely holding her close to his own body. Take that Hercule, he thought.
"This is two weird for words," Sharpner commented.
"Weird good or weird bad?" Someone asked.
"Weird WEIRD!" Sharpner replied.
"Can anyone say `tabloid`?" Erasa asked.
Videl felt Gohan's arms snake around her and smiled through her kiss. Gohan had never kissed her in `Mr. Saiyaman' mode, as she thought of it, before.
Sharpner was now laughing. Hercule, if he were Saiyan, would have gone Super right there.
As it was, he charged up to their desk pulling the two apart.
"Videl! Stop acting like some- some- skank in front of your whole class! Do I have to remind you he's an alien."
"I know that already, dad."
"But you care about that don't you? Huh? He's a freak! He had a tail!-"
Gohan cut him off, looking at Videl. "You care about that?" He asked, hurt.
Hercule saw what his words had done, so had Mark. Before Videl could answer, Mark spoke up. "You bet. She's the one that told us you were alien and the Great Saiyaman. She can't stand you, she's just playing you for all it's-"
Gohan took a step back. "Videl?"
"No! I do not care that you're an alien! No! They're lying. And I definitely didn't tell them you were the Great Saiyaman!"
"Did you tell them I was alien?"
"No! You know my dad knows that from seven years ago!"
"VIDEL!" Hercule shouted.
"What happened seven years ago?" Someone asked.
"NOTHING!" Videl, Hercule, and Gohan shouted.
Videl continued. "I swear to you, Gohan. I do not care! Do you understand? I do not care that you`re an alien!"
"Marry her," Sharpner whispered.
Videl turned her attention to her father. "You both," she said motioning to Mark. "Have no right doing what you're doing, I don't care /what/ you were talking about downstairs that night you ran into us at dinner!"
Gohan took another step back. "You knew they were going to do this Videl?" He looked at her with distrust.
"Gohan, I'm sorry, I didn't think that- I don't know- It's just- I'm sorry, I mean-"
Gohan began to look like a caged animal. The only ally he thought he had knew about this and never even mentioned it? "Any thing else I should know, Videl?" He asked. "Any other surprises? Huh?"
Videl turned to her father and Mark. "Why'd you lie? Why /do/ you lie?"
Videl turned around to the whole class, looking at everyone as she spoke.
"Goku always says not to think badly of anyone until you give them a chance. What does it matter if Gohan /is/ part alien? I'd hate to sound cliché but what matters is what's on the inside. And you know what? On the inside," she looked back at Gohan. "Gohan has heart."
Hercule laughed. "Goku, by the way, is Gohan's father, he`s alien too."
Sharpner sat up. "Wait, Goku's the guy that did really good in all those martial arts tournaments."
"Yeah," someone else said.
Sharpner looked at Gohan. "I remember him!"
Hercule's eyes widened as his statement about Goku was turning against him. "Goku is a weakling! Remember when he tried to beat Cell? He-"
"Don't speak about Goku like that," Videl said, voice low and calm.
Gohan, however, was not. "That`s my dad! You can talk about almost anyone however you want to- but you do not call my father a weakling! He /died/ fighting Cell! Hercule! Are you listening to me? Hercule, who really beat Cell?"
Videl grabbed Gohan's shoulder roughly. "What are you doing?"
Hercule stammered, "I-I beat Cell. O-O-Of course."
Gohan laughed in his face. "If you're going to lie, at least sound like you believe it."
"What are you talking about?" Hercule asked nervously. "No one will ever believe you..." he added to Gohan under his breath.
Gohan grinned slyly. Hercule's eyes widened. "I can prove it," he said, breath a whisper.
"What?" Videl questioned.
"Super Saiyan."
"Gohan..."
Gohan stood up straight. "You know as much as anyone that I don`t want anyone to know, but telling everyone that I beat Cell to save this planet is the only way they're going to believe that I'm not here to hurt people."
"Saiyaman..." Videl offered.
"That didn't work."
Videl saw his point. "Fine..."
Gohan hesitated a minute looking at Videl. Then, once again a flash of light filled the classroom. A blast of air blew all papers against the walls. Gohan concentrated on thinking of something that angered him. Like Mark, for example. The Super Saiyan form gripped him and his hair turned gold and his eyes, green. Underneath the black undersuit, Gohan's muscles grew to accompany the new power he had brought out.
Needless to say, Mark screamed like a girl. And Hercule was quickly backing up as he was repeating, "I'm not afraid of you! I'm not afraid of you!"
"Famous last words," Gohan said.
Gohan looked at Hercule venomously . "Who beat Cell?"
"I did."
Gohan expanded his power, his energy bursting once again.
"You did," Hercule said immediately.
Videl continued to watch her father, upset. Everyone's eyes widened.
Gohan shut his eyes and powered down.
"Did he ever mean to harm anyone?" Videl asked.
"N-No, but-"
"No `buts' dad!" A sob escaped her lips. "Why would you say anything like that?"
"What's the big deal?" Hercule asked.
"Everything! Gohan wouldn't hurt anyone and neither would his family! I can't believe you'd say something like that about him when everything is really your fault!" Gohan walked up to her and hugged her, holding her head against his chest.
"Calm down, Videl," he said soothingly. "It's okay."
"No it's not," Videl said weakly. "People know who you are now. You didn't want that and-"
"It was the only way, you agreed."
Videl shook in his arms. "But if dad hadn't said anything, your secret would still be safe."
Gohan shut his eyes and rocked Videl back and forth. Everyone else in the room watched uneasily. For seven years the hero of the world had been Hercule. Hercule had done it, he had saved everyone from Cell. They owed their lives to him. He was the world champion! But now, what was this? It had actually been an eleven year old boy who was almost too scared to have done anything?
Gohan opened his eyes, still holding Videl, to look at everyone else. He stared them all right in the eye.
/This/ was the most powerful man on the earth?
/This/ guy, who was made fun of on a daily basis?
The antisocial loser who had never had any friends his own age until a year ago?
/This/ was the guy they owed their lives to?
Gohan sighed. Of all the things he wanted to do right now, one really jumped out at him. And that was getting rid of Mark and Hercule immediately.
He let go of Videl. Unceremoniously, he picked up Hercule and Mark by the backs of their shirts, not hiding his power, and walked to the door, placing them outside the classroom.
"I just want to tell you- and I think I speak for everyone- when I say-" Gohan slammed the door in their faces.
When he turned back to the class everyone was in their seats and looking at him with awe.
"You really beat Cell?" A voice asked.
Gohan nodded as he walked over to Videl. Her face was contorted in sorrow. "Why? Why couldn't he just leave you alone... now there's going to be reporters and- oh, why did he have to do that?" Gohan smiled bravely.
"Videl? Hey! Don't worry...I've found in this world that you have to laugh- you have to see the best in each situation- because if you don't laugh...you'll cry."
Gohan sat down in his desk, looking as if nothing had happened. He looked over at his teacher, who looked frazzled. It wasn`t everyday you find out that you have an alien that had saved the world in your class.
One girl spoke out. "Are there any other aliens?"
"To answer your question," he said. "Yes. Too many to list right now."
"Are any green?" A few people laughed. Gohan smiled.
"His name is Piccolo. He's a Namek. He's tall, and, well, green..."
"Can you really fly?" Another girl asked.
"Yes." Gohan hovered off the seat and flew up to touch the ceiling. "Videl can, too."
A boy stood up. "If there was another bad guy would he be dangerous to fight, or are they weak?"
"It would be impossible for a human to fight someone with Cell`s strength." Gohan said. "...impossible for a normal person. "
Videl laughed. "So, you're saying that you're a freak?" She kidded.
"Yep." He said. " And you know what they say about freaks."
"What?"
"He who hangs out with a freak, is a freak." He said.
"Hmm. So Goten is a freak too?" She said, lifting her eyebrow up.
"Who's Goten?" Someone asked.
"Gohan's kid brother," Videl replied.
"So can you kill people easily?"
"Yes, but I don't."
"Who else is Saiyan?"
"I don't want to disclose that information."
"What did Hercule really do at the Cell games?"
"For the most part, cower in a corner."
"Really?"
"Yes."
"How do you get a body like that?"
Gohan raised an eyebrow, noticing he was still in the partial Saiyaman costume, hit the button on his watch. "I work out."
(A/N: I do push-ups and sit-ups and drink lots of juice!)
Another kid raised his hand. "So what do you do?"
"Everything a normal human does. I have to eat, sleep, study, work... I'm the Great Saiyaman by day." He stood up and struck a Saiyaman-type pose, putting both hands on his hips.
"And by night?" The kid asked.
Gohan chuckled. "I annoy my baby brother and scare Videl."
"What?" The kid asked.
"I live with him."
"Y-You do?"
Videl nodded.
"She does," Gohan confirmed.
"Are you guys going out?" A girl asked. "Cause she kissed you and all."
Gohan smiled proudly. "Yes."
Videl laughed.
"Do you guys ever, you know-"
"NO!" Gohan and Videl both shouted. Sharpner and Erasa laughed as the whole class joined in. Maybe this wouldn't be so bad after all...
FRIDAY NIGHT
Videl walked out of the bathroom wearing khaki shorts and an army green T-Shirt, with a towel wrapped around her head, having just got out of the shower. She plopped down on her bed and took out the novel they were reading for English. She was just about to begin reading it when a tall figure appeared in the door.
It was Gohan.
Gohan wore a black turtleneck and jeans. His hands were nervously fidgeting. Hesitant, he cleared his throat.
"What's wrong, Gohan?"
Gohan kind of shrugged, allowing his hands to drop at his sides. He leaned against her wall and looked away. Videl stared at him, trying to ignore how incredibly handsome he was.
"Gohan? Is it about today? No one really seemed to care and there`s no reporters following us-"
He nodded.
Gohan looked as if he were on the verge of telling her something but just couldn't get it out. Videl jumped off her bed and hugged him.
"I am so sorry about today, Gohan, honestly. But, that whole Super Saiyan thing was not a good idea. Luckily no one seemed to care... they thought it was kind of cool."
Gohan tightened his hold on Videl a bit. "I know. I'm not saying it was a good idea... I just snapped !It won't be `kind of cool' when the Satan City Police or the newspapers get a hold of it, though, our class loved it. I felt like I should be on some show called 'Twenty Questions with an Alien... Your host: Son Gohan!' "
Videl laughed. "Don't worry, you'll get through this and I'll be there for you."
"I know." Gohan smiled.
"And," Videl added. "How about a day of sparing... just you and me. Tomorrow's Saturday, no school."
"Let's see: sulk around house in a state of disbelief after what's happened today BEFORE saving the world from evil forces and convincing my mother to let me go hang out for a whole day with you and do nothing but fight? ... ah you're worth it."
Videl laughed. "Then it's a date."
"You bet."
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Okay, next chapter... a day of sparing and a funny revelation for the z team...well Krillin seems to think so... oh yeah, and the fact that Gohan's school is going to know who he is by sundown is going to make for interesting plot devices at the Valentine's day dance... eViL gRiN