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Chapter 10

The released floodgates left the Ki rushing towards him. He could feel everything that had been suppressed and more. But now was not the time to contemplate on how that was possible… No. Now was the time to get revenge, to take vengeance.

This hunter had taken it too far, he took his own family into it; a family that he had just regained. Not only had the bastard taken his mother from him, but his father as well. The pure agony Gohan felt in his heart, the pure despair… it had just driven him off the edge when the hunter mentioned his little brother.

He cupped both hands to his side and let out a primal roar.

"You will pay for this!" The half-Saiyan gritted his teeth before screaming as he began to charge up Ki within his hands.

"V-Videl… what's big brother doing?" Goten asked curiously, the effects of the tranq had worn off and the two of them had braved peeking out the house onto the action unfolding. "What happened to his hair? It's all red!"

The human girl shivered, and hugged the small boy to her chest. "I'm not sure Goten… I'm not sure."

"Is big brother going to be okay?" A sobbing Goten asked, "Where's Daddy? I'm scared!" He cried. Videl gently stroked his back. She scooped the little boy up in her arms and held him. "I should go out there and fight!" He declared with a shaky voice.

"No Goten," Videl insisted. "Your brother will take care of this. Just stay here. It's going to be alright, it's gonna be all right." She ruffled his hair. "I'm sure they'll be fine." She said with a forced smile. It was so forced and painful that she'd be willing to bet his little brain could see right through it.

This was horrible! She had never really gotten to know Chichi all that well, at most they were close acquaintances, but now she was gone. At first Videl had idolized the infamous martial artist Son Chichi before she had gotten to learn of just how her life had turned out to be. She was shocked to discover what Chichi did on a day-to-day basis. The world's greatest female fighter reduced to being a simple housewife… This scared Videl, very much so. If that was Chichi's future, what would be hers? At times it almost felt as if she had no say in the matter, that her destiny was already written.

Even though she was born to 'The Strongest Man Under the Suns,' – she still laughed at that pun- it felt as if she was going to end up settling down and being rid of her fighting career. Her father had often wanted a son instead of a daughter; he held onto the sexist view that all girls were weak and fragile beings. It had taken a lot of crime fighting and crooks to prove otherwise to him. Initially when she started crime fighting, Videl wanted her father's recognition more than anything. The publicity, the fame, the fortune and the 'morally correct' aspect of it were all just added bonuses. As time passed she began to start doing it, because it was the right thing to do.

But she suddenly learned that it wasn't that easy, it never was. Instead of taking on half-way crooks and little bandits, she found herself taking on entire crime syndicates. After a few near-death incidents, she winded up at the Son's place seeking training. It wasn't hard to figure out which were the better martial art styles. The famous Turtle Style, made by the Turtle Hermit himself. But most of all she needed a teacher, an instructor who wouldn't treat her differently because of her father.

She wanted to avoid special treatment as much as possible.

Naturally she was very interested in learning about the Turtle Style and had immediately set about to find the legendary Master Roshi. Sadly she only managed to draw blanks, but having a look at some of the tapes form awhile back, it had only taken her seconds to recognise the student as : Mr Monkey Tail himself, Son Goku. From there on, she found out that he had proposed to another martial artist, the Ox king's daughter; Chichi.

Chichi was by no means a famous martial artist. She was a first timer at the tournament, but had made it all the way to the semi's – only female to ever get that far – to date. As far as public records went, Chichi was there one day and simply not the next. She no longer had anything to do with the Ox-Kingdom. She didn't appear with her father, and she wasn't at any events, be it a royal one or a mere press conference.

She delved a little deeper, further back. Where would Chichi go?

Videl had found a little piece somewhere mentioning that the legendary martial artist, Son Gohan was his guardian. With that name in mind she tried to find a link between the two. Suddenly it was obvious…

The Ox-King and Son Gohan had both trained under Master Roshi!

From there it wasn't hard to figure out where the couple had lived. What better place to disappear to than his guardian's residence out in the mountains? Son Gohan's place was quite easy to find, he didn't keep the address under locks. He'd lived in the 439 mountain area for a long time, he owned a hefty piece of property there. Luckily enough for Videl, her hunch had been corret, Goku and Chichi had moved back to Goku's old home. The martial arts couple were living there with their seven year old son, Goten.

Goku had vigorously agreed to train her, after hearing her reasons; although she doubted she needed to state them anyway. He'd understood that Videl didn't like getting special treatment and that she needed training to better herself, especially given the line of work she had chosen. She still didn't understand what her late teacher had meant, but he'd said that there was a fire burning in her eyes that needed to be fuelled. Some sort of pure determination, which had him roped.

He was a good man, and his wife was a good woman… but why? Why did they die? What kind of an asshole would take such innocent people away from the world? She gritted her teeth as she saw the hunter fire an energy beam at Gohan, who had just fired his.

Urgh! Gohan – to have that ass as the last line of defence in this insane catastrophe! That boy just rubbed her the wrong way. He'd begun by acting like an ass-hole. He was rude, arrogant and the works. How he was related to Goku, was definitely beyond her. Granted, she'd only known him for a little while, but he seemed completely different to Goku. There would be the occasional spark of similarity, but that's about it. The boy seemed like he didn't care about the Son family, to Videl it seemed as if all he'd cared about was getting stronger. Taking what he could from his father and then chucking it straight back in his face later. That made sense in a way, he must have some held some grudge about Goku leaving his mother to start a new family with Chichi, and after all they wouldn't send their own son away for a long time. It was puzzling… Perhaps his relationship with Goku was awkward and complicated.

But the way he went about it… he was a total jerk. He made it clear to his little brother that he didn't care about him. Weird that he was acting all nice and cuddly with Chichi though, she was the other woman after all. But Videl didn't want to have any off it. Goten was an adorable boy, and Gohan had no right to vent out his frustrations about his parents on him.

What it was is - he was just plain insensitive. Rude. An ass.

But now Videl could see that buried deep down and within; there lies some emotion. His brilliant golden aura said that much… It was like a fire which had suddenly been brought to life. Despite his other attributes, she could feel his rage. She could tell he cared, he truly did.

Overcome with emotion and rage, Gohan continued to pour Ki into his energy blast. His aura flickered, before expanding. With a mighty yell he pushed the energy he needed into the blast. It collided straight on with the bounty-hunter's blast and simply over powered it until it engulfed the green being.

Gohan turned around shocked to find something coming at him. How could he have survived that? Had he missed? What met his eyes however nearly scared the life out of him, a Ki-blast was coming straight at him? That bastard! He was going to strike him from behind! Gohan let out a warrior's roar as his mighty aura flared around him once again.

"You bastard! I've had enough of this! Die! Now!" He cupped his hands beside his hip and screamed. "Galic Gun… Fire!" He released the build-up of purple energy in his hands. A ruthless wave of purple overcame the weaker green one within mere moments. It instantly incinerated the alien, who was unable to dodge in time.

Powering down, Gohan let out a small chuckle, and wiped the blood trickling down his forehead.

"Phew… It's over."

Authors Notes: Kaka in and out…

Till next time.