A Gift to Remember and Fear
First Uninvited and now My Favorite Girl?? If I didn't know any better I would say I wanted to stay around and ride this fanfic thing out… Well only time will tell…
Disclaimer: Don't own it, would love to own it, but I own this fic… just not the characters from the show…
Pan sat next to her mother as she looked at the mound of gifts set before her. As the guests gathered around her she began to feel as though she was five years old. She leaned over to her mother and whispered,
"Mom isn't this rather juvenile? I mean after all I AM 16 today…" Videl smiled and replied,
"Honey, just humor me. I don't think your friends mind. Besides if we don't do it now you would never open these gifts." Pan sighed and plastered a smile on her face as her mother placed a small box in front of her. Pan picked up the box and read the card attached, she smiled and said,
"This is from Bulma and Vegeta." She opened the box to reveal a blue capsule case inside. She smiled at Bulma and said in a confused tone,
"Um thanks? What's it for?" Bulma smiled and said,
"Well when I was 16 years old I took my very first adventure which led me to meeting your grandfather and everyone else. Maybe you can take your own adventure and find out what's in store for you." Pan's smile became authentic as she said,
"Thanks Bulma. I just may take you up on your example." She looked over at Vegeta and nodded but Vegeta said,
"This is not my presentation to you. You will train with me with the goal of attaining super status." Pan's head immediately whipped around to her friends that didn't know of her alien decent and was relieved to see that none of them paid any attention to Vegeta's comment.
Videl placed another gift before Pan and the young woman smile and thanked each person for their gift. Gohan noticed his daughter was getting wary of opening gifts and suggested that the rest of the gifts be opened after the party. Pan immediately perked up and agreed to her father's suggestion but Marron, Bra, Uubuu, and Goten yelled in unison,
"No, we have to give Pan her gift!!" Gohan looked at the group as if they had grown extra heads and said in a slow, confused manner,
"Um, okay guys but this is the last gift." Bra hopped around gleefully as Marron and Uubuu hugged each other while Goten beamed at his brother. If one had walked in on the party at that moment they would think the four had won the lottery. Gohan shook his head in slight embarrassment and watched Pan look as confused as him.
Goten reached into his pocket and handed Pan a golden capsule and said,
"Open it lil' bit. You will be surprised." The birthday girl smiles brightly and pressed the top of the capsule then tossed into an opening in the yard. Once the smoke from the exploding capsule cleared, there sat a brand new street racer motorcycle, custom painted in Pan's colors, aqua blue and peach. On the side was a washed out graphic of the four star dragonball. Under the ball the phrase 'A Son's legacy' was inscribed. A matching helmet that donned the four-star ball on the back was placed on the seat on the bike. Pan's eyes widened to an ungodly width as she said, forgetting all the authority figures that were in hearing range,
"Holy shit!! I got a street racer!!" She looked over to her group on lifelong friends and screamed,
"You guys freakin' rock!!" She ran over to them and hugged them with all her might. Gohan and Videl smiled out of pure joy but their clairvoyant conversation displayed differently.
"Gohan did you now about this!!"
"Hell no! Why should I, you KNOW I would totally disagree to her having a motorcycle!"
"Well Goten's your brother so you should've known what he was doing! You talk to him practically everyday."
"Videl, he never mentioned it to me. If he did I would have told him no.
"Well, when are YOU going to tell her she can't ride it?"
"Why do I have to tell her no!! I'm always the mean parent?"
"Well I'm not about to crush her spirits. You're good at it." Gohan looked at his wife, who had a smirk on her face. He didn't find the remark funny and said sarcastically,
"Ha!! You are really funny you know." The woman smiled and said as she walked over to her father and mother in law,
"I know."
As Pan and her friends gathered around the bike, Gohan pulled Goten off to the side and said ,
"Dude, why would you get her something like that without consulting Videl and I first?! Goten smiled at his brother guiltily and replied in an amiable manner,
"Because you two would've said no. Everybody these days has a bike and Panny shouldn't be the exception." Gohan frowned and said,
"Okay, fine Goten, so when she becomes reckless and hurts someone and possibly herself are you going to be there to fix it? I understand she's an adventurer but I have to draw the limit somewhere." Goten shook his head at his brother and said,
"Man Go, you really need to give her more credit than you currently do. She's smart, earnest, and hasn't caused any real trouble. I think she deserves a bike. Let go of the umbilical cord, she's a big girl now. The man groaned under his breath and said,
"I can't wait until you have kids so you can understand what I'm going through. Fine, she can keep the damn bike but she can't ride it until she's taken lessons to learn how to ride it."
Bra chimed into the conversation, slightly startling Gohan, by saying,
"She can ride it now then, cool!!" The older demi-Saiyajin turned to the girl and asked,
"What do you mean? She can't operate a motorcycle that I know of." The feisty aqua-haired genius child said in a 'matter of fact' tone,
"Yes she can, she rides with me sometimes on Trunks bike." Gohan's nose flared slightly at the mention of the younger man's name, the object of his stress, as he replied in a none too nice pitch,
"Oh really, did Trunks teach her how to ride? Bra answered, unaware of the anger stirring inside the man,
" I guess, he takes her riding almost every time she comes over to the house." The demi-Saiyajin parent asked,
"So, um, do you go with them?"
"Sometimes, but if he taught her he had to do it when I wasn't with them because it was like all of the sudden she could ride and ride good."
The man looked over at his daughter, who had climbed onto the bike with Kenjiro sitting behind her, looking as though he was attempting to fondle her on the sly and frowned. His frown turned into a deep scowl as he saw Trunks off to the side of the group watching Pan and the young man with an expression that was easily recognized as jealously. Pan turned to look at the man and saw his expression and moved away from Kenjiro a bit. Gohan's blood began to boil as he thought to himself,
There IS something going on between them! I didn't just imagine that. Pan moved away from that kid because Trunks is upset!! I'm going to fucking kill them both!!
Trunks watched Pan climbed onto the bike and lean forward as if she was actually riding the bike, exposing her midriff and back to him and anyone else who cared to see. As she leaned further onto the bike he noticed a small but colorful marking near the area her tail would be at if it wasn't amputated when she was an infant. The man smirked and asked himself,
Does she have a tattoo? Panny, you bad girl!! I bet Gohan doesn't know about that.
He tried to get a better look of the marking without making it seem too obvious but just as he thought he was making out the marking, Kenjiro hopped onto the 'bitch seat' of the bike and wrapped his arms around the girl. Trunks frowned and thought to himself,
Does that little shit have to touch her constantly?!
He watched the boy lean forward onto Pan making them look in a position that was inappropriate for a family style party as his friends whooped and laughed at them. He saw Pan's face turn flush as she turned around and make eye contact with him.
Is she embarrassed by that jerk's actions? Maybe I should knock his smug ass off that bike.
Trunks began walking over to the young woman and saw in his peripheral Gohan making strides to interject him. He stopped in his tracks and turned to the older Saiyajin and said,
"Gohan, I know you said she could only open one more gift but I really would be honored if she opened this one final gift. I think both you and her will enjoy it." Gohan quickly plastered a smile on his face as the crowd turned to him and Trunks as he replied,
"Well, I guess one more gift will be fine if Pan wants to." Both men looked over to the young woman who had removed herself from her new bike. Gohan was hoping with all his might that his daughter would remain so enamored with her bike that she wouldn't care if another gift smacked her in the head. Of course to his dismay, she said,
"Daddy, are you serious? It's Trunks giving me a gift! I know it's going to worth opening right now." She turned to her adult friend and said,
"Give it here Trunksy!! I want it!" The Capsule president smiled his billion-dollar smile and reached into the belt of his gi and handed the young woman a piece of paper. Pan's eyebrow rose in confusion since she wasn't expecting a simple sheet of paper and began unfolding it. Noticing it was a notes she began reading it in silence. Those around her could easily tell she was trying to absorb whatever the notes said as her face became whiter by the second. Soon her father became quite concerned and asked,
"Pan, honey, what does the note say?" The teenager looked at her father and said breathlessly,
"My birthday gift is, I get to see Grandpa again." Gohan and Goten both blinked in confusion of what the birthday girl had said but were too much in shock to say anything. It was ChiChi who stepped through the crowd and asked in a shaky voice,
"Did you say you get to see Goku again?" Pan looked up at her grandmother with glassy eyes and said,
"Yes." The widow looked over at Trunks to voice her opinion but her eyes rolled in the back of her head as she quickly sank to the ground. Gohan quickly snapped out his shock to catch his mother in mid fall. As he lifted the woman in his arms, he looked over to the son of Vegeta, who somehow moved behind his daughter, who looked as though she was about to pass out any given moment. He then looked over to his younger brother whose face was twitching, which indicated he was somewhere between angry and confused. He then turned his attention back to the younger man and said in a stern voice,
"I need to see you and her in the house, now," as he turned heel and went into his childhood home to place his incapacitated mother in her bed.
As Bra, Marron, and Juuhachi thanked Pan's guests from coming to the ephemeral birthday party Bulma, Krillin, Uubuu and Videl were doing all they could to keep Gohan on the other side of the room from Trunks. Pan was leaning on Goten trying to wrap her head around the astounding gift. After what seemed like an eternity, Gohan finally calmed down to the point where he was able to speak astutely. He turned to Trunks, who was calmly sitting in a chair but keenly watching the Mystic Saiyajin's every move.
"Why did you get her this gift? Why are you trying to open old wounds? What are you trying to prove?"
"I'm not trying to prove anything nor am I trying to open old wounds. I'm trying to give my best friend a great birthday gift." Gohan shot up from his chair and said,
"You didn't get this for Goten, you got it for Pan!!" Trunks, being the ever so calm individual on the outside was screaming in fear on the inside as he rebuttaled,
"Yes Goten is my best friend but so is Panny. Gohan, she misses her grandfather, a lot. I know this because she talks to me about it all the time. I always hear, 'If I get to see Grandpa Goku I would ask this, I would say that, I would do this.' I'm simply giving her that chance." Goten, who hadn't spoken a word since the announcement was made said,
"How are you giving her this chance Trunks? You don't have a time machine that I know of. And can I go? I miss dad too…" Trunks turned to his friend still keeping a mindful eye on Gohan said,
"We're going into the Room of Spirit and Time. I thought about you Goten and asked Dende could you and Bra come as well but he advised me that could be dangerous since you are practically Goku's clone and Bra's practically mom's. We're going to time where you, Bra, or Pan wasn't thought of. My appearance there shouldn't mean too much since they've probably seen that other Trunks already." Everyone noticed the not so subtle bitterness in Trunks' voice as he spoke of Mirai Trunks. Gohan looked at Trunks and asked in a gruff tone,
"And how exactly are you going to explain the female quarter Saiyajin with you?" Trunks flashed a look that instantly showed why he was the CEO of the world's most prominent company and said,
"She's going under an alias. Since she can't go Super, they'll just think she's a strong human." Gohan shook his head and said,
"She can't go. I won't let her." At the instant, Pan shot up from her position next to her uncle and said in a voice so determined that it dared anyone to challenge her,
"Daddy, I am going. You can protest all you want but I want to see my Grandpa at least one more time."
Before Gohan could snap a rebuttal she was out of the house and taking off towards the Lookout.
Gigiddy Gigiddy Goo!! I made you say 'OOOOOOH" Well this chapter was for you... I think I want some Moo Su...
PEACE!!
