Heeeeeey guys! Sorry, sorry and more sorry about this long hiatus… But I'm having a huge author's block, I moved from my old city, work is killing me… I'm sorry. I'll try to update more regularly, I swear.

So, I had this chapter done, and I'm trying really hard to work on the next one, so I decided to release it for you all. I hope you guys like it, and I promise that I'll do my best to get out of this author block.

Disclaimer: I don't won DBZ.

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Chapter 20

Gohan put his chin on Videl's neck after telling her everything. They were sitting on the floor, his back resting on his bed, Videl was with her own back on his chest; he was hugging her as if she was the last person alive on Earth. The girl heard everything without saying anything back, as she said before, she was a good listener. His eyes went to her face, her eyes were closed, thinking deeply.

"That… I don't even know what to say." Was what she decided to tell him. Sure, she had thought it was something bad but… torture? She sure would've break down. Like, for real. But Gohan still could act normal, or at least pretend to. She felt his tail curl up strongly on her left arm, which make her look at him. "How am I supposed to help you now? I thought it wasn't that bad…" He smiled before kissing her cheek.

"You've already helped me. I needed to talk to someone." She narrowed her eyes at him.

"And who said that you could kiss me?" She felt his tail curl up more, and she had to hold back a laugh; she understood that curling up showed his feelings.

"Huh… I'm sorry?" He asked with a silly grin, that made she roll her eyes. He was cute, acting like a kid. She sighed in disbelief.

"You look like a child. Grow up." Videl giggled and Gohan hugged her stronger. He was feeling a lot better now, and almost forgot about his one-year training that started in the next day.

"I don't want to." His voice was near her ear, and she felt shivers due to it. "Not with you." He then buried his head on her neck, and she blushed.

Yeah. It was impossible not to fall deep for him.

"Hm." Was all that came out from her mouth. Videl then put herself in a better position on his embrace, she'd enjoy this as long as she could.

"Thanks." His voice came muffled, and she caressed his arms with her hands.

"Anytime." She said with a smile, one that grew up when his tail curl up again around her arm. "I think it's cute of you to curl your tail around my arm, you know?" Then something else happened.

Immediately after she said that, his tail let go of her arm, while Gohan raised his head away from her neck.

"W-What…" He was shocked at his behavior to say the least. Gohan never imagined he was doing that, his tail seemed to have its own will. "… I've never, I…" Videl turned her face to him, eyes fulfilled with surprise; did he do that without noticing?

"You did that without noticing…" She said putting one hand over her mouth, trying to hide the smile that was forming under it. He blushed.

"Y-Yes… it seems to have its own will…" He looked away while she laughed.

Vegeta was mad. Not that it was something new, but it doesn't matter. He tickled his tongue, a vein was visible on his forehead, crossed arms and a annoyed foot that keep stepping on the floor. 'He's late.' He thought, while his foot moved faster. The prince was in front of the door of the Time Chamber, waiting for long minutes for Gohan, who still didn't show up. His temper got higher and he couldn't hold back anymore.

He was going to get the brat from his bed, once and for all.

He stormed around the lookout, making the ones that were still there, and already awake, look at him with raised eyebrows. He passed by Erasa, who barely get out of his way in time – and yelled at him without thinking twice – and walked further, ignoring the noisy teenager. Once he reached the door for Gohan's room, he stormed inside, without even thinking in how much force he used; or if he woke up the two individuals inside. Yes, two.

Videl was sleeping in Gohan's arms, both in the bed snoring; at least until the door was open abruptly. The demi Saiyan sit up fast, a protective hand pushing Videl behind him. An instinct that he developed after years of danger: be ready for battle anytime and protect the ones who don't stand a chance. Not that he'd tell her about the "don't stand a chance" part; she'd kill him. Even so, the couple saw Vegeta as clear as a day at the door, the furious glare the prince had making both shiver. Gohan could be the strongest on Earth, but that didn't change the fact that a pissed off Vegeta was something he'd avoid if he could.

"You damn BRAT!" Vegeta yelled still on the door, making Gohan remember that he should've be up for… 'Shit! Half an hour!' He mentally yelled after looking at his watch – which he got back from #18 after he got healed. "You forgot our training just to be in bed with a girl?!" Gohan blushed, forgetting for a minute that he was afraid of Vegeta.

"It's not like that!" He yelled in protest, face all red. If he turned to see how Videl was, he surely would find a tomato instead; it was how red she was.

"I don't care! You're late!" Vegeta walked forward, hands clenched in angry, and grabbed Gohan by his right leg, near his heel. "We're going, now!" And simply like that dragged him around the room.

Gohan yelped as the firm grip on his heel intensified, while he dumbly slipped out of the bed with the first tug Vegeta did, hitting his head on the floor. A loud 'bam' echoed, followed by a moan, but that didn't stop the prince from dragging the half Saiyan away. Videl blinked at the scene, trying to process what was happening, but only come to her senses when Gohan was already with only his hand inside the door frame, trying vainly to not be dragged around.

"Ah-! Wait!" She yelled, running for them, but it was too late.

Vegeta was yelling at the half Saiyan, words that no one understood – by now they already figured it was some kind of dirty words from his Saiyan dialect – while Gohan was yelling back, trying to free his leg or making Vegeta stop his walk.

At the scene, Piccolo sweat dropped. He was happy that somehow, his pupil seemed happier, even while being dragged around by Vegeta, but the scene was a little… disappointing. Sometimes the demi Saiyan just acted like a child; that could be one side effect of not having an actual childhood. Erasa and Sharpener laughed, and it only intensified as they saw Videl running behind the duo, arms stretched, a worried face while also yelling.

"Gohan! Vegeta, wait!" But it was no use as they already reached the door for the Time Chamber. Gohan sweat dropped at the prince, and barely had time to look at Videl and start to talk.

"Videl! I'll see –" And the door shut, leaving a stunned teenager girl behind.

Dende laughed, what made the Z fighters, that were also laughing at the short action look at him. He couldn't resist, as he knew how angry Gohan would be at Vegeta once inside the Time Chamber, after all the prince didn't even let him say goodbye for his friends, and he'd only talk to them after one year – in his time inside the chamber that is.

Somehow, he felt at peace. Even the Earth still being in danger.

Videl, Erasa and Sharpener crossed their arms in a single motion, sighing angrily at what they just heard. Why should they go back to that place? After traveling for months, they just had to go back to school?! They didn't want that! They wanted to be part of everything that was happening, not to mention that the Earth below was living in, a kind of, hell. For aliens and sympathizers that is.

Also, now that they knew how bad Wickey really was, they sure wanted to help and to train with Kuririn.

"Why?" Videl asked, eyebrows connected into an angry line that made some of the Z fighters shiver; her voice just now resembled ChiChi and Bulma when they were angry. "We also want to help."

"W-We know that." Kuririn started uneasy; that look, and voice just made him see ChiChi in front of him instead of Videl. "But for now, we have to wait three days. So, it's better if you guys go back home." Now their frown got deeper but for a different feeling.

"What do you mean? Why do we have to wait three days?" It was Sharpener time to do the asking.

"One year. That's the time Vegeta and Gohan will train from now on, inside the chamber that is." Piccolo started, his voice being the same he used to teach Gohan something. "But for us, it'll only be three days or so. It depends on them if they want to leave sooner."

"Knowing Vegeta's love for fighting…" Kuririn continued.

"They'd stay there forever. For Gohan's luck they can't stay too much in there."

The Z fighters chuckled. That was Vegeta for sure. The teenagers exchanged a look while the chat continued. It was a mute talk – something they developed because of the years of knowing each other – and decided what they'd do. As it seemed that they couldn't help with anything so, at the moment they'd go home and to school for the time being.

Bulma stopped her jet copter right in front of the Orange High School, and it sure caught the attention of many of the students there. Well, they weren't great in number to be precise; it got clear to the trio inside the jet that something was way different than when they left school all those months ago. At the schoolyard stood a few dozens of students, and they were fast to gather around the Capsule Corp. jet. The blue haired woman was the first to step outside, opening the door so the trio could get out.

"Come, I still have to talk to the Principal." She said with a smile while they jumped off the jet. "Kuririn asked me to tell you that he'll come get you guys as soon as those two are out of the temple." She reassured them, as she knew that they really wished to still be at the temple.

"Thanks." Videl answered also with a smile.

And then, the group walked into the building.

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Boring.

School was boring.

Sure, they knew about that before, but after traveling the world? Now all they wanted to know how the hell Gohan managed to go to classes and not be bored. He had a life full of adventures after all! Videl sighed while she rested her face on her hands. The classroom was empty, and it sure wasn't what the trio expected to see once they got back. It was already the third day since they left the lookout, and they expected notices soon.

But, meanwhile, they were impressed by the few number of students at the school. Their class, that should be full of forty students, had a mere number of fifteen.

"Just what happened while we were out?" Erasa said putting her head on the table. Her two friends looked over to her, they obviously didn't know what to say.

"To put it simply," Hammar, a boy that sat in front of them, said while twisting his seat so he could look at them. "The school was full of half aliens. When that came to the surface, the majority of the parents took their kids out of the school. Something like they didn't want their children to have contact with 'filthy' beings." He quoted that part with his fingers. "And then only us remained. The sympathizers." He finished up with a smile. As he got silent, Videl spoke.

"So, you guys don't think they are going to conquer the world?" It was a test. A test that her and her friends went through while traveling.

"Honestly? Of course not! I mean, a few of them are so powerful that could've conquered us if they wanted to. It just doesn't make sense. Why they'd only now do something to accomplish that?" Hammar finished with his hands up, and the other students nodded at the trio. Videl smiled, as Erasa and Sharpener too.

"We think the same. I can't lie that at first we believed Wickey, but in our… trip to Capsule Corp., someone could say that our minds were opened to the truth." Videl said reassuring her fellow classmates.

"Yeah, we know for a fact that Wickey isn't a good person…" Erasa completed, just to receive angry looks from her two friends; but she just shrugged. She had a plan that formed into her head as Hammar was speaking.

"What? How?!" Hammar looked at them with widened eyes, and the other students gathered around the group. Erasa smiled.

"You see, we happened to get close to the Golden Fighter." Everyone looked at her with surprise.

Well, Videl and Sharpener wanted to kill her right there for talking too much.

The door opened, and the duo that stepped out of the white room let out a sigh of relief for seeing the blue sky, and not only the brightness white of the time chamber. Gohan, who now had a very long hair, looked over to Vegeta – who had the very same scowl as ever – and smiled. Their time alone was… hard. The pure blooded saiyan was really short in temper while training Gohan, and the half breed was sure that it was because the prince thought that they had too much of a little time to train; even they barely sleeping between their meals and training. Vegeta walked away, with his arms crossed before talking to Gohan a last time.

"Now we only have to follow the plan. Go see that girlfriend of yours for now; she kept distracting you even when she was not around." Without even waiting for an answer, the prince walked away.

"Such a temper." Gohan managed to say to himself before smiling. He indeed wanted to go see his girlfriend – something he couldn't believe that turned out true after all the mess started.

He then ran away from the time chamber to his room, where he could retrieve his old cellphone. First, he made sure that it was charged, and then turned it on. It started to buzz like crazy as all the messages and missed calls, that he received when he vanished, arrived. He didn't even look at them now; all he wanted was to use it to call the most important person to him on the Earth bellow.

And then, he flew away as fast as he could, ignoring even Dende and Piccolo yelling at him to be careful.

Erasa was smiling victorious at the side of her two best friends, a duo that couldn't believe in what she did at class. Using Gohan's alter ego she managed to start up a resistance, and they even had a name!

Golden Wall

The group of students at the class were fast to spread the word of the 'Golden Wall' around the school and at the end of the day… they even had a website. Videl and Sharpener were perplexed to say the last.

They decided it was best to be friends with Erasa until their deaths. After all, after this power show… what she'd do to someone she hates?

"I still can't believe in it." Videl said while shaking her head, stopping her walk at the gate.

"What can I say? I'm just that awesome." Erasa ended posing up as a superhero. Sharpener snorted.

"What's more impressive is the number of adepts. Look at these numbers!" He said while turning the screen of his phone, so the girls could see it. Their eyes widened.

It was more than six digits.

Internet is something dangerous.

"Holly shit…" Videl muttered while Erasa's smile grew wider.

"This is so, so, much more than what I first wanted!" She jumped up and down on the same spot. "I'll go back and talk to the guys. We need to start it right now!" She yelled while running back to the school, leaving the other two alone who sweat dropped.

"I'll go help her." Sharpener said still looking at a running Erasa. "It's not like I have something else to do." Videl looked at him with narrowed eyes.

"Homework isn't something?" He grinned.

"Never." And then the boy started to run after Erasa.

Videl giggled and focused on what she was going to do now. She had her training schedule after all, not to mention that sometime on this day Kuririn would call them to tell about Gohan. She smiled to herself and started to walk away, ready to throw her capsule jet on the ground, but stopped on her tracks when her cellphone started to vibrate on her pocket. Immediately she sighed, thinking about who on Earth would annoy her – even the calls for the police were low (nonexistent even) in these three days – in a school day.

Her heart stopped, just to beat louder and strongly, when she saw from who the message was from, bringing a sincere and soft smile to her face. There was no need to say she didn't even wait to throw her capsule on the ground and get up on her jet, driving fast to her house.

Gohan sighed while looking at his phone. Did Videl see the message? If yes, why didn't she reply yet? He was anxious, and hiding at the edge of the city, in the middle of the trees that rounded its boarders, cellphone in hands. Before he sent the message to her, he read all his missed ones she'd send him when he vanished. His heart broke at each of them, and more when she realized that maybe she'd take a long time to find him.

…

We just went to the hospital! Where the hell did you go?!

…

Gohan, why aren't you replying me? Or Erasa and Sharpener? The hospital dared to not answer me, ME! And now even you? What happened?

…

I know by now that you'll probably never answer this. But I still feel like sending you a message. That same day we went to Capsule Corp., and Bulma sent us on a trip to find you. She said that she promised to you to not tell where you are, but she could give us a way to find what we seek. I'm learning a lot of new things, and I hope we can find you soon, so I can tell you all of it.

…

Today, my dad called me. I miss him, and I miss you too. I know that we'll find you soon, I can feel it, but something inside me tells me that I'll not be fully prepared for that... And I'll also stop to send you messages. I know I should've stopped sooner, but I wasn't strong enough.

…

He closed his eyes as he reread the ones that made him sad. He could feel on her texts her anxiety to seeing him, to be around him again, all that made him miss her even more. Closing his eyes, he tried to find her ki among the ones at the city, but even hers being higher than the few humans (ki) still on the city, it took him a while. He could sense two relativities strongly together, and he supposed that those were Erasa and Sharpener. What could only mean that Videl wasn't with them, so he focused to find the third stronger one. When he felt it, he let out a smile. She was fast, not as fast as he was when flying by himself, but heck she was doing a quick trip. Then it suddenly stopped, and after a few minutes…

I'm on my room.

Heck, how he loved to have instant transmission.

Videl slammed her door shut and locked it. It wasn't that she wanted to do something, you know, with Gohan, but she wasn't in the mood to explain how a boy sneaked into her room when all the employers were at home. Even her father was home for a change! She then tossed her things at her bed, but not her phone as she used it to send Gohan a message. It didn't take a minute for him to appear right in front of her. Her first reaction was to absorb how different he seemed with long hair. Both stood there, for minutes, simply looking at each other, as if they were noticing the other for the first time all over again, but soon the boy closed the gap and hugged her strongly.

Videl immediately put her arms around his torso, hugging him back. She knew that he was only far from her for three days – in her time – but for him it was a longer period. She could also feel his anxiety, how much he missed her. She smiled and buried her face on his chest, what wasn't difficult as her weight was just that high and hugged him with all her strength. She knew he could take that. Gohan's hands that where on the small of her back made their way to her neck, never letting go of the physical contact. She shuddered at the touch, arching her back in a way that he could have access to what he wanted with ease: her mouth. Their lips clashed, both eager for each other. After all, they kissed too little when they finally got together at the lookout; what Gohan needed at the time was comfort, and not romance.

Videl didn't know when, but she felt one of his hands lower the touch, it lightly touched one of her breasts on its way, making her slightly moan inside his mouth. Gohan stopped his hand movement for a second, before moving it again. His hand went to where the bar of her shirt was and softly lifted it, allowing his hand to touch her waist skin. It was like she was on fire, just his touch made the girl shiver. He felt that and moved his hand, his fingers softly touching her skin, and put it on top of one of her small breasts that was covered by her lightly bra. Her legs started to tremble at his touch, and she was fast to put both hands under his own shirt; it wasn't fair for only him to feel, to touch. He had the same symptoms as she did, and it seemed to active the hand inside her shirt. Gohan squeezed her breast, making her break the kiss for a second so a low moan could scape, making itself present in the air between them.

"…Go…" Videl started to say but was stopped by an even more lush Gohan than she could have anticipated.

He squeezed her breast again, right before his hands went under the bra that was hiding its content. Both felt something different at the touch, but good, so damn good. Her reactions were making him aroused, and he knew he should stop soon, or else it'd be impossible to do so; but damn that was hard with her reacting that way! Then she surprised him. Videl broke the kiss, and roughly lifted his shirt, making the boy take it off. He stared down at her, surprised at her actions, but his eyes widened as he saw her pulling off her own shirt; what he stopped by taking it off himself. The act made her pigtails to loosen, freeing her hair. They stood there for a moment, in the middle of her room, before Gohan grabbed her strongly. Videl's legs went up, hugging his waist as she supported herself on his hands that were on her butt. He walked to her bed, laying down together with her.

"Are you sure about this?" He managed to ask, his voice coming out rough – and sexy to her ears –, when he broke their kiss. Her hands traveled on his back, until she found the base of his tail. He moaned at the soft touch she did on the limb, and Videl smiled.

"What do you think?" She got up, supporting herself on her elbows. In their position, the movement she did made her breasts, still with the bra, really close to his face. His eyes went to them, and she smiled softly. "I'm sure of it. Aren't you?" He looked up at her for a moment, moving forward to kiss her as an answer.

"Of course, I am." Then they kissed.

Gohan opened his eyes slowly and looked at the girl sleeping on him. A smile came to his face, the moments they shared giving him a good feeling on his heart. He was also glad at Erasa, yes, Erasa. For some strange reason Videl had condoms, something that he didn't expect of course. He remembered the exact moment he stopped their – hot – moment; Videl was already without her bra, both ready to get all the clothing off. He looked over to her, before smiling shyly.

"Hmm…" He started not sure how to go for there, and she looked at him with a bit of confusion. "D-Do you have…" He looked away, trying to say what he wanted to. "You know… protection…" He whispered the last word, and Videl got as red as a tomato at the understanding came to her.

"Oh… in fact…" Stretching her right arm she tried to reach her backpack, what she found on the floor instead of the bed. 'It must have fallen down when we got to the bed…' She thought, and then released herself from Gohan's embrace for a bit. He looked at her with curiosity and was surprised when she gave him the little package. "Hm… Erasa practically put them into my bag after we came back. Something about… we both sleeping together needing protection…" She murmured the last part, as the previous times they did do that, it wasn't like they would do something like… well…

And then, there's no need to tell what happened.

Gohan smile grew wider as Videl held him stronger on her sleep. He couldn't believe in how lucky he was… how fortunate he was for accepting his feelings and her. He could go back to sleep for now for all he cared, he'd love to wake up with her again. And so, he did just that.

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