It took me a few days... sorry for the wait. But time has been going by so fast for me... I don't know why. Anyway, I've been reading a lot of Naruto fics so I'll probably write one of those when I'm done with this..
This chapter had been very cliché... I don't even know why i titled it 'Fall'
Don't worry though, its nothing bad =P
Also, please review... I just need one more to get to 200 XD... besides... review are what keep me writing =D
The bond that Gohan and Videl now shared would weaken over time. But would instead be replaced by their human love. That was the advantage of Gohan only being half saiyan.
"Hey Gohan?" Videl asked while still in his embrace.
"Yeah?" He responded.
"Lets go train?" She asked with hope in her eyes.
Gohan chuckled lightly and nodded. He flew off towards his forest home with Videl still secure in his arms. Once he landed, he didn't let go of her for a few seconds. He really did enjoy having her in his arms. She felt the same, but she desperately wanted to to train!
She pushed him away and smirked. Gohan just looked at her waiting to see what she would do. She sat down cross legged on the floor and closed her eyes. Gohan felt her ki surface as she began to hover a few inches over the ground.
Gohan decided to do the same. He sat on the floor and began to levitate, same as her. He however was a lot more steady than she was. It was as if there was an invisible platform was holding him up. Videl however was wavering a lot. Sliding up and down and shaking. Her eyes also remained closed.
It was understandable. She was having trouble evening out her flow of ki. It kept exiting her body in uneven rates. But the fact was, that she was flying. And Gohan couldn't be prouder. He just watched her smiling. Her expression showed a mixture of concentration and determination. Those expressions fit her face perfectly.
After a total of six minutes, Videl fell to the ground panting. She looked up to find Gohan floating. "How was that?" She said in between gasps of air.
"Incredible, I have no words to describe how proud I am of you!" he said as he went down to the ground to take her in a warm hug.
The rest of the weekend passed much the same. Gohan had gone to retrieve his girlfriend every morning and they trained until the late afternoon. By Monday she was able to open her eyes while flying. She knew she could fly up high, but that wasn't really the problem, the problem was to maintain one's self in the air.
Gohan had had her do many balance exercises thinking that they might help. And they did a little, but the thing that was troubling Videl the most was trying to keep the constant flow of ki and leave it thin enough to just keep her up.
The saiyan was proud of his mate nonetheless. He learned from Krillen that it was extremely difficult for a human to learn to fly. Even though to him it came instinctively, he did understand that it was very hard for her. What Gohan didn't understand was why Videl wanted to learn how to fly so desperately. She promised that she would tell hims when she felt confident enough in her flying.
"And when do you think that is?" He asked her. Curious about when she would feel confident.
"I'll be confident when I can fly from my house to yours beside you, not being held by you." She said, determined.
"Interesting..." Gohan responded before continuing with the training.
Goten and Trunks had gone back to the future on Tuesday. After noticing that Vegeta took another detour and Gohan spending all his time with Videl, they saw no other reason to stay and entertain themselves. They had already gotten bored of pranking their friends and teaching their miniature selves.
Gohan felt slightly sorry for the lookout after he heard what those two devils had done to it. But he was slightly upset to see them leave. Bulma was extremely glad to see them off. They ate so much, and she prayed to Dende that the future Vegeta would punish them accordingly. But poor Dende seemed to be too busy cleaning up his home to notice Bulma's wish.
The week went on much the same. At school there was all gossip about the dance that was going on that Friday. A total of thirteen girls asked Gohan to go with them. He refused stating that he wasn't such a good dancer and that he was going with Videl.
Many hearts were broken, many tears were shed, but in the end they understood that he was taken. Sharpener was laughing at the predicament and Erasa felt sorry for Gohan. Having to break that many innocent hearts wasn't easy, but what could he do, he was in love.
Speaking of Erasa, she had dragged him away from Videl to take him shopping on Wednesday. She wanted him to look dazzling for Videl at the party. Gohan fought with all his might to avoid a tie, and he emerged victorious. Thank Dende.
Of course Dende had nothing to do with it as he was still cleaning up the mess Trunks and Goten had left for him. Poor Dende. He didn't even know what that thing was that kept growing moss and grass all over the place. That wasn't even the worst, the two devils had even put two breeding rabbits in the look out. And if anyone knows how rabbits are, they'd know that before long the lookout would be infested with them from top to bottom. Poor, poor Dende.
Anyway, back with the shopping, Erasa had settled with black jeans, black dressing shoes and a light blue, button down shirt. Once again Gohan had won in the argument and was allowed not to tuck in that shit in his pants. He already looked enough like a nerd to do that.
Erasa had completed his outfit by adding a large, silver wrist watch. He looked so chic and modern that no one would even guess he was a fighter.
Once they paid, Gohan was free to go home with two bags in his hand. He needed to avoid the exhaustion that was shopping at all costs. Taking off and putting on clothes was not his preferred activity. He had enough clothes already from the trip he had made with Videl. Of course Erasa was much pickier than Videl so they had spent most of the afternoon to pick out that single outfit.
The demi-saiyan arrived at his house, ate all that he could in the shortest amount of time that he could, brushed his teeth and fell onto his bed. Eight hours later, Goten was jumping up and down, and up and down and up and down on his abdomen. Gohan swatted him away and got up with a groan. "Shopping with Erasa... never again." He said aloud as he walked into the shower.
He flew to school and met Videl. He retold the events of the previous day and she sympathized with him. Videl had dealt with her friend's shopping sprees for most of her life. How do you think she got all her stamina?
Gohan had a stray thought at that moment 'If she can deal with a best friend like this, she is going to become a great mother someday...' He shocked himself with that thought a few seconds after he thought it. But a glance at Videl's face made him realize that there was nothing wrong with thinking that. He knew he loved her with all his might and that that would never change.
The rest of the school day was the same as usual. Drawing, texting and passing notes in all the classes. Eating and chattering during lunch and then they did some meditating in Gym. Soon the last bell rand and crowds of teenagers exited the school building. Gohan scooped his girlfriend up as soon as she was out of the locker room. She just giggled as he flew off to their usual field.
They both lied down and stared up at the clouds. "Gohan, I'm a little scared of my heels." Videl confessed.
Gohan chuckled lightly. "I would be too." He stated.
"Don't you have any way to make it not hurt my feet? Like some muscle exercises for them?" She asked with a hopeful look in her eyes.
Gohan shrugged. "Well there is one way I know of. If might even help you train." he said.
"Well then what is it!" Videl responded now very happy and excited.
"You could fly just a few inches over the ground and leave your feet limp. That way they touch the floor but your not really putting any pressure on them." Gohan said. He was very scared right now.
"That sounds great!" Videl shouted laughing. But then she suddenly stopped. She took a second to think about it. "Hey! You did that last week for that dare we had! That is not fair Gohan!" She screamed standing up tall.
Gohan slowly stood up and raised his hands in defense. "Now Videl, you never said that I couldn't. Please just calm down." he said slowly. Fear was very clear in his eyes. Now he knew how Vegeta always felt when faced with Bulma. As well as how scary Chichi could really be when directed at his father.
"I don't care that I didn't say you couldn't! I thought that was clear! I thought you would be playing a fair game!" Videl shouted even louder and began pounding on Gohan's chest with her hands.
Gohan took a step back, one at a time. She followed bellowing more insults and complaints at him. It wasn't long before Gohan tripped back on a stone and fell. Videl fell along with him because of the force of the punch she was about to hit him with. He wrapped his arms around her instinctively and they began rolling down a hill in a very cliché manner.
Gohan was now laughing really hard because of the priceless look on Videl's surprised face as they kept on rolling. The surprise turned into dizziness for both as they kept on spinning and spinning. Gohan was constantly taking on all the weight of both their bodies weather it be on his torso or on his arms that where wrapped around Videl. He just didn't want her to get hurt.
They rolled down until they ended up in a river. Gohan was on the bottom on his back and he floated up. Videl was on top of him using his body as a sort of raft. It took the both of them a second to make their head stop spinning, but then they started to laugh.
The gentle stream kept them going at an even pace. The slight breeze caused a few shivers to go down Videl's wet spine, but she didn't mind it. "Fine, I forgive you. But only tis once!" Videl said, remembering their earlier argument.
"I'm glad!" Gohan said looking up as her with a smile.
Though she didn't notice, Gohan was having a little trouble keeping the both of the afloat. Body fat is what keeps the human corpse buoyant in water. And as Gohan's body was made mostly of muscle and almost no fat, he had to use his ki to keep both himself and the girl on to of him on the surface of the water. Muscle is also know to sink like a rock. So this required a little time for Gohan to figure out what the hell was going on, and then struggle to act on it.
Once he figured it out, however, it was very east to execute his plan. He was now relaxing and smiling at the sight of his shining wet girlfriend.
Videl lowered her head and pressed her lips to his. Gohan acted and took the back of her head in his had, deepening the kiss. Videl cupped his face with both her hand as Gohan extended his free on to run freely along her back.
Gohan was carful to keep a small part of his mind making sure that he was still maintaing them both afloat.
The make-out session continued to deepen and the couple didn't notice that the current was increasing speed. It wasn't until Videl noticed a much stronger wind brush against her wet body that she realized that they were moving fast.
She broke the kiss and looked up to see a cave in the distance. They were going to flow into it and she didn't know what was going to happen after that. She panicked, telling Gohan to fly them out of there but he began to laugh.
Gohan remembered this river. He had fallen into it before, when he was a child. He didn't know how to fly back then. And neither did his father. Well, Goku had know how to fly at the time, but he wasn't very good at it so he stuck with the nimbus.
When he had gone into the cave the first time, there was a water fall at the end. Before falling though, he had subconsciously jumped and ended up on a branch. Now that he was older and had done much more exploring of the area, he knew that if he fell there wasn't any danger. Not even for Videl there was. There was a pretty deep pool of water with no rocks poking out to break their fall. If they made a clean dive, they would be fine. It might even be a little fun.
"Videl, you just have to remember to dive straight down when we fall. Its going to be so much fun!" Gohan said.
The panic in Videl's face was now increasingly visible. "Gohan...!" she said. It wasn't loud, but it completely expressed her fear. For a normal human, going into a dark cave and then falling wasn't a very good activity.
"Don't worry, you'll be fine. Trust me." Gohan said, stroking her damp hair. She nodded once, the same look in her eye.
They entered the cave and the speed kept increasing and increasing. Videl went into the water beside Gohan and took his hand. They then saw a light at the end of the tunnel. Videl felt relieved, but she was wrong. A few seconds later, she saw the enormous water fall. It wasn't that wide, but it was tall. Very, very tall.
The speed increased even more the closer they got to the fall. Their own bodies had their own inertia and made them go even faster. Gohan wanter to add more speed so he used his own ki to do it. They were going faster than a car, and then came the fall. Their speed made them go on further than the water fall, and both managed to make a clean dive on the twenty-seven yard drop.
They both emerged from the water with Gohan having a large smile on his face and Videl with a scowl. "Why the hell did you put me through that?" She bellowed.
Gohan laughed some more. "But it was fun wasn't it?" He smiled.
Videl thought about it, and realized that it had been fun while diving. But all the time before wasn't. So she still had the right to be mad. She turned back to glare at Gohan, but saw his innocent smile. She couldn't be mad at that... "Not fair." she pouted.