Hello Everyone. Last Chapter has been edited and changed so if you haven't you might want to check it out. It was just the dance part because of my recycling which I apologize for because I was totally at a lose and didn't want to make you all wait anymore. _
Shift: That's depressing. I hope you get out of it.
WhyAnimeIsAddicting: See above. Sorry you wasted your time.
Zi-Dawg: "Punch that bitch" Had me rollin'. Haha
Anyway.
Chapter 29: Just a sip.
(( Based on events that happened at my cousin's graduation party. ))
~~~~ On to the Story! ~~~~
Videl heard Gohan's stomach rumble over the music. When she looked up at him he scratched the back of his neck with a grin. She sighed and rolled her eyes at him before walking over to the tabled of food. Still not use to the way he eats, Videl felt her stomach lurch as he piled food upon the plate. She herself grabbed a bit of food.
Videl found a seat and had already begun to eat when Gohan reached her. Videl in mid bite looked at the mountain in front of her. She slowly took a bit of the burger she had gotten. She watched as Gohan's hands moved in a blur and the mountain was soon reduced to nothing but a few crumbs. And Videl hadn't even finished her burger yet.
Then there was a noise. Strange chuckling in her ear. She turned her head to see Master Roshi. The man sat right next to her, rather closely at that. His face was flushed a rosy tint as he grinned widely at her.
"My my Gohan." he said. "You sure do know how to pick em'."
Videl felt her mouth drop open. Master Roshi turned his head and laughed looking at the stunned, embarrassed face of the young saiyan. That's when Videl noticed the cups in his hands. As he reached over and offered one to Gohan she looked at the elder man questioningly.
"Come Drink with me Gohan!" The man exclaimed.
Videl took a second look at the cup. Filled to the brim with what she now suspected was alcohol. It shook in his hands as they were unsteady as he tried to get the boy to take the cup. Gohan just shook his head with a sign.
"Leave it you you Mast Roshi." he mumbled. "You know I can't drink Roshi. Besides, I don't think mom would be to happy if I did."
The elder man frowned before pulling away. He sat down with what was supposed to be a cute pouty face but the man couldn't pull it off. He turned looking for a new drinking buddy.
"Goten!" He called getting shakily to his feet. Videl and Gohan sweat dropped as they watched him stagger in the direction of the youngest demi-saiyan, who had stopped playing and was looking at the older man curiously. "Goten you're not a pussy are you? You'll drink with me right?"
"What's a... pussy?" Goten questioned causing the older man's face to fall.
"YOU POOR BOY!" Roshi exclaimed with anime tears. "WE MUST GET YOU EDUCATED! Here take this drink and I'll teach ya.."
"OH NO YOU DON'T!" Chichi roared stomping over to the two as Roshi handed her son the drink. "YOU WILL NOT CORUPT MY BABY!" From no where she pulled out her new cast iron frying pan. She took her aim and with all her might smashed it down to the turtle hermit's head sending him back a good way. Chichi knelt down and took the cup from Goten's hand and shooed him off to play again. She dropped the cup to the ground allowing the contents to spill causing the recovering Master Roshi to cry at the waste.
Gohan sweat dropped again as the scene played out. The students all watched scared that his mother would turn the pan against them. Chichi turned away from the man with a smile.
After Roshi had moved on from the spilled alcohol, he moved on with his search for a drinking partner. Not feeling like being denied, Roshi thought he had come up with the best idea. He slyly made his way over to the table of food. Pulling out his bottle of alcohol, and finding the bowl of punch, he added his own ingredient.
~~~~ ( ( …. ) ) ~~~~
Roshi hiccuped, waiting for his first pray. He laughed as a blond student danced over to the punch bowl to get herself a drink. As she got herself a glass and took a drink, Roshi laughed harder.
"Wow this is great!" Erasa exclaimed taking the cup from her mouth. She disposed of the paper cup and danced back over to the dance floor.
"Roshi."Tien said giving the elder man a suspicious look. "What are you up to?"
"Oh nothing! Nothing!" Roshi said waving him off. "You look thirsty Tien. I heard the punch was good. Haven't had any myself though."
Tien looked at the punch and back to the master. "Well, I am rather parched. Launch loves to dance."
As Tien got himself a cup, Roshi chuckled to himself. Her watched as the younger man smiled and went for a second drink. And then a third.
"You weren't kidding that was great!" Tien said with a grin.
"Are you feeling okay Tien?" Roshi questioned.
"Okay?" Tien said with wide grin. "I feel fantastic!"
"Woohoo!" Roshi exclaimed.
Tien laughed loudly. The others looked over and saw the man hunched slightly as he laughed. They just figured that Roshi had said something funny so they turned back to what they were doing.
"Share a drink with me Tien." Roshi said with a smile.
"Okay master." Tien said slightly flushed.
Roshi got the two drinks. He gave one to Tien and started to count.
"One... Two... Three!" he and the two chugged the drink as fast as they could.
Bulma quirked an eyebrow as she watched at scene unfold. The two, flushed faced, tittered and the acting was rather strange. At least on Tien's part. She growled in slight annoyance.
'The poor students..' she thought. 'I hope their ready for this.'
Bulma walked over the the other blue haired woman, seeming to have pulled a feather out of no where. Launch, who had also noticed the strange scene, hadn't noticed Bulma stop beside her lightly waving the feather on her nose. Her face scrunched up for a moment.
"Ah...Ah... AH-COO!"
"Bless you." some of the students said before noticing the change and running for immediate cover. Even Krillin and Yamcha did remembering how violent Launch was when she was a blond.
"Say.." Launch said reconsigning that the two were drunk. She stormed over to the two leaving foot prints behind. She glared at the two and growled. "How come you didn't invite me to come and drink with you huh?" she questioned.
Bulma sweat dropped. Launch was supposed to beat some since into them not join them. She heard an 'eep' after the sound of cracking knuckles.
"Who's the scary blond?" Sharpner whispered loudly to the other three.
"I don't know." Erasa said. "She looking like that blue haired lady."
"Launch?" Videl asked. "But how did she change her hair color?"
"When she sneezes, her personality changes." Goku said surprising the four. "So does her hair."
"So what happens now?" Erasa asked.
"Don't know. She won't change until she sneezes again."
"Say. Mr. Son. What is her personality like now?"Sharpner questioned looking at the blond woman as she shot a few rounds at the two other men.
"I'd say violent and down right crazy." Krillin said from behind Goku.
"That would about sum it all up." Goku said with a grin.
"Hey Goku remember when she shot at you because you two had to share a bed and she sneezed in the middle of the night?"
"Yeah." Goku laughed. "It was rude though. She didn't have to go and pull a gun on me."
Erasa and Sharpner looked at the man with eyes as big as dinner plates, their jaws scrapping the floor. Videl looked stunned. She didn't imagine that Gohan meant that tough. They surely didn't look tough enough to take a bullet.
"And how she always cleared the way at the tournaments." Krillin laughed along with his long time friend. "Good times. It's been a while since we last participated."
"We've been pretty busy." Goku joked.
"True." Krillin said. "I heard the caliber of difficulty dropped a ton. I'm not to sure it would really be worth entering anymore. I mean if Hercule can win and all."
"Mr. Satan is a great martial arts." Sharpner said breaking from his stunned state to defend the honor of Videl's father. He turned to said girl. "Are you going to let him talk about your dad like that Videl?"
Krillin looked at Videl before she answered. "Yes." she said simply not turning to face Sharpner. Back into his stunned state, Sharpner looked back and forth between Videl and Krillin who grinned and chuckled.
"Well, I don't know about you but I'm going to participate this year."Goku said. "I think Gohan is two. Aren't you?" Goku asked already knowing the answer.
"Of course."
"If Kakarott is entering, then I am too." Vegeta called. "Time for our rematch."
"I'm not to sure they would really want you and Vegeta to fight there. I mean look back to the damage you and Piccolo made with Vegeta it's bound to be worse." Krillin said.
"Aw come on Krillin. It'll be fun." Goku said with a wide grin.
"Yeah Krillin." 18 said from behind him. "And I'm sure the prize for winning is quite handsome."
"Sure is." Krillin said. "Alright. I'll enter too. But man, I'm totally out of shape." he finished with a whine.
"Well then you'd better get to work huh?" Master Roshi called as he handed Launch a glass.
"You're one to talk." Krillin muttered with a huff, crossing his arms over his chest. "Are you going to come back with us Yamcha?" he asked turning to the 'retired' martial artist.
The other man seemed to think about it. A smile spread across his face. "Sure I'll come." he said. A grin appeared on Krillin's face at the thought of them returning to the tournament... with a few additions. "But I'll stay in the crowd." Krillin's face fell slightly at what his friend had said.
"Oh come on Mr. Bandit sir." one of the students said. "You can do it."
Yamcha grinned. "Nope. I'm stayin' where I belong this time."
"That seems to be the smart move." Sharpner said. "It's good to know when you're washed.."
The blond's sentence was cut off when a hand was slapped over his mouth and he was tackled to the ground.
"What the hell was that Nerd-boy?" he questioned the black haired teen that had pulled him to the ground not noticing the looks being sent his way.
"Saving your skin that's what." Gohan said roughly. "Yamcha may have stopped fighting, but he still has enough to kick you can into the next week."
"Anyway." Bulma said looking away from the blond. "This is going to be interesting. If the level has gone down like you say, then it must have been extremely boring the last few tournaments."
"Humans wouldn't know a good fight if it punched them in the face." Piccolo said roughly, breaking his long silence.
"That's not true." someone else said. "Mr. Satan's match against Krowachki was a great fight."
Vegeta snorted while Piccolo rolled his eyes.
"And so was the Hercule Cell fight. To bad you didn't get to see it." Vegeta said glancing at Gohan. "I heard threw the grape vine it was.. devastating."
"Hell yeah it was!"
"Cell got his ass handed to him!"
"Mr. Satan is so cool."
Vegeta growled in annoyance.
"Yes. But I plan to give the champ a run for his money." Krillin said.
"A little pip squeak like you?" Jin questioned. "I mean no offense but Hercule Satan could eat you for breakfast."
There was a loud bang. The sound of scull hitting metal. 18, with a frying pan in her grip, looked down at the nerdy looking boy blankly. "You should learn when to hold your tongue."
The Z gang blinked a few times, before laughter ensued. Strange behavior for 18. And when did she get a frying pan? Said woman blinked a few times in confusion before shrugging it off.
~~~~ ( ( … ) ) ~~~~
Launch guided a staggering, flushed Tien to the door.
"Goodbye everyone." she called. "See you... I don't really know when!"
"Wait!" Bulma called. "Won't we see you at the tournament?"
"I don't know." Launch said. "Tien said he wasn't sure he wanted to enter."
Launch waved and as the door closed behind her. Krillin, with Marron in his arms, turned to his remaining friends with a grin.
"It's been fun." he said readjusting Marron. "We gotta get Marron home. She looks dead on her feet."
Master Roshi staggered over to them. "Mind givin an... old man.. a ride home dear?"
"Uh... Sure master." Krillin said with a sweat drop.
"I should head out to." Yamcha said with a wave. "See ya at the tournament." he called as he disappeared.
"Same here." Krillin said. "Goodbye."
Bulma looked around at the remaining bodies in the room. Vegeta stood glaring at the students. Bulma could see that he was contemplating some more target practice. Goku was finishing off the rest of the food, big grin on his face while Chichi shook her head with a smile of her own. Goten and Trunks were currently trying to get Gohan to play with them. Gohan sighed and finally gave into there pleas. Piccolo had long since left, and the students had been long since left to there own devices.
Finally it was time for the Son family to leave. Goten, with his arms and legs wrapped around his older brother's leg, begging to stay with him.
"You would have to take that up with mom not me squirt." Gohan said looking down as he made his way over to his mother. The other students watched slightly amazed that the presents of his brother didn't seem to affect him at all. He didn't even look a little clumsy. As her eldest son reached her, Chichi smile brightly.
"Momma can I stay with Gohan?"
"I'm sorry sweetie, but I need you to help me at home."
"But momma, you have daddy to help you." Goten pointed out.
Helping his wife try to coax his son into coming home, Goku smiled. "But I don't know if I can do what momma wants all by myself. I'll need help too."
Chichi smiled when Goten grinned and agreed to come home. Once he had released his older brother, Chichi pulled the older demi-saiyan into a hug.
"See you in a few days dear." she said releasing him. Gohan nodded and smiled. Goku was next as he pulled his son into a hug.
"See you at home." Gohan said as his father let go.
"Bye Gohan."
As the door shut behind his family, Gohan turned with a sigh.
"Alright kiddies bed time. Big educational day ahead of us you know." Bulma called over the chatter of the students.
There was a groan as the students thought of the word education. As they slumped toward their rooms, they thought of how boring the day to come would be
~~~~ ( ( Videl & Gohan ) ) ~~~~
Videl yawned and slumped down in bed, not bothering to take a shower that night. She sighed as her muscles relaxed and she sunk into the bed.
"Tired much?" she heard Gohan asked.
She turned her head and saw Gohan in his own bed, shirtless as usual. He had a small playful smile playing at his lips.
"Only a little." Videl said with a yawn.
Deciding against not changing, Videl pushed herself back up and lazily grabbed her pajamas.
After coming back out of the bathroom, Videl heard the snores emitting from the other bed. She stopped just as she was about to throw herself into bed. She turned to face the other way and knelt down. Her lips brushed against Gohan's and as he sighed she couldn't help but giggle before falling back into her own bed.
