Hey, guys!
I hope you like today's chapter and remember:
I DO NOT OWN NARUTO NOR DBZ.
Almost all of his clothes had been lost due to their damage, so he was given new ones, which were similar to the ones everyone wore in that world. Gohan's clothes consisted of pants similar to the ones he had before combined with a net shirt underneath a purple loose shirt with short sleeves. The shoes he was wearing before during the battle against Cell, the ones that Piccolo had given him, had been given back to him along with a pair of blue sandals. For now, Gohan chose his old shoes, although the blue sandals made him curious and wanted to try them.
After getting himself ready, he left for the place the old man had told him, although he still needed some directions from the villagers, who just thought he was a normal foreigner. Finally, the hybrid saiyan finally reached the great building where the Hokage was waiting for him.
"Hey." Gohan said as he was greeted by several people as he made their way to the old man's office.
Gohan noticed how some people gave him menacing looks, as if he was some kind of freak, but he decided to ignore it. As he finally reached the door that led to the office, a young, silver-haired man received him, opening the door and letting him enter. Inside the office, an old man was smoking from his pipe. He was wearing the same white robes he had been wearing when Gohan first saw him, although this time he had a peculiar red and white hat. Behind him, pictures of four men were in the wall, one of them being himself. The young saiyan noticed the similarities between the second one of the picture and the Hokage's current assistant.
"Welcome, Gohan." The old man said, inviting the black-haired saiyan to take a sit.
"Thank you, sir." Gohan replied, bowing to the Hokage before taking a seat in front of his desk.
"It's good to have you here." The old man said as he finally finished his phrase. "Anyway, let's go straight to the point."
The saiyan turned to look down at his hands and then back up to the old man, getting mentally ready for any possible attack he could receive.
"You're a warrior, aren't you?" The Third asked, taking a smoke from his pipe as he finished his question. "We've noticed your physical condition and, according to what you told us about fighting an enemy, we guess that you're a warrior of some kind."
"Yes, I am." Gohan answered, his tone remaining calm and naive. "But why do you ask?"
"I'd like to test your strength, would you mind?" The Hokage explained as he paid attention to the saiyan's expressions, noticing that he may probably have to give some explanations. "Konoha is a military village, and seeing that you are a warrior, we would be interested in acquiring your fighting abilities."
"I guess that's okay, but what do I gain in exchange?" The onyx-haired saiyan said as he expected to at least get something in exchange for his effort.
"You'll be given a place to live in, you'll be given a considerably good salary and, of course, you'll be recognised as a normal citizen of the village and have access to anything a normal citizen has access to." The old man answered, getting a little, confident smile on his face after Gohan nodded.
"You said you wanted to test me, right?" Gohan asked with a curious expression on his face, although he was a bit unconvinced of fighting again in a while. "Will I have to fight anyone?
Hiruzen expected this question, although the answer had changed as he imagined it wouldn't really be necessary to test when he was going to take the Academy test anyway. "Don't worry about that anymore, there has been a change of plans. You won't be tested anymore."
The saiyan raised his eyebrow in confusion, but then figured that it would be better. Yuichi noticed that maybe he would have some doubts and went on to explain things to the kid. "You'll soon be told about what will proceed in your life, don't worry." The Senju coldly said as he turned his glance at the saiyan.
"Since you are already here, I'll proceed to explain how the shinobi work and it's different ranks." The Hokage announced as he grabbed one headband that had been taken to his office and showed it to Gohan. "This headband is given to the shinobi that graduate from the Academy. Shinobi are basically members of the army of the village, although they normally hold very good life conditions." Hiruzen said with a kind tone, clearly trying to persuade the young saiyan to join the village as one. "Now, let me give you a quick explanation of the ranks we have for shinobi." The saiyan nodded in response, so the old man proceeded. "We have 3 ranks: Genin, the lowest. Chuunin, the second one. Jounin, the highest rank except for Kage. The Kages are the leaders of the hidden villages, I am the Hokage and therefore I have the highest rank."
So he is the leader of the village... Gohan thought.
"Actually, this these men's pictures behind me are my predecessors, me and my succesor, who unfortunately died little after he was named Hokage." Hiruzen explained as Gohan started to get interested in them.
After some time of looking at the pictures, Gohan turned his glance back at the old man and got back in the conversation. "So, will I get any of those ranks?"
"Unfortunately, no." The Hokage answered, disappointing the boy. "You'll have to graduate from the academy, but at least you'll be able to make friends, so don't worry."
"But I will still get paid, right?" Gohan asked, to which the old man answered by nodding.
"Yes, you'll be given enough for you to live correctly, you'll also be given a house." The Hokage said, smiling kindly afterwards. "I hope this is enough to earn his trust."
I'll have to make some research to find a way to go back home. Gohan thought. "By the way, sir, is there any library I can go to?"
"We'll be giving you a map once we give you your house, so don't worry." The Hokage said, getting a triumphant and kind smile in his face. "It looks like he trust us."
"Thanks, sir." Gohan said as he bowed to the old man.
"You're welcome. Now you'll be taken to your house, please follow Yuichi." The Hokage said as he beckoned his assistant to go.
A couple of weeks had past since he had appeared in the sky above the village, but he hardly had done anything, mainly because the majority of the time he had been recovering from his injuries.
That day Gohan had to go to the academy to at least learn and get to know who'll probably be his new teammates. He had already taken a bath and had put his clothes on, the same clothes he wore the day before when he had met with the Hokage.
"Time to go to school I guess." Goku's son said as he opened the door to leave for the academy.
He decided to stay for a little more and eat something else before leaving. He was a bit nervous, he had never gone to school before, and it made him terrified to think that he wouldn't be able to make friends.
"Now, it's time." Gohan said as he quickly left the house after closing the door. His speed would be totally shocking and unbelievable to anyone that wasn't from his own world.
Even though he had the ability to fly, he was really unsure if he would be able to use it. He thought that maybe it would scare people off. He still preferred to fly, though, but he ended up walking to the academy. Once he arrived, he was able to see a lot of kids of his age. The kids played, talked and ate. Something catched his attention, though. A blonde kid was sitting alone in the grass in front of where all the kids were. The kid looked sad and Gohan just couldn't ignore him.
"Hey." Gohan said as he greeted the kid. "What's your name?"
"Hey." The kid said as he raised his head to look at the boy that was talking to him. "I'm Naruto, what about you?"
"I'm Gohan!" The half saiyan enthusiastically said as he noticed the kid started to cheer up a bit.
As they were called in to the building to start classes, Gohan told Naruto to go with him, to which the blonde agreed. As they reached their class, Gohan was told by the professor to wait outside, yet telling Naruto to. This man had a scar in his face, like a cut, that went from cheek to cheek. He finally entered the class as he was called in.
"Hello, I'm Son Gohan and I'm new in the village." The half saiyan said with a happy and enthusiastic tone. "I hope we can get along."
"Alright, Gohan, take a seat." The professor said as the half saiyan nodded. "I'm Iruka, and I'm here for whatever you need, okay?"
Gohan nodded again as he tried to find a place to sit. He tried to find a seat next to Naruto, but it was already taken. He finally saw one next to a blonde girl, who beckoned him to seat next to her.
"Thanks." Gohan softly told the girl, as he sat down next to her.
"No problem." The girl said. She stretched her hand to Gohan. "I'm Ino."
"Nice to meet you." Gohan said as he shook her hand.
The class went by pretty quickly, or that's at least what Gohan thought. He had always been interested in learning, he loved to learn. He was really interested in this jutsu things, he thought of how useful they could be in his own world. In the end, he was happy even though he hasn't learned anything about energy capable of creating black holes or any real distortion in the universe. The break had finally come and Gohan was hungry. He had taken some lunch to the academy as Trunks prepared it for him. Everyone was shocked when they reached him out to talk and saw the crazy amount of lunch Gohan had.
"Have you been carrying that all the way here?!" A boy with a sweater on said.
"Eating that much can be really troublesome." Another boy with his hair in a tail said.
Suddenly, another kid spoke up. He had black hair and blue clothes, and apparently, some girls were really into him. "If you eat that much then your physical condition has to be really bad." The boy said.
"Man, have you even taken a look at him?" Naruto asked as he got mad at the boy. "You always have to be so annoyingly complaining, Sasuke."
Everyone was shocked at Naruto's response to the Uchiha. The kid with a hair in a tail facepalmed as the boys of the classroom just felt bad for Naruto, while the girls of the class just cheered Sasuke up as they expected him to easily beat the blonde kid.
"Shut up, idiot." Sasuke replied as he turned back to look at Naruto, who was standing up in front of him. "A loser like you can't make fun of a prodigy like me, don't you get it? Are you so literally retarded that you still aren't able to understand?"
"Who are you to say that to Naruto?" Gohan said with a serious tone, as the Uchiha widened his eyes in anger. "Judging by your lack of empathy, you seem to be the stupid one around here." Sasuke's anger increased, and it being the new one confronting him made it easier as he didn't have to hold back, just like he did with Naruto. "You don't even know what he had to feel like all day being alone!"
"You don't know anything about me, new guy." Sasuke said as he pointed right to Gohan's face. "Just shut up, I don't have time to waste in you, I have a more important mission to deal with."
"Whatever your mission is, you just can't treat other person like that." Gohan replied with an annoyed tone, although he didn't seem to have the intention of causing any harm, he just wanted the Uchiha to understand Naruto. "I don't know you, but I don't think that is justified."
Sasuke was left speechless by Gohan's words. He knew he was right, but he refused to let anyone win against him, he needed to be strong to defeat Itachi. He didn't see the necessity of beginning a fight so he decided to continue the argument. "And you shouldn't judge people you don't know. I could have a life just as hard as Naruto's and you wouldn't know."
"I see... I can't deny that, I'm sorry" The saiyan said, getting a nod from the Uchiha back in a way of accepting the apologies. Naruto watched at Gohan, someone he had just met and had just defended him. The Uchiha sat down as he regretted saying what he said to Sasuke, after all, they had lived a life of almost equal pain and loneliness. He one day would apologize. Meanwhile, Gohan was getting ready to start eating his meal, having a change of mood that just seemed out of place for anyone. "Time to eat!"
Everyone in the classroom fell on their backs as Gohan went casually back to his place and started eating really quickly. The other kids, except for Sasuke and Naruto, who were busy submerging in their thoughts, were shocked at how Gohan ate.
"Anyway, when will you graduate?" Gohan asked he calmly kept eating.
"Tomorrow is the final test." A pink haired girl answered, still shocked at how fast he ate that much food. "And I don't know what you'll do because your first day was the day before the final exam."
Gohan's face turned white as his face showed total shock, he even spit out his food due to his surprise.
So that was the second chapter! I hope you liked it! It's kind of a slow chapter but anyway.
I'll try to post one more this weekend, but I'm not sure if I'll be able to.
Anyway, have a good one!