Iba's Notes: Wow, believe it or not, I'm actually becoming rather bored of this fic... I'll do what I can to finish it. If I feel like it.
Hotaru sat on the roof of her new home, and gazed at the sunset. She hugged her knees as she acknowledged how unusually quiet the city was being. The gentle breeze made her hair swish back and forth in a repeated motion.
With one slow movement, Hotaru pulled out a curious little silver box. She twisted the key on the side and it began to play a calming melody. She sat for a moment, enjoying the sweet music.
"Hotaru! I hear you're going away for a while..."
"Yeah...I'm going to miss you guys..."
"Ah, ah! Not to worry! Usagi is coming through for you again! Here, look at this!"
"It's beautiful, what is it?"
"Heh, it's a little gift the the girls and me. Now take it, and you should always remember...when you get lonely or sad, play it, and you'll never be alone!"
"..."
"Hotaru! Why are you crying?"
The tiny music box stopped, and Hotaru stuck in back in her pocket. She stared into the orange sky, musing about various things. But no matter what she tried to think about, Gohan kept fluttering into her head.
She had felt, she thought, Gohan's pure heart approach her when she was still sleeping in the hospital. Much more pure than she had thought he was. Perhaps he wasn't as much as a jerk as she had judged him to be before.
Goku burst open the door and flopped the giant blue fish onto the kitchen table. Gohan looked up at Goku, from his chair, and sighed.
Supposedly ignoring Gohan, Goku shook the river water out of his hair and droplets flew everywhere. Chichi would have killed him if she hadn't been out to town, shopping.
"Gohan..." Goku said calmly. Gohan and well informed him what the power was when Goku brought up that he had sensed it too. "Why didn't you take care of it?"
"Uh..." Gohan sighed. "I..."
"It's okay, Gohan," Goku put a hand on his son's shoulder. "You tried. I suppose you'll need my help next time?"
Goku had taken it the wrong way. He had thought Gohan could not defeat Hotaru with her "infinite" power. But she was actually weak as a lamb. What Gohan had seen in that hallway when Hotaru threw that boy across the hall sure was something, but not much. Even so, she's much more powerful than any ordinary human...
"NO!" Gohan spat out.
Goku pulled back, surprised.
Catching himself, Gohan quickly calmed himself down. "I-I mean...the power is a threat to man-kind, but I can easily take care of it myself. It's just that her-her father came in. I couldn't destroy her right in front of his eyes!"
Goku smiled and laughed. "I'm proud of you son, but you must get the job done...Oh, only if it were somebody else. She could have been your new girlfriend now that Videl's pissed at you!"
"Dad..." Gohan was annoyed.
The night had crept up on Gohan so quickly, he almost flew into a tree on his way to Hotaru's home. He had found her house address in the school's student directory. He went from window to window, carefully peaking in, looking for her.
At last he had found her again...and again she was asleep. Like Hotaru had told him. The hospital released her within only a few days.
It was unusually warm tonight, and Hotaru had left her window open. Gohan flew in and landed as softly as possible to not make any noise. Then he crept over to her bed.
Then Gohan felt something as he looked down to her. It was like there were little hands, grabbing at his chest to pull him down to Hotaru. He resisted of course, but lost in the end, and soon he found himself face to face with her. Gohan could feel Hotaru's breath on his face.
His mind was blank. Then he closed his eyes and met with Hotaru's lips. Warm, soft, and as sweet as she was. And Gohan sat there on her lips for a few seconds, then suddenly pulled back when he felt some kind of a painful shock come from her.
Gohan had discovered blood rolling down his own lip from his nose.
Hotaru's eyes snapped open, and her lamp seemed to have lit itself when she sat up as if she were possessed.
"What are you doing here?" She said to him. Colors of black and purple formed an aura around her.
Hotaru somehow hovered out of her bed and stood in the air, with her toes barely touching the hardwood. Her night-gown moved like it was in wind as the energy around her grew.
Gohan didn't say anything, he was only sat there, looking at her wide-eyed in shock.
Sorry, somebody asked to put in a bit more romance. How's that for romance? MWUAHHAHAHAHAHA! O.o Uhh....*cough* review.