Untitled For The Moment

The Pain Behind The Mask pt1

Disclaimer: I don't own DBZ or it's characters. Just the ones I made up. I also do not own anything that I mention that isn't mine.

A/N: Hello there!! This is another story with Gohan and pals. The setting: Orange Star University (I know, it's lame…). The gang are sharing an apartment like dorm. It's kind of like the dorm in USA High or Saved By The Bell: The College Years. (**Breathes**) Oh yeah, remember a long time ago when I said that the timeline wasn't exactly accurate. Well just imagine that the Buu Saga happened two years ahead of schedule.

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"So, who has the keys?" David asked tiredly.

"Gohan. He was supposed to be here three hours ago!" Andrea said angrily. The two of them had been waiting outside their dorm with their entire luggage from home.

"So, no one else has the keys?" David asked hopefully.

"Natalie…" Andrea replied.

"BUT SHE'S IN SPAIN!!" David yelled as several freshmen stared at him. "Take a picture kids!! It'll last until your dog gets a hold of it! Jerks."

"I'm gonna take a walk outside.  See ya in a minute babe." Andrea got up and walked to the front entrance. Out there she saw Gohan and his mother, who was giving a million instructions. Andrea walked towards him.

"And I want you to call me every day no matter what time of the day it is!" Chi-Chi ordered.

"Hai kaasan."

"And eat healthily."

"Hai…"

"And make sure you change your underwear everyday!"

"MOM!"

"And any laundry you want done just fly home and I'll do it for you." Chi-Chi hugged (or strangled…whatever…) her son and planted a big kiss on his cheek. She got in the car and drove off. Goku and Goten waved from the back window of the car. Gohan uneasily waved back.

"I can see you're a little busy." Andrea smirked.

"Hey Andie!" Gohan beamed.

"Hello. Oh and you're forgiven."

"For what?" Gohan asked innocently.

"FOR BEING THREE HOURS LATE!!" Andrea yelled. Gohan just blinked in surprise. "How come you're dad and brother didn't say goodbye?"

"They were ordered to stay in the car." Gohan replied matter-of-factly. Andrea sweat-dropped and the two of them walked back to the dorm.

"Finally Gohan has come back to the dorm room!" David exclaimed as he grabbed the keys from Gohan.

"And hello to you too. Why yes! My summer was brilliant actually!" Gohan sarcastically stated.

"Yeah, I know, I was there. Don't pay much attention, do ya?" David replied as Gohan face-faulted. He opened the door. "Yes!! Home sweet crib!" They looked at the dorm in awe.

"Sweet." Andrea said rubbing her hands together. She quickly ran to both rooms and surveyed them. "Dibs on this room!"

"Aw! That's the bigger one!" Gohan whined.

"That's right Gohan! Tomorrow, I'll teach you why I have the bigger one!" Andrea replied as she threw her bags into the room.

"When are Nicky and Vid getting here?" David asked. As if on cue there was a car horn outside.

"Pretty much now." Gohan replied.

"It's a good thing they didn't have the keys or else we'd be in a whole lot of trouble."

"You're not gonna let me forget this, are you Dave?"

"Hmm…no!"

"Oh boy…" Videl walked in with a big grin and about 15 suitcases.

"Ah! The princess has all her vital equipment." David cracked.

"Very funny." Videl said sticking out her tongue. Nicholas walked in with his luggage but his face was anything but cheerful.

"Hi…" He said disheartened.

"Oh no, he's possessed by 1st season Ross!" David said grabbing his head in mock horror. The others looked at him weirdly. "Man, you guys are no fun. I wish Nat was here…oops." Nicholas' expression saddened tenfold.

"Nice going baka." Andrea said slapping David in the ribs.

"At least we signed up for our classes yesterday. Now all we have to do is move in our stuff."

"Well we better get started. It looks like you girls moved your whole house here!" Gohan laughed holding up one suitcase.

"Gohan. That's your suitcase sweetie." Videl said. Gohan immediately dropped it.

"I knew that. I was just seeing if you knew!" Gohan said rubbing his hand behind his head. The others (minus "Ross") laughed.

About four hours later, the gang were watching TV…

"So, this is the Boy Meets World episode that you had a dream of when me and Videl broke up?" Gohan asked.

"Yep." Nicholas replied. The others looked at the screen in amazement.

"Freak show…" They all uttered.

"I'm hungry." David said. "Moving makes me hungry. I wanna eat."

"Newsflash man, your always hungry." Gohan said tiredly.

"Talk about the kettle calling the pot black. Or something like that…" Videl said. David and Gohan both blushed. The phone started to ring. Everyone looked to Andrea, who was currently filing her nails.

"Why should I get it?" Andrea said.

"Because we did all the hard work. You just moved everything with your telekinesis." Videl said.

"Yeah!" The boys chorused.

"Oh alright…hello?" Andrea said. She suddenly held the phone away from her ear as a loud 'HI!!!!' came from the phone.

"IT'S NATALIE!! QUICK PUT HER ON SPEAKER!!" Nicholas yelled.

"He hasn't been this active in weeks!" David said, shaking his head. "It's like Nat's some sort of vitamin."

"Well that's what happens when you're whipped." Gohan laughed. Videl grabbed his ear.

"What was that?!" Videl snapped.

"Hehe, nothing dear." Gohan said. Andrea put the phone on speaker.

"HI GUYS!!" Natalie yelled. There was a lot of background music.

"Hey Nat. How are you sweetheart?" Nicholas asked, grinning like an idiot.

"Fine, but you shouldn't grin like that babe. Your face might freeze." Natalie laughed.

"How in the bloody hell does she do that?" Videl muttered.

 "You guys all moved in?"

"Hai!" They all chorused.

"Good! I've got some bad news. I can't come home 'till tomorrow instead of tonight. I'm actually quite lucky. My classes start the day after."

"Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why?" Nicholas asked frantically.

"Well my flight was delayed. Sorry." Natalie said.

"It's a good thing your brother registered you in for school." Gohan commented.

"Whoop (!) That's really lucky, I'll have to get him back for that."

"That's okay, it's not like your enjoying yourself…wait a sec. YOU'RE AT A CLUB!!" David suddenly yelled.

"Am not!!"

"Are too."

"AM NOT!!!"

"ARE TOO!!"

"AM NOT TO INFINITY AND BEYOND!!"

"Are too!! I can here Shake Your Bon Bon, Buzz!!"

"That is so stereotypical. It's Bon Jovi…oops. Hehehe. Well guys, I gots to go! Adios!" She hung up.

"Great. We start school tomorrow and my girl isn't even here." Nicholas brooded. The phone rang again. Gohan put it on speaker.

"Don't brood!!" Natalie said and hung up the phone again.

"Freak show…" They all uttered.

"Hey, do you guys here that?" Gohan asked. The others shook their heads. Suddenly, a group of four cheerleaders burst into the room yelling and hooting.

"You know, I thought we escaped this when we graduated high school." Andrea muttered. The cheerleaders got into a formation and started to chant.

"Fast like a cheetah, quick like a louse, Bradley Kido is in the house!! WOO!!" The cheerleaders chanted as a tall, lean, blue haired guy walked in with a pair of shades and a girl on each arm.

"Ah! So these are the new freshmen!! Scribe, take notes." Bradley ordered as a small boy with glasses appeared at his side. "There is a blonde wimpy boy, a dark haired brooding boy, a nerdy boy, a brown haired babe and a dark haired babe. Put a star next to the last one." A vein was throbbing in the heads of David and Videl. David stood up.

"Who in the blue hell are you?" David asked angrily.

"Change 'wimpy' to 'mouthy'. I am Bradley Kido. The most popular kid at this university and it is my duty to survey the new kids and stick them with labels."

"You can't just label us if you don't know us!" Videl yelled. Bradley walked up to her, took her hand and kissed it.

"You are very beautiful when you are angry mademoiselle." Bradley winked. Gohan walked up to him.

"Excuse me Kido, but you've got your hands on my fiancée." Gohan said icily. Bradley's face became overcome with shock but he quickly got over it.

"Take the star off scribe." Bradley said, as he looked Gohan in the eye. "See you around campus bud." They took off leaving a dazed bunch of people.

"That was like something out of the World Wrestling Federation." Nicholas muttered.

"Let's go to bed." Videl said. "In our new bigger room. Mwaha."

"Don't rub it in!" The boys groaned.

The next morning…

Gohan was sleeping quite peacefully and snoring quite loudly. That is, until he heard a…

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRGGG!!!! GOD DAMN SON OF A BITCH!!"

"Huh? Wha' happa'?" Gohan asked sleepily. He looked over to David who was still sleeping. "That guy could sleep through World War Three." Gohan shook his head and then got up to see what all the commotion was about. He walked into the living room/kitchen and saw Nicholas standing there soaked.

"Don't laugh, not even one chuckle." Nicholas warned.

"Dude, if you wanted to take a shower you could've just asked. The bathroom is that way." Gohan smirked. He looked at the door and there was a note on the door. "There's your morning wake up call, courtesy of BK."

"You mean Kido did this?!" Nicholas yelled.

"Looks like it. I think it was meant for me." Gohan said.

"How do you know that?"

"It says it right here. This is meant for the nerdy boy with the hot girl."

"I see."

"Well, it's time for us to get ready for class anyway. What have we got?"

"Well, you me and Andie have Psych 101, but first!" Nicholas said diving into a closet and pulled out two massive water guns. "Payback!"

"Woah!! Where did you get those bad boys?"

"First of all, never say bad boys to me again. Very creepy. These are the water guns that won me and Videl the water wars of middle school."

"Wow."

"Yeah, but it turned kinda ugly when we hit Natalie's brother Tony."

FLASHBACK…

"Run Videl!!" A 12-year-old Nicholas panted.

"I'm running! But I don't see how he can run that fast! His pants are so big!" A 12-year-old Videl replied.

"I'M GONNA GET YOU, YOU LITTLE PUNKS!!" Tony yelled as he ran after them.

"Tony!! It's dinner time!" Tony's father yelled. Tony stopped in his tracks and turned heel. Nicholas and Videl fell to the ground panting hard. They looked up to see a 12-year-old Natalie with her arms folded smirking.

"You guys owe me big time." Natalie replied.

END FLASHBACK…

"It was when I got my crush on her ironically." Nicholas reminisced as the two boys finished filling the water guns.

"You are a very complex man. Let's go kick some upper class butt!" Gohan said running out of the dorm.

"I don't think you're allowed to say butt either." Nicholas yelled as he ran after him.

Later that day in Psych 101…

"I remember a student from my previous school asking me 'should you forgive someone if they've wronged you in the past?'. Now that is a very complex question. What if they've committed a crime against you or abandoned you? How can you measure it out? It usually all depends on the situation. But what I can say is that if the person is family, it is usually best to sort things out rather than to dismiss the problem away. The easiest way out isn't necessarily the best way. I'll leave you to think about that, class dismissed." Ms Kinaki finished as the class left. She flipped her long jet-black hair over her shoulder and walked out of the class.

"Wow, she is a really great teacher." Gohan commented.

"I agree. Some of that stuff she said was really deep, how about you Nick? Nicky?" Andrea tried to get Nicholas' attention.

"I'm sorry. Have you ever had that sense of overwhelming doom?" Nicholas asked. As if on cue, Gohan and Andrea were bombarded with water balloons filled with different colours of paint. Nicholas had fallen out of harms way as the other two fell to the ground.

"ARG!" Andrea yelled at the top of her lungs. Bradley and his whole squad stood above the three of them.

"That's what happens to people who don't respect my authoritah." Bradley smirked.

"Oh really? And since when was it okay for you to steal other people's catchphrases?" A voice called from the back of them. Everyone turned around to see Natalie standing there with Videl and David. Bradley became enraged and walked towards them.

"Listen you, I don't know who you are and quite frankly I don't have time for you." Bradley seethed. "So go away."

"Wow! I can't believe he talked to us like that. Doesn't he know who we are?" Videl asked mockingly.

"Who are you?" Bradley asked.

"Her friends." David said indicating Natalie. "So are they."

"So? I can beat her as well." Bradley replied smugly.

"Oh my! I feel so frightened! Maybe I should tell my big brothers Ricky and Tony that you're picking on their baby sister, Bradley." Natalie said sarcastically. All of Bradley's crew gasped in fear as Bradley swallowed hard.

"Y-y-y-y-y-you mean you are related to Los Hermanos Cevallos?" Bradley quavered.

"Yes. That's about right." Natalie replied.

"And my brother Paulie." David smirked.

"Paulie the undertaker?!" Bradley squeaked.

"That's right." David smiled evilly.

"Your brothers can't protect you forever you know. I can still try to make your life here a living hell." Bradley said as he walked away.

"We'll see about that." Natalie said walking over to her paint soaked friends and Nicholas. "You guys owe me big time." Nicholas swooped her into his arms and kissed her.

"Eh?" Andrea asked.

"It's a long story…" Gohan replied. "We'd better get cleaned up."

"Why? You look like all the colours of the rainbow!" David laughed as Gohan and Andrea narrowed their eyes at him.

After they were cleaned up…

"Their brothers used to attend this school. Tony and Paul were best friends. But all three of them had their own reputations." Videl explained. Gohan and Andrea nodded.

"But what he mean when he said 'Los Hermanos Cevallos'?" Andrea asked.

"My grandfather was wanted for armed robbery in Mexico when he was married to my grandmother. They skipped the country and came here, changing their name from Cevallos to Campbell. He said something about owing it all to a can of soup…" Natalie replied.

"Oh!" Gohan said. "Well then I don't have to worry about getting in a fight with that guy. Your brothers' rep will keep him away. He is so annoying."

"He was a little wimp before. No one took him seriously." David laughed. "I got the munchies, anyone wanna go to the corner store?"

"I'll go." Nicholas said as they both exited. They walked to the front of the building and ran into Ms Kinaki. David stood there in front of her with his eyes wide and his mouth open.

"Hello Mr Summers!" Ms Kinaki greeted.

"Hey Ms K. This slacked jawed yokel is my friend David…" Nicholas said as David covered his mouth and laughed nervously.

"Just David, you know, like Cher or Madonna." David nodded. "We gotta go! Buh bye!" He dragged Nicholas by the arm and ran for at least ¼ of a mile before stopping.

"Do you want to tell me what that was about or do I have to phone a friend?" Nicholas demanded.

"You mean to tell me you don't know who that is?!" David asked frantically.

"My psychology teacher?" Nicholas asked. David bopped him on the head. "OW! What was that for?!"

"For being a smart alec!! I can't believe you don't know who that is!" David hissed. Nicholas went wide-eyed in realisation.

"No way." Nicholas said in awe.

"Way!" David replied.

"What are we gonna tell…?"

"Nothing."

"What are you, new? You know what she's like when we keep something from her."

"But you don't what it's like when you mention that woman. Remember, you two weren't as close back then. Just trust me on this one." David said.

"Fine, I'll trust you. But I don't have to like it." Nicholas sighed.

To be continued…

Dun, dun, duuun!! What a way to end the 1st chapter, ne? Leave a review, the more I get the quicker I write.