The Pain Behind The Mask pt4
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: There is a character from DBZ in this fic with
whom I am not that familiar with so if they seem out of character then
**cries** I'M SORRYYYY!! Oh, and my Spanish grammar is a little rusty so plz
excuse that ^_^()
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"Kami-sama…" Gohan just stood there with his mouth
hanging.
"Are you just stand there with your mouth hanging
open?"
"It's just that…you look exactly like my tousan!"
Gohan exclaimed.
"Well, that would make a lot of sense I am his father."
Bardock smirked slightly.
"Woah…" Was all that Gohan could say.
"Indeed." Bardock replied. "Although I do consider
myself a lot more handsome than Kakarrot."
"So, this is a dream isn't it?" Gohan asked, Bardock
nodded. "YOU'RE EVIL! EVIL!!"
"Oh for the love of…" Bardock muttered as he slapped
his forehead. "That other dream you had was false. It was used to trick you!
Kakarrot's spawn indeed…"
"But, why are you in my dream? No offence but I
don't know even know your name." Gohan said.
"Bardock, for the record. And I was sent because
Lord Enma thought that Radditz might scare the hell out of you. Seeing as that
is where he is currently residing."
"Oh…well I'm Gohan!"
"Gohan? What kind of a name is that?"
"Hey! That was the name of my tousan's grandfather!"
"If I recall correctly my father's name was
Coriander. But I guess it doesn't matter."
"Oy vey…"
"I've been told to talk to you because you have a
problem. So, spill it. I don't have all death you know." Bardock said as he sat
down. Gohan raised an eyebrow and cautiously sat down next to him.
"It's my friend. Her mother left her father when she
was a little girl and is back now. She is convinced that her mother came back
here to concoct some evil plan or something. So, I try to talk some sense into
her and say 'live and let live, she's your mother!' but she says no and acts
like a total brat. And then, she has the nerve to say that I'm telling her to
do this because I did the same thing for tousan!" Gohan said.
"Teenagers sure can talk fast!" Bardock muttered.
"Why is that bothering you so much? She's not your mother."
"I know but…"
"The thing is Gohan, I've been told to be all mysterious and riddle-esque but quite frankly I don't have the patience."
"Wow, Vegeta much?" Gohan laughed. Bardock just
raised an eyebrow and continued.
"She's psychic right?"
"Yeah…"
"Then you should just leave her to it. There are
some things which people just can't talk about."
"I thought you weren't going to be all mysterious
and stuff."
"I didn't think it would be this much fun!" Bardock
said rubbing his hand behind his head like Goku. Gohan face-faulted. "She knows
what she's doing. I think you need to go and talk to Kakarrot."
"Why?"
"Listen, when she said what she did. I think she
misunderstood. She's new at this thing where as you've had your power since you
were born. You aren't mad at your father. She sensed that you were mad because you
had such a great family and it wasn't fair that she was treating her mother
like this. You had experienced the loss of a parent and you think that she hasn't."
"What do you mean think?"
"You were raised to think the best of everyone. Go talk
to Kakarrot."
"Ok." Gohan sighed. "Well I guess I'll see you
around then…Grandpa."
"Goodbye Gohan…oh and if you ever call me Grandpa
again I'll be forced to kick your ass." Bardock said as he disappeared.
"Well I guess now I realise where Dad gets it from."
Gohan said shaking his head.
Natalie woke up and stretched her arms. Even though
it was 9:30am she crept downstairs and started to make breakfast for her
brothers and father. About an hour later Charlie appeared in the kitchen to see
that Natalie had made them three stacks of pancakes that were all 3ft tall.
Charlie rushed over to his sister and gave her a hug.
"I forgot how much I missed you Nat." Charlie said.
"You are sweet. Unlike your other two thirds."
Natalie said, and as if by magic Tony came galloping down the stairs, vacuumed
the pancakes and ran out the door.
"Does he even have a job?" Charlie asked.
"I don't dare ask." Natalie said shaking her head.
She took off the apron and grabbed her books. "I'm off. Don't forget to wake up
Papa, okay?"
"Sure." Charlie replied as he dug in. Natalie
stepped outside and teleported to school. She walked in the auditorium, looked
up and saw Hikari upstairs leaning over the balcony. She tapped her watch as if
'the clock's ticking'. Natalie narrowed her eyes at her as Hikari walked away.
Hikari walked to a pillar and leaned her back against it.
"She's too suspicious now. She's a lot smarter than
I gave her credit for." Hikari said. "I need you to take care of that."
"With pleasure my darling."
Natalie still stood staring at where Hikari was
standing. **I don't like her being here. Papa loved her too much, if only he
knew what she did when I was little…then maybe…** Someone put their hands
on Natalie's shoulders and she turned around in a fight stance.
"Hey! Put the arsenal away it's just me!" Nicholas
laughed. Natalie sighed a mushroom cloud.
"Sorry sweetie." Natalie smiled weakly. Nicholas
sighed and looked at her with a concerned face. "Hikari is bothering me…again!"
"Have you ever tried to be fake nice to her?"
Nicholas asked.
"Nicky! I can't believe you would even ask something
like that! Remember that time when we were 13 and you guys said I was too mean
so I tried to be fake nice…" Natalie asked.
**FLASHBACK**
Videl, David and Nicholas knocked on Natalie's front
door. Ricky opened the door and there was loud music and the sounds of fighting
coming from inside. Suddenly, Ricky grabbed Natalie by the collar and held her
in the air in front of the three.
"She makes waffles! She says please! She doesn't
punch anybody! FIX HER!" Ricky said as he tossed her down and slammed the door.
The other three sweat-dropped.
**END FLASHBACK**
"Do you need to talk?" Nicholas asked. Natalie
linked her arm with his.
"I don't know what I did to deserve you." Natalie
sighed.
"It's your birthday in a two weeks yeah?"
"Yep. The big 19. Only me and Gohan left."
"Hey guys." Gohan said.
"Hi…" Andrea, David and Videl sighed.
"What's wrong?" Gohan asked.
"We feel guilty about yelling at Nat yesterday."
Andrea replied.
**That's strange. It hasn't effected me like that…** Gohan thought.
"We wanna go apologise but there's something
stopping us." Videl said.
"I think it's called pride sweetie." David said. "We
just think that…"
"She's acting like a brat for some unknown reason."
Gohan said.
"I wouldn't say brat…" The three of them said.
It was raining hard as Natalie fished in her pockets
for the keys. Once she found them, she opened her front door dropping her books
on the kitchen table.
"I'm home!" Natalie yelled as lightning flashed.
"Grr, I hate thunderstorms. They always frighten me."
"We're in the living room Natalia." Natalie's father
(Frederico or Fred) called out. Natalie walked into the living room and saw her
father and brothers plus another guest. Hikari. Thunder cracked.
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!"
Natalie ran off to her bedroom yelling and slammed the door.
"Don't you think it's weird how we did that too?"
Charlie asked Tony.
"I suppose it runs in the family." Tony smirked.
The five of them sat at the dinner table eating dinner,
which Hikari had prepared. Natalie had not touched one bit of her food but her
brothers and father were wolfing it down.
"Come on mi hija, it's not going to bite you." Fred
laughed.
"That's cool, since I don't plan on biting it
either." Natalie said.
"Eat your food Natalie." Hikari smiled. Lightning
flashed and thunder cracked.
"No thanks. I'm allergic to poisoned food." Natalie
replied. Tony suddenly stopped eating.
"She was being sarcastic Ton." Charlie said.
"Oh!" Tony said and resumed eating.
"How come you grew your hair so…long?" Hikari asked
with a look on her face, as if she had smelt a really rotten fish.
"Well I always you hated anyone who had longer hair
than you so…well the rest is elementary." Natalie smirked. Hikari decided to change
the subject.
"You know, eating this ham reminds me of that book I
used to read to you when you were little. Now, what was it called?" Hikari
asked, as she affectionately rubbed her hand against Fred's.
"Was it Green Eggs and I'm Hammered?" Natalie asked
as juice came out of Charlie's nose.
"Natalia…" Fred said in a warning tone. Lightning
flashed outside.
"Lo siento Papa." Natalie said.
"Look Natalie. I'm just trying to…" Hikari started.
"Well you're trying a little too late." Natalie said.
Hikari sighed.
"Look how many times am I going to say I'm sorry?"
Hikari asked as she took Natalie's hand. Natalie suddenly gasped and started to
sweat bullets. When she let go she looked at Hikari with a horrified face.
"How could you?! WHY DID YOU DO IT?!" Natalie
shrieked as she stormed off.
"It's your turn dude." Tony said. Charlie sighed and
went after her.
"Fred, we need to talk. In private." Hikari said.
The parents got up and walked towards the den. Charlie knocked on Natalie's
door.
"Come in Charlie." Natalie said. Charlie walked in
and sat down on the bed beside her.
"You know, it's creepy when you do that." Charlie
said. Natalie just remained silent. "Hey, are you crying?"
"No." Natalie said as she sat up to face him.
"Good. You know, in all the time I've known you sis
I don't think I've ever seen you cry." Charlie smirked.
"Of course not. I'm not allowed to." Natalie said
somewhat sadly. Charlie gave her a quizzical look.
"Why don't we go downstairs and you can apologise to
Papa, hmm?" Charlie said.
"You know, for a little brother, you sure are wise."
Natalie smiled as they got up and walked downstairs.
"Hey Ton, where's Pops?" Charlie asked.
"He went into the den with Hikari." Tony said
matter-of-factly.
"Did you just get that big sense of dread?" Charlie
asked.
"Oh yeah." Natalie replied. The three of them rushed
to the den and found their father unconscious with his eyes open and Hikari
standing over him.
"Dios Mio!" Tony uttered as he ran to call an ambulance.
"WHAT IN THE HELL DID YOU DO TO HIM?!" Natalie
yelled.
"I merely overloaded his brain, why?" Hikari asked.
Charlie ran over to his father and felt for a pulse.
"The pulse is really weak Nat." Charlie said
frantically.
"You bitch!" Natalie said as she lunged for Hikari
but Hikari merely jumped out the window.
"One down Natalie!! And the clock is ticking!"
Hikari said as she ran off. Natalie's eyes widened in realisation.
"Dios Mio!" Natalie said. "Carlos, stay here with
Papa and make sure he gets to the hospital. Call Ricky and tell him what's
going on."
"Dondé fui Natalie?" Charlie asked.
"To go warn my friends." Natalie said as she ran out
into the rain. She seemed to have forgotten in all the panic that she could
teleport so she ran all the way to the University hoping that she could get
there in time. She made it to the Uni and didn't sense that Hikari was there so
she burst into the dorm, soaking wet and out of breath.
"Natalie!" The whole gang cried in unison.
"Gracias Dios that you guys are all right!" Natalie
wheezed.
"Natalie, what happened?" Nicholas asked as she
hugged him.
"It was awful! We were eating and Hikari was there
and then she went to talk to Papa and we walked in on them and Papa was almost dead!"
Natalie struggled with her speech since she was so out of breath.
"Nani?! Is Uncle Fred alright?" David asked.
"I dunno! My brothers took him to the hospital and
Hikari admitted that she did it to him! She overloaded his brain!" Natalie said
as she hugged Nicholas tighter. "Then she said one down and I figured she was
coming for you guys so I ran here."
"And I would care because?" Nicholas said. Natalie
looked into his eyes.
"She got to you to didn't she?" Natalie almost
whispered. Nicholas pushed her onto the floor.
"Does that answer your question?" Nicholas smirked
evilly.
"But, after all we talked about…all the time we
spent together! And YOU'RE JUST TELLING ME THAT IT MEANT NOTHING TO YOU!!"
"Basically…" Nicholas replied.
"YOU BASTARD!" Natalie yelled, lunging for him but
it was as if there was a force field around him as she bounced off.
"I know!" Nicholas chirped. Hikari entered the
doorway and smiled a sinister smile. Videl went to Natalie and tried to help
her up.
"Ah, I see you've already told her the great news!"
Hikari squealed. Nicholas went over to Hikari and kissed her on her hand.
"I don't know why I wanted the girl when I could've
had the woman." Nicholas said. "Toodles, children." They suddenly disappeared.
"Natalie, are you okay?" Videl asked. Natalie was as
pale as a ghost.
"Why didn't you guys believe me? I tried to tell you
she was evil." Natalie said looking directly at Gohan. Gohan just stood there
with a face of shock.
To Be Continued…
Poor Natalie, the worse is still yet to come. But
will Gohan be able to have confidence in Natalie or will there be another
argument on what to do? All I have to say is oh, as usual, dear…
