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This might be the final chapter. dun…dun…duuuuuuunnnnnnnnn
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Chapter 15: Together at Last
Videl fainted. A pair of strong arms caught her, and softly put her on the ground.
"The reaction I thought I'd get" The person whispered to himself. He looked at Videl. She had a peaceful look on her face now. He wondered what she was dreaming about. He knelt down next to her and moved a lose piece of hair from her face. He bent over and kissed her on the forehead, and laid down beside her. He sighed, and placed him hands on his head.
Videl opened her eyes and found herself on the ground. It was still dark out, and the moon was high. She guessed it was around midnight. She looked over next to her and found the person in the same position that she first saw him.
"Hiya Videl!" He said cheerily. She screamed and backed up.
"No! This is a dream. Is isn't real. My mind is playing tricks" She grabbed her head. "Stop playing with my mind! Wake up Videl! Wake up and find yourself at home in your bed and miserable!"
"This isn't a dream Videl. This is real."
"No! No it isn't!"
The person moved over to Videl and lifted her to her feet. The person hugged her tightly. She looked up at him. He then let her go. She moved back a couple of feet and looked at the mysterious person. A huge smiled came across her face, and tears started to streak her cheeks.
"Gohan!" She screamed. She nearly tackled him, and he fell on the ground. She hugged him tightly, and he returned the hug.
"Took you that long to figure out it was me." He laughed. She buried her face into his chest.
"I'm so sorry Gohan. I thought you were trying to take me, and then I thought I was dreaming. This can't be real, you're supposed to be dead. You were supposed to die in the explosion. I'm dreaming. Soon I'm going to wake up, and this will all be gone. The night is too calm and beautiful to be real."
Gohan laughed some more. "I'm as real as it's going to get." Videl looked up and him, tears still flowing down her face. She gasped as she noticed the gash down the left side of Gohan's face.
"Oh my god! Look at that cut! Are you okay?" She ran her hand down it.
"Ow! Not so hard! It'll be fine. It's just sensitive to touch. It will probably scar, but that's it." He said reassuringly. "But that's not important. How are you?"
"How am I? I have been living in torture for the last two weeks! Thinking that you were dead, how could you do this to me?" She slapped him across the face. "I've had to live with that, and not to mention, keep it away from everyone else. You're death was announced the first day of school. Your mom called in and said you were hit my a truck and died on the way to the hospital. Everyone thinks you're dead too. You should see all the girls faces. I've had to hide my pain."
Gohan put his hand behind his head and smiled. "I've been out for two weeks? Wow, reaching the third level of a Super Saya-Jin can take a lot out of you."
"What? You've reached a new level?"
"Um…yeah. My dad used to be the only one that could reach it. Not anymore I guess."
"I can't believe you! You left me here to suffer and all you care about is some new strength you reached? I can't believe it!" She turned her back to Gohan and stormed to the other side of the boulder.
"But Videl…" He said softly, following her. "I'm sorry. I'm so sorry. I wouldn't have done that if I had the choice. It kind of happens to me every time I have a rough battle." She kept her back turned, but smiled. He couldn't tell though. "Please Videl, don't be mad. I'm sorry." Gohan said. He was now almost pleading for her to forgive him. She was having fun doing this to him. She almost started laughing. She put on her best face to make her look mad and turned around.
"Gohan, you insolent fool. You shouldn't have left me he—" Videl felt Gohan's arms wrap around her waist and pull her in towards him. Her eyes went wide as he kissed her. She then closed them and threw her arms around his neck, and kissed him back passionately. Gohan broke off when he needed air. He then smiled at Videl.
"Does that make everything better?"
Videl smirked. "I don't know Gohan…you did leave me in a lot of pain. Not to mention your parents and brother." Gohan smiled again, and kissed Videl.
"There. Does that make everything better?"
"I don't know…yup! It does!" Videl smiled.
"Come on Videl. Let's go see my family to tell them that I'm alive." He flew off into the sky.
"Okay." Videl followed after Gohan.
"Oh, and Videl?"
"Gohan?"
"I knew that was an act before, when you were mad at me."
"No you didn't! I saw the look on your face! You were totally convinced!"
"You've done that way too many times Videl. I know that act."
She rolled her eyes. "Yeah, right. Sure you do."
Gohan laughed. He knew she was right. He looked over at her. Her blue eyes sparkled with joy. He had never seen them like that before. She also had gotten pretty good at flying. She could almost keep up with him at a pretty fast pace. She looked over at him and smiled.
~*~
Goku quickly sat up in his bed. He sensed a strong ki besides his own, ChiChi's, and Goten's in the house. In fact, he sensed two ki's in the house. He walked down the hall in his boxers to see who could possibly be in the kitchen.
Goku yawned and stretched his arms when he entered the room. "Hey whose—" His eyes went wide when he saw Gohan and Videl. "G…Gohan?"
"Hi Dad!" Gohan smiled at Goku, who looked like he had just seen a ghost.
Goku shook his head and rubbed his eyes to make sure it wasn't an illusion. He stumbled backwards, knocking over a couple of chairs. ChiChi then came running down the hall, frying pan in hand.
"Goku I heard a noise and—Gohan!" She dropped her frying pan. Unfortunately it fell right on Goku's face. He winced in pain, but ChiChi ignored it. She ran over to her son and hugged him as tight as she could. "Gohan! You're home! My baby is safe and not dead!" Tears ran down her face as she hugged him.
"At least she didn't try to kill me like Videl…" Gohan thought to himself. He hugged his mother back. She pulled away and took a look at him. "Oh my god! Look at that cut on your face! Are you okay? Looks like you'll have a scar…"
"Mom, I'm okay, seriously."
ChiChi looked at his son, and then at Videl. "Videl, did you find him?"
Videl smiled. "He found me. It was more like a game of 'Let's try to scare Videl half to death'"
Gohan laughed. "Yup. That was it. I got her good too. She first thought it was Trunks ad Goten trying to scare her."
Videl glared at him. "I had a good reason to think that! They do stuff like that a lot! What other choice did I have?"
Gohan put his hand behind his head. "Well, I guess you're right."
"As always," She said, crossing her arms. Right then, Goten walked in rubbing his eyes.
"What's going on?" He asked. Then he was wide awake. "Brother!" He ran over and pounced on Gohan and hugged him around the neck. "Oh Gohan! You're home. I never thought I'd see you again! When we couldn't use the dragonballs to wish you back because Trunks and I wished for candy—" Goten slapped one of his small hands over his mouth.
"You WHAT!?" ChiChi grabbed her frying pan off of Goku's face and hit Goten over the head with it, hitting Gohan with him.
"MOM!" Goten and Gohan both screamed, rubbing bumps on their heads. Videl was doubled over laughing. Goku stood up rubbing his face. He walked over to Gohan and placed his hand on his son's shoulder.
"I'm proud of you son. You did it on your own." Goku smiled.
"Thanks Dad."
"How'd you do it, anyway?"
"Well, dad. It's quite funny actually…"
"Gohan…"
"Well, Goku, he went Super Saiya-Jin 3!" Videl cut in. Gohan was taking way too long to answer.
"Videl!"
"Sorry Gohan."
Goku's eyes went wide again. "Wow! SSJ 3! Incredible! How did you do that?"
"I don't know Dad. I don't remember much of it."
"Wow…my son…Super Saiya-in 3. Amazing." Goku looked at Gohan in awe.
"Dad? Earth to Dad…" Gohan waved his face in front of Goku.
"Huh? What?" Goku blushed. "Oh, sorry."
ChiChi then stepped in. "Well, it's 2:00 in the morning. I think Miss Videl here needs to be getting home to sleep. She has school tomorrow you know! Gohan, you can stay home if you need to."
"Mom, I'm going to go with Videl. I'll be back soon." Gohan smiled at him mother, who now had stars in her eyes.
"Okay Gohan. Don't be too long. Bye Videl." She waved at her future daughter-in-law. (a/n: even though they may not know it ^_^)
Goten tugged lightly on ChiChi's Pajamas. "Does this mean Videl is going to be my new sister? That would be really cool!"
Videl blushed and walked outside. "Bye ChiChi. Bye Goku." She called out to them. Gohan walked after her. They both lifted into the air and flew off towards her house.
Gohan and Videl floated outside of Videl's bedroom. Videl opened her window and sat on the window sill. "Goodbye Gohan see you tomorrow." She kissed him, and crawled through the window in the room.
"Wait, Videl."
"Yeah?"
"What are we going to tell everyone tomorrow. I couldn't have just awoken from the dead."
Videl kissed Gohan lightly on the lips. "Let me sleep on it. I'll think of something. Goodnight."
"Goodnight." Gohan flew a few feet away and turned around. Videl was still at the window looking at him. He floated back to the window. "Goodnight Videl."
"Come in Gohan, please?" She put on a puppy face. It was hard for Gohan to resist.
"No, I can't. You know my mom. If I don't come home, she'll think something strange and then she'll get weird ideas. You know how she gets."
"Oh yeah. I guess we don't want that happening. Okay. Goodnight Gohan." She said sadly.
"Don't be sad Videl. How bout I come early in the morning, so we can go to school together?"
Videl's face brightened up. "Okay! See you in the morning."
"See you." Gohan watched Videl close her window and crawl into bed. She immediately fell asleep. Gohan then turned around, and flew home.
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Gohan knocked on Videl's window. She opened it and rubbed her eyes.
"Come on Videl. We're going to be late!"
"Okay, give me five minutes to get ready. Go wait at the front door."
"Fine." Gohan floated to the ground and went around to the front. Videl was out in five minutes.
"Hello there" She said, planting a kiss on Gohan's cheek. "Let's go."
"Come up with any ideas to explain me coming back from the dead?"
"Nope." Videl smiled.
"Okay, we'll wing it."
"Okay"
Soon they were at Orange Star High School. They walked in through the front door. Gohan was amazed at all the signs on the walls. They read things such as "Gohan we'll miss you", "Gohan forever", "We love you Gohan" and then in fine print, "Videl is a tramp."
Gohan laughed. A bunch of girls made that poster, he could tell. Him and Videl walked into their classroom. The whole classed stopped when they walked in. Everyone watched Gohan as he sat down in the last row.
"Hey everyone."
Noise erupted in the classroom. Gohan was bombarded with questions.
"Aren't you supposed to be dead?"
"How did you live?"
"What was it like?"
"Do you suffer from anything?"
"Are you going out with Videl? Will you go out with me?"
"What was the hospital like.?"
"Okay, everyone be quiet so I only have to say this once." Gohan said. Everyone quieted down. "Okay. Here are the answers. I'm not supposed to be dead. I lost a lot of blood, but a miracle saved me." He paused and glanced over at Videl. She was his miracle. "The pain was antagonizing. This was the scariest thing I've ever experienced in my life. (what a lie.) No, I am not going out with Videl.(Better listen to Videl and keep the relationship under wraps) Maybe I will go out with you. We'll have to wait and see. The hospital isn't as bad as people make it out to be." Gohan took in a deep breath. "There are your answers. I don't want to here those questions again."
Class came and went slowly. Every period went by slowly for Videl and Gohan. They couldn't wait to get out of school.
The final bell rang, and Gohan and Videl started down the hallways as fast as they could. Suddenly, they felt someone shove both of them into an empty classroom. The person slammed the door shut.
"Al right! I want answers and I want them now! You told me Gohan was dead Videl!"
"Eraisa, calm down!" Gohan said, putting his hands up in defense.
Eraisa put her hands on her hips. "Okay, Gohan, I want to know the whole entire story."
"Okay…well…"
"And no lies Son Gohan!"
Gohan looked over at Videl. "It's okay Gohan. I told her a lot already.
"Well…If I tell you Eraisa, I'll have to kill you."
"Gohan!"
"Al right, al right. I'll tell you chill!" Gohan said.
"It all started when…"
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Is this the end? It could be. I'm leaving this conclusion open on purpose, either for a real ending chapter, or a sequel of some sort. Whatever you want, I will do! ^_^ Remember to review and tell me!
