SlamDragon : A Slam Dunk/Dragon Ball Z Crossover
Summary:
Piccolo has found himself transported to the Slam Dunk universe, which is in modern day Kanagawa, Japan. Will he ever find Gohan, Trunks and Goten now? And will Sakuragi be heartbroken for the 51st time?
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Meanwhile, Gohan suddenly found himself standing in the middle of a street. Looking around, he could see that he was near the compound of a school. Boys and girls could be seen walking about. They wore uniforms, unlike in Gohan's school, and they seemed to be around his age. Gohan noticed a sweet-looking girl walking alone, and decided to ask her exactly where he was, and if by any chance she had seen Trunks, Goten, or Piccolo.
It was a typical morning at Shohoku High School in Kanagawa. Nothing special, except to the members of the Shohoku Basketball Club. For the first time in history, the team has managed to win a place in the IH qualifying rounds. They had lost narrowly to Kainan High School (known as King Kainan, for they had won the championship year after year for as long as anybody could remember), after a tough game. Now, to qualify for the IH finals, Shohoku must beat one more team. So now Shohoku is practicing hard.
For Akagi Haruko, the game against Kainan was special, even though they had lost. It was the game where Sakuragi first showed his amazing rebound skills outside Shohoku, and everybody had given all they had into the game. She will give them her full support, especially to Sakuragi, who blamed himself for their defeat. He even shaved his head to show that he took responsibility for it. But it actual fact, his performance was amazing. Just four months ago, he knew totally nothing about basketball, and now, look at him! He was indeed the Tensai of basketball, and Haruko was very proud of his extraordinary progress.
Suddenly, something zoomed past her, and Haruko's attention immediately left Sakuragi, for it was Rukawa Kaede who sped past in his bicycle. Rukawa, the star of the Shohoku Basketball Team, and the one Haruko was secretly in love with. She had once confided her feelings for Rukawa to Sakuragi, never realising that Sakuragi was in love with her. Now, three months later, she was still oblivious to the fact.
Rukawa, at that moment, was cycling to school in his usual dangerous manner: asleep. His bicycle swayed as he rode, but somehow it never lost its balance. However, at that particular moment, a car came speeding from the opposite direction. The surprised driver quickly swerved to avoid the swaying bicycle, but it lost control, and was about to ram into the girl walking at the sidewalk. In that split second, Haruko had no time to do anything. She was rudely awakened from her daydream by the sound of the car driver's frantic honking, and the first thing she saw was the car ramming straight at her. She was too shocked to move away, or even scream.
Suddenly, a voice cried out, "Watch out!" and in a blink of an eye, Haruko found herself being pushed away from the path of the incoming vehicle by a boy who was now taking her place and was about to be hit by the car. But miraculously, the car seemed only to graze his hands a little, then it swerved back to the road. The driver regained control of the car, and was able to drive straight again. A potentially fatal accident had been averted, thanks to Son Gohan's quick intervention. As the car was about to run him over, he managed to steer it with his hands, enough so that the car lost its speed and the driver was able to take control of the wheel again. Gohan turned to the girl. "Are you OK?" he asked. The girl nodded dazedly. "Yes, thank you," she said. She was still unsteady and was holding on to his arms for support. "That cyclist shouldn't have cycled in such a dangerous manner," Gohan said. "And the driver shouldn't have been speeding in a school compound. That could easily have turned into a serious accident--"
Haruko wasn't listening. She was busy touching up Gohan's arms, probing and feeling his hard muscles. Gohan blushed furiously."Wh- what are you doing?" he asked the girl, who was now moving down to his legs. Haruko looked up and smiled a sweet smile. "You're very strong," she said, standing up. "Do you play basketball?"
Exactly at that moment, Sakuragi appeared, together with a very strange-looking man. The stranger wore a turban on his head, and a cape over his shirt and baggy pants. Even his shoes were weird-looking, but the weirdest of all was his skin. It was GREEN, with some pink parts on the inner side of his arms, which looked rather like a grasshopper's legs.
Sakuragi was grief-stricken to see Haruko with another boy and asking him *the* question. The scene in front of him was exactly the same as his first encounter with her. She had asked him, "Do you play basketball?" and instantly he was in love with her, and joined the basketball team for her. Now Sakuragi's eyes burned with jealousy, and he charged at Gohan, ready to give the new boy his famous 'Sakuragi head-butt'.
But to his good fortune (although Sakuragi didn't know it), Gohan shook his head and smiled apologetically to Haruko. "No, I'm afraid I'm not very interested in sports," he said. "Oh," Haruko said, slightly disappointed. Then she spotted Sakuragi and beamed happily. "Sakuragi-kun! You've arrived!" Sakuragi, for his part, instantly turned into docile mode as soon as Haruko smiled her sweet smile at him.
Meanwhile, Gohan spotted his mentor Piccolo and ran over to him, relieved. "Piccolo! What are you doing here?" he asked. "Did you get sucked by that thing too? I'm so glad to see you. I'm trying to look for Trunks and Goten, but I can't seem to find them--" Piccolo didn't say much, although he was relieved to see Gohan too. "I sense them nearby," he said. "By the way, where are we?"
By now, Sakuragi had noticed Gohan talking to Piccolo. "Hey! You two know each other?" he asked. Haruko walked up to them too. "Sakuragi-kun, this was the boy who saved my life just now." She bowed to him. "How rude of me not to have introduced myself earlier. I am Akagi Haruko. Thank you for saving me from the speeding car just now."
Gohan returned her greeting. "It was nothing," he said modestly. "My name is Son Gohan." He bowed to Haruko. "Gohan? What kind of a name is that? Were your parents too hungry when they named you?" It was the nearly-bald redhead who asked the impertinent question. "As a matter of fact, my late father was always hungry, but I'm not named after food," Gohan replied solemnly. Sakuragi was quiet when he heard about Gohan's father having passed away; he was sorry he made the remark. "But that was a long time ago," Gohan changed the subject. "This is Piccolo," he introduced the ex-demon king. 'What a weird name' both Sakuragi and Haruko thought. Sakuragi shifted his attention from Piccolo to Gohan. He looked at the demi-Saiyajin teenager up and down. "And I am the Tensai of Basketball, Sakuragi Hanamichi, Shohoku's Secret Weapon and the next captain of the team," he introduced himself.
"The basketball team is having a practice session today," Haruko said to Gohan. "Why don't you come and watch?" she asked him. "Ah... I'm afraid I can't," Gohan declined. "I've got to--"
"That's right!" A voice boomed from behind them. Everybody turned around to see an older boy in judo-gi. It was Aota Tatsuhiko, captain of the Shohoku Judo Team. "Ah, Ta-chan!" Haruko beamed when she saw him. "Judo man!" Sakuragi exclaimed. Aota smiled at Haruko, and for a while turned docile like Sakuragi did too.
Then he walked over to Gohan and introduced himself. "I am Aota Tatsuhiko, captain of Shohoku's Judo Team." Lowering his voice, he moved closer to Gohan and spoke conspirationally, "I saw what you did just now. That was incredible. You're even stronger than Sakuragi."
Gohan sweated nervously, afraid that somebody had detected his superhuman powers. "Wh.. What do you mean?" he asked. Back in his world, his classmate Videl had discovered his secret, and as a result, he was forced to teach her how to fly. Not that he minded too much. He rather enjoyed her company, but girls are so difficult to figure out.
"You steered the car away from Haruko with your bare hands," Aota said. "Your strength is incredible. I wouldn't have believed such a thing was possible if I hadn't seen it myself. Of course, I must thank you for saving Haruko's life," he added.
"Th.. That's impossible, isn't it?" Gohan asked, laughing nervously. "You must have seen it wrongly.."
"I know what I saw," Aota said seriously. "Those arms of yours are really powerful. You're the talent I've been searching for all this time. You're born for judo."
"But--" Gohan interjected, but Aota went on. "How about it? Join the judo team, and I'll make you vice president. Next year you can be president. I can even make you president now, if you want."
"I really can't," Gohan declined. He was still nervous about letting his powers discovered, especially in a foreign world where he wasn't sure how the people were really like. From the ki of the people around him however, he deduced that their power levels are the same as ordinary non-fighting people. Gohan's discomfort was not unnoticed by Aota. "How about it?" he asked again. "I'm sure that was just a small demonstration of your powers, and you're hiding your true potential." Aota didn't know of course, how so very true his statement was. He cornered Gohan. "For some reason, you don't want people to know how strong you really are. I don't think it's just humbleness, and I don't care what your reasons are, but if you join my team, I'll keep quiet about it. You just have to use a small portion of your powers and help me win the national championship." Gohan was trapped. His powers had brought him trouble again, and this time in an alien world. "I..," he started, but then Haruko spoke. She had been busy patting Sakuragi's newly-shaved head and commenting how cute it was, which made Sakuragi docile again, so neither of them heard Gohan and Aota's conversation. "Ah, we're late for practice. Gohan-san, you're welcome to come and watch."
Gohan was thankful for the distraction. "I'm afraid I can't, Haruko-san," he said. He really must find Trunks and Goten and figure out how to return home. His mother would be really worried if they failed to return on time.
"That's right," Aota interrupted. "He's joining the judo team, so he can't watch you practice." "What?" Haruko asked. "I'm sorry, Haruko-chan," Aota said, his face reddening, for he too had a crush on Haruko. "But Son Gohan is joining the judo team. He's more interested in martial arts than games like basketball, isn't that right, Gohan?" he asked the demi-Saiyajin who was dressed in his black training gi.
"Well, yes," Gohan replied, "but I can't join the judo team either. "I'm not from this plan-- I mean school, and I have to find my little brother--"
"Don't bother." It was Piccolo who spoke. He hadn't said anything up to this point even though he had heard everything, leaving it to Gohan to explain things. He would help if Gohan got into a jam, but that was not the reason he had interrupted. "They're here," he said simply. Everyone looked at the direction of Piccolo's gaze to see two little boys, together with four teenaged boys in school uniforms running like mad through the school gates and into the direction of the basketball court.
Next:
Gohan, Piccolo, Trunks and Goten are reunited. But how can they get back home? And will the Shohoku basketball team be able to get a good practice with the presence of these aliens?
Glossary:
Tensai - genius
Gohan - cooked rice; meal; dinner; food
Summary:
Piccolo has found himself transported to the Slam Dunk universe, which is in modern day Kanagawa, Japan. Will he ever find Gohan, Trunks and Goten now? And will Sakuragi be heartbroken for the 51st time?
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Meanwhile, Gohan suddenly found himself standing in the middle of a street. Looking around, he could see that he was near the compound of a school. Boys and girls could be seen walking about. They wore uniforms, unlike in Gohan's school, and they seemed to be around his age. Gohan noticed a sweet-looking girl walking alone, and decided to ask her exactly where he was, and if by any chance she had seen Trunks, Goten, or Piccolo.
It was a typical morning at Shohoku High School in Kanagawa. Nothing special, except to the members of the Shohoku Basketball Club. For the first time in history, the team has managed to win a place in the IH qualifying rounds. They had lost narrowly to Kainan High School (known as King Kainan, for they had won the championship year after year for as long as anybody could remember), after a tough game. Now, to qualify for the IH finals, Shohoku must beat one more team. So now Shohoku is practicing hard.
For Akagi Haruko, the game against Kainan was special, even though they had lost. It was the game where Sakuragi first showed his amazing rebound skills outside Shohoku, and everybody had given all they had into the game. She will give them her full support, especially to Sakuragi, who blamed himself for their defeat. He even shaved his head to show that he took responsibility for it. But it actual fact, his performance was amazing. Just four months ago, he knew totally nothing about basketball, and now, look at him! He was indeed the Tensai of basketball, and Haruko was very proud of his extraordinary progress.
Suddenly, something zoomed past her, and Haruko's attention immediately left Sakuragi, for it was Rukawa Kaede who sped past in his bicycle. Rukawa, the star of the Shohoku Basketball Team, and the one Haruko was secretly in love with. She had once confided her feelings for Rukawa to Sakuragi, never realising that Sakuragi was in love with her. Now, three months later, she was still oblivious to the fact.
Rukawa, at that moment, was cycling to school in his usual dangerous manner: asleep. His bicycle swayed as he rode, but somehow it never lost its balance. However, at that particular moment, a car came speeding from the opposite direction. The surprised driver quickly swerved to avoid the swaying bicycle, but it lost control, and was about to ram into the girl walking at the sidewalk. In that split second, Haruko had no time to do anything. She was rudely awakened from her daydream by the sound of the car driver's frantic honking, and the first thing she saw was the car ramming straight at her. She was too shocked to move away, or even scream.
Suddenly, a voice cried out, "Watch out!" and in a blink of an eye, Haruko found herself being pushed away from the path of the incoming vehicle by a boy who was now taking her place and was about to be hit by the car. But miraculously, the car seemed only to graze his hands a little, then it swerved back to the road. The driver regained control of the car, and was able to drive straight again. A potentially fatal accident had been averted, thanks to Son Gohan's quick intervention. As the car was about to run him over, he managed to steer it with his hands, enough so that the car lost its speed and the driver was able to take control of the wheel again. Gohan turned to the girl. "Are you OK?" he asked. The girl nodded dazedly. "Yes, thank you," she said. She was still unsteady and was holding on to his arms for support. "That cyclist shouldn't have cycled in such a dangerous manner," Gohan said. "And the driver shouldn't have been speeding in a school compound. That could easily have turned into a serious accident--"
Haruko wasn't listening. She was busy touching up Gohan's arms, probing and feeling his hard muscles. Gohan blushed furiously."Wh- what are you doing?" he asked the girl, who was now moving down to his legs. Haruko looked up and smiled a sweet smile. "You're very strong," she said, standing up. "Do you play basketball?"
Exactly at that moment, Sakuragi appeared, together with a very strange-looking man. The stranger wore a turban on his head, and a cape over his shirt and baggy pants. Even his shoes were weird-looking, but the weirdest of all was his skin. It was GREEN, with some pink parts on the inner side of his arms, which looked rather like a grasshopper's legs.
Sakuragi was grief-stricken to see Haruko with another boy and asking him *the* question. The scene in front of him was exactly the same as his first encounter with her. She had asked him, "Do you play basketball?" and instantly he was in love with her, and joined the basketball team for her. Now Sakuragi's eyes burned with jealousy, and he charged at Gohan, ready to give the new boy his famous 'Sakuragi head-butt'.
But to his good fortune (although Sakuragi didn't know it), Gohan shook his head and smiled apologetically to Haruko. "No, I'm afraid I'm not very interested in sports," he said. "Oh," Haruko said, slightly disappointed. Then she spotted Sakuragi and beamed happily. "Sakuragi-kun! You've arrived!" Sakuragi, for his part, instantly turned into docile mode as soon as Haruko smiled her sweet smile at him.
Meanwhile, Gohan spotted his mentor Piccolo and ran over to him, relieved. "Piccolo! What are you doing here?" he asked. "Did you get sucked by that thing too? I'm so glad to see you. I'm trying to look for Trunks and Goten, but I can't seem to find them--" Piccolo didn't say much, although he was relieved to see Gohan too. "I sense them nearby," he said. "By the way, where are we?"
By now, Sakuragi had noticed Gohan talking to Piccolo. "Hey! You two know each other?" he asked. Haruko walked up to them too. "Sakuragi-kun, this was the boy who saved my life just now." She bowed to him. "How rude of me not to have introduced myself earlier. I am Akagi Haruko. Thank you for saving me from the speeding car just now."
Gohan returned her greeting. "It was nothing," he said modestly. "My name is Son Gohan." He bowed to Haruko. "Gohan? What kind of a name is that? Were your parents too hungry when they named you?" It was the nearly-bald redhead who asked the impertinent question. "As a matter of fact, my late father was always hungry, but I'm not named after food," Gohan replied solemnly. Sakuragi was quiet when he heard about Gohan's father having passed away; he was sorry he made the remark. "But that was a long time ago," Gohan changed the subject. "This is Piccolo," he introduced the ex-demon king. 'What a weird name' both Sakuragi and Haruko thought. Sakuragi shifted his attention from Piccolo to Gohan. He looked at the demi-Saiyajin teenager up and down. "And I am the Tensai of Basketball, Sakuragi Hanamichi, Shohoku's Secret Weapon and the next captain of the team," he introduced himself.
"The basketball team is having a practice session today," Haruko said to Gohan. "Why don't you come and watch?" she asked him. "Ah... I'm afraid I can't," Gohan declined. "I've got to--"
"That's right!" A voice boomed from behind them. Everybody turned around to see an older boy in judo-gi. It was Aota Tatsuhiko, captain of the Shohoku Judo Team. "Ah, Ta-chan!" Haruko beamed when she saw him. "Judo man!" Sakuragi exclaimed. Aota smiled at Haruko, and for a while turned docile like Sakuragi did too.
Then he walked over to Gohan and introduced himself. "I am Aota Tatsuhiko, captain of Shohoku's Judo Team." Lowering his voice, he moved closer to Gohan and spoke conspirationally, "I saw what you did just now. That was incredible. You're even stronger than Sakuragi."
Gohan sweated nervously, afraid that somebody had detected his superhuman powers. "Wh.. What do you mean?" he asked. Back in his world, his classmate Videl had discovered his secret, and as a result, he was forced to teach her how to fly. Not that he minded too much. He rather enjoyed her company, but girls are so difficult to figure out.
"You steered the car away from Haruko with your bare hands," Aota said. "Your strength is incredible. I wouldn't have believed such a thing was possible if I hadn't seen it myself. Of course, I must thank you for saving Haruko's life," he added.
"Th.. That's impossible, isn't it?" Gohan asked, laughing nervously. "You must have seen it wrongly.."
"I know what I saw," Aota said seriously. "Those arms of yours are really powerful. You're the talent I've been searching for all this time. You're born for judo."
"But--" Gohan interjected, but Aota went on. "How about it? Join the judo team, and I'll make you vice president. Next year you can be president. I can even make you president now, if you want."
"I really can't," Gohan declined. He was still nervous about letting his powers discovered, especially in a foreign world where he wasn't sure how the people were really like. From the ki of the people around him however, he deduced that their power levels are the same as ordinary non-fighting people. Gohan's discomfort was not unnoticed by Aota. "How about it?" he asked again. "I'm sure that was just a small demonstration of your powers, and you're hiding your true potential." Aota didn't know of course, how so very true his statement was. He cornered Gohan. "For some reason, you don't want people to know how strong you really are. I don't think it's just humbleness, and I don't care what your reasons are, but if you join my team, I'll keep quiet about it. You just have to use a small portion of your powers and help me win the national championship." Gohan was trapped. His powers had brought him trouble again, and this time in an alien world. "I..," he started, but then Haruko spoke. She had been busy patting Sakuragi's newly-shaved head and commenting how cute it was, which made Sakuragi docile again, so neither of them heard Gohan and Aota's conversation. "Ah, we're late for practice. Gohan-san, you're welcome to come and watch."
Gohan was thankful for the distraction. "I'm afraid I can't, Haruko-san," he said. He really must find Trunks and Goten and figure out how to return home. His mother would be really worried if they failed to return on time.
"That's right," Aota interrupted. "He's joining the judo team, so he can't watch you practice." "What?" Haruko asked. "I'm sorry, Haruko-chan," Aota said, his face reddening, for he too had a crush on Haruko. "But Son Gohan is joining the judo team. He's more interested in martial arts than games like basketball, isn't that right, Gohan?" he asked the demi-Saiyajin who was dressed in his black training gi.
"Well, yes," Gohan replied, "but I can't join the judo team either. "I'm not from this plan-- I mean school, and I have to find my little brother--"
"Don't bother." It was Piccolo who spoke. He hadn't said anything up to this point even though he had heard everything, leaving it to Gohan to explain things. He would help if Gohan got into a jam, but that was not the reason he had interrupted. "They're here," he said simply. Everyone looked at the direction of Piccolo's gaze to see two little boys, together with four teenaged boys in school uniforms running like mad through the school gates and into the direction of the basketball court.
Next:
Gohan, Piccolo, Trunks and Goten are reunited. But how can they get back home? And will the Shohoku basketball team be able to get a good practice with the presence of these aliens?
Glossary:
Tensai - genius
Gohan - cooked rice; meal; dinner; food