Yea a new chapter! This is very Gohan-ish and he's totally OOC. (Now I know what it means, thanks to all you!!) It's kinda depressing but interesting.

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---Goku was getting frustrated. For one the enemy was friends with his son and two, his son was missing. He was searching for hours for Gohan but still didn't have any luck. Where in the world was he? Goku stopped only twice before looking for Gohan. He told Chi-Chi what happened and he was on the lookout with everybody else making a wish to being him back to life.

Majin Buu was still around and Babidi was making him destroy the city. Vegeta and the others were there to stop them both while Goku went to find Gohan. He concentrated very hard to spot Gohan's ki but he couldn't even get a flick. He felt an enormous power level hours ago but he was too far away to even get close to it.

" Gohan where are you," Goku said out loud. " Why can't I sense you anymore? What if-"

Goku stopped in mid-air. Gohan couldn't, he wouldn't, did he? Could he possibly killed himself?

" No," Goku answered himself. " No, Gohan would never. I just know it. Well, if I can't find him I might as well rest a bit."

Goku landed in front of a cave. Maybe if he was lucky, Gohan could be hiding in there. Goku frowned. Gohan wasn't in the cave, just a bunch of dirt and rocks. Goku leaned on the wall and sighed. An idea struck through his head. He could try what Piccolo usually did when he was training Gohan. It was worth s shot.

~ Gohan are you there,~ Goku said telepathically. ~ It's me, your dad. Don't say anything if you can here me.~

Goku heard nothing back. Either Gohan wasn't paying attention to Goku or maybe Goku couldn't get to Gohan. Geez, and Goku hoped to catch his son off guard with that trick question.

~ C'mon Gohan. At least let me know that you are safe.~

****

Gohan opened his eyes. There goes that peaceful sleep. All he heard was his father's voice in his head. He was too tired to respond but if he didn't, his voice will be nagging in his head the whole night.

****

~ Come on Gohan,~ Goku thought once more. ~ Answer me or something.~

Goku couldn't get through to Gohan, but then he had another plan up his sleeve.

~ I know a song that gets on everybody's nerves everybody's nerves, everybody nerves. I know a song that gets on everybody's nerves and this is how it goes. I know a song that-~

~ I'm here I'm here,~ Goku heard Gohan say back. A happy grin plastered on his face.

~ Hi son.~

~ Go away.~

~ I'm so glad that you're happy to see me.~

Gohan didn't respond back for a bit. Goku was getting a tad bit frustrated.

~ Gohan, are you still there,~ Goku asked. ~ You can't just stop while your in the middle of a conversation.~

~ .....~

~ Gohan, why didn't you tell anybody that you had trouble in school, and I don't mean your grades.~

Goku heard nothing once more. So he tried plan two once more.

~ I know a song that gets on everybody's nerves-~

~ Just let me sleep,~ Gohan responded after a while.

~ Can we talk later,~ Goku asked. ~ It's really important because I want to help you. Majin Buu is still on the run with Babidi and they are destroying things left to right.~

~ Let them,~ Gohan responded. ~ I don't care.~

~ Gohan I want to help-~

~ The only way you can help is by leaving me alone.~

Goku was speechless. He tried comminuting once more to Gohan but had no luck. He tried singing in his head again but it didn't phase him. Gohan had learned how to block Goku out. But one thing did come good to their little talk, he found Gohan's ki and he flew straight towards it. Gohan wasn't too far away so Goku flew someplace close to Gohan so he could get some sleep also.

****

The sunrays came shining through the trees. One of the sunrays had shined onto Gohan, which made him stir. He opened his eyes only to see a bright light. Squinting, Gohan rolled over to get rid of the bright only to see an all familiar character. Goku.

Gohan jumped up at the surprise that his father was right there, sleeping and snoring. He noticed that he didn't have his halo on and was lost. Surprised, Gohan did the first thing that popped into his head.

Gohan grabbed a stick and began to poke Goku. Maybe he died and he body was just there. Even though he was snoring, you usually can't tell with Goku. Gohan poked Goku some more till he turned over.

" Oh Chi-Chi," Goku mumbled. " You know I like it that way." Gohan dropped the stick.

Blushing, Gohan decided to go somewhere else. How in the world did his father find him here in the middle of nowhere? Gohan made sure his ki was gone and never to be spotted. Somehow, though, Goku spotted him and was sleeping having * ahem* an interesting dream.

Once again, Gohan felt like telling his dad everything. He wanted to before but then he didn't. Maybe he was ready to talk now because Goku knew it was about school. Gohan walked up to his sleeping father, knelt down, and shook him.

" Dad? Dad wake up. It's me Gohan."

" Can't you see I'm busy with your mother.. Mmmm..that feels good," Goku replied.

Gohan immediately let go of his father and fell back. His father was already preoccupied with something else and Gohan really didn't want to interrupt that. Getting up, Gohan changed his mind once again. He didn't want to tell Goku anything anymore. But then part of him did.

" Wake him up and tell him," said an angel like Gohan on his right shoulder. " Try again."

" No way," said a devil like Gohan on his other shoulder. " He won't understand, no one will. Keep it locked and keep it to yourself. He didn't go to school, he has friends. He can't help you."

" But he said that he would," said Angel Gohan with a harp in hand. " If you keep quiet, then you're going to hurt yourself even more."

" Liar," Devil Gohan said with a pitchfork. " No one will understand you."

" That's because you can't understand yourself," Angel Gohan said. " Talk to him and he will help you."

" First he'll stuff his face then he'll talk to you," Devil Gohan said poking Gohan. " Food, fighting then family. That's your father."

" He always puts his family first," Angel Gohan said playing his harp. " You know that better than anybody else."

" You're just a failure," the Devil Gohan said. " Accept it. Videl knows it and even your father knows it."

" You are not a failure. Don't listen to him."

" But I'm you Gohan. I'm part of you."

" We are part of you."

' I have no part,' Gohan thought to himself. ' I have no part in life itself. That, I already accepted. But I have to tell someone or else I'll make things worse. But my father?'

Once again, Gohan was just lost. He didn't know what to say or do. His mind kept on changing and he had a devil and an angel on his shoulders.

" I think I'm going crazy," Gohan said out loud. " Why me? Why must I have all the problems that can never be answered? Why must I suffer like this? What the hell is wrong with me? Why am I asking myself questions?"

" You're just hoping for someone to give you the answers."

Gohan noticed his father put his hand on his shoulder. Goku gave the famous Son Grin to maybe make Gohan confident and spill out his secrets, and maybe a smile out of him.

Sadly, both didn't succeed.

" Gohan," Goku began to say. " You may not have the most friends, people may hate you in school, but you really shouldn't be running away from your problems. If you run, they will follow you. Your problems will never be solved if you don't take the time to work them out. Think of it like a math problem."

" Don't mention math," Gohan said turning his head the other way.

" Why is that Gohan?"

"....."

" Gohan."

"....."

" How am I supposed to help you if you don't tell me," Goku said. " It's okay, you can tell me. I won't laugh, I promise. I'm your father Gohan, you can trust me."

" One day in math class I.. well..the person I was sitting next to, her name is Erasea, and apparently she had..um..her monthly visitor. She thought it might be a good idea to use it at her advantage and she put a used napkin in my bag. We had a slight bomb scare saying that someone was hiding a bomb in a bag and told the teachers to check. Do I have to go any further?"

" You know me Gohan," Goku said. " You gonna have to tell me the full story or else I won't get it. Was it that bad?"

" You wouldn't believe."

" Finish," Goku said.

" Well, the teacher checked our backpacks and when he came up to me," Gohan hesitated for a second. He shut his eyes as if he was going back to sleep. He chose his words carefully. " He found what Erasea put in there. I didn't know she did it until she stared a rumor about me."

Gohan stopped. He opened his eyes.

" She said that I went into the girls bathroom and stole it from a stall. She also said that I put it in my sac because...because...I really don't want to say. I got suspended for three days and mom never figured it out."

" How did you do that," Goku asked.

" I just said I was heading to school and I'll be back late to stay after," Gohan replied and almost trying to smile. " I would actually walk for hours at a time. It became more of a habit than anything. If I couldn't sleep, I would just walk around in the woods just thinking."

" Thinking about what," Goku asked.

Gohan remained silent. Goku raised an eyebrow and urged Gohan to continue. He did.

" I was always thing, ' why me why now?' I just couldn't fit in school and I couldn't fit in anywhere else. So I heard a song on the radio one night before I went to sleep and it made me think a lot. And that's all I would think about."

" What was it?"

For once in a long time, Gohan showed a slight smile on his face. Goku was confused at first and still was now.

" What's this life for," Gohan replied. " That's all I would think about every time I went for a walk. I was hoping to get an answer one day, but that never came."

Gohan frowned once more, his smile seemed like a memory now.

" Many times I thought about killing myself," Gohan continued. " Part of me was thankful because Dabura would have killed me but my other part, it just said no. The only way I figured I could settle the differences was just to let Dabura handle. If I died I died, but then I didn't want to die. There was always something holding me back."

" I know I've been asking you so many questions," Goku said with a laugh. " But what was holding you back? Why didn't you tell anybody about these problems? Why did you hide everything that went on?"

" Nobody cared," was all Gohan replied as he began walking in the woods. Goku quickly followed close behind him and urged him to continue on. Gohan didn't reply.

" Gohan, I know there is more to the story than you are telling me," Goku said walking behind Gohan. " It's a parent instants and we usually know that there is something wrong with you. Your mother and I care deeply for you and all we want to do is help."

" You do know that's the smartest thing you ever said in your life," Gohan joked. Goku put his hand behind his head and gave a goofy grin. Gohan wasn't smiling nor was he laughing. Goku's smile faded.

" But," Goku said. " I know there's more."

" But you and mom just don't know," Gohan said. " You never been in school, you always had friends by your side...I just don't get it how both you and mom took everything as they came. I can't do that the way you guys can. It's a lot harder now, and no one would understand. Who else went to school besides Bulma? She was popular cause she was the daughter of Mr. Brief."

" And you're the son of Son Goku," Goku said. " Don't they know that?"

" They laughed."

" Why?"

" Cause you ' died' trying to beat Cell and they all knew you were a loser from the start," Gohan simply replied. " The I got suspended again for getting into a fight. Gave him a broken nose and made him unconscious. Mom still didn't know."

" And why is that?"

Gohan gave a small laugh and looked up.

" I made Goten pretend to be Mom because he had that high pitch in his voice," Gohan said. " Gave him twenty dollars and a new toy. I made his day."

" Little brothers aren't made for those things Gohan," Goku replied in a serious tone. Gohan looked straight ahead as he continued to walk. " Gohan, don't you see what's happening to you? The world can explode right now and you wouldn't care. Your mother will be dead, Goten will be dead, Piccolo will be dead, again. Would you even care if everyone died tomorrow and you were the only one living?"

" Then the planet is doing me a favor," Gohan replied. " No one will have to worry about me, not like anyone does now."

" Gohan we care! Don't you see that everyone wants to help you in the only way they can? You're not even listening to Piccolo or telling your mother about school!"

" If Mom knew then it will only make things worse," Gohan yelled turning to his father. Goku was surprised. " If I told Mom, she would call the school and make me switch classes! Then, everyone in my class now would pull more practical jokes and get me into more trouble! If I told Mom that, then she will pull me out and be home schooled again, but that doesn't stop there! Vegeta will make his comments on how I couldn't stand up for myself and how much I'm being babied around! I would be stuck home, studying everyday for the rest of my life not knowing what the outside world is like."

Once again, Gohan began to tear up in his eyes again. He tried to blink them away, but that only made them fall. Goku was completely stunned and speechless.

" And you want to know why I didn't talk anymore. Things would have just been better if Cell killed me and not you."

" Gohan..."

Gohan just let his tears fall freely. It was no use trying to hide them anymore.

" Gohan I-"

" Don't even apologize Dad," Gohan interrupted. " It seems the only person I can trust is Majin Buu. He's my only friend Dad. He might be your enemy but he is the only one who wants to be my friend. That's the only accomplishment in my life, finding someone who doesn't complain about anything and is different like me."

" This is a joke right," Goku asked.

" Huh?"

" You mean Majin Buu is really your friend? I thought you were just kidding around trying to have something you wanted. I mean, Buu? That's like having a pink clay blob and forming it into a person. Buu is the enemy Gohan. He's destroying and killing things left to right."

Gohan punched Goku in the face. Goku fell back and he hit the tree, knocking it down in the process. Rubbing his head, Goku looked at Gohan.

" You're right Dad," he said. " It is a joke. I did make Buu out of clay and formed it into a chubby person. But he gave me something no one else ever gave."

" A cookie," Goku replied noticing that his nose was bleeding.

" You just don't get it Dad," Gohan replied storming off. " Even if it hit you on the head you still wouldn't know. That's why I knew you, and anyone else, wouldn't understand. Buu might be evil but some evil turns to good, like Vegeta."

" Then why did you tell me everything ten minutes ago," Goku asked getting up.

Gohan didn't reply. He just walked ahead of Goku and disappeared into the darkness.





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