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Blood Lust: Chapter 9: Arrival of Saiyaman.
"What?" Wondered Gohan.
Erasa , who had a HUGE grin on face grabbed Gohan and frog marched him to the cave. In was pitch black. So black that Gohan, with his saiyan eyesight couldn't even see Erasa's wolf like grin. He didn't even know where Erasa was. He was scared.
"Umm, Erasa what is the point of this game."
"This…"She leaned up close to him. Very close.
WAY too close.
So close that he wanted to get away RIGHT NOW. Why was she pressed so close to him, he wondered. There was plenty of room for her, it was a pretty large cave after all. He tried to back pedal, but all he found was bare rock. He wished that he could remember the training that Ka-san gave him to avoid hussies.
"Ummmm, Erasa could you back off a bit?"
"BACK OFF! What do you mean back off?" She yelled at him jabbing him in the stomach.
"Well, I'm kinda-"
"You given me all the hints" She ranted her arms flapping up and down. "You even STRIPPED OFF, and your telling ME to BACKOFF." She pushed at him again. "Don't you like me?" She asked dramatically.
"Sure I like you, but not in the way that your suggesting." Said Gohan calmly.
"It's because I blond isn't it? They only LIKE the blond hyper one, they LOVE the dark sexy one."
"Huh?" His cheeks red, at the reference to the S word.
"Why don't you just tell me I'm fat, and get it over with." She ranted.
Gohan gave in, in his experience you ALWAYS do what the lady says. "Okay, your fat."
"Ahhhhh Kami! Why do you even like her over MEEE." Her dramatic prancing, and posing was lost to the darkness.
"Who?"
"VIDEL!"
His voice went quiet. "..I…like…Videl?"
"You do??? No! The pain, the horror! Why do you even like her? She is only chasing YOU all over the place, because she thinks your Saiyaman."
"She does?"
"Of course she does. Do you think that a geek could impress the high and mighty Videl by himself?? No one would even put you above a grease puddle is it wasn't for Videl! You're nothing. I'm the only one who likes you, for you!"
"Does she really think that I am Saiyaman?"
"Of course she does, she's even planning some 'tests' to make sure."
"Tests…" Gohan was worried, he had to protect his family. He had to figure out a way to prove to Videl once and for all that he was not Saiyaman.
"So you got to like me instead, you have to! She's not worth it!" She grabbed on to his arm as she pleaded.
Gohan brushed her off and stormed outside. Seeing the class look up at him, he turned away and headed towards the nearest tree, climbing up it as fast as was possible for a human to do.
Erasa however headed straight for the class, ready to give gossip. "He is like, lame! Such a geek! Don't even GO there, ewe" She told the girls, as the guys laughed. "What did you even see in him Videl?"
Videl had removed herself slightly from the group, after having a major battle with herself about whether to listen in at the caves mouth . "What are you talking about?"
"You know, you're always like after him."
Videl fumed, Why was Erasa doing the blond thing on her. Even worse the evil blond thing. "I DON'T like him." He went with Erasa, she felt so hurt! "Whatever you think I don't like him"
"Really?"
"Are you sure?"
Like one person eight girls suddenly turned over to Sharpener.
"Hi Sharpie," one said in what she believed to be a seductive voice.
Videl looked at them in disbelief. They liked SHARPENER??? He had less personality then a cardboard cut-out. Why would they… She reached a conclusion. "Wow, this stick is really amazing, it's so…sticky?"
"Wow, its like, so cool!"
"A work of art," a girl chorused.
Videl tried again. "But this rock, is 'so' much better."
"Yeah the stick sucks compared to the rock!"
"And the rock is really mineraley," yelled a girl on pure enthusiasm.
Videl had solved the problem, none of these girl actually liked Gohan, or even Sharpener. They just liked whoever she liked, they were just shallow wannabes. The only real contender for Gohan's heart was Erasa.
Erasa, the person who was now bitching off Gohan, the person who knew all of Videl's secrets. The person who had just made Gohan hide in a tree after spending a few minutes alone in a cave.
She looked up at him, he was curled up, lost in his own thoughts. He looks really upset, she mused. Usually she would just climb up and question him about something, or at least beat him up, but today she was too mad that he went off with Erasa. How dare he, she fumed.
"I don't want to play Spin the Bottle anymore," she said quietly, so quietly that she didn't expect anyone to hear.
"Yep"
"Like, totally agree."
"Spin the Bottle sucks."
She rolled her eyes in exasperation. Sometimes popularity bites.
Gohan still up in his tree tried to shut his ears from the ranting Erasa, but even with hands covering his ears, her voice still carried on yelling in his mind from their earlier conversation. He was on the verge of screaming. So what if everyone only liked him, because Videl thought that he was Saiyaman, he had more important things to worry about. Things like how to protect his family and friends from the world, from Videl.
He had to figure out how to prove that he wasn't Saiyaman, so Videl would never find out. So Videl could never tell his secret.
If only it was that easy. If only Erasa's voice would get out of his head.
You're nothing.
"I am something, I'm me. I just can't show it." He whispered fiercely to himself. "Shut up, I need to think!" He rubbed his head. For someone who was rarely sick, he was getting something that was awfully like a headache.
***
Videl, alone, stormed up and down a small clearing, marching off her anger. It was now around midday, the day after the 'Erasa Incident' and Videl was still mad with Gohan, and Gohan was again up a tree, probably hiding from the insanities of 19 'normal' teens.
Videl in her frustration, was talking to herself. "I can't believe that he would do something like that! Or that she would betray me so badly. When she's not being a friend, she's just…easy. And he went with her, they were alone, in a cave. ALONE! Sure he went and climbed a tree afterwards, but he still went into a cave, alone, with Erasa!" She was walking so hard that she had worn down the grass. "Grrrrrrr, I HATE him SO much."
"Hello, Miss Videl."
"What the? How DARE you listen in…" She looked up. "Oh, It's you Saiyaman."
He landed right beside her. "I was wondering where you were."
"Oh so now you're my babysitter, is that it now?" She sounded distracted, her eyes were sweeping the overhead trees, she could have sworn…She turned to face him. He looked different. A faint smile was on his lips.
"More like I'm wondering why the Chief of Police is sitting in his office, crying into his doughnut."
She looked at him carefully, he was acting differently, that was it. For starters he didn't even pose when he appeared. He seemed more distant-somehow, more aloof. She had a suspicion that he was either wary of her, or VERY ticked off. She looked closer, hoping to see more then his mouth, hoping for more definite proof. "Listen, Gohan," she savoured the word. "I know who your are, you can't fool me."
He barely twitched or stuttered a response, something that she was definitely expecting him to do. The faint smile became a smirk.
"I knew it was you Gohan, the first time I saw you…. Gohan? GOHAN!!"
"Yes?"
The voice came from a different direction then she suspected. She turned around fast. "Gohan?" She questioned. She had been so sure that Gohan was Saiyaman, and now there must be two? … She blushed slightly, she had just yelled at a superhero, and made a complete idiot out of herself.
"I'm…well, I'm sorry." She stammered to Saiyaman, finding it hard to apologise. "I was just SO sure that you were…" She turned away, to hide her face. "That you were him" She jerked a shoulder in Gohan's direction.
"Him?" Saiyaman asked, as Erasa's word echoed around his head. "He's a nobody. He's nothing, how could you think that HE is me?"
"Yeah, he's no one." She whispered.
"What's going on?" asked a clueless Gohan.
"Nothing, I just thought that he," she gestured in Saiyaman's direction, "was you." She looked at the spiky haired teen. "Did you have a haircut?"
"No"
"You look different." She told him. You look, well less cute then usual she thought. Maybe it's, because I don't think that you are Saiyaman anymore. Yeah that must be it….
"Well, that's because I just realised HOW good looking you are."
"WHAT!"
"Was your father a thief, as he stole the stars and put them in your eyes." Gohan said surprisingly.
Videl on the other hand looked like she was having a hernia. "What the HELL, are you talking about? You know my dads Hurcule."
"Hurcule? Hurcule!" The teen clutched his sides with laughter, as he giggled.
Saiyaman suddenly started having a coughing fit, aiming it at the teen now rolling on the floor with laughter. The teen kept on laughing. Saiyaman looked nervously over to Videl, or as nervously as he could with a helmet covering his features. "Can… Gohan and I have a word, alone?"
Without waiting for an answer Saiyaman walked over to the sniggering Gohan, and picked him up by the scruff of the neck. He stormed into the trees.
"Oolong, quit it." He whispered. "You'll break my cover"
The shape changing pig, which currently looked like a shorter and slightly chubbier version of Gohan, kept on giggling.
"You have to act like me if this is going to work. No chat up lines, flirting, basically ANYTHING you think of."
"Yeah, I remember, I'm 'nothing'." Oolong said sarcastically.
"I knew I should've got Puar to do this." Gohan muttered.
***
"I'm going to take you all, in pairs, and deposit you at the Son household." Said the real Gohan to the class.
"Couldn't you just drop us off in Satan city?" Asked one random person.
"What do you think I am?" Yelled Gohan-Saiyaman. "It takes around FIVE hours to get there!" Gohan knew that he could get there in a little less then five minutes if he had to, but it was best not to tell THEM that, plus their bodies would have never coped with the strain.
In the background, the so-called Gohan sidled over towards a girl "Hi, sexy. Want to makeout?"
"Gross, get away from me!" The girl yelled. "You geek!"
Saiyaman sighed into his hands, before picking up the person who was pretending to be him, by his shirt. "Would you LIKE to stay stuck in the woods?" He threatened. "Come on Oolong," he hissed. "At least TRY to act like me."
Oolong now on the floor, stood up and brushed himself off. "Hi my names Gohan, I'm a bookworm, I'm scared of girls, and I'm am the defeater of Grasshoppers." He did a dramatic bow.
The class laughed at the idiot that Oolong was making Gohan out to be.
Videl got back to the topic on hand. "Who's going first?"
"ME!ME!ME!ME!ME!ME!" Shoelace's hand shot up so fast that it defied all known physical laws. He started to jump up and down on the spot, like the know-it-all in a class who wants to answer the teacher's question.
"How about Sharpener, and Videl?" Saiyaman asked in his 'authority' voice. Sharpener still had a two hands shape purple mark on his neck, and looked very beaten up. Videl looked ok, but he wanted to get Videl away from Oolong, before he said anything else.
He grabbed them before they could resist, and took off. Sharpener started to turn green, as he found that he flying sickness.
"Whatever you do, do NOT be sick, when we're flying this fast." Scolded Saiyaman.
Sharpener did nothing except turn greener, looking slightly like Piccolo. Saiyaman, after a brief moral dilemma, gripped Sharpeners neck, a little below the purple hand marks. Rendering the blond teen unconscious.
"Why did you do that for?" Asked Videl.
"Do you even know what it's like when there is projectile vomit when you're flying at this speed?"
"No."
"Well neither do I, but it's something that I don't want to find out."
"Hmmmm….How did you find us?"
"Does it matter? The 'all powerful' Hurcule will just say it's another trick." He said with disgust.
"Are you MOCKING my Dad?"
He laughed. "No."
"Because if you were I would have been forced to spar with you, for my honour."
"I'm a few hundred feet up in the air right now. I don't really think you should be telling me orders."
It took a while, but Gohan managed to drop all the people near his house. He had even survived a torment of the Saiyaman-loving Shoelace. The worse trouble he had was with swapping places with Oolong, but he managed it, before telling the pig that he wasn't going to pay him.
Now as Gohan was heading up to his house, class behind him, he started to think that he should have dropped the class at another house instead, it would have been much easier. So many things could go wrong. He stepped inside.
Goten was speeding around the kitchen. Sprinting so fast that he was a blur, he bounced off the walls and ceiling in a way that only a hyper demi saiyan can.
ChiChi was trying to grab him, but she couldn't grab what she couldn't see.
"What's wrong with him" Gohan asked as he entered the door. He caught the chibi easy, as Goten bounced off a wall nearby. With one arm Gohan held his struggling brother.
"I-was-hungry-and-bored-as-you were-not here-and-Trunks-is-busy-so-I-went-looking-for-food-in-the-freezer-and-found-icecream!-I-ate-all-of-it-and-mom-says-I-have-sugar-rush!"
ChiChi looked questionably at Gohan.
"He says that he is hyper." Gohan told his mom. The teen looked down at his brother. "Exactly HOW much ice-cream did you eat."
"Only-a-few-months-worth-honest."
Wait did you eat mine as well?"
The chibi didn't answer, but looked guiltily at the floor.
"Goten…" He growled, "Including the Ben and Jerrys, half-baked ice-cream with extra chocolate chip cookie dough, that I've been saving for a special occasion.?"
Goten nodded.
"That's it! You are in SO much trouble. And I know the perfect punishment."
"Are you going to spar with me?"
"No, why?"
"That's what Vegeta says to Trunks when Trunks gets into trouble." Goten checked that his mother wasn't listening. "But he uses naughty words instead."
"That sound like Vegeta. No, I'll tell you what you are going to do."
Gohan whispered to the Chibi. Goten's eyes widened in shock
"No… 'Ni-chan, that's unfair!"
"It's unfair that YOU ate ALL my ice-cream."
"But do I have to watch it?"
"Yes, you have to suffer for exactly two Barney episodes"
"Huh?" came a reply from out side. Gohan quickly remembered the fact that he had left the door open and his whole class had just probably heard the conversation. He felt his face go red.
"What's this about sparring?" Asked Videl.
"Nothing." For once Gohan didn't dither, or look embarrassed. He was curt, and looked her straight in her eyes, daring her to disbelieve him.
For once Videl was the first one to look away.
"Konichiwa, Gohan's class. My name is ChiChi, Gohan's Mother. Bulma Briefs will not be able to get the transportation over here, until a few hours. "
"Nani? But I told you about this ages ago…." Seeing the weird looks on his classmates faces he changed his sentence. "I mean just now…"
Videl looked relived. Gohan was nervous again, there was the guy that she knew and lo… She did not almost think that did she? The wilderness must have messed with her mind.
She meant liked him, didn't she? Yeah liked.
Liked as in LIKED, a lot.
She slapped herself, on her face. Come on snap out of it.
The whole class looked at her wondering why she slapped herself in the face.
She scratched the back of her head, and gave a goofy smile, before catching herself. She was definitely hanging round Gohan too much. "So what shall we do for the next few hours?" Videl asked ChiChi.
Chichi smiled to herself, "Well to get to know all of you classmates of Gohan, of course."
The class looked worried. To hang around with a weird parent? They didn't think so.
**
Videl groaned. Almost the ENTIRE class had gone to a nearby lake. Gohan said he was going to have a bath, so that left her Baby-sitting. Well more like watching as the chibi cooked, while his mom went interrogating females.
Goten got a stool and began to chop some vegetables. Videl stood behind him and watched. The Chibi was pretty good, chopping very fast. Videl was scared that he was going to cut himself.
Then he did.
The knife out of sheer enthusiasm, missed the massacred vegetable entirely and pressed hard against his finger.
She estimated at deep cut, at least. The only problem, she couldn't see any blood, and Goten hadn't even noticed. "Goten," she asked. "Can I see your hand?"
The naïve kid turned around and presented his hands for inspection. Videl checked them; he didn't have a scrape, or even a mark. Yet, she knew that the knife had been moving too fast then to just harmlessly bounce off him. Unless she was mistaken….
"Thanks Goten, why don't you just scrub that pan, while I finish up cutting these vegetables."
"Okay," Goten chirped.
Videl picked up the knife and started to cut the vegetables. She found out that she was worse at it then the cute 7 years old. On further inspection she found out that the knife was blunt, in fact so blunt that you could probably cut better with a baseball bat then with that knife. Goten seemed to notice her trouble, and gave this cute little grin, that was a mimic to the one that Gohan did.
"Ka-san says I make the knives go less sharp when I cut my finger," he said innocently.
"Huh," answered Videl. The sentence did not make sense.
Goten rubbed the back of his head.
"So . . . did your mom teach you how to cook?"
"Yep, she did. She didn't want to train me after I went super…." Goten realised exactly WHO he was talking to and exactly HOW much trouble he would be in with Gohan. "So she taught me to cook, and she says I'm good, 'cept when I eat it all before it is cooked."
"Can Gohan and your dad cook?"
"Ka-san says that 'Tousan just used to blast food, and 'ni-chan was real bad cooking. She says he once set fire to 'Tousan's hair."
"Was your da- 'Tousan alright?"
"Yeah, he was strong. Stronger the Gohan AND Trunk's 'Tousan. Fire would never ever hurt him."
"Strong? What was your 'Tousan's name?"
"Son Goku."
She whimpered.
Son Goku.
Son Goku, the famous Martial Artist.
The LEGANDARY Son Goku.
The Son Goku who was the youngest ever Tenkaichi Budokai winner.
The Son Goku who just happened to be Gohan's dad.
"Wait . . . Your telling me that-" she didn't get any further, because her eyes rolled into the back of her head and she fainted.
Goten looked distressed. Gohan was not going to be a happy bunny once he found out that he broke Gohan's girlfriend.
*****
ChiChi started to walk back home, leaving a pile of terrified girls in her wake. After a through Psychoanalysis, she discovered that not ONE of those girls were even fit to be in the same class as her son, let alone be future Girlfriend/Mate material. She sighed to herself, so many hussies, the unworthy, Grandchildren were going to be a lot harder then she thought.
***
Goten, worry covering every inch of his face, threw a vase of water at Videl. She started to stir. She was going to be alright.
Still he ran out of the house as fast as his little legs could carry him, considering that they were a demi Saiyan legs, that was pretty fast indeed. If Videl was ANYTHING like his Ka-san then it would be VERY bad to hang around any longer. Plus he really wanted to avoid his punishment. Barney was scary.
With an attention span that he probably inherited off his dad, he headed to the lake. Maybe he could play with somebody, he had never played with people who were weak before. Well people who were weak AND didn't know about Saiya-jins.
***
Videl opened her eyes. She was dripping wet and lying on the kitchen floor. Her mind ran in circles. Gohan was the son of GOKU?!!?
She stood up, and stormed outside. She was going to have a little talk with him. Why didn't he tell me? She was still mad with him for earlier, so she was NOT going to be nice.
Things didn't make sense. How could some simple high school geek, be the son of one of the greatest martial artists in the world, after her dad of coarse. Sure Goten DID look really muscled for a little kid, but Gohan was just…weak.
It did explain some things though, things like why Goten was talking about sparring when they arrived. Still she was planning on having a go at him, right after she sparred with him and beat him to the ground.
***
Goten sneaked up behind Sharpener. The blond teen was currently on a rock, preparing to dive off. It had been 'preparing' for this dive for the last twenty minutes.
Goten bent down and lifted one end of the rock. Sharpener fell into the water. The chibi giggled as he held the rock over his head.
The class gasped. That rock was at least four times the size of the chibi.
The chibi on the other hand was wondering what everyone was so shocked at. He looked behind him, no one was there. Then he realised. He ran for it.
Behind him the class just shrugged it off. It must have been an illusion. Yeah that must be it.
***
Videl marched around the side around the side of the house, and walked straight into Gohan. A Gohan who had just had a bath. A Gohan who was only wearing a towel and that annoying belt.
Gohan was surprised, to say the least. In fact, he was so surprised that he dropped his towel.
Giving Videl a view that she never suspected.
***
ChiChi walked into her house. It was weird, both Goten and that girl had gone. They had left the kitchen in a mess too, water was all over the floor! She walked outside, following her parental instincts.
Around the corner was that girl, with Gohan and he was NAKED! Why that little hussy. That sly female, attacking her boy like that, when he was suppose to be studying. She saw SO going to give that, that slut, a piece of her mind.
**
Gohan, a few hours later, sighed. It had been terrible, a complete nightmare. First his mother, had to scream at Videl, for hours at end, and then scream at him. Then Goten turned up and naively asked what was going on. Wasn't what happened embarrassing enough? Luckily some guy delivered a bus capsule soon afterwards and everyone left. Hopefully everything was going to go back to normal soon.
But first he had to survive his punishment. Five hours of constant Barney episodes.
***
Videl tried to get Gohan out of her head. She hated him so much. He went with Erasa. He messed with her head. Now she wished that she never met him at all. Never.
A tiny voice in the back of her mind nagged that she was forgetting something. Something that wasn't questioning Gohan, and didn't mention Gohan at all.
She remembered. They had forgotten her Dad.
********A few days later************
In a small room, in Satan City, a group of people sat in their anger management class.
One stood up, and faced the group. "Hi my name is Gohan, and my temper controls me."
"Hi Gohan," the rest of the adults responded.
***
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