Note: Now we get to where the show picks up, Gohan and Orange Star High School. But the question is, how has training these past seven years with Vegeta going to change Gohan's personality from the one on the show? Let's find out! Cause I come up with what happens next as I write. This story could go anywhere! But I'll keep it within normal boundaries! lol
Disclaimer: Me own something?? HA! I don't even own the clothes on my back! My parent's do until I'm 18 years old I hear…
Due to my very unpolished writing skills, there will undoubtedly be some OOC moments in this story, and all I can say is I'm sorry!! And my detailing skills suck, I know this. Well, considering the last story I tried to write was a mystery story 2 years ago that came off like a bad game of "Clue." shudders Compared to that this story is pure gold! lol
"YOU WHAT?? WHY THE HELL WOULD I WANT TO GO THERE??" Gohan stood up, knocking his chair across the room, and spilling his food onto the floor. His tail bristled in anger, waving franticly behind him.
"I signed you up to attend high school. I believe it will be a good learning experience. Besides, you never interact with children your own age. Think of this as a lesson in social skills! Who knows, you might even fall in love, and I would like to hold a grandchild in my arms before I go…" Gohan sweatdropped. Goten, oblivious to the argument stared longingly at the food Gohan had spilled.
"Are you going to eat that?" he asked hopefully.
"Uh, no… you can have it…"
"Are you…" Goten dived into the food. "arelihght Gophagn? Yolour meot eatguing muntch." (TRANSLATION: "Are you aright Gohan? You're not eating much.")
"GOTEN" His eyes shot up to Chi Chi, "WHERE ARE YOUR MANNERS YOUNG MAN?! I thought I raised you better than this! And the same goes to you Gohan. You're going to high school and that's that. Besides its only one year. Orange Star High School is the most respectable high school in our area. You'll only be attending for your senior year anyway. And you can still train on weekends and holidays! A high school diploma looks better if it comes from the school itself, and next year you ARE going to college, so think of it was a chance to get prepared to deal with ordinary people on a regular basis."
"Aright ma, but ONLY one year. And just because I'm going doesn't mean I'm going to enjoy this experience." 'Its only 180 days… only 180 days… Jeeze, I'm going to miss 90 days of training in that time… I wonder if Dende and Mr. Popo will allow me to use the Room of Sprit and Time on weekends…'
"Good. Your first day is next Monday. Now then… SIT DOWN AND FINISH YOU DINNER!"
~MONDAY MORNING~
What can I say?
'Kami, why do you hate me so? What did I ever do to you? I don't WANT to "work on my social skills." And what's with mom's whole "go to high school" trip anyway?! We worked out a good plan after dad died anyway! I studied AND trained, but nnnnoooo!' Gohan flew toward Saiyan City in his Super Saiyan level 1 form, and his dreaded destination, Orange Star High School, which he was sure was hell on earth. 'Teenage humans. I have to spend 5 days a week with teenage humans! [1] This is just perfect. Adolescent humans, I have never had to deal with people like that before in my entire life! The only humans I ever had to deal with were friends of the family, or family themselves! I never had to hide my strength around them. Power like mine was expected from my family! Those stupid brats had better leave me alone or I'll…Kami! I think I'm turning into Vegeta! Ok Gohan, calm down, breath…' [2]
Saiyan City came into view, and Gohan searched for a quiet, empty spot to land in. If the citizens saw him fly, it would all be over before it began. 'Ah, there's a good spot! And only 2 blocks from the hellhole itself. Aright, here goes nothing.' He landed, and ducked into an alley. He was about to change back when he heard gunshots. He glanced out into the street to see a car speeding down the street like a runaway missile, 'Or a runaway Goten, heh.' The cop's cars were losing ground to the crook's supped-up sports car. 'Well, I could stop the car… I mean, its perfect! I'm still in ss1 form, so this can be the "Return of the Saiyan Warrior!!" It's also a good time to start showing up that bastard, Hercule. Clame he's stronger than me will he? I'll show him. Well, here goes nothing.' At the last minute he stepped out in front of the car, and it slammed into his chest.
"What the hell??" The crook leaned out the window. "Who the hell are you and WHAT did you do to my car?!"
"I must say I'm a little disappointed. You people name the city after me, and forget about me so easily." Gohan smirked, and then proceeded to pick the entire car up with one had, and spin it on a single finger like a basketball. The cops, who had just arrived, watched on in awe as Gohan tossed the car up into the air, caught it and sat it back on the ground. He reached into the car taking the gun away from the completely disoriented crook, and grinded it into dust with his bare hands. He turned towards the cops, and gathering crowd. "I think you guys can handle it from here. Seeya!" He blasted off into the air to find another spot to land at.
"Was that who I think it was?? I mean he would be about that age by now, wouldn't he?"
"Ya George. That HAD to be him! Who else could it be??"
"YOU!" They turned around to face the slightly pissed off girl behind them. "Tell me now. Was that the Saiyan Warrior?"
"Ya Videl, I mean we think so. He looked about 18 or 20 years old, had that strength, AND the gold hair, so I guess it HAS to be him!"
'Well this is just great! He just HAS to show up again. He's the ONLY one stronger than my father. Despite what dad says, from what I just saw this guy do, dad can't even hold a torch to this guy. And now he's back, trying to take over my crime fighting territory! [3] Grrr, I'll show him. I will find out who he is!' "Which way did he go?"
"Uh, that way. But you will probably see him later anyway!"
"And why do you say that?"
"He goes to your high school. He's got that same badge you have." She looked down at the Orange Star Badge on her shirt.
"Ya, all the kids at school have to wear this. If he goes to my school I'll be sure to find him." Without waiting for a response, she turned around and stormed back towards her chopper.
"I guess this is it." Gohan stared up at Orange Star High. "Here goes nothing. Well Gohan, Welcome to hell…" He strolled up to the door and walked in. 'Ok then, where is the stupid office? I need to get my class listings… Ah there it is.' He opened the door, reveling a small, empty, waiting room with a desk.
"Excuse me?" Startled, Gohan turned to see a stout, plump woman enter the room, wearing a gray business suit. She walked past Gohan and took a seat behind the desk. "Good morning, I'm Maria Crombez, the school secretary. May I help you?"
"Uh, ya. I need to know what classes I'm in."
"Name?"
"Son Gohan."
"Aright then, lets just pull up your file." She started typing away on the computer. "Ah here we are. Its says here that you should report to homeroom first, that's room 234, Mr. McClellan. That's on the second floor, if you didn't know. 100s on the first floor, 200s on the second, 300s on the third. You get the idea?"
"Yep."
"Good." She hit the print button, and handed him the resulting printout. "Here you are, young man. Have a nice day."
"Thank you." He turned and walked out the door to find his class.
"Why, Miss Satan! We must thank you for gracing our class with your presence today. Thirty minutes late too, might I add." Mr. McClellan glared at Videl as she entered the room.
"Sorry, Mr. McClellan. There was a police chase this morning, and I got sidetracked." 'Not to mention that the Saiyan Warrior showed up…'
"Well, that being the case, I'll let you slide. This time. However you shouldn't allow your so-called civic duties to overshadow your academic responsibilities. Now please take your seat." He watched as Videl climbed the stairs, and calmly took her spot.
"Videl," whispered the young blond girl to her side, "You said you were at the chase this morning?"
"Yes I was, Erasa. What are you getting at?"
"Well?? Was he really there? Was he?"
"QUIET up there! I believe that geometry is more important than your idle chatter!"
"Yes sir." they simultaneously responded.
"What Erasa means to say is, was the Saiyan Warrior really there?" smugly stated the longhaired blond boy on her other side.
"If you must know Sharpner, yes he was."
"Oh cool!" squealed Erasa. "I hope I get to see him! He's suppost to be a hunk too!"
"Oh come on baby! You know that golden boy don't even hold a chance against me in the looks department. Why don't…" Suddenly a knocking at the door cut off Sharpner.
"Come in." the teacher called. The door opened slowly to revel Gohan. He walked into the room, and stood by the teacher. "Ah yes, Mr. Son. Class, I would like to introduce you to our new student Son Gohan. According to our records, Gohan here has scored the highest on every one of our entry exams than any other student in Orange Star's history. In fact, if I'm not mistaken, you got perfect scores on all but one exam. Isn't that correct young man?"
"Yes sir. I need to study a little more on Einstein's Relativity Theory it would seem." The class gasped a little at this statement, and started to murmur amongst themselves.
'He doesn't look like a bookworm… More like a fighter to me…' [4] Videl glared down at him, 'Why does he look so familiar. I've seen him somewhere before. But where?'
"Uh, yes. I see. Well Gohan, please take your seat. You will be over there by Erasa. Erasa, could you please stand so Gohan here know where you are? Thank you. Now then class, lets continue with calculating to find the L dimension. If L = 2S+2D, where S = 3.31 inches and…" Gohan trudged up the stairs to Erasa.
"Hiya cutie! I'm Erasa!" He eyed her with a condescending look.
"So I heard." He sat down as she continued unabated.
"This here's Sharpner, and Videl! Her father is the World Champ at the Tenkaichi Budokai, Hercule Satan! She won the junior division too!!" He leaned forward, nodding to both.
'This place just gets better and better. I have to sit one seat down from the daughter of the biggest fool the world has ever known.' "That's nice to hear. Congrats Videl." He yawned, earning him a glare from Videl.
"So Gohan," Erasa continued, "what school did you transfer from?"
"Didn't. I live out in the 439 mountain area [5] and with there being no school near my house, I have been home schooled my entire life.'
"WHAT??" Erasa jumped out of her chair. "That's like 500 miles away!!"
"ERASA! WHAT is going on up there?! Sit down this instant, and PAY ATTETION!"
"Sorry!" She quickly sat back down, hiding behind her book. "How do you get here? Its like a 5 hour drive." Gohan rolled his eyes.
"I have plenty of free time." 'What is up with these people? This is going to be a long day.'
"Come on baby, leave him alone…" Sharpner smirked at Erasa. He leaned back and, reaching behind Videl, started rubbing Erasa's back. Erasa shrieked and leaped out of her chair, earning her another reprimand from the teacher. Videl rolled her eyes, and glanced at Gohan only to find him slowly reading the entire textbook.
'What is with this guy? How does he get here everyday? He's hiding something, I can tell. But what?' Videl shot a quick glare at Gohan, and turned back to face the teacher.
Gohan and his three new "friends" all shared a third period gym class, so they insisted that he walk with them, to show him the way. After badgering him for a few minutes, he gave in. "So, Gohan, any good at sports?" Sharpner yawned, "I mean, ever play any?"
"Some. Baseball only really. Not much though, cause my mom banned Yamcha from playing baseball with me after he almost beamed me in the head when I was 8." Suddenly he noticed they were no longer walking beside him. He turned around to see them all gawking at him. "What did I say?"
"You know Yamcha??!!" Erasa's face grew bright red.
"Ya, I do. He's an old friend of my dad's. So what?" Sharpner's face grew very pale.
"So what? SO WHAT?? You know the greatest professional baseball player EVER and you say 'So what??'"
"He played baseball professionally? I knew he liked the game, but I've only really known him as a martial artist." The three friends just stared at him with blank faces.
"Uh, right… Well, my point was yesterday in gym the coach announced that we would be playing basketball today. Know how to play?" [6]
"Read about it, but never played. I pick things up fast though." Gohan smirked, and walked into the building followed by his still shocked friends. (The term "friends" is currently being used lightly; he doesn't like them all that much yet)
'That… that was strange. He knows Yamcha and brushes it off like its normal! There's more to this guy then meets the eye, that's for sure. Chalk another mark on the strange side for Son Gohan…' Videl composed herself, and walked to the locker room.
"Ah, you must be Mr. Son. I'm Coach Hamrick, you gym instructor. Just put your stuff over at the wall over there, then go stand with the others." Gohan, who was now dressed out in the standard orange shorts and white t-shirt ((that's what my real gym class used, except with black shorts. school colors idea, my school has black and gold, theirs are what… orange and white? lol)), did as he was told, ignoring the stares the rest of the class had been giving him since he walked out of the locker room. It had been tough to hide his tail from the other students, but worth it. He wasn't going to give that tail up anytime soon.
"So Videl," Erasa started, eyeing Gohan the whole time, "what do you think of Gohan?"
"I'm not exactly sure… There's something strange about him that I just can't put my finger on…" She was cut short by the coach blowing his whistle.
"Aright class! As I said yesterday, we will be starting basketball today. Next six-weeks however we will play hockey, so get your pucks dusted off. Ok then for warm-ups today we'll start with 20 sit-ups, and 2 laps around the gym. When you're finished with the sit-ups, gather by the door. Ready? Begin!" Gohan, being the first to finish his sit-ups, surprise surprise, watched was the rest of the class struggled with them. Well, everyone except Videl, and to a lesser extent Sharpner. As soon as the rest of the class finished, they all walked outside onto the track running around the gym. Again Gohan finished first, earning him a good glare from Videl.
'How the hell did he beat me? He's really fast. I'm supposed to be the fastest in this school! I've got to think of a way to get some information about him, OUT of him!
Class, we'll now break off into two teams for our game today. We got about 45 minutes left in this class so lets get cracking. Sharpner and Rodney will be the team captains. Any questions? No? Good. Lets get started."
"I'll go first." Sharpner scanned the crowd, "Ok, Videl."
"Figures…" muttered Rodney, "Matt."
"Gohan."
"Zavier." It continued like that for another few minutes until the entire class was dived off, excluding the score and timekeepers. For the most part the game was normal, seeing how Gohan was benched and couldn't do anything wrong, but that changed just as soon as Todd, a fellow member of his team, fouled out.
'Ok. I have got to keep myself restrained, and not show off my strength. I really wish I didn't have to do that, but I don't want to be labeled as the school "freak."'
"Gohan!" He looked towards the source of the voice to see Sharpner cornered with the ball. "Catch!" He threw the ball towards Gohan as fast as he could, which Gohan, of course, easily caught. As weakly as possible, he started to dribble the ball, but was a bit to hard with it. It hit the floor, bounced up towards the roof rebounding back to the floor at an inhuman speed, leavening a dent in the roof. The ball slammed into the ground, and promptly exploded at Gohan's feet.
It was if the world has stopped turning. The entire room was silent as they stared at the torn remains at Gohan's feet. He glanced up from the wreckage to see the entire class stop looking at the ball, and just look at him. "Uh… heh… I guess I don't know my own strength?" He laughed nervously, and went back to the bench to sit out the rest of the game.
'My Kami, what is he??!!' Videl just stared in shock, and like the rest of the class resumed playing with a new ball, trying to push the strange events out of her mind.
By the time lunch rolled around, Gohan thought that he deserved that VERY large meal his mom packed after a morning like THAT. 'Thank Kami that Bulma gave mom those extra capsules. Mom said there was enough food in them for lunch.' He scanned the courtyard where students were allowed to eat outside, and after about a minute or two he spotted an old oak tree in a corner, away from the rest of the students. After he looked around to make sure nobody was watching him, he quickly reached into his pockets, and pulled out one of the two capsules. He detonated it, and emerging from the puff of smoke was a table loaded down with food. Almost as quickly as it appeared, the food was gone, and the table recapsled. Gohan repeated the process for the second capsule.
'Ahh, I feel better. Himmm, there's a good 25 minutes left in lunch; so I guess I could use it for meditating. I mean, I can't really train my body while I'm here, so I might as well train my mind.' He glanced around to make sure that nobody was watching, sat down on the grass, and began to meditate, however he did make sure to not levitate more than half an inch above the ground, not wanting to draw attention to himself. Less than five minutes later he was spotted by a VERY curious, and confused, Videl.
'Ah, there he is. He's all alone too. It's the perfect time to try and get some more info about this guy… I will find out what he's hiding, and how the hell he did that in gym!' She calmly walked over to him, noting that he seemed to be meditating. "Hello Gohan. Mind if I sit here?" 'And find out what your hiding?' She frowned slightly when she got no response. 'Ignore me will he?!' She punched him in the arm to get his attention, only to end up getting shocked, and a bruised hand. Gohan, who was slightly annoyed by her attempt to hit him, opened his eyes, and turned to look at Videl, while scratching the slight itch her punch had given him.
"What do you want?"
'Grouchy, isn't he?' "I just wanted to know if I could sit here?"
"It's a free country, isn't it?" He closed his eyes and got back into his meditation position, although he was really watching her, to make sure she didn't mess with this stuff.
'Jeeze, isn't there anything here that tell ANYTHING about him? Wait, what's that?' She had noticed three insignias on his book bag, one of which she instantly recognized, the sign of the Turtle Hermit! But what was Gohan doing with the sign of the Turtle Hermit on his book bag?? 'This,' she realized, 'requires some questioning.' "Hey, Gohan."
"What now?" He turned to face her.
"What are these?" He rolled his eyes.
"These are the symbols of three martial artists."
"Whose, exactly?" 'So far, so good.'
"That's my symbol, that one is my dad's, and the last one is that of Master Roshi."
"Why do you have the insignia of the Turtle Hermit on your book bag??"
"Well, three members of my family have trained under him. [7] Plus he gave me permission to put it on my bag when I asked him a few days ago."
"WHAT?? But… wha… huh??"
"Look, Videl. I…"
"BBBRRRIIINNNGGGG!!!!!"
'Thank you Kami, saved by the bell.' "Seeya Videl. I got to get to class." With that, Gohan quickly stood up, and walked away.
'Well, that was informative. Three members of his family?? Impossible! I mean, knowing Yamcha is one thing, but knowing the Turtle Hermit?? This kid is impossible! Son Gohan is gonna be one tough nut to crack. I'll find you out if it's the last thing I do!' Quickly, she too stood, and walked calmly to her class.
MY KAMI!! I THOUGH I WOULD NEVER FINISH THIS CHAPTER!! I hate my teachers, the assign too much work, so I never had time to work on this! SORRY! Anyway, next time Videl uses the Internet to see if she can get some info on Gohan, and Hercule, unfortunally, makes a reappearance in the story. Keep reading. PLEASE?
[1] I'm basing the Orange Star school system on the local one in my town. School lasts 180 days, 5-day weeks, 2-day weekends. 6 classes with a half-hour lunch after 4th.
[2] Gohan isn't turning into Vegeta, he's just picking up a bit of a temper because, frankly, HE DOESN"T WANT TO GO!
[3] Videl is of course a crime fighter, and her temper is flaring because she thinks that Gohan is trying to steal her little bit of glory.
[4] Because he's been training instead of doing only non-stop studying, Gohan looks less like the normal Gohan, and a lot more like Mirai Gohan he's got both arms and no scars though, btw that's Future Gohan if you didn't know.
[5] I hope that's right. Somebody please tell me if it isn't the 439 mountain area he lives in.
[6] Sharpner isn't exactly OOC, he's really acting the way I think he would act around this Gohan. He picked on Gohan in the show because he looked like a nerd, but in this fic, as I said, he looks like Mirai Gohan, so basically nothing like a nerd. So Sharpner would probably be more accepting of him.
[7] The three people I'm talking about, if you didn't know already, are Son Gohan Sr. Goku Grandfather, the Ox King, and Goku himself.