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Hero? Doubt it
Chapter 2 – School Sure Ain't All It's Cracked Up To Be!
Written By RJ J
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Hiya guys, and here's another chapter of Hero? Doubt it. Thanx for all of the cool reviews…well, enjoy the story!
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The next morning, Gohan woke up and lay in bed for a while, thinking about the conversation he had with his dad last night.
He sounded happy enough up there, it made him sadder to think that he wouldn't be back for ages.
Gohan turned over and looked at the clock on his bedside table. It read 5:28.
He closed his eyes again, he didn't need to get up yet.
Gohan awoke again to the sound of his alarm clock ringing at 6:30, he must have fallen asleep again.
'Oh well, that comes with not getting up when you wake up' he thought as he slammed his hand down on the alarm clock, almost breaking it 'I can't go train now, I'll have to go in the afternoon'
He pushed the blankets off and sat up, yawning and stretching.
Still feeling half-asleep, Gohan grabbed some clothes off the end of his bed and staggered off towards the bathroom to have a shower and get changed.
About 10 minutes later, Gohan emerged from the bathroom, wearing baggy jeans and a black turtleneck sweater, looking much more awake than what he did when he went in.
He made his way towards the kitchen to eat his breakfast.
"Morning son" Chichi greeted cheerfully as Gohan entered the room.
"Morning mom" Gohan greeted, taking his seat across from Goten who was already sitting at the table, knife and fork poised in the air, ready to eat.
Chichi placed a large meal of bacon and eggs and pancakes on the table and sat down at her seat.
As soon as she'd sat down, the two demi-Saiyans tore into the food, chewing and swallowing almost faster than the eye could see. Within a few minutes, all the food was gone from the table and there was two satisfied demi-Saiyans, which was always a good thing.
"Thanks for breakfast, mom" Gohan said, standing up and taking his plates to the sink.
"Yeah! It was yummy!" Goten said happily, taking his plates to the sink and then running off to his room to play with his toys.
"You better go to school now" Chichi suggested to Gohan
"Yeah, see ya mom" Gohan said, walking towards the door
"Bye Goten" he yelled down the hallway
"Bye!" Goten yelled back, more preoccupied with his toys than saying goodbye to his brother.
Gohan went out the front door and took off into the air in the direction of Satan City.
He took his time flying there because he knew that he could go faster if he needed to and besides, he was really early anyway.
When he finally arrived at Satan City, he landed in an alleyway and started to walk down the street.
When he turned the corner, he saw some guys outside a bank, holding guns, yelling something.
'Oh man! I suppose I should do something' he thought and quickly ducked back into the alleyway and went Super-Saiyan.
He stepped out of the alleyway again and dealt with the thieves accordingly, a punch there, a punch there and a nice imprint of his hand in their car, it should make them think twice before doing something like that again.
After taking care of the thieves, Gohan flew off to another alleyway so he could transform out of super without showing the gathering audience his true identity.
He dropped out of super and made his way to school without any more hiccups.
Gohan stopped in front of OSH.
'So this is it' he thought, then shrugged and made his way to the office.
"Excuse me" he said, getting the attention of the blonde lady sitting at the desk, obviously more interested at putting nail polish on than the administration.
The blonde looked up and snapped her pink bubble gum "Well, aren't you a cutie? What do you want hon?" she said, in a voice practically dripping with sweetness.
"Yeah…uh…I'm new here and I need a timetable" Gohan said, wanting to get away from the creepy blonde as soon as he could. (I have nothing against blondes, in fact, I am a blonde, although I just streaked my hair with blue...I just thought that it'd fit the story better)
"Okay, hon, what's your name"
"Son Gohan"
The blonde typed his name into the computer and snapped her gum impatiently as the printer printed his timetable out.
She tore off the paper and handed it to Gohan.
"There you go, hon, don't forget, you can come visit me whenever you want" she said, winking at him before he walked away.
Gohan walked out of the office, feeling really weirded out.
"Man, if this is what school's like, I'm not sure if I'm gonna like it" he muttered to himself as he looked around for his classroom.
5 minutes later, he'd found the classroom.
"This is it" he said to himself and knocked on the door.
He heard some shuffling coming from in the room and then the door opened.
"Yes, hi" the middle-aged male teacher said grouchily as he opened the door
"Uh, I'm new and I'm supposed to be in this class" Gohan said, and handed his timetable to the teacher, who inspected it and returned it to Gohan.
"Very well then" he said, walking back to the front of the class, motioning for Gohan to follow him.
"Class, we have a new student today, this is Gohan, please make him feel welcome"
Gohan looked around at the many students in the class, all the girls were staring at him and the guys were glaring at him.
"Gohan, could you go take a seat up there by Erasa" he said, pointing at an empty seat next to a girl with short blonde hair.
He made his way up to the seat and sat down.
"Hi! I'm Erasa!" the blonde introduced herself enthusiastically
"Hi" Gohan said shyly, he wasn't used to all this attention and to tell you the truth, he didn't really want it.
Erasa didn't seem to get the fact that he didn't really want to talk, and she went on to introduce the two people sitting next to her.
"This is Videl" she said, pointing to the girl with long black hair "Guess what! Her dad's Hercule, yeah, the guy who beat Cell!"
Gohan was taken a bit unaware with that comment, he didn't know that someone else had taken the credit.
Recovering quickly, he said "Yeah, that's nice" noticing the weird look Videl gave him when he didn't make a big song and dance about it. Really, who would if they knew the truth…?
Erasa went on to introduce the boy sitting next to Videl.
"This is Sharpner"
"Hi" Gohan said, not really wanting to bother with these introductions.
Gohan turned his attention to the teacher and tried not to listen as Sharpner went on about another nerd joining the class, but unfortunately, his Saiyan hearing enabled him to hear every word.
Class passed slowly and at lunchtime, he was walking around, looking for a private spot where he could eat his lunch without distraction. He passed Erasa, Videl and Sharpner sitting under a tree on the field.
"Yoo-hoo! Gohan! Over here!" Erasa shouted, waving her hands to get his attention.
'Dammit!' he thought as he looked over towards the three sitting under the tree. Erasa was beckoning him to come over. Gohan shrugged, 'Might as well, nothing better to do' he thought as he walked over to the shade of the tree.
"Sit down" Erasa instructed as he reached the tree "You look lost, you can hang with us" she smiled sweetly at him, but Gohan didn't get the hidden meaning behind the smile…
Gohan sat down next to Erasa, who immediately started asking him questions about himself.
"So, where do you live?" she asked
"439 Mountain Area" Gohan replied
"Wow! That's far out, you must get up really early to get to school at that time" Erasa said, she was doing most of the talking, Videl was staring at him, but not like the other girls did, and Sharpner was more interested in a group of pretty girls walking past.
"Not really" Gohan said "Anyway, what is this? Interrogation?"
"No, I'm just interested about you" Erasa said, smiling at him again.
Gohan tried to answer the rest of her questions politely, without giving too much of himself away and without talking too much, Erasa was doing enough talking for the both of them.
Eventually the bell rang and they started walking to their next class, and Gohan remembered that he hadn't eaten his lunch. Oh well, he'd have to wait until he got home, he'd gone without food for much longer before, but as long as he got a good feed after, he was okay.
Trying to ignore his growling stomach, he followed the other three into the next class, Maths.
"Okay class, today we're going to be doing advanced algebra," the maths teacher said
He started writing examples on the board for them to copy into their notes.
Gohan stared at the board in disbelief, he'd learnt this when he was at least 7, if not 8 years old!
'Oh well, I guess I'll just play along' he thought as he copied the examples into his book.
Gohan finished the problems in his book and the teacher was working them out on the board for the class to mark their work.
He had just finished the last one when Gohan put up his hand.
"Yes, uh…Gohan?" he said
"The answer for 2b is wrong, it should be 21 ½, not 18" Gohan said, correcting the teacher's mistake.
The teacher quickly turned to look back at the problems and looked over the one Gohan had corrected.
"Yes, so it is" he mumbled to himself as he changed the answer.
The class erupted into a chorus of "Ooohhhhs" when the teacher admitted his mistake.
The rest of the class passed quickly, and soon it was time for the last class of the day, PE. (Had to be. =)!)
Gohan followed the rest of his class to the gym and they sat on the ground, waiting for the PE teacher to come.
When the PE teacher finally entered the room, Gohan saw that he was a force not to be reckoned with. He was old, slightly balding, with the most ridiculous mustache that you'd ever seen and he had the sternest look and the wrinkles all over his face didn't help soften the look either. He kinda looked like a drill sergeant from the army from all the way back in WWI…probably was, he looked old enough.
Out of all the things that Gohan'd done today, this must have been the most amusing thing.
'I think I'm going crazy' Gohan thought in exasperation
When the class noticed that the teacher had entered the room, they jumped to their feet and stood straight and tall, as if been called to attention. Gohan quickly jumped to his feet too, he didn't really want to get in trouble on the first day, by messing with a teacher.
"Class!" the teacher barked "Today we're going to play soccer!"
Gohan subconsciously moved his hands over his ears, his Saiyan hearing was sensitive enough, the teacher didn't need to yell, and he didn't really want to go deaf.
"Everyone out!" he commanded and the class immediately jogged outside to the field.
When they got out to the field, the teacher dumped a bag of soccer balls on the ground and instructed the class to jog 5 times around the school. Unfortunately the school was very large…
They set off, to Gohan, this was child's play, he didn't even need to put any effort into it, and without knowing it, he'd passed all the rest of his classmates and finished his 5 laps before most people had even started their 4th, and without even breaking a sweat!
He stopped when he got back to the field and saw the teacher sitting on a seat at the side of the field, with his back to Gohan, looking at a magazine.
Gohan came up behind the teacher and cleared his throat.
Startled, the teacher jumped and fumbled around with the magazine, trying to close it.
He stood up, glaring at Gohan.
Gohan looked down at the magazine on the seat, and looked at the title. It said 'Playboy'. The name sounded familiar. His thoughts drifted to a perverted old man who lived on an island in the middle of nowhere. That's where he'd seen this magazine before.
"Just what do you think you're doing!" the PE teacher barked
"I finished" Gohan said
"Well, have you just. Do another lap! That'll teach you for sneaking up on me!" the teacher yelled, pointing towards the direction that Gohan was supposed to run in.
Gohan sighed and ran off, completing the lap quickly and getting back before the rest of the class.
This time, he didn't go up to the teacher, he just waited by the edge of the field for the rest of the class.
By the time the class finally came, the teacher had put his magazine away, and was ready for the class, but he kept sneaking looks at Gohan, some nervous looks and some glares.
The teacher explained what they were going to do…i.e. soccer.
"Okay, Videl, you captain one team, and Sharpner, you captain the other team" Videl and Sharpner stood up at the front of the class "Okay, pick your teams"
The two teens worked their way through the class until finally they got to Gohan, who was the last one left.
Sharpner quickly said, "You can have nerd-boy" and stalked off to the other side of the field, his team following closely behind.
"Okay then, come on Gohan" Videl said and she motioned for her team to come in so they could talk strategy.
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Author's Notes: There, the end of another chapter...I have a question, do you guys think I should bring in a bad guy from outer space or something like that, and make it more actiony or should I just make it a sweet, sappy story about Gohan and Videl?
Oh, and to Mrs. Videl Son, I probably won't bring Goku back, but I'm not sure yet, but don't worry, Gohan isn't like this throughout the whole fic, I'm not that mean…