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Hero? Doubt it
Chapter 3 – Tough Questions and Large Lunches
Written By RJ
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The class was spread all over the field in two definitive teams.
Gohan was put as goalie, because no one thought that he could be much good at the other positions, and if wouldn't get to the goal if they could help it.
So Gohan was standing in the middle of the goal, watching the game take place down the other end of the field.
Suddenly, one of the opposition kicked the ball out of the crowd of people and it came up towards Gohan's end of the field.
"Finally, some action" Gohan said to himself as Sharpner dribbled the ball up the field.
The defence players tried to tackle Sharpner, but they missed and soon it was down to Gohan and Sharpner.
He could see a smirk form on his face as he got closer and closer, and at the impossible to miss range, he shot.
Both the teams watched as the ball flew into the goal.
But just when they thought it was over, Gohan seemingly just appeared in front of the ball and caught it.
The teacher was just about to blow his whistle to signal the scoring of a goal when he realised what happened and he stood there, eyes wide and mouth open.
Gasps were heard among the two teams, it wasn't normal for a person to just appear somewhere, especially when they were originally over one side of the goal and just appeared over the other side.
Videl shook herself out of her speechlessness and yelled out "Kick it, Gohan!"
Following his orders, Gohan drop-kicked the ball as softly as he could, and it went all the way to the other end of the field to a waiting striker and they scored a goal.
Soon after, the game was finished and the bell rang.
Gohan went to his locker straight after school, Chichi had said that she wanted him home as soon as possible after school.
He got the books that he needed for homework and he turned around to see Videl standing behind him.
"Uhhh…hi?" he said taking a step back in surprise
"How did you do that?" she demanded
"Do what?" he asked, trying to act innocent
"What you did in the goal"
"What? I don't remember doing anything, oh, look at the time, I gotta go" Gohan said, then ran off down the hall, leaving a very annoyed Videl.
"I'll just follow him" she said and stalked off down the hall after Gohan.
She followed him outside and he turned left and walked down the road.
Videl followed Gohan at a distance, but he must have seen her or something because he turned down another street and disappeared from sight.
Frustrated, Videl turned around and walked in the direction of her house, trying to forget about the strange new kid.
Gohan flew home as fast as he could to make up for lost precious training time.
'Oh man, that girl's really demanding, I'd better be careful around her' he thought
Gohan landed outside his house and went inside.
"Brother!!!" an orange and blue blur yelled and ran at full speed into Gohan.
"Hey Goten" Gohan said, tickling his brother, before putting him down and saying hello to his mother.
Gohan made his way to his bedroom so he could get changed into his gi.
A couple of minutes later, he emerged out of his bedroom wearing his gi, then he went outside and took off from the front doorstep.
With his usual training destination in mind, Gohan flew quickly through the air, trying to think of ways to avoid the never-ending questions from his schoolmates, namely Videl, and in a way, Erasa.
Sighing, Gohan landed in the middle of his usual training area, getting ready for his usual vigorous training session.
Meanwhile, at the Satan Mansion, Videl was unleashing her frustration on the punching bag conveniently placed in the corner of her own private gym. Her father had always insisted that she stay in shape, so he gave her a private gym just for her to use.
The new punching bag was receiving the same beating as the old one, which had been split the day before, when Videl had been angry at her father for not being home again, no doubt he was off with another one of his girlfriends.
Sitting down on the bench at the side of the room, Videl wiped the sweat off her forehead with the back of her hand, panting hard.
"That's enough for today" she said and made her way over to the other side of the room, where she picked a towel off the top of the pile in a little cubby.
She wrapped the towel around her neck and went into the bathroom so she could have a shower.
She stripped off her clothes and stepped into the warm jets of water, letting them run over her body, relaxing her muscles.
'What's up with me today? I haven't been focusing as well as I usually do' she thought 'Could it be something to do with a certain new kid?' Videl shook her head 'He's no different from anyone else'
'But he is, that's why he annoys you, he's more mysterious than the average kid from school' she mentally argued with herself
Videl sighed and switched off the jets of water. She stepped out of the shower and dried herself.
"This'll have to wait" she said firmly and got dressed again and made her way into her room so she could do her homework.
The next day, Gohan got up before dawn and he went outside and sat in his favourite spot. He sat with his legs crossed, and his eyes closed, floating half a metre off the ground, meditating.
He sat there for hours, until his mother called him inside for breakfast.
He untangled himself and made his way back up to the house.
"Morning" he said to Chichi and Goten as he sat down at the table.
"Morning brother!" Goten yelled
"Goten, please don't yell all the time" Chichi said sternly to the small boy
"Okie mommy" Goten said, picking up his knife and fork and holding them up in the air, getting ready to dig into his breakfast.
"Okay, boys, here it is" Chichi said, as she turned around and piled plates and plates on the table.
"Mmm, yummy!" Goten said and quickly dug into his breakfast
Gohan finished his breakfast quickly and he left the table to get ready for his second day of school.
Videl was in her room rushing around, trying to get ready for school, so she could be on time. She'd been up since 5:00am, training for the upcoming World Tournament. She was rushing around her room gathering books and pens and pencils, dumping them all into her bag and was currently trying to force the zipper closed.
"Close, dammit!" she yelled at the zipper, bringing one of the maids rushing into her bedroom to see what was going on. The maid was greeted with a horrific scene of clean clothes spilling over their drawers to one side of the room, dirty clothes littering the floor, Videl sitting in the middle of an unmade bed, trying to close the zipper on her overstuffed bag and a plate of uneaten food on her bedside table, which was already attracting ants and other scavenging bugs.
The maid sighed, she'd have a lot of work to do when Videl left.
When Videl finally got the zipper closed, she shouldered the bag and triumphantly left the room, leaving the maid surveying the mess with the look of dismay on her face.
Gohan was flying as fast as he could to school, and as usual, he was late again, he'd been held up by his mother and brother, for various reasons, and he had turned Super-Saiyan in an effort to get there faster.
"Come on, come on, faster, must go faster" he muttered to himself over and over as he neared Satan City.
Finally he reached Orange Star High School and landed on the roof.
He quickly powered down and ran down the stairs and along the corridor to his class. He skidded to a stop in front of the room, his shoes squealing on the floor, making a large skid mark along the floor.
"Uhhh, hehe" he laughed sheepishly as he put his hand behind his head in the typical Son fashion.
He opened the door to his class and quickly rushed up to his seat, apologizing to the teacher, and sat down, looking around at his classmates, who had all decided to stare at him for some unknown reason.
He smiled sheepishly and pulled his books out of his bag and placed them on the desk, ready to start the lesson.
Videl looked at Gohan who was busy pulling books out of his bag, trying to pretend that everyone wasn't looking at him. He'd arrived a few minutes before she did and was surprised to see that he was late, she'd thought that he was a major bookworm and would never be late, he seemed pretty dedicated to his education, because if you traveled that much every day, then you must be, but then, that's probably the reason why he's always late.
Her thoughts were broken into when she heard the teacher start the lesson, and she snapped to attention, and started copying down the notes that the teacher was writing on the board, pushing her questions about Gohan to the back of her mind for a later date.
Lunchtime came quickly, much to Gohan's delight. He rushed off to the roof so he could eat his large lunch in peace, he didn't want to be stuck in the same situation as yesterday, he actually wanted to eat his lunch in peace, without torrents of questions aimed at him. He released his lunch from the capsule that Bulma had given him especially for this purpose. He was just about to tuck into his large meal when he heard footsteps coming up the stairs.
His mind worked quickly, his Saiyan hearing enabled him to tell by the footsteps that it was only one person, they were light, so it was most likely a girl, but they were forceful so he could tell that they had a purpose for coming up here.
'Dammit' he thought and re-capsulated his lunch, people might freak if they saw that he had so much lunch.
Quickly getting into a non-suspicious position, i.e. standing to the side of the roof pretending to look out over the city below, he listened out carefully for the intruder's next moves.
The footsteps came closer. They were rather light, Gohan guessed that the owner was probably trying to sneak up on him, but not much could get around his Saiyan hearing.
He turned around to stare…Videl…right in the face.
His eyes widened, he didn't quite know who he was expecting, probably just some random person, coming up here to look at the view, but he sure didn't expect it to be Videl, he silently prepared for another torrent of questions, she seemed pretty intent on finding out about him and his past.
"Uhhh, hey Videl" he said, trying not to sound too uncertain "Whatcha doing?"
"Nothing" she said, looking him up and down like he had food on his shirt or he had green skin or something "I just want to know why you're up here all on your own"
"Well…uh…" Gohan said, trying to think of a good reason that would satisfy Videl's need for answers "I like it up here, cause I can see for miles, it makes me feel like I'm on top of the world" it wasn't a good reason, but it was worth a shot.
Videl looked him over again, something told her that he was lying, but she had no real reason to doubt him, he was from the country, maybe he'd never been on top of a tall building before.
She watched as he smiled sheepishly and put his hand behind his head in the usual Son gesture.
She looked at him one last time, then turned around, breaking her gaze and made her way back towards the stairs.
Gohan watched her leave, he'd expected a barrage of questions at least, but instead she just left. He felt kind of pleased, he'd get through another day without giving himself reason to do some serious damage to himself for letting something slip. Not that he would or anything…
He listened until the footsteps were totally gone and he couldn't hear them anymore before bringing out his food again.
He fished around in his pocket and brought out the small, round capsule and clicked the button on the top, then threw it on the ground. It transformed into a table with his food in a puff of smoke.
Gohan sat down beside the table and tucked into his food. This time, he was uninterrupted throughout the whole thing and managed to finish all of his meal within about 5 minutes.
After filling his stomach, Gohan sat back and sighed, it felt so good to have a full stomach again, now the wait was on for when he'd get his next meal.
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Author's Notes: There we go, the end of another chapter, I'll try and get the next one up sooner, but I'm not promising anything, it all depends on how many reviews I get...hehe, I've succumbed to bribery again....
Laterz!!
~RJ~