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Hero? Doubt it
Chapter 5 – Shocking Discoveries
Written By RJ
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Disclaimer: I don't own the wonderful anime by the name of Dragonball Z
A/N: Hey guys, soz bout the late update. To tell ya the truth, I was too lazy to post it, heh heh. Oh, and I had exams…does that count?
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Videl just stood there, stunned. She would have never thought that the Gold-fighter was Gohan, of all people.
"H-how?" she stuttered
"How what?" Gohan asked
"How can you be so strong, how can you turn your hair golden, how come you kept yourself a secret all this time...?" Videl poured out the questions endlessly.
Gohan powered down and slumped down on a box at the end of the alleyway then looked down "This is what I didn't really want, but I guess I'll have to tell you, come sit down here, this is going to take a long time"
Videl cautiously moved down towards Gohan at the end of the alleyway and sat down on another box opposite him.
He lifted his head to look at her and Videl was surprised to see the vulnerability in his eyes, she'd always thought that he was strong, strong in personality anyway.
"Where should I start?" Gohan said, "Well, why don't you ask and I'll answer"
"Okay, let's start with, how can your hair go golden?" Videl said
"Oh" Gohan said, Videl could tell that she'd touched on a sensitive topic, but she really wanted to know the answer, "Well, you'll probably freak out when I tell you this, but I'm not really…human" he said the last bit really quietly, but Videl could just pick up what he said
"What!? Not really human!? What do you mean!?" she yelled as she stood up
"Shhh!" Gohan said, looking around nervously to see if anyone had heard and motioning for Videl to sit down at the same time "I'm half human…and half Saiyan"
"Saiyan? What's a Saiyan?" Videl asked
"They're from the planet Vegeta, it got blown up a while ago, but my dad and some other Saiyans were off the planet when it got blown up and some of the Saiyan race survived"
"So…your dad's…Saiyan…and you're…half Saiyan?" Videl asked, saying the word 'Saiyan' carefully, as if testing it
"Yeah, sorry I told you, I should have known that you'd think I was a freak" Gohan said, looking down again "I guess I should go now"
"No" Videl said quickly, putting her hand on Gohan's leg so he wouldn't get up "Please tell me more"
Gohan looked up and they locked eyes for a long moment "I guess it wouldn't hurt" he said, breaking the gaze.
"So, how come you're so strong?" Videl asked
"Well, Saiyans naturally are stronger than humans, so lifting buses and running 40km in five minutes and all that is child's play for me, but we can also manipulate our ki to form ki blasts and all that, even though humans can do it also, if they are taught, we also get stronger quicker than humans, like we could both train for an hour, but I'd get more out of it, but only work like that if we were at the same power level"
"Hold up, what's ki?" Videl asked, looking very confused
"Oh, right, only a few humans know about ki" Gohan said, trying to think of a good explanation
"So…what is it?"
"It's the energy that everyone has in their bodies" Gohan said, after a little thought, "Here, I'll show you"
He cupped his hands together and inside them, he made a small ball of light.
"Wow" Videl breathed, inspecting the ball from all angles "How'd you do that?"
"All you do is bring your energy out of your body and into your hands" Gohan said, and let the ki ball be absorbed back into his body
"Cool, can you teach me?" Videl asked, a huge smile on her face, her eyes pleading him for lessons
"Oh, okay?" Gohan said, unable to resist her smile and puppy dog eyes.
"I probably should go home now" Gohan said, "When do you want your lessons?"
"What about right now?" Videl asked, "My dad's not home at the moment, he's on another business trip" she scowled when she thought of the business trip, that's what he told everybody, but it was rarely a business trip, more likely on another trip with another one of his girlfriends, but Gohan didn't need to know that "I also dismissed the maids and cooks, there's no one at home, so no one will know if I don't come home for the weekend…" she trailed off, leaving the sentence open for Gohan to suggest something.
Gohan seemed indecisive about something for a second, and Videl almost retracted her sentence, but finally he said "Why don't you come and stay at my house for the weekend, I could teach you then"
Videl smiled "Okay then, but how am I going to get my stuff?"
"I'll take you round to your house and we can grab it then"
The duo got up and walked out of the alleyway and down the street towards Videl's house.
"You know, it would be a lot faster if we fly" Gohan said, looking around and seeing nobody around, he transformed and picked Videl up and flew off to her mansion before she could say anything.
"Whoa, whoa, what are you doing?" Videl said, starting to slightly panic, but when she calmed down a bit, she thought that she was probably much safer with Gohan than she was in her jet copter.
"We're flying, do you want to walk again?" Gohan asked, sounding slightly worried that he'd upset her
"No, it's okay, you should have just warned me, that's all" Videl said, starting to enjoy the ride now.
"I will next time, look that was much faster anyway" Gohan said, as they approached her mansion, the trip was about 50 times faster than if they'd walked, and from what she'd seen the Gold-fighter do before, that was slow.
They landed in front of the house and Gohan let go of Videl who walked up to the door and unlocked it with her key.
"Come in" she said and indicated for Gohan to follow her inside.
Gohan powered down and followed Videl inside.
He stopped in the doorway when he saw how big her house was inside.
"It's huge!" Gohan exclaimed
"Oh, you get used to it" Videl said, walking up the stairs "Are you coming or what?"
"Oh, right" Gohan said, quickly shutting the door and following Videl up the stairs.
They walked along a long corridor and Videl opened the door at the end and walked in.
"This is my room," she said
Gohan followed her in the room and looked around at her huge room. There was a pretty worn punching bag in the back corner, a double bed in the middle of the room, a window seat next to the door to a balcony, doors to a walk in wardrobe and an bathroom were to the right side of the room and a desk with a computer on it to the left side next to her bed.
Videl opened up her bag and tipped her school things out onto her bed, then she went into her wardrobe and stuffed a couple of changes of clothes in it and other necessities, such as a toothbrush, money and her cell phone.
"Okay, I think that's all" she said as she shouldered the bag "Now, what do you say to a snack before we go?"
Gohan's face lit up "I'd never say no to a snack" he smiled the Son Grin™ at Videl and she led the way to the kitchen.
In the kitchen, Videl opened each of the cupboards, looking for a suitable snack.
"Oh, here it is" she said, pulling out a couple of packets of chips and dip.
"Sit down" she said, indicating to the table, which had seats neatly arranged around it.
"Here" Videl said and pushed the bags of chips over to Gohan "You look hungry"
Gohan took the bag gratefully and dug in, but not eating as fast as what he usually did, just so he didn't totally freak her out.
Gohan finished his bag of chips and waited patiently for Videl to finish hers, cause apparently she didn't eat as fast as he did.
"Do you want to go now?" he said once she'd finished hers.
"Yeah" Videl said, "Are you going to fly or shall we take my jet copter?"
"I thought we'd fly, but only if it's okay with you" Gohan said
"Yeah, it's fine"
The two made their way outside and Gohan picked up Videl and took off in the direction of his home.
"Just how long does it take to get to your house anyway?" Videl asked
"At this speed…I'd say around half an hour" Gohan said
"Really? It'd take over two hours in a car" Videl exclaimed
"Yeah, but I don't have to go around corners and all that, I just take the straight path, and if you wanted to go get there faster, I could go way faster than this"
"No, it's fine, I don't mind going slow" Videl said, smiling, just enjoying the flight.
Now that the conversation had stopped, Videl turned her attention to the rugged landscape that passed below them. It was beautiful, she'd always liked the country better than the city. Gohan was lucky to be able to live all the way out here.
They passed a large clearing surrounded by rocks on the edge of the forest and the desert. Most of the rocks had large scars in them like they'd been cut by something really huge. 'Strange' Videl thought
She looked up and in the distance she saw a small cloud with a little boy sitting on it. She blinked, trying to determine whether her eyes were telling her the truth or not.
But it seemed that her eyes were not lying because the cloud came closer and the little boy sitting on it was waving frantically at them, trying to get their attention.
Videl inspected the boy as he came closer, it was clear that he was Gohan's brother, apart from the fact that he was yelling out "Brother!", he also looked very similar to Gohan, apart from his mass of spiky hair.
"Hey, Goten" Gohan said ruffling his little brother's hair as they flew past
Goten turned and flew beside them on the little cloud.
"Who's that?" he asked
"Oh, this is Videl, my friend from school, she's gonna stay here for the weekend" Gohan said
"Oh" Goten chirped "Hi Videl!"
"Hi" Videl replied before Goten flew off into the distance on the little cloud.
"Don't worry about him, he's very hyperactive" Gohan said "He'll fly about on that thing all day. We're almost home anyway"
The rest of the trip, i.e. 2 minutes, was done in silence, both teenagers had things on their minds.
2 minutes later, Gohan landed in front of a small yellow house.
"Is this your place?" Videl asked
Gohan nodded "Something wrong?"
Videl shook her head "No, nothing's wrong, I just think it's cute, that's all"
Gohan inspected the house for a long moment "I suppose you could call it that" he deducted.
Videl laughed and followed Gohan as he led the way inside.
Gohan made his way to the kitchen, where he was sure that his mother would be, she was always here around this time, after all, it took a long time to cook for 2 demi-Saiyans.
"Hi mom" he said
Chichi turned around and saw Gohan with a girl and raised her eyebrow questionably.
"Mom, this is Videl, oh, and Videl, this is my mom, Chichi. Mom, Videl's going to spend the weekend with us" Gohan said, and seeing that Chichi wanted more explaining added "I'm going to teach her how to use her ki and fly and all that"
"Oh, so she knows then" Chichi said
"Yeah, I told her about Saiyans and all that"
Chichi's expression changed to a relieved one, probably because she wouldn't have to cover up things all the time "Nice to meet you, Videl"
"Nice to meet you too, Mrs Son" Videl said politely
"Please call me Chichi" Chichi said with a smile, "Mrs Son makes me sound too old"
Gohan and Videl left the kitchen and made their way to Gohan's room.
The went into Gohan's room, which he obviously shared with Goten, because of the toys all over the floor, which they basically had to wade through.
"Goten gets a lot of his toys from Trunks" Gohan stated when they finally got out of the mess of toys and to the sanctuary of Gohan's side of the room.
"Trunks? Do you mean Trunks Briefs?" Videl asked.
"Yeah, why?"
"You know Trunks? How do you know Trunks? Do you know Bulma?" Videl asked
"I've known Bulma all my life and Trunks and Goten are best friends"
"How do you know Bulma?"
"My dad and Bulma met when they were young and they've been friends ever since"
"So, where's your dad now?"
The room fell silent as the seemingly innocent question made Gohan stop talking suddenly and when Videl looked at him, his face seemed to be torn with raw emotion.
She was kind of shocked when she saw him like that, it shouldn't be like that, she wasn't used to him being like that, it just wasn't right.
She was about to apologise about the question when suddenly, Goten came bounding into the room, totally oblivious of any tension.
"Brother! Mom says dinner's almost ready!" Goten chirped cheerfully
Gohan's face smoothed over when he saw his brother and said "Okay then, let's go wash up"
Gohan and Videl followed Goten into the bathroom where they all washed their hands and made their way to the dining room and sat at the table.
Goten and Gohan sat in their usual places and Videl sat in Goku's place.
To Gohan, this looked weird, he was used to having his father sit there, and it seemed strange to have Videl sit there, but somehow it seemed way better than having no one sit there, it seemed that if Goku didn't sit there, then it was right that Videl was the one who should. (Did that make any sense at all!?)
Chichi placed the many plates onto the table and Videl watched as she kept on adding more and more plates of food.
'Surely they can't eat that much, I mean, Gohan eats a lot, but surely they don't eat this much' Videl thought
Chichi finished serving the meal and sat down in her usual place. At that, the two demi-Saiyans dug into their food fast and ferociously, scooping the food into their mouths, chewing and swallowing faster than any human could imagine.
Chichi seemed unfazed by all this eating and she continued her meal, at a regular pace, and finished at the same time as the boys, even though they had consumed over 10 times more food than what she had.
Videl turned her attention to her food and concentrated on eating what she had on her plate.
Soon she realised that everyone else had finished and they were all waiting patiently for her to finish.
"Uh, sorry guys, I guess I don't eat as fast as you" she apologised
"Nah, don't worry, nobody eats as fast as us!" Goten chirped cheerfully, as always, giving her the infamous Son Grin™.
Videl smiled back at the energetic youngster and finished up her meal.
When she was finished, everyone took the plates back into the kitchen and helped with the washing up.
Chichi cleared the dishes and put them on the bench and Goten floated in front of the sink as he washed the dishes and he handed them to Gohan who dried them with his ki and put them in a pile on the other side of the bench, it worked like a well-oiled machine.
"What do you want me to do?" Videl asked, she felt quite useless standing by watching.
"Um, you could put these away" Gohan said, indicating a pile of dried dishes to the side of him.
Videl picked up the pile of plates and under Gohan's direction, she put them all in their correct places.
Soon after, all the washing up was done and the three made their way into the lounge for some good quality blobbing in front of the TV.
Gohan and Goten slumped messily on the couch and Videl sat neatly on the end next to Gohan, as she'd always been taught to be polite at other people's houses.
Goten clicked on the TV and they watched some cartoon until Gohan got sick of it and wrestled the controller off Goten and changed the channel.
The next hour proved itself to be the Channel Wars, as Gohan would wrestle the controller off Goten, but Goten would always find a way to get it back and change the channel so he could watch the cartoon channel.
So on the Channel Wars went, at the moment, it was on a soap opera that Gohan had flipped to, then he changed it to a news channel, then quickly flicked past the cartoon channel and stopped on another news channel, Hercule's picture filled the screen.
"Hey, stop for a second" Videl said, leaning forward to see what the news people were going on about.
The two brothers stopped right in their tracks, both of them still gripping the controller tightly in the middle of the two, neither of them giving an inch, but they turned their attention to the TV.
~And tonight, we have the most up-to-date news on Hercule's latest sex scandal. We'll go to our reporter on site for a live update~
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Author's Notes: There, it's finished, heh heh, and I left ya with another semi-cliffie! Hahaha…well, you guys better go review now cuz the more reviews I have, the more likely I am to get inspiration to write and the quicker I get the chapter out…
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~RJ~