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Hero? Doubt it
Chapter 6 – Ki Training
Written By RJ
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Disclaimer: Nope, I'm pretty sure I don't own dbz. All I own is this computer and about half a packet of M&Ms. =S
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Videl gasped as the news reporter covered the story. Hercule had been at it again.
'I knew that this would get discovered some day' Videl thought 'All his girlfriends and all, why does he do it?'
Gohan looked at Videl sitting next to him. The news was obviously getting to her.
"Are you okay?" he asked softly
"Yeah, I'm fine, I just knew that this'd get him in trouble some day, I told him that he'd get discovered, but no, he doesn't even listen to his own daughter" Videl said "Now the media will be all over me too when he comes home, I really hate it" she looked Gohan in the eyes, like she was pleading with him to make this not true.
"Uhhh…maybe you could…stay here until this blows over" Gohan suggested hesitantly
"Really? You mean it?" Videl said, obviously pleased at the suggestion
"Yeah, sure, I'll just have to ask mom, but I'm pretty sure it'll be okay" Gohan said, and then seeing that the story was finished, he flipped the channel again.
"Goten!" Chichi's call rang through the house "Time for bed!"
"Awww, mom, I wanted to stay up" the little demi-Saiyan pouted as his mother came into the room to reinforce her order.
"I can't have you being tired tomorrow," Chichi said "Off to bed now, young man" she pointed towards Goten's bedroom, showing the boy that was the only way to go.
"Night squirt" Gohan said to Goten's retreating form.
"Night Gohan"
As soon as Goten was gone, Gohan grabbed the TV remote possessively and he pointed it at the TV and turned it to his favourite channel.
Time passed quickly and soon the two teens were quite tired and well ready to go to bed.
"Well, I'm hitting the sack" Gohan said "You can sleep in my bed if you want, I'll take the couch"
"No, it's okay, I'll take the couch" Videl said, she didn't really want to put him out more than what she was already.
"No, I insist, besides, you're used to luxury, not that I'd say sleeping next to my brother was luxury, you'll probably end up being punched or something during the night, but it'd be better than the couch" Gohan said and sat possessively on the couch
Videl laughed "All right then, if you insist" she went off to the bathroom to get changed into her pyjamas.
Gohan went into his room and got changed into his pyjamas, which consisted of some old track pants, showing off his incredibly well toned body. (Hehe, drool ^.^)
He grabbed a blanket from the cupboard and made his way back out to the lounge and chucked the blanket on the couch.
Videl finished changing into her pyjamas, which were just old shorts and a large t-shirt.
She came out into the lounge where Gohan was and stopped and stared when she saw him with out a shirt on.
"Uhhh, Gohan?" she said, not knowing quite what else to say.
"Yeah?" he said, totally oblivious to the effect he was having on Videl "Oh, you'll want me to show you where you'll be sleeping"
At that, he got up and led the way to his bedroom and Videl followed close behind, trying to keep her thoughts and wandering eyes off Gohan's cute butt.
Gohan entered the room, making no effort at all to keep quiet, he shoved toys to the side of the room, making a pathway to his bed.
"Aren't you going to be quiet? You could wake your brother" Videl said
"Nah, he'll sleep through anything," Gohan said and he walked over to his bed and proceeded to move it away from his brother's bed.
"It's so he doesn't bash you in the middle of the night" Gohan explained when Videl looked at him strangely.
"Oh" she whispered, despite what Gohan'd said earlier.
"There you go" Gohan said, indicating to the bed, which was now a fair distance away from Goten's bed.
Videl sat on the bed, and watched Gohan as he went over to his brother's bed and tucked the small boy in tighter before he left the room.
"Goodnight" he called from the hallway.
Videl crawled between the sheets, thinking about the day and how weird it's been so far.
'My life is so strange' she thought as she drifted off to sleep.
Gohan made his way out to the lounge where he'd made a temporary bed on the couch.
He lay down looking up at the roof and pulled the blanket over him, but unfortunately it wasn't long enough and his feet stuck out the end.
He looked down at his feet sticking out at the end and sighed.
'Oh well, I guess I'll have to have cold feet' he thought as he stared at the roof, wondering how he was going to teach Videl how to use her ki and fly and all that. She'd probably want to find out more about him too. He sighed again, he could tell that the next few days would probably bring up a few sensitive topics.
The next morning, Videl was woken by an energetic young boy bouncing on the end of her bed.
'Where am I? Who's that?' she thought, confusion breaking through the last misty remains of sleep.
Suddenly, memories came flooding back to her, she was at Gohan's house and the boy jumping on the bed was Gohan's kid brother, Goten.
She was just about to sit up and show the kid that she was not Gohan, when the person in question entered the doorway of the room.
"Goten, get off there" his stern voice ordered
"Gohan?" Goten said, thoroughly confused "But how can you be there and in bed?"
Gohan rolled his eyes, seriously, his brother could be so stupid sometimes.
"No Goten, that's not me, it's Videl" Gohan said
"Oh" Goten said and quickly jumped off the bed, looking quite woebegone.
Gohan laughed "It's okay, Goten, you didn't know" he reached down and hugged his brother "I'm sure she's awake now anyway" he said when he saw Videl turn over and watch the two brothers.
"Morning" Gohan said to Videl then led his brother out of the room so Videl could get changed in private.
"Goten, why don't you see if you can help mom with the breakfast?" Gohan suggested, to get the young boy out of the way, Goten took the suggestion and ran off to the kitchen eagerly to help his mother, his favourite thing after eating, training and playing.
Gohan waited outside his room for Videl to finish getting ready.
He didn't need to worry about getting changed, as he had gotten up earlier for an early-morning training session and was wearing his light blue gi, which did nothing to hide his perfect muscles.
He leaned against the wall, just how long did females take to get ready anyway, he questioned himself, but not knowing the answer, he decided to just wait.
A few seconds later, Videl emerged from the bedroom, wearing a similar outfit to what she was yesterday, with the exception that she was wearing baggy jeans with her oversized t-shirt, instead of shorts.
"Ready for breakfast?" Gohan questioned
"Yep, sure am" Videl said
The two teens made their way to the kitchen for breakfast, the most important meal of the day, although, all meals were important to Saiyans, they needed energy for what would be a tiring day. Physically for Videl and mentally for Gohan.
As usual, Goten was already seated at the table, knife and fork in hands, poised above his plate of food, waiting for the rest of the people to get to the table, as he had always been raised with polite manners, such as not eating until everyone is at the table.
Gohan and Videl took their seats and Chichi placed the last plate or bacon on the table and took her seat too, ready for the latest session of feeding time at the Son household…or should I say zoo?
As soon as everyone was ready, all chaos broke loose, two demi-Saiyans eating like there was no tomorrow, chewing and swallowing really quickly, making food fly everywhere.
Well, we can't say that Saiyans are slow eaters, and the meal was finished within about 5 minutes and soon there were 2 contented demi-Saiyans and one contented human teen.
"Mom, we're going out to train now," Gohan said, and he and Videl left the table and walked outside.
Once outside, Videl took the chance to take in the beautiful natural sights that she had neglected to see the day before.
"So where exactly are we going?" she asked
"To my normal training place" Gohan said "Shall we fly, it'll take too long if we walk"
Videl nodded and Gohan picked her up and they flew to Gohan's normal training place, which they'd passed on the way to the house.
Within minutes, they were there and Gohan landed in the middle of the clearing and let go of Videl, who immediately turned around, taking in her surroundings.
"This place is so cool" she commented, after a short while.
Gohan's hand found it's way up to his neck in the typical Son gesture and he said, "Uhhh, thanks, I think"
Videl laughed at the rather funny-looking demi-Saiyan and left the floor open for him to start the lesson.
"I suppose teaching can't be that hard," Gohan said, as his thoughts drifted to his days when he was younger, under Piccolo's teaching. Piccolo didn't do much to teach him, he basically dropped him on his own in the wilderness, but then, he was a Saiyan, and Saiyans were naturally programmed to survive on their own like that, he couldn't exactly drop Videl in the middle of nowhere and tell her to survive for a year on her own.
His hand returned to the back of his head in nervousness as he tried to think of a good way to teach about ki and flying. Those kind of things weren't taught, as such, they were just usually picked up along the way, and a few of the harder techniques were taught, but simple energy beams and all were different.
Gohan let out a long breath as he sat cross-legged on the ground and motioned for Videl to follow suit.
Once she sat down, he started his explanation, or rather, trying to explain, but not too successfully.
"Well, ki is the energy every living thing has in their body and...you can use it for things such as blasts and flying...it's really quite simple to learn...oh, I give up...just watch"
At that, Gohan made another small energy ball in his hands, which again, Videl inspected.
"To make this energy ball, you need to gather up all the energy you feel in your body and push it out into your hands" Gohan explained, slightly better than what he was before.
Videl nodded and cupped her hands together, and tried to copy Gohan's energy ball. It took a while, but soon, she had a small energy ball in her hands too. She looked up with a triumphant grin on her face.
"I did it, Gohan, I did it" she said, in half disbelief.
"That's great," Gohan said, and the next couple of hours were spent on perfecting her ki ball, and she even formed a small energy blast, which made a small hole in a nearby rock.
"Wow! That is so cool! I made a hole in the rock with my energy!" Videl exclaimed, running towards the boulder and inspecting her small hole. Gohan couldn't help smile at her enthusiasm, she looked exactly like what Goten did when he made his first energy blast almost a year ago exactly. He was only three, but quite powerful for his age, so Gohan'd decided to start training him.
"I think it's about time for lunch," Gohan said, going only on the fact that his stomach was now growling loudly.
"I'd say so," Videl said, as she came back over to where Gohan was "All this ki blasting makes you hungry"
Gohan pulled a capsule out of the pocket of his gi, pressed the button on the top and threw it onto the ground and it transformed into a large pile of food.
Without a word, Gohan sat down and started digging into the food.
Trying not to stare too much, Videl sat down and started eating, cause she knew that she wouldn't get any if she just sat back and watched.
Within a few minutes, the lunch was finished and both teens were satisfied.
They sat with their backs against a rock, relaxing for a while before they started the next step in Videl's lesson, flying.
Questions flew around in Videl's head, she really wanted to ask Gohan some more questions, but she didn't know how he'd react. She didn't really want to dig too deep into his life if he didn't want her to. Her attitude to this had certainly changed. She didn't quite know why, but she thought it had something to do with the vulnerability she sometimes had glimpsed through Gohan's steely exterior.
Gohan sat, staring at the clouds, in silence, he could tell that Videl wanted to ask him something, but he wasn't sure whether he'd have the right answers for her.
He took a deep breath and let it out slowly "Just ask," he said, as he turned his head to look at her, his face impassive.
Videl turned her head to stare at Gohan "Ask what?"
"Ask me a question, I can tell you want to" Gohan said "I'll try and answer it for you"
Videl hesitated for a second, she wasn't sure if she really wanted to pull up memories for Gohan, she could sense that it was something big that he was hiding.
"Don't worry," she said, even though she really did want to know "You don't have to tell me until you want to, I don't mind waiting"
Gohan looked at Videl strangely, here was the girl who he thought wanted to find out everything about him, and now she was saying she didn't mind waiting.
With a sigh, he stood up "I think it's time you learnt how to fly" he said and walked out into the middle of the clearing again and waited.
Videl stared at Gohan walking away, but quickly shook herself out of her thoughts and followed him out to the clearing so they could get on with her lesson.
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Author's Notes: Soz I haven't been updating much, I just really couldn't be bothered and I was reading fics instead of writing them. *slaps the back of my hand* I'm sorri guys, but I'll update quicker if you leave me lotsa reviews…hint hint…