A/N:  yes I still live.  Well a lot of things have kept me from updating:  work and the fact that everybody and their mother's computer are broken.  I know exactly how this story is to end and exactly how I'm gonna get there, it's just about actually writing it.  I started another story and right now it's kind of my 'baby' so I haven't really cared about writing this one but I thought that maybe it's possible that someone out there actually cares about reading this story, so if you're out there this is for you.  By the way, thank you so much to all you reviewers.  You really make my day, promise.

Disclaimer:  Go ahead, sue me.  That's right I own dbz muhahahaha!!!!*cough*

As It Should Be  Chapter 3  Black eyes and Loser Fathers

"Why does he have to be so damn embarrassing?"  Videl said as she turned off the tv.

She and Ereasa were sitting on the couch in her living room.  They had watched, helplessly as their favorite show was ruined by the antics of her crazy father.

Videl looked over at Ereasa on the other side of the couch.  She was so absorbed with the baby in her arms that she seemed to have not heard Videl.

"Ereasa!"

She snapped out of it and looked around confused.

"Who?….oh I'm sorry Videl, I didn't know you had talked.

Videl sighed.  Ever since Marron had been born(oh yea I forgot to tell you…Krillin never existed because I hate him) even ditz-to-the-core Ereasa had cared or paid attention to little else.  She had been married to Mirai for the same amount of time as Videl and Gohan but they still had not had a child yet.  They had had a double wedding.

"I asked you, rhetorically, why my father has to be so damn embarrassing."

"Videl!  Watch your language around the baby."

"Ereasa…she's 2 months old."

"So what, you've heard what the professionals say.  They pick those things up early."

"Whatever…but still….he's so embarrassing."

"Who's embarrassing?

"My father!"

"Oh…what did he do?"

"He just totally ruined our favorite show, Oprah."

"What did he do?"

"I swear, were you even watching it?  He wasted the entire hour ranting about his tournament."

Tournament.  Maybe Gohan and Mirai would be interested to hear about it.

"Did you at least catch the part about the tournament?"  Videl asked.

"Tournament…yeah I remember him saying something about it….in 2 months right?"

"Right.  Do you think that Gohan and Mirai would be interested?"

"Yeah sure why not."  Ereasa said before going back into a daze over Marron.

Videl snapped her finger in front of Ereasa's face.

"Snap out of it!  Come on, let's go tell the boys about it."

Boys was the appropriate word.  Men didn't sit there and play video games like these two did.(although I do)  When Videl and Ereasa entered the 'game room' there sat Gohan and Mirai playing some fighting game she didn't know the name off.  Two tails were sticking high in the air wagging with the excitement of the game.  One brown, one lavender.

The girls just stood there watching there husbands play the nameless game.

"Haha! Take that, I beat you again Gohan!"

"Dammit!  Alright that's it rematch."  Gohan said.

"Gohan!  Mirai!"  They paused the game and looked at her expectantly.

"Listen I just heard about this tournament my father's having in two months so I thought maybe you two might be interested to heard about it."

"Na, I don't really care about being in any tournament right now."  Gohan said.

"Yeah, me neither."

"There's a cash prize of 1 million zenie."  Videl said very innocently.

"Oh my God, are you serious?"  Gohan asked.

"As I am beautiful."

"Alright count me in!"

"Me too!"

"Gohan, don't you want to see if maybe your dad knows about it?  He might be interested."

"Not it mom has anything to say about it."

"But still there's the chance she'll let him.  You should check it out."

"Alright then.  See you later Mirai."

"Come on Mirai.  It's Marron's feeding time.  Bye Videl."

Gohan landed in front of the door to his house and knocked and his father answered the door.

"Hello?  Oh hi Gohan."

"Dad…..?"

"What."

"You have a black eye."

Goku flinched and hurriedly tried to cover it.

"OH!  Yeah well….I…..fell down the stairs!!  Yeah that's it I fell down the stairs!"  He said hurriedly.

"What stairs?"

"Here!  The stairs here!"

"But you don't have any stairs in the house."

"I mean ah…the stairs at the store!!  Yeah you're mother sent me to the store to get ah…milk and I tripped and fell down the stairs and what do ya know, black eye!"

"Yeah well….I just came to see if you knew about the tournament that Hercule's having in two months."

"Yeah Vegeta was here earlier and he told me all about it."

"So are you gonna go?"

"Well I wanted to but at first your mother wasn't gonna let me…she got kinda mad…but eventually she decided that I could enter if…I did some things."  He said and cast his eyes down.

"What things?"

"I don't want to talk about it."

"Ok.  Is Vegeta gonna enter too?  Me and Mirai are."

"Yeah he'll be there."

"Ok well tell mom I said hi."

"Ok bye."

"Bye."  Gohan said as he took to the sky and headed home.

I just realized that I never gave an ending author's note.  It only took me 2 hours to type this.  I don't know if that's good or bad.  Well today was my last day of work so maybe updates will be alittle quicker but not much is gonna change until some relatives of mine fix their darn computers.  Oh and by the way, why don't some of you try to guess what 'things' Chichi wanted Goku to do.  And I know I put up a lemon warning and so far there are no lemons but I promise we'll get to those.