A new soul … A familiar face
Hey all!! It's been a long time and I miss you all so much!! I hope you enjoy this chapter as you had the previous ones. I want to tell you about an e-mail I got. I think it was very inspiring. Someone, who asked to stay nameless, told me that this story is helping them come to terms with their mother death and their father's new girlfriend. Guys, when I read the e-mail, I actually cried. I never knew this story would help people. It makes me feel good. But I must inform the 'nameless one' (that's my name for the person) this story will take a turn of events in the future, so I hope you don't rely on it as a primary source of support. But in any case I thank you for your kind words and wish you the best of luck.
Disclaimer: I don't own DB/DBZ/DBGT. Nor do I own "Someone to hold" by 112. Please don't sue!!
Gohan cheered as Yamucha slide into the home plate. The players in the dugout smiled as they saw the young child beam with pride. As Yamucha entered the dugout, his teammates patted him on the back and congratulated for the grand slam. Gohan stood at the edge of the crowd waiting for Yamucha to come through. Yamucha smiled at the young demi-saiyajin and asked him,
"So are you enjoying yourself Gohan?" Gohan smiled and eagerly nodded his head. Yamucha laughed and ruffled the boy's hair. Gohan then opened a notebook and began writing. Yamucha had convinced ChiChi to let Gohan come to the game so he could take notes on the games and write a report about what he learned.
"Yamucha! Phone! It some lady," the team manager said in a teasing voice. Gohan looked up at Yamucha and Yamucha said,
"It's probably your mom making sure you're doing your research." Gohan shrugged his shoulders and went back to writing his notes.
"Hello, ChiChi?"
"No, it's Bulma, where's Gohan?" Yamucha rolled his eyes at the sound of Bulma's voice. He admitted to himself that he will always love the woman, but he hated the fact that she chose Vegeta over him.
"He's here with me. Why do you want to know?"
"Because ChiChi's in labor! Tell him to get to the West City General Hospital right away!" Yamucha gasped and dropped the phone. Gohan looked at Yamucha's pale face and ran over to him.
"Yamucha, what's wrong? Did mom say something?" Gohan secretly wished that she had broke up with Yamucha. Yamucha looked down at the young boy and said,
"That wasn't your mom Gohan. That was Bulma. Your mom's having the baby at West City Hospital." Gohan's face turned the same shade of pale as Yamucha. Gohan climbed out of the dugout and was about to fly away until Yamucha grabbed his leg. Gohan looked at the man like he was crazy.
"What are you doing?! My mom needs me!" Yamucha leaned over and said soft enough for only Gohan to hear,
"Gohan you can't fly out of here with all these people around. They'll recognize you from the Cell Games." Gohan thought and nodded he head then climbed back into the dugout. Yamucha went over to the team manager and explained the situation then grabbed Gohan. As the two were leaving the team manager said,
"Hey guys, Yamucha about to be a dad! His girlfriend's at the hospital right now. Congratulations man!" The other team members in the dugout shook the man's hand and patted him on the back as he and Gohan left the area. Gohan snarled at the fact that everyone thinks his little sister or brother is Yamucha's kid.
Once the two were outside the ballpark, they quickly took flight towards West City General Hospital. Yamucha saw the anger in Gohan's face from the little scene a couple of minutes ago. He sighed knowing the boy thought he told them he was the father.
"Gohan?"
Gohan cut his eyes over to the man but never spoke. Yamucha saw the slight gesture and proceeded,
"I just want you to know I didn't tell my manager that the baby was mine. I just said your mom was in labor." Gohan snorted then said,
"I never said anything Yamucha." Yamucha looked at the preteen and said,
"I know, I just thought you should know." The two flew the rest of the way to the hospital in silence.
"Sir, could you PLEASE help us restrain Mrs. Son?" the head nurse said to Vegeta, who was leaning on the side of the wall. He was actually intrigued on how strong ChiChi was. She had manage to knock out two orderlies, give a black eye to a nurse and a nurse's assistant, and break one doctor's arm.
She is fairly strong for a weak human female. She is different from Bulma in this state. Okay, now I understand why they are friends, Bulma has the mouth and she has the strength. Together they make a weak human female entity that's reckoned to be messed with.
" SIR!! PLEASE come help us with Mrs. Son before she injures more of the staff?!" The head nurse said Vegeta, breaking him out of his thoughts. He looked over to ChiChi, who was swinging her arms at anything that came within a foot of her. He smirked at the nurse and walked over to the agonizing woman.
"Woman, what are you doing? These people are trying to deliver your child and you are attacking them." ChiChi looked over to Vegeta and snarled between her painful grunts,
"Vegeta, it feels like this baby is fighting inside of me!" Vegeta looked at ChiChi, who looked as though she feared for her baby and her life. He then placed his hand on the woman's mound and stepped back.
"The child is powering up inside of you. ChiChi you need to calm yourself in order to calm the brat. If you don't, you both will die." ChiChi looked at Vegeta through a wall of tears building up in her eyes. She nodded to the Saiyajin prince and closed her eyes. She began make believing that she was talking to Goku.
Goku, please help me make our baby calm. I don't want to lose it like I lost you.
ChiChi then felt a soft but strong hand stroke her cheek lightly.
"You won't ChiChi. I'm making sure of that on my end."
"Goku?"
"Yeah?"
"I love you." ChiChi heard silence as a response and thought Goku didn't feel the same. She felt her tears well up again.
"I love you too Chich. I have a surprise for you."
"You're coming back?" ChiChi felt the tears roll down the side of her face.
"No, not really. But with our sons, you will always have me around."
"I'm having a boy? How do you know?"
"Because I think I just saw him. He's handsome babe. Now you'll have two little scholars."
"Goku I'm going to lighten up on Gohan and I'm not going to be really hard on our new baby. It's really unfair to them." ChiChi heard Goku laugh.
"Do what you feel is best ChiChi. You've always been the brains of our operation."
"Yeah, and you were the brawn and the comedian."
"Chichi it's almost time for me to go. But I want you to do something for me."
"Anything"
"Don't compare Yamucha to me. We are different from each other. It's unfair to the both of you." ChiChi felt more unshed tears fall as she felt Goku's hand again.
"I'll try my best not to."
"Thank you. And ChiChi, I really do love you. Always have."
ChiChi felt a light breeze and knew Goku was gone. The gentle hand of Goku's was replaced by Yamucha's soft warm voice.
"ChiChi, wake up. It's all over. Your sons are waiting to see you." ChiChi slowly opened her eyes to see Yamucha holding a light blue bundle in his arms and Gohan peeking at the bundle.
"Yamucha, I had him? Let me see him." ChiChi said as she struggled to sit up. She felt two strong hands help her up. She turned hoping to see Goku but found Vegeta helping her, with his usual scowl on his face.
"Thank you Vegeta. I couldn't have done this without you." Vegeta looked at ChiChi and said,
"I know. Now take you child from that idiot." ChiChi thought she saw a flicker of benevolence in Vegeta's eyes. But just as fast it was there, it was gone.
ChiChi held her arms out, gesturing Yamucha to give her son to her. Yamucha smiled and gently placed the small bundle in her arms. She looked down at the small bundle and smiled as the newborn had clutched his tail. ChiChi then noticed the unruly mop of hair on the little boy's head. Her eyes welled up with tears as she said,
"He has Goku's hair."
Gohan turned his head, trying to shield his face from his mother and the other two men. He noticed his little brother's hair as soon as he saw him and it made his heart ache. Once his mother made that statement, he couldn't hold the tears that he fought back any longer. ChiChi saw the slight jerkiness in her eldest son's shoulders and said,
"Gohan, honey, come here." Gohan exhaled loudly and quickly attempted to wipe away sign that he was crying. He turned to his mother and said,
"Yes mom? Did you need something?" ChiChi smiled at her first born and said,
"Yes I do. I need you to come to terms with yourself and be happy like you should be. You have to be a role model now and feeling sorry for yourself for something you didn't do isn't too good a start. Now come sit next to me and introduce yourself to your little brother." Gohan did as his mother instructed and sat on the bed. Yamucha helped Gohan position his arms while ChiChi sat her new son in his big brother's arms.
Once Gohan had a secure hold of his little brother he began speaking to the child softly,
"Hi little one. I'm your brother Gohan. I've been waiting for you and I'm happy you made the safe journey to us. You're going to find out soon n life that you have a special gift. Our daddy gave this gift to us. Unfortunately, he's not here to explain it to you, but I will try my best to help you understand it. Brother, I want you to know I will always be hear for you and you can always count on me."
A few tears escaped Gohan eyes and landed on the newborn babe. The baby opened his eyes and looked up at his big brother. Gohan looked down at big brown eyes that looked very familiar. He looked at his mother and said,
"Mom, he has dad's eyes. Actually, he looked just like dad." He then looked down at his new brother, who was smiling at him. Gohan smiled back, his heart filling with even more love for his new sibling.
"What is it with Kakkorot's bloodline?" Vegeta said, mainly to himself but the other members of the room heard him. ChiChi immediately became defensive of her deceased husband and her children.
"What's with his bloodline? What the hell does that mean Vegeta?" Gohan and Yamucha looked over at the Saiyajin prince curious of his response. Vegeta looked at ChiChi wondering why she was on the defense.
"What are you cackling about woman!"
"You said something about Goku's bloodline! Is there something wrong with it that you're not telling me?" Vegeta looked at the widowed mother and noticed that she thought he meant something medical.
"Kakkorot looked exactly like his father Bardock and your brat looks exactly like them. Kakkorot was the second child of Bardock and this one here is Kakkorot's second. That's what I meant." Vegeta said as he pointed at the newest Saiyajin. ChiChi took in the information and smiled. She then said,
"Good looks are hard to get rid of." Gohan and Yamucha laughed at the light-hearted joke as Vegeta snarled and said,
"Silly human traits", then he left the room. ChiChi took the baby from Gohan and cooed at him.
"So guys, what are you going to name him?" Yamucha asked ChiChi and Gohan. ChiChi and Gohan looked at each other. ChiChi guiltily admitted,
"I never really thought about it. Do you two have any suggestions?" Gohan and Yamucha shrugged their shoulders indicating they didn't have any thoughts. All three sat in the room for what seemed like forever before anyone spoke a word.
"Mom, you wanted to name me Einstein. Why don't you name him that." ChiChi thought for a moment then said,
"Gohan, in all honesty, I have no clue why I wanted to name you that. The name is so, so nerdy." Yamucha laughed and said,
" That's for sure. Besides that name doesn't fit him." Gohan looked over at Yamucha slightly irritated and said,
"Well do you have any thoughts?" Yamucha nodded and said,
"Well I was thinking, since he looks so much like Goku, shouldn't he have a name similar to his?" ChiChi and Gohan nodded in agreement, both mentally kicking themselves for not thinking the same. Then Yamucha said,
"Why don't you name him Goku Jr.?" ChiChi looked at her baby boy then at her friend and said wide-eyed,
"Yamucha, I don't think I will be able to handle that one. It's going to take a lot to get used to look his looks. But naming him after my late husband? I couldn't deal with that one too good." Yamucha nodded. He actually was relieved she turned down the name because he couldn't deal with saying her husband's name all the time. It would be a constant reminder that she was not his.
Gohan's eyes suddenly lit up. He hopped off of the bed and said,
"How about this, Dad's name meant thunder, right? And thunder happens where? In the sky, right? So why don't we name him Sky?" ChiChi looked at Yamucha then back to Gohan.
"Gohan, honey? Doesn't Sky sound a little feminine for a boy?" Gohan smiled, knowing that his mother and Yamucha wouldn't catch on and rebuttalled,
"Mom, Yamucha, what sort of sounds like dad's name but means sky?" ChiChi and Yamucha thought for a moment. Yamucha then said,
"Goten?" Gohan turned to the man and said,
"Correct!" Yamucha smiled at ChiChi and smiled at her son.
"Gohan, it's perfect! How did you ever think of that?" Gohan smiled the trademark Son smile, climbed back onto his mother's bed and said,
"I have no clue." ChiChi laughed at her son, hugged him with her free arm, and said,
"However you thought it up, I'm happy you did. Goten fits him so well." Yamucha watched mother and sons cuddle on the bed and smiled. He then thought,
I wonder if I can become about of that picture. Goten welcome to this world. I'll be here for you always.
In a dimension far away, a great warrior looked down at a mother holding her sons and his friend looking on at them. He heard his friend's thoughts and said in return,
"Only time will tell."
Every now and then
I get to wondering
Are you with someone else
Or could you be by yourself
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