Life of Gohan
By Silvertress
Disclaimer: I don't own Dragon Ball Z.
Author's Note: Here's the update…This chapter was seriously hard to write, Mirai Trunks is such a complicated character. I tried to go right to the action but then I look and Trunks was just flat as a character and of course he is a major ingredient especially his torment a big ingredient for later on. Gohan's "homecoming" is already written but will be posted later this weekend because it just didn't fit in this chapter and is important enough to be its own.
That's all… Please Read, Review, and Above all Enjoy.
Additional: Yes I did have another absence of updating but on a positive the update is now and I got some good stuff still to come and I got the day off to get my license which I did and enough time to finally finish this chapter. Yey ^-^ I'm so excited.
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"Hiya ho, here we go." The Great Saiya-man had just saved a plane, exhibiting his superior strength by rescuing it from crashing into the city. The dream form of Gohan standing in a crowd being a witness like all the others was surprised how much ki he had to exert to do the task. This made him that much gladder he had stuck with the training.
"I'm the man with the plan to," he went from a semi-crouching position almost to a frozen high kick as he uttered "uplift the good," grand plieing, "and root out the bad. Till we're living like we should. Hiya woah, ho un huh. Now you understand. Umhummmm yeah oh, I'm The Great Saiya-man."
After he had saved the plane why couldn't his alternate future dream self just answer the question "who was he" normally. Instead he seemed to be listening to an inner beat box while following with b string cheerleader moves and very bad lyrics.
"What a geek." A little girl spit out to her mother in disgust just moments before she had been in awe of his rescue. It took some talent to turn that kind of awe into distaste. I'm never going to rap a long to another song on the radio again. Not that I ever could… At least I got a few new moves even if they're worst then last time. I can't even get peace in my dreams… Being awake would be better then this.
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Willing himself, his eyes opened slowly his vision blurred a little due to the desk light close to his eyes. He slowly sat out straight stretching his tired limbs. The demi-Saiya-jin must've fallen asleep on the desk, going over his notes for the English test he had tomorrow. The language was easy, but he kept mixing it up with this alien one from a few galaxies over, somehow the common words were similar but usually meant insults or gibberish.
"I love you dearly," in English meant "I will rain havoc with chickens." (A creature that actually resembled a chicken except it was purple and had tentacles)
I don't even need to be studying this. I just want to keep my mind busy. I mean how much surprise can one ask for in a day, but I did ask for it. At least it's all finally sinking in. I wonder if Vegita will treat us different from now on… Why did I even think of that…? He is Vegita.
"Tough day," a voice questioned from the doorway. Turning he saw Mirai Trunks smiling down at him, cornflower blue eyes starring into his.
"That obvious," The Hybrid replied as Mirai entered the room sitting on the edge of the bed across from the desk.
"Not really, but my Gohan always was that ridged and straight when he was having a hard time, it's also three in the morning," Mirai explained from the shadows, the desk light was doing its job and only lit up the desk.
"It's that early? It's just been an overwhelming day, a lot of stuff to sort out you know…But why are you up?"
"There was always a chance the Androids would attack during the night. I never slept much at night. But what do you mean a lot of stuff? Usually you're much more articulate."
"You and I are family. You see our Fathers are cousins." Gohan said blatantly.
"What?"
"I had the exact same reaction," Trunks' eyes were bugging out of his head his eyebrows up and lost under his bangs with his mouth so wide he might want to be concerned with if his "cousin" (not good with the number of cousin things) jaw would stay attached to the top part. "My Dad's Mother is Vegita's Mother's Sister. So Bardock is Vegita's Uncle. Small world isn't it?"
"It does explain a lot." Trunks whisper his hands whipping back stray locks. "I see what you mean though; it's a lot to take in." Trunks muttered Gohan nodded both sitting silent in the room until it all but hover in the air.
"Let's go to something else, I've been thinking about this so much I'm getting dizzy." Gohan said lightly dissolving the silence, as Trunks chuckled. "What?"
"You're not my Gohan at all." He said abruptly leaning forward. The other demi gave the Prince a partial smile; the side of his mouth slightly upturned. "You wanted a change of subject right? I'm giving what my lord wishes." Trunks said with a mock bow.
"What? Lord?" Gohan exclaimed.
"You are royalty. The Ox King's son makes you a Prince on your Human side and apparently my Aunt makes you royalty on your human side,"
"Very funny, but what do you mean?"
"You're not my Gohan at all. I mean you are him and like him but in other ways you're not."
"Trunks, weren't we going to an easier subject?" The darker demi asked stopping a yawn with a hand.
"Right, you see he always tried to protect me it was more of a paternal relationship he was upfront, you on the other hand have a more subtle way of changing things. You both move similarly and your facial expressions and reactions are almost identical but you're still not him, well maybe we'll save that for another day." Trunks said as a reaction to the yawn. "I don't want you to fall asleep on me, it also might be a little too complicated for so early." Watching as lids started to descend upon sapphire depths.
He also needed more time to catalogue the difference, it was hard to explain as it was and he had just been blabbering as he thought. A habit his mother made him stop at an early age but still sometimes it surfaced. Somehow that fault seemed to always resurface around Gohan in either of the time lines.
"Don't worry it won't happen tonight" Gohan muttered as he forced his eyes to open, "tomorrow will be the problem."
"It should be interesting; I was only in school for a few years in my time. It was cancelled when the Androids kept blowing up. Scaring little children was how they got their kicks." Trunks said the ending phrase said darkly as his hand turned into an angry fist.
"You're going to need that anger, "Gohan said softly, "The wizard is a lot tougher then the Androids."
"There always is someone like that. We go into the darkest part of ourselves and use these emotions of pain and hatred. Digging into our selves focusing on the pain and that hidden bloodlust of a race we'll never know. Except from the view of my Father and I guess now your Grandfather. We let the dam break and let ourselves go but do you ever feel that you'll lose yourself. The level of power you are at now is from all the pain you've undergone is that an achievement. I mean to get the power you got through so much preparation then you get no gratitude. I'm just so tired of it."
"Didn't your mother ever tell you 'life is a balancing act, 'our Bulma does that constantly? That side is always there you have to embrace it or it'll over take you. There is no gratitude for what we do really. But then I see something like Goten and Trunks, chibi Trunks get chased by Vegita or a hair ball that resembles him because they put the extra strength hair straighter in the shampoo bottle. Then I know why I do it because there is no other way." The Saiya-jin Prince knew Gohan was trying to put a lighter spin on and he smiled slightly in response.
"She did long ago, that's what Gohan used to tell me, and after the Androids I think she stopped believing it. Or maybe she thought the scale was broken. It's just now that almost all the people I loved in that place are gone I don't know why I did it. I'm just tired of the fighting."
"It's tiring, draining on everything and I hate it. But there's no other way if we didn't do it someone else might but you can't trust that."
"I'm sorry, I guess pre-dawn I get a little cynical, too late for sleep and too early for coffee. You probably won't need me anyway I mean you all have been training for years it's only been a few months for me." Trunks was putting up his defenses once more Gohan could sense that not wanting to press him he let the conversation take the course it was going. He understood how Trunks felt overwhelmed, that if things got any faster he'd be swept away. But he still had to keep to reality the other hybrid had been sent for a purpose even if he didn't know what it was. Even if neither of them did.
"Not so fast," Gohan said putting up a hand. "You were sent here for a reason, or that's what Lime said. I don't think you can get out of it. And I'm not as powerful as you think I am. My Father and yours have more then me at this moment."
"What?"
"They're full Saiya-jins, I can't give you the whole biological lesson like my Grandpa but here's the jist of it. Our bodies are part human making them more fragile then a Saiya-jins'. We can handle most of the heat from energy and even shield it from our selves to a point. But after a certain level it gets so hot the enzymes that produce energy to power our cells degrade due to the heat. They stop producing the molecule that stores energy making any energy come off in heat."
"You're telling me if I reach a certain level because I'm not a full Saiya-jin my body won't be able to handle it? I'll do something similar to spontaneously combust?"
"Similar but with all the energy produced there would be more of a gigantic explosion. My Father right now can reach a level of Super Saiya-jin 3 only because he spent time in Other World. If I even tried to get to it, after, there wouldn't be anything left of me. I still have enough power; but I'm just about at the limit of Super Saiya-jin 2. I'm hoping keeping my body at high energy will help me adapt to be able to hold more. It has worked slightly. But I'm far off from ever being able to get to Super Saiya-jin 3."
"Hmmm… Looks like someone got their second wind." Trunks said his voice far off. Gohan knew the other demi was trying to fit all the information into the right places of the puzzle. "But I have some stuff to do before school," Trunks said his eyes focusing back on Gohan. "Nothing really much, just all these personal information forms, it should be fun I get to think up this complex story of who I am."
Trunks got up stretching his arms out as he moved into the doorway. "I was thinking of saying I was Bulma's first son, sent to live with nice Monks somewhere in the far mountains to learn to be enlightened of centered or something like that. Now I'm back to learn the family business and reconnect with civilization."
"Sounds like a top hit if you're trying to sell some drama novel or something." Gohan said dryly.
"Life is a drama." Trunks smiled widely, "For now I bid thee farewell my lord." With a mocking bow Trunks was gone before he could hear Gohan's profane reply.
First he's deep and concerned with how the Universe works then he's a total smartass as a defense. But he did do his job. He lifted my mind off things for a while. Or at least indirectly helped me put some stuff in line. Still I'm worried that he'll…But that's an issue to deal with when I get some sleep. Gohan thought realizing Mirai Trunks was gone.
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"Hey, you guys I'd like you to meet Trunks," Gohan said cheerfully. A little too cheerfully, he had downed a few too many cups of coffee to hide his sleepless night the events of his and Trunks' conversation behind him.
"Hi Trunks nice to meet you, and you're even hotter then Gohan." A blonde Gohan introduced as Erasa said. Like Gohan she seemed extraordinarily cheerful but Trunks had a feeling it wasn't from a whole pot of black coffee. Trunks gave a slight wave with smile to the girl as she tried to push his face into one of her bigger assets as she hugged him.
"Geeze Erasa, can you be more obvious?" A teen with big overdeveloped muscles and long blonde hair said blatantly. "I'm Sharpener by the way." He gave his hand out for Trunks to take. Was he trying to crush his hand or something? He felt the force the boy was exerting his small ki flickered a little; a lot for a normal person. Trunks just responded by giving Sharpener a grip of his own. With a silent yelp he drew his hand back from a smirking Trunks, nursing his throbbing hand. "That is some grip you have." He said obviously impressed. You really shouldn't mess with the Crown Prince of Saiya-jins or a Briefs.
"Oh, don't be so obvious Sharpner." A girl said in a mocking tone. "You better watch out or soon you'll have your own fan club." Emerald eyes laughed as she examined the Hybrid. "It's nice to finally meet you Trunks, after I heard so much about you."
"Same here, I've heard about you too Lime," He responded. He was surprised when he saw the girl. With what he had heard from Gohan he didn't know what to expect but expecting and hearing about her, was completely different from seeing her in person.
She was shorter then the other's even Videl by about an inch or two. Her straight brown hair hung a little past her shoulders framing her slender chin but wider cheeks. The thing that got him the most were those eyes they were so piercing, as if they were looking past his Capsule Corp. jacket to something deeper.
"I know you have questions, but I'll have to answer them later." He wasn't sure if the sentence was spoken or he just dreamed it up. There was a little knowing smirk on her lips at his slightly startled face. Gohan gave a slight elbow to her side seeing the facial communication between the two.
"So Trunks are you ready for today?" Videl asked.
"It's not like I have a choice."
"Not at all, but some of us have to keep with our manners, instead of drooling over you or playing with you." Videl said eyeing her friends. Erasa and Sharpener looked at the girl coldly while Lime just shrugged nonchalantly.
*BRING*
The morning bell sounded to the annoyance of almost everyone in the building. Students got out from their huddles at the lockers and started to go towards their day's confinement in higher learning.
"Hmmm, you're in room 211 so that means you're with Videl, and Erasa," Gohan looked at his schedule. "You also have Mr. Kono make sure you stay awake and sit in the middle. He has a little of a lisp and he calls on the back a lot more. Have fun, and see you at lunch." Gohan said quickly going off Lime striding along side him closely turning quickly to give a small wave of goodbye.
"Good luck man," Sharpner called over his shoulder following Gohan and Lime, "See you guys at lunch."
Videl and Erasa said their good-byes while Trunks stood there waving dumbly, until Videl pulled him by the sleeve, while Erasa clung to his arm.
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"He'll be fine." Lime said to Gohan quietly as they took their seats. "He has us, remember your first day?" She said positively,
"Very fondly," He replied sarcastically letting out a sigh. He still was trying to repress the memories of his first day of school. The girl just gave him a small smile turning to gather her things for the day.
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"You were one of a clean up job you know." Trunks had to look up to see the origin of the voice. There up in a branch above him Lime sat casually taking a deep bite out of an apple. "Lunch?" She questioned throwing him an extra apple, "I know it's probably not enough for you, but they always work as appetizers."
"What are you doing up there?" He question catching the apple. She was at least twenty feet in the air.
The courtyard was deserted due to that fact class was still in session. Trunks had been mysteriously pardoned from his Science class to go to the outer courtyard.
"Waiting for you," she said gesturing him to come and join her. Scanning the surroundings for any onlookers, he jumped to a thick branch near Lime, with ease knowing there were no spectators.
"How did you get up here?" He said looking down.
"I've been climbing trees like this all my life I feel like I can see more from being this high. You're here because you have questions, and I'm the one who's supposed to answer them."
"That's why I got this pass?" He flashed the crumbled up paper.
"A fast learner aren't we? I can be very convincing when need be" She nodded. "I'm sorry that you had to leave your time but there really wasn't a choice. We've all had to do things we haven't wanted. I guess that's the cost of a safe world. Or so I'm told." She said lowly. Gets right to the point doesn't she?
"Are you the reason? Is that why I had to leave a small child to carry the world on her shoulders if something happened? I had to put her in the same place as her Father, Me? I had to be dragged out of a place I've known for my whole life finally rid of those damn Androids. After my mother died and I realize I am alone you drag me into another fight?" It was all spilling out his anger at the hand he had been given at the mournful feelings of loss with the departure of his Mother and Gohan. As his Gohan would say the dam one of the driving forces of his power was breaking. His Father would be crossed at the slip in the restraint of his emotions. But his Father was known to lose his temper at times. But why was it around this girl it was like he was being compelled.
"It's your own fault you're here. Once you died in this timeline you were linked to it. You can only have your name scheduled in one version of Other Worlds records. You wouldn't have been able to die in your time line if you tried. If you want to blame someone blame Cell he is the one that killed you linking you here.
There is a life thread for every person which is cut when each person dies, since yours is in our version of Other World if it was cut when it was your time you wouldn't die and trust me that would cause problems. King Yamma (Enma Daio) can't process a soul unless he does the one listed before it. If he couldn't process yours then there would be a tie up in the sorting of souls here."
"I never knew I was that important," Trunks said coolly he had finally gotten a hold of his temper.
"You must be joking with me, you saved our time, and you saved your own. You shouldn't doubt yourself Trunks you'll be needed here in more ways then one. But you'll have to get over feeling sorry for yourself and holding back parts of yourself." She said looking towards him. "I'm sorry Trunks." It was all but a whisper but his ears picked it up.
He was speechless but Lime was looking to her wrist. "We better get down before class lets out which is about a minuet so I guess we're out of time." Quickly she grabbed a branch above her to help propel herself up. Skillfully she walked to the trunk and started going down the branches as if it were a ladder. Watching for a few seconds more surprised at the ease and grace she exhibited he flew down. "I could just picture the songs if we were caught." She laughed as both were on the ground.
"Lime and Trunks sitting in a tree… Ow!" Videl came to the corridor singing teasingly as she approached only to get an impact to the shoulder from Lime. "Do you take everybody in that thing? Careful you might make Gohan jealous." Videl added lowly at the end.
Trunks had suspected something like that from the way the girl had hung on him…But a lot of girls including that Erasa girl and Videl seemed to hang around him (Who wouldn't ?) but this hammered the nail into the coffin. The way he moved around her was also similar to that of how his Gohan had acted around Videl (Mira Trunks' time line). Holding this girl a little closer then the others having a light in his eyes that only appeared when she was there. Did that mean that…?.... What was he thinking there were more important things to think about then who to "date". He never needed it before.
But then now things were different. The air was so much fresher here and everyone was different. Similar maybe but still different, somehow he felt the sky was also bluer looking up for a moment as the girls went on talking. Perhaps there was hope for him after all.
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Author's Note: Whooo that's over with. It's not a cliffhanger^-^ whooo. I think I'll elaborate more about school. Maybe Gohan's first day *evil grin* but the homecoming is the next thing. We also got to get to Buu and all that lovely mess. I'm trying to practice writing fight scenes. It's real hard. But they're getting better. Thanks for reading hopefully it wasn't boring I tired to get a lot of information into this one. I seem to be really big on the characterization lately. I'm so evil to poor Trunks…Hmmm. Please review. Thanks again. Stay tuned for more chappies.
C ya^-^
