Part 3: More Then Friendship
Chapter 12: Birthday Surprise
I do not own Dragonball Z.
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"So Gohan," Celina said after they had been seated, "tell me about yourself. When's your birthday?"
"May 16." The boy replied mechanically while salivating over the various foods pictured on the menu.
Videl's eyes widened in surprise before she smiled. "Really? That's cool. We can have our next birthday party together!" She exclaimed happily.
"Huh?" The boy was confused now. What was his friend talking about?
"Our birthday's on the same day silly."
Hercule didn't know what to make of the scene. For the first time that he can remember, his daughter is acting like an actual teenage girl. And although he didn't really like the idea of her flirting with a boy, it was nice to see her actually acting like someone her age probably should be.
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"I can't believe it's been almost a year since we met." Videl said as she and Gohan lounged under a tree at Gohan's home.
"Yea. It seems just like yesterday."
"Hey! Nii-chan! Nee-chan! Come open your presents!"
"Yea! Then we can have cake and ice cream!" Goku added.
"Ok." Videl said.
"We'll be right there." Gohan added.
"OPEN MINE FIRST! OPEN MINE FIRST!" Goten yelled excitedly as he jumped up and down while waving his arms about with a package in each.
"We would if you gave them to us." Gohan and Videl replied at the same time. They didn't really notice it since it has happened quite often over the past year.
"Oops." The chibi replied while stopping his bouncing just long enough to hand them each a package.
They were oddly shaped, cool to the touch, sticky, and seemed to be dripping something.
Gohan and Videl glanced at each other before tearing off the messy wrapping paper. What was revealed would best be described as a brown lump that seemed to be wrapped in a soggy cloth. Both teens stood there trying to figure out what it is they're holding in their hands. But their question was answered by Chi-Chi a few seconds later.
"What the! Those arewere my silk scarves! Look at them. They're completely ruined! SON GOTEN! You are in BIG trouble mister!"
"It's only ice cream mommy. They'll come clean!" The chibi replied as he grabbed the two scarves and started washing them in the punch bowl without thinking.
While Chi-Chi was seeing red everyone else was laughing. That is everyone until Goku saw the two ruined cartons of ice cream on the ground. "NOO! It was too young to die! It didn't even live long enough to have one bite taken out of it!" The Saiya-jin cried.
"There's no sense crying over spilled milk." Roshi said. "Or ice cream."
"B-b-but it was t-triple choc-chocolate fudge!"
"Your father's obsession with food still amazes me." Videl told her friend.
"Yea." Gohan replied.
After a few minutes riddled with the sound of Chi-Chi's frying pan hitting the skulls of one Saiya-jin and one demi-Saiya-jin, Gohan and Videl resumed opening their gifts until only two remained. The ones they got for each other. Both had been hard pressed to keep it a secret from the other, but they had been able to do it.
As the last vestiges of paper fell to the ground, Gohan and Videl pulled open the boxes. Both turned bright red as they slammed the box tops closed again before muttering, "I think there's been a mix up."
"Come on, I want to see what you got each other." Chi-Chi said. When neither teen moved to show her, she walked over to them and flipped the tops off the boxes. "How cuoh my."
The box sitting in Videl's lap help a lacy black piece of lingerie that looked like it wouldn't cover anything. And in the box that Gohan help was a pink tank top and a pink pair of Speedos that had 'BAD BOY!' across the backside in red letters.
Unluckily for the two teens, Hercule was the second person to see the contents of the boxes. Especially the contents of the box his daughter held. "BOY! YOU ARE DEAD!" The man yelled before Celina grabbed a hold of his shirt so that he would get himself hurt.
"WHAT THE HELL! THOSE ARE OURS!" Bulma and Vegeta yelled as one.
"Alright Gohan! You dog!" Krillin yelled.
The Ox-King just chuckled at the utterly embarrassed looks on the faces of Videl and Gohan while Roshi, Oolong, and Yamcha whistled and made catcalls. 18 and Piccolo looked on with amused smirks.
However, Tien, Lunch, and Puar barely even noticed the scene they were too preoccupied with the newest addition to the Z-Senshi. A beautiful baby girl with deep blue hair and violet eyes. She had been born just a few months before.
Puar was making faces at the little bundle in Lunch's arms when her tail accidently brushed against the baby's nose, causing her to sneeze.
"She's definitely your guy's daughter." Goku commented as he left Gohan and Videl to the pestering of the others. The little girls hair was now a sky blue and her eyes a shade slightly darker then the color of Trunks' hair while a third eye blinked along with her other two.
"For the last time, WE DIDN'T BUY THIS STUFF!" Gohan and Videl yelled.
Their yell disturbed the baby, causing her to cry. "Shh. It's ok darling." Lunch cooed before a stray piece of hair brushed across her nose. "ACHOO!" The sound seemed to throw a switch and everything stopped. Or at least anything that knew about Lunch's psychotic alter ego stopped.
"Look what you did you morons! You made my little girl cry!" Launch yelled as an Uzi materialized in her hand. "Take this!" The blonde haired woman fired the gun at the crowd of people while the baby that she still held giggled happily.
Slowly, after Launch ran out of ammo, the group settled down and two large birthday cakes were brought out. Once all the candles were lit Gohan and Videl tried to come up with something to wish for. And if they had read each other's thoughts at that moment, they would have heard the same wish echoing in the other's mind. A wish for the future that they hoped would come true.
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