Tsk tsk tsk. Can you believe I almost had a nervous breakdown when I found out ff.net was down for almost a week? That I couldn't read my favorite (and new) fics!!! Well, now, thank Kami it's up and running again! Woo-hoo!!!
This chappie, ne, this chappie I started it with begginnings of writer's block, but then I went in a trance and my hand was like moving on its own. I don't know if it was because of the time of the night or because I'm just plain crazy. Then, I went normal again but I ran out of ideas. No, wait, that's not it. The thruth is my life's hectic as hell with okaasan going to the US to tend to my obaasan and I'm left here with my otousan and my otouto to run the house while she's gone, but that's not all, I also have to keep up with a full time job from 8-12 and 1.5-6 pm Monday to Saturday, not mention the revolts that have been happening all around town upon the power crisis, with the police running around and the revolters burning tires in the middle of the streets and throwing stones at the cops and the cops throwing tear-bombs in the neighborhood and shooting like hell and US HAVING A GENERAL BLACKOUT FOR 36 HOURS IN A ROW TO PUNISH THE PEOPLE WHO DON'T PAY THE POWER BILL!!!!!
*huff* Okay, now I had to get that out of my system. Just ignore it and let's go on with the fic.
Oh! People! People! How many times have I told you to criticize? I mean it! I wanna know where I'm doing wrong and where I'm doing good. I wanna become a better writer for the sake of you readers!!
As I told you, I'm preparing another fic. But I'm gonna wait until I finish The Lost Saga before I post the first part of it. So wait for it in the next week or something!
Disclaimer: (See Chapter 1)
Oh, yeah. I forgot to say before that I own Lettusu and Cauli.
Thanks to Lady Foeseeker, Teddy and Manis o_O is it just me or is the Gohan&Videl marathon turning to a habit? You're learning from Jetforce.
Chapter 5:
Sharing the bed (Mwahahaha!)
Everything happened so fast that none of the ex-partying saiyajin watching could believe it. One moment they were celebrating, only to be distracted by the powers battling in the Training Grounds. Then, they learned those powers were the chibi ouji and the little brat from the House of Bardock sparring. And that had not been all. Then they saw something amazing a transformation that none of them had seen before. Afterwards, titanic energy attacks collided. They were frozen in sheer shock, along with admiration, and also a twinge of fear. The prince was winning, when all of a sudden all you could see was the blinding light of a massive ki explosion...
"Man that was close!" Gohan sighed audibly upon touching the ground, Goten in arms.
"Goten-kun!!! Are you okay!?" Trunks ran to his friend really upset.
Gohan took this opportunity to grab them both by their collars and lift them to eye level. "DON'T YOU EVER DO THAT AGAIN YOU HEAR ME!" he yelled and then put them down taking a deep breath.
"Hai niisan"
"Hai Gohan"
"Goten, I know what you were trying to do, but it was too dangerous. You still can't harness the ki as needed and that blast was just too powerful for you to handle. It would have been better to just knock it away."
"Hai niisan"
"And, as you disobeyed me in not trying the ken yet, I'm not giving you any more lessons until further notice"
"But niisan!!" the little boy whined looking at his older brother expecting him to be just bluffing. No such luck.
"Gomen, otoutochan. But I won't change my mind" Gohan said walking up their parents.
"What were you trying to do brat?" Vegeta asked Trunks calmly but obviously peeved at the situation.
"I was fairing well until Goten faltered, then I just lost control of the blast and couldn't deflect it" Trunks said embarrassed.
"Well then, I'll see you work on your control myself. Tomorrow. Dawn. This room." Vegeta stated nailing his son's blue gaze with his black one. Chibi Trunks just gulped.
"Your highness is a supersaiyajin..." Cauli couldn't believe even her own words or she would've been seething at her bewildered expression.
"Yeah." Trunks said casually, as if it was nothing.
"Children, you shouldn't have gone that far. Someone might have gotten hurt" Goku said calmly, arms folded in front of his chest, looking each boy straight in the eye.
"Gomen nasai, Goku ojisan. I won't do it again."
"Me neither otousan! I was just trying to use the new things niisan's teaching me" he ran and caught Goku's leg in a vice like grip.
"Then Gohan's right about not teaching you for a while." Goten's head dropped in embarrassment. He muttered a feeble "okay" and then sat next to his mother to the side of the room.
The rest of the night went pretty much uneventful for them as the couple of Chikyuu naturalized saiyajin decided not to continue with the sparring. Vegeta-Ou was not very happy about this and neither was Cauli, after learning of the immense ability those children possessed. 'If the children are so powerful, then their fathers must be even more'. The King's reasoning, thought accurate, did not even begin to grasp the degree of certainty in that fact, but he would soon, and his son would see to that. On the other hand, Cauli was flabbergasted. After some minutes of letting the info sink in, she finally regained her stoicism and as normally as ever, or better yet, as monotone as ever, she asked for an explanation. She got one, she should give them that, but not the one she wanted.
The kids complained they were sleepy and their mother's called in for the night. "It's okay. I'm sure you guys are all tired after the long trip and the celebration" Bulma inquired.
"Yeah, you're right. We better get to sleep so tomorrow we can finish our spar" Goku said.
"Finish? But we didn't even start it!!" Vegeta said annoyed to no end. "Otousama, we shall retreat for the night."
Vegeta Ou just grunted, with a slight nod of the head, then he headed for the changing room. The senshi all followed Vegeta Ouji then, since none could remember the way to their chambers now. The mothers put their children to bed, while Goku, Vegeta, Gohan and Videl took a walk through the corridors. On the walk, they reached the courtyard, surrounded by buildings and halls.
(This is where I went in trance)
Nights on Vegeta-sei were indigo, since there was moon only every eight years. The color of the sky was lighter than black because of the twin suns that guarded the planet. Even on the opposite side of the hemisphere, the biggest of the twin suns lit the vegetian horizon, clearly visible from the Royal Palace. Looking out the highest window, you could see the night sky, sprinkled with tiny bright stars, as well as the nearest planets, mirrored like small moons. When you lowered your sight, beyond, in the horizon, you could see the indigo fade into navy and then just blue, where a line in golden light attached the celestial vault to the lively darkened ground. It was definitely a different and beautiful sight. Peace inducing. It was a welcome paradox to the race that inhabited the servant of nature.
The warm, dry breezes ruffled the raven manes of the four people who looked out the exposed corridor, out to the night, down at the green circumference that spread through the inside garden... Down at the stone-carved seats, neatly placed to the center of the clearing and next to the natural spring that emanated from the white stone and slid down the many fissures, achieving a gentle, lulling liquid sound. None of them spoke. They didn't want to, for different reasons ones to the others.
A soft click at their backs was enough for them to turn around and watch the Chikyuujin women beckon their mates to their bedrooms. After a few goodnights, only Gohan and Videl remained. Oh, Kami's doings! It was the dreaded time they had yet to face.
Thick silence fell upon them and it made the situation even more awkward as neither could find the courage to look at the other directly in the eye. Videl was leaning on the railing, looking down to the garden, watching the movement of the people who still walked the halls of their wing, yet completely aware that they were alone. She cracked her knuckles one by one, something she'd picked as a habit when she was nervous. She didn't want to say the words herself for fear of sounding eager.
"Do you want to stay out a little longer or do you want to go to sleep?" she heard Gohan ask.
Good. At least he didn't make it sound like SOMETHING else, she thought sighing inwardly. She smiled at him. "I think I want to stay out just a little longer... It's so beautiful... Different, but so beautiful."
"Yeah, you're right. I never thought it would look like this" he leaned on the railing next her and looked down, too. Minutes passed and none said anything. After what seemed like an eternity, she sighed and turned to look at him.
"How long are we going to stay?"
"I don't know" he said frowning in thought. "It's Vegeta-san's decision."
"Well, as long as everything goes as well as today, I don't mind staying a while longer."
He turned to her and smiled too. "I second that."
Their looks met and remained. They were silent for a few seconds, then Videl's mouth opened to let out a yawn.
"I think I can use some sleep now" she said.
They both turned and walked to their door, none of them noticing the saiyajin female watching them from the brush on the other side of the garden.
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Videl came out of the bathroom wearing gray long cotton sweatpants and a yellow T-shirt a size too big. She was tying her hair into a ponytail when she saw Gohan already lying on the left side of the bed, facing the bedroom door, opposite to her. The bedroom was dark, but with the lights from the bathroom filtering through the threshold, she could make out he was wearing a white T-shirt. The sheets covered him from the waist down. She walked up to her side of the bed and pulled the sheets down. She then noticed the dark blue shorts he wore under the covers.
Videl went back to the bathroom and turned the lights off, then slowly made her way to the bed and got in, turning her back to the boy on the other side and pulling the sheets to her chest.
"Night Videl" she heard him say in a low voice. She had thought him to be asleep by then. Now she got nervous again.
"Night Gohan" she answered trying to sound as normal as ever.
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Man, I can't sleep! This is so frustrating! Not only I'm not in my own bed but I also have to share it with Gohan. Is he asleep? He hasn't said anything or moved in a while.' She blinked in the darkness. What would my dad say if he found out about this? And Erasa and Sharpener! I'm sure I would never hear the end of it.'
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Is she asleep? She hasn't moved. But then, her breathing's not even. What's wrong with her? What's she thinking?'
Gohan's musings were interrupted when he felt the weight lift from the bed beside him and he heard Videl's small bare feet on the tiled floor. He turned around when he heard the bathroom door close. After the rustling of clothes, he heard the familiar sound of water hitting water. He smiled. He wondered what Videl would do to him if she found out he heard her pee. He turned on his stomach and after stretching, stuck his arms under the pillow.
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Videl came out of the bathroom a while later. The comfortable feeling of being used to the dark was gone, the lights leaving her vision splattered with green spots in the middle. She slowly made her way back to the bed, only to hit her shin with the metal bar under the mattress. She stifled a yelp, inhaling a mouthful of air. She climbed on the bed and rubbed on the sore spot lightly. She pulled the covers up and only then she noticed Gohan had moved. He was still facing the other side but he was lying on his stomach now.
Oh, Kami! This is not fair! He can sleep like a baby and I can't even get to rest!' she fixed her gaze on the ceiling, no, it was the bed's canopy. Ok, then. Let's count some sheep. One two three'
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Fifty-six Fifty-seven Fif- Shimatta! This is no use!' she kicked the covers off her angrily. What time is it anyway? When is it going to be morning!?'
She heard Gohan sigh and turn his head her way. She held her breath. Did I wake him up?' She just heard his breathing, but as used as she was to the dark she couldn't make out his face.
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What's up with her now? She should be asleep, it's very late.'
Gohan felt Videl get up the bed and go to the bathroom again. She's going again? But she didn't even drink that much at the celebration'
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Videl went in the bathroom a second time, only to realize her bladder was anything but full. It was like all those times when playing hide and seek as a child or whenever she was nervous, she always got this urges to go to the bathroom.
Get a grip on yourself, girl! You're tough! Don't let yourself be won over by insomnia and a guy in your bed.' *gulp* Ok. That sounded bad.'
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Gohan had been waiting for her to come out for a couple of minutes too long. He was getting worried as he couldn't hear anything this time. What's she doing in there? Is she all right? Maybe she got sick.' As if on cue, she came out right then and got in the bed one more time, really slow, so as not to "awake" her bedmate.
She looked at up again, and again sleep eluded her. She resigned to stay awake all night, even if she looked like a zombie the next morning. She started to repeat the lyrics to her favorite song in her head.
Still going over the words, she turned her head to look at Gohan's silhouette and sighed. I wish I could sleep like that'. Just then, she watched as he propped his head on his left arm.
"If it makes you feel better, I can't sleep either" he said. She was taken aback. He had been awake all along! Why didn't he say something!?
"You've been quiet." she said.
"You haven't."
"Sorry"
"Don't be. Like I said, I can't sleep either."
"I don't know. It's just I can't sleep in anything but my own bed."
"Well, I think it's because you have to share the bed with me"
"I- " she trailed off, completely at a loss of an answer.
"I am too. You know, nervous, about sharing the bed with you." She was silent for a while.
"Yeah, I guess that's why I don't know. I don't feel the least bit sleepy."
"Me neither."
"Do you wanna talk?"
"Ok. What do you wanna talk about?"
"I don't know Stuff" she said shrugging.
"Ooookaaay Stuff. You are SO specific." She hit him on the arm.
"Moron"
"I'm not a moron"
"I know"
"Then why did you call me that?"
"Cause I felt like it. And you were being annoying."
"Oh, now I'm annoying."
"Oh, c'mon! Don't get mad! Ok, then you pick out the topic." He thought for a while.
"Okay. How about... Secrets."
There you go! That's it! No more!! *cackles*
Ok. You know what to do. Repeat after me and carry out the action...
Push there.
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