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Author Note: Hi there! Truth or Dare is finally here! I promise there will be some Gohan and Videl, "moments," in this chapter. Hope you enjoy it!

Chapter 5:

All is fair in love and secret plans...

"I go first!!!" Bulma blabbed out, claiming the first round as hers. "Okay, Vegeta! Truth or dare?" she asked, knowing exactly what he would say...

"Argh! Why do I have to go first?!!!" Vegeta said, agitated by his wife. He sighed, knowing he could complete any dare her brain could fathom. "Dare," he said reluctantly, Bulma grinned massively.

"Alright!" Bulma said, her grin turning into a sly smirk, "I dare you to..." She crawled on all-fours next to him, and whispered softly into his ear. Vegeta's eyebrows rose in delight as she explained her dare to him. Videl was amazed at how much control Bulma had over him. Videl wished she have the much control over Gohan... The rest of the group sat silently in a circle, watching Vegeta's face. He smirked as she pulled away from his ear, and winked.

"Okay woman," he said in the deep voice that Erasa had fallen in love with. Her eyes fluttered, and she sighed, admiring him. Everyone knew what Bulma had dared him to do, based on both Vegeta's and Bulma's expressions. Vegeta grabbed her, and threw her into his arms, cradling her knees and her back with his strong arms, then he stood up, and walked to the door. "Let's go then." Bulma wrapped her arms around his neck, and gave the thumbs up to the gang.

"Hey Chichi! I'm sure you can take care of Trunks for a little while longer!!" Bulma screeched out as she was being carried away.

"Sure thing," Chichi replied, mentally wishing her husband was still alive.

"Well, that was strange," Videl commented on the small event. "Umm... okay, whatever, my turn," she declared, and the whole group turned to look at her. Let's see... I could pick Gohan... But I could embarrass Sharpner... Yeah, Sharpner would be fun. "Sharpner, truth or dare?" A smile tugged at the corners of her mouth, this will be amusing.

"Dare," Sharpner answered, pretending to be macho.

"You sure?" Videl asked him, making him seal his own fate.

"I'm positive," he answered, confident that he could do any dare Videl could think of.

"Okay, as long as you're sure," she warned one final time. He nodded. "Fine, I dare you to kiss Gohan square on the lips."

"WHAT?!!" both Gohan and Sharpner said in unison, enraged by Videl's dare. She seemed to shrink slightly, with both of them towering over her in anger.

"Hey, come on Sharpner, either kiss him, or do the homework," she said, trying to keep the giggles out of her voice, and pointing to the stack of homework. Gohan's eye was twitching uncontrollably. Videl looked at him, and gave him a small smile. He glanced over at Sharpner with a horrified look, then back to Videl. She kept the smile on her face, and grabbed Gohan's hand that he was using to support his body weight reassuringly, then she whispered to him, "Don't worry, he won't do it..."

"Uhh... but... T-THAT'S NOT FAIR!!!" Sharpner screamed, his eyes darting back and forth from Gohan and the pile of homework. Erasa shrugged at him. "Are you serious?! I really have to kiss him or do the homework?!!"

"Yeah," Erasa confirmed. "There aren't any rules against it. You chose dare, and she dared you to do kiss Gohan. Now, if she would have dared you to go jump off a cliff, it would be different."

"Hey!! Don't I have any say in this?" Gohan demanded, Videl's hand still on his. She gave it a light and comforting squeeze.

"Not unless you want to be the one doing the homework," Erasa explained to him. Gohan didn't object again. He had been so worked up about the dare, he had barely realized that Videl was holding his hand, when it finally sunk in to his head, he blushed, and looked away from her, pretending to be staring at something else...

"Well, Sharpner? Are you going to do it or not?" Videl questioned, urging him hurry up and make a decision. She purposely kept her hand on Gohan's, just to see how much control she could have. Sharpner took a last look at Gohan, and thought over how much his reputation would be affected...

"No," he finally replied. "I guess I'm stuck doing the homework." He sighed, and stood up, and slowly walked over to the piles of homework, and sat down next to it, he took out a pencil, and pulled out the first thing on the top of the stack.

"Oh! Yay! My turn," Chichi started. "Videl!" She said, already knowing who she was going to pick. "Truth or dare?"

"Dare," she answered, sending a challenging glare at Chichi.

"Great! I dare you to answer two questions truthfully," she announced, getting Videl's pent up emotions toward Gohan's mother to grow.

"Isn't that against the rules?" Videl whined, looking to Erasa for guidance. She shook her head.

"Nope, it's just a normal dare." Videl was starting to think this was a big set-up. Erasa hooked the mini lie detector up to Videl's arm, and motioned for Chichi to proceed with the interrogation.

"For my first question, are you a virgin?" she inquired smoothly, as if it was a normal, and polite question. Videl's jaw dropped. She then felt herself get mad, and began to squeeze Gohan's hand violently, digging her nails into his palm. He squirmed under her grip on his hand, and he was certain that she must have some strong blood in her. The pain in his hand was distracting him from his curiosity of the same question his mother asked.

"Yes, I'm a virgin," she gave her response honestly through gritted teeth, and the lie detector agreed with it. Gohan sighed with relief as she released the vice grip on his hand, and because of her answer.

"A virgin, huh?" Chichi thought out loud, and Videl nodded. "Okay then, my next question is... umm... how many intimate relationships have you ever had?" She quired, and Videl didn't seem angry with that question at all.

"What do you mean by 'intimate relationships'? How long would the relationship have to of lasted to count?" she asked in return, and again, this was a question Gohan would have liked to hear Videl's answer to.

"How many boyfriends have you had that lasted over a week?" Chichi re-phased.

"Well... umm," Videl paused, thinking hard. "None actually," she said easily. Everyone, including her best friend Erasa, gazed at her disbelievingly, and even Sharpner looked up from his paper, but the lie detector didn't react to it at all, and indicated she was telling the truth.

"You've never had a boyfriend?" Chichi exclaimed out, adding an extra question, and Videl didn't mind answering it.

"I've had boyfriends... and boys that like me." She glanced over at Sharpner, and he turned his head back down to his work swiftly. "But no one has ever cared for the real me." She stopped and took in a deep breath, and Gohan gave her hand a gentle hug with his. "They were all after my image-- What they thought I was, or wanted me to be. I've tried to date some guys that seemed nice at first, but I've never been in a relationship that lasted over a week."

"So, you're a virgin, and you've never had a real boyfriend," Chichi said, summarizing Videl's words. She was relieved that Videl wasn't as experienced as she once thought, and she decided it might not be a bad idea to let her and Gohan explore the unknown together... Considering they were only inches apart, and Gohan's hand was on top of Videl's... Chichi didn't comment on the sight, but mentally noted to tell Bulma to buy her a camera.

"Okay, it's my turn now," Gohan said, breaking the silence that had been lingering around them, "Mom, truth or dare?"

"Me?! Well... umm...ohh... I don't know," Chichi stammered, then hurried and made a decision. "Dare," He wouldn't do anything bad to his mother...

"If you say so," he said, then thought through his possible dare options, I don't want to make her mad or anything... But I want to use this to my advantage, it's not everyday when I can dare Mom to do whatever I want.

"Come on Gohan, think of something," Erasa said, growing impatient.

"Mom, I dare you to..." He stopped, stared at Chichi straight in the eye, and then looked hastily over to Videl, then back to his mother. "I dare you to apologize sincerely to Videl, for calling her a slut this morning."

"You called Videl a slut?" Erasa asked a stunned Chichi... No one had ever, tried to make her take back her words before. Although, she was grateful that her son didn't dare her to jump off a cliff or something of a similar effect. Videl couldn't wipe the smile off her face, no matter how hard she tried. She thought it was very nice of him to use his turn to benefit her.

"Hmm... fine... okay, Videl, I'm sorry," Chichi said in a lame, monotone voice.

"Sincerely," Gohan reminded her.

"Ugh," she complained, but did as she was told. "I'm ever so sorry for calling you a slut earlier, Videl," she complied, being over-dramatic.

"Thank you," Videl said to her, accepting her apology. "And thank you." She smiled, and turned to the side and poked Gohan's chest muscles with her free hand.

"Alrighty!! It's finally MY turn!!" Erasa shouted loud enough to wake the dead. She put her hand on her chin, and tapped it with her finger, her eyes roaming the room, thinking of who she should pick. "Hmm... let's see." She cocked an eyebrow in deep thought. "Gohan! Truth or dare?"

"Truth," he responded, breaking the long chain of dares.

"Hmmm.... hmmmm......" Erasa said vocally expressing her thought process. I have to be careful... I need to use this chance wisely. Then she realized they had been holding hands during the whole game... Maybe, they'll find their way to each other, even without my help... She sighed. "I'll let you off easy, why are you holding Videl's hand?" She hooked up the mini lie detector up to his wrist, and awaited his reply.

"Huh?!!" he blurted out. "Wh-Whattaya mean?" he stuttered, his words mushed together. Erasa pointed to their intertwined hands, and Gohan gulped. "U-Uhhh... because... umm..." he stumbled over his words. Come on Gohan!! Just say something... "B-Because I want to! You got a problem with that?" he said, trying to act tough. Sharpner might have been interested, but he was already asleep, and drooling all over the homework. Videl grinned up at him, glad to see that he wasn't totally embarrassed by it.

"I have absolutely no problem with it!!!!" she yelled out, flinging her hands up in the air, meaning no harm. Chichi checked her watch, and jumped up from her seated position on the floor.

"It's nearly lunch time!! I have to start cooking!" She hopped a few paces into the kitchen, and rummaged through the fridge eagerly.

"I'll help you! I'm an excellent cook!" Erasa ran after her into the kitchen, and threw on an apron.

"Gohan..." Videl whispered to him, then stood up, letting go of his hand, then she motioned for him to follow her. He did as he was told, and walked with her as casually as possible. They were headed for his room, and when they got there, she opened the door, and shoved him in quickly, trying to avoid anyone seeing them escape. "Where are all these distractions coming from anyway?" she asked, and leaped onto his bed, burring her face in his pillow, feeling exhausted after all the trouble that day had caused. "You're right," she said, her voice muffled through the pillow, and if it wasn't for Gohan's Saiyan senses he wouldn't of understood what she was saying, because it sounded more like, "Sleep tight."

Gohan sat on the edge of the bed next to her lying form. "Right about what?" He wondered if he had misunderstood what she said... I'm right about something? That's a first... She rolled over onto her back, making her body brush against his accidentally. Then she sat up, propping herself up with her outstretched arms, making their faces almost as close as they were during the water fight.

"Your life is too hard." She smiled at him, and like it was a new reflex, he smiled as well. She gazed into his eyes for a few moments, curious to know what could be hiding in those black opal depths.

"Were you telling the truth in there?" he asked in the politest way he could think of. "Because I know you could make that little lie detector do whatever you wanted."

"Yeah I was telling the truth, even though I have the ability to fool the lie detector if I wanted to... why do you ask? Don't believe that I'm a virgin?"

"No! It's not that," he tried to explain himself. "I-I just couldn't believe you've never been in a boyfriend and girlfriend type of relationship that lasted over a week... is it true that you think no one has ever cared for the real you?"

"Well... yeah, I know that none of them cared for me based on my personality," she said in a definite tone.

"Them?"

"Yeah, ya know what I mean? Guys like Sharpner," she said, providing an example. "If I wasn't famous for the sole fact of being born the daughter of Hercule Satan, then they wouldn't like me."

"You shouldn't say that about Sharpner, he really likes you, even if he is a creep..." he said, letting a small insult tail at the end.

"I know, the problem with that is..." She stopped and looked down at the bedsheets. "I have no interest in him at all."

"Oh..."

"Yeah, not to mention he tries WAY too hard," Videl commented.

"Do you really think that no one likes the real Videl?" Gohan said, sending a hint her way, "Because if you do, then you're lying to yourself."

"Then name one person who truly does like the real me," she suggested, figuring it was the only way to get her point across to him.

"Son Gohan," he replied under his breath, and if they weren't so close, she wouldn't have heard him. Her eyebrows rose slightly, and her eyes went wide, a light shade of red appearing on her cheeks. She wasn't shocked by his answer, but by how fast he had said it, he didn't even pause, or have to think about his words at all. They just rolled off his tongue. He might have said it fast, but his blush caught up to him, and his face went strawberry pink yet again.... The silence became a burden as Gohan patiently waited for a reply...

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