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Gohan woke slowly that morning to the sound of someone tapping, as though gently rapping, rapping at his apartment door. Damn. He thought. Its what he got for reading Edgar Allen Poe before he went to sleep. He got up and put some cloths on quickly so that he could answer the door.
He opened the door and looked at the short and long black haired figure surprisingly. "Raye?"
"Hey Gohan!" She walked in, taking the open door as an invitation. She took a quick glance around the apartment. Very organized. Something they had in common! Yeay for me! She turned around back to Gohan, who still stood with the door opened and looked to still be waking up. She smiled. "You look tired. I'll fix you breakfast!" She made a mad dash for the kitchen area.
Gohan scratched his head curiously, but just took a seat at the dinning table. "So Raye, what are you doing here? Or a better question, how did you know where I live?"
Raye began pulling things out of the fridge and going through the cupboards. "School Directory." She said casually as if it meant nothing in the world.
Gohan, on the other hand, stifled a groan. This is looking familiar. Now what? More black mail from another dark haired girl? His stomach growled, and he realized that what ever she fixed would never be enough to fill his stomach. Especially if his roommate should decide to wake-
"Hn." Someone grunted next to him.
He looked over next to him. Sure enough, Bourkan had woken up and was currently standing next to him at the table. He heard his stomach growl even fiercer. "Bourkan, this is a friend of mine, Raye. Raye, this is my roommate Bourkan." He motioned to them both.
"Nice to meet-cha!" She smiled over her shoulder as she continued with her work at breakfast. She looked over her shoulder again; her face became immediately very red.
Bourkan was also having a mild dilemma. Crap! A Sailor Scout! This is not good. This is very much not good. He saw that she was looking at him funny, Crap! If she recognized him, he would have to fight her here! And he just moved here! He just moved into this place, he didn't want to move again!
It was then that he noticed that her face was very red, and her gaze not exactly on his face. He looked down and realized with a small start that he was only wearing his boxer shorts. He walked casually back into his room and came back out a minute later wearing a pair of pants.
When he walked back out, he saw Gohan letting someone else inside the apartment door. He cursed silently. Shit! Another Sailor Scout? This is worse. Thankfully, they were not occupied with him. Her and Raye seemed too busy giving each other death glares.
"Hey Serena." Raye said with a certain amount of danger in her voice. "What are you doing here?"
Serena looked smugly at her. "It's the first day of spring break! I just came to see if Gohan had any plans today."
Gohan held his face in his hand. Where did I go wrong? What did I do? Could it get any worse I ask you? Just then the phone started ringing. He sighed and went to pick it up.
"Hi Gohan! It's your Mom! I just called to tell you that we'd be coming earlier this morning." Chichi said cheerily with a hint of exasperation.
"Huh?" Was the first thing out of Gohan's mouth? Did he hear right? He sure as hell wished that he did, but he knew he didn't. Damned Sayian hearing.
"Well, about half way along the car ride you father got tired of waiting so he picked up the car and started flying us to the city. We'll be there in a few minutes."
Gohan managed to keep a calm and controlled voice. "Okay. I'll see you in a bit." He hung up the phone and immediately went into a state of panic. "OH NO! THEY'RE EARLY! WHEN SHE SEE'S THE STATE OF THIS PLACE SHE'S GOING TO WIG!" He ran around the room quickly vacuuming and dusting the place off as fast as he could without breaking anything.
He looked up and saw Raye and Serena standing in the kitchen, looking at him questioningly. Bourkan had a look of horror on his face. He recognized the voice on that phone, and he was in no mood to meet it.
A knocking came to the door again. "OH NO! SHE'S HERE!" Gohan yelped and ran to the door. He opened it up and a small 8-year-old boy with black hair that stuck up at weird angles launched itself onto Gohan's chest.
"Gohan!" the kid yelled and hugged him fiercely.
Gohan patted his head and tried to pry him off, without success. "Hey Goten."
"Hi Gohan!" Chichi walked in and gasped. "Gohan! How could you let your apartment get into this kind of state? I taught you better than this! This place is a mess!"
Everyone in the apartment looked around in all direction trying to figure out just what it was she was talking about. The place looked spotless. Aside from the breakfast materials sitting on the counters. Chichi walked over to the couch and picked up a single sock. "What is this?"
Everyone face vaulted to the floor. Bourkan got up and looked at her. "Actually, that's my sock. I didn't get a chance to put it on yet."
Chichi smiled on him. "I'm sorry. Here you go." Her voice took on a more pleasurable tone that made Bourkan wonder if this woman was human.
Just then someone else walked through the door. Looking like a giant version of the small boy who was still attached to Gohan's chest. Raye wished she were there right now.
"Hey Gohan!" The man said cheerily and slapped Gohan's back.
"Hey Dad!" Gohan smiled at him.
"Gohan." Chichi interrupted the discussion. "I know this is your roommate. I talked to him on the phone the other day. But who are these two young girls?" Chichi looked at the suspiciously.
Raye and Serena suddenly became and looked very uncomfortable. They could only guess what Gohan's mother was thinking about them right now. Fortunately, Gohan spoke up for them before they had to say anything.
"This is Raye." He motioned to her. "I've done some meditating wither her before. And this is Serena, from school. I've been helping her with some of her home work." Raye and Serena both let out a small sigh of relief.
Serena lost whatever courage she had left and slowly crept to the door. "Well, I better get going!" She walked out the door and ran down the hall to leave the building. Raye glared at the door, even if it was empty, that she would just leave her here like this.
Goku looked from Raye to Gohan, back to Raye, back to Gohan, from Raye to Gohan from Raye to Gohan. Until what he was thinking finally formed into words. "So does this mean you not dating Videl any more?"
Raye looked flabbergasted. Not so much because of what he said, but because she had never considered the idea that Gohan might already be dating someone. In one sentence, all her hopes were destroyed.
Gohan fell to the floor. He stood up, looking highly embarrassed. "Dad! We were never dating to begin with!"
Raye smiled at that comment. Feeling her hopes come back to her. She stood a little more confidently when she saw Gohan's mom walk behind her into the kitchen. Her face flushed. "I didn't know he would be having company. I came over to see what he was doing and offered to make him breakfast."
"You can call me Chichi." She smiled at her. She looked at the food laid out and frowned. "You're going to have to make a lot more food if you want to fill these stomachs." She laughed.
Raye smiled at her in return. "Then we'll just tackle it together."
Chichi brought her fist up in the air. "That's the spirit!" They began cooking breakfast. Raye gave a silent thanks to Lita for teaching her how to cook.
Goku and Goten sat at the dinning table happily at the mention of food. Gohan meanwhile was standing in shock. He had never seen his mother take such a liking to a girl so quickly. It was definitely unexpected. And where was Bourkan? He looked around. The door was still open. He must have made a run for it when the coast was clear. Smart guy. He did have to work today as well though.
In short order, the food was prepared and set out on the table. Enough to feed a small army. Chichi sent menacing glares at all the boys to assure that they didn't start until everyone was at the table. After an eye full from his mother, Gohan remembered his manners and got up to pull the chairs out for Raye and his mother. Raye blushed at the gesture.
"We have company here, so I expect you boys to eat in a CIVILIZED manner. Got it?" Goku and Goten shook their head vigorously, quickly to agree with her. She looked at Raye who was sitting next to her, and next to Gohan, she noticed.
"So Raye, is that what he said your name was? What do you do? Do you go to school with my son Gohan?" She looked at her with interest.
"Um, no. I live at my family's shrine. I'm studying to become a priestess." She blushed again at having everyone at the table looking at her. She didn't expect to meet the family so quickly. Especially since she hasn't even gone out on a date with him yet. Heck, she wondered is she ever would.
"Oh. That's nice." Chichi said before taking a few more bites of her food.
Gohan waited for the inevitable question that would pop out of his mother mouth. The one that popped out of his mother's mouth to ever girl she had ever seen Gohan talk with. It didn't matter if they knew each other or not.
Chichi looked over at him. "So Gohan, are you planning to marry this girl?"
Thankfully, he didn't have food in his mouth this time, as he did the last few times. "Mother." He sweat dropped. Raye didn't seem to bother by it, thankfully. She only smiled at him, giving the impression that she knew what was going on and knew how he felt.
Much to her surprise and bewilderment, all of the food was eaten. She didn't know how or when or how it was all eaten so quickly. Goku and Goten went and made themselves comfortable on the couch and patted their full stomachs. Looking like mirror images of each other.
Chichi went to work on the dishes and Raye went to ask Gohan something that was on her mind. "Gohan, I was wondering if your not busy later if you wanted to come to the temple and we could do some meditating or if you don't want to do that we could go to the park for a walk or we could go to the movies or even go out to dinner-" She stopped and her face turned red as she realized everything that she had just said. Gohan was looking at her like she had a tree growing out of her head.
He smiled. "Sure." A day out will keep my mind occupied from other things. Thought to himself.
She beamed at him. "Great!" She ran up to him and kissed him on the cheek and ran out of the door. She couldn't believe she had just done that! And it had worked! Wait until Serena found out about this!
Gohan stood at the door where just a minute ago Raye had been standing. He had always thought of the girls as good friends. But did that just happen? His mother was smirking at him and his father was grinning at him like a mad man. Did he just make a date?
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Gohan woke slowly that morning to the sound of someone tapping, as though gently rapping, rapping at his apartment door. Damn. He thought. Its what he got for reading Edgar Allen Poe before he went to sleep. He got up and put some cloths on quickly so that he could answer the door.
He opened the door and looked at the short and long black haired figure surprisingly. "Raye?"
"Hey Gohan!" She walked in, taking the open door as an invitation. She took a quick glance around the apartment. Very organized. Something they had in common! Yeay for me! She turned around back to Gohan, who still stood with the door opened and looked to still be waking up. She smiled. "You look tired. I'll fix you breakfast!" She made a mad dash for the kitchen area.
Gohan scratched his head curiously, but just took a seat at the dinning table. "So Raye, what are you doing here? Or a better question, how did you know where I live?"
Raye began pulling things out of the fridge and going through the cupboards. "School Directory." She said casually as if it meant nothing in the world.
Gohan, on the other hand, stifled a groan. This is looking familiar. Now what? More black mail from another dark haired girl? His stomach growled, and he realized that what ever she fixed would never be enough to fill his stomach. Especially if his roommate should decide to wake-
"Hn." Someone grunted next to him.
He looked over next to him. Sure enough, Bourkan had woken up and was currently standing next to him at the table. He heard his stomach growl even fiercer. "Bourkan, this is a friend of mine, Raye. Raye, this is my roommate Bourkan." He motioned to them both.
"Nice to meet-cha!" She smiled over her shoulder as she continued with her work at breakfast. She looked over her shoulder again; her face became immediately very red.
Bourkan was also having a mild dilemma. Crap! A Sailor Scout! This is not good. This is very much not good. He saw that she was looking at him funny, Crap! If she recognized him, he would have to fight her here! And he just moved here! He just moved into this place, he didn't want to move again!
It was then that he noticed that her face was very red, and her gaze not exactly on his face. He looked down and realized with a small start that he was only wearing his boxer shorts. He walked casually back into his room and came back out a minute later wearing a pair of pants.
When he walked back out, he saw Gohan letting someone else inside the apartment door. He cursed silently. Shit! Another Sailor Scout? This is worse. Thankfully, they were not occupied with him. Her and Raye seemed too busy giving each other death glares.
"Hey Serena." Raye said with a certain amount of danger in her voice. "What are you doing here?"
Serena looked smugly at her. "It's the first day of spring break! I just came to see if Gohan had any plans today."
Gohan held his face in his hand. Where did I go wrong? What did I do? Could it get any worse I ask you? Just then the phone started ringing. He sighed and went to pick it up.
"Hi Gohan! It's your Mom! I just called to tell you that we'd be coming earlier this morning." Chichi said cheerily with a hint of exasperation.
"Huh?" Was the first thing out of Gohan's mouth? Did he hear right? He sure as hell wished that he did, but he knew he didn't. Damned Sayian hearing.
"Well, about half way along the car ride you father got tired of waiting so he picked up the car and started flying us to the city. We'll be there in a few minutes."
Gohan managed to keep a calm and controlled voice. "Okay. I'll see you in a bit." He hung up the phone and immediately went into a state of panic. "OH NO! THEY'RE EARLY! WHEN SHE SEE'S THE STATE OF THIS PLACE SHE'S GOING TO WIG!" He ran around the room quickly vacuuming and dusting the place off as fast as he could without breaking anything.
He looked up and saw Raye and Serena standing in the kitchen, looking at him questioningly. Bourkan had a look of horror on his face. He recognized the voice on that phone, and he was in no mood to meet it.
A knocking came to the door again. "OH NO! SHE'S HERE!" Gohan yelped and ran to the door. He opened it up and a small 8-year-old boy with black hair that stuck up at weird angles launched itself onto Gohan's chest.
"Gohan!" the kid yelled and hugged him fiercely.
Gohan patted his head and tried to pry him off, without success. "Hey Goten."
"Hi Gohan!" Chichi walked in and gasped. "Gohan! How could you let your apartment get into this kind of state? I taught you better than this! This place is a mess!"
Everyone in the apartment looked around in all direction trying to figure out just what it was she was talking about. The place looked spotless. Aside from the breakfast materials sitting on the counters. Chichi walked over to the couch and picked up a single sock. "What is this?"
Everyone face vaulted to the floor. Bourkan got up and looked at her. "Actually, that's my sock. I didn't get a chance to put it on yet."
Chichi smiled on him. "I'm sorry. Here you go." Her voice took on a more pleasurable tone that made Bourkan wonder if this woman was human.
Just then someone else walked through the door. Looking like a giant version of the small boy who was still attached to Gohan's chest. Raye wished she were there right now.
"Hey Gohan!" The man said cheerily and slapped Gohan's back.
"Hey Dad!" Gohan smiled at him.
"Gohan." Chichi interrupted the discussion. "I know this is your roommate. I talked to him on the phone the other day. But who are these two young girls?" Chichi looked at the suspiciously.
Raye and Serena suddenly became and looked very uncomfortable. They could only guess what Gohan's mother was thinking about them right now. Fortunately, Gohan spoke up for them before they had to say anything.
"This is Raye." He motioned to her. "I've done some meditating wither her before. And this is Serena, from school. I've been helping her with some of her home work." Raye and Serena both let out a small sigh of relief.
Serena lost whatever courage she had left and slowly crept to the door. "Well, I better get going!" She walked out the door and ran down the hall to leave the building. Raye glared at the door, even if it was empty, that she would just leave her here like this.
Goku looked from Raye to Gohan, back to Raye, back to Gohan, from Raye to Gohan from Raye to Gohan. Until what he was thinking finally formed into words. "So does this mean you not dating Videl any more?"
Raye looked flabbergasted. Not so much because of what he said, but because she had never considered the idea that Gohan might already be dating someone. In one sentence, all her hopes were destroyed.
Gohan fell to the floor. He stood up, looking highly embarrassed. "Dad! We were never dating to begin with!"
Raye smiled at that comment. Feeling her hopes come back to her. She stood a little more confidently when she saw Gohan's mom walk behind her into the kitchen. Her face flushed. "I didn't know he would be having company. I came over to see what he was doing and offered to make him breakfast."
"You can call me Chichi." She smiled at her. She looked at the food laid out and frowned. "You're going to have to make a lot more food if you want to fill these stomachs." She laughed.
Raye smiled at her in return. "Then we'll just tackle it together."
Chichi brought her fist up in the air. "That's the spirit!" They began cooking breakfast. Raye gave a silent thanks to Lita for teaching her how to cook.
Goku and Goten sat at the dinning table happily at the mention of food. Gohan meanwhile was standing in shock. He had never seen his mother take such a liking to a girl so quickly. It was definitely unexpected. And where was Bourkan? He looked around. The door was still open. He must have made a run for it when the coast was clear. Smart guy. He did have to work today as well though.
In short order, the food was prepared and set out on the table. Enough to feed a small army. Chichi sent menacing glares at all the boys to assure that they didn't start until everyone was at the table. After an eye full from his mother, Gohan remembered his manners and got up to pull the chairs out for Raye and his mother. Raye blushed at the gesture.
"We have company here, so I expect you boys to eat in a CIVILIZED manner. Got it?" Goku and Goten shook their head vigorously, quickly to agree with her. She looked at Raye who was sitting next to her, and next to Gohan, she noticed.
"So Raye, is that what he said your name was? What do you do? Do you go to school with my son Gohan?" She looked at her with interest.
"Um, no. I live at my family's shrine. I'm studying to become a priestess." She blushed again at having everyone at the table looking at her. She didn't expect to meet the family so quickly. Especially since she hasn't even gone out on a date with him yet. Heck, she wondered is she ever would.
"Oh. That's nice." Chichi said before taking a few more bites of her food.
Gohan waited for the inevitable question that would pop out of his mother mouth. The one that popped out of his mother's mouth to ever girl she had ever seen Gohan talk with. It didn't matter if they knew each other or not.
Chichi looked over at him. "So Gohan, are you planning to marry this girl?"
Thankfully, he didn't have food in his mouth this time, as he did the last few times. "Mother." He sweat dropped. Raye didn't seem to bother by it, thankfully. She only smiled at him, giving the impression that she knew what was going on and knew how he felt.
Much to her surprise and bewilderment, all of the food was eaten. She didn't know how or when or how it was all eaten so quickly. Goku and Goten went and made themselves comfortable on the couch and patted their full stomachs. Looking like mirror images of each other.
Chichi went to work on the dishes and Raye went to ask Gohan something that was on her mind. "Gohan, I was wondering if your not busy later if you wanted to come to the temple and we could do some meditating or if you don't want to do that we could go to the park for a walk or we could go to the movies or even go out to dinner-" She stopped and her face turned red as she realized everything that she had just said. Gohan was looking at her like she had a tree growing out of her head.
He smiled. "Sure." A day out will keep my mind occupied from other things. Thought to himself.
She beamed at him. "Great!" She ran up to him and kissed him on the cheek and ran out of the door. She couldn't believe she had just done that! And it had worked! Wait until Serena found out about this!
Gohan stood at the door where just a minute ago Raye had been standing. He had always thought of the girls as good friends. But did that just happen? His mother was smirking at him and his father was grinning at him like a mad man. Did he just make a date?