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A Child's Tale

Chapter 6: The First Day of Torture – Part one

Gohan…

Gohan…

"mnh…Videl…" he sighed, accidentally rolling over off the bed, "ugg…"

Gohan!

"huh...mom?"

:sigh: GOHAN! GET OUT OF BED!

"Ah! I'm up! I'm up!" Gohan cried, looking around, "…huh?"

It hit him. -The alarm clock!- He looked at the offending object which was now projecting a stream of curses followed by threats of him getting hit with the frying pan. He shuddered visibly at that before stumbling over to it, sleep still clouding his mind, and shutting the thing off BEFORE the thing pulled IT out.

Sighing slightly, he got his clothes for the day from his dresser before treading into the bathroom for a long, hot shower.

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Right…no one.

Left…no one…good.

A young girl looked into her sister's room silently before tiptoeing in.

…squeak…

The girl stopped, looking to see if it had awakened her target. She sighed, before glaring. -stupid door, almost ruined my master plan. -

She smirked while walking over to the top of the bed, near the victim's head, being extra careful not to step on the squeaky floorboard.

Taking a deep breath, the young girl yelled…"NEE-CHAN WAKE UP!"

"AHH! MELODY!" Videl yelled, glaring at the younger sibling, who was at this point rolling on the floor laughing.

Seeing her sister's glare, she yelped and ran from the room still laughing.

"…stupid…sister…dead…poison…breakfast…ugg…need…shower…" Videl mumbled incoherently, while getting up and dragging her feet toward the bathroom.

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"Bad morning?" Micah said as Videl entered the dining room and plopped down into her chair.

Videl looked at her before answering bluntly, "Melody woke me up this morning with a yell that could wake the dead."

Micah blinked, "Oh."

They ate in silence before Melody came bounding down the steps and into the dining room, greeting everyone excitedly.

"Hi!" she said happily, skipping to her chair.

"What are you so happy about? I thought you were dreading the first day of school?" Micah asked, interested in the change of attitude since the week before.

"I was, but then Trunks said on Saturday that he would be going to the same school as me and since he's in the same grade, we might have the same teacher and then he said that Goten might be going there too."

Micah smiled, it's been a while since she's seen Melody so happy about going to school. -She's even found some friends too! Wonderful.- She looked over at Videl, seeing her smile at the young girl too. -Well at least she's not mad at Melody anymore, that's the only thing that could put that girl down.-

"Hey…umm…nee-chan, are you going to take me to school today?"

Videl thought for a second before smiling, "Yah I will, but we have to leave soon so hurry up." She said while getting up from the table.

"K!"

Melody jumped from her seat to follow Videl, Micah right behind her.

"Goodbye you two." Micah said waving, as she watched the girls pick up their bags.

"Bye Micah!" Melody ran over, giving her a quick hug before bolting out the door.

Videl smiled, saying her good bye before heading out after her sister.

"Are we going to take the copter, nee-chan?"

"Yup, unless you want to take the hover car."

"No! The copter's much more fun." Melody giggled.

Videl laughed lightly before decapsulizing her jet-copter.

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Gohan yawned.

-It's too early for school…- he thought, looking out his window. He was an hour early so he decided wait a little then walk to school, it's not like it's that far anyway. Besides, traffic was murder at 6:30 in the morning, you know, the kind of traffic where nobody is moving because they're just too tired to realize the stupid light is green and is not going to get any greener and the people that are awake enough to notice are honking their car horns and yelling at the people in front of them that they drive slower than a turtle can run, and we all know that turtles aren't able to run very well or very fast. Gohan sighed, -Life is just too short to spend all your time in this hell hole when you could be spending time with your family instead of sitting in traffic, looking forward to an 'exciting' day at the office only to come home late, missing dinner.- (A/N no offence to anyone!)

He shook his head, ready to leave when he heard a faint knocking on the window.

"Goten?!" He cried, noticing the boy sitting on nimbus who was hovering over the balcony.

"Hey nii-chan!" The boy exclaimed when his older brother let him in, "Bye nimbus!" he said waving.

"What are you doing here?"

"Oh!, ka-san said that you have to take me to school."

Gohan stuttered.

"She said that since one of her babies is going to school, the other should too, but I couldn't move here too because she would miss me too much and that it would inter-interfer-interfere with you giving her grandbabies." He said, causing Gohan to blush.

There was a short pause.

"Nii-chan…how are you going to give ka-san grandbabies? Do you have to buy them?"

"I umm…well you see…I have to…Wow Goten look at the time! Looks like we have to go or we'll be late for school." Gohan said hurriedly, pushing Goten out the door.

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"Well this is it…Orange Star Elementary." Gohan said as they neared the school, which was confidentially placed only three blocks from the high school so teens could pick up their younger siblings on their way home from school.

When Goten hadn't answered, he looked down to see Goten behind him, nervously clutching his jeans leg.

"Goten, what's wrong?" Gohan asked, kneeling down.

"N-nothing…nothings wrong…"

Gohan smiled slightly, knowing exactly what was wrong. "Goten, there is nothing to be afraid of, you'll do great."

"B-but what if nobody likes me…" Goten said, tears threatening to poor from his eyes.

Gohan pulled him into a hug, "It's ok Goten… you'll have Trunks and Melody there…and I'm sure that you'll make lots of other friends too."

"Really?" Goten asked unsurely, wiping tears from his eyes with the sleeve of his gi.

"Really."

The young boy slowly smiled, watching his brother stand up before walking quietly toward the school entrance. Gohan looked after him, smiling slightly before noticing a certain black haired girl, waving after her little sister. He blushed remembering the dream he had the night before. Turning around, he was about to walk toward school when he heard Videl call his name.

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"Bye nee-chan."

"See-ya Melody…" Videl smiled after her younger sister. She had a little problem convincing her sister to go, but once Melody had noticed Goten ,on the other side of the entrance, looking just as nervous and Trunks leaning up against the school wall, all her nervousness disappeared, well…most of it.

Videl looked over to see Gohan turn around, his face a little red. She smirked, harassing time!

"Gohan!" she called, carefully noticing how rigidly he stood, and how cute his butt looked in those jeans… -Whoa, bad thoughts, bad thoughts…- she mentally kicked herself.

"H-hey Videl…" He stuttered, blushing.

Oh she could have fun with this…

"Hey Gohan…" She whispered into his ear.

His eyes widened.

Videl giggled. "Come on, we only have a half an hour left and we still need to get our schedules, put our stuff into our lockers, and I want to introduce you to a few people." She said, grabbing his hand and dragging him to school.

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Next Chapter: The First Day of Torture – Part Two

Sorry, I wanted to make the first day just one chapter but it turned out to be a bit longer than planned.

If anyone has any ideas on anything special I should add (things they do, people they see, places they go) or any schemes that the trio (Goten, Trunks, Melody) should perform, whether they be for torture or matchmaking or whatever is up to you, I would really appreciate it. It would make this story a lot more interesting.

Thanx. :)