Gohan waited by Videl's side for what seemed like an eternity before she finally awoke.
"Hey," Gohan said gently, moving her bangs from her eyes. He had wrapped and cleaned her wounds and even managed to get a sensu bean Piccolo had 'left' in his pocket without his knowing, so she was healed.
"Your back!" She exclaimed, sitting up.
"Calm down, my back is fine, lay back down, you need rest, let me explain everything that's going on, well, what I know of it anyway," So Gohan explained, everything. Starting with the dragonballs, Garlic Jr., Freiza, everyone, even Cell.
At first she was quiet, and this actually worried Gohan for a moment. And then he finally knew that her hanging out with his mother was a bad thing. A very bad thing. "SON GOHAN HOW DARE YOU NOT TELL ME ANY OF THIS BEFORE NOW. I OUTTA..." But what she thought she outta do was not mentioned as the door suddenly opened and in walked, you guessed it, Rain.
"Ahh, I see the slave has awakened. You will control her, or you will kill her. Those are the rules. I don't want to hear another word out of her mouth for as long as she remains here. Now, as for your...problem."
"What problem?" Gohan said in an emotionless voice.
"The problem of your obvious attitude toward your masters!" Rain snarled, back handing Gohan before he could dodge or see the hit coming. Gohan didn't flinch at the hit, but his head did snap to the side. "The first of your instruction begins now. You will never speak unless spoken too, too anyone accept your slave and only to give orders. You will not have any sexual relationships aboard this ship. I will not have any children on board. Should I catch hint of one in your slave, it will be destroyed before you even catch wind of it. You are not aloud to free slaves. Their freedom only comes with death, or an especially high price is paid, and I do not mean in money terms. Your real, learning lessons shall begin in one hour, and you shall attend them all. You will also spend thirteen hours after classroom instruction in the training rooms either training new troops or working under unbearable gravity pressure.
"This is your duties until I say otherwise. You shall address me as Mistress Rain, and nothing more. Do you understand?"
"Yes, Mistress Rain," Gohan murmured in an emotionless voice, but he was quickly backhanded for his efforts.
"I will not be spoken to in that tone of voice. You will speak with emotion because I like to see it crushed when you do something wrong. Now, try again," Rain hissed.
Gohan struggled to keep his facial features under control, but he was rapidly failing, "Yes, Mistress Rain," he bit out in anger, his face quickly smoothing over so that he wouldn't show any more emotion.
"We'll work on it. But that next time you do that, it will be your...what did you call her, mate's life?" Rain smirked and with that, left the room. "Lessons begin in ten minutes, you'd best find the classroom."
Gohan growled a curse, looked longingly at Videl, then rushed out of the room, knowing the ship was a very, very large place. He managed to lock the door, however, before he left so that Videl wouldn't get into any trouble...
Slowly one month passed and Gohan was exhausted. On the one month marking of his stay, he collapsed onto his bed, fully clothed, and slept. Videl had been forced to stay in one of the slaves wings off the side of his rooms, and she wasn't aloud in his rooms without him being in the room first. He just didn't have the energy to let her out of her locked broom closet.
With his eyes closed, he never noticed the golden light surrounding his form. All he knew was that several hours later he found himself looking up at a very familiar ceiling and having a very familiar weight draped over his chest.
Looking down he noticed Gohan curled into his chest, sucking his thumb and drooling slightly on his shoulder. Grinning, Gohan raised his good arm and brought it down slowly to tickle his brother's sides, who woke up quickly, crying out in surprise and squirming away from the hand that held him so firmly entrapped in it's ticklish glee.
"Gohan!" Goten finally cried out, hugging his battered brother. "Your back! Your Back!" he cried out. Chi-Chi entered the room, but for some reason she didn't seem surprised to find him in his bed with Goten.
"I found you on the living room floor this morning and brought you up. I take it your either back for good or only for a short while?" she asked softly, happiness in her eyes.
"Only for a few hours, I'm really exhausted and I don't think anyone knows that I am gone yet. How long I was out, I'm not sure, I just know that I only have a day here." Gohan managed to sit up with only a wince or two.
"Yes, yes, dinner is already made and Goten was only taking a nap when I brought him in here with you. You looked as if you needed the rest. Here's a senzu bean. I want you bathed and downstairs soon!" Chi-Chi dragged Goten with her so that her son could get cleaned up. It seemed as if things would never really change.
Okay, first off I would like to say I completely lost my train of thought for this story, therefore I am winging it. And second, I would like to say that I am sorry it took so long for me to start writing on this story. Lots of computer problems and writers block. Anyway, please review cause I worked so hard and getting this out. I would also like to know if anyone is ever gonna read the ending to the trilogy I wrote and am still working so hard on.
Tabi Chan
