Since Gohan's talk with Goku Gohan had been training everyday from dawn till dusk. This everyday training that Gohan put himself through was starting to take its toll. He forced himself to wake up every morning at precisely the same time. The fatigue that Gohan had every night after training would only be there the next morning when he awoke. In Gohan's 19 years this was the most intense training he had ever put himself through. Videl could tell that Gohan was growing tired of his training schedule that he had made himself. Videl was beginning to feel lonely because she didn't see Gohan any other time of the day except breakfast and supper, she especially missed the talks her and Gohan had after supper was finished. One morning while Gohan was eating breakfast and Videl was making breakfast for herself she heard a "plop" sound come from behind her. Videl turned around to see that Gohan had fallen asleep while eating his breakfast and his face was resting on the plate of food Videl had prepared for him. Videl couldn't help but stifle a giggle. Videl walked over to where Gohan lay asleep and shook him till he woke up. "Huh, what happened?" asked Gohan.
"You feel asleep in your breakfast." Said Videl giggling again.
"Oh, sorry." Said Gohan as his cheeks reddened from embarrassment.
"Why don't you go clean up, and after your done could I talk to you." Said Videl.
"Yeah sure." Said Gohan.
After Gohan cleaned himself up he sat down by Videl in the living room. "What did you want to talk about?" asked Gohan.
"Well Gohan I know you've been training and all for reasons I don't know, but what I want to know is how much longer do you have to do this because personally I think you're training a little to hard because you can barely stay awake anymore and you need rest as part of training to so the next day you can be at your best and focus more." Said Videl.
"Well, uhh…" was all Gohan could say.
"He had no clue she cared about him like that. How would she know that he was training though? He never told her anything about him training or why he was training. "How do you know I'm training?" asked Gohan.
"It's obvious, you come in at night all sweaty and you eat twice as much as you usually do." Said Videl.
"Alright you got me there." Said Gohan.
"No duh, I used to train too ya know." Said Videl.
"You did." Gohan said in surprise.
"Yeah how do you think I was able to keep on fighting you so long." Said Videl.
"That's why you and those others had such high power levels for earthlings." Said Gohan.
"Gee took you long enough to figure that one out." Said Videl.
"Hey I got an idea, why don't you train with me." Said Gohan.
"I thought slaves weren't supposed to train." Said Videl.
"True, but we don't have to train as in sparring, you could teach me some of those techniques you know, like that one where you guys suppressed you power level, and maybe if you're good I'll teach you some of mine." Said Gohan.
"Whatever just as long as I can train again, I've been going crazy without being able to train." Said Videl.
"Good we'll start tomorrow then." Said Gohan.
"Right." Videl replied giving Gohan a thumbs up.
From the next day on Gohan and Videl would spend half the day teaching each other the techniques that they know and the other half of the day Gohan would train by himself and Videl would go about her daily schedule. Over the remaining 3 months Gohan had before he would have to fight Frieza's men Videl and him became closer and felt that they were becoming more than friends. Videl started to look at Gohan in other ways than just a friend and so was Gohan. The last week Gohan had together with Videl he decided to tell her why he was training. He felt a certain need to tell her everything, especially the way was beginning to fall in lover with her. The first thing that Gohan fell in love with was her eyes. Those eyes, he had never seen a more exotic pair before. Their blue depths just memorized him. He felt like they were slowly drowning him. Suddenly Gohan remembered the dream he had the first night he knew Videl. Was this dream he had some sort of symbol? Was it trying to give Gohan some sort of warning? What kind of warning though? Gohan was so lost in his own thoughts that he didn't hear Videl come in the room. "Hey Gohan, here's you lunch." Said Videl.
After no reply or no movement to what Videl said she walked close to Gohan and waved a hand in front of Gohan's face. "Hello, Earth to Gohan, com in."
After a few more seconds Gohan snapped out of his thoughts and answered, "roger, I'm here."
Videl giggled softly and said again that Gohan's lunch was there. "Oh thanks, boy am I starving." Said Gohan as he dived into his lunch.
After Gohan was finished with his lunch Gohan made up his mind that he was going to tell Videl about why he was training. "Videl I have something to tell you." Said Gohan.
"Yeah, what is it?" asked Videl.
"Well it's about why I've been training so hard." Said Gohan.
"Yeah it's because you're a saiyan and you're supposed to train hard." Said Videl.
"No, that's not it, at least that's not why I've been training this hard." Said Gohan.
"Then why?" asked Videl sounding concerned because Gohan sounded serious and worried about something.
"Well…" and Gohan told Videl everything.
About Frieza and everything he was going to be doing in a week from now. After Gohan was finished Videl was speechless. She never even had the slightest thought that there were beings even more powerful then the saiyans. "So this Frieza guy, he's sort of like you race's leader right." Said Videl.
"No are ruler is King Vegeta, he says he's the most powerful of the entire saiyan race, much of the saiyan race says he's lying and that the elite class is as powerful as we saiyans come." Said Gohan.
"Who do you think has the most power?" asked Videl.
"I personally think my dad does, but I say that because my dad taught me everything I know." Said Gohan.
"I think you're more powerful." Said Videl.
"Why do you say that." Said Gohan blushing slightly.
"Because you're training so hard and when I since your father's power level yours seems a lot higher." Said Videl.
"If anyone was more powerful than my dad he wouldn't be far from becoming a super saiyan." Said Gohan.
"What's a super saiyan?" asked Videl.
"It's the step beyond a saiyan." Said Gohan, "of course it's only been achieved once in our race's history. According to the legend it said that an ancestor of King Vegeta's was the saiyan able to do this transformation. What happened was all the energy inside him was so intense that it just exploded out of his body. It's said this ancestor was to face an enemy twice as strong as he was. One night though before the fight was to take place the ancestor's opponent kidnapped the ancestor's mate and killed her. Heartbroken and angry the ancestor went to this fight and let all his anger and sadness flow out in the form of energy and he suddenly changed. His eyes turned to a shade of green and all his hair turned from black to blonde in a split second. All his senses heightened, his speed rose, so did his strength and it was because of his opponents mistake of killing the ancestors mate that lead to his own death."
"Whoa." was all Videl could say.
Gohan smiled for he said something along the same lines when he first had heard the legend too. "Imagine being able to become that strong just because of the one person you loved." Videl said.
"Yeah." Gohan replied.
That night Gohan thought about what Videl had said. At those thoughts his thoughts then started thinking about Videl and his relationship. Yeah they were just friends but if seemed with every passing day Gohan felt closer to Videl and having an ever increasing feeling of having to protect her. Was it possible that he was falling love with Videl, a human? Gohan supposed it was, but if it ever got to serious as in Videl and him mating, Gohan cold be banished from his home, which is something, Gohan did not want. He had seen friends be banished from Vegeta because they hadn't mated with a female saiyan and Gohan had not heard from anyone of those friends since their banishment. Gohan knew though at that moment he was in love with Videl, but he didn't want to tell her for fear she would not feel the same about him. Little did Gohan that the relationship he and Videl shared would lead to his downfall, and there would be know way he or Videl could prevent it.