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Gohan and Videl: A sweet surprise

Chapter 16: Family, friends and training

Last time...

The older Son woman shook her head.

"None whatsoever. But it gives you the means of maintaining the leash on your Saiyan, even if he is my son. You will know by now that Saiyans are an entirely different case. Without my frying pan of doom I would not have been able to acquire the respect I have now. Bulma maintains her leash trough other means... blackmail, threats and other neatnesses, but Vegeta deserves it. But coming to think of it... a frying pan of doom would make things easier for her too..." she mused.

Videl nodded. She began to see the uses of such a weapon at her command, and up on the lookout a certain green god laughed wickedly at the next actions he would carry out. Chi-Chi's idea had been good, and Bulma would be both surprised and pleased to find a frying pan of doom in her possession soon...

Now the continuation...

Videl and Chi-Chi spent the whole morning chatting and eating the citrus cake (which had been nearly forgotten during the frying pan incident, poor cake!), and once Videl wanted to leave to get some lunch at the Satan mansion Chi-Chi just waved it away and invited her daughter-in-law to eat with her.

She said after all she was used to cooking for three ever-hungry Saiyans, so it really was no problem, and Videl took the offer all too gladly. After all, she was hungry...

While Chi-Chi prepared the meal with Videls' help latter had some questions.

"Chi-Chi, didn't Goku or Gohan ever ask where you got that frying pan from? I mean, if you got no explanation to where it came from, they surely where curious, weren't they? I mean, frying pans don't just appear out of thin air, do they?" she asked, before correcting herself

"Okay, in this case they seem to do..."

Chi-Chi gave her a sly smile.

"If I had told them the truth they would have done everything to find it out, of course. But I told them that my father gave it to me as a present, a present he himself had received from an unknown friend. You must know, Videl, that my father is the retired King of the Animal Kingdom, thus this explanation was not too farfetched. You can tell Gohan that you got it from me, and that my father gave this one to me as an ersatz just in case the Saiyan skulls would prove to be too much for the poor thing. Naturally my father knows the whole story about the frying pan of doom, and I will inform him about this new one so he can back us up."

Videl nodded.

"Good thinking, Chi-Chi. I will make it so. My husband is in for a surprise..." she said with gleaming eyes.

On the lookout...

The green god known as Dende chuckled evilly. This was going even better than he had anticipated. He would sit back and see what a mood-swing driven young woman would do to keep a certain demi-Saiyan in check. Luckily he had places in the front row...

Oh right, I nearly forgot! he thought and snapped his fingers. And another frying pan of doom appeared in the kitchen cabinet of a certain blue-haired scientist, furnished with a certain note...

"Heh heh, now Vegeta won't cause any more trouble..." the green god chuckled evilly, while Mr. Popo, who was currently watering the lookouts flowers, ran for cover...

The Son household

Unbeknownst to all this Chi-Chi and Videl, mother- and daughter-in-law and both proud holders of a frying pan of doom continued chatting.

"Umm... Chi-Chi..." Videl said between bites, "I am experiencing this strange food cravings lately." she said while eating rice with strawberries.

She had asked her mother-in-law if she had strawberries in the house, and naturally the well equipped Son household held something like strawberries.

"Mmh, I guessed." Chi-Chi said smiling and Videl blushed. "But that is nothing you have to be ashamed for, it's perfectly natural. One woman is more affected than the other, and it seems women who carry out part-Saiyans are most badly affected." she said.

Videl nodded.

"That's what Bulma said too. They put us through a lot of suffering..."

Now Chi-Chi nodded.

"But on the other hand they pay most dearly for it. Believe me, those food-cravings can be a revolting sight for a food-loving Saiyan. And wait until you get the mood-swings..." she began, until she saw the look on the younger woman's face.

"Don't tell me they have started already!"

Videl nodded.

"I noticed it this morning. Gohan and I were enjoying breakfast... okay, I was enjoying it while having a food-craving... and I noticed that Gohan was... revolted by my cravings. But I did not feel sorry for him, for he is the one who puts me through this. Does this sound logical?"

Chi-Chi smiled. From now on her boy would get it, oh yeah...

"Exactly that happened during my pregnancy with Gohan. I knew that it had to look disgusting what I was eating there, but I did not care. And the fact that Goku nearly ran to the bathroom, well, lets say I ignored it. Add to it that I thought he deserved it. After all he had been the one responsible for this, for he had impregnated me. Bless him that he did, Gohan is such a wonderful son! Where was I... oh yeah, don't worry about these mood-swings, they are perfectly normal. Gohan has just to be more careful with the chose of his words! And I taught him to be..."

The younger woman nodded. That fitted. It was the men's fault, as always. She had known it!

Add to it that he has to be more careful with his thoughts, too, heh... Videl thought.

"The lunch was wonderful, but now I've gotta go, Chi-Chi. I have to stop by at Erasas' so that she can give me an alibi. I told Gohan that I would visit Erasa, so he would not know about our private little chat." she said with a sly smirk.

Chi-Chi nodded. Her daughter-in-law was really after hers fancy. Sly, clever, self-confident, exactly the right type of woman to maintain the leash on her son.

"I will phone Bulma and ask her about our weekly chatting round. As I've got your Cell-phone number I will send you a SMS when everything has been clarified. We keep it at Monday, right?"

Videl nodded smiling.

"That we do. Bye, Chi-Chi." she said and hugged the older woman.

Chi-Chi returned the hug smiling. This chat had been really nice, and she was looking forward to a weekly chatting session with her and Bulma...

Her daughter-in-law walked over to her jet-copter and was about to get in, when Chi-Chi remembered something she had forgotten.

"Oh, Videl!" she called, and the younger woman turned around.

"Yeah?"

"We have to talk about how the nursery will be equipped, what for a baby carriage we will buy and and and..." the older Son woman said.

Videl was inwardly rolling with the eyes, and only said

"Later, Chi-Chi!" and entered her jet-copter.

She liked her mother-in-law a lot, but if she hated one thing more than anything else it was if someone tried to plan everything out for her. Should Chi-Chi try to do that Videl would give her a good shout and claim 'Oops! Mood swing! Sorry'!. Yeah, good idea...

Videl then boarded the jet-copter and flew back towards Satan City. Upon arrival she guided her jet-copter towards Erasas' house, quite sure that her best friend was at home. It was 2 p.m., and due to the fact that Erasa still had not decided what she would study and thus had taken a 'creative timeout' as she had called it she was most likely still sleeping.

She landed the jet-copter in a park. Okay, technically she was not allowed to do so, but she had some privileges...

"Hey!" she heard someone call, "What do you think you're doing?" a male voice asked.

Videl turned around, saw that it was an officer of the mounted police who were still patrolling the public parks, probably due to a nostalgic feeling the current major had felt to express.

"Landing my jet-copter. Any problems with it, sir?" she asked.

The officer had recognized her by now.

"Miss Videl! Oh, no problem with it. In your case..." he said smiling.

"Thank you officer. But the name is now Mrs. Son. Anyways, good day!" she said politely, leaving the officer behind.

She heard him call 'A good day to you too, Mrs. Son!' and waved over her shoulder. Videl reached the house-entranced and rang the door-bell. As she had estimated, Erasa seemed to be still asleep. It could not be helped, she had to ring her best friend out of bed.

And that she did. Minutes later a somnolent Erasa answered the inter phone.

"Whaddayawan?"

"Nice to hear you're awake, Erasa, even if it took quite long. Care to let me in?" she asked.

"Videl!" a suddenly awake Erasa exclaimed. "Sure! Come in!"

Seconds later the door-opener was activated and she entered the house. Erasa lived in the fifth story of a flat, and as her parents were quite rich she could afford the best flat of the house.

Luckily the house had an elevator, although Videl could have flown upwards. But why not be a tad bit lazy? It couldn't hurt...

Thus Videl used the elevator and rode up into the fifth story. Erasa was already waiting at the door, and came running at her as soon as the elevator's doors had opened. The two women exchanged a hug and then went into Erasas' apartment were they sat down in Erasas' comfortable furniture.

Videl told her best friend everything that had happened, showed her her brand-new frying pan of doom ('Cool! I must have one too in case Sharpener steps out of line') and the story behind it. Naturally Erasa promised to give Videl an alibi should the demi-Saiyan ask.

The young women spent the next hours talking and Videl told Erasa everything, inchoate with her strange food cravings ('Whoa girl, blatant!') to her mood-swings ('Yeah, it's even worse than PMSing' Videl told her) and ended with her talk she had had with Chi-Chi.

Thus the hours went by, only once interrupted by an SMS Videl received. She promptly checked her cell-phone in case it was Gohan, but it was 'just' Chi-Chi...

"Cool! It's Monday then!" Videl exclaimed while typing an answer, and Erasa knew what her best friend was talking about. Yeah, such a talking round had to be cool, especially when one was talking with Bulma Briefs.

Erasa had been excited as hell when Videl had told her for the first time that she knew Bulma Briefs and was on speaking terms with her. That was so blatant! Something like that could only happen to Videl...

Afterwards they planned out what they would do in the next time, involving going to the cinema, visiting the local ice-cream-parlour or just going to the lake once again. And naturally... shopping!

But as it's always when having fun, time flew right out of the window, and as it was already 6 p.m. Videl decided to head 'home' towards the Satan mansion. She stowed her prized frying pan of doom into her backpack, waved a good bye to Erasa after they had hugged ('Don't forget to get me such a frying pan!') and flew back.

She just landed when she felt a powerful KI she knew all too well. It seemed her husband was heading back too. And really, Videl had just landed when Gohan touched down besides her jet-copter, his face plastered with a huge grin.

Videl got out of the jet-copter, and Gohan hugged her promptly in a careful way and gave her a kiss.

"Hi hun! How was your day?" he asked, all the while smirking.

"Uhm... good? And regarding the smile glued to your face I'd say yours was good too?" the young woman asked.

Gohan nodded impetuously.

"In fact it was superb! First I had the chance to beat Vegeta with his own weapon", he began, and at seeing Videls' puzzled expression, for Vegeta had a lot of 'weapons', "mockery" he added and Videl nodded, "and then I beat him unconscious in our trainings fight! After he awoke he was pissed off as hell! And I could barely stifle my laughter at his face! It was hilarious!"

Videl nodded slowly. Men...

"That's fantastic, sweetheart! But how about we go in now? I am really hungry!" she said.

Now the smile vanished from Gohan's face faster than butter melts in the sun. Obviously he was not looking forward to see another food craving... but then the smile reappeared and he said

"Sure!" and gave her a kiss.

Videl unlocked the door by entering the twelve-digit security code and the young couple went straight for the kitchen. Naturally Gohan noticed that Videl's backpack was more filled than usual...

"Videl? What is in your backpack? It looks so heavy." he said.

His wife only smiled.

"You'll find out soon enough..."

to be continued...

Thanks for reading! And please review!

Very special thanks to my beta, who is doing a great job, as always! Thanks!

REVIEWERS RESPONSES:

GOGI: yup, those he will get indeed. But he's a clever demi-Saiyan, and maybe he will find a way to avoid them...    

 

cosmictwilight: hands out milk to cookies and some additional cookies Here you go!
Thanks for the compliment, I try my best! As for the origin of the fpod's, I hope I explained it sufficiently. Nice that I could cheer you up!               

 

Tootsy: Yeah, I always noted that regardless how strong the Saiyans are, their wives still maintain the leash on them. But hey, they are still the strongest warriors there are.
Oh, and don't you go and hit your poor boyfriend with a frying pan! That really hurts! And our poor heads are not as hard as concrete like the Saiyans heads!
As for your eating the cake, when you're hungry then you must eat. It's as simple as that... :)     

 

Candy the Duck: Thank you! I tried my best to create a believable origin...
And I knew you were being sarcastic. Just teasing... :)            

 

Goku's little sister: hands out cookies Here you go!
And I know the food thing runs in the family. Here too! stomach grumbles
I know how much that frying pan hurts, and the women will only use it more often now that it's new. Otherwise they will rely on other tactics, but our poor Saiyans will suffer some goose eggs...
Though no permanent harm will be done!    

 

Mr.Staypuft: Thank you! Will add your story to my alerts so that I know when it's updated. Was rather busy lately so I had no chance to check... 

 

Tim Knispel: Hey, don't take it so hard. We all know what for awesome warriors our Saiyans are              . But throughout the whole series the women were able to keep the leash on the Saiyans, so I don't think that it is too sadistic. As mentioned above, the women will only use the frying pans now that they are new, and only to knock some sense into their men if necessary. As for Videl, she is moodswing-driven and therefore excused.

And regarding Gohan, Videl was always able to keep him in check throughout the series (just remember the Saiyaman Saga?)

And besides, the Saiyans will get back at Dende...

 

Amy Balderrama: hands out cookies Here you go, and thanks for the reviews! Glad that you like my story, and yup, that though about Pan and the PAN crossed my mind too...

 

Megs21: cowers in face of his mate swinging a fpod Me not! Those things are deadly weapons!
Cool that you like my story, but sadly I'm not able to update it as often as before any more. Only about every two weeks... sniff
Yeah, I know this stories, and cosmictwilight is a very good and talented authoress. I like her stories very much!

 

animeprincess1452: Yeah, mine too (being a Saiyan myself). That's why I gave it to Videl, so that my mate won't find it...
By now you surely know where the fpods come from, but we will get back at Dende... Vegeta is already licking his chops...
 

 

korrd: Thanks! Yeah, Dende is evil, but why he is will be explained shortly...    

 

Son Oliver: And Dende will suffer. Although the reasons for his behaviour will be uncovered soon, and this might explain it...
Dunno if Gohan and the others will actually find out before Pan's birth. That remains to be seen...
And yup, once the mood-swings abate I doubt it that Videl would use the fpod any longer. But I doubt that the same goes for Chi-Chi. Although, maybe Goku will stand up against her...
As for Bulma and Vegeta, I'm quite sure that Bulma will soon enough resort to insults, threats and blackmail, as having a fpod would make things far too easy...          

 

Cappucine: Thanks for the compliments! And yup, things are gonna get a lot more interesting...
And thanks for the suggestions, those are useful!                   

 

Rose Vaughn: Uh oh... now my beta wants one too! Ahh! runs for cover                        

 

Marshmellow13Dragon: Nah, only one fpod, as he lives with Videl at the Satan mansion. And Videl won't do anything too drastic, she is just moodswing-driven and thus more... erratic than usual. As for Chi-Chi's frying pan, maybe Goku will finally do something about it once the whole thing is over...
And somehow, somehow Gohan will find out. There is still Piccolo who could tell him... evil snicker    

 

HinaGuy749: Nope, I'm not gonna kill them, as explained above. Dende is just in a torturous mood, and the Saiyans have to suffer. But they will get their revenge...
I will try my best to keep up the good work! Thanks for your review!                  

 

Fwee: Thank you! I tried to make a traceable explanation for the fpod, and I like to think I succeeded.
And yeah, atm it is the Saiyans who are tortured, though I doubt that Dende will get away with it...

 

== Next time: Gohan will meet the frying pan of doom of his wife! And do you have any doubt that he won't like it? ==