Disclaimer: I own nothing but the clothes on my back and a stolen wallet.
AN:I have been busy with homework even on my spring break, but I bring you Chapter twelve. I finally saw My latest reviews and decided to dedicate this chapter to yk freak my one hundreth reviewer. So this is also a one hundreth review special. Also, this is my first pathetic attempt at a songfic, as brief as it may be. I am sorry it took so long.
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Chapter : 12
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Umi Ryuzaki and Fuu Houoji wheeled around to look at the source of the voice that they had long thought gone. Only to come to see their best friend hanging off of the arm of a scarred man with near dead eyes. They saw Hikaru giggling joyfully as she spoke to the man in a baggy pair of pants and a dark green shirt, his pants were black of course. He had on black, steel toed boots and a silver ring. The man only seemed to merely grin at the fiery red head that the two girls were gawking openly at. To Fuu, Hikaru's clothes were quite out of place, though Umi made no such observation. The notation that Umi had was very different, hers was that the man's being happy was out of place. They both silently agreed to go up there and get some information out of the two people. Besides, Umi thought that the man might have been the one who had taken their best friend away from from them.
" Hey Hikaru!" Umi said, catching the attention of the two in front of them. Both girls noted that them man moved his arm into a more protective place upon the short girls shoulder. This somehow managed to anger the blue haired girl even more, the nerve of the dark man seemed to raise her own protective instincts towards her friend.
Fuu took this oppurtunity to add her own two cents in to the conversation,"Hello Hikaru-san, I am so glad to see that you are safe." Fuu bowed and stood up after a couple of seconds. She smiled in a way that seemed obviously fake and forced toward Gohan, he was the only one to see the superficial taint to the females face. He also understood that she was trying to switch all of the attention to him, maybe to get some information and a sense of understanding. She was smart, and also calm unlike the girl who had addressed him before. She was, in fact, very intellectual and often serene.
"Hi Umi, hi Fuu, how are you guys?" Hikaru said, moving reluctantly away from her date in order to give them each a hug, having forgotten to call and tell them that she had been brought back to the planet earth safely by Gohan. She looked downward, "I'm so sorry that I didn't tell you guys I'm safe and back here." Remembering what had happened, Umi decided that she would interrogate on this particular topic of conversation.
"What happened anyway Hikaru?" Umi asked not knowing about the answer that she would recieve from one of her best friends. She felt odd as a look donned in Hikaru's eyes that they had rarely ever seen, the last time being three years ago, though that detail is yet to be relevant to the story.
" Well you see . . ." she paused, looking for the right words, and when she drew a blank she looked at Gohan Daimo in a way that seemed to be pleading for help. He gave her a mental sense of reassurance as he smiled so faintly the other two girls were unaware of the grin's existance. She turned back toward her friends and started to speak about it before she saw her watch. She looked at her escort and saw him smirking at her. She then looked at the watch again, and, seeing the time, gave a small laugh at both herself, and Gohan's discreet support. When she saw the time she immediately said, " Gohan, can you go get the tickets please?" Gohan grinned visibly, much to the suprise of all of the girls he was with at the moment.
"Of course my tenshi." Daimo said, using his nickname for her. This of course got Hikaru to blush as he walked toward the ticket stand and cause Umi and Fuu to catch flies with their mouth's agape. Hikaru noticed her friends shamed looks and asked them what was wrong.
" We don't have any money Hikaru-san" Fuu said in a very dejected manner, wondering why they had not bothered to head back to Umi's earlier and get the required cash. She frowned and grimaced at her own ignorance.
"Yeah we're sorry." Umi said, forgetting all about her anger towards a certain Gohan Daimo while wallowing in her self pity. She, like her friend Fuu, grimaced at self ignorance.
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Gohan was quickly starting to get annoyed at the teeenager who sold the tickets. They boy refused to sell anymore tickets. Daimo Gohan saw that others were getting pissed and decided to take matters into his own hands, literally.
He walked to the front of the line, shoving teenages and young adults in their twenties out of his way before reaching the small stand next to the entrance. HIs only thought was, this is going to be fun!
" Give me the tickets and I pay you, or I can stab your pen in your eye and drag your fucked up body to the black market and sell you to some man who want to gouge out your other eye and screw your skull while you bleed and shamefully cry for mercy you pathetic excuse for a human being." Gohan eyed the pen in the teen's pocket while inwardly grinning and laughing at the fact that the boy looked ready to soil himself in public. The boy handed him five tickets and ran away crying.
" I told him I would pay him, oh well, it's his ass that's going to get fired not mine," he threw one ticket in the air and walked towards his date while sensing fifteen peole behind him fighting over it before it ripped and he smirked at their ignorance.
I love threatening people. As if to emphasize his thought, he glared at two people next to him reaching toward the tickets. Even though they weren't looking him in the eye, they pissed themselves.
"Now to get back to Hikaru." Even the name seemed to brighten his spirits. He phased out and reappeared behind Hikaru silently.
" Look guys, I'll ask and see if Gohan will pay for you guys too." Hikaru said softly, hoping to console her two best friends.
" There is no need for that, " Gohan said amusingly,catching Umi and Fuu off gaurd, Hikaru Shidou would have been in the same state, but she had sensed his ki behind her a couple of seconds ago. She only giggled and turned around to playfully slap him upon the arm.
" Why do you say that there's no need?" Fuu inquired suspiciously, wondering what he could be talking about, after all, he was to far away t have heard them talking. or rather, sulking about their money, or lack thereof. "The tickets are very expensive and I highly doubt that anyone but a rich guy or woman would be able to purchase that many."
Gohan smirked, he knew that someone was going to bring that up, "Let's just say that I was a lucky customer and he gave me five tickets without letting me pay. Damn, I must have intimidated him, and several other people." Hikaru only shook her head in grim amusement as Gohan smirked evily in a way that would have made Freeza shudder if he had seen it. However the two, Fuu and Umi, did shudder, and they felt goosebumps form asthey realized that he found others' terror funny. He handed them their tickets and walked inside after saying, "I'll find a place for us, you may follow if you wish, if not I'll wait while you catch up." He used his almost finished bond with Hikaru to communicate with her.
/Hey Hikaru?/ Gohan started/I'm sorry I left so quickly but your friends make me rather pissed, and I feared what you would do to me if I made them shut up/
Umi and Fuu wondered why Hikaru suddenly laughed. /Okay, thanks for not hurting them, though I doubt I could hurt you./ she joked, and was rewarded with a mental chuckle.
/Believe me, I have seen what happens to men when they get hit where it hurts, it makes the strongest men cry, I saw a man get hit there once and he went down. / Hikaru collapsed in front of her friends laughing.
/Stop, please, I'm gonna have a heart attack if I laugh much more/ Hikaru thought back, though her efforts were very futile, as he would not relent in his mental assault.
/Poor soul didn't even have enough strength to whimper, first time I ever pitied someone mind you/ Gohan remembered Bulma hitting Yamcha there once and he complained about never having children. Maybe that was why she left him?
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After Hikaru had explained, and defended, Gohan to her two friends, they had joined Gohan right near the front. Actually he was at the back waiting for them and used his Daimo Glare to get them to the front, there was little resistance to say the least.
After there were many songs by Linkin Park, Ayumi Hamsaki, and Evanessence there was a contest to see who would get to sing one or two songs, the second would only be used if the crowd happened to enjoy the first song. Lo and behold, Gohan won.
"Wow, Gohan, you get to sing up there! Cool!" Needless to say,Hikaru was very happy that her boyfriend was going to be singing, that was something that she had never heard him do before and the idea was very intriguing to her.
"The things I do for love." Hikaru and her friends heard him grumble, as well as, "Don't expect anything cheerful," before he jumped up easily to the stage. Hikaru blushed profusely while Umi and Fuu snickered. After Hikaru explained all she knew, they had grown considerably leess hostile towards him. They were, afterall, only trying to protect their friend.
As Gohan walked to the center of the stage he grabbed the mic ever so reluctantly and one could see the self pity he was bestowing upon himself until he thought of a song.
He looked up and said into the mic while he gestured for a guitar." This song is called, even deeper." As the drummer started off, he sooned joined in with a smooth voice . . .
I woke up today
To find myself in the other place
With a trail of my footprints
From where I ran away
It seems everything I've heard
Just might be true
And you know me
(well you think you do)
Sometimes, i have everything-
Yet i wish i felt something
Hikaru started to listen to the words and somehow wasn't suprised. This did sound like something that he would come up with, though the next verses would somehow disturb her.
Do you know how far this has gone?
Just how damaged have i become?
When i think i can overcome
It runs even deeper
Hikaru was now wondering what kind damage he would happen to be talking about, and overcome what? She started to shiver slightly, she would ask him later.
In in a dream i'm a different me
With a perfect you
We fit perfectly
And for once in my life i feel complete-
And i still want to ruin it
Afraid to look
As clear as day
This plan has long been underway
The crowd, including Fuu Houoji and Umi Ryuzaki, were cheering very loudly, even Hikaru started to cheer for her boyfriend, it was a good song anyway.
I hear them call
I cannot stay
The voice inviting me away
Do you know how far this has gone?
Just how damaged have i become?
When i think i can overcome
It runs even deeper
Everything that matters is gone
All the hands of hope have withdrawn
Could you try to help me hang on?
It runs...
Gohan had indeed lost hope several times in his life and there was no one there to give it to him Hikaru could help him hang on the hope, hope for a normal life with the one he loved, something he had thought impossible
This was Gohan's way of telling the crowd what emotions and thoughts, thoughts mostly, had occured since Cell and his 'games'. It was his way of asking Hikaru to help him deal with everything, since he couldn't do it any other way without feeling like he was forcing all of his problems onto her, and her life has barely started, any other way and he felt like he would be tainting her to become as screwed up as he was.
The rest of the song was whispered through the microphone . . .
I'm straight
I won't crack
On my way
And i can't turn back
I'm okay
I'm on track
On my way
And i can't turn back
I stayed
On this track
Gone too far
And i can't come back
I stayed
On this track
Lost my way
Can't come back
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After the song he jumped back down and stood behind his date, smiling as the host asked where he had gone. He wrapped his arms around the waist of the girl who was nearly a foot shorter than he was, he heard her gasp before realizing it was him. He had looked like he had disappeared , as he had jumped down a a slow pace , for himself, not others.
" What did that song mean?" Hikaru asked curiously, a hint of worry in her eyes. That he had made her worry was a good way to make him inwardly flinch as his concietedness. He had not meant to worry her.
Gohan sighed softly, so only she could hear, "Help me hang onto my hope Hikaru, it's one of the few things I have left.
This made Hikaru smile gently as she leaned her head back and kissed him chastely. She drew back after several seconds before kissing him again passionately.
Gohan was suprised, but enjoyed the kiss, as well as the feeling of hope rising in his soul, everything is going to be alright, were his thoughts before he responded to the kiss and held slightly tighter onto Hikaru as he felt the bond that they shared grow stronger, it was almost complete, all that was left was to . . . well, have sex, to put it bluntly.
"Of course I will help you Gohan, just don't leave me like mom did okay?" Gohan nodded as he scooped her up into a bridal position and flew off quicker than lightening, letting her sweetly fall asleep, as it had been a long day.
/Aishiteru Hikaru/ Gohan thought, not knowing he had sent it telepathically. HIkaru stirred.
/Aishiteru Gohan/ Gohan smiled and landed on the lookout. He then brought her to their room and set her in the bed. He climbed in as well and wrapped his arms around her as he watched Goten still sleeping peacefully on his own bed.
"Damn I'm lucky." He told himself ruefully before succumbing to his last rest before the tournament.
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AN :Next chapter is the tournament and the return of Goku, please Review! The song is called Even Deeper by Nine Inch Nails, I recommend it to anyone who likes the lyrics.
AN:I have been busy with homework even on my spring break, but I bring you Chapter twelve. I finally saw My latest reviews and decided to dedicate this chapter to yk freak my one hundreth reviewer. So this is also a one hundreth review special. Also, this is my first pathetic attempt at a songfic, as brief as it may be. I am sorry it took so long.
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Chapter : 12
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Umi Ryuzaki and Fuu Houoji wheeled around to look at the source of the voice that they had long thought gone. Only to come to see their best friend hanging off of the arm of a scarred man with near dead eyes. They saw Hikaru giggling joyfully as she spoke to the man in a baggy pair of pants and a dark green shirt, his pants were black of course. He had on black, steel toed boots and a silver ring. The man only seemed to merely grin at the fiery red head that the two girls were gawking openly at. To Fuu, Hikaru's clothes were quite out of place, though Umi made no such observation. The notation that Umi had was very different, hers was that the man's being happy was out of place. They both silently agreed to go up there and get some information out of the two people. Besides, Umi thought that the man might have been the one who had taken their best friend away from from them.
" Hey Hikaru!" Umi said, catching the attention of the two in front of them. Both girls noted that them man moved his arm into a more protective place upon the short girls shoulder. This somehow managed to anger the blue haired girl even more, the nerve of the dark man seemed to raise her own protective instincts towards her friend.
Fuu took this oppurtunity to add her own two cents in to the conversation,"Hello Hikaru-san, I am so glad to see that you are safe." Fuu bowed and stood up after a couple of seconds. She smiled in a way that seemed obviously fake and forced toward Gohan, he was the only one to see the superficial taint to the females face. He also understood that she was trying to switch all of the attention to him, maybe to get some information and a sense of understanding. She was smart, and also calm unlike the girl who had addressed him before. She was, in fact, very intellectual and often serene.
"Hi Umi, hi Fuu, how are you guys?" Hikaru said, moving reluctantly away from her date in order to give them each a hug, having forgotten to call and tell them that she had been brought back to the planet earth safely by Gohan. She looked downward, "I'm so sorry that I didn't tell you guys I'm safe and back here." Remembering what had happened, Umi decided that she would interrogate on this particular topic of conversation.
"What happened anyway Hikaru?" Umi asked not knowing about the answer that she would recieve from one of her best friends. She felt odd as a look donned in Hikaru's eyes that they had rarely ever seen, the last time being three years ago, though that detail is yet to be relevant to the story.
" Well you see . . ." she paused, looking for the right words, and when she drew a blank she looked at Gohan Daimo in a way that seemed to be pleading for help. He gave her a mental sense of reassurance as he smiled so faintly the other two girls were unaware of the grin's existance. She turned back toward her friends and started to speak about it before she saw her watch. She looked at her escort and saw him smirking at her. She then looked at the watch again, and, seeing the time, gave a small laugh at both herself, and Gohan's discreet support. When she saw the time she immediately said, " Gohan, can you go get the tickets please?" Gohan grinned visibly, much to the suprise of all of the girls he was with at the moment.
"Of course my tenshi." Daimo said, using his nickname for her. This of course got Hikaru to blush as he walked toward the ticket stand and cause Umi and Fuu to catch flies with their mouth's agape. Hikaru noticed her friends shamed looks and asked them what was wrong.
" We don't have any money Hikaru-san" Fuu said in a very dejected manner, wondering why they had not bothered to head back to Umi's earlier and get the required cash. She frowned and grimaced at her own ignorance.
"Yeah we're sorry." Umi said, forgetting all about her anger towards a certain Gohan Daimo while wallowing in her self pity. She, like her friend Fuu, grimaced at self ignorance.
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Gohan was quickly starting to get annoyed at the teeenager who sold the tickets. They boy refused to sell anymore tickets. Daimo Gohan saw that others were getting pissed and decided to take matters into his own hands, literally.
He walked to the front of the line, shoving teenages and young adults in their twenties out of his way before reaching the small stand next to the entrance. HIs only thought was, this is going to be fun!
" Give me the tickets and I pay you, or I can stab your pen in your eye and drag your fucked up body to the black market and sell you to some man who want to gouge out your other eye and screw your skull while you bleed and shamefully cry for mercy you pathetic excuse for a human being." Gohan eyed the pen in the teen's pocket while inwardly grinning and laughing at the fact that the boy looked ready to soil himself in public. The boy handed him five tickets and ran away crying.
" I told him I would pay him, oh well, it's his ass that's going to get fired not mine," he threw one ticket in the air and walked towards his date while sensing fifteen peole behind him fighting over it before it ripped and he smirked at their ignorance.
I love threatening people. As if to emphasize his thought, he glared at two people next to him reaching toward the tickets. Even though they weren't looking him in the eye, they pissed themselves.
"Now to get back to Hikaru." Even the name seemed to brighten his spirits. He phased out and reappeared behind Hikaru silently.
" Look guys, I'll ask and see if Gohan will pay for you guys too." Hikaru said softly, hoping to console her two best friends.
" There is no need for that, " Gohan said amusingly,catching Umi and Fuu off gaurd, Hikaru Shidou would have been in the same state, but she had sensed his ki behind her a couple of seconds ago. She only giggled and turned around to playfully slap him upon the arm.
" Why do you say that there's no need?" Fuu inquired suspiciously, wondering what he could be talking about, after all, he was to far away t have heard them talking. or rather, sulking about their money, or lack thereof. "The tickets are very expensive and I highly doubt that anyone but a rich guy or woman would be able to purchase that many."
Gohan smirked, he knew that someone was going to bring that up, "Let's just say that I was a lucky customer and he gave me five tickets without letting me pay. Damn, I must have intimidated him, and several other people." Hikaru only shook her head in grim amusement as Gohan smirked evily in a way that would have made Freeza shudder if he had seen it. However the two, Fuu and Umi, did shudder, and they felt goosebumps form asthey realized that he found others' terror funny. He handed them their tickets and walked inside after saying, "I'll find a place for us, you may follow if you wish, if not I'll wait while you catch up." He used his almost finished bond with Hikaru to communicate with her.
/Hey Hikaru?/ Gohan started/I'm sorry I left so quickly but your friends make me rather pissed, and I feared what you would do to me if I made them shut up/
Umi and Fuu wondered why Hikaru suddenly laughed. /Okay, thanks for not hurting them, though I doubt I could hurt you./ she joked, and was rewarded with a mental chuckle.
/Believe me, I have seen what happens to men when they get hit where it hurts, it makes the strongest men cry, I saw a man get hit there once and he went down. / Hikaru collapsed in front of her friends laughing.
/Stop, please, I'm gonna have a heart attack if I laugh much more/ Hikaru thought back, though her efforts were very futile, as he would not relent in his mental assault.
/Poor soul didn't even have enough strength to whimper, first time I ever pitied someone mind you/ Gohan remembered Bulma hitting Yamcha there once and he complained about never having children. Maybe that was why she left him?
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After Hikaru had explained, and defended, Gohan to her two friends, they had joined Gohan right near the front. Actually he was at the back waiting for them and used his Daimo Glare to get them to the front, there was little resistance to say the least.
After there were many songs by Linkin Park, Ayumi Hamsaki, and Evanessence there was a contest to see who would get to sing one or two songs, the second would only be used if the crowd happened to enjoy the first song. Lo and behold, Gohan won.
"Wow, Gohan, you get to sing up there! Cool!" Needless to say,Hikaru was very happy that her boyfriend was going to be singing, that was something that she had never heard him do before and the idea was very intriguing to her.
"The things I do for love." Hikaru and her friends heard him grumble, as well as, "Don't expect anything cheerful," before he jumped up easily to the stage. Hikaru blushed profusely while Umi and Fuu snickered. After Hikaru explained all she knew, they had grown considerably leess hostile towards him. They were, afterall, only trying to protect their friend.
As Gohan walked to the center of the stage he grabbed the mic ever so reluctantly and one could see the self pity he was bestowing upon himself until he thought of a song.
He looked up and said into the mic while he gestured for a guitar." This song is called, even deeper." As the drummer started off, he sooned joined in with a smooth voice . . .
I woke up today
To find myself in the other place
With a trail of my footprints
From where I ran away
It seems everything I've heard
Just might be true
And you know me
(well you think you do)
Sometimes, i have everything-
Yet i wish i felt something
Hikaru started to listen to the words and somehow wasn't suprised. This did sound like something that he would come up with, though the next verses would somehow disturb her.
Do you know how far this has gone?
Just how damaged have i become?
When i think i can overcome
It runs even deeper
Hikaru was now wondering what kind damage he would happen to be talking about, and overcome what? She started to shiver slightly, she would ask him later.
In in a dream i'm a different me
With a perfect you
We fit perfectly
And for once in my life i feel complete-
And i still want to ruin it
Afraid to look
As clear as day
This plan has long been underway
The crowd, including Fuu Houoji and Umi Ryuzaki, were cheering very loudly, even Hikaru started to cheer for her boyfriend, it was a good song anyway.
I hear them call
I cannot stay
The voice inviting me away
Do you know how far this has gone?
Just how damaged have i become?
When i think i can overcome
It runs even deeper
Everything that matters is gone
All the hands of hope have withdrawn
Could you try to help me hang on?
It runs...
Gohan had indeed lost hope several times in his life and there was no one there to give it to him Hikaru could help him hang on the hope, hope for a normal life with the one he loved, something he had thought impossible
This was Gohan's way of telling the crowd what emotions and thoughts, thoughts mostly, had occured since Cell and his 'games'. It was his way of asking Hikaru to help him deal with everything, since he couldn't do it any other way without feeling like he was forcing all of his problems onto her, and her life has barely started, any other way and he felt like he would be tainting her to become as screwed up as he was.
The rest of the song was whispered through the microphone . . .
I'm straight
I won't crack
On my way
And i can't turn back
I'm okay
I'm on track
On my way
And i can't turn back
I stayed
On this track
Gone too far
And i can't come back
I stayed
On this track
Lost my way
Can't come back
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After the song he jumped back down and stood behind his date, smiling as the host asked where he had gone. He wrapped his arms around the waist of the girl who was nearly a foot shorter than he was, he heard her gasp before realizing it was him. He had looked like he had disappeared , as he had jumped down a a slow pace , for himself, not others.
" What did that song mean?" Hikaru asked curiously, a hint of worry in her eyes. That he had made her worry was a good way to make him inwardly flinch as his concietedness. He had not meant to worry her.
Gohan sighed softly, so only she could hear, "Help me hang onto my hope Hikaru, it's one of the few things I have left.
This made Hikaru smile gently as she leaned her head back and kissed him chastely. She drew back after several seconds before kissing him again passionately.
Gohan was suprised, but enjoyed the kiss, as well as the feeling of hope rising in his soul, everything is going to be alright, were his thoughts before he responded to the kiss and held slightly tighter onto Hikaru as he felt the bond that they shared grow stronger, it was almost complete, all that was left was to . . . well, have sex, to put it bluntly.
"Of course I will help you Gohan, just don't leave me like mom did okay?" Gohan nodded as he scooped her up into a bridal position and flew off quicker than lightening, letting her sweetly fall asleep, as it had been a long day.
/Aishiteru Hikaru/ Gohan thought, not knowing he had sent it telepathically. HIkaru stirred.
/Aishiteru Gohan/ Gohan smiled and landed on the lookout. He then brought her to their room and set her in the bed. He climbed in as well and wrapped his arms around her as he watched Goten still sleeping peacefully on his own bed.
"Damn I'm lucky." He told himself ruefully before succumbing to his last rest before the tournament.
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AN :Next chapter is the tournament and the return of Goku, please Review! The song is called Even Deeper by Nine Inch Nails, I recommend it to anyone who likes the lyrics.