Chapter Five: Gohan's Dilemma

Trunks and Gabe were surprised to find that neither one of their parents were home when they arrived. There wasn't a note, and it was a Saturday; which normally meant they would be home waiting for the kids to get home, and then they would train or get ready for a night out on the town.

"I'm sure they'll be home eventually. Maybe future Trunks is sparring and knows where mom and dad are." Little Trunks said excitedly running upstairs.

Gabe rolled her eyes and opened the refrigerator door. She grabbed a bottle of water and took a long drink, then sighed. She sat down on the couch and turned on the tube; while she was flipping through the channels every once in a while her ears would twitch, searching for some small sound that would be hard for even a Saiyan to hear.

"Gabe, future Trunks isn't here either. Maybe they went to visit Master Roshi on his island. I think I'm going to try to call mom ok?" Trunks called.

"Ok you go ahead and do that." She chuckled as her brother ran off. She thought she heard the tinkle of the glass jars in the refrigerator when the door was opened, so she got off of the couch and headed into the kitchen.

There was a tall dark haired guy that she didn't recognize getting into her parent's food. She grabbed him by the arm and spun him around throwing him against the wall. "Who the hell do you think you are coming into my parents' house and raiding our refrigerator?" She demanded of him.

"Whoa, Whoa, Whoa, babe, I don't know where you came from but I used to date Bulma before she got married to Vegeta, and we've been friends for quite some time now…" She guy started to explain himself.

"Yaamcha! What are you doing here? It's ok Gabe; he's one of mom and dad's friends." Little Trunks said putting his hand on Gabe's arm.

Gabe reluctantly let Yaamcha go and went back to her channel surfing on the couch. "Dude little man, who's the chick and does she have a boyfriend?"

"Lay off of my sister Yaamcha, or I'll tell my dad you were hitting on the Saiyan princess. That could have easily gotten you killed. Besides, Goten said the he thinks that Gohan might like her. So you don't stand a chance," Little Trunks warned.

"So she's your sister? Is she from the future too?" Yaamcha wondered.

"No, she's not from the future. She's my half sister. My dad thought that she was dead when he came here and he never married her mom. She's been here for almost six weeks now." Future Trunk s said as he came in the door. "Hey little man, where's Gabe?"

"In the living room watching T.V.," Little Trunks answered. "Where are mom and dad?"

"They had an appointment with a client. I went to pick these up." He answered flashing four sign-up sheets to his present self.

"Yes, you got one for Gabe! Dad's gonna let her fight then?"

"Hell yeah, why wouldn't she? He swears one of us will win the tournament for sure this year. Especially is Videl's dad is the champ again this year." Future Trunks remarked.

"Gabe! Gabe! We got sign-up sheets for the tournament! It starts next month; we have to start hard core trained right away if we want to win!" Little Trunks yelled excitedly as he ran into the living room.

"Well, let's fill these out and get started on training then, shall we?" She smiled and they filled out the forms.

"Dad, I'm having moral issues with a slight dilemma." Gohan said to Goku when he and Goten arrived home from their picnic.

"What's up son?" Goku asked.

"It's Videl…and Gabe…"

"Ah, girl troubles…" Goku chuckled.

"Dad, it's really not funny. When Gabe's nice to Videl, Videl's a complete bitch; and when Gabe leaves Videl alone she antagonizes Gabe and she tries to pick a fight with her. Then when Gabe is finally rude or a total bitch back to Videl, Videl tries to convince me that she's the one being victimized." Gohan sighed. "That's not the real problem though, I feel a connection with Gabe that's not there with Videl, and I don't know what it is." He explained to his father.

"Your mother could probably do a better job at helping you with this; but I think I can relate to where you're coming from. I mean, it is Vegeta's daughter we are talking about here, sounds like Videl's jealous, she's never had to compete with anyone for your attention before." Goku told him.

"But the only time Gabe's around Videl is when we're sparring, and Gabe is way more interested in winning a good fight than having me pay attention to her. She'll say maybe ten or so words to anyone that's not talking about fighting." Gohan continued.

"Well, she's definitely from Vegeta's blood line. Maybe Videl feels threatened by Gabe, you did say that when Gabe and Videl spar Gabe uses holds and throws, but nothing that would make Videl stronger or anything that would be easy enough for her to learn on her own."

"She thinks that Gabe's just afraid of her, and that if she really wanted to be a fighter that wins, she would stop using simple techniques, and she would really spar with us. Dad, I've seen her and future Trunks fight each other, and Gabe could kill Videl easily. I don't think that Gabe has a weak enough attack to hit Videl with."

"Isn't Videl's strength growing?" Goku wondered.

"At a very slow rate. Last time we checked her power level she was at ten thousand units." Gohan mumbled. "Trunks checked Gabe too. She was at seven-hundred-fifty-thousand units. She'll be a super Saiyan before the deadline for the tournament entry forms. She'll probably be a level two before the first round of the tournament starts. That's if Vegeta doesn't make her use the hyperbolic time chamber."

"When was the last time you checked power levels?"

"Three and half days ago."

"Then my bet is that Gabe is only hours away from being a super Saiyan, Trunks did say that she thought she had done it once before didn't he? She's probably training for the tournament right now." Goku commented lightly. "So, tomorrow Bulma has invited us over for dinner, for the annual tournament announcement party, Videl was invited as well. We will find out what is going on and decide how to proceed from there."

"Thanks dad." Gohan replied as he got up to leave the room.

"One more thing Gohan, don't hold your feelings back if you care for someone." Goku advised.