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How Great it is to be loved by you!

by: Pic's Pixie

Chapter 10: Where's Piccolo?

Gohan woke up first, the birds were chirping outside his window and it was now warm again. He opened his eyes, they were blurry, he then tried to sit up so he could stretch but then found that something was weighing him down on his left side he looked down and his face vaulted. It was Vicki, she was nestled up close to his side with her leg over his and her hand resting on his bare chest. She looked so peaceful, the gentle rise and fall of her chest as she breathed and the small movements her hair made in the breeze let in from the open window. He was so close to her, he could feel his face burning up and his heart thumping in his chest. He also noted that his pajama pants were starting to feel a few sized too small. Gohan knew he had to get away from her or he'd explode but yet a part of him wanted to explode, it wanted to just stay there and watch her sleeping on his chest. He was just about to decide what to do when he heard a small noise, and saw that her nose was scunching slightly ,she was waking up. /What would she think? How did she get here?/ Gohan saw the messed up covers of his bed and figured she'd fallen off and landed beside him, yeah that made sense. She opened her eyes and yawned. She blinked a few times then started to move, she then noticed that she was rising then falling and noticed that the movement wasn't made by herself. She looked down and saw soft tan skin, she was alittle confused still so she lifted her head and looked around, she came nose to nose with Gohan. He just smiled nervously and fidgeted. Piccolo then slowly started to remember what had happened last night, he had kissed her. She could feel her cheeks start to burn so she buried her face back into his chest to hide her blush from him. Both of them just laid there for a moment longer too embarrassed to look at the other, and then Gohan started to get up, Piccolo shifted her weight so he could. He then took a pillow with him and held it in front of him, she didn't know why but she didn't really care she just missed him being so close to her. Gohan had found the strength to get up some how and had to take a pillow with him or else Vicki would have easily been able to see how much he really wanted to stay just lying there with her. But he needed to cool down so that was exactly what he did, he went to the bathroom and took a cold shower. Piccolo heard the water running for the shower and came to the conclusion that he would be gone for a while now so it was safe for her to get changed. But as she was pulling her top on she remembered what Gohan was doing when he was dreaming, he had said her true name and had kissed her, could that mean something, who knows. She just shrugged it off and started to tidy up his bedroom.

Gohan was finished his shower by now and was back to normal. That dream he had was a little disturbing. He had dreamed that he was intimate with Piccolo. He was so consumed with what his dream could mean that he completely forgot about Vicki who was still in his room. Gohan was only wearing a towel and his brow was furrowed in concentration, when he left the bathroom and opened the door to his room. Vicki was making his bed when he walked in, she looked up and her eyes instantly widened and her mouth dropped to the floor. /What is she starring at?/ Gohan wondered ,and then the breeze from the still open window hit his bare skin and he noticed how much of his bare skin was actually visible. Gohan looked down and threw himself back out the door before she could see the colour of his face. He noted how often his face was changing colours since he'd met Vicki. Piccolo was shocked. She hadn't been expecting that. The moment she had turned her head and seen Gohan her heart skipped a beat and her eyes roamed his practically naked body on their own accord, she didn't mean to stare but she couldn't help herself. He was magnetic. Then he bolted out the door ,she figured he just now noticed how little he was actually wearing. Piccolo tried to regain her composure when she heard Gohan speaking from behind the closed door.

"Aaah, Vicki? Will you pass me out some clothes? Please." Gohan didn't think he could face her quite yet. Piccolo agreed and started searching through his drawers. She picked out a pair of fairly tight blue jeans, a white T-shirt that said 'hot stuff' /she wondered how Gohan could have something like that in his wardrobe/ she also grabbed him some grey socks and was about to open the door and hand them to him when she realised he still needed some underwear. Her face heated up, and she looked at the only draw she had yet to look in. She closed her eyes tight and pulled it open she didn't want to make him embarrassed so she reached in with her eyes still tightly squeezed shut, and grabbed the first thing she felt and pushed the draw closed. She let out the breath she was holding and opened her eyes, her eyes went wide and a big silly grin was placed on her face as she tried to hold back the laughter that was welling up inside her. In her hands were a cute pair of teddy bear briefs. (you know the ones from the episode where Gohan has to go out with a girl with red hair cause he thinks she knows who he really is) She made sure they were on top then she warned him that she was opening the door so he didn't get smacked. She held her gaze somewhere else and held out the clothes for him to take, he snatched them from her immediately and sped off towards the bathroom muttering a quiet 'thank you.'

Gohan got in the bathroom ,and leaned up against the door. Man was he embarrassed, he was just glad that she was already done changing so that he wouldn't be even more embarrassed or was he really glad, maybe he was somewhat disappointed. He then just sighed and dropped his towel. He placed the pile of clothes on the toilet seat and reached for the first thing, his teddy bear undies. 'WHAT!' No! She couldn't have seen his underwear, especially not those particular pair, his mother had bought them for him. Gohan was going to die, what did she think of him now? Man! Gohan just held his head in his hand for a moment and then continued to get dressed.

Gohan slowly opened the door to his room, hoping somewhat to find her gone, but nope, there she was looking out the window with that picture he drew of Piccolo in her hand. Gohan knew she knew he was there but no words were needed.

"You know, I really like teddy bears." Piccolo couldn't help himself, he had to say something, he would never forgive himself if he didn't make at least one comment about it.

"Just drop it will ya?"

"Oh someone's a little touchy this morning, get up on the wrong side of the bed?" Piccolo mocked and then they both sweat dropped when they realised what had actually happened that morning. So they just looked separate ways and decided to change the topic.

"You can keep that if you like." Gohan was referring to the picture Vicki held in her hand.

"Huh? Oh ,really?"

"Yeah, I'm sure he'd really like you if he met you." Then an idea struck Gohan.

"You think?"

"Well I know a way where we can find out. I'll take you to go see him!" Gohan was so excited.

"WHAT?! Umm, that's alright I'm sure he's really busy he doesn't want to meet little ol' me." Piccolo couldn't have Gohan wondering where he was, he might get suspicious.

"He wouldn't mind, he actually said he was alittle lonely sometimes, so I'm sure he would love some company."

"Umm, well, ahhh?" Piccolo didn't really have a comeback for that she didn't know what to say to change his mind.

"I'll have none of it we'll go see him after breakfast." Gohan looked all triumphant and then marched out of his room stopped and looked back at Vicki.

"Aren't you coming, you must be hungry too."

"Oh yeah I'm coming." With that Vicki left the room and followed Gohan to the kitchen where they found Goku already munching down bowl after bowl of cereal. Gohan grabbed two bowls and gave one to Vicki ,they both sat down ,and Gohan even poured Vicki some Rice Krispies. Then him and his father finished off all the rest.

It was about eleven now and Gohan and Vicki were getting ready to go out in search of Piccolo.

"Hey dad ,we're going to go find Piccolo did you wanna come?" Gohan cried out.

"Oh sure, coming." Goku came bounding towards them and almost pushed them out the door. Once outside they tried to home in on Piccolo's ki.

"That's strange I can't sense him anywhere." Gohan said.

"Yeah me neither." Goku agreed.

"Maybe we should check the lookout first, he might be up there." Goku recommended.

"Okay! Vicki we're going to start looking for him at this place called the lookout it's really cool, I'm sure you'll like it and you get to meet Dende and Mr.Popo. Dende's the earth's guardian." Gohan explained to her.

"Yeah I know. Bulma's photo albums." Piccolo reminded, only to be answered with a shoulder shrug and the bright, son-smile, from both of them. They then took off, all three of them.

It didn't take them long to come into view of the lookout. Dende had sensed them coming and was already outside looking over the edge to greet them.

"Hey Dende!" Gohan shouted seeing the young namek standing and waving.

They all landed behind Dende and he spun around to see Goku, Gohan ,and PICCOLO! In his female state. He wondered if Piccolo had told them already since they had arrived together.

[Piccolo have you told them who you are?] Dende conveyed this to Piccolo mentally so the others wouldn't ask what he meant.

[No, not yet and I don't plan on it. I'm just going to wait and use the dragonballs, besides I have a feeling Trunks won't be able to keep this a secret for much longer anyway.] Piccolo answered also mentally.

"Dende is Piccolo here?" Goku asked cheerfully.

Dende sweatdropped, he didn't expect that.

"Piccolo,....aaah, no." Dende answered while trying to figure it out himself.

"Oh, do you know where he is?" Gohan asked this a little bummed that his sensei was not here.

"No I'm afraid I don't, you know how Piccolo is, he just takes off somewhere and doesn't bother to tell me about it." Dende sent Piccolo a smart-ass grin, reminding Piccolo that he had forgotten to tell Dende that he had gone to stay at Capsule Corp. Dende had had to search out his ki level. It took him all afternoon since his ki signature had been altered slightly.

"Hmmmmmm." Gohan thought for a second and then turned to his father.

"Dad should we check his waterfall?" Gohan asked.

"Sure, couldn't hurt." Goku replied with a smile.

They all said their good-byes to Dende and left for their destination. They arrived at the waterfall quickly and soon discovered there was no namek in sight, no one period.

"Man, where could he be?" Goku was confused. /What a surprise./

"I know ,why don't we check Capsule Corp. I once heard Vegeta say that he had been training with Piccolo alot lately." Gohan remembered.

"Really I wouldn't think those two would be able to stand each other long enough to train instead of kill each other." Goku had a point, Vegeta and Piccolo didn't really get along well together in public.

Vicki just stood there nodding and wondering how much searching these saiyans wanted to do before they just gave up. Then it hit her what if Trunks reveals her secret? Or Vegeta might do it just out of spite. But before she could say something to deter them from venturing to Capsule Corp. Gohan had snatched her by the arm and had pulled her into the air and they were off. They landed on the lawn and waited for Vicki to get the door open. She led them inside and started to search for Vegeta or Bulma.

"Hey Bulma! Vegg-head!" Vicki cried out trying to find their location. Suddenly a ball rolled out from the dark hall and landed at Vicki's feet. Vicki picked up the ball and walked into the hall just a bit. There was silence for a couple seconds then Goku and Gohan heard her scream. They came running into the hall just to see a soaking wet Vicki and a hysterical Trunks. Apparently Trunks had set this whole thing up and it had worked perfectly. Vicki composed herself and then launched herself towards Trunks, Gohan and Goku knew not to get in the way of a woman and revenge. Poor Trunks didn't think she'd go crazy like that so all he had planned was to run. He ran out of the hall and Vicki followed. They almost knocked Goku and Gohan down on their way out. Trunks was screaming for help though he didn't expect any. He turned a corner and Vicki had thought that she would have him for sure, but instead of finding Trunks she ran right into Vegeta's chest. She fell to the ground panting from the absence of oxygen in her lungs. Vegeta looked her down and then a smile dawned his normally calm features. When Goku and Gohan got there they found a dripping Vicki looking quite annoyed and a saiyan prince rolling around on the ground laughing out loud holding his sides. Gohan helped Vicki to her feet and they waited a while for Vegeta to compose himself. He did and had found Trunks and grounded him, his favourite part of parenthood was disciplining. Figure that. He told them that Bulma had gone to the store and wouldn't be back for a while.

"Oh, we don't need Bulma we actually came to see you." Goku announced.

"Really ,why?"

"Well we were looking for Piccolo and we thought he might be here training with you." Gohan confessed.

Vegeta just stood there not moving just looking between Gohan and Vicki. Vicki gave him a don't-you-dare-tell-them look. Vegeta got the message and just smirked. He then turned to the boys and gave a goofy smile.

"The Namek's not here." He stated flatly. He had actually gotten away with not having to lie. There was no namek in his house, he did not say that Piccolo wasn't there.

"Oh, okay then. Do you know where he could be?" Gohan was disappointed, he wanted to see his friend, and introduce Vicki to him.

"Okay ,thanks anyway Babe!" Vicki teased causing the sensitive saiyan to turn red and start swearing off the hook. Trunks was going to be one screwed up little boy. Then out of the blue Vicki sneezed. It was just then that she remembered that she was all wet. /Great! Now I'm going to get sick/she thought.

"I guess I better get changed." Vicki stated while walking up the stairs.

Vicki was gone for about a minute before Gohan got impatient.

"Vegeta, where's your bathroom?"

"You should probably use the one upstairs, I don't know for sure but I think the brat did something to the one down here." Vegeta stated looking in the direction of the demi-saiyan.

"Okay where is it?" Gohan asked.

"Up the stairs, take the left hall way a couple doors, turn right at the bend, keep going till you come to a yellow door, and go to the room across from it."

Gohan and Goku just sweat dropped. Then Goku started a conversation on how big this place was. Vegeta was just rolling his eyes. Gohan started up the stairs.

"Okay, up the stairs check ,um....right yeah that's it ...I think." Gohan went right. Then turned left at that bend.

"Ummm....the yellow door right, ummm... okay I see it." Gohan walked towards it.

Meanwhile Vicki was changing. She was soaked from the waist up. She stripped herself of her shirt and tossed it to the bathroom that attached to her room. She then unclipped her bra and threw it aside as well. She was just about to get a new shirt and bra when the she turned to see a very shocked Gohan starring at her from her doorway.

Gohan had gone the wrong way and had mistaken Vicki's room for the bathroom. Vicki immediately grabbed a pillow off her bed and covered herself up.

"WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING HERE?" She yelled obviously extremely annoyed. This woke Gohan from his trance-like state. He looked up to her eyes and turned a bright red instantly.

"Ahh..Oh my god, I'm sooooo very sorry...I.. I didn't mean to,..I was looking for a bathroom. God I'm so sorry Vicki." Gohan was at a loss for words, Piccolo was never a really self-conscious person even in her original form so she composed herself alot quicker then he did. She actually found how funny he looked right now well worth it. He was cute.

She just pointed to her bathroom, while still holding the pillow in front of her. He got the point and hurried to the room she had pointed to. He closed the door and sat down on the toilet seat. He didn't have to go anymore, plus he had to regroup before he re-entered her room. Man he would have loved to be able to tell her that he hadn't seen anything, but he had never been any good at lying. He had seen a lot, the most perfect thing he had ever seen. A goofy smile replaced his worried face. She was very beautiful. She reminded him of an angel. He had actually seen two not too big ,not too small round breasts on the girl of his dreams with smooth tanned skin. Her body was flawless, well for what he could see anyway. He took a few deep breaths and was almost back to normal before he turned and noticed the pink lacy wet bra that Vicki had thrown there earlier. This sent him into a panic of emotion particularly embarrassment. A few moments later Vicki had finished changing and heard a tap on her bathroom door.

"It's okay, I'm fully clothed." She reassured him.

Gohan walked out silently with his head bent slightly and his cheeks a pretty shade of pink. Piccolo just shook her head and sent him a shy smile. Gohan smiled back equally shy. They walked out of the room and back down the hall without saying anything to each other or even looking at each other. They got back to the main level to see Goku waiting for Gohan by the door and Vegeta walking towards the gravity chamber.

"It was very nice meeting you Vicki I hope we get to see you again soon, I know my wife Chichi would love you too." Goku said.

"I guess we should be going now huh, dad? See you tomorrow in school Vicki. Bye." Gohan said in a quiet voice while looking at his feet. Vicki walked them to the door and waved farewell as she watched them disappear into the distance. Then she turned towards the gravity room to bug Vegeta into sparring with her. She was at the door, she generated her fighting gi then walked in, immediately she had to dodge a ki blast aimed right at her.

"What did I do to you?" She teased as she flew up to his level.

"You should thank me, I just saved your ass."

"Yeah thanks Veggie-burger." Vicki mocked.

"I'll just pretend I didn't hear that."

"Yeah you do that." Vicki was really pushing her luck this evening, she wanted a good fight, she had some feelings she needed to vent out. The fight intensified quickly and lasted until both warriors were exhausted. They only left when Vegeta's sensitive nose picked up food being prepared. They exited the room and went to eat dinner. After that they went to bed it had been a late supper. The last thing that Vicki saw before she fell asleep was the humorous look on Gohan's face when he had seen her without her top. He sure does blush an awful lot. But that's not really a bad thing, he's so cute when he turns red and smiles like that./What am I thinking about? Get your mind out of the gutter Piccolo/ She told herself. She couldn't like Gohan, he was her student, and younger than him too. Even though it isn't by much at all.