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Only One Shot: Special Chapter
Orange Star City Slums, 28th day of Saiya-jin Hunt…
A woman with black hair put in a bun pulled her 4 year old son closer to her in the small hiding place as the soldiers marched past. Her son looked at his mother and saw the evident fear in her eyes. "Mo—" She clamped a hand over his mouth and gave him a scolding glare. "You guys hear something?" They both froze and their eyes widened.
"You're just hearing things Andrew. You're getting old anyway" Andrew scowled and they marched off with their M-16s. Screams were heard in the background and the woman grabbed her son as they ran out into the street. "You there! STOP!" The woman kept going, refusing to stop even as one of the bullets pierced her arm.
"Over there! The saiya-jin is over there with the human! Stop her!" The soldiers began running after her and firing. She finally fell as ki restraints wrapped around her legs and her son tugged on her with tears running down his face. "Momma? Momma!" she pushed her son away. "Gohan, go find your father! Hurry! Mommy will be okay!"
Gohan gave her a worried look and walked backwards slowly. The soldiers were getting closer and Chichi was getting impatient. "GOHAN! GET OUT OF HERE!" Gohan jumped and ran off, looking at his mother as did. With his saiya-jin speed he disappeared infront of the soldiers who caught up and they scowled. "Great, we lost him!"
"Did you catch the others?" One soldier said as they walked over to the still breathing Chichi. "Yeah, we caught most of them. A few more are missing though, including the Prince of the lot. We better go back to base and report." One man walked up and placed his M-16 on the middle of her forehead with a smirk. "Let's get rid of her first."
In his hiding place in the abandoned building up on the top floor, Gohan jumped as the shots rang out and his mother's scream stopped short. Tears ran down his face again but he kept himself quiet. One by one the soldiers began filing out, leaving the dead bodies on the ground. Once they were all gone Gohan began sneaking out of his hiding place.
He rubbed his face with a dirty hand as he sat down next to his Chichi. "Momma!" he cried as he tried to wipe his tears with one hand and shake her with the other. "Wake up momma!" Deep in his heart he knew she wouldn't wake up. He didn't know what was worse though. Seeing the holes in the middle of her forehead and on her body or not feeling her ki.
A hand touched his shoulder and he jumped. He turned to see Goku giving him a small smile. Gohan jumped onto his father and cried on his shoulder. "Momma!" Goku patted his son and his eyes grew sad as he looked upon his dead mate. "Mama's going to a better place Gohan." Gohan continued to sob on Goku's shoulder as they walked away.
Two years later in the still OrangeStarCity…
Gohan sat in the dusty two room apartment reading a book Bulma had given him as a gift. He was only 6 but had the mind of a genius. His tail wrapped around a banana and he put the book down to peel it. He was alone in the apartment and his "daddy" hadn't come home yet. He was used to it though. He had done it for two years.
His "daddy" always came home late at night carrying a briefcase. He would always tuck him into the thin moth eaten bed sheets and Gohan, curious, would ask him about what he did. All Goku would tell him was that he was finding the soldiers that killed mommy and working to get some money so he never questioned him after that.
He picked up his book again once he was done peeling and used his tail to eat the banana. The moment he finished the book (and his tenth banana) the door opened. He froze. His dad never came home this early at night. He felt out the ki and found out that it was in fact his father but someone else was with him. Someone with an evil aura.
They walked into the room and Gohan looked up at them from his spot on the floor. Goku smiled, briefcase in hand, and gestured to the man next to him that looked around the age of 30. "Gohan, this is my boss, Hesus—with an H—Cortez. Sir, this is Gohan, my son." Cortez smiled at Gohan who saw the evil in his smile that his father couldn't see.
Gohan almost rolled his eyes. His father was so naïve sometimes. He just hoped it wasn't hereditary. "Mr. Cortez works for the church Gohan, he's a priest. He's going to protect us." Gohan just stared at them man and nodded. "Go get your things so we can leave." Gohan didn't have many things and placed all of them in a red and black backpack.
He rode in silence inside the car while "Mr. Priest" and his father sang explicit songs as if they were drunk. He gave them an odd look before looking out the window. They finally stopped at a club named Club Sin and Gohan made sure his tail was wrapped around his waist as a belt before getting out of the car.
Goku just walked off somewhere just as they got into the club and Gohan looked around. There were many people in there and were either dirty dancing, drinking at a table, or standing near the strippers waving money. A bodyguard gave him a little push and he blinked up at him before following Cortez.
They ended up going into an elevator that only went down. They ended up in a huge meeting room and Goku was sitting there, pointing to the seat on one end of the table for Gohan to sit down on. As soon as he sat down Cortez took his seat on the other end of the table. Gohan looked at the faces who were all men.
"Men, these are the two I was talking about. This is Goku who I'm sure you've met already. At the other end of the table is his son, Gohan." The men smiled at Gohan who just stared at them in his seat. "Gohan is going to do a little work too right Gohan?" Gohan just shrugged. "He'll do work Boss." Goku said and Cortez nodded with a glint in his eye.
"Good. Gohan will be running errands for me. Your new apartment is already paid for Goku. You should get back to work unless you want those two years of getting my approval to be in vain." Goku nodded, ruffled Gohan's hair, and left. Gohan looked at the men around him again. All of them looked familiar except one of them.
"Gohan, I want you to go upstairs and tell the bartender that Mr. Cortez wants a Grey Goose and some Vodka. This will be your first errand." Gohan nodded silently and slid out of his seat. He gave them one last look before placing his backpack on the seat he sat at and left. "Now men, where were we…"
Gohan went up to the bartender (after finding out from one of the security guards who he was since he'd never been in a club before) and tugged on his pants leg. "Scram kid. I don't know how you got in here but leave me alone." Gohan tugged on his pants leg again until the bartender looked down at him.
"Oh…you're that new worker Boss got. What was your name again…GS I think. What do you want GS?" Gohan blinked. That wasn't his name! He just brushed it off as he remembered he had an errand to do. "Mr. Bartender, Mr. Priest wants a…a…Gay Geese and Volta." The bartender laughed. "It's Grey Goose and Vodka kid. Now say it."
"Grey Goose and Vodka." The old bartender smiled at him. "Good. The name's Syracuse kid not Mr. Bartender and here, don't drop them." Gohan took the bottles and walked happily back to the elevator. He had found a new friend! As he walked down the hall he bumped into someone he didn't recognize.
"Watch where you're going kid!" Gohan just stood there staring up at the man wearing a black overcoat and a black wide brimmed hat with his clothes practically just black. "Come on Avon!" a woman yelled and he scowled. "I'm coming hun!" He shot a glare at Gohan and walked off. Gohan blinked then shrugged and continued on his way.
The guard opened up the elevator for him and he pressed the down button. Once he got to the room Cortez was gone but the others were still there. "Give me that kid!" A fat man grabbed the Grey Goose from Gohan harshly and Gohan almost fell over. A young 18 year old man rushed over to Gohan.
"You don't have to grab it like that Luther!" Luther snorted and sat down. "I'm a mafia leader so I can do whatever the hell I want Heiji." Heiji scowled at him and sat Gohan in the chair at the end of the table. Another man grabbed the Vodka and poured it into his shot glass. "You're such a pig Eric. Living like a slob is going to get you one day."
"Yeah whatever." Eric snorted and downed his shot. "Yeah Eric, don't you still live in that sky rise apartment?" Eric scowled. "Shut up Ricardo. You're not using it for another one of your 'I'm Ricardo Cortez, the brother of Hesus Cortez, so you better come' parties. Use your own damn house." Ricardo glared at him. "Don't make me get my brother on your ass."
"Don't make me shove this gun up your ass!" he countered and a man trembled in his seat. "Don't fight like this guys; you're going to get us in trouble with the boss!" A chinese man rolled his eyes in his seat. He looked about 20-25. "Shut up Shinichi. You're a disgrace anyway. Anyway Boss better hurry up because I have a diamond shipment to steal."
"Don't talk about your operations infront of the kid Chiso!" Ricardo rolled his eyes. "Shut up Andrew, it's not like he's going to tell. If he does I'll kill him. I'll kill his father too." Gohan glared at him. "I'll kill you before you kill me!" All the men laughed at this except Heiji who glared at them. "Come on Gohan; let's go have some fun in the city."
Two months later…
Gohan hummed as he played on the gameboy advance SP Heiji had bought him. He was really nice. He had taken him to movies, to his sponsored amusement parks so that he could ride every ride, and bought him things. He was like the father he never had considering he never really saw his father for more than 5 minutes after and before his mother's death.
He didn't see why though. Heiji worked for Cortez as well and he saw him regularly. The only difference was he called him Cortez instead of Boss. As he entered the meeting room he realized that no one was there. He blinked and heard voices coming from behind the mirror. He gave the mirror an odd look and put away his SP, using his saiya-jin hearing to listen in on the conversation.
"I think he's going to start to rebel we need to get rid of him." There was some silence and a voice Gohan realized as Heiji's spoke up angrily. "We don't have to get rid of him; I know he's not going to rebel!" There were some murmurs and Gohan leaned closer to hear them. "He's starting to make connections about our actions during the Saiya-jin Hunt."
"What actions?" Heiji asked confused and there was a long silence before Heiji gasped. "You didn't…" More silence. "We did. He's starting to connect two and two so I'm having Ricardo and another person snipe of him. I still have one bullet filled with the Ki-Killer left." There was a thump of a chair and Gohan guess Heiji stood up angrily.
"I refuse to have anything to do with this! I suggest you stop what you're doing now!" There were some snorts and grunts. "Heiji, if you're against this just leave. Breath a word of this and we'll be on you like white on rice." Cortez said. Gohan moved as someone walked towards the mirror and hid behind the far end of the table.
The mirror slid to the side and Heiji shook his fist at them. "Our deeds are like stones cast into the pool of time; though they themselves may disappear, their ripples extend to eternity!" They laughed at his quote and the mirror door closed behind him. "Stupid Cortez, karma's going to bite him in the ass one day."
"Heiji are they going to kill someone?" Heiji turned surprised then gave Gohan a sad smile. "Don't worry about them Gohan. I'm going to go away for a long time so I won't be able to see you." Gohan's face turned sad. They walked into the elevator and pressed up. "Am I ever going to see you Heiji?" Heiji turned and smiled at him. "One day."
They soon stood infront of his car and Heiji gave Gohan a hug. He pressed a wad of hundreds into Gohan's hand and gave him a serious look. "Remember this Gohan, behind every great fortune there is a crime." Gohan nodded to him and he got in, looking through the rear mirror at Gohan. They stared at each other until they couldn't see each other any longer.
That night…
He took aim at his target the moment he came out of the house. Unknown to him since he was focusing on his snipe, two other figures lay on their stomachs farther away. "Don't screw this up." The man scowled at the other man and took aim. "A man is not completely born until he is dead." He said with a smirk and pulled the trigger.
One week later…
Gohan stood infront of a marble angel statue wearing a black tailored and expensive suit. On the block pillar it was on, it said: "Son Chichi; 5/4/19XX—10/17/20XX; May the angels fly her beautiful, strong and loving spirit towards heaven on beautiful white wings." He sighed as he stood infront of it and placed a bouquet of pink carnations on it.
He moved on farther into the cemetery where Cortez and his other gang members were standing. Everyone was there except Heiji. Cortez was the priest of course. They were burying his father, Son Goku. They had already finished burying his other men that were killed the same night as Goku. Gohan could care less about his father right now. He wasn't much of a father anyway.
"Don't worry Gohan. I'll still take care of you." Cortez said with a smile that Gohan could see the evilness behind as usual. He didn't say anything. Just stared off into space. "I'll still protect you…as long as you work for me that is." Gohan just nodded as his thoughts screamed revenge and deceit. Heiji's voice sliced through his thoughts as they finished burying Goku.
"Remember this Gohan, behind every great fortune there is a crime."
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Lo and behold, Gohan's past! Kinda long but this should explain a LOT for most of the story. After this special chapter he begins to get flashbacks. I'm still going to get you confused though! Hehe… Don't jump to conclusions just because you read this though! You might just be wrong! 50/50 chance! I love confusing you people anyway. evil laugh
Hopefully you didn't skip any chapters to read this. Anyway, this is for the people who reviewed and asked for it. As for the people who didn't review and wanted it anyway, I guess this is for you too but next time review okay? Voice what you want! Reviewing makes me write more anyway. Plus it makes me write what YOU want. Well, don't just sit there, go review!
Oh yes, about Ricardo and Hesus Cortez. In the first chapter the "Cortez" they were referring to is Ricardo Cortez, not Hesus Cortez. Sorry I didn't specify the first name since I was so caught up on calling them just "Cortez". Hesus Cortez doesn't talk about his brother much so you won't hear him say anything about it.
I'd like to clear up something in chapter 2 that I should've done a while back.
In this line: Only Gohan noticed the slight change in his voice on the word 'friends' and realized that they were probably his next targets. He was actually talking about them being Cortez's targets. Not his. I didn't mean to confuse you with that intentionally in case you were getting wrong ideas.
In this line: "Mr. and Mrs. Lexington who are international drug dealers and will be staying for a few weeks only," Must be my first targets… Gohan thought as he looked the rich people over, memorizing them as well. He thought that because Cortez had wanted Gohan to snipe for him, you know, follow Goku's work. He was guessing that was who Cortez was going to make him snipe them like a test of loyalty. Goku's test of loyalty took two years to complete.
Maybe this will help those trying to figure out the sniper. Hehe. Review!