I am SO sorry I didn't update! Please forgive me! (grovels) I usually don't feel guilty about not doing homework but when I don't update the guilt just crushes me like a boulder. I'm so caught up in Dark Blessings I just forgot about all my stories! Plus if you include the family problems and how my cousin pisses me off…okay I'm gonna stop making excuses now. Just go enjoy the story.

Only One Shot

Chapter 11: Locked Up

Despite Videl's protests, they drove over to Gohan's apartment so he could get dressed and check out the scene of the crime. They were let past the yellow tape and got out. Gohan had a sort of limp to his walk. Videl raised an inquiring eyebrow but said nothing at Gohan's glare that clearly said: I'm not telling you a damn thing.

The Chief ran up to them, stopping them with an outstretched hand. "I…I don't think you should go in there Videl…" He cowered under Videl's glare. "Why not?" Before he could reply Videl shoved past him and went into the hotel room. What she saw made her stop and stare in horror. Gohan looked into the room. What he saw made his eyes soften slightly with sadness.

The once white walls were red with blood. Two bodies were on the ground and another on the bed. The men were bloody and cut apart with their intestines and such strewn apart. Their heads were sliced off and placed on the desk, each staring towards the door with their faces forever etched with indescribable horror and pain, a bullet in the middle of their forehead.

Videl had tears streaming down her face as she took one of the heads off the desk and hugged it close. The men inside the hotel room weren't ordinary men; they were her father and his two bodyguards. Everyone in the room stepped back at the fierceness of Videl's glare, even Gohan stepped back slightly.

She pointed at him with so much fierceness in her eyes that Gohan's eyes widened because he knew what she was going to do. "There's your sniper right there. I found him last night and brought him here to you. He confessed to me so I would save his life. I should've let him die instead!"

Gohan felt like his heart was torn out of his body, stepped on, shot, torn apart, and anything else that would destroy it. His eyes shown unbearable sadness and despair that it would make even Cortez cry. He had given his heart to Videl and she dropped a sack of brinks on it. He didn't do anything when the police arrested him and shoved them outside towards the cars.

Near them in an unmarked car sat Trunks, Avon, Heiji, and Nanami with her puppy named (surprise, surprise) Cujo, after the remark she heard from Trunks the day she got him. Unfortunately for Trunks the German shepherd terrorized him everyday, living up to its name and reputation.

"Daddy, why are the policemen arresting Uncle Gohan?" Nanami asked innocently, peering out of the window from her seat with Cujo. Heiji gulped, what was he to say about the situation? "Did he do something bad?" No one answered and Nanami began to get frustrated. "Well I don't want Uncle Gohan to go to jail; he's nice and wouldn't do anything if it wasn't right."

"How do you know this Nanami?" Trunks asked suspiciously. Heiji raised an eyebrow at his daughter and Avon just sat where he was with his arms crossed over his chest and his head bowed. "Because Uncle Gohan told me so." She said matter-of-factly. The adults were at a loss for words. "Let's get out of here." All of them nodded and Heiji drove off.

"Will the defendant please rise." Gohan stood up, his hands cuffed, followed by his lawyer. He wore nothing but baggy blue jeans, brown timberlands, and a white sleeveless tee. His spikes were starting to droop a bit, and he looked tired, sad, and depressed. His dark orbs had a blank look to him, as if he no longer had any reason to live.

"Will you please read the verdict." The man nodded and cleared his throat before holding the piece of paper up. "We find Gohan Son guilty of all that was accused of him." The judge slammed her gavel. "Mr. Son will be sentenced to CCP and placed in solitary confinement until further notice. A KSB (ki suppressing bracelet) will be placed on him."

The only people who sat on his side were Trunks (despite the fact that he was a saiya-jin and that he could be arrested or killed), Heiji (despite the fact that he is being searched for), Avon (despite the fact that he was a saiya-jin, had killed many, faked his death, and was being searched for), and Nanami (because she was Heiji's daughter and Gohan was her godfather).

Avon didn't say anything at the verdict but walked out of the room with a calm face. Trunks shook his bowed head with his hands clasped together. Heiji patted his daughter's back after she jumped onto him crying. He looked towards the heartbroken Gohan with a sad face until he turned the corner. "Let's go." Trunks nodded and they walked out.

As they walked out a man on the prosecutor's side watched them with a smirk. Cortez had sat there so as not to be noticed. He sneered as Gohan was taken away and walked out of the court room, putting his cell phone to his ear. "The plan has worked perfectly and that saiya-jin brat is now securely in jail…yes I understand…" He got into his limo and they drove off.

Footsteps echoed down the hall and stopped infront of a metal door with the letters 666 spray painted in white on it. "Someone here to see you boy." He slid open the metal door to see Gohan sitting there, staring at the wall. His blank eyes turned to look at the guard, then he stood up and followed them closely watched towards the cages to talk.

He wasn't surprised to see Avon there. Heiji was a wanted man and if Trunks showed up in a place his 'parent' owned he'd be arrested and most likely killed. He sat down in the chair stiffly, eyes cold, dark, and blank. Avon just stared impassively at him, motioning with his eyes and the wads of cash in their pockets to get away from them.

The guards shrugged and began counting their money as they walked out. "How are you doing Gohan?" Gohan just stared at him for a moment before answering. "…fine." Avon shook his head. "You don't seem fine, anyone can see that. I've been checking up on you and I'm working on a way to get you out of here." Gohan just stared at him.

"I'm pretty sure Cortez knows you're here—the bastard knows everything that happens around this damn city anyway. How the hell he finds out is still a mystery though." Gohan just stared at him. "I'll be signing your papers as soon as I get a few people to…make up their minds." Gohan stared some more.

"Well don't start bouncing around the walls son." Avon said sarcastedly and Gohan raised an eyebrow at him. "Anyway I need to know something…is Gok—your father still working for Cortez. If he is then I'm gonna have a shitload of work to do." Gohan showed anger—his first emotions for hours—and snorted. "What father?"

Avon winced. "Gohan there's something I should tell yo—" The door cut him off as it opened with a loud bang. "Sorry sir but we can't let you in here any longer without supervision. If you want to continue to talk to him we'll have to watch you." Avon nodded and stood up. "It's okay, I'm finished here. Gohan, take care of yourself." Gohan nodded and Avon left.

Today the sniper, Gohan Son, was sentenced to Death Row in CCP for the murders he has inflicted upon many individuals, most who were criminals. It was believed that it was a type of vicious gang-war by many, others thinking he did it for no reason.

One of the victims was Mayor Hercule Satan, daughter of the famous Detective Videl Satan who had found the sniper passing as one of the detectives. The real detectives that were originally supposed to come in were found dead in their car miles outside of town. They—

Videl curled up where she sat on the couch, pulling her knees close to her. Her eyes were red from crying and fatigue as she watched Gohan being taken out earlier just as she had seen it happen hours ago. She felt horrible and couldn't go to sleep without thinking about the hotel room case.

The Chief insisted that she take a few days off work but she refused, she wanted to be the one to interrogate Gohan for his crimes. They didn't have any evidence to place him in CCP but since Videl had his sniper gun and it had his prints on it that was enough evidence for the jury, as well as the fact that he was a saiya-jin. She wanted to hear it from him, himself.

Videl knew that they should probably go after Cortez but didn't suggest it since they had no real evidence that he actually worked for Cortez and there was no evidence to pin Cortez down. Especially when she remembered what Gohan had said about Cortez awhile after the party he had.

-Flashback-

"Gohan if you feel so bad about letting Cortez stay free and able to do these things to people then why don't you just put him in jail?"

"That is probably the stupidest thing I've ever heard Videl."

"WHAT?! You better have a damn good explanation about this Gohan Xavier Son!"

Gohan snorted. "Even if we DID somehow get Cortez in jail the bastard would just get out of it. You forget Videl that he has TONS of friends in high places, as well as the fact that he's the helper of a few communities around the world, giving him a good image. The only time Cortez has EVER been in a jail is when he was visiting someone." He was silent for a moment before he whispered, "Behind every great fortune there is a crime…"

Videl raised an eyebrow. "What did you say?"

"…nothing."

-End Flashback-

Videl sighed as she stared at the tv without any interest, not knowing anything except that she was adding money to her electric bill and wanted to get the truth from Gohan Son about his activities. Wanted to know why he was near her house that night with a sniper gun and why he killed her father. "Why Gohan?" she whispered, "Why?"

I still feel bad about not updating for so long…ugh I feel horrible. Can you ever forgive me? I was so confused as to what to write after I wrote that last chapter…so I went on with my life, putting my brain into overdrive at what to do as I did. Then I watched this movie called "Redemption" or something like that a few hours ago and got the idea to put Gohan in jail to add some effect to it.

He won't be in there long though and don't worry, its still a GV fic…not that I'd put them with any other people. I'll make the next chapter soon, and I give you my word on that. I would promise you, but I've learned that promises mean nothing when it comes to you're word. Before anyone says it, they're not that same either. Review.