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"You're Videl Satan if I'm not mistaken?"

"That's right Mrs. Briefs. Is there something I can do for you?" Videl asked as politely as she could.

"Please, call me Bulma!" She said cheerily, "And yes, there is something you can do for me. Follow me and I'll explain."

"Okay...see you later Erasa." And with that Videl followed the richest woman in the world to who-knows-where.


Chapter 11: A Ruined Moment

Videl followed the blue-haired woman uncertainly. 'What would thee Bulma Briefs want with me.' She mused as they walked down corridors where people could be seen working. After walking for quite some time they entered a part of the building that looked more like a home than a place of work. Then Videl started wondering why Bulma would bring her to what was essentially her house. She made her curiosity known to the older woman.

"Um...excuse me, Bulma? What are we doing in this part of the building?"

"Don't worry! You'll see soon enough! It's definitely something you'll like, I'm positive about it!" That just confused Videl even more.

Eventually they reached a hallway with seven doors, four on the left and three on the right. They entered the last door on the left side. It was a bedroom. 'Okay, my confusion just multiplied a thousand times over. What am I doing in a bedroom? And more importantly, whose bedroom is this.' As if sensing her confusion, Bulma told her to relax, make herself at home and that she would be right back. Videl had no choice but to take her word for it. She sat down on the corner of the king-size bed and waited.

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'Finally! I'm done!' Gohan thought as he finished the schematics Bulma asked him for. It wasn't that he didn't enjoy the work. No, he found the sometimes challenging projects very satisfying. But today he had other things on his mind. Just as he was about to get up, Bulma's voice rang over the communicator against the wall.

"Gohan how's the schematics coming along?"

"Great Bulma. I just finished them."

"Excellent! Could you bring them to your room so I can have a look?"

"My room?" Gohan was very confused, why on earth his room?

"Well, I'm in that part of the building and you need to get your training gi on for your spar with Vegeta."

"Oh, right. I'll be right there." He got up and started walking to his room. It was only 11 in the morning and he had a lot of training to do.

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"Woman! Where is Gohan he needs to train." Vegeta entered the living room where Goten and Trunks were being scolded by Bulma for ruining her carpet with one of their silly little pranks.

"He can't train today Vegeta, so don't even think about asking again unless you want your food and bed privileges taken from you! But Goten and Trunks would be more than happy to train with you since they obviously don't know how to do anything but get into trouble. THEY RUINED MY CARPET!" Vegeta scowled at the volume of her voice, but knew better than to argue. He took the 'brats' and stalked off to the gravity room. After they left Bulma waited patiently for Gohan with a devious glint in her eyes.

She didn't have to wait long since Gohan showed up about 30 seconds after Vegeta left. "Gohan, do you have the schematics?"

"Yes, it's all on this disc. I'm going to my room to get changed. See you later."

"Thank you Gohan! Oh, and have fun!" With that said Bulma retreated to her own lab, leaving Gohan a little confused.

'Bulma never says 'have fun' when I go to spar against Vegeta. What's up with her today?' With that thought he entered the hallway that led to his room.

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Goten and Trunks were awaiting their training from Vegeta as the prince retrieved several training robots. He put them on the side of the gravity room and walked over to the boys. Vegeta was one of the shorter Saiyans, but he towered over the two little half-Saiyans. Goten and Trunks looked at each other and then back up at the smirking Vegeta. They were in for it now.

"So, let's begin our little training session." Vegeta said as he took a few paces back and dropped into a fighting stance. "Both of you, become Super Saiyans!" He ordered as he himself powered up to Super Saiyan. They did as Vegeta ordered and dropped into fighting stances.

"Now, attack!" Vegeta shouted.

They complied with his request immediately. Trunks went for Vegeta's upper body while Goten went for his legs. Trunks drew back his fist as Goten made ready to sweep Vegeta's feet from under him. At the last second Vegeta disappeared from their sight. Trunks and Goten both hit air.

"You're gonna have to do better than that." Vegeta taunted as he crashed his fist into Trunks' stomach and his left foot into Goten's back. The two kids jumped back up and charged again, this time with more effort and power. Goten disappeared while Trunks threw an energy blast at Vegeta to distract him.

The prince easily swatted the blast away with his right hand, but was too slow as the diversionary tactic left Vegeta open to Goten's attack. The little Goku replica reappeared behind Vegeta and sent his foot crashing as hard as he could into the prince's back. The kick sent him flying towards Trunks who was ready, he released his yellow ball of energy into Vegeta's path. It hit the prince dead-on.

When the dust settled Vegeta's spandex clothing was ripped from his upper-body. His pants were in tatters and he was smirking as blood trickled from his lip.

"Well, you two obviously make an excellent team! Enough with the warm-ups!" Vegeta then walked over to the training robots, "You two will each face two of these robots." Vegeta then proceeded to activate all the robots.

"This is it Goten!" Trunks whispered excitedly.

"Yeah!" Goten whispered back, "But Trunks, are you sure about this? Dad's gonna get mad." Goten said with worry written on his face.

"Of course I'm sure. Just watch, it's gonna be so funny." Trunks smirked only to prove who his father is.

Vegeta finished activating the robots and turned around to face the boys, "Now, you will..." Vegeta was distracted by the sounds emanating from behind him. He sniffed the air, "What's that smell? Smells sugary." Vegeta had barely finished his sentence when all the training robots blew up in his face.

Laughter was heard from the little kids. It abruptly stopped as Vegeta emerged from the dust with an expression on his face that screamed; bloody murder.

They didn't wait for the explosion, they bolted.

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Videl had been sitting there for ten minutes and she started wondering if Bulma had forgotten about her. She was a very busy woman after all. She stood up from the bed and started walking towards the door when the sound of the door handle made her stop abruptly. 'Bulma must be back.' she thought. But when the door opened to reveal a certain half-saiyan she was shocked speechless. Seeing Videl in his room had the same effect on Gohan.

They stood there, staring at each other, for what seemed like hours. They were lost in each other's eyes as her ocean-blue gaze locked with his night-sky stare. In those few moments nothing seemed real. It was too good to be real, but it was. Gohan slowly closed the door as he was coming out of his daze. Videl also recovered from her initial shock. Tears were welling up inside her eyes as she saw Gohan slowly approach her. Videl was the first to speak.

"Gohan? Is it really you? Bulma brought me here and told me to wait, that she would be right back. I'm not hallucinating, am I?" She said as tears began to stain her beautiful face. She then explained exactly how she wound up in his room. And that she didn't know he lived here. She said everything so fast that Gohan smiled at her and put his finger on her lips to silence her.

"It's really me and you're not hallucinating. As for the rest, I told you my parents died that day, at school, just before I had to fight that monster. And I also told you my brother and I were adopted, right?" She nodded and he continued. "The Briefs are old family friends and they adopted us." He cupped her cheeks and wiped the tears away with his thumbs. The tears just continued rolling down her face. Then without warning she hugged him and buried her face in his chest. He pulled her closer and wrapped his arms around her.

"I thought you were dead." Videl said as she cried.

"It's okay Videl, I'm fine. Thanks to you I am. I'm sorry I didn't come to you. I spent the last week trying to recover. Even now my muscles still feel a little tired. I'm sorry for making you cry." He said as he hugged her a little tighter.

"No, don't be sorry. I'm just really happy that you're okay." She looked up and smiled as they each took a step back. Gohan wiped her tears away as she stopped crying.

Their gazes met and they were lost in each other. They didn't even notice they were drifting closer with each passing moment. They were barely an inch away from each other when they closed their eyes.

Just as their lips were about to meet the door burst open and they stepped away from each other. Two very frightened little children came running through the door and hid themselves behind Gohan's legs. They gulped and peered around their big brothers legs at the door, waiting for the inevitable.

"What did you do this time?" Gohan asked in exasperation as he gazed down at the two little Super Saiyans.

"Um, nothing. We just accidentally put soda in the training robots and they exploded in dad's face." Trunks said while feigning innocence.

"What! It wasn't an accident Trunks. You said it would be funny." the oblivious Goten argued.

"Shut up Goten!" Trunks retaliated.

Gohan was about to interrupt their bickering when an extremely pissed off Saiyan entered to room. As Vegeta took his first step into Gohan's room lightning struck and thunder roared as if nature knew how the prince felt. The windows rattled and it even started to hale. When the prince saw the effect of his own presence combined with the weather had on the boys, he smirked and walked away. But not before he said, "Do anything like that again brats, and you will meet an untimely and very painful end. Muhahahaha!" As Vegeta laughed lightning and thunder struck again.

"So, have you two learned your lesson?" Gohan asked the two quivering kids when Vegeta was gone. He was barely able to contain his laughter as he thought, 'Vegeta must have enjoyed that so much!'

"Yeah." They said in unison and as they took notice of Videl they asked in perfect sync, "Hey Gohan, who's the girl?"

"This is my good friend Videl. Videl, these are my brothers. Go back to your normal selves so Videl can see what you really look like." After Gohan said this they reverted back to normal little Saiyans. "This one with the black hair is Goten, and the one with the lavender hair is Trunks."

"How come you don't freak out at seeing us change?" Goten asked innocently.

"Because I've seen Gohan do it before." Videl answered.

"Come on Goten, let's go play!" Trunks said as he grabbed Goten by the arm. When they reached the door they yelled back in unison, "Nice meeting you Videl!" They disappeared from sight and Videl turned to Gohan.

"Do they often sound like they're one person?"

"Yeah, even though they're not brothers by blood, they act as such. They're like twins."

They sat down on the bed and talked to each other about what's happened in the past week. They fell silent after a while. They sat in a comfortable silence for quite some time, then as rain drops replaced the hale they started talking about anything and everything. Gohan told Videl all about his on-going battle with Keeper. He felt that after what happened at school that day he owed it to her. In turn she told him about her life and how different things were before her father took credit for Cell's demise. They completely opened up to one another, forgetting about all else. The atmosphere as they revealed themselves was filled with mixed emotions. When they finally stopped talking Gohan pulled the picture, that he had found earlier in his drawer, from his pocket and showed it to Videl.

"Do you remember this?" He asked with a smile. She just laughed. It was a happy, sincere laugh, and it suited her well. Her laughter abruptly stopped and she shot out of her sitting position as realisation dawned on her.

"The school tour! How am I gonna explain this! I missed the whole thing! It's 3:30 and the bus leaves at 4:00." She slumped back down and was surprised to hear Gohan laughing at her. "What's so funny mister?" she asked sternly.

"Well, it doesn't really matter that you missed the tour. I can show you around any old time. I know the place inside and out. After all I have been living here for the past six almost seven years. And I can ask Bulma to tell the teacher that she needed your help or something." At this point Gohan changed his voice slightly, spoke with an English accent, and stood with one hand behind his back and pointing a finger in the air with his other hand. "She was the one who led you away from the others, was she not? And if I remember correctly, Erasa bore witness to said event." Videl laughed again.

"Gohan you sound like Sherlock Holmes!" Videl said, quite clearly amused at Gohan's fake voice that supported his little act. "But, I guess you're right. Thanks."

After giving Videl a private tour of Capsule Corp, Gohan flew her home. He held her in his arms and soared through the night-sky. He was happy, but in the back of his mind he could feel the evil of Keeper creep up on him. He still had to figure out the strange dream, and he needed to train. He couldn't afford not to train. There were too many people who counted on him, and even more he had to protect.

TO BE CONTINUED...


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