"Dragonball AS: Destroyer Saga"
Chapter 19- "The Date"
By- Tiny
Pan woke up the Sunday after her spar with Roshi feeling lighter than air, her face still in that ridiculous grin that she inherited from her grandfather and the happiness within her radiating out. It was like she had just been named queen of the world, or dropped off at an all you can eat buffet, and her mother and father had absolutely no idea what would be making their daughter so happy. She was usually so serious about her training and whatnot that she didn't have time to be this giddy, but today she was so gleeful she didn't even yell when Medon dropped a frog into her bed.
Gohan was sitting down to breakfast when he heard Pan finish up in the bathroom upstairs, Medon having already come down and started eating his food at a pace that would put even Goku to shame. Videl was at the table too, quietly reading her paper and sipping at a hot cup of coffee, when Pan bounded down the steps like a school girl on her way out the door. Gohan was very shocked when he caught a glimpse of his daughter, nearly spewing his coffee all over the place, and Videl and Medon weren't exactly unfazed either.
Pan had gotten dressed in what looked to be a very tight and very, very short jean skirt that didn't even go halfway down her thighs, showing off quite a bit of her well-toned legs. On top she had an even tighter than normal white v-neck shirt with a little red heart right on the chest, the shirt clinging to her body like a second skin almost, but that's not what really grabbed everyone's attention. The young Saiya-jin had cut her hair, the long silky locks she had kept it in since she was a little girl now gone and replaced by a short and spiky look like the one Videl had as a teenager.
"PAN!" Gohan growled, standing up to his full height, "Where do you think you're going dressed like that?"
"I'm going out," Pan answered matter-of-factly, "I have a date this morning. Don't know when I'll be home by."
"A date?" Videl grinned, "As in, with a boy?"
Pan blushed furiously all over, her red face standing out against the white shirt she was wearing, but was sparred from any further questions from either parent when the doorbell rang. The young teen was out of the room faster than anyone in her house could blink, knocking the still eating Medon over onto the floor, and swung the door open with a loud crash. Much to Gohan's dismay, though he should've expected as much after Pan's spar the day before, Yamcha's son Roshi stood with his face turned up in a soft smile at the Son family door.
The young man was dressed fairly casually, as was Pan, wearing a pair of rather loose blue jeans over his legs and a pair of black, flat-bottom tennis shoes over his rather large feet. He was also wearing a white button-up shirt, un-buttoned, over a tight black t-shirt, the sleeves on his over-shirt rolled up to about his elbows showing off the tattoo of a Chinese dragon along his right arm. He had cut his hair too, taking the large chunk that hung over his shoulders in the back clean off and trimming up the top to look a bit more presentable.
Gohan already didn't like Roshi just from the fact that he had a tattoo that he quite blatantly showed off, a sign of rebellion in the Saiya-jin man's mind, but it was quite clear that the rest of the family didn't share his sentiments. Videl was practically bombarding the teenage human about his intentions with Pan, amongst other things, and Medon was perched on Roshi's shoulders playing with his hair. The whole house had betrayed him all at once and Gohan couldn't do anything about it, nothing but sit there and look angrily at Roshi.
"Okay that's enough questions and playing, Roshi and I have a date to get to if you all don't mind!" Pan said quickly, plucking Medon of her date's shoulder, "I don't know when I'll be back home, but it shouldn't be too late."
"Alright, but you two behave yourselves!" Videl giggled, "Chi-Chi may have been anxious to have grandchildren early, but your father and I certainly aren't Pan! Keep that in mind, okay?"
"Um...I'll be sure to remember that Mrs. Son," Roshi gulped, backing away from the door nervously towards his car, "So Pan, are you ready to get moving? It's an hours drive into the city with this car."
"Cool, let's go!" Pan beamed, jumping into the passenger seat, "I'll see all you guys later!"
Medon and Videl both waved as the car lifted off the ground and took off in the direction of the city, leaving only a white streak in the air to show it was ever there as it vanished from sight. Gohan was not nearly as enthusiastic as he watched the car vanish towards the city limits, his dark eyes narrowed dangerously as he walked inside to finish up his breakfast rather quickly. He wasn't about to let those two go off without someone to keep an eye on them, especially not after he smelled Roshi's scent all over his daughter just the night before and he knew it wasn't from sparring!
"Just you wait boy," Gohan growled, making sure nobody was watching him before he flew off towards the city, "Sooner or later you're gonna slip up and when you do...your ass is mine!"
Pan and Roshi arrived in downtown West City after a little more than an hour, since Roshi wanted to be cautious and not risk hurting Pan, which the Saiya-jin woman had found incredibly sweet. So sweet that the was clinging to the teenager's arm like a sticker or something, shooting dirty looks to any girl who dared to look fondly at him, though she always smiled when he looked at her. With eyes like his looking down so lovingly at her, she couldn't do anything but smile and, when she was especially happy, give him a quick kiss.
Things had gone rather smoothly so far, the only incident being when an ice cream vendor told Pan she couldn't have 12 banana splits, but otherwise things had gone by without a hitch! They had even run into Apio and Bruno, one of Yamcha's students from the Budokai, and had been sort of freaked when they saw Apio's tail snake around the blue-haired human's waist. Pan knew from what she heard Vegeta say a long time ago that that was a sign of affection in Saiya-jin culture, but the duo had gotten over it quickly and were now on a double date with the two guys.
The two couples were currently sitting down to watch a movie in the dark theatre, though there wasn't really anything going on, and laughed at even the serious parts of the cheesy horror flick. Apio was leaning on Bruno and purring like a kitten by the time the movie was halfway over, which seriously disturbed all of the other movie goers around them, but Pan and Roshi found it rather cute. So cute in fact that Pan decided to do them one better and leaned over to plant a warm kiss on Roshi's lips, the taste of popcorn and soda filling her mouth all at once as she did so.
They were so wrapped up in the kiss that they didn't even notice the rising ki several rows back as Gohan prepared to lunge at the couple, murder in his eyes as his mystical energy flowed through his body. He probably would have gotten out of the seat and half-killed Roshi by now too, were it not for the fact that another powerful hand was wrapped tightly around his shoulder. That hand belonged to Kimuchi, the white-haired son of his long dead uncle, and the reassurance in the older Saiya-jin's eyes was almost sickening at that moment.
"You need to let them be Gohan, killing Roshi will only interfere with the destiny of our race," Kimuchi spoke softly, "Those two will be together with or without your consent Gohan, it is their destiny."
"That's my little girl Kimuchi, I don't expect you to understand because you don't have any children!" Gohan snapped, not noticing as his daughter walked out of the theatre with Roshi, "So why don't you just..."
"Let's go for a cup of coffee at your house Gohan, Pan's already left anyway," Kimuchi smiled, ignoring his cousin's hostility, "We can talk things over there and maybe I'll be able to talk some sense into that thick skull of yours."
"Fine, whatever you want Kimuchi," Gohan growled, "Roshi just better hope I don't catch his ass alone before the day's out..."
Pan got home that night with a big grin on her face, her short hair messy and unkempt, and her date looking just as rough as he stumbled up the walk to her house beside her. The couple had dropped Apio and Bruno off at Ubuu's place in the city before heading back home, though they hadn't come directly home as Roshi stopped at a rather secluded spot upon Pan's request. Otherwise they would have looked perfectly normal and been back hours ago, but the Saiya-jin girl was very persuasive and Roshi hadn't wanted to say no in the first place.
The duo managed to make it up the walk without any real trouble, only falling down once and laughing like idiots as they did so, and now stood on the threshold to the Son family home. Neither of them wanted the night to end here, not after all they fun they had had and knowing that they wouldn't see each other again all week, but they both knew that the date had to end somewhere. That didn't mean, of course, that it had to end on a sad note as Roshi leaned down and gave Pan a soft peck on the cheek, causing the younger teen to blush all over.
"Night Pan, I'll be sure to call you soon," Roshi smiled, holding her tight against his chest, "I hope I didn't get you into too much trouble with your mother and father tonight either."
"Any trouble will be well worth it, as long as it was with you," Pan sighed, hugging her date back, "Promise we'll do this again soon? Maybe this coming weekend?"
"You bet!" Roshi grinned, putting his car in it's capsule and flying off towards his father's house, "See you again soon Pan!"
Pan giggled and waved to Roshi as he disappeared over the horizon, leaving only a white energy trail in his wake, leaving the young teen to face her parent's fury alone as she crept into the house. The house was quiet, save for the sounds of Medon snoring away up the stairs, and Pan thought that maybe she had dodged a bullet for being so late until she heard the light switch behind her flick on. Pan jumped with a start at the unexpected noise and nearly fell back down on her ass, her face panicked and scared as she looked back towards the doorway.
Videl was standing with a big smile over her face, here long hair straightened back as she had undoubtedly been getting ready for bed when Pan came up, and her blue eyes sparkling with mischief. Pan had seen that look all too often in her grandmother's eyes whenever Gohan and Videl had stopped by to visit, and the look of the overeager mother was something that Pan hoped to never inherit. Yet still, here was her mother looking at Pan like she had just won the lottery or something, her smug smile never leaving her face as she walked up to the Saiya-jin girl.
"You and Roshi need to be more careful about when you do those things Pan, your father was about to rush off and kill him," Videl giggled, "Good thing Kimuchi was here and knocked him out or your boyfriend might've ended up a greasy spot on the bottom of Gohan's boot!"
"You could sense that we were...um," Pan gulped, blushing, "You mean, Dad knows that me and Roshi...oh boy..."
"Yes, but were able to calm him down after a while, since I reminded of all the times me and him snuck off to do the same thing as teenagers," Videl sighed, "Now hurry along to bed Pan, you have school in the morning and I will not tolerate you falling behind!"
"Yes Mom, I know," Pan shook her head, "And thanks for not letting Daddy ruin today for me."
"Your welcome sweetie," Videl smiled, watching her daughter go up the stairs, "Just so long as I'm not made a grandmother anytime soon..."
Author's Notes: I'll admit it's not my best work, but I think you got to see all the basic points about how protective Gohan is of his daughter and how rebellious Pan has become in her teenage years. As for Kimuchi's appearance out of nowhere, you haven't seen him for a while and he is the guardian of his people, so I figured who better to talk Gohan down from killing poor Roshi? Oh yeah, and I hope you aren't TOO freaked by the whole thing with Apio and Bruno, but I'm not going to change things in this instance because your homophobic and don't like that kind of a coupling.
The next chapter will move it's focus over to the non-Saiya-jin aliens, Sanil and Ice, testing their skills against each other in the old desert, not to mention get a little insight into Sanil's upbringing. I hope this can hold you over until then and that you thoroughly enjoyed it. Now, onto the readers!
Erica: I guess Trunks does rock, but you won't see him again for a few more chapters, so be patient.
Chaos: I liked Roshi and Pan better too, mostly because Yuno was way older than Pan in the last story and is in this one too, where as Roshi is only about two years older than she is. As for Gohan's reaction, well it was the same once he confirmed they were sleeping together, but he didn't get a chance to go ballistic. Thanks for reading!