Akutenshi Nakare Kyo ^~Evil Angels Don't Cry~^

Disclaimer: DBZ is not mine and belongs to, you know, other people.

A/N: Sorry for the late update, I sorta hit a writer's block. ^_^;

Chapter 3: Chirichiri ^~Bits and Pieces~^

Gohan spun around quickly to survey his surroundings. He was floating high up in the air with not a cloud in sight; all he could see was a deep blue. First one voice, then another, sounded from above. One voice rose to an angry crescendo and soon after the other voice stopped; in its place was a choking and gagging noise. Gohan looked upwards, but saw nothing. A fight began above but soon ended with a wham followed by a loud splash. A splash. It was then that Gohan realized he was not in the sky, but underwater.

The splash sent a body covered in bubbles down to Gohan. He gasped once the bubbles cleared and revealed a girl. Videl's eye's were closed and her mouth open. Her fully clothed body indicated that she had not jumped in voluntarily. Gohan's head was spinning. Someone had fought Videl, won, and pushed her into deep water. Someone. Gohan looked angrily upwards and grabbed Videl. He was determined to avenge his peer and flew up to the water's surface. Gohan drew closer to the surface and smirked as a human form became visible and turned back to Videl. To his horror, Videl was no longer in his grasp but drifting downward.

"No!" Gohan shouted and sat up abruptly in his bed panting in a cold sweat. His arm was stretched before him, reaching for something that wasn't there. Gohan shook his head and plopped back against his pillow, careful not to wake Goten. It had been a week since Gohan started his investigation and could find nothing but bits and pieces of information. At the rate he was going, Videl would never find out. Sleuthing on his own was getting nowhere.

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Videl dozed soundly on the park bench in the warm sunlight. Sleep had not come easily for the past few days and when she started back to school after assisting the police with yet another trivial crime and drowsiness took her, she didn't even bother to resist it. The teen wasn't aware of how long she had slept and she didn't rightly care. For the first time in a long time, a peaceful dream invaded Videl's REM cycle.

"Videl? What are you doing here?" A female voice asked.

"Wha--? Sorry, Pensil. I guess I fell asleep after helping the police down at the station."

Erasa straightened up as a look of sorrow and shock spread across her face. Gohan looked at his friend, "Who's Pensil?" he asked.

"She is-was a childhood friend." Erasa explained, giving no more information. Gohan looked down at the half-awake Videl with a faint smile. She had left second hour and slept clear through the rest of the school day. Suddenly it hit Gohan. The police station had to have a file on Mauko Satan's murder case and, given the short time before the Cell Games, there must still be evidence unchecked.

Gohan had a plan. He would have a look at said file and evidence. The police wouldn't mind if he simply borrowed them for a while. Gohan grinned and dismissed the fact that it was sorta against the law to break an entry and remove police documents without the proper paper work. He smirked, despite himself, and waited.

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Night had long since fallen on Satan City and the nightshift of the police force drew weary from lack of excitement. Gohan peeked around the corner of a hallway to spy a police officer snoozing in front of the TV monitors. 'Perfect. No one's looking. not that they'd be able to see me anyways with my speed.' Gohan mussed to himself while flying quietly down the hall. Several signs and doors passed by until the correct room came into sight. "Perfect." The teen quickly covered his mouth and looked around; no one had heard him. Gohan sighed and quietly entered the room marked 'Evidence and records'. The room was, as Bulma would put it, an organized mess. However, Gohan was a clever teenager and could quickly decipher the method of filing.

"S.s..s." He whispered to himself while sifting through a huge pile of folders thrown on a corner table near, strangely enough, empty filing cabinets. "Saito. Samusin. Saokino.Satan!" Gohan declared triumphantly before quickly hushing himself. The folder was thin, but contained a slip of paper with numbers scribbled in neat handwriting. 'This has to be for the evidence container,' Gohan thought, and rightly so for sure enough the create marked '#7734' also read 'Satan, Mauko: unsolved'. "Perfect!" Gohan exclaimed loudly, too loudly.

"Who's in there? Officer Crepe, is that you?" A policeman questioned while slowly opening the door. Gohan quickly grabbed the box and folder and hide behind a cabinet.

"That ain't me deputy." Another voice, obviously Officer Crepe, responded from behind the first. "You hearin' things again?" The demi-saiya- jin quickly looked around for an exit as the two officers made their way into the room.

"Naw, I swear I heard someone."

"Right, right. Say, you haven't been drinkin' again have ya?" The officers bickered angrily and turn the corner; they found nothing. Gohan silently flew out of the open doorway with back to the ceiling. Time was not on his side it seemed, nothing was for that matter, and he needed to get home before Chi-chi made her nightly checks on her sons. The mother usually didn't see her son after school, what with the crimefighting, training, and school work, on most nights the bedtime I-think-you're-asleep- but-I-need-to-see-if-you-are-before-I-can-doze-off check was the first time she'd see him since breakfast.

As fast as he could, Gohan rushed home. He had just enough time to hide the stolen items in his closet and jump in bed before Chi-chi made her rounds. The raven-haired mother smiled contently at her children's sleeping forms and padded down the hall in the pink bunny slippers Goten had given her for her birthday and shut the door of her own room. She had an odd feeling that Gohan was upto something, but seeing him peacefully in bed quickly dismissed the silly notion.

Gohan tried to blink the sleep from his eyes, but thieving, it would seem, can take alot out of you and he quickly drifted off. The teen reasoned that tomorrow, being Saturday and thus a half school day, would provide ample time for analyzing reports and the like.
Three girls; one with shoulder length blonde hair, another with wavy long green hair, and the third with french braided black hair, all walked down an unfamiliar - well, unfamiliar to Gohan - hallway chattering about the things that young girls do and passed by Gohan without so much as a glance. It became apparent that these girls could not see or hear Gohan, this must be a dream. The blonde girl tripped over her own shoes and landed with a smack into a drinking fountain. Gohan rushed to help, but the girls got there first.

"Honestly Erasa," the wavy haired girl said, "Ya gotta be more careful. One day, we won't be here to mend your wounds."

The blonde's eyes teared up as the hugged her left leg. "Bu..bu..but."

"What?" The raven-haired girl asked.

"I gotta owie!" Erasa declared. Even though she seemed to be a young teen, this girl still acted very childish. "Kiss it make it better, Videl." Gohan and the other girls faulted and fell backwards in astonishment. They quickly composed themselves when it became clear that the blonde wasn't kidding.

"No way," The young Videl protested, "I absolutely refuse to do such a thing."

"Bu' Videeeel." Erasa whined, holding her scuffed knee.

"Oh, give me a break." The green haired girl remarked while crouching down. She looked around before giving a light peck to Erasa's knee. "There, all better."

The blonde brightened immediately and hopped up to her feet. "Thanks Pensil, you'll make a great doctor one day." Gohan looked at the girl with green hair; Pensil. Videl had mentioned her today, but why had she never been mentioned before? "Gee, thanks." Pensil said with a smile.

"If not a doctor, a great Mother atleast." Videl joked, enjoying the embarrassment she inflicted upon her friend. Pensil gave chase to the fleeing braided girl and was soon followed by the giggling blonde as everything faded to black.

'Why?' Gohan pondered, 'Why did she change from this happy girl to an angry teen? It can't be because of her mother, she's much older here then when her mom died.' Gohan looked up in the darkness, the image of the smiling girls still in his head. "What changed you." He asked the blackness of dream. As if in reply, the 'sky' started to rain a horribly warm and sticky fluid.

Gohan woke up suddenly to the sound of birds tweeting in the new dawn. The 'sky' in his dream had been raining nothing but blood.

**********************************end chappie SA- Chapter 3 is done. I know, I know, 'took you long enough', right? Well I'm terribly sorry for that, but chapter 4 will be up soon, I swear it. This part just had me a little stumpped is all. please review.