Chapter 12

It's rest day and Gohan spent the daylight putting ointment on his bruises and meticulously examine his purple gi for holes while washing it with breath holding care, on rest days Piccolo spent his whole day away training alone and then return at night, since he didn't need down time for his muscles to heal

The boy wished he could come and watch, he felt shaky his shoulder felt heavy and light at the same time on top of that his palms felt clammy, anxiety just squiggling at the back of his mind, he didn't like it one bit, he hated it, he hated not feeling the cool yet collected storm of Piccolo's Ki, he needed to be near

Gohan didn't realize but he was scrubbing his gi too roughly and it teared lightly, his eyes widen and his form froze

There was a couple of seconds of hush stillness and then

The boy shrieked as loud as his lungs allowed disturbing nearby birds and other small animals, his distress was so prominent Piccolo felt like an intergalactic huge fan roared it's wind in front of his being

His cheek was punched by his double, causing him to tumble down, his twin technique then returned to him merging them as one, he quickly got back to his feet and blasted his way back to their base

He rushed to Gohan in Panic

"What happened! " Piccolo angrily barked

As soon as he was in the little boy's vicinity the kid latched on to him, babbling incoherent thoughts

The mentor immediately scanned him, checking for outside injuries that wasn't caused by their training

Piccolo couldn't calm himself, the boy didn't look like he took other damages, but why was he so distraught, he shoved Gohan off him so he can composed himself

" Gohan " The Namekian asserted loudly

It took a few moments but Gohan managed to suppress his crying, his head hung low, eyes locked on the ground, aura dispirited

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Piccolo now sitting down with his legs crossed just outside their cave base, stretched his neck and let out an annoyed groan, he wasn't sure if he was irritated at how fast he dropped everything just too go to the boy's side or how his level of panic for this was absurdly inappropriate

Being chased by a T-rex ? a 6

A tiger? a 4

Reminders of the Saiyan threat? a 7

Putting a tiny spec of tear on a Purple gi that is easily fixable? Apparently, that last one was so monumentally important that it was worth releasing distress signals comparable to multiple meteors heading to crush the planet

A sniffle can be heard from Gohan as he stand in the corner of the cave facing the wall

"Now you stay there and think about what you did"

Piccolo easily fixed the damaged on the gi, the kid incessantly insisted that it's better to fix this one than to make another one, he then folded it and put it aside before leaning, placing his elbows on his knee and pinching the bridge of his nose, he felt totally spent this day