Okay so before I start this chapter I feel I should address something, mainly in regards to my other story, Rosewood Saiyan, my other Gohan related fanfiction where Gohan goes to Rosewood High and becomes friends with the PLLs.
I keep on getting asked this on my tumblr so I'll clear it up now:
The Gohans in Rosewood Saiyan and here in Saiyan Shinobi are NOT the same Gohans since there would be major details that contradict each other's stories plot like Goku coming back to life here and him still being dead at the start of Rosewood Saiyan, Gohan making friends of his own age in Saiyan Shinobi while he didn't have any friends of his own age before meeting the PLLs and etc. Think of the Gohans being like Goku and Xeno Goku! =P
Just thought I'd clear that up so yeah, I'm sorry but I just felt it was necessary! XP
BUT….there'll be a SMALL reference to that story in this chapter and you'll find it if you squint your eyes hard enough~ =P
Now with all that said and done, let the chapter begin! ^_^
Gohan surveyed the three ninja before thinking to himself.
"I can handle these three no problem…" Gohan thought to himself as he raised an eyebrow.
"Just who're you three?" Gohan decided to ask the all-important question as the three teens smirked at him.
"Kin Tsuchi." The girl with long black hair smiled devilishly.
"Zaku Abumi." The smaller of the boys smirked.
"Dosu Kinuta." The mummy like ninja smirked also.
With proper introductions out of the way, Gohan decided to ask the second question on his mind.
"And just why should I come with you three?" Gohan asked, slightly bemused.
"Let's just say…our master would like to have some words with you…." Dosu grinned menacingly under his bandages as Gohan was unfazed by the threat in his tone.
"And just who is your master?" Gohan inquired as the three laughed.
"Oh no need to ask. Since you'll see him soon!" Zaku yelled before charging the half-Saiyan who easily blocked his incoming punch with his palm before knocking Zaku back.
Gohan attempted to follow through with another hit before a hit from Dosu knocked Gohan back with the air from his amplifier.
"Okay, maybe I shouldn't have let ignored those two." Gohan thought, although he was unharmed.
"So what was that?" Gohan asked in slight curiosity.
"My amplifier allows me to manipulate the power of sound itself. You'd better keep a good look out for it or else direct contact with it can cause all sorts of pain and even nausea." Dosu explained as Gohan remained confident.
"Hmph, so all I have to do is avoid you, right? No problem!" Gohan said before vanishing in what looked to be like thin air, according to the three sound nin, before he appeared right in front of all three of them, much to their astonishment.
"So fast!" Kin thought, utterly dumbfounded.
"Zaku! Blast him away!" Dosu ordered his teammate.
"Right! Striking sound wave!" Zaku yelled as he attempted to blast the preteen into oblivion.
As the smoke from the forest cleared out, Gohan was nowhere to be found, making the trio smile in assumed triumph.
"Hmph, he may've been able to do some shit but he was no match for us!" Zaku smirked before laughing.
"I wonder if he had a scroll though…" Dosu pondered, mentally cursing his teammate if he was stupid enough to destroy the scroll if it was indeed on Gohan at the time he was blasted away.
"Well at least it's over." Kin sighed in relief.
"Not really." A voice announced from above as the group looked to see none oter than Gohan floating in the air with a look of slight amusement on his face.
"So, is that the best you got? I've taken worse when I was four." Gohan laughed before pausing internally.
"Wow…I think I've spent too much time around Vegeta…" Gohan muttered internally.
"Why you show off piece of-"Zaku tried to say before Kin held her arm in front of the enraged teenager.
"Idiot! Calm down! It's no use….we might be in over our heads…." Kin muttered as the boys of the team glared at her.
"Don't tell me, you're actually giving up!" Zaku glared at her as Dosu turned to Gohan.
"I want to know…how strong are you?" Dosu asked as Gohan raised an eyebrow.
"What do you mean?" The half-saiyan asked the mummy look-alike.
"Show us your power. We're curious." Dosu answered as Gohan pondered this.
"If I'm not careful, I might end up blowing away this whole forest. I won't let that happen." Gohan shook his head before looking up.
"Okay. Sure thing. But, I have to say you know, I can sense it, you guys seem not on the morally good side of things. Hurting people isn't that good for you, you know. Helping people can be fun too." Gohan said as he tried to reason with the three as they stared blankly before they burst out laughing at him.
"Oh my god! Is this guy serious!?" Kin nearly doubled over in laughter.
"Yes, yes, I can see it now! Us as the protector of the weak, the innocent and the good." Zaku wiped a tear from laughing too hard.
"Look don't try to reform us. Just show us your perfect power." Dosu threatened as Gohan smiled back.
"Heh, fine. You asked for it." Gohan said before screaming high.
The members of Team Dosu stared at Gohan in confusion before a white like aura surrounded Gohan before his hair suddenly stood up as winds started flowing through the forest while the blue sky above suddenly turned gray.
Everyone in the forest could feel the tremors of the forest.
"What in the!?" Tenten asked as she nearly fell from the tree branch she was on.
"What is this?" Lee pondered as Neji was silent.
"It feels like an earthquake's in the forest!" Kiba fell over on his butt as Hinata and Shino were quiet in horror.
"Who is this?" Shikamaru asked, his natural narrowed eyes wide in surprise.
"Mommy!" Choji chirped as he felt his chip bag hit the floor.
"I have an idea who this is…" Naruto said to Sasuke as they both flew through the forest, the latter having caught the former after running off to go urinate.
"Gohan…" Sasuke answered with a slight dry tone in his voice.
Gaara said nothing but his mouth tilted upwards as an insane smile adorned his features.
"N…no way…." Kin asked as she nearly fell on her butt.
"How can one human have so much power!?" Zaku asked before turning to Dosu.
"Dosu! With all due respect, I think it'd be best if we left and got Lord Orochimaru!" Zaku yelled.
"Shut up, Zaku. I can handle this!" Dosu stammered as Gohan continued powering up.
"That does it!" Zaku yelled before getting a left over tree branch that was knocked over in the midst of Gohan's power up.
"Try this on for size!" Zaku yelled as he used his powers to blow the tree branch at Gohan.
Upon impact with the aura-like barrier surrounding him, the log was incinerated within seconds.
"What!?" Dosu and Kin yelled as Gohan powered down, his aura being absorbed into him completely.
"So…this…is…the…real…you?" Kin stammered as she was afraid that Gohan was stronger than even Orochimaru himself!
Sensing her fear, Gohan exhaled.
"There's no need to be scared of me. Just hand over your school and go on about your business." Gohan said as Zaku glared at him.
"Just give up our scroll and leave you son of a-"Zaku was about to yelled before a hand on his shoulder and harsh glare from Dosu cut him off.
"We can't beat him. It'd be suicide." Dosu said as Zaku gazed at him in disbelief.
"But-"Zaku tried to argue before Dosu cut him off with a look that left no arguments to be desired.
"Here's our Heaven Scroll. We'll leave it with you and leave in peace." Dosu said as Kin and Zaku glared at the half-saiyan before using their body flicker techniques to poof away.
"Heh, we got our scrolls five days early!" Gohan grinned before sensing the energies of his teammates.
"Hey, guys!" Gohan greeted his three friends as they touched down.
"Seriously? Being a show off?" Sasuke asked, although Gohan could sense amusement as the Uchiha smirked good-heartedly. Sasuke couldn't explain why but being around Gohan…put him at ease…..
"Heh. At least we have both scrolls now!" Gohan said as he showed them the Heaven Scroll he acquired to add to their Earth Scroll.
"Amazing! We've five days ahead of schedule!" Sakura exclaimed joyously before hugging the Z-Fighter, much to Naruto's chagrin.
"Hehe, and to think in another universe we may've had to haul ass just to get scrolls!" Naruti said as the team, even Sasuke, shared a nice good laugh.
"Although it's kinda late now." Sakura said as Gohan smiled.
"Not a problem." Gohan grinned before pulling out a Dyno Capsule and pressing it before releasing it, causing a big poof of smoke to come out as a blue domed house unlike anything the Uchiha and Haruno had ever seen before.
"Hey, it's one of those Dyno Capsules you showed me!" Naruto acknowledged.
"….Dyno…Capsules?" Sasuke asked.
"It's a long story." Gohan laughed as Sakura sighed.
"Of course it is." The pinkette deadpanned.
The next day, Gohan was out looking for food.
The reason being was due to Sakura not keeping proper watch of the food and with an Uchiha, Uzumaki and Half-Saiyan being within the perimeter, most of the food disappeared fairly quickly.
"Alright…now to get some food." Gohan said as his stomach growled, making the eleven year old groan as he put a hand over it.
"Ugh…so hungry…" Gohan groaned before a scream cut him off.
"What was that?" Gohan asked as he looked to see a girl about a year older than him look panicked at the site of large bear about to devour her.
"Oh no! She needs help!" Gohan said as he flew down to her aid. He looked to see she was a young with short red hair, red eyes and glasses.
"Help me! Somebody! Please!" The redhead yelled as the bear was about to bring its fist down before it was blasted it a huge ki blast, covering it completely as the entire bear was roasted and burned.
"Hey, you okay!?" The voice of Gohan asked in concern from a nearby tree branch as the red head blinked curiously.
"M-my glasses!" The red head said before putting on her glasses. As she put them on she looked to see a boy around her age with gravity defying black hair, black eyes and a purple gi with a blue belt and a headband around his left bicep with brown shoes.
"He's….kinda cute…" The redhead blushed as he helped her up.
"You okay?" Gohan asked, helping the redhead up.
"Y-yeah….thank you…." The redhead meekly thanked as Gohan smiled.
"Great!" Gohan grinned as the redhead blushed.
"So did you see what happened to that bear?" The redhead asked.
"Haha, yeah. But who're you?" Gohan asked curiously.
As the girl was about to answer….
"KARIN!" the voice of a boy called out as Karin turned to look two boys with grass village headbands approach her.
"Oh, Shigeru." Karin said as he glared at her.
"What the hell were you doing? Getting yourself hurt? When we need you to save us in these exams!" Shigeru glared at Karin as Gohan glared at him, not liking his tone.
"Sorry…" Karin softly apologized as the other male teammate glared at her.
"Sheesh you're so useless!" Her other male teammate chided.
"That's enough!" As both boys looked to see Gohan fuming at the two.
"She's your teammate and yet you're treating her like crap?" Gohan asked glaring at the two.
"Who's it to you shrimp?" Shigeru asked.
"Yeah, who're you?" Her teammate asked.
"Son Gohan's the name." Gohan said as surprised gasps from all three filled the area.
"No way! THE son Gohan? Who was said to have fought on par with Zabuza Momochi?" Shigeru stammered.
"The very same." Gohan answered as both boys nearly pissed their pants as Karin was stunned.
"You know…let's just go…" The male of the team said to Shigeru.
"R-right…" Shigeru stammered before flickering away.
"U…uhm…Gohan….Thank you…for standing up to me…" Karin smiled as Gohan smiled back.
"Of course, Karin. Well I'll see you later." Gohan grinned before going off with his bear in tow as Karin smiled from his backside.
"What….are these feelings I'm feeling?" Karin asked as she was suddenly filled with a feeling she hadn't felt since her mother died.
As Gohan made his way to his team, he sensed bloodlust in the air.
"Wait, I know this energy…Come out, Gaara!" Gohan said as Gaara came from a nearby tree.
"Okay…creepy…" Gohan muttered.
"What're you doing here?" Gohan asked.
"I have a question….what is your purpose? Why're you so strong and what do you want to be strong for?" Gaara inquired.
"I'm strong because I have precious friends and I have to be strong to protect them." Gohan honestly answered as Gaara stared at Gohan silent before turning around.
"Friends, huh? I can see it in your eyes….you've suffered several losses in your life yet you remain optimistic and cheerful….you…are definitely an oddity…." Gaara muttered before vanishing in a trail of sand as Gohan looked bewildered.
"He's definitely an oddity himself…" Gohan thought as something told him that Gaara was definitely someone to keep an eye on.
Later that day, with their stomachs full, Team Seven soon made their way to the tower where they opened their scrolls only to reveal Iruka Sensei.
"Iruka?" Sasuke asked.
"Indeed. And may I say this is quite a record in Leaf History. To reach the tower in just a day. If I didn't know any better I'd say you all cheated. But I'm just kidding. I can tell you all have the brains and strength to be chunin. And with that I say enjoy the next couple of days until everyone arrives." Iruka smiled at the four before poofing away.
"I say we do that!" Naruto grinned before Gohan pulled out a Dyno capsule with a refrigerator full of snacks and drinks.
"Well we have tons of snacks and drinks so let's have fun!" Gohan grinned.
"Yeah!" Naruto and Sakura grinned.
Several days later, Naruto enjoyed a bizarre contraption that Gohan owned called a 3DS, Sakura was enjoying a nice can of Pepsi as Sasuke munched on a bag of Doritos.
"So Gohan….this world of yours…what's it like?" Sakura asked as Gohan gave a nostalgic smile.
"In my world….it's very advanced and in it I was a part of a group called the Z-Fighters." Gohan began.
"The Z-Fighters?" Sasuke asked.
"Yeah. My dad was the leader with tons of friends he knew since childhood. I was the only kid of the group." Gohan laughed.
"Wow…so you never really had friends your own age before?" Naruto asked, feeling slight sadness for his friend.
"Well I did meet a couple along the way. For example Naruto, you remind me of this girl I met one week when my dad and I relaxed, her name was Han-"Gohan began.
"So what did you all do?" Sasuke asked, cutting Gohan off.
"Well we fought against various threats, similar to how you ninja do. Although…the worse of our enemies was a foe named Cell…." Gohan said, his serious tone, slightly startling the ninja.
"Cell?" Naruto, Sasuke and Sakura asked simultaneously.
"Yeah…he was an opponent comprised of years of research of the entire Z-Fighters…we all fought against him…..and I had the chance to kill him…but I got arrogant and was blinded by hatred because of all the people he had hurt….that mistake…cost me the life of my dad…." Gohan explained, blinking tears in his eyes as the three stared at him with sympathy.
Naruto had never known his dad as Sasuke could understand the pain of losing his father while Sakura didn't even want to imagine the pain Gohan was in.
"Although I was able to defeat Cell….the sacrifice from my dad still remained…if I hadn't been so reckless…dad would still be here!" Gohan grunted out, still hurt from his father's sacrifice months later.
However, Gohan looked to see comforting hands on his shoulders from Sakura and Naruto.
"That's enough, Gohan." Sakura soothingly said.
"Yeah…if you asked me you gave that bastard exactly what he deserved. I'm sure your dad understands and doesn't blame you so quit blaming yourself!" Naruto grinned.
"Besides, that Cell guy got what he deserved I'm sure." Sasuke added as Gohan blinked for a couple of seconds before he smiled.
"Thanks…you guys…." Gohan smiled as his team smiled back at him.
Gohan decided. Naruto, Sasuke, Sakura and Kakashi were his family and he would protect them from whoever planned to harm them.
As the next couple of days passed, all of the genin gathered around in an arena like room with the various jonin of the leaf village with the Hokage in the center.
"All of you, congratulations for making it to the second stage of the exam. And with that we shall start the next stage of the exams. Let the preliminaries begin!" Hiruzen announced.
And with that, the prelims start NEXT chapter! =D
I hope you all enjoyed this chapter and I know some of you might be unhappy that there wasn't a Gohan & Orochimaru fight/confrontation in this chapter BUT they WILL meet, encounter and duke it out soon so please be patient until then since I'm SURE you all will enjoy these next couple of chapters~ ^_^
Now with all that being said, please let me know your thoughts on today's chapter and chapter 19 is coming November 15th so look forward to it then! ^_^
And if you all have time, please check out my other ongoing stories such as Rosewood Saiyan and Of Tanukis and Ninjas!
Rosewood Saiyan is a DBZ/PLL fanfiction where Gohan goes to Rosewood High and becomes friends with the PLLs while Of Tanukis and Ninjas is a Naruto/One Piece fanfic where Chopper lands in Konoha after the Kuma fight on Sabaody!
Here're the stories as some shameless promotion never hurts~! XD
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Til next time, guys! ^_^
