The new and improved Anti-Videl committee sat at their lunch table discussing their plans, Gohan mainly just sitting very uneasily. The last two periods were just students freaking out from Videl being so... human. She was shaken, confused and ultimately terrified which alerted everyone. Anyone who could scare Videl so much would have to be the most fearsome creature of Earth.
"Gohan, you got that?" Sharpener added sternly at the end of his complex but possibly effective theory.
He gulped hard before anwsering, "Yeah. So first I need to get Videl to trust me?"
"Duh." Erasa scoffed, slightly intimidating the raven haired boy. "It was easy to get her to confide in people when we were kids. Hopefully, old habits die hard. You'll be fine."
Gohan shot her a somewhat scared/disbelieving look that practically screamed "I call bullshit!".
"And what if they don't? What if she never tells me anything and she ends up stabbing me to death for annoying her?" Gohan blurted out. "She did try to kill me today!"
"Calm down, you will be fine! And she will tell you... I know Videl."
"Erasa, if you know her so well, why don't you do this?" Sharpener queried.
"Its complicated but... it just wouldn't work. She wouldn't open up to me and I'd never want to get myself involved with her again." Erasa sighed.
"Like I want to." Gohan muttered.
"WELL, SORRY THAT I'M FLAMMABLE GOHAN!" Erasa spat, sick of his unwillingness to follow their plan.
"You said you'd do it. Don't go back on your word." Sharpener warned.
The ebony haired teen had no choice now. He was in this completely. And he'd be damned if he disappointed the likes of Erasa and Sharpener.
The gang spotted someone walk past, and Gohan knew it was time to begin when he saw Erasa's brown orbs dart from someone in a long trench coat back to Gohan. He stood up and reluctantly went after them.
"Hi."
Videl felt her face go red with anger. Him. That irrelevant, insignificant damned boy was the reason she had been feeling so paranoid all day. Any leverage or strength she had over these people had snatched away by some puny nobody. The worse thing was, she was certain that he didn't even know it.
"You have 3 seconds to move from me before I turn this entire school into a wasteland."
Like the intelligent psychopath she was, she found her leverage. She couldn't kill him... but she could kill everyone else... everyone he cared about. And there she was fretting all day about being powerless.
"1..."
Gohan gasped. He didn't know that well, but he knew her enough to know she would do it. He had to go on with the plan but if she just threatened to murder people every time became near her, he couldn't do anything.
"2..."
Videl began to raise her hand, but before she could even lift it 30 degrees away from her side, he grabbed it. Tightly.
"I just want to talk."
"Gohan, I have nothing to say to you."
He spun her around so they stood face to face, staring into her bright, blue eyes. Seeing them so close, it dawned on him how pretty they actually looked. Meanwhile, the random gesture made her feel even more angry. Who was he to be controlling her like that?
"Hasn't anyone ever told you it's rude to stare?" She snarled at him.
"Can we talk?" He asked, still holding his gaze at her eyes.
She growled and attempted to reclaim her wrist and hand, however his grip was annoyingly tight and only became tighter.
"We're not speaking now?"
Videl walked off, Gohan following her as he was holding her hand. The two exited the lunch hall, and sat on a bench just outside, luckily still being in Erasa's and Sharpener's line of sight.
"What?!" Videl barked at him.
"Can I just apologise for what happened today? I didn't mean to annoy you."
"I find that hard to believe. Because here you are. Annoying me right now."
There was an awkward silence that commenced between the two, with Videl glaring violently at him at Gohan replying with a nervous/scared look. He would have aborted the plan and fled if it wasn't for the even more terrifying stare he was receiving from Sharpener.
"So...friends?" Gohan sheepishly asked.
"I hate you. The only reason you're even touching me right now is because I failed to murder you." Videl spat. As soon as she brought the word 'touching' escaped her lips Gohan looked down at his hand, to see it was trapping hers. He jumped, releasing her from his grasp.
"Maybe so, but I'm not dead and I'm still willing to befriend you after all of that." Gohan joked light-heartedly. She returned his 'wit' with a look of disgust.
"I promise, I will find a way to kill you. And it's going to be the apitimy of satisfaction." Gohan gulped. Hard.
"Okay, bye!" Gohan laughed, trying to mask his fear, though doing so extremely poorly. He sauntered back to his table, so petrified he thought he'd faint.
"How did it go?" Erasa questioned.
"Well, I apologised and asked for her friendship. Then she explained why the only reason I was still talking to her was because of her inability to kill me and that she would figure out HOW TO MURDER ME!" He reported, his voice rising dangerously high. "SO YEAH, THAT'S HOW IT WENT! I'M GOING TO DIE!"
Sharpener chuckled to himself and rolled his eyes, finding the black-haired boy's distress amusing.
"You're not going to die. You're the only one of us who can stop her, we'll protect you."
"And how are you going to do that when she can kill you without even touching you?!" Gohan shrieked, angered beginning boil up inside of him. He was sincerely regretting agreeing to the mission.
"How do you think we've survived so long? For some reason the freak won't kill me and Sharpener. We would have tried to befriend her ourselves but neither of want to get involved with her again. Plus we burn! So if she does decide to kill us...There's nothing stopping her." Erasa explained.
"Again?" Gohan noted curiously. "You mean you guys-"
Gohan was rudely interrupted by the pain of being yanked unto the floor. His head turned to see the culprit, his eyes travelling up their dark charcoal trench coat. As soon as their eyes met she thrusted a minute sword into his back. Well tried to, it seems to divide into halves upon impact, with the entire school watching. The cafeteria was silenced by the haunting sight of Videl. She jumped back in disbelief.
"What the hell are you?!" She snarled in frustration.
"We should be asking you that - flamethrower!" Erasa taunted. Not a very wise choice. The frazzled teen dropped the broken dagger and exited the room once again, her face becoming red with fury.
Gohan pulled himself to his feet and picked up the bisected dagger.
"At least she keeps her promises..." He muttered, not taking his eye off the blade.
