Kay back again, I got a load possitive feedback from my last update, so in celebration I put in a little extra effort into the next update and made it slightly longer than ussual. Not too pleased with the title, might change it in the future but its alright, for now.

It's another pre-school fic hopefuly youl enjoy it, and if you do, drop me a review! :D

For Videl

Orange Star Preschool during lunch-break, young Gohan and Videl were both hard at work in the sandbox.

"Okay, just keep it upright, Gohan." Videl instructed as Gohan carefully molded the walls of their structure. "Now hold it steady, the sticks almost in…"

"I've got it, its ready." Gohan assured using his hands to stabilize the column of sand, while Videl, as carefully as she could, impaled the column's center with a long stick. Making sure not to push in to strong, as to make the sides crumble.

"Almost got it…"
"Just a little more, Videl…"

"There!" Videl cheered triumphantly as she felt the base of the stick hit the firm sand floor beneath their structure. The pillar of sand Gohan had kept steady for Videl now encased the stick in a perfect cylinder shape.

Videl took a step back to admire their creation. Their sand castle, stood proudly, in the center of the sandbox. It had four cylinder turrets at each of its corners. Each of the turrets had the top half of the stick used to structure them poking out the top. Gohan was busying himself on gently smoothing away any of the lumpy bits of sand around the edges. Videl couldn't help but feel a little self pride for hers and Gohan's work.

"Okay so what should we do next?" Gohan asked, after he finished dusting of the turret.

"I don't know," Videl thought. "It looks really good already, except for bits of the sticks poking out the corners. What can we do about them?"

"Why don't we turn them into flags by sticking on leaves?" Gohan suggested. "Every castle has Flags!"

"Great idea!" Videl beamed. "You can go get leaves for the flags, and I'll try and draw doors and windows on the walls."

"Yeah!" Gohan cheered. "Then our castle will be the greatest!" he eagerly, rushed of towards the trees, in search of leaves. Videl giggled at his enthusiasm as she watched him sprint away. She turned her attention back to the castle, and began to carefully etch the doors and windows onto the sandy walls.

"Hey dummy!" a voice called at her. Videl turned to see a group of boys she instantly recognized. It was the three bullies, she met when they were picking on Gohan on the day she first met him, Keith, Krod, and their leader Kirp.

"What do you losers want?" Videl crossed her arms, clearly displeased having to see the three of them again.

"We've just come back to take what's ours" Kirp sneered. "This is our sandbox, but you kicked us out, and now you and your little pet freak waltz in here like you own the place!"

"Don't call Gohan a freak, you ugly dork!" Videl flushed in anger, resisting the urge to floor all three of them. "Get out of here before I pound the snot outta the three of ya!" she said raising her fists in a threatening stance; Keith and Krod to flinched a bit. "This is not your sandbox!"

Kirp only smirked as if expect the exact reaction from her. "It is now…"

Before Videl could react or move in to bop him on the nose, a huge pair of arms grabbed her from behind, restraining her in a full nelson grip.

"Meet our new friend Mub!" he said, laughing triumphantly.

Mub was a chunky, five year-old, with thick arms and wide face, very tall for his age he was almost an entire head-height taller than Videl making it easy for him to hold her slightly above the ground.

"Put me down you Bum!" Videl angrily kicked and thrashed but she could not break free from his iron-like grip. The bullies cruelly laughed at her futile attempts.

"Well then, now that we re-own the place, you know what we gotta do…?" not waiting for an answer, Kirp and his two lackeys strutted towards Gohan and Videl's sandcastle. "We need to do some demolition!" he laughed as he and his friends (minus Mub) stomped and kicked at the castle until it became nothing more than a pile of sand and broken twigs.

"No!" Videl cried as she increased her struggles against Mub's grip. "You bunch of pigs!" she screamed "You cowards! Your all pathetic!" she yelled, in anger and frustration.

"Pathetic are we?" Kirp's face darkened. "Looks like you need to learn some respect!" he snapped his fingers. "Mub, teach her a lesson!" On that signal, Mub altered his grip on Videl. He brutally kicked away her legs, numbing them, and threw her to the ground. Videl landed hard, face first in the sand, but before she could get up and try to counter attack, Mub's huge foot rocketed into her gut, knocking the wind out of her with a yelp. Mub pressed his huge sole on her back pinning her to the floor. She lay on the ground unable to stand writhing in pain while the bullies triumphantly jeered and kicked sand in her face.

-Elsewhere-

Gohan was on a return trip from the trees, his arms loaded with red and yellow leaves, he even had a cluster griped in his tail.

"Wait until Videl sees these!" Gohan laughed happily, feeling very pleased with himself.

At the playground he noticed a small group of people near by the sandbox, but he couldn't see Videl. He suddenly felt a sense of worry and dread. He quickened his pace towards the sandbox, hoping to see a sign of reassurance that Videl was alright and was just calmly drawing on the sides of their castle. But as he got closer, he still couldn't see her, there was a beefy boy obscuring his full view of the sandbox. The people by the sandbox seemed to be laughing. He was a few feet away when he heard a girl's yelp come from the sand box.

"Videl!" he cried in worry, and rushed towards the sandbox, dropping the leaves behind. He reached the sandbox edge, his heart froze at the sight that lay before him, there was Videl lying on the floor bruises and sand all over her face, the beefy boy which had obscured his view of the box earlier, had his foot pressed against her back and opposite him were the 3 bullies that had once tormented him on his first day for his tail. The three of them, standing smugly on the wreckage of what was their once beautiful sand castle. Gohan was speechless.

"Well if it isn't the ugly freak boy!" Kirp sniggered. "What's with all them leaves? You building yourself a nest?" he mocked. Keith and Kerj guffawed behind him.

"Vi-Videl…" Gohan whispered, his voice shaking a few tears welled up in his eyes. His eyes were locked on her injured form.

"Ye-up!" The Kirp proudly nodded. "We had to dispose of your freak girlfriend, that's why we got Mub with us." He proclaimed happily.

"Yo-you hurt her…" Gohan's arms were shaking as a strange feeling inside him started to grow.

"Aww! Are you gonna cry? Did we hurt baby freaks body-guard?" He mocked. "Maybe you should take her away to your nest for pathetic losers and…"

"YOU HURT HER!" Gohan roared cutting Kirp off, mid sentence. Without hesitation, before any of the bullies could react, Gohan angrily charged blindly at Mub. He drove his fist into him at full force. Mub, completely caught of guard, was sent flying into a pile of mud 10 feet away. Keith, Kerj and Kirp were all dumb struck. Gohan glared at the remaining bully's, seething with anger. The three of them shrunk at his glare.

"D-don't hurt us!" Kirp screamed in terror. "W-we didn't mean any of that stuff we said!" he whimpered. "W-were sorry! Really, really sorry!" He stammered. "Right boys?" he turned around only to see Keith and Kerj had already fled the scene in terror.

"Okay. O-okay" Kirp stuttered, "I'm s-sorry! Y-you won't hurt me right? I-I-I never really thought you were f-freaky, I always th-thought you were c-cool and…"

"Leave!" Gohan roared. Kirp yelped in fear and ran away as far as his legs could carry him.

"G-Gohan…?" Videl had picked herself up from the ground and was now staring at Gohan in awe. Gohan nervously turned to Videl, his anger having disapitated, he now looked at Videl with nervous eyes, a little apprehensive for her reaction to his sudden burst of anger and power.

"That was amazing!" Videl cheered. "You really socked it to them good Gohan! You knocked that wide load outta the park!" She nodded to the unconscious Mub imbedded in the far-off puddle of mud.

"You thought it was amazing…?" Gohan was mildly surprised at Videl's reaction.

"Well, yeah! That was a super punch, you pulled off back there!" Videl complimented as she brushed sand out from her hair.

"It was…?" Gohan felt his face heat up from the praise he was suddenly receiving.

"Defiantly! You could be a great fighter, with strength like that!"

"Oh…" Gohan's face fell. "My mummy, doesn't like fighting…"

"She doesn't?" Videl asked, confused. "But I heard your daddy, was one of the worlds toughest fighters?"

"Yeah, he is." Gohan confirmed.

"But then why doesn't your mum like fighting?" Videl asked clearly confused.

"Cus once my dad fought against this bad guy a long time ago and he nearly died. Mummy says that fighting is dangerous and can get me badly hurt, like my daddy did." Gohan explained, "So she says its safe for me to stay away from fighting and then no-one will get hurt."

"That's silly." Videl snorted "If you don't fight, then whose gonna stop people from getting hurt by bad guys?"

"Huh?" Gohan looked at Videl confused.

"You fought against those bully's so they wouldn't hurt me anymore, and you saved me." She smiled

"I did?"

"You did." Videl nodded. "And…" Videl paused. She quickly leaned in and kissed him on the cheek. "Thank you, by the way Gohan." She smiled appreciatively.

"Heh, heh, no problem Videl." Gohan grinned, as he felt his cheeks burn.

"Too bad about the castle though…" Videl glumly turned to the ruined pile of sand and twigs that was once their castle. "It was such a nice castle to, it really was." Videl sighed sadly. "We worked so hard on it and now it's ruined." She hung her head in defeat. Seeing Videl sad, Gohan couldn't help feeling a sense of empathy, he wanted nothing more but to try and make her smile again…

"Well I guess we will just have to re-build, it then, wont we?" Gohan grinned.

"What?" Videl looked confusedly at Gohan.

"I said we will just have to rebuild it, but this time make an even better one than before!" Gohan grinned dertemindly.

"But how?" Videl asked confused, " We can't use the sticks to make the castle corners, they're all broken into little pieces" Gohan took a moment to think.

"Well, I kinda brought more leaves then we actually needed for the flags..." Gohan pointed to the pile of leaves he dropped from where he had been standing moments ago. "So I was thinking, this time, instead of a sand castle, we can make a leafy sand fortress?"

"A leafy sand fortress?"

"Yeah! We make a big square block of sand, and then we stick all the leaves in the sides, and it looks like an armored fort!" Gohan excitedly explained.

Videl's dumbfound look gradually turned to a smile, and then into a grin, and then into a look of determined and excitement.

"Yeah!" Videl cheered, maybe we can use the broken twigs as spikes for the roof to make it look extra tough and cool!"

"That would be awesome!" Gohan happily agreed.

"Alright, come on then," Videl's determination having fully returned. "Lets gather up those leaves and get to work.

Gohan smiled as he followed Videl's lead, maybe Videl was right about fighting or maybe she wasn't, Gohan wasn't sure. But one thing he was sure on was that he would do whatever he could to make Videl happy, whenever she needed him. And that to Gohan… was something worth fighting for.

Hope you guys liked it, im hoping it doesn't seem to rushed or rambly to you. If you liked it drop me a review, and if you have a story request, drop me a review stating a story theme youd like to see writen inthis series, and I will try and write it, and give your username a mention when posted. :)

[don't worry Lilly-Sama, I havent forgoten your saiyaman request! :D]