The Mercenary Chapter 8: Brown Eyed Girl: Product of Lust, a dragon ball z fanfic

WARNING: This chapter of 'The Mercenary' contains descriptions rape and sexual assault. Proceed at your own discretion.

Lust.

More often than not, when a guy proclaims his everlasting love to you, you can safely assume his just wants a romp in the sack. I see it in their eyes all the time, the lust, the desire for me. I know that sounds a little conceited, but it's true. I've never really thought of myself as being anything more than average looking, but the fact that my father is one of the richest men in the world would make me seem more beautiful than Helen of Troy, even if I resembled a giant slug with warts.

But where do you draw the line between love and lust? How do you define either? How can you tell the difference between the two? All they are forms of longing.

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Winry Elric arrived at Gohan's place a little after nine o'clock in the morning. She had with her a little welcoming basket, full of homemade cakes and muffin. She pulled into his driveway and took the house in. Despite being in the upmarket district of Herron, the house was rather small, compared to the other houses that is. It had a red brick fence with dark green metal bars, and two stories of red brick walls and a grey tin roof. The front door was a double French door with a very nice pattern in the window. What Winry took notice of most, of the little wind chimes, which chimed at the slightest breeze. All in all it was a nice house. (Sorry if that description was a little retarded)

Placing the basket on the ground, Winry knocked three times on the door. Several seconds latter the door was answered by Gohan. He was dressed a black muscle shirt with three jagged grey diagonal stripes and black jeans with black skate shoes. When he recognised who it was he said "What can I do for you Mrs. Elric," a little coldly.

Winry however just smiled, secretly trying to reign in her temper 'How DARE he be so rude,' she thought angrily. "I brought you some food," she said holding up the basket of baked goods.

Gohan looked at the food and sighed. "You want some coffee?" he asked.

Winry smiled in triumph. "Sure," she replied.

He led her into the kitchen. Winry placed the basket on the table and took a seat. She heard Gohan's stereo playing with a song she hadn't heard before.

I've been to London, seen seven wonders. I know to trip is just to fall
I used to rock it, sometimes I'd roll it. I always knew what it was for.

There can be no denyin' that the wind 'll shake 'em down
And the flat world's flyin'. There's a new plague on the land

If we could just join hands

Traversed the planet when heaven sent me. I saw the kings who rule them all
Still by the firelight and purple moonlight. I hear the rested rivers call
And the wind is crying, from a love that won't grow cold
My lover, she is lying, on the dark side of the globe

If we could just join hands

You got me rockin' when I ought to be a-rollin'
Darlin', tell me, darlin', which way to go
You keep me rockin', baby, then you keep me stolen
Won't you tell me, darlin', which way to go... that's right

Oh how I wonder, oh how I worry and I would dearly like to know
I've all this wonder of earthly plunder will it leave us anything to show

And our time is flyin' see the candle burnin' low
Is the new world rising, from the shambles of the old

If we could just join hands.

She turned to Gohan who was fixing up two cups of coffee. "I've never heard this song before, what is it," she asked.

The mercenary handed her a cup of coffee. "It's called 'The Rover' by Led Zeppelin," he answered her.

Winry looked at Gohan strangely. "Who's Led Zeppelin," she asked.

"An English rock band from before the Catastrophic War," said Gohan, taking a sip from his coffee and grabbing one of the cakes.

"It's a cool song, and it suits you," she said.

Gohan nodded taking a bite of the cake. "Hey," he said after swallowing. "This is good, you bake it yourself?"

Winry beamed with pride and nodded. "Hell, if you cook this good all the time, you can bring me a welcome basket any time," said Gohan, earning him more browny points.

"So what brings you to my place anyway? It can't have been just to drop of a welcome basket,"

Winry shook her head. "I heard you had a report to give Chief Inspector Sagara today, so I thought I'd come give you a lift," she said.

Gohan sighed. He didn't exactly need a lift, though didn't want to attract too much attention to himself from his new employers. "Thanks," he said simply. "I'll go grab the report, and then we'll go,"

Winry nodded as he walked out of the room. A few seconds latter there was a knock on the door. "Could you get that Mrs. Elric," came Gohan's voice from somewhere in the house.

Winry got up and made her way down the hall to the front door. When she opened it, she was meet with the teenaged form of Videl Satan. "Uh," she said. "Is Gohan here?"

Winry nodded. "He's just gone to get his report," the blonde woman said. "You're Videl Satan, aren't you?"

Videl blushed slightly and nodded. "I'm Winry Elric, the wife of Gohan's boss," said Winry, holding out her hand.

The teenaged girl took the older woman's hand. "A pleasure to meet you Mrs. Elric," said Videl.

"My, you are polite aren't you," Winry said, causing Videl to blush some more. "Hopefully you can rub off on Gohan, eh?"

Videl giggled a bit and nodded, but soon found herself imagining what Gohan would have defined as 'rubbing off'. Her renewed blush projected what she was thinking to Mrs. Elric, who smirked at the young girl. When Gohan came to the front door, he saw the two women talking, about god knows what. Coughing a little he got there attention. "Hey there Vi," he greeted.

"Hey Gohan," she trailed off as she took notice of Gohan's arms and chest, which were revealed through the fairly tight muscle shirt. 'Oh my GOD. What is he? A Greek god or something?' she thought to herself.

Both Winry and Gohan took noticed at Videl's staring, both of them smirking. When the teenagers realized they were smirking at her she blushed, and mumbled an apology. "So what brings you around Vi," said Gohan.

"Just wanted to say hi," she said still blushing. "And to see if you needed a lift to the CLEH,"

"Thanks for the offer Vi," began Gohan. "But Mrs. Elric here…"

"Actually Gohan," interrupted Winry. "I only came here because I thought you had no other means of getting to the CLEH, but I have a doctor's appointment. If you can get there some other way that would make things much easier on me."

Gohan looked at Videl. "Well Vi, if you don't mind, I will be taking that lift, if you can put up with my company for a few minutes," he said.

"No problem," was her reply.

After saying their farewells Winry hopped back into her car, and the two teenagers jumped into Videl's jet copter. As she saw them take off she smiled. 'Those two look so cute together' she thought to herself.

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Around eight o'clock that night, Gohan found himself wondering around the Vanguard district. It was the lower class area, where the unemployed and low paid workers lived. Also this was where Gohan lived while he was working for the Syndicate. He didn't live here because he couldn't afford better, quite the contrary, he was one of the most highly paid mercenaries working for the Syndicate, and that was saying something. No he took up residence in this district simply because this was where the Syndicate was strongest. Many of their grunt workers and thugs lived here and many people had felt hard done by the government, mostly because they didn't have jobs.

The young mercenary couldn't help but wonder the reaction he would receive when spotted by a Syndicate employee. 'Oh well´ he thought. 'Could use the exercise'. Gohan was bored out of his mind. Videl had gone over to Erasa's for a sleep over so hanging out with her wasn't an option. After spending the last two days getting to know her, Gohan found that he rather enjoyed her company. She wasn't exactly what he had expected, being the daughter of Hercule and all. Actually, he could sense that she rather disliked her father.

"HEELP ME," cried a voice from a nearby alleyway.

Gohan frowned. When he used to live here he heard those types of screams all the time. Woman getting robbed, raped and murdered was just normal occurrence in the Vanguard district. Yet something about that voice had bothered Gohan. It was feminine, that was definite, but it was awfully young, probably years younger than what was legal, and also, and this is what really got Gohan, he could have sworn he had heard that voice before.

Gohan sighed as he made his way to where he heard the scream. Usually he tried to mind his own business when it concerned to people below, but he decided that today he could at least save someone. However when he walked into the alleyway, he froze and his eyes widened.

There in front of him were three men, all with the same kind of black hair and greens eyes that Saitama Edo and his siblings had. And there corned up into a ball in the corner was a little girl, no older than nine. Her cloths torn and tatter and she had lots of bruises, welts and cuts over her body. It was Gohan noticed her brown eyes did he recognize her. 'My dear Kami on a stick. That's the young girl from my dream' he thought, though he realized she was a little younger than in his dream. 'Duh you idiot, you and Videl were older as well´ came Gohan's mental reply. Deciding to take action, he spoke up. 'Hey, leave the little girl alone," he called to the men.

The three men turned to Gohan. "Check this guy out brothers," said the biggest one, he assumed the eldest.

"Probably doesn't know that we're the Edo brothers," said the second. 'No wonder they look like Saitama then' thought Gohan.

The third just glared at Gohan. "Whatcha gonna do if we choose to keep our little pet instead," he sneered.

The young mercenary in front of them just smirked, an evil glint in his eye making the three brothers back away. "I'm gonna tear you to pieces," snarled Gohan darkly.

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Sousuke Sagara surveyed the men surround the large circular table in the dark room that they were in. Most notable were Roy Mustang, Ed Elric and Heero Yuy. Too him everyone else was just a nameless politician. Everyone was gathered here because the mayor had asked Sousuke to conduct a presentation of the findings in Gohan's report. "You may begin when ready Chief Inspector," said Ed.

Sousuke nodded. "Gentlemen," he began. "As you know, the mercenary, Gohan, who we hired several days ago has worked for the Black Syndicate for the past three years. One year in South City, in China for the duration of the Jehol Conflict and has been in Satan City since the conflicts end. After they tried to assassinate him, we put forward an offer which he accepted. Yesterday I requested he write a report on the inner workings of the Black Syndicate and information about their operation earlier this week involving a twenty man assault on the Satan Central Bank. The report was handed in to me today at ten o'clock,"

Roy Mustang nodded. "And you managed to make up a full presentation in only six hours. You should be commended Chief Inspector," said the mayor.

"Thank you, Mr. Mustang," replied Sousuke giving a small bow. He then turned off the lights and turned on a projector which showed a picture of the Pacific Ocean. Parts of the surrounding land were highlighted in red, while the rest was yellow. "In Gohan's report," started Sousuke. "He indicates that the Black Syndicate, operating mostly in Japan and China, is only part of a much large crime network."

Collective gasps were heard around the room. "You mean to say that the Black Syndicate is nothing more than a puppet," gasped Ed.

Sousuke nodded. "Yes. The report shows that the majority of organized crime on the east Asian and west American coasts, the northern Oceanic islands and Japan are all controlled by the same crime family, referred to as the 'Paladin Family', lead by the father Adrian Paladin, who according to this report is over one hundred years old,"

A snort came from the desk. "That statement there should be able to show it's own credibility," shot another politician, a large man named Basque Grann, Minister of Provincial Relations.

Sousuke just looked at the man. "Actually Gohan has managed to provide birth certificates and photographic evidence to back this claim up. So no matter how ludicrous it seems, the claim still has some credibility," he said.

"And," said Roy. "If you interrupt Mr. Sagara again, Mr. Grann, I shall have you escorted out of this room,"

Grann just glared at the mayor, but kept his mouth shut. "Thank you Mr. Mustang," said Sousuke. "As I was saying, the Paladin family controls all organized crime within the red area, but also has connections to terrorist organizations and rebel factions all over the world. They do every illegal act possible from drug smuggling to arms dealing and make vast amounts of money. In fact," Sousuke took a deep breath. "According to this report, this Paladin family has enough resources and man power to start another Catastrophic War."

Again everyone around him gasped, including the mayor and Heero Yuy. "My God," whispered the usually cold general.

"Do they have any weaknesses," asked Ed.

Sousuke shifted through the papers. "The Paladin family is a crime family, and as such they would pass the mantle from father to son. If we can locate these family members than maybe we could disrupt their chain of command."

"But if this Adrian Paladin really is immortal," questioned Heero.

Sousuke nodded. "I believe it would be best to wait until we have more information on the Paladin family, before we act," he stated.

Ed and Roy nodded their agreements. "Next item from Gohan's report," said Sousuke, pulling out a small stack of papers. "I have here a list of government employee's in all areas, all over Japan, who have been taking bribes from the Black Syndicate."

Sousuke surveyed the room, his words having the desired effect. He could see several men begin to sweet, including Minister Grann. Sousuke smiled to himself. "I will give this list to you after the meeting Mr. Mustang," he said.

Roy nodded. "Of course," he replied.

"Lastly," said Sousuke. "I must ask everyone apart from Mayor Mustang, Minister Elric, General Yuy and myself to leave this room. The next item of business is extremely confidential and really has nothing to do with anyone else."

The other men nervously got up and left, with Grann giving Sousuke one last glared before exiting. Heero gave Sousuke a strange look. "Was that necessary Inspector," he said. "I'm sure that whatever you have to tell us isn't that confidential."

Sousuke nodded. "You're right General, however, all of those men who left the room are on Gohan's list," said the Inspector.

The eyes of the three remaining men widened. "All of them," said Ed. "I mean, I've always suspected Grann, ever since Bradley got the boot, but the others as well?"

Sousuke nodded again. "The last item from this report is Gohan's report of the Central Bank assault earlier this week. It says that their mission was authorized by the Paladin Family themselves. The thugs were meant to retrieve something called a dragon ball," the policeman looked up from his paper. "Does that mean anything to anyone?"

Roy and Ed shook their heads, but Heero just stared. "I have heard a story or two about them," he said.

"Would you like to share with us General," asked Roy.

Heero nodded. "The legend of the dragon balls is a story about these seven mystical balls, each numbered by the amount of star it has. When all seven are gathered, they summon a dragon known as Shenlong the Eternal Dragon. When summoned this dragon will grant the user any two wishes."

Ed perked up at hearing this. "Something you want to add, Ed," said Roy.

The young minister nodded. "Alright, lets say, for the sake of argument, that these 'dragon balls' do exist right? Wouldn't that explained why Adrian Paladin has lived for so long," said Ed.

Sousuke nodded in agreement. "From some family records Gohan provided, Adrian's eldest child is 54, less than half his age. Why would a crime boss like Adrian wait so long to have an heir?"

"Because he wasn't going to die anytime soon," said Ed, and then adding. "Probably uses them as employees rather than heirs."

The other men nodded in agreement as Sousuke continued with his presentation. "The report says that when they got to the vault where the valuable items are kept, the dragon ball wasn't there. Then one of the demo experts accidentally set off one of the explosive devices, killing everyone there save Gohan."

"How did he survive," asked Heero.

Sousuke flipped the page. "His jacket saved his. He doesn't let anyone else touch it, but according tot his report, comparing his jacket to Kevlar is like comparing tank armour to al foil," he said.

Roy raised an eyebrow and smirked. "That strong huh," said the mayor. "Certainly glad he's on our side,"

Heero nodded, but looked at the mayor curiously. "Yes, but don't you want to know where that jacket came from," asked the young general.

"Of course," said Roy. "But something tells me that Gohan has absolutely no intention of telling us where he got that jacket from. Not to mention his contract only specifies information us about any criminal activities and habits, so he'll use that to his advantaged."

"Something doesn't seem right though," said Ed, rubbing his chin. "The Black Syndicate is usually well informed, and I'm assuming this Paladin family is even more so. So if this 'dragon ball' had been moved before hand, then wouldn't they know about?"

The other men remained quiet, contemplating what Ed had said. Finally Sousuke spoke. "The most likely explanation, after the one in Gohan's report, is that he stole the dragon ball and sabotaged the explosives, leaving no witness's," he volunteered.

"If that is the case, then I'm afraid we will just have to give Gohan the benefit of the doubt," said Roy, then adding. "Until there is evidence to the otherwise."

His three subordinates nodded their agreement as Riza Hawkeye walked in through the door. "Excuse, Mr. Sagara you have a call from Mr. Gohan," she said, giving the mayor a sly wink before she left.

Turning to the other three men, Sousuke said. "I better see what he wants,"

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"So what's he like Videl," asked Erasa.

Videl swallowed a mouthful of her coke and put her can down next to her. The girls had pulled out a spare mattress underneath Erasa's bed and made it up for Videl, which they both now sat on. Both of them were in their pajamas and were just sitting up and talking at ten o'clock that night. Videl could see this question a mile away, so she had a fair bit of time to prepare. "Honestly Erasa," said Videl. "The boy is a complete mystery."

"Oh," said Erasa. "How so?"

The dark haired girl sighed. "He has a sense of honour, anyone who talked to him long enough can see that, but it's twisted to suit himself, making him deceptive. Everything I learn about him contradicts everything I already know. I just can't figure him out."

Erasa just smiled at her friend. "Maybe that's a good thing huh," she said to her oldest friend.

Videl just looked at the perky blonde. "What are you talking about?"

"Well think about it, if you knew everything about him, then he'd be predictable wouldn't he? I reckon that's what makes him so interesting, that no one knows what he's gonna do next. Of course no one really knows much about him, save you Videl, but he doesn't seem the type to reveal himself completely to anyone, does he?"

Videl answered her friend, as the pair of them heard Erasa's mum answer the phone. "No you're right, he doesn't seem the type to share his secrets," then she sighed. "It's just that I want to be his friend, but how can I trust him with my secrets, if I don't know what he's going to do with them?"

Erasa nodded in understanding. Videl had secrets that only a girl would share with a special someone, and the young girl wanted Gohan to be that someone. "Videl I cant give you all the answers…"

The blonde's response was cut off with her mother, Julia who was the spitting image of her daughter, came barging into the room. "I'm sorry girls but I've been called into the hospital, there's an emergency. And you guys have to come with me," said the older blonde.

"What? Why?" asked Videl.

"Your dad told me not to leave you by yourself," Julia replied.

Videl sighed. Typical of her father, always preventing her from being herself. While some people would dismiss it as the world's saviour as being protective of his daughter, Videl could see it for what it really was. If she was always under adult supervision, whether it be teacher, policemen or friends parents, she would most likely behaved. Not that Videl misbehaved ever, but Hercule wasn't willing to take that chance. He said that when you're famous, everything you and your family do affects that fame. No sooner than those words left his mouth, Videl knew that he was more worried about his fame, than his own daughter.

As Julia got dressed in her nurse's uniform, the young girls each jackets and shoes and they all made their way to the family car.

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The three women rushed inside Satan City Hospital. Julia told Videl and Erasa to wait outside in the waiting room while she went to do her job. As they went to sit down, Videl noticed two other people in the waiting both, both of them she knew on some level. "Gohan," she called to one of the boys.

The boy mercenary turned to her and the scowl his was wearing lessened a little. "Vi, Erasa, what are you guys doing here," Gohan asked.

The man next to him turned his head and eyed the two girls. He then smirked. "My how do such lovely angels come to know an animal such as the one sitting next to me?" he said as the two walked over to where they sat.

Videl who was used to such compliments from strange men just rolled her eyes, while Erasa giggled and blushed. Gohan only glared at the other man. "I'm not the only animal here, am I, Kobe, and I don't remember saying you could speak," shot the demi-Saiyan.

The man, who was called Kobe, just made a hmph noise and stuck his nose up in the air. Videl just looked at them. "Kobe? As in Kobe Edo?" piped Erasa.

Kobe got up and grabbed Erasa's hand and kissed it lightly, causing Erasa to blush and giggle again. "Beautiful and well informed. I think I'm in love," Kobe said smoothly, adding to Erasa's giggles.

Gohan looked at the pair in disgust, got up and lightly (for a Saiyan) swatted Kobe on the back of the head. "You do not touch her filth, or else I won't hand you over to Sagara when he gets here," spat the mercenary, returning to his seat.

Videl decided to take the seat next to Gohan, and asked "What's going on Gohan, why are you holding a member of the Edo family prisoner in a hospital?"

Gohan shot another glare at Kobe. "I was wondering around the Vanguard district when I found this low life and his older brothers having a little too much fun,"

Videl and Erasa, who sat next to her best friend, just looked at the Saiyan. "What do you mean?" they both said.

The mercenary next to them simply said "They raped a little girl, no older than ten. This bastard tried to kill her while I finished off his brothers. I brought her here as fast as I could."

Both of the girls gasped, and Videl whispered "Oh my god," while Erasa subconsciously wiped the hand Kobe had kissed. The Edo son only scowled. "What about by brothers huh? You massacred them like an animal kills his prey," spat Kobe.

Gohan only smirked. "I am an animal; I hold no illusions to the contrary. I killed anything and everything that gets in my way. But I do not rape. As far as I'm concerned rape is the only unjustifiable crime and I have no mercy to rapist. You saw first hand what I did to your brothers."

Videl looked at Gohan skeptically. "What did you do to his brothers," she asked.

Still smirking Gohan answered "Not much but you can find them all over Vanguard,"

"You bastard," Kobe spat. "He said he was going to tear us apart. Never in my wildest dreams did I think he meant it literary."

The young mercenary merely shrugged as Erasa gasped again and Videl only looked at him. "Don't looked so surprised, Vi, you know what I'm capable of," he said to her.

Videl nodded. Erasa, after getting over the sock of realizing Gohan actually did kill people, just looked between the two. 'Videl knows that he's a murderer and yet she still wants to earn his earn and place hers in him´ she thought about her friend and the new student. 'That relationship cannot be healthy'. "So why did you spare him," asked Videl.

"I thought the Chief Inspector might appreciate him as a present," replied Gohan.

"Huh," said the blonde, not understanding.

Kobe snorted. "He thinks that if he turns me over to the police, I'll tell them about my families dealings,"

Gohan nodded. "That's pretty much the only reason he's here," then he smirked at Kobe. "It's the only reason you're alive," he finished, causing Kobe to shudder.

"Gohan," came a voice from the end of the hall. There stood the Chief Inspector, looking a little annoyed. Walking over to the mercenary and the people around him he said. "Want to tell me what was so important that I had to leave a meeting with the mayor,"

Gohan nodded. "This man here is Kobe Edo, third son of Tokyo Edo. He and his brothers Yokohama and Kawasaki were about to rape a young girl, not even having starting puberty. I disposed of the older two and brought this one here, to hand over to you for interrogation."

"Interrogation?" question Sousuke.

Gohan nodded again. "I'm not a doctor, but from the bruises and cuts all over the girls body, I can safely say that she has been suffering a lot of abuse and I wanna find out if those low lives I found had anything to do with it,"

The Chief Inspector nodded. "Of course," he said grabbing Kobe Edo and dragging him away.

Gohan simply glared when Kobe started crying for mercy and everything else. "Scum like him don't deserve mercy," he spat.

Videl placed a comforting hand on his shoulder. "You know his parents will just bribe the authorities and get him out," she said.

The mercenary nodded his agreement. "Then they would just be wasting their money," he smirked.

Hi there sorry this chapter took so long, had some more exams and such. Also I've been trying to plan the rest of the story before I write, and still working on it. Also congrats to Videl1212 who guessed the most characters. The little girl is Pan and the other too teenagers are Inuyasha and Kagome from Inuyasha. Kagome was introduced in this chapter and her history will be explained during the next. Inuyasha will come into the story a little latter, same with the other two. A clue to their identities; they are both from the dragon ball universe and apart from the age of one of them and their allegiances they are exactly the same as the real ones. Remember to read and review, hopefully I can get the next chapter done soon.