Thanks everyone for your comments! I'm so glad people are still reading this although I have left you in a cliffhanger for YEARS! I am just feeling inspired, so last night I wrote up another chapter! I was going to write more to this chapter, throw some Gohan in it, but I just wrote about the Sons and made the chapter from there. Anyway, enjoy! Tomorrow I have a day off work, so I might write more then.
Oh BTW, I don't own anything from DBZ. Also I've noticed that my grammar does suck at times, and for that I am sorry. I have been updating it as I see it. I just re-though it without noticing, but I am doing my best to correct it!
Last time on Hidden Bars (chapter 10 "Understand")
Everyone took Gohan's kidnapping hard. To the people who knew him the most, the world just didn't look the same without him.
No one told Goten what happened to his brother four years ago. They are thought he was too young to understand.
"Why can't we talk to him?" Goten asked, looking up at the green man.
"I've tried," Piccolo said, "I tried talking to him but he can't hear me."
He thought of something, "Can I try talking to him?"
"Hello?"
Gohan looked up to see a child standing before him. This child looked around four years old, and so familiar to him. He sat up, staring at the young boy, "Hello?"
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"Chi-Chi, I'm home," Gokuu yelled as he walked though the door. He dropped his bag softly on the ground, taking in his surroundings. The one thing he loved about this place is that it never changed. Chi-chi was always a good house wife and mother.
After Chi-Chi wished for Gokuu to come back from the dead, Gokuu had been traveling across the universe looking for his son. Since the Earth's dragon could not bring Gokuu back to life, they used the Earth's dragon to transport Chi-Chi, Piccolo and Krillin to Namek, where they gathered their dragonballs and were able to wish Gokuu back to life. From that moment on Gokuu was rarely on planet Earth.
Since Gokuu had the ability with instant transmission, and with the help from King Kai, Gokuu was able to get close to tracking Vanlash and his crew. There were a few times he had gotten close, but he only found the aftermath of Gohan's destruction. Since the kidnapping of Gohan, even King Kai couldn't track Vanlash and the crew by their chi, in which King Kai concluded that whatever they were using to hide Gohan's power level they must have used something similar. Gokuu had been to many planets, trying to find as much information as he could about Vanlash, but most of his searching ended in vain, no one was willing to talk about Vanlash or the hollow eyed boy that had joined their crew.
Each story he heard and each planet he found that Gohan had destroyed, Gokuu's blood boiled. On the first planet Gokuu was so enraged that he transformed to a new level of super saiyan. As time went on, after watching a child die who was left in the aftermath, and the wicked things he said about his son before he passed, Gokuu had transformed again, his hair growing down his back and a new power entering him. Gokuu felt the power though him, and he could only image with the constant fighting Gohan was experiencing how strong his son would be.
Gokuu never told Chi-Chi about the things he heard about Gohan, he knew his wife could not take it. In fact, they both rarely talked about him, and they didn't know what to tell Goten. Gokuu hated tip-toeing around Chi-Chi, but the mentioning of Gohan's name was too much for her to bare.
They kept pictures of Gohan around the house, Gokuu saw Chi-Chi take one down a few years ago and he had screamed at her to keep everything the way it was. He had never screamed at Chi-Chi before, but the fact she was trying to take down reminders of Gohan upset him. He knew Chi-Chi was having a hard time, and he had no idea why she wanted to shut down when it came to her son. Maybe it was the guilt, Chi-Chi had told Gokuu of the year he was dead and how the family went on without him. Gohan was having a difficult time dealing with his death.
Gokuu regretted his decision to remain dead, maybe if he had been here Gohan would be-
His thoughts got sidetracked as Chi-Chi poked her head around the hall, "Gokuu-sa!" She screamed, running up to her husband and jumping into his arms.
Gokuu embraced his wife, holding her close, he knew he had to search for his son but he was always happy to return to his wife.
"I've missed you," Gokuu whispered into her ear, as they held on to each other a little more tightly.
"I've missed you too," Chi-Chi whispered as tears ran down her face, her husband had been gone for three months, it was good for him to return.
"Daddy?" The husband and wife parted to see their youngest son look up at his father with glee, and in a second he ran towards him.
Gokuu bent down and held out his arms, "Goten, kiddo!" Within seconds Goten ran into his father's arms, knocking both of them down in the process. They both looked at each other and laughed.
Gokuu knew he was always leaving his youngest son behind, but Goten never complained, just like his older brother Goten was glad for every moment they had together.
"Do we have anything for dinner?" Gokuu asked, lifting his son and placing him on his shoulders.
Chi-Chi reached up to Goten to fix his shirt, which got twisted when playing for this father, "Nothing yet, I was about to go to the store to grab some food."
"Oh don't worry about that, Chi," Gokuu sung, walking out the door with his son on his shoulders, "Goten and I will go fishing, we'll bring back some food."
"Fishin'?" Goten's eyes widen, grinning from ear to ear.
Chi-Chi followed her men outside, "Alright, but be back soon so I can make dinner before it's too late."
"Will do," Gokuu waved, before looking up at his son, "Wanna fly?"
"Yay!" Goten jumped off his father's arms and floated next to him. Gokuu followed his lead, and flew off to the fishing pond.
It did not take long for Gokuu to help his son with the fishing, and within an hour they had caught a huge fish. Goten was amazed that it was double the size of his father, yet Gokuu was holding it with ease.
"Someday you'll be strong just like your old man," Gokuu laughed as Goten few next to his father.
"Yay, mommy says that I can start training with daddy when I turn five," Goten touched the big fish, "Will daddy teach me to lift big things?"
"What?" Gokuu asked, dumbfounded, Chi-Chi had always refused Gohan to train, so the fact she suggested it to Goten was shocking to him.
"Yay," Goten grinned, "Mommy has been teaching me to fight, but she said that daddy is better at it."
"She's what?" Gokuu almost fell over, Chi-Chi had been training Goten? Why hadn't she told him, "Well," Gokuu grinned, "I'm happy, do you like to fight?"
Goten could not keep his excitement, "Yay, I wanna be a fighter just like daddy!"
Gokuu laughed, ruffing the top of Goten's head, "As soon as you turn five, you got a deal kiddo."
Chi-Chi smiled as she watched her son and her husband return with the fish. She shook her head as Gokuu set the great fish down and examined it. It would take a while to make the meal, but knew her husband and son would finish it in only a matter of seconds.
Dinner was filled with laughter, the three of them ate and talked as if Gokuu had never left. As soon as the three of them cleaned the kitchen, Gokuu and Chi-Chi took their worn out son into his bedroom to sleep.
"Did you have a great day?" Chi-Chi asked him, putting the covers over him, she grabbed his hand as Goten gave off a little yawn.
"Yay," Goten little eyes were half closed, as he looked over at his father, "I'm glad daddy's here."
Gokuu smiled, sitting down beside Chi-Chi, "Same here kiddo."
"Mommy, Daddy," Goten yawned, looking up at his parents, "I meet the green eyed boy yesterday."
Gokuu and Chi-Chi glanced over at each other, not understanding who he was referring too, before they could ask Goten looked up at them and smiled, "He's name is Gohan."
