Gohan looked at the man who offered them a place to stay. After studying him carefully for a few seconds, he gave him a warm smile. "Nice to meet you Carlisle! I'm Gohan. This," he said, wrapping his arm around the raven-haired girl's waste, "is Videl. Goten is the one with the black hair – he's my brother. Trunks is the other one, he's my god brother and Goten's best friend."

Carlisle returned Gohan's innocent smile with one of his own. "Nice to meet you, too, Gohan. Allow me to introduce you to my family. This is my wife Esme," Carlisle addressed one of the women, "and our adoptive sons and daughters; Emmett and Rosalie, Alice and Jasper, and Edward. Bella is Edward's girlfriend, but I'm sure she'll officially be a part of the family soon enough."

Bella blushed and his behind her hair. Gohan studied her for a bit. "She's human," he stated.

Carlisle nodded. "Technically, it's against the vampiric law for her to know about vampires – or you for that matter – but, I suppose love has no bounds."

"Well said, Carlisle, well said," Gohan approved. The man was obviously wise, and had a good heart judging from the quick scan that Gohan did on his mind.

Edward was analyzing Gohan. "Why can't I read your mind?" he asked out of the blue.

"Pardon?" Gohan asked politely.

"Why can't I read your mind?" Edward repeated patiently. After seeing the teenagers shocked look, he added, "Some vampires have gifts. Mine is reading minds. Alice," he jerked his head toward the pixie-like vampire, "can see the future. Jasper can feel and control emotions."

"Well, that's interesting. I had no idea that vampires could have special gifts. Huh." He looked thoughtful for a moment. "As to why you can't read my mind, it's probably because I've had extensive training for the sole purpose of mental defenses and keeping control of my emotions. If I took my mental barriers down, you would probably be able to read my mind with ease."

The vampires were astonished. "You can train your mind to do that?" Carlisle asked in awe.

"Yeah, but it takes extensive training in the mind and body to be able to do it," Gohan replied.

"Could you teach me? I would really like for this bozo to stay out of my head," Emmett said playfully.

Gohan couldn't help but be reminded of Sharpener. I think we'll get along just fine, he thought. "I'm afraid I can't teach you. In order to learn it you have to start at an early age, while your mind is still rapidly developing. Not only that, but vampires don't age. Their minds don't change at all, making it impossible for them to adapt to the changes in order to learn it." Gohan explained.

Emmett shrugged. "Ah, well. What can you do? Sounds like to much work, anyway."

"Gohan," Rosalie butted in, "the kids over there said something about being half-human. What were they talking about?"

The four martial artists immediately tensed. "Nothing. Just a joke they like to play on people they first meet to scare them a bit," Videl lied smoothly.

"Y-yeah," Trunks stuttered, "Just a game, right, Goten?"

"Right, Trunks," Goten agreed, going along with whatever his brother and Trunks said.

The Cullens obviously didn't believe them, but let the subject drop. "Well then," Esme said, breaking the silence, "I guess we should show you four where you'll be staying at for the time being."

And with that, the group started walking North, the four dimensional travelers following in curiosity of their temporary home.