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Son Home
Goten seethed fists still clenched as he knocked Trunks back down.
"Goten don't do this please, I'm sorry." Trunks pleaded softly as he tried to crawl out of the crater Goten recently put him in.
"Sorry! Didn't I just say sorry didn't cut it anymore Trunks?" Goten asked before kicking Trunks in the ribs, causing him to spit up a little blood.
"Goten stop please, you're hurting me." Trunks pleaded again, holding his now bruised ribs. Goten smirked.
"Oh, I'm sorry. Did I put too much power into that kick?" Goten asked before kicking him again. "You did this to yourself Trunks. I told you to go home, I even warned you this would happen but I'll give you one more chance for old time sake." Trunks coughed a few times and looked up at Goten worriedly. "We aren't friends anymore Trunks, go home or this time I'll break something." Trunks flinched as Goten cracked his knuckles, before watching him spin around quickly fluctuating his energy.
"Touch him and die you putrid little shit." Goten raised an eyebrow, he didn't like who decided to show up even though he didn't show it.
"What do you want Vegeta? I'm kinda busy." Goten asked with a rather emotionless expression on his face.
"First I'd like to know what the hell is going on here? I'd also like to know why my son's lying in a ditch." Vegeta asked while surprisingly keeping calm. Goten sighed heavily before pointing toward Trunks accusingly.
"I told him to leave, I warned him to leave, and when he didn't leave I decided to beat the message into him." Goten said coldly still pointing at the still struggling Trunks. Vegeta opened his eyes a little wider in surprise.
'There is definitely something wrong with this one. Trunks seems to be fine, I think his feelings are hurt more so than himself. But yes something is very wrong here; that I am sure of.' Vegeta thought to himself as Goten stood and watched patiently, before he scoffed.
"Look Vegeta, all I want is for Trunks to leave okay. I'm sick of him. Just take him and go home." Goten powered down to semi normal and started to walk away. Vegeta started grinding his teeth.
"Is that it? You expect me to leave after you pummelled my son?" Goten turned and smiled coldly.
"Yup, that's about it. Now shoo...fly away, do whatever it is a wannabe prince does." Goten sniggered before disappearing into his house. Vegeta's eye twitched.
"What! Wannabe prince? H-how absurd I'm Vegeta! The prince of all Saiyans!" Vegeta yelled before grabbing Trunks and blasting off toward Capsule Corp.
Son home a while later
Sometime after Vegeta left with Trunks, Gohan decided to arrive. He was worried though, the energy he felt coming from Goten didn't feel right. Finally landing, Gohan found that things weren't fine. Part of the house was damaged and one of his favourite trees was knocked down, beside it was a medium sized crater. Shaking his head, Gohan entered the house finding Chi-Chi seated at the table. "What happened here?" Chi-Chi quickly filled him in (A.N minor time skip) Gohan sighed "Okay I understand now, that's not like Goten. He's usually very well mannered." Gohan scratched his head wail Chi-Chi sipped her newest cup of coffee.
"I know, but he just went nuts and attacked Trunks." ChiChi said unnervingly.
"So where is he at now? I want to talk to him." Gohan asked standing from his seat. Chi-Chi smiled softly to herself.
"Oddly enough he found me to see if I was okay and then he went back to bed." Gohan raised an eyebrow.
"That's it, he went to bed?" Gohan asked, surprised of the action Goten took. Chi-Chi paused for a moment before looking up at Gohan.
"Well, I guess he still wasn't himself when he found me." Gohan simply kept his eyebrow raised much to Chi-Chi's annoyance.
"He walked up to me and asked if I was still alive, after I responded he left for his room." Gohan "hmmmed" to himself.
"Well then I guess I'll just have to wake him up." Gohan said calmly.
"I wouldn't. The last person to wake him up got punched through his window." ChiChi said snickering, trying to make light of the event.
Goten's room
Entering his room, at first glance Gohan noticed that the window was missing, a Chi-Chi sized hole in the wall and everything else flung around the room. Gohan simply shook his head. "Goten, hey wake up little guy." Gohan asked nicely nudging his shoulder. The air shifted oddly before Gohan got an answer.
"What do you want, Gohan?" Goten rolled over so that he was eye to eye with him.
"I thought you were sleeping." Gohan stated more than asked.
"I was trying to until you showed up." Goten said aggressively.
"Woah there kiddo, don't snap at me like that. I didn't do anything." Goten sat up and stretched while coldly glaring at Gohan. "What's gotten into you squirt? Acting like this isn't like you, you shouldn't have a bad bone in your body." Gohan said softly putting his hand on Goten shoulder for him to just shake it off.
"Don't touch me." Goten mumbled calmly.
"What?" Gohan asked, worry lacing his voice.
"I said don't touch me!" Goten yelled as he pushed out his energy, sending Gohan tumbling backwards. Gohan hissed rubbing the bump forming on the back of his head
"Kami Goten, what was that all about?" Gohan asked flustered while Goten jumped out of bed.
"Forget it, doesn't matter." Goten spat jumping out of his window. Gohan watched for a moment before shaking his head.
"Hey wait a minute, I want to know why you're acting like this." Gohan asked following Goten through his window.
"Leave me alone, Gohan." Goten warned as he walked away. Gohan was confused.
"Come on Goten, just talk to me." Goten flared his nostrils.
"Just leave me alone damn it!" Goten quickly turned around and punched Gohan in the stomach, winding him in the process. "Just stay away from me!" Goten warned before blasting off into the sky.
Capsule Corp
Currently at Cc, Bulma was in the vigorous process of cleaning up Trunks' face. Bulma shook her head disappointingly.
"I still can't believe he beat you up." Trunks flinched as Bulma swabbed his cuts and scratches.
"Me neither, I went there to apologize and got my butt kicked instead." Bulma sighed as she finished cleaning his face.
"It's your fault you know, you did completely shatter your friendship with him." Bulma said sternly glaring at Trunks (A.N you know that look only your mom can give you when you did something bad) Trunks huffed.
"That's not fair Mom, I told him I was sorry. I even bought him a toy." Bulma smacked him upside the head and gave him a stupidity look.
"Trunks you should know that sorry loses its meaning after a while. Oh and buying him that toy was probably the stupidest thing you could have done." Bulma said continuing her inspection of Trunks face for anything she missed.
"Why not, it seemed logical to me?" Bulma sighed heavily.
"Well what did he say when you gave it to him?" Bulma asked as Trunks took a thinking position.
"He said 'Oh wow! Richie Richardson went out and bought me a gift to make it all better'. I thought he'd be happy, but he just got angrier." Trunks lowered his head letting his hair cover his eyes. Bulma smiled softly putting her hand on top of his head.
"You see Trunks, to you it felt like you were just trying to give him a gift to apologize. But to Goten, he probably felt like you were trying to buy him off." Bulma said calmly as she watched Trunks digested the information.
With Goten
In a forest, around a hundred miles from the Son residence, we find Goten alone and still a little pissed. "Damn it!" Why can't everyone just leave me alone?" Goten asked himself out load before punching a nearby boulder, turning it into rubble. Goten sighed heavily sensing someone nearby
"Because everybody's worried about you." Gohan answered abruptly appearing behind him.
"Go away, Gohan!" Goten spat. Gohan frowned.
"Aw come on, Goten, I'm just worried about you. Why don't you come home and talk?" Gohan asked putting kneeling down Goten's level and putting his hands on his shoulders.
"Talk? That's all everyone ever wants to do." Goten said coldly shrugging Gohan hands away.
"Of course, talking can solve almost any problem, Goten. So just talk to me so that I know how to help, okay?" Gohan said sounding annoyed.
"I don't need your help." Goten said sternly turning away from Gohan.
"Okay then at least tell me this, Mom told me about your little fight. Is there something else going on that you're not telling me?" Gohan asked causing Goten to flinch. "Goten I'm your brother, you can talk to me. Whatever you say can be between us, just us. I'd never tell anybody, Goten. I'm worried about you. Please tell me." Gohan said slowly and calmly. Goten sighed softly and turned to face Gohan.
"I'm tired of Trunks, I don't like him and our friendship is over. Besides I'm tired of being seen as my idiot buffoon of a father. I'm sick of the good boy act." Goten said making a fist and fluctuating his energy. Gohan stood and looked at Goten quizzically studying him.
"So is that it? You're tired of Trunks pushing you around deciding everything for you. You're mad that he broke your trust again, and to top it off you have some kind of pent up emotions for dad? That about some it up?" Gohan said causing Goten to laugh.
"Never thought of but that way. Trunks does tell me what to do a lot. Oh and I don't have pent up emotions for dad, I hate him." Goten said mockingly. Gohan nearly fell over after hearing Goten declaring his hate for Goku.
"Okay I can understand you not wanting to stay friends with Trunks, and I guess I can see why you're mad at dad. But why are you acting like a spoiled little brat?" Gohan asked to which Goten quickly answered.
"Because I can." Goten answered mockingly. Gohan raised an eye brow as he continued to study Goten.
"What do you mean 'you can'?" Goten took a deep breath.
"I had a lot to think about when I took a nap earlier. I'm a Saiyan, one if the most powerful beings in the universe. But people weaker than me expected me to act like an idiot and do as I was told. I'm sick of being a good little boy; I'm done with all that." Gohan furrowed his brow.
"Quit acting like a brat, Goten, I get what you're coming from and I know you're upset with Trunks and dad but you need to stop this and come home." Gohan said very steadily as if he were talking to someone dangerous.
"Why should I go back? You want me to go home to a dad that won't be there and a best friend that can't keep a simple promise. You want me to be the Goten that acted stupid and followed Trunks around everywhere? Forget that Gohan, that part of me is dead. I'm not returning to the way I was, and the only way that's going to happen is if you break all my bones and drag me to the place you call home." Goten turned his back to Gohan and started to walk away. Gohan was stunned, confused, and a little ticked.
"Who are you?" Gohan asked making a fist. "Don't make me have to beat some sense into you Goten, I'd really hate to do that." Gohan said making his fist tighter. Goten turned around again and smirked.
"I'd like to see you try." Goten growled turning into a SS2.
Gohan looked at Goten shocked 'I didn't think he could go that far without Trunks' help. This could get bad.' Gohan thought to himself as he watched Goten mumble something. Gohan sighed before fluctuating his energy ready to power up before Goten got a weird expression on his face.
"Gohan this is stupid, I don't want to fight you, what am I doing?" Goten asked while powering down to normal.
"Tell me, where is my little brother?" Gohan asked more concerned than anything. Goten cringed painfully while holding his head. "Where's the little brother that looked up to me and always acted kind?"
"I-I don't know" Goten said before falling to one knee. Gohan panicked and rushed over.
"Goten what's wrong?" Gohan asked picking him up. Goten whimpered in pain and gave him a Gohan a small hug that seemed to come out of nowhere.
"I'm sorry Gohan, I think there's something wrong with me.." Goten said again holding his head before passing out. Worried, Gohan picked up Goten and blasted off toward Capsule Corp.
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