Author's Note: I apologize for the long absence from this story. I am not quite yet ready to fully continue work on Unexpected, but soon. Hopefully. The plan is to write somewhere around 15-20 of these drabble chapters and then upload one per day if possible. That will likely start sometime in September though.

This chapter turned out much differently than I anticipated. What will be chapter 32 is what I had intended for this one. This concept just kind of . . . took flight on it's own once I started. Next one will won't be so serious.

Disclaimer: I do not own Dragonball Z. At all. I only own my fond childhood memories of it and some of the movies on DVD.


Fight 31
Soaring

Gohan had always enjoyed the feeling of the wind rushing past him as he flew through the sky. Yet today it was different. Maybe it was because of all that had happened last night with his mother, but Gohan felt so free. It was exhilarating.

He stretched out his hands and shut his eyes to take it all in. They had avoided mentioning the elephant in the room whenever possible since Cell's defeat. The loss of a beloved family member isn't easy for anyone, but knowing that his father had the choice to return to the living and didn't . . . Though the reasons made sense, as an oddly high number of enemies over the years had in fact been after Goku, it had still be hard to come to terms with the decision made.

Gohan felt that perhaps they, especially his mother, had finally taken the steps towards moving past it. Maybe enough where she could soon talk to Goten about Goku more often. He had been told things of course, but mostly from Gohan or the Brief's. There were things that only Chi-Chi could tell her second son about when it came to his father after all.

His eyes opened as he felt the mass of Ki that was Hercule City just up ahead. Gohan looked at his watch and his eyes widened in panic. He had been moving too slow while flying. Class started in ten minutes and there wasn't enough time to run there, at normal human speeds, if he landed at the city limits.

As he sped up, deciding to land closer to school just for today, he passed by a bank. Which was in the middle of being robbed. Clearly someone somewhere didn't want him to get to class on time. Saiyaman DID have to make an appearance sooner or later. "Sooner it is."


Word Count: Approx. 318