Chapter Six: Saving Erasa

Chapter Notes:

"Flashback."

A/N: -

Saturday had come and the sky was clear blue and the birds were singing joyfully, signaling a start of a beautiful day.

Thankfully for our young half-Saiyan hero, Chichi only woke him up with the frying pan during school days when he didn't wake up on time so he had a wonderful time sleeping in until he smelled the fragrance of his mother's cooking.

He quickly shot up from under his duvets and washed his face and brushed his teeth in a flash before he dashed down to the kitchen for breakfast.

"Morning, mum!"

"Oh, Gohan. You're up early," Chichi remarked.

"Of course! I wouldn't miss your cooking for anything in the world, mum," he replied back genuinely.

After a relaxed breakfast, Gohan got ready to visit Erasa's house and was about to leave when Goten woke up.

"Big brother, aren't you going to play with me today?" the young, seven year old asked drowsily while rubbing the sleep off his eyes.

"Hm, maybe not at the moment, squirt," Gohan said good-naturedly, trying not to upset (to his eyes) his baby brother. "I have to go and visit a friend to work on my music project."

"Aw, but you never play with me anymore," Goten pouted.

Gohan walked over and patted the younger half-Saiyan's spiky hair and said, "Relax bro, I'll come and play with you when I come back. I promise."

Satisfied knowing that his elder brother never broke a promise before, Goten bid his brother goodbye while chewing on a mouthful of breakfast.

Gohan kissed his mother on the cheek goodbye before he gave his younger brother a ruffle on the hair. He did that often, probably subconsciously taking comfort in the similar feel of his father's hair which he used to play with when he was a kid. Then he took to the skies wearing the costume of the Great Saiyaman that he was very proud of.

Back at the Eraser household, Erasa took a shower in getting ready for her boyfriend Durago's visit. She had completely forgotten about the appointment with Gohan and Angela despite her giving her address to them.

Relaxing in the warmth of the water hitting her skin, she squeezed her arms around her rather well-endowed chest and hugged herself. It was a beautiful morning outside, but her day was ruined when her father hit her when he found out about her allowing her boyfriend and his friends to come over to their house without giving him prior notice.

Her mother took her father's side of the argument of course, which made the matter even more painful for her. She had neither friends nor allies in the household. Not even the maids who took care of her since she was a baby had the heart to console her. Perhaps they were too cold hearted to care or they feared that if they took her side, they would lose their well-paying jobs. It didn't matter to Erasa.

All she wanted was a way to escape reality. Her heart ached and she felt miserable whenever things like these happened – which happened very often – but she shed no tears. She had never shed a single tear ever since she met Videl and Sharpner. Back then she told herself, "No more."

She vowed to be strong for the sake of not worrying her two best friends. Taking on a cheerful and bubbly attitude towards her friends, she surrounded herself with men and went out with them frequently in the hope that one day, a man would take her away from this horrible house and treat her well and give her the loving life that she longed for. Such was the fantasy that she always envisioned whenever she was alone.

The hot water ran out which signaled for her to get out of the shower. She dried her short, blonde hair, got dressed and spent a fair amount of time in front of the mirror putting on make-up to hide the bruise that her father caused. Then she lounged around the house waiting for Durago and his friends to come.

She was glad that her father had only found out this morning when he had already made definite plans to go out on a dinner with other powerful businessmen. Of course, he took his wife with him to show the world that everything was fine and that he was living a happy marriage which her mother was more than happy to comply with.

The doorbell rang and she heard one of the maids in her early twenties answered it.

"Oh, young miss, it's horrible!" exclaimed the maid. "There's a group of shady looking guys at the front door!"

"Relax, Ms. Maid, they're my boyfriend and his friends. Let them in."

The maid followed Erasa's orders faithfully despite her misgivings about the rowdy bunch of teenagers.

"Oi, oi. Boss are you sure about this?" one of the teens asked Durago. "I didn't know she had a maid."

"Of course you moron! We're here now," Durago said confidently.

The young, short-haired teen already had multiple previous experiences with what they were about to do and so he feared nothing.

"Besides," he said. "That maid was not bad looking and she seems young too. If she ever gets in the way, we'll just have to take care of her."

With that, Durago and his cronies walked into the Eraser Mansion and were greeted by the sight of Erasa dressed in a green, striped tube top and hot pants.

"Baby!" exclaimed Erasa before running down the luxurious staircase and jumping into Durago's muscular, tattooed arms giving him a hot, wet and passionate kiss that involved her coiling her tongue around his.

When she finished, she realized that she had swallowed a lump sized object from Durago's mouth.

"Babe?" Durago asked her with fake concern.

Truth be told, he had already planned everything in advance. He had found Erasa through an online dating site and, after getting to know her and her issues with her parents, he found himself on easy street manipulating Erasa to fall in love with him and making her his girlfriend. In fact, after finding out her address, he and his cronies staked out the place for a few weeks to concoct a plan. With some difficulty, he tapped into the Eraser household phone lines and even intercepted phone calls to make sure that everything would go smoothly. It was then that he found out that Rubber Eraser would be going out on a business trip on that particular Saturday making it the perfect time for him to put his plan into motion.

He knew that Erasa would be delighted to see him after two weeks and so, he popped the date-rape drug into his mouth just before entering the mansion and made her unknowingly swallow it during their kiss.

As Erasa's vision hazy, her body burned hot and her mind became clouded. She tried to speak again but could only manage a weak, puzzled, "Ba-…be?"

Durago smiled cruelly.

"Alright, boys. Let the fun begin!"

Gohan found himself flying over Satan City in search for Erasa's address.

On his way, he encountered a few muggings and road rage and, inclined to help others, he stopped to help the people since he wasn't in a rush. He knew he was about two hours early, but it was the first time that he was visiting another person's house other than Master Roshi's or Bulma's (he didn't consider Kami's Lookout as a house) and so he was excited enough to go early. He was so excited in fact that, instead of just simply searching for Erasa's ki, he decided to actually try looking for a person's address for once – not that he had visited another person before.

"Stop, fiends! I am the Great Saiyaman! Defender of truth! Protector of the innocent! Upholder of justice! Doer of good!" he announced at his arrival while doing his Saiyaman entrance poses.

"Now that is what I call style!" he thought to himself while holding a squatting pose with his arms over his head forming an 'M' shape.

"Look, it's the Great Saiyaman and his poses again!"

Recognizing the Great Saiyaman, the road ragers immediately stopped their car and apologized to the new, helmeted hero of Satan City which brought a smile to Gohan's face.

"Wow, I'm getting more famous than I thought! And they mentioned my poses too!" he said to himself not knowing what people actually thought of his poses.

After that, Gohan decided that he was close enough to Erasa's given address so he decided to walk, thinking that he might encounter – "Uh, what was her name again?" Gohan asked himself – Angela. He was hoping to discuss more about the homework with her along the way and, like a real nerd, he thought about surprising Erasa by brainstorming some ideas with the 'red haired girl' as Gohan would call her since he couldn't remember her name or face for that matter.

Unfortunately or fortunately for him, Angela had an appointment with her optometrist that day regarding running the regular eye tests to keep her contacts prescription up-to-date and so he was essentially left alone to do the homework with his bubbly, blonde friend.

Arriving at the front of the Eraser household mansion, Gohan was struck by awe as he realized how rich Erasa was. Sure, the place wasn't as large as Bulma's house which could house a planet's population of Namekians when New Namek wasn't created yet, but still, the place was huge! It was definitely much bigger than his humble home.

He rang the doorbell hoping that he wouldn't have to wait long but was answered by a rude, gruff, male voice at the intercom.

"Go away," the voice said.

"Hello, I'm Son Gohan," Gohan insisted. "I'm Erasa's classmate. We were supposed to work on the research part of our music project together."

"Leave or I will call the police."

Inside, Durago and his gang had only managed to strip Erasa naked before Gohan rang the doorbell. Annoyed that his fun had been interrupted before it even began, he told one of his underlings to shoo away whoever it was before he proceeded to visually feast on Erasa's voluptuous body. He always enjoyed the panicked expression of a woman when she realized her predicament so he waited patiently for Erasa to wake up.

Meanwhile, Gohan felt that something was amiss. He had experience interacting with butlers before due to his frequent visits to Bulma's house (before they all quit because they couldn't take Trunks' pranks and Vegeta's abusive language) and so he knew that butlers were supposed to act professionally even when they were chasing away unwanted visitors.

Deciding to search for Erasa's ki, he felt the irregularities in it due to Erasa's ingestion of the date-rape drug. Of course, he didn't know that she had been drugged. He only knew that the irregularities in her ki meant that she was in a life-or-death situation and was panicked enough to disrupt the natural flow of her ki and so, he said goodbye to whoever was answering the intercom and pretended to walk away in case they were monitoring him through the cameras at the gates.

He was angry enough knowing that one of his few precious friends' life was being threatened. So angry in fact that he forgot to transform into his Great Saiyaman costume as he jumped through the fence and burst through the main door where he could feel a congregation of ki-sthat were not Erasa's.

There was a loud bang as Gohan ripped the large, elegant oak doors off its hinges followed by a loud scream as the maid ran out of the room after seeing what happened just as she entered from the kitchen to serve her mistress' guests with some tea and biscuits.

"Man, what the fu-?" Durago exclaimed at the unexpected intrusion.

Seeing Erasa naked normally would have caused Gohan to blush deep red, but this time, he didn't. Instead, what he saw greatly fueled his anger after seeing what these hoodlums were doing to his friend.

Someone tapped him on the shoulder and said threateningly, "Hey, pal. What's the deal?"

The person who tapped him obviously had a knife pointed at his kidneys and was ready to pierce the piece of metal in him when, in a flash, he grabbed the assailant's arm holding the knife and squeezed his hands shut.

The person cried in agony as his bones got crushed, losing all the will to free himself.

Gohan glared at him. "No, what's your deal?" he said.

He didn't even wait for an answer before he flung the person onto a display of antique plates which belonged to Erasa's mother.

"Next," Gohan said to no one in particular as he proceeded to fling Durago's gang members one by one into various corners of the Eraser mansion, more often than not, causing them to break several bones and collapse in the process.

Thankfully, even though he was angry, he still had a decent control of his strength and the most that could happen was that the teens he flung would lose their ability to walk for the rest of their lives. They would become paraplegics, but at the very least, they won't die.

There was only one last person left.

Durago watched with his mouth hanging open as one black-haired, gravity defying hairstyled, nerdy looking guy took care of all the members of his gang. It wasn't that his gang was weak. In fact, they were one of the most feared teen gangs in Satan City. However, Gohan was just too strong.

Fearing that Gohan would do the same to him, he resorted to hoisting up a groggy Erasa and threatened, "Don't come any closer or the girl gets hurt."

Gohan stopped in his tracks for a brief second. He cared a lot for Erasa because she was one of the few friends that he had that were his age, but he didn't stop because he was worried that she might get hurt. Instead, he stopped to enjoy watching Durago tremble in fear, his Saiyan blood pumping through his veins. He trusted in his abilities and he was confident that he could save her from harm. It was the same as what happened with Cell. He was overconfident.

"W-what are you smiling at?" a panicked Durago shouted. "I-I'm serious! If you come nearer I will s-slice her neck."

Erasa was just about regaining her consciousness by this time but both Gohan and Durago were too caught up in the moment to notice her.

Gohan let the teen wet himself in panic as he projected a dangerous aura towards him before he dashed and appeared right before the teen's eyes, closing the 50-meter gap between them before mockingly saying, "Boo!"

Not expecting Gohan to disappear and reappear right before his eyes in a fraction of a second, Durago screamed in surprise and dropped Erasa and his knife to the ground before he scarpered off in an attempt to run away from Gohan, but Gohan had already anticipated him and, with a flick of his finger on Durago's forehead, Gohan sent him flying into the lounge's TV.

After witnessing an unbelievable feat, Erasa shivered in fear as well, half expecting Gohan to do the same to her in his anger, but he didn't. He removed his vest and threw it over her to cover her up before he lifted her up and carried her to the sofa. After finally feeling that she was safe from harm, Erasa collapsed into an unconscious heap.

Gohan didn't know that Erasa was awake during the whole ordeal though and, as he helped himself to the food in the fridge while waiting for her to wake up, he realized that he had forgotten to transform into his Great Saiyaman costume.

"Oh no! Those guys saw my face! What am I going to do?" he shouted out loud in panic.

Now that he had eaten and had calmed down, he finally realized the gravity of the situation.

Not knowing what to do, he decided to follow an advice that Vegeta once taught him. He gathered the unconscious bodies of Durago and his gang members and remembered in a flashback the conversation between him and the Prince of Saiyans.

"Oi, Kakabrat! Why are you so afraid of being seen fighting in public?"

"I fear for my family's privacy, Vegeta. You know that."

"Hmpf! This is why you're so weak. Very well, since you're still part of the proud Saiyan race, it hurts my pride by doing so, but I will teach you a memory erasing technique passed down to us from generation to generation. My father personally taught this technique to me. Pay attention because I will only be teaching it to you once!"

Gohan scratched the front of his head and muttered to himself, "Hmm… if I remember correctly, it went like this!"

He grabbed Durago's head first and slammed it hard on the floor once, twice… seven times.

"Yeap. If I'm not wrong, it was seven times," he said aloud.

Satisfied that he didn't miss anything, he did the same to the other five members of Durago's gang before he threw them out on the street somewhere.

"I just hope that technique is really effective," he continued talking to himself. Then he shrugged his shoulders and said, "Ah well, Vegeta's always serious. He would never tell a lie."

He decided to tidy up the house as best as he could, seeing that the damage done was mostly because of himself. Then, he helped himself to some food from the fridge before he opened his bag and flipped through his music book in search for information that he could use for the research part of the music project.

The sky had turned a bright, warm orange hue by the time Erasa woke up. Sitting up, she rubbed the sleep off her eyes until she realized that she was naked.

She gasped as she remembered the events that happened and the gasp didn't escape our young hero's notice.

"Hey," Gohan smiled kindly. "Had a good rest?"

Erasa was shocked to see Gohan sitting on the sofa with his books and notes spread around the coffee table as if nothing happened and it took a moment for her to find her voice and another moment to come up with something to say.

"W-what are you doing here?" she stuttered.

Gohan laughed in a carefree manner. "Did you forget? We were supposed to do our music project research today, weren't we?"

Erasa could only reply back with an "Oh" as her brain tried to recount more of what happened. The drug that Durago made her take unknowingly had the effect of making her head fuzzy at that time so she could only recount bits and pieces of what happened.

"Durago – wait… no… fast… no… flick! That's it! Durago made me take this drug and him and his friends were about to do something to me and then my mind was fuzzy and then -"

"Whoa, whoa! Slow down, Erasa. You'll only stress your brain if you try to think too much."

Erasa paused for a second at Gohan's interruption before she continued again at a rapid pace.

"That's right. They were about to ra-ra-rape me and then – argh!" she screamed when she realized that the vest that Gohan used to cover her up had slipped when she sat up.

Gohan blushed pink when Erasa moved to cover up her breasts with her hands, but Erasa didn't let up as she continued.

"…and then Durago held me hostage with a knife but you saved me Gohan! You saved me! With a flick of your finger!"

Gohan scratched the back of his head and sweated buckets as he attempted to deny what he did. He didn't realize that Erasa had been conscious during that time.

"Ah – no. I didn't do anything. I just came in and found them and luckily I had a Taser and…"

"Don't lie, Son Gohan," Erasa said sternly. "I saw what you did. There's no point denying it."

"Really, it must be the effect of that drug you were talking about! Ahahaha. Yeah! The drug must have messed with your brains and distorted what you really saw."

Gohan was about to cover his lies with more lies when Erasa dashed up to him and gave him a peck on the cheek before hugging him tightly causing him to stop talking altogether and blushing once again.

"That's for saving me," Erasa smiled sweetly.

She knew that she would never get a straight answer from Gohan so she just let it go. One thing was for certain though, the conflicted feelings she had for Gohan during that week had all been cleared up. She thought that once she saw Durago again, her feelings for Gohan would return to normal, but it didn't prove to be the case. She now knew that she was madly in love with Gohan and that he was the prince that she had been waiting for.

"But what about Videl?" she asked herself.

She was worried about messing with her friend's first love though she knew that Videl might not even know that she was in love herself.

As Gohan patted her head the same way as he did with Goten to acknowledge her thanks, Erasa's conflicted emotions grew within her.

"She's too thick to know it yet, but she will find out that she's in love with Gohan eventually," she thought as she considered her best friend's feelings. "Should I just give up on Gohan? But then that would mean making myself miserable just as I found my one true love. But what about Videl?"

As she debated with herself, there was a loud shout from across the doorway.

"WHAT IN THE WORLD ARE YOU TWO DOING?!"

End of Chapter Six

To be continued...