A.N. So the last chapter was a tad short so this one will be twice as long. I hope to eventually maintain each chapter at being 3 times longer than the first. Enjoy!
Chapter 2: First day continued...
BEEP BEEP BEEP
Videl pulled out a phone, holding it up to the teacher. "Sir, I need to take this."
"Of course, feel free Videl." The professor replied curtly, being well aware of Videl's duty as the Police's fall back plan. Sadly that was actually quite often.
"Go ahead Chief." Videl said, answering the phone as soon as she was outside the class room.
"Videl! We got trouble here! Seven men with heavy weapons showed up at the mall today and have taken 100 people hostage!" He said, quite obviously he was starting to panic. "Get over- ...whats that? One second Videl." Videl waited patiently as the Chief talked with other officers. "Well uh, never had to do this before. Scratch that Videl, your not needed right now. We sent some S.W.A.T.. in to clear out the targets and uh, well, turns out they did very well."
"Well, thanks for the update, Chief." A now disappointed and a little frustrated Videl responded. Damn it, now I have to deal with classes. Thanks for wasting my time! "Now if you'd excuse me I have classes to attend."
"Of course you do, until next time Videl!" The embarrassed Chief of Police responded.
Walking back into the class after the call was quite possibly the most humiliating and pressuring experience in Videl's life up to this point. She'd never had the Chief back out of the call before and no one had ever heard of it before. She'd be gone for up to two whole periods usually, not two minutes. Damn it. She silently cursed to herself.
Cheeks ablaze with a scarlet shade of red, she sat back down next to Sharpener and Erasa. She felt all the eyes of the classroom, including the stunned teacher at the front, stare at her. Double damn. "Don't you have a class to teach?" She snapped at the teacher before whipping around to glare at the still stunned students behind her.
"Right! Anyway as I was saying, if you continue on to page 82..." the teacher droned on as Videl tuned herself out from pure embarrassment.
"Psst. Videl. What happened?" Erasa whispered, nudging her friend. "Videl?"
"Something we can discuss later." She coldly replied, glaring straight ahead.
Gohan leaned over to Erasa. "Does this happen regularly?"
"Which part?" Erasa replied. "Her moodiness or what ever is causing this?"
"Yea...both actually, what is it thats causing this?" Gohan asked.
"Well, a) yes she's quite a moody person on a regular basis. B) I have no idea what the heck is causing this."
"Oh. Ok." Gohan said, shrugging off everything. He half returned to focusing on what the teacher said and half to well, what ever was most interesting. At the moment it was how were Nimbus clouds made. He had no clue himself, but he was dying to find out.
Videl heard this conversation and when she heard Gohan's final response, she couldn't help but take a glance at him. Did he not understand who she was? She was Videl Satan! The back up plan for the police! She beat up criminals and locked them away as a part time job! Yet, he was there, sitting as if nothing was out of the ordinary. Did this kid live in the boonies or something?
"Gohan." He heard his name snapping to attention, looking in the expected direction of someone saying his name. The front of the class. "Gohan." He looked to his right seeing Videl looking at him.
"Y-yes?" He stuttered. Something about this girl just gave him the shivers. Good shivers or bad shivers we would soon find out. "What is it?"
"You were that boy that I talked to outside of the bank this morning. Weren't you? Just after the Gold Fighter showed up and vanished." Videl questioned, feeling suspicious and smug.
"I did talk to you today but, Gold Fighter who is that?" Gohan asked, giving a nervous scratch to the back of his head.
"The guy who beat up all four robbers today at the bank? The same bank you met me this morning?"
"Wait a minute," Sharpener butted in, feeling suddenly threatened about his position with Videl. "You mean you know this nerd?"
"Stuff it, Sharpener." Videl snapped at the long-haired blond. Turning back to Gohan she continued, "The Gold Fighter who, if I remember correctly, wore a black vest, white shirt, and red pants. And well you seem to be wearing a black vest, white shirt and whats that? Red pants." Videl finished putting more emphasis on red pants.
"Uhmmm..."Gohan stammered to come up with an answer. Aww damn, think Gohan, think! "Well what else did this guy look like?" He asked.
"Well he had gold hai-... wait a minute..." Videl trailed off. He had gold hair,dressed identical to Gohan but Gohan's hair is black! How can he and the Gold Fighter be the same person!
Eyeing him suspiciously, Videl mumbled a "nevermind" and faced the front again. Only people to have ever been seen with golden hair matching the Gold Fighters descriptions were the fighters who fought Cell before my dad himself killed Cell. Still, something still doesn't add up...
Seeing Videl lost in thought after mumbling her "nevermind," Gohan breathed a sigh of relief after turning to look out the window. Damn Son, (A.N. I had to.) that was a close one. Better be more careful in the future. Like a spare set of clothes or something when fighting as the 'Gold Fighter'. Huh, doesn't sound too bad actually. Gohan thought to himself with a grin.
Lunch Hour
Videl had managed to get through the last couple periods avoiding pesky questions and even more so annoying fellow students. All of them wanted to know what happened. Videl hardly knew herself what happened. Well she knew, just seemed to have a hard time grasping the concept. Anyway, it's lunch time now. I'll deal with those losers later.
"Gohan! Come join us!" A overly excited Erasa shouted across the lunchroom.
"Please, not now Erasa." A annoyed Sharpener said, covering his ears. "Why would we want the solo nerd-herd here? And stop shouting and squealing!"
"Oh hush, be nice to him! He's too cute to be mean!" Erasa said, making Videl roll her eyes (not in a nice way) at her friend's oblivious behaviour.
Gohan shuffled over to them, kinda nervous too since Videl hadn't stopped glaring at him since second period.
"Well wheres your lunch silly?" Erasa said. "Don't tell me you forgot it on your first day!"
"What?!" The Demi-Saiyan gasped at the horrific thought of actually forgetting a meal. Is that even possible to forget such a thing? Gohan wondered. "N-no, I got it right here," he stuttered, pulling out a capsule. Opening the capsule a mountain of food appeared on his table, effectively blocking out the stares of an angry Videl. Actually it blocked out the stares of virtually everyone who happened to be in front of him.
What the actual frick. Videl thought. He can...he can actually eat that mountain of food? It'll feed like the entire class of 30 students! Twice! She snapped out of her moment of shock when her thoughts were disrupted by the sounds of... eating? Looking around the massive stack she saw Gohan chowing down the meal like he did this daily. It was quite disgusting.
Gohan was about 1/4 of the way through his lunch when he realized, the lunchroom was so quiet. Peeking around the room, he saw all eyes on him. "Uh, can I help you guys?" He asked, feeling his cheeks heat up. Instantly everyone but the three at his table returned to their food.
"Gohan, you eat that entire mountain of food?" Erasa asked, clearly stunned.
"Yeaup, every day, every meal." He said before jumping back into it.
"What on Earth makes you so hungry?" Videl asks, narrowing her eyes at him.
"Well lets see," Gohan said, "I live in the 439 mountain area so..."
"WHAT." All three of them said, jaws dropping. "Thats, like, five hours away by car!" Erasa said.
"Or two hours by jet copter." Videl said.
"Or-" Sharpener said only to be cut off by Gohan.
"I flew here in about an hou- um." Gohan started as he remembered not to give too much away. "I mean, I'm just really dedicated to my studies, I live with friends in the city, I go home on the weekends."
"Well that makes more sense,"A now giggling Erasa said. "I thought you were going to say you spend 18 or so hours away from home daily!"
"Whaaat? No, not me, thats ridiculous!" Gohan exclaimed. "I'd starve to death before I got home!"
Sure he does, I highly doubt this. Lets test him. "So, Gohan. Who do you live with during the week? Since it isn't at your house you must stay in a decently well stocked place right? Based on the amount of food you eat." Videl says, awaiting an answer that would give Gohan away.
Gohan, not thinking much about it just shrugged and said, "Bulma Briefs."
"What? You know THE Bulma Briefs of Capsule Corporation?!" Videl whisper shouted while Erasa and Sharpener sat there kinda stunned.
"Yea, long time friend of the family. Been friends with my dad since he was five." Gohan said.
His dad must be up there in the famous crowd somewhere. But who? "What did you say your dads name was?" Videl asked, still as her suspicious, moody self.
Gohan's eyes darkened and his face turned moody. "I never said his name. We are not discussing my father anymore. Now if you don't mind, I'd like to finish my food." He said in a voice lightly covered with sadness but it was calm at the same time. He resumed to his half eaten meal and finished it off in minutes, then capsulized the dishes and containers.
Well Videl, looks like we hit a dark spot. Better tread carefully otherwise he may clam up and we'll never find out anything about him. Videl thought. Thinking, she had one last question in her head.
"Mind answering one last question for now Gohan?"
Sighing, Gohan replied. "Fine, one last one. What is it?"
"What's your mothers name?" She asked.
Giving Videl a strange look, he said with some irritation, "ChiChi Son."
ChiChi Son... such a familiar name, but where from? I'll have to dig through the web when I get back home. "Ok, then."
Giving a weird look, Gohan shrugged and got up from the table and walked away.
Two hours later
Period 5: Phys. Ed.
Gohan sighed a breath of relief. Hopefully they had decent warm ups here, not ones that would require so much strength that he'd freak everyone out, just enough for him to feel something. Reaching into his locker he grabbed what he found most suitable for gym class since the school didn't make you wear a mandatory gym class uniform, although they did give you one. Gohan didn't like it though, it made his build too obvious. He got out his gi and headed to the change rooms.
After dealing with some teasing and brushing it off, because, well, he's Goku's son, he was changed and in the gym waiting for the workout to begin by doing some basic stretches. People gave him the weird eye until the teacher called them over to give them their warm up. "5 laps around the football field, 50 jumping jacks, 25 pushups and 25 situps! You lazy kids need to be whipped back into shape after those months off!" the teacher ordered. "Now, go-go-go-go! You got 15 minutes to do it!"
Gohan groaned, this stuff was what he was doing in his mothers womb for damned sake. This shit was too easy. Videl heard his groan and eyed him. Was that a groan in...disappointment? Most of the kids were whining in pain while he seems like he's sad there isn't more to do. Don't get me wrong, this shit is easy but he's just a nerdy, know it all, right? He's not that fit to just blow it off. Videl thought.
Gohan went ahead with it and did all the work outs at a human(ish) pace and finished in 11 minutes, not a drop of sweat to be seen on his forehead. Even Sharpener and Videl had some sweat, more so Sharpener than Videl who barely had any. How in the hell is he not even panting?What is up with this kid? Videl silently raged on about Gohan all the while giving him a suspicious eye.
Oops, must have been a little too easy. Too late now. I'll keep that in mind, slow down a bit Gohan, damn it. The rest of the class went by with Gohan demonstrating a bit too much strength but not so much to show everyone he really was superior than everyone, just enough to shock them. Soon enough the day was over and Gohan was running out of the school to get home quick. Calling Nimbus, he hopped onto the fluffy yellow puff and took off into the sky.
"Hey Nimbus?" Gohan said, "How are Nimbus clouds made?"
A.N.: Hows that for a changer upper? Eh? A lot is different this time huh? How about Videl getting REJECTED work by the Chief? Ah I enjoyed writing that, a good plot twist.
Thought I'd let you guys know what kind of fanfic I'm writing so, on a more serious note; when you read a lot of these fanfictions, two things stand out to me mainly. 1) Gohan is a little girl when it comes to some insults. Family related or not, alien or not, I-don't-give-a-damn, Gohan will not snap like a toothpick when it comes to any insult directed at him or his family. He won't be happy but he wont rage and go Super on us unless pushed to a breaking point or any other valid reason to go Super. 2) Videl gets way too attached to Gohan waaay to fast. Two days she's known him? Punch Gohan in the gut, Videl is there bawling her eyes out.
So knowing this, Gohan will not be a little girl and Videl will not be an overly attached girlfriend. Come on, he's Goku's son. We've met Goku. Oblivious to everything. We've seen Videl on the show, what we do know is that the first time she really seems to show affection for Gohan is at the tournament in DBZ. I estimate that was a minimum of a couple months after she first met him.
Anyway, review, favourite, do what ever you want if you like it so far. Do expect some more familiar faces! Two times longer than the first chapter. Not including my A.N.'s this chapter is 2200 words long, so enjoy!