A.N. My summer will be less busy soon so then I'll be able to write faster. Until then expect later updates than the usual 3 days.
Next day
Gohan stumbled into the school with a headache, caused from a mixture of his grief from the night before and a grieving Chichi that found out her son skipped school and hit him on the head with her frying pan, declaring him a delinquent before passing out. When she came to she made her apologies as he explained what had happened.
"I'm simply not willing to watch those tapes again, especially after I was the reason dad died." He said, as tears slowly made their way down his cheeks before Chichi hit him with the frying pan again.
"If I ever hear that from your mouth again, I swear I will take away your food for a week then let Vegeta fight you in the GR!" Chichi threatened while holding back more tears from flowing.
"Hey Gohan!" A chipper voice poked through his thoughts. Shutting his locker he turned to face the source. Erasa. Who knew? "Hey Gohan, why'd you ditch school yesterday?"
"It's yet again another reason I'm not going to talk about." He said, sighing leaning forward and resting his forehead against his locker door. "My reasons are not fun ones Erasa."
"Speaking of your reasons," A tired voice said with irritation clear in its tone. "I'm getting tired of your secrets. You will spill sooner or later." Videl promised.
Grinning Gohan looked at her from the corner of his eyes, forehead still against the locker. "You're right. I will spill." He said, causing Videl to lean forward with a sudden look of interest and surprise on his face. "Just not today." He said with a grin before walking off leaving a fuming Videl next to a nervously giggling Erasa. Good try.
It took Videl three periods to stop visualizing of beating the information out of him. Lunch was less than peaceful, ending up with Sharpener rubbing a sore shoulder, Erasa casually eating her lunch, and Gohan nearly frozen in spot as Videl glared at him, nearly perfecting Chichi's glare. By fourth period she finally managed to cool her mind off by punching Sharpener in the gut for virtually no reason, but he knew better than to complain to a teacher. That would've made the punishment a lot worse, probably would end up with two very important bodily details falling off.
Once again it was fifth period. Phys. Ed. But this was different today. Today was the day they would find out their partners, and the evaluation would start immediately with the full hour to do so.
"Listen up!" Mr. Keyes shouted. "You're pairing starts immediately, if you do not listen and hear your partners name and fail to meet your proper partner, you fail. This will take five percent off of your final mark!" He warned them, causing them to snap to attention as silence fell over the group. "Very good."
He began the list. "Erasa with Phillip. Tucker with Videl..." He droned on for a while listing groups. "Sharpener and Destiny..." He went through leaving two names unsaid. "Sadly we have an uneven amount of ladies to amount to the number of boys. The last two boys, Gohan and Jackson, will be pairing up." This erupted into groans from the ladies and a few chuckles and snorts of laughter from the guys.
Aw son of a – Gohan thought before having someone tap on his shoulder. Turning around he saw a beaming Jackson.
"Hey." The slightly smaller teenager said, giving Gohan a little wink.
"Hi." Gohan said, smiling trying his hardest not to freak out. I swear he better not slap my butt again.
I really want to slap that firm ass of his again. Thought a rather turned on Jackson. He's such a hunk!
"Before you say anything Jack, know this." Gohan said, taking charge before Jackson could. "Don't slap my butt or else."
"Or else what?" A playful Jackson said. "Oh and say Jack like that again."
"Dear lord," Gohan mumbled to himself. "Right lets get this over with." Gohan said before walking over to Mr. Keyes and grabbing two assignment sheets, one for him and one for Jackson.
"Thanks gorgeous." Jackson said taking his assignment from Gohan, causing the taller teen to face palm and rub the bridge of his nose.
"Alright, Jackson, show me what you got. We got four categories to fill and forty minutes, leaving us with twenty minutes each. First do the endurance. Since we are short on time, how long can you sprint for without a break?" Gohan asked.
"Lets find out shall we." Jackson responded.
Jackson barely lasted two minutes before collapsing to the ground, gasping for breath, holding his sides. "The-there. We-we, g-go." He said between gasps.
Shit, if he lasted this long I'll really have to tone it down. Lets go five minutes, then act like he was, just to be safe, but be faster than he was. Gohan thought as he made his strategy to avoid attracting unwanted attention. I have to make sure that I pretend to be huffing and puffing.
"Go!" Jackson shouted, signalling the start of the ultimate endurance test. Five minutes later, a sweat free Gohan strolled up to a stop 'huffing and puffing,' while clutching his side in a completely and obviously fake manner. "How the hell are you not sweating? You ran faster than me for a solid five minutes and your pretending to be in rough shape." Jackson said as he called Gohan's poor excuse of faking of being tired.. Damn he's in better shape than I thought!
Knowing the jig was up, Gohan faced Jackson. "Because we don't have time for the actual length of time for how long I can last, now lets finish this." He stated, making sure the smaller teen understood this was not going further. "Next up is upper body strength. So like pushups and chin ups and stuff."
Jackson stepped up and completed 68 pushups before collapsing.
This will be easier to fake. I hope. Gohan thought as he prepared to start his pushups. Deciding that one fingered, one handed pushups was demonstrating a bit too much, he settled with one handed pushups, palm on the ground. .5... Gohan thought as he pumped out one push up a second, he got a bit carried away and went two minutes with one hand before switching to the other and doing two minutes with that hand. In total he did 245 one handed push ups.
"Whew!" He said, fake-rubbing his arms in pain, pretending to be loosening the joints and muscles. Looking around he noticed a good number of the other students staring at him. "Um... hi guys?" He said to his class phrasing it like a question. The second he spoke to them they returned to their own work.
"Again, what the fricken hell, how are your arms not falling off?" Jackson said. "That amount of pushups is almost inhuman!"
Ohhh shit, thats too close to home. He thought. Actually thats pretty dead on. I'm half alien, half human making me almost inhuman. "Well I've been doing them for years daily so..." Gohan said, trailing off.
"But still!" Jackson almost seemed to protest. If he wasn't so damn fine I'd think he was the fricken Gold Fighter with all that strength! And the fact he doesn't have golden hair.
The noise Jackson made attracted attention. Especially Videl's from the other side of the gym. Videl turned and looked at the two guys, chuckling at the fact Gohan was the one who got stuck with Jackson.
"But still!" She heard Jackson shout. "That was 240 one handed pushups!"
Silence.
Thats what filled the gym in a matter of seconds. Everyone in the gym had turned to face Gohan. Videl froze in her spot. No wonder he's got the body of a Greek god! I can't deny the bastard is significantly more built than others and defined like hell. She thought. But 240? Is that possible?
Gohan ran his gaze across the gym, feeling the blush rise to his cheeks. Awww, damn it. He thought as he noticed everyone staring. Giving his nervous laugh as well as rubbing the back of his neck he grinned at everyone, waving nervously. "Hi guys, don't mind us!" He said.
"Did I say any of you could stop?!" Mr Keyes shouted as he re-entered the gym. "Get back to work!"
The next and final two routines that they needed to do were both core workouts as well as flexibility. When the entire class had finished Mr. Keyes came back out. "Listen up! You got five minutes to mark your partner on their performance!" He shouted.
Since Gohan really didn't know how to evaluate Jackson's level of performance, he just gave him an 87% on it. Jackson, of course, both being in love with Gohan, and seeing the taller teens incredible abilities, he gave him a 100%. Only other person to receive 100 was Videl. Sharpener got a close 98 while an Erasa pulled in an 82.
"Ok, time to change, get out of here and don't get yourselves killed!" Mr Keyes shouted at the students. "Dismissed!"
Changed and ready to go home, Gohan ran onto the roof, about to pop out his jet copter.
"Gohan." A soft but firm voice said behind him. Sensing the person he recognized it as Videl instantly, her being the strongest in the school.
"Yes Videl?" Gohan said before turning around.
"How did you manage 240 one handed push ups?" She asked. "I myself can only reach 70 per arm. How can you do 120 per arm?"
"Simple." Gohan said.
Videl waited... "Well, are you going to tell me?"
"Tell you? Oh right." Gohan said. "I've just been training longer than you."
"What?" Videl hissed, narrowing her eyes. "Are you suggesting your stronger than me?"
Gulping nervously and looking around, Gohan said; "Oh would you look at that! I must be off, good to talk again Videl!"
"Don't you dare!" Videl started. "How dare you suggest that you, an untrained-"
"Tah-tah!" Gohan shouted grinning before taking off in his jetcopter. Ugh, god I hate this thing.
"Damn it Gohan!" She shouted, stomping her foot.
Cute, stomping her feet again. Gohan smirked before flying off. "Bye Videl! See you tomorrow!" He waved.
"I'll get you for that insult Gohan!" Videl shouted, her pride feeling damaged.
That was a close one. Gohan thought. When he was high enough into the sky he capsulized his jet copter and floated, listening for sirens, radios, anything that could be a signal for distress. He hit the button on his watch, (Yes, I'm including that as well, too handy to leave out) and his clothes shifted into that of the Gold Fighter. Quickly powering up he went Super Saiyan and floated mid air, listening.
"We have a high speed pursuit! Officers Dallawya and Hibiki are pursuing vehicle. All units are requested to assist with caution, driver and passengers are armed and dangerous." The rough sounding static broke into Gohan's concentration. Turning to face the east side of the city, he focused down a fast moving source of energy. With their adrenaline spiking, it was easier to pinpoint the location.
Flying off, he noticed to his left a yellow blip. Hello Videl. He nodded in her direction as the black haired teen glared in his direction. He swung his arm in a little circle ending up with him bowing slightly and his spinning arm pointing ahead towards the location, while his left arm crossed over his torso. After you.
Cheeky bastard. Videl thought. She raced ahead hardly acknowledging his honouring their agreement. Feeling sudden pressure on her ears and a new smell, she turned to the passenger seat, where, to her surprise, the Gold Fighter sat.
"Your use of this...machine, will do nothing but hinder your progress." He stated in a deeper more gravely voice as she gaped at him."Even if you land in front of the car he will either change his course, crash into your jet copter, or they will actually stop."
"How the... how did you-" Videl started only to be cut off.
"Two of these three are useless and one of those two put your life on the line. The third does nothing as the chase will only continue on. Think about what you will do carefully Videl."
Suddenly, he was out of the jet copter, flying beside her once again. What the hell? She thought. How'd he get in my jet copter? Who is this guy? And more importantly, whats this secret?
A.N. So this is around 900 words min short than my usual minimum. Sorry guys, its been a busy ass week and frankly I don't want to leave you hanging anymore so I'm giving you what I got. You can expect another chapter in the next few days though, back to its normal 3000 minimum words. I promise I wont be five days without being over my minimum. Review and stuff!