** Telepathy/Psychic Bond **
"Speech"
'Thoughts'
:: Yasai ::
"First part of a sentence / followed by another part", first person speaks/ flows into second (depends on the amount of backslashes and people speaking).
"Simultaneous Speech (replace with thought, yasai, etc.)", first person initialsecond person initial.
I do not own the DB franchise.
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Erasa's mouth was just gaping, but she soon found her words. "It-It's THE Bulma Briefs! The actual Bulma Briefs!"
"Yep! And this is my sister, Tights" she said brightly, "I'm the one they asked to do the physical assessment!"
Cheers rang out from the class.
"Anyways." Bulma said clapping. "Before we start, does anyone have any questions? Hmm?"
Bulma looked up to see a gloved hand go up. That hand belonged to none other than Satan Videl.
"Yes you. Miss…um."
"Videl. Satan Videl." She said, silently excited that she was speaking to the world's richest heiress.
"Satan?" Bulma looked at her funny.
"Yeah, I'm Hercule's daughter." She answered proudly. Kemaru had put on a smug face, all thoughts of the Son clan temporarily forgotten.
Bulma looked at her for a moment before laughing. "Seriously. Pfft, you're far too pretty!" Videl blushed crimson and smiled, "You must really take after your mother."
Bulma's eyes wandered over the class until they settled on Gohan, who was watch her with a wary expression. "You didn't mention his pretty friend."
"I didn't tell you about any of my friends," He replied, his arms folded over his chest, "You didn't even ask."
"Excuses, excuses." She chided before turning to Videl, "Anyway, what was your question?"
"Right," She said, tearing her eyes away from Gohan, "Why are you doing the test?"
"Well, this was actually a last minute request on our part. We developed some new, fully functioning equipment sets that need stress testing, plus someone brought it to my attention that we need to start gathering data on the younger generation."
"How do you know Gohan?" A pretty blonde girl from beside Gohan asked, Gohan shot Bulma a look that begged not to reveal too much.
"I was close with his father when we were kids." She stated, "OK, I'll explain what will happen when we get outside."
** Guess you two get a break. ** Bulma said. The two nodded in acknowledgement, a gesture not missed by Videl.
"One job." Came a ground out voice.
Bulma smirked. "What?"
"Honestly you had one job: Don't bring mention me your public conversations!" Gohan said as if he was in pain.
"Oh sorry sweetie!" Bulma said sarcastically, "But you know how I am."
"Yeah, I know." Gohan answer rubbing his face as Lime giggled at Bulma's comment, "Now who's making excuses?"
:: Not like you could do anything about it. :: Bulma pointed out. Gohan got up from his seat and walked to the front of the class. Standing directly in front of his Aunt, he pulled out a mass of wires from his jacket and deposited them on the teacher's desk. "What're these?"
"Me doing something. You can deal with those." He stated matter-of-factly, before walking off, smirking.
Tights leaned over and whispered in her sister's ear, "That's one of baby bro's kids?" Bulma nodded, "He seems interesting."
"Follow me everyone, you'll be separated by gender for this." Bulma called, leading everyone outside.
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Three hours had passed and the form five classes {grade 10} were finished with their assessments. Gohan and Lime had expertly dodged everyone from their class and had meet up with each other up in a leafy tree near the baseball field outside.
It hadn't taken them long to realize that Erasa couldn't keep her mouth shut, soon the entire school knew that the two were on a first name basis with the head of Capsule Corp. Another hour passed and Gohan lay peacefully on a slanted branch.
Lime was sitting cross-legged on his back, watching the clouds aimlessly, Gohan's slow, alien heart and steady ki flow indicated that he was fast asleep.
She stayed there, feeling out the five beat rhythm until she sensed their friends.
On the other side of the field, Videl was in deep thought.
"Isn't it cool Videl?!" Erasa squealed.
"Hmm?" was her response. They were walking across the field to the main tree.
"We picked the two best persons to become friends with!" Erasa beamed, "I mean not even Mr. Satan can talk to Ms. Briefs!"
They had been searching for the two since they disappeared earlier in that day, but Kemaru refused downright.
[FLASHBACK]
"What do guys see in him?" Kem said gritting his teeth, "His entire family is dangerous! A band of murderers!"
Come on man," Sharpener said, "The guy seems pretty alright to me. I don't think someone could be a murderer and have such a good relationship with his best friend. Or strangers like us as a matter of fact-"
"You don't know what they've done!" He bellowed
"Kem! Quit it!" Videl said. Kem looked at her slightly shocked. "He said it wasn't murder."
"You think he's going to just tell you the truth?!" he looked at her incredulously, "Come on, Videl!"
"There are two sides to a coin, Kem. Who can tell who's lying?" Videl asked, she knew he couldn't resist her. Too bad the feeling wasn't mutual.
"Bah, fine!" He said, "But don't expect me to be all chummy with them!"
And with that, he stormed off.
[END FLASHBACK]
Once they had made it across the field and were standing comfortably in the shade of the main tree, Erasa started to look around.
"You think they're hiding from us?" She asked.
"Of course they are!" said Sharpener in exasperation, "You and your gossip girls are worse that the paparazzi!" Videl snorted in attempt to hold in her laughter.
"Hiding in plain sight." Bulma said walking over, smirking. Sharpener couldn't help but gawk at her perfect figure until Erasa slapped him upside the head.
"What do you mean Ms…" Videl started
"Just call me Bulma, all those titles makes me feel old."
"Technically, you are." GL said. The other teens looked around, trying to pinpoint their location.
'They're doing it again…' Videl sighed, "You guys are gonna get found out if you keep doing that"
"Well you could say they are bonded in a way." Bulma said inspecting Videl, she had the fiery attitude of all saiyan wives, plus she was a martial artist. She took these into account before continuing, "Did Gohan tell you?"
"Kinda figured it out when they slipped up."
"Pfft," Bulma scoffed, "Really? Anyways, it does not matter. Are you still looking for Gohan and Lime? "
She nodded. "You said they're hiding in plain sight?" Videl asked uncertainly, Bulma pointed up. Following her finger, Videl spotted the two teens in a leafy camouflaged spot.
"There!" she said pointing, the other's looked up and spotted Lime sitting on a pissed off Gohan a good way up the tree.
"How'd you guys get up there?!" Erasa squealed.
"They're always up in trees…always." Bulma said.
"What do you need?" neither of them had bothered to open their eyes.
"Could you stop doing that?" Videl sighed
"Doing what?"
"That! Stop talking at the same time!" She yelled
Gohan forced Lime onto another branch and looked down, flashing his trademarked smile. "Sorry, force of habit."
"Whatever," she said, avoiding his gaze, "Come down. We want to ask you something."
"What'd you want to ask?" Gohan inquired.
"I said come down" she said, recovering from the shock of seeing the jump. "Whatever! What is it that your family did to Kem's that makes him hate you so much?"
Gohan was silent for a moment. ** Dad? **
** Well, I did kinda mutilate his grandfather… **
Seeing that she needed to push a bit more, she said "He says your family are murderers…" she trailed off. She wanted to trust him, but if he was a murderer, then she had a duty to take him down and protect Lime if he was deceiving her as well.
Gohan's face darkened a bit and he pushed his hands in his pocket. He could feel Videl's trust slip away.
** I've fought and killed a lot of people. Take the Red Ribbon army for example. Plus a lot more. **
"Hmph," Gohan started, "That guy's caught up in a delusion. If his grandfather was the great man he thought he was, well… Let's say things would be different today. On top of that, my father didn't kill him, he beat him badly in attempts to make him change his ways. Well that didn't work, he came back years later and I actually met him. Got his head crushed by one of his rogue subordinates."
"Ew!" Erasa squealed, Gohan was thankful for his height advantage since the sound wasn't travelling well. Even Videl, who'd seen police officers get gunned down couldn't picture such a grotesque image.
Bulma suddenly changed her mood. "Anyways, you guys are finished with your assessments so you can leave. Come with me you two. Tights is still assessing another section of the school." Gesturing to Lime and Gohan.
The siblings jumped out of the tree, much to the surprise of their friends and followed the heiress.
Bulma suddenly turned around, "Oh, before I forget." She dug around in her bag and pulled out the heap of wires Gohan had given her.
"The bells that you killed," she said, "go fix them."
Words couldn't describe the comical facial expression Gohan wore as he trudged along back into the school building to revive his tormentors.
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Two Chapters in one day. Exams coming up, so very slow updates from here on out.