Dragon Ball/Z/GT Fan Fiction ❯ Blinded ❯ A New Life To Protect ( Chapter 2 )

A new life to protect

It was early in the morning and the sounds of dishes, pots, and pans moving around disturbed the silence of the morning. It was the start of a new day at the Son house. Chi Chi was making breakfast and Gohan was still asleep. It has only been a couple months past the Cell games and Goku's decision to stay dead. Mirai Trunks had left shortly after to go beat the androids of his time. Gohan was learning to cope with his blindness. It had sharpened his other senses to a much higher degree. Bulma was coming by today to check on Chi Chi at Gohan's insistence even though he couldn't see her had been noticing odd things about his mom. She was losing weight and was sick in the mornings and Gohan could feel something off in her ki. He was worried and had bullied his mother into letting Bulma do some tests on her. Just then a loud voice penetrated the silence.

"GOHAN! TIME TO GET UP BREAKFAST IS READY!" Chi Chi screamed up the stairs.

In a small bedroom up the stairs a tousled head slowly peeked out from under the covers followed by a yawning face. As the boy sat up he slowly yawned again and became more alert. Sitting fully straight the boy searched his surrounding with his mind and finding everything ok he slowly started getting out of bed. His steps were slow but smooth as he walked over to the chair by his bed that he knew would contain his clothes for that day. If one had just watched without prior knowledge of the boy they probably label him as careful or lazy. They wouldn't have guessed he was blind. As soon as he was dressed the boy made his way towards the door by memory alone. Son Gohan was ready for another day.

Chi Chi could hear Gohan start down the stairs by the rhythmic thump of his feet on the stairs. She sighed to herself. She hadn't wanted Bulma to come check her out. Chi Chi was pretty sure she knew what the problem was but didn't want everyone to know yet especially Gohan. She sent a proud smile at her son as he made his way careful to his seat at the table. Sneaky of him to run behind her back and tell Bulma enough to have her come to check his mother out. Chi Chi felt a burst of pride as she set a plate full of food in front of her son and he immediately began to down it. He is getting smarter every day she thought to herself.

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I can feel her eyes on me as soon as I made my way into the kitchen. I made my way carefully over to my seat and sat down. I could hear he messing with the pots and pans but I could still feel her eyes on me. She does this every morning stares at me as I make my way through breakfast. She doesn't know that I can feel it and I don't feel like letting her know. She is a little upset with me calling Bulma but she doesn't know I can tell. I can now feel emotions from people kind of like I can read ki levels. I don't know if this is something I could always do and didn't focus on it Or if it because the blindness. I had always been able to feel my dad's but I figured it was through our blood. But now I can feel people's emotions all the time. That's the main reason I called Bulma. I had started to get a fear emotion off of my mother along with the sick feeling. No one knows that I can read emotions I decided I would save telling that for another day. This morning the only emotions I get off her are pride and sadness. The sadness I can understand but the pride I can't. I don't know why she has pride in me I killed her husband, my father. Just as I was finishing the plate my mom gave me I heard the sound of a jet copter landing near our house. Bulma must be here.

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Outside a jet copter touched down softly on green grass a little ways away from the lone house. As it opened a blue haired woman with a toddler strung over her back approached the house just as the door opened and Chi Chi came out.

"Bulma I'm glad you could make it," she said motioning for them to come inside.

"Always glad to help Chi Chi you know that. I hope you don't mind I brought Trunks," Bulma pointed to her back where a baby Trunks giggled and cooed in his carrier.

"Of course not Bulma we love having Trunks here."

The two women reached the kitchen as Chi Chi went over to the stove to get some coffee Bulma unstrapped Trunks from his carrier to put him in her lap and then turned her attention to Gohan.

"Hey Gohan what have you been up to lately?" She asked cheerfully.

"Nothing much Bulma still getting used to everything." He replied turning his sightless eyes in her direction.

"Well kiddo only nine more months till we can call the dragon so hang in there," she encouraged "and I'm glad you called me about Chi Chi you did the right thing."

"I heard that Bulma." Came Chi Chi's voice as she walked over to the table with a mug of coffee for her and Bulma.

Bulma just gave Chi Chi a look as she sat down and said "well I am glad he called me and we will be checking you out as soon as we finish this coffee. And Gohan, I have some things with me to help you out for a while. You can have them after I am done with your mom kiddo."

" All right Bulma." With that Gohan got up and made his way back to his room.

The two women sat at the table finishing their coffee as soon as they were done they headed to the master bedroom. Little did they know a certain little boy was following them and stopped to listen in on what was going on in the room Bulma and Chi Chi had gone into. As he pressed his ear against the door he could tell they were already well into a conversation.

"Chi Chi you should know what this means," came Bulma's voice.

"Of course I know what it means Bulma. I just didn't want to tell yet," came the reply.

"You need to take care of yourself but we will run a test first to make absolutely sure," Bulma's voice scolded.

"I didn't want Gohan to worry he has enough to deal with now," Chi Chi's voice was sad.

"Well I think you frightened him more with not telling him Chi Chi. By the way we are correct your pregnant again Chi Chi with a boy," Bulma's voice was kinder this time.

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I couldn't believe it even though I had heard it with my own ears. Mom was pregnant with a boy. I was going to have a little brother. Then I realized what exactly that meant. I would have another life to protect. Even as I thought that my mind turned to thoughts of what he would be like. Maybe he would become the scholar mom always wanted. As I was thinking of possible futures for my brother I was reminded of my own childhood. Thinking back over everything that happened to me starting from when Raditz, dad's psychotic brother kidnapped me till now when I managed to defeat Cell at the cost of my fathers life. My mind burned with rage as I imagined my brother in my place. I managed to control it just in time. I really didn't need any of the others to come running because my ki spiked.

Lost in my thoughts I made up my mind. Carefully making my way from the door to the outside I formed the vow in my mind. Once I reached outside I decided a meditative position would be best for what I was trying to do. I had never tried to enter someone's mind before. I knew I could, I had done it with dad and Piccolo before. Relaxing my mind I sent my senses searching for my mom's ki and finding it searched for the itty bitty ki I knew would have to be hiding in her. Once I locked onto it I used my ki to surround it and send my voice to its developing mind.

"I son Gohan protector of this planet and by our shared blood your brother. Do vow to protect you from all evils no matter where they come from with my last breath if need be. Know that you are protected always."

That finished I withdrew my mind and sat back gasping for air. That had been a little harder than I thought, but I still needed to contact one more person. I stretched out my mind and found him as usual by his waterfall.

//Piccolo. //

//Gohan? Do you need me kid? // He sounded slightly startled that I had contacted him this way.

//Will you come to our house tomorrow I need to talk to you. // I replied

//Sure kid. //

//See you tomorrow Piccolo. // With that last thought I closed our link.

With that done I decided I had better go back and wait for mom and Bulma to tell me about the baby. Piccolo was coming tomorrow and I needed to get ready. If I was going to live up to my vow I was going to have to start training again. Who better to do it with then my old sensei? I sighed as I made my way towards the house. Tomorrow would be a long day.

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