Dragon Ball/Z/GT Fan Fiction ❯ Blinded ❯ Training Continues ( Chapter 4 )

Training continues

"Ouch. Yeow. Oof."

All those were noises of pain as rocks managed to slip through my guard and hit me. The first was one that hit me upside the head. The second was one that managed to get my foot and the last was one that caught me straight in the stomach. All of a sudden the rocks stopped flying, but my body was still tensed and ready to fight at the slightest signal something was wrong. Then I heard a voice.

"It's alright kid you can relax the test is over for now."

It was Piccolo, my mentor, my tormentor, and my friend. I relaxed and just sat down where I had stood. I wasn't even going to attempt to walk through the clearing to wherever the hell he was. I didn't quite feel like tripping over a rock and falling flat on my face. So I sat down and just waited for Piccolo to tell me what to do next.

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Piccolo was surprised he quite honestly hadn't expected Gohan to do well in the rock throwing test but the boy had surprised him. Out of fifty rocks only 7 had hit the boy. Apparently his hearing was doing just fine and he was able to react well with sounds. Gohan had only started to fumble when Piccolo had sped things up.

<Oh well> Piccolo thought we will work on that.

He then turned his attention to the next test. This time Gohan was going to have to use his ki to find his opponent. Piccolo would be able to see how well Gohan's ki detecting abilities were. In a fight it would be sound and ki that would probably be most useful for the young warrior. The Namek sighed and decided it was time to tell Gohan what they would be doing.

"Gohan."

"Yeah Piccolo," the boy responded turning his sightless blue eyes in Piccolo's direction.

Piccolo got shivers every time he looked into those eyes. They reminded him just how much things had changed. They were nothing like what they had been before. It wasn't even the permanent change of color. Gohan's eyes had always been the most expressive part of his body, but now those eyes were empty. You felt as if you were staring into a hole that had no bottom. It was as if they were a gateway into nothingness a void with no emotions. Piccolo shook himself from those weird thoughts and turned his attention back to Gohan who was still looking his way expectantly.

"Gohan, the next test will be to sere how well you can sense ki. I want you to stand up straight and relax your mind. I'm going to be moving around and I want you to shoot a small ki beam wherever you think I am. Feel for my ki. And kid make the beam strong enough to leave a mark but not enough to burn ok?"

"Sure thing Piccolo," was the response as the young boy got to his feet and relaxed."

<Hmm I think I will start out close to him and then start moving further and further away>

Piccolo thought as he worked on how best to give Gohan a good tests. That decided Piccolo began to phase in and out around Gohan as the boy attempted to hit Piccolo with his ki blasts. For the first minute Gohan wasn't able to hit Piccolo once but after that first minute he was hitting him regularly. Piccolo decided he had better start testing Gohan a little harder and started appearing further away and going faster. Again it took the boy just a moment to adjust but he quickly got the hang of it and was hitting Piccolo regularly. Piccolo was about ready to stop the session when Gohan suddenly pointed his finger in the completely opposite direction Piccolo was in and fired a ki blast into a trees. A curse followed signaling the blast had been on target and out of the trees came a pissed off looking Vegeta with a scorch mark on his chest armor. As soon as Piccolo heard the cursing from the forest he had stopped moving and settled to the ground. As Vegeta stomped out of the woods he simply raised an eyebrow at the Saiyan prince and waited.

"What the hell was that for brat!!" Vegeta yelled at Gohan.

The boy looked sheepish as he replied "Sorry Vegeta I thought you were joining in that was the only time you moved since you've been here."

Vegeta looked shocked that he had been found out but Piccolo was wondering exactly how long Vegeta had been there. He decided to find out.

"How long have you been here Vegeta?" he asked trying not to rile up the Saiyan anymore than he was or else he would never get an answer.

"Hm since the beginning."

Vegeta replied absent mindedly as he looked at Gohan consideringly. He seemed to come to a decision because his face sharpened back to its usual scowl and he opened his mouth to speak.

"How did you know I was there boy?" he barked out "Even the Namek couldn't tell I was there. Tell me now!"

Gohan grinned as he answered.

"Well Vegeta several things. First was your ki even though you thought you had it totally suppressed you didn't. I found out that you can't totally suppress ki unless the person is dead, and you also have a very unique ki signature."

As Gohan took a breath to start talking again Piccolo noticed Vegeta's face slowly getting angrier and angrier. For Gohan's sake Piccolo hoped the rest of the explanation would be brief.

"The second reason is because you were upwind of me and I could smell you if you had been downwind I probably wouldn't have been able to do that."

Piccolo covered his face with his hands and waited for the inevitable explosion and sure enough as soon as Gohan said that Vegeta blew up.

"What the hell are you saying brat! That I stink??"

Piccolo took his hands away from his face to see an enraged Vegeta holding Gohan up by his collar and yelling in his face.

"Explain boy or die!!"

"Well Vegeta now I'm blind all my other senses have increased a lot and combine that with Saiyan senses I can smell just about anything I can even smell water."

With that explanation Vegeta looked somewhat modified and let the Gohan drop to the ground.

"The last reason is I could feel you. I don't mean you ki or your presence I mean your mind and your emotions."

For the second time that day Vegeta no Ouji looked totally floored. Piccolo decided to step in because he didn't want Gohan to reveal to much. He walked over to where Vegeta was standing and spoke.

"He only found out a little while ago but yeah Vegeta he can read peoples emotions. He managed to read mine and was totally accurate."

Vegeta was finally able to register what they were saying and his face went to confused to horrified in less than a second as he looked down at the eleven year old at his feet. Gohan's face was serious as he spoke.

"Don't worry Vegeta I can control it. I don't do it unless I need to find something out. But I feel people's presence I know they are there but I wont read them unless I need to."

Vegeta looked considerably less horrified after that statement but still growled a question.

"Did you try to read me boy?" the question was filled with menace compelling the listener to tell the truth.

"Nope Vegeta. I wouldn't want to do that you would kick the crap out of me." Gohan replied cheerfully.

Vegeta looked relieved but still had to make a comment.

"Damn straight I would brat."

Gohan and Piccolo just laughed as Vegeta smirked and turned to go away. As he reached the edge of the forest he turned around.

"When you have gotten back to your previous level come see me boy that's when we will train."

He smirked once more then blasted off into the air.

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Man that was a close one. If Vegeta had found out that I actually had read him, my mind shuddered away from the scenario it made up. Needless to say the Gohan before you would be no more I would probably be on my way to the next dimension. To tell you the truth it really wasn't my fault that I accidentally read Vegeta's emotions. I had just felt the presence of someone near Piccolo and me so I decided to see if I could figure out who it was. Imagine my surprise when I figured out it was Vegeta. That was the last person I was expecting to spy on us I had figured it would be my mom but boy I was wrong. Before I thought about it I was reading Vegeta's emotions. If I had been surprised that Vegeta was spying on me, I was floored when I figured out what Vegeta was feeling. Pity. The prince of all saiyans who by his own admissions didn't feel shit for anybody felt pity for what he called a third class brat. The last person I expected to feel pity from would be Vegeta and the more I thought about it the more I got pissed off that he pitied me.

While Piccolo was explaining the ki test I had a brilliant idea. What better way to get rid of pity than to replace it with anger? Vegeta thought that nobody noticed him in his little hiding spot but what if I decided to include him in our test. So while Piccolo was being my moving target I waited until I felt was the perfect moment and fired a blast at Vegeta. I almost couldn't hold back a grin as I heard him come cursing out of the woods. He certainly was pissed now. I hadn't thought about what I would say so when he asked me what the hell I was doing I said the first thing that popped out of my head. I was lucky it was a good excuse. But then he asked me how I knew he was there. I decided I had better answer him honestly even though I knew it would piss him off even more.

When I told him about what I learned about ki signatures I could tell he was getting even more pissed but knew he wouldn't be satisfied with half of an answer. When I told him I could smell him he blew his lid and grabbed me by the front of my collar and started screaming at me to explain what the hell I meant. When I explained how much my senses had been heightened he seemed to calm down a little and even dropped me back onto the ground. I was kind of glad that he was a little calmer. I had definitely made all of his pity go away but I didn't want him to final flash my ass either. And I knew that the last reason would piss him off more than the others. Because of that I decided to lie. When I told him I could read emotions and sense other people's minds I knew he was surprised but that quickly changed into horror and along with that fear and anger. I was a little surprised at the fear but made sure my face didn't show it. As Piccolo explained what I could do I decided not to butt in and let him reassure Vegeta. When Vegeta asked me in his im-gonna-final-flash-your-ass-if-you-dont-tell-me voice I decided to act like my dad and give the stupidest answer I could think of.

"Nope Vegeta. I wouldn't want to do that you would kick the crap out of me." I said with what I knew was a goofy grin on my face.

He seemed extremely relived and of course had to make a comment.

"Damn straight I would brat."

It was just such a Vegeta comment that I had to laugh and I could hear Piccolo laughing with me. I could tell by the direction his ki was going that he was going to leave. When he stopped and told me to come to him when I had gotten back up to what I had been to come see him. To be honest I was shocked Vegeta had never wanted anything to do with me especially for training so as he blasted off I was left wondering what in the hell he was up to. I could feel Piccolo's gaze on me as Vegeta took off but his next words surprised me.

"That's the first time I have ever heard you tell a lie deliberately kid."

I was shocked how had Piccolo known I was lying I knew my face hadn't shown it otherwise Vegeta would have picked it up. So I decided I had better find out before I slipped up again.

"How could you tell Piccolo?"

There was silence and then he spoke.

"I wouldn't have been able to tell if I didn't know you so well. First off your answers weren't as well thought out, as they normally are besides when have you ever backed off from Vegeta. So how much of what you told him was truth and what was a lie."

I could hear from his voice that he was curious so I decided I would tell him everything.

"Well everything was true except when I told him I thought he was joining in and when I told him I didn't read him. I got pissed at him while he was hiding because I could feel his pity so I decided to piss him off then he wouldn't be spending his time pitying me. That's the one thing I really hate Piccolo."

Piccolo was silent for a while I guess he was trying to digest what I was said. Finally he spoke.

"Kid have you ever tried to read someone's mind not their emotions but their thoughts?"

I was puzzled by the question but answered him anyway.

"No Piccolo why would I want to try it? I can't do that."

He was silent and I began to wonder what he was thinking about. What he had just asked me repeated itself inside my mind and I decided why not try it. I concentrated on Piccolo and let my mind loose I felt his emotions but their was something more it was more difficult to grasp than his emotions but it was there. Stretching my mind as far as it would go I reached for that feeling. All of a sudden I could hear his thoughts.

<Hmm what if Gohan does have true telepathic abilities? Nah the kid can't be that developed yet can he? >

As I listened in I couldn't help but grin and decided to let Piccolo in on my new talent.

"Uh Piccolo?"

"What kid?"

"Can I rephrase my last answer?"

I could sense his shock but his thoughts gave him away.

<What the hell. Gohan are you reading my mind dammit!!!?>

I grinned in the direction I knew him to be and replied to his mental inquiry.

"Yep Piccolo I am reading your mind at least for now."

<Shit>

"Dammit kid get out of my head now." He growled at me out loud.

" Sorry Piccolo but you got me curious when you asked so I decided to try it." I replied cheerfully.

I withdrew my mind from his and closed down the link I had with his thoughts and then curious to see if I could I closed the link enabling me to read his emotions as well. Finally Piccolo decided to speak to me again.

"Can you control it Gohan?"

His tone was serious and I guess he was worried about an overload if I was around a lot of people and couldn't shut the links down. I hastened to reassure him of my control.

"Yeah I can I just closed off my links with you I seem to be able to do it out of instinct."

I heard him sigh in relief and to tell the truth I was a bit relieved myself. Being bombarded with tons of people's thoughts and emotions wouldn't have been fun. It was interesting that I was just now developing these abilities. I had always had a telepathic connection with dad and Piccolo but I never stopped to wonder why. I had a feeling that because I never concentrated on developing those abilities they never came out but now that I was relying on other things to help me see my latent abilities were coming out. I had no doubt that these abilities hadn't just appeared. They felt to natural for that. Oh well I didn't feel like pondering everything at the moment. I wanted to get on with my training. So I raised my voice and called out to Piccolo.

"What's the next test Piccolo?"

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Piccolo was still in a state of shock as he heard Gohan call out for the next test. He couldn't believe the rate Gohan's mental abilities were progressing. Maybe Chi Chi is finally right and Gohan is actually a genius he certainly is considered that with human studies but he has already grasped everything on how to work telepathy and empathy (sp?). We had better not tell everyone this right away and I better teach him some rules about when and when not to use his new skills.

Piccolo shook himself out of the daze he seemed to be in and turned his attention to the grinning boy a few yards away. Heaving a sigh he walked over until he was right in front of Gohan and began to explain about the third and final test.

"Okay Gohan, this is the last test. This test is going to use your mind and only your mind. You know the feeling you get when you're searching for something like when your trying to contact me but first you have to find me. Well it's kind of like that. Open your mind and instead of just finding me just let your mind relax and try to feel what's around you. Let your mind figure out what is around you if you need to use a little ki to help define things."

Gohan closed his eyes with a look of concentration on his face that slowly relaxed until it just looked as if the boy was sleeping with his eyes open. All of a sudden a look of pure excitement flashed across his face and with a gleeful yell he began to speak.

"Piccolo! It worked! I can sense where everything is your standing 3.5 feet in front of me and there is a boulder about 6 feet to the side of you and it has one side sloped but the other is broken off. And there are trees all around. I recognize the clearing dad and me went here to talk once."

As Gohan continued to babble Piccolo looked and sure enough there was a boulder about 6 feet to the side exactly as Gohan described it. Piccolo interrupted his students babbling with a comment.

"Good job Gohan your exactly right. Do you think you can do this while you walk?"

Gohan `s face scrunched up as he thought and finally replied with.

"I think so Piccolo."

"Well kid lets try it out."

The two warriors set off through the trees back towards the Son house. As they

came through the last of the trees Gohan was still walking on his own. He hadn't once bumped into or tripped over anything. As the house came into view Piccolo stopped. Gohan seeing that Piccolo had stopped stopped as well and voiced a question.

"Why did you stop Piccolo?"

The big Namek heaved a sigh and responded.

"Well for one its time for you to go home we have worked enough for one day. And I don't want you mother chasing me around with her frying pan for coming to close to your house. We will train again tomorrow Gohan."

Gohan nodded in understanding and turned to go to the house but Piccolo's voice stopped him.

"Gohan it would be wise of you to not use your new abilities unless you really need to. No unnecessary reading of thoughts or emotions. And also don't tell anyone just yet. I don't know if they can handle it. You felt how Vegeta reacted."

Gohan nodded once again and walked to his house and entered the door. As soon as he heard the screech of Chi Chi's happiness at seeing her son getting around perfectly Piccolo felt it was time to leave and already making plans for the next day he took to the air to go home to his waterfall. It would be definitly intresting to see what would happen the next day. Piccolo grinned at that thought as he flew and soon disapeared into the sky.

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Well that chapter sure took me forever to write. I had to come up with explanation and thats always the worst. Well everyone. Did you liek it? hate it? want to flame me? Let me know be a reviewer.

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