Dragon Ball/Z/GT Fan Fiction ❯ Loss and Power ❯ Love or Passion?? ( Chapter 5 )

Love or Passion?

 

 

 

The feeling of wind whipping through my hair relaxed me. Last night was pure chaos. I had spent the majority of it dodging the explanation of where I had been over the past two years. Most of the time I talked with my grandfather while the rest of the group tried to figure out if they could trust the rest of the “Blood Pack.”

 

A smile crept over my face as the thoughts from last night came to my mind's eye. A burst of ki brought me out of my musings as I could sense someone coming fast and at me. Stopping in midair I waited for the assailant to get closer. I could sense who it was now and smiled. As the figure neared he slowed down, coming to a full stop right in front of me.

 

“Hello Piccolo.” I said, “How's Dende?”

 

“I had heard that you were back. Dende is doing ok. He'd like to see you.”

 

“I know he would but I have a promise that I need to keep first.” I said looking in the direction that I was originally going.

 

“She's not the same person you knew two years ago Gohan. She's changed quite a bit.”

 

I looked at him with a questioning expression. “How do you know who I am talking about?”

 

“I watched you two interact. There is more there than both of you let on. Or at least there was. I don't know how she'll react to seeing you now. I've been keeping tabs on her over the past two years. Seeing how she took your absence.”

 

“Thanks Piccolo. I owe you one.”

 

“We'll call it even. You did save the world from Cell.”

 

I gave him a nod and then sped off towards orange star high. I landed just outside of the athletics field and walked the rest of the way in. As I approached the main building I noticed that a gym class was starting just outside. I quickly looked over the class and recognized most of the students. Erasa, Sharper, and Videl.

 

They had all aged a little but that was to be expected. They didn't notice me as I walked into the school, now disguised as Nogah. I walked up to the guest reception desk and signed in. I clipped my visitors tag to my gi and started checking out the school.

 

The bell sounded the change in classes and within a few seconds the halls were a sea of students trying to get to their next classes. I tried to negotiate myself through the sea of people towards the locker room exits but didn't have much luck as a group of jocks came up and purposefully blocked my way.

 

“So, you are Nogah Nos? You don't look so tough. I'll bet that I could kick your ass.” The captain of the football team said hotly.

 

I just grinned this was the same guy who tried this two years ago. He hadn't learned his lesson. `I guess ill have to teach him, AGAIN.' I thought. I tried moving forward but he moved in front of me. The rest of the group formed a circle around the two of us making sure we weren't being disturbed. By now a crowd had gathered and I could sense Videl was close.

 

“Look buddy get out of my way unless you want to miss the next few football games.” I said, my tone dead serious.

 

“Is that a threat?” he said cockily.

 

“Nope. That's a promise.”

 

He turned around like he was backing down. He took one step and then swung a punch at me while turning to face me. I caught his fist easily and began to squeeze slightly. To me it wouldn't be hardly any pressure, but to him it felt like a hydraulic press was crushing his hand. He sent his other fist at me but I caught it and did the same thing. After a few moments of pain I released his fists and kicked him squarely in the chest sending him over the crowd and sliding down the hallway.

 

Everyone looked back at me to see that I was still in the pose of kicking the football team's captain a good hundred feet. Dropping back to a normal stance I walked in the direction the football captain had flown. The crowd parted giving me plenty of space. I walked up to the football captain and lifted him off of the ground by his shirt.

 

“As I recall you tried this two years ago. It wound up ending the same way.” I said with a smile on my face. “You don't recognize me do you?”

 

The football captain could only shake his head in response. I powered up slightly and burned off my disguise. Gasps were heard from the entire student body as most of them recognized me. The look on the football captain's face was priceless. A look of pure shock and fear was plastered where arrogance and false superiority was minutes before.

 

I dropped him on the floor and turned around. The seniors stared at me like they had seen a ghost. The rest looked at me with a mixture of fear, awe, and confusion. I walked towards the fire escape trying to get out of there before any of the teachers got there. Behind me I could hear the seniors explaining who I was. I knew that I was being followed. I knew it was Videl. So I didn't try to evade her. Once I got to the roof of the school I waited. I didn't have to wait long as Videl came bursting out of the stair well.

 

“It took you longer than I expected.” I said leaning up against the railing on the wall.

 

“Are you really back?” she asked cautiously.

 

“Yes, I'm back for good.”

 

The next thing I knew was I was flat on my back with Videl's arms tightly around my waist. I could hear her crying into my chest as she let out all of the pent up emotions of the past two years. She moved her hands from around my waist to start pounding into my chest in frustration. I wrapped my arms around her lithe waist and held her close. She went back to just crying. Between sobs I could make out “Why didn't you stay with me?”

 

I moved my hand and hooked her chin with my finger so that she was looking at me.

 

“I don't doubt it has been hard on you. But I want you to know it wasn't any easier on me.” I said looking into her eyes.

 

She looked around realizing that we were no longer on top of the school but hovering parallel to the ground just the other side of the railing I had been leaning on moments before. When she realized this she tensed.

 

“Relax.” I said smiling at her sudden realization that we weren't on solid ground. “Come with me.”

 

She nodded and I gripped her to me tighter as I flew off at near supersonic speeds. She snuggled into my chest, as she knew it was pointless to try and resist. We arrived at our intended destination. I had been here just a few days before, but it never was easy being here. I walked up to the large quartz marker and cleared off a few leaves that had settled on top of it.

 

“No one should have to go through what I had to, at that age, two years ago.” I said looking at the stone tears welling in my eyes.

 

Videl stepped forward to see what I was looking at. After reading the name she gasped.

 

“I never knew where she was buried. I had tried to find out but no one would tell me.” She said with awe in her voice. “Is it true that you buried her with your bare hands?”

 

I nodded as memories of that night flooded my mind. “That was the hardest thing I have ever had to do. But I felt that it was the right thing to do.”

 

A thick silence fell as no sound could be heard. It seemed that even the wind could tell that this moment called for complete silence. Finally I felt it time to break the silence.

 

“I know you tried looking for me. I'm sorry I had to hide from you and everyone that I loved but I needed to be in isolation for a while. To tell you the truth most of the time I wasn't even on earth.”

 

Shock was written all over her face as she stared at me.

 

“Everything here reminded me of her.” I said motioning to the gravestone. “And while that wasn't a bad thing I couldn't figure out what I needed to do with everything reminding me of my loss. So I spent some time with some old friends of mine from long ago.”

 

“But I thought you said you weren't on earth. How could you spend some time with some old friends of yours while not on earth?” she asked quizzically.

 

Smiling I turned to face her. “I wasn't I have some friends off world. They are called Namekians. They are what you would call aliens. Would you like to meet them?”

 

Videl looked at me in shock. “I can't take that much time off of school. My father would kill me if he knew that I would be alone with a boy.”

 

I chuckled. “It won't take that long and we will be back in a couple of hours.”

 

“Gohan it would take us months to get out of our solar system. How could it take a couple of hours?”

 

“It's a technique that my dad taught me. Would you like to go or not?” I said crossing my arms across my chest. I waited for a few minutes as Videl turned the idea over in her head. “Just for once get out from the shadow of your father. Be who you want to be.”

 

She looked at me like I had just read her mind and nodded that she would go with me. I uncrossed my arms and walked up to her. Putting one hand on her shoulder and putting two fingers of the other hand to my forehead, I concentrated on the life energies of the Nameks. In an instant we were standing in the middle of a Namekian village. Bare branches stuck up from the ground with green balls at the very tips.

 

Broken pieces of huts were strewn everywhere and smoke was rising from some of them. Green bodies covered in purple blood lay here and there. I quickly started checking the bodies. Some were alive but barely. Most of the warriors were dead though. Videl stood in shock not only at being on an alien planet, but also at the scene of pure destruction before her.

 

Homes lay destroyed in front of her. The bodies strewn about were those of adults and children. The buildings were either frames on fire or a pile of smoldering ashes. I managed to find one that was conscious.

 

“What happened here?”

 

“Gohan what are you doing here? I thought that you were back on earth?” he said weakly.

 

“I was but I brought a friend to show her where I was after my mother died. Who did this?”

 

“I've never seen the group before. They made our best warriors look like they were rookies. Please help the others I'll be ok. I just need to rest.”

 

I stood up and looked around. My tail was now angrily waving behind me. Videl caught sight of the appendage and a gasp escaped he mouth.

 

“I'll explain later. Right now I need to help out some friends. Stay here it will be safer here than it will be where I'm going. If anyone asks you what you are doing here tell him that you're here with Gohan. They should protect you if they can.

 

I waited for her to nod before I took off towards some elevated Ki levels. A few explosions went off in the distance and decided to leapfrog the rest of the distance. Pressing two fingers to my forehead I appeared just above where the explosion had gone off. Lying in the middle of a crater was a Namekian warrior. Floating just below me but above the crater was a female with short hair dressed in Sayajin battle armor.

 

“Pathetic Namekians.” She said, “ they aren't even a good workout.” She let out a little chuckle.

 

Her scouter alerted her to my presence and she quickly turned to face me. She reached up and hit one of the buttons on the side of the device and a set of numbers displayed on the eyepiece.

 

“Humph, power level of 600, hardly worth my time.” Then she noticed my tail. “Ah a fellow Sayajin. This planet is mine.”

 

“This planet is the Namekian's and no one else's.” I said in a deadly tone.

 

“You're no match for me. I am far more powerful than you are.” She said with a smirk on her face.

 

“Then come and prove it.”

 

She flew at me and tried to hit me but failed as I blocked it. She started throwing punches randomly; I blocked each using the same arm for each punch. I could tell she wasn't using her true potential and so I started to power up. Numbers flashed on the eyepiece again and her jaw dropped the scouter hit two million and then exploded. I stopped powering up and watched her. She was now shaking with fear. I was now almost a hundred times as powerful as she was and I still wasn't close to being super Sayajin.

 

“Care to reconsider your position on the ownership of this planet or do you need more convincing?” I asked crossing my arms across my chest.

 

Out of nowhere three energy blasts hit me from behind. I made good use of the dust cloud caused by the explosions to check out my competitors. All were a little stronger than the female that I was fighting earlier. As the dust cleared I saw that the unknown assailants had joined their partner in front of me. Two were male one was tall well built and had a small scar next to his right ear. The other male was a little shorter but still well built. The third new partner was another female. She had long black hair pulled into a ponytail.

 

I dusted myself off and turned to address the group once more. “Leave this planet alone. I have no wish to kill any of my race but I wont hesitate to if I need to.”

 

They all stared at me in shock. They knew they out numbered me and if they were to gang up on me they might have a chance but it was unheard of to kill a fellow Sayajin over a purging mission.

 

“Your strong kid I'll give you that, but we have orders to purge this planet. If we don't then someone else will. Now you can either help us or you can die here and now.” The taller of the two males said with a smirk.

 

I went into a crouch extending my left hand out in front of me. With my fingers I made a motion that said, “Come on.” All four charged at me throwing attack after attack. None of them connected. I didn't even give them the pleasure of blocking their attacks, I just moved out of the way. As the four attacked me simultaneously I felt another presence approaching. I didn't recognize the energy signature but I knew that the person was far stronger than these four combined.

 

“Enough play time.” I said as I powered up knocking all of them back at least fifty feet.

 

I stopped just before I hit super Sayajin. Each one of them was shaking in fear. Even though they couldn't sense power levels, they could feel the power radiating off of me. I moved faster than any of them could see. I knocked out the taller male with a swift backhand. The shorthaired female was the next to get knocked out with a knee to the stomach. The other male was next with a chop to the base of his neck. Finally the last female caught an elbow to the back of her neck. I knew I should have killed them but maybe I could get them to tell me what was going on when they woke up. Right now I had to focus on the power level coming towards me at incredible speed.

 

The person finally came into view and my blood started to run cold. The one person I had hoped was gone forever was coming straight for me, and he didn't look happy. He landed harshly on the ground in front of me, glaring at me like I was some sort of abomination and shouldn't exist.

 

“Hello …”