Dragon Ball/Z/GT Fan Fiction ❯ Redirection ❯ All is fair in love and war ( Chapter 4 )

Disclaimer: Although it would be a dream come true, I don't and probably never will, own Dragonballz (becomes seriously depressed)

This is 4 all the reviewers, u guys are the ones who keep me inspired.

Chapter 4

All is fair in love and war.

Gohan didn't wake up the next day, or the next.

Yet he felt awake.

He continued to have his reoccurring nightmares about his parents and his won mistakes, but he could not wake up.

Bulma had become concerned, and had brought in a specialist, who dismissed it as over-tiredness, and left.

Vegeta attempted yelling in Gohan's ear, all the insults he could think of on short notice, but that only fuelled the conflict happening in the teenagers head, because he twitched violently for the rest of the week, still unconscious in his own private dream/nightmare world.

Goten didn't know what to make of his big brother's behavior, he felt slightly betrayed, but he didn't know who by.

He had heard Gohan promise to be nearby for him, yet his big brother was seemingly far away, fighting a battle that had nothing to do with a three year half-human.

Goten had a nagging feeling at the back of his head that it wasn't Gohan's fault that he wasn't awake and playing with his little brother.

It was a feeling that he had got when the dark-haired lady died, the one that Gohan called Mum.

The feeling that someone was trying to take something very special away from you and you could do nothing to stop them.

Gohan had been asleep for a week, when Goten finally had the urge to go see him.

He had clambered up onto Gohan's bed, next to the slumbering boy.

The three-year-olds face was twisted into a mask of love and concern as he used his sleeve to remove the sweat from Gohan's brow, pushing a lock of hair from his face in the process.

He snuggled down beside him, placing a tiny hand on the chest of the biggest section of his small world, his big brother, and whispered, "Gohan, I love you."

Before falling asleep beside his kin.

It might have been an unconscious gesture that was embedded in Goten's soul, or just the plain fact that he was tired, but it probably saved Gohan's life.

Somewhere in the jumbled thoughts of a scared fourteen-year-old boy, a terrified and desperate child fought for survival against an overwhelming darkness.

Then out of nowhere, through the gloom of betrayal, hate, and guilt, came a ray of light and hope.

It raised the small child's spirit, as four words drifted through his brain, `Gohan, I love you.'

Gohan sat up with a start, his heart pounding.

He had no sense of time or what had occurred in his mind for the past week, but he knew he was back, back in the land of the living.

A small whistling sound emerged from beside him.

Goten lay asleep, his lips parted, breathing softly.

Gohan smiled a small and nearly unidentifiable smile, and left to find some food.

Yeah I know it was short, and I'm sorry.

I'll try to put the next chapter up soon.

All you reviewers keep it up, and keep in mind the next chapter's for you.