SUMMARY: When Chichi hears about a miracle tutor she absolutely wants them to teach Goten. Though she doesn't have the money, so Bulma offers to hire the tutor and have him teach both Goten and Trunks. Enter Mr. Shu. You all remember Mr. Shu? The terror in every student's dreams? He's used to soft and quiet kids like Gohan and now Goten. But how will Mr. Shu handle a student like Trunks?

INTRO: Miracle Tutor

"This man has been proven to make your kids the top of their class!" Chichi was bragging during one of their visits to the Brief household. Bulma was only partly listening as she sipped her coffee.

"Yeah?"

"I read the parent's reviews. They're all absolutely pleased! He swears if he works with your kids through elementary school to high school, then there isn't a college in the world they won't be able to get into."

"Good for him," Bulma responded before turning back to her newspaper. "So how has Goten been doing with this miracle tutor?"

"Amazing! I've only ever spoke with him on the phone. Goten goes to the nearest town for the lessons, but get this... Goten was ranked 35th in his age group of his 200 cram school peers. Since he started going to this tutor instead of cram school, and he's moved up to the 16th place. That's only after one week. Problem is… I only had enough left over money for a week's worth of lessons…" she sighed. "And our crops aren't doing well… I just don't know how I'm going to pay for more…"

Bulma felt like she already knew what Chichi was hinting at. "Why don't you ask Gohan-chan for money?"

"I can't ask my son for money!" Chichi said frowning. "He's starting a family, and they just had their baby…"

"So, I'm sure Gohan wouldn't mind."

"No way," she said flatly. "I just wish Goku would get an actual job so we could afford this…"

Bulma already had a feeling she knew why Chichi was here, and to stop beating around the bush she put her cup down smiling, "Hhmm, he sounds very interesting. Maybe I'll have Trunks start learning from this guy as well."

"You know, that's just what I was thinking…" Chichi answered her face lighting up.

Uh-huh, Bulma thought to herself. "And since both the boys will be enrolled, I'll just pay for it all so don't worry about it."

"Oh, but that's too much," Chichi answered.

"It's fine Chichi," Bulma said grabbing her glass she stood up to take it to the kitchen to be cleaned.

"Thank you so much!" Chichi called after her as she disappeared into her house.

She knew it. This is what Chichi had wanted all along… It wasn't as though she didn't want to spend the money. This amount was literally nothing to her. And spending it on children's education meant it was going to go to a better cause than what she might otherwise spend it on. She just wished Chichi would be up front about these things with her. Rather than skating around what she wanted until Bulma picked up on it.

She called the tutor and scheduled the boys for four hour sessions after their regular schooling, and then she let Chichi know the times the tutor would be there. She was so overjoyed she hugged her.

Then she went to the gravity room where Trunks and Vegeta were training. Since Black had been defeated Vegeta had seemed to take a bit more interest in training their son, and Trunks enjoyed the bonding time so it was a win win.

She hit the button so the speakers in the room would turn on.

"Vegeta, I need to speak with Trunks for a moment," she called.

They stopped mid-fight, which was something Vegeta hated doing, though Trunks seemed happy to have the unexpected break and rushed out of the room panting. "Yeah?"

"Trunks I'm hiring a tutor for you, so Monday after your regular homeschooling wait in the living room for me and I'll introduce you to your new tutor."

"Did my grades drop?" Trunks asked wondering if he had failed his last test or something.

"Oh no," she assured him, she didn't want him to think of this as a punishment. "It's just Chichi really wants Goten to keep his tutor, but she can't afford it anymore so I offered to hire the tutor for both of you."

"Goten will be with me?" Trunk's face lit up at that.

"Yes, he's going to come over as well…"

"Kay!" he cheered happily before heading back into the gravity room. Bulma watched her boys for a minute before deciding she would go to her lab and dink around.

Goten came over on Sunday to play with Trunks. He hadn't seen his friend in over a week, and when Trunks met him downstairs Goten looked rather upset. Trunks knew his friend well enough that a single look would tell him something was wrong.

"What's up with you?" he asked frowning.

"Trunks, you have to convince your Mom to not hire this guy!" Goten pleaded.

"Huh? Why?"

"He's scary…" Goten said frowning.

"Scary?" Trunks raised an eyebrow as he turned with him heading outside so they could play out there. "You want to talk about scary? My home school teacher now looks a bit like a frog. When she smiles her mouth gets all wide."

Trunks put a hooked finger in each of the corners of his mouth and turned to Goten, "She looks a little like this."

He started laughing at the idea.

"No Trunks-kun, I mean he's really scary."

"Like… Buu scary?" Trunks asked throwing his arms above his head as they walked together.

Goten shook his head.

"Like, Freiza scary?"

He shook his head.

"Like, Beerus scary?

Again he shook his head.

"Like your Mom scary?"

Goten nodded violently.

"Hhmm…" Trunks flew up into a tree in their yard frowning, and Goten followed him up there so they could talk. "Well, that don't seem to bad…"

"It is, he gets really mad when you get something wrong and then he hits you with this rope thingy… and it hurts a lot..."

"Rope thingy?" Trunks repeated with a frown. "I think the word your looking for is whip?"

"Yeah…"

"Still, I mean, it's not like this guy can actually hurt you…" Trunks explained trying to get Goten to realize just how much of a nothing this guy actually was.

"It does though. He hit me with the whip thingy when I messed up my lessons and then he told my Mom I was miss behaving and I got grounded that whole week and didn't get dessert at all…" Goten explained pouting slightly at the memory of missing out on a whole week's worth of desserts.

Something about the way he was talking made Trunks get to his feet, lean over and pull down the back of Goten's gi took look at his back. There were long welt marks on it from the whip Goten had been describing. Had Goten been a normal kid, those welts would probably have been gashes. Trunks frowned at the sight and leaned up against the base of the tree in thought…

"See, you have to tell your Mom you don't want him to teach you. Or you Mom might not let you eat desserts either..."

"My house doesn't work like yours Goten, if I want sweets I just tell one of our cooks to make it for me," he said staring up at the sunlight through the leaves.

"Regardless, you shouldn't mess with this guy..." Goten explained eying his best friend.

"Are you kidding," Trunks said grinning. "No way, I wanna meet this guy."

"What!?" Goten frowned. "Why?"

"Because we're gonna teach him a lesson," Trunks explained. He had that look about him that Trunks would get just before the two of them did something stupid and got in trouble. Goten himself looked horrified at the idea, he was sure Trunks was going to get him grounded (as he had done a number of times in the past) and then he was going to miss out on another week's worth of desserts.

AN: This is gonna be a short story. Maybe 3 or 4 chapters tops. But stick around for the silliness if you want a quick read.