For the young man, his life had revolved around training and studying in a general cycle that was only broken every so often by the prospect of protecting the world he lived in.

In the midst of this cycle, Gohan soon realized upon his reaching puberty that many strange feelings had began to arise within him as he sat in his home.

In light of his father being dead due to his mistakes, Gohan had made peace with it after a while, and as he studied, he wondered briefly about the feelings that came within him.

They were all strangely new, yet he was at first annoyed with them in how he had no way of controlling them.

As his body began gaining amounts of hair however, Gohan's mother, Chi-Chi, quickly deduced it was time to give him the talk about his own maturing body.

Among the talk was of how he would one day be old enough to marry a woman he loved dearly and found attractive.

The first sign of it came about when he asked, in response to this, "Can I marry you then Mom?"

The question caught her off-guard, but Chi-Chi shook her head.

"No Gohan," she said, "it's supposed to be a woman other than your mother."

"But... Who else could I find that's like that?" Gohan asked innocently.

"It'll be someone you love who isn't in your family." Chi-Chi told him.

"Why can't she be a part of the family?"

Gohan asked.

The boy who'd lived his entire life free from societal standards could not fathom why such a thing was a rule.

When Chi-Chi explained that people who married were in the same family had children, such things would have bad consequences on the baby, and Gohan tried to understand it, and he tried to use it as a justification for why he wouldn't ever do as he wished.

Yet, despite this, his emotions and hormones eventually formed into a sort of longing as he spent the days after the talk studying and training outside, as per his agreement with Chi-Chi.

As he studied the human form, he realized that there was a type of energy near him, and upon sensing it, Gohan awoke from his trance like state as he looked to the energy source.

He rose from his seat slowly, eyes narrowing as he went about going outside, going silently through the open windowsill to not alert Chi-Chi, Gohan flying quickly after the energy source after sensing that it was malevolent in nature.

Flying to the energy source, Gohan's eyes widened in horror at the sight that beheld him.

A winged being donning a hooded reddish cloak that faded into tattered black towards the bottom of it floated there, flying amidst a large group of animal carcasses, all of whom had been slaughtered.

The being chuckled for a moment, then looked back at Gohan.

"That will be enough power to sustain myself," he said, and Gohan saw the being had pale blue skin, white hair and golden eyes, him chuckling darkly to himself as he gazed to Gohan, "now all that remains is you."

Gohan scowled, then entered a fighting stance as he stared the man down.

The sight of the animals lying dead on the ground curried anger within Gohan's soul as he remembered the dying wish of Android 16.

"Why did you kill them?" Gohan asked, the 11 year old's glare not fazing the man as he floated down to the ground, bare feet nestling into the blood stained ground.

"Why, for you, Gohan." The blue skinned said, smiling. "I've done this for YOU."

"For me?" Gohan narrowed his eyes.

"Yes," he chuckled faintly, the blue skinned man's body beginning to emit a dark, black energy, before his skin turned into a chalk white, gold eyes glowing brightly as horns burst from his skull, the man's body bulking up with his ki rising up, "with you, it will be all too simple."

He then kicked himself towards Gohan with a large burst of speed, and seeing him, the boy blocked the punch the man had sent his way, the resulting collision sending a shockwave into the ground as Gohan narrowed his eyes, a crater forming in the ground as Gohan formed a ball of ki in his free hand, the man smiling widely before opening his mouth, both blowing ki into one another as Gohan braced himself, him getting a blast of ki in the face as his own ki was thrust into the man's body, the added sense of pragmatism that had come with his new role as the Earth's protector ensuring that he did what he thought would kill the man, body and all.

The man's body was indeed caught up in the blast, and Gohan scowled in turn before looking to the animals, him no longer sensing the man's ki as he walked over to the animal carcasses, him sighing as he tried to do what he could for them.

At that night, Gohan found that he was quite restless as he endured a night of longing, yet, somehow, something in his mind told him to go to Chi-Chi.

As he walked there, he heard the sounds of her in the bedroom, a worried sound in her voice as she muttered to herself about something, and Gohan, without thinking, opened up the door quickly.

Inside he found Chi-Chi, and as he looked to her, her gaze snapped onto him, her holding a small stick in her hand.

"Mom, what's that?" Gohan asked, him entering inside of the room and approaching her, Gohan being made all too aware of her shapely form as it was covered in her Chinese style dress then.

She was surprised, but after a moment, decided to be honest.

"It's a pregnancy test," Chi-Chi said, "I'm... Seeing if you'll be getting a little brother or sister soon."

Gohan kept walking to her.

"Can't we have a baby?" He asked, and a strange feeling filled him as he felt the sexual organ within his pants hardening greatly.

Chi-Chi gained a surprised look at this.

"Gohan, you know why. It's what best for your baby."

"But I want to be with you." Gohan said then, and before Chi-Chi could say any more, Gohan did what Chi-Chi had also taught him to do to the woman he would come to love, kiss her.

The woman was too taken aback to react for a moment, Gohan taking initiative and pushing her back down onto the bed as he held the kiss, Chi-Chi finally forcing herself free as she got from under him, eyes wide.

"G-Gohan," she said in a stern yet surprised tone, "you know it's wrong to want that!"

"Why does it have to be wrong?" Gohan asked, him reaching to her.

"Because it just IS!"

"It'll be okay," Gohan said, crawling to her, Chi-Chi crawling back until her back hit the bedframe, "it's not like we're hurting anyone this way."

"You'd be hurting the baby!" Chi-Chi said.

"We can wish for it to be okay afterwards." Gohan said, gaze earnest.

"No Gohan," she said, "no!"

Gohan paused briefly, and she continued.

"Even ignoring everything wrong with it, I want your baby to be as healthy as possible." Chi-Chi said. "We shouldn't need to rely on the dragon balls to make certain of something like that!"

Gohan stared for a few moments, silent.

"Why do I feel this way?" He asked softly. "If it's really wrong, why do I feel the way that I do?"

Chi-Chi's eyes slowly softened then.

"Gohan..."

"Is it... Like how I feel about fighting?" Gohan asked. "Would it be better to just ignore how I feel from now on, since it's... wrong?"

"... Yes." She said softly, trying to calm down. "You... Might feel that way towards me Gohan. But... There are much better matches than your loud old mother."

Was she really trying to console the child who had just made a move on her? she wondered then.

"You just have to find a woman who's better suited to you. And one that... Deserves someone as special as you are."

Gohan nodded slowly, sitting down.

"... Okay." He said simply. "I'm sorry."

He rose up, then walked away.

Chi-Chi sighed heavily as he left, heart racing then.

"That was... Something." She said, her not quite sure how to react to the situation at hand.

Within the realm of darkness that he now stood in, Gohan knew nothing of his surroundings as he scowled, the sound of laughter echoing around him.

"You interest me. Such self-restraint is admirable. It was possibly for the best however. You can't hope to sate such an unorthodox fancy after all."

"Who are you?" Gohan asked, his voice seeming to echo as he looked around himself.

"There is no need for such knowledge." The darkness seemed to echo back to him. "I now have the key to one victory. Once I've finished with you, all I'll need is one for another. I wonder how long that will take?"

An echoing chuckle.

"No matter. Patience is a multiversal virtue after all."

The darkness seemed to grow a life force, and sensing it, Gohan's eyes widened at its potency, it closing in on him before he could do anything to stop it.

"Gohan?"

Gohan glanced up at the sight of his mother, and she had a somewhat awkward look then, him sitting at his desk.

As he was studying then, Gohan wasn't surprised to find that Chi-Chi didn't look angry at all, though her awkwardness felt off to him then.

"Yes Mom?" He asked, and her awkwardness rose in visibility then.

"I want for us to talk." Chi-Chi said. "Talk about... last night."

Gohan glanced to her, then nodded, mentally sighing,

He shouldn't have let his feelings take over then, he thought.

"I'm sorry Mom." Gohan repeated the same words from yesterday.

Chi-Chi sighed, her seeming to dread the conversation as much as he did in that moment.

She walked to his bed, then tentatively sat down.

"Do you... really have that sort of attraction to me?" Chi-Chi asked.

Gohan's gaze flickered with fear, and he glanced away.

"It's wrong, isn't it?" Gohan asked. "I'll stop it."

"Gohan," Chi-Chi looked to him, "I... need for you to be honest with me. It may be strange, but... I'm sure there are even weirder things."

Like being kidnapped by the alien that was effectively the Anti-Kami's son, then trained by said alien for a year to fight off an alien invasion, she thought.

In Chi-Chi's mind was the same sort of mindset that tried to find some sort of acceptance to the circumstances she'd found herself in.

While Gohan having that sort of attraction to her was not unprecedented in world history, she simply forewent the possibility of such a thing being the case for her.

Remembering how Gohan felt the night before, how he'd mentioned the fact that he would have to suppress his own feelings for doing what was for the best, Chi-Chi realized she, along with the others, hadn't done the best job at helping Gohan through all of the terrible situations he'd found himself in.

She could imagine that any normal child would have severe bouts of PTSD, given what he'd probably witnessed and experienced firsthand.

But, due to circumstance, he still needed to suppress his own wishes.

With the fight against Cell fresh in their memory, such was probably confusing to him.

It was such a cluster in hindsight, given what Piccolo had told her of Goku's plan.

Gohan always hated fighting with a burning passion, and yet his anger was enough to make him incredibly powerful.

For much of his struggle against Cell, Gohan plead with him, begged for Cell to stop hurting his friends and family, only to then watch as one got their head crushed underfoot.

It had understandably been too much for him; and in the end, the plan came to fruition; Gohan cast away his wish for the fighting to end, instead letting his own anger guide him then.

But, in the end, it had eventually gotten the planet to suffer near destruction, with his father having to sacrifice himself to prevent such an end.

Despite this, despite everything Gohan and the others had gone through, however, it had amounted to nothing, as Cell soon showed, as the explosion had failed to kill him.

He had watched someone die in front of his eyes due to his unwillingness to let go of his pacifism, only to then watch his father sacrifice himself to save the planet when he finally let the anger that was the best hope of defeating Cell take control of his actions.

It was a wonder that Gohan could keep smiling the way he did.

In light of this, his feelings for her, and the truth he seemed to have come to, seemed to paint a picture that Chi-Chi didn't want to set for him.

For him to have killed others, when he hated fighting for that reason, one could wonder if he would come to rationalize it as his pacifism being something that was ultimately detrimental to the safety of others.

With this line of thinking, Chi-Chi began to wonder, with a scared feeling, if her son was simply putting on an act, trying to remain happy without thinking of the ramifications, the genuine reality, of his actions.

All of this, in truth, was only a line of thought she'd gone through the night before.

Thus, to at least attempt to verify it for herself, she decided to speak with him, and, ideally, steer him away from the thought that he'd have to go on suppressing his own feelings from there on.

Even if he was the savior of the world, Gohan was still her child.

Gohan didn't reply for a moment, before looking down at his books, his gaze filled with guilt.

"I do feel that way towards you." Gohan admitted, closing his eyes. "I'm... sorry."

Chi-Chi mentally sighed.

That was the other problem.

How was she supposed to handle this situation?

"... Is there a reason why?" Chi-Chi asked after a moment. "Do you know?"

Gohan thought about it.

"I... think it's something like you said." He said, the boy who yearned to be a scholar forcing himself to never admit that he didn't know the answer to the question, even if he truly didn't understand his own emotions. "I find you attractive, and... I love you."

She sighed outwardly.

"Gohan," she said in a gentle, but firm voice as she reached her right hand up, grasping her arm as she closed her eyes, "I... I can accept that, with time. But... it's something you'll have to work around. Because... it's still wrong, at the end of the day."

Gohan nodded.

"But... there's something else I have to tell you." Chi-Chi said, and Gohan looked to her hesitantly. "It's... about you fighting."

Gohan's dread seemed to fade, and he became straight faced.

"Your feelings about that... it isn't wrong." Chi-Chi shook her head. "It's only natural for you to not problems to be solved with violence... I can understand that. But... some people won't accept pacifism. Sometimes... problems really can only be solved through violence."

Silence reigned in the room then, only broken by the sound of water rushing along the stream outside.

"But... it doesn't have to end with people dying." Chi-Chi concluded. "Your father left you with... a BIG responsibility. You might not be happy with it, given how you feel, but... it's how things are. Sometimes, even when we wish some things were different, it still won't change how things are. But that doesn't mean that you should fight alone."

She sighed.

"To be honest... I was scared of this." Chi-Chi went on. "I never wanted for you to have to deal with this level of responsibility. It was selfish of me... but I wanted to live on with the dream I had, of you being able to take care of yourself and have the life of a distinguished and respected man. I didn't want to see my sweet little boy grow up to be someone who would have that sort of stress on his shoulders all the time. But... it can't be helped that it's your responsibility to protect the world now." She looked to Gohan then. "But... it doesn't need to involve taking the life of anyone... and it shouldn't be JUST your responsibility."

Gohan gazed at her, eyes wide in confusion as to where this was going.

"So... to THAT end," Chi-Chi held a hand to her chest, "I want you to teach me how to fight too Gohan. It might be hard for me to reach your level, since I don't know how to use ki. But... this is the least I can do, to help you. Would you be willing to do it?"

Gohan seemed very much surprised at this, yet he nodded.

"Yes."

"Thank you." Chi-Chi smiled at Gohan, before looking down. "As for the OTHER thing... I'm still trying to figure out a workaround to that. But what I want to do is... help you learn how to find another woman you like. On... one condition."

Gohan gazed at her expectantly.

"I... need you to promise me you won't kiss me again." Chi-Chi said, touching her lips.

Gohan nodded slowly.

"Alright." Chi-Chi rose to her feet. "I'll... go see about making lunch. We'll start training before dinner. Is that alright with you Gohan?"

Gohan nodded, and Chi-Chi sighed in relief, glad to at least be doing something instead of sweeping it under the carpet.

Unbeknownst to her was the fact that Gohan gazed at her body while she turned away, him catching himself doing so and looking back to his work.

He had to get over this, he thought.

A/N: You could say I wrote this because I personally got tired of writing the Uncontrollable Lust version of Gohan. Due to the way the sequel's gone, I now sorely regret making a poll to see who the story would center on (basically the poll asked if they wanted Good/Eu- or Evil/Lust Teen Gohan as the main character, and Evil/Lust Gohan won).

Due to the poll result, it's been basically just a bunch of lemons without getting into the intended plot, and while I can enjoy writing lemons to an extent, it will probably not come as a surprise that I grow tired of it after a while.

This was my own fault for letting the poll exist in the first place though.

For this reason, I wrote this, since I had an idea of a plot beforehand, and I wanted to approach the Gohan x Chi-Chi pairing in a more emotionally realistic way than most fanfics ever do it.

This way involves more plot than the average hentai in text form (i.e. have Chi-Chi either be completely fine with incest, despite the problems that would likely result, or have it so the person's resisting for a short while, before they just stop as if it doesn't count as rape that way).

Despite the above facts, there will be lemons in this story, though you probably guessed that much.

Whether it'll be Gohan x Chi-Chi or Gohan x Harem is something I'm considering at the moment, though, given the intent of this story is to give an actual plot to it, on top of it being my way of writing a Gohan x Chi-Chi fanfiction, it can be assumed Chi-Chi comes around at one point.

Artwork was done by my usual friend.