Adaption and Connection.
Actually my second G/V story. Have not previously posted here. I mostly like to read what others have come up with, but decided to share this. I have more and if there is any interest, I can continue.
Chapter one:
School? Real school? His mother had told him that she decided it was time for him to get out and see the world, see a world he had no experience of. All he knew of this world, or the others he had seen in his seventeen years, were battles, terrible battles with terrible costs. Perhaps seeing regular life will be a good change, 'I mean' he thought 'what kind of trouble can it be? It is only high school.' Little did he know that he was in for quite a surprise, and that his experience from battle would come in handy. But he knew he could adapt.
He had adapted before. In fact Son Gohan had gotten used to change. He had never expected to be able to get over his fathers death, but he had. Sure talking about him would still make him sad, but after several years of depression he finally understood why Goku had stayed dead, and forgave him, and more importantly himself. It was what was expected of him. It was his way of making up the terrible mistake that cost the world its greatest hero. He would listen now because he did not before. He listened to his mother and studied, he had studied so much that his mother had not been an active participant in his schooling for years. Gohan had leaned things that were beyond everyone he knew save his teacher, Bulma, who had sent him his lessons and tests from a local university since he was 14. As far as education, all that Gohan really needed to finish any number of degrees around West Capital University was to show up and file for a diploma. But he didn't, he just kept on studying, cause that was all that was expected at this point.
Gohan kept training, because that was what his father's friends expected of him. Training came a distant third to his studies and his family but there still was time to fight Vegeta once a week, and meditate with Piccolo an hour a day. He kept himself just barely ahead of The saiya-jin no ouji in strength, but beneath him in skill or determination, because that was where he was supposed to be. So he complied, he did not push to that new plateau ( I wonder what that could be?) he could feel in the middle of a session in the Briefs' training GR, because he knew it was there in case of emergency, and he was not expected to be that strong. Not yet.
And then there was the one thing that was not expected of him, all that he was to his younger brother Goten. He was more that just a big brother to the boy, he was part father, the one who taught him all of the education handed down by their mother, chi chi, and the one who taught him all he knew from their father, Goku. He was all he could be for the boy, not because they all expected it of him, but because he was responsible. The well-being of Son Goten was his final act of penance for a moment of anger, and conceit. The obedience to the rest of them was just a part of it, the smallest part, just a holdover from when the boy was a baby, and all of his responsibilities for the child were simple. Not like now where he had to help raise his brother. Like now, when he worried about him always, and tried to show him the ways he had learned from his father, not just fighting, or education, but how to be a good person. It was the most important lesson of all from Son Goku.
Gohan did such a good job. Of course like any other obsession he could not see how well he did, and he was constantly trying to do better. And that was the real reason he could not see what Goten needed most now, room to grow. And their mother knew this, and she knew that it was time for Gohan to become a man now, his own man. So he was enrolled in Orange Star High School as a 3rd year. (even though if you didn't count the year in the room of spirit and time he was only 16)
So Gohan Prepared to start class a week after he was informed by his mother.
--more to come, I suppose.
Actually my second G/V story. Have not previously posted here. I mostly like to read what others have come up with, but decided to share this. I have more and if there is any interest, I can continue.
Chapter one:
School? Real school? His mother had told him that she decided it was time for him to get out and see the world, see a world he had no experience of. All he knew of this world, or the others he had seen in his seventeen years, were battles, terrible battles with terrible costs. Perhaps seeing regular life will be a good change, 'I mean' he thought 'what kind of trouble can it be? It is only high school.' Little did he know that he was in for quite a surprise, and that his experience from battle would come in handy. But he knew he could adapt.
He had adapted before. In fact Son Gohan had gotten used to change. He had never expected to be able to get over his fathers death, but he had. Sure talking about him would still make him sad, but after several years of depression he finally understood why Goku had stayed dead, and forgave him, and more importantly himself. It was what was expected of him. It was his way of making up the terrible mistake that cost the world its greatest hero. He would listen now because he did not before. He listened to his mother and studied, he had studied so much that his mother had not been an active participant in his schooling for years. Gohan had leaned things that were beyond everyone he knew save his teacher, Bulma, who had sent him his lessons and tests from a local university since he was 14. As far as education, all that Gohan really needed to finish any number of degrees around West Capital University was to show up and file for a diploma. But he didn't, he just kept on studying, cause that was all that was expected at this point.
Gohan kept training, because that was what his father's friends expected of him. Training came a distant third to his studies and his family but there still was time to fight Vegeta once a week, and meditate with Piccolo an hour a day. He kept himself just barely ahead of The saiya-jin no ouji in strength, but beneath him in skill or determination, because that was where he was supposed to be. So he complied, he did not push to that new plateau ( I wonder what that could be?) he could feel in the middle of a session in the Briefs' training GR, because he knew it was there in case of emergency, and he was not expected to be that strong. Not yet.
And then there was the one thing that was not expected of him, all that he was to his younger brother Goten. He was more that just a big brother to the boy, he was part father, the one who taught him all of the education handed down by their mother, chi chi, and the one who taught him all he knew from their father, Goku. He was all he could be for the boy, not because they all expected it of him, but because he was responsible. The well-being of Son Goten was his final act of penance for a moment of anger, and conceit. The obedience to the rest of them was just a part of it, the smallest part, just a holdover from when the boy was a baby, and all of his responsibilities for the child were simple. Not like now where he had to help raise his brother. Like now, when he worried about him always, and tried to show him the ways he had learned from his father, not just fighting, or education, but how to be a good person. It was the most important lesson of all from Son Goku.
Gohan did such a good job. Of course like any other obsession he could not see how well he did, and he was constantly trying to do better. And that was the real reason he could not see what Goten needed most now, room to grow. And their mother knew this, and she knew that it was time for Gohan to become a man now, his own man. So he was enrolled in Orange Star High School as a 3rd year. (even though if you didn't count the year in the room of spirit and time he was only 16)
So Gohan Prepared to start class a week after he was informed by his mother.
--more to come, I suppose.