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This is the final chapter! Hope you all enjoyed my story! It's appropriate that I go on spring break today and leave you all with the ending. Thanks to all of my faithful reviewers! I always looked forward to reading all of what you had to say. Look for my newest fic sometime soon. I'm trying my hand at a TP this time. And it'll be longer then this one! Anyhow, on with the show!
Chapter 19 Gohan's Understanding
Gohan had excused himself and went up to his room. Even though Videl had moved in with him, he insisted the room stay black. She had always asked why it was black, he had just said it was mysterious, but always thought to himself 'black, like my heart.' After he had sat there for a minute thinking to himself, there was a knock on his door. He didn't answer, he just left it alone, hoping whoever it was would go away. The darkness in his room fit his mood perfectly. He couldn't understand how Goten could just wish their parents back. Well, he could, but that was beside the point. They had chosen to die and stay dead, and now they were back like they had never left. His mother cooking for them, father laughing it up. Like nothing had ever been wrong. Like 8 years hadn't just passed by without them there. Like life had paused in their absence. The knocking resumed, only it was louder. "Go away!" Gohan shouted. He was too busy brooding to answer the door. He looked back down at his wrists and thought about what he used to do. He used to cut himself and try to die. What for? Was he going to join them? No, he just wanted to die because he had let everyone down. King Yamma could send him to hell for all he cared, just as long as he was dead where he belonged.
"Either you open this door, or I am going to blast it in and blame it on you!" The knocker yelled. Gohan went to the door and opened it to let Vegeta in. "That's more like it. Now, don't you even think about it. And yes, I mean cutting yourself. Them being back changes nothing."
"What? Are you kidding me? It changes everything! They are back and acting like they never left! Like they did not just abandon their sons for eight years! They do not know Goten, they do not know me! They'll never know either of us!" Gohan yelled.
"Quiet elite. While all that is true, so is this. You don't have to leave, nor does Goten. You're both welcome to stay here. This is your home now. Your family now. They may be back, but they can't take you away from Bulma, Trunks, the twins and I. They can't separate the Terrible Two. Those two boys would never last apart from each other. And they can't make you go any where you don't want to. You're an adult now. You're twenty, mated and have two children. You can make your own decisions."
"But they left us Vegeta. They left Goten and I. And they'll never get that time back to get to know us. They'll never have that chance again. They gave it up long ago." Gohan looked out his window, away from his almost-father. His arms were around his body, as if they could keep him from falling apart.
"I know elite, and now they're back. Life goes on."
"I wish we had not left the babies with the boys. This would have never happened."
"Gohan?" They both turned to see Goku standing in the hallway. "Son. I'm so sorry. I never meant to abandon you. Neither did your mother. I was just thinking about the safety of the planet. Apparently I have lots of enemies after me from nowhere. I never wanted to leave you, or Goten. But I did and I'm sorry."
Gohan wanted to cry. But he was too angry. He was seething. Did his father really think that a simple apology was going to make up for this? For eight years of pain? Eight years of anguish? For everything he had ever felt? "Get out."
"What?"
"You heard me. Get out. And take your mate with you. How can you think that a simple 'I'm sorry' would fix all of this? Do you know what I went through these past eight years? Do you know that I tried to kill myself at least five times every month? I wanted to die! I still do! I let you die! I did nothing! I let everyone down! And now that you are back, you say 'I'm sorry.' Well, so am I. Sorry that I never got to kill myself! That I never got to live out my greatest dream! Dying!" Vegeta cleared his throat to warn Gohan.
"Gohan, you don't know what you're saying!"
"Oh I do third class, I do. I am saying this. I do not want you in my life anymore. Or Goten's. He is my little brother, and I have taken care of him for the past eight years and will continue to do so. Go with your mate to the Ox Kingdom. Rule there. Stay there. Maybe in a few years I will be able to deal with you then. But right now I am not ready for you or the pain and thoughts you bring. So just go."
"But."
"You heard my son. Get out of our home." Vegeta stepped in front of Gohan.
"I guess I'll see you around then Gohan. Bye son. I love you." Goku walked out of the room and took Chichi and went to the Ox Kingdom.
Vegeta turned to Gohan. "Are you alright?"
"Yes Prince. I am just fine. Now, would you like to spar? I am in the mood for a good, long fight. Maybe in a few years, when I finally understand as you say, we can invite my mother and father to come over and join us."
"Very well. Come on Elite." Vegeta jumped out the window, followed by the oldest Son boy and want into the gravity room to join the youngest boys for a spar. Goten didn't take it so well that his brother had just sent their parents away, but after a sharp look from Vegeta, he understood that his brother wasn't ready for their parents. When Gohan was ready, he would be able to see his parents again. For his brother, he would wait.
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