Disclaimer: I don't own BDZ or any of its characters; wish I did though but I don't.

Description: With the threat of Buu past, not everything is back as it should be. In the wake of Buu's rampage, what has the creature awakened? What about Gohan? Will he survive the pregnancy with the next heir to the throne of Hell?

Warning: Rated for M for Male Pregnancy, language, sexual content, graphic description and violence.

Needing Time:

Chapter One: Gohan's POV

Monday mornings were a drag. I didn't want to go to school but Piccolo and Dad agreed it would be for the best if I still went to school until I started to show signs of my pregnancy. I didn't agree with it, but I wasn't going to argue with them. They wanted to know that I was still being watched at all times. They still didn't know why I was sick after being absorbed by Buu. It was gone by this morning which is why I was going to school.

I parked the one man motorcycle in the parking lot and sighed; it so wasn't the same as flying, nor as satisfying. For a moment I just sat on the bike thinking about this pregnancy, the twins I was carrying. After everything that happened with Buu last week, and school re-opens today.

"Gohan... you're here? I didn't think you'd be showing up today...Videl is calling all of us who was on that lookout place up the roof to talk about it and to keep it between us." I looked at Erissa. I didn't know what to say to her; it had slipped my mind that they were on the lookout during the Buu ordeal. I nodded to her getting off the bike to fallow her up to the roof; I'm guessing Videl already talked to the teachers about letting us miss class since she was the one who could get away with doing anything within the school. Getting there we were the only ones up there for the time being. "Gohan about what was said up there... I didn't imagine that...did I?" I looked at her blinking and sighed taking a seat on the edge of the roof, looking down.

"No but I'll explain everything when everyone is here, it saves me from having to repeat myself twice." I said resisting the urge to rub my stomach or reaching out to touch Piccolo's mind. I saw him less than an hour ago and yet it already felt too long since I saw him. It was still going to be most of a day before I would see him unless I skip school which wasn't such a bad idea rate now. I could teleport away and not deal with any of this. That what dad would do, I love him but I'm the one who carries the responsibilities that he doesn't want; this being one of them.

"Erissa...Gohan you're here?!" I heard the shock in Sharpner's voice. I simply waved at them. Dread filled me. I didn't know what to expect at the moment with my 'friends?' Slowly I looked up at him to see him standing there with Videl, and her father. I sighed run my hand though my hair.

"Yes I'm here, and can we please get on with this meeting?" I asked looking back down. This so isn't what I planned to be doing today, to top it off I couldn't feel Piccolo again which meant he went to Hell or he got really good at hiding from me which hurt because he's my mate, we're suppose to trust each other with everything...aren't we?

"Okay Gohan, what the hell is going on? What was that place? What the hell are you? Those... freaks?" Leave it to Sharpner to call us freaks for a lack of better words. This would be easier if I could gather the whole team for this to explain it to them but what's the point there not going to be accepted into the Z-warriors, not easily anyways.

"Where you were brought to, that was the lookout. It's the place where the guardian of the Earth lives. We're called the Z-warrior's; a group that was formed about 22 years ago to take on King Piccolo. The team was never disbanded, instead they gather together to fight against threats to the planet such as Cell and Buu. Tien; the man with three eyes, Krillen; shortest guy of the group, Yamcha; has the scar on his face are pure humans and founding members of the team. Goku, the guy with the halo, Vegeta; the one with the bad attitude are pure saiyans; it's an alien race that's near extinct. Myself, my little brother and the lavender hair boy; we're hybrids between human and saiyans."

"Quit pulling our leg, kid" Hercule growled at me. I sighed closing me eyes. I let myself go super saiyan. I looked at him again. I could see the fear in his eyes.

"Yeah, because pure humans can do this at will" I said. I felt it, the tiny lives in me reaching up to pull energy from me. Slowly I slipped out of it. "I was the kid who fought Cell, the one you guys kept calling the delivery boy." I said dryly. Slowly directing my energy towards the life within me, I fought the urge to my hand to rest on my stomach again, gripping them tighter to the edge of the room trying not to break it.

"Gohan, are you okay? You're looking pale" Erissa asked. I nodded to her but I was starting to feel ill again, the dizziness coming back. Powering up was defiantly something I shouldn't do while being pregnant. Piccolo wouldn't be happy when he learned about this, if I see him tonight. I don't know, he seemed to be pulling away from me again and I didn't know how to stop it, so I didn't try to stop it. It was like when he left for Namek all over again. I wanted to beg him to stay, but I couldn't change his mind when he made it up.

"You really are pregnant?" Sharpner asked, the disgust, shock and fear playing in his voice. I sighed, so much for friends being there in your moment of need or always having your back, like he claimed.

"Yes, it's possible because I'm not fully human. It wasn't something that I wanted to say or have anyone know yet, but it came out. I'm not going to ask you to understand or accept it. The only thing I'm going to ask is that you don't say anything about this to anyone. I don't care what happens to me but I have my brother, Trunks, and my child to think about, and they don't need to be labelled as freaks by humans." I said. I blinked feeling Trunks flying towards us. I looked over my shoulder to see him with Goten, who barely looked awake. "Vegeta let you two go to school even thought you two just had to start the mating ritual?" I asked taking Goten from him. He cuddled into me falling asleep. I noticed Trunks glaring at Videl and the others.

"Mom made us go even though Goten told her he wasn't feeling well. You're that Videl girl aren't you?" He asked her, his torn darkening.

"Trunks, watch your tone. You're not helping things." I said as I looked over my brother. He wasn't burning up, nor was he pale. The mark on his right wrist looked raw and infected even though it wasn't. "Trunks grab the first aid kit in my back pack" I said gently holding his wrist. I heard the others coming closer to see that was going on. "I also want to see your wrist Trunks" I said to him as he sat the kit beside me, opening it for me.

"Gohan; is this what you meant when you side the mating ritual was dangerous?" Videl's tone was soft, worry filled her voice. She was one of the few human's who didn't seem to care what we were, just who we are. I warped applied cold gel to his wrist around the scare. I didn't dare touch it. I knew what it was like to have another besides Piccolo touch my mark; it hurt, I could tolerate it if Goten or trunks touched the mark or any of the Z-warriors, I trusted them but my mark was complete, Goten's wasn't.

"Sort of, I'm not going to explain it Videl; you don't need to know about it." I said as I wrapped up Goten's wrist as carefully as I could. He winced, trying to pull away from the touch of the cloth on his wrist. "shh, I know Goten, it hurts we'll take a better care of it when we get home okay" I said to him keeping him from trying to rip the cloth off his arm. I applied the cold compact on his arm holding it there trying to ice the area so he couldn't feel anything from it. Trunks looked at Goten worriedly.

"Gohan?"

"Trunks, we'll talk about this just not here or now okay?" I looked at the boy as he nodded. I looked at the others. I needed to know they wouldn't say anything about this before I left. Skipping school was a great idea at the moment. I watched them as Trunks packed the kit back into my bag.

"We won't tell anyone about it Gohan, I promise" Videl said. No one else agreed with her or nodded. It wasn't confidence inspiring but it was better than nothing. I nodded to her before I reached out Trunks who had my bag in his hand. He took my hand, I teleported us to Bulma's.

"Keep him from ripping off that bandage" I said to Trunks before rushing off to the bathroom to throw up.

"What are you two doing here? I though your where at school?" I hear Bulma ask the boys I moved to stand up to help them not get in trouble I ended up throwing up again. Today just wasn't my day. I just wanted to go home, and sleep but I don't see that happening. "Gohan are you here too?" Bulma asked, I didn't answer her; I didn't want to risk throwing up again. My whole body was starting to shake. "Welcome to morning sickness Gohan, who ever said pregnancy was easy was never pregnant." I chuckled at that one. So far I wasn't enjoying being pregnant, at all.

"Dose it ever get easier?" I asked her weakly; looking up at her not moving away from the toilet.

"At times; first kick, first hearing the heart beat, they make it tolerable but the real reward is after you go through birthing the child and holding them in your arms for the first time. That's when you realize all this you're going through is worth it, I'll call your father and Vegeta and the can come pick you up. Staying with them in the country might help you relax" she said softly.

"Bulma, they can't go to school, not till they finish the binding to each other. They started the mating bond and if it isn't finished it'll kill them." I said. I knew my brother would die from the lack of the bond; Trunks would probably kill himself not long after Goten dies. Not that there wasn't a chance they would die from the bond anyways but it was the only hope of them living at the moment. The look in her eyes was that of sorrow, I knew how she felt, it wasn't something any of us wanted for them.

"How are things with you and Piccolo?" I flinched and looked away from her.

"I'm not sure where we stand. During the crisis we stood united; now that it's over I haven't seen him much. He comes to bed late and leaves before I get up. I'm not sure if it's me, the fact that we're going to be parents or what happened that drove him off." I whispered I lowered my head trying to will the tears away, but it didn't work.

"Piccolo still loves you Gohan, he's just busy at the moment with the clean up from the mess Buu made. In a few days, things will return to normal, you'll see." she said before I heard her walk away from me, leaving me alone once more at the moment to think about the talk up on the roof of the school.

'Piccolo...I love you' I whispered through our mind link and closed my eyes waiting for him to respond.