A Different Kind of Seeing

By: Megami-sama

Summary: After the fight with Cell, Gohan has become blind. He discovered a new type of vision to help him. And now, Gohan's going to school. Will his life ever be the same again? Gh/V

Chapter One: Blinded in High School

Blinded. His vision had started to fade soon after his fight with Cell. At first he had little blackouts that he didn't think nothing of--mostly because he was drowning in self-hatred for being the cause of his father's death at that time. Two years later, his slowly fading vision had resulted in a total blackness. Gohan was just glad he had a chance to see his kid brother before it completely faded. The doctors had warned him that one day his vision would be gone and that he would be blinded indefinitely. There was no way from them to help regain the lost vision--Gohan's blindness was too far advance and beyond any help the doctors could provide. The two years it took for his vision to fade, Gohan had began to train his other sense to become his eyes and ultimately discovering a new type of vision. Piccolo had helped him train and was still continuing to train his young pupil in this new type of vision. Five years later--seven years since the defeat of Cell--ChiChi and Goten hardly noticed that Gohan was blind. ChiChi did of course allowed special allowances for Gohan, like he didn't have to clean the house or wash the dishes. Goten sometimes wished that he could be blind just to get out of those chores. Friends of the family would even sometimes forget about Gohan's blindness until one would look into the teenager's black eyes to find them glossy and vacant. They would then start to act, as Gohan would describe it, 'weird' and start to help Gohan when no help was needed just because they felt sorry about his lost of eyesight. But Gohan found that he could only spar with one person who would not allow Gohan's blindness to be a thing to pity. Vegeta. Vegeta quickly became one of Gohan's top favorite people because of this. Vegeta was the most helpful to Gohan with discovering his new type of eyesight.

This new type of eyesight was a little hard for Gohan to explain, and most of his friends and family couldn't understand how he could 'see' with this vision. Although Gohan's vision was black, Gohan would use his ki to send out waves of energy using it almost like a dolphin would with echoes. He could see his ki spread out and lay itself on the surrounding objects. (1) This was Gohan's vision, his ki vision--colorless except of the red of his ki.

Now Gohan was going to be sent to high school where a diploma from an actual school would hold far more weight with a college than graduating from ChiChi's Household of Education. Bulma had made several devices for Gohan's use. One of them was a special keyboard that recorded sounds and that could understand what they mean to help Gohan to take notes. Its keys had raised lettering so Gohan could see what each key means, and the keyboard screen was a specially designed screen that embosses everything Gohan would type. (2)

ChiChi handed Gohan his capsuled lunch which he quickly shoved in his messenger bag. "I really wished you allowed me to tell the school about your condition. What if someone makes you read something?"

Gohan patted his mother's shoulder. "Easy, Mom. That's what the Embossary 002 is for." The Embossary 002 was another device that would emboss any thing he fed into the machine to help him read. The doctor's note--Dr. Briefs to be exact--gave him permission to use it to help him read. It also said that Gohan couldn't read anything without it so he wouldn't get in trouble if he couldn't read what the teachers wrote on the board.

ChiChi kissed her eldest son on the check and waved good bye as he used the Flying Nimbus. She was a little worried about Gohan using the Flying Nimbus. Gohan had never told her how far his ki vision could see. What if he couldn't see the school? What if he flew to high and runs into an airplane? What if an army plane was practicing shooting missiles and one hits her baby? He might not be able to see it coming until to late.

But ChiChi's fears were uncalled for. Gohan made it to school on time. He found the school office on dumb luck as he heard a girl muttering to herself about getting a late pass from the office. He just followed her into a room. Lucky for him, the name tags were in raised letters to help him.

"Ah, yes, Son Gohan, the boy genius. Welcome to Orange Star High." The woman adjusted her glasses as she looked up what room the boy was suppose to be in. "Well, isn't this lucky for you. You share the same class as this young lady so she can show you around. And since you never leave the class room except for gym or lunch, she'll be in all of your classes."

Gohan smiled at her. "I guess today's my lucky day."

"Videl, come show Gohan where is class room is." She dug through her papers looking for the permission slips. "Here's one. Now, not lose this one. It's good for two weeks. Hopefully this city doesn't need you that much to take away from her school time. Now off you go. I have important things to see to."

The pair left the office. Videl lead the way. "So you're new. What school were you at before coming here?"

"I was home schooled," Gohan replied.

"Home schooled? Why are you here now?"

Gohan gave a small laugh. "My mom wants me to go to college. She thought a high school diploma would sound better on record."

"So…what's your name?"

"It's Gohan, Son Gohan." Gohan stuck out his hand for a handshake.

"I'm Videl Satan." Videl shook Gohan's hand and waited for him to react to her name. Everyone knew who she was. You got to be dead not to know she was the daughter of the World Savior, Hercule. After a minute, she realized that her name probably meant nothing to him--almost like he either didn't care who she was or didn't know who she was. Either explanation was fine with her but she was unconsciously hoping in was the first reason.

They arrived to their classroom where Videl quickly showed the teacher her permission slip and hurried to explain who Gohan was. The teacher nodded his gray head. "Ah, yes. You may take your seat Miss Satan. Class, I would like you all to meet your new student Son Gohan. He had perfect scores on all of his entry exams. Why don't you tell us a little about yourself, my boy?"

Gohan stared at the rows of students. He hadn't expected to be so many students in on class room. "I'm Son Gohan," he said nervously.

A male voice that Gohan could pinpoint from one of the back rows shouted, "We know that, nerd!" Some of the students exploded in laughter.

Gohan scratched the back of his neck. "Um, I help my friend with several of her devices. I've only actually designed one thing that Bulma mass produced." Gohan didn't want to mention anything else about himself. He turned to the teacher for help. The old guy nodded to Gohan.

"Just pick any seat."

Gohan scanned the room looking for an empty seat. His ki vision found two empty seats. One next to a short hair girl and the other sandwich in between giant guy who was currently picking his nose and another guy who was scratching his arm reach looked like it had broken out into something. Gohan wasn't going to take any chances seating next to the two guys. Anyway, the girl stood up and pointed to the empty seat. "You can sit next to me, cutie." Gohan walked up the stairs to the empty seat. "I'm Erasa. The blond guy over there is Sharpener and this is my best friend, Videl."

Gohan nodded his head at each introduction. He already knew Videl. And he just learn at Sharpener had blond hair. One thing his ki vision could see was colors. He quickly took out his keyboard. When Erasa asked him why he needed that, Gohan replied, "It helps me take notes. You see," Gohan laughingly said as he rubbed the back of his neck nervously, "I have problems writing, so a friend of mine made this keyboard to help me."

After that, Gohan had no time to talk to his new founded friends. The teachers loaded the class with a ton of notes to help prepare them for the upcoming tests the school was forcing them to take. Erasa hugged onto Gohan's arm as she directed him to the lunchroom. "This is the lunch room. Some people choose to eat outside. That's where our lunch table is." Erasa started to drag the new student outside when she remember something. "Hey, one of you, don't forget to get me a diet Pepsis." Once outside, she drag Gohan to a table. Her hand flew to her mouth in surprise, "I forgot, Gohan! Are you going to buy the school lunch?"

Gohan shook his head. "My mom packed me a lunch."

"That's good. I'd forgotten that you might have wanted to buy." Erasa started to tell the poor half saiyan who was who and pointed out some of the most popular people in the school. Videl and Sharpener arrived with their trays. Erasa grabbed her diet Pepsis from Videl and a bag of chips from Sharpener. Erasa didn't want to gain anymore weight so she just ate a little bit of food from each of her friends.

"Why aren't you eating?" Videl asked.

"I was wanting for you guys." Personally Gohan thought that those five minutes was a long time, especially when lunch was involved. But his mother raised him to be polite and he didn't think it was polite to have Erasa sitting there while he ate. Gohan dug into his bag looking for his capsule lunch. He pulled out a couple capsule. Gohan groaned. He forgotten that his mother put other capsules into his bag, and capsule weren't embossed. How was he going to find his lunch?

Videl looked at the capsules in his hand. "Is your lunch in one of those?" Gohan nodded. "But I thought putting food into a capsule wasn't a good idea."

"You're right. But I help designed this lunch capsule with Bulma. She was jealous that she hadn't thought of it first."

Sharpener put down his sandwich he was about to bite into. "Wait, are you saying you know the Bulma Briefs, the head of Capsule Corp.? And you actually work with her?"

"Yeah. Bulma doesn't like to admit it but she sometimes needs my help when she can't solve a glitch in a new invention." Gohan shoved a capsule to Videl. "What does this one say?"

Videl took it. "It says: 44AC." She handed it back to Gohan. "That's the newest air sport car, right? The one that's suppose to be release to the public next week?" Gohan nodded as he put that one back in his bag. "How did you get one? Even with my dad's connections he couldn't get until it comes out next week."

"Bulma didn't tell me that it hadn't been release yet." Gohan give Videl another capsule. "What's this one?"

Videl took that capsule as well. "367SC."

Gohan frowned as he took back his storage capsule. Why on Earth did his mother put that capsule in his bag? He handed Videl another capsule. "And this one?"

Videl sighed as she took the new capsule. "Can't you read your own capsules?"

Gohan blushed as he nodded. "I have this eye problem, I can't read things unless they stick out."

Videl blushed also in embarrassment. She hadn't meant to embarrass the guy. "Oh. Um, this one's called 1LC."

Gohan's face lit up. He grabbed the capsule out of Videl's hand, shoved the others back into his bag, and pushed the capsule button, then lightly threw it. After the spoke cleared away, Gohan started to dig right into his lunch. Everyone outside stop eating to watch the new 'nerd' eat. There had to be at least a ton of food laid out on a table. And the nerd ate it all in five minutes. Gohan rubbed his stomach. "Man, I wished my mom hadn't packed me so little… What?"

Erasa cleared her thought. "How can you eat that much?"

Gohan mentally slapped himself. How could he have forgotten that humans didn't eat a lot of food. Tomorrow, he's going to tell ChiChi that he was going to buy lunch so he would eat like a normal human. And then, when he comes home, he'll eat a normal lunch. "I don't know. Guess I was really hungry today." Gohan rubbed the back of his neck.

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(1) Think of that metal thing that you can make a hand print or face print with a bunch of tiny metal rods that you press hand/face into to form. That's what Gohan's ki is basically doing.

(2) Gohan's keyboard is used just for writing--no playing games or anything else.

M-sama: Please don't yell at me. I do know I'm suppose to be working on Trunks Goes to High School and Never Sleep Over--and I am. It's just I had to write this down and I want everyone to read it…

Trunks: **shakes head** Shame on you! Disappointing all of your fans on your other two fics to start about one…

M-sama: **smacks Trunks** Shut up, baka. You're just jealous that you're not in the fic right now. Well, readers, please review!!!