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Dragonball: Unforgotten
Chapter sixty-four
“Gohan…” you said softly, fighting through your embarrassment as you sat up. That way he’d take you seriously. “Look, I’ll figure something out with Broly and your dad okay? I don’t know what right now but I will figure it out. It’s my burden to bare, my price for this second life. Not yours. You have your own issues and adventures. I won’t take those away from you and I won’t give you my burdens.”
Gohan frowned in confusion as he looked at you. After watching you practically roll around with anxiety and embarrassment, this was strange. It was like there had been a switch in your head that flipped after you asked if he’d ever kissed anyone. What was it about that which made you turn a 180?
“What are you talking about?” Gohan asked as he tried to stuff away the embarrassment of a moment ago, just like you were trying to do.
“Thank you for offering to help. But I won’t do that to you,” you told him as you clenched your jaw, being unable to meet his eyes. “I’m not going to be that selfish. You never wanted to get tangled up in this mess. I know you just wanted to have a normal life with normal experiences. Things like your first kiss, falling in love. Stuff like that. Creating a baby just to spare me what might be a painful experience and to keep two people from fighting...that’s not normal. That’s not how you should experience your firsts.”
You had your chance to do all of that. You had your first kiss, fell in love, and lost your virginity before you deteriorated too far. You’d done all that in your first life as it were. Your second life should not revolve around sapping Gohan’s experiences.
“Wait, so you’re saying no because I haven’t…” he couldn’t bring himself to say it on the first try.
Gohan clenched his fists as he tried to push through the awkward embarrassment of the situation. It was really strange; he didn’t know why this was so hard to talk about. The only answer he could come up with was the fact that it had never been talked about at his home. Nor had he grown up around other kids his age. The whole subject was such a taboo that somehow everything else in the world was easier. Even planning on how to take care of a family, rapidly aging, and saving the world was easier to talk about than his lack of romantic experience.
“Look, I’ll study. I’ll figure it out. I mean it can’t be that hard. Everyone has been doing it for eons.”
You looked at him with your face scarlet. That was not exactly what you meant.
“...I wasn’t meaning it like that Gohan,” you mumbled. The idea of Gohan reading sex books just to complete what he saw as a challenge was just weird. “I don’t want to make you regret not getting to experience everything for the right reasons. Your first kiss...your first time...you’re probably going to remember those for life. They should be with someone you trust. Someone you’re attracted to and care for. You shouldn’t have to have sex for the first time just because it’s the lesser of evils. That’s not normal. And you deserve to live that normal life you’ve been trying to chase.”
“Oh.”
Oh was right. You tried to conjure a smile for him. It was just that the situation was awkward.
“Thank you, though,” you told him honestly. “For trying to look out for me. It’s nice.”
“That’s what friends are for.”
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“Oh wow, Gohan, you’re back!”
Gohan smiled nervously at Erasa as she looked at him from her spot. “Yeah. Though I guess there’s not much left of this year huh?”
It was nearly the end of May. They graduated from this current year mid June. Then he’d have two and a half months away from school before starting his Junior year. It would actually be the first time he got to start a new year with everyone. His first day of school had actually been mid way through the year because it had taken him a long time to convince his mom to let him go. She’d been adamant on him finishing his high school education at home until he brought up the need for recommendations to get into a good college. Unfortunately, Gohan wasn’t sure if his attendance and performance in class would score him any of those. His grades were still top of his class (not as good as they could have been but still excellent) but his attendance was pretty shaky.
“You’re right about that,” Erasa said with a smile. “But you came back just in time!”
“Huh? Why’s that?”
“Prom is in two weeks,” Erasa told him as she laughed, like she couldn’t believe he didn’t know that. “A bunch of us were going to try to sneak in. What do you say? Want to join us?”
Gohan shifted on his feet nervously before he took his seat. “I don’t know, I don’t want to get in trouble.”
“Really? I thought you’d be used to that by now. I mean sneaking into prom is nothing compared to standing up to criminals right? Besides! It’ll be fun! Even Videl and Bella are going.”
Gohan blinked as he heard that. You and Videl were going? He had a hard time imagining you or Videl in those dresses he saw advertised as prom dresses. Besides, Videl didn’t seem like the kind of person who snuck into anything. So the fact that she was willing to break the rules just to go to a dance was surprising. The fact that you were going to ignore the rules didn’t really surprise him - that almost seemed normal.
Speaking of you though...Gohan noticed that you were going to be late. He tried to find your energy signature as he sat down. But you were able to keep it so low that he had no idea where you were. You might not have as much experience with fighting like the rest of them but you still had tricks up your sleeve. Like suppressing your energy almost to the point that you didn’t seem to have any. And you could flicker it like a signal in the dark. The way you could manipulate and control your energy outside of battle was astounding even to him. Which was why he was surprised when you mentioned that you might not be able to suppress it if you were having sex. He’d given it some thought these last few days as he thought about his father wanting to come home. That seemed so strange to him that you wouldn’t be able to concentrate enough to keep your energy suppressed. He’d never read anything about losing concentration in his anatomy and sex education books before. Then again the ones that his mother had gotten for him to study seemed to have a lot of things missing so maybe that was why.
“Uh, Gohan?” Erasa waved her hand in front of his face.
Or tried to at least. Gohan caught her wrist out of instinct in a crushing grip. Literally crushing. He heard her bones snapping before he even realized what was happening. Gohan let go of her wrist like it was on fire as she screamed. His eyes widened as Erasa’s sounds of pain filled the classroom. It had happened so quickly that no one else saw what had happened. Only Gohan and Erasa knew the truth. And her fear filled eyes hurt to see.
That wastage situation that you walked in to see. The class was gathered around Erasa as the teacher tried to figure out what was wrong. She had since stopped screaming but the way she cried let you knew how much pain she was in. And her eyes filled with tears as she looked to Gohan started to fill in some of the clues. While Erasa was escorted to the school nurse, you moved over to Gohan. He looked just as shaken up as Erasa. He wasn’t crying of course but the way he was looking at his own hands scared you.
“What happened?” You asked quietly.
“...I hurt her,” he whispered as he looked up.
“That much I got. What happened?” you tried again.
“I...I was thinking. And she went to wave her hand in front of my face. I wasn’t paying attention. So I caught it and…”
“And your grip broke her wrist,” you filled in quietly for him. “Hey, at least you didn’t squeeze and pull, probably could have ripped her arm off that way.”
Gohan’s look of mortification made you realize exactly what you’d just said. You winced and offered a quiet apology. You noticed that he continued to stare at his hand. You gripped one of them, giving it a squeeze.
“Hey, you didn’t mean to,” you tried to comfort him. “You just...weren’t paying attention. You didn’t mean to hurt her. It’s just with how much stronger you are than everyone here it happens. Trust me. First week I got back to school, I broke a guy’s arm in gym because I wasn’t used to being that much stronger. It happens if you’re not paying attention.Just like shaking the building when you’re nervous.”
Gohan nodded slowly. He gently squeezed your hand in silent gratitude, or at least acknowledgement, but almost seemed reluctant about even that. No doubt what just happened was a shock. So instead of letting him pull away, you squeezed his hand tighter. Gohan looked up to you eyes finally in surprise.
“What are you doing?”
“Go ahead. Squeeze.”
“Huh?”
“Tighten your grip Gohan. It won’t hurt me. You’re not going to hurt me.”
Slowly he did but you could tell he was holding back. So you didn’t. You squeezed and twisted your hand to engage more muscles. Gohan winced slightly before he flexed his own hand and started to apply pressure himself. You smiled at that.
“See, told you. You’re not going to break everything you touch, wonderboy. I mean My hand can take a lot more than Erasa’s just cause of the saiyan factor. But point is Just like with any other training you just gotta find the limits so you can control it unconsciously. Now you know your grip when you’re not paying attention can break human bones. Go from there. And in the meanwhile you could always sneak Erasa out and bring her to Dende if you want. There might not be any senzu beans but there is that.”
“Thanks for reminding me,” Gohan said with a smile.
“You’re welcome. That’s what friends are for.”
“Yeah,” Gohan stood up with a purpose as he let go of your hand. “Guess this just means a whole new type of training now huh?”
“Yep. And I’m here if you need you know. You’re not the only one in the school.”
He smiled slightly before nodding.
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