"HEY GOHAN!!" shouted Trunks and he waved enthusiastically to his friend.
Gohan looked at Trunks but as soon as he had done so the moment was lost as he Gohan gave a wave which could be considered pitiful in comparison.

As soon as Videl realized what had happened she opened her eyes, her heart disappointed. She looked at Gohan but his attention was focused on the two little children as he mechanically eased Videl to her feet.

"Hey bro, whatcha doin??" asked Goten as he flung himself onto Gohan. Gohan grinned as he tried to pick Goten up and placed him on his shoulder.

"So, Trunks, what brings you here," he asked "not that we're not glad to see you of course" he added. Videl could not help but smile at the situation. Her heart might ache, but at the sight of Gohan with his little brother there was a family love between the two boys that made Videl's heart warm and slightly envious.

"Of course you're glad to see me," said Trunks arrogantly, "I'm the Prince of Saiyans, you should be honored by my mere presence."

Gohan inwardly groaned, Trunks would never let him or anyone else forgot the class system he was in compared to theirs.

"Saiyans?? Where is the country Saiya??" Videl asked absentmindedly as she looked at the two demi-Saiyans. In return Trunks snorted loudly at the question.

"Saiyans are a superior race of warriors, you pathetic woman," he said rudely as he quoted some of his father's words.

Videl looked a bit taken back by this comment as she blinked her eyes involuntarily. Gohan immediately jumped to her defense as he smacked Trunks on the head with enough force so as to startle the boy but not hard enough to hurt even a human. Videl in return looked at him in shock as she bent down to see if Trunks had suffered any damage.

"Don't waste your time worrying Videl," he said reassuringly, "I wouldn't hit Trunks unless I knew he wouldn't truly be hurt, besides his father hits him a lot harder when they're sparring.” At Gohan's comment Videl noted the strong muscles in Trunks' arms and breathed a slight sigh of relief at the fact that Trunks was not hurt and perhaps more at the fact that Gohan did not truly hurt Trunks.

Trunks agreed with Gohan's words as his head bobbed up and down, "dad's sparring with mom at the mo but for some reason both of them seem really tired doing that," he said as he shrugged his shoulders in confusion as Videl gasped at the new discovery and Gohan blushed a bright shade of red.

"Let's get inside, everyone", Gohan said as he raised his eyebrows and stole a quick glance at Videl who was anxious not to get into further details of Bulma and Vejita's "sparring sessions" as they walked into to a surprisingly large house.
Videl looked a bit surprised as she moved in the direction that Gohan indicated. "You live in that??" she asked, rather surprised. Gohan nodded in response. Videl looked at the house in astonishment, "why is it a different house than before??"
Gohan looked sheepish as Goten gave an explanation, "I got really mad and then I sneezed wreally loud and then this wreally big hole was in the wall and mommy was mad because of the drafts but Trunks' mommy said that she had a wreally special house made for use which she was supposed to give mommy and daddy on their annie-verse-sarie, mommy didn't want to take it but Mrs. Briefs made her cause she said it was really special and hard to break", Goten said and looked innocently at Videl as he rubbed his nose.

Videl instinctively took a step back and looked at Gohan for conformation as the latter just scratched his head and whistled and looked at the sky.

Videl shook her head.. it all seemed so unbelievable but yet she believed it, the fact that Gohan could fly and his brother could makes holes in walls without meaning too..
But it was real.. very real and she knew it as well as they did.

~In the middle of god knows where~

Goku was out sparing with Piccolo. It had been a long time since the two of them had fought head to head and although Goku was a lot stronger than Piccolo, Goku wasn't using any of the Kaio-Ken techniques so the fight was fairly even.
As Goku paused to wiped the blood away from his mouth and smirk, Piccolo promptly punched him in the face.

Both boys had gone to the rumpus room after raiding the cupboards for extra tidbits being very careful to make sure that whatever they took Chi-chi would not notice were gone when she came back.

"Come on Videl, what kind of snacks do you want??" asked Gohan as he held looked into the cabinets, "we got chips, crackers and dip, tacos, biscuits, chocolate or we can make a few pizzas if you want something hot", Gohan blushed at the last suggestive comment.

Videl's sharp eyes caught the hint of red on Gohan's cheeks as she cheekingly winked at him, "I’ll have something hot.”
Poor Gohan just mumbled in response as he quickly turned away from her.

Trunks and Goten were now in the process of arguing over what game they should play on the play station.

"I wanna play Pokemon," whined Goten.

"Well I'm a guest in your house and you should be nice to me by letting me play what I want!! And I want to play "POINT BLANC!!"

"So what toppings do you like on your pizza??" asked Gohan as he looked into the refrigerator to see whatever ingredients there were.

"Just make sure it has lots of meat with mushrooms and onions, I can't stand all of those vegetarian pizzas. To me a pizza should be so filled with toppings and stacked with every kind of meat there is in existence," she grinned as she remembered the last time she had had one of those.
Gohan smiled, Videl might not be a Saiyan but it sure looked like she could eat like one.

A few minutes later..

"Alright we have onion, mushrooms, cabnossi, beef, bacon, what else do we want??"

"You forgot the three different types of cheese," Videl said at once, "we need to shred a big slab of block cheese, normal sliced cheese which can be easily broken up and sprinkled on top and a dash of parmesan cheese to top it off!!"

"Ah yes.. I'll grate the cheese while you get the normal cheese broken up," he said as he handed a packet of sliced cheese.

"Now how many seconds do you think it'll take me to shred this??" he asked as he waved around the big slab of cheese in front of her face.

"Hmmm... I give you one minute," she said jokingly.

"One whole minute?? I can do it in half!! Just get your watch out to start timing me," he said as gave a grin.

"You really think you can do it in half??" she questioned.

"Well to be honest, my best time is 31 seconds.. I think I can pull it off," he said with an air of confidence.

Videl shook her head.. no matter how strong and fast he was if he could shred that block of cheese in 30 seconds she would eat her hat, she thought as she looked at her watch. "Okay.. 3.. 2.. 1.. begin.”
To her amazement he did manage to shred in 29 seconds. It was a good thing Videl didn't own any hats.

"Never under-estimate the powers of the Great Saiyaman," he said has he held showed off a magnificent pile of shredded cheese.

~In a supermarket~

'Hmm.. maybe I should get some more ice-cream though it is a bit sweet, but Goten likes it so much and so does Goku, I wonder if I should get some chips although Gohan does prefer to have homemade ones, ohhh I do hope he's studying hard now' thought Chi-chi as she walked through the aisles with her shopping cart, her thoughts in a whirl.

"Okay.. we'll play 'Point Blanc', but only because I wanna shot everything and in Pokemon you can't even kill anything," Goten said after finally agreeing with his best friend.
Trunks smirked, that was another little win for him.

"Okay so now we've got the cheese done, I’ll the cabanossi, mushrooms and beef while you get take care of the rest of the ingredients," Videl mischievously said as she swiftly grabbed the food.
"You deliberately left me the onions didn't you??" he accused.

"Yup.”
Gohan just shook his head.

"You're the Great Saiyaman, surely you can handle a few evil onions??" she teased.

"You're more evil than the onions.”

Videl in response threw an onion at his Gohan's head which the latter caught with ease.

~About 45 Minutes Later~

"Alright.. it's finally done and we cleaned up the mess as well, hmmm... I wonder why Goten and Trunks haven't come down for them yet.." mused Gohan.

Videl raised her eyebrows, "does it matter??"

"I suppose not, but both of them like pizza so I’m surprised that they haven't come downstairs for it yet."

"They probably expect us to carry it up to them," reasoned Videl.

"You're probably right, let's have a slice before we play "servants" to those two," Gohan said as he cut out a large pieces for themselves and handed one of them to Videl.

But before he could take a bite it suddenly disappeared from his grasp..

"Hey!!"
..and the piece of pizza was swiftly gobbled up by a certain young prince.

"Trunks!!"

"Royalty should have the privilege of going first," Trunks stated.

"But his humble taste-tester should go first because Prince Trunks has plenty of enemies who might poison his food," said Gohan to Trunks who had turned rather pale at this revelation.

"Just kidding Trunks," as he took a slice himself and messed up the boy's hair with his free hand.

"Of course you were," Trunks said, after he had regained his composure and the color had drained back into his face,

"Everybody loves Prince Trunks.”

Gohan then cut up the rest of the pizzas and everyone else except for Videl took a slice.

"Mmmm.... des ez verrry ood," Goten said with his mouth full of pizza. He then swallowed too quickly and began to choke. Trunks whacked him on the back with perhaps too much force as Goten's body weight shifted forward and the younger boy tried to regain his balance and Gohan instinctively went to his aid.

"This is very good," he repeated.

Everyone verbally voiced their approvals except for Gohan who nodded his head and began on cutting up the rest of the pizzas.

"You don't think that your mom or Trunks' will tell us off because we've spoiled Trunks and Goten's appetite's do you," Videl said anxiously as she suddenly realized how much pizza they had made.

Trunks scoffed at the thought as Gohan said, "we usually have a snack like this before dinner, besides we kinda eat a lot and if we don't finish everything, which by the way has never happened, someone named Goten will get up in the middle of the night looking for a midnight snack.”

"It's not my fault, I just get wreally hungry," whined the demi-Saiyan in question. Videl though rather the situation was rather humorous as she gave a light chuckle.

"Dad says that I should eat some more because I'm a growing boy but mom says that if I eat any more I'll be growing sideways, mom and dad always seem to say weird stuff though," he said started piling up the pizza on a large plate.

Gohan and Videl tried desperately to suppress their laughter without much success, both had wide smiles as their imagination worked to form a picture of 'Trunks growing sideways'.

Gohan suddenly noted how much pizza Trunks had taken and was still taking, "Oi that's enough pizza.”

"Fine.. Goten just make sure you get you're share okay??" and with that Trunks left the kitchen and raced up the stairs.

"All of that pizza is for him?? I thought it was for the both of them!!" Videl looked shocked as she remembered the big pile that Trunks had taken.

"Now you see why we made so much," said Gohan as he piled some pizza onto a plate for his brother as Goten stuffed as many pieces into his mouth as followed his friend.

"Just tell me what is left over isn't all for us," begged Videl as she looked at the remaining pieces.

"Don't worry," he reassured her, "my dad should be home soon so I made sure that there was some left for him.”

"Ohhhh..." said Videl understandingly.

They took their share in silence as they made up to Gohan's room both had agreed to use this opportunity as a study session.

Suddenly Videl broke the silence, "How much do you guys usually eat in comparison to most families.”

Gohan pondered the question, he knew his family ate more than most and although his mother didn't seem to eat much he knew that she ate a fair bit and the fact that everyone he knew ate a lot didn't seem to help much either.

"We eat more than most families twice our size do," he finally said.

"Hmmm... I kinda gathered that, I was just wondering how a family who lives out in the middle of nowhere can afford to have so much food," she wondered, then said, "sorry that was a bit rude."

"It's okay.. my granddad on my mom's side is a king and though everything got buried in the rubble my parents got a few robots to sift through everything for all the heirlooms and valuables. Dad enters the Tenkaichi tournament every time he gets a chance and he always gotten into the final round so we have a bit of money from that as well.”

"I guess you know how my family got all of our money.”

Gohan smiled, "I don't mind, I wouldn't want all the fame your dad has anyway, especially at my age, besides would you really want a 16 year old mayor?? And I don't think that anyone would want to live in Son city??" he said as the both of them laughed at the absurd thought.

When Videl had controlled her laughter she replied, "I suppose not, I guess it all worked out in the end.”
Gohan nodded his head, "especially for me.”

~Two hours later~

"Hey that was a good fight Piccolo," Goku said as he congratulated his sparring partner and offered him a senzu.

"Yeah, real good, I haven't had a workout like that in ages," Piccolo replied as he took the small bean and popped it into his mouth.

"Well.. I gotta go, it's nearly dinner time and I don't want to be late, do you want to come?? I know you don't eat and all but hey, we could get some nice purified water for you, so whatdaya say??"

"No thanks, I have other things to do,"

"Like what?? Meditate?? Really Piccolo you should socialize more often, get to know people a bit more," Goku said as he tried to convince Piccolo to come for dinner.

"Hmmph.. I don't think it would be appropriate, besides," Piccolo showed off his fangs as he smiled, "Gohan's doing some socializing right now so I doubt he'll appreciate the extra company.”

Goku looked puzzled and then stretched out his ki. He found at his home three very powerful, familiar ki's and one considerably weaker one though quite powerful on a human scale.

"Hey.. you're right someone else is there!! I wonder who it could be, well I better get going, bye" and with those parting words Goku flew off home at a leisurely pace as he did twists and flips in the air.

"Videl, in which year..." Gohan looked carefully at Videl. She had been rather silent though Gohan had assumed that this was due to the fact that they were studying. Videl's head was faced down toward the book and as was about to Gohan peer closer to see if his suspicions where correct, Videl gave a little snore.
Gohan chuckled softly to himself and then looked a bit somber. Videl had earlier that day mentioned that she hadn't got enough sleep, and Gohan wondered how much sleep that she hadn't got that had made her fall into such a deep state of unconsciousness. As he pulled back the covers of his bed and placed Videl carefully in so that he would not wake her, Gohan could not help but admire the serene look upon her face.
He then covered her with his quilt covers and as he turned to walk out of the room he took one last glance at her face.

"Sleep well, Videl.”

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