A Hero's Troubles

by Flesi Kameez

Disclaimer: I do not own DB or DBZ. If I did, I surely wouldn't be writing a FanFic right now, but something I can make lots of money with. :-0" Anyway, I still don't own it, and I am afraid, I never will.

Summary: Gohan has had enough of it. Being the great saiyaman is becoming more and more of a burden. So he decides to neglect his duties as a super hero and let others do the work. Still, he can't stay in the background forever…

Chapter one – Difficulties

"Not again," Gohan muttered slightly irritated as he heard shots from around the corner. 'I guess I won't get the chance to change back to normal today,' he thought, wearing still his saiyaman outfit from the burglary five minutes ago. Without giving it another thought he rushed towards the bank that was being robbed.

He saw some policemen standing near the entrance. They were shouting something about letting the hostages go. But the kidnapper didn't seem to care about it. Neither did Gohan; Thanks to his superhuman speed he approached the thug without being seen. Quickly he knocked him unconscious while shooting small shockwaves at the other two gangsters who were guarding the entrance. He went out of the bank and noticed the robber's transport car driving away at a murderous speed. So he just blew it up with another shockwave, before he flew away as he used to.

A few moments later he arrived at Orange Star high school and landed on its roof.

"Gosh. That's wearing me off. Four times this morning. Wonder how many it will be in the afternoon," he sighed and changed his dress by pressing the useful red button on his watch. "I hope I'm not too late again." Walking down the stairs, he suddenly realized what he had just seen on his watch. Shocked, he stopped and checked the time again. "8.25 am!" he cried out in frustration, "I almost missed the first lesson completely! What happened to these forty minutes!" So he stood there, in the middle of the empty school floor, wondering what he had needed so much time for. 'Okay, freeing all those people from the burning building wasn't exactly simple. Tracking down the ten escaping hooligans took a lot of time, too, especially when everyone is running in another direction. Well, I think, that explains it. Still I don't think, Ms Heider will buy it,' he thought, grinning sarcastically when he thought of the last time his 'favorite' teacher got mad at him. The small, old woman might not look like it, but she had the terrifying ability to crush the self confidence of everyone she was angry at. Gohan still hadn't recovered from this.

He would have to think of something, quickly. Slowly he started walking towards his class room. But he just couldn't figure out a worthy excuse.

Two minutes later Gohan stood in front of the classroom's door. The bell rang and some of the pupils came out, wanting to breathe some fresher air.

After a moment, Videl came along. "Hi Gohan!" she said, adding with a sadistic smirk, "Ms Heider was really worried about you."

"Thanks for the info," Gohan moaned, "she still in there?" Videl nodded and followed Gohan when he finally went inside the class room.

"Good morning, Ms Heider," he greeted his teacher as he nervously approached her, "I'm sorry I couldn't attend the first lesson, but–" He was interrupted by a bored looking Ms Heider, "Yes? What is your excuse this time?"

Gohan swallowed. "I had to go to the dentist," he said shortly. 'A normal excuse like this will have to do, since I've used all the others already the last times when I was late,' he thought while trying not to look away from his teacher's eyes, hoping she would trust his words. "Don't you believe me?" he added after a moment. He innocently looked at her and hid his nervousness as best as possible.

Another terribly long moment passed, until Ms Heider finally stopped staring at him, sighed and said in a somehow concerned sounding voice, "Of course I believe you, Gohan. After all, you are my best student. However, you have come late or been absent quite often recently. This also shows in your grades. I don't want you to worsen at school because of family quarrels, a frozen car, an old tuna salad or what else you told me during the last weeks. Either you get things settled in your free time or I'll have to visit your mom. You got that?"

Gohan gulped at the thought of chichi after a meeting with Ms Heider. "Yes, ma'am," he whimpered and cautiously turned around, hoping to get away before Ms Heider would start screaming. But he didn't make it in time.

"And Gohan, since you have missed quite a lot of the last lessons, I advise you to do all the tasks on the pages 39 and 40 in your text book until tomorrow," Ms Heider said empathically. At once Gohan turned back and looked at her disturbed. "But this are at least fifty single tasks!"

"You're an intelligent boy. I expect you not to have many problems with it. Period," Ms Heider eventually said and turned away to shout at some students who were sitting on the tables.

'Today I won't have time for anything else but this,' Gohan thought, swearing under his breath.

"Poor Gohan! But at least she didn't yell at you again, right?" Suddenly Videl stood in front of him and tried to cheer him up. Gohan just nodded and stumbled, still paralyzed, to his seat.

Videl followed him and kept talking, "C'mon, don't worry, be happy! If you want me to, I might even do some of the tasks for you, so that you can still fight crimes today." Although Gohan kept denying it, Videl still suspected him to be the great saiyaman and would never miss the chance to get the truth out of that strange guy.

Unfortunately, her attempt didn't work this time, too. Gohan didn't even listen to what she said. He just yawned. "Man, I'm hungry."

Videl got angry. "Gohan! What's wrong with you!" she shouted annoyed, as he suddenly fell asleep on his chair, right in front of her. She had to shout into his ear several times, until he decided to wake up. First, he needed some time to realize where he was. Dazzled he looked up at Videl, who was returning a rather reproachful look. "Gohan, you just slept at school," she explained, "And you fell asleep when I was talking to you."

Gohan scratched the back of his head apologetically and muttered something about being always a little tired lately and because of that also not so good at school.

Videl raised an eyebrow, "And why would you be tired?"

"School's boooooring," Gohan yawned, stretching out his arms. At least he was awake enough not to reveal his secrets. It wouldn't do them any good to tell Videl that helping people as saiyaman all day could be quite exhausting and that this was the cause of his current fatigue.

"Still don't sleep here, okay? Or do you wanna have another talk with our dear Ms Heider?" Videl said teasingly and went to her own seat when the bell rang.

During the following lessons, Gohan regained his usual, cheerful self. He talked to Videl, Erasa and Sharpner as always and joked around with them. Even the lessons itself weren't that bad. Especially for Gohan, because he knew from his earlier studies at home that genetics or trigonometric functions could be far more boring topics than the teachers made them to be.

In fact, Gohan had quite a lot of fun this day. That means, until the lessons ended: As soon as he had reached the roof and changed his outfit, he detected the next crime, only three streets away.

Being the nice and helpful guy he was, Gohan flew to the scene at once and saved a boy within seconds from being seriously hurt by some thugs, before he started his way home.

Two minutes away, there was a robbery which Gohan had to take care of.

After about another hundred meters, he found the next problem that wanted to be solved: A suicidal high school girl stood on the edge of a sky scraper's roof, ready to jump into her demise. Seconds later, she flew in the air; but not downwards – The great saiyaman had caught her just in time, and now he brought her to a nice park, where he told her never to do something like this again. After he had listened to all her problems for two whole hours, she finally promised him to see everything in a more positive light and not to try killing herself again.

"At least another fan club member," Gohan thought afterwards, when he noticed two street gangs fighting each other directly under him. Although he didn't exactly know if he could be of any use here, he went down and separated them. For now.

When Gohan finally reached the suburbs of Satan City, he wasn't happy at all about what he saw there: Five youths robbing a weapon shop. Of course, those weapons weren't a problem for Gohan. He just hated the thought that teens in his own age would steal weapons to do even more crimes. Anyways, as it was his job – unpaid of course – Gohan left the youths unconscious, tied up on the wall of the weapon shop for the policemen to find them.

Then Gohan again ascended into the air. After he had left Satan City, he knew that today he wouldn't need to fight any other crimes.

By now it was dark already. So, when he reached home, Gohan again had to explain to his mother what he'd been doing all day. "Son, it's nice that you want to help all those people," Chichi said while placing a huge amount of food on the kitchen table. "But don't dare to forget your duties at school because of that masquerade!" she finished, warning him with a gesture towards her well-known frying pan.

Gohan gulped, as Chichi spoke again, "If this is getting too much for you, you should just let all the people be. Your education goes first." Then she went towards the stairs to call her youngest son for dinner.

Gohan looked after her, surprised. This option had never come to his mind before: Why not stop being the great saiyaman? All his current problems should be solved. But after having thought about this option a second time, Gohan realized what it meant. 'Nah, I can't do this. I can't let people suffer innocently,' he thought and dropped the subject.

When he went to his room an hour later, he fell into his bed and slept at once, exhausted from the day.

End of Chapter one

by Flesi Kameez

Post-Chapter-Commentlis: Well, what do you think? You like it so far? Tell me your opinion in a review! I wanna know e v e r y t h i n g: your thoughts about it, possible mistakes I made with words/phrases, grammar or even the story itself, suggestions about what should happen next, writing tips or whatever you have. But no flames plz, only constructive criticism. So no "This is crap", only a "This is crap, ya shouldn't use so long sentences." Coz it doesn't bring me any further if I don't know what exactly you're complaining about. Still, you don't necessarily need to use the word "crap" in the review ;

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