Not An Exact Copy [Gohan x OC]

Ch. 34

Nachi scrunched up her nose, looking at the surface she was standing on in disdain. "This is, by far, the most revolting thing I've ever witnessed. Much worse than the time Kitty threw up furballs all over the place in his first weeks of living in my household."

Gohan snorted quietly as he was deemed the navigator around... Buu's body. "That does sound gross." He grimaced as another blood cell flew past between them, ducking his head as it another came closer. "It sure beats being eaten by him, I guess."

"I wonder how our fathers are faring out there," she mused.

"From what I know, my dad wanted to fuse with Vegeta." Catching her confused gaze, he elaborated. "There were these earrings he was carrying on him, and he at first wanted me to put it on to fuse with him. But then he went and said that we'd be stuck in the same body forever... and I don't want to come home to mom while sharing dad's body," he shivered in disgust.

Nachi paled, having caught on to his implication. "I would see how that would be bothersome... wait, wasn't Kakarot only around for the day?"

He shook his head. "He was, but when we were on Kai planet, an older Kai gave his life for dad, so he's not dead anymore."

She tilted her head, narrowing her eyes. "It's that easy, huh..." She murmured, looking up to try and see her own halo.

Gohan sighed, scratching the back of his neck. "Listen, I wanted to talk to you about something."

She turned her head to give him her full attention, but caught sight of something that made her pale, pupils shrink and shudder in fear and disgust.

"So uh, about that argument... I just wanted to say that I don't think you're a really bad person, not at all! I was speaking out in a place of anger, and that wasn't my intention of all to make you so upset with me. I-I... care about you, you know? I know this isn't really the time for me to bring up the issue, but it's the first time we're alone after... you know what happened. And I just want to say, that I'm sorry—"

"Listen, that's great and all, half-breed..." Nachi muttered, taking in a shaky breath as she stepped back. "But we have other things to worry about!"

Gohan frowned, wondering what had her spooked, and completely ignoring his heartfelt apology. As he turned, he choked on his saliva at the size of the large warm towering over them.

From the corner of his eye, he saw Nachi opening her mouth, but before he can stop her, she shrieked to the top of her lungs as her hair comically stood frazzled, and her tail behind her stood at attention. She turned on her heel, and quickly ran off in a different direction.

"H-Hey, Nachi! Wait!" Gohan shouted, running in her direction. Deeming her pace too fast, probably from her fear, he lifted from the ground and flew in her direction, easily catching up to her. "Nach'! Snap out of it!"

"Oh, screw off!" She screeched at him, losing her usual calm composure. "Did you see the size of that thing?!"

Shaking his head, Gohan grabbed her from under her armpits, then pulled her along with him. She screeched once more, readjusting herself to clamber onto his back and clutched to him like a pillow. "Do you even know where you're going?!"

"Uh, no," he scoffed. "I'm pretty sure you didn't know where you were going either!"

She huffed, pressing her cheek between his shoulder blades. "Whatever. All I know is, I'm not about to become this blob's next meal." With that, she angled her hand outward past Gohan's shoulder and shot a ki-blast, creating a gaping hole on the wall.

Gohan shrieked. "Nachi, what are you doing?!"

She rolled her eyes, hopping off his back and flying into the hole she made, where Gohan followed. "I can't sense anything in this body, so we're going to have to make our way through."