Part One
Chapter 1
I walk down the winding road surrounded by other kids all walking out from the village to the school. I glance around at all the other girls with their gathering of friends. Some of them glance at me and whisper to their friends, I hear their giggles as they talk about me. It doesn't surprise me, I've never fit into any of the schools I've been to before. I move schools quite often, this is the first school I've been sent to with a promise that I'll be there for a while. My parents move around a lot. But I'm not staying with my parents for a while, a family friend called Makino offered to let me stay for a while.
School has never been my thing. I'm not really one for rules. The other schools always kicked me out for something, my attitude, my clothes or my hair. That's why I never fit in either, everyone thought I was weird for avoiding short skirts and low cut tops and favouring skinny jeans and tshirts. They thought I was a freak because I like to dye my hair weird colours and could never stand sitting still. I can feel these girls thinking the same thing, black hair laced with red highlights does stand out, but it doesn't matter I'm used to it.
I see the school building up ahead, the grey, dull concrete uninviting and kind of daunting. It looks like any other, all professional and kind of like a prison. A skinny boy with black hair and a straw hat runs past shouting loudly, a tall boy with bright green hair being dragged behind him. Maybe I'm not the only weird one attending this school.
I walk through to the neat reception, filled with plants and paintings all in their proper places. It's the kind of room where you don't want to touch anything. I ask the woman sat behind the desk for my schedule. The woman offers me a sweet smile and shoots off to fetch it from the printer. A girl with long wavy blue hair walks in, saying hello to the staff at the reception. "Hey," she says smiling at me brightly, "I haven't seen you before are you new around here?"
"Yeah it's my first day," I say, slightly returning the smile.
"I hope you like it here, if you ever need someone to talk to you can come find me," she says kindly before bouncing off into the other part of the school building.
The smiley receptionist comes back and hands me my schedule and a map of the school building. Is everyone here super smiley, I think to myself as I look at my first lesson. Maths. Great my favourite… not. I walk around the corridors, all the kids whispering as I walk past.
I find my maths classroom and the teacher allocates me the seat next to a girl with bright orange hair and light brown eyes. I slide into my seat, ducking my head as I get my things out of my bag. The teacher starts writing on the board and I struggle to pay attention already, the numbers on the board seeming to merge with each other. "hey I'm Nami," the orange haired girl says to me, distracting me from my day dreaming.
"Hi, I'm Ko," I reply, offering her a smile.
"So, you're new here right?" I nod. "Have you just moved nearby?"
"Yeah I just moved to Foosha village."
"Where did you come from?"
"I've lived in a lot of places, not really for long enough."
The teacher calls our attention back to the front of the class and I get lost in the numbers and letters on the board. Algebra will never be my thing.
At the end of maths I pack my stuff up slowly, waiting for all the other students to rush out into the corridor. I feel someone tug on my sleeve and I turn to see Nami and the girl sat next to her with jet black hair and blue eyes smiling at me. "What lesson do you have next?" Nami asks me brightly.
"uhm, science," I say quickly scanning my schedule, "room 12b."
"Me and Robin will take you there if you want," she says grabbing my arm and dragging me out the door without giving me a chance to reply. I was swept into the crowd that pushed down the corridor, Nami keeping a tight hold on my arm and Robin following behind me chuckling slightly at my wide eyed expression.
I get pulled through the sea of swarming people and dropped off outside my new classroom. Waving good bye to Nami I duck into my next lesson, smiling to myself at the craziness of this school. Maybe it won't be so bad here afterall.
"Ahh you must be the new student, welcome welcome, we're doing an experiment today, let's see who can I put you with," he ponders as he looks over the class. I keep my gaze down, not wanting to make any awkward eye contact. "Ah yes I think I'll put you with Luffy and Zoro, they'll show you what to do." He ushered me off to the back of the classroom. I sit down next to the green haired boy and the skinny black haired boy from this morning.
"Hey, I'm Luffy," the black haired boy grins at me, the smile stretching across his whole face.
"I'm Ko," I can't help but smile back. The green haired boy doesn't say anything, just looks straight forward with a slight frown.
"He's Zoro," Luffy says, pointing at the green haired boy. He nods his head in my direction and I nod back.
The teacher brings out the equipment on a trolley. Luffy runs to the front and brings back what we need. Luffy starts connecting the tubes to some flasks haphazardly.
"Uhm, Luffy are you sure that's right?" I ask hesitantly.
"Of course it's right," he says confidently. I glance sidewards at Zoro who's having a nap on the desk. Luffy pours the solutions into the flasks and turns on the little box that sets the experiment off. The two solutions mix into one big flask and start fizzing. That really doesn't look right.
The chemicals exploded and the force knocked Luffy back, who knocked into me, who fell onto a sleeping Zoro which isn't much softer than the floor, Luffy still sat on top of me.
"Oi what do you think you're doing," Zoro shouts pushing me off him so I land on the floor, knocking the breath out of me. Luffy laughs from his place on top of my stomach. I groan and push Luffy off so I can sit up.
"Ugh Luffy what the hell was that for!" I growl pushing myself up off the floor and dusting myself off.
"That was fun we should do it again," Luffy laughs.
"No we should not," I object. The teacher makes us stay behind in our break to clean up the mess.
"Luffy I'm going to kill you," Zoro grumbles as he sweeps the floor covered in broken glass and black soot.
"I'm hungry," Luffy moans flopping onto the floor.
"It's your fault we're stuck in here," Zoro brushes around him. I stay quiet, just trying to clean up the table as quickly as possible.
"Ko do you have any food?" Luffy asks from his spot on the floor.
"Nope, and if I did you wouldn't be getting any," I say scrubbing hard at the table.
"Did you and your parents move nearby?" Luffy asks sitting up, seeming to forget his hunger.
"I did, I moved into Foosha village."
"Your parents didn't come with you?" Luffy asks curiously, Zoro glancing at me out of the corner of his eye. I pause my cleaning for a moment.
"No," after a moment I pick up the cloth again and continue cleaning the table, "my parents can't really stay in one place for very long."
I finish cleaning the table, pretty proud with how well I did it considering I'm as useless with a sponge as I am with maths. Picking up my bag I head towards the door calling back over my shoulder, "see you later boys," and merging into the crowd of people in the corridor.
I didn't get very far before the bell for the next lesson rang out. Dammit, I try to suppress my growling stomach. My next lesson is English which I'm not too bad at. I walk through the door and spot Nami sat three rows back with free desks either side of her, as the teacher looks around the class she calls and pats one of them. Surprisingly the teacher lets me go and sit next to her rather than placing me in the other free desk across the room.
"Ko good to see you. Oh we have lunch after this, want to join us, my friends won't mind," she blabbers cheerily at me.
"That would be great, I'm starving," I say, my stomach grumbling loudly backing up my claim. Luffy bursts through the door, the teacher moaning at him for being late and telling him to get to his seat. Luffy flops down in the chair on the other side of Nami, placing his face on the desk and moaning about being hungry.
"Luffy this is Ko," Nami introduces us.
"Oh Ko it's you again," he says peeking up at me, not bothering to lift his head off the desk.
"You've met?"
"I was in his science lesson," I explain, shuddering at the memory.
"Oh I feel so sorry for you," Nami says placing a hand on my arm with no hint of sarcasm. I guess she must know what he's like.
The teacher calls our attention back to the front and we stop talking.
Welcome to my new Zoro x OC fic. I'm really excited about it. This fic will be split into three parts. I've been working on this fic for about 8 months-ish and I've just finished part one (100 google doc pages woah go me). It's by far the biggest fic I've done and I'm not even finished yet. I hope you enjoy ^.^
