Emo Piece:
Chapter 1
Wow, practicing my emo look is really annoying. Everytime I try to be the least bit serious my face gets messed up into a giant frown. But I guess I'm just really excited. Today is the day. Now, the only thing I need to make this perfect is for Nii-chan to get here--
"LUFFY!!" I heard Nii-chan call to me.
"COMING ACE!!" I ran down the stairs into the arms of my brother. We both started jumping up and down chanting, "Today's the day today's the day." We finished with a "YOSHA!!"
Outside the screen door behind my brother, Sanji was taking a smoke. Don't tell anyone this, but he's only 17 and the legal age to get cigarettes here is 18 (even though he is turning 18 next month). There is this "Candy Store" here that sells cigarettes to minors. I personally think it's bad, but there's nothing I can really do about Sanji's addiction. Even if the store is closed down, Sanji would still be addicted. Wow, that took a lot of thought. Now my head hurts. I hate thinking.
On with the story. Er, I think I was...oh yeah. So, Ace told me to get my bass and we left.
"Ja Jii-Chan!" I called out to my grandfather.
"Yeah yeah yeah git outta mah house!" He responded tiredly. I smiled. Silly old war veteran. Eats too much donuts.
Ace unlocked the trunk and I dumped my bass there. The car we always take is the Toyota Rav 4. It's actually Sanji's mom's car. I got in the backseat and there were my two best buddies, Usopp and Zoro. Usopp was on the far left and Zoro was in the middle, right next to me. Apparently, he decided to take a nap and his head was leaned back against the headrest with his mouth slightly open. A little drool was dribbling out. I started giggling.
"Kishishishishi! Hey Ace!" I whispered.
"Neh, Luffy?" He whispered back.
"Zoro's drooling!!"
Seeing what I meant, Nii-chan started giggling softly alongside me. Sanji finally finished his ciggy and got in the shotgun.
"Sanji! Sanji! Get your camera out!" Ace said to Sanji with a loud whisper.
"Huh? Why are we whispering?" Ace pointed to Zoro with his chin and Sanji quickly took out the camera. Sanji had to restrain himself from giggling to get the camera straight. We heard the click of the button and saw the flash going off.
I was ready to burst. This was definitely going on Facebook. Zoro's head shot up. Luckily, Sanji already put the camera away.
"Did something happen?" He asked. None of us could take it anymore. We all started laughing. "What happened?"
Sanji took out the camera and showed him. Zoro's face became a bright shade of pink. "Delete that!"
"No!" We all shouted.
"Why not?"
"Because," Sanji began, "It's our first picture on the road to GLORY!"
"GLORY!!" The rest of us shouted.
"Yeah, let's go!" Ace shouted as he turned on the ignition. And we drove off, on the road to the legendary Emo Piece. We all get off topic easily.
Well, we were in the car for two hours. We really didn't do anything except listen to music and talk about random stuff.
I guess you are wondering what this Emo Piece is. Well, it is a yearly prize given out to America's best rock band. But, it's not just any prize, it is 2,500,000 and a contract with a recording studio! If we win, then we get um, Ace said 500,000 each! That's a lot of money! And if we get big through the company, then we get even more! I sound kind of greedy, but none of us are really rich and we come from a bad neighborhood. We all have our personal histories, but we really don't judge each other by the past.
I guess I should start off with Usopp. Usopp's our drummer. His father died when he was seven in a boating accident. From then on, it was just him and his mom. His mom is now in the hospital with cancer, so he dropped out of High School and is now working odd jobs to pay for his mother's treatment.
Next up is Sanji. Sanji is our lead guitarist. Sanji is living with his little sister and his mother. Their dad walked out on them after an argument. His parents weren't married, his father doesn't need to pay child support, wherever he is. He is his Uncle Zeff's sous-chef and is set to inherit the Baratie french cuisine.
There's also Zoro. He's our back-up guitarist. Zoro's family lives in the back of a house. That's not thatbad, but imagine living in the back of a house with 11 other siblings. They can't afford heating or AC either, and all the girls share a bed and all the boys share another bed. Zoro and his twin sister sleep on a floor mattress.
Now there's us. I'm kind of shy when telling our story. We're sort of...illegal I guess? Well, I can't really tell the details, since we'll get into LOTS of trouble, but we were smuggled out of North Korea by our Japanese father, and we became Japanese citizens. Ace and I moved here to America after our father got a transfer here. Well, he died after we got naturalized, and we're now living with our Jii-chan. And about Mom, we have no idea what happened to her. She's in North Korea now, I guess. But once we win the Emo Piece, we are going to find her. I'm not sure how,
but a good friend once told me "If you have a passion then you can do anything. Go out there Luffy, and sail towards your true heart's desire!". And you know something? I will.
Something funny caught my interest.
Zoro found Sanji's camera case right next to his arm. There was no way he was going to let that shit-cook put that on facebook. Slowly reaching for the camera, Sanji caught him quickly, and hid his camera case.
"Marimo! I'm never gonna deleted that--" Ace jerked the car into the parking space.
"OW!! ACE!!" We all shouted.
"Sorry guys." Ace only got his real driver's license in October and he still isn't really good with parking. Good thing this was a pretty empty lot.
"Hm," Usopp got out of the car and stretched. "Looks like we are early."
Sanji looked at his watch. "We're an hour early. C'mon guys, maybe they'll let us warm up."
"YOSHA!! IKE!" I said, sprinting forward.
"LUFFY!! YOU FORGOT YOUR BASS!" I heard Nii-chan call out. I quickly sprinted backward, took my bass from Ace, and ran forward on the same path.
"Look at him go." I heard Zoro mutter.
-Zoro's POV-
I heard something fall and looked around to see where it came from. It sounded like it fell down from the car.
"Ero-Cook's camera case..." A bright idea hit me, and I bent down to pick up the camera case only too find...
"HA! Got you again Marimo!" That shit-cook. He waved the camera right in front of my face.
I cursed him under my breath. I walked over to the trunk, grabbed my guitar, and briskly followed Luffy.
There were a couple of bands playing before us, so I decided to practice a little, or at least tune my guitar. I look in my pocket only to find pocket lint. I panicked.
I checked in all of my pockets. Even inside my lucky bandanna and inside my shoes. Nothing. I did notice, though, that there was something caught under the strings of the first fret. I tried putting my finger between the strings and getting it out. I only hit the string next to my finger. Oh shit. That was my lucky pick. And it was stuck.
"Hey Luffy!"
"Neh Zoro?"
"Can you get my pick out of me?"
"Sure!" He squeezed his finger between the strings and flicked it out.
Luffy only managed to get it out because he's a rubberman. A rubberman? Okay, the U.S. government re-modified the genetic structure of some fruits and "accidentally" put them in the market. Any poor unfortunate soul who managed to eat one of those, nicknamed the "Devil's Fruits" gained super-human abilites only at the cost of being able to swim. Luffy ate the Gum-Gum fruit, and as name suggests, is a human rubberband. Daily life with Luffy never really changed after eating it though. The powers gotten from the Devil's Fruits are nothing really romantic or adventurous, but they do help out with daily life every now and then. But, at least Luffy's not a sailor. Knowing him and his clumsiness, he'd probably have us jumping in the ocean everyday to save him. Well, enough with the history lesson, time to practice.
--Luffy POV--
I tried to tune my own bass because Nii-chan was in the bathroom, and everyone else was practicing. Sanji was arguing with the staff, who kept telling him not to smoke since the stage was... I forget the word. I think it was pronounced...um... "flammitable", and he'd set the stage on fire by accident. Anyway, I tried tuning my bass, and...well it didn't turn out so well...everything sounded flat! I watched the band before us start playing. I gulped and hoped Nii-chan didn't fall asleep in the toilet. Once he came out I called to him.
"NII-CHAN!! Can you tune my bass?"
He sighed. "Geez Luffy, I'm just the singer. You really gotta learn how to tune yourself." He took it out of my hands and I heard the pitch going up. I knew I was too flat. I heard Zoro call to me.
"HEY LUFFY!"
"Neh Zoro?"
"Can you get my pick out for me?" I got his pick out using my Gum-Gum powers. As soon as I was done, Ace was done tuning for me.
"Arigatou Nii-chan!" Sanji gave up arguing with the staff a while ago and was now tuning to the same low E as Zoro.
Usopp came running up to us."Oi! Everyone! It's our turn to practice."
"YOSHA! IKE!!" I called out.
Zoro, Sanji and Ace all sighed and said, "Time to go."
-END OF CHAPTER-
Notes time! WHEEEE!! Okay.
First of all, I have had this idea since I watched The Who's "Tommy" about a year ago. This has evolved over time and with the help of THE EVIL TAKONO (SEE THAT TAKONO?! I PUT UR NAME IN BOLDDD!! YAY!!) . If this story isn't popular enough, we will probably take it off. So, please R&R or we will eat your brains out. Just joking. But seriously, read and review.
And, here's the setting and their ages along with positions--
Year-somewhere in our decade. Could be this year, a previous year, or next year. I haven't decided yet.
Month- If you didn't get the reference to Sanji's age earlier, it's February.
Ages-
Ace-19 position: Lead singer
Sanji-17 going on 18 position: Lead guitar/ back-up vocal
Zoro-17 going on 18 position: back-up guitar/ back-up vocal
Luffy-15 going on 16 position: Bass guitar
Usopp-15 going on 16 Position: Drummer/ back-up vocal (rarely)
So, I hope you enjoy. And just a warning: This story will be Ace/Sanji/Zoro/Luffy/Usopp centric. The other crewmembers will make cameo appearences now and then, and I might give them larger roles (depends on my mood). So, if you are looking for hot LuNa or ZoRo lemon or something like that in later chapters, GET THE HELL OUT. Rating for Sanji's colorful vocabulary in later chapters. And, I watch BECK, so do not accuse me of copying that show's awesomlynezzzz and putting it into One Piece. As I said earlier, I been thinking about this for over a year, and I only started BECK last month.
JA NE!!
Kurry