Before I begin with this story, I hereby declare One Piece to be the work of Eiichiro Oda and Toei Animation/FUNimation. Seeing as I am not Oda-sama, One Piece does not belong to me whatsoever (thank God Usopp for that).

I have chosen to do something rather amusing this time, and create a Modern AU fic in which the One Piece cast is in High School.

This will be a Luffy x Rebecca fic (seriously, they're an awesome couple, and there's next to nothing about their relationship on this website). Please leave a review if you wish.

Enjoy!

(First day of high school)

Rebecca was by no means a lazy person. You didn't become a Kenpo black belt or get a 3.8 GPA by being lazy in life. At the same time, she really, really loved her sleep.

Which was exactly why she was rather uncharacteristically annoyed when her alarm blared off on the first day of high school.

Not just the first day of high school either. She had spent 9th grade at Dressrosa High, until a few things forced her to change schools.

One, she was constantly being harassed by the Donquixote family, whose family head happened to own the school, so she couldn't really complain to the principal.

Two, her father, Cyros, who was a police officer, got involved in a wreck whilst chasing a criminal, and had to have one of his legs amputated. He was getting a prosthetic soon.

Until then, both the police force of Grand Line (her hometown), and her grandfather, Riku, made sure that Cyros wouldn't have to work for a bit by financially providing for her the two of them.

And three, due to her dad's temporary rehab. break, they couldn't afford to live in the house that they were living in previously. Of course, her grandfather had offered to pay the bulk of expenses, but he was already doing so much for their family, that they didn't feel right by burdening him with more.

So they moved across town to a school that she hadn't heard of before that seemed fairly good and was surprisingly cheap to afford. Though for some reason, some folks talked about the school as if it was a mad house or something.

Which brings us back to when Rebecca has been woken up by her alarm clock. Though she was highly tempted to hit the snooze button, she knew better not to. She had to prepare for her first day at her new school.

Rebecca was an interesting girl. She considered herself to be somewhat attractive (but most of the boys thought that she was way more than just 'pretty'). Even though she was involved with her school's Kenpo club, she still remained graceful and feminine. Her hair was naturally pink, just like her mother's (her mother was unfortunately deceased), and if she wore it down, would reach her waist. As it was, she kept her hair in a practical, braided ponytail that reached her mid back. Her eyes were a warm brown, that sent many boy's hearts to fluttering. She was about average height for a girl, and rather slender and fit, due to her martial arts training. She was also a very kind soul, and she cared for those less fortunate than herself.

In short, Rebecca was a girl who was rather beautiful but didn't really think so, very fit and athletic, gentle and kind-hearted, and rather spirited and enthusiastic about life. This led to many boys becoming rather taken with her…

… and of course, she was oblivious to it.

She quickly went through her morning routine (shower, brushing teeth, doing hair, etc.) For clothes she chose something that could be called 'pretty', yet 'casual and practical'. A pair of jeans, with a yellow short-sleeved t-shirt. For shoes, white Nikes with blue highlights.

She went into the dining room, and saw Cyros sitting at the table eating breakfast.

"Mornin' dad."

He looked up. She had to resist the urge to laugh at his morning hair.

"Mornin'. How's my little girl this morning?"

Rebecca just smiled and said,

"A bit nervous. Going to a new high school is a bit nerve racking."

Cyros smiled encouragingly at his daughter.

"You'll do fine kid, don't worry about it."

It was just one of the many things that Rebecca loved about her father. He was a perfect combination of protective and gentle father, yet also had a very strong and encouraging side to him. He always seemed to know what to say.

"Well, I gotta run, bye dad!"

"See ya' later Rebecca." He said as she went out the door.

Rebecca quickly went to her new bus stop. She made sure to leave early, just in case she had trouble finding it, or something. Seeing numerous kids standing by the curb up ahead, she figured that she was in the right place. She checked her watch.

'School starts at 7:30, and the bus should get here by around 7:00 in order to get us to school on time. It's about 6:50 right now, so the bus will be here soon.'

The bus certainly showed up on time… but it was going too fast. Waaaay too fast. It came to a screeching halt in front of the bus stop. The door opened, and a somewhat drunken old woman's voice burst out,

"All aboard you brats, Gehahahahaha!"

Rebecca was understandably alarmed, and took a look at her fellow students. Some students didn't look too perturbed (probably veteran students of the high school), while the newer looking students were equally alarmed as herself. Nontheless, she climbed aboard.

She had a good long look at the bus driver. The driver was an old, rather ugly woman (her nametag said 'Kokorro' on it), who was holding in her hand…

… A bottle of rum…

'That should be illegal, right?'

Rebecca may have thought this, yet she didn't say a word. For some reason, it didn't seem quite… appropriate; as if she would get a response that would make her appear stupid.

She chose a seat somewhere in the middle. As the last few students piled in, The bus driver took a swig, stepped on the gas, and turned on some very loud music (Ozzy Ozbourne's

"Crazy Train", to be precise).

For the next five minutes, the students were subjected to terrors such as going 54 in a 25 mph zone, getting chased by policemen with sirens blazing, and hearing their drunken sot of a bus driven sing along with Ozzy in a voice that would make fingernails on a chalkboard sound like Mozart.

The bus finally pulled up to the school (which looked, ironically enough, like a prison). The sign out front revealed the name of the school to be…

...'Impel Down High, home of the Hydras'.

Kokorro's raspy voice cut through the students' thoughts.

"Welcome to Impel Down High, Now get the #$% off the bus! Gehahahahaha!"

As the students began to file off the bus and enter the building, Rebecca wondered,

'Just what have I gotten myself into?! And I'm not even in the building yet!"

Hello everyone! Did you enjoy it? If you did (or didn't) please, let me know. This is my first attempt a writing a humourous story, so let me know what you think about it. I only ask that the criticism stay respectful. Any rude criticism (notice I said rude, not negative) shall be ignored and laughed at.

Until next time folks!