AN: This is my first story so please suggest how I could make my story better and point out any mistakes! This is an AU and any characters may be different ages.

I do not own One Piece but any OCs are my own!

Chapter 1: A new school year.

"Brrrrrrring, Brrrrrrring", I slammed my hand down onto my alarm clock and slowly dragged myself out of bed. I slouched into the bathroom and took a quick shower. As I stood in the shower, with the hot water running over my face, I thought about the school year ahead. Actually I was dreading going to school- I only had one friend and she moved away at the end of last year. I don't know why but people just seemed to hate me because I was different to them or didn't wear the 'right' designer gear that they all wore.

I stepped out the shower and quickly brushed my hair and put my school uniform on. Just before leaving my bedroom I glanced at the mirror, I looked a mess. I had massive grey bags framing my bright blue eyes and my shoulder length blond and blue dip dyed hair hung limply in a wet straggly mess. I was quite tall for my age; this was mostly due to my long legs. Most people would say that my appearance was abnormal, but the tattoo on my neck made this worse. The tattoo started on the right side of my neck just below my ear, its black swirling pattern continued round the back of my neck onto my left shoulder. I really wish I didn't look the way I did, it wasn't my choice, my father had forced me to look like this. He was dead now, I was glad. I really hated my dad because of how he treated my mum and I. My mum is dead too, but I was always missing her. I loved my mum, she was always kind, gentle and she sees the good in everyone (even my dad).

My name is Naomi by the way, I'm 17 years old and I'm just about to start my last year at Grand Line High. I quickly rushed out my room dragging my fingers through my straggly hair. On my way out my apartment I grabbed an apple and my school bag. I arrived at school just in time and the bell rang just as I was getting my books out of my locker. Grand Line High was a dull grey colour on the outside, with white shiny walls on the inside - not the place I wanted to be right now. I rushed into the classroom and plonked myself at a desk near the back. I let out a sigh of relief when I realised our form teacher hadn't arrived yet (I wasn't late for once in my life!).

Our teacher never actually turned up, so we all headed to the whole school start of term gathering. We all trudged into the hall and sat on the rows of plastic chairs. The rest of the school had already arrived, so when we sat down our head teacher Smoker walked onto the stage accompanied by the deputy head Shanks and two other adults I have never met before. They were both kind of strange (but who wasn't in this school?). One had long legs that could give mine a run for their money, he was also very skinny but I could somehow tell that he was very strong and I was sure I could definitely make out an oddly shaped eyebrow under his shimmering golden hair. But it wasn't the blond who caught my attention; it was the other unknown adult who was walking behind him. What startled me the most was the colour of his hair, it was bright green!

AN: So this is the first chapter of my first story! I'm sorry if it was too short for you all (just let me know if you want longer chapters!)

As I said before I'm new to this so please leave a reviews telling me how to improve! I probably won't carry this story on until I've had some reviews showing interest in me continuing.

I hope we can all be good friends!

~Naomi x