So this is my first story; I wasn't really gonna publish anything here, but I came up with this in the middle of the night and just had to write it up. Sorry for any mistakes as English is not my first language.
This is a slash fiction featuring ZoLu, lol
Don't own most of the characters, but there will be some OCs.
About: what if it happened in their teen years in high school and instead of wanting to become the pirate king, Luffy, who was openly gay, wanted to form the best rock band you've ever heard of?
Not much action happening in the first few chapters because the development of this story is a bit slow, but I hope it won't be all that boring.
Prologue
"Class! Quiet down for a bit, I have an announcement to make." A woman in her mid 30s shouted, trying to talk over the loud conversations going on around the classroom. In just a minute everyone was quiet and looking at their teacher with mild interest. "Okay then. Today we will have a new student transferring to this class, so if you may please be calm for once." Loud snickers and muffled laughs could be heard throughout the room as the woman stopped talking, her face already showing a helpless frown, not believing a word herself. She sighed defeated.
Just a few seconds later the door slammed open, hitting the wall with an impact that was not really necessary and - to a surprise of everyone present - a small and skinny kid strolled into the room, impossibly huge grin plastered on his childish face. His big, dark eyes scanned the room through his black, messy hair, the grin never leaving his face. The woman standing by her desk blinked a few times, startled, looking at the door which almost crashed the poor, old walls of the building.
"Sorry about that." the new teen said, scratching the back of his head with a stupid grin, making the straw hat placed on his messy head fall forward and cover his big eyes. The woman still stood there with a shocked expression, thoughts of yet another crazy student in her class flooding her mind. The class started to whisper between one another, not really bothering to make sure the teen didn't hear them.
"What the hell is wrong with this guy, can't he open the door like a normal person?"
"What's with his stupid grin, he's probably an idiot."
"He's so scrawny, probably a stupid nerd."
"What's with the straw hat, it's, like, the middle of winter, not summer."
The girls sighed sadly examining the boy from head to toe.
"Ah, I hoped for someone more sexy…"
"He looks like a kid. Is he really 16?"
"Looks more like 12."
The dark haired boy looked at everyone with a blank stare, the smile finally leaving his face, replaced by an emotionless expression, the big eyes scanning the room like they were looking somewhere past them, lost in his own world.
"Uh," the woman finally spoke. "Class, shush. This is the new student I informed you about earlier. Um, may you introduce yourself?" She asked, directing her brown eyes at the teen.
"Sure." He grinned again, seemingly oblivious to the stares and rude comments. "I'm Monkey D. Luffy! When I'm out of here I will become a lead singer in one of the best rock bands in the world." He stated, pointing his thumb at himself and smiling like a kid that still believes in his dream of becoming a superhero.
The class went silent for a moment, before erupting with loud fits of laughter.
"Yea, right, with that childish voice."
"Did it even mutated yet?"
"More like some boys band for 12 year old girls!" someone shouted, between fits of laughter. Luffy cocked his head to the side, his hand falling down to his body, making the bracelets on his wrist jingle happily. He blinked a few times and opened his mouth to say something.
" Yadda. I can sing." He stated matter-of-factly. "And I don't like boys bands." He added with that innocent stare, which made the whole class laugh even harder.
"And you do like Iron Maiden?" someone from the back asked, pointing at the red vest with a big logo written across it. The boy nodded his head enthusiastically.
"Why would I be wearing it if I didn't like them?" he asked, confused. The guy that asked the question muttered something under his breath.
"Right, class!" The teacher said loud enough to be heard over the talking going on in the classroom. She wasn't really the type of a teacher to make every kid quiet whenever she spoke up. They didn't really listen to her and she couldn't handle them too well. "Uh, Luffy sit down… next to Coby." She seemed to consider the choice for a moment, even when there was only one available place anyway.
When Coby heard his name, his head snapped from the biology book he was reading and his eyes met the dark big ones of the new kid through his round glasses. Luffy smiled that impossibly huge grin again and headed for the back sit next to the pink haired boy. He walked casually with his head up high through the tables, not looking at anyone in particular, as he strode past the snickering teens. In a flash his black mop of messy hair disappeared behind the tables and his face made a close contact with the dirty floor; the whole class started laughing again.
"Oh, Bill that wasn't nice!" The teacher squeaked at the boy who tripped Luffy. He send her a glare and she immediately averted her eyes with a guilty look on her face. That class was send from hell, she thought.
Luffy groaned from his place on the floor.
"What was that?" he asked himself, while getting up, disoriented, but quickly shrugged it off. "Ah, never mind." He added, and walked to his seat. The guy named Bill pointed with his thumb to Luffy's arm making one his friends twist his face with disgust, when he noticed the colourful bracelet on the new kid's wrist.
"Hi, I'm Luffy!" The teen outstretched his hand towards the pink haired boy sitting next to him.
"Coby." Said the boy, reluctantly shaking his hand and sticking his face back into his book with a deep frown. Luffy grinned again, focusing his attention to the front of the room, where the poor teacher tried to continue with her lesson.
Coby kept glancing at the new boy with evident curiosity in his eyes. He wondered how could he grin like that after what just happened. He was laughed at! He was laughed at his appearance and his dream, but he still seemed so confident with that smile on his childish face. Coby caught himself looking at the boy with both strange admiration and irritation. He was just too damn happy and dumb for his own good.
The bell rang, signalling the end of first period and Coby started to gather his things slowly, not noticing that someone was staring at him and waiting for him to finish. When he looked up, he backed off, startled to see the black haired boy grinning next to him.
"Oi, Coby, do you play any instruments?"
The pink haired boy frowned at the sudden question.
"Yes, I mean no, I… well, a bit." He stuttered out, walking past Luffy and out of the classroom.
"Nee, what do you mean a bit? And what to you play?" The boy appeared next to him again.
"Listen, if you don't want to screw up your reputation any more that you already did, I recommend you stopped talking to me." Coby finally said with a hint of irritation in his voice. Luffy seemed to consider something for a moment.
"What do you mean by my reputation?" He finally asked with a blank expression. Coby tripped over his own feet at the question and glared at the other teen.
"I mean that I'm a 'nerd', nobody talks to me, so go find yourself better friends, or you'd be laughed at."
"But I already am laughed at, so I don't think that hanging out with you is gonna change anything." Luffy said with a serious expression. "And I don't care!" He added fiercely. Coby stared at him for a moment, but finally sighed.
"I played violin in the school orchestra for some time." Luffy looked at him with a smile, surprising him with the words he spoke next.
"That's cool!"
"Don't you think it's lame?" He stuttered out, shocked expression on his face. He was talking to a rock fan after all.
"Why would I think that? Isn't it hard to play?" Luffy shouted excited, but before the other had the time to respond, he was talking again. "Suge! That's cool! But why did you stop?" Toby sighed again, amazed by the childish excitement on Luffy's face.
"Everybody else thought it was lame and stupid. Besides my father told me that 'playing in some stupid orchestra won't get me any good money.' so I stopped." He said somehow sad. When he didn't get any response, he looked up, thinking that the boy got bored already and left, making him talk to himself; but Luffy was still standing beside him, his hat low on his face, creating a shadow that covered his eyes. He looked up with a sparkle in his eye and a grin on his face.
"I've decided to create my own band. When I said that, everybody laughed at me and said that I should finally stop dreaming about the same thing and start to think about my future seriously. But I'm serious and I will not let anyone crush my dream, just because they don't believe in the same thing I do. I don't care what anybody's gonna say to me and how many times they will laugh at me, I will fulfil my dream." He finished fiercely with determination. Coby stared at his, speechless… this guy had the confidence and will power to go on, no matter what others said. That's what Coby lacked and in this moment in time, standing in the school's corridor and looking at the boy in front of him, he decided to fight for his dreams, just like Luffy is determined to make his come true.
"Nee, Coby, you listening?" Luffy snapped him out of his daze with the grin that never seemed to leave his new friend's face.
"Yes, I'm listening…" He muttered and walked into the next class of the day, with Luffy following short after him.
Coby choked on his sandwich and started to caught violently, waving his arms around his head. Soon his face hit the table he was sitting at, when Luffy smacked him in the back with all his might.
"You okay?" He asked, while staring at the red faced Coby and swallowing about a 10th cheeseburger from the school's cafeteria, which was disgusting for every single one of the students, like the rest of the school's food anyway, but for Luffy it didn't seem that way when he came to the surprised old lady for the last available cheeseburger. He already ate the rest.
"No, I am not fine! You almost choked me!" Coby shouted, when he managed to lift his head from the table. "And smacked my brain cells out through my ears!" Luffy stared at him confused.
"But I just tried to help you, as you seemed to…"
"And who's fault is that? Don't go asking questions like that while I eat!"
"You mean the one about joining my band?" Luffy asked, still confused as to why his friend was so frustrated with him.
"Yes! Where did that came from! Did you ever seen a rock band with a violinist before?" Luffy just shrugged and Coby face palmed himself. "Do you actually have anyone in that band of yours?"
"Nope." Luffy grinned. "But I will find someone soon! Maybe you know someone who plays anything?" He asked eagerly, shoving his face into Coby's.
"No." Coby responded flatly, pushing him away. When he saw the pout on the other's childish face he added: "Not directly, but I may have heard of one guy. But I'm not sure if it's not just some gossip, as he is considered so perfect by everyone…"
"Who, who, who?" Luffy bounced exited in his seat.
"He's in the last year… everybody seems to know him, or at least of him, as he is one of the best football players in the whole school. I also heard that he can even fight with katanas. Recently I also overheard someone say that he can play drums, and is really good at it. But I can't assure you that it is… oi, where are you going?" Coby shouted, when he noticed that Luffy was no longer sitting next to him, but walking away quickly towards the exit of the cafeteria. He sighed, when he didn't get any answer and got up himself, following the over excited teen.
"Baka! Where do you think you're going?"
"To find that guy, obviously." Luffy said and kept walking past the other students.
"Do you even know where you're going?" Coby asked, breathing hard from the run, trying to catch up with the other.
"Oh, right!" Luffy stopped abruptly, which made Coby collide with his back, and clasped his fist on his hand. "Where would he be?" He asked, smiling innocently and Coby groaned, frustrated.
"If you didn't know where you were going, why were you walking in the first place?" Coby shouted and Luffy looked at him with the huge grin plastered on his face.
"Guess I was too excited to think about that." Coby was about to say something, but the loud ringing of the school bell stopped him and he stood there with his face hanging open.
"Oh, the bell rang. Well then, we'll go talk to him tomorrow." Luffy said happily bouncing through the corridor towards yet another boring class of the day.
