The majority rules! College student story it is! (Even though it's been quite a long time since I've posted something… ) Sorry that I reposted this! I've added some things that will be substantial for the storyline. So next chapter should be up in a few days, also with revisions. Pairings are: ZoLu, MiSha, SmoAce, GinSanji, KiddLaw, and UsoNami.

Yup. Yaoi ahoy!

ON WITH THE SHOW

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Daily Life

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"Luffy! Luffy!"

Ocean blue eyes shined brightly as the owner turned to the man calling his name through the bustle of people.

"Usopp, over here!" He waved his arms wildly above his head so his long-nosed friend could locate him.

A dark colored hand grabbed his much paler forearm.

"These halls need traffic lights or something." The chocolate-eyed boy breathed, adjusting the heavy portfolio bag on his shoulder.

Luffy mimicked his motions with his own bag, and also adjusted the yellow straw hat on his head.

"At least classes are over for today, now we can go and do something fun!" The boy laughed as they walked side by side towards the exit of the large building.

The boy beside him rolled his eyes at the proclamation.

"We have to get started on that project, Luffy. Seriously, I know your skills can rival my own, but you really need to get your work done! How you got into college is still a mystery to me."

It was Luffy's turn to roll his eyes.

"It's not due till a month from now, plus you know I can't just make something on a whim! I have to get inspiration first!"

Usopp grinned.

"It will be about food. Again." He laughed, and Luffy gave him a pout.

"Not all my projects are about food…"

They exited the building, and both were glad to get a breath of fresh air from being in the large building for over four hours. Art College was grand and all, but the length of time sitting in a class however got old quickly. Usopp and Luffy were both design majors at the Grand Line Art School (they shared the campus with Grand Line University, making it the largest compound in the city). The city that shared the college's name, was huge, and sat right on the coast, giving a spectacular view of the ocean with it's expansive beaches. The dorms sat on these beaches; behind them was a forest that intermingled with the city.

There's only one drawback with this beautiful city, the odd bouts of weather during the in between seasons. During the transitions from one season to another, the atmosphere goes haywire for some unexplained reasons for two weeks, and just does what it wants without any consolation with what time of the year it is. Once, there was a snowstorm in the transition from spring to summer! Other than that, the place is what people would call 'an ideal location'.

Luckily, these occurrences wouldn't be happening for another week for the transition from fall to winter.

"I think I'll go to the pier tomorrow since it's going to be Saturday." Luffy announced suddenly as they came upon the dorms.

"Going to try and think up of something that doesn't have to do with food?" Usopp joked, and Luffy pushed him lightly in the shoulder as he counted out the large dorm houses.

Each house contained four rooms that housed three students.

"Here we go! House 24!"

The two climbed the stairs to get to the upper level of the complex, and went to the door that had a silver '4' nailed onto it.

Reaching into his pocket, Usopp brought out his key and unlocked the home.

"Sanji! We're home!" Luffy yelled into the darkened room.

Sanji is a culinary major, and knew precisely what he was doing. The man could have probably graduated now beat all the competition into the ground. Luffy was very happy to have the man as their roommate and friend, he made the best meals.

Usopp punched him in the shoulder.

"Stupid! Sanji has night classes on Fridays! He won't be back till about nine, or later if he's going to go watch the rehearsal for the performing arts. Ya know, since Nami is in it and all." The long nose man said with mocking tone on Nami's name, waving his hand with a sneer on his face.

Luffy just grinned at him.

"You should go watch sometimes too! I bet she'd love that!" The boy said, Straw hat covering dark blue eyes that were twinkling with mirth.

A baffled look over took the darker skinned boy's face, before he covered it up with a wavering grin, and the teen laughed nervously as he flicked on the lights on the house and kicked a sock out of his way.

"W-what you talking about? Why would she appreciate m-me there? I-I mean I'm the Great Usopp and all, but Sanji likes her a lot! I wouldn't want to go there and s-steal his thunder." He rambled as he hung up his backpack on one of three hooks on the wall next to the door before strolling into the living room.

"Nami, Kidd, Law, and his brother Gin should come over to just hang out sometime! We haven't done that in awhile!" Luffy said, as if he didn't hear Usopp, and the man's fake grin gave way to a real one as he considered this.

"Ah! Yea! That would be a lot of fun! We should do that right before the Seasonal Transition so we're locked in for a few days! We always get something that keeps us form leaving the house."

Luffy just laughed and nodded in agreement as he hung his own backpack up and followed Usopp in to the cluttered living room.

"Probably going to have to do some cleaning before Sanji gets home, you know how he is." Usopp said as he motioned to the dirty dishes sitting on the table, and the dirty laundry covering the cream colored carpet.

Luffy just nodded again as they began to pick up the stray clothes and random art tools from the floor. After they got done cleaning, the two went to their respective rooms to do their homework. Luffy finished his essay by slapping it together and half-heartedly spell checked it before taking it to his bag so he wouldn't forget it. The generals at the school weren't what he was interested in. He passed the classes, of course, but it wasn't like he got A's in the classes. Learning how to write essays and do things like math were just boring, and in Luffy's mind, down right evil.

Zipping up the red backpack, the boy sighed with relief happy that was done.

Just about then, Usopp came from his own room to stuff his homework in his bag in a much neater fashion than Luffy before turning to his best friend.

"Hey, want to watch a movie?"

Luffy flashed him a grin.

"You bet!"

And the two raced to the couch into the living room, pushing, shoving, and laughing the entire way. Luffy won by leaping over the couch back and onto the cushions with squeaks from the protesting springs accenting him bouncing.

"I WIN!" he boasted, throwing his arms in the air just as Usopp came from the side and tackled him.

The two laughed as they wrestled on the couch, a mess of limbs and jumbled speech as they tried to throw each other off, before they both fell with a WHUMP on to the floor.

Just then, the door to the apartment opened, and Sanji entered the room. He took the dying cigarette from his mouth and flicked it outside of the apartment before shutting the door with his foot. A curly eyebrow rose as his sky blue eye landed on the scene of his two roommates mock fighting over the couch.

"You two morons know you can share, right?" He said with a sigh as he ran a hand through his blond hair before taking the bag from his shoulder and hanging it on one of the hooks near the door.

"But then that's admitting defeat!" Luffy called out as he pushed Usopp over the side of the couch, since they somehow got back on it.

"I give anyway!" Usopp cried throwing up his arms to protect himself, as Luffy was about to pounce on him again.

The boy laughed as he relaxed his 'Pouncing Pose of Doom' and grabbed the straw hat that had fallen onto the floor during the scuffle and replaced it on his head.

Sanji smirked as he went into the kitchen to start on dinner as sounds of the movie 'Up' began to play from the TV.

"Hey Luffy! When is your dad going to come visit again?" Usopp asked just as Russell from the movie began clapping his hands to get the 'Snipe' to come out to help the old man.

"Three days I think. He said he was transferring to the city because of his job. Something about getting a management position or something like that." He said as he turned to lay upside-down, feet hanging off the back of the couch and hat safely placed on his stomach.

"Well that's good! Then he'll be nearby!" Usopp said with a grin, and Luffy matched him.

"Yeah! It's been awhile since I've seen him!" Blue eyes sparkled as he took the last handful of popcorn in the bowl that Usopp had gotten sometime during the movie.

Sanji sighed as the two began to fight again as Luffy finished off the last bit of popcorn. He dreaded the thought of another person like Luffy around.

One Luffy was enough to eat a fridge stuffed with food in a day. Or less than that…

"I'm going to have to buy more food."

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Clang

Shing!

The metallic sound of clashing swords filled the dojo, and the ten students watching their teachers spar, had their mouth's dropped open, and eyes widened in awe.

"I can hardly see the attacks!"

"They're so fast!"

"I want to be like them one day!"

The two sparring soon stopped, one looking worse for wear while the other hadn't even broken a sweat.

"Roronoa, your endurance and speed, needs work." A man with piercing yellow eyes said as he lowered a long and highly decorated sword with a black blade.

Roronoa Zoro looked up into the man's eyes with his silver ones, and panted hard as he sheathed the two swords in his hands before taking a white katana from his mouth and putting it into it's snow white sheath, he then ran a hand through his short green hair to get some of the sweat out of it.

"So." Mihawk said, as he turned away from his eldest pupil to look at the younger ones sitting in a line.

"What did you learn from our match?"

Several hands shot up into the air.

"Tashigi?"

A girl around twelve with a black bob hair cut and glasses over large brown eyes wearing a black kendo outfit, like everyone else, stood, a white, green, and gold schemed katana clutched tightly in her grasp.

"That skill isn't the only important thing in swordsmanship. You have to be able to outlast your opponent if they equal you in technique." She said before Mihawk nodded to her, and she sat back down, her classmates grinning at her, and the boys sitting on either side of her who were fifteen, Johnny and Yosaku, clapped her on the back and gave a thumbs up.

"Yes. So, we are going to start doing some more running and agility exercises. Remember, the tournament is only two months away, so when you have time, practice outside of the dojo. Now be fore we dismiss for the night, I want you all to pair off into groups to do some stretches. Trafalgar Gin and Law, I want you two with Yasuko and Johnny, and this time, no singing." The kids jumped up, and began talking adamantly about the tournament as they began to filter into groups to cool down. The two brothers that were singled out, Gin and Law, gave the intimidating man sheepish looks as they went over to Yasuko and Johnny.

"Ah, sorry Mister Mihawk, just, it's getting close to show time!" Law said as Johnny snickered at him. Law was a well-toned and darker skinned nineteen year-old with short black hair, matching goatee, sharp features and honey-brown eyes with dark circles around them. He, like everyone else in the dojo, was wearing a kendo outfit. His sword, currently leaning against the wall is a huge black nodachi with white crosses and a fluffy tsuba.

Mihawk thought it was way to showy, but it sure reflected the boy's personality.

"Yeah! So we're kinda in the groove, sir. We'll try not to do it during class next time!" Law's brother, Gin replied. Gin looked a lot like his brother, but with a longer, and sharper nose and his hair was actually a dark brown color instead of black. He also had larger lips, and was just a tad taller than Law. He was also a year older.

"Hey! Maybe we can get everyone in the class to go to the show!" Johnny suddenly piped up as he helped Law keep his balance as he stretched his legs.

There were many murmurs of agreement and an overly excited Tashigi threw her arms in the air with a loud "YEAH!" and accidently uppercut the young boy that was helping her who simply held back his tears and said it was all good.

Zoro snorted and gave a smirked.

"That would be fun, what do you say Mihawk?" The green haired man gave his adoptive father an impish grin as the man sighed at being put on the spot, cause now everyone was looking at him for his approval.

He wasn't one for huge get-togethers and bouncy, frivolous music… But the puppy dog eyes being shot from little Tashigi, and the hopeful looks from the four elder boys besides Zoro made him relent.

"Hn, alright, we'll all go together. Now all of you get out of my hair! Dismissed!" He said, waving his hand at them, the two brothers grinned ecstatically.

"Awesome! Thanks!"

"Yeah! Can't wait to see you all there!" They said as they gathered their things like the others, and went out of the building to meet up with Law's boyfriend, Kidd, for a ride home.

Tashigi stayed behind as she watched the others wave goodbye, she enthusiastically returning it as they left. A large hand landed on her head, and she looked up to the serious face of Zoro. She just grinned.

"Hi, Zoro! Your match with sensei was amazing today! You guys are better than any fighting movie, ever!" She said, a bright smile on her face as she began to act out some of the fight with one hand, because the other was still occupied by the sword, before she tripped over herself and landed on the floor.

Zoro chuckled as he helped the energetic girl onto her feet.

"You'll be able to do those things too some day." He said, and the girl looked up at him with awe and admiration.

"Really? But how am I supposed to do some of those moves when I'm so short? You and Sensei Mihawk are so tall." The green haired man smirked at her and let out a small chuckle at her pouting face.

Mihawk and himself were pretty tall, he stood at 6'1 while Mihawk stood at a staggering 6'6 feet.

"In swordsmanship, there is nothing you can't do as long as you train hard." She grinned at his words.

Just then, a large man in a police uniform walked into the dojo, a lit cigar clenched in his teeth, and the smoke emitting from it was the same color as the spiked hair on his head. His grey eyes scanned the room, before they landed on the little swordswoman.

"Tashigi." He said, his low gruff voice interrupting her demonstration on how Mihawk block all three of Zoro's swords with her arms.

"PAPA!" She cried, and laughed as she dashed from Zoro into the awaiting arms of her father.

He grinned and picked her up and place her on his right shoulder as she match his grin and giggled.

"You have a good day at practice?" He asked her and she nodded and began to tell him all about the match between Zoro and Mihawk, arm movements and all.

"Careful now, Tashigi! I don't want you falling off!"

He smiled and looked at Zoro, and then to Mihawk. With his free hand, he reached into his back pocket and pulled out a wad of beri before walking forward to hand to Mihawk.

"Here's this month's pay."

Mihawk took it and gave the man a nod.

Smoker turned to leave and Tashigi looked back at her friend and her mentor and waved.

"See you on Monday, Mihawk-sensei and Zoro-sensei!"

After they left, Zoro chuckled.

"She's a handful. I'm not quite sure how Smoker does it." Zoro said, a fond smile on his face.

"I remember a child that was just as energetic when they were smaller…" Mihawk drawled, a smirk playing on his own lips at the indignant look Zoro gave him.

"Whatever, old man."

The smirk was off Mihawk's face in an instant and was replaced with a light scowl.

To Zoro, it looked like a pouty face.

"I am only thirty-five, and definitely not old."

Zoro grinned at his adoptive father.

"What are you going to do with the rest of your youth before you go down hill then? Find someone?" Zoro snorted at his own joke, because, the man didn't like any thing to do with romantic sap.

Mihawk pointed a glare at him as they went out of the Dojo portion of the house, and into the kitchen to make some tea.

"I mean. It's not like you'll find anyone to match you in sword fighting while you're waiting for me to catch up to beat you, and you loath your day job. Oh, how did you describe it? 'The moronic imbeciles that pollute that office reek more than your cooking skills, Zoro.'" Zoro lowered his voice and set his face into a serious expression to mimic his Father while saying the line, he cracked up afterwards.

Mihawk also chuckled.

"Thank God that baboon that called himself a manager got fired by the executives. Hopefully, the next manager has some grey matter in his skull." The hawk-eyed man said as he poured a hot cup of tea then handed it to Zoro before pouring his own.

They sat in silence for a little bit after that, sipping on their tea and just enjoying each other's company. They didn't need constant noise in between them to keep the atmosphere comfortable, which is probably why Mihawk put up with the boy all these years. He smirked at the thought. Wondering when the little green haired devil ad gotten so big. It sounded like something out of a cliché novel, but where had the time gone? It really did seem like it was just yesterday when Zoro was small, barely reaching his kneecap and swinging a stick around like a sword with unrestrained, untrained talent that he didn't realized he possessed till Mihawk showed him.

"Well, I'm going to run by the pier tomorrow, and probably won't be back till around noon. I'll give you a call if I'm not home by then." Zoro said as he got up with his empty cup, and offered to take Mihawk's who handed it to him.

"Alright."

He rinsed them out in the sink before a yawn reached him, and he started on his way to his bedroom.

"Night, Father." He called out over his shoulder, and Mihawk smiled, even though Zoro couldn't see it.

"Goodnight, son." He whispered the last part, but the proud smile didn't leave his face as the teen went upstairs.

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