Okay everyone! YGO Cupid here and here with me is none other than Vivi!

Vivi: Hello everyone!

She's going to be my co-host for this fic. If you have a problem with that, then sorry but she's staying until further notice. Since everyone waited so patiently for this chapter, I'm going ahead and start it.

Vivi: You got a review. (holds up a letter)

Really? Let me see. (reads) Wow! Thanks Loreto W! I didn't know if I was able to pull the city scene off well or not. Wow! Chile huh? That's so cool! And the English is really good to, or it could've been automatically translated. (shrugs) Who knows. Congratulations though! You're my first reviewer!

Vivi: It's time to start the fic!

Oh! Right! Anyway, thanks Loreto for the review and I hope you like this 'actual' first chapter of the fic. Enjoy!


Chapter 1: Summer Sentence

'I should've picked jail.' Zoro thought as he pushed a cleaning cart around.

"Roronoa!" Shouted a man in a business like brown suit.

"What?!"

"You're supposed to clean the East Wing, this is North Wing!" The man shouted as he tapped the clip board. The man's name tag says 'Head Manager' and looked as though he was in his late forties, black hair was graying along the sides but balding at the front to middle of the scalp. He was slightly heavy with the gut poking out from over the pants.

"On it…" Zoro said grudgingly as he turned the cart around.

"Hold it Roronoa!" The man called. "Sniper! Get your ass over here!"

Coming out from the corner of the wall was a young man of seventeen with black, curly hair that touched his shoulders. He was thin, skin was a light tan, and had an unusual facial feature of thick lips, wide fearful eyes, but the strangest of all was the long, Pinocchio-like nose.

"You're working with Roronoa, Sniper!" With that the man left.

The two looked at the departing man before looking at each other. The oddly faced man trembled at the sight of Zoro.

"Roronoa Zoro." He said, just wanting to get this day over with.

"S-Sniper Usopp!" He said as his nose started to drip from fear.

"Come on!" He said as he pushed the cart.

"Uh…" Usopp spoke. "East Wing is that way…"

Zoro glared, making the other turn blue. 'I should've picked jail.' He thought.


Zoro's POV

I work in a big ass hotel called the 'Golden Coast' that's in the heart of an equally big ass city of the rich bastards and hoes. I got this job from that dumbass Judge when I was given a choice, either this or jail.

I never liked being in cramped spaces with brutes who look at their cell mates when a woman is never around. No way in hell was I going there.

That is until I got thrown here at the worst possible time: Summer. The time of year where this shit of a hotel is going to be filled with all the big what-their-names and their 'friends'. I was put into cleaning duty because that douche of a head manager thought it was suiting for a man like me! Ha! He's just damn lucky I don't have my swords!

My swords, as long as I 'behave' myself, will remain in the police's storage room until I served my time, which was until the start of fall. Meaning I'm stuck here for about a few months, cleaning these rich bastards crap and not getting a thank you.

"You never heard of it!?" Usopp cried.

"Keep your voice down!" I warned as I fixed the bed in one of the hotel suites.

"But Zoro! You seriously never heard about the Summer Palooza?"

I glared. "I live down on 'Thief Street', remember?"

'Thief Street' is the term the 'upper class' called the city where I live. This city and my city were about five miles apart, but you might as well build a wall on the border where they meet.

"Well…" Usopp said, no doubt his excitement made him forget that small fact.

"What's the deal with the stupid 'palooza' thing anyway?" I asked.

I might as well know what I'm going to witness if I'm working here, with no pay.

"Well! If you're so interested." That guy said, suddenly sounding confident and cocky. "The Summer Palooza, though a strange name, it is a grand event that's held every year!"

"Obviously."

"The event is run by this one family and their friends, who are great people by the way!"

"Like I care."

"They come in by ships and everyone just goes crazy once they go into the hotel."

"What?" I didn't get that last part. "This whole thing is just these people going into the hotel?"

"That's… some of it…" Usopp said as he looked a little nervous. "You'll see! The family is really crazy, but a lot of fun!"

I rolled my eyes as I finished with the room. "Sounds really stupid, if you ask me."

I really didn't care about any of this, I just want to get this summer over with!


Normal POV: Somewhere out at sea

"Are we there yet!?" Whined a boy's voice, which was replied with a chuckle.

"We'll be there by tomorrow, little brother."

"Aww!" The said boy looked at the speaker, who's a man of twenty, lying comfortably in his hammock.

The boy of seventeen had black hair, wide brown-almost black eyes, fair skin, and a small scar under his left eye. He wore a red shirt vest and black jeans that cut off at the knees.

"But Ace! Everyone is probably already there!"

The said man lifted his had to see his little brother. He was wearing dark pants that were rolled up to the knees, no shirt which showed the well toned chest, his black hair was longer and somewhat wavy while the other was more like a windswept style, and he had freckles across his face.

"Geez Luffy, you have no patience."

The boy, Luffy, pouted.

"What a day!" Ace said. "Looks like we'll be greeted with fine weather tomorrow as well!"

Luffy broke into a wide grin. "Yosh!" He called as he looked out towards the sea. "I smell a great summer!" He said aloud.

Ace only chuckled. "You may be right!"

The other only laughed as thoughts of what will happen this year played excitedly in his mind.


How's this? R&R!

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