That little error mentioned by Empty Puppet is now settled, before anyone else can witness my stupidity, trololol; I knew there was something wrong! Just forgot it xD Anyway, moving on;
And so they meet, dun, dun, dun!
Chapter One
"Muri, muri, muri, muri…!" Coby spluttered out, spitting at the other teen sitting next to him on the bench in the gym. Luffy blinked and wiped at his face with the back of his hand.
"Why?"
"Muri! You can't just walk up to him like that and ask if he wants to join your non existent band! You don't even know if he really can play! He's gonna kill you! All of them will kill you! You're a first year! They eat first years for breakfast!" Coby shouted with his eyes open wide, staring at the grinning Luffy.
"Haha, you're funny, Coby. I'm not gonna ask him if he wants to join my band…" Coby let out a sight of relief at those words. "I'm gonna tell him he have to join my band!" Luffy shouted with excitement, swinging his legs happily.
"Muri!" This time Coby was so loud, that every single person present in the gym snapped their heads to look at him with strange expressions on their faces. Luffy just laughed and waved at them with his hand, not really bothered by the irritated mutters. They were in their gym class, but as Luffy was new, he still didn't have the kit, so he wasn't exercising and Coby almost never was anyway, so they just sat at one of the benches, looking at others. Unfortunately for Coby, the 3rd year had PE at the same time and in the same gym as them today, and when Luffy noticed that the guy they were talking about the other day was there, he decided to just walk up to him there and then. Coby was still shaking his head furiously, muttering under his breath how impossible that was, when he noticed the empty space beside him. His head snapped up alarmed and his eyes almost fell out of his skull when he noticed Luffy casually walking past the running teens to the 3rd years stretching in the corner. He got up quickly, in hopes of catching Luffy before he made even bigger idiot out of himself. But he was too late, of course. Luffy was already standing in front of the green haired guy, with his head almost snapping, as he looked up at the athletic guy, who ignored him completely.
"Oi, you!" Luffy shouted, like he was 10 metres away, because he felt that way, when he had to stand on his toes for the guy to even notice him there. Still no result. "Oi, you huge, green haired one!" He shouted even louder and everyone directed their eyes at him, stopping what they were doing. Coby run up to his friend, sweating uncontrollably and looking nervously at the frowns of every single person looking in their direction.
"Are you talking to me, kid?" Coby almost fainted when he heard the guy speak up. He gulped nervously; no way can they escape now, when they had been noticed. Luffy stood beside him, grinning like he always does, oblivious to the stares and snickers of the others.
"Yup! I'm Luffy! And you are going to be the drummer in my band!" He stated, like he was talking about the weather and Coby's mouth hung open. He didn't just say that. They were so dead. They're going to be hunted by those guys for the rest of the year! He waited for the punch and a flying through the whole gym Luffy, but all he heard was a loud laugh. He looked up to see the green haired guy holding his stomach, and laughing with his eyes closed.
"Ah, you're a funny kid." He finally said and Luffy grinned at him. "Haven't seen you here before, are you new or something?" He asked, and Coby was shocked by the friendly tone of the guy's voice. Well, he did not expect that to happen. Why would someone that popular talk to a first year kid, that no one knew about? Luffy really was something, he thought.
"Yup, I'm new. Transferred here yesterday." Luffy answered happily. "So, you play drums, right?" He screamed with excitement, bouncing in place in front of the green haired guy, who smiled at him and ruffled his hair lightly, making Luffy pout, catching his hat, which flew off in the process. "Oi, I'm not a kid!" he muttered.
"Right, kid. And yes, I play drums, but I don't think I have time for your little games." Luffy pouted even more and Coby sighed. Even if he was so nice to Luffy, there was no way he would join his band.
"See, Luffy? Come on, let's go back, they have something to do here." Coby said under his breath, glancing at his friend.
"Doesn't matter." Luffy kept standing in front of the guy, even when Coby started to drag him away by his arm. "Doesn't matter!" He repeated, before turning around with the grin still on his face. "You're going to be in my band anyway!" He shouted and run back to the benches.
"Nee, Coby, what was his name again?" He asked, scratching the back of his head.
"Roronoa Zoro... Do you ever listen to what I say? I almost had a heart attack there!" Luffy laughed lightly at his friend and averted his gaze back to the green haired guy.
Zoro went back to what he was doing before the funny kid interrupted him. He looked in the direction of the benches to see the boy holding his straw hat firmly with his hand and staring at him with an incredibly huge grin on his face. Zoro shook his head, a small smile of his own uncontrollably finding its way onto his always serious face. The kid had something that just made him laugh, but not in a bad way, he was just so amusing and different. Interesting kid, Zoro thought, as he run through the gym. A band? He asked - no - demanded Zoro to join his band? He laughed under his breath at the thought of him in a band of some little kids, who probably didn't even know what they were doing. He glanced at the kid again and almost tripped, when Luffy waved his small hand towards him. He raised his eyebrow and not knowing why, waved back. This kid was just too entertaining. He felt a light pat on the shoulder and looked to the right to see one of his friends grinning at him.
"What?" He snapped irritated, the always present frown back on his face.
"Nothing. Just wandering why you didn't kick that kid the first chance you got." The brown haired teen said casually, raising his brows at Zoro, who smacked him over the head with his palm.
"Ow! The hell was that for?"
"For being an idiot!"
"You're no fun, Zoro. You're too tense, maybe you could ask the new kid for a massage?" He said grinning and got yet another smack over the head, this time even more forceful that the other.
"Shut up, moron. Maybe I had a good day. And I don't kick every kid that tries to talk to me!"
"Yea, right. Then were you on your pms when you smacked that other kid straight in the face for running into you just yesterday?" The guy snickered at the irritated expression on his friend's face, trying not to laugh out loud. Another smack in the neck.
"If you don't shut up this instant, you're going to end up just like that kid from yesterday." he muttered under his breath. It wasn't like he was some sort of a bully, but it was true that he was easily irritated and his hand might just slip before he have the time to think, but that did not mean he was always walking around and hitting everyone. Still, everybody seemed to like him, or more like admire and obsess over him, which made him even more irritated than he already was. Sometimes he wondered if it wouldn't be better to just quit the football team, so all of those annoying girls stopped jumping him out of nowhere and everybody else talking about him every chance they got. He didn't like that kind of popularity and he didn't care about it. He sighed, irritated and smacked his friend again, as he still didn't stop talking nonsense about the new kid.
Luffy swung his legs happily, staring at Zoro from his place on the bench and grinning throughout the whole hour of PE. He completely ignored Coby's shouts and curses about how he's gonna kill him if he does something like that ever again.
"Oi, Luffy stop drooling over that guy already!" He was snapped out of his gaze, when he felt a rather not so light smack on the arm and he looked at his friend with blank expression.
"Wha…?" He said, a bit irritated for being forced to look away from the green haired guy.
"I said stop drooling over hi-"
"What?" Luffy's face heated up for the first time, at least it was first time for Coby to see his new friend blush and he smiled knowingly. Luffy covered his face with his precious hat and muttered something under his breath.
"What was that? Couldn't hear you." Coby said, obviously entertained by his friend's new behaviour.
"I said I was not drooling over him!" Luffy shouted at the top of his lungs, forgetting where they were, his face still red. He blinked and slowly averted his big, innocent eyes from his friend and towards the students, who stood there staring at him, some with their mouth open and others with disgusted frowns on their faces. Luffy's face heated up even more and this time even Coby blushed a bit because of the attention. He quickly looked around to find the green haired guy and see his reaction. Maybe he didn't know they were talking about him, Coby hoped. Surprised, he poked Luffy's arm to make him look from under his straw hat, which he did rather reluctantly. Zoro stood there with a stupid grin on his face, trying not to laugh and stared directly at Luffy, which made the poor teen's face heat up with embracement all over again. He pushed his hat as far onto his head as was possible and started to strode out of the gym, before that of course tripping over a lone ball and falling face first onto the floor.
Zoro used all of his will power to not just burst out laughing at the expression the kid had, when he noticed what he just said, or rather screamed out. His face was priceless. He was quiet surprised, not by the fact that the teen said 'him', because he did noticed his bracelet, but the fact that he knew they were talking about him and yet he wasn't all that pissed, more like entertained by the scene that enfolded itself in front of him. He furrowed his brows when he heard a loud thud and a pained moan; looking in the direction of the sound, he covered his mouth to not laugh again, when he noticed the boy sprawled across the floor. He was about to walk up to him, but was saved by a loud laugh. The heck is with him, why would he want to help the kid? Anyway, he shook his head and looked at the teen, who now laid on his back, his arms outstretched beside him, laughing his ass off. Zoro raised his eyebrows, like everybody else did when they saw the crazy boy. Did he hit his head too hard? They waited patiently for him to finish and in the meantime Coby walked up to him, looking him up and down for any serious injuries. When Luffy's laugh subsided a bit, he covered his mouth with his hand and sat up, looking at everyone.
"That was fun." He said finally, looking for his straw hat, which fell from his head when he collided with the floor. When he found it, he patted away any dirt that could have fallen on it and put it back on his messy head, smiling again. "Sorry for interrupting you all, I'm just not used to talking about stuff like that." He stated happily, looking at everyone with innocent eyes and made his way out of the gym, just as the bell rang.
Zoro scratched at the back of his neck, fighting the smile that tried to get back onto his face.
"Strange kid." He heard his friend say next to him and he nodded, deep in thought, as he walked away towards the changing rooms. And really interesting, he thought.
Those damn paragraphs won't work, so I will just use the line thingies, because I'm stupid and have no idea how to make them work.
