I am so so so so sorry that I should have uploaded this a long time ago!! You know those kind of people that can be a little busy that they will upload the stuff you want to see? I'm one of them, sort of...
Disclaimer: I do not own One Piece and its characters, except Ami, the three instructors and some minorities in this chapter.
A Song never Forgotten
Chapter 2:
Lucci was on a chair inside the Library reading his notes, undisturbed from the other students. Right beside him is the small red notebook Ami accidentally left behind, hoping that he will find Ami and give it to her as soon as he can. A familiar student that he knew passed by him and Lucci has to ask him to know Ami's location.
"Oi, Fukuro" Lucci called without turning his back.
"Y-yeah?" The teenager Fukuro eagerly replied.
"Have you seen Ami lately?"
"Chapapa I haven't seen Ami-chan earlier, but I'll let you know as soon as I find her." He left so he won't disturb Lucci any further.
He sighed after he left. He can hear rummaging sounds further away from him in the Library, he may find it annoying but it doesn't matter to him. He will reach to her soon.
Wherever she is, she'd better be found. I still have her notebook… Lucci thought wile reading
His eyes traveled to the red notebook beside him as his mind wonders of the small thing left behind from her.
What is in that thing? Could it be something important?
Then his hand reached towards the small object. Just before he could open the notebook and read the pages inside, someone from the distance had thrown a hard-bounded 1000 paged Encyclopedia right on Lucci's head! He fell down due to the impact as the notebook flew away from his hand and fell on the ground.
-5 minutes ago-
Ami is rummaging through her bag and books as it created such a noise in the Library; she seemed worried as if she lost something. A girl with blonde hair and glasses approached to her to see what is going on with Ami.
"Ami? Is something wrong?" The girl asked her
"Kalifa, I couldn't find it! I could have sworn I placed it in my bag but it's not there!" Ami replied in an anxious tone
"What do you mean 'It'?" The girl named Kalifa asked her
"My notebook! I couldn't find my notebook anywhere!"
"Is it special to you?"
"Of course!" She replied loudly making the other people say 'shh' to her "It's my special notebook that has all my secrets in it. It's so sacred that I'd die if anyone reads it."
"Is it a diary?" Kalifa fixed her glasses, making Ami blush red. "Okay, so it's not."
After that, she retuned to her normal face.
"But do you remember what it looks like?" Kalifa asked her to help her
"Well, I remember it's a small red pocket notebook that is colored red and it has a picture of a panda head on it." Ami said in details.
"Something like that?" Kalifa is on the edge of a shelf looking at something
Ami followed Kalifa at the edge peering at a table that has her notebook on top and the notebook has all of the details what Ami said (The picture of the panda is the head of pandaman).
"My notebook! She said in glee.
Until the two girls found out that near to the notebook is Lucci reading! Ami felt like a sword just jabbed trough her (much in a comedic way if this were a comic)
"Wow, he's the lucky guy who found Cinderella's slipper (such a thing exists?!). Only it's a notebook instead of a shoe." Kalifa said teasing her
"What am I going to do? My lifeline is on his clutches and my secrets could get exposed!" Ami asked herself anxiously
"You can at least ask him"
"Too cliché" Ami quickly respond
"Uh oh." Kalifa observed
"What's wrong?" Ami asked her
"It looks like he's going to read it"
Ami was shocked when she saw that her notebook is being picked up slowly from Lucci's hand. She began to hesitate, she cannot let him see inside that notebook; until she go an idea after looking up on a shelf near her. She picked a hard-bounded 1000 page Encyclopedia and threw it Lucci's head! The aim was so good that he fell down due to the impact. This gave the opportunity for Ami to snatch it away from him before he could get up.
"SORU!" Ami said
Then she disappeared and in a high speed when she picked up the notebook from the ground as it disappeared like magic. The other children and people are nshocked and surprised of the stunt that Ami pulled on Lucci, even some of the students have to retreat to the farthese desks away from Lucci.
"Did you see that?! That girl must be nuts!!" A student said to another beside him.
"I'll say!" The other student replied. "No one has the guts to do something crazy to Rob Lucci!"
"She's dead..." Kalifa muttered when she had her palm on her face.
Then they heard Lucci getting up from the impact as the spectators began to back away a little to avoid him, he rubbed his forehead from the book that hit him on his head as his face is full of rage.
"Ami..."
"Thank goodness that he didn't read the pages inside," Ami said when she has the red notebook on her hands. "I could have lost this forever if he still kept this...
She still continues to walk through the long, empty corridoers as her footsteps broke the silence, until she stopped to read the pages inside the notebook of her's. This made the smile in her face disappear.
"It's not finished yet, I still need more time." She closed the notebook and walked further again. "Oh well, I bet he's going to wait for it a little longer. After all, I still need more practice."
Then she stopped and spotted an obsticale right infront of her farther away. She got surprised to find out it was Lucci right infront of her, but she felt guilty and scared because of the incident she caused to him in the Library. He is just standing there, as the lights in the corridor flicker creating shadows of two children.
"Oh, hi Lucci!" She said anxiously "Listen, about the library incident-"
"RANKYAKU!!" He didn't let Ami finish.
A slice of sharp wind formed from his leg as it head straight towards Ami, he really is furious! She is shocked and surprised when she saw the wind blade coming straight to her. With her critical thinking, she has to use a Rokushiki technique to save her life from being sliced from the blade.
"KAMI-E!!" She yelped
She used all of her strength to make her body limp in order to avoid the technique but she realized one thing: She did not do well in Kami-e! But even though she has little mastery on it, it manage to help her to avoid the attack. She fell on her bottom as she winced a bit. But when she has her eyes fixed on him again, she saw that he placed one step infront of her. Knowing what he is going to do next, she has to get away from him as possible or it will be her life.
"SORU!!" She cried as she disappeared like the one in the Library.
"Running away from me?" He said "SORU!"
The two are fast as lightning! It really is hard to tell who are the ones who are using the technique since there are two of them. Ami has to run away from him or he will catch her. Even though these two are both running. they failed to notice that on the corridors some people felt them passing through, especially some instructors.
"HEY! NO USING ROKUSHIKI OUTISDE THE TRAINING GROUNDS!!" One instructor said after they passed him.
Ami heard the man alright, but she is in a middle of a bad situation right now. She is feeling weary and she is in the verge of her limit, any minute now he will catch up to her. She is done for, that is until she felt something hard on her foot as if it made her trip. Ami then fell down as Lucci tumbled after her. The two are still on the ground from the fall and they are in a bit of pain. She forced her body tp get up and stand, her eyes saw the object that is responsible for her fall: a 2 x 4 piece of wood on the ground that was setted up to make them trip on purpose. But who?
"Looks like we got our runners. And there's two of 'em." Someone above them said.
"You two are in serious trouble this time." A second voice said after the first one.
Three people surrounded Lucci and Ami. One wears a pair orf black sunglasses with a black cowboy hat, another who is an old lady in her late 50's and the lasty one is a man wearing a black suit and glasses.
"Now, can you two behave like nice children and tell us what are you two doing in the first place?" The man removed his glasses so that he can wipe them with his hankerchief.
"Well, uh..." Ami hesitated "We..."
"We're waiting child." The old woman said.
Ami began to be nervous, she twiddled her fingers trying to answer until she heard someone's voice that is next to her.
"Ami attacked me in the Library," Lucci spoke with no emotions "Because of that she used Rokushiki techniqes when I tried to confront her."
"Is it true?" The man with the cowboy hat asked.
He nodded in reply, Ami felt so left out and betrayed when he explained the story to the instructors.
Tattle tale...She thought
"And we expected better of you," The man in the glassses said. "You two will be punished greatly."
"But for now, it's late. We will deal with your punishment later." The old woman replied after the man with the glasses. "You two are excused for now."
The two got up from th ground and walked away from the three instructors.
"Lousy little brats..." The one with the cowboy hat scoffed.
The two children still keep on walking, ignoring what the man said to them. Ami looked back to see if they are still there, but there is nothing but there is nothing there but the empty silence of the corridor.
"Are they gone?" Lucci asked her since she looked back.
"Yes." Ami replied to him.
They stopped walking. Silence is what filled the corridor and between them, like a wall.
Ami said after the short silence, "I'm sorry..."
"As if you are really sorry." Lucci said coldly.
Then he left her there all alone in the empty halls. Ami just stood there on the same spot, hurt in the inside. But she still held the same notebook on her hand.
Glad that I god this one done. Now I only have until 7 chapters to go until I am done with this and plan for a sequel that is running on my head for a while. I hope you will read this and give me your opinion soon!
