Disclaimer: I do not own One Piece.

Fionaflores: Of course Corazon is the chemistry teacher! What fun would there be if he wasn´t? xD

YukiHannah87: What happened between them will be revealed later. But it sort of important to this plot, so it will be explained! I wonder who is the one for Nami...


Chapter 3.

Their new biology teacher was about 25 years old. He was tan, and wore simple jeans and a yellow and dark sweater. His dark hair was held down by a white hat. From a girl point of view, he would be considered hot. But Ace was unaffected by his looks, apart from some almost drooling girls in the class.

He sat on the desk, his tall legs stretched out in front of him. "Welcome to this class. You have all chosen to read biology for your senior year, which means I´ll be your teacher. I´m Trafalgar Law. I´m also responsible for the latin class. I used to work at a hospital as a surgeon, but I wasn´t wanted there anymore. This is my first time working as a teacher, so please don´t be too hard on me, or I will return the disfavor. I think this will be a fortunate year for all parties. You get to study biology, and I´ll get to study you..." He paused for a brief second, letting his words sink in. "Now let´s see who are present. This initial lesson is mandatory, and no unannounced absence will be tolerated." It seemed he had memorized each student´s name and appearance. He looked at the dead-silent students one at a time, and said their names while scribbling down notes on a paper. The fourth person he got to was Ace, who sat in the front right of the room.

"How do you know our names?" he asked suspiciously.

"It´s a doctor´s responsibility to have knowledge about his patients, and a teacher´s to have knowledge about his students. Which reminds me..." He reached into his bag, and picked up something that he threw towards Ace.

He caught the small object in midair, and noticed that it was a small, medicine jar with some pills in it. "What is this?"

"You should take one daily, before breakfast. It will help against your narcolepsy."

"What... I don´t have narcolepsy!"

"Yes, you do. The fact that you haven´t visited a hospital to get a diagnosis doesn´t mean you´re not sick. I´m your teacher, so you are obliged to believe anything I say."

He shook his head. It was strange, but understandable that Law knew their names and faces. It was downright creepy that he knew something like that. "I don´t want them."

"One of the things I definitely won´t allow in my class is sleeping. You will take them. They have only been tested on animals so far, so this is a golden opportunity to see how effective they are to humen. Don´t worry; I guarantee any side effects won´t be lethal." Ace was gonna protest, but the teacher just raised a hand, silencing him and marking the end to their conversation. "It looks like Sanji is missing. Where is he?"

"The cheerleading squad have tryouts now," Laki said.

"I see. Of course Sanji wouldn´t be here then. Well too bad for him." He wrote down Sanji´s name on his paper, and then a big, red F next to it.

Ace facepalmed - it seemed the idiot failed the class before it even started. He sighed, and stuffed the pills jar into his bag, intent on throwing it away later.

The teacher took out a pile of papers from his bag and started handing them out. "This is your first assignment." There was a chorus of complaints. "It won´t be graded," he added, and the students went silent again.

"This isn´t even about biology," one of the students said.

"Correct. It´s an extract from a fictional work. After reading it, you will get to answer questions about the text. The questions will test both your intellect, memory, and analytical abilities. It´s all for educational purposes, of course. I want to know how good your learning skills are, so I know what I have to work with. The text is 30 pages long, so half an hour of reading should be sufficient."

Hearing this, everyone started to read.


Sanji struggled wildly to get free, but Ace was too persistent as he dragged him across the school yard and away from the gym. "Let me go! This is a once in a year event!"

"What event? You´re not supposed to be at the tryouts unless if you want to join."

"But there are so many cute girls there! I thought we were friends!"

The biology teacher is creepy, but Sanji´s almost worse, Ace thought. "We are. That´s why I´m not letting you skip another class."

"My life is ruined..."

"You´ll thank me later."

"I need a smoke."

Getting some distance away from the gym seemed to have recovered his self control. Ace stopped, and let go of his jacket. "Hurry then. Chemistry starts in five minutes."

Sanji took out the cigarette, lit it and brought it to his lips in a quick, well-practiced movement. "By the way, there was a strange man smoking around here yesterday."

"What do you mean ´strange´?"

"His jacket was burning, and he didn´t even notice. He must have taken some strong stuff. He looked strange, too. Probably a drug addict."

"Okay... Did you tell anyone?"

"No. Why, you think I should have?"

Ace shrugged. "I don´t know. I guess not, if he only came here once."

"That´s what I thought too."

Sanji dropped the cigarette to the ground and stomped at it, and they then started to walk to their class.

"The biology teacher is new."

"Oh. Is it a woman?" Sanji asked excitedly, probably having one of his fantasies.

"No, it´s a guy." Sanji looked disappointed. "I know that the school doesn´t just hire people at random, but he´s the worst teacher ever. Making up lies about his students. And he was upset that you weren´t there. He´s failing you I think."

"What? He can´t do that!"

"He would disagree. Anyhow, you should talk to him. Perhaps he´ll change his mind."

They had reached the classroom, and went inside and took their usual seats in the front of the classroom. Not all students had arrived yet. The teacher came after a little while. He tripped at the threshold on his way in.

Sanji abruptly stood, and lifted his bag. "I´m not taking this class." Before Ace could stop him, he had already left the room.

Despite all my efforts to get him here, he still just went back to watch the cheerleaders perform, Ace thought bitterly. He hit his forehead against the table like an annoyed little kid, and suddenly fell asleep.

Because he was sleeping, he didn´t notice the girl entering the classroom.

"Is this chemistry?" she asked, and the teacher nodded. "Good, then I´m in the right place! I´m Robin."

The teacher shook her hand, but didn´t say anything in return. She turned, and glanced at the classroom, and at her new course mates.

The class would start any second, so she quickly decided on where to sit. In the front, a boy sat with his face pressed down at the table. The chair next to his was unoccupied.

"Can I sit here?" she asked, but no response came from him. Was he alright? She looked at the teacher, who just waved with a hand, as if telling her to sit there, which she did.

The teacher looked at the clock at the wall, and the class started. He handed out a paper, at the top of which was written: attendants. It was obvious he wanted to check who the present students were. Robin, having gotten the paper first, wrote down her name, and then pushed it over to the bench to her right. But the boy still didn´t move.

"You should take this." She faked a loud cough. She pulled her chair across the floor, making a scraping sound. She shook his shoulder. She was getting slightly worried, when he was as still as if being dead. But then she heard a small snoring.

Then suddenly he tensed, and straightened to sit upright. He blinked, and looked around, a little confused. What had happened?

"Bored already?" someone spoke from next to him.

"Eh?" He turned his head to the side, expecting to see Sanji, but then he remembered that he already left. Someone else had taken his friend´s seat.

"You´re sleeping even before the class starts. Isn´t that overdoing it?"

Now he had gotten used to the light. He could see the person speaking. A tall girl, with glinting, light blue eyes, and thin lips whose corners were now tilting slightly in amusement.

"I don´t know..." He felt something touch his fingers, and moved his gaze from her face to the paper that she was pushing onto his desk. "What´s this?"

"You should write your name here. Do you have a pencil?"

"Uhm. Yeah." He reached for his bag. Soon he had scribbled down his name on the paper. He then handed her the paper back, and she gave it to another of the students.

"So your name is Ace," the girl said, after reading what he had written.

"And you´re Robin, right?"

She nodded, and smiled, before turning her focus at the whiteboard in the front. The teacher had written his name on it, and was currently writing down information about the course. It was not very interesting, just goals and the course plan that almost everyone would forget about when the class ended.

"I haven´t seen you here before," Ace said.

"That´s because I´m new," she said.

"Welcome then." He smiled, but she wasn´t looking at him.

"Thank you."

Her demeanor said that she wasn´t interested in talking anymore, so Ace let her be. For now.

There was a new, and quite beautiful girl, in the class. Not like Nami, but still enough to catch his interest.

The teacner hadn´t said a word yet, and didn´t say anything at all as time passed. Whenever someone asked a question, he would just nod or shake his head. Sometimes, he wrote down detailed answers on the whiteboard.

The time passed slowly, and some students made some small talk simply because they were being bored. But still, Robin remained silent and concentrated through the entire class.

As the bell rang, signalling it was time for lunch, she quickly put her items and new course book away. Ace did the same, with equal speed. "Hey, do you know someone in school yet?"

"I do," she replied.

"Oh. You´re still having lunch with me, though. Right?"

She raised an eyebrow. "Am I?"

"Yes." He lifted up her bag. "I can carry this for you."

"Thanks, but I can carry it myself." She pulled the back out of his grip, gently but firmly, and put it across her shoulder.

He noticed she wasn´t wearing heels. He was tall, but she had a few centimetres on him. "Does that go for the invitation too?"

She looked thoughtful. "I didn´t exactly make any promise with my friend. Fine, I´ll have lunch with you."

"Great." As taking candy from a baby, he thought.


They had soccer outside during the first gym class. After some minutes of practicing ball technique, the teacher divided them into two teams to play a game. Nami was at the back of the field, taking the role of defender together with Marigold. It turned out to be the easiest thing to do, since most of the playing took place on the other half of the field.

The only ones who cared about the outcome of the match were most of the boys, and Koala. After some minutes, she had already done two goals. She screamed out in joy and highfived with the team mates.

"I can´t believe you want to be friends with the new girl," Marigold said.

"What do you mean?" Nami asked.

"Oh, come on! Nami, look at her. You´re cool and I respect you and all that, but she´s so..." Koala tackled one of the players. He tumbled several meters before falling. She shouted an apology, and then prepared to make another goal. "... so strange."

"She´s just a little different. Nothing wrong with that."

"I got a glimpse at her hands," Marigold continued. "I bet she doesn´t even know what a manicure is."

Of all the shallow girls that habited the school, Marigold was one of the worst.

"Have you even talked to her? I mean, you can´t just judge someone from appearance alone. She´s actualy really fun to talk to, once she stops being so shy," Nami said.

"Why do you defend her? Of all the time we´ve been in the same school, you´ve never cared that much about any stranger or less popular person."

She was observant. Nami hesitated on what to answer. "I joined the student council this year. So of course I need to set a good example to everyone."

"Interesting." The brown-haired girl said nothing more, but Nami believed she was safe for now. She breathed out in relief.

Just then, the ball came flying through the air towards them. She was completely taken by surprise, after being occupied by the discussion with Marigold.

"Take it down safely, Nami!" the gym teacher instructed.

Nami wasn´t really interested in performing well in gym, but after what she said to Marigold, she had to at least make an effort. She predicted where it would land and started to step backwards. But keeping the eye on the ball, she didn´t notice there was a person running towards her. And the person running didn´t notice her either.

The ball was about two meters above the ground. Then the running person suddenly jumped to hit it with his forehead and sent it flying again. But before he could see if the ball landed in the goal or not, he crashed into Nami. They both tumbled to the ground.

"I did it! Our first goal!" the boy shouted. "Huh?" He looked down at Nami, and seemed surprised, as if he didn´t notice her until then.

"Can´t you look where you´re going?!" she sneered at Luffy, and shoved him off her. "Gosh."

She´d probably gotten both grass and mud in her hair, judging from how amused Marigold seemed as she looked at her. She squinted her eyes at the girl, before turning away again. It didn´t take long before the teacher blew the bell, marking the end of the match.

Instead of walking directly to the locker rooms to fix her hair, she approached Koala, who was in a discussion with the teacher.

"We are always looking for people to join the sports team. If you´re interested, just contact me."

"Thanks. I´ll think about it," Koala said.

The teacher hummed and left. Sabo was suddenly by the small girl´s side. "I didn´t know you played soccer," he said.

"I-I don´t," the girl mumbled shyly, blushing.

"Oh? Well then you must be a natural!" he said. "You´re really good."

Judging from the large smile appearing on Koala´s face, one might have thought she just won the Olympics.

But she didn´t say anything. A few seconds passed, and then someone shouted for Sabo to come, and the moment to say something clever in response was gone.

Nami couldn´t help but roll her eyes. Koala and Sabo´s conversations would always end quickly, mostly because Koala would lose the ability to speak at some point.

The girl stood still on the field, unsure what to do or where to go. The confidence she had shown while playing soccer was gone. Luckily, she had Nami to guide her through anything that didn´t involve physical activity. "Do you wanna have lunch together?" she asked.

"I´d love to," Koala said. "Are you alright?"

"With idiots in our class, I´m used to things like these happening," she assured the girl.

"Oh. Should I be worrying, then?" she asked.

Nami giggled. "Not at all. After today, I don´t think anyone will want to mess with you." She pulled a hand through her messed-up hair. "Koala, have you ever had a manicure?"


After rushing out of the classroom, Sanji unconsciously walked back to the gym. But the hall was empty by now, to his dismay. The only activity was some soccer taking place on the field nearby.

He hesitated on whether he should return to chemistry or not, but decided against it. He wasn´t very interested in chemistry and risking possibly getting injured by being near that guy wasn´t worth it. He would have to warn Ace about him too, later. Probably nothing dangerous would happen during the introduction class.

He left the school to buy more cigarettes, and on his way passed by a small restaurant. There was a note next to the entrance, saying that they are looking for waiters.

Sanji thought for a while. Buying cigarettes could get expensive, especially for a high school student.

A bell above the door tingled as he entered the restaurant. A tall, broad-shouldered man walked out the kitchen to meet up with him. "Do you want a menu?" he asked.

Sanji shook his head. "No. I´m interested in working here."

Although he could only work at evenings and weekends, he did get the job. He shook hands with the large man, going by the name of Patty. After that was done, he went back to school. Lunch break had already started.

Instead of heading to the canteen, he went to the staff corridors. He hoped to find the biology teacher. He had already quit chemistry, and it might be bad if he quit another class.

He saw the chemistry teacher again, whose name he didn´t know, standing in the corridor and talking to another of the teachers. But as he approached them, they both turned silent, and he didn´t hear what they were talking about at all.

The other man was tall too, and wore blue jeans and a dark and yellow sweater.

"Hi. I´m looking for...," Sanji started, but was interrupted by a scream.

"Torao-guy!" Someone pushed past Sanji and towards the two men. Sanji thought it was one of the boys in Nami´s class, but wasn´t entirely sure.

The boy had his arms outstretched, as if he was about to embrace someone. But before he got close enough, the clumsy chemistry guy/drug user lifted his leg and kicked him in the head, sending him flying into the wall.

"Thank you," the other man said. The chemistry teacher nodded his head in response.

Sanji was speechless. He couldn´t believe what he just saw. But the student was lying on the floor, unconscious.

"Why are you here, Sanji? Shouldn´t you be at lunch?" In his confusion, Sanji didn´t wonder about how the man could know his name.

"You just kicked him! He´s a student!" Sanji blurted.

"He doesn´t like children," the other man said. "And don´t worry; he will be fine. He´s a teenage boy, he has a tough body." He nodded towards the boy at the floor.

Sanji bent down next to him, while also being aware of what the two adults did. From what he could see, the student seemed fine. He was breathing steadily, and there was no blood anywhere. Only a bruise where his head hit the wall. Sanji stood up again.

"Why are you a teacher?!" he yelled at the older of the two men. "You hurt the students!"

Once again, it was the other man who answered. "He has selective mutism. There isn´t many places he could get a job at."

"That doesn´t answer my question at all," he muttered.

The man sipped from his coffee mug. "Why are you here, Sanji?"

"I wanted to talk to the biology teacher."

"That´s me. Trafalgar Law."

Oh crap, he thought. "Ehh, about my absence today..."

"If you still want to take my class, we have to talk about things." He nodded at a door. "My office is right there."

"Okay. But..." He looked at the student.

"Oh, right. I almost forgot." Law kneeled down next to him and emptied what was left in his mug onto the boy´s face. He sprung back to life and sat up, blinking and wiping at his face. "He´s fine. See?" he told Sanji. "Now let´s go." He stood up and hurriedly walked towards the door he pointed out, and Sanji had no choice but to follow.


Author´s note: So Robin has finally appeared! Yay! And she´s already spending some time with Ace :). Oh, and if Sanji didn´t encounter Rocinante before, Ace and Robin wouldn´t have lunch together ~

Both Koala and Robin are new in high school xD but their stories and what happens next are different of course.

I planned to make Law a student, but then I decided he could be a teacher instead. A terrific one, too. And how he knows Luffy will be revealed later. But for now let´s just say Law wants to avoid him, sort of...

Next chapter will be the first to feature Arlong, and Zoro will also have some lines.

Thank you for the lovely reviews so far, and if you have time to, please post one and I´ll be a happy writer. What do you think about teachers Law and Rocinante? And who is the idiot that let them work at a high school? Any suggestions/ideas for this story?

On a side note, completely unrelated to this story: Sanji is one of my favorite characters in One piece. And I just found a hilarious video some days ago... "Real life Sanji" =´God of cookery´, 20th minute. That movie also has fire fist-techinique xD

Being a "Chow"-fan, I respect Eichiro Oda so much :)