Luffy sat in class his mind obviously on other things, like Friday night, when something caught his eye, Sanji slipping a note to Zoro under their combined desk. Watching silently Luffy watched as Zoro opened it and read it, a flush creeping into his cheeks, Sanji smiled and looked up as the teacher began speaking again. Zoro kept his face down as he wrote a come back for what ever was on the paper and slipped it into Sanji's lap, his hand lingering there a little to long for this to be innocent in Luffy's mind. Sanji jumped and put his hand on Zoro's and took the note swiftly, reading it this time the flush crept into his face and he crumpled the note into a tight ball and shoved it into his pocket. Luffy tilted his head to the side about to tap Sanji on the shoulder and ask what was going on when the door opened and the Principal walked in.
"Ma'am, you have a new student."
She looked over and smiled as a young man, no older than Luffy stepped in, he had an unusually long nose.
"Welcome, what's your name young man?"
"Ussop..."
His face flamed as many of the kids in the room laughed, Luffy frowned; he had a strange name too but everyone seemed to like him...so why not like Ussop too?
"Welcome Ussop, there's a seat next to Luffy, you can sit there for the year."
Luffy raised his hand letting the long nosed boy see him, nodding Ussop walked over and sat down next to Luffy, looking at him the said D brother gave him a winning smile and held out his hand.
"I'm Monkey D Luffy!"
Ussop smiled and took Luffy's hand.
"I'm Ussop The Sniper! I'm the best with a sling shot!"
He blinked as Luffy's eyes grew large and bright.
"Really?!"
Ussop nodded slowly as Luffy bounced happily in his seat.
"Can you show me?"
Ussop nodded again and blinked more as Luffy grabbed his arm.
"You wanna be my friend?"
Ussop's mouth hung open for a moment as he recovered from the bold young man sitting next to him, they had just learned each others names and already he wanted to be friends, there was no telling if they even got along. His thoughts were interrupted as the two young men in front of them began fighting.
"I was wondering when that was gonna happen, they haven't fought in a day or so..."
Ussop blinked again as the blond and green haired teens were led out. The blond already had a black eye blooming over his right eye and the green haired one had a busted bottom lip. He looked over at Luffy who only laughed as the bell rang for Lunch.
"Come on! I'll introduce you to my other friends!"
Grabbing Ussop's arm he drug the new boy out of the room and towards the cafeteria.


Sanji looked up at Zoro, his cheeks flushed, hair disheveled as Zoro's hands ran through it, one hand gently ran across his face lovingly touching the now black eye.
"Sorry about that...I didn't mean to hit you so hard Sanji."
"...Zoro...It's okay, I'm sorry I busted your lip...Zoro?"
The young man in question looked down at him and smiled shaking his head.
"Don't apologize. Told you the fight would work though, and see the janitors closet was easy enough to get into."
Sanji sighed as Zoro's hand slid up his back.
"I think Luffy suspects something..."
This made Zoro pause his ministrations.
"Did you really just say that? Luffy, suspect something?"
"He was giving us weird looks today in class, not only that we haven't fought in front of everyone in a day or so..."
Zoro thought on this a moment, and nodded.
"I guess we'll have to keep up the charade huh?"
Sanji buried his hands in Zoro's hair pulling him down for a heated kiss and nodded resting his forehead against Zoro's.
"Suppose so, I think the 'hitting on Luffy' strategy worked fairly well."
"He looked taken aback though didn't you think? I mean before I realized that I was in love with you I practically threw my self at him..."
Sanji shook his head and shrugged.
"What can you say? It's Luffy."
Zoro nodded and looked down at the blond.
"You have a point there."
Sanji smiled at him and kissed him letting out a soft moan as Zoro's hand ran up his shirt to touch the skin of his back. Sanji cupped the green haired teens face holding him there to keep the kiss going as long as possible, he whimpered as Zoro broke it and looked down at him curious.
"Your hands are always so soft, I would think with as much as you cook at your job they'd be rougher."
Sanji shook his head and looked up at him.
"Not at all, if you notice I fight with my legs, and I take good care of my hands, I hope to be a professional cook after we graduate, and a cook's tools are his hands."
"I thought they would be the knives he uses."
"Yes that's true, but what controls the knives."
Zoro thought about this a moment and nodded accepting the blonde's answer, he smiled down at him and gave him one last heated kiss before pulling away and straightening his school uniform.
"We should get to the detention class before anyone comes looking for us."
Sanji nodded as he too fixed his uniform, Zoro peeked from the closet and saw the halls empty and slid out followed by Sanji just as the lunch bell rang, they gave each other a worried look and dashed for the detention room.


Ace yawned as he walked through the halls towards the lunch room, spotting his brother almost instantly behind the mountain of food that the younger boy had accumulated on his plate. Ace shook his head letting a small smile play on his face as he sat down taking a rice cake from the pile Luffy was currently working on. He watched as Luffy looked over frowning til he saw who it was.
"Oh Ace! This is Ussop, he's new in my class!"
Ace gave the long nosed boy a small wave and a smile, he looked up as the two girls joined them. Luffy looked up, his cheeks stuffed full of food which he promptly swallowed.
"Robin! Nami! Hi!"
Robin smiled and sat down with a salad she had brought from home, Nami turned her head ignoreing his little brother.
Still sore about the date I see...
Luffy seemed slightly put off but the fleeting switch was gone as swiftly as it had come. Ace looked away and sighed.
"What's wrong Ace?"
He looked over at his brother and shook his head smiling as Luffy took a huge bite of the twinkie in his hand covering the corners of his mouth with the cream. Luffy wiped it off and looked up at his brother.
"Well Nii-Chan?"
"Just thinking Lu."
"About what?"
"Stuff."
He gave Luffy a look that told him to drop it which the younger did instantly. He looked over as a burly teen with blue hair sat next to him.
"Ace, I need the science notes."
"Why didn't you take them your self Frankie?"
"I fell asleep. Got to bored."
"Why am I not surprised? You usually get pretty bored in everything but shop class."
"I can't help it, I'm good with my hands."
He waggled his eyes brows at Ace who only rolled his eyes and dug through his bag pulling out his notes he handed them to the other teen who bowed his head.
"Thanks, this is a big help."
Ace waved off the thanks and looked at him.
"So, did you hear about the new professor we're getting tomorrow?"
"Brooke?"
Ace nodded.
"Supposedly he's really cool. Or so I hear."
Frankie nodded and clapped a hand on Ace's shoulder.
"At least you'll be rid of Elvis head, he hates you."
"Professor Foxxy? Yeah no kidding. I'll talk to you later man."
"See ya Ace!"
He looked over as Luffy polished off the last of the food on his plate and shook his head.
"Damn Lu, could you eat slower?"
Luffy looked up at him and seemed deep in thought.
"NOPE!"
He laughed energetically and hopped up with Ussop and walked to the garbage cans, only there was nothing to throw away so he merely put his tray on the shelf where they were taken after lunch and washed. He looped his arm over Ussop's neck patting his stomach making Ace smile more as the Ussop began to loosen up and laughed. Ace took a deep breath and stood up as the bell rang again.
"I'll see you at the end of the day Lu, behave will you?"
Luffy beamed at him and nodded dramatically.
"Just for you Nii-Chan!"
Ace held back the blush that threatened to creep up into his face and just chose to looked at his feet as he walked away from Luffy and his friends.


Luffy flopped down on the couch and sighed as Ace put their bags into the closet by the door. Luffy opened his eyes as the couch shifted and smiled as he saw Ace leaning over him.
"Missed you today."
Ace kissed his forehead and sat right tugging Luffy to him who gladly curled up in his lap smiling.
"I missed you too Nii-Chan."
"You have homework?"
"Nope. Not tonight, we finished all the work in class."
Ace nodded as he yawned again.
"Sleepy Nii-Chan?"
Ace nodded burying his face in the top of Luffy's head he dozed off as Luffy did the same, his head resting on Ace's shoulder. Neither one of the brother's heard the phone ring. A small click sounded as the answering machine picked up.
'You've reached the home of the D brothers, thanks for calling but we're not here right now, please leave your name and number and we'll get back with you asap...LUFFY WHAT ARE YOU DOING?! I HOPE YOU BURNS YOUR MOUTH YOU LITTLE THIEF!*CRASH* GREAT NOW LOOK! IT'S EVERY-beep'
A soft chuckle came over the speaker.
"Hey Ace, Luffy. It's Shanks, I was hoping to be able to get a quick visit in while I'm in town. Gimme a call back would you? Later boys!"
The answering machine clicked, the D bothers sound asleep and smiling on the couch wrapped in each others arms.