Chapter 3: When Two Things Collide…

"Uh…" The blonde haired curly brow kid muttered still staring back at the tall green haired guy in front of him. Actually, he just went back to the cafeteria to get his bag that he left behind. In a hurry to reach class on time he pushed the cafeteria door open and end up slamming it to this passing by stranger's face. Zoro stared at the kid's eyebrow for quite some time before realizing that the kid was also staring at him. He quickly shook his head snapping away from the trance he was in.

"I said what the heck made you slam the door open like that!" Zoro's mood turned back to its enraged state, "You damned curly browed brat."

The kid's eye widened in disbelief of what he heard, "P-Pardon?" He asked with the side of his mouth curved like a grin and was twitching.

"Forget it." Zoro said and pushed the kid rudely at the sides, "You're in the way." Just as he was walking pass him, the kid put a foot of his in front of Zoro's moving feet and he tripped over them causing him to fall face flat on the floor. "Arrghhh…" Zoro groaned clenching his fist and quickly pushed himself up. When he stood up back to his feet, Zoro immediately grabbed the blonde kid by the collar of his school uniform. Raising him off the ground by a few inches, drawing him closer until the kid's eyes were leveled a little lower from his but the kid didn't struggle or squirmed or panicked. He just glared at Zoro biting his lips while still hugging his bag tightly.

"You wanna fight, you damned curly browed brat!" Zoro enraged shouted at him. The hand holding the kid by the collar was shaking because despite the kid being a kid he was heavy enough to make Zoro loosen his grip a little.

Sanji didn't say anything but just glared at the tall stranger yelling at him rudely. His neck was aching a little though because even if this green haired stranger was kind enough to be raising him off the ground so that he could take a closer look at him. He still has to look up to get a closer view of him.

'So tall', Sanji thought while glaring at him, 'Make my neck hurts.'

Despite, the green haired stranger threatening him and all, there was only one thing Sanji gets the point of and hates to hear from the guy. That was when he called him, 'damned curly browed brat'. Sanji never liked to be teased and name called at because of his curly eyebrow, though, he was never ashamed about what his brow looks like because he was already born with it and was proud to have that curl with the swirl for an eyebrow. The green haired stranger was blabbing a lot of stuff at him even though he was near enough to smell the guy's scent, Sanji's ear and head wasn't focus at the moment. All it was functioning for was when the stranger called him a 'damned curly browed brat', all over again, as the stranger uses it when he finishes a life threatening sentence.

"Oi!" Zoro yelled at the blonde kid's face, "Are you listening to me?!"

Sanji continued glaring at him and was still quiet.

"I said," Zoro repeated as loud as he can in front of the kid, "Are you listening to me!"

There was no reply from the blonde kid in front of him.

"Tse." Zoro said and turned his head to look at the side, "Are you deaf, you damned curly browed brat?"

Biting his lips tighter, hugging his bag while clenching a fist and was getting mad himself, Sanji slowly lowered his head a little and then, like a whoosh without warning, kicked the green haired stranger right in the batteries.

Zoro's eyes popped out in pain and shock while he was looking at the sides and accidentally spits out all his saliva from his mouth. He froze because of the pain and dropped the blonde kid on the floor; the blonde kid fell on his bottom hitting the cold hard tiles.

"Oof!" The blonde haired kid cried out in a low voice.

Sanji immediately crawled to turn at the other side, stood up and quickly ran away from the green haired stranger.

"Serves you right," He said while running away, "tall moss head!"

Zoro who was still, frozen in his current position, couldn't reply even if he wanted to because of the pain. He then, fell down on the floor like an unmoved sculpture. Since nothing was holding the door it closed by itself pushing the frozen-in-pain Zoro inside the empty cafeteria. Though, one of the tables was still occupied by a hungry Ussop who still hasn't move nor budges from his seat and was still frozen in his position when Luffy, Sanji and Nami left him.

It was a half an hour pass lunch time, Sanji got a mouthful of words from his first period teacher in the afternoon about him being late. She was talking to him outside the classroom.

"Math taught you how to tell time," A black haired lady who was wearing a pair of glasses said her arms crossed, "Sanji-kun."

"Yes, you're right," Sanji said not even a bit afraid, nervous or anything else a late person feels but he was rather smiling like an idiot in front of her, "Tashigi-sensei. I promise never to be late again."

Tashigi-sensei gave a gentle smile and patted Sanji on the head, "Ok, Sanji-kun." She said, "Just don't forget to leave your belongings like that, okay."

Sanji's face reddens and his head exploded with a pink heart shape smoke coming out on top. Late or not, he was glad to be able to be talked at by Tashigi-sensei, just the two of them. She was one of the cutest teacher's in the whole school. Not only that, she was also nice and gentle, the type that's an easy going yet hardworking lady. Sanji respected her very much like all the other female teachers in the whole school.

"Let's go inside, now." Tashigi-sensei said and went back in the classroom. Going back to reality, Sanji shook his head and patted his cheeks then was back to his normal self after that followed Tashigi-sensei back in the classroom.

While they were outside, most of everyone in class was busy talking, some were throwing paper planes around and a few were sleeping on their desk.

"Everyone, everyone, listen," Tashigi-sensei was now standing behind the teacher's table with both hands leaning on it. "We will resume class now. So everyone pay attention." She adjusted her glasses.

As Tashigi-sensei continued talking in front of class and everyone listened to every word she said. Sanji went back to his seat.

"Oi, Oi, Sanji." Luffy who was sitting beside him whispered.

When Sanji finally seated he looked at Luffy, "What is it?" He asked.

"What took you so long?" The straw hat kid questioned, "Class is nearly finished."

"Well…" Sanji started remembering about the real reason why he was late. Yes, he did went back to the cafeteria to get his bag back a few minutes ago but accidentally cross path with a green haired stranger who needs his attitude fixed. "I just ran into a troublesome marimo…." He continued and sighed just remembering what happened back then.

"There's moss growing in the cafeteria?" Luffy asked his head fallen to the side and was leaning on his shoulder.

"Sooner or later there might be." Sanji replied scratching his head, "How troublesome."

"Sanji-kun!" Tashigi-sensei called out after she was done talking with the whole class, "Luffy-kun!"

"Yes, ma'am!" Sanji and Luffy stood up automatically as if Tashigi-sensei's voice was some kind of buzzer.

Tashigi-sensei smiled at them, "Can you please write on the board the answer to your homework yesterday."

Both of them froze like stones and as if lightning passed behind the background. They looked at each other nervously but to be honest it seems like Luffy was expecting that Sanji got his homework done. Unfortunately, seeing Sanji standing beside him and was also looking at him nervously, he took a wild guess, based on his expression it definitely signals the words: 'I forgot to make my homework so I was planning on copying Vivi-chan's instead.' And as expected, the two of them didn't do their homework… Like usual.

Facing hopelessness, Luffy and Sanji's head dropped along with their shoulders. A gloomy atmosphere filled around them with the feeling of being doomed was about to come.

"Well," Tashigi-sensei smiled at them, "Please write them on the board, Sanji-kun and Luffy-kun."

The whole troublesome and annoying afternoon in class ended but the rain outside continued pouring, at least this time, it was getting lighter and lighter by the minute. Each student went out of school with their umbrellas open while others just ran or walked through the rain. Back to our main topic in a certain classroom, Luffy was passed out laying his head on his desk with a gloomy atmosphere while Sanji was, like what he always does in class, stare outside the class window. He doesn't know the reason why whether rain or shine, class or not his focus was always outside of school. Maybe, he was expecting something that would distract him. Anyways, that's what kids are for ya, looking for something to distract them so that they could start moving up and about.

"Luffy-kun," A girl with a light bluish hair wearing her tidy school uniform was standing besides Luffy patting him gently on the back, "Are you okay?"

"Nnnnhhhhheeeeee~" Luffy replied sounding really down.

"Come one, Luffy-kun." The light blue haired girl said with worry, "its okay, if you didn't answered those questions right."

Luffy turned to look at her, still, his head on his desk. "But Vivi, I didn't even manage to answer anything the whole time I was in front." Tears were flowing like a river from his eyes.

"There, there." Vivi continued patting Luffy from behind. "Though, it was surprising. I'm glad Sanji-kun managed to answer those tricky questions." She smiled at Sanji.

Sanji overheard this and redden, he flips his side bangs very slightly, "Of course," He said in an airy manner, "I can't let Tashigi-sensei's lessons to end up for nothing." Actually, Sanji only managed to answer because Tashigi-sensei told him to use what she taught them. Afraid of disappointing her, he tried the best he can to remember what she taught them, until, Sanji ended up answering all the questions rightly.

"You're full of surprises," Vivi said and giggled a little, "Huh, Sanji-kun."

Like as if cupid hits an arrow in Sanji's heart, Sanji held one hand on his chest while the other was stretched before him. After that, he fell on his seat and fainted with hearts in his eyes beating.

"SANJI-KUN!"

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