Well sorry it took so long...really I am. There really is no excuse for how long I took, please forgive me. I will try to finish the next chapter as soon as possible since it kind of ended on an interesting part. Hee Hee. Remeber to review or I might lose interest in writing this all together. Really its ture, I have a short attention span and get bored with things really easily. Your interesting reviews are what keep me typing. Well without further a do...here it is...
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Disclaimer: I do not own One Piece or any of the characters in the series, but some of these characters are made up and mine.
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Chapter Three
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Nami looked up at the sky through her window before looking down at the uniform that lay on her bed. 'Wow' she thought 'my first day at one of the most prestigious schools in the West coast.'
Nami could hear her heart pounding in her ears. The loud thumping made her even more nervous, as her breaths came in short and quick. She felt the silence surround her, and the feeling of loneliness crept up on her. And although the feeling was felt often the pain that came with it would never subside.
The sound of a motor was what snapped her out of it. She quickly went to her window, hoping that it might be him. All she saw was a man wearing the male version of her uniform, with a black helmet on his head hiding the face underneath, he was on a motorcycle, but it was not the one that she knew he owned.
Suddenly, she heard the sound of another engine, as the motorcycle appeared next to the jet black one. There were two people on this one, a female wearing a uniform similar to hers and another guy with the uniform as well.
Nami recognized this bike as his bike but the helmet that he usually wore was on the girl's head, not his. This made her wonder if it really was him, after all every time she saw him, he wore the shiny red helmet with black strips. The male on the bike now was wearing a silver helmet with white lines on it.
Her heart ached for she knew it was him. She felt a sudden pain and loneliness. The envy that had settled in her body completely turning her eyes a sickly green color, as if she was turning into a monster.
Nami sighed because she knew she had no right to feel like this, after all she didn't even know his name. She didn't know how he lived his life, and in fact she would have been surprised if he didn't have a girlfriend.
Nami watched as the two exchanged a few words before heading off. She didn't turn away from the window until the sound of the motorcycles could no longer be heard. She then glanced down at the red uniform that lay on her bed.
Nami let out a sigh. 'Well I wanted to know if he came to my new school… that didn't mean I'd like what I see…' She finally turned away from the window the completly and grabbed the uniform off her bed. 'This is going to be a long day...' she thought with a sigh.
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Her eyes widened at the sight before her. She had heard it was big, but this place was monumental. The school looked like it could pass up as collage campus, even a UC. The building itself was only one story, except for a building in the middle that held a large clock in the front, but the amount of space it took up was amazing. Maybe two acres at least if not more!
Nami took a deep breath, as she then took notice of the people around her. At first Nami didn't really take notice of anyone around her. The uniforms they wore made everything seem like a blur of red as they scurried by the entrence, but now she really took notice.
Nobody seemed to have a perfect uniform. There were tears and rips, there were patches and stickers sewn on, and different threads and chains hanging from all over their school clothes.
Every single student seemed to have made their clothes into their own sense of style. Everybody's was different, but one thing that seemed to be the same, other then the color and the fact that they did use to be the same, was a big patch that seemed to be pinned onto everyone's back.
The patch looked to be hidding something. And Nami thought this because they were not sewed on, but pinned on. Every single person had this, other then the freshmen and... well... her. This seemed to be something that the students here did, but for what exactly she didn't know.
Nami let out the breath she had been holding, and slowly started to make her way to the entrence of the school. She felt a few stares on her back as she walked, and when she turned to them she was a tiny bit shocked that they weren't giving her judging eyes. No, they were all just looking with innocent curiousity.
Nami still didn't trust them though, she had learned a long time ago not to judge a book by it's innocent cover. Even if they weren't glares or bad looks, it was still rude to stare.
She decided to ignore them for now, as she made her way closer to the front door. There she noticed a young girl handing out flyers.
The girl had long black hair that went down to the small of her back. A pretty pink ribbon with a bow on the left side of head decorating it. She had on the school uniform, and like everybody else put in her own sense of style.
The girl seemed to go to extremes though because insted of just having a few rips and tears, she seemed to have completly ripped off the sleeves of her uniform jacket, showing off the pink long-sleeve dress shirt she had under. The "jacket" now looked like a red vest, but it did look cute on her, though Nami doubted that it would look good on anyone else.
The girl had on the skirt, which also had a few tears here and there, mostly on the rim. She had on white knee-high socks with small pink and red hearts all around them, and little pink bows on the sides. Nami didn't fail to notice that little patches were pinned on to the back of her black dress shoes.
Nami didn't get it, what was with all the cloth attached to their clothing. What were they trying to hide. She could feel her temper rising as her confusion seemed to double.
Nami took slow deep breaths in order to calm her nerves. She did not need a scene while she threw a tantrum, being the new girl was one thing being the strange weird new girl was another.
She decided to make her way to girl, seeing as how she was probably passing out news flyers, and Nami wanted to get as much information about this school as she could get.
She walked up to her, the girl barely noticing as she handed out flyers and called out friendly greetings with a big smile on her face. The girl briefly stopped as she was handing Nami the flyer, finally taking notice of the older orange haired girl in front of her.
The girl startd to examine her, the warm friendly aura she gave off becoming a bit more curious and a bit restrained. Nami obviously didn't like the look, so she quickly took the piece of paper and scurried off. A call of "Welcome to our school!!!" being shouted behind her.
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" The attendence office..." Nami whispered under her breath. 'This is it...my first stop' she thought. Nami took a deep breath before entering the building. The office was pretty proffessional, for a better word then dull. It had large grey walls, with absolutly no windows, which made the room seem smaller then it really was.
There was a small brown desk in the room against the back wall. There sat an elder woman, maybe around 30 to 40 years old, she had mouse brown hair up into a neat tight bun. Her clothing consisted of a plain peach old looking dress, and a small brown sweater over her shoulders. Her plain brown loafers peeking out from under her ankle length dress.
Nami made her way to the woman behind the desk, trying her best to hide her nerves with, what she hoped was, an emotionless mask.
"New kid...right?" the woman said without looking up. Nami held back a surprised yelp. The woman had looked like she hadn't been paying attention to anything other then the papers on her desk. Nami also could have sworn she had been super quiet, so she didn't attract any attention to herself.
The woman looked up and examined the young teen. She then gave Nami a warm welcoming smile, to try and calm the girl down, since she had sensed her nerves even with the mask firmly in place.
"The principal just came in, he'll see you in a few minutes." the secretary said in a warm voice to match her smile.
Nami nodded, feeling a bit less stressed at the woman's friendly attitude. The orange haired girl made her way to the wooden bench and sat down, paciently waiting for the okay to enter.
She listened as the woman talked to her boss through the speaker on her desk.
"The new girl is here." she said in a monotone.
"Huh? What new girl?" a male voice said through the speaker." It's the beginning of the year so there's bond to be hundreds of new freshmen girls."
"She's not a freshmen, don't you remember the scholarship girl...the one we talked about in the last meeting." the woman was pinching the brigde of her nose as she said this. Apparently she had to do this often.
There was a bit of static before an answer came in "Super!!!" came a yell before he said,"Well what are you waiting for send her in..."
The secretary let out a sigh, thinking about how she had ended up with that man as her boss.
She flashed Nami a wary smile before saying, "He will see you now." She then turned her attention back to the stack of papers on her desk, mumbling a few tired remarks under her breath, as Nami walked by.
Nami slowly opened the bronze doorknob that led to the principal's office. She opened the door and closed her eyes, slowly closing the door behind her.
When she finally opened her eyes, she was pretty much shocked at what she saw. The room she was now in, was so different then the room she had been in before.
The walls were painted a beautiful ocean blue. There were tiny ship designs around the edges of the room and a few palm trees painted on the back wall. There was a strong large oak desk towards the end of the room, with what looked like a ship's steering wheel in front.
There was a huge trophy case filled with awards and autographed matirals. There were also a few minature ships in glass bottles.
Nami stood there in awe because she had never seen a principal's office like that before. She quickly took in her surroundings before she laid eyes on the man seated behind the desk.
The only thing that she could see were wide shoulders in an olive green office suit, and strange looking blue hair swept back in the style of a wave, behind the flat screen of a large wide laptop.
"Welcome to our Super school!!!" The surprise greeting almost knocked Nami off her feet, as he jumped over desk. He stood in a strange pose before extending his hand for her to shake.
Nami hesitantly grabbed his hand, which he quickly shook it up and down, causing Nami's entire body to tremble.
"Like I said Welcome to our school. We are so excited to have such a bright and special young lady attending our facilities." He said in an excited tone.
Nami only nodded still feeling a bit shaken up from the greeting of the surprisingly strong principal. She took in the rest of her new principal's apperance.
His physic was pretty interesting. He had a strong upper body with large forearms that reminded her of a cartoon she use to watch when she was little.
Although he was quite muscular, she also noticed that he had very small and skinny legs. 'Wierd' thought Nami.
"I am the principal here at this school," he said "You can call me Principal Cutty Flam." he said shaking her hand again.
Nami only nodded not knowing what else to do. She kept a curious eye on him as he walked back to his desk. He disappeared for a while behind his desk, bending down to get something. When he appeared again, he seemed to be holding a package. Closer inspection revealed them to be text books.
"These are the books you'll need for your classes," he then got a piece of paper off his desk and gave it to her. "And this is your schedule." he said with a smile.
Nami looked over her classes then the sack of books that still lay on her principal's desk. "Umm... this doesn't tell me the locker I'm asigned to."
"Oh that... you won't be asigned a locker until you join a crew." the Principal answered while putting on a pair of black shades.
"Huh?" asked Nami a dumbfounded look on her face. "What do you mean a crew?"
Principal Cutty Flam was about to answer, but then a bell rang. "Oh, that's the ten minute bell, you better hurry if your going to find your first class."
He then quickly gave her the heavier then they look books and pushed her out of his office. Then he pushed her out of the attendence office, his secretary not even looking up.
Once they were outside Principal Cutty Flam quickly scanned the crowd of students, bringing his glasses down to the bridge of his nose to get a better look. When he found something he smiled as he pushed his glasses back in their place.
"Hey!" he called "Waver!!". A blond girl perked to the sound of her name. She turned from side to side until finally finding the source to the voice. She smiled as she headed to her principal.
The girl had a very neat looking uniform. Not so over the top as the others Nami had seen. Nami also noticed that this girl also had a vest/jacket on, but her's looked more like that was the way it was made, not like the sleeves had just been torn off. She had shoulder length hair that was kept in two neat braids. The white long sleeve dress shirt she wore under her vest, looked nice and ironed. Her skirt did not have a rip or tear on it. The only thing that stood out were the knee-high socks that had Angel written on it with rhinestones, with blue little ribbons on the sides of them.
She had big warm brown eyes and a sweet caring smile on her face. She held her books shyly close to her and she had a calm friendly aura surrounding her.
"Hello Fra-". Principal Cutty Flam cut her off putting an arm around her shoulders."Waver, I need you to help our new student here find her classes." Waver looked towards Nami, barely noticing her there. "Oh..." she said a little embaressed she didn't notice her. "Yes, I will show her around." She gave Nami an apolegetic smile, as she shyly raised her hand in front of her.
"Hi..I'm Conis." Nami met her half way and lightly shaked her hand.
"My names Nami, its nice to meet you."
"Alright...then". Principal Cutty Flam then pushed both girls away."Now get to class before your late.". The principal then turned to the right and walked away from the two girls.
Once their principal was lost in the crowd Conis turned back to Nami. "Now let me see your schedule."
Nami handed Conis her schedule. She smiled when she saw they had the same first period. 'Great now I don't have to help her look for class and risk being late to my own.'
"We have the same class." stated Conis as she started to walk away expecting her to follow. Nami did but not after she noticed the large piece of fabric that covered Conis's whole back.
'Maybe now I can get some answers.' thought Nami as she caught up with Conis. "So what's on your back?" Nami was looking up at the sky as she asked this, trying not to sound as interested as she really was.
Conis smiled and looked up at the sky as well. "Secret" was all she said.
"Huh?" Nami asked as she turned her attention back to the girl beside her. Conis giggled "You'll find out soon enough."
"Hey Conis!!" a voice called, grabbing both girls attention. Suddenly a girl came out from the crowd, running towards them. Conis smiled as she waved to her friend. "Hey Cami... long time no see."
The girl named Cami stopped right in front of them. Her bright green eyes shining with excitment. Cami had short emerald colored hair, which was flipped out. Her uniform was the same as Conis's, no rip or tear visible, but she had alot of glitter sparkle everywhere. Her vest was slightly open showing off the rhinestone star on her long-sleeve button down shirt. Her knee-high socks glittering with the rhinestone stars on them. She had her star fish shaped backpack slung on one arm, showing the fabric attached to her back, which of course was also star shaped.
"This is Nami..." Conis said as she tilted her head towards Nami. "She's new here."
Cami happily turned her attention to Nami, and excitedly took her hand shaking it up and. "Hi, I'm Cami, it's nice to meet you."
"Nice to meet you too." Nami replied with a slight chuckle. Cami gave Nami an even bigger smile, and then turned back to Conis.
They stood there for a minute talking. Nami only answering when she was asked a question, but she pretty much zoned out. Nami started to scan her surroundings, watching students walk by talking, or others looking at their schedules to make sure they knew where they were headed.
'Hmm...everything is pretty much the same...why was I so nervous coming here.' Nami was taken out of her thoughts as a familier someone stood in her sights.
Yep, it was him, she could recognize the wind-swept hair any where. The sleeves of his uniform jacket looked like they were torn off, showing the white long-sleeve button down shirt he wore under. His pants had rips on the knees and rims of the pant-legs. He had two buttons undone on his shirt and his tie hung loosely around his neck in a slight knot. The sleeves of his shirt were folded up to his elbows, and his backpack hung loosely on his left shoulder. He was with two other guys.
The first guy was muscular, the sleeves of his jacket also torn, showing the short sleeve white dress shirt he wore under. His vest was open, and the top half of the buttons were left undone on his shirt showing off his muscular chest. His tie hung loosely around his neck in a low knot. His pants had a few rips on the sides, but there were no big holes. His most surprising feature to Nami though was his mossy green hair which was cut very short and left a bit spiky.
The other guy was more clean cut. He also had a vest, but like Conis, his looked like it was suppose to be like that. Everything was put into place. Not a hair seemed to be out of place on his golden blond head. He was lean and tall with what looked like a cigerette poking out of his mouth. There was no smoke coming out though, and Nami quickly dismissed the idea when she saw a big red circle on top of the stick.
She couldn't tell much about their facial features from where she was standing, but she still held her gaze towards them. She was so intertwined in her own thoughts that she didn't notice the raven haired boy staring at her.
When Nami did notice her heart started to pound against her chest, and she suddenly felt butterflies in her stomach. She wanted to turn away embarresed, but her eyes stayed glued to his. He didn't look like he wanted to turn away either, as his dark eyes unmoving as a light soft smile entered his face. Nami instantly felt warmth rush to her face, her heart pounding against her chest harder threatening to come out.
They stayed like that only for maybe a minute, but to both it felt like so much longer.
"Hey!!! watcha starin' at?!" Nami jumped at the sudden intrusion, turning to Cami who was looking over her shoulder, hand over her eyes trying to look for what caught Nami's attention. Nami quickly glanced back to find that they had left, lost into the crowd. Her balcony boy had left.
She let out a quiet sigh."Nothing...nothing at all...".
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"So Luffy what were you looking at?" Luffy glanced at the blond teen walking next to him before turning his head forward again. His thoughts went back to the orange haired girl he had seen only moments ago.
"Nothing...nothing at all..." said the raven haired teen with a smile. 'I wonder who she was?'
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Ha ha.... like I said it's finally getting interesting. Remember to review, or like I said I will lose interest in writing this. Sorry, if it's not what you expected, but I have to get through a few boring parts before it starts getting good. To tell you the truth I wanted to type more, but I feel like I kept you waiting long enough. I hope you liked it.
Oh and again I was telling the truth, I do have a short attention span so if you want me to keep typing this story you better review. Just a warning. Hear from you soon, Bye.=]
