"What did you say you bitch?" Kid turned to me again and had flames in his eyes.

He grabbed me by my throat and squeezed it faintly. I could breathe, but it hurt. He leaned closer to me and whispered loud to me. "Listen up, I don't care if you want to join, but insult me again and you won't have a tongue to insult me with," he said. "That's enough Kid!" Ace said and Kid let go of my neck. I knelt down. I felt like throwing up, but I only coughed a few times.

"Hey, are you alright?" Ace touched my shoulder to comfort me. I breathed hard, but stood up again. "I'm fine, no worries," I said. I turned to look at Ace again. He looked so worried it was almost cute. I broke the silence when I smiled and spoke.

"So… where do I sign up?"

Disclamer: I do not own one piece, or its characters. I just own Blue A. Ruka and Diamond Mara.

Chapter 4.

(Mara's P.O.V)

We stood in front of two quite big doors. They were brown and had this feeling like something inside just waited to be explored. "Why do the doors feel so… lively?" I asked Vivi. She looked at me with a big smile and eyes that held excitement.

"Just wait until we get inside," she said and opened both the doors at once. It was like the time stopped. It was a big scene in front of us with curtains on each side. The room was slightly dark, but the scene was all lightened up. It felt like it strengthened the room, like it held history, art, music.

"You see, the music club is not only music. We sometimes dance, we sometimes act different plays, and we sometimes set up a big show that the whole school usually loves," Vivi said and walked downwards towards the big scene.

It walked after her. I looked to my left and to my right. It was so many seats that not only the school, but probably the whole city could get in here. I felt watched. Like there were people sitting there and just watching me, smiling, clapping. Oh, it felt so… weird.

"What makes this place so magical?" I asked Vivi. She turned around and looked at me like I had said something unusual. "What do you mean? You're in a theater. It's supposed to feel like this," she smiled at me and gestured for me to follow her. I did and she brought me backstage.

There were so many people here. It was unbelievable. In one corner there were dancers, in another there were a band. Two people even worked with tissue. Some were pole dancing, some were acting, it was like a mixed up world of show.

"Come on, I want you to meet someone," Vivi dragged me to one of the people who just stood still and watched. "Laura," Vivi said. A girl who looked like she was a senior turned around. She had short green hair and glasses on her nose. She was completely pale and her shining red lipstick wanted to make you blind.

Her outfit was easy though; a blue top with a brown leather jacket, black pants and brown boots. "This is Mara, she wants to join the club," Vivi said and Laura raised an eyebrow. "She can play the violin," she also said. Laura didn't look impressed at all, probably because we stood in a row of talents.

"Interesting," she said and then she walked away. She just simply walked away. "Follow her," Vivi said. "What?" I asked. "She wants to hear," Vivi told me and slightly nudged me to go after her. I did and I followed her out on the stage.

She held a violin. She held the beautiful instrument in her hands, and her fingers ran over the strings. "You can play this?" she asked. I nodded. She rolled her eyes and tossed the instrument at me. Yes, you heard me. She tossed the instrument. Luckily I caught it in midair.

"If you had dropped that, I would have thrown you out immediately," she told me. She still held the bow in her hand and she smirked. "You threw this piece of art at me, not the other way around. It is not a way to treat this delicate instrument," I told her. She instantly threw the bow at me too, which I caught.

"Play," she demanded, but I hesitated a bit. She looked impatient as she folded her arms over her chest and tapped her foot lightly in the ground. "Play!" she said again. She made me feel insecure about the instrument, but I did as she told me to do.

(Vivi's P.O.V)

I heard strings, a beautiful melody from a little instrument. I slowly peaked out of the curtains to see Mara playing softly. Her eyes were closed, and her body swayed a little from side to side. Her light brown hair fell down in waves and danced with her body. She smiled. She was happy.

The melody started slow, but it picked up its pace after a minute. It sounded dangerous. It was like I could picture it. I closed my eyes and listened. I could see the ocean. I could see a boat; a little sail ship.

It was so peaceful, but then the sky changed and the waves got rougher. A storm came, and rocked the ship from side to side. The people on board scream, like they knew they couldn't make it. Then a big wave came, and washed them all under. Then it was peaceful again.

The people got up on shore on a little island. They were happy that they were safe. "Enough," I heard and the music stopped directly, bringing me back to reality.

"It was beautiful, indeed," I could see that Laura was smiling. This was some special part about her. She seemed rough and cold, but she actually was kind of okay. She just tested the new people, because if you can stand up to a rough person and still play, then you can stand up to anything. That was at least what she used to say.

"Welcome to the club," she said and reached out her hand to Mara. Mara took it, but I couldn't see her facial expression. It was glued at something outside the scene. I looked down to see someone sitting in the chairs. It was kind of hard to see who it was, but I could see that it was a guy.

(Mara's P.O.V)

He was sitting there, smirking. He had listened to my music, to my song. He had stared at me the whole time. I could feel it, and he had closed his eyes to listen deeper. He was definitely a weird man, and I didn't expect him to come here and listen to me now. My eyes looked over at Laura again. She seemed like another person.

She smiled at me and I took her hand. We shook it and she left me again. I looked out to find him again, but he was gone. The doors were slightly swaying. Law had left. Did that mean that I didn't have to play for him again?

(Ruka's P.O.V)

I had left Ace in the engineering club and I had gone back to my locker. I opened it up and I looked for my notebook. I just stood in the locker and looked at the picture I had drawn of Mara. I wish Mara could play for everyone, not just a few people. She had a talent that she didn't want to show to people. Or at least not so many people at once.

I looked into my bag to find a picture of me and Mara. I taped it to my door and smiled. She was my best friend, but she could be a little bit confusing some times. Suddenly something fell down; a piece of paper.

I'd like to get to know you more

That was it. It was kind of creepy and I didn't know what to say. I quickly put the paper inside my notebook and closed it before putting it in my bag.

I closed the locker and went for the cafeteria. It was full of people. Almost impossible to find who I wanted to find. It took a while, but I found Nami sitting together with Zoro, Sanji, Sabo and Luffy. They sat with two other people too that I didn't know.

Nami noticed me and waved me over. "Ruka, how was the engineering club?" Nami asked me. I sat down next to her. "It was okay, except for Kid who tried to kill me, but it was okay," I answered her and tried to smile. "Kid tried to kill you?" she asked me with a worried tone. "I'll kill that bastard for trying to harm my beautiful Ruka-chwan!" Sanji said and rose up from the table and walked away leaving fire behind him.

"Kid just has a bad thing with accepting new people. He'll come around, you'll see," Nami said and took a bite of her salad. "Aren't you going to eat anything?" she asked me. "Well, yeah, but introduce me first," I said. She went back from me to the guys sitting across from us to me again.

"Oh, yeah. Usopp, Chopper, this is Ruka," Nami said. "Nice to meet you," they said in unison. "No, nice to meet you, I'm going to get some food," I said and walked over to the buffet that was placed out.

It smelled weird, but I decided to give it a try. It was meatballs… I think and spaghetti. It was also salad, you could take. I took a little bit of everything and a glass of juice.

I found out table again and saw that Ace had come back from the engineering club. Mara and Vivi was also there. "Ruka!" Mara shouted and when I placed my food down. She got up and rushed towards me and hid her head in my chest.

"I need help," she cried. I patted her head slowly and tried to… I don't know. Comfort her, maybe?

"The music president hates me, she's evil," she cried. "Oh, I can top that," I said and looked at Ace who had fallen asleep in her food. "How can you top it?! The president was a demon, I mean it!" she told me held me by my shirt.

"Hey, relax. It can't be that bad, it's just our first day. Everything will be better tomorrow," I tried to cheer her on, but she just gave me one of her gloomy face expressions. "Dammit, fell asleep," I heard beside me.

"Welcome back," I said as I sat down beside Nami again. "Thank you," he said and started to eat again. I stared at my food. I didn't want it anymore. It looked weird. The meatballs didn't look like meatballs.

"The meatballs don't look like meatballs," I said and stared at my food in disgust. "Like you would know," commented Mara. "Shut up, I just know that they aren't supposed to look like this," I said and took a bite of one of them. It came right out again though.

"Man down, call the police," I said and made a dramatic fall, which mean lying my head on the table. "Don't you mean the hospital?" asked Chopper. "No, these people deserve to be arrested for food poisoning," I whispered. Nami patted my back.

"If you don't want it, I'll take it," Luffy said and grabbed my plate and started to stuff it down his stomach. I immediately rose up again and stared. "Not only did the food taste bad, I spitted all over that plate," I whispered to Ace. He just laughed.

"I want to go home," Mara said. I looked at her. "Do you feel sick?" I asked her. "No, I am just surrounded by idiots," she whined and pouted. "Idiots?" I asked. I grabbed my spoon, took some of Aces food and threw it in Maras face.

"Is it getting more fun?" I asked her again and smiled. Nami giggled while the boys laughed. "No," she answered me and took a piece of spaghetti and threw it on my head. It stuck to my hair and fell down like it was my own.

"Oh, you should not have done that," I said and grabbed some of Nami's salad. I threw it, but she dodged and it ended up on someone behind her. "Hey, what the hell are you doing?" they asked. I burst out laughing as the person I hit with salad threw something back at me, but I dodged it and it fell on someone behind me.

"You want to go girl?" the guy behind me asked. "Foodfight!" I heard and suddenly everyone started to throw food at each other. I just sat down again and drunk some of juice before I threw the juice (not the glass) at some random person.

"I want to get out," I said and darted past people who were throwing disgusting meatballs at each other. The others followed and we got out alive, and surprisingly clean. "Well, that was fun," Mara said. "So do you want to go home now?" I asked her. "Yeah, I am tired. And I have sprained my arm," she said.

I turned to look at her. "What?!" I said. "Why didn't you say so?" I asked her again. I felt like my heart sunk. Why did she keep it for herself?

"Well, I didn't need to. It's not like you're my mom," she said. "And I can take care of myself," she added and crossed her arms over the chest. I furrowed my eyebrows. My hand grabbed the piece of spaghetti that was in my hair and pulled it out.

"What do you guys say? Should we walk them home?" Ace asked his brothers. "There's no need for that," I said and Mara shrugged. "I don't mind," she said and looked at me. "Yeah, I am kind of exhausted even though nothing have happened today," Sabo added.

"Oh, well. If you're going home too, then you probably can walk with us," I said. We got to our lockers and gathered our stuff. I put my bag over my shoulder and locked the locker again. The boys and Mara seemed ready to go, and Nami, Vivi, Chopper and Usopp bid us farewells.

When we exited the school, a fresh air blew through my hair. It was refreshing. "There's a storm coming," I heard Ace say. "A storm?" Mara asked. "Are we going to die?" I heard Luffy ask. "No, it won't come before tonight," Sabo said. I looked at Ace. He seemed to look up to the sky and just… I don't know. It was like he was communicating with it or something.

"Are you alright?" I asked him. He looked down on me and smiled. "Yeah, no worries," he said and his eyes went up to look at the road. Something wasn't right, but I let it slide for the moment.

"I want food," Luffy whined. "We just ate," Mara told him, but it seemed that he didn't even hear it. "Don't bother talking to him when he is hungry. It is like he goes into a state that only food can get him out of," Sabo told us. Mara chuckled and I struggled to keep my laughter down.

It was getting colder. Sabo was right; it was probably a storm coming soon. "Question; when you said we are home when the storm comes… does that mean that the storm actually can kill us?" I asked him. Sabo stared down at me. First his face expression told me that it was the stupidest thing I could ever ask, but then his face softened and he started to think.

"I actually don't know…" he said. "I never bothered to figure it out." He ran a hand through his hair and sighed. "Well, we have to fix up the apartment, and we could use some help," Mara said smiling sweetly at both Sabo and Ace. She didn't even care about Luffy who was imagining meat in his own little world.

"I don't know, I'm a bit tired," Sabo said. "Me too and I have plans," Ace answered. I looked over at Mara who seemed very disappointed and something popped into my mind.

"Hey Luffy! What do you say about helping us with the apartment," I asked him. "He's not going to say anything," Ace told me. I smirked evilly. "I will personally pay you," I told him again, he was still not listening though. The others just chuckled. "…With pizza," I said and he sparked up like fireworks. "How much?!" He said with hearts in his eyes and his tongue was hanging out of his mouth.

"As much as you can handle, but there's one catch," I said and nodded slightly. "What is it?" he asked joyfully. "Your brothers have to help," I told him and suddenly Ace held out his arm so I would stop. "Nonononono, I have things to do," he said.

"Lots of lots of pizza…" I sang and Luffy just drooled more and more. Ace grabbed my arms and held a hand over my mouth so I couldn't say anything more. I tried to, but everything that came out was just mumble.

"Lots of pizza…" Mara had continued for me. "Okay! Okay! Okay! Okay! We'll do it!" Luffy exclaimed happily and ran around in circles while shouting pizza. I laughed behind Aces hand and Mara was mocking the boys stating that it was stupid to let their little brother sell them to us.

"Don't worry," I said when Ace finally removed his hand. "You only need to carry in the furniture. It's not more than that," I told them. I looked up at saw that Ace was not happy. In fact he was actually irritated, like, really irritated. Not irritated like back in the engineering club, no he was actually really mad this time. It made me feel guilty.

It made me poke his cheek. "You can also have pizza," I said and he glared down at me, but suddenly he just fell to the ground.

"Oh look at that. He died again," I said. I grabbed his arm while Sabo took the other and we lifted him up again. "So where do you live?" he asked and I smiled mischievously.

"Wait, you live in here?" Sabo asked me. "Yeah, well we moved in today. See that truck that stands over there? Full with furniture," I told him. "You do know that Law lives here too, right?" Sabo told me. "Huh, I did not know," I smiled mischievously again, making plans for the future.

Mara opened up the door for us and when we got in the hall, she used her key to open our apartment. We had moved into the fourth apartment, and Sabo told me Law lived in the seventh, which meant one floor up.

We got inside and saw the empty place. The first thing we saw was the future living room which was connected to the kitchen that was right ahead of us. The bathroom was to the right and the bedroom to the left. The apartments were quite big actually.

"This place is huge," Sabo said and I nodded. I heard Mara placing the keys on the kitchen counter. "So where do we start?" Ace asked, totally awake now. "Morning Mr. Freckles, did you sleep well?" I asked him. He just grinned and started to walk around.

"Where's the pizza?!" Luffy nearly jumped at Mara. "We haven't ordered yet, and you don't get any if you don't start working!" Mara shouted back at him. "You heard her guys, start working!" Luffy ordered the brothers.

"DO IT YOURSELF!" The older brothers threw their bags at him.

End of Chapter 4

"Uhm…" escaped my lips. "Freckles? Who is Doflamingo?" I asked. He laughed again. "Freckles? Seriously? You couldn't find something original?" he said and sat down at the table. He was avoiding my question. Something was seriously wrong.

"Who is he?" I asked again. "Nothing to worry about," he answered again. I sighed. "C'mon, just answer the stupid question. I heard him on the news yesterday too. Who is he?" I was starting to get a little bit impatient. If that wasn't enough Ace grabbed my arm, gave it a squeeze and rose up to tower over me.

"Just someone you should stay away from, okay? Just leave it at that!" he almost shouted.

Until next time.

-BlondRebelle