"Silence in the library at all times?"

Tsuki was in the library. This was one of the only frees she didn't share with Eli, making it a grand total of two. They were always together, mainly because Eli did not understand the meaning of the words "leave me alone." Tsuki sighed. That little pest really didn't know when to leave things, people included, alone. Ever since Eli joined the school, right bang in the middle of last year, she'd always followed Tsuki; pestering her about her parents, asking nosey questions and generally annoying the shit out of the older girl. Technically, Tsuki was only a couple of months older than Eli, the the latter was so immature, you'd have thought they were years apart age wise.

Damn, why am I thinking about her in the only free in which I don't have to put up with her constant babble? Tsuki scolded herself. She looked down at the essay she was starting. It was some stupid English essay on Romeo and Juliet. She stared at the question: "Rome and Juliet could be seen as a typical comedy as opposed to a horrifying tragedy" discuss". What moron decided that Rome and Juliet could ever be seen as a comedy? It was a tragedy, end of story, just like… NO! Don't think about it! Tsuki yelled internally. If anyone knew about her tacit struggles with herself, they'd have thought she was mad, crazy and beserk all at the same time.

"How many times, idiot Strawhat kid! No cola in the library!"

"But Franky you just gave it to us!" complained a whiney voice that could only be Usopp's.

"no I didn't, what would happen to these books, cola is for outside the library!"

"Franky san, I'm glad to hear that you're prohibition on cola in the library is improving."

"Yes Robin san, as you can see, these ruffians have no time for rules, eh. But boys will be boys."

"How can you say that when, umpf…" Usopp's sentence was cut short by some sort of muffled thump. Tsuki turned around, suddenly interested in the conversation happening at the desks on the other side of the bookshelves. Hoho, so Robin was checking up on Franky, was she? This was a turn out for the books. Tsuki laughed at her little joke. Turn out for the books, in the library, gettit. Ok, I'll just stop trying.

"Yes that's certainly true, boys shall be boys. And men shall be boys too, am I right Franky san?" said Robin fondly. It sounded like she was repremanding him. Ok forget the "sounding like" part, she Was repremanding him.

"Yeh, I supposed so." Franky laughed nervously. "But I'll chuck 'em out now."

Tsuki peered around the shelf. Robin had her back to her, so her expression was allowed to live purely in Tsuki's imagination, but Franky's was in clear view.

The weirdo, as in Franky, had one hand on his hip, the other behind his head. Beads of sweat decorated his forehead like a kind of strange tiara, which was in full view due to his hairdo of way-too-gelled electric blue hair. Honestly he looked more like some sort of coastguard life saver as opposed to a librarian. He insisted on wearing nothing below his stomach line save a pair of y-front swim trunks, and the rest of himself he covered in a sort of Hawaian style shirt, unbottoned at all times. Apart from that and the permanent sunglasses he always wore, either on the bridge of his nose or on his forehead, he was completely naked. Ok, you can't be completely naked when you're privates are covered and you've got a shirt on, but still you know what I mean.

Robin turned, calling over her shoulder: "Don't forget why you're here Franky!"

Tsuki backed quickly behind the bookcase. If Robin caught her…

"And Tsuki-chan, please know that eavesdropping is a bad habit." Tsuki flinched, eye twitching. Honestly Robin had eyes everywhere. As she left the library, the atmosphere started to ease up.

"Sorry, Usopp. I didn't mean to be a git like that."

"s'all right Franky, just choose someone else next time. Didn't Robin say Tsuki was eavesdropping? Oi Tsuki, you there?"

Oh this was just great, fantastic, now instead of her time alone, Tsuki now had to share it with the two morons from yesterday's lunchtime. Ok, just pretend you're not here and they'll ignore you. Yeh right!

Usopp's nose peered around the bookshelf, preceding the boy himself. "There you are." He yelled pointing.

"Oh, that's great!" yelled his companion, the annoying Strawhat. "Come sit with us."

Tsuki wondered what to do now. Her mind was asking a simple question "Should I stay or should I go?", it was nearly singing. She looked into the boys face. The childish head bedecked in straw smiled. Tsuki's soul flinched. There was genuine warmth in that smile, warmth she had not felt for a long time. Not sinch her father. There was nothing she could do.

"Fine, I'll sit with you." She put on a hard face, making sure her thoughts were locked up in some dusty chest in the back of her head.

" so Franky… what was all that about?"

"All what about?"

"The stuff about "Why're you're here." The creepy shit." Usopp, ever the dramatic waved his hands in what may be considered a spooky, gypsy fortune teller like way.

"Huh, guess I have to tell you." Said the weirdo.

He gives in too easily, thought Tsuki.

"When I finished school, and I'm older than Robin, so I didn't go here, before you ask Luffy. Anyway, as soon as I left, I started my own brotherhood of ruffians. Not mafia, nowhere near the scale. We were around fifty, committing petty crime, joyriding, breaking up beat up cars, bounties."

"WOW, amazing. You caught criminals!" yelled Luffy.

"the really easy ones. Anyway, the law decided that it didn't like what I was up to, plus I got into a skirmish with them when I was at school. Some idiot policeman decided he was gonna persecute my foster dad cos he didn't like the fact that he made weapons for anyone who paid, so I kicked him up the ass."

Tsuki, Luffy and Usopp all burst out laughing. The idea of a teenage Franky kicking a policeman up the arse was priceless.

"yeh, I did do it, not making that up! Anyway, in prison I met Robin, and she helped me get outta there and now I've got a job at this super school!" Franky did a weird pose. It was a bit like the kind Zoro asked his pupils to do, lean your body to the side with one arm raised above your head. Only Franky stretched out both arms, making the tattoo on his arms, both stars, become one.

"and that's it? Robin bailed you out of jail and now you're here teaching together?"

"She bailed me out? Oh yeh she did!" Franky hastily tried to cover up his mistake. "sorry, it was so long ago that my mind jumbles up facts."

Usopp and Luffy nodded, but Tsuki saw through the façade. It was a talent she prided herself on, she could see through masks and lies. Franky was hiding something.

She was prevented from thinking about it further when Nami entered the library. That bitch, what's she doing here, she avoids the library, thought Tsuki.

This was true, Nami generally left the library to nerds, as she called the library goers. She entered and marched straight up to the three classmates and the librarian. She strode purposefully towards them.

"hi, I'm luffy." Said Luffy.

"Idiot! That's Nami, she'll kill you." Whispered Usopp.

"Oh so that's Nami!"

"Eejit, that's Nami, the bully that nearly destroyed Choppr." Whispered Usopp, giving Luffy a clout on the head.

"ah, sorry."

"Hi, I'm in your class."

"Sorry, I was probably asleep."

Nami nodded. "You're the narcolep right." She pulled up a chair and sat down beside Tsuki. "Marimo's been putting up signs for a weaponary club, you seen em?"

"Yeh."

"You gonna join?"

"I might, you?"

"Yeh."

"Then I'm not."

"Oi, Tsuki, you don't say that kinda thing out loud." Said Usopp.

"I don't care."

Nami laughed, but the annoyance that she was feeling was almost overflowing from the emotion cauldron right now.

"Never mind. I was thinking of taking up the quarterstaff. What bout you guys?"

"I was thinking a gun, like my dad." Said Usopp.

"Same here. I used to weild guns, and those big spiky medeival balls on chains. I'd have the gun in my left hand, my medieval weapon in my right and I'd yell "Weapons Left" or "Strong Right" depending on the weapon of the moment"

"Too cool Franky!" yelled Luffy, stars dancing in his eyes.

"thanks Luff, what bout you?"

"I'm a boxer through and through, I like to punch and kick stuff." Smiled the idiot.

"So you don't need a weapon!" yelled Usopp.

"Nope." Laughed Luffy. He still laughed when Usopp clouted him again.

"What bout you Tsuki?" asked Usopp, trying to calm himself down from the annoyance Luffy had stirred in him.

" I…I" Tsuki fidgeted, she'd never spoken to anyone about this. "I wanna learn how to use a nunchaku, like a proper ninja. I mean my dad had one, and I kept it, it'd be cool to use."

"Too cool!" said both Luffy and Usopp.

Nami smiled, "Great, I'll see you there. None of my friends wanna go, so I thought I'd get to know the people who did. I gotta go." The bell rang.

"Lunchtime!" yelled Luffy.

As they walked out of the room, Nami smiled. This was gonna be good. Her little army was getting together. Just to find some others. Eli and Chopper were trying martial arts. This might just work. Maybe Arlong would go down! And when he did, she'd be free!

(Dear Reader

(Tenshi no Tsuki is not my character, much as I would like her to be, but a friends "Friends-only-yaoi's Ana) and is copy written and I have her full permission in the use of character. Eli's my own and I've marked her forehead with a funny (c) too)