HAPPY BIRTHDAY, SABO~! :D :D :D :D It's Sabo's birthday, y'all~! March 20th~!

I'm feeling pretty good today! I got... moderately far in the serial I'm writing this week! I have the first chapter done and two pages written in the second one. But... Yeah. I'm farther ahead than I was a long time ago!

Also, I just wanted to point out that I know that the suffix ending '-san' isn't only for men, that it's for everyone. I just found it easier and shorter to say that it was the suffix for mister. Besides, I didn't say that it was only for men~! ;)

So, sorry, guys. But, I just want to say somethin'! So, here I am and I search up "food", and you wanna know what pops up? Burgers! Everywhere! I mean, what about "food" makes my computer immediately think "burger"? Is it that I'm American? So, that automatically means that when I think of "food", I think of burgers? Or does my computer just simply enjoy burgers? I mean, I guess that there was one pancake...maybe a few fruits and vegetables, but I saw like...seven burgers show up! And that's not even counting the related things! Never mind... This has been: "My Rant!" (Now, looking up the word "dessert", now that's a different story P: Can't go wrong when you look that word up!)

Other than that, I have nothing else to say! :) I hope you enjoy it!

Oh! Also, for those that don't know, Shop Class is a building class. It's like Workshop Class, or somethin'. :) Enjoy~!

(I don't have to put the disclaimer, right? You guys already know... I've already said it in the other chapters...)

"Welcome, class," exclaimed an extremely tall, powerful man, "to suuuuuuper Shop Class!" He had a blue, rock-and-roll hairstyle, an unprofessional Hawaiian shirt on, and-strangely-a speedo. "I'll be your teacher for this suuuuuuper year! Since I don't like all that formal junk, all you brothers and sisters can call me Franky! Just think of me like your big, ol' bro, all right? Suuuuuuper~!"

Luffy sat in awe as he watched the strange teacher dance around in front of the class. Usopp laughed at him and whispered in his ear, "What do you think of Franky, Luffy? He's a little queer, ain't he?"

"Yes, he is...! But... he's...so cool! Is he... like... a robot? I mean, look at his nose!" Luffy whispered. "Is it made of metal?"

"Ah, yes," Usopp nodded, "Most of Franky is. He's a cyborg, see. I've been friends with him for a long time, so I know. When he was a kid, he was hit by a train, breaking almost every bone in his entire body. Since he was a good inventor, it was easy for him to fix his body up."

"Really? So he is a robot?"

"I guess you could say that, yes!" Usopp nodded.

"Sugei~!" Luffy gasped.

"Now, everybody~! Let me sort you guys into suuuuuuper partners!" Franky cheered. He began listing out the people that he had previously put into groups. "...Usopp and Nami..."

Usopp and Luffy looked at each other in shock. "Oh... Well, I suppose that this is goodbye, Usopp...!" Luffy said dramatically.

"No, Luffy!" Usopp exclaimed, a small tear running down his left eye, "Don't let me go!"

Luffy said in a kind, gentle voice of a woman, "Now, remember, Pinocchio: be a good boy, and always let your conscience be your guide!"

"Hey! Are you making fun of my nose by making references from movies?" Usopp snapped, grabbing his nose.

"Yep!"

"It's not that long..." the long-nosed boy replied as he walked away.

"Don't worry, Usopp! Maybe, someday, you can become a real boy!" Luffy called out.

"Aw, shut up! I am real!"

Franky continued to list out people into groups. Finally, Luffy's named was called. "...Luffy and Hancock..." Franky called out. Luffy raised an eyebrow. The name sounded familiar... He looked over to see a tall girl with long, straight, black hair and snake earrings.

'Oh... Right... That's her...' Luffy thought to himself. He sat down at their assigned table. Luffy saw that she was not pleased by her partner whatsoever. It was obvious from the way she wasn't looking at him. "Hello!" Luffy called out to her.

Hancock sighed impatiently and looked over at Luffy. "What do you want, man?"

"Man? Ha! I didn't know you used that sort of thing in your sentences! What up, du-"

"No! I was calling you a male! Seriously..." Hancock scoffed, looking away again.

"Oh..." Luffy stared at her for a while. Being her partner would never work unless he made her happier. "I...like your earrings!" He was really just grabbing straws here. How should he know what would make her happy? She didn't seem all that nice in the first place...

Hancock widened her eyes and looked back at him. She stared at him for awhile before narrowing her eyes again. "Seriously? Are you being serious right now? Men don't like earrings. Men only like hurting things, ugly creatures, and being cruel."

Luffy widened his eyes. "Wha-what? Are you joking? Well, I'm a guy, and I don't feel that way! I'd never hurt a person for no reason, ugly creatures are only based on the eye of the beholder, Hancock, and kindness is the greatest thing that you can ever find or give!" Luffy smiled and spoke in a gentle, low voice to her, "If that's the opinion you have of men, then maybe I can change it?"

Hancock stopped. A light blush spread across her cheeks. She swung her head around, "Humph! Fine; you can feel that way, but there's no way that you can. A man is a man, no matter what he does!"

Luffy twitched an eyebrow. She was still annoying...

Luffy sighed as he walked up to the front door of his house. The last period of school was supposed to be spent for clubs or athletics. Since the athletics and clubs had not started yet, the students were forced to read to pass the time. Luffy would have had no problem with it, if only he had been a better reader. Yet, sadly, the majority of Luffy's life was spent fighting hard-core martial arts, not sitting down and learning to calmly read a mystery novel!

Finally, he unlocked the door and walked in. The moment he entered the house, he could hear a guitar playing from the radio and Ace singing from the kitchen, " Somebody's gonna hurt someone...before the night is through! Somebody's gonna come undone...there's nothing that we can do...! " He could smell the aroma of chicken and... Luffy widened his eyes and ran into the kitchen screaming, "Ace! Don't tell me that you're-"

" There's gonna be a heartache tonight! A heartache tonight! I know... There's gonna be a heartache tonight! A heartache tonight! Oh Lord, I know...! " Luffy saw Ace cooking chicken in a pan that had flames flying from the pan. "Oh! Luffy! Welcome home, Little Bro! How 'bout it: flambé chicken for dinner and flambé cake for dessert? Well, it doesn't matter what you say, really... I'm already cookin' it!"

"Who suggested this, Ace?" Luffy exclaimed, "Flambé is dangerous!"

Ace ignored him for a while, " This night is gonna last forever... Last all, last all summer long... Some time before the sun comes up... The radio is going to play that song!" Ace looked at Luffy and answered his question, "Well... one: I like fire," Ace said as he poured more alcohol into the pan, sending flames flying up into the air, "and two: Sabo said it's fun~!"

Suddenly, Sabo slid in some blue socks across the brown, wood tile into view singing, " There's gonna be a heartache! A heartache tonight, I know! There's gonna be a heartache tonight! Lord, I know!"

"S-Sabo!" Luffy gasped.

Sabo's eyes widened at the sight of Luffy. "Hey, Luffy! Guess what? Great news!" Sabo ran up and grabbed Luffy into a massive hug. "I got the job!"

"You got the job?" Luffy repeated.

"Yep! And I met so many wonderful people, too!" Sabo exclaimed, "I mean, I was the only one that wanted the job, could fight, and didn't run away at the sight of the leader's face! But, I still got the job!"

"T-that's great, Sabo!" Luffy struggled to say. He didn't want him to going to this mysterious job at all if it meant him having to leave for weeks or months at a time. "You know what? No!" Luffy barked, "I refuse to you going to this job until you tell me what it is!"

Sabo stopped released Luffy from the hug. Ace, from the kitchen, called to him saying, "Sabo! You know you'd better tell him? It's going to come clean at some point, you know?"

Sabo sighed, "Yeah. Yeah, I know. All right, Luffy. I'll tell you. I got a job working for the Revolutionaries."

"The... The Revolutionaries!" Luffy gasped.

"Yeah. They're attempting to take down the World Government. I decided to join them, since I don't agree with the things that the World Government's been doing lately. Also, my parents were awful! They were blind and stuck by what cared for them and gave them wealth: the government. Now that we've got this poisonous cash at our disposal, the only way for the world not to bother us with it is for us to go against them in secret. Luffy... I need your help with this: do NOT tell anyone about this. Anyone! If someone figures out, they could tell the Government, then you guys would be in danger. I can't let that happen. I know that you'll be good about this and won't tell anyone. You're good at keeping secrets." Sabo smiled at him. "I can trust you, right, Luffy?"

Luffy hesitated. "Of course, Sabo!" Of course he would keep this secret! Why wouldn't he? His hesitation was only made by fear. Sometimes, it can feel better knowing nothing than knowing the truth. The truth can frighten you at times.

"Great!" Sabo patted Luffy's shoulder. "I knew that I could trust you, Luffy!"

"No you didn't!" Ace snapped, "I had to urge you on to tell him, yah jerk! Give me some credit, too!"

"Shut up! I'm having a brother to brother conversation, you idiot!" Sabo growled.

"I hate you!"

"That's not nice!"

"Your mom!"

There was silence.

"Yeah? What about my mom?" Sabo said. "Is that it? Is that all you're got? There's no more to say from that insult? If it's just a possessive personal pronoun and a noun, that's pretty pathetic, you know!"

"Y-yeah! I know that!" Ace looked back at his flambé chicken.

Sabo turned back to Luffy. "Maybe I can introduce you to some of the people there sometime? They're very nice! You'd love them! My partners are a very nice woman named Koala and a strange looking martial artist named Hack! You'd love them, Luffy! I know it."

Luffy nodded. "Yeah, maybe I will someday. Right now, though, I'm kind of tired... I'm just going to go to bed until dinner."

"O-Oh... right now?" Sabo stammered, "Are you sure, Luffy? Is something wrong?"

"No! Nothing's wrong; I'm just tired."

With that, Luffy walked up the stairs to his room. Ace and Sabo looked at each other in confusion. "It's his first day at school, you know? It's got to have been tough."

Sabo looked back at where Luffy disappeared. "Yeah..."

That night, after Luffy came out of his room for the food, they had a wonderful, fiery dinner, even if it was extremely dangerous to cook flambé inside a household. The three brothers had a small martial arts tournament with each other as the sun was sinking below the horizon-Luffy got beaten every time, though. Luffy was able to happily go to bed with a smile on. The moment he got in his bed and turned out the lights, though, he was plagued with the memory of the day his life changed forever.

When he awoke from his nightmarish memory, he sat up in bed and turned on the lamp on his nightstand. Luffy lifted up his hand and stared at it for awhile. "Now that I have friends," Luffy whispered to himself as he grabbed his skin, "when I tell them that I'm," grabbing his tan skin, he stretched it five inches away from his hand, "rubber?"

Ooh~! Did you guys figure out what happened to Luffy? :D Ba ba baaaaaa! I mean, it's actually sort of obvious when you think of it! XD But, don't worry if you didn't know that that's what it was. :)

The song that Ace and Sabo were singing was the Eagles song: "Heartache Tonight", I truthfully am not a big fan of the song-if you are, I don't care-but I just felt like this song would sort of...fit the situation, you know? I was thinking that by 'heartache' it would mean 'heartburn' from how hot the food was and in the beginning of the song, the first words were saying that 'somebody's gonna get hurt', which from cooking flambé you can get seriously injured if you cook it inside a house and you aren't a professional (which Ace is NOT).

I had fun with that part in the story, and the part with Luffy the Blue Fairy and Usopp the Pinocchio! XD

Oh! Also, for Chapter 6, Kid isn't a nice person in this story, it's just that his favorite thing in the entire world to do is make fun of Law, and he was doing that there. He was just having fun! :3

That's all I've got to say for today, so... bye, y'all~! :)