This chapter was so fun to write (as all the others were) the last two chapters were a little slow but things start picking up again in this and the next chapter. I have some very interesting things coming up including Luffy's past which will be really fun to write. I love Zoro and Luffy best friend moments.

Really guys, thank you so much for taking the time to review and write PMs to cheer me on. It really makes my day and makes me smile. Also for worrying about my cat xD he's fine now, sleeping under my desk on top of my feet at the moment. His name is cheese-nip by the way.


Stalking Luffy. Waiting at the park

~~~~~~~~~~Chapter 7~~~~~~~~~~

Luffy simply adored P.E class, this much was clear to Chopper as he watched his Captain smile brightly as he switched his blue shorts with the standard gym navy shorts and his black shark shirt with the standard grey shirt. Chopper laughed at Luffy's struggle to tie his shoes while standing. (3) Luffy heard his cook and swordsman fighting and turned around to them.

"Damn it Sanji! This is just like yesterday! I pulled this from the closet its mine!" Zoro demanded as he pulled the grey shirt Sanji was holding.

"I know you shitty swordsman! I left it in the closet by mistake! I hate rooming with you!" Sanji hissed and started playing toggle war with the t-shirt. They heard Luffy laugh. Both teens slowly turned to him, each one with a death glare on...Oh if looks could kill...Luffy would be considered blind.

"Say out of it!" They both snapped but Luffy didn't seem to mind.

"I got an idea!" He said, which was rare for the teen. Usopp, Chopper, Zoro and Sanji all stared at their Captain.

"REALLY?" they all asked at the same time. Luffy seemed unaffected and nodded. He opened his light blue locker and pulled out his red backpack that was decorated with writing in black sharpie. Last year Luffy had gotten all his friends to sign his backpack. He opened said backpack and pulled out a marker.

"Use the marker to write your name on the tag of the shirt. That way this wont happen again." he advised, throwing the marker to Zoro who easily caught it with one hand.

"That's a really good idea Luffy!" Usopp cheered and Luffy grinned.

"Yeah but how do we know who the shirt belongs to?" Sanji asked. Straw-hat thought for a few minutes and his face turned red-ish.

"OI LUFFY! DON'T HURT YOURSELF! BREATHE!" The soon to be Dr. Chopper said and as Luffy snapped his fingers.

"Just play rock-paper-scissors?" Luffy half asked. The swordsman and cook shrugged.

"Another bright idea from Luffy..." Zoro muttered and started playing rock-paper-scissors with Sanji. Zoro won 2-1, much to Sanji's dislike.

"Yeah Shishishishi! Better enjoy it while it last." Luffy snickered at himself as the bell for P.E rung.


Little did Luffy know that he was being closely watched by a certain big brother that was stalking from behind his pineapple friend.

Ace couldn't help but grin. He was full with joy at seeing his brother, more joy than he had in years. He hadn't changed much, a few scars (much to Ace's dislike) and grew a few feet taller. Other than that he was still the same baby brother that he use to give piggyback rides to. He momentarily wondered if he would let him give him a piggyback ride but then remembered that he was a grown man and he had missed his childhood.

despite that, he was glad that Luffy had found friends that cared and loved him when he couldn't. He owned a great deal to them for watching over his little brother in his absents.


"Alright you idiots, today I want you to do 5 laps around the gym. You got 3 minutes. GO!" Miss. Hina yelled and suddenly everyone was running. Zoro and Sanji were leading the pack, racing each other. They were closely followed by an over excited Luffy who was talking none stop about something, even though Sanji and Zoro were far to busy to hear. The two teens growled and puffed out their chest as if just an inch would help them win. The three started their last lap, that was where things got..intersting.

Zoro and Sanji had started tripping each other and soon, half way though the lap they had both fallen to the floor on top of each other and were throwing punches. At the moment Luffy jumped over them with a victory cry.

"I'm gonna win!" Luffy yelled and snapped both teens out of there haze. The two teens grabbed either of Luffy's legs as he jumped over them and with a cry of 'NO YOUR NOT!' they pulled him down along with him.

"Ah, Sanji! Zoro! Don't drag me into this! I wanna win!" Luffy complained, as he started to crawl, dragging both Sanji and Zoro along with him.

"THERE IS NO WAY I'M LOSING TO A GUY WHO HURT BROKE HIS ANKLE YESTERDAY!" Sanji shouted as other students started to pass them.

"Hurry let me go! People are starting to pass us!" Luffy whined and laid his head on the cold tan flooring of the gym room and moaned and make annoying sounds. Luffy was going to keep this up in till they let him go, yes that was his plan. He moaned and let out a wierd 'BAAHAARAAWR' sound loud enough for the whole class to hear. This included a slowly jogging Ace and Marco who just passed the three. Marco watched them, amused and Ace snickered. Zoro gave Marco his middle finger and Sanji made a blah noise at the two.

"LAWN HEAD, CURLY-Q, STRAW-HAT! STOP MESSING AROUND!" Mrs. Hina raged as she threw a basketball aimed at a straw hat. It was about to land on Luffy's head when Zoro and Sanji let go of his legs and said started running. He was done with his lapse in a flash. The raven boy was closely followed by Sanji and Zoro. They all agreed that Miss. Hina was 2nd scariest to Nami. They joined the other students sitting on the grey metal benches that Luffy couldn't help but drum with the palms of his hands.

"CUT IT OUT STRAW HAT, I'M WARNING YOU!" The teacher scolded and Luffy obeyed. Ace chuckled at how much Luffy reminded him of himself in highschool.

"Based on your last game I made two teams, Team A get on the right wall and repair for dodge ball!" She called and many students sighed as Luffy cheered. "Team A is:

Sanji, Sakazuki, Kuzsan, Bellamy, Buggy, Whitybay, Coby, Helmeppo, Luffy " A cheer was heard from Luffy, happy to be with Sanji. Was Sanji's eye's playing tricks on him or had Miss. Hina just smiled at Luffy's outburst "Kaya, Jango, Lola, Kalifa, Marco -" Marco chuckled and patted a pouting Ace's back lightly "and Killer. Any questions? No? Good! The rest of you on the other wall, you have 5 seconds before we start! Five, Four -" Everyone ran to their posts. Sanji and Luffy were whispering. 'probably planing an attack.' Zoro thought to himself.

"START" the bossy women shouted from the side lines as she threw numerous basketballs throughout the middle of the gym. Everyone lunged for one, that is but, Luffy and Sanji who waited for the rush to dissipate. The green haired teen noticed this of course.

"Chopper, Usopp." The two looked for at him as he continued, "Sanji and Luffy are up to something. Don't take your eyes off them." His two friends nodded.

Luffy started gathering basketballs and bring them over to Sanji. So far they had gathered three. He watched as girl with blue hair like Vivi's and confident look took out 4 of their players. Kaya, Helmeppo, Bellamy and Jango all walked over to the grey bench and waited for class to end.

Luffy was about to shot a basket ball at Chopper when Sakazuki stepped in his way and he ended up throwing the ball at the back of his head. He turned and glared at Luffy.

"GRR! PIRATE SCUM!"He yelled at the top of his lungs, effectively making the room hush. 'Ah! Luffy! Don't cause a sence! Not with one of the three powers. Can't I get a break?' Usopp screamed in his mind as he knew it was hopeless to hope that his captain wouldn't piss off Sakazuki.

"Marine Teacher's Pet." Luffy said back and everyone gasped. Everyone but Sanji, Zoro, Chopper and Usopp who know that together they could take down the three powers with a few minor set-backs - such as broken bones and browses.

"What did you just say Strawhat? YOU WANNA DIE?" Kuzsan came from out of no where and held back Sakazki who was struggling in his grip.

"We don't want an 'unnecessary' fight." He whispered in his ear. Kuzsan actually liked Luffy, if he wasn't a Marine he would probably befriend the boy. After all he had worked his way into his consent and some how changed Robin for the better. For that, he owed the boy a debt.

"I said Marine Teacher's pet and no I don't wanna die." Luffy said, confused at his question. He heard Sakazki growl.

"YEAH? YOU WANNA SAY THAT TO MY FACE STRAW HAT LUFFY?" He yelled.

"Oh my god! I said it to your face twice now! How stupid are you?" Luffy asked rather annoyed and started walking to Sanji.

blink...

blink blink...

"WHAT ARE YOU LOOKING AT? GET BACK TO THE GAME, DUMB ASSES!" Miss. Hina yelled, Sanji cooed about how amazing of a teacher she was.

Yup that was Ace's brother alright, Ace sighed and threw a ball at Marco and laughed when it actually hit the fazed boy. Zoro snickered. He always enjoyed his Captain's uncanny ability to make people mad with out even trying. It was just another reason that he was his captain.


"Alright Sanji, we have 8 basketballs. Lets finish this thing!" Luffy cheered and served a basketball to Sanji who kicked it hard into one of the other teams players. This repeated itself 8 times and five members from team 2 have gotten out. This left only five players on both teams

Team one: Luffy, Sanji, Kuzsan, Lola and Coby.

Team two: Zoro, Ace, Whitybay, Chopper and Thatch.

The game was getting intense. Name calling and bad mouthing could be heard as the teacher ordered for all balls to be put in the center of the room for round two. The 20 other students watched the 10 on their walls, cheering for who they wanted to win. 6 cheered for the Straw-Hats while 8 cheered for the WhiteBeard Pirates. The rest cheered for Kuzsan, who along with Coby, was the only Marine left in the game.

"TEACH THE STRAWHAT WHO'SE BOSS KUZSAN!" someone yelled, in which Kuzsan replied that Luffy was on his same team.

"GO LUFFY!" Usopp cheered along with Kaya and her friend Merry. Luffy seemed to into the game to notice.

"KICK THIER ASSES THATCH!" Marco yelled and Ace stuck his tongue out at him while Thatch laughed.

"ROUND 2! GO!" Miss. Hina yelled and Luffy made a mad dash for the ball. On the other team Ace did the same thing, both running for the same ball at the same time. The older brother covered his face with his basketball and Luffy laughed.

The straw-hat's didn't panic much. They knew their Captain too well and knew that even if Luffy knew Ace's name and face he probably wouldn't put two and two together.

'That guy...' Luffy thought 'looks a lot like Noah Lomax...(1)' All this took about 4 seconds in reality. For most in the gym they saw the start to a great game while 7 in the room saw the two brothers as close as they had even been for the past 10 years.

Ace realized Luffy was staring at him and coughed awkwardly, putting on a fake manly voice.

"Your funny." Luffy laughed as he picked up one of the 7 basketballs and started jogging back to Sanji. Ace mind rung. His brother, his long-lost baby brother was talking to him. It took all his will power not to drop and ball and hug him right there. Ace coughed again.

"Uh...yeah. You too" He answered back and hurried away.

"Ace? Why'd you use that wierd voice?" Zoro asked to which Ace shrugged and threw a ball at Coby, who was hit.

'the apple doesn't fall far from the tree...' Zoro thought as he watched Ace get out because Sanji had rolled a basketball and it had touched his left foot.

In the end no one had won the game, since the bell had cut them off. Not that anyone minded because the game had only included Zoro, Luffy, Sanji and Chopper at that point. The chances of that ending anytime soon was around 1 in 10,000.


The day ended faster than Zoro thought it would. He now found himself walking to the park with Nami and Usopp on either side of him. He had gotten Robin, Franky, Chopper and Sanji to go with Luffy to the mall to shop for their friend Helpmeppo's birthday, which was on July 16th. (2) Meanwhile Zoro, Nami and Usopp 'had a test to study for'. Little did Luffy know that they were really meeting with his long-lost older brother, Ace at a nearby park.

'How am I going to tell a story that makes me feel so angry? It's not even my story to tell, its Luffy's. But Ace has a right to know and theirs no way Luffy would ever tell him himself...' Zoro thought as he sat on top of the parks monkey bars, scaring the little children away, not that he cared. Usopp made a joke about Zoro's face being scary and Zoro glared at the sharpshooter.

"My point is proven!" He yelled as he hid behind Nami, who was now texting Ace.

To: Fire-Fist

From: Cat-Burglar

Where here. Where between the monkey bars and the sand boxes.

Zoro scared all the kids away...

Sent July 9th 6:02pm

Nami re-read his text before sending it. She hadn't told Ace that she was dating Luffy and didn't plan to in till Ace liked her enough. He was probably very over-protective of his little brother, with him just getting him back and all. She didn't want to test that though.


(1): Noah Lomax is my favorite little kid star. He was in the walking dead and he really does look like Ace. No kidding, google it. Maybe it's just me or something.

(2): I went to one piece wiki and goggled anyones birthday that was in July.

(3): I hate tying my shoes when standing it. It makes me wobble. D:

Zoro: My face isn't scary

Kaya: I know. I think it's rather cute. ^.^

Zoro: S-shut-up. v/v

Vivi: Zoro and Kaya, sitting in a tree K-I-S-S-I-N-G!

Kaya: Nah. I wish though. My grandma would kill me if she thought I was in a relationship with an anime charter...