Here is chapter nine! I hope that you enjoy it! I am sorry for uploading this later than usual, I don't really have an excuse, but oh well. I will be starting school on the fifth, so when that happens don't expect updates to be as fast as usual. I will hopefully be able to upload another two chapters before that happens (maybe more, but that seems too ambitious). Well, I'l l just say that this chapter is longer than what I had expected xD Thank you all for all of the favs, alerts and reviews! You guys rock! ^_^
Disclaimer: I don't own One Piece, Oda does. I do however own the plot of this story.
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Luffy's POV:
The classes of the day went on slowly, like always, but the prospect of having to go to a detention at the end of them all with Smoker of all the teachers made the day go on even slower, if possible. This was just so boring, and I was quite lucky since I could talk to Vivi during some of the classes that I had, but since the subjects that we had chosen weren't the same thing many of the classes turned out to be horrifyingly boring.
I was currently in maths class, bored out of my mind, not understanding much of what the teacher was explaining and just staring at the whiteboard without paying any real attention, like several other students. What was the teacher talking about anyways? She herself seemed to not be paying any attention to what she was saying or explaining. I sighed, looking around, Vivi wasn't either at this class, and this just made it more boring. Why had I even chosen to do this? I wasn't and had never been good at maths. None of the people that were currently at the room talked to me. It sounded pretty bad, but I really didn't want to or had done any efforts to talk to them, and it didn't bother me. If I did talk they would usually ignore me and act as if I wasn't there entirely.
I couldn't say that I was too saddened by this, since I preferred this to have to go to classes with Ace and Sabo right now, which would be strange. Sabo surely was suspecting something or even knew that I had been the one that had danced with Ace, and I didn't really want to confront him or have him confirming it and then telling Ace about it.
"And that will be the end of the class, you may leave now" I heard the teacher say with quite an annoyed and bored tone of voice.
We all nodded, packed our things and went out of this class and into our last class. I couldn't take off my mind what Sabo had wanted to tell me. It surely had something to do with me and the masked ball that had been celebrated, but... Was it really that he knew that I had been 'that' person? Yes. It had to be, or else he there wouldn't be a point for him to want to talk so desperately to me. If it had been another thing he would have surely mentioned it to another person. But then had he told anything to Ace? He clearly did not suspect a thing when I had talked to him yesterday. Not a single thing. But why?
I shook my head as my thoughts started turning weirder and weirder and just started making my way to my last class: history. I hadn't noticed with all of my thoughts that I had been standing still in the middle of the corridor, and I was willing to bet that several students had stopped to look at me since I hadn't been moving. The corridors weren't too full of people right now, and this made it easier to get to my next class. When I arrived there I noticed that almost everyone was at the class. I soon took my sear besides Vivi, who was taking out her textbook and copybook.
"Hi Luffy!" She said with quite a happy tone of voice.
I greeted her and smiled back as I sat down besides her, taking out my things too. This class was again quite boring, but it was nothing in comparison with how maths was. I really didn't find any subject at school too interesting, I preferred talking to my friends instead, and as a result my grades weren't the best around. I still managed to pass most of the subjects in the end, but I wasn't the best student, and it wasn't like I cared too much nor did my grandfather Garp, he was more interested in trying to get me to join the marine, which was something that didn't seem too likely, at least for me. Soon the teacher entered the room and started explaining what we would be doing in today's lesson. Once he had done this and had started explaining I started talking to Vivi while I took some notes.
"Hey Vivi" I said at first, not really saying anything.
"What is it Luffy?" She asked me with curiosity, wondering what I wanted to say.
"I already told you what happened yesterday to me, right?" I said, receiving an approving nod from her. "I think that Sabo knows about that" I said.
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Sabo's POV:
The last lesson was already over, and I was currently at Ace's room, looking at him as he got prepared for going out of the castle to see Whitebeard again. He had already gone the day before yesterday during night time, and he wanted to go again to talk to Whitebeard more and to start his search and investigation about Blackbeard. He had told everyone that he would take care of Blackbeard since the man used to be in his division and so what had happened was his fault. We had all protested about that, but no one had managed to change his mind about that.
"I wish that I could go with you to get search for and get information of Blackbeard" I muttered as I glanced at Ace, who was already prepared to go outside.
He now was wearing the trousers and boots that he always wore when he was outside, and on top of his head was his precious hat. His school clothes were now neatly placed on top of a chair at one side of the room, which was generally quite tidy.
"Then come with me!" he quickly said back.
"I can't, I got a detention yesterday from Smokey and you know how the man is" I said with quite a bored tone of voice as I remembered what had happened yesterday.
Ace laughed. "How did you get in trouble with that man? I thought that you knew better" He said with another laugh.
"I was chasing that Luffy, when he turned around to look at me, crashed against Smoker and then I crashed against them too" I quickly explained again. "That idiot..." I then muttered as I clenched my hand. I swear that I had wanted to punch him at that moment.
"What did you want to tell him?" Ace then asked with curiosity.
"I..." I started saying, not really knowing if I should bring back up what I had told him the other day. "To confirm what I told you the other day" I soon said.
"God Sabo, you've been thinking too much" Ace said with an annoyed tone of voice. "He obviously isn't him" He then added.
"Think whatever you want Ace, but I know that it is true" I said with a smirk on my face.
Yes, I was sure that he was that person, and if Ace didn't want to recognise it then it was his problem, it was him who wanted to know who the person was anyways. I couldn't help but grin as I realised that I was one step ahead of him in this game. I already knew more than him in this, and while we usually were even on most things this time I was winning him. He didn't want to recognise it though, but he would realise this eventually.
"I talked to him on the central tower the other day Sabo" Ace said.
"Yes, you already told me" I quickly said "What do you want to say about it this time?" I then asked him.
"He definitely isn't that person. I am completely sure now" He said obstinately.
I sighed. "Very well, think what you want Ace" I said as I got up from the bed. "I have to go to the detention now" I then added as I made my way to the door, stopping right in front of it.
Ace laughed again. "Good luck with that" he said as he went towards the door too.
We both went out of the room and started going towards the common room, that was when I would go to my detention and Ace to one of the secret exits of the school.
"It is you that needs the good luck, Ace" I said with a laugh then. "Good luck with that Ace, you know the man is dangerous, pops told you already" I said.
"I know, but I will beat him, you'll see" He said.
I noticed then that we had finally arrived to the common room, which meant that it was time to go to the detention if I didn't want Smoker to get too angry.
"Well Sabo see you later" Ace then said.
"See you later" I replied as I started walking towards my detention and him towards that secret exit that we usually used.
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Luffy's POV:
The last class was already over, and the thought of going now to that detention made me feel tired and even more bored. Luckily Vivi had decided to accompany me to the door of Smoker's office.
"I don't want to go!" I whined as I walked.
"You know how he is. If you don't go you'll have to suffer a hell on earth" She said with a sympathetic tone of voice. "It will soon be over, you'll see" She then said with a happier tone of voice.
"You're right!" I then said with a grin on my face.
We continued talking as we walked, but I still couldn't get out of my head what had happened. I had been thinking a lot today, and I had ended up coming to the conclusion that it would be better if Ace forgot about 'me'. I loved being able to be with him, but in the end I knew that he didn't deserve being with me or feeling like that for me, even though he didn't know it was me who he was searching form. We suddenly stopped walking; we had finally arrived to Smoker's office. I was about to enter the room when I remembered what I had written earlier on during the day.
"Vivi, I wanted to ask you a favour" I said suddenly stopping right in front of the door.
She looked up at me. "Sure, what is it?" She said.
I took out the letter that was inside my pocket. "Could you give Ace this letter?" I said as I handed her the letter that had been for the last few lessons inside my pocket.
"Why would you want to give Ace that letter?" I suddenly heard a familiar voice behind me ask.
I wasn't able to reply for several moments. Sabo? What was he doing here?
"It is... nothing" I said, as I looked at Vivi and silently told her to go on and give it to him.
Sabo stared at me for several moments, clearly not believing what I had just said. It was even understandable. I was such a bad liar after all.
"Very well" He said as he continued glancing at me. "Let's enter now, or else Smoker will be furious" He then said.
"Allright" I simply answered as I entered the room, right after Sabo did.
It was quite a spacious office, and I swear that everything inside it was a complete mess. In the middle of the room there was a big wooden table where Smoker was sitting at.
"You arrived on time, what a surprise" He said with a mock amused tone of voice as he got up and walked towards us.
"Just like you said sir" I heard Sabo say with a nervous tone of voice. I gulped, and said the same thing, wondering what he would make us do.
