One piece © Eiichiro Oda
Luffy ran fast with a sandwich in his mouth. He already was too late for school because Ace broke his alarm… HIS alarm… Luffy ran around the corner. He blinked when he saw a familiar car. He grinned and ran faster. He jumped onto the car roof and sat down, eating his sandwich slowly.
"Oi, Mugiwara…" Luffy heard from below. Luffy looked and grinned with one full cheek. "What is this wasn't Sunny?" Franky asked, referring to his car.
Luffy grinned and looked forward. "I wouldn't have jumped on it in the first place."
They drove towards school. Luffy grinned and jumped from it as soon as Franky parked the car. So Luffy still was on time. Luffy and Franky entered the school and they walked to their lockers. They grabbed their books and the bell rung. They ran to their classes. Franky opened the door and everyone were talking. The teacher wasn't there yet. Luffy walked to his place, but couldn't help but hear a few screaming girls.
"Such a beautiful ring!" said Vivi with red pinkish cheeks.
"It looks so cute!" said Kaya. Robin smiled and looked at it from Nami's hand. Nami smiled and looked at Luffy. Luffy looked with an embarrassed face at Nami and said girlfriend chuckled. He sat down on his seat and he looked away.
"Luffy-sama." Luffy cocked an eyebrow and looked at Hancock."How come that slut has a ring and I don't…?"
"Easy, I'm not and I will never marry you." He said, emphasizing 'you'.
Hancock frowned confused and she had to be careful not to get mad. "Marry?"
"Such a beautiful ENGAGEMENT ring!" said Vivi again. Hancock gasped and she turned around, looking at the four glaring smirk wearing girls. Luffy's cheeks turned pink.
Hancock turned to Luffy again with a pale face. "Engagement ring!" she yelled hard. Luffy looked at her again, leaning with his chin on his hand and his elbow on the table. His mouth corner slowly crept up. Hancock gasped again and she stamped to her seat. Luffy shoved to Nami and whispered something the girls also could hear.
"We aren't getting married, you know…" he whispered. "Not now, at least."
Nami chuckled and nodded. "I know, husband."
"Good to know, wife." And he shoved back. Nami chuckled again and looked at her ring. So beautiful. She also looked at her bracelet she got from Luffy on the schooltrip. She furrowed her eyebrows. What had she given Luffy? She thought really hard. She looked at Luffy and Luffy talked with Brook, Zoro and Sanji. Nothing… She gave him nothing… Ugh.
Nami rubbed her forehead and pouted. What could she give Luffy? A new hat? No… A new shirt? He didn't like clothes that much… Meat? Too cliché… Nami looked at her ring and blinked in realisation. A ring! She was going to give him a ring! A silver manly ring! Nami smiled and hummed to herself. She was such a genius!
The door opened and Shanks entered with a yawn. A few students laughed and chuckled. Shanks sat down and rubbed his scarred eye. "Hmm, ok…" he murmured. "I had something to announce…"
Some looked with confusion or some didn't care –Luffy-.
"I need to speak with… Luffy, Zoro and Sandersonia." The three looked with utter confusion. "It's about the exams which are coming up…" Every student gasped. They forgot! Exams are beginning soon!
"Now open your books at pages 112 and 113." Everyone sighed and opened their textbook. This was going to be a long day…
-xxxxxx-
The bell rung and Zoro, Luffy and Sandersonia still sat on their seats. Shanks looked at them with one cocked eyebrow.
"Let's be honest… Your grades aren't wonderful…" Their heads dropped in an instant. The standard teacher subject. They only wanted to talk with you if your grades were bad, but they didn't want to talk and compliment you if you had perfect grades…
"So, I did come up with an idea… And I hope you will make it a promise."
"Depends…" replied Luffy with an uninterested look and his head leaning on his hand.
Shanks softly smirked "I want you three to have some extra home-study lessons…" he said. The three gasped. Hell no! "And I already chose which 'teachers' you are going to get…" Luffy pouted and looked through the window, Zoro begged it wasn't Sanji and Sandersonia begged Hancock had to help Luffy.
"Nami helps Luffy, Robin helps Zoro and Hancock helps Sandersonia." He listed. Luffy's eyes slowly widened and he turned his face to Shanks. "Yeah, I think this will do…" he said. Luffy smiled. He looked at Zoro and Zoro had a huge smile plastered on his face. "That's it. Now go celebrate your recess." The three stood up. Zoro and Luffy ran to the roof and Sandersonia went to Hancock and the group.
"Nami!" Luffy leaped onto Nami and he held her tightly like he was a koala. Nami almost lost her balance. "You have to give me some lessons for my grades have to get higher!" Nami looked at him in confusion. Where the hell did that come from?
"Ok…" she murmured.
Zoro walked to Robin and smiled. "You have to give me home lessons. Shanks told you too."
Robin smiled and nodded "Fine with me." She said. Zoro smiled.
"What lesson do we have soon?" asked Usopp, with once again, Kaya on his lap.
Kaya thought for a second and smiled fast already. She looked at Sanji and Sanji frowned uneasy. "Cooking class~" she said. Sanji's head dropped and a depressed aura could be seen around him. Joy…
Nami tried to eat her bento, but Luffy almost chocked her with his 'cuddling'. It was almost like he was made from rubber and his arms were tight around waist, in a tight knot. Nami frowned mad and she took a bit out of the bento. She fed Luffy and Luffy relaxed his arms a bit. Nami smiled and also took a bite. Luffy opened his mouth already, even though Nami didn't even picked a piece. She chuckled and fed him again.
"I'm curious…" began Usopp "Aren't Luffy and Nami going to be distracted when they are going to study? It's not like I care, but Kaya and I never can concentrate…" said Usopp.
Nami and Luffy shared a piece of bread while everyone looked at them. Usopp and Kaya could be right…
"Nami, Luffy." The couple turned their heads to Zoro. "We are going to study with the four of us. You both, Robin and I." exclaimed Zoro. The couple looked at each other and back to Zoro. They nodded with a smile. "Great." Zoro turned back to the others "Problem solved." He said. Robin smiled and looked at Nami and Luffy again.
Luffy held his head against her chest and he had his eyes peacefully closed. Nami brushed Luffy's hair and kissed the top of his head. Robin cocked an eyebrow. It's actually quite rare for a guy who would like to indulge themselves... But Nami didn't mind, so she guess it was alright…
The bell rung and the crew walked downstairs to the class. Cooking class, Sanji's favorite class… The walked towards the class and waited before the closed door. Since when is the door closed? Shanks walked towards everyone and they looked with confusion.
"Zeff is sick. You guys are free for now." He said.
Sanji frowned confused and worried. He passed the group "I'm going to the old man, asking how's it going with him."
"Aw, he gives about Zeff~" said Zoro.
Sanji turned and glared daggers. "I do not!" he yelled. Zoro laughed and Sanji walked further. He really didn't want to fight with Zoro now. He had other things in his mind.
"We are going to the mall, who is going with us?" asked Usopp.
"Suppaa!" said Franky. He was going. Brook, Chopper, Vivi and Kaya also went with them.
"Luffy-san~ Do you want to go to the mall with me~?" she asked. Luffy looked with half lidded eyes at Hancock.
"Sure! And when you go alone, why don't you find yourself a boyfriend!" said Nami with a sweet innocent smile. Hancock glared and walked away with Sandersonia and Marigold, leaving the two couples, Luffy and Nami and Zoro and Robin, alone. The two couples looked at each other.
" I assume you want to be alone?" asked Zoro to Nami and Luffy. Luffy looked at Nami and Nami looked a bit painful. Nami looked at Luffy and Luffy smiled.
"I actually want to go to the mall with Robin…" she said to Luffy. Luffy looked at Robin and Robin looked quite surprised.
"Sure, go ahead!" smiled Luffy "Shoo shoo!" he said, waving with his hands, pushing Nami to Robin. Zoro grinned and nodded to Robin. The girls smiled and walked through the hallway.
"Buy some sexy bra's!" yelled Luffy.
Nami almost tripped and turned with a devil glare. "Don't say that, moron!" she yelled red.
"Love you too!" he yelled back. Luffy grinned and looked at the girls when they walked downstairs.
Luffy looked at Zoro and Zoro still looked at the stairs. "Do you and Robin…"
"No…" said Zoro "We are slow."
"We were too…" said Luffy with a pout
"Yeah… I guess I can ask Hancock if she wants to kiss me…" said Zoro. Luffy seethed and walked away. "Oi! I was kidding!" he ran after Luffy.
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"How was it at the arcade?" asked Nami while she was reading in her textbook.
"Awesome!" said Zoro excited. Luffy pouted and buried his nose in his books. Ok… Luffy lost a few times with the games… "And how was it at the mall?" asked Zoro.
"Also great!" smiled Robin. "We have bought some candy and such."
Nami grabbed her bag and showed them the candy. "Here." The boys looked into the bag and grinned when they saw colourish candy. They grabbed it out of the bag and chewed on.
"Candy never gets bored…" he grinned while chewing. Nami and Robin smiled. Zoro also had a content face.
Nami looked at an assignment and smiled. "Luffy, could you make assignment 12?" she asked. Luffy looked at it and frowned.
"Hmm…" he hummed "Why?"
"Because I asked you to." Smiled Nami sweetly.
Luffy frowned and looked at it again. "I don't get trig functions…" he murmured.
Nami smiled and went closer to him. "Look, a trigonometric function, is one of the many functions that relate one non-right angle of a righttriangle to the ratio of the lengths of any two sides of the triangle, or vice versa." Luffy looked at Nami with an unreadable expression. "Any trigonometric function (f), therefore, always satisfies either of the following equations: f(q) = a / b orf(a / b) = q, where q is the measure of a certain angle in the triangle, and a and b are the lengths of two specific sides."
Luffy now looked puzzled. Robin and Zoro giggled a bit. Nami did explain it wonderfully, but Luffy didn't get it at all…
"What?" he asked. Nami giggled a bit. She whispered something in his ear and he blushed. He nodded and Nami giggled again. Robin and Zoro smiled. They knew Nami whispered something like a 'reward'. Robin's bedroom door opened, showing her mother.
She looked like Robin, but she had grey slash white hair. "Do you want to drink something." She asked sweetly.
"No, thanks, mom." Said Robin with the same equal smile. Her mother nodded and left again.
The four of them studied further and asked questions. Luffy finally get it after a few hours. It turned late and Nami and Luffy decided to go. They said goodbye and the couple walked over the street, hand in hand. Nami looked at Luffy with a smile. She searched in her pocket and found it. She showed Luffy the ring and Luffy stopped with walking.
"What is that?" he asked. Nami smiled and put it in his hand.
"A present for you." Luffy looked at the silver thick ring with an inscription on it. Nami.Luffy smiled and looked at Nami. He held his hand before his mouth and his eyebrows furrowed.
"I think I'm going to be emotional…" he muttered. Nami glared at Luffy and said boyfriend giggled. Luffy put his new ring on his finger and looked at it. "I love it, thank you." He smiled. Nami smiled too and looked at Luffy who was admiring his new ring. "I'm going to cuddle you dead soon."
Nami giggled a bit. Luffy looked at her and smiled. He looked at the ring again and frowned sad. He stopped with walking and Nami frowned confused. She turned but she got hugged by Luffy.
"When exams are over… Where are you going?" he asked, hoping his voice didn't betray him.
Nami frowned confused. "One Piece University…" she replied.
"Nami…" he began. Nami already frowned worried. "I'm going to New World…"
Nami's eyes widened. She looked at Luffy again and Luffy's eyes were watery
"That's… 12 hours away from here…" she said. Luffy looked away and nodded… No kidding…
Wow… I'm breaking a fictional love here… Am I mean?