AN: Hey I hope you liked that chapter. Don't worry; your questions will be answered. Some of you are probably wondering who Jaden is and why he is with Nami. Well, he is a little boy, Nami is looking after him, and that's all you need to know for now. Everything will be explained. I hope you like this chapter. Oh, and Robin is in this chapter, she is a teacher and not part of Luffy's crew. Please R&R. Let me know what you think.
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Chapter 2: School
"Hi, um I am starting here today. Tosatsú-san called." Nami said to a brunet woman behind the office's counter. The woman didn't look up. Nami couldn't see behind the counter so she assumed the woman was reading something "official," and didn't want to be interrupted.
"Name?" This question caught Nami off guard. She hadn't actually thought of a name. She began to panic and look around the office for clues.
"Um…Takai…A-Alfonzo." She finally answered after seeing a picture of the principle of Akuma High, Takai Shin, with a pro Go player from the South Blue, Ro Alfonse. Man I'm stupid…what a lame name. She thought as she bit her lip.
The woman behind the counter looked up raising a curved eyebrow at Nami. "I thought Tosatsú-san said a girl was coming. Oh well, I must have heard wrong, she didn't even tell me your name. Ok, Takai-kun lets get you ready." Nami sighed as the woman handed her a uniform, a book bag with supplies, and a schedule. "You're what, seventeen?" The blue-eyed woman asked.
Nami nodded her head, accepting the items.
"Good. Then everything is set. Let me call someone to take you to your first class." The woman went over to a school den den mushi and dialed a number, listening for an answer. "Hello?" Came a woman's voice from the other line.
"Hello? Nico-sensei? This is Nora. I have a new student here for you. Could you send someone to pick him up?"
There was a pause on the other line, and then Robin answered. "Yes, I'll send someone." She then hung up. Nora turned to Nami. "You may wait here, someone is coming for you." She then returned to filing her nails.
Three minutes later a blond boy burst through the door. "Nora, my sweet! I have come at your calling! Where is the boy so I can teach him my ways!" He moved suavely through the room over to Nora, who just rolled her eyes and smacked her red lips together. "Sanji, I don't have time for this. I'm very busy. Please take Takai-kun to Nico-sensei's room." She nodded her head towards Nami.
Sanji turned around to face Nami and froze. -kun? Sure he's wearing a boy's uniform, but man. Damn, I bet he's going to get teased a lot. Sanji smiled and held out a hand. "Hi, I'm Sanji."
Nami took his hand and shook it. "Takai Alfonzo." I wander if the whole student body is weird like this guy…what's up with his eyebrow? Wait…why does he also look familiar? Nami started to feel uncomfortable when Sanji did not let go of her hand.
This guy's hand is small…and smooth. He's probably never worked a day in his life. Sanji thought as he examined the girl's hand. He then noticed that Nami was trying to pull away and released her from his grip. "This way." He left the room with Nami in tow.
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Zoro lay with his head on his desk. He was tired and not listening to his female teacher's continuous drone about history. He didn't care about history. All he cared about was getting off this island and becoming stronger. He was about to fall asleep when the classroom door opened.
"Aw, there you are." Robin stopped her fascinating history lecture to smile at the new arrival. Sanji and Nami came into the room, Sanji sat down while Nami remained standing. "Class, we have a new student. Will you please introduce yourself?" Robin stepped aside so Nami could move into the center of the room.
Nami was nervous; she gulped and took a deep breath. "Hi…I'm Takai Alfonzo. Nice to meet you. I'm seventeen and I just arrived on this island with my little brother…" She really didn't want to give these people any more information then they needed. Nami looked at her new teacher, hoping she didn't have to say anything else.
"Ok, and I am Nico Robin. Nice to meet you too." Robin smiled. "You may take a seat next Zoro…he's the guy falling asleep in the back of the room. Just follow the trail of drool." Robin smirked at Zoro who looked completely taken aback. Which meant that he just looked away pretending that he hadn't been listening. Robin was pleased to see the youth slyly wipe the corner of his mouth to make sure that there was no drool. Teasing particular students was fun.
Nami nodded and walked over to take her seat next to the green haired boy. She had begun to rummage through her bag when she heard people whispering about her.
"He's kinda cute." A girl whispered to her giggling friends.
"Yeah, he looks cleaner then the rest of the boys." Whispered another.
"He's probably gay." A boy said to his group of friends. "Did you see how he walks?"
Oh great…I've drawn attention to myself. Nami thought miserably. At least they think I'm a boy, gay or not.
"Hey, just ignore them." Came a gruff voice from beside Nami. Zoro had been watching Nami since she had entered the room. Something was off about this kid…He normally would have ignored the interruption to his nap, but he knew what being the new-never-gone-to-school-before-kid felt like. "Their all idiots." He then returned to his nap.
This statement made Nami feel a little better about her situation. She opened her notebook and tried to listen to her teacher.
"As I was saying," Robin continued with her lecture, "The Grand Line was discovered in…"
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Class continued without any problems. An hour later, the bell rang and Nami looked at her schedule. Math, huh? Ok, I can handle that. Once again Nami didn't know where her class was, so she asked the closest person next to her. "Hey, your name was Zoro-kun, right?"
Great, now he's trying to talk to me. One little comment from me, and he thinks we're best friends…he's going to ruin my reputation…Over the past four months, Zoro had created a 'bad boy' complex, since no one on this island knew who the notorious 'Roronoa Zoro' was. No one talked to him, and he talked to no one, except for during football practice…and kendo class. But that consisted of talking to his schoolmates, not talking with them. The only people on the entire island that he bothered to hold a conversation with was his nakama. "Yeah, what of it?"
"Um…where is Tanaki-sensei's class?" Nami tried not to sound irritated with Zoro's rude behavior. She needed to go to all of her classes and not draw too much attention to herself.
Apparently this boy was not getting the hint of danger in Zoro's voice. Annoyed, Zoro pointed out the door. "See that door? In a few seconds you'll see Usopp walking by, he should be in your class. You can't miss him. He has dark curly hair, a long nose, and is really loud and irritating."
Nami looked through the door, seeing no one of this description. It was obvious that Zoro was trying to get rid of her. Then she heard shouting from down the hall. "Quick! Everyone run for your lives! The school is being invaded by flying monkeys!"
"Right on cue." Zoro murmured as he got up from his seat and headed out the door, Nami following him. Nami was surprised to see no one in the hall react to the raving lunatic running her way.
Usopp stopped his running and shouting at the sight of Zoro and the strange boy he had helped earlier. "Hey Zoro, you looking to mess up your rep?" Usopp pondered, knowing that the swordsman had a weird thing about making people scared of him.
Zoro rolled his eyes at the sharpshooter. "This kid's in your next class. Show him the way." He commanded, and then headed off to his own class.
Usopp looked back to Nami. "Um, hi again, I'm Usopp."
Nami raised a hand in a small wave. "Takai Alfonzo."
Apparently this boy wasn't very talkative, and what was up with his weird name? Usopp shrugged it off and walked to his class, gesturing for Nami to follow. "This way."
When the two of them arrived in class, Tanaki-sensei had Nami introduce herself as she had in her previous class. He also had her sit in between Usopp and a grinning boy sporting a straw hat. Why does everyone look familiar today? Nami wondered as she pulled out paper and a pencil.
"Ok class…if you will please turn to page 324 in your text book, we will begin." Tanaki-sensei instructed.
Nami looked in her book bag to find that she didn't have a textbook. "Man…" She said under her breath.
"Hey." Whispered the boy next to her. She looked at him in distress. "You wanna share my book?" Nami was taken aback. At first she thought that this boy was hitting on her. Then she remembered that she was a he. This boy was just being nice.
"Ok." Nami smiled and leaned over to see his book.
"I'm Monkey D. Luffy. Nice to meet ya. You can call me Luffy everyone does." The boy smiled back at Nami. Luffy liked this kid he seemed…different.
"I'm Takai Alfonzo, Alu for short. Nice to meet you too." Nami whispered back. Ok, I have definitely heard that name before…but where?
"Quiet! You two in the back!" Tanaki-sensei yelled at Nami and Luffy.
"Sumimasen" Luffy hung his head in shame, he gets yelled at a lot in this class.
"Sorry Tanaki-sensei, I don't have a book, I'm sharing with Luffy-kun." Nami replied before looking down at her textbook.
"Keep it down then. I'm tired of people not paying attention in my class." Tanaki spat back. "Picking up from yesterday… if you have the integral from zero to five of sine times cosine, over the secant dx, what is your answer?" He wrote the problem on the board and began to solve the equation.
Nami heard a groan next to her. She looked down to see Luffy's notes full of scribbles and crossed out work. "This is hard." Luffy wined to himself.
"Well yeah it's hard. This is calc 2. It's supposed to be hard. Are you not getting what he is talking about?" Nami asked. She understood perfectly, she had already been forced to take Calc.3, so this stuff was easy.
Luffy shook his head. He only knew the basics of counting. That's all he needed in Fushia. He shouldn't even be in this class. Another weird thing about this island, they put you in particular classes according to your age. There wasn't even a placement test. "Ne, Alu…what is he talking about? What's sine and cosine? What's inter-whatever?"
Nami could tell that this boy was in fact, completely lost. She sighed. "I'll help you if you want."
The boy smiled at Nami. "Really? Thanks!"
"Hey! Shut up!" Tanaki-sensei shouted.
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Nami was happy. She had made not just one friend, but two. She hadn't had a real friend for a long time. The school day was half over; Nami had made it through science with Sho-sensei. After the colorful explosion had been cleaned up and the students were allowed back in the classroom, Usopp was assigned to be Nami's lab partner and so they actually had to talk to each other. Both Nami and Usopp had decided that they liked the other, even though both were weird. It was now lunchtime, and Nami was starving. She had promised Luffy that she would sit with him to explain some of the math homework due the next day.
"Hey! Alu!" Luffy cried from his seat at his table. He was sitting next to Usopp, who was balancing a spoon on his long nose.
Nami smiled and went to join her new friends. She sat next to Luffy and pulled out the lunch Tosatsu had made for her.
"Luffy…what's he doing here?" Zoro growled walking up to his crew's table. It wasn't that he disliked the boy; it was that he was sitting next to Luffy. The seat next to the captain was reserved for the first mate. That's how it was and that's how it would always be.
Nami looked up from her lunch. Oh great…here we go.
"He can sit where ever he wants. Don't be a jerk because you're jealous, Marimo." Sanji came up behind Zoro. Sanji had just come out of the boy's bathroom where he had been smoking. The damn island also had a rule about smoking on campus. Something about bad health or… something, Sanji didn't really care.
"Keh. Jealous of what, Crap Cook?" Zoro snapped, before sitting across from Luffy. He knew what Sanji meant, and Sanji knew that Zoro knew, so Sanji didn't bother elaborating. Sanji took a seat next to the swordsman and stared at Nami.
Feeling uncomfortable under the Cook's gaze, Nami got defensive. "What!"
Sanji had done it again. Apparently he had a problem of just staring at people, to the point where the scrutinized would get angry. Usually he would be staring at females. But Sanji couldn't help himself from staring; this kid was simply beautiful. Oh shit! Everyone is going to think I'm gay! Sanji quickly turned his gaze away from Nami. "Sorry, I… uh…was zoning out."
Nami raised an eyebrow at the strange chef and went back to eating. She then looked over at Luffy who had already finished his large lunch. There are a lot of weird people at this school…I'm probably eating with the weirdest of them all. "So Luffy, how long have you lived on this island?" Nami questioned the smiling boy next to her.
"Hm? Oh, we've been here for a long time." Luffy replied offhandedly.
"We?" Nami asked, and then looked around the table. "Did you come here with your parents?"
Luffy shook his head and gestured to the rest of the table. "No, um, the four of us came here together. Our ship got hurt…you would probably like her. She's the best pira-" He was cut off by Usopp's hand clasping over his mouth. Luffy was about to say pirate ship. No one was supposed to know that they were pirates, hence the 'hiding out'. Luffy didn't seem to grasp the concept of incognito.
"She's the best ship!" Usopp interrupted. The rest of the crew nodded.
They were hiding something from Nami and she didn't like it. Then again, they didn't even know who she really was. Nami decided to let Luffy's comment side for the moment. "Ok…"
"Hey Alu, can you help me with our homework now?" Luffy asked after prying Usopp's hand away. He didn't understand why everyone was so uptight. He liked his ship, and he wanted to let people know.
"Yeah." Nami pulled out notes, as Luffy pulled out his book.
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"Yes, she has orange hair and appears to be seventeen years of age." Tosatsú talked into the mouthpiece of the den den mushi sitting in front of her.
"Her name is Nami. Is a young boy with her? When did they arrive?" A man's deep voice replied through the snails moving mouth.
"Yes, there is a boy. I found them yesterday morning." Tosatsú rubbed a hand over her face.
"Excellent," the man said, "Make sure to keep them there. Someone will arrive in a few days. Good work lieutenant."
"Thank you sir." Tosatsú hung up the phone. This was going better then she had planned. She had been telling the truth that she had been on this island for seven years. This is where she had been assigned. Over the whole seven years, nothing exciting had ever happened…until three days ago. Tosatsú had received a phone call from the head for the Marines. She was told that a young girl and boy had made themselves enemies of the World Government. She didn't get any more information of why they were wanted, just that they had escaped and might be heading in her direction. Tosatsú didn't think very much of this warning. After all, the ocean was very large and the kids' boat could make it to any island, if they even survived the Grand Line in the first place. So, Tosatsú had been very surprised when she found the two unconscious children by the docks. Everything was falling into place, and so Tosatsú would probably be getting off this crazy island sooner than she had hoped.
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AN: dondondooon… wasn't that exciting? Again, sorry if people are OOC. I'll try to work harder. Please continue reading.
