Author's note: Hey there, a lot of stuff has happened to me recently, hence the lack of updating, sorry about that, but in other news in this chapter I elaborate on the whole Kuki/Law situation…hope you enjoy! Oh, and the little songs in this chapter are mine…decided to make up something…and reviews motivate me an motivation makes a happy writer! ;) 3 bye for now!

Roza sat back in her chair, her mind elsewhere. Sure, she enjoyed music, like any other person, but she couldn't keep her concentration on the words or the rhythm. The entire purpose of this course was to teach crews how to let loose, and help with stress. One thing she noticed was that there were no crew members of the Kid pirates in this course, or at least none in period three. Sitting in the front was Luffy, the captain of the Straw Hat pirates, and, behind him, was the clown like man Roza had hit the other day. She decided to sit in the back, away from everyone else, so she could get her head straight. The few words scribbled in her note book were from the earlier introduction to this course. "Entertainment among your crew is very serious." Lucky Roo had mumbled, reading off of a paper, "It reliefs stress, which can actually harm you, and while out on the sea you have to know how to make your own fun." Black lettering against the white of the fresh paper wasn't helping the girl's concentration, not at all. "Row, row, when the sails are tie." The song, which currently her entire class was singing in unison, rang threw out her head. "Get to the bay, where the beaches lie." Roza rubbed her eyes, the tune of the song was making her sleepy… that and the aggressive workout she had done before lunch. "Where the drinks are many and the ladies are anything but shy."

Suddenly the door opened, pausing the song for a short moment. "Haha, guess I'm late!" Ace laughed quite loud. With a smirk on her face, Roza waited for the boy to get in trouble. She didn't hate the commander, no; she would just enjoy seeing Ace get put in his place. "Ha! Take a seat Ace, I think you know the song we're playing!" the quite obese teacher bellowed, smacking the younger man on the shoulder as he laughed along with the pirate. Smiling broadly, Ace spotted Roza sitting in the back, every seat around her open. As he made his way back towards her she sighed and slumped her head into her palms. "Hey! Sit by me!" Luffy whined from the front. Ace plopped his bag down, leaning back against his seat while throwing both booted, feet onto the top of the desk. "All the seats around you are taken ya dummy." The freckled boy smiled. Luffy pouted, realizing his older brother was right, and then seconds later he jumped up, grabbing all his stuff, rushing over to the seat beside Ace. "So how are you… roomy?" the boy smiled, poking fun at the obviously angered, girl. Roza looked up and glared daggers towards him, "We are not roomies." Luffy laughed and leaned over his desk to see past Ace and at the red-uniformed student. "You're the girl from before!" he claimed, pushing his straw hat up so his eyes could be seen. Roza raised her eyebrow, what was he talking about? She hadn't even confronted the lanky boy, yet…

"The party lives on and will never die!" Ace sang out, finishing the song with the rest of the class. Roza couldn't help but smile at the goofy face the commander was wearing, but when Ace caught hold of it and smirked the girl turned away and mentally slapped herself.


Kuki was hitting one of the many punching bags that were hanging from the ceiling. Her third period class was advanced strength and fighting, but with not knowing any students in this class she had decided to go to the training area instead of watching the planned fights. Why she was in this class? The girl didn't know. Her tiny frame was bashing the heavy bag, taking out all her insecurities onto the object. Did she feel like she was at the same level as her class mates? No…Was she only in this class because of her bounty, because she was part of the Supernovas? She knew why the government had done that, and it had nothing to do with her…'strength'. It was all about her power, and what it could do, not what Kuki, as a person, could achieve. "Why is it every time I see you, you're sweating?" A voice asked. "No, not now." She thought, giving the piece of equipment one final hit before turning to see the figure she was praying to not see. The tiny girl wiped the moisture off of her brow with her arm, taking off the oversized boxing gloves, throwing them aside. She walked past the captain, ignoring him and sitting down on one of the many weight machines.

Law leaned against the machine beside the one Kuki was working on, enjoying the way she was squirming. "Why aren't you talking to me Kuki? What, are one of those fuck and chuck girls?" he asked, smirking at her, "If that's true…then does that mean you haven't done anything with your swordsman? I wonder how he would feel if I told him about what happened." That was it, Kuki snapped. She knew what he was doing, she could feel it, feel the emotions pouring out of the tattooed teen…just like before, but this time, she knew how to control them so they didn't affect her own. "Do not even go near him!" Kuki screamed, jumping up from the weights and getting in Law's face. "Oh? Don't want your boy toys to meet?" he asked, trying harder, he was bored and this was becoming fun. "You are not anything to me, and I'm not anything to you! You know it; I know it, so why are you playing this game? I understand you Law, and that's what you don't get. You haven't found that person yet that you get a connection with, so you think of girls of games. And, to be honest, I feel bad for you, these games will get boring, and then what will you do?" the girl raged, turning, after, to walk away. Trying to leave the captain alone to register Kuki's words, and how on the spot they were. Law reached out and grabbed the girl's arm, pulling her towards him and pressing his lips to her's, in an attempt to one up her.

Kuki pushed back from him with no luck, he overpowered her. The captain grabbed both of her wrists, and tried to deepen the act by pulling her arms in a way to get her closer to him. She placed both hands on his chest, which Law took as a sign of Kuki giving up, and sent two pulses of air at him, forcing him back into the weight machine. With her blue eyes storming, the girl slapped him and then made her exit, leaving the class all together, she needed to calm down…she needed Zoro.


"Come on Roza, you have to know the words by now!" Luffy laughed, trying to get the girl into the song with everyone else. She smiled again, of course it was hidden, but seriously, what was with these two? "The party lives on and will never die. There happy?" Roza asked, hoping to get the young teen off her case. "Haha, you kinda suck at singing!" Ace laughed, pushing the neon orange hat own over his face. "And that thing on your head is an eye sore, now we both know things we already knew." Roza sneered, poking fun at the freckled commander. "Hey! My hat is great." He whined, taking it off and looking it over. "Not as awesome as my hat!" Luffy piped in with a smile taking over all of his face. "I agree with him." The dark-haired teen smiled, flashing her eyes evilly. "Oi! It's you!" a voice yelled, standing up from its seat and pointing a threatening finger at Roza.

"What, wanna go at it again?" She smirked, wanting a fight, no matter how low she thought of the current, possible, opponent. Ace raised an eyebrow when he caught onto the girl's bloodlust; she really wanted to hit something. "I'm the great Captain Buggy! I just didn't want to…win…back then…yesterday…" the clown like man mumbled, making up an excuse. Roza stood and put up her hands, squeezing them into fists. Buggy smirked, accepting the challenge. All of the other students pushed their desks against the wall, as if this happened often. "Come on then, I'm waiting."


Ace walked mindlessly to his next class, his thoughts full of the fight between Buggy an that Sparks girl. The way she appeared and disappeared everywhere around the poor captain was mind boggling the young commander. What was her power? Did it allow her to transport places, but then what about the force behind each one of her hits? It couldn't be just from working out and taking care of herself… could it? He'd have to ask her sometime, after she was done with her detention of course.


"Trafalgar Law, Roza Sparks, I'll handle you both. Come on in." Rayleigh smiled, opening the door to his office. The girl glanced at the figure sitting in the corner, the one who had lifted his head at the Principle's call. Law, the dark doctor, or the surgeon of death, he had so many nick names that it was impossible to keep up.

He was smirking, or at least that's what it looked like, with his fingers, interlocked, in front of his mouth, balancing his elbows on his knees. The captain's eye pierced into Roza's being; they were dark and…frightening in the way that it seemed he knew what was going on in her head. She stood up first, walking into the office as the head of the school held the door open. Law followed soon after, not taking his eyes of the red uniformed girl. "So, why are you two here on the very first day?" Rayleigh asked, raising an eyebrow in amusement. "Fight." Roza mumbled, crossing her arms around her, not to seem angry, but because she was getting shivers from the boy sitting beside her. "I destroyed the training area." Law smiled, holding a hand over his eyes while keeping his smirk visible. "Alright, well…Roza you fought…" the head master flipped threw some papers, "Buggy? Haha! May I ask why you fought him?" Roza blew hair out of her face before answering, questioning the laugh. "I don't know I felt like it?" she added, hoping that it was a good enough for the 'Dark Knight'. Rayleigh nodded, somehow understanding since he once knew the clown like man, and then he turned towards the young Captain, awaiting his answer. "A girl pissed me off." "I just felt like it." Law smirked, thinking back to the poor training room, all the punching bags were in shreds, and the weight machines were destroyed.

"That's it…really? You just felt like it?" the Dark Knight pressed on, trying to get more information. "No, she just got me a hundred percent right." "Ya, that's it, I was just bored...really…really bored." Law finished, giving Roza another sly look. Just how lucky was he, to have the 'Sparks' girl right here? As if she was being presented to him on a gold platter. The girl shuddered, but from excitement this time…and she didn't understand why. "Well, your both in medical class so, how about you guys clean the class up after as punishment. Law grinned, fuck Kuki and what she said, she didn't know anything. That girl was using that as an excuse to feel better about herself. He was just about to start a new game, and this one seemed interesting.


"What's wrong?" Zoro asked, looking at the tiny girl sitting beside him. It was last period, and she hadn't said anything to him at all so far, she didn't even hug him when they had met up. Kuki's bangs were stuck to her face, wet with sweat from working, but that didn't bug the swordsman, she was still Kuki, and he had seen her a lot worse.

The tiny girl's silence bugged the green haired man more, had he done something wrong? No, he didn't get lost on the way to meet her… so what had happened during her previous class? "How was the fighting class?" he tried again, leaning closer to Kuki. Their desks were pulled together, giving him the opportunity to look at her face, the one she had been desperately hiding. "Well…Law confronted me…" Kuki swallowed, now she'd have to tell Zorro everything, all of what she had tried so hard to hide, "When we first got here, to the Archipelago, and everyone else was…sent away…I stayed here, with Rayleigh and…" The tiny blonde couldn't finish, her eyes were beginning to water. A look of confusion, sadness, and anger crossed the green-haired teen's face. Kuki couldn't even imagine losing the man, he was her sail, a place she could always go back too when she needed to, he was her home. "Did he do anything to you?" Zoro asked, a dark shadow dancing across his eye. He never liked the doctor, never trusted him. "Just listen, I have to tell you. I stayed there with Rayleigh, and Law was still at the Archipelago as well. Remember when I couldn't control how other people's feelings affected mine?" She asked, not being able to look at the man. Finally it clicked in the swordsman's mind, everything fell into place.

Both fists clenched together, his nails digging into his tanned skin and drawing droplets of blood. "Did he force himself onto you?" he sputtered, so angry the words could barley come out. How could he have been so stupid? The way that tattooed captain was looking at Kuki the other day should have been enough. "Back then…at first yes, but I never wanted to Zoro-Kun, you have to understand that. His emotions over powered mine and I was lost inside my own head. You have to forgive me…I can't lose you…" she whimpered, regretting that terrible day, how could she have been so foolish? She should have just left as soon as she saw him, but back then she didn't see him as a threat. Zoro pulled Kuki close and exhaled into her hair, frustrated. "It wasn't you, it was him." He said simply, calming her down with his voice. And as the rest of the class sang away to the sailor tune the pair sat in the back, trying to figure out all their problems as well as fix them. "Songs of mermaids may taunt me so, but your voice over the storms will bring me back home."