Multicolour Words
Chapter 03
By GunslingerBlok
Third chapter already, this stuff is going fast, lol. In this chapter, even more people will be introduced, since it's introduction day! I'm not sure if it's normal to have an introduction day at a university, but I've decided to make up my own weird rules for this university.
When writing this, I had no idea what I was doing. Well, at the beginning at least. I just wanted to get Zoro out of bed at 3 AM. Besides that, I was a bit too excited too, since I finally got my One Piece graphic novels (took the company I ordered them at almost four weeks to get them to me...). And then there was school. Since it's basically going…well…. terrible at school, I'll have to pour almost all my free time in homework and the likes. So I'll only be able to write in the weekends.
Well… I really don't have more to say –gaps-! So here's the third chapter…
Disclaimer: Noo, I STILL don't own it –sigh- But someday, eh.. someday… One Piece is copyright Eiichiro Oda.
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Just a couple of hours after falling asleep, Zoro awoke again, his stomach grumbling. Right, he forgot, he hadn't had anything to eat since yesterday's breakfast. Knowing he probably wouldn't be able to get any sleep if he stayed this way, he took his coat and snuck towards the door. It was probably around 3 AM in the morning, and Ace was fast asleep in his own bed. In one of his hands he was still holding a box of matches. Thinking it might be safe to take as many possible objects that can cause fire away from Ace, Zoro took the box and put it in the pocket of his jacket. He then grabbed his keys and left the room.
As expected, it was completely quiet in the student hostel, as well as it was dark. Hardly knowing where he went, Zoro took a turn left and kept on walking untill he reached a staircase. Good, the staircase, he remembered the staircase. He went down, all the way to the ground floor, and took another left turn. From there, he was lost.
From what he remembered, he and Sanji had taken… a lot of turns. Right, that wasn't going to help him. The green-haired teen sighed and started walking again. Eventually he'd get to the large main doors…he hoped.
And indeed after walking, what felt like at least an entire day, but actually was about an hour, he reached the doors and opened one of them. This surprised him, since he didn't think the doors would actually be unlocked, but ignored it and went outside.
It was a beautifull night, with a clear sky. The stars were shining with a crescent moon between them and a soft wind was blowing, playing with the white t-shirt Zoro was wearing. He shivered, putting on his coat and left the student hostil, when he suddenly noticed he wasn't wearing any shoes. How the fuck could he forget those?
Sighing but deciding not to go back, since it wasn't all that too cold, he crossed the square and left the university grounds trough the large iron gates wich were, appareantly, also open. Before he could actually go through them, though, he bumped into something- no, someone. He looked up and took a look at the person who he had bumped into.
The person, it looked like a 'he', though it was hard to see with the black hat shading most of his face, was taller than Zoro was, and looked more muscular. He was wearing a long black trenchcoat of wich the collar was pulled up high, so the bottom part of his face was mostly covered too. The man nodded and kept on walking, towards the entrance of the student hostel. The freshman looked over his shoulder till the man had entered the student hostel, and then looked forward again, continueing his walk.
When he reached the highway lying near the university, he turned left and found a 24-hours-open shop. It seemed empty; which wasn't weird at this hour, except for a tired-looking guy sitting behind the counter. He entered the shop and nodded towards the guy behind the counter as a greeting. The guy, who had slightly tanned skin, hay-coloured hair till just past his ears, a vertical scar just next to his left eye and was wearing glasses with pink-coloured glass, hardly looked up to greet his new customer.
Walking trough the store, Zoro grabbed some sandwiches and other edible things and went to the counter.
"You sure you can pay for all of that?" The guy behind the counter said, without looking up from the magazine he was reading.
"'Course, why else would I come into a store?" Zoro answered, slightly irritated.
"I figured you might as well be a tramp since you're not wearing any shoes…"
Zoro's face turned pink a bit, but he shook it off right away and mumbled something unintelligible, of wich he thought was explanation enough. He dropped the food on the counter and took his wallet from the pocket of his coat. "How much?"
The guy behind the counter sighed while putting away his magazine and started counting the prizes of the articles.
"Sooo, what's with the no-shoes thing?" He asked.
"Just forgot 'em." Zoro grumbled, barely loud enough to be heard.
"How the hell do you forget your shoes?" The guy looked up questioningly.
"How the fuck should I know, I just forgot 'em!" Zoro hissed. "Just tell me how much I owe you and I'll be on my way again."
"Alright, alright, calm down. That'll be $9.95." The guy said, shoving the food in a plastic bag. "You're from the university, huh?"
"How'd you guess?" The freshman mumbled as he paid.
"Since no one's idiotic enough to walk further than that without shoes on." The guy explained, taking the money and giving Zoro back some change.
"Enough with the shoes already, damnit!" Zoro grabbed the bag, turned around and left the store and the guy's laughing behind him.
As he re-entered the university grounds, crossing the square again, with his thoughts somewhere completely different, he bumped into someone again. "Watch the fuck out!" He hissed, as he looked up to see it was the same man from before. And just like a couple of minutes ago, the man just nodded and continued walking. Zoro shrugged and went inside the student hostel again, taking a sandwich from the plastic bag and started eating. His stomach grumbled contentedly.
Reaching room 96A again, wich took him longer than it should've taken him; Zoro noticed the lights were on. Did he wake op Ace? He thought he had been quiet when leaving. He entered the room again, and saw the lights came from a lighter Ace was holding.
"Hey, where've you been?" The black-haired man said. He was sitting on his bed, with his back against the wall. His head was bowed forward a bit, his hair covering his eyes.
"Store, I was hungry." Zoro answered. He closed the door, walked to his own bed and dropped the plastic bag on it. He took off his coat and threw it on the ground. He heard a soft sigh and turned around.
"You okay?" The freshman asked. "And do you think it's wise to keep that lighter so close to your hair?" He sat down on his own bed, trying to catch his roommate's eyes, but couldn't since his hair was still covering them.
"Yeah, I'm fine." Ace turned the lighter off, and turned the normal light on. "Guess I had a nightmare, or something."
Zoro could clearly hear this was a lie, but didn't ask further. If the guy didn't wanna tell what was wrong with him, he certainly wouldn't force him to. He wasn't even interested. The green-haired teen took another sandwich and looked up again. His roommate was staring into space with an almost devestated look on his face. "Oi."
"Hm?"
"Want one?" Zoro held up a sandwich. He had no idea how to make the guy feel better, especially since he didn't know why he acted so depressed, but food had always helped him to feel a bit better when he was sad.
"Sure, thanks." Ace caught the sandwich Zoro threw at him, sat down back on his bed and started eating. "By the way, why did you take off without your shoes on? I noticed they were still here when you were gone."
"Ugh, enough with the damn shoes already, I just frikkin' forgot 'em!" Zoro sighed. "The guy at the store wouldn't shut up about it either."
"You mean Kohza? Tanned skin, dark blond hair, pink glasses?" Ace asked. Zoro nodded. "He's not so bad, just a bit bitter since he was kicked out of university."
Zoro grinned. Good, so the guy had some flaws too. Zoro forgets his shoes every now and then, the guy behind the counter got kicked out of university. He had to remember that for their next meeting.
After both students had eaten enough they decided to go back to sleep again. It was already 4:30 and Zoro had to get up at 6:30 for the introduction day, something he wasn't looking forward to at all.
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The next morning, Zoro woke up around 6:15 AM. Deciding he had enough sleep for now, he got up, took a towel and some clean clothes and silently left the room in order to find a shower. Since he was one of the few freshmen on this floor of the building, he didn't have to wait and could enter the bathroom right away.
After taking a quick shower and getting dressed (a simple black shirt with long sleeves and three blue stripes crossing horizontally as well as dark blue jeans), he went back to the room finding Ace awake.
"'morning," Zoro said. "Why're you awake already, don't you have the day off?"
"Yeah," Ace answered, also getting out of bed. "Guess I had enough sleep already." Right after saying that, he yawned loudly. Covering his mouth with his hand, he turned away, as if he was trying to hide the yawn.
But after seeing the large bags under his roommate's eyes, Zoro knew the guy had hardly slept at all. He shook his head and sat down on his bad, to put on his shoes. He surely wasn't forgetting them this time. After doing that, the green-haired teen opened the curtains and was greeted by a brightly shining sun, as if the rain from yesterday had never happened. He took his cellphone and Ipod-mini and was about to leave when Ace stopped him.
"Hold on a second, I'll go with you." He said. "I assume you're going to get breakfast?"
"Eh, yeah. I'll wait." The freshman sat down on the bed again while Ace was searching in his closet for some clothes.
"Why the way, have you seen a box of matches? I've seem to lost 'em."
Zoro's eyes flicked towards the pocket of his coat, wich was lying next to the bed. "Eh, no, haven't seen 'em. Why?"
"Just wondering." Ace came out of the walk-in-closet again, dressed in a plain black t-shirt and one of the orange shorts. He put on his black sneakers, took his orange cowboy hat and opened the door. "I must've left them somewhere. Well, let's go."
"Really, perhaps it's safer if you stayed away from matches, or anything other that can cause a fire." Zoro followed the black-haired man when leaving the room and closed the door behind him.
"Oh? Why?"
"…"
"What?"
"Nothing, never mind. Let's just get breakfast."
"Sure, but we'll have to go the other way for that."
Zoro's face turned a soft pinkish colour. He turned around quickly and started walking in the opposite direction, ignoring Ace chuckling.
The cafeteria was almost empty, except for a few other freshmen. Ace and Zoro sat down at the same table as yesterday and waited for the kitchen to open, wich would be at 7 o'clock. Both of them were silent. Ace simply had nothing to say and Zoro didn't want to make Ace think he was interested in, well…anything. But this silence didn't last on for long as the orange-haired girl, Nami, entered the cafeteria and went right over to their table.
"Ah, Nami-chan, good morning!" Ace greeted the young girl, who was now standing next to the table.
"Morning Ace-kun." She said, straightening her black skirt with green polkadots. She was wearing a light green t-shirt with a bright orange ball on it (wich, as Zoro looked again, apparently was a tangerine) and the same high boots as the day before. She sat down next to Ace, across Zoro. "What brings you up so early, I thought sophomore's have the day off."
"They do, but I just…woke up, so I decided to accompany Zoro-san." Ace said. "Where's Vivi-chan, isn't she coming?"
"Nah, she's having breakfast with rebel-boy." Nami explained. "I know she keeps denying it, but she's soooo in love." A soft giggle escaped her mouth and Zoro grumbled.
"But she'll be at the introduction day in time, so it's okay." Nami said. "Kitchen's open." She stood up, leaving the two men behind.
"I'll get us some breakfast. What would you like?" Ace said, as he also stood up.
"Doesn't really matter, anything edible." Zoro mumbled. It was still way to early. "And some coffee. They do have coffee, right?"
"Yeah, they have coffee. Having a hard time waking up, eh?" Ace laughed, leaving to get them some breakfast. By the time he had reached the kitchen, Nami had already returned. She sat down across Zoro again and started eating.
"So what's up with Ace-kun?"
"Hm?"
"Well, you've seen him, right? He looks really tired, though he usually sleeps alright. If you ignore the times he's set his bed on fire. So, what'dya do to him?"
"Huh? What are you talking about, I didn't do anything to him."
"So no kinky gay-sex all night long, making him all tired…"
"I-WHAT?" Zoro jumped up, staring down at the girl, his head turning a flashy red colour. "What the fuck is wrong with you? Like that would ever happen! I-No, he- it's just stupid, why would- WHAT THE FUCK?"
"Haha, calm down, idiot, I was joking!" Nami burst into laughter, seeing Zoro's panic. "God, your reaction was beautiful; I wish I had my camera with me."
"Fuck off." The green-haired teen grumbled, as he sat down again. Of course, Ace chose that moment to return with two plates of sandwiches and two mugs of hot coffee.
"What going on?" He asked, setting down the plates. "Nami-chan, what did you say to him?"
"Nothing, nothing's going on." Nami took another bite of her toast, glancing at Zoro with amusement in her eyes. This guy was great for pranks and jokes. Zoro, who noticed the glance, quickly started drinking his coffee, almost burning his throat.
"Well, anyway, you should finish your breakfast soon; the freshmen are expected at 7:30 AM." Ace said. Meanwhile the cafeteria was starting to get busier. Around 7:10 the cafeteria was stuffed with freshmen, making a huge line in front of the kitchen. Nami chuckled. "They're all gonna be late…"
"That's because the kitchen's missing someone." Ace said. "Sanji's not working today, and he usually does most of the work. Well, for the lady's at least." Zoro said nothing. He looked down at his empty mug and sighed. Some more coffee would be more than welcome, but he really didn't feel like standing in line just for that.
"Well, let's go before we're late." Nami stood up. "Ace-san, could you please take care of the plates?"
"Of course, Nami-chan." Ace smiled, as he took Nami's and Zoro's plate and also stood up. "You two really shouldn't be late to introduction day; I heard Bon Clay-Sama is leading it."
"Oh God, you're not serious, right?" Nami sighed. "Please tell me that's a lie."
"Well, it's what I've heard, so I'm not sure. Anyway, have fun." A wide grin appeared on Ace's face, as he walked away with the plates. Zoro sighed deeply and also stood up.
"So, where are we supposed to go?" He asked.
"Square." Nami simply said. She grabbed Zoro by his arm and pulled him trough the huge croud of freshmen, who were now starting to fight over food. They all wanted some as fast as possible, so they wouldn't be late. As soon as Nami and Zoro had left the room, the green-haired teen pulled his arm away from Nami's grip. Together they walked through the hallways, where they encountered even more freshmen who were all late.
"I see we're lucky that we were so early." Nami said. Zoro stayed silent. "So, Mr. Mysterious, tell me, what classes are you following?"
"Don't know." Was the answer, something Nami hadn't expected. With a puzzled look on her face, she looked at Zoro.
"What do you mean 'don't know'?" She asked, as if he had made a joke.
"Like I said, I don't know. I'll find out once I have my books."
"You don't have your books yet? But classes start within three days!"
"I know, I'll get them tomorrow or something."
"You're really weird, you know that? And I'm not just talking about your hair."
"Don't start about the hair." Zoro sighed. "Look, I don't even know what I'm doing here. The only reason I am here is because I was sent here by my stepdad." He noticed Nami was looking at him, suddenly much more interested, but he kept his silence. He didn't feel like telling about his family, or past for that matter. Especially not to someone he hardly knew and already didn't like.
"Fine." Nami focused her look in front of her again. They reached the large doors of the student hostel and went outside. There was a large stage built in the middle of the square, and around it, several other early freshman (or perhaps some who skipped breakfast), were talking to eachother.
"Nami-chan!" A freshman girl, apparently a friend of Nami's, came running towards them. Her long blue hair was tied up in a ponytail, waving behind her as she rushed towards her friend. She was wearing a white t-shirt with something Japanese on it, written in red, and long tight jeans.
"Ah, Vivi-chan, there you are." Nami said. "How's our rebel-boy?"
"He's doing fine." Vivi said, when reaching Nami and Zoro. "He told me the weirdest story about a guy with green hair entering the store around 3:00 AM in the morning, but he wasn't wearing any shoes! So-" She stopped when she noticed Zoro, who was glaring into space, his eye twitching as a light blush creeped over his face.
"Oh yeah, Vivi-chan, this is Zoro-kun, he's also a freshman." Nami explained.
"Nice meeting you, Zoro-kun." Vivi smiled, her eyes sliding towards his green hair.
"Yeah, whatever." Zoro mumbled, still not looking at the girl.
"So Zoro, were you the one in the shop last night…?" Nami asked, a grin creeping onto her face.
"Shut up." Zoro growled and continued walking, leaving the girls behind who were laughing out loud now. Just his luck, apparently, 'rebel-boy' was that Kohza guy from the store. Before he got very far, though, the girls caught up to him with the intentions of staying with him all day. Zoro sighed. That shoe incident seemed to be screwing up his whole day…
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A couple of minutes later, most of the freshmen were gathered around the stage in the middle of the square. Most of them hadn't had any breakfast and were whining about it to each other. Zoro tried to ignore it, but got irritated so quickly that he snapped at a couple of guys standing next to him. He really needed more coffee.
"Weeeeeeelcome, beloved freshmen of East Blue Universittyyyy!" A high, hardly male voice sounded across the square. "My name is Bon Clay; please refer to me as BON CLAY-SAMA!"
Zoro looked up at the stage, shocked by who- or what- was standing there. It seemed to be a man, dressed in the weirdest outfit Zoro had ever seen. He was wearing blue puffed 'pants' (it more looked like he was wearing a beachball) with dark and light blue stripes, wich stopped a couple of centimeters above his knees. His legs were naked and unshaved and he was wearing a shirt with curly decorations in the same colours of his 'pants'. Over that he was wearing a light pink long coat with a furry collar. On his back he was wearing cheap fake wings wich wiggled at every move he made. Below and above his eyes were decorations painted with dark green paint and he was wearing a dark red colour on his lips. He had placed goggles on top of his short, black hair and on his feet he was wearing ballet-shoes.
Seeing this man standing there on the stage, making weird poses like he was a ballarina, gave Zoro a hard time restraining himself from laughing out loud. Around him he noticed other people having the same problem. Behind him, he could hear Vivi and Nami explode with laughter. Meanwhile, Bon Clay was still dancing around, making pirouettes and screaming out things in French.
"What the hell is this?" Zoro whispered to Nami.
"He's the PE teacher(1)." Nami whispered back, trying to hold her laugh. "He's weird."
"No shit." Zoro sighed. God, he hoped he didn't have PE.
"Students of this universityyy, please repeeeaaaat after me! Follow my lead!" Bon Clay posed again, standing on one foot with the other leg high in the air. Then he started to dance and hop around some more on the stage screaming "un, deux, trois!" with every move he made. Nobody in the audience moved.
"Is this guy serious?" Zoro grumbled.
"I'm afraid he is." Vivi giggled. "He's always like this; his PE-classes are rather interesting."
"If he's gonna continue this, I'm outta here." Zoro said.
"Really, you shouldn't, it'll give you trouble." A happy voice behind Zoro said. "Ace left halfway the introduction day and he got almost kicked out of school. The principal said the introductions are really important." Before Zoro could turn around to see who the owner of the voice was (though he had a suspicion), he felt two arms wrap around his neck from behind and two sandal-clad feet wrapping around his waist.
"Hi, Zoro!" Luffy's head appeared next to Zoro's, as the boy had wrapped himself around Zoro, with no intention to letting go.
"What the-" Zoro, who almost choked because Luffy had wrapped his arms around his neck so tight he could hardly breath, cursed. "What the HELL are you doing, brat? Let go!"
"Awww, but Zoro, you're a good horse!" The boy said in a whiny voice.
"I'm a good what? Just let the fuck go, kid, you're choking me!" Zoro tried to wrench Luffy's arms open, but it was no use. For such a skinny guy, he did have some armpower.
"A horse, Zoro, you're a horse!" Next to him, Nami burst into laughter again. Vivi laughed too, though she seemed a bit worried about Zoro, whose face now turned purple from the lack of air.
"Haaaaaaaa, whooooo's there making so much noise!" Bon Clay's shrill voice suddenly reached Zoro again. He hadn't noticed how much noise he was making, trying to get Luffy off his back, and with shocked eyes he stared at the stage. Bon Clay had found the source of all the noise and was now pointing at them with his manicured finger.
"You two, get on the staaaaage!" He yelled in the microphone he was holding in his hands.
"What? No way, ballerina!" Zoro had no intentions in climbing that stage at all, but before he knew it, he felt hands pushing him in the side (since Luffy was still clinging on to his back) towards the stage. Within a couple of minutes he was in the middle of the stage, a laughing Luffy still on his back.
"You two are ruining my shoooow!" Bon Clay screamed. "Aaaand your punishment will beeeee…. DANCING LESSONS! From yours truuuly!"
"What? Danci- no fucking way I'm gonna dance, pansy!" Zoro hissed, but before he could walk away, a ballet-shoe covered foot shot trough the air, nearly hitting him in the head. "WHAT THE FUCK!"
"You will dance if I say so, boooy!" Bon Clay yelled in anger. "You, on the back, get off and daaaance!"
"YOSH!" Luffy jumped from Zoro's back and landed near Bon Clay. At that moment, the ballerina was posing on one foot again.
"Ha, so cool!" Luffy chirped, as he tried to imitate Bon Clay, but failing horribly, he fell down on his butt. This didn't bother him though, as he laughed out loud again. "That's hard!"
"Aaah, it is, boy, it is! It took me years to master it!" Bon Clay said. Zoro, who was slowly backing away, took a quick look in the audience of freshmen to see Nami collapsed on the ground from laughing and Vivi barely able to stand. And they weren't the only ones. Everybody was laughing, but to his relief, they weren't laughing about him. Luffy was dancing around on the stage now too, imitating Bon Clay, falling down and laughing out loud with a huge smile on his face. This was Zoro's opportunity to leave the stage and blend into the audience again.
"Aaww, Zoro-kun, why didn't you dance?" Nami asked, tears in her eyes from laughing.
"You where the one pushing me on the damn stage, weren't you?" Zoro hissed, ready to strangle the orange-haired girl.
"One of them, yes." Nami smiled. "Oh, c'mon, it was just a joke!"
"Don't fucking joke with me!" Zoro mumbled. "And why is he here anyway, he's not even a student." Zoro pointed towards the stage, where Luffy and Bon Clay were now performing a show together.
"His school doesn't start for another week, so he hangs around the campus a lot." Vivi explained.
"Doesn't that kid have any friends to go to?" Zoro sighed. "Why can't he just go bother his brother?"
"Ace is often busy, and Luffy doesn't have that much friends on his own school." Nami said, her face turning serious. "He does have one good friend, but that guy's gone a lot."
"So he decides to bother me, someone he barely knows." Zoro said. "Wonderful, just what I needed."
"You know you're enjoying his company, Zoro-kun." Nami said with a pestering voice. "You just loooove having him around."
"Would you knock it off? The kid's annoying, way too much energy." Zoro muttered. "It would be better for both him and me if he just left me alone."
"Don't let him hear that, he's kinda sensetive about that kind of thing." Vivi said with a somewhat sad voice. "Here he comes again."
"Hey Zoro, why did you leave? It was so cool!" Luffy laughed, running back to the green-haired teen. "Bon Clay is so awesome!"
"No he isn't." Zoro mumbled, barely audible.
"Hm?"
"Nothing, ignore it."
"Okay!"
"So what are we gonna do now? Stand here and listen to that guy all day long?" Zoro asked Nami.
"Nah, we're gonna take a citywalk after he's done talking. At least, that's what they did last year. You know, to introduce the students to the city?" Nami explained. Zoro nodded. At least that was a good thing. He didn't know the city at all, since he had just moved here.
After another couple of minutes of rambling by Bon Clay, the ballerina finally decided it was time to start walking. He jumped off the stage and ordered everybody to follow him. There they went, a group of about 100 freshmen, pushing and fighting to get through the gates without being squashed. Zoro, Nami, Vivi and Luffy stayed behind a bit, as none of them felt like getting hit.
"Is this gonna take all day?" Zoro asked, as they started walking, at the tail of the group freshmen. "I don't really feel like walking all day."
"It usually takes about three hours, but it also depends on how large the group is." Vivi answered. "And what might happen during the walk."
"You two seem to know a lot about this university…" Zoro mumbled.
"That's because I already did some work for the university last year, like helping and introducing new students to the rules. And Nami heard a lot from Ace." Vivi said, smiling. Zoro looked at her from the corner of his eyes, suddenly remembering the video he had watched when he had to wait in the waiting room the other day. Vivi had been on that video, welcoming the watchers to East Blue University. He nodded, suddenly noticing the raised voices next to him.
"Luffy, you know what I said, right? It's 70 bucks now!" Nami said to the young boy.
"But Nami, I still don't have the money!" Luffy whined. "Please give me some extra time!"
"NO! The more days you wait with paying, the higher the debt gets! You know how it works, Luffy!"
"But Nami-"
"NO!"
"Awww…" Luffy sighed. Zoro looked at him, wondering how old this kid really was. He really looked like a 10-year-old right now, pouting and giving Nami angry looks. He sighed deeply.
"I'll pay for him."
"Hm, what's that?" Nami asked.
Zoro sighed again. "I'll pay for the kid. For now."
"So you're saying you're paying 70 bucks for someone you hardly know?" Nami grinned. "I see…"
"Don't start thinking anything weird, you!" Zoro hissed. "He can borrow it from me and I'll promise him I won't make the debt any larger. He can pay it back when he can."
"Yay Zoro!" Luffy jumped forward, wrapping his arms around the green-haired teen's waist. "Thanks so much! I promise I'll pay it back as soon as I can!"
"Yeah yeah, whatever." Nami held up her hand. "Money."
Zoro grumbled something, taking out his wallet and getting the money out of it. Why was he walking around with 70 bucks anyway, that was way too much to be carrying around. He gave the money to Nami, pushing Luffy away from him and returning the wallet to its original place. "It's alright. Take your time."
Next to him, he heard Vivi giggle softly. He turned to her, giving her an angry look, saying:
"I know what you're thinking, stop now."
"I wasn't thinking anything, Zoro-kun, really!" Vivi giggled some more, soon joined by Nami. The two girls ran forward, away from Luffy and Zoro, and started whispering to eachother, every now and then looking over their shoulder to the freshman and the highschool kid.
Zoro sighed. "Why are you coming with us, anyway?" He asked Luffy. The kid shrugged.
"Don't got anything better to do." He smiled. "And I have some friends here!"
"Really…why don't you go bother them instead?" Zoro muttered.
"I am."
"…"
"What?"
"I don't get it."
"Get what?"
Loud sigh. "Never mind, just keep walking."
"Yosh!" Luffy suddenly started dancing again, but, to Zoro's relief, it wasn't ballet. The kid jumped around, punching his fists in the air. The green-haired teen was slightly amused at this, but did a good job hiding that. His face stayed on 'grumpy'.
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After a total of five hours walking, the huge group of freshman finally reached the school again. Everybody was exhausted and thirsty from walking in the sun for so long, except for Luffy who was still dancing around, untill Nami hit him and he fell on the floor.
"Nami!" He yelled.
"Stop being so damn active, Luffy!" Nami hissed. "You're annoying everybody! Why don't you go find Ace instead?"
"Oh yeah, Ace." Luffy jumped up. "Bye!" And ran off towards the student hostel. Zoro sighed. Finally, rest and peace. He looked at Vivi and Nami, who sat on the ground, back to back, recovering from the long walk.
"I'll see you guys later." He said, waving his hand and walking away. He heard faint 'goodbye's' from the girls as he entered the student hostel, trying to find his way to his room again. This way, he actually got to the stairs without getting lost, but on the third floor he took a left turn instead of a right, and managed to get lost yet again. After several minutes of wandering around, he magically reached room 96A again and entered it.
Ace was sitting on his bed, playing around with some matches again, as Luffy jumped on top of Zoro's bed, loudly telling the things that had happened during the introduction day.
"That Bon Clay guy is soooo cool! He can stand on one foot, you know, on his toes! And he can like spin around, real fast!" Luffy laughed. Then he noticed Zoro and stopped jumping for a moment. "Bon Clay said Zoro had to dance too, but he wouldn't. That wasn't really fair, though."
"Kid, get off my bed." Zoro grumbled. He waved his hand once as a greeting towards Ace and walked to his bed.
"Awww, but your bed is so bouncy!" Luffy whined.
"Then go home and bounce on your own bed, I'm sure it's just as bouncy." Zoro said, pushing Luffy from the bed and sitting down on it himself.
"I can't, Nojiko would yell at me again." Luffy sighed, and then noticing there was another bed in the room, rushed towards Ace. Before the black-haired man could do anything against it, Luffy had already climbed on his bed and continued his jumping. Zoro threw a 'Sorry, dude' look at Ace, before lying down and closing his eyes. Today had given him a huge headache. He had a lot of headaches lately. Well, since he got to this university.
"So, Zoro-kun, Nami told me you still don't have your school books." Ace said.
"Heh? When she told you that?"
"She stopped by a couple of minutes ago. She wondered where you were."
Crap. The girl was here before him. "Err, taking a walk." He cursed the orange-haired teen.
"You took a walk after taking a 5-hours-long walk?" Ace laughed. "Sometimes you really surprise me, Zoro-kun!"
"Yeah, whatever." Zoro mumbled.
"Anyway, we can go to the school library tomorrow, if you want. They also sell school books there."
"Yeah, sure." The green-haired teen sighed. "I'll have to get them eventually."
"Great, then that's settled." Ace smiled. After that, Zoro hardly heard anything anymore, sinking away in a deep sleep. He could hear Luffy's voice, but didn't know what he was saying. It didn't matter anymore, he just needed some sleep.
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(1) I don't know if there's still PE class on university, probably not but.. It's just so perfect for Bon Clay! And this is my university XD!
Yosh! End of chapter! It wasn't really what I wanted it to be, but I'm still pretty satisfied with it. I wanted to introduce more characters than Vivi and Bon Clay, but they'll have to wait for now. And omg, yes, Bon Clay! I hardly knew how to describe him, since he's not really in that much fanfics, so I didn't really have an example. Please tell me if he was IC or OOC, thankyouverymuch!
And thanks so much to Digitaldreamer for beta-reading my story and changing some of the lines into better ones! –gives One Piece plushies-
Oh yeah. Review. Reviews make Blok a very happy person. And it might earn you a cookie, buwhaha!