Multicolour Words
Chapter 04
By Gunslinger Blok

Wah! This chapter took me much longer than I expected. Because I was sick for a couple of days, I couldn't write anything, though I had so many ideas. I did manage to get pretty far with the script, though I'm kinda stuck with it now. I know what I want to happen, but not how it must happen. –sigh-

Anyway, thanks again for all the reviews! God, I love you guys, I've had so much fun reading them. XD Is it sick I'm actually proud I made someone choke on their food? So, people have been asking for Usopp, and yes, eventually, he'll appear. He won't have a major part in this story, though, so don't expect him all too much. I'm sorry, but I just can't stand the nose! Erhm...that'll be all, enjoy the story!

Disclaimer: I recently bought a One Piece graphic novel, does that count? One Piece is copyright Eiichiro Oda.

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The next morning, Zoro was awoken far too damn early. It was around 8 AM when Luffy was jumping around on his bed, almost crushing Zoro. Wait… Luffy? What the hell was he doing here?

"Damnit, kid, get off my bed!" After it had taken his brain a couple of seconds to register it was indeed Luffy jumping around on his bed, he pulled away his blanket on which Luffy was standing, and made the boy fall onto the floor.

"Hey, that wasn't very nice!" Luffy pouted, standing up again and straightening the black-and-white hoodie he was wearing today.

"Well, it wasn't very nice of you to wake me up this early either." Zoro mumbled, burying his face in his pillow.

"Ace told me to wake you up; we're going to the library." Luffy said, as he sat down on Ace's bed.

"But why so damn early!" Zoro hissed. "And what do you mean by 'we'? You're not coming too, are you?"

"Of course I'm coming! I asked yesterday and Ace said I could."

"Great. Perfect. Wonderful. Five more minutes." Zoro sighed, covering his face with his blanket. Another day, or rather at least another morning, stuck with that bouncy little brother.

"No, you have to get up now!" Zoro heard Luffy yell, right before he felt the boy jumping on his back, almost breaking it, and laughing out loud.

"Goddamnit!" Zoro turned around, pushing the boy off his bed again and sitting up himself. "Fine, I'll get up! Don't ever fucking jump on my back again like that! Can't you go bother Ace or something? Where is he anyway?"

"Eating." Luffy answered. "I already ate, though I wanted more, but Sanji kicked me out of the kitchen. So I decided to wake you up!"

"How nice of you…" Zoro said. "Now get the fuck out of my room, so I can change."

"Yosh!" Luffy jumped up, apparently happy that he finally managed to wake Zoro up, and left the room. "I'll be in the hallway!"

Zoro got out of his bed, yawning loudly, and went to his closet. A quick look at the window, of wich the curtains already were open, let him know it probably was a warm, sunny day. Knowing that, he took a plain dark blue t-shirt and plain black pants and put them on. He then went back to his bed and took his cellphone and iPod-mini from the cupboard. He then left the room and entered the hall, where he was almost tackled by an incredibly enthusiastic Luffy.

As they went down the hall to the stairs, Luffy kept on babling to Zoro. Mostly about the library, university, Ace, the highschool he went to and meat, but Zoro didn't hear a thing of it. His thoughts went to a nice hot cup of coffee he was going to get as soon as they got to the cafeteria. He was snapped out of those thoughts when he heard Luffy say the name 'Nico Robin'. Why did that sound so familiar?

"Nico…Robin?" The green-haired teen mumbled.

"Yeah, she works at the library! She's really nice, but a little strange. She doesn't really say much and if she says something I usually don't understand it!" Luffy laughed, as if he was proud of it. Zoro looked at the boy from the corners of his eyes, caught up in his own thoughts again. Why did the name Nico Robin sound so damn familiar? Eh, whatever, he would just ignore it for now. It was too early to think about it.

The cafeteria was almost completely empty. Most students were still sound asleep in their rooms, none of them was stupid enough to go the the library this early in the morning. Why couldn't they go a couple of hours later?

Ignoring Luffy's cries for Ace, Zoro went to the kitchen. He needed coffee first, but when he reached the kitchen, he knew even coffee was going to be difficult to get.

"What the hell are you doing here, Marimo?" Sanji said, lighting a cigarette and raising his famous curled eyebrow.

"Shut up and just get me some coffee." Zoro growled, trying to ignore Sanji's insult. It was too fucking early.

"Not if you ask it like that, asshole."

"Look, just get me the coffee and I'll leave you alone."

"Very tempting but I don't feel like doing you a favor."

"Goddamn-"

"SAAANJJJIIIII!" Luffy's loud voice interrupted Zoro, as the boy ran towards the kitchen. "FOOOD!"

"Damnit, Luffy, I already told you I'm not giving you any more food!" Sanji yelled. "You don't even go to this university, the only reason I'm giving you food here is because you're Ace's brother. You already ate half of the food supplies for this week!"

"Aww, but Sanji!" Luffy had reached the kitchen, and was trying to enter it, but was stopped by Sanji's foot pushing against his stomach. "I'm still hungry!"

"Then go buy some food somewhere! Stop bothering me and go to Ace, he's waiting for you." Sanji said, as he kicked Luffy a couple of meters back. "He's in the corner."

Ace was indeed sitting in the corner. However, he had fallen asleep again and his face was resting on his plate, his orange cowboyhat had fallen off. His arm was still raised in the air, his hand holding a sandwich, like he was about to take a bit when he fell asleep. Luffy laughed out loud while running towards his brother. Zoro just sighed. He looked at Sanji, knowing by the cook's look he still wasn't getting any coffee, and then followed Luffy. It wasn't like him to give up like this, but it was just too damn early for a fight. He'd kick curly-eyebrow's ass later.

Meanwhile Luffy had managed to wake Ace up, who was now wiping his face clean with a napkin. Luffy had snatched Ace's half-eaten sandwich and had stuffed it in his mouth. With a contented look on his face, he swallowed and grinned.

"Ah, Zoro-san, you're awake." Ace threw the napkin in a trashbin and stood. "Do you want some breakfast, or should we go?"

"Let's go and get this over with." Zoro sighed. "But can we stop somewhere to get coffee?"

"Sure, let's go." Ace said, as he started walking towards the doors of the cafeteria. "C'mon, Luffy."

"Yosh!" Luffy yelled. "Horseeeee!"

"What?" Zoro looked over his shoulder, and noticed Luffy barging towards him. "No fucking way!" The green-haired teen jumped away, making Luffy, who had just jumped towards Zoro, fly trough the air and crashing into a table. "I'm not a goddamn horse, Luffy!"

"You're no fun at all, Zoro!" Luffy whined while he got up from the floor, completely unharmed.

"I can live with that." Zoro answered. He and Luffy left the cafeteria, while Ace thanked Sanji for breakfast. The cook waved and smiled, a smile that, Zoro noticed, was similair to the ones he would throw at the ladies. The student sighed and decided to ignore it.

Leaving the student hostel and crossing the square towards the large gates, Luffy decided it was time for a song. While jumping around Zoro and Ace, his loud voice filled the square and, probably, woke up a bunch of students.

"Minami no shima wa attakee- paina-puru puru attama pokapoka aho baka!(1)" The young boy sang, making pirouette's and imitating the moves he had seen Bon Clay do. "Kita no shima wa samui- Hakkoi koi koi attama buruburu aho baka!"

"Luffy, you should keep it down before you wake up any of the students!" Ace said, giving Luffy a soft tap against his strawhat.

"So? Why aren't they awake yet anyway, it's a beautiful day, they should play outside!" Luffy laughed, readjusting his hat.

"Students don't really play outside, kid." Zoro mumbled. "You probably shouldn't play outside anymore too. How old are you anyway?"

"17." Luffy answered.

"What? You're 17? No way!" Zoro, honestly surprised by this, glared at the boy. "Then why the hell do you act like a 10-year-old."

"I don't act like a 10-year-old; all the others just act like 50-year-old's!" Luffy contradicted, sticking out his tongue.

"You really shouldn't argue with him, you'll never win." Ace laughed. Zoro sighed again, looking at Luffy and pulling the strawhat over the boy's eyes. Immediately, Luffy tripped and fell down, his hand trying to grasp anything that would keep him from touching the hard ground. He grabbed Zoro's arm, almost pulling the green-haired teen with him in his fall, but managed to stay standing.

"You're mean!" The raven-haired boy screamed, while he readjusted his strawhat once more, and ran off towards the gates. He heard Zoro say something behind him, but ignored it. From the tone of the student's voice, Luffy knew he was cursing.

"What the hell is wrong with that kid?" Zoro asked. He was surprised Ace started laughing. He expected his roommate to scold at him. He didn't answer, though, and kept walking untill they reached the gates. Luffy was waiting there, jumping up and down impatiantly. They crossed the streets and walked towards the building across the university.

"That's the library?" Zoro asked, looking up at the building. It was a large old building, probably made at the beginning of the 18th century. The bricks had a soft yellow colour and a large amount of windows and some curly decorations made it look impressive.

"Yup, let's go inside." Ace opened the oakwood doors and went inside, followed by his bouncy little brother and Zoro. Inside the building was even more impressive, but didn't fit the outside at all. The outside was rather plain, with only a couple of decorations around the window-frames. Inside, however, was filled with those same curly decorations, but also huge ceilingpaintings telling ancient Greek legends, antique chandeliers and shining white-marble floors. And that was just the hallway.

Ace continued walking, followed by Luffy and Zoro, entering an incredibly huge room, filled with large wooden bookcases stuffed with books. The ceiling, wich was about 6 meters high, was decorated once again with paintings, portraying stories of ancient heroes and their adventures. One huge chandelier, probably about 4 meters across, was hanging in the middle of the room, giving just enough light to read the titles of the hundreds of books. The three men didn't stop, though, and kept walking, untill they reached the other side of the room.

Sitting behind a large wooden desk, was a woman with black hair untill her shoulders. She was wearing a plain white shirt and was reading in a leather tied book. It was not untill Ace had reached the desk and placed his hands on it, that she looked up from her book.

"Good morning, Robin-san." Ace said. "How have you been?"

"Good morning to you too, Ace-san. I've been well, thank you." She smiled, and Zoro noticed it wasn't really a happy smile. There was something about this woman, especially her light blue eyes and the contented expression on her face.

"Robiiiin!" Luffy waved, even though he was standing right before the desk, almost hitting Zoro in the head.

"Ah, Senchou-san, you've come too?" Robin said. "I didn't expect to see you here."

"He wanted to come with us," Ace explained. "To get Zoro-kun some books."

Like she just noticed him, Robin looked at Zoro, scanning him. Zoro, however, knew Robin had known he was here from the moment they had entered the building. There was something unpleasantly familiar about this woman.

"You're Zoro-kun." It sounded more like a statement than a question. "Nice to meet you, I'm Nico Robin."

"Likewise." Zoro said. "Why're you calling the kid senchou?"

"When Luffy was still a kid, he used to play he was a pirate a lot. Since he didn't have many friends, he played with Robin-san." Ace explained. "We've known her for years."

"Those really were some amusing games," Robin said. "He only had one friend to play pirate with, though. I believe he was the first mate of Senchou-san's pirateship." The raven-haired woman looked at Zoro. Zoro looked back, refusing to look away from the piercing eyes of the librarian. He felt like she could see in his soul, his memories, his emotions, like she already knew everything about him, but still he refused to look away. After almost a minute, Robin smiled. "But how can I help you? I believe you're looking for books? We have plenty of those here."

"He needs schoolbooks, but he doesn't know wich classes he's following." Ace said. "Since you have access to all the student information, could you perhaps help us?"

"Of course, please wait for a while." Robin stood and left the room trough a small wooden door behind the desk.

"I don't like her…" Zoro muttered, more to himself than to anyone else.

"Why not? I think she's great! She's like all mysterious and stuff!" Luffy chirped. "And she's a great archeologist! When she was still a member of my piratecrew, she would explore ancient ruins and examine rocks and stuff and she could tell what the people who lived in those ruins years and years ago were like! She's so awesome!"

Zoro decided to ignore the boy. He still couldn't believe Luffy was really 17 years old. It stayed silent for a while, wich Luffy soon found boring and decided to wander off, exploring 'the dungeon'. After a couple of minutes, Nico Robin returned, holding a freshly printed paper in her hands.

"Here is your schedule, Zoro-kun." She handed the papers to him. "If you would follow me to the back, we'll get you your books." She left trough the wooden door again, and Zoro followed her. Ace wanted to follow, but noticed Luffy was climbing one of the bookcases, and hurried to his little brother to get him down.

It was a small room they entered, wich looked even smaller because of all the crates and boxes of school books piled on top of eachother. In the corner was a computer, with a printer, wich Nico Robin probably had used to find his student information. As Zoro stood there, still near the door of the room, Robin was searching in several boxes and crates for books. After a couple of minutes, she found all the books Zoro would need, and handed the big pile to Zoro.

"There, I believe that's all. If I'm missing something, you can always return here." She said. "I'll send a check to the student hostel."

"Thanks." Zoro left the room again, his view blocked by the large amount of books he was holding. He put them down on the desk for a while, before searching for Ace and Luffy. The highschool boy was dancing on top one of the bookcases, singing his weird song again, while Ace was desperately trying to get him down. Zoro sighed and walked towards the bookcase on wich Luffy was dancing.

"Oi, kid, get down, we're leaving." He said.

"I don't wanna leave, its fun here!" Luffy yelled, jumping on another bookcase, making the one he jumped from wiggle dangeriously.

"Luffy, please get down, you're gonna break something!" Ace said. Zoro sighed. His headache was coming back again. The lack of coffee and a morning with Luffy really wasn't the best combination.

"Kid, if you get down now, I'll buy you some ice cream." Zoro finally said, and before he knew it, Luffy had jumped down, almost on top op Zoro.

"YAY, ice cream! Letsgoletsgoletsgo!" He grabbed Zoro's arm and dragged him towards the door.

"Oi, wait, let go, I don't have my books." The green-haired teen tried to get free, but Luffy's grip was incredibly strong.

"I'll get them." He heard Ace say behind him. "Bye Robin-san, we'll visit again soon. Thanks for your help!"

"No problem, Ace-san. Goodbye!" Robin said, before sitting down behind the desk again. Zoro looked over his shoulder and noticed the almost sad smile was replaced by an amused look. A look that looked far, far too familiar. Quickly, Zoro looked in front of him again, as he was dragged outside by Luffy. Ace followed.

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"Icecream icecream icecream icecream!" Luffy had been repeated the same word over and over again ever since they left the library. It was slowly driving Zoro crazy, as he wished he would have at least one of his katana's with him right now. Ace was just smiling. He was used to Luffy's hyperactivity, so the jumping and word-repeating didn't bother him at all.

"You're pretty strong, aren't you, Zoro-kun?" Ace suddenly said. Zoro, who had taken the books from Ace again once Luffy had let him go, was holding the pile with only one hand. "You're holding all those with one arm and I could barely do it with two."

"It's really not that heavy.." Zoro mumbled. He knew that was a lie, though. The pile of books was indeed very heavy; yet, he was lifting them with only one hand, the other hand in his pocket. This strength was something Zoro had always had. Ofcourse, he wasn't as strong when he was still a kid, as he was know, but he had always been much, much stronger than the people surrounding him. He had never paid too much attention to it.

"ICE CREAM!" Luffy suddenly yelled in Zoro's ear, making the student snap out of his thoughts.

"What the hell? Kid, don't fucking do that!" The green-haired teen hissed.

"I had to! You were all spaced out and were about the walk past the icecream store!" Luffy said, pointing towards a small store wich they indeed has almost passed.

"You could've just poked me or something." Zoro mumbled.

"You told me not to poke."

"Just get into the store."

"ICE CREAAAM!" Luffy screamed, charging towards the store and almost crashing into the door in his hurry to enter. Ace followed, still smiling dumbly. Zoro felt the urge to just run away now, but ignored it and also entered the store.

When Luffy finally had his ice cream (ordering almost every flavour there was), and Ace and Zoro some soda, they went outside again and sat down on the bench in front of the store. Within minutes there was more icecream on Luffy's face then there was in his stomach.

"You got some icecream on your face, Luffy." Ace pointed out.

"Oh? Where?" The raven-haired boy tried to lick his own face, but didn't get much further with his tongue than the tip of his nose.

"Everywhere." Zoro answered. He finished his soda and threw the can in a nearby trashbin. "I'm going back to the student hostel."

"And I better get you home, Luffy." Ace said. "Nojiko's waiting for you."

"Aww, but why? It's not even in the afternoon yet!" Luffy said, now taking icecream from his face with his fingers and licking those clean.

"You promised to clean your room today." The older teen threw his sodacan away too and looked at his little brother with a severe look on his face. "Nojiko's gonna get mad if you don't clean your room today and you know how she is mad." A shiver went down Luffy's back.

"Fine." Luffy pouted. "If I clean it real fast, can I come back to the university again?"

"Sure you can. But be sure to make your room real tidy, okay?" Ace said. "If you want, Zoro-kun, I could show you some more of the city. Nojiko lives in a whole different part then the places where you've been on your introduction day."

"Eh, that's okay, I'll just go back to the stu-" Zoro started, before being interrupted.

"Ofcourse he's coming! Zoro wants to meet Nojiko, right? She's really nice!" Luffy said. "She isn't really like a mother, though she kind of adopted me. She's more like a sister!"

"Look, that's okay but, I really have to get back an-" Zoro tried again, but Luffy flatly ignored him.

"LET'S GO!" He grabbed Zoro's arm again and tried to drag him with him again, but failed when the green-haired teen held him back. He sighed.

"Fine, I'll come; just let me grab my books, okay?" He said. "And let go of my arm."

"Yay! Zoro's coming home with me!" Luffy chirped, jumping and already starting to walk. Zoro grabbed his books when he realized the sentence 'Zoro's coming home with me' could be taken in a totally wrong way. He just wished Luffy would stop singing it.

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By the time they had even reached the center of the city, were Nojiko lived, it was already 1:00 PM. Luffy kept on pointing things out in windows of stores and rushing into other stores, followed by Ace who would drag him outside again. Zoro just kept on walking, slowly, so he wouldn't lose Ace and Luffy. He still didn't know the city and didn't feel like getting lost.

After walking for another half an hour, the freshman noticed a gym. Back in his old town they didn't have a gym, but Zoro did work out every day. Since his room in the student hostel was just too tiny for any of his workouts, perhaps he could join the gym and train there. He said to Ace he was going to take a look, and entered the gym together with his roommate. They both ignored Luffy, who was singing his song again and dancing around random people.

When they left the gym again, Luffy had managed to climb up a lamp post, dancing on it dangeriously. Zoro was now a member of the gym which, surprisingly hadn't been very expensive. He'd have to check it out tomorrow. Continuing their walk to Nojiko's house, both Ace and Zoro were silent, looking on as Luffy jumped down the lamp post and started wiggling and dancing around again. It actually amused Zoro. A little bit.

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Nojiko lived in a very tiny appartment, part of a rather decayed building. As Ace knocked on the door of appartment 4B, Zoro took a look around. The hall where they were standing was dirty, as if it hadn't been cleaned in a long time. The floor was sticky and muddy and the ceiling was covered with spiderwebs. Every now and then, a cockroach walked by. The freshman twitched his eye when he accidentily stepped on one.

The door was opened by a young woman with light lila-coloured hair. She was wearing a yellow tanktop with long jeans and a pink ribbon in her hair. A curly darkblue tattoo crossed from one shoulder to the other.

"Good afternoon, Nojiko, I brought back Luffy!" Ace greeted. He pushed Luffy, who was pouting, inside the small apartment.

"Thanks." Nojiko simply said. "Luffy, go clean your room."

"Aww, but Nojiko-" Luffy started.

"You promised you would clean your room today, so you better get started." Nojiko said. Her voice stayed normal, but apparently sounded different to Luffy, as he ran off with a yelp to go clean his room. She turned to Ace again. "Wanna come in?"

"That's okay, Zoro-kun probably wants to go back to the student hostel." Ace said, pointing to Zoro.

"New roommate?" Nojiko asked. When Ace nodded he held out her hand. "Nice to meet you, I'm Nojiko. I take care of Luffy."

"Yeah, likewise." Zoro said, as he took Nojiko's hand and shook it. "It's okay, though, I can find find the student hostel myse-"

"Zoro has to come in too!" Luffy's voice suddenly sounded. "Why do you want to go back to the student hostel so fast?"

Zoro felt the urge to say 'to get rid of you', but managed to keep silent. He sighed once more. "No reason, actually."

"Then come in." Nojiko stepped aside so Ace and Zoro could enter the room. Zoro put down his books on a round wooden table in the middle of the room they just entered and took another look around.

Other than the hall, Nojiko's appartment was really clean and tidy. It was small, though, with a family room and a kitchen as well as a dining-room. There was one window; over which the blue curtains were closed. There were three doors, two of them closed, and one open giving view to what apparently was Luffy's room. The boy was jumping and running around, trying to get rid of art supplies, laundry and clean clothes, toys, comic books and stuff that Zoro couldn't identify.

Ace and Zoro sat down by the table, Ace talking to Nojiko while Zoro stared at Luffy. So this is where that boy lived. This appartment was way too tiny for him; no wonder he went out so much. It was a nice appartment, though, despite the fact that there was hardly room for two people. He was soon snapped out of his thoughts, when something hard hit him in the head, almost making him, and the chair on which he was sitting, fall backwards.

"What the-" He grumbled, bowing to grab the rock that had hit him. "Why are there rocks flying around, damnit?"

"Haha, sorry, Zoro!" Luffy said. "I tripped and then the rock flew out of my hands and hit you in the head! I'm glad the rock isn't damaged."

"You're worrying about the damn rock?" Zoro hissed, throwing it back to Luffy.

"It's a special rock, you know." Ace said. "Luffy got it from Shanks-san, when he came back from one of his adventures. It has the fossile of some weird bug in it."

"Whatever." Zoro sighed, rubbing his forehead where the rock had hit him. "A rock's a rock."

"Here." Nojiko gave Zoro a glass of coke as she sat down across him. "I figured you might've been thirsty."

"Thanks."

"So you're a freshman too, eh?"

"Yup."

"So is Nami, my stepsister. You already met her, right?"

"Yup."

"And you already owe her money."

"Yu- wait, what? How d'you know?"

"I know my sister, as soon as she meets someone; she tries to get money from them." Nojiko smiled, taking a sip from her own coke. Zoro started drinking his coke, thinking how Nami was different from Nojiko. Okay, so they weren't really related, but stepsisters. Still, if they grew up together, they should've been a little bit alike, right?

"DONE!" Luffy ran out of his room, almost crashing into the table. "I'm done cleaning, Nojiko!"

"No you're not; you just stuffed everything under your bed."

"Man, how did you know?"

"I didn't, you just told me."

This took Luffy's brain several moments to register. "Nojiko!"

"Go clean your room."

"NO!"

"Luffy, I'm warning you."

"I don't want to!"

"Ehh.. I think I'm gonna go home." Zoro said. He put down his glass and stood, reaching for his books. He really didn't feel like watching Luffy and Nojiko fight. "Thanks for the coke; I'll see you guys later."

"Hang on, I'll come too." Ace took the last draught of his drink, put down his glass and also stood. "Bye, Nojiko."

"Bye Ace, Zoro-kun." Nojiko said. "Luffy, you're going to clean your room right now, before I get really angry, you hear me?"

"Naaah, why are you leaving already?" Luffy said with a whiny voice, totally ignoring Nojiko.

"Because you need to clean your room, little brother." Ace grinned. "Have fun!"

"Ace, you're mean!" Luffy yelled. Ace's grin just grew bigger as he left the appartment, followed by Zoro.

"Bye kid." He muttered, before closing the door behind him. As they left the building, they could still hear Nojiko's raised and Luffy's whiny voices.

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(1) Yes, that is indeed Luffy's Island Song; wich can be heard in episode 169 of the anime, lol! I'm not sure what he's singing but I believe it was something about a country in the east with the best meat or whatever. I absolutely adore the song and I still hate Wiper for interrupting Luffy before he could start the third verse!

Finito already! And with this chapter, I managed to screw up my entire script, lol! Now I'll have to rewrite everything –sigh- Ahwell, in the end, I hope it's worth it. And yesh, I know, making Luffy play pirate-games when he was young is cliché and all, but I couldn't help myself! Besides, it might be a part of the story. Not sure yet, since I just messed with my own script –cough-

I'm a bit worried about the script though. I'm not sure if you guys would like it, lol! And after almost finishing it, I realized it's sortof based on the story of a certain anime. I hadn't realized it, since I've watched that series a long, very long time ago, and I already partly forgot it. I'm still gonna continue and follow the story I have in mind, so I hope you guys don't hate me too much for (exidentily) stealing stuff from other series XD! And no, I'm not telling you wich series. That might ruin the fun, haha!

Once again, thanks so much, Digitaldreamer, for beta-reading the story! If I had more One Piece plushies I would give them to you, but I don't XD I do have some One Piece lollypops you can have! (Whoa, they actually excist in Japan! You can lick Zoro! And that sounds so wrong…)

I hope everybody was In Character! Especially Nojiko, since once again, it was a character you don't find often in fanfics! So please let me know if she was OOC, thankyou! And review, reviews make me so happy XD no seriously, they make my day!