Multicolour Words
Chapter 5
By GunslingerBlok

And yet another chapter arrives! I'm finally slowly getting into the story, I think. Something major might happen this chapter. Not sure yet, since I don't know what I'm gonna write while writing this intro, lol. Sorry it took me so long, though, but things like test week (Totally screwed that up) and Easter (Happy late Easter everybody!) kept me busy. Plus it's my birthday at the end of the month and my mom wants to leave for a couple of days of vacation on that day, which I've been trying to fight desperately, since I don't wanna go. Anyway, have fun reading!

Disclaimer: Oh, the things I could do if I owned One Piece –sigh- One Piece is copyright Eiichiro Oda.

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The next morning Zoro finally got to sleep in without anyone bothering him. When he awoke around 11:00 AM, he noticed Ace had already left the room and was probably having breakfast downstairs. After staying in bed for another half an hour, the freshman got up, took a shower, got dressed and also went downstairs for his breakfast. The cafeteria was the only thing he could finally find without getting lost in the student hostel.

When he got to the cafeteria, Zoro expected to find Ace there. The pyromaniac was nowhere to be found, however, but Zoro thought he may have had other occupations. Surely he had a job or something? When the green-haired teen went to the kitchen for some coffee, he found out the stupid love cook was missing too, making this task much easier.

Slowly walking across the square of the student hostel with a nice hot cup of coffee in one hand and a sports bag in the other, Zoro decided this could actually become a good day. The sun was shining, it was warm outside, he was rested and there were no Luffy's to bother him. Quietly enjoying this, he left the area of the student hostel to cross the road and following the same way he had yesterday. He was planning to check out that gym today.

When reaching the gym, almost two hours later than he had planned, Zoro entered the large building. Inside it was quiet and only a few people were working out. A young girl, not much older than him, with short dark blue hair and red glasses walked towards him. She appeared to be working at the gym.

"Can I help you?" She asked, putting up a smile.

"Perhaps. I just became a member yesterday, so I'm not sure what to do." Zoro explained, glaring over the girl's shoulder to the large room behind her, which was seperated from the entry hall with glass plates.

"Name, please."

"Roronoa Zoro."

"Right, please follow me." The girl said, walking to the other room. "I'll first show you the locker rooms, where you can change. Then I'll give you a short tour and help you with the machines." Zoro just nodded, and followed the girl.

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"Sir, SIR!" The girl yelled, almost panicking. "You're damaging the machine, please stop sir!"

"What the hell? Who made these things so darn weak?" Zoro hissed, as smoke began to waft up from the machine he was using.

"SIR, STEP AWAY FROM THE MACHINE, STEP AWAY!" The girl yelled, trying to grab Zoro's arm to pull him back. The green-haired teen jumped back himself, however, when sparks started flying from the machine.

"Oh no, look what you've done!" The girl sighed, not knowing what to do. "Oh, this never happened before! What should I do, what should I do?"

"Tashigi!"

"Ah, Smoker-san!" The blue-haired girl turned around, almost falling down because of the spin. A tall, muscled man came walking towards them, two cigars hanging from his mouth. He ran his hand through his short, light hair and blew out some smoke before speaking again.

"Tashigi, what's going on here?"

"S-Smoker-san, I'm so sorry, but this man here, he sortof destroyed the m-machine and I don't know what to do!" The girl, apparently named Tashigi, stuttered.

"Take out the plug." Smoker said.

"Y-yes, sir!" Tashigi said, jumping behind the machine, which was still sending sparks everywhere. After a couple of seconds, the machine lost its power and the sparks stopped. All this time, Zoro had just been standing there.

"Kid," Smoker turned to Zoro. "What the hell are you thinking destroying my machines like that?"

"It's not my fault!" Zoro immediately backfired. "These stupid machines are just too damn weak!"

"You're the first one to break them, boy, don't you tell me the machines are weak!" Smoker said, his voice remaining calm. "Either you are incredibly strong, or you just did something weird."

"I didn't do anything weird, this thing just suddenly broke!" Zoro snapped. "And why the hell is a health center owned by a guy smoking two Cigars at the same time?"

"Leave the Cigars out of this, kid." Smoker said, now getting slightly irritated. "Just get the hell out of my gym."

"For crying out loud!" Zoro sighed. "Fine, whatever, I don't wanna work out in a gym with fucked up machines anyway." He then barged off to the locker rooms to get changed.

When leaving the gym a couple of minutes later, the freshman decided this day wasn't so good afterall. In fact, this probably was the suckiest beginning of a day since he got here, including the wake-up call from Luffy. He slowly started walking back to the student hostel, his sportsbag hanging over his shoulder, quietly mumbling all sorts of insults towards that smoking guy and the blue-haired girl of the gym all the way. He was so caught up in his own thoughts, he hardly noticed that familiar sound of sandals on the cement sidewalk pattering towards him.

"Zoro!" Luffy, who wasn't all bouncy and hyperactive, but actually looked panicked for once, waved his hands above his head to catch the freshman's attention.

"Hey, Luffy-kun." Zoro looked up, waiting for the boy to reach him. "You okay?"

"No! Well, yes, I am, but Nojiko isn't!" The boy panted, like he had ran around the whole town a couple of times. "Do you know where Ace is? I can't find him and he won't answer his cellphone!"

"Haven't seen him all day, he left before I woke up." Zoro said. He felt something sting his heart, when Luffy looked dissapointed hearing this. This kid wasn't supposed to be looking like this; it wasn't right to see Luffy anything other than happy and bouncy. "What happened, is Nojiko-san hurt?"

"Y-Yeah, she fell down the stairs!" Luffy said, whiping his forehead. He continued talking, but Zoro hardly heard him. Fell down the stairs? Those words immediately brought back the memories of her, of Kuina. Kuina, who had broken her neck in that fall…

"Wait, wait, Luffy-kun, hold on!" Zoro said. "Is she okay? I mean… alive?"

"She's still alive; they brought her to the hospital. But Ace needs to know this!" Luffy said, beginning to panick again. "I already went to the student hostel twice, Nami and Vivi are already in the hospital, but I just can't find Ace! Or Sanji! Sanji should know this too! I just can't find them!"

"Kid, calm down." Zoro said, grabbing Luffy's shoulder in order to get him to stand still. "You go back to the hospital, I'll go find Ace-san and that damn love cook, okay?"

"Really? You would do that?" Luffy's face immediately brightened up. "Thanks so much, Zoro! Be sure to check the city, though! I already went to the library and Robin told me she would send Ace to the hospital when she would see him. And Kohza is keeping an eye on the student hostel."

"Yeah yeah, I'll check the city, just go to that hospital." Zoro grunted.

"Thanks again, Zoro! I owe you one!" The kid said, waving before running off again.

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It had been three hours since Zoro met Luffy. All this time, the green-haired teen had been wandering around the city. He had visited every street, every place at least twice now, some places even more because he got lost. Exhausted from all the walking, the freshman sat down on the edge of a fountain, putting down the sportsbag he had been carrying around all day. He sighed deeply, staring in front of him, when he saw that far too familiar orange cowboy hat floating above the crowd. Zoro immediately jumped up and ran towards it, leaving his sportsbag behind.

"ACE-SAN!" Zoro yelled, trying to get trough the crowd. "Hold on, Ace-san!" To his relief, the orange cowboy hat stopped moving, and turned around to reveal the confused face of Ace. Next to him, a blonde dressed in a nice black suit also turned around. So the love cook had been with him the entire time…

"Zoro-san, what's the matter? You look exhausted." Ace said, smiling like he always did.

"I am exhausted, damnit! I've been looking all over for the two of you." Zoro grumbled. "There's something wrong with Nojiko-san."

"What? What happened to her?" Sanji asked, sharing the same shocked expression with Ace.

"She fell down the stairs or something." Zoro explained. "Luffy-kun told me to send you guys to the hospital."

"Well, let's go then!" Ace said right away, running in the opposite direction in which he was walking first. Sanji followed him, and after a couple of seconds Zoro followed too. Sure, he had only met Nojiko once, but he was still worried.

After a good 15 minutes of running, the three men, panting from the long run, reached the hospital. However, before they could enter, Vivi came running towards them from the hospital.

"Finally, there you are! What took you so long?" She asked.

"Cactus-head over there couldn't find us." Sanji said, pointing his finger to Zoro.

"What was that, dartboard?"

"Stop it, now's not the time to fight!" Ace snapped. "Vivi-chan, how is she doing?"

"She's fine now." Vivi said. "She broke her arm and has a pretty bad concussion, but she'll be fine within a couple of weeks. She has to stay in the hospital, though."

Ace let out a deep sigh of relief, before following Vivi into the hospital. Sanji followed too, after throwing a dirty look at Zoro, who followed last, trying to keep himself from strangling the love cook. When he entered the hospital, the green-haired teen felt a strange sort of notoriety, like he had been in the hospital before. He took a look around, but couldn't find anything familiar. He slowly followed the others, but even before he got past the entrance hall, he knew something was wrong. His breath caught, his heart started beating faster. He was sweating and could hardly bearth anymore, before everything went black and he hit the floor.

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"Zo-chan!" A young cheerful voice called, followed by laughter.

"I told you not to call me that! It's Zoro, ZORO!" A much younger Zoro, not even 8 years old, yelled at the child he was following. They ran trough the halls of the building, tripping over their own feet, and over eachother, laughing even when they got hurt. They continued their game, following eachother throughout the entire building, which seemed to be really large. After awhile they stopped, exhausted from their game, and sat down against a wall. Both were panting, large smiles on their faces.

"Zo-chan, what are they gonna do to us today?" The child next to Zoro asked.

"Dun' know." Zoro answered. "What makes you think they're gonna do something today?"

"I heard the lady from the third floor talk about it." The child said, drawing imaginary circles on the floor. "I don't like it here." Zoro looked at his young friend, but didn't say anything. Of course his friend didn't like it here. The green-haired boy himself didn't like it here either, none of the children did. But this was their life and he had accepted it.

"Hey." Zoro said, to catch his friends attention. He took the child's hand in his and squeezed in it a little. "Feel like hiding?"

The child looked up, a glimpse of hope in the eyes. "But what if they find out? You know what they did last time…"

"Yeah, I know." The green-haired boy mumbled. "But… we'll just have to be sure they don't find out then, okay?"

"Okay!" The child smiled brightly and stood. Zoro also stood, still holding his friend's hand and started running, leading the child trough the hallways. "We're gonna find the best hiding-spot ever, right?"

"Of course we are."

"Yay! Thanks for being here with me, Zo-chan!"

"No problem. And don't call me that!"

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"Zoro, wake up!"

Someone grabbed his shoulders, softly shaking him to get him to wake up. He already was awake, damnit. A shock of pain shot trough his head when he tried to open his eyes.

"Luffy, you really shouldn't do that." That was Ace's voice, wasn't it? "He needs rest."

"But he just opened his eyes, just for a second! He's awake!" Yup, that was Luffy, his loud voice giving him an even bigger headache than he already had.

"Perhaps he is, but he still needs to rest. Just sit down for a moment." Ace said. Luffy's hands left Zoro's shoulders as he heard the boy sitting down. He knew the kid was pouting and smiled at this.

"See, he smiled!" Luffy's voice came again. "Zoro, just open your eyes, we know you're awake!"

"Luffy-kun, hush!" This voice belonged to Vivi. "He had a hard fall, he probably has a huge headache!"

"Thanks Vivi-chan, indeed I do." Zoro softly mumbled, keeping his eyes close. "What the hell happened? And don't you dare to tell me, Luffy; your voice is too loud." He knew the boy was pouting at this again.

"We don't know what happened." Vivi explained. Zoro could feel her sitting down at the end of his bed. "One moment we were going to Nojiko-san's room, the other moment you just… fainted."

"Do you remember anything?" Ace asked.

"Not really," Zoro answered. "It felt like something was choking me." He slowly opened his eyes, giving them the time to adjust to the bright lights surrounding him. A shock of pain went trough his head again, but he ignored it and kept his eyes open. "How's Nojiko-san?"

"She's fine, but she'll have to stay in the hospital for a while. She wanted to visit you, but the doctor won't let her leave her bed. Nami-chan and Sanji-kun are with her now." Vivi said. She sighed. "Nami's really worried, she won't leave the room."

"Zoro-kun, you should lay down!" Ace warned, when he noticed Zoro was trying to sit up. "The doctor said you need to rest a lot."

"The hell I need to rest, I'll get up whenever I want." Zoro grumbled, but when he finally sat up a shot of pain went trough his head again. He closed his eyes for a moment and suddenly remembered the dream he had. Who had been that child? Zoro couldn't even remember if it was a boy or a girl. And where had they been? He sighed and opened his eyes again, which met the darkbrown eyes of Luffy, only a few inches away.

"L-Luffy-kun, what are you doing?" Zoro stuttered, pushing the boy back. He hadn't even noticed Luffy climbing on his bed.

"You okay?" The boy asked. "You just closed your eyes and wouldn't open them…"

"I'm fine, just get the hell off my bed." Zoro said. "I need to get dressed…"

"Zoro-kun, you're not actually concidering going home already? The doctor told us you need to stay in the hospital for at least another night!" Ace walked over to the bed, trying to push Zoro down again.

"Well, I don't care what the doctor said, I'm going back to the student hostel, damnit." Zoro pushed Ace's hands away and got out of bed, before he could notice he was only wearing his underwear. Behind him, Vivi blushed and quickly turned around. Zoro hurried back into his own clothes, which were laying on a nearby chair, and started searching for his shoes.

"Ace-san... I just remembered..." Vivi started. "Where is Luffy-kun staying now Nojiko-san has to stay in the hospital?"

"I… hadn't even thought about that.." Ace stared at his little brother, who was trying tie his own toes together, failing miserably, and almost falling from the bed Zoro had been in only a couple of seconds ago. Where would the kid stay? He didn't really know anybody else who could take care of Luffy. Perhaps Robin, but the chance of her accepting the hyperactive boy was tiny. She needed her peace and quiet. The black-haired young man looked at Vivi, hoping she could come up with something, but the blue-haired girl looked as puzzled as he was.

"Luffy…" Ace said, waiting for Luffy to get his hair free from his sandal. "Luffy, do you perhaps have some friends where you can stay for a couple of weeks? Just until Nojiko-san's better again?"

Luffy took his time thinking and stayed quiet for almost a minute. "Well.. there's Usopp, but I don't think I can stay with him, since he lives with that rich girl and I don't really know her and stuff… And… I don't really have other friends." The boy grinned, like he was proud of the fact that he only had one friend. Zoro, who had finally found his shoes, looked at the raven-haired boy.

"Then… I guess... if Zoro-kun doesn't mind, at least… perhaps you can stay in the student hostel for now?" Ace mumbled, looking at Zoro from the corner of his eyes. Zoro stayed silent and continued tying his shoes. Being together in the same, small room with that bouncy boy for at least two weeks? No fucking way. Then again, he couldn't let the boy sleep outside, could he? The freshman sighed and rubbed his temples. He felt a headache coming up.

"Fine."

"Fine as in; he can stay with us?" Ace asked, just to be sure.

"Yes, he can stay with us, but if he's in any way annoying me or causing me headaches, I'm kicking him out." Zoro grumbled and stood. He looked around to see if there were any more belongings of him laying around, and when he couldn't find them, he went to the door of the room. "I'm going home."

However, before he could leave he felt two arms wrapping around his waist from the back. He tried to turn around but stopped when he heard Luffy's smothered voice between his shoulder blades.

"Thanks for letting me stay with you and Ace, Zoro! I promise I'll be quiet and I won't cause any headaches!" Luffy laughed. "You're actually much nicer than you look, you know that? You look really mean, but you really are a nice person!" He then let go and left the room before Zoro, leaving the green-haired teen behind with a shocked expression on his face. There you have it, all those years of looking grumpy and being 'the-silent-type' to build up his reputation as someone you really should stay away from, ruined by that boy within just a couple of seconds. He shook his head and wanted to leave the room again, when he noticed an older man wearing a long white doctors-coat standing in front of him.

"Roronoa-san, I assume?" He said. "You really should stay in bed. I understand you want to get home, but we would like to examine you some more, since we haven't found the reason of your fainting yet."

"Not gonna happen; I'm going home." Zoro grumbled.

"Zoro-kun, you really should listen to the doctor!" Ace started.

"There's nothing wrong with me! I'm going home, so don't try to stop me." Zoro interrupted him, walking past the doctor. Ace and Vivi quickly followed him, Vivi apologizing to the docter while passing him.

"Zoro-kun, are you sure you're feeling alright? They don't know why you fainted, you could have something serious." Vivi said, walking on the right side of Zoro, while Ace started walking on the left side.

"Look, it's nice of you guys that you worry so much about me, but I'm fine. There's nothing wrong with me." Zoro answered, starting to get irritated. They then passed a room with an open door, giving view to a woman with lilac-coloured hair lying in bed, Nami and the ero-cook sitting by her bed.

"Ace-san, how's that mari-" Sanji started, when noticing Ace walking by, sounding actually concerned. He probably just asked because Ace had been worried about Zoro, but upon actually seeing the swordsman the concern vanished. "Oh, he's walking again."

"Yes, though he really shouldn't!" Ace said, more to Zoro than to Sanji.

"How's Nojiko-san?" Zoro asked, before someone could continue the conversation. He looked at the sleeping woman, her arm in plaster.

"She's fine." Nami answered softly. Her voice was hardly recognizable; it was sour and shivering, and her eyes were red, like she had been crying not so long ago. "She needs to rest, that's all. She'll be fine."

"That's good…" Zoro said, after a couple of seconds of silence. "When she wakes, tell her I hope she'll get better soon."

"I will, thanks." Nami turned away and stared at her older sister again. She held on to the lilac-haired woman's hand like she was trying to crush it. Next to her, Sanji softly placed his hand on her shoulder in a comforting gesture. Zoro just nodded and continued walking.

"Zoro-kun!" Vivi hissed. "Why are you so sure you're not sick? You could have something serious!"

"I've never been sick in my entire life, why would I be now?" Zoro muttered. He know that really wasn't an excuse, but this hospital just creeped him out. When he first entered the hospital everything seemed familiar. But after having that dream, and remembering it more clearly now, everything was familiar, though he was sure he had never been here before. What the hell was going on?

"…so you shouldn't leave!" Vivi finished, grabbing Zoro's arm to make him stop walking. They already were in the entry-hall, where the green-haired teen had fainted that morning.

"What?" Zoro was snapped out of his thoughts when Vivi grabbed him. He hadn't heard a word of what she had said. "You said something?"

"Zoro-kun!" Vivi sighed deeply, throwing her arms in the air. "I give up! You're just too stubborn!"

"Good," was all that the freshman said before continuing his way out of the hospital.

"Ace-kun, stop him!" Vivi pleaded, sounding desperate.

"I thought you had given up?" Ace said with a smirk.

"Yes, but you haven't! Stop him, he's sick!"

"I really wanna try, but he will go back to the student hostel if he wants to, Vivi-chan. Besides, I don't wanna get in a fight with him, he's really strong."

"Fine, whatever, I don't care anymore. Just let him go home, I-I hope he get's really sick!" She stuttered, though her attempts at sounding like she actually meant it were rather futile.

"You know you don't mean that, Vivi-chan." Ace laughed. "You really are worried about him! Don't worry, I'll keep an eye on him. And so will Luffy, I'm sure."

"But Ace-"

That was the last thing Zoro heard before leaving the hospital. The glass doors closed behind him and he was in the fresh air again, wich felt a lot colder than it had this morning. It was dark already, millions of stars shining above him in the cloudless sky. The freshman pulled his collor a bit higher, to shelter his neck from the cold wind, and slowly started walking home.

Today had been such a weird day. It all started with a nice Luffy-free morning and ended up with Zoro being kicked out of the gym, Nojiko falling down the stairs and going to the hospital, himself fainting in the hospital, having weird dreams and Luffy who had to stay with him and Ace for a couple of weeks. Why, oh why did he wake up this morning?

"Zoooorooooooooooo!" Luffy's voice made the green-haired teen snap out of his thoughts and as he turned around, he spotted the little brother, who seemed to be his old happy self again, ran towards him. He was being followed by another kid, who didn't seem much older, or younger, than Luffy, with curly black hair and an abnormally long nose.

"What?" Zoro asked as Luffy and the other boy stopped right before him.

"Nothing, just that I don't have a key to the room in the student hostel." The boy grinned widely, excited about the idea of sleeping in the same room with Zoro and his brother. "I just went home to pack my stuff!"

Zoro now noticed the brightly yellow backpack strapped on Luffy's back, wich was so stuffed that the seams were about to burst. His eyes then went to the boy who had followed Luffy. He was standing a few meters behind the raven-haired boy in a pose like he was ready to run away.

Luffy, who followed Zoro's eyes, turned around to pull the boy next to him. "This is Usopp, Zoro! He does to the same school as I go. Usopp, this is Zoro, my brother's roommate."

"N-Nice meeting you." Usopp said, straightening his back. "I am the great captain Usopp-sama! But you can call me the great captain Usopp-sama! That, or almighty Usopp-king-of-the-world. That will do too."

"Whatever." Zoro mumbled, ignoring whatever Usopp had said after his first three words. "C'mon, I'm going to the student hostel right now. You'll have to ask Ace-kun for a key later, though."

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"So why did he follow us?" Zoro pointed towards Usopp, who was sitting on Ace's bed. When walking home, Zoro had been silent the whole time, while Luffy on the other hand had been talking the entire time. Zoro had been so busy concentrating on anything but Luffy's blabbering that he hadn't noticed Usopp following them to the student hostel. He had only noticed him because the curly-haired boy had bumped into him with his pointy nose, when Zoro stopped to open the door of his room.

"I invited him." Luffy said, who was jumping again on Zoro's bed. "He visits me a lot so now that I moved, he should know where I live, right?"

"No, since he's not going to visit you while you're here."

"Why not?"

"Remember that part where I said that I would kick you out if you would annoy me or cause me headaches?"

"Yes?"

"You two bouncing around in my room is annoying and will cause me a headache."

Luffy pouted. "We're not going to stay here! He'll pick me up and we'll go outside."

"Good, 'cause classes start tomorrow and I'll probably need to concentrate on my work from now on." Zoro pushed Luffy off of his bed and sat down on it himself. He looked at the large pile of books next to his bed. Right, he was suppose to look through them today. He hadn't really thought about that with everything that happened… Well, he really didn't feel like going through them now; it was far too late for that. Talking about late, why was that long-nosed kid still here?

"Your brother should be back soon, perhaps Pinocchio over there should go home." Zoro said, ignoring Usopp's indignant huffing.

"You're right, Usopp-kun should go home." Ace's voice came from the door. "It's already late and you and Luffy both start school tomorrow, so you'll need a goodnight rest. And I'm sure Kaya-san's worried about you."

"Ah, Kaya! I forgot to tell her where I was going! She must be really worried!" Usopp jumped up from Ace's bed and ran to the door. "I'll see you later, Luffy! You should come by the hospital tomorrow again, I'm gonna tell the story about how I rescued the seacat from the evil giant butterfly when I traveled around in Africa to the kids!"

"Ha! You saved a seacat from a giant butterfly? That's so awesome!" Luffy yelled with sparkling eyes.

"There are no such things as evil giant butterflies or seacats…" Zoro muttered.

"You really shouldn't try, Luffy believes everything Usopp-kun tells him." Ace said with a smirk. "Usopp-kun lies a lot, but he also comes up with the best stories. He tells those stories to the children at the hospital; Luffy often joins them."

"So even though he lies a lot, he's a nice guy?" Zoro said, staring blankly at Usopp, who was now standing on Ace's bed with his arms spread, telling one of his made-up stories to an almost drooling Luffy sitting on the floor in front of him.

"Yeah, but he really should go home." Ace said, adressing to Usopp. "You can finish your story later, Usopp-kun."

"Aw, but Ace, I wanna hear the ending now!" Luffy whined, putting up his puppy-dog eyes.

"That's okay, Luffy, I'll tell you the ending tomorrow at the hospital." Usopp added with a softer voice. "I'll probably have made up a better ending by then…"

"What's that?"

"N-Nothing, I didn't say anything!" The long-nosed boy stuttered, quickly jumping of the bed. "I have to go now, bye!" And with that, and ran to the door and left as quickly as his feet would allow him.

"So… Where's Luffy-kun gonna sleep?" Zoro asked, looking at Ace like he was hiding a third bed under his cowboyhat.

"I've got an extra mattress stuffed in my closet. Luffy can sleep on my bed and I'll sleep on the floor." Ace said while walking to his closet and opening the door. "Luffy, could you help me out here?"

"Sure!" The raven-haired boy jumped up and charged into the closet, almost knocking over Ace, and crashing into the back wall of the closet.

Zoro sighed and laid down on his bed, closing his eyes and trying to ignore Ace scolding at Luffy, and Luffy making whiny sounds. He tried to fall asleep, but with all the noise of Luffy trying to move the large mattress on his own and bumping into everything that he could bump into it was rather tricky.

"Luffy, let me just help you!"

"I got it, I got it!" WHAM, there went another rack of clothes.

"Luffy, would you just-"

"It's okay!" CRASH! Another lamp went falling down.

"For fuck's sake, can't you two just shut the hell up?" Zoro's eyes shot open at the sound of a lamp crashing into the floor. "Some people are trying to sleep here."

"Ah, we're sorry, Zoro-kun, but Luffy just won't let me help!"

"Then set him on fire or something, I don't care; just shut up."

"Waah, you're not really gonna set me on fire, are you, Ace?"

"Of course not, Luffy! Zoro-kun's just teasing! Now give me the mattress."

"No, no, I got it, really!"

After a few more crashes and broken belongings of both Ace and Zoro, the mattress was finally laying next to Ace's bed. Soon Ace also managed to get an extra blanket and pillow from somewhere in his closet and the extra bed was ready to be used.

"Luffy, get changed into your pajamas. You'll have to get up early tomorrow since you're living further from school now." Ace said, going trough Luffy's backpack to find his pajamas. After searching for several minutes, he looked up. "Luffy, did you bring your pajamas…?"

"Erhm… No."

"Why not?"

"They didn't fit anymore."

"Then couldn't you have left some of your comic books at home?"

"Maybe… No… Well, yes, I probably could have done that, but I didn't really want to."

Ace sighed. "Fine, you can sleep in one of my t-shirts. You're skinny enough, you could probably use it as a dress anyway." He went back into his closet once more and threw one of his black t-shirts at Luffy. "Now get changed."

"Okay, thanks Ace!" Luffy chirped, while taking of his hoodie and beginning to unbutton his pants.

"What the…" Zoro stared at the boy for just a second, before throwing his pillow at him, hitting Luffy in the head. "Not in here, you idiot!"

"He! Why not?" The highschoolstudent asked.

"You just don't! Get in the bathroom, or the closet or something. Don't take of your clothes in front of people!" Zoro grumbled, getting up to take his pillow back.

"Okay… You're really weird, Zoro!" Luffy laughed when Zoro, who just picked up his pillow, threw the fluffy thing at the boy again. He then ran into Ace's closet and continued unbuttoning his pants again.

"WITH THE DOOR CLOSED, DAMNIT!" The green-haired teen closed the closetdoor with a slam! and went back to his bed.

"Sorry about that, Zoro-kun." Ace laughed. "Luffy doesn't really care what people think."

"Yeah, I noticed that." Zoro sighed. "Can't you teach him some manners or something?"

"I tried, but it's hard with someone who has the power of concentration at the level of a breadstick." Ace answered, shaking his head. "And it's not like I can send him to puppy training or something…"

"Have you tried?"

"…"

"Well, have you?"

"Zoro-kun, you can't expect me to send my little brother to puppy training!"

"Well, if it's your last resort… it might actually work with him…"

"Zoro-kun!"

"Yeah yeah, I'll stop." Zoro grinned. "I'm gonna change too, I'm tired." He grabbed his own pyjamas, a normal black t-shirt and shorts, and left the room.

"I bet, after what happened today…"

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That's it for now! Though I wanted to write so much more in this chapter… but it would become too long, and I haven't posted in a while, so it's okay. I hope you all had a nice Easter, I know I did Be prepared for chapter six sometime-not-very-soon (yeah sorry, but school is totally killing me at the moment…)

And once again, thanks so much for beta-reading, Digitaldreamer! Have a virtual easter-egg :) !

Please review and make Blok the happiest person alive? She needs it with all the crappy grades she's been getting XD