Chapter 2: Who are they?

Nami sighed and looked at herself in the full length mirror that hung in her closet. She was going to die, she just knew it. The uniform that was mandatory for all students looked one size too small on her, showing off all of her curves to the point where they looked like the clothes were painted on. She knew that at least one person was going to point that out. Grabbing her bag she made sure her phone was on silent before walking out of her room. She glanced at her schedule and sighed as she read it over.

1. Fencing with Alvida and Cabaji
2. Marine Biology with Arlong
3. Drama wit Buggy
4. Music with Jango
5. Anatomy with Dr. Kureha
6. Archeology with Nico Robin
7. Calculus with Shanks
8. Athletics with Edward Newgate
9. Politics with Igaram
10. Cartography with Arlong

Well wasn't this going to be fun? She sighed and headed down the hall to the stairs. Her goal for the day was to get through it without looking like an idiot and getting lost. When Nami reached the main hall that branched off into different hallways, depending on which class was down there she turned to the left and ran into a hard body. She stumbled back and fell on her ass, hitting the hard floor with a small thud. She sighed and looked up at the person she'd run into; when she met his eyes, the air that had almost been taken from running into him left her lungs in a rush. Dark, dangerous eyes stared down at her with a smirk that could freeze fire and melt ice. "Watch where you're going, cherry," he said before stepping around her and walking off.

Nami watched him walk off in somewhat of a stupor. She didn't know who that man was, who he thought he was, or where he'd come from, but she did know that he was going to pay for calling her cherry…as soon as she figured out what that meant.

Sitting in her class she felt like she was going to fall asleep. She'd made it through fencing class, though she wasn't sure how, and now she was listening to some guy preach about marine biology and how one day the fish were going to take over. Or at least something to that affect. Nami didn't really care about the fish, or the water, or anything that had to do with marine biology, but unfortunately she wasn't allowed to pick her classes and for some reason they'd thrown her into this one. At least Vivi was there to keep her company. They were in the middle of taking notes while passing a note between each other. Vivi was asking her what she was going to do during lunch. Honestly, Nami didn't know. She didn't really eat lunch, and she didn't want to be around a whole bunch of people that could stare at her. She was thinking about going back to her room and reading or something, but when she glanced at Vivi she realized the girl was hoping that Nami would go to lunch with her. So she agreed to meet Vivi outside the lunch room.

Unfortunately she still had to get through drama, music, and anatomy class. Hopefully they wouldn't put her to sleep like marine biology was. Because if they did, Nami had a feeling she was going to end up falling asleep in whatever food was sitting in front of her when lunch finally rolled around.

Nami sighed and walked down the hall, heading for the cafeteria where she agreed to meet Vivi. She could already see the girl standing there with a few other people. Great, Nami thought, more people to explain my story to just to have them judge me. Nami might have taken out her piercings for class, but you could just see where they were because of the tapers she had in the tiny holes. She didn't like not having something there, it just felt weird. Her tattoos were also noticeable too, thanks to how thin the white shirt was that she was wearing; and since she had the sleeves rolled up past her elbows, a few were showing because of their placement on her body.

Vivi smiled at her as she approached them. "Nami, I'd like you to meet a few people," she said gesturing towards the group of people beside her. "This is Koza, Bonny, Drake, and Kid," she smiled and added, "guys, this is Nami."

Kid nodded his head along with the rest of the guys, sizing her up with their eyes and silently undressing her. Bonny on the other hand, looked at Nami a little disgusted. "You don't look like you're going to last long," she said before turning and walking into the lunch room.

"Don't mind her," Kid said smirking. "She just doesn't like pretty girls." He turned to follow Bonny and the rest of the guys into the cafeteria.

Nami just sighed and followed Vivi inside. Quietly she followed Vivi through the lunch line, only getting a bottle of water and a granola bar before following the girl over to the table where everyone else was sitting. Nami sat beside Vivi and kept to herself as she looked around the room. It seemed like the whole school was in the room; though it didn't seem hard to do with all of the long tables and the size of it. Everything was so much different than her old school, but she supposed that a private boarding school was going to be a lot different than a public school. She was just about to get up and leave, claiming that she left something that she needed in her room when her eyes caught a familiar face.

It was the guy she'd bumped into earlier, and he was staring across the room at her. When their eyes met she suddenly found it hard to breathe again. She could barely make out a smirk on his face before he looked away, saying something to his friends. They looked like a rowdy bunch. Nami turned her head towards Vivi but didn't take her eyes off the table. "Vivi, who are they?" she asked.

Vivi picked her head up and looked at the table before gasping slightly. Nami glanced at her before looking back at the table. "Those are the school's bad boys. The one with the short black hair, that's the leader, Monkey D. Luffy, he's one of the younger ones, but for some reason they all follow him. The man to his right is Roronoa Zoro, then Sanji, Usopp, Chopper and Franky." Nami looked at all of them and knew that this group of boys was going to be her downfall this year. She didn't know how, and she didn't know why, but she knew.

Zoro looked back over at her, once again meeting her eye before smirking and standing up. She watched him leave the room before she turned back to the people at the table with her. "What does it mean when a guy calls a girl, cherry?" she asked.

Vivi started blushing when Koza smirked. "Cherry is an old eighty's term for virgin. The guys would call the girls that. Haven't you ever watched The Breakfast Club?" he asked.

Nami just shrugged, she wasn't really into old movies, though she would admit that she was in love with the movie,Footlose, and the song for that matter, she also didn't mind the movie Crybaby, who didn't like Johnny Depp? As far as Nami was concerned, any movie that had Johnny Depp in it was a good movie. Deciding to take her leave she claimed she left something in her room like she had planned and left the cafeteria. She wasn't expecting to be grabbed by the arm and pulled down a deserted hallway however, so when it happened she nearly screamed and fell over as she lost her footing. A dark chuckle and a firm grip around her arms, keeping her from falling, alerted her as to whom it was.

"What's wrong Cherry?" he whispered into her ear. Nami had to stifle a shiver as his dark voice ghosted over her skin. She realized how close they were to each other and slowly pulled away from him, her eye looking up at him and locking onto his. "Cat got your tongue?" he asked.

Nami found her voice and her nerve as she pulled her arms away from his tight hold. "What's your problem? You got something against new kids?" she snapped.

He chuckled looking her up and down with an amused look. "Not at all," he smirked and crossed his arms over his broad chest. "Just trying to make you blush."

Nami glared. "Well good luck with that, it takes a lot more than some stupid out of date name to make me blush." And with that Nami turned on her heels and headed off for her next class as the bell rang, signaling the end of lunch. Nami walked into her archeology class and glanced at the teacher, she was stunning, as far as teachers went. A knock out body, long black hair, and a smile that could stop a heartbeat, not that Nami was bisexual or anything, but she had to admit that this teacher was without a doubt a favorite of all the boys in school.

The teacher looked at her and smiled. "You're Nami right?" she asked. "The new girl?" Nami nodded as she sat down at a desk in the front. "I'm Nico Robin," she said smiling. Nami smiled and said hello before pulling out her notebook and the text book require for the class before zoning out. She didn't pay much attention to the lecture or anything that was going on until the bell rang. She realized that she'd been sketching in her notebook and when she looked down and looks closely at it, it was a rough sketch of Zoro.

Awesome, now I'm subconsciously thinking about him. Nami grabbed her books and walked out hoping to make it through the rest of her classes before she passed out so she could go to her room and sleep. Unfortunately it looked as though fate had something different in store for her; because just as she was about to head up the stairs to her dorm, Zoro and his little group of friends stopped her by cutting off her path. She glared at them as Zoro smirked. "What do you want?" she asked, glaring up at him.

"Oh, nothing," he crooned looking down at her.

"Then move," she ordered pushing past him. He laughed and let her and she could hear his laughing as she stormed up the stairs and to her room. Once safely inside she closed the door and collapsed on her bed, looking around at all of the boxes that had her clothes and belongings in them, waiting for her to unpack them. She sighed and pulled her hair back into a small ponytail before she got up and moved to one of the boxes of clothes and started putting them in the big dresser that was sitting on the wall. Unfortunately she didn't have many clothes, and she sure as hell didn't have anything that this school would approve of. Nami had a nice body, and she worked hard to keep it in the shape it was in, so naturally she liked to show it off. All of her clothes were short, tight, and revealing, just the way she liked them. Once all of her clothes were put away she glanced at the clock that was sitting above her bead. She figured it'd be about dinner time, but there was no way in hell that she was leaving her room and risking running into Zoro and his little friends. She'd much rather just stay where she was safe.

She decided, instead, to finish packing then start some work on her homework. That was until her mother decided to grace her with a call. Groaning as she pulled her phone from her pocket she held it to her ear as she started working in the bathroom. "Hello?" she asked.

"Hey baby," her mother said from the other end of the phone. "How's school?"

"Horrible," Nami muttered. "I got called a cherry today."

Bellemere laughed on the other end of the phone. "I haven't heard that term in years," she said, obviously amused. "What did you say?"

"I didn't have time to say anything, and I didn't even know what it meant," Nami complained. "I had to ask someone, and then I was ridiculed since I've never seen The Breakfast Club." Now that she thought about it, if every day was going to be like this, she might never leave her room again. "Do you want to run by me again why you had to send me here?" she asked, already knowing the answer.

Bellemere sighed on the other end of the phone, obviously not looking forward to going over this again with her daughter. "How many times have I told you Nami? It's the best school in the state, some say in the country. You'll get a good education there, and then maybe you can actually do something with your cartography."

Nami sighed and pinched the bridge of her nose. "Yeah well, the teacher's a creep. He's teaches Marine Biology, and he's obsessed with it. He thinks that one day fish are going to take over and enslave the human race."

"It takes all kinds Nami," Bellemere reminded her. Nami heard a door open and close on the other end of the line and her sister's voice. "I have to go, I'll call you later," Bellemere said before mumbling something Nami didn't catch.

"Yeah, whatever." She hung up before anything else could be said. Nami loved her mother and sister more than anything in the world, but ever since Nojiko announced that she was going to get married she'd been a real bitch and of course Bellemere gave her whatever she wanted.

Nami threw her phone on her bed and walked over to the dresser, pulling out a pair of sweats and a tank top, changing quickly before walking over to her iPod dock and turning on her favorite band of all time. While Asking Alexandria drowned out the rest of the world Nami pulled her books out, powered up her laptop and started working on her homework. For some reason she had to write a five page paper on Marine Biology and the advantages of it, prepare a monolog for drama class, find a song to sing for her music class, write another five page paper on the human body, decipher three pages of Egyptian hieroglyphics, do half a chapter of calculus, and draw a map of the Hawaiian Islands for Cartography class. She was going to be up all night working on this shit. It would be amazing if she made it to bed before five in the morning.

She decided that skipping dinner wasn't going to be such a bad idea. The extra hour might actually let her get more than an hour of sleep before she had to put up with this stupid school and all of the ignorant people again.

She was halfway through her paper on the human body when someone knocked on her door. She sighed and made sure to save her paper, just in case, and walked over to the door, opening it just enough to see who it was. Vivi was standing there with some food in her hand. "I didn't see you at dinner, and thought you might be hungry," she said with a smile as Nami let her in. Nami was beginning to like Vivi.

"Thanks," she said with a smile closing the door and following Vivi to the bed. Vivi took one look at it and her eyes grew wide. "Just what classes are you taking?" she asked.

Nami sighed and looked at all of the books, papers, and references strewn across her bed in a mess. "Fencing, Marine Biology, Drama, Music, Anatomy, Archeology, Calculus, Athletics, Politics, and Cartography," she muttered, rattling off the list.

Vivi looked at her, mouth agate. "Are you suicidal?" she asked.

Nami shrugged. "I'm trying to get out of athletics actually and get into Astronomy." Nami muttered moving to clear some space on her bed so Vivi could sit down. "It'll be more work, but it beats running," she said smiling. Nami worked out enough on her own, she didn't need to spend an hour a day doing it as a require class. Finally clearing enough space she and Vivi sat down and Nami used her remote to turn the volume on her dock down so they could actually hear each other over the screams of Asking Alexandria.

Vivi shook her head as she passed Nami the food. "You're crazy," she muttered.

"Probably," Nami agreed. They talked for a while about school before Vivi brought up the subject of boys, which, naturally, led to Zoro.

"I saw the way you were looking at him today," Vivi said, "what's going to between you two?"

"He seems to want to make my life a hell," she said glancing up at Vivi from her computer. While they talked Nami was working on her homework thanks to Vivi's suggestion. "I don't know what his deal is."

"I think you like him."

Vivi's simple statement almost made Nami choke on her own spit. Like Zoro? That was absurd. There was no way in hell. Or heave. Or any other way. It wasn't going to happen. Not on Nami's watch. No way. No how. "Yeah right," Nami said rolling her eyes. But the more she thought about it, the more she thought Vivi might be right. She remembered those dark eyes staring down at her, that dark voice in her ear, the sketch of him that was still in her notebook because she couldn't bring herself to tear it out and throw it away.

What the hell was she saying? He was just a rude Neanderthal, there was no way she liked Zoro, or ever would for that matter. It was just a delusion of the mind. Sure he was easy on the eyes, and really, really, really nice to look at, but there was no way Nami was ever going to like him.

So why did she dream about him that night?

Okay, so a few things to say here because depending on how caught up you are, a few things might confuse you.

Bonny, Drake, and Kid are all introduced after Thriller Bark when the Straw Hats get to the Red Line. I only just got there -.- There will be others from about this time introduced later as well. Koza's from Vivi's home town.

The only reason Nami's favorite band is Asking Alexandria is because I'm obsessed with them right now, and hopefully going to a concert of their next month when they're in Chicago.

The mention of old movies...
Well...I love the movie Footloose I actually watched it while I typed this up. Crybaby is a classic and I love it. The Breakfast Club is not only amazing, but it has some hot guys in it.

Bear with me I'm a 90's child stuck in the 80's. -.- I blame my mother.

I know Bellemere died, but this is an AU story so oh well.

I'm trying my best not to make the characters OC that's why Zoro is mean to Nami, and she's denying even like him, though there is strong proof. I promise you'll see some ZoNa, it just might have to wait for a few more chapters. I want to make sure there's lots of fluff before I actually get to the serious stuff.

Bear with me.

Love you guys!