YAY! I'm done with another chapter! XD That's some achievement for me considering i'm slow as hell...sorry for any previous wait... But yeah, anyways! This is a lot about Nami so if u don't like her i'm very sorry. AND u finally get to find out about this green-eyed mother beeper! XD

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15

Nami glanced over and caught Sanji's eyes. They shared one common thought. Something was wrong. Very wrong. She picked up on it the moment Kid walked in the classroom. If she could have she would have questioned him on the spot but, as per usual, Kid was late. God forbid that guy wake up half and hour earlier…. 'You would think that having a Super Hawk would speed things up.'

Well she knew she should be grateful he came in at all. Kid had a habit of skipping Mondays, on account of his hatred for the day. He sustained his point of view by claiming that two days were far too little for a weekend. Yeah, that may have been a plausible argument had Kid used his brain the other five week days. 'Ha! Fat chance!'

But when he took that first step past the threshold, it was like the temperature dropped. It seemed to plummet like a rock in water. Even Professor Robin's smile seemed to waver for just a moment. Nami watched Kid move to his desk without offering an excuse for his lateness, and take his place. The history lesson continued but Nami wasn't paying it much attention.

She resisted the urge to turn around and look at Kid, just to make sure her eyes weren't deceiving her. There was definitely something….off about him. His aura just felt wrong. The moment she met Sanji's eyes she understood that he too thought the same. That was as good a confirmation as any. It was highly unlikely that they were both seeing things. Wasn't it?

For the rest of the forty minutes she played with the questions in her mind. What exactly was it that changed? There was something especially that jumped at her the second she saw Kid that morning, but she couldn't put her finger on it. It nagged at her, because she felt like it was on the tip of her tongue. Was it the posture? No. The facial expression? No. Timing? Certainly not. Eyes?... Yes! The eyes!

Realization dawned on her and she nearly leaped out of her chair in a gesture of triumph. The eyes. The way they shimmered and dulled. Kid had a peculiar eye colour in general, a brick brown that bordered on red and gold seemingly simultaneously. But if the irises caught the right light they could give the impression that they were indeed bloody. Nami knew damn well that this was the main reason why Eustass Kid's nickname was The Red Demon, yet those same demonic orbs shone despite the lack of light. If she hadn't known better she would have fully believed he was an offspring of hell.

The class dragged on and she impatiently chewed on the end of her pencil, a habit which she fully condemned all other times but was too distracted to care if she became a full-fledged hypocrite. Silently she was screaming at Nico Robin to just end her lecture, give their homework assignments and dismiss the eager class. History was a subject she usually loved but at times like those it seemed excruciating.

She barely resisted letting out a collected sigh of relief when finally, finally, the end came and the class was dismissed. But now a new feeling hovered over her like a stormy cloud. Dread. She didn't know what to expect from Kid, but whatever it was she had no doubt it would be very, very bad. Something so distinct that managed to turn the red-head's entire personality. Another thing she could say with absolute certainty was that Law was somehow involved in this change. Rather, she suspected he was the catalyst for it.

She took a moment to think about that. There was no doubt in her mind that the bond between the two men was already solidified. Even if they themselves might deny it or hide away from it, she knew love when she saw it. It was practically written all over them. Both of them. Though she couldn't help but be a little surprised. In the beginning she fully realized that they were quite taken with one another, especially Kid with Law, but she imagined it was just one of those one time sort of relationships.

Boy had she been wrong. She naturally firstly noticed the change in Kid. Mainly because she knew him better and he was terrible at guarding his emotions. In fact the only ones who were still in the dark about the two's relationship were Luffy and Zoro. She shook her head at the thought of her boyfriend. She loved him but sometimes she had to wonder.

But back to the more important issue at hand. As she cleared her desk, placing her things in her baby blue bag, her thoughts went back to Saturday. She recalled her encounter with Trafalgar Law. It had been one of those totally unplanned and unexpected coincidences.

Her mother, Bell-mere had asked her to return Genzo's phone back to him on account of him forgetting it the last time he visited. Genzo was like a sort of father for her and her sister, Nojiko, and it sure helped that he was a relatively high standing police officer. He was there ever since she could remember. In fact, even if she tried, Nami couldn't think of a single Christmas or birthday when the old man hadn't made an appearance.

And the amount of times he got her out of trouble? She lost count entirely! Nami was smiling to herself as she recalled a particular time when she was a little girl, little over six or so, and she got caught red handed stealing. Luckily for her the cop, because at the time Genzo had still been a shop guard, had been none other than him. That day, when he brought her back home to Bell-mere, she had expected to really get it. Instead her mother seemed more shocked at her failure to sneak something past Genzo more than anything. To this day she remembered and laughed at the expression he had when Bell-mere offered to pay Nami's debt with her body.

It was with such warm memories and smiles that she made her way to the police station. Most of the cops there already knew her and they greeted her like she was part of the force. She was let in back immediately and directed to Genzo's office. Naturally he automatically assumed she was there for a favour or another ticket out of jail, since despite having grown up her fingers only got more nimble and her skills as a thief were unmatched. That also meant she didn't get caught but sometimes she slipped a little here and there. She didn't steal from people who didn't deserve it though. If anything she was like the modern day, female version of Robin Hood! Except that she kept the spoils for herself but that wasn't important….

Having fulfilled her duties, she left the station with a light bounce in her steps, looking forwards to a hot cup of tea in front of the TV. Most likely all three of them would huddle on the sofa under a blanket, with their respected cups of diverse favourite drinks and pop in a movie. Preferably a comedy. She positively glowed at the prospect.

Deciding that the normal way home was far too long she resolved to take a slight shortcut through a small park that joined the street with her house to the station. The only drawback was that this particular park had a rather nasty reputation for trouble making kids, and if there was one thing she highly disliked it was spoiled brats. However it was still the middle of the day and there were plenty of people using the area of greenery. She doubted those punks would cause grief when there were so many around. At least she hoped so.

The crown of trees towered way over her and they gave the small park an almost magical appearance. She couldn't see the road in between the thick trunks and even the noise seemed to disperse, as if there was an invisible barrier enclosing the area. The ground was entirely covered in leaves and she had to step over them. She loved the crunching sound they made under the delicate weight of her shoes. She had an urge to twirl around in circles while the foliage continued to fall in a rain of rubies and topazes. They looked like they were dancing their final dance, swept by the music of the wind, before they would hit the ground and join their previously fallen brothers and sisters in forming a beautiful carpet.

Nami was just about to give in to her impulse and twirl like a ballerina, when her sharp hazel eyes caught something very intriguing. There, a few feet from where she had halted her progress, on a white park bench sat none other than Trafalgar Law. And on his lap sat the ever present book. It just wouldn't be Law if there was no book nearby. She remembered wondering if the guy did anything else other than fuel his medical curiosity.

Even when he spent his breaks with them, Law was always accompanied by some reading material. He and Professor Robin were known to be good friends despite being teacher and student, on account of their almost inhumane love of reading. More than once Law was returning books back to the historian, and more than usual it was a whole stack of them. How he managed to even carry such a load was beyond Nami's understanding. His skinny, long arms hardly looked adequate.

The book, correction, tome was enormous. She could easily assume there were at least somewhere around three thousand pages in it and it looked damn heavy. Just the sight gave her a headache. But Law looked very taken with it. His long fingers flipped the pages over, gently, at a leisurely pace. She briefly wondered why he chose to take his reading to the park but dismissed the question almost instantly. Law was a strange character. An enigma of sorts. Even Kid couldn't read him and he was the closes to the genius.

Her eyes lit up and, if this were a cartoon, a light bulb would have sprang to life above her head as an idea entered her mind. This was a golden opportunity, and she was the sort of person to put great emphasis on gold. It was time to put her skill of meddling to great use and help the almost excruciatingly slow Eustass speed things up a little. That relationship was moving nowhere otherwise. Little did she know the chain reaction she set loose as soon as her pen finished scribbling her message on the piece of white paper that happened to be in her pocket, conveniently.

'So what happened?!' When Law left her, on his way to Kid's place he had seemed in a fine mood. She knew that he was a master at hiding his true feelings, because nobody could smile genuinely after being abused so viciously. There was something evasive about him that day and his always present smile seemed a little more forced than usual but she didn't concentrate on the new information. Maybe he was just having a bad day. Nami hoped that Kid could change that. Ever since the two became closer Law seemed to open up little by little. His face seemed to light up whenever the other was around and there was a slight flicker in his previously dull grey eyes that seemed to bring his whole persona to life.

Law looked about ready to open up for good and she knew the only things stopping him were his doubts, whatever they were. He simply needed a final push. Someone to direct him towards the one who would listen and offer support. Ergo she sent him with her note to the only person who could make Law's heart open up and tear his protective shell.

But by the look in Kid's eyes things didn't turn out as she had hoped. The red irises flashed in her mind and she felt a shiver creeping all the way down her spine, making the hair on the back of her neck stand up. Nami knew that what she was feeling was fear. Primal fear. The kind that had a doe running from the big bad wolf.

She left the room with fast steps, already late for her next class on account of her reminiscing, and pushed her instincts to run away from the wolf that was Eustass Kid away.

The tension was thick enough to feel like a physical pressure weighing down above their heads. And the source of this was Kid. He sat at the table as was his custom, with his legs far apart and slightly laid back. His arms were crossed in front of his chest and he looked very tense. His jaw was so firmly set, Nami was afraid he would pull a muscle. His eyes weren't looking at anything in particular but they all felt them. Not a word was said or a noise was made on account of none of them wishing to attract those eyes' attention.

Even the ever hungry Luffy left his food untouched. That was the worst possible sign ever. Nami couldn't remember Luffy ever, EVER, leaving unfinished food. It was the sort of thing that premonitioned the apocalypse and the freezing over of hell.

Beside him, Zoro sat just as still. He was by far the bluntest of the lot and even he picked up on the atmosphere. His posture was upright which was in itself highly unusual. Sanji couldn't remember a time when Zoro had the chance to sleep and passed the opportunity. A second premonition of the end of the world.

Sanji and Nami sat beside each other and they didn't know what to do. Half the break was already gone, spent like this. In complete silence. If they didn't hurry up, they both knew they would run out of time. But what to say, and how, and where to start? Neither wanted to be the first to break this unspoken vow of absolute silence.

Suddenly the silence shattered like a broken window and the blow came from Kid's phone. The four all but jumped from their seats at the noise. It was that shocking. Sanji half expected for Kid to throw it at a wall or have some sort of angry outburst. They all watched, unable to even blink as Kid reached inside his pocket and retrieved the device, still ringing loudly. Eustass looked at it for a moment as if trying to remember what he was supposed to be doing next before answering it.

'Yeah?' His tone was so low and inflexible, the others felt yet another change in temperature. Another drop in the already chilly room.

'I see.' A pause while the other person spoke. 'Good. Call me back in ten minutes.' The line was cut as Kid closed the cell and placed it back where it belonged. The silence settled back almost instantly, making Sanji and Nami want to scream. This was getting nowhere.

'Kid. What happened?' Nami didn't have to say anything more. What she meant was obvious. Kid continued to look into space, seemingly not having heard the girl at all. He flared his nostrils a little as was his custom when he was thinking about something intense. The terrifying pressure didn't waver.

'Kid-' She tried again but she was cut off by the sharp eyes settling on her. That silenced her instantly. She felt like a hand was literally reaching inside her body and twisting her entrails inside out. And this was only because Kid looked at her. She shuddered at the thought of what he was capable of doing in this state.

'I heard you.' He resumed looking into space again, ignoring the slight tremor in Nami's lips. This however, turned Luffy against him.

'Hey! There's no need to be a jerk.' Luffy wasn't afraid of Kid because in a fight he could very well be the winner. While he didn't look it, Luffy was more than capable of taking care of himself. His seemingly lanky body was well trained and his muscles were well worked. While Kid was certainly bigger, Luffy was much faster and in terms of physical strength they were more or less even. A fight between those two would result in something very ugly and Nami had no desire to see either one of them get killed in the process. Also she didn't want, under any circumstances, for anyone she cared for to go against Kid when he was in this state.

'It's okay. I'm fine. Luffy, can you please get me some water? I'll feel much better after that.' She smiled as warmly as she could under the circumstances and placed her slender hand over his. Luffy threw another glance at Kid, who didn't seem to hear a word of anything going on around him, before nodding reluctantly.

Sanji met Zoro's eyes and an unspoken request drifted from the blonde. Zoro understood and he nodded curtly in his own turn. He followed Luffy out the room, leaving only three around the table they used for lunchtime. Sanji and Nami sat there for a further minute, each one trying to think of the best way to approach the subject without invoking Kid's wrath a second time. They looked like lambs about to be slaughtered by the mean red-headed butcher. And they felt that way too. Finally, Sanji decided to take the initiative. He didn't want for Nami to be the target of Kid's visual darts again.

'Kid? Are you…Are you okay?'

'What did you find about green-eyes?' Kid's question was directed at Nami and he entirely disregarded Sanji's question. He may as well have gone with the other two for all Eustass cared. His eyes didn't lower as the two froze for a moment at the unexpected change of topic. Eventually Nami gathered her wits and answered him.

'I didn't find as much as I would have liked. I know his name and why he's so feared. This guy has half the faculty under his control on account of his father being one of the most influential men of the world. If he wants to he can practically destroy anyone's future with a twirl of his finger. The reason I didn't know who he was until now is because he only transferred here about half a year ago and his identity was kept very secret. Why he's here when he can be in virtually any collage in the world is beyond me.'

'Name.' That one word was laced in pure venomous hatred and it made the blood run cold in her veins. Nami would have rather faced a poisonous cobra than the much more terrifying poisonous Eustass Kid.

'Allen Leon Todd.'

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