Chapter 3: Baseball

"Alright class, it's a beautiful day today so we're going to go outside. What do you want to play?" Ace asked his class.

"Frisbee!" A kid yelled out.

"Baseball!" Another yelled.

"Oh! Baseball sounds like a good idea, we haven't played that much… Everyone agree?"

All the kids nodded their heads.

"Great! Sanji and Law, can you guys get the equipment, we'll meet you outside."

The two boys walked to the equipment room in silence until Law decided to break it.

"Can you believe Ace is Luffy's older brother? They are nothing alike…"

"I know! Ace is so reserved and polite…It's weird."

The two laughed. They didn't know much about one another. Law's a new student. He left his old highschool which is incredibly well-known in the city. The navy haired man has been at the school for a few days now. All the girls swoon over him but are too afraid to talk to him, he always looks mad or annoyed.

"Hey Law, why did you transfer here, to this school.. I mean it's so small.." Sanji stated, he liked his school but it was one of the smallest high schools in the whole city. He was surprised they had a cooking class.

"Well, all the teachers here are very well educated. There's a great health and biology teacher here, so I thought why not. I live pretty close anyways…"

"Oh.. So do you want to be a doctor or something..?" Sanji asked quietly.

"Yeah! I do! My name is going to be heard throughout the whole country…Even world!" This was the first time the blonde saw the navy blue haired man smile, even if it was just for a second.

"Wow that's awesome! I'm going to be a famous cook, and Zoro will be the best swordsman in the world!" Sanji said with a huge proud smile.

Shit, why did I mention Zoro.. Will that sound suspicious?.. No no.. We just seem like really close friends…

"Zoro is that… Green haired man yes?" Law questioned.

"Yeah, that's him!"

"Ah… Well he'll have to beat Mihawk, I heard one man faced him in the worlds and got a huge scar running down his chest. Any normal person would have died. Zoro better be training pretty hard…" Trafalgar Law trailed off realizing the look on the blonde's face.

"Uhm…Did I say something wrong..? I don't have any doubt in your friend, Sanji." Law tried to make up for what he said.

"No no! I was… Just that man you spoke about, with the scar… That's Zoro. HE COULD HAVE DIED?!" Sanji was extremely worried. What was Zoro thinking!

Law's eyes became extremely wide. What? The second best swordsman in the world is in highschool?! And this one? I did choose the right school after all.

"Wow! You've got a very talented friend, Sanji. Don't worry, he won't die. He probably has an incredibly strong will. Probably a very important promise, guys like that will not die so easily. Don't get so worked up, you're scaring me."

"Hah… Sorry, okay thanks…"

"Here you take the bases; I got the bats and stuff!"

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As usual, Ace split Zoro and Sanji up to even out the teams.

"Can I pitch?" Zoro asked; he wanted to see if he could strike out the cook.

"Er.. No Zoro, let Kaya okay? Last time you nearly broke the bat…" Ace said as he gave the softball to Kaya.

"Heh, forgot about that." Zoro chuckled as he walked to a base.

That kid is crazy strong. Luffy sure has some interesting friends… Ace thought as he got ready to be the back catcher.

First up was Nami. Although she was small she could hit the ball extremely far with such ease. First hit first homerun!

"THAT'S MY GIRL, NAMI-SWAAAN!" The cook swooned at the ginger.

Happy with her homerun she didn't get annoyed with the love-cook she just smiled and high-fived the blonde. The marimo just rolled his eyes. The orange haired girl saw the green haired man; she decided stuck out her tongue and wink. That act caused Zoro to make a little promise to himself that he wouldn't allow another person get a home run, at least not that easily!

It was the cook's turn. Zoro was determined to get him out, and Sanji was determined to get a homerun, since the bases were loaded. Kaya throw a high pitch, it was a ball but Sanji didn't have the patience to wait for another pitch. He hit it as hard as he could; it was going in the marimo's direction. The blonde sprinted to the first base. Zoro was chasing the ball like it was a flying rice ball! He nearly tripped over his feet a few times he was running so fast.

Shit, the blonde's already at the second base… Zoro took a few more steps and leapt into the air and landed with a quick summersault and threw the ball as hard as he could to third base.

Ack. That shitty marimo try hard… Sanji ended up running back to the second base before Tashigi caught the ball at third. However, Tashigi didn't catch the ball at third. She got too flustered when Zoro called her name. Her glasses fell and she was on her hands and knees feeling around for them.

Ah…Thank you Tashigi-chwan! Sanji sprinted to the black haired girl, handed her the glasses she was so desperately searching for and then he ran to home.

That girl… Thank god she's in a different Shinkendo class than me.

"Sorry! Sorry!" Tashigi apologized, she hated making a fool of herself in front of Zoro.

"Don't worry about it!" Zoro faked a half-hearted smile.

At the end of the game, Zoro had 5 homeruns and Sanji had 7. As the boys were changing, Zoro and Sanji were arguing about who won. Although Zoro's team won by 3; the swordsman only got 5 out of the 16.

"Baaaaaka! Your team might have won, but I clearly beat you!" The blonde said as he jumped into his pants.

"Psh I had way more catches than you did." Zoro stated as he buttoned up his shirt.

Law was chuckling to himself in the corner. He couldn't believe such a deadly man was in his school and was fighting over such trivial things. "Hey you two, why can't you just say it's a tie?"

"AS IF!" The two men said in unison.

"Whatever you guys say." Law said as he left the change room.

"We'll figure this out later, shitty marimo." Sanji said as he stared at his lover with a death stare.

With a smirk the swordsman replied "Yeah. We will." , although the muscular man was not thinking of fighting.

"Wait… Sanji…" Zoro started "Is there anyone else in here?"

"Uhm…" Sanji quickly checked all the stalls and such. "Unless they're invisible I don't think so!"

Zoro had a deadly smirk painted on his face. "Want to finish this now, eh cook?"

"The bell's about to ring Zoro.. How about, you come over after school today?" Sanji suggested; he didn't want to get in trouble in case Ace walked in.

"Deal." Zoro smiled at the cook.

Sanji blushed and smiled back. "Come on, let's go. I'll meet you at your locker 'kay? I have to ask Mr. Zeff about tomorrow's cooking class."

"Sure!" Zoro waved and went to his locker to collect his homework.