Tales from Elseworld Vol.1

College Days Part 1

A/N: an AU story that takes place in a modern One Piece World. Thought it was a fresh take on a common prompt with my own spin on it. Enjoy the reading.

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Nami huffed furrowing her brows examining the pictures she finished developing as she added them to scrapbook titled 'sophomore year.' It was cliche but she couldn't think of a more fitting name after starting her second year at Grand Line University.

She was thankful to be out off campus after spending her freshmen year in the dorms; having an apartment just off campus had been a major upgrade despite having to walk farther to classes which she didn't mind much.

Her living arrangement had been the biggest change in her life in the past year. She still most of the time with her nose buried in book; the most important thing to her was her studies—everything else was irrelevant. Why else would she have busted her ass all four years of high school and last year just to waste it away like everyone else who only cared about drinking and partying.

Nami hadn't noticed that a pair of warm arms wrapped around her nearly causing her to mess up her line she was working on while annotating notes.

"I swear if it was anyone else but you..." the orangette chuckled seeing her roommate for the past year Nefatari Vivi smile warmly at her reaction.

"Have you been studying this entire time?" Vivi asked scrunching her nose at her roommate who went back to reading and taking notes.

"Yes Vivi I have quizzes every week and I have to make sure I'm ready." She said not bothering look up.

"Jeez Nami it's not like mid-terms are anytime soon." Vivi said earning a groan from the orangette who clearly panicked at the mention of tests.

"So where were you tonight?" Nami asked glancing to see her friend removing her coat placing it on the rack near the door.

"At the football game; we actually won, our freshmen quarterback is really amazing. No wonder he was the number one recruit coming out of high school last year." Vivi exclaimed taking a seat across from the navigator.

"Sounds great." Nami said not taking her gaze away from her studies. She didn't know anything about football aside that Vivi was an absolute fanatic about it; the sport was much too savage for her taste.

Vivi rolled her eyes tugging at Nami's arm. "Come on get up, get ready."

"Huh?" She questioned bewildered by her roommate's behavior.

"I said get ready Nami, we're going out."

"Where? I already ate Vivi." Nami said standing up after her friend pulled her other arm.

Vivi chuckled. "Our team won tonight everyone's going out. I'm going to make sure you don't hide yourself away like you did last year now get dressed."

"Fine but only for alitlle while I still have to—"

"Yeah yeah come on already girl!" Vivi shouted happily dragging Nami into her room by the wrist.

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"I can't believe we got our first win on our very first game! You played great today!" Usopp shouted throwing on his clothes on for the night.

"Yeah it sure was fun," Luffy chuckled jumping onto his bed ready to pass out on the spot, "I'm so tired, I need some meat..." he said sticking his tongue out not wanting to move from the bed.