The World Ends With You

Chapter 16: The Hyena

Drake huffed. "Bellamy? What are you doing here?" he had an intonation in his voice as he spoke.

"Students younger than me should address me with more respect, you know." he retorted, much to Drake and Law's irritation. "Just because you're all a bunch super rookies doesn't mean you can talk to your seniors."

Super rookies. It was the term used by almost everyone to refer to the troublesome students who began as clean slates. But, since eleven of those students suddenly rose to the top, the term was now used to identify those who were not part of those eleven. And Bellamy despised the eleven Supernovas because, to him, they're an obnoxious bunch.

Bege crossed his leg over the other before speaking. "I believe you're a super rookie yourself too...?"

"But I am way above you," he replied and sat on the desk, overseeing everyone in the room. "you see, I'm allied with a Warlord."

Zoro squinted.

"Aren't you gonna ask me who that is?"

"Nah," Bonney hissed. "we don't care. Not one bit."

Bellamy ignored her comment. "Doflamingo,"

Law let out a silent grunt as Bellamy said that name, almost as if he remembered a memory that shuddered him. With that, he squinted his dark circled eyes at the senior in front of them.

The other Supernovas also have the similar reaction as his, though most of them were pure confusion.

"Oh, and Strawhat?" Bellamy started. "I reckon you should keep your valuables with you all the time."

Monkey D Luffy stood up abruptly. He spoke in a low voice. "What did you just say?"

"I said 'keep an eye on your belongings'."

He was not that dumb to not get what Bellamy was saying. Luffy had already dashed towards him and grabbed him by the collar. Zoro also prepared to give a hand.

"Who are you on about?"

The fact that he said 'who' instead of 'what' was enough for the others to sense that he knew what the other guy was talking about, though not quite. But Luffy knew very well that Bellamy was talking about one of his friends.

Seeing that Luffy's grip on Bellamy's collar kept getting tighter, the other Supernovas started to react. Law called out. "Strawhat-ya, calm down."

"Strawhat..." rather than a worried tone, Apoo's was more likely annoyed.

Zoro pointed a katana towards Bellamy. "He's asking you, isn't he?"

"Get that away, Roronoa!" Bonney exclaimed and tensed.

Hawkins only watched the turn of events before speaking. "Bellamy, I think it's best for you to leave right now. You don't want two of us going after you."

Drake seconded quietly by nodding.

Bellamy laughed and pulled his body away from Luffy's reach, fixing his collar. "You rookies are so sensitive. Especially you, Strawhat."

At last, Bellamy left the room, with Kid and Killer eyeing him, and the tension slowly faded just before a teacher came in, seeing the faces of the eleven students who were stuck inside for detention.

"...what just happened?"

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NOW ALONE WAITING for the bus with Nami, Luffy thought about what Bellamy said earlier. One of his valuables were in trouble. That, he couldn't get out of his head. Was it Zoro? Impossible. Nami? Usopp? Chopper? Jinbe?

Luffy never really thought so hard about things; it was just his instincts giving him idea all the time it almost as if he was thinking. Luffy had always been a man of action, and that trait of his usually gets him in trouble.

"So, you wanna get something on the way home?"

Since Luffy's house was not near hers, Nami decided to go with him for a bit. She didn't want to go home yet, at the first place.

Luffy turned his head to the barbecue restaurant the bus had passed. Nami chuckled. "You want meat?"

"Are you gonna buy me something, Nami?"

She nodded. "Why not?"

Normally, Nami wouldn't get him food after school but she decided this time would be an exception. Thinking about the reason, she subconsciously fell into a state of nullity. Luffy turned to her and as they leaped off the bus, he squinted his eyes at her.

"You're lying..."

"Eh?" she was the one now who was turned to him. "No I'm not. I say le–"

"Hello? Zoro?"

Nami had her fist on the back of Luffy's head. He was on his phone. "Stop calling the others whenever I treat you!!"

They soon entered the resto a block away from the bus stop and Luffy was already drooling. Scent of different kinds of meat lingered his senses and he just wanted to devour them all. However, before he could dash in and eat all the meat inside, Nami grabbed his wrist.

"I'm treating you, okay? So make sure you don't get me to pay a whole lot,"

He pouted. "That's unfair."

"How is that 'unfair'?!"

She soon made their order as they sat across one of the tables. While they waited, she couldn't help but admire Luffy who was 'patiently' waiting for his food. At the same time, she also couldn't shake off the thought that it might be the last time they got together. Alone. Considering the circumstances...

A tray of meat arrived soon and Nami put the platters in front of them; five for Luffy and one for her.

"Luffy," she called him, softly, and even if he was busy stuffing his face with meat, he turned to her.

"Mhat ish ih?" he replied.

Should I tell him? No, that would be...Nami thought. So, she thought of something that would actually tell him what was happening while at the same time, not. "Can you...leave me alone, please?"

He swallowed. "What? Are you okay? Didn't you like the–"

"It's nothing like that,"

"Then what do you mean 'leave you alone'?"

"At school,"

Luffy squinted. "Why? Don't you want to be friends with us anymore?"

"I do! It's just..." the cheery atmosphere vanished. Nami ruined the mood. "there's something I need to do, okay?"