Sabo

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a man in a white cape is standing in front of a building holding a pencil ALT: a man in a white cape is standing in front of a building holding a pencil

ɪꜰ ʏᴏᴜ'ʀᴇ ᴛʜᴀᴛ ᴄᴏɴꜰɪᴅᴇɴᴛ, ᴛʜᴇɴ ɢᴏ ᴀʜᴇᴀᴅ ᴀɴᴅ ꜰɪɢʜᴛ ᴍᴇ.

Anyways... there'd always be some unmarried noblewoman lingering around the mistletoe who you just had to suffer a pinching of cheeks for, for candy."

"'And what' sounds really weird and ominous, Ace..." Sabo replies as he straightens his own hat and flexes his fingers in his gloves. "But! I can remember a long time ago that uh... those whomst shall be discarded from memory as my genetic donors, used to hold fancy parties a lot. Stuffy things. +

any work done really.

grace as someone could.

"...it's been... uh..." Sabo wheezes, digging an elbow into Ace's gut to avoid being strangled at least, yet not shoving the older off. "...a few weeks?"

Time never was his strong suit. Certainly not before his memories came back to him nor after. It was a wonder he got +

Despite the ability to crush skulls with his bare hands, Sabo isn't built like his self claimed twin. The hat topples with a small grunt, a hand up on reflex, coated in haki and ready to strike yet pulling back with moments to spare.

He suffers the manhandling and so quite choke hold with as much +

@portadinfierno.bsky.social

What a trap to fall for. A laid plan with trouble afoot.

Hands are harsh in reaching out, intentionally but without haki, to squish Ace's cheeks with as much bratty annoyance as Sabo can muster as he draws his twin in and smooches Ace's forehead before pushes him away.

stroll.

"I wouldn't worry too much? All the ghosts I've met were real people so... I guess that could be concerning?"

"Are they? Haunted, I mean." He hums lightly but allows her to cling as she pleases before simply taking point to lead the way in the general direction she had specified.

Sabo gives he hand a pat with his own spare, having purposely moved to place her on his left side for the small venture and +

adventures so far. It had been a long, long time and Robin sure helped me in playing catch up some, especially given the time crunch you all had with the Dressrosa situation. Understandable and all that."

the top over someone else touching that silly little-

"Robin and Koala got along swimmingly, well, swimmingly on Koalas end in the literal, less literal on Robin's given the fruit business. Regardless, the girls were all happy to have each other and it was interesting to hear about all of Luffy's +

"It's my job to remember names, and Luffy remembers, he just is Luffy." Sabo agrees there as fingers twitch but otherwise he doesn't do a thing to snatch his hat back from her much as he could.

It's not a danger. It's not. No reason to be out there. To be too much. To be weird or strange or over +

still hadn't decided if he hated that or not.

Even as he's half certain the far distant figure out is just another apparition of his mind, finding no reason to slow as he makes his way to the graves.

"I guess moving hats and stuff is fine if it's yours right? People are going to be grumpy though."

memoriam.

"...I'm sorry I'm late, I know I said I'd be sooner," He sighs to the wind as if he could hear it all, though sometimes he did, ever in that left ear like a voice.

Sometimes more. Cowering and fearful but apologetic and choking.

It had gotten worse since eating the fruit but Sabo +

safe haven kept near secret from most of the world.

Missions and life had taken Sabo from it all, from visiting as often as he would have liked since the last time he'd been able to trudge up the shoreline and the grassy, flowered hills to the peak...

... where two graves lay in silence and +

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Sabo's feet sank with ease into the sands of Sphinx Island as boots shook off the last of the salt water clinging to them. He had double and triple checked his ship to make sure it kept tidy and hidden, not wanting to give reason for outsiders to bother this small and +

mis-matched eyes roam the little plaza they've ended up on the edge of, essentially, in their near collision. "I've heard the castle is an interesting place and the noble districts tout finery and whatnot."

Not a peep of anything else.

"I'm writing a book, you see, about sightseeing."

Not a lie.

"....speaking candidly my memory isn't the best, so your guess is as good as mine if we've crossed paths before." Sabo at least has the sincerity to offer up a small wince when it comes to that.

He's just as quick to shrug it away too.

"Ah! Taking in the sights for the time being," Sabo muses as +

specific you might be after for lunch?"

"I will never not say yes to a meal invitation." And an arm is held out in offering, gentlemanly enough from a time long, long passed but ingrained in him still.

It worked well to hold manners to get things done and people were oh so easily bribed with a bit of flattery and simpering.

"Anything +

your name, Cat Burglar Nami of the Strawhat Pirates."

come to rest on Nami with a quiet amusement. Good on them both he wasn't sentimental at all to the hat itself, but more the goggles held on it's satin band.

"Last I checked I was Luffy's brother. And yup, she was lovely company for late night conversations when one can't rest well. You live up to +

Training in Haki since he was barely a teenager makes sneaking up on Sabo hard lest he allow it all. There's a nuance to it all, to pick up threats and not.

This certainly wasn't one. No different from Koala at least in that regard.

Sabo ducks light as his hat is stolen and mixed colored eyes +

either, not about to out himself to candidly. What was the saying? Lying by omission? So long as he never claimed much of anything, there wasn't technically a way to pin it on him.

"By the by, I believe I do owe you thanks for Luffy's care a few years back. If you're not busy, lunch? My treat."

"That I am," Sabo chirps back with a flourish of a step, a small bow, and a tip of hat as he grins with a charming air of sudden nobility. "Restocking I would presume? That or waiting on a settling log pose. I doubt we have the same stop here."

It's a bit cheeky, but not entirely transparent +

The blond offers a smile at a familiar face, "Just some sight seeing, taking in the aristocracy of the area, the sights and sounds. A usual vacation, hm?"

"And what if yourself? Light shopping? If you need assistance I'm more than happy to provide it," Sabo muses as a finishing thought.

revolution to unfold? Seems Luffy's taken up a mantle that can rival... well, someone I'm not sure he's fond of? I actually don't know how he feels... hm."

Mid-matched eyes slide over, both moving, but the milky haze of his left eye this close gives away he's probably blind in it.

"That I am, and only good things I'd hope? Be a little off putting to have my little brother embarrassing me without myself there to offer a defense." Sabo grins with a light chuckle.

"Am I correct in guessing you're docked to set your log pose? Or is this another lingering stay waiting for a +