Chains (Sabo x Reader)

Chapter 7

*A few moments later*

BOOM! Smoke spewed out of the weaponry, engulfing the hallway. The two kids stumbled out, coughing and covered in the remnants of gunpowder.

"I only said explore the weaponry! But then you just had to go touch the explosive."

Sabo rubbed his nose. "Heh, heh... sorry."

"Well, sorry is not going to get us out of trouble!"

"You're right, Koala. That was unacceptable," a stern voice said.

Both of the kids looked up to see Hack, a fishman and Koala's mentor, with an angry face looking down on them.

"Oh boy..."

*After two days later*

Sabo's stomach growled. Koala sweat-dropped at the sound. "It's on ten in the morning and you're already hungry?"

"I'm sorry if I'm a growing boy!"

"I think that you're just an endless pit for food. You just had breakfast, too!"

"The breakfast was only a cup of milk and a roll of bread!"

"That's enough!"

"Koala, Sabo, if you have enough time for chit-chat, then you must done with cleaning the weapons!" Hack yelled from another room. The fishman had punished the kids with only two meals a day for a week and each day, their tasks were doubled.

Koala sighed, scrubbing away at a gun. "Sabo's not going to last this week at all," she muttered.

*5 days after the incident*

"Nee~ Sabo."

"Huh?"

In Koala's hand was a basket of cookies. "I got some cookies last week and I was wondering if you'd like some."

Sabo's eyes lit up. "Really? Thanks!" He reached in and took a chocolate chip.

*Flashback end*

Your POV

"Sabo must had suffered with such little food. But you're so nice to share with him!"

"Ha! In the end, he ate 75% of my cookies! We both suffered without food. I also suffered even more because Hack wouldn't train me all week! I wanted to learn more techniques for Fishman Karate."

"75% of the cookies?" you chuckled to yourself. "Just like when he ate the majority of the fish before."

"Are you listening?!"

"Uh... sorry," you grinned sheepishly, "How about later on? What was he like then?"

"Later on..." Koala tapped her cheek, "He was more polite. He would be more gentleman like, at least to other people. But then he's also more stubborn. Whenever he messes up during a mission and the mission fails, he would blame it on himself. Another time he was stubborn, one time I broke my arm because I landed weird and he blamed himself for not thinking about catching me! I can't stand that! I mean, it was my decision to jump down!"

"But now he's more forgiving to himself, right?"

Koala stuffed her mouth with strawberry cake, "I guess so, maybe..."

Suddenly, Koala's room's door opens and Sabo entered in. "Having a tea party, ladies?" Sabo asked, "'Cause I brought a box of doughnuts!"

"Awesome!" Koala whooped.