My Brother's Keepsake (Sabo x Reader)

Chapter Three: Treacherous Sea

Sabo had just defeated an 83 million berry rookie in under two minutes, without getting hit once.

♤He is strong.♤

"Tetsu, how far from captain Runa's marine base are we?" Sabo asked.

"We passed it three hours ago, sir." He replied.

"If we go back now, we'll arrive at about 9AM, right? Turn the ship around.  We're gonna collect this fool's bounty." Sabo said coming towards the inside of the ship.

You quickly ran back into his cabin and lay on the bed.

Sabo came in a moment later. "Did you think if you hastily came back in I wouldn't notice that you were watching the fight?" He asked.

"Sorry." You murmured, guilty. "I just wondered how strong you were."

"It's okay, he was just a chump, but I do hope that you don't make a habit of putting yourself in harm's way." He sat back down.

♤He calls an 83 million berry pirate a chump? Ace, he really is your brother.♤

"We're taking a slight detour, but we'll be in Baltigo by late afternoon today. You can go back to sleep." He said.

You got into the blankets and closed your eyes.

When you woke up again, it was because of a sudden movement of the ship. You hadn't woken up when the ship had stopped a little way away from a marine base.

"We're back on course. Tetsu already handed the pirates over to the marines." Sabo said noticing that you were awake.

"I see."

Ring, ring, ring, ring, ring, gotcha.

"Hello, Sabo-san?" The voice on the other side of the transponder snail said.

"Oh, Runa. Is everything okay?" Sabo replied.

"Chief, I heard you caught Dimetri, but you won't take the money?"

"That's right. Take half and send it to Kasia village. I'm sure they'll appreciate it. And send 20 million to Lindbergh, he needs it to complete a complete a project that he's working on. The rest you can keep to use as an emergency fund for your mission." Sabo instructed.

"What? But we don't need that much, you should take some-" Runa protested.

"You're putting your lives on the line everyday working undercover. I want to make sure you have everything you need should something go wrong." Sabo said and before the other man could respond, he continued, "We already took all the treasure from his ship, so don't worry."

"Well, if you insist, Sabo-san , I'll take it, but I won't use it until I have to." Runa relented.

"Excellent. Now about that Devil Fruit that I asked you about, any news?"

"Nothing yet sir. But if the Navy get a hold of it you'll be the first to know." He assured him.

"Good. Well take care, alright." Sabo said.

"Of course. Oh, by the way-" Gotcha.

"You hung up? He was still talking." You said.

"Oh, was he? Well if it's urgent he'll call again." Sabo said nonchalantly putting the transponder snail down.

"Oh, what's that? It's so pretty." You said looking at something that Sabo had laid down on the floor.

He looked down, "Oh this. This is Mizumaru, the water sword. I took it from Delseph." He said, still getting the name wrong.