My Brother's Keepsake (Sabo x Reader)

Chapter Fifteen: A Warning

"Yeah, let's finish up here and I'll go and make lunch for them. Rouge is gonna wake up soon too." You concurred. "She'll be waking up to a new room. I'm kinda a little scared that she'll be sleeping by herself to be honest."

"Y/N-chan, there's a simple solution to that. Stay with your cute baby girl instead of moving into your boyfriend's room."

♤Boyfriend.♤

You couldn't stop the blush that crept over your cheeks at that word. It was true, Sabo was your boyfriend now, for real and not just as a cover story. It was surreal for you to even think about and it brought a smile to your face.

"What's this? You're completely smitten aren't you?" Koala teased, picking up your bookcase.

"What do you mean smitten? I'm completely fine. Besides, about what you said, I can't just decide to not move, Sabo has been pestering me for days now, I can't disappoint him." You huffed.

The brown haired girl smiled, "You act like you were coerced into it, but you actually can't wait, can you?"

"Shut up." You said making the bed.

"Oh? This book is..." Koala muttered looking at your bookcase.

You glanced over to see that she was holding 'A Perfect World.' in her hands with a curious look in her eye.

"That's my favourite book in the whole world. Life was hard for me as a lone teenage girl in the Grand Line, and I almost returned to the home that I ran away from. But on a certain island, members of the Revolutionary Army were handing out free copies of this book even though the World Government banned it. Reading it and understanding the author's views on freedom and what it truly means, encouraged me to not return to that toxic environment."

"I see, so this book is very important to you then?"

"Yup." You said looking at the worn out cover. "Just thinking about how my brother and I parted ways, I can't imagine ever going back to the Tombe Kingdom. "

♤After the death of your mother, you grew up in the palace, never once seeing the king's face. Nana raised you herself, and your authority figure was your eldest brother Kairo. He was very strict on both you and your second eldest brother, Larcko, caring mostly about preserving the image of the royal family in the kingdom and imposed set rules and duties for you to follow. You were ten when you finally understood why you were so different from your brothers and your father. It was then that you finally understood that you were an outsider, perhaps that was why the king did not want to see your face.

It took a lot of courage for you to finally ask Nana about your biological father. But Nana did not know much about him either seeing as it had been a secret affair. In fact all that you knew about him was what your mother had said to you on her deathbed. You finally got what she was trying to tell you about you one day possibly resenting her. You resolved to leave the Tombe Kingdom as soon as you turned sixteen, maybe you would find your father's family.

That was what you originally decided but unfortunately life got in the way and you had to leave even sooner than you'd anticipated. Your father, the king, died when you were eleven and your older brother Kairo took over the kingdom. In the summer of your 12th birthday Kairo called you up to his office to talk with you.

"You called, Brother-sama." You said bowing before him. It had been a while since you'd been able to talk to him alone like this. He'd been running all over the place trying to stabilise the kingdom as it's new ruler. It was a lot of work for him and it showed on his exhausted face. It meant that he had to make new alliances as well as to reach out to the people that the previous king was allied with, so he could keep up the alliances and the relationships that his father had built.