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On an island somewhere in the Grandline, there were three children, two of them were the same age while the third was the youngest. They had lived on the island for a while, but they had lived elsewhere before, before they were taken from their home and forced to live on their own (it wasn’t like they weren’t doing that before!) The boys names are Ace, Sabo, and Luffy, the first two mentioned were the same age, ten while the third mentioned was seven. Ace, Sabo, and Luffy, had first struggled to survive on the island since the animals there were somehow bigger than the ones from their home island. The boys were really close with one another, they didn’t always get along well sometimes fighting, but they loved each other dearly, they needed each other to survive, if they ended up ever losing one another they would end up going crazy. They would tear the world apart just to be able to stay together to never be separated. The boys were fine being together with no one else, they had each other and they didn’t need anyone else, it wasn’t like the people on their home island liked or cared for them, except for a handful of people.
Being together all the time had caused them to be really close to one another, they did things together that other people would find embarrassing, basically having no boundaries, but it wasn’t always like that though. Ace at first was someone who liked boundaries and didn't like people touching him in any sort of way, he shied away from human contact, going as far as smacking people if they touched him, he was never shown love or affection as a child. Sabo was a little more accepting of human contact but he still didn’t always like it; he was weary of human contact. Luffy on the other hand had always been a touchy person, thriving off always having contact with other people, it had taken Ace and Sabo a while to get used to their brother always hugging them, hanging off of them, showing his affection towards them. Ace and Sabo didn’t really realize they carved human contact, till Luffy came along but they learned to be affectionate with their little brother. The two oldest treasured their baby brother, he was someone who had shown them love and affection he didn’t care who they were or what they had done, never judging them, he was always willing to be there for them even when they didn’t want him there, he broke through their walls. The brothers weren’t afraid to openly show their affection to each, it almost seemed that they were in a relationship, it’s as if they were soulmates (platonic ones), though they did questionable things, like kissing each other on the lips, but in reality their affection towards each other was innocent and pure. Being on that island allowed them to be affectionate with each other without them having to worry about being judged by other people. The boys loved their time on the island though they did miss the people that they came to care about, they enjoyed their freedom having nothing to worry about, though at the beginning when they had arrived on the island they struggled to survive.
What the boys didn’t know was that their lovely time on the island they called their new home would be coming to an end, for they would be whisked away.