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Sanji couldn’t help but look out of the kitchen window at the full tables all around the baretie. It had been a little over a year since they had made it to Laugh Tale, and he found All Blue - since he made sure to write to the man that raised him, telling Zeff that they had indeed found All Blue.
And now, here they were, where it all started. Where he left Zeff behind to go and join the Strawhat Pirates, where he joined the crew that would become his family after he already lost one. The same crew that stuck by him through thick and thin, and that even managed to get him reconnected with his family.
Well, his brothers and sister, no matter what Judge said, the man would never be his father. That would be Zeff’s title until the man died - and even after, he would never call another man his father.
“Whatcha doing here, little eggplant?”
Turning, he found Zeff standing behind him, a soft look in the blond’s man face.
“Just… enjoying all this, without being a part of it. I never actually expected to be back here, to be able to share all that we did with you in person instead of through letters. And, well… I never expected to see all manner of family here.”
Zeff slimed, before he was approaching Sanji to press a kiss to his forehead in a way the man hadn’t done since he was a little smaller.
“You found a good crew, boy, and an even better family. You’ll always be a part of mine, but that doesn’t mean you can’t be a part of someone else’s too.”
Sanji nodded, grinning at Zeff once more, before he was pushing open the doors of the kitchen, mingling with his family - in every sense of the world - and enjoying the time together.