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Sabo was peacefully dreaming about being the hero of his favorite book, when suddenly the scenery changed completely. He was now standing on a cliff facing the endless sea and sky. The colors were far too vivid for reality, and everything - the sun, the strange flowers, the singing birds, the bigger and brighter than normal sun- felt magical.
He heard running footsteps after a moment and turned around. He saw a boy with a straw hat, black hair, a scar on his face and a wide smile, and before Sabo could blink the kid was hugging him. He looked familiar, and the way his arm stretched around Sabo multiple times seemed familiar too, but he was sure he’s never met him. Sees, he was starting to have a headache. When he thought that everything was fine because he could breathe again as the kid released him, the later started talking way too loudly way too fast; and judging by the few words he caught -clown tearing his hat, kicking a shark’s ass, tangerine pie, painting on a guy named Laboon, giants on a dinosaur island, helping a princess, REINDEER doctor !! - the kid may be crazy. Or a grandline traveler. The two are correlated after all.
As the kid showed no sign of stopping his excited one-way chatter, Sabo forgot his manners and interrupted with :
" What are you doing here ? You don’t seem like a part of my dream."
At that, the kid paused, and seemed to look at him for the first time with big eyes. Then his smile returned :
"I could make a wish so I chose to see you again !"
Someone he didn’t even recognize completely using their only wish to see Sabo ? Nah, that was definitely real, because in no dream ever could he ever come up with that.
" Why ?" he asked, stunned.
"What do you mean by “why “? ‘Cause we're brothers of course !"
Brothers.
Brothers
B r o t h e r s
The words resonated in his head, and suddenly they brought flashes of memories that circled around : noble house, Grey terminal, Ace, Luffy, jungle, hunting, sparring, laughing, fire, letter, FIRE... among the chaos, he heard it the loudest :
" From now on, we are brothers !”
Sabo woke up in cold sweat, cried like a baby for an hour shed a manly tear, stood up, walked to Dragon’s office, knocked, entered before hearing the answer like always, and announced something he'd never done before :
“ I’m going on vacation !”