A/N: This was inspired by the book "Baltasar and Blimunda" by José Saramago. Well, if you read the book, you'll understand. If you don't I suggest you read it. I haven't wrote fanfic in a while so bear with me and my lack of inspiration/ideas/perfeccionism in writing/etc. This is mainly a cliché romance and the characters might get a bit OOC. It's kind of necessary for the plot, since I'm sure Sanji does not suffer from the eye thing I gave him... It will lead to yaoi, lemon if I'm brave. So yeah, have fun reading, if you want to ^^'
Prologue
"Goodnight Sanji…"
"Night, okasan… Ne, okasan, why do I have to keep this in my sleep?" The four year old Sanji had grown curious over his mother demand. She never really imposed anything to him, other than he should never remove the band-aid from his left eye.
"Sanji… I'm afraid you'll forget to put it again in the morning. And I don't want you to go through the same path of life as me. You understand this son?" She looked at him fondly, though he could tell she was also ashamed and afraid.
"Not really, no okasan."
"It's okay son. Just remember what I'm going to say to you ok? You can never take that band-aid from your eye in the presence of other people. It can hurt them. Maybe you will understand that someday. I hope that if you do, you won't use it for bad things. And when you come to love someone, please be careful. Ok? Will you remember this Sanji? Will your treasure my words?"
"Ah-yeah, okasan. Why are you telling me that? What do I have on my eye?"
"You'll understand one day Sanji…"
"Hmmmm… Ne, okasan, where is tousan?" She flinched in pain and fought the tears that were threatening to come and smiled at his son.
"I made a mistake and he… left. I'm going after him now Sanji. Never forget what I said, and never forget that I love you my son. Sleep well."
"Hai, okasan. Goodnight. I love you too!" – With this, the four year old boy drifted to sleep only to wake up seven hours later to learn that his father and his mother were found dead with evident marks of natural death and suicide, respectively, and he was now an orphan.
Left alone in the world, Sanji ran till he reached the port of his island and hid himself on a pirate ship ready to disembark.