Swimming is probably my favorite pass time. Sabo and I were the only ones who can swim. Well, that's not completely true. Ace was actually the best swimmer of all of us. But one time he randomly fell asleep while swimming and nearly drowned. He would have died except Jiji (Garp) was watching and dove in to pull Ace up. So after that we never let Ace swim. Usually whenever we go to swim its just me and Sabo. Sometimes Ace and Luffy come along and play on the river bank while we swim. This was one of those days. Luffy was watching a snail and Ace was sitting on the river bank staring longingly at the water.

"Neh, Sabo let's race! From here to that branch over there." I said hanging on to a root that dipped into the river.

"Ha! I can beat you anytime. You're on!" he challenged.

"GO!"

We began furiously paddling ourselves downstream to the designated finnish. I felt a brush against my ankle. A twig or something floating in the current for sure. I kept swimming.

I began to swim faster as I saw Sabo was swimming right next to me. The thing rubbed against my ankle again. Suddenly I felt something curling around my waist.
I screamed as the trunk of a huge huge snake rapped itself around me and began to sink back into the water. My fear seemed to be suffocating me even more than the snake. Ace jumped into the water, his ever present pipe in hand. Amidst my flailing I could see Ace and Sabo swimming towards me.I gasped for air as the snake dove under. I felt Ace yank the snake up to the surface. I watched barely able to keep my eyes open as Sabo bashed the creatures head with Ace's pipe. He swam up to me unwrapping the limp snake from around me. I was shocked and barely awake. My arms went limp as i tried to grasp what happened. I was safe.

I'm safe. They saved me.

Sabo draped my arm over his shoulder and shakily swam me back to shore where Ace had just climbed out and Luffy was waiting. I pressed my cheek against his back and sighed. With a friend and brothers like these I should have known that nothing bad would ever happen to me.

Later that day I lay on my futon staring at the clothe that separated our rooms. The boys had told me that they had cooked their own meat today and that they had "graciously" decided that I could rest in bed the rest of the day, though Ace was probably calling me a total wimp.

I was still shocked about what had happened at the river. It had been so sudden, and I was so powerless. It scared me. I had always figured that if I was in danger, surely I could protect myself. I had never realized how weak I was. If it weren't for Sabo and Ace….

I felt and hand on my back. It was Sabo. He smiled at me and rubbed my back. I sprung up and threw my hands around his neck.

"T-thank you, Sabo!" I sobbed into his shirt.
"Aw, come on. We're siblings right?"

I started.

That sentence broke my heart. My shoulders sagged and I began to cry even more. His shirt balled up in my fists.

Worried about what he had said wrong, he just hugged me tighter, and rocked me slightly back and forth.

Siblings, huh.

I should have known.

Thanks for reading guys! You may realize that I've posted this before. I'm trying to post this as a second chapter not a separate story…. buuuuut I'm a bit clueless as of how to post it that way. Hopefully this time it will work. Also I have about half of this story written in a notebook from during the school year when I wrote during class so I should be able to post those as soon as I type them up. Thanks again for reading.

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