The ship arrived at the base three days later, the Revolutionaries' base seemed to be located in the middle of nowhere, Sabo couldn't see anything else except for some sand dunes and plain white buildings.

Kuma and Iva (he learned their names two days before) were helping in transporting the supplies from the ship to one of the buildings. Sabo wondered how in the world are they friends, their characteristics were the polar opposite with each other. Iva was eccentric and loud, while Kuma was calm and composed.

"Dragon-san!"

"Dragon-san! We're so glad that you're back!"

"Welcome back!"

Sabo saw a huge crowd of people, possibly the other revolutionaries, all gathered around the port. Everyone had a huge smile on their faces, and they all looked so relieved. Not just Iva and Kuma, every other revolutionaries also seemed to respect Dragon so much. Sabo did notice one other thing, Dragon looked stiffer and much less easy-going than he usually was around Kuma and Iva, it looked like he had put on somewhat of a cold facade.

Sabo jumped off the ship and walked to the other side of the shore, hoping to get the chance to talk to Dragon about the deal of lending him a ship.

"Hey, you." a voice was heard from behind him.

Sabo turned around and saw a boy that looked no more than 16 years old squinting at him. He had light brown hair, with round eyes and tall, sharp nose. He wore a navy blue round hat with some kind of feather on top of it.

"Can you please step out of the way?" he asked impatiently.

"Sorry." gee, Sabo said to himself, why is he so grumpy?

The boy moved to where Sabo was standing a second earlier and leaned down, when he got up, he was holding a net full of fishes with both of his hands, but he was clearly having trouble in keeping all of the fishes to stay in the net.

"Care to help?"

No. "Okay." Sabo sighed as he held the other side of the net to help balance out the weight of the fishes.

"We just have to deliver this to that building over there," said the boy while tilting his head towards one of the white buildings located far ahead. Sabo just nodded and started to walk with him.

"By the way, sorry about my rudeness earlier." The boy looked at him in the eyes, the frustration that seconds ago was clearly there had gone, "I just can't afford to lose another big catch." he tilted his head towards the net, indicating the fishes.

"Oh." said Sabo. That's why.

"I have never seen you before, are you new?" asked the boy.

"If by new, you mean as a revolutionary, then no. I'll be gone after I managed to borrow a ship from your leader." answered Sabo.

"Oh. Then why are you here in the first place?"

"…An accident."

"One that's related to your wound over there?" he pointed at Sabo's left side of head. Sabo's whole feature stiffened, the image of the explosion started to play in his mind.

Noticing Sabo's uneasiness, the boy quickly corrected himself, "I mean, you don't have to tell me. It's just a stupid question."

"Yeah, i got this wound from that accident." Sabo sighed, there's no loss in telling him anyway.

"Oh."

Long stretch of awkward silence.

"What's your name?" Sabo couldn't handle the awkwardness anymore.

"Bunny Joe." answered the boy—Bunny Joe, he seemed relieved that Sabo had finally ended the awkward silence.

"…Bunny? like the young rabbit?" Sabo totally didn't think that question thoroughly, he silently cursed himself for being so blunt.

Bunny Joe laughed, "Exactly like the young rabbit." He didn't seem offended at all, which is a relief.

"So what should I call you? Bunny or Joe?"

"Joe. I prefer not to be publicly humiliated because of my name." This comment made Sabo laughed, he wasn't a bad person after all.

"Okay." Sabo steadied himself before telling Joe his name, "I'm Sabo."

"Nice to meet you. Too bad I don't have any remaining free hands to shake yours." Joe answered with a grin.

Thank you for reading :)! This is more of a light-hearted chapter, but I hope that you still enjoyed it, the next chapter would be more serious and has more stuffs going on.

I really enjoy writing this story, and i want to make the best out of it. So i would really really appreciate the reviews and suggestions on what needs to be improved in the next chapters!

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