Whitebeard had decided to stay on an inhabited Island while Fossa, Blamenco and a few other commanders worked on repairing the deck, to which Sabo was greatly sorry for damaging.

Thatch was doing very well, his healing time had made Sabo somewhat jealous because he was still recovering from his stab wound and every time he slipped out of the infirmary to walk around, someone, mainly the commanders, would get onto him and make him go back and rest. Sabo had enough sleeping. He apparently had five days of that. He was bored. Thatch was lucky enough to leave but for some reason he could even though he could walk around just fine.

Good lord was he being coddled? Is this what this was? They acted like he was going to fall over any minute and it was grating on his nerves. He still took his daily medication thanks to Ivan, though he noticed he was running out. Soon.

So that call with Ivan would have to happen soon. Which he sort of dreaded. If the man came here on his ship, then Sabo would be force to go down into his infirmary/lab, to which had…dress codes. He was over beyond grateful that the Whitebeard didn't have any of that sort.

But if Ivankov was supplying you with something very helpful, abiding by only one of his requests had to be done. Apparently this was normal but none of the other guys talk about it. The only person that does what he wants was Dragon, to which Ivankov respects and won't ask of.

Ahhh, god. When in doubt, don't give a flying fuck. If Izou chose to comfortably wear what he wore, then Sabo should have no problem with wearing a pink gown. He worn similar things when he had his missions.

It made the pink gown almost innocent.

And that was how Ace found him. Curled in the corner in fetal position of the infirmary he was forced to back into.

"Dude." Ace said when he saw Sabo.

"I need my medicine…but I don't want to go there…" Sabo mumbled to himself.

"C'mon, meeting time. If I have to go then you do too." Ace waved a hand in front of Sabo but had no reaction. 'What's up with him?' Ace thought to himself. He shrugged and went over to Sabo, carefully hauling his brother up. "Snap out of it, we got people to see and talk to." Ace said, stirring Sabo from his stupor.

"Fine, fine." Sabo sighed as he filed his worries for later.


The meeting wasn't as intense at the ones Sabo was used to. Even before he had gotten the chief position, the meetings were all super intense. Too much information being spat out and people have to absorb all the info, going over missions coming up to the date and planning future missions, checking over current field agents near areas notorious for slave trades.

It was pretty laid back actually.

Whitebeard had met with the other division commanders that included Fossa, Curiel and a few others, discussed things about the repairs on the deck. The next bunch of commanders that included Haruta, went over things about the Intel the other ships have gathered and anything bad going on in their territories. Marco, being the first division commander had to go to both. By the time both bothers got there, Marco, Izou, Thatch, Haruta and Whitebeard were already present.

"What're you still doing here, Haruta?" Ace asked when he still saw him in the room.

"Cause I can. I'm not missing out on this." He said.

"Can we start now, yoi?" Marco tiredly yawned. He needed a nap.

"To start off with, we'll be staying here for quite some time as the repairs go on and new additions added to the deck per Curiel's request. One of our ships should be meeting back here with us to rest and missions will still continue on. We will be entering the winter isles of East Blue, so make sure to stock up well on animals here." Whitebeard said to the commanders. "After repairs are done and a checking in with our other territory, we'll be sailing out of East Blue."

"So if anyone else has any last minute things to do here, now will be the time before we head into the colder part of east blue and leave altogether, yoi." Marco said.

"Aw, damn I hate the winter isles." Ace grumbled.

"And during our stay here while repairs are going, we'll be training your ass, Ace." Marco announced to the second division commander. Izou has a mission, so I'll be covering for him for your observation haki. I'm sure it won't be a problem for Sabo to teach Ace for armament haki, yoi."

"It's not. He can do it, I just have to jog his memory of when he did it is all." Sabo said as he remembered the fight they had. "Remember our fight? When we kicked. You had haki on your legs but I guess you didn't realize it."

"Seriously?" Ace grinned in excitement.

"Yeah, knowing you though you'd pick up haki pretty quick." Sabo said to his brother. The comment made Ace grin from ear to ear. "Also, one thing. Winter aisles, pretty cold. Problem is I don't have much clothes left after Ace burned several pairs of my pants and shirts." Sabo complained as he glared at Ace. "So I'm going to tag along and grab a few things while the others handle their mission."

"Good luck getting on the ship past the ladies' sight, yoi." Marco said and glanced at Ace, who understood the look.

"And I'm assuming you're going to get Ace as my babysitter." Sabo said, not missing the exchanged looks between the two.

"It'll be fun, besides I need to start looking for Izou's new kimono so he'll stop giving me the stink eye every morning."

"If that's the case, I'll be accompanying you." Izou smiled happily. Thatch snickered nearby at Ace and Sabo's to be misfortune. Shopping with Izou, the commander is going to take advantage and get as much as he can out of this opportunity. Ace glared and flicked a tiny fireball at Thatch's direction, nearly setting his hair ablaze.

"Do try and keep out of trouble." Whitebeard said to Ace and Sabo. He mistakenly believed that the blonde would be a bit more responsible but lesson learned. After that spar they had and Marco banning them from it unless it was on land, they had opted to fight with anything they could get their hands on. Swords, Pipes, mops. They were resourceful.

Even the newest addition to his family (although he probably didn't know that yet) at escaped from the infirmary several times and out of other's eyes, but Ace always knew where'd he'd be, and Marco, Izou or his other commanders' haki would figure out where he was hiding at.

Behind that calm demeanor of his, was a rowdy and mischievous brat, just like the rest of his sons. Including Marco, although he may not show it. Trying to 'set a good example' to the others but Thatch knew how to get the Phoenix riled up as well.

Whitebeard grinned at the two as he pondered in his thoughts, causing Ace is take slight offense.

"I always try to stay out of trouble!" Ace tried to defend himself. The scoff Sabo gave caused the second division commander to snap his head over to him. "What? I do!"

"Need I remind you, that you broke into a navy base and ran around under the guise as an officer and a captain?" Sabo crossed his arms and drummed his fingers against his own arm. "You also made a hefty dent in their provisions."

"I was hungry and I have to admit they have good food." Ace shrugged. "They said I could help myself. Besides, didn't you say you had plenty of operations where you went undercover? Mine was no different."

"I had missions! It's not like I enjoyed a majority of those disguises! They had consequences." Sabo angrily gritted out to his brother. "The point of being a spy is to not get caught. Or suspected." He huffed at him. "I'm careful and don't try reckless things." Ace raised an eyebrow at him, knowing that was a load of bull.

Everyone around them shook their head, Thatch snickering and Whitebeard laughing at the two brothers interactions.

"Don't worry, pops, I'll make sure they'll behave." Izou said. "The ship leaves tomorrow morning, so be ready by then." Both boys nodded.

"Good, we're done here." The captain announced, causing Marco to sigh in relief.


Hey guys! Sorry bout the short chapter. I'm finally on a good schedule now that the chica finally had her baby and on her maternity leave. I've been busy with that job and other things. And i updated my laptop from windows 7 to 10 and my free subscription i had on WORD 2013 from when i was a college student poofed away so sorry if things are iffy with the format here. I'm working with Word online atm.

To honestly address a few things, i apologize if the story is a bit scattered. I have ADD so my thoughts would jump from here or there and as if you couldn't tell from my ass changing the summary two times. I wanted to take time and flesh out the story more, but i also didn't want to leave you guys hanging so here we are. I have things planned out already for this story on what will happen, some things predictable, some things not like with BlueJam. I just hope you guys will still like it in the end. Getting to the point, i'll try to triple check everything instead of once.

Also, i never realize i would enjoy writing Sabo so much. He's become my favorite character. My Hastings will be having their liquidation sell, errthing gotta go and i spotted Sabo and Ace figures there and Zoro as well so ima try to get my hands on 'em.

Someone should definitely write more stories on Sabo.

Anyways, i love you guys that are taking the time to leave reviews, i appreciate every one of them!

ps, BlueJam didn't complete his job. Just a hint for the upcoming arc. No, Caribou ain't showing up no mo'.

Bye guys!