"Who are you?" Ace asks.
"Who are you?" The person replies.
"I asked you first."
"I asked you second."
"... Sabo? I fucking recognized that sassy tone."
"... Erm, yo, Ace! So... I wasn't really dead! I just has some amnesia stuff and when I saw your bounty, well-"
Ace launches himself at Sabo impatiently, fist raised and Sabo discards his pipe, raising his own.
They are fighting, blows sloppy, not meant to truly hurt but the trees are crashing down around them anyway.
Ace wipes sweat away, panting. "You're strong, but I'm stronger."
Sabo laughs, taking off his hat. "Well I'm taller than you."
Before Ace can retort a fruit rolls in-between the two of them.
A devil fruit, a flaming devil fruit.
"... dibs!" They both shout at the same time, before grinning.
"Alright, we'll just eat it at the same time," Sabo says, nodding his head.
Ace chuckles. "That's something Luffy would say, but you don't see me complaining."
And they half the fruit, tossing it in their mouth and swallowing-
"GAH!" Ace shouts, grabbing his throat, face green and Sabo falls to the floor choking.
A moment later, the two of them flare, fire covering their forms.
"Holy shit," Ace whispers. "I'm fucking burning down the scaffold at Logue Town."
Sabo swats him. "You pyro! Though... can we do it together?"
(Even though he should keep his identity secret, Sabo is well known along with Ace and turns up at the war, flaring up and Ace somehow does as well, bypassing the seastone and well, their bond as brother transcends everything and anything and nothing.
Does that even make sense? Well, nothing does when it comes to those two-even worse than Luffy when together).