Hiya everyone! I know the last chapter was a bit of a not thought of pairing, but I made it work! I can't believe that the list is almost done! Only 17 more after this! X.x It's kinda sad to think of my time with you guys being stopped for a bit. But! Hopefully when I come back my mind will be up and running ready for fresh new ideas!

Ok, so this story is obviously a RobinXSabo one! And the requestee is mrdbznarutofan! Thanks for requesting and I'm glad you read my stories! I hope I did your pairing justice and I hope you like the story!

The next request is for a good friend by the name of keke! It will be an AceXNami lemon! So just wait because the lemons are making a come back from all these one shots haha! I'll have to brainstorm for this one because you don't see many pairings with Ace and Nami anywhere!

Enjoy~

Robin felt like her head was splitting…..No it was worse than that, it was like something was pushing her head inwards from either side. Her eyes felt like they were being pushed outside from the back and her side hurt just under her ribs. She kept her eyes closed and furrowed her brow, feeling the throbbing growing as she slowly woke up.

She sighed in remembrance. She had once again crossed someone she shouldn't have. But this man wasn't someone she could play along and get away quickly, nor was he someone she could take down easily. He was strong; stronger than her. He ended up knocking her around a bit, giving her head a small concussion and probably a few broken ribs. She had been worse off before, but it always hurt. She groaned in pain and lifted her arm towards her side and placed it over the two broken ribs.

"You awake?"

Robin's eyes shot open and she jerked upward, flinching from the voice in fear before horrid pain ripped through her side and her head.

"You shouldn't move around too much."

She finally looked over at the voice and spotted a young boy about 9 years old with short blond hair, brown eyes, and a tooth missing from his smile. It definitely wasn't who she was expecting, and he didn't look like a threat to her, but you could never judge by looks and age.

"What's a kid like you doing out here?" She asked, waving off his concern for her.

He scoffed at her and jumped over the large root that was blocking her from sight from anyone. She must have laid behind it in her dizzy stupor when she was desperate to find a safe place. The large forest she ran into was next to a small village called Fuusha and hardly anyone there even dared to go into the forest other than the mountain bandits. The boy sat upon the root and looked at her with analyzing eyes, as if how she looked would tell him everything he needed to know.

"You're barely older than me." He argued at her, narrowing his eyes slightly to show he could at least see that much. "What? Late teens?"

Robin was shocked by how keen he was and sighed, leaning her back against the tree behind her. She let out a deep breath and dropped her arm that was holding her side. "18." She stated, giving in to his question. Obviously if he was a threat to her he would have tied something when she was asleep or hurt like now.

"Hm," He simply hummed and put his chin in his hand that was rested upon his knee. "So what's your name?"

Robin raised an eyebrow at him and couldn't stop the small snicker that came out of her. He was so blunt and curious it was like looking at a small child who was trying to solve a puzzle. She remembered when her eyes looked that was because of poneglyphs. "Robin. Nico Robin." She told him, waiting to see the fear flash behind his eyes or the hate, but nothing appeared; this probably surprised her the most. "Isn't it common courtesy for you to state your own name first?" She couldn't help but tease him, and made her laugh even more when his cheeks tinged red.

He looked down and wiped at his cheeks, "Sabo," he stated, looking side ways but his eyes darting over to her to see if she noticed his blush. Her eyes raised up as if figuring out if that was his real name, but the definitive look in his eyes made her feel confident that it was.

She nodded her head in thanks to him and leaned her head back against the tree again, letting out a deep breath and regretting it with a wince. Her teeth gritted together and she wished she had the power to instantly heal her wounds or not have to deal with pain.

"Here," Sabo said, reaching back behind him and lifting up a backpack. He passed it to her, raising his brows and flicking his wrist to show she needed to take it from him. She was hesitant though because she had no inkling what was in this dark bag he was trying to hand to her. He must have understood what she was hesitating for because he took back the bag and opened it up, before showing her the contents inside. "Some ice packs, medication, bandages, water, and food. You'll have to help your body however you can."

Robin felt the paranoia lift and she reached out to the bag. She twirled her finger in a circle, telling Sabo he needed to turn around, and waited for him to do so. She carefully bandaged her ribs, making sure they were in place when she did so. The last thing she needed was for them to heal wrong and have to be re-broken by an actual doctor. She then proceeded to take some medication and place the ice pack on her head to alleviate the concussion. By the time she was set up and relaxed, her stomach began growling louder.

"How long have I been out?" She asked, picking up the bottle of water and taking a drink. She wanted to down the small sandwiches and meat he brought her, but she had to make sure the medication settled first and wasn't going to affect her badly.

"A few days." Sabo told her, watching her carefully as she drank the whole bottle quickly. "I made sure no one came near here. I figured if you were hiding out here you had a reason."

Once again she was shocked by how inquisitive he was. It nearly made her jump again at his accusation. But his tooth missing smile made her relax again. "Thank you." She said politely, bowing her head slightly.

Robin couldn't quite leave the forest until she was healed for the most part and was sure that she was able to get off the island safely. Sabo staid with her for most of the day every day. Occasionally he had to leave when someone called for him, he had said his brothers, or when he had to go home. She was thankful for the company.

He spoke to her about his life, his brothers by bond, where he liked to stay, where he actually lived, and how his parents were. His brothers were a main topic though. He told her all about how he met one named Ace, and how just recently there had been another named Luffy that at first they weren't too sure about. But they found out that he was tougher than they believed and tried his best to get them to like him. Sooner or later he became their brother.

"So how did you make the bond?" She asked, curious on how that went on.

"By exchanging Sake cups! Jii told us about it and how that is how a non-blood bond was made." He said it so proudly that his face beamed.

"That sounds nice," Robin sighed, feeling much better in her physical state but longing for something in her emotional state.

"What?" Sabo asked, tilting his head and looking at her. "Jii? Sake?"

Robin giggled and shook her head. "No, having brothers. A family. Even if it's not blood."

"Don't you have one?" Sabo asked, his heart aching at the answer he knew was coming. Her eyes reminded him of Ace's when he went through that troubling time of not really belonging anywhere.

Robin shook her head. "Not anymore." She simply said, but those two words seemed to rip both their hearts in pain.

"Then…." He cut in, trying to get them away from the hurtful feelings. "…you can be part of our family! Our brother!" He mentally smacked himself in the stupidity. How they hell could she be a brother to them?! Is he stupid?!

Robin found it funny though as she laughed loudly and held her stomach. "I'm pretty sure I can't be a brother for personal reasons." She barely got it out from her laughs and felt like she couldn't breathe. "But thanks anyway. It means a lot that someone would even consider it."

Sabo felt his cheeks flame up in heat again as she looked at him with shining blue eyes and her smile was direct straight at him. "Then you can be part of the family in a different way!"

Her laughs stopped and their eyes connected with one another. Sabo felt himself too embarrassed to look at her anymore and turned his eyes. Robin felt her own embarrassment rise as her cheeks flushed pink and she tucked a piece of her hair behind her ear. He was far too young for her though. He was a child after all.

"Thank you….." She said, looking at him once more.

"….but?..." He asked, knowing there had to be more to her thanks.

"But I can't accept that…yet….." She told him.

"Yet?" He asked, feeling hope swell into his heart and making him turn his face towards her once more.

"If you can become bigger and taller than me then I'll accept it." She told him. In truth she wasn't saying this to keep his hopes up, but because she hoped he'd forget about the proposal. By the time he did get taller than her, he'd have forgotten her. She didn't want to drag him into her dangerous life anymore than he already was.

Soon Robin had to leave. She couldn't risk staying in this forest for too much longer. Besides, from what she heard from Sabo, people were starting to get suspicious on where he was disappearing to everyday for hours on end.

"I'll come and find you!" Sabo told her as she took off on the sea once more.

Robin had changed a lot since then. She had found friends that cared for her, people she could sail the sea with. She had this funny feeling that her captain, Monkey D. Luffy, was somehow the one Sabo used to talk about to her all the time. But of course, she couldn't prove any of that. There was a small hope that one day she'd meet Sabo once more, but she knew it was impossible….after all, she had read about his death in the papers. He was portrayed as someone who was against the Imperial Dragons, but she knew he was just trying to set sail out to sea…..possibly to find her.

A twinge clenched in her chest as she recalled that thought, guilt racking her completely. What if he had been set on looking for her? Causing him to get blown up in the process? She shook her head, trying to shake the thoughts from her head. She remembered that one tooth missing smile and his eyes showing curiosity at everything she said. She wanted to remember him that way, not how the press tried to make him out to be.

But just as she was feeling comfortable with the Straw Hat crew, consequences finally came to take her away. Kuma ended up sending her far away to a land covered in snow, where she met some interesting people working for the Revolutionary Army. And the leader of that army just so happened to be Luffy's father…maybe all hope wasn't lost. But she knew it was going to be a tough journey. Luffy lost Ace, his only brother left, and now he was stretching the meet up time to 2 years instead of 3 days back to the sunny.

"Robin!~" Koala pounced on the dark haired woman, spotting her favorite new nakama within the group of men that were rushing around preparing for things.

"Hey Koala," She said with a smile, tucking a piece of lose hair behind her ear once again.

Thankfully they had moved to a tropical island this time, giving her free space to wear a skirt and short sleeved zip up shirt. She always felt better when she didn't have to layer herself with clothes.

"Almost done?" Koala asked excitedly, looking at the pages of information Robin had just decoded for them. "Great! My leader is on his way here!"

Robin had never met this 'leader' of Koala's but from what she heard about him he was an admirable man who worked his hardest for people. Koala had told her about how he had lost his memory until just a few weeks ago. It shocked her that something like that could just randomly happen. But something small could have triggered it and caused a domino effect upon his memory.

"I'm so excited for you to meet him!~" Koala bounced around, grasping onto Robin's arm and making her body slightly bounce as well. "We'll all get along so well! Me, you, Hack, and Sabo!"

Robin froze, that name echoing around between her ears as if loud speakers were shouting. She couldn't believe what she had just heard. She quickly turned to Koala and grabbed her shoulders, making the younger girl freeze and look at her in surprise and confusion. "What did you say?"

"That we'd get along so well?" Koala asked, staring at her in slight horror at the sudden personality change in Robin who was normally so calm all the time.

"Not that!" She shook her head, knowing she wasn't specific enough. "The name!"

"Hack?" Koala asked, really confused now as to why Robin was asking about the fishman she was around a lot. But Robin shook her head furiously, which only let one other name for Koala to say. "Sabo?"

Robin was right. She had heard it correctly. But it had to be just a coincidence right? He was dead. Of course there were others out there with the same name! She wanted to laugh in her own stupidity for thinking such a hopeful thing.

"Glad to know you still remember me….Robin…"

The dark haired woman turned on her heel faster than she normally would, staring at the man whose voice spoke to her as if he knew her. There stood a tall man with shaggy wavy blonde hair and brown eyes that glistened. There was a scar over his left eye, probably due to some accident….But his outfit, it was the finishing touch on his looks. A top hat with a blue jacket and a white undershirt. Just like when he was a kid.

"Sabo….?" Robin whispered, making Koala look between the two in ultimate confusion that question marks were beginning to appear over her.

"I told you I'd find you again once I was bigger, didn't I?" Sabo chuckled, tipping the edge of his hat up so she could see his face some more.

Tears were welling up on the outside of her eyes as joy filled her heart. Her feet carried her from Koala and towards the man that stood before her. She reached her arms out towards him, causing him to smile at her and hold out his own. Before she anyone could blink she was wrapping her arms around him and throwing herself against him. His hat tumbled from his head to the ground, rolling away slightly before landing right side up.

"I thought you were dead," She hiccupped into his shoulder, the tears flowing from her eyes and soaking his coat on his shoulder. "The paper said you were blown up."

Sabo's arms wrapped around her effortlessly and held her up from the ground, the muscle within them barely straining at the feat. "I should have been." He whispered back, putting his face into her hair that had grown longer. She stood look very youthful though almost as if she had hardly changed since he had last seen her. "If it wasn't for Dragon I would have died. But I lost my memories. I'm sorry I couldn't come to you sooner."

Robin let out a curt laugh into his shoulder before pulling back and setting her feet on the floor. She wiped the tears away from her eyes and looked up at him with a beaming smile. "Well, you were supposed to wait till you were bigger." She teased, flattening her hand and waving it next to her body to show how short he was before.

He grabbed her arm and lifted it to the top of his head that was above her own. "I'm bigger now aren't I?"

Robin smiled more gently this time as she slipped her hand from his grip and placed it on his cheek. "That you are. I'm glad you got to grow up."

"What…..just…HAPPENED?!" Koala shouted behind them, startling them both and making the jump.

Robin and Sabo looked at one another, before looking around and noticing that there were a few people watching their little scene as well, causing whispers and confusion to circulate. They sighed together and decided to start explaining at least the basics to them about how Sabo and Robin met a long time ago, became friends, and made the promise to see each other once again when Sabo was grown up. But then the confusion of his death was found out by her and she gave up. Finally they ended with how he got his memories back and she got transferred to here by Kuma before they met and realized who the other was.

"Wow, who would have thought," Koala said, taking it all in with wide eyes and a blank stare, as if it was a mystery she never would have solved on her own; which was probably the truth.

"Koala! Come help with this!" Hack shouted out, snapping the brown headed girl out of her trance and looking over at the fishman who was waving his webbed hand at her to come and help.

"Coming!" Koala said, giving one last glance at Robin and Sabo who were staying suspiciously quiet about the rest of the details in the story.

For a few minutes they walked around in silence, passing the different groups of people who accomplishing different tasks, and passing out the papers of what needed to be done. It was an awkward silence that could be cut with a knife if given one.

"So…..you've been with them since the explosion?" Robin finally asked, trying to break the tension.

"Yeah, Dragon took me in and trained me to be one of the captains of the revolutionary army." He said, pride flashing across his face.

Robin looked at him as he spoke with this pride. He had really grown up. Standing next to her was no longer a boy, but a man who had learned how to become strong. His jaw was firm and chiseled, and his eyes were set like stone that showed determination. He was tall and slender, yet at the same time toned and rugged. She was memorizing every detail about him and how much he had changed.

"If you keep staring like that I won't be able to hold back," Sabo teased, glancing at her from the corner of his eye.

Robin flushed bright red as she righted her stare in front of her and tried to cover her face from his smile. She was so embarrassed! She couldn't believe he had known she was staring at him the whole time! And even more so she couldn't believe she stared at him for so long!

"I guess we broke the promise huh?" Sabo cut in, making Robin stop and stare at him in shock. Did she make it seem that way? Like she didn't want him to come after her? She opened her mouth, but couldn't say anything, how was she going to put this? "I was supposed to come after you." He cut in once more, stopping her thought process. "But in a way you came after me."

She dropped her jaw in dumbfoundedness. That was what he was talking about? She could tell by the smile on his face that he misspoke his words on purpose to see what her reaction would be. It made her flush even more in embarrassment. She wanted to hid herself in a bush just to get away from his beaming smile.

Sabo reached out to her and grabbed her wrist, pulling them down from letting the papers in her hand to shield her face. She looked at him from the corner of her eye, but didn't get a chance to really look at him before he tugged her over into the tree's away from prying eyes of the guys that were walking around. He pushed her back against a tree and kept his hand holding hers to the bark. His other hand placed itself next to her head on the tree as he leaned towards her quickly.

It all happened so quickly. One moment she was hiding herself behind some papers, the next he was trapping her between him and a tree and kissing her. The kiss was deep and filled with emotion from him. As if he were making up for the lost time he couldn't kiss her before. Her mind swam in his smell and the heat that pooled from him, leaving her in a state of euphoria.

Her other hand reached up desperately and grasped onto his wrist that was by her head, finding some kind of anchor to keep her from floating away to cloud nine. Their breaths mingled together as he suckled on her bottom lip and then to the top, making them swell. His tongue took it's chance whenever it could to delve into her mouth slightly, trying to taste her in every possible way.

She pulled back quickly with a gasp, pushing at his chest feebly, all her strength draining from her body. Her legs quaked and nearly gave out, but his leg pushed between hers to the tree, holding her up from sinking to the ground. "I…..I can't breathe!" She gasped between breaths, feeling his own fly over her face.

"Then don't breathe," He commanded, voice raspy and deep. His fingers intertwined into hers that were on his chest, taking it away from him and giving him room to push up against her once more. He let her wrist go on the other arm and circled around the small of her back, pulling her flush against him.

It was as if he were trying to make her mind and body melt in his hold. Her breathes were being sucked out of her the deeper they kissed and all she wanted was more…more kisses, more hugs, more holding. She was becoming selfish…

Finally he pulled away, breaking their make out session and snapping out of her euphoria. She stared blankly at him and breathed heavily, legs still shaking under her while one hand linked with his and the other desperately grabbed the tree behind her.

"No matter where you go, I'll come and find you. I promise you that." He whispered, giving a small peck on her lips. "After all, you did join my brothers crew,"

"Ah!" Robin said, opening her mouth to shout that she knew Luffy was his brother. But she couldn't keep going with that thought as he took that chance to restart their deep kiss.

The rest of the army group passed them by without a notice, blocked from the view by the tree and those that caught a glance didn't seem interested. Sabo would find Robin no matter where Luffy and the crew would take her. He'd find any moment he could to be with her now. He finally got his memories backa long with her….it was his turn to be more selfish…..