The new friends

With time, Sanji became a better and better fighter and cook, but his mom still wasn't convinced he was safe, so she forced his father to find him personal servants. Sanji objected fully because he hates the whole idea in the first place.

But soon he found out that when his mother wanted something, she will get it no matter what he or his father says or does. So in the end, his father gave in and started to search for good and strong servants for him. Which made Sanji angry, but it was his mom, so he could not do anything if that what she really wanted. Still, he never stops practicing his fighting moves with the old man, just to be ready if something happened in the future.

When Sanji turned thirteen, his father finally found him two servants, who he wasn't surprised to find out they worked for free. Well, only one of them since he found him somewhere in the kingdom.

One was a redhead, a beautiful girl from the Red Kingdom. She was younger than him by one year. The other one was dark-skinned kid with curly hair; he was younger than him by two years, so he was the youngest of the three of them. They both became his best friends; Sanji didn't know a lot of kids, so he was happy to have them around, especially Usopp with his stupid lies and long nose.

Usopp was a liar but in a good way. Sanji knew from the start to spot his obvious lies, but he also had a big heart. After a little time with him, Sanji knew he could trust him just like Usopp knew he could trust Sanji. Nami, the redhead with brown eyes, was a different story, since she was the only girl he had met that wasn't older than him like his maids.

As he was a prince, he tried to please her and be polite to her all the time, but she didn't like it and ordered him to treat her like anyone else. Sanji was glad for that, since he hated the entire manners thing too. Still, sometimes he just loves to spoil her to no end just because it was her, his first female real friend. Of course, she didn't work for his father for free and always reminded him of that, which he didn't mind at all. Sanji didn't like the asshole anyway.

With time, Sanji trusted in her fully since he learned that she had a big heart much like Usopp, although she really like the cold hard beri she receive from his father. And she was way smarter than him, which he also liked about her.

The trio always hung out together, especially Usopp and Nami who shared a lot of common things together. They didn't see themselves as Sanji's servants, and Sanji didn't either. For him, they were his best friends, but to others in the palace it was a different story.

Nami sometimes got punished because of the way she talked to Sanji, which Sanji really hated about his home. He apologized to her plenty of times, but she didn't listen and said she was fine and that he should not worry about it. But Sanji knew that, deep down, it hurt her and hoped he could someday compensate her for it.

Usopp, on the other hand, didn't seem to care much to be called his servant since Sanji never treated him like one. The curly hair was the most fun partner for pranks he ever had. Nami was fun too, but Usopp knew how to prank people really well since he was very creative. Nami got bored of it most of the time since their pranks didn't include taking beri from others.

Together they grew up with happy memories, with Zeff and his new cooks of course. And soon enough they celebrated his nineteenth birthday, which he was so happy to celebrate with them. Sanji and Zeff chose their new cooks with strictness; they could be criminals or thieves as long they could cook well and wouldn't plan to kill them in the near future.

TBC