I do not own One Piece but I do own Cheshire and this plot!
Everything was silent as Ace and Luffy stared at their youngest. Ace sighed putting a hand on the boys shoulder. "Look Chess I know how much Sabo's death hurt you but you have to let go, he's gone."
Cheshire's wide smile slowly fell off his face. A desperate look spread over his face. "No Ace! You don't understand I really did see Sabo! He was with a girl with orange hair and a fish man! I tried calling out to him but he didn't hear me. You have to believe me!"
The freckled man shook his head frowning. He wanted to believe his little brother but this wasn't the first time he's thought he saw Sabo. Luffy lowered his head eyes shadowed.
"Cheshire, that's enough!" Both raven looked over to the usually carefree teen. He had a serious look on his face as he stared at his younger brother.
Cheshire's eyes filled up with tears. He didn't know why neither of his brothers would believe him. "But I'm telling the truth this time! It was Sabo I know it was! He had medium length wavy blonde hair! Blue eyes that sparkled like the ocean! He was wearing the same fancy clothes Sabo always wore! He even had his top hat and goggles and he had a burn scar on his eye!"
The emerald eyes teen was desperate. He knew it was his older brother this time he wasn't wrong. Ace sighed turning to the door. "Look Chess if you can bring some kind of proof that who you saw was really Sabo then I'll believe you but until then just give up on it."
Cheshire frowned before disappearing from the room only this time the last to vanish was his sad frown. The neko appeared on the deck of the Moby Dick. He sat on the figure head holding his knee's to his chest.
'What am I going to do? Ace and Luffy won't believe me! I know I'm not the smartest and I act carefree and insane but, but I just know that was Sabo! It had to be Sabo!'
The teen was brought out of his thoughts but a hand laying on his shoulder. He looked back and saw the blonde first division commander Marco. Cheshire let his usual insane grin spread across his face.
"Oh commander-san! What did you need?" Marco looked the teen over surprised that his freckled brother never mentioned the teen.
Marco looked into the emerald eyes. "I wanted to thank you, because of you Ace and pops are both still alive, yoi." Cheshire waved away the thanks he truly didn't intend to save Ace, he's glad he did but it wasn't intentional.
Cheshire stood stretching the grin still in place. "Well then it looks like I have some work to do!"
The first division commander looked at him confused. "Are you leaving or something, yoi?"
Cheshire nodded stepping down from the figure head of the giant ship. "Yep I'm on a mission to prove that my other older brother is still alive! Ace and Lu both think I'm wrong but I know I saw him! I'll go get proof that neither of them can deny!"
The commander looked skeptical. "Do you even know where to look? What about Ace and Luffy shouldn't you wait and tell them what you're planning on doing?"
Cheshire snickered. "Shihehe! Don't worry about it if they ask just tell them I'm going to Nefarile to get our brother back! I'll definitely get the proof they asked for that's a promise!"
Marco didn't have a chance to question the boy further before he disappeared. He figured he should probably go tell Ace about his youngest brother's disappearance.
-(Break)-
Cheshire stood on an island that wasn't too far from the Moby Dick. He looked around thoughtfully. "Now then! I'm sure I heard those three mention something about going to Nefarile to save some slaves or something."
Cheshire decided he first needed to find out where he was and where this Nefarile place was. 'Don't worry Sabo I'll definitely get you back! I'll prove to Ace and Lu that you're not really dead!'
He walked towards a bar knowing he could get the most information from there. Cheshire grinned sitting in front of the bar maid. "Ne can you tell me what island this is and how far away it is from Nefarile?"
The girl looked shocked. "You're on Sunset Island, Nefarile is about a three day trip from here but you shouldn't be going there! The revolutionaries are fixing to attack the kingdom there and free all the slaves! You'll be caught up in the cross fire if you go there now!"
Cheshire looked interested and leaned forward. "What are the revolutionaries?" The girl couldn't believe this boy didn't know who the revolutionaries were.
She sighed looking around. "They're a group of outlaws that are fighting against the marines! They say it's in the name of true justice but I'm not so sure it just seems like more war and fighting to me."
Cheshire snickered standing up. "Thanks a lot ma'am for helping me!" The lady smiled waving the strange boy away.
The teen walked down the streets grinning to himself. "The revolutionaries hmm?"
-(Break)-
"WHAT!?" Marco frowned at the loud yell from the two boys. They both looked worried and frustrated.
"Am I missing something, should I have stopped him, yoi?" Ace sighed loudly rubbing his neck.
The raven stood from the medical bed. "No there's nothing you could have done to stop him, man I'm going to have to go get him back before he does something stupid and gets hurt."
Luffy sat up wincing slightly but looked determined. "I'm going too! I don't want to lose another brother!"
If Marco wasn't confused before he was definitely confused now. "Wait why would you lose your brother? What's going on, yoi?"
The straw hat wearing teen looked up at Marco. "Cheshire is from a blood line known as the Mad Hatters, they were all wiped out long ago because they were known to be too insane they caused so much chaos for no reason other than watching the world burn. The government decided they needed to be dealt with and wiped them out."
Ace took up from there. "Cheshire just announced to all the marines that he was from that bloodline, some even think it's worse than Rogers blood line so the marines will be after him and when he gets on one of his Sabo kicks he lets his usually high guard down and make's many mistakes."
The phoenix nodded in understanding before heading for the door. "I'll inform pops that you're going to be taking a small leave, just don't do anything stupid like last time, yoi."
The raven smiled sheepishly and nodded. "I'll be more careful this time around! I promise to make sure not to burden you all again." Marco chuckled leaving the room.
-(Break)-
"Come on Koala I'm telling you I really saw that kid!" A girl with orange hair looked at her partner skeptically.
"You're telling me that you saw Hatter D Cheshire? Well why didn't you say anything! You know Dragon wants the kid locked up! He's a Hatter and he's already caused so much chaos." She looked at her blonde partner.
The boy frowned looking down at the grinning picture. Something didn't feel right about the way Koala was talking about the kid. He didn't like it for some reason and felt the need to defend the boy.
"Don't you think your all just being a little harsh I mean the kids not done anything worse than any pirate."
Koala sighed shaking her head. "Dragon usually doesn't like doing things like the marines but even he's worried, everyone knows that Hatters are crazy and they eventually go completely insane! This boy will be no different. Why do you seem so attached Sabo?"
Sabo stared at the picture longer frowning. 'That's a good question why do I feel so strongly about this boy?' He shook his head laying the paper down.
The blonde smiled throwing his worries away. "Come on we don't have time to talk about this we need to hurry up and get to Nefarile." Koala nodded following her blonde companion.
I hope everyone's liking the story so far! Please let me know what you think! Also don't worry this whole fic won't be about them trying to find Sabo it's going to be very different from that!