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Come one, come all

Come in, come on

To anyone who's bursting with a dream

Come one, come all

You hear the call

To anyone who's searching for a way to break free

Come Alive

The Greatest Showman

Chapter 7

The Bond of Brothers

Luffy was right about being friends with Ace and Sabo. Harry honestly hadn't felt this happy with his life since Shanks and his crew had left. What made this even better was that the twins were with Sabo and Ace pretty much every waking hour. They would spend everyday hunting large animals. As well as training themselves in the clearing.

Ace and Sabo were almost even in their fighting skills. Luffy and Harry were both struggling to catch up to them. Luffy, because he kept trying to use strange techniques with his devil fruit ability. Which failed every single time. And Harry because he kept trying to use his magic. Ace, however, insisted that he'd learn some hand to hand combat first. It wasn't always easy though as his magic would spontaneously come out whenever the other three had him on the ropes. Fortunately, no one got seriously injured.

One day after their training routine they went out and got a large crocodile to eat for lunch. Afterward, they took the skin into town to sell. Problem was that the guards would recognize Ace and Sabo and wouldn't let them in so they found a big hooded cloak sat on each other shoulder. Ace was the head, Sabo the feet, and Luffy and Harry were in the middle with Harry hanging off of Luffy as some extra weight.

The disguised worked and the four made their way through downtown. Stopping only once to beat up some thugs who tried to take the skin away from them. When they were all knocked down they put the hood back on and went through the second gate into high town. Harry peeked out of the cloak and was amazed at how clean and fancy everything looked.

"Wow, this place looks so pretty," Luffy whispered. "Keep it down, will you. We're supposed to look inconspicuous," Ace scolded. "Something tells me we're already getting the wrong kind of attention," Harry mumbled as he took note of the townsfolk looking at them weird and whispering to their friends. Something about this struck a cord with Harry and he did not like it.

Sabo noticed the look on Harry's face and asked what's wrong. "It's nothing," Harry replied. "I just don't like the way they are looking at us." Sabo sighed and said, "Yea the people are like that around here." They didn't speak much after that and sold the crocodile skin with little trouble. On the way out Ace had decided to treat them all to something called ramen.

At this point, Sabo and Luffy had switch places with Sabo being in the middle and Luffy being the feet. Entering the restaurant a waiter politely greeted them before he got a good look at them. "Excuse me, sir, forgive my bluntness but we simply don't serve your kind here," he said. None of the boys said anything until Sabo pulled out some kind of charm and showed it to the waiter. "The VIP room please," he requested.

The waiter's attitude did a complete 180 as he prepared a room for the 'noble' as he called them. Ace was amazed. "That's handy. Where did you find it?" he asked. Sabo hesitated before he answered, "Yea I just found it lying on the street." Harry was puzzled by that. "Really I didn't see you pick anything up," he said. "Well I didn't mean today," Sabo clarified.

Before anymore was said about it the waiter came back and showed them to their room where four bowls of ramen were waiting for them. Once the staff left the boys ditched the hood and dug in. As time went, the poor waitress serving them ran back and forth with more and more bowls for the kids. None the wiser to the situation until Luffy, in his impatience, stretches his arms to grab the next set of bowls from her at the door.

When she came back again she had the manager with her who caught the four boys in the act. Ace quickly grabbed his pipe and smashed a nearby window, allowing them to escape. The boys landed on a tapestry below them and got down safely from there before running like hell. As they reached the gate they someone started calling out to them. Or more specifically Sabo. "Sabo? Is that really you? Please come home!" One of the noblemen cried out.

Ace and Harry turned to Sabo. "Know this guy?" Harry asked. Sabo grimaced and replied, "He's just confusing me for someone else." Then he resumed running before any more could be said. Ace and Harry just looked at each other in annoyance. Those two knew a lie when they heard one.

Once everyone reached the safety of the trees, they cornered Sabo for the truth. "Look, Sabo, first you have that weird pendant which you somehow knew it would get us into that restaurant, and then that noble man called out to you. And don't pull that 'confused for someone else' crap he called you by name. What are you hiding?" Harry asked. Sabo just stood firm and said, "Your wrong I'm not hiding anything."

Luffy just blinked before he said, "Oh okay then." Much to Ace's and Harry's annoyance. "Come on you can't believe everything that comes out of people's mouths," Harry told him. "Yea," Ace agreed. "How stupid can you get?" Then he turned back to Sabo. "Come on, we can't keep secrets from each other here." All three gave Sabo very determined glares and said "So talk." in unison.

Sabo just looked away. "There's nothing to talk about," he insisted. That just further pissed of Harry and Ace which mildly scared Luffy. Sabo eventually gave in when Ace started to choke him. "I'm the son of a noble," he admitted. Luffy, Ace, and Harry just tilted their heads in confusion. "So?" they asked.

"If you weren't going to care then why did you ask?" Sabo shouted looking like he was about to bust a vein. He then calmed down and continued. "But yea, I'm not a real orphan. So that means I also lied about growing up in Grey Terminal as well. And that man back there. That was my dad. I'm sorry I lied to you guys."

Luffy crossed his arms and said, "Well he said 'sorry' so that means we have to forgive him." Harry shook his head and clasps his twin's shoulder. "It doesn't always work that way Luffy," he said before turning to Sabo. "However I am willing to forgive you in this case." Sabo nodded and then turned to Ace wondering what he's going to say. Ace simply turned away. "I'm not forgiving anything until I have some answers. If you're really a noble's son, why live here?"

"Cause I ran away from home that's why," Sabo answered. This made Harry even more confused. "But why? What could you obtain here that you couldn't have there?" Sabo simply replied "My freedom." He then went on to explain what his parents expected of him and how he didn't live up to their standards despite his best attempts at times.

But what really broke the straw on the camels back was how when the son of the royal family attacked Sabo for refusing to carry him back home. And then his mother berated him for fighting back before apologizing to the other family and made sure their son was fine while letting Sabo bleed out from a nick in his head.

Sabo suddenly interrupted his story as all the leaves from the tree he was leaning against snapped off and blew everywhere. They died down after a few seconds and Harry took a deep breath to calm himself. "Sorry," he muttered. Sabo smiled at how much Harry and the others seem to care and said "Ace! Harry! Luffy! We're going to leave this dump. We're going to sail the seas. And we're going to be pirates! And as I see the world I'm going to write a book about it."

Ace smirked and walked towards the edge of the cliff. "You don't have to tell me," he said. Starring up at the bright blue sky he declared "I'll be a pirate. Defeat all who stand in my way and become the most infamous. No matter what people think of me. That'll be the legacy I leave behind." Harry grinned and rushed out to join Ace on the cliff. "I'm with you there. I'll be a pirate and live life how I choose. No one, not even destiny can tell me otherwise. Well no one except for one though," he said turning to Luffy.

Luffy blinked. "You mean me?" he asked. Harry nodded. "Well, of course, you are gonna be my captain considering your dream," Harry explained. Luffy than laughed and joined the other two on the cliff. "I'm gonna be," he started before taking a deep breath. "The King of the Pirates!" Luffy yell echoed over the sea as Sabo and Ace looked at the straw hat kid in stunned silence. Finally Ace said, "You're talking nonsense again." Sabo simply laughed. "You've certainly got guts though I'll give you that."

Suddenly he paused and realized. "Hey wait, it's great that we all want to be pirates. But aside from Harry don't we all want to be captain?" Ace stared at him in surprised as Luffy tilted his head in confusion. "Didn't think about that," Ace admitted. "Well, we don't really have to sail all together do we?" Harry asked. The other three looked at him and he clarified "We may go separate ways as pirates but we still have our friendship no matter what." And with that Harry put his hand out, waiting for the others to join in.

Ace gave the biggest smile Harry had ever seen out of him and reached out to hold his hand. But Ace then pushed Harry's arm down and said: "We have something stronger than friendship." At everyone's confusion, Ace brought them to a tree stump and told them to wait here while he left to go get something.

He came back a short while later with a bottle of Sake and four cups. Setting them on the stump and unstopping the sake he said "Let me tell you guys a secret. They say that to become brothers all we have to do is drink some sake." Luffy smiled at that. "Wow brothers, really?" Ace nodded and poured the sake into the cups. "Like Harry said. We may sail on different ships with different crews. But we will still have our brotherhood and nothing can take that away from us."

The four picked up their cups and clinked them together, smiling all the while as they declared "Brothers!"

Wow. Another chapter that didn't give much difference of Harry though this time it was more about Sabo. This may be tougher than I thought. But I'm not giving up yet. The evil plot bunnies won't let me. Let me know what you think and I'll see you in the next chapter.