everyone sat at the dining table as sanji served one more plate for sabo. the lunch was back to its usual chaos. as sabo had his lunch while making small conversations with everyone, he observed luffy. it was a weird sight to see holding a 2 year old delicately but firmly in his arms as the little girl sat on his lap and he fed her. it was actually a daily thing for the others. Rose was 2 years old and hence able to eat almost everything as long as it was in small portions. she shared the same love for meat as Ace and luffy, so as sanji always managed to hide vegies in luffy's food and rose was clingy to her dear fifi luffy always sat rose on his lap and fed her the meat that was cut in small pieces by Jules.
" what are you thinking sabo kun?" sabo was brought out of his thoughts by Robin's voice. " its just so weird to see luffy like this." sabo said with a weird expression somewhere in between confused and shocked and astonished. Robin and some of the others chluked at that. " I guess it is kind of weird but we have gotten used to it. Rose chan is very close to luffy and the other way around. " chubs nooooo don't do that Jules will kill me." luffy screamed and that caught everyone's attention. apparently Rose was trying to eat luffy's big piece of meat and luffy was struggling to get it out of her grip. damn that tiny little girl had a strong grip.
" Rose let it go here this is your portion. Jules said in a scolding manner as she put some more cut meat in the little girl's plate. " no I want big meat." Rose said being stubborn. and jules sighed. it seems that Rose thought her meat and luffy's meat was different and she wanted the one luffy had. " its the same meat Rose. i just cut yours in small pieces." Jules tried to explain.
" no, fifi's is better." Rose said with a frown. " its the same meat, common little devil let it go." Jules tried to reason but the little girl was stubborn. " no, fifi eat big meat, I don't want small meat." Rose said in a broken sentence. Jules was so done with this. it was the same damn meat for gods sake.
" say chubs I'll eat your food and you eat mine." luffy said and Rose nodded happily. " luffy you know she cannot eat such a huge piece of meat." Jule said as if it was the 100th time she has said that - honestly she has - its ok Jules she can have it." luffy said before Jules could say anything else luffy did the unexpected.
luffy picked up a fork and a knife and started cutting his huge piece of meat. as he cut it into small portions he looked at Rose and said. " see chubs, I am cutting my big piece of meat, its the same as yours." luffy said and Rose just stared at the small pieces in her plate and then in luffy's plate. she saw they looked the same no difference. " its same same fifi." she said in a small voice as if upset. with a pout she looked at Jules who had raised her eyebrow questiongly. " sorry mommy." Rose said relising she threw a tantrum for no reason. Jule just smiled at that and patted her head. " its alright, now common finish your lunch you little devil." Rose nodded and started eating her lunch.
" wow luffy when did you get so smart?" sabo asked. a little surprised by luffy's interaction with Rose. " forget that, when did you learn to use a fork and aknife while eating?" sanji asked still not believing that luffy could actually use proper silverware while eating. " oh that, makino forced the three of us to learn proper table manners. we did learn them but never implemented them." sabo said laughing at the memory.
" yeah is wat to boing." luffy said with his mouth full. this earned a smack on his head by nami and a kick from sanji. " don't speak with food in your mouth." the two yelled at the captain. " sowwwy." luffy said still mouth full. the two just sighed as Rose laughed with her mouth full as well. " she is not gonna turn out like you is she?" nami asked looking at Jules who just sighed.
" nope, since day one , no no no , since she was in my belly she has been just like her dad. not a single trait she got from me." Jules said in a 'i give up' tone. " well she does look like him, except for the eyes." sabo said wanting the conversation to continue so that he can know more about Jules and Rose.
" yep that's right, she is his carbon copy honestly. well she does have more than eyes from me. she has that dimple from me." Jules said and sabo observed Rose as he saw the cute dimple on the little girls cheeks. he just hummed at that.
the conversation stopped after that. but sabo wanted to hear more. but he wasn't sure if he should bring up the serious topic. " soooooooo, ummmm I actually came here to meet you" sabo said looking at Jules who was a little surprised. " me? why?" she asked and sabo sighed, here goes nothing, he needs to know. " well, I heard some roumers about you and with the help of the revolutionary army specially dragon I got some information about you. i found out you are whitebeards daughter and rumored to be with Ace. i also heard that you were seen pregnant during the war and then I found out about Rose. i.....i had lost my memories when I was a kid. everyone thought I was dead."
sabo said and Jules interrupted him. " yeah Ace told me his brother sabo died when he was a kid." sabo just nodded. " long story short, I got into an accident with celestial dragons and dragon, luffy's dad saved me. when I woke up I had lost my memories. i didn't remember a thing. i didn't get them back until.............until I saw the article in the newspaper, about...........about him and what happened at the war. i...............i wish I was there to help. maybe if I was there he......... he wouldn't have.............. anyway, after a lot of time i realised that even though i couldn't do anything at that time i can still protect what he left behind. so i tried to find luffy. we both had sworn to always be there for our baby brother. luffy was the weakest among us , well not anymore but still, i had this responsibility of a big brother, then i found out about you and i wanted see you and Rose. the two most important people in HIS life."
sabo finished with a sigh.