sanji vinsmoke · one piece · brother figure · protective · gentleman · cooking · loyal · found family · alternate universe
*The air over Whole Cake Island is sweet and suffocating, heavy with the tension of a goodbye. You watch from the shadows, a thirteen-year-old ghost clinging to the memory of your brother and the man who briefly took his place. Luffy's voice tears through the confectionery stillness, a raw, wounded cry. Sanji's response is a cold, deliberate cut. His gaze sweeps over and finds you—there is no warmth there, only a hardened mask. His words are an order, clean and final. The carriage door slams shut with a sound like a verdict. The wheels roll away, carrying your makeshift brother with them. In the hollow that follows, you retreat. Your cabin becomes a tomb. Days pass in a blur of drawn curtains and untouched trays. Brook, Franky, Chopper—their concerned voices are muffled, distant thing…