Brothers: RocinantexReaderxDoflamingo: PT1

“Look at them Roci,” Doflamingo breathed as he rested his chin on the top end of the broom he was holding with both hands.

Rocinante looked up from the leaves he was trying to neatly pile up under the tree. He raised an eyebrow at his brother, gave a slight shrug and continued his work. Doflamingo heard the rustling sounds coming from Rocinante’s direction and closed his eyes, a tick mark appearing behind his head.

“I told you to look, dammit!” he growled and threw his shoe at him.

Rocinante did look, just in time to get a shoe hit him squarely in the face. The shoe dropped to reveal Rocinante’s face with a bruise that looked like the imprint of Doflamingo’s shoe. Doflamingo laughed and pointed at him and clutched his stomach with one hand causing the broom to fall. Rocinante scowled at him but laughed along soon.

“So,” Rocinante began when they had finally calmed down. “What was it?”

“Hm?” Doflamingo asked as he kicked his broom across the yard. “I was talking about the rich guys that have nice cars. Kinda wanna be like them.”

“Doflami-,” Rocinante said in a warning tone but was cut off when you walked into the scene.

“Guys!” you yelled, putting both of your hands on the wooden fence that surrounded their house. “Let’s go! Let’s go! Come on what are you waiting for!? You’re gonna miss it!”

“Girlie-chan~,” Doflamingo turned around to face you and held his arms out. “Long time no see.”

You rolled your eyes at Doflamingo, he was such a push-over sometimes.

“Miss what?” Rocinante asked as he finished piling up his leaves.

“The parade, you clumsy idiot!” you retorted as you promptly stared at his face. “What the heck happened to you?”

“I’m not a clum-,” he paused. “It’s still there?” he asked, slightly embarrassed.

You gave a nod and he rubbed his hand across his face in an attempt to remove the shoe mark.

“Well?” you leaned towards Doflamingo who was currently pouting at you because you had rejected his hug earlier. “Are you coming or what?”

“Sure,” he grinned and pushed his shades up a bit. “Oi, Roci, hurry up would ya?”

Rocinante took a step forward and removed his hand from his face but he still wasn’t looking where he was going so he tripped into the pile of leaves he had worked so hard on.

“Owie, brother, did that hurt?” Doflamingo teased as he crouched down and tossed some more leaves on top of Rocinante’s head.

“I told you so, clumsy,” you joked.

He shakily stood up and brushed himself off. “Come on, let’s go.”

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The streets were lively and bustling with life. There were vendors selling all sorts of food to the hungry spectators. Your mouth drooled at the sight and smell of them. Takoyaki, siomai, french fries, popcorn, and of course cotton candy. People crowded the sidewalks hoping to get a glance of the royal family. You also tried to be a part of that crowd. Problem was you were too small to see over their heads.

You had tried nearly everything. You had jumped around like a crazy penguin, you had tried to push your way through the crowd and you had even stood on a chair. All was to no avail. The chair thing could’ve worked if Rocinante hadn’t decided to trip into one of the legs and break it. Like, seriously, why?

You groaned in frustration. The parade was about to start in a few minutes and the people were cheering wildly already.

“Need a lift?” Doflamingo grabbed you from behind and lifted you up so that you were sitting on his shoulders.

“Eeep! Doffy!” you yelped and wrapped your arms under his head as he laughed although he sounded like a choking flamingo since you were constricting his breathing.

“Ack~ girlie-chan, I can’t breathe~,” he placed a hand on one of your arms.

You hesitantly let go and put your arms to the side forming a T to help you get a little balance. You stay like that for a few seconds before letting them fall to your side. Doflamingo sensed that you were feeling comfortable and smirked. He jumped around and ran to Rocinante who had decided to buy you some ice cream after he had destroyed your chair.

“Roci!” you screamed as you and Doflamingo passed by him. “Make him stop!”

“Brother!” Doflamingo greeted as he ran past him.

“Hmm?” Rocinante looked behind him after he paid for the ice cream. He shrugged it off, deciding that his ears were playing tricks on him.

He went back to where you two were standing a while ago and realized that the two of you had gone off without him. He tilted his head to one side in confusion. He shrugged and looked at the ice cream he held in his hand. It was cookies and cream. Thinking it would be a waste to let it melt, he took a huge bite from it. He waited patiently for the parade to start and didn’t notice when Doflamingo had returned with you on his shoulders, clinging onto his head for dear life.

“Roci! Parade started yet?” Doflamingo called as you started to calm down and hit his head repeatedly while calling him a dumbass.

Rocinante shook his head as he ate the last of the ice cream.

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“Princess Vivi-sama!” you cupped your hands around your mouth. “I love you! You’re an awesome princess! Notice me, senpai! Senpai! Senpai notice me!”

You waved your hands in the air as you held small triangular flags with a cartoonish face of Vivi painted on it. Rocinante just continued to observe the parade, totally ignoring you. Doflamingo made a face at your antics, wondering why you wouldn’t do that for him. Wasn’t he senpai material too?

The princess was standing on a beautiful float of blue flowers pulled by a car. She turned in your direction, smiled and waved. You screamed and had a fangirl session with the other people. Vivi-sama just waved at you! She even smiled!

“Princess Vivi-sama!” you squealed along with her other fanboys and fangirls.

“Oi, girlie-chan,” Doflamingo huffed. “Don’t you dare faint.”

“Hmm?” you noticed that his tone was slightly different from his usual one. “What’s with the tone? Are you jealous?”

“No way,” he scoffed and folded his arms causing you to tip a little since he was holding your legs a while ago so that you can balance properly.

“Sure,” you patted his head and raised a fist. “Mush! Doffy, mush! Come on, move already! We have to follow the float!”

“But it goes all the way to the palace,” he complained.

“That’s okay, I’m sure you work out a lot.”

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The three of you ducked behind some bushes near the palace gate. You were lying on the floor, looking at the feet that passed by. Rocinante had his back against the wall while Doflamingo just stood there like an idiot. You pulled him down so that the guards wouldn’t see him. The whole place was surrounded by a brick wall and the only way to get inside was through the palace gate or over the huge wall.

“Let’s go inside,” you suggested in a whisper.

“What?” Rocinante’s shades fell down from pure shock.

“We could be thrown in jail,” Doflamingo stated matter-of-factly.

“Aw, don’t be so negative. There are cool stuff in the palace too,” you defended.

“Like what?” Doflamingo asked.

“There’s lots of food and a swimming pool,” you start climbing the vines that grew on the wall. “Although it’s not like they’d actually let us use those,” you added in a whisper, more to yourself than to any of them.

“Wait up, _____!” Rocinante whisper-shouted as he too climbed after you.

Doflamingo followed shortly after.

Across the wall was the palace garden. There were a few servants milling about and sweeping the stone pavement that cut through the flower beds. The moment you reached the other side, you immediately hid behind a tall rosebush that looked like a horse with a human sitting on top of it, his sword drawn. Rocinante and Doflamingo sat next to you and observed quietly as you figured out what to explore next.

You were so deep in thought that you did not notice a lady that worked for the palace walk up to you behind your back. Doflamingo and Rocinante heard her footsteps just in time and posed on the other side of the rosebush that you were hiding behind. Doflamingo sat on Rocinante’s back as the latter tried not to slip. They were perfectly hidden by the bush statue. You were about to hide as well when the lady grabbed you by the arm and turned you around to face her.

“And just what do you think you’re doing?” she asked, spittle flying out of her mouth. “Stop playing around! Come on, there’s work to be done in the kitchen.”

She pulled you away, despite your ramblings.

“I don’t want to hear your excuses, young lady!”                     

You looked behind you, seeing Rocinante and Doflamingo standing uneasily by the bush statue. You sadly waved at them and mouthed, see you later. Rocinante waved back and Doflamingo scrunched his invisible eyebrows together.