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1. Ballad of a Broken High Schooler by abcdefgHIJKLMFAOpqrstuvwxyz_0987654321_n

   Fandoms: One Piece (Anime & Manga)  

   • Mature
   • Choose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • F/M, Gen
   • Work in Progress

   23 Jun 2025

   Tags

   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • Koala/Sabo (One Piece)
   • Portgas D. Ace & Sabo
   • Minor or Background Relationship(s)
   • Monkey D. Luffy & Portgas D. Ace & Sabo
   • Koala (One Piece)
   • Sabo (One Piece)
   • Portgas D. Ace
   • Background & Cameo Characters
   • Trafalgar D. Water Law
   • Monkey D. Luffy
   • Dadan (One Piece)
   • Portgas D. Rouge
   • Alternate Universe - High School
   • Childhood Friends
   • Estrangement
   • Slow Burn
   • Getting Together
   • Friends to Lovers
   • hear me out
   • childhood friends to estranged to friends to lovers
   • Ballet Dancer Koala
   • Delinquent Sabo
   • Sabo (One Piece) is a Little Shit
   • Other Additional Tags to Be Added
   • Portgas D. Ace is a Little Shit
   • Portgas D. Ace is a Good Sibling
   • i love that thats a tag
   • Heavy Angst
   • Angst and Feels
   • Jealousy
   • Romantic Jealousy
   • Platonic Jealousy
   • Mutual Pining
   • Drinking
   • Unresolved Emotional Tension
   • Friendship Breakups
   • bc we dont talk about it enough
   • no beta we die like my morale to see another day
   • Eventual Smut

   Summary

   Sabo and Koala used to be close, but something happens to Koala that puts a rift in their friendship. After years of estrangement, Sabo offers to tutor Koala so she can keep her scholarship and continue dancing. On the one condition she tells him what happened all those years ago. Now the two work on reconciliation and budding feelings while juggling school, life and drama.

   Language:

   English

   Words:

   14,072

   Chapters:

   4/?

   Comments:

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   Kudos:

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