AN: This was certainly... an interesting chapter to write! I hope you all enjoy it!

Zoro was an idiot. Normally she would argue against being called such a thing, but in this one case, she agreed.

She was following Usopp to the bathhouse. The men's bathhouse. The place where men get naked together and bathe together.

Her mind was in overdrive, trying to think about how to fix this problem. They had almost arrived. She couldn't just enter. There was just no way to hide everything. Maybe she could just turn around and say she got lost or something? She glanced behind her and caught the eye of Sanji who was following. She quickly looked away. Her escape was blocked.

Though outwardly she looked fine, inwardly she was panicking. As they arrived at the entrance, she stopped cold in front of the door. Her brain shut down.

"What's wrong? Move it." Sanji said from behind, watching her back. She braced herself and stepped inside to the changing room.

There were naked men everywhere.

Her eyes found a spot on the far wall and she walked, almost robot like, towards it. She sat down and stared at the wall. Maybe they would just ignore her. Maybe this was all just a dream.

She felt something cold on her shoulder. She jumped.

"S-sorry! It's me!" Chopper whispered quickly, "I'm s-so sorry! I didn't realize!" he wriggled, looking around nervously. Thankfully it seemed the others were so excited for a hot bath that they immediately changed and went into the bathing room.

"No, it's fine. I'll just leave." Zoro replied, standing up.

"Oi, Zoro! Are you coming?" Called a voice from the bath. It was the king's voice. Zoro winced.

"I-I have an idea!" Chopper said excitedly and started digging through some of the baskets. "Here, just put on this big robe. There's a separate pool off to the side for hotter water. I'll say I'm making you a special herb bath for your sores! And I'll stand watch!" He giggled and wiggled again, obviously very proud of his plan and getting the chance to help her out again.

Honestly Zoro was doubtful, but she also found it very hard to say no to the cute deer. She hesitated, glanced around quickly to make sure they had all gone into the bathing room and changed into the large robe. Thankfully it kept everything covered and was large enough it was shapeless. Chopper grabbed his medical bag and led the way out into the bathing area. Zoro kept her eyes forward.

"What's taking you guys so long, come on, join us!" Usopp encouraged from his spot in the large pool.

"Yeah, lets play a game!" Luffy encouraged. Zoro cursed under her breath, of course her captain would forget everything.

"Z-zoro's still hurt pretty badly. So, I'm making him a special bath! Umm, it's made especially for him though, s-so stay over there!" Chopper warned. He was terrible at lying to his crewmates though and was obviously shaking. Zoro was deeply regretting this plan.

"Oh right, his third nipple!" Usopp said suddenly. Everyone looked at him. Loving the attention and the fact that he knew more than the others, he puffed out his chest and continued.

"You see, Zoro has a special condition. He was born with not one, not two, not four, but three nipples!" Usopp proclaimed to the others.

"R-really?!" Chopper asked, distracted from his task.

"Yes! But it's not just a normal third nipple, no! Why this particular third nipple also possesses an amazing power… a deadly power." Usopp posed tragically, his head bowed.

"W-what kind of power?" The king asked, intrigued. Zoro was mortified by this turn of events.

"If perhaps one of us were to look upon the third nipple of yore, why… we'd turn to stone!" Usopp proclaimed loudly. The boys gasped.

"Wow, that sounds pretty powerful… why you keeping something like that a secret Zoro?" Luffy asked.

"And also so pitiful… if you've got something like that, how do you get with the ladies?" The king asked, frowning and shaking his head. Zoro was looking for a hole to crawl in.

"Ha! That shitty swordsman couldn't get a chick if he were the last man on earth." Sanji mocked from his place off to the side. He had been silent through the whole debacle and wasn't falling for a story like that.

"Why would I want a woman anyway?!" Zoro looked up and shouted back. Sanji looked highly amused. He leaned his chin on his hand.

"Ahh, women not your style, eh cactus head? Well you have plenty of men to choose from here." Sanji gestured to the others, all currently without clothes. Zoro felt her whole body turn red with embarrassment.

The others were watching with interest.

"I never said t-that!" Zoro replied.

"Or perhaps… I'm more your style?" Sanji teased, leaning back in his seat so his toned chest was clearly visible.

"As if anyone would like a pervert like you!" She replied fiercely. Sanji faltered a moment but it quickly dissipated, and he laughed loudly. She looked around for something to throw at him.

"I see…" Usopp lowered himself back into the pool and saluted Zoro. "I apologize for the temptation!"

"Temptation?" Luffy asked, looking at his friend. Usopp nodded and put his hand on Luffy's shoulder, pushing him down into the water as well.

"Zoro doesn't like women, he likes men." Usopp whispered quite loudly, with Sanji's laughter the constant backdrop. Luffy nodded.

"Sorry Zoro, I won't tempt you anymore!" Luffy added, covering his own nipples with his hands. The king followed his example.

"Zoro, it's done!" Chopper broke the tension and gestured to the small pool. Its water was foamy and opaque. Chopper grinned at her. She groaned with her head in her hands. She just wanted to leave.

"Um, Chopper… " Zoro lowered her voice, "While I'm extremely grateful, they are all watching me…"

"Oh, right!" Chopper looked back at all the men.

"Is that Nami?!" Chopper suddenly exclaimed, pointing towards the wall. All heads swiveled in that direction immediately. Zoro took the cue, slipped off her robe as quick as lightning and slipped into the pool up to her neck. She let out a sigh. It did actually feel quite good.

The others weren't too enthused about Chopper's lie, however, and he soon found himself taken by the others and splashed and dunked into the water.

The attention was off her though, so Zoro felt she could finally relax. She leaned back fully in the water up to her chin and sighed contently. She listened to the other boys playing around in the water and chatting as she felt the soreness in her muscles melt away from the warm water.

Of course, that didn't last for long.

"So, this is some kind of magic water?" Luffy asked, walking over to her pool. He had a towel around his waist now and another one tied around his neck like a bib, so it draped over his nipples. Zoro's eyes flew open and she stared at him in shock. Usopp walked over covered as well, kneeling and testing the water with his hand.

"Oh, this feels really nice!" He exclaimed. Usopp slid into the water, sighing as he went in. Luffy grinned and jumped in as well, splashing the water. Zoro curled up into a ball protectively and glared at the two.

"This is mine. Get out." She warned. Usopp looked slightly alarmed, but Luffy just laughed.

"Aw, come on Zoro, let's share—" Luffy said, then was suddenly hit on the head with a bar of soap. He picked it up to throw it back but noticed something written into it. It was the character for woman. He stared at it for a moment, thinking, then suddenly remembered something from long ago. He looked over to see Chopper who was stuck talking to the king make curvy motions with his hand. Luffy looked at Zoro. "Oh yeah…"

Luffy wasn't able to react fully though as both him and Usopp were suddenly grabbed by their heads and unceremoniously thrown across the room. Zoro looked up at her savior, ready to graciously thank them, but she locked eyes with a certain curly browed man. Her jaw dropped.

Thankfully Sanji was the type to wear a towel around his waist, but it was still a shock to see the man so close and nearly naked in front of her. He also had ignored the towel bib look that Luffy and the others had adopted. Zoro lowered herself more in the water, so only her nose was above it. She locked her arms around her legs and her eyes darted around for her only accomplice.

Sanji sat on the edge of the pool, letting only his feet soak.

"What's got you so uptight?" He asked, raising an eyebrow at her. She raised her head slightly.

"N-nothing!" She replied, glancing him over once before averting her eyes again.

"You sure have been weird lately, weirder than usual… You were never this meek before. Sure you didn't damage your head?" Sanji questioned.

"I'm not meek!" She replied angrily. It wasn't her fault she was in this position. Well, okay, maybe it was partially, but still!

"Hmm… guess you getting locked up and all helpless earlier in that prison really humbled you down…" Sanji teased. Without thinking, Zoro grabbed one of Sanji's legs and pulled. Sanji found himself pitched forward toward the pool. Sanji quickly caught himself.

"Idiot! Do you want me to land on you?" Sanji questioned.

"I'm trying to drown you!" Zoro replied, pulling again. Sanji gripped the side of the tub tightly.

"O-oi! Read the situation you idiot!"

"Read? Read what?!" Zoro asked, finally pulling with all her might. Sanji fell into the pool, his towel flying off and hitting Zoro in the face. She reached up to remove it, but a trembling hooved hand stopped her.

"W-wait…" Chopper told her, having finally escaped from the king scrubbing his back.

"Sorry Zoro! I promise I won't forget again!" Luffy said as he reached into the pool, grabbing Sanji and dragging him away. A few minutes later Chopper dropped his hand and with tears in his eyes swayed mournfully.

"I'm so so so sorry Zoro! I couldn't get away from the king! Are you okay?" He asked, the large tears falling with little plops onto the group.

"Oh, I'm fine." She replied, sighing and patting his head, "Thank you for everything though! It was a really nice bath!" She forced a smile and glanced around to make sure the others were already gone, then put the robe back on.

They headed back to the main room and Chopper left first to let her get dressed.

Zoro was peering at her old bloody clothes, debating whether to just put them back on, when someone walked in.

"—don't worry, the boys already left! I'm just grabbing the soap!" Nami called out behind her to Vivi as she stepped into the boy's changing area. Zoro quickly turned around away from her and started pulling her dirty pants back on.

"Oh, sorry!" Nami called, without any shame as she spotted Zoro. She turned to look for the soap but stopped and looked back over at Zoro's back. Quick as a cat, she dashed over and grabbed Zoro's shoulder, turning her around.

"I am… such an idiot." Nami muttered, glancing Zoro over once then looking her in the eye. "Of course you're a girl." She sighed and shook her head. Zoro was frozen, not sure what to do. She settled for grabbing her shirt. She was stopped by Nami's hand though.

"You're not putting that filthy thing back on, ugh, and look at you. Did you even bath at all?"

"Yeah."

"You're hopeless. Okay, you're going to actually bathe, and meanwhile you're going to tell us what's going on." Nami handed her back the robe then started pulling her over to the girl's side.

"I-I'm not going over there!" Zoro resisted, grabbing the door frame.

"You're going to come in or I'm going to march right out this door and tell everyone your little secret." Nami threatened, lowering her voice. Zoro gulped and followed.

As Zoro walked in the room in her robe, the other occupant, Vivi, gasped.

"Zoro! This is the girl's side!" She exclaimed. She was wearing a robe herself, but she pulled it closed tighter.

"It's alright Vivi. Zoro is right where she is supposed to be." Nami said. Vivi stared for a moment, trying to comprehend what she was being told. Zoro was scowling and looking at the floor.

"Wait… you don't mean… SHE?" Vivi gasped again, "What, really? I mean, you've always been a bit uh, softer looking than the others but... but we've been traveling together so long!"

"Yes, we'd like to hear everything." Nami said as she shoved Zoro down onto a stool. "While we teach you how to be a proper human being. Vivi, grab the shampoo will ya?"

Zoro didn't know what was more tortuous, their relentless questioning or the constant scrubbing and prodding of her body to get it clean. She didn't give up her personal reasons, but she relented and explained how she was able to keep hidden all this time. It hadn't been too hard for her, honestly. She wasn't exactly gifted in the chest area so keeping a chest guard of durable material on had prevented any mistakes, usually. For bathing, well she didn't bathe that often as was evident from all the grime coming off when being scrubbed.

"Does anyone else know?" Vivi asked curiously as she washed the shampoo out of Zoro's hair.

"Yeah.. besides you two, Luffy and Chopper. Oh, and Mihawk." Zoro replied, finally getting tired of their prodding and pushing them off. She reached for a towel to dry off.

"Not much of a secret anymore now, is it?" Nami chuckled, "That just leaves Usopp and Sanji right?" Zoro nodded glumly.

"Sanji…doesn't know?" Vivi asked, tapping her chin in thought, "That'll be a surprise for sure... wait... you said Mihawk right? Wasn't that the name on the letter you got? Who is that?"

"Isn't he… the one who gave you that scar?" Nami asked, gesturing to the scar that ran from Zoro's shoulder to her hip. She nodded.

"Yeah, the world's greatest swordsman."

"I'm guessing that's when he found out?" Nami asked. Zoro nodded.

"Seems like it. Are we done here?" Zoro asked, tired.

"Sanji was awfully weird about that letter… as were you… what did it say, exactly?" Nami had a gleam in her eye.

Zoro's face turned slightly red.

"We're finished." She said and put the robe back on, securing it tightly.

"Oh..my…" Vivi giggled slightly. Zoro went to leave and Nami stepped in front of her.

"Hold on. Look, I know things have been okay somehow, due to some miracle, but you can't handle this all on your own. The others will find out eventually." She said, leaning against the door.

"I've done just fine." Zoro glared back.

"Thirty minutes ago you were in the men's bath!" She exclaimed.

"I…I had it under control! Chopper was guarding me!"

"It doesn't sound like it was under control… and I even walked in on you. You were extremely lucky it wasn't one of the guys."

"What's your point?" Zoro growled, and Nami sighed and rubbed her head.

"I'm not really trying to blackmail you or anything, I swear. I'm trying to help you. Look, I don't know why you are doing this, but well, I just wanted to say that we've got your back." Nami explained, putting her hand on Zoro's arm. Zoro looked surprised.

"Yeah, we're crewmates, right?" Vivi chimed in, patting her back. "So, you can depend on us too."

Zoro looked uncomfortable but nodded.

"Yeah, thanks." She wasn't sure what to do so she patted Nami's shoulder in return. Nami grinned.

"Oh this adventure has suddenly become so much more fun… Say… you and Sanji sure spend a lot of time together…" Nami teased, but Zoro was already in mind overload. She pushed the navigator lightly aside and headed out.

AN: Thank you for your time! It seems like more and more people are finding out the secret~

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