Chapter 9

Kaz

"Yes you can. If you'll follow me I'll take you to the bathroom where you can shower." Cindry says and she starts leading me down some corridors. "Here we are enjoy your shower." Cindry says and she opens a door for me. She hands me a lantern and closes the door after I go through it. I place the lantern on a nearby table and open the second set of doors to find the shower room which is already lite up from some candles. I slip my clothes off and fold them neatly before placing them on the other edge of the table away from the lantern to be sure they don't catch fire. I wrap a white towel around myself and slip into the shower room. I gently hang the towel on the towel rack in the room and I start to fill the tub. While the tubs filling I gently shampoo and rinse my hair using a shower section in the room.

The tub finishes filling and I slip into, enjoying the feeling of the warm water. I slide even further into the tub and my heads resting against the edge of the tub. This is a nice bath even though I know someone's peeping on me with the help of the Suke-Suke (Clear-Clear) Fruit. I decide to ignore it this one time and focus on the nice warm bath. I hear some noise in the hallway and I slip even further into the tub so just my eyes are above water level. I narrow my eyes and a couple of seconds later the door opens. Nami walks in and I can see Usopp and Chopper sitting outside the door. Nami takes off her towel and goes to place it on the towel rack to notice my towel hanging there.

I see her eyes widen slightly before she shrugs it off and places her towel there as well. Guess she thought someone forgot it in here. Nami walks deeper into the room and I narrow my eyes when I realize that she's heading towards the tub. I mentally curse and Nami is now at the edge of the tub. I see her eyes widen when she spots the top of my head and her mouth slowly opens, getting ready to scream. I stand up and cover her mouth before any sound escapes her mouth.

"No screaming now and any way if anyone should be screaming it should be me since you walked in on me. I'm gonna remove my hand now and you're not gonna scream okay?" Nami nods her head slowly and I uncover her mouth. I waited a couple of minutes to make sure she wasn't going to try anything before slipping back into the warm water. I sink down into the tub and rest the back of my head against the rim of the tub before I close my eyes.

"Um who are you?" Nami asks and I open one eye to peak at her.

"Ouch I'm forgotten;" I say while grabbing my heart to make it seem like it really hurt. "I'll give you a couple of hints though and you have to guess. First hint is a toque." I see Nami gain a thinking face and she steps into the tub beside me. I slide over to give her more room and she keeps thinking away before letting out a sigh.

"Can I get the next clue?" She asks as she got comfortable in the tub beside me.

"Let's see; I'm a relative of Luffy's, not blood related though." I say and I hear Nami let out an hmm as she thinks.

"I've still got no clue." She says and I let out a sigh.

"This should give it away then since there's only one possible answer to it. I've been traveling with you guys since you left Water Seven." I say and I watch Nami's face for her reaction. It was very interesting; it started out as another thinking face to every single expression to end up as an Oh My Fucking God face as she stared at me.

"Holy Shit you're Kaz?" Nami asks and I just nod my head at her. "Why's you're name Kaz then it's so, I don't know, guyish." She asks and I raise an eyebrow at her use of words.

"I'll just reintroduce myself. My name's Kiri D. Kazuto and it's nice to meet you." I say and I shake Nami's hand.

"Okay that's better and I can see where you got the Kaz from as well." Nami says nodding her head since she understood it now. "Wait why didn't you tell us you were actually a girl?" Nami looks at me for answers and I let out a sigh.

"I have my reasons and I'd prefer not to share them." I say before I stand up and climb out of the tub. I feel Nami completely take my figure in and I grab my towel off the towel rack near the door. I wrap the towel tightly around me and I turn back to see Nami walking this way as well.

"I have no clue how you're able to hide it so well." Nami says and I just raise an eyebrow at her confused as to what she means. "You're gender. I mean like seriously you have bigger boobs than me and your figure is really feminine." She says and I just let out a little laugh.

"It's because I've had to do it for a long time." I say and I move towards the door when I sense the guy from before, whose name is Absalom, move. Shit I forgot about him I thought as I tackled Nami, who had also gotten out of the bath. She goes to speak but I shush her and I can tell that I just pissed her off. I listen intently and I suddenly hear footsteps on top of some water. I see Nami's eyes widen and I look around for a better idea of where Absalom is.

"Okay Nami on the count of three go for the door." I whisper and Nami nods her head. I raise my hand and hold up three fingers. I slowly lower the fingers until one's left. I quickly lower that and we jump up. Nami rushes to the door and I slowly rotate around on the spot. I survey the room and I spot a trail of footprints heading towards Nami. I run forward and tackle the figure into the wall.

"Grrr you're a persistent one." Absalom says and he flips me around so that I'm the one against the wall. "You're a pretty one but you don't seem to fear me like the others. Maybe I should make you my bride." He says and I see Nami sneaking up behind Absalom with a pipe in her hand.

"Get off of her you invisible bastard." Nami yells while swinging the pipe. I sense Absalom move and the pipe stops suddenly.

"Now now that isn't a nice thing to do." Absalom says and he grabs Nami's arm. Nami suddenly gets pushed up beside me and we're both pinned against the wall with our hands above our heads.

"Usopp, Chopper;" Nami yells before she's somehow cut off.

"Did you just call us?" Usopp asks as he and Chopper push open the doors. I see Usopp's eyes widen when he sees us completely naked, since my towel somehow fell off in the chaos, and he suddenly bows down. "Thank you very much."

"Idiot help us; Someone's here." Nami yells at them and I sack Absalom which causes him to let us go. I sense Absalom move away and the window suddenly opens. Usopp shoots a fire bird star at the window but I can sense that Absalom's already gone.

"Should I keep shooting?" Usopp asks and I quickly put my towel back on.

"Don't bother he's gone." I say and Nami sinks to the ground with her towel on.

"He must've escaped then." She says with some fear still evident on her face.

"Ah Nami are you okay? Not hurt anywhere?" Chopper asks and I quietly make my way to the door.

"Whoever it was heard it all. He was in here the entire time; an invisible man." Nami says and I pat her on the shoulder before continuing towards the door.

"Um who's that? Another enemy?" Usopp asks and I can tell he's pointing at me with his slingshot ready.

"Nope I'm a friendly." I said and I walk out into the other room. "Don't come in here I'm going to get dressed." I say before closing the door and quickly drying myself off. I slip on my clothes and tuck my toque into my pocket since I still had to dry my hair. I walk over to the doors and pull them open. "I'm done." I say while rubbing my hair dry with my towel.

"Oh hey you're wearing the same clothes Kaz has." Usopp says and then he seems to realize something. "HOLY SHIT THAT'S KAZ!" Usopp screams out and I kick him in the head.

"Wait Chopper you don't seem surprised by this?" Nami says looking at the reindeer. "Did you already know Kaz was a girl?" Nami and Usopp corner the poor reindeer who only nodded his head.

"Well I am her doctor and I've had to take care of her injures when we found her." Chopper said and I pull the two away from him.

"Leave Chopper alone; I made him promise not to tell anyone and you guys have to promise not to tell either." I say with a deadly aura coming off of me and everyone nods their heads okay since I was scaring the crap out of them. "Now we should probably get out of here since this place is creep central." I say and Nami nods her head in agreement. Nami quickly gets dressed and we're now walking down the hallways of the mansion.

"Invisible men don't exist Nami; you just imagined it all." Usopp said trying to persuade Nami otherwise.

"You saw how it was holding us off of the ground back in the bathroom." Nami said stopping.

"Yeah I saw ... I mean I didn't see anything." Usopp said turning away from Nami.

"Don't lie to me." She yelled back.

"Ah trick question that's no fair. As soon as I say I saw you naked I'm done for. You're gonna slap me into next week." Usopp says.

"I'm not trying to play mind games here. The slapping can wait 'til later." Nami yells at Usopp.

"I'll be a dead man though. Both you and Kaz will kill me." Usopp said crying.

"I don't really care about that." I say while shrugging my shoulders.

"Can I see you naked again then?" Usopp asks and I punch him.

"I didn't mean it that way. In my book men are allowed one free peep but after that they'll get murdered." I say cracking my knuckles and emitting a deadly aura.

"I just realized something;" Usopp says with a thinking face. "You know how back on the Mini Merry I said you and Zoro would make a good couple if you were a girl Kaz? You and Zoro should hook up now that you're a girl." Usopp says and I punch him again.

"Now that I'm girl? Idiot; I'm going ahead." I say before walking off into the darkness ahead of us. I wander through the corridors until I find myself in front of a door. I push the door open and find a huge bridge that's covered in a forest. Well this is interesting I think as I slowly walk through the bridge. The wind picks up and my hair starts whipping around furiously. Wait my hair; I guess I forgot to put my toque on. I quickly put my hair up and place the toque on my head before continuing on my way. After some time I find myself standing in front of another mansion but this one's ten times bigger. I push open the door and start exploring it.

Man this is one huge place I think after a couple hours of exploring and I still haven't found a place that I've been to before. I find myself in a room with a huge staircase in it. I slowly head up the stairs since I haven't even touched the second floor yet. About half way up the stairs Nami, Usopp, and Chopper burst over the top of the stairs. I let out a shout when I spot Absalom appear at the top of the stairs. He shoots Usopp and Chopper with the cannons strapped to his wrist before disappearing again. I watch in shock as Usopp and Chopper fall down to the first floor landing. I quickly rush up the stairs to where Nami's located and pull her out of the way.

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