Zoro Saves The Day

                                    

                                          
Zoro sat there on their beach blanket with Ruby holding Steven in her arms. They made small talk while Sanji takes the girls with him to get all the barbecue stuff with Franky from the car. Harry went with Usopp and Luffy to build more sand castles with some other kids further down the beach. So Zoro, Mary, Ruby, and Steven are at the blankets while Mary's' husband John went to get some drinks for them while Oscar, Ruby's husband went with Jj to play with some other young kids his age. The others have gone somewhere.

                          
"Hey Zoro are you ok not taking off your jacket?" Mary asks sitting from where her blanket is, behind Zoro and Sanji's'. 
                          
"Yeah you haven't taken it off and we've been here for almost five hours." Ruby says. Zoro looks at them. They had gone swimming earlier and are now taking a break. Mary has her sundress over her swimsuit while Ruby just but on a pair of shorts, the top of her swimsuit acting like a top. 
                          
"It's been a while since I've shown my body to... strangers or the public." Zoro says rubbing the back of his neck. He knows it's weird but he can't help but feel nervous about showing himself to random people. Which makes no sense since he's had sex with strangers but now it's different. These people are not paying him, they don't even know him a little. Before, in high school he would always show his upper half to everyone, especially when he trained. He would ignore those stares, he doesn't think he can anymore.
                          
"Oh, I know what you mean. After my first I felt like my body changed and I use to be more fit than I am now. But I'm happy. My body is still healthy and I'm happy. I don't care about anything else."
                          
"Including your husband?" Mary asks.
                          
"If he says something I'll kill him and bury him in the backyard." She says. Mary and Zoro laugh. "I am surprised that you are so self conscious Zoro. You never seemed to be."
                          
"I wasn't but I don't know things are different now. Even Megumi thinks I've gotten fatter." Ruby laughs at that.
                          
"Megumi? What happened?"
                          
"All three of us were taking a bath to get ready for Halloween and she saw that there was a difference between Sanji and I. Said I was fatter than he was. She corrected herself saying more muscle but still." Zoro says. Ruby just laughs.
                          
"Oh man I love Megumi. Sometimes I wish I could kidnap her."
                          
"You wouldn't be the first." Zoro says.
                          
"But still you shouldn't listen to her. How would she know if you've gotten fatter or skinnier? She hasn't seen old photos of you. Has she?"
                          
"At the time no. She has seen videos of me after she was born."
                          
"See. Plus she's a child she doesn't really know things. My kid once told me at that age that he's an adult not an hour later he comes crying saying he needs help getting down a bowl for cereal."
                          
"They don't really know what they're talking about either. I heard Kiki talking to Megumi once about how to much of one will make you turn into it. Kiki was worried about become a noodle." Mary says with a playful smile. Zoro smiles back. That helped a little. Know that he wasn't the only who went through it. "I'm glad that you invited your friends Zoro." Mary adds.
                          
"Me too. They always make things ten times more fun. My other kids have taken a liking to them es-" Ruby stops to turn her focus more to the ocean. They hear her gasp. She starts to squint like it'll help her see further. Seeing this Mary and Zoro try to look to see what's wrong.
                          
"What do you see?" Zoro asks. Ruby gets up with Steven still in her arms. She starts walking towards the sea. Zoro and Mary following her.
                          
"Sean!!" She yells as she gotten a little closer, not close to the water still far from it but those few feet let her see what she needed to see. "Oh My God!! Why is he in the water!?" She yells. Zoro and Mary look to see him in a donut floatie.
                          
"Ruby calm down." Mary says as she places her hand on her shoulder.
                          
"How can I? He doesn't know how to swim! Why isn't there anyone with him!?" Ok now that causes some concern. Zoro looks to the side to see Oscar coming back with not only Jj but the others. He is about to call for them but he takes a glance at Sean and they all that the floatie he's using pops somehow. "Sean!!" Ruby yells at the top of her lungs waking up Steven causing him to cry.
                          
"I'll get him." Zoro says. He unzips his jacket, throwing it on the blanket showing off his biceps, with trembling fingers he reaches down to the hem of his tank top. Obviously he could get there faster. He takes his tank top off and shows the others the abs that have made Sanji nosebleed before. He rushes forward to the sea, not caring about the looks he's getting. Once the water reaches his hip he dives forward to where the popped floatie is.
                          
On the shore Ruby stood there freaking out while Mary comfort her. "Honey what's wrong?" Oscar says.
                          
"Is everything ok mom?" One of her kids asks.
                          
"No! Everything is not ok!! Who let Sean take a floatie in the water by himself?! We talked about this!!" Oscar looks at his kids frowning.
                          
"Mom! What wrong?" Sapphire says, Megumi, Sanji, Franky and the other girls behind her.
                          
"What happened?" Sanji ask. Zoro also isn't here. One of the teachers walks up to them while the other straw hats, and John join in on the crowd.
                          
"It's Sean, he doesn't know how to swim and someone let him go into the water by himself. The floatie he was using popped!!" She screams at her kids. They knew better.
                          
"If he's drowning then shouldn't we-" the teachers looks freaked out.
                          
"Zoro went into the water to get him." Mary says. The straw hat's sigh knowing he's safe, Mary and Ruby do too. But Ruby is still furious with her kids.
                          
Zoro breaches the surface taking in a deep breath of air. He moves arms around his neck. "Hold on tight." He instructs. He swims forward towards the crowd of people. That must be the others.
                          
There heads all turn as the watch Zoro walk up to them with a crying child in his arms. Although there seems to be something extra. Sanji couldn't help but feel a little jealous, not as much as with Harry, Sean did almost drown but still. Another boy, and Zoro took off his jacket. Sanji didn't like that. Oscar goes up to Zoro and tries to take Sean off of him but the boy is like a lock, not letting go of him. "Sorry," the man says to Zoro. Zoro gave the other an a look of understanding and nod. It was okay, Sean is a little traumatized at the moment.

                          
"It's ok but whose kid is this?" Zoro asks and he turns around to show another kid holding onto him and crying.
                          
"TJ?" Ruby asks. "He's Sean's' friend. What happened?"
                          
"When I got him Sean seem to have dragged TJ down into the water with him." Zoro explains.
                          
"Sorry mom," one of Ruby's kids walk up. "Sean said he was going into the water with Tj, I didn't think he would go far out into the water, plus he was with a friend I didn't think this would happen." He says. Ruby glares at him.
                          
"Even so you should have told someone, me or your father or even your older sister. You are getting punished when we get back home." Ruby says glaring at her child.