Chapter two
Suiren has been circling down the same street for about three times now. She must admit this wasn't the best idea. Unconsciously she tugged the sleeve of her hoodie. She has been seeing her wanted poster all over town and her pink hair made her pretty easy to spot. She sighed and lowered her head as she pulled down her hood a little more. She grabbed a poster off the building and examined it. On the poster was the title WANTED: Dead or Alive Miyami Suiren. Bounty: 120 million beli.
Oh. So her bounty went up. What a hassle.
This would definitely make her future jobs harder to accomplish. She crumpled the poster in her hand and sighed. It was probably that man Kakuzi's doing. Kakuzi was Suiren's last mission. He was the governor of Osaka Cove. Osaka Cove was a small island to the north of Akaihana. It was a fairly small city that was governed by Maybrook L. Kakuzi. He was a selfish man in in mid thirties with no regard for his people. He ruled the town with his tyranny and not only did he steal from his people, he also initiated experiments upon the children. Just thinking about the awful man made Suiren clench her fist.
How do you experiment on poor innocent children? If it were experiments on prisoners, it would be a little more sensible. However, they were only children.
Unfortunately for Kakuzi, he messed with the wrong man. Her master (a), also known as Joker in the underworld, had lent the man quite a bit of money in return for his research. However, Kakuzi was stingy man. He kept the money and the research to himself, thus breaking his deal with Joker. Of course, this led to Joker sending Suiren to gather information upon Kakuzi's findings.
Suiren specialized in information gathering. She was what one would call a 'spy'. She stayed at the cove for two weeks. During her stay she managed to infiltrate Kakuzi's residence. She must say it was a fairly easy task. To her knowledge, Kakuzi was a difficult man, and had a different secretary every week. This allowed her to easily obtain the position and get close to Kakuzi without much effort. However, to gather information about his plans was a little more difficult. He had a bodyguard named Miu around him 24/7 and he was quite protective of Kakuzi. Fortunately for Suiren, Kakuzi seemed to take a liking to her and demanded a date from the pinkette. During their date, she was able to separate him from Miu and get Kakuzi drunk. Needless to say, he spilled his plans and experiments right out.
Kakuzi was in process of creating a drug that would completely crush the wills of anyone who was unlucky enough to be exposed to it. Why Joker wanted this research was foreign to Suiren. However, his experiments have been complete failures. He has been taking the children from the country and telling the citizens that they are being sent abroad for training. This is far from the truth. The children are locked in the basement of the Maybrook lab and used to test the experimental drugs.
Of course, she relayed the information to Joker later that night.
"Expose him." Joker snickered. Yes. He didn't want the man killed. She sighed and figured he had something planned for Kakuzi.
Suiren remembered Joker laughing manically over the den-den mushi. He was always that type of man, arrogant and carefree. She was annoyed at his disconcern for the consequences. After all, the consequences would only affect her. If this was anyone else, Suiren would definitely have told them to shove it. But, he was different. To Suiren, he is a respectable character and she knew if it came too it, he would get her out of her predicaments.
After exposing the atrocious man, he was stripped from position as governor. He eventually then found out that his 'dear' secretary was behind it all. Because of his previous position as governor, he had personal favors with some Vice Admirals in the Marines. Suiren guessed that it was probably him that had her bounty raised.
You would think that working under one of the Shichibukai, she wouldn't have to worry about being hunted. That was one of the downside of working as a spy. If people knew her affiliation with the infamous man, her job would be much more difficult.
Suiren sighed once more. What if Kakuzi followed her to Akaihana? That'd be a pain.
"Ahohohohohoho I finally found you Emiko… or should I say Suiren!"
Speak of the devil. In front of her were Kakuzi and his faithful bodyguard in person. Suiren couldn't help but groan at the sight of the two men. "What do you want?" Annoyance laced her every word.
"It was because of you that I lost everything!" Kakuzi spat. "I lost my position, my money, my home… I was so close to discovering the secret to the drug too!" He yelled.
The townspeople were not staring. She felt her cheeks heat up at the attention. She knew his bodyguard was pretty strong and fighting in the middle of the streets would result in other unwanted attention. The most probable reason behind why he did not fight back when his employer was getting his position stripped was because he knew the consequences.
The Marine Admiral Aokiji himself had issued the order to revoke Kakuzi's position. Mui knew even defending his employer would result in the death of both. So he decided to take Kakuzi and hid. Being the hothead that he is, Kakuzi insisted on tracking down the woman and 'making her pay.'
"Mōshiwakearimasenga (1), I'm not interested in playing with you today." She apologized and proceeded to walk past the two men.
Kakuzi's jaw dropped. "O-Oy! I'm going to kill you! How dare you take me so lightly!?" He growled. "Mui! Kill her!" He pointed at the girl.
Before Mui could even move, a blue film had covered them. Kakuzi, Mui and Suiren looked around in bewilderment.
'What?' Suiren internally panicked. 'What the hell is this blue film? Uwah kowai (2).' Internal Suiren had waterfall tears streaming out of her face.
"Shambles."
Suddenly Kakuzi and Mui's limbs were swapped. Mui's limbs were on Kakuzi and Kakuzi's limbs were on Mui. But instead arms being attached to the upper torso; in its place were legs.
Suiren turned around and before her stood three men and a polar bear.
Wait.
…
A polar bear?
The bear was tall. Standing at more than maybe seven feet. He wore an orange jumpsuit, which bore a Jolly Roger and small brown boots. Next to him was an average sized lean man with shoulder length brown hair. He wore a beige overall with the Jolly Roger on the chest pocket and brown boots as well. On his head was a hat with a red brim and on his face were black sunglasses and he had apparent tattoos located on his forearms.
Behind him was a slightly shorter man, but never less he was also an average sized lean man. He wore a beige overall with the Jolly Roger on the chest pocket and brown books. On his head was a black cap with a yellow brim and red pompom on top with the name PENGUIN written in the front.
The last man was relatively slim and stood as tall as maybe six feet. He had faint shadows under his stormy grey eyes, indicating his lack of sleep. He had black hair, which was covered by a northern-styled spotted white fur hat. On his face was a small goatee and sideburns. As well in each ear, there were small-hooped gold earrings. He wore a black sleeved and hooded yellow hoodie with a jolly roger in the front of his chest with the sleeves rolled up. He sported a pair of jeans with odd markings on both the knee and ankle areas and wore a pair of dark pointed shoes.
As she continued to observe the man with odd abilities, she noticed the many tribal-style tattoos on his arms. On both hands the letters D-E-A-T-H were tattooed in black on each of the back of his fingers as well as a black cross on the back of his hands.
Suiren heard a cough. She snapped back to reality and realized she was staring. It wasn't her fault really. She was trained to be observant. "Ah! Sumimasen (3)!" She bowed.
"Oy! What did you do to us!?" A voice called.
Suiren tilted her head and looked at the deformed Kakuzi and Mui. She lifted her head and looked back at the tall man before her. "Quite an interesting ability you got there." She smiled. "Miyami Suiren." She put two fingers to her head as if she was saluting the man.
"Trafalgar Law." The taller man smirked.
"I'm Sachi and this is Penguin!" The man with the sunglass introduced while pointing to the one with 'PENGUIN' written on the hat. Lastly the bear spoke. "I'm Bepo."
Wait.
The. Bear. Spoke.
A gasp escaped the woman. "It spoke!" She said with glee. "The bear spoke!"
"Sumimasen." Bepo's head dropped as a depressing cloud formed above him.
"A-Ah! Why are you apologizing?"
"Don't mind him, he's always like that." Penguin rolled his eyes.
"DON'T IGNORE US!" Kakuzi yelled in the background.
Suiren sighed.
She walked over to Kakuzi and Mui and touched them both on the shoulder. Or, rather what's left of the shoulder. The two tried to 'run' away, but failed since they were not used to the displaced body parts.
Soon, the same white substance the Heart Pirates had seen in the bar formed around the mouth of both men. They struggled to shout, but was unable too.
With the two men silenced, she turned back to the three men and bear. "Uwah, I'm quite hungry." She stretched. "You guys." She said as she walked past the pirates.
"Why don't I treat you to lunch as a thank you."
(1)Mōshiwakearimasenga- Sorry
(2) Kowai – Scary
(3)Sumimasen – A formal way of saying sorry
(a)Suiren's master is Dolflamingo. Not master as in master and slave or master and servant. It'll be revealed later on, on how they became to such a relationship. Basically, although Suiren is not apart of the Dolflamingo pirates (It'll be explained why later in the story) she is still a valued person to Dolflamingo. It's sorta like an employer and employee relationship but on a higher level. Idk if I explained it too well. If there are any questions, feel free to ask.