A/N: Okay, sorry for sitting on this information for so long, but you've gotta know that the name Suri means rose. Or So I've heard from the most reliable source in the world (the internet). Anyways, I don't know how long this chapter will be, but only time will tell, literally. If I find myself to not have any time for writing, I will find a place to cut off at and post whatever I have. As always, I hope you enjoy this chapter.
In the last few days, Suri battle-hardened Sakura to be a grade-A sniper with her anti-Akuma rifle. What Suri found was that Sakura was made for battle already. Her super strength, her lightning speed, all helped her in her training. Suri had started off with hand-to-hand combat training on dummies to test her strength. She broke them in half. The next was basic hand-to-hand techniques, just in case she was caught when sniping and wouldn't be defenseless. She hasn't mastered a lot of thing that Suri wanted to teach her, but her progress was fast. She was proud of Sakura for learning such difficult skill so soon.
It wasn't long after that, they were called in by Komui.
"Welcome, Succhi! Come in!" Komui doted on her. "And welcome, Sakura-chan!" Suri waved while Sakura bowed.
"What is it?" Suri didn't want to waste precious time, leisurely chatting with Komui when she can be training Sakura.
"We'll wait for the other party members to get here first." Komui looked expectantly at the door until two figures walked though the door.
"Allen! Lenalee! You guys are on this mission as well?!" Suri was elated. After wishing to be on the same mission since forever, she finally got it.
"Ah! Suri!" Lenalee gasped. This was one pleasant surprise that she had not been expecting. "Nii-san! Did you set this up?!"
"Yes! Praise me!" Komui gloated.
"Thank you so much! You're the best!" Suri and Lenalee were super excited. Its been such a long time since they've had a mission together. Sakura stood off to the side, watching the scene unfold.
"You too Allen! I look forward to working with you!" Suri told him.
"Yeah. Me too." Allen smiled, though he thought that he was a third wheel with the two of them, then he noticed the little girl behind Suri, but kept quiet.
"Alright! So, what's the mission?" Suri asked.
"Well..." Komui turned serious. "This time it just an ordinary town," Komui said passing out the mission files. "Or it used to be. You see, this town seems to be repeating the same day over and over. We also got a call from a local winery asking to make a shipment there ever since then. It might be innocence, though we don't know why it would be doing such thing. Go in and retrieve the innocence. That is all"
"We're on it. Thank you." Suri thanked him warmly and Komui felt light in his chest. It made him happy to make his darling little sisters happy.
"We're off now, Nii-san." Lenalee said before leaving the room first.
"Goodbye, Komui-san." Allen left after her, leaving Suri, Sakura, and Komui in the room. Sakura continued to stay by Suri's side, holding her anti-tank rifle with her head down.
"Mama..." Sakura started.
"Wait outside for me, okay?" Suri smiled tenderly at her. She nodded and left to wait outside the room.
"Succhi?" Komui was curious about what She had to say, but He already knew what this was about.
"You know what this is about. Why send three exorcists? Aren't Allen and Lenalee enough? And why me for that matter?" Suri fired the questions she already knew the answers to.
"You know, Suri. You have no need to ask me." Komui said gravely.
"I know you are worried, but you need me to guarantee their safety as well?" Komui stayed silent, unable to face her. "You know well about my nature. Do you really think this power can protect?! It can only kill!" Suri steadily raised her voice, but it dramatically lowered. "I... can only kill." Suri spun on her heels and walked out. Her face showed no sign of the conversation that had just happened.
"Are you okay, Mama?" Sakura could feel the sadness from Suri.
"Yes, Sakura. We should get going now." Suri said. She didn't want to worry her with her own burdens. That only made Sakura worry more.
Inside the office Komui sighed deeply.
"She always shoulder her burdens alone."
"What was that all about, Komui. And don't tell me 'nothing'. I think I deserve to know." Reever was upset at how Komui didn't handle that situation better. Moreover, he was pissed that Komui made Suri upset.
"Do you remember the time she arrive at the Black Order? It was like a fiery angel had just descended from the heavens..." Komui started, but Reever was confused as hell, until Komui elaborated.
"Oh?! Toma! You're here too?" Suri ran to him, where he was standing in front of a literal hole in a wall.
"Mistress Blackwell, good to see you so soon." Toma greeted them formally. "And good to see you too, Lady Sakura."
"N-nice to meet you, t-too." Sakura was still shy. Unless she was in a fight. Toma noticed Suri's rifle on her back, except that it had shrunk.
"So, what do you know about this town?" Allen asked Toma.
"None of us finders can get through this entrance. It is like we were blocked by something. So, we haven't been able to do any scouting." Toma's report was cut of when Suri stepped through the opening, followed by Sakura, Allen, and Lenalee. Toma sweatdropped.
Suri was already in the town. So, if she was the innocence, where would she be?
"How about Lenalee, you look for a way out of town, I'll go look around town, and Suri-kun, you go ask around the pub." Allen suggested.
"Why do I get to be in the pub?" Suri questioned her job. She didn't enjoy being underestimated.
"You speak better with men than a man does." Allen chastised her. Suri sighed, accepting the job.
"Within an hour, we will meet at the pub." They all went their separate ways.
Suri took Sakura to a bar for the first time.
"Now, Sakura, there's no need to be scared. All the guys want is a good laugh, but there is no need to degrade yourself for that purpose." Suri gave her first lesson in how to act in public. Suri strolled to the bar while Sakura slid into a booth seat next to the door. Sakura watched dilligently as her mother worked. "How's it going there, stranger?" Suri tried to break the ice with the bar manager.
"What can I do you for, l'il miss?" The manager asked.
"I want to know if there were any anomalies in town. You know... maybe some rumors around town." Suri pressed her chest against the table slightly, showing a little cleavage.
"Best be talking to a housewife for that kinda thing." The manager responded, looking at the girl, sitting at the bar.
"Yes, but I wanted to hear from you." Suri quickly switched to seductive. "Do you think you can help me?" Her voice sent pleasurable shivers down his back, and he had no choice but to reply.
"There's a woman. Been fired a hundred times now. She's cursed, I tell ya. Name's Miranda Lotto. Worked here and failed miserably." The bar manager replied. Cursed? Suri mulled over this information before she reacted again.
"Thanks! Anyways, the name's Blackwell."
"Oh! Well, where are my manners? Name's Steve. And no first name?" The bar manager held out his hand.
"Suri." She replied as she took his hand into a firm grasp and shook it. She walked to the table that Sakura had been sitting at. Her eyes were wide with amazement.
"Mama! How did you do that?!"
"Just a little cleavage and experience." Sakura looked down at her own assets, that she didn't have. Suri laughed. "When you grow older, you'll have some." Sakura jumped and put her arms over her chest protectivly.
Suri eventually settled down and ordered something did the two of them. A giant parfait for Sakura, and vanilla latte for Suri. Strong coffee makes her head hurt. Lenalee came back before the given time.
"Ah! Lenalee! Did you find anything?" Lenalee came over to sit next to Suri and told them what she had found. Not too long after, Allen walked in with a piece of paper.
"Hello." He greeted Sakura before sitting next to her. She was a little uncomfortable with the seating, but didn't want to burden her mother with her whining. Suri noticed this though.
"Allen, may we trade seats?" Suri requested. Allen looked down at the child next to him and immediately understood. They moved around until Suri and Sakura day next to each other in the booth seat facing away from the entrance.
"Anyways, I found this woman and she looked like..." Allen started scribbling on the piece of paper, "...this." He held up his completed "artwork". Everyone at the table sweatdropped. Even Sakura.
"Sakura?" Suri called upon her attention.
"Yes, mama?" Sakura replied.
"Do you think you can look into Allen's memories and draw out a picture?"
"Yes, mama, but I don't know if I can control it very well."
"I don't mind, Sakura-chan." Allen said. He's was willing to try it out. Sakura nodded determinedly. She set aside her parfait and kneeled on the table. Allen leaned forward after Sakura had beckoned him to, and their foreheads touched. Allen closed his eyes for a peaceful moment, until tears started to stream out of his eyes, as well as Sakura.
"Sakura?!" Suri called. "Sakura! You're okay now, please come back!" Suri knew exactly what had happened. Sakura had delved to deep into Allen's locked memories.
"T-that's... unspeakable." Sakura let her tears silently fall, bit she grabbed the paper and used the other side to draw out a flawless portrait.
"I'm sorry you two. It was my idea." Suri bowed her head deeply in shame. How could she not consider the repercussions?!
"It's okay, Suri-kun-"
"Don't tell me that it's alright because I know it's not. I am so sorry." Suri couldn't forgive herself and she knew Allen shouldn't either. Suri told someone else to break someone else's privacy, and both of them came out hurt.
"Its fine, Suri-kun. After all, we are friends aren't we?" Allen pet her head. Suri jolted slightly.
"Allen is right, Mama." Sakura put her hands on Suri's.
"Is that so?" Suri raised her head and smiled brightly and genuinely. Allen blushed a little at the brightness. I want to protect this smile, Allen thought, because she is a friend I can't risk losing.
"Can I place an order for fifteen kegs of your wine?" The group overheard the conversation the bar manager had.
"I guess this is the place that calls in for the same shipment everyday." Allen looked in wonder. They were really inside a rewinding town. Suri sensed a presence lurking behind her and she aimed her gun.
"I don't have time for this. So do you mind spitting out whatever You have to say, Miranda Lotto?" Suri told her shadow. The figure was so scared that she couldn't run. She eventually came out in her own. Suri whistled. "This is no way for a lady such as yourself to live." Suri looked over her the woman's attire. "You look like a mess. How have you been holding up with the town?" Miranda Lotto gasped in surprise.
"How did you know about that!" Miranda demanded.
"Calm down. The rewinding of this town is the reason why we are here and you happened to know something, since you are the only one conscious of that fact." Suri elaborated. She wasn't that stupid, after all.
"Well, we better head to my place to discuss that." Miranda left to beckon them to follow.
"Wait. The the men at three bar. They are Akuma." Allen informed the group.
"Great." Suri deadpanned just as the Akuma began to shift. The only two that could tell there were Akuma nearby were to deep in the conversation to notice. Fuck all.
A/N: This is what I'm going to leave my chapter... What the actual fuck am I doing here. I don't know what I did to this story. It feels like such a mess. Anyways, no spoilers from me, so whatever thought I happen to pull out of my ass will be the story. And by that I mean ideas from the top of my head. If you don't get it, that's totally and completely fine. As always, I hope you enjoyed. Leave a review of whatever you want to say to me. Somethimes I do reply, but if I don't, then that's because I don't know how to reply, so yeah. See you next chapter.