Hi there! Here's the SuzuKou one-shot! I hope you'll like it.

Suzu wondered what a child was doing here. The golden eyed woman was, as usual, paying her monthly visit to the grave of Takeo, her past lover. But when she arrived at the cemetery, she had the surprised to discover a little girl all by herself, near Takeo's grave. She had short blue hair that barely reached her shoulder and light green eyes.

"Hey, little girl. What are you doing here alone? Are you lost? Where are your parents?" Suzu asked nicely, feeling a little bit motherly towards the child.

The little girl pointed two graves near Takeo's.

"Dead," she replied bluntly.

Suzu wasn't expecting to hear that and immediately felt bad for the kid. Well, now that she thought about it, it did make sense. It explained why she was here in the first place. Still, it was weird to hear a child say something like that so bluntly, as if it left her indifferent.

"Are you here…to pay them a visit?" Suzu asked.

"It wasn't my intention. I grew up parentless, in a place I didn't consider my home. Now that I'm finally free from that place, I went on a journey to find my real home, my parents…but it looks like I don't have a place to call home anymore…"

Despite her stoic and emotionless look and her calm voice, Suzu felt like she could see sadness in the kid's eyes. She couldn't fell but sympathize with the child. She then noticed something about her parents' grave. Her mother's surname, it was the same as Takeo. Suzu then remembered that member of the same family was usually buried close to one another.

"This child, could she be…Takeo's descendant?"

She didn't really look like him, but there was something in her eyes that remind Suzu of Takeo. She was glad to see that a part of the man she loved in the past still exist, but it also made her even more sad for the child.

"My condolence, it must be hard for you," Suzu said sincerely.

"It's okay. I never knew them anyway. And I always had a doubt they were dead. After all, I grew up in an orphanage. It was kind of dumb of me to expect something else," the kid said with a monotone voice.

Suzu felt like this kid wasn't as insensitive as she appeared to be. Suzu was sure that she was actually saddened by her parents' death, but that somehow, she wasn't able to properly express it. She kind of reminded her of Kouko. This thought made her even more fond of this child.

"Then, where are you going to go now?" Suzu asked.

"Don't know. I have nowhere to go. My parents were my last hope to find a home, but looks like it can't be the case…"

Suzu couldn't let that child on her own. She wanted to help her. But how? Suzu suddenly got an idea. It looked like a good idea to her, but would Kouko be okay with it? Suzu wasn't sure, but she had to try.

"Then how about…you stay with me…until you find a place you can call home?" Suzu proposed.

The kid looked at her with a blank expression. It was hard to tell how she felt about this proposition.

"Okay," the kid simply reply.

She then looked at Takeo's grave.

"Have you lost someone too, nee-san?"

"Yes, a long time ago."

"I see. I'm sorry for you," the kid reply with what seemed to be honest, like she could understand how Suzu felt.

"Thank you," she said, touched. "Ah, my name is Shutou Suzu. What's yours?"

"Fujimoto Yuki."

Suzu's smile. She found that it was a cute name. Well then, looked like she'll have to prepare herself to explain to Kouko why she's bringing back a child at home.

"Suzu…what is this?"

"Uh? This? Kouko-chan, you shouldn't talk like that about a child," Suzu playfully scolded.

Kouko was looking at the unexpected guess her girlfriend had brought with her. A little girl with an emotionless expression, yet eyes that looked filled with strong emotions.

"I'm not blind Suzu, I know it's a child. I was referring to the situation."

"Well, you see, I found this poor little girl, Yuki-chan, wandering all alone and I couldn't let her all by herself. She used to be in an orphanage and she doesn't have parents…I'm sure you can understand why I couldn't help but bringing her with me."

Kouko could actually understand, and even relate. She herself had no parents and was raised in an orphanage. But still, she wasn't sure what was Suzu's goal.

"Suzu…what do you want to do with her?"

"Keep her!"

"Suzu, that's not a pet. That's an actual child."

"I know. I didn't mean forever, but until she found a home…"

"I want to stay with you," the child suddenly said, before she gazed at Kouko. "Kaminaga Kouko."

"Uh? How did you know my name? Suzu, have you told her…?"

"Um…no," Suzu replied, as surprised as her.

"We came from the same place, Kaminaga. I saw pictures of you and my senpais told me about you. But thanks to you, the orphanage is no longer active. Most of us view you as our hope, our saviour. Perhaps you are. But the youngest of us have now no place where to go. We're all orphans after all. So I think that it's fair if you, our 'savior', take your responsibility and take care of me. And I'm not the only one is a similar situation…I guess this is the price of freedom."

Kouko didn't know what to reply to that. Yuki didn't seem mad or grudgeful, she was saying that as if it was rational and logical. She was clearly a sly kid who knew what she wants. But Kouko did feel somewhat responsible for this child.

"Uh, so Yuki-chan is also related to Kouko-chan in a way. It must be fate. Kouko-chan, we were fated to take care of this kid!"

"Sounds more like a convenient coincidence to me," Kouko replied. "But still…I agree. Since you lost your home because of me, it's my responsibility to take care of you until you find a new one."

"Fair enough," Yuki replied, seemingly emotionless. But Kouko was sure she saw a glimpse of happiness in her eyes for a brief moment.

Kouko took the time to think about her current situation. She was now working as a doctor in her own clinic in a small village, trying to build a calm life with her lover Suzu. Was raising a child possible for them? She thought so. Yuki seemed like a rather calm and smart kid, so raising one child should be fine. Her life was now stable, there were no more assassins trying to kill her, and she was living in a quiet village. Yes, everything should be fine.

"Still, I feel kind of bad for the others who are in the same situation as Yuki-chan. I would like to help them too…Ah, I know what to do! What if we start our own orphanage for those like Yuki-chan? Or even other kids in a similar situation."

Looked like Kouko had been wrong.

"It sounds like a good idea, Suzu nee-san," Yuki said with a monotone voice.

"Please, call me obaa-chan."

"Okay, Suzu obaa-chan."

"Perfect! When Kouko-chan will be working at the clinic, I'll stay home and take care of the kids."

Suzu looked gleeful. Kouko didn't know what to think. One kid was fine, but plenty of them? She wasn't sure she could handle this. But Suzu looked so confident, and she could tell that Yuki wanted this. Kouko sighed. She wasn't sure it was a good idea, yet there was a small part of her who agreed with this. She wanted to offer to those kids what she never truly had herself as a child. A real home. A soft smile appeared on her lips.

"Okay. Let's open an orphanage together, Suzu."

Suzu and Kouko opening an orphanage together were one of my headcanon. There's some backstory about Kouko and her old organization in that chapter, but I left it minimal because it's actually something I want to keep for my SuzuKou fic, "Death isn't the end of life, it's the completion of life". Yuki is the first kid Suzu and Kouko welcomed in their orphanage.

Next chapter will be about room #4! Do you remember who it is?