Gah...Three months of inactivity...oops. Anyways, welcome to the first of two chapters about Suzukaze's life before the apocalypse. Cause this chapter is going to have a lot of time shifts. 4 years is a long time to write about. BTW, the battle you will read is kind of based on WOWs, I just based some of it off of those battles only cause I have been playing way too much of it lately…

Chapter 5: Suzukaze: The Admiral she knew

Time setting: 4 years ago March 3rd, 2016

"Screw being deactivated!" Suzukaze shouts as she bursts out of the base. There were shouting behind her as security guards shouted at her to stop.

Must get out of here! She mentally screams at herself. She runs near an alleyway and checks for the guards. There were no yelling yet,so she took the dignity to hide in the alleyway. Checking her 12.7mm main guns, she saw that she still had more than enough ammo to use. Looking around, she sees no one around. No voices shouting at each other for to look for her. Breathing a sigh of relief, she exits the alleyway.

"weapon exchange" she says quietly as the 12.7 mm cannon changes and turns into a bracelet on her arm. Suzukaze sneaks away from the area and runs down a small dirt road that leads to the entrance.

Yes! I can escape now~! She mentally celebrates. Running towards the entrance, she doesn't notice a tall man walking in. A crash and the sound of two people falling down.

"Oww…" she moans in pain, rubbing a small bruise on her forehead.

"Urg…" the voice of the man she accidentally ran into sounds. Looking over at him, she panics. The man had a Commander uniform on. He had short, dark hair and probably stood at 6'5. There was a M9 Beretta on his left side and his badges on his side had 5 stars on them.

Should I help him or should I knock him unconscious? She asks herself, panicking.

"Are you okay, miss?" the man's voice asks which breaks her train of thought. Looking at him she nods. No... "Y-yeah" she says smiling. The man smiles. "I'm glad" he says. He then bows down and introduces himself.

"My name is Kazuma Nakamura, Admiral of the Third fleet and captain of the USS William P. Lawrence. Nice to meet you." he says calmly and smiles. His gaze sits upon her.

"And who are you?" he asks. Suzukaze panics as she tries to think of an excuse, but her mind was still panicking.

Suddenly she hears the guards running towards them. Kazuma notices this, and tosses his coat over her and plops his cap on her.

The guards walk up to him. "Admiral Nakamura, have you seen a girl around here by any chance? She's tall and has navy blue hair around shoulder length." one of them ask. Kazuma shakes his head.

"The only girl I've seen is my cousin here." he says, patting Suzukaze's head. The guards nod.

"Alright then, thank you for informing us, Admiral." They salute and march off. Kazuma nods and motions Suzukaze to him.

"So you're that ship girl who ran off when everyone was being deactivated?" he asks. Suzukaze nods slowly, scared that he'll turn her in. Instead of doing that, he chuckles.

"I always wanted to see one of you girls, but I never got a chance to." he says. His expression suddenly turns grave.

"Come with me, I'm sure if the authorities find you, they'll for sure scrap you. Don't worry, I won't do anything bad to you, I promise." he says.

Suzukaze nods as she follows the admiral.

"You could stay at my place. It's not that big, but you'll see." Kazuma says as they walk out of the Naval District.

"Admiral, where are we going?" Suzukaze asks quietly as they get off the taxi they were riding on. The taxi driver salutes the admiral as they walk into a small outlet. There, rows of shops were shown, bright colors and the recent fashion being shown in the shops. Suzukaze's eyes widen as she looks down these shops, having only little knowledge about this place.

"Go ahead, Suzukaze, go find a store or somewhere that sells clothing you like. You'll need a spare set of clothes anyways." He says. Suzukaze stares at him, smiling a bit.

"O..ok, admiral." she says with a slight blush.

"But, Isn't it your money, admiral?" she waves his hands side by side.

"I get paid a lot every month. I don't usually spend my money anyways, so it's ok." he says.

Suzukaze opens her mouth to say something, but her stomach starts to growl.

"I think we'll get something to eat first then, Suzukaze-chan." the admiral smiles causing her to blush.

"O-Okay then admiral." she says quietly.

"Also, call me Kazuma when we're outside of the base. Admiral is only accepted when I am on duty." he sighs.

The two walk into the small food court in the small outlet. Kazuma walks over to a table and talls her to take a seat.

"I'll be back. Just wait a moment for me to order the food." he says as he walks away from the table to a small restaurant where they were selling food. She sighs and closes her eyes for a moment.

This day was pretty weird for me, but funnily enough, I like it. She thinks for a moment.

She suddenly felt someone shaking her.

"Hmm..?" she says as she opens her eyes. Kazuma was standing there with a tray of ramen. He smiles a bit as he puts both of the bowls on the table.

"You were apparently asleep when I came back. Usually I would let you sleep, but we have dinner to eat don't we?" he chuckles a bit as he started to eat his food.

Suzukaze blushes a bit as she slowly takes small bites of the ramen. Instantly her eyes light up with delight as she starts wolfing down bite after bite of the noodles. Kazuma stares at her, and pats her back a bit.

"Slow down your eating. You'll get a stomachache if you eat that fast" he says.

Suzukaze slows down her eating and nods.

Kazuma smiles as he himself starts eating the noodles.

"This is my small apartment, Suzukaze." Kazuma says as he opens the door of the apartment. Suzukaze walks into the small apartment. She notices that it was pretty small, but it was clean and really well organized.

"Kazuma-Teitoku, is it really okay with you?" she asks as she walks into the small home. Kazuma smiles. "You got no where else to go, Suzukaze. I'll be nice, don't worry about me doing anything shady." He says.

"I'm going to go take a shower, I'll be right back." he announces as he takes off his jacket and walks into his bedroom.

Suzukaze sits down on the couch. She stares at Kazuma's PC on the glass desk. Interested, she gets up and walks over to it. She opens it up and looks on the page that it was left off on. It showed a small document about an upcoming naval exercise. She continues reading the document.

"Upcoming March 5 Naval Exercise

All captains are required to take part of this movement. Training would require a full 24 hours outside of the San Diego Naval District . Please note, all ships will require to be fully prepared and all ships are required to bring live ammunition just in case."

She read. Suddenly a hand touched her shoulder. She jumps in shock and sees Kazuma standing right behind her.

"Usually I would be angry that people are looking through my inbox, but since you don't know much, then I guess it's ok, Suzukaze." Kazuma says.

Suzukaze eyes widen as she realized what she had done and bows down to apologize to him.

"S-Sorry, Kazuma-Teitoku, I was only curious about what that was." she stammers. Kazuma pats her head.

"It's ok. I understand that things in this world might be kinda new to you. It's fine." he says.

"By the way, I'll need to dye your hair black, so that it doesn't stick out too much."

Suzukaze stare at him.

"Is dark blue hair not okay, Teitoku?" she asks him.

"Well not many people would have dark blue hair, but if you want to keep it, it's fine by me. Just be sure to tie it differently so those naval personnel don't know that it's you." he says.

"I think I'd keep my hair like this, but I'll change my hairstyle I guess." she says as she loosens both pigtails and lets her hair fall.

"You should go to sleep, Suzukaze. It's been a long day today." Kazuma says as he sits down in front of the PC.

""I'm ok still, but how about you, Teitoku? Aren't you going to sleep?" she asks him.

Kazuma shakes his head.

"I have some documents to complete, and then I might be playing some games." he says as he turns around and closes the document. Suzukaze nods, but she doesn't leave the room.

"Teitoku, where do I sleep..?" she asks the admiral. Kazuma's eyes suddenly widen as he had not thought of this before hand.

"I'll get out the air mattress for you if that's ok. I only have my bed right now, so an air mattress would have to do… oops…" Kazuma says, looking kind of guilty.

Suzukaze nods as she watches him get up to inflate the mattress.

After a while he comes back.

"Sorry about that, Suzukaze. You could go sleep now. I'll be there in a bit." Kazuma says as he turns around and opens up another document.

"If you say so, Teitoku" she says as she enters Kazuma's room.

Kazuma's room was pretty spacious, and tighty. There was a katana hung up on the wall, which surprised her the most. She takes a look at the small air mattress and lies down on it. The bed was slightly uncomfortable, but it didn't quite bother her that much. Slowly, her vision is enveloped with fatigue and she starts snoring lightly.

Suzukaze wakes up in an oceanic water front. The sounds of planes are all around her as she watches her allies getting bombarded by airplanes.

"He..lp…" someone says behind her. She stares behind her and sees another ally getting bombarded by bombs and 5 inch shells. She tries to take the girl's hand, but only catches a rigging. The girl had simply disappeared.

All around her, she watches as american destroyers and heavy cruisers approach her position. The shouts of anger could be heard as she watches Yuudachi being bombarded by three cruisers. The screams of pain could be heard, followed by the sound of silence.

Suzukaze closes her eyes and tries to avoid the scene of death and destruction all around her.

'N-no… Please… Why does it have to be me?" she cries softly, seeing all of her allies, her friends, dying or sunk all around her.

The sound of something metal could be heard approaching her slowly. She looks up and sees a stream of torpedos heading her direction. The sounds of an evil laughter and voices saying "Don't forget" whispers in her ear as she feels the impact of the warheads.

Suzukaze awoke in cold sweat, the feeling of goosebumps arise from her. She sees her admiral laying on the top of the bed beside her. She slowly crawled up onto the bed and hugs onto him.

"Hmm..? Suzukaze, what's wrong?" Kazuma asks, half awake. Suzukaze blinks back some tears.

"I had a dream in which I watched all of my sisters die in front of me." she says softly.

Kazuma smiles a bit and pats her head softly.

"The world is a cruel place. For you it is even crueler. It's okay. I'll always be here for you." he says giving her a smile. Suzukaze nods as she holds onto her admiral tightly as she silently cries into his back.

"Thank you, Kazuma Teitoku."

Two days later Date: March 5 Time: 915 hours

"Is it really ok for me to go with you on this training exercise, Teitoku?" Suzukaze asks.

"Well, it's too late now. We're already on the subway towards the district." Kazuma replies. The subway stops and the doors open.

"This is our stop, Suzukaze, let's get going." Kazuma says, grinning a bit.

Kazuma offers her his hand.

"Just in case you get lost here in the station, after all it's your first time here, isn't it?" he smiles.

Suzukaze nods a bit, slowly taking his hands, blushing a bit. While they walked towards the exit of the station, there were some elderly couples chuckling at the sight. Some whispered that they make a really cute couple. These remarks made her blush even more than she already was.

"Kazuma, this is a bit awkward…" she murmurs as she walks towards the lot. Kazuma chuckles.

"It's ok, you'll get used to it," he says as he waves his hands and hails a taxi.

The two of them get into the taxi and it drives off into towards the naval base.

Six hours later the two are very tired aboard the USS William P. Lawrence

The commanders in base radios the destroyer.

"All teams have been assembled, we will message team B to tell them that all of you are ready. Thirty minutes of planning phase starting now." the radio blares.

"Roger that" Kazuma replies as he looks at the roster. 11 ships on both teams, their team just happen to have four cruisers put onto their team.

"Admiral, what is the tactic we shall use to win?" the captain from the USS Russell radios in. Kazuma.

Suzukaze looks at the tactics for a moment, and studies the map. The map had details about how the team is set up.

"Do you have any ideas, Suzukaze?" Kazuma asks.

She thinks for a moment. The crew in the control tower watch as she draws down something on the board.

"What I think would work is as you had originally planned. We'll split into two strike forces. Both forces would commence the first stages of bombardment from long range, using the RIM 66 missiles or Tomahawks to assume where the enemy positions are." she says pointing at the map.

A sailor opens his mouth to ask a question.

"How are we going to be able to do that?" the man asks. Suzukaze smiles.

"I forgot to mention, We'll draw some fire using a decoy force. Since we're in the flagship, we'll draw them out using four DDs including us as bait. While or if they attempt to chase us, we can lead them towards our main force. The main force should split into two forces to make a pincer move." she says, her face going from a happy one to a serious face.

Kazuma clears his throat.

"But we must prepare for the worst, Suzu. There is no way that this plan can go perfectly." he says.

Suzukaze thinks for a moment.

"We could try risk from pincer to Crossing the T. We can only hope for the best now." she says.

Kazuma nods. He picks up the radio receiver and starts talking about the plan towards the rest of the strike team about the plan.

Time: 1536 hours

"Enemy warships spotted on the horizon." the attack/recon helicopter reports towards the USS William P. Lawrence. Kazuma takes a pair of binoculars and looks out of the glass. He watches 4 destroyers and a cruiser straying from the group.

"Have they noticed us, scout 1?" Kazuma radios in. The sound of static could be heard for a moment before a gruff voice returns.

"No, captain, I don't think they have. We can jump them if you'd like, but that's really risky."

"Roger that, scout 1, return to the ship."

Suzukaze watches Kazuma as he picks up the radio and says something into the radio. He gets up and motions over to Suzukaze. Suzukaze walks over to him, uncertain of what she is going to see.

"Division, Open Fire!" he shouts into the radio. A chorus of shouts ring through the radio as the distraction division open up their 5 inch guns at the larger fleet. Kazuma smiles as he watches the fleet scum into panic, trying to get their guns to aim at the small division.

Suzukaze looks out with excitement boiling in her blood.

"What plans do you have to use, Suzu?" Kazuma asks as he watches the battle unfold. Suzukaze smiles at him.

"Let's get up close and personal with them! Even though we are the flagship of this fleet, we could take the risk and attack!" she says.

"As we attack, we have our fleet attack the enemy and bombard them with those rockets. We will go up close and personal with them right now with the rest of the division right now."

Kazuma nods.

"Alright then" he says.

"All distraction fleet ships, prepare for a torpedo run, arm all torpedos in the launchers We're going to attack them head on!" Kazuma shouts into the intercom. The shouts of affirmation arrives as the four DDGs start making a run for the enemy fleet.

As she watches the mock battle taking place, a sudden ping hits her head and continues to ping every 10 seconds. She tries to hit her head, but the noise stays there. Kazuma looks over at her and stares.

"Are you ok, Suzukaze? You're hitting your head a lot." he says. Suzukaze looks up and opens her mouth to speak when she notices something familiar outside of the ship.

"Teitoku, torpedos incoming, Port side! 12km out!" she shouts at him. In her vision, there are 12 glowing hues slowly approaching the ship.

"EVASIVE MANEUVERS!" Kazuma shouts as he starts to turn the ship towards the incoming torpedoes. Through her viewpoint, the glowing hues suddenly disappear as the torpedos drown, completely missing the ship.

Suzukaze slowly glances at the Admiral as he barks orders to the crew and the other four DDGs as they change course.

"Missile launch sequence at my mark!" Kazuma shouts, sweat beading down his forehead.

"THREE!"

The vertical launching system opens up and a RUM-139 VL-ASROC rocket slides out of it's platform of the ship's bow. Suzukaze turns around and views the rest of the small distraction fleet. The other ships had similar details.

"Two!"

The 5 inch gun in the front of the ship fires clip of 5 inch shells at the enemy fleet. The crew could see some spark in the distance, confirming that they did damage one of the ships.

"One!"

The missiles ignite their rocket fuel, sending a brilliant orange around the bow.

"FIRE AT WILL!"

The missiles leave the bow and quickly cruise towards the enemy cruisers and outside destroyers. Through binoculars, the crew watches the Mark 54 torpedoes eject out of the rocket and hit the water. A few moments later, they spot large columns of water shooting out of the water and then the three enemy cruisers cease their movement.

"This is HQ, we have confirmed that Bravo Team has taken out 3 of the 11 ships on the enemy team. The score sits at 3:0 as of now." the intercom blares. The crew smile at each other, the feeling of their morale is slowly gaining. Suzukaze scans the enemy fleet and then notices something.

"Teitoku, the flagship is not there in the enemy fleet. There are only 7 ships in the cluster, including the three cruisers that we sank." she says. Suddenly the Russell and the Gridley burst into flames as two tomahawk missiles explode over them, putting them out of the match.

"USS Sampson, taking heavy fire!" the radio blares. "Requesting assistance!"

Kazuma stares at the enemy ships now encircling their position.

"All ships, begin firing missiles on these coordinates." Kazuma shouts into the radio.

"Sampson, get out of here, we can't have you take too much fire." Kazuma shouts into the intercom.

The transmitter blares and the captain's voice comes in.

"Don't worry, Commander. 'Till the bitter end." the voice said.

Out of the corner of her eyes, Suzukaze spots something.

"Flagship spotted, Teitoku, it's being guarded with two other DDs." she shouts at him.

"Hey, Nakamura, I'll help you take out the ships protecting their flagship, and you end this round." The captain of the USS Sampson says.

"That'll pay off the debt that I owe you, Captain."

Before Kazuma can even speak, he and Suzukaze watches as the Sampson speeds up and beelines towards the three ships. The Sampson rams into the USS Kidd, immediately immobilizing the ship. The other destroyer, the USS Howard, attempts to launch a RUM-139 VL-ASROC torpedo at The William P. Lawrence, but the Sampson lets loose a long burst of 20 millimeter HE tracer rounds into the missile, causing it to explode on the deck, immobilizing the ship. The Sampson turns it's 5 inch gun to try helping take out the USS Spruance , but a torpedo finally takes out the ship.

Suzukaze stares at the flagship and nods to Kazuma. The crew nod too, knowing that this is the ultimate game changer.

"FULL POWER, ALL GUNS TRAIN ON THE FLAGSHIP!" He shouts as the run into their battle stations. The William P. Lawrence's engines roar as the ship starts accelerating towards the Spruance, firing another full clip of 16 shells into the hull.

"RELEASE THE BEAST" Kazuma shouts as the Lawrence starts firing everything it has at the Spruance going from the 5 inch guns to sailors shooting the ship with their own M9 Berettas.

Slowly the Spruance starts to slow, indicating that it is heavily damaged. The Spruance turns it's own heavily damaged 5 inch gun at the Lawrence and fires off one shot. The shot hits the Lawrence's 5 inch turret and jams it.

"Admiral, the gun has been immobilized! What do we do?" the gun officer shouts as he enters the quarters. Kazuma just stares. Suzukaze stares at the enemy ship and thinks for a second.

"Teitoku, I have a plan." she says. Kazuma stares at her but nods.

"You'll have to ram the enemy flagship, but I have an idea on how to take it out." she shouts.

Kazuma nods.

"It's now or never! Never Give In!" He shouts as he steers the Lawrence straight towards the bow of the almost destroyed Spruance. Suzukaze runs towards the bow of the Lawrence. Standing at the front of the ship, she watches her target getting closer and closer towards her. She holds her hands.

"Weapon exchange" she whispers, and her bracelet starts glowing a hue of yellow and slowly changes form. As the light disappears, she is holding her 12.7 cm/50 Type 3 naval gun in her hand.

"BANZAI!" She shouts as she fires the twin guns.

The 5 inch AP shells hit the Spruance, blowing a huge hole into the turret and obliterating the magazine, immobilizing the ship. The Lawrence then smashes into the Spruance, taking it out of the battle for good.

Suzukaze looks back at Kazuma and smiles.

Kazuma runs out of the captain's quarters and walks towards Suzukaze. He smiles as he summons the whole crew. There, they stood to watch as Tomahawk Cruise missiles from their allies start raining down out of the clouds and immobilizing the rest of the enemy fleet.

Time: 2016 hours

Suzukaze and Kazuma walk down to a pier near the San Diego Bay.

"The moon sure is beautiful, isn't it, Teitoku." Suzukaze says as she looks up at the glimmering moon. Kazuma smiles.

"It sure is, Suzukaze." he says.

"Hey, Teitoku, can you promise me something?" she asks Kazuma.

"What's that, Suzukaze?"

"Even though our lives are as good as it seems, I feel like we're not always going to be this good in the future. So please, can you promise me this?"

"Sure, anything for you, Suzukaze."

"Please, Teitoku, let me stay with you forever. You're the only person which I feel comfortable with other than my sisters. It's kinda lonely here. I feel like you're the only person whom I feel comfortable with. Even though I know somehow things will end up going down to shit one day, at least I know I have someone to remember, to trust and to love. So p...please, promise that we will be able to stay together…" Suzukaze says quietly, tears slowly trace down her face.

Kazuma smiles and pats her shoulders.

"I promise I will, Suzukaze. It's a promise that I won't break. I swear." he says as suzukaze starts weeping into his arms.

They silently look up into the full moon glowing brightly in the night sky.

A/N: It's been a long 3 months since I last updated this story. I'm sorry, but school's a pain in the ass. I hope you all enjoy this chapter, because for me, I personally enjoyed typing this. By the way, I am thinking of something for you guys. I am thinking of one of two routes this could be taken. One is a tragic route and one is the good route. I will only do one, for there is a lot of things that I am currently typing and planning out, so it is up to you guys to decide which you guys want to see.

I am still accepting OCs by the way. The way you make one is in the following

Name of your girl

Tank/ship type and class (If you're wanting a ship girl)

Description in looks and her personality

(If wanted, you could do her likes and dislikes, but be specific)

Thanks and enjoy

-Lenju II