A/N: I do not own Naruto, Any Naruto affiliations, or any zombie affiliations.
The first chapter! A little short, but i'll update more today or tomorrow. Review and give me ideas on who you would like to see alive! (I may not keep some character's alive even if requested, only because I would'nt be able to keep track of over 100's of shinobi's from the Naruto Manga/Anime. But we will see many familiar faces in the forms of zombies, or survivors! Be prepared for Zombie Apocalypse goodness!
I was sent here on an SOS our village received from Konoha. My name is Ori. I'm a 17 year old chunnin from The Eclipse Village. I'm primarily a ninjutsu user, specializing in gravitational jutsu that the Juuryoku blood line passed down. I was sent here on my own to do a back up over a few street riots. I didn't expect to see what was in store for me...
"Holy sh--" Ori looked at the Village of Konoha as smoke plumes flew into the sky, accompanied by the chorus of screams and moans throughout the village. The horrifying melody put a shiver through Ori's spine. "What the hell is going on in this village?" He ran through the main gates past an abandoned post, and a few houses with broken windows. One house in particular caught his eye. It was painted in blood prints as bodies lay around it, some missing ears, some missing limps, some missing almost everything but their skeletons. "Oh god I think i'm gonna hurl..." Ori stared at the horrifying scene in front of him. This was much more than Street Riots, Ori knew that for sure.
"Crap, I've got to find some shinobi here, this isn't normal! I need to find someone with answers.." Ori frantically searched through the first couple houses he passed earlier, only to find 2 more dead bodies and a variety of limbs scattered throughout the houses. "What could have caused all this mayhem!" Ori thought to himself. "The first 2 houses had nothign but limbs, and now this house has more dead bodies? I cant take much more of this." Ori paced back and forth, oblivious to the fact that he was being watched. Two deep, empty eyes watched him pace back and forth. There was nothing in these eyes any longer, just one urge. To feed.
"Gravity Hammer Jutsu!" Ori formed the handseals right when the creature pounced. A rush of air formed into a large hammer, and caved the skull in on impact. Yet, whatever it was, he was unsure of. He flipped over the body to reveal the face of a woman..He had just killed a woman. Yet, the remorse left his body as he stared at it's eyes, the eyes of something that has no soul. Something was going on here that kept changing by the second, and Ori knew he had to find someone, someone without those empty eyes. He jumped through the window to gain high ground onto the building across the street, and that's when he saw the chaos.
"The streets ahead were crawling with hundreds of these grey skinned, empty eyed monsters. Innocent people, reduced to nothing but soulless beings. "Oh no...Are there even any survivors left to find?" He groaned as he made his way closer to the infested streets. He stayed on the roofs jumping over the heads of hundreds of moaning monsters. He had to do something to reduce the numbers. He had to fight. "Gravity Pull Jutsu!" Ori yelled as a blob of purple and black crashed its way into the numbers of the infested, immediately pulling a good 20 of them into the vortex, stuck to each other, unable to move. "Now time for this, Earth Style, Rockbomb Jutsu!" He then sent massive boulders flying into the infested ranks, pulverizing the ones in his gravitational area, and knocking back the ones closeby, yet no matter how many times he tried, they kept getting back up. "I can't keep doing this, by the looks of it, I've only killed a good 40 something, but there are hundreds more. I've got to retreat, and send for help..It's my only ho--" Ori felt a hard thud against his head. "How could I be so reckless to let them hit me...Wait...They can't get up her-..." At that, Ori blacked out, and feel into the arms of a young man, who carried him to safety.
"What? Where am I?" Ori gasped as he recovered from the head injury. He looked around and noticed he was no longer on the rooftop, but in a building he didn't recognize. He looked to his side to discover a boy in his teens as well, a black ponytail in the back of his hair, who appeared to be asleep. But at the sounds of Ori's gasps, the boy seemed to snap out of his thinking.
"Well well, is this the SOS we called for? You may not have noticed, but you're a bit late." the boy said this with no joke intended, but a grim, serious look on his face. "But what you might have noticed is that the riots we explained earlier on, are no riots. Those things out there were caused by one of our disbandoned Shinobi. He goes by the name of Orichimaru, and he came up with a jutsu that destroys a person's bodily functions and has it run on two things, eat and kill." The boy finished his story there and looked at Ori. He was in shock to find out that those things out there were created by a shinobi..but he was confused as well..
"Why did you knock me out? and Who are you? Where are the rest of your villages shinobi?" Ori asked these in a mid yell, as he regained his bearings and stood up over the ponytailed boy.
"Whoa now, You ask a lot of questions. You're becoming pretty troublesome." The boy muttered this, making Ori shoot a glare his way. "Allright all right, I'll answer your freaking questions..I knocked you out because you were basically commiting suicide. My name is Shikamaru Nara, and the rest of the shinobi are either in hiding, or one of them." He muttered this, and looked away. Ori suddenly went from angered to sympathetic. This guy, Shikamaru, doesnt know where any of his comrades are, no, where any of his friends are, and he must feel like he can't do a thing.. " Ori thought.
"Hey, I'm sorry about yelling, it's just, this situation is pretty weird for me. If my village knew it was this bad, there would have been a lot more of us here. But by the looks of it, you dont have any messenger birds still alive around here do you?" Ori looked at the Nara, and listened Intently on the next words spoken. "The only birds I know that might still be alive would be at the Hokage's office, but there are hundreds of them over there, and not to speak, but their are hundreds around us as well. It's hopeless to try to get there. I already risked to much by saving you. You...What's your name?"
Ori was taken aback, but regained himself and spoke back to Shikamaru. "My name Is Ori. Look, I'm sorry about what's been going on. But we just cant sit here and wait for those things to find a way to us. We have to get out there and find your friends.. Your comrades.. then we can head to the office together." Ori said this not knowing what Shikamaru's reaction was going to be. He honestly wanted to help this guy find his friends. "He saved my life, I can help his..." Ori muttered to himself.
Shikamaru was, for a lack of a better word, surprised, that someone from a different village was adamant on helping him find his friends, and so what courage he lacked by himself, he seemed to gain from Ori. Shikamaru put on a faint smirk. "Well It'd be pretty troublesome to stay here and wait for our dooms, so let's go search for some survivors I suppose." Ori was glad that his words got through to Shikamaru. He had only just met him, but the way he talked and just the way he was, attracted Ori more than any of the girlfriends he had in the Eclipse Village. He wasn't sure if it would be wise to tell this to Shikamaru though. Who knows how he might react. He didn't even know how he would react. He never had these kinds of feelings before. It was a mixture of respect and attraction. But why...
"So Ori. I saw your jutsu, It seemed like you can form gravitational matter into weapons?" Shikamaru asked. Ori nodded as he searched for his kunai and other equipment. "Yeah, it's a bloodline limit, although, I have discovered a lot of new secrets to it than most. Do you know where the first person you want to find would be at?" Shikamaru gave the boy a weird look. From what he analyzed from the Ori's earlier battle, he only used his bloodline and an Earth Type Jutsu, what kind of secrets does he have up his sleeve? "I want to find Ino and Chouji, but for the sake of the village it would be wise to head to the Hyuuga Household, if we can find anyone there, they can help our search tenfold."
"Well let's go then. Give me your hand." Ori held out his own towards Shikamaru. Shikamaru looked aghast. "Holding hands? What's that going to do to help us ou---. " Shikamaru felt a jolt connect through his body as Ori grasped his hand. It was warm, and it felt protecting, Shikamaru looked at Ori only to see them both on a rooftop near the Hyuuga Estate. Shikamaru let out a small smirk and looked at Ori. He was'nt sure what he felt when Ori grabbed his hand, was it the technique, or something else? "Sorry about the shock Shikamaru. But for this Jutsu to work I need the person or myself to think of the place in question, and I can open up a warphole that can take us there. That's a benefit of being part of the Juuryoku clan." He let out a laugh, and Shikamaru followed. He knew it was wrong to be laughing at a time like this, but something in him just made it feel ok, if only for a second. "Well, we better start our seach around the est--" Shikamaru's face went pale white. He watched as he saw Hiashi Hyuuga feeding on the remains of Hinabi Hyuuga. "Oh my god..They got the Hyuuga family." Ori was aghast as well. He saw almost 20 white eyed monstrosities feeding off each other, and the corpes around them. "I failed him again..I failed all of them.." Shikamaru let out a cry as he fell on his knees. He felt a splashes of hot tears fall from his face as he saw the estate in ruins. "If only I came back from the mission sooner, I would have been able to save them! I could've.." Shikamaru fell to the floor as Ori punched him in the face. The punch connected and sent Shikamaru tumbling. "It's not your fault! You were assigned a mission and you did it, You couldnt have stopped this even if you were here! You may have ended up like them! Now we can sit here and cry about the lives you lost, or we can go into those ruins and find some survivors." Ori shouted this towards Shikamaru. He looked back at Ori and got himself up. "I'm sorry, It's just, I almost lost Neji the first mission I was assigned as a Chuunin, and now I may have actually lost him. And Hinata as well.." Shikamaru looked back to the estate and was filled with rage. He scanned the area searching to see if Hinata or Neji were part of the dead or infected, but he could not find them. "They may still be alive.." Shikamaru got up and jumped over to the estate as Ori followed. As they landed before the gates of the Estate the white eyed Hyuuga's set their sights on their new meal. "Shikamaru, look at how some of their bodies are positioned. It looks like they're in a...no it can't be. .a. a. fighting stance?" Shikamaru let his eyes wander around to Hiashi Hyuuga and saw as his hands sent out numerous hand seals, and activating the signature Byakugan. "No, They can't be able to use their techniques..How? Is this why we could'nt defeat them earlier on?" The corpse of Hiashi charged towards Ori, hands raised in the gentle fist fighting style. "Shikamaru, go in and find your friends, I'll hold these guys off." Before Shikamaru could say what was on his mind Ori spoke again. "I dont know what your friends look like, and if things get to hopeless out here, I've got my trump card to stop these guys." Ori looked his hands and activated his technique. "Gravity Fist Jutsu, Activate!" Shikamaru watched as Ori's hands became surrounded in a blob of purple and black spheres. "Now go! I can hold these guys off!" Shikamaru ran into the building and slammed the doors behind him. "Be Careful you idiot, Don't get yourself killed.." Shikamaru thought to himself as he ran through the bloodstained building.
"So you're the Hyuuga's eh? I'd have rather met you on better terms, but that's not possible now. I'm sorry.." Ori punched his fist into the ground causing a massive hole to appear in the stone. Yet it didn't connect to the underground. It went off into a different dimension, and as Ori jumped into the window above him, he watched as the Hyuuga's helplessly flew into the hole one by one. "May your souls rest in peace Hyuuga family..." Ori watched as Hiashi held onto the branches of a tree and sent a venemous screech into the air. His arms were ripped off his body, and he was swallowed into the etheral hole in the ground. "Ni, Tsu, Ni" Ori formed the handseals and the hole closed in on itself and let out a final wail of desperation. His hands fell to his side as the jutsu deactivated. The ground was solid once again, and the only sign of the Hyuuga families bodies was clinging to a tree branch. Ori looked through the window to see that the fight had attracted more than one uninvited monster. He tore out of the room he was in and ran through the halls, searching for Shikamaru.
Shikamaru heard the sound of the battle before he saw the effects of it. He had just finished searching a 5th room to no avail, when the sound of the earth shattering met his ears. He raced to the windows to see a hole in the ground sucking in the Hyuuga family, or what was left of them. His eyes could not find Ori, and his mind went racing. "Was that a sacrifice jutsu? No...Hiashi let out a screech and looked upwards...That must mean he saw something, no, someone up there. If Ori is in here, We can search this house together...We can--" Shikamaru was cut off as he heard the sound of fists pounding beneath him. How could he have been so stupid! He knew that most clans had underground basements just in case of an emergency. And the Hyuuga clan was no different. "Oy! Hinata, Neji? Are you guys down there?" Shikamaru waited for an answer.."Shika...mar..u?" He heard the faint whisper of Hinata's gentle voice and knew he found her. He started searching the room he was in for a door, and found it behind the painting of Hiashi, standing infront of the very tree where his last moments were. Shikamaru reveled in the irony and went through the back of the painting and down the stairs.
Ori heard Shikamaru a few rooms away, apparently he had found a girl underground..Ori laid a small explosive note in the corner of the room and evacuated. A small explosion went off, and a hole appeared underneath him. Ori jumped in, only to be confronted by a roughed up looking boy. "Oy, Neji, he's with me." Ori heard the familiar voice of Shikamaru, and turned around to see him, comforting a girl with long black hair, and watched as the other boy sat beside her. He also had long black hair, and wore a white robe similar to the one's he saw on the Hyuuga's during his battle. "Shikamaru...Neji was bitten by one of those things...We need to take him to the hospital right away, it's looking infected.." Hinata uttered this at, and got a glare shooting from Neji's eyes. "Hinata. I do not require medical assistance. I can still fight and move fine." He glanced at the boy that Shikamaru brought with him. "Are you the SOS we sent out for?" Neji looked at the boy, before he fell in pain at the feet of Hinata. "AGHHHURGGHHH!!" Neji let out a pained yell as he rolled on the floor. Hinata started crying heaves of tears that splattered on Neji. Shikamaru looked towards Ori. Ori nodded at once and ran towards the three. He grabbed Shikamaru's hand and formed a vortex that sucked in all 4 of them into a hospital a few miles away. But something was wrong. It was quiet. Too quiet...