Disclaimer: I do own Highschool of the Dead, I'm just a fan who wanted to have a little fun with it.

Warning: There is a bit of a time skip ahead where we go from Chapter 1 of the Manga to Chapter 3 to where just after Rei and Takashi get off the bus. This is because nothing changes in my story till chapter 3 after the bus crash.

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"Often, a school is your best bet-perhaps not for education but certainly for protection from an undead attack." ― Max Brooks, The Zombie Survival Guide.

"Blood is really warm, it's like drinking hot chocolate but with more screaming." ― Ryan Mecum, Zombie Haiku: Good Poetry for Your...Brains

"This is the way the world ends; not with a bang or a whimper, but with zombies breaking down the back door." ― Amanda Hocking, Hollowland

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Sitting in the dark,

I can't forget.

Even now,

I realize the time

I'll never get.

Another story

Of the Bitter Pills of Fate. - Dead Memories, Slipknot.

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Dead Sleeper: Chapter 1 - Dead Memory. (Project Sleeper.)

Mr. and Mrs. Komuro awaited for news on their son Takashi who had been abducted a year earlier, after having left for his first day of school at the age of sixteen. After a year of searching they had woken up this morning to find Takashi dumped unconscious in their front lawn in the same clothes he had be taken in.

"Mr. and Mrs Komuro?" Said a Doctor.

The Komuro's turned around to see Dr. Akio Takeda standing in the door way. "Ah Dr. Takeda is Takashi Awake?" Asked Mr. Komuro.

Dr Takeda smiled lightly. "Yes your son is awake and asking for you." Said the Doctor.

"That's great may we go see him?" Asked Mrs. Komuro after having let out a sigh of relief. At this the Doctor frowned slightly. "Before I let you in to go see him there is some matters I need to discuss with the two of you first." Said Dr. Takeda getting serious.

"What is it Doctor?" Asked Mr. Komuro now worried.

"Well the first thing you should know is that your son has know memory of the past year of his life." Dr. Takeda told the couple.

"What do you mean Doctor? Why would he not remember?" Asked Mr. Komuro, as Mrs Komuro had tears in her eyes.

"Well there are a multitude of reasons that someone can suffer memory loss. Such as blunt force trauma to the head, or memory repression when the victim sees or goes through something traumatic. Which given what else we discovered seems to be the most likely." Said the Doctor.

"Oh god what do you mean? What did you discover?" Asked Mr. Komuro.

"When we were examining your son we discovered that over 38% of your son's body is made up of scar tissue." Said the Doctor getting a gasp of shock and horror form Mrs. Komuro. "We don't know what happened to your son, but I think whatever it was we can safely assume it wasn't pleasant. One last thing before you go see him, was your son ever involved in any gang or criminal activity?" Asked Dr. Takeda.

"What!? No! No our Takashi would never do anything like that." Said Mrs. Komuro shocked that the doctor would ask such a thing.

"She's right Doctor I know our son, he's a good kid." Said Mr. Komuro.

"I'm sorry if I offended you. The reason I asked is we found a tattoo on him." Said Dr, Takeda, getting a look of shock from the parents.

"What kind of tattoo?" Asked Mr. Komuro.

"A Bar-code on the inside of his left wrist." Said the Doctor. "Listen I'm only telling you all this to warn you that we don't know whats going to trigger his memory. It could come back a little at a time or it could all come flooding back in a flash. So just be careful."

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Takashi sighed as he leaned against rail of the school roof. It had not been a good six months since his return. Firstly he had to study for over Three months to take a test just to see if he could stay with his age group. Though oddly enough the test wasn't that much of a challenge, in fact none of his school work was that much of a problem now days. It would seem that whatever happened to him in the year that he had been gone, it made him smarter at lest.

Then there was the fact that he now had to wear a leather wrist-band on his left wrist just so people wouldn't think he was yakuza. But that wasn't the worst, what Takashi rated the worst was five months ago Rei Miyamoto the girl whom he had loved since he was a child ditched him for his best friend Hisashi Igou.

'Some best friend.' Thought Takashi bitterly. He knew he shouldn't think that way, but he couldn't help it. Apparently after he had gone missing Rei leaned heavily on Hisashi for support. During that year the two had grown close to one another. Until they shared their first kiss, on the night of Takashi's return no-less. They had spent that first month of his return trying to think of a way to tell him.

As it turned out they didn't even have to tell him.

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FIVE MONTHS EARLIER

Takashi was walking to Rei's house finally having worked up the courage to tell her how he feels for her, losing a year of your life can really put things in perspective. Sadly he would soon find that he had waited too long. Right as he turned the corner of the street that led to Rei's house, He saw Rei walk out of her front gate...Hand in hand with Hisashi.

Takashi could only watch in horror as his best friend was looking lovingly into the eyes of the woman he loved, and as she looked just as lovingly back at him. He had never felt more betrayed in his life. Just then the two turned spotting Takashi, Takashi unable to stomach the look of guilt in their eyes turned and ran.

"TAKASHI WAIT!" He heard Rei scream.

But Takashi didn't stop, he knew he had to get away not because of what he had seen, but because of what he had felt. Because right before they saw him Takashi really, truly, felt like KILLING Hisashi.

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He hadn't really spoken with them much since then. Luckily he only had one class with them which he now tended to skip. He remembered back when they were kids and she pinky promised to marry him one day. The day she crossed her heart. "Pinky promise, Cross my heart and hope to die. Yeah right!" Mumbled Takashi.

It was at that moment that Takashi saw a commotion down by the gate.

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A FEW HOURS LATER.

"LOOK OUT IT'S GOING TO CRASH!" Yelled Takashi as he grabbed Rei and jumped out of the way of the on coming bus hitting his head in the prossess. The bus burst into flames as Takashi was trying to shake the cobwebs out of his head.

"Komuro-Kun are you alright!?" Yelled Saeko Busujima.

"Yeah! Let's meet back up at the east police station!" Takashi yelled back.

"At what time?!" She asked in return.

"5! If not tonight then tomorrow!" Yelled Takashi in answer to her question.

"Come on Rei we need to get out of here" Said Takashi as he grabbed her hand and started walking, still feeling a little off from that bump on the head. It was at that point he though he heard Rei ask something.

"What..."

"Did you say something Rei?" Asked Takashi looking at the clearly confused girl.

"What are you talking about Takashi? I haven't said anything." Said Rei.

"Oh okay." Said Takashi shrugging it off.

After they made it a few more blocks to a shop that sold motorbikes Takashi was about to steal one when he heard the voice again.

"What is..."

"Alright Rei cut it out!" Snapped Takashi.

"Cut what out? What the hell are you talking about Takashi?" Rei snapped back getting pissed of with him.

Takashi was about to retort when suddenly his head started swimming and he fell to his hands and knees.

"What is your mission soldier!?"

"Takashi!" Rei called out in alarm. but Takashi didn't hear her because suddenly his dead memory had sprang back to life as sure as THEY had sprang back to life. Takashi could do nothing as the lost year of his life came flooding back with a vengeance.

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"What is your mission soldier?" Asked a man in a white coat.

"To eliminate and destroy all threats to this nation and it government, Sir!" Said Takashi in a robotic kind of voice.

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"Prepare the injection!" Said the man in the white coat. As Takashi was strapped to a lab table.

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"This man is a rapist and a murderer. We've promised to let him go if he kills you. So if you wish to live you had better kill him first." Said a man over a loud speaker.

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"Congratulations Agent Tora,(Tiger) you just have one more thing to do and then you can return home. We are sending you on an assassination mission. This will be your final test for Project Sleeper." Said a man in a military uniform.

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"Takashi! Speak to me!" Said Rei on the verge of hysterics.

"I-I remember." Said Takashi in a whisper.

"What? What do you remember?" Asked Rei still not fully calmed down.

"I remember everything!" Said Takashi as he looked at Rei. Rei took a step back as the look in Takashi's face scared her more then THEY did. While she didn't recognize at that moment she would soon come to know what that look was.

It was the look of a trained killer.

AND CUT!

A.N- Well this is the first chapter of DEAD Sleeper, Tell me what you think, I love when people leave a review. I don't know when my next update will be, due to the fact I have other stories in need of updating and I need to get on the ball with those.