Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto or H.O.T.D
Summary: Naruto, his brother and his best-friend, try to live each and every day they can with other survivors they have met along the way.
Just to let people know I will only let Sasuke, Naruto, and Kyuubi be the main characters from Naruto be in here, and others would be minor characters along with the main characters from the H.O.T.D
"Big Brother, those scary people are all over the place what are we going to do?" A small eight year old red haired blue eyed child quietly sobbed into the chest of an older teen who was about eighteen and was carrying him in his arms, he had shining blonde hair, and deep blue eyes as they hid behind a small shed in the front school yard, surrounded by dozens of the undead, while most of them were within the school eating whoever survived.
"I don't know Kyuu, but you gotta stay quiet, okay?" The teen whispered soothingly as he watched the hordes of the undead ignoring them as he tried to find a way to get away. The small boy nodded into his older brothers chest as he tried to calm himself down by taking large breathes as quietly as he could, trying not to freak out about what happened, how an entire day that was supposed to be perfect, all went to hell in a matter of a few hours.
Naruto was freaking out on the inside, while on the surface his face was calm and collected, and seemed to know where to be at the right time, but his mind was working at a mile a minute trying to come up with a conclusion on what was happening right before his eyes, everything that was supposed to be in horror movies was quickly becoming reality. His little brother in his arms was counting on him to survive while he held him in one hand, the other was his wooden sword, the one he had with him when those things started to attack.
They were exhausted, Naruto was starting to fear for the worst when he saw that more of those things were starting to gather outside, but they weren't after him, but another few poor souls who caught their attention by screaming while they were running from another horde of those undead beasts.
Naruto watched as those teens were being eaten alive on the other side of the front yard, he saw their blood began to form a pool around where they were being eaten, his younger brother covering his ears and shut his eyes tight, trying to block out their screams of fright and pain, or the sight of their mutilated bodies as they stained the ground where they lay.
Naruto was extremely scared, as he continued to watch the zombies eat their fresh meal, he looked around for any thing that could hold his little brother, his eyes landed on a duffel bag outside of the shed they were hiding behind.
Naruto looked around to see if there were any of those things close enough to grab him when he wasn't looking, but when he saw nothing he slowly made his way towards the bag, it was big enough to hold his brother, and also small enough for him to carry with ease. He quickly put his whimpering brother into the bag as he closed it just enough so that he could see his brothers head.
He regretted going to the bag as he saw one of those things closing in on him while he was about to carry his brother in the duffel bag like a backpack, as soon as he turned he dodged one of those things about to grab him, as if moving by instinct he slashed at the things head, the adrenaline he had as he tried to calm his pounding heart, looking around to see if there was any more of them that were coming towards him, but they were still distracted.
Then he saw his bloodied best friend running to their location while they were distracted, he ran off earlier to find anybody who was alive from their group of friends fear entered his body in full force as he looked at the expressions displaying on his face it was a slim chance they were.
"Sasuke what is happening, is anyone alive?" Naruto whispered when Sasuke was close enough. Sasuke looked conflicted like he didn't want to say anything, but the pained look in Naruto's eyes made the guilt take over him as he slowly spoke the truth about what happened moments before he saw his best-friend, and his little brother in a bag emerging from their hiding place, showing him that he had survived the hell hole they were currently in.
"Naruto, I-I just killed Sakura, and everyone else, even, even... Hinata." Sasuke looked away to hide his falling tears, and not to see his best friends look of horror.
Chapter One: Spring of Dead
The birds were chirping in a nearby tree as the students were in their classes, but a certain third year young blond and his ebony haired best friend were skipping their current class mainly because there was a small red haired boy that had sneaked into the high school grounds. The small boy was none other but Kyuubi Namikaze, Naruto Namikaze's younger brother.
"Kyuu what have I told you about skipping school!" Naruto scolded his younger brother who looked up at him with defiant eyes, as he pouted he wanted to spend more time with his brother before he went to do his daily club duties leaving him all alone once again. Before the small boy could retort from his reasoning for doing what he did, Sasuke cut him off.
"Just chill out Naruto, you know he does this at least once a week." Sasuke groaned as he ruffled his own hair to ease of his own annoyance, as he glared at the blond in front of him, who blew a raspberry at him in return
"I know but, I don't want his grades to fall." Naruto whispered to himself sadly, Sasuke looked at his friend, he could see all the conflicted emotions all over his face, like an open book.
"That's why he has us to help him out." Sasuke reassured his friend, as he patted him on the back, and ruffled the young forgotten red heads hair, who pouted not wanting to lash out at the black haired teen, and getting on his brothers bad side. Naruto just groaned, he knew Sasuke was right, but he couldn't shake the bad feeling he was having in his gut, but he shook it off thinking about why his younger brother wanted to skip school. Naruto drew up the conclusion that he wanted to spend more time with his brother, Naruto turned to Sasuke, who looked at him confused as he extended his hand towards his direction.
"Fine just give me my sword, so I can practice a bit before I skip the club meeting today, Saeko won't mind if I practice when I skip." Sasuke obliged happily, letting his stoic mask slip, mainly because of the threat of fan-girls were nowhere near their current location. Kyuubi stared at his older brother, he couldn't believe what he had just heard, he was ecstatic at the thought his older brother would actually stay with him this time.
"You are! Seriously big brother!" He asked, uncertainty was evident in his voice as Naruto and Sasuke looked at him with blank expressions, before large grins appeared on their faces as they both ruffled the young red heads hair as he giggled in excitement. As they were basked in the moment, a shrill scream, brought them back to reality, as they looked around with panicked expressions on their faces, Kyuubi grabbed unto his brothers leg in fear, as Naruto held his sword in battle position, while Sasuke tensed moving his body to attack with his fists if he needed too.
"What the hell was that!" Naruto yelled as he looked around for the source of the screaming, but Sasuke moved his shoulders moving him to look at a man on top of a woman, they looked familiar, but Sasuke looked pale as he looked at them.
"Holy shit, do you see that, its the p.e. teachers what the hell is going on, he-he is eating her." Naruto's eyes widened as he watched the blood oozing out of the female teacher, his mind went straight to Kyuubi, who was holding unto his pant leg crying in fear, as his eyes were glued unto the sight faraway, as people began screaming and running away. Naruto grabbed his brother, holding him tight as he lifted him up to carry, and comfort him and trying to make him look away, not wanting his little brother to witness the horrifying sight.
"Oh god, Kyuu look away, and stay quiet." Naruto whispered as he tried to find a good place to hide for the moment, he found a small shed near their location as he walked towards it, he turned to see Sasuke frozen, he could see him shaking in fear, he poked him by the tip of his sword getting his attention.
"..." Sasuke gasped as he felt Naruto poking him, Naruto's expression was filled with fear, but he hid it with one of his fake smiles, it somehow calmed him down, as he lead him to the school gardeners shed in front of them. When the reached their location, Naruto turned to look at Sasuke straight in the eye, his current fear was covered by the authority in his voice.
"Sasuke, we gotta hide and figure out a way to get out of here and warn people, but I can't run around as freely as you, with Kyuu here. Until I can find a way to carry him in a bag or something, do you think you can do it?" Naruto asked as he, held unto Kyuubi tightly, who was still crying as his small arms wrapped themselves around Naruto's neck shaking in fear. Naruto was calm, even in this situation they had just seen, Sasuke knew he had to be strong his younger brother needed someone stable to be with them, panicking wouldn't help them at all as they tried to formulate a plan.
"Yeah, and if I can I will try to bring our friends here, we can think of a plan then."
"Yeah I will wait here so hurry, please." Naruto let his mask slip a bit, as Sasuke saw that pained expression, like Naruto felt he was never going to see him again.
"Yeah, just promise me you'll stay alive and I will stay alive for you." Sasuke smirked trying to bring their conversation back to normal for his inner strength, as he ran towards on of the school entrances, Naruto looked at his friends retreating form as he hid from the p.e. class about a hundred yards away, as he hugged Kyuubi close, trying to cover his younger brothers ears, with his free hand, as screams were heard in the distance.
"Yeah you got my word." Naruto whispered as he heard the announcement, of a state of an emergency was given and to listen to the teachers, until the man speaking was screaming at someone, until he began screaming in pain, Naruto held Kyuubi tightly, as he tried to quiet his bothers sobs as they were hiding, while at the same time looking for the perfect bag.
Sasuke was running frantically to his class room, when he reached it he saw they were in a middle of a lecture, he barged in unannounced causing all eyes to turn to him. He looked at everyone, almost glaring as he spoke.
"Everyone, we need to evacuate immediately, someone was murdered at the school gate." He said as calmly as he could, the teacher looked at him flustered, and was about to speak before the announcements came on, it was a man who was telling them to evacuate, before he started screaming at another while he sounded like he was being tortured, after the announcer sounded like he had died, everyone was silent.
A chalk that was placed on the teachers pedestal rolled off and hit the ground shattering, it was silent for a second before everyone started screaming and started running having a large panic attack. Sasuke looked at everyone in fear as they ran, while hitting everyone else out of their way as they ran out of the classroom trying to leave the school, it was a massive panic attack.
"Sasuke what happened?" Sasuke turned to look at his friend, Sakura, head of the karate club looking at him with fear but quickly overcame the fear as she looked level headed at Sasuke while waiting for him to explain the situation during the screams her fellow students did as they ran, she dodged every hit headed her way, her fellow raven haired club mate Hinata was behind her looking at him frightened and almost fragile as she was surrounded by the current events taking place as they waited for an answer.
"Me and Naruto were outside on the school grounds when we saw one of the p.e. teachers eating another, it was horrible, but we have no time we have to get out of here right now no questions asked." Sasuke said as the girls looked at him, they looked like they were about to hurl at any second. The students were gone, the screams of their struggles to get away sounded faraway, there were many students who lid on the ground injured, some looked like they were trampled but still tried to get away.
"Wait you said Naruto was with you, where is he then?" Sakura asked, concern was evident on her face, the four of them grew up together, childhood friends who have went through everything together. Hinata was on the verge of tears as she looked at Sasuke, searching for anything to tell her of the blonds predicament, but Sasuke's serious face calmed her a bit, after seeing his reaction, he was in a hurry to leave, he looked like he would sprint from their sides at any second.
"He is still outside, hiding, he has Kyuubi with him, he can't run anywhere when the kid is too scared to move." Sasuke said calmly as he looked down the hall walking out of the class, walking to an opposite direction from the fellow students ran towards, he was going to go to another way he knew to get outside. Sakura and Hinata sighed in relief when they heard that the blond was currently safe as they followed closely behind Sasuke, who was going to towards on of the fire exits, a narrow stairway that lead to the outside on the side of the school, ten minutes away from where Naruto was hiding with Kyuubi.
As they walked swiftly and quietly towards the exit Sakura saw fellow students fighting of other students who had grabbed unto them, not letting them go they were covered in blood that dripped from their mouths. Sakura watched in disgust as she saw one student bite another, she ran aid the poor girl who was closest to her but the other students were already dead when she reached the girl, she kicked the back of the boys head with her legendary strength, a sickening crack was heard as the boy fell dead, the girl was crying uncontrollably a Sakura tried to comfort her not noticing one of them behind her biting her arm, Hinata by her side hit the fellow student with her unnatural strength as another sickening crack was heard, as they dragged the girl away from everyone else.
Sasuke looked at her in sadness and anger that something so horrible was happening in their school, they ran to the exit as fast as they could avoiding any other confrontations, making sure that none of them were following, while Sakura and the girl held their wounds as they put pressure to stop the blood flow.
The stairs were empty as they shut the heavy iron door, the girl Sakura saved was beginning to look sickly like herself, as they started to walk down the stairs they noticed she was coughing uncontrollably, she also began to cough up blood all over the stairs as they slowed down their movement, trying to not draw any attention to themselves as the saw many students on the ground spread out all over.
Sasuke also saw some people screaming as they were being eaten, while some sacrificed each other so that they could run only get captured by others that surrounded them blocking off their exits. Sakura held onto the girl beside her as she helped her walk by giving her some support, but as she coughed up a large amount of blood, she slumped down on the steps so that they could sit. She turned to Sasuke who was looking at her with widened eye's trying to understand what the hell was going on.
"Sasuke we have to rest for a few minutes, she's coughing up blood, moving around would just make it worse." Sakura wheezed as she spoke, she held the girl close to her, Hinata siting on the other side of the girl holding her hair away from her face so that she wouldn't breath in her hair, as she gasped for air.
Sasuke nodded telling them they would wait, but when he saw the girl, he noticed she was sickly pale, and had bags under her eyes, as her breathing began to shallow, just the same as Sakura who was hiding her pain behind her tough acting as she tried to relax.
"Don't worry about me. I'll be fine once we hit the hospital." She said as she tried to smile, but it looked forced. Hinata was crying as she saw her friend and the girl's eyes starting to fade in color, the quiet raven haired girl hugged her best friend close to herself crying as Sakura patted her back before resting her head on Hinata's shoulder. A few seconds passed before the girl they saved and Sakura's breathing stopped. Hinata started crying even harder as she held on to Sakura's uniform tightly not willing to let go.
"W-wake up Sakura, i-it's not funny... please wake up." Hinata sobbed silently into her friends shoulder.
"Hinata, they're dead, we have to run right now, Naruto is waiting." Sasuke said as his fists were clenched as he hid his pained expression by looking away from Sakura's body, he grabbed Hinata's hand so they could walk away from their dead friend and the girl she saved, but Sakura's body began to convulse, as she began to move, just like the girl next to her.
Sasuke couldn't believe it, he was angry at his friend, they were going through something bigger than all of them, they were all freaking out, and Sakura had the nerve to pretend to be dead. Hinata couldn't care less if it was a joke or not as she hugged Sakura close, her tears falling down her face were of tears of joy, they didn't see the dead look in both the pale girls faces.
Sasuke watched in horror as Hinata began screaming in pain as Sakura bit her neck, blood flowing out of her wound as she tried to fight of Sakura but they pink haired girls strength was impossibly strong. Sasuke kicked Sakura's head trying to kick her away, but the sound of her skull being crushed was heard as she fell down unto the steps as blood splattered out of her head. Hinata held unto her neck trying to stop the blood from flowing out as the nameless girl from before got up and charged at Hinata, but the usually shy girl kicked her head before she reached her, crushing her skull.
"So that's it," Hinata whispered to herself as she looked at her now confirmed dead friend, her tears never stopped flowing, as her uniform was decorated with her blood. Sasuke was freaking out, he saw the girls die before his eyes, and when they were about to leave they got up again and attacked them.
"What the fuck is going on, they were dead how the hell did they get up again this isn't one of those fucking horror movies." Sasuke yelled out as he grabbed unto his hair, pulling on it trying to calm himself down as Hinata tugged on his jacket uniform. When Sasuke turned to look at her, he saw her smiling at him sadly as her never ending tears fell to the pavement steps.
"Sasuke, once you have been bitten its the end, I would have loved to see Naruto one last time before I died, but I know I would never be able to." Hinata spoke softly, Sasuke couldn't believe his ears, the same girl who was always hiding behind Sakura had just accepted her fate as she looked down at the ground, the students were like small dots as her vision was starting to blur, in an instant she saw a flash of yellow. She smiled once again as she sobbed, she turned to face Sasuke once again, her neck was in so much pain as she held unto the bloodied wound tightly.
"Sasuke, please help me, I want to die by my own terms, I don't want to be one of those things, please, I beg of you please help me." Hinata said as she tried to lift her leg over the railing the was on the side of the stairs. Sasuke was stuck in place, he didn't want to move, he didn't want another friend dead, he clenched his eyes tight. Hinata knew it was a lot to ask, but she knew if he didn't then she would become one of those things that were plaguing the school.
"Please Sasuke help me over the rail, its what I want most in the world other than Naruto of course, I don't want to be one of those things-"
"How do you know that you will, it might be a coincidence that this all happened the way it did." Sasuke cut Hinata off, he didn't want to believe what she was saying was true as she she only shook her head at him before smiling her sad smile once again before she spoke.
"Sasuke, your smart you know that this is the truth, please don't close your eye's to the truth, do you remember why we fight?" Sasuke was looking at her, the words struck a chord in his heart as he finally looked her straight in the eye, the tears he held back fell down his face freely as he answered trying not to allow his voice to break.
"Yeah,... so that we can see the light of day again, our old saying." Hinata nodded slowly as she began to cough up blood, Sasuke hugged her close as quickly lifted her up, before he reached the edge, he heard Hinata whisper in his ear before he threw he down. She said her final words of thanks before she hit the ground, her blood splattered on the ground. Sasuke fell to his knee's as he cried to himself, a few minutes passed before he stood to look over the railing, his thoughts were surrounding the idea of jumping over the edge himself, but before he made his decision he saw a flash of yellow. Naruto was standing, as he looked around from behind his hiding spot, his last friend was still alive, and he was waiting for him to return to him, then he remembered what Hinata just moments ago before she killed herself with his help.
"Thank you Sasuke, and remember don't give up the hope that you can survive this."
Takashi, Rei, and Hizashi were running through the school trying to reach the roof of the school as fast as they could, but when they did they first noticed how quickly those things had made it to the top already. When they noticed the storage at the other side of the roof had a stair way that was easy to barricade, they ran there as fast as they could.
Dodging, running and hitting those things was the routine to make to the other side, but when they finally reached their destination Rei was about to be attacked by one of those things, that don't even have a name other than the undead came to close to her, feeling confident that she could take care of it she engaged the being.
"Are you nuts!" Takashi yelled out, knowing full well that she had no knowledge of how to take that thing down without getting attacked in the process, just as he predicted as soon as she took her eye's off of it to retort at him, that thing grabbed the pole she was using as a weapon and pushed her into the wall. The force of the blow pushed her to the ground, making her stare at it in fear that she was about to get eaten as well.
"Get away!" She screamed causing both of her companions to look at her, realizing that she was about to be attacked, she raised her arms to protect herself in her panicked state of mind.
"Re-" Takashi started to say about to run to her side, but was cut off by his injured best friend who yelled.
"Rei" Hizashi grabbed Takashi's weapon away as he ran to Rei's side swinging the bat at the things head killing it instantly.
"Hisashi!" Rei stood up, looking lovingly at her rescuer.
"Did you see that, you need to smash their heads." Hisashi told Rei his discoveries, just as they were about to leave back up the stairs he noticed another one of those things were walking up the stairs, he kicked it down causing it to die instantly as it hit the back of its neck making a gruesome cracking noise as it hit the ground.
"Rei, Hizashi Hurry this way!" Takashi yelled, as he ushered the two in, he couldn't help but notice how close those two were as they passed him, but he quickly looked away and saw how all of those things were everywhere, he was confused and scared as he yelled out.
"WHAT THE FUCK IS GOING ON!"
"Naruto, I-I just killed Sakura, and everyone else, even, even... Hinata." Sasuke looked away to hide his falling tears, and not to see his best friends look of horror.
Naruto didn't want to believe it, he didn't want to believe his friends were dead, but he knew if they were bitten it was inevitable to avoid death, his next question took the raven completely by surprise.
"Did-did they die happy?" Naruto asked as he tried to hide his tears, and his quiet sobs, Kyuubi was silent as he sat in the bag holding unto his knee's trying not to listen to his brother crying. Sasuke stared at his friend as he thought about Hinata, who smiled before her death, she didn't regret anything and about Sakura's bravery, she was still smiling like she didn't regret the choice she made, even if it cost her life.
Sasuke couldn't put any of it in words as he thought about their friends, he could only nod his head, while trying not to look into the blonds eye's, not wanting to see the pain that was hidden deep inside of him. But when he finally had the courage to look up he saw him smiling, he was happy that they didn't die scared and alone, but he wished he could be there with them, saying his final good bye before they finally died. Naruto wiped his tears away, as he found a new resolve to survive, he would never hear the end of it if he died then and there, his friends in the after life would most likely kick his ass if he died.
Takashi and Rei were running down the stairs, to look for survivors, and to find a way out of the school to try and find a way to get to their homes to see if their families were alright. Also to get the supplies they needed to somehow survive.
As they ran, they heard a piercing scream echo in the air, on instinct they ran to the source and were in complete shock, but they didn't have time to stop and gawk at the sight in front of them they had to take care of those things before they start biting so they started to swing as they were joined by a purple haired girl and the school ditzy nurse.
"We have to find a way out of here, I can only think about going to see the teachers lounge they always leave their car keys there." Naruto said, as he pulled his brother off of his leg and placed him on his back fixing the straps so that the bag wouldn't fall off or easily taken off. As he started walking towards the school, Sasuke walking right behind him as he tried to think as well. Kyuubi just kept silent as he felt his brother moving while he was inside the bag, waiting for them to find a way to get out of the school grounds and go somewhere safe.
"How would you know that? They could have had their keys with them when all this happened." Sasuke tried to reason, he didn't want to go back into the school, and most likely lose his last and only true friend during the process, he didn't think he could live through another of their friends death, and he didn't want to put the kid at risk when they run from all the attacks. Naruto turned around, looking annoyed about his judgement being questioned as he led them towards the school, around the least populated area in hopes that they could make it through.
"Sasuke, out of the whole school, who gets sent to that room most of all." Naruto asked as he walked past one of the undead, they kept silent for a few moments until they made it past the school doors, and near the stairs where there was no one, about half way up the stairs Sasuke answered him about the most common knowledge around the third years.
"You do-"
"Of course, so I would know what is kept there more than anyone, even if there are no car keys there's the bus keys we could always swipe." Naruto cut him off, as they ran down the hall way, a few of them were walking slowly, not wanting to take any risks Naruto ran towards the closest one and cut it down, one after the other until the hallway was cleared of the remaining few of those things, they were nearly at the Faculty room, it was just around the corner.
They continued walking until they heard screaming, running on instinct Naruto ran towards the screaming, there he saw a couple of survivors fighting those things that were surrounding them.
"I can't take it anymore, someone please!" screamed a young teen girl, but everything went blank for the two seniors, they went on auto pilot.
He ran towards the closest one of the undead and started to swing his sword, not paying attention to who he was saving or who was there fighting alongside him, as Sasuke kicked each one in the head, with his experience he refused to let one get a hold of him as he fought near Naruto, and careful of his swings not wanting to get hit.
As the two fought, they were graceful with every move that they made, they were always known for their amazing teamwork even though it sometimes it gets them into trouble, but it was like they were born to fight by each others side.
They continued fighting on instinct, they didn't slow down the process until the area they were in was cleared of the rising dead which was in a matter of a few seconds. When the room was quiet once again, except for the sounds of sobbing coming from the bag Naruto had on his back, and the girl they just saved who he realized was his beloved younger cousin Saya Takagi.
Naruto slowly turned as he snapped out of Auto pilot with Sasuke by his side, careful of the bag on his back that carried his beloved baby brother, he noticed his club captain Saeko standing before him, they silently regarded each others presence as they looked into the others eyes and nodding.
Saya Takagi stared at her reflection in fear, she was trying to catch her breath, but with her near death experience she couldn't take it. Rei was at her side in seconds, cutting off Hirano from going to her side with Shizuka behind her knocking Hirano to the ground, not that he minded how it happened at all.
"Takagi, are you okay?" Rei asked, as Shizuka looked worriedly at the young pink haired girl.
"Miyamoto." She softly said, Takashi went to the door to shut it in hopes that it will stop them from approaching for awhile.
Takashi looked at the people around them, out of them all the one who caught his attention was the blond with the duffel bag on his back, that had a tuft of red hair at the top of the bag. He was curious but the purple haired girl started to speak.
"You already know the school doctor Marikawa right? And I'm Saeko Busujima from class 3-A"
"I'm Takashi Komuro, from class 2-B" Takashi replied, but the person that held his curiosity stayed silent, like he was waiting as he looked into his companions ebony eye's.
"Ms. Busujima, I remember you won the national championship last year. I'm Rei Miyamoto, I'm in the spear martial arts club." Rei introduced herself to the Senior, as she stood up, unaware of the pudgy boy behind here silently waiting for his turn to introduce himself.
"Oh and I'm Kohta Hirano, from class B just FYI." Saeko smiled at him, and politely spoke.
"Nice to meet you," Hirano gasped at the beauty in front of him, Sasuke couldn't help but snort quietly at Hirano's attitude at seeing a girl, but no one looked at him as Takagi angrily stood and started to yell at them, not once noticing the blond and his friend.
"Why are you guys being all warm and fuzzy! Why are you being so polite to her Miyamoto, you flunked last year. She's not your elder-" Rei looked both shocked and sadly at Takagi as she reminded her of her failure to move unto the next grade.
"What are you talking about Takagi-" Takashi began, but was immediately cut off as she began to scream at them.
"Don't talk to me like I'm stupid. I'm smarter than all of you combined, you should be lucky I'm in the same school as you. I'm a- I'm a" A hand to her shoulder stopped her from continuing and succeeded in calming her down.
"It's okay, that's enough." A soft voice spoke, it was the older blond teen, one of the duo that took out most of the zombies. He stood in front of Takagi, his bag ruffled as he stood in front of her looking at her panicked state. She didn't look up, but looked to the side where a mirror stayed on the wall in front of her, she saw her uniform, and her face, it was splattered with blood.
"Look at me, all of these blood stains. Now mom will h-have to take it to the cleaners." She spoke in a shaky voice, as Takashi came into her view in the mirror, his gaze held sadness and pity as he saw her standing shakily in front of the mirror and the blond stranger.
Takagi saw his face, and plunged into the awaiting chest of the boy who held her shoulder, crying out her frustration, and absolute fear as they both slid to the ground. Naruto held unto her, allowing her to cry, while speaking softly into her ear, loud enough for all of them to hear.
"It's okay, I'm here Saya. Your big cousin Naruto will protect you, it will be alright." As everyone stared sadly at the two, Saeko came to their side also holding unto them, in a protective hug until Saya calmed down. Everyone then remembered their situation, and why they had to be on alert, even though the small moment had come and gone where everyone was happy, and worry free, they had to find a way to survive.
"What do you think?" Takashi asked as he dropped the last item on the barricade on the only exit.
"I think that's enough right now, let's take a quick break." Saeko responded, as she rubbed her shoulder, as she sat on one of the seats in the room, as Hirano slipped away to check on Saya, who was washing herself off at the moment.
"Hey, just wondering, are you okay?" He asked as she was wiping her face free of water. When she finally looked up she placed her glasses on her face.
"huh?" She asked as her face glistened from the excess water on her face, as she faced Hirano who was frozen in place.
"You wear glasses!" Hirano squawked out, but Saya threw the towel she had in her hand at the pudgy boy to silence him
"SHUT UP, my contact lenses keep on moving around!" She huffed, as she walked past him unaware of his infatuation of the fact she just revealed.
"She wear's glasses." Hirano spoke out dreamily, as Saya went straight to the blonds side who held a small red haired boy in his arms, when he revealed him to the group just minutes after the barricade was finished. Rei walked up to Takashi after she grabbed a couple bottles of water, who sat against the photocopiers as he relaxed.
"Here you go." Rei said as she handed one the bottles of water to Takashi, and walked away.
"Thanks. Doctor Marikawa, where's the car keys?" Takashi asked as the doctor grabbed her purse.
"Oh it's in my purse somewhere."
"Aunt Shizuka, it is not wise to take your vehicle." Naruto said, as he walked next to the ditzy woman.
"Aunt?" Rei, Takashi, and Hirano spoke in unison at the new piece of information, as Saeko continued without much thought.
"I agree Doctor, what about the micro bus we use for the clubs away games?"
"The keys are on the wall hooks here." Sasuke said, as he grabbed the keys, twirling them in his fingers. Hirano looked out the window behind him inspecting the area.
"Hey guy's I see the bus." He said, as it cleared some tension about the thought about looking for the vehicle.
"That's fine, but where are we going?" Shizuka asked, as she couldn't keep up with the conversation.
"Wait a minute, who are you guys first?" Rei asked as she leaned against the wall, she recognized both teens, but didn't know from where. Naruto sighed as he looked at Sasuke, waiting for him to break and to introduce them, since he was too lazy at the moment, which didn't take long.
"I'm Sasuke Uchiha, and this blond idiot happens to be my best friend Naruto Namikaze, and the red haired midget is his little brother Kyuubi who sneaked unto campus grounds just moments before those things attacked." Sasuke's hand clenched tightly as the image of Sakura, and Hinata flashed through his immediately saw the signs, he placed his hand on Sasuke's shoulder in a sign to comfort the other teen, which did it's job.
Takashi, Rei, and Hirano froze in place they knew those names, they were the most famous people in the entire school. Sasuke was known for his beauty and as the ice prince cold to anyone but a select few, and his hordes of fans along with his athletic abilities. Naruto was known as the golden king of the school the only one on equal grounds with Sasuke, and his company with many beautiful women (who are in fact his family, which they don't know about that little fact).
"Now that you know who we are, what's the plan to just stand there and gawk at us all day?" Naruto asked in a teasing tone which was so soft as he stared directly into Takashi's eye's who flinched at the eye contact, he felt inferior to the two in front of him, they were amazing when they fought earlier that it was like they weren't normal humans but super beings who graced them with their presence.
"Hey it's okay, no need to be scared. In the end we are all equal, no one is greater than the next." Naruto comforted him, as he watched Takashi's reaction, he noticed the younger teen was slowly opening up to them as he gained back his earlier confidence and continued to speak before Rei interrupted him to ask who the famous teens were.
"We're going to see if our families are okay. We'll start with the family that lives closest from here, if you're worried about your family, we'll bring them with us, after that we'll look for a safe place and-" Takashi stopped talking, in the silence Saya looked at Takashi in confusion, after pulling down her shirt after inspecting it.
"What's wrong?" Then they noticed Rei, who was looking at the television watching the news.
"What is this!" She whispered as Saeko quickly went to the desk with the remote, turning up the volume as fast as she could.
"Whats wrong Rei?"
"Government have begun to consider emergency measures against the outbreaks that have been occurring around in locations around the city. However all the political-"
"Outbreaks! What do they mean outbreaks!" Takashi yelled out as Saeko changed the channel, hoping there were more answers on the other stations.
"It's been feared, more than ten thousand has been victimized in the Saidama area so far. The Governor has called for-" A gunshot was heard in the background, as the news reporter looked at her side in fear as the camera moved to where she was looking as body bags rose and begun moving, as she continued her report.
"The Governor has declared a state of Emergency, and requested the emergency disaster relief-. It's a gunshot, it's the police, they're finally using firearms. From what I can see from here- No, NO, NOOOO." They could hear her screaming as the camera falls to the ground, showing someones feet. The station quickly cuts the feed off, everyone stared in shock at the t.v. no one spoke a word.
The station continues as a woman at a desk reads off of the paper in front of her,
"There appears to be a problem with our remote, from now on we'll bring you reports from inside the studio. The condition outside seemed extremely Chaotic, stay home unless it's absolutely necessary to go outside. We'll bring you more stories of the current situation as soon as its safe from the site." Takashi hit the desk in frustration.
"Ugh, is that all? Why didn't they tell us anything else?"
"It's like a scary movie Big bro-" Naruto shushed to frightened boy, as he stroked the child's back an old habit from when they were younger as everyone else continued
"They're afraid of causing a panic." Sasuke began, but he let Saya continue knowing she had an opinion about it.
"A Panic?"
"Yeah you idiot!"
"Now now no need for name calling Saya." Naruto scolded as she continued,
"First panic then chaos, and chaos causes a disruption of order, and then when orders disrupted well you can just hand everything to the walking corpses." She finished, the t.v. continued their reports.
"This unusual and unprecedented biological phenomenon that spread throughout the North America has yet to be put under control. Government authorities have evacuated the white house, and will relocate on a command center on board the aircraft carrier George Washington. There are reports that the transfer of power is in preparation of tactical warheads to combat the infestation. We've currently lost contact with Moscow, Beijing has been set ablaze. London has maintained order while in Paris and Rome there are reports of looting. The government officials have declared a state of martial law-" The t.v. began to sound distorted as it continued, until the signal was lost.
"So they're everywhere-"
"That's crazy, everything was normal when I checked the internet this morning-"
"I can't believe it, this happened all over the world in a matter of a few hours," Rei said as she backed up to tug on Takashi's sleeve as she continued.
"But they'll stop it right, I mean they have to stop it from spreading, I mean everything's going back to normal soon." Sasuke stared at the girl in disbelief, he hated her attitude at the moment, as she was trying to delude herself that it was all going to go away, blow over by itself.
"That's not gonna happen!" He said in annoyance, but Takashi was quick to her rescue
"Why do you have to be so blunt about it?" he asked rashly, but Saya answered for the raven.
"This is a pandemic, there's nothing we can do." Shizuka gasped
"A pandemic?" She began thinking seriously, as Takashi remembered she was there as well.
"It's an outbreak of an infectious disease, the entire world is experiencing the same outbreak." Naruto held unto the shaking child as everyone else continued with Sasuke, and Saya talking about the possibilities of what was happening.
"So what it's some kind of epidemic?" Takashi asked as Naruto walked next to him, as Saya continued
"This is exactly like the Spanish flu in 1918, more than 600 million people got infected, and 50 million people died from it. Remember what a panic swine flu caused, well square that." Sasuke finished, as Shizuka replied to that statement.
"Not to be disagreeable I think this is more like the black death from the 14th century."
"One third of the European population died you're more smarter than you look." Sasuke said as Naruto glared daggers at him, causing him to whistle as he looked at the other direction.
"Yeah, yeah, yeah I know you both had high grades in History class but seriously this isn't a school session, we need to be figuring out a way to get out of here without those things outside overwhelming us." Naruto groaned, as his soft voice calmed the situation some, he always had that kind of voice that could make you feel safe in any situation.
"But I kinda wanna know how the outbreak ended." Takashi asked, wary to spark the blond boy's anger, as his aunt Shizuka simply answered the curious boy.
"Well the funny theory is, it usually stops when too many human's die. There wouldn't be enough people to spread the disease-"
"But now, all the dead people started moving and started attacking you." Hirano threw into the conversation as he looked behind the blinds on the window, watching the dead wondering around the school grounds.
"Are you saying there's no reason for this outbreak to stop." Naruto started to shake in anger when they didn't stop, Sasuke was quick to notice since he never took his eye's off the blond in fear that if he looked away he would lose him, but he didn't feel a reason to stop the annoying conversation for his blond friend, but what Sasuke didn't know was that he had already found the answer to their scenario and was annoyed no one found out about it yet.
"Ah, the weathers going to be hot they might be able to move while their flesh decomposes, and they become skeletons." Shizuka piped out happily as she spoke her mind, Saeko turned to the doctor as she spoke.
"How long does it take for that to happen?"
"Well in summer some parts of the body could be come skeletal in 20 days, but it takes considerably longer during winter." Shizuka began mumbling as she started to think out the scenarios about how each theory would take place.
"About a couple months, that's not too terribly long." She said happily,
"You're kidding, she's not smarter than she looks." Saya said as she looked at Sasuke who seemed to be contemplating what she said coming to the same conclusion as Saya just as Naruto did moments before any of them.
"So what are you saying." Takashi spoke as he stared directly at Saya who was about to continue before Naruto coughed grabbing everyone's attention.
"What my adorable cousin was saying is that medical logic does not apply to those dead corpses that move and attack humans, and the worst case scenario is that they may never decompose." Naruto said as he finally calmed down.
"Well first things first, we should check if our families are okay. Then we need to find some place to hold up for awhile, but no matter where we go we're going to need a plan, just like Naruto said-"
"Finally someone with some sense, I always knew I liked you Saeko." Naruto smiled as he winked at the flustered girl, who quickly schooled her face and continued her speech, but Sasuke saw the faint pink that stayed on her face as everyone was too busy listening to the girl.
"Teams! We need to team up." Everyone prepared their weapons, as Naruto put Kyuubi back in the duffel bag with Sasuke by his side hold a base ball bat he found on the floor next to the P.E. teachers desk, Saya was with Hirano, Rei was with the doctor, while Takashi was with Saeko.
"Let's try to pick up survivors whenever we can."
"Leave that to me and Sasuke." Naruto's voice chimed as, Sasuke did the finishing touches on strapping Kyuubi with Naruto.
"No we should work with them." Sasuke snapped, as he held unto the blonds shirt both growling at each other as they stared at each other face to face.
"I won't lose you too, I can't lose you-you idiot." Sasuke growled out again as he hugged the blond tightly as Naruto's eye's widened in realization, he never wanted to lose another friend, and Naruto was his little brother, they were all they had left him, Naruto, and little Kyuubi.
"Yeah I know, but you won't I right here Sasuke, you know I don't go down that easily." Naruto said as he patted Sasuke's back, looking at their audience.
"No need to listen to our little break down, let get a move on." As Sasuke let go of him, Saya told them they had to leave through the front door.
"Well what are we waiting for am invitation? Lets get a move on." Naruto piped as he took the front lines with Sasuke and Takashi by his side, as Saeko was taking care of their sides, with Hirano shooting from behind them. They made it to the stairway outside which lead to the second floor of the building, Saeko found it necessary to brief them about fighting the living dead.
"There's no need to engage in a fight with them unless absolutely necessary, do whatever you can to avoid a fight, got it?"
"Remember they're sensitive to sound so keep it quiet, and they're strong enough to rip through regular doors, so if get a hold of you they are going to tear you to shreds. So be careful." As soon as Saya finished her observation a scream echoed through the area, and Naruto bolted with Sasuke by his side.
Takashi and the rest of the group followed the boys with difficulty as they slashed, and bashed at every undead in their path totally ignoring Saeko's warnings as they got further ahead leaving headless corpses behind them. When the group arrived at the scene where a small group stood standing before their saviors bowing theirs respects to the two idols regardless of their couldn't believe it, they obliterated everything in their path without much difficulty, and they didn't even look winded, and their speed was inhuman, especially Naruto who zoomed through the hordes of the undead.
"Hey keep the tones down, also was anyone bitten yet?" Naruto asked, as he looked at the three boys and two girls with a hard expression .
"What? No, no one was bit." The girl with shoulder length hair shook her head, and waved her hands, Rei came down and she inspected them.
"It looks okay, it will be alright." Rei said as she smiled at the blond teen.
"We're getting out of here, do any of you want to come with us?" Takashi asked as he walked down the stairs. The same girl answered for her group, as she agreed to follow them. They walked until they got to the stairs that went straight to the front door, but it wasn't all good news when they made it to the bottom. The entire bottom area was swarming with the undead, it looked impossible to go through.
"From what I can tell is they only thing they react to is sounds, they can't see us so it's pointless to hide from them."
"Why don't you go down and prove that theory." Takashi retorted, causing Saya to scoff at the other teen.
"We are eventually going to be attacked if we stay in the school." Saeko stated the facts if they didn't go through the mob of the undead.
"We have to go through the gates, we have no other choice." Rei stated as her grip of the broken mop tightened.
"Someone has to confirm Takagi's theory." Saeko said, as she watched each movement the dead made as they discussed what to do.
"I'd do it but my body guard would never let me go alone, and well I have another passenger I would be endangering." Naruto said, as Sasuke stood beside him next to Takashi and Hirano, as he held unto the blonds wrist not letting him go, his words bodyguard had a secret double meaning.
"I'll do it." Takashi announced, Rei merely gasped as he walked down the stairs, she was about to yell she was going with him, until Sasuke covered her mouth, his glare shut her up before she could try and snap at him, as Saeko spoke.
"This is a man's decision, you should sit still and respect it." As her hold on her weapon discretely moved into a ready position, as well as Naruto's, who could very easily take down the mob in seconds, but he knew better than to reveal his secrets even if his life depended on it.
"Hey Takashi I have only one question, why are you doing this?" Naruto asked, as he watched the younger teen in amusement.
"I don't know."
"You don't know huh." The amusement gleamed in his eye's as Sasuke watched, studying the younger boy.
"Seriously, I don't know." Takashi turned, and looked at the two older boys with an unreadable expression on his face. Sasuke merely filed away his observation, which he knew would be needed later on. Naruto smiled at him, with a knowing expression on his face, as Rei attempted to struggle against Sasuke's hold but when he returned his gaze on her, his cold black eye's froze her in place.
Naruto watched as Takashi walked down the stairs, he could tell the boy was scared as he walked to the center of the room as quietly as he could. One of the undead came dangerously close to Takashi, the boy looked extremely scared as the undead passed him without giving him a glance. Takashi calmed down, as he reached down to the area next to him, picking up a small shoe he threw it at the other side of the wall away from the entrance.
The small thud echoed in the room as all of the undead moved to the direction of the sound. The rest of the group made their way down the stairs with Naruto and Sasuke in the lead, but in a split second that no one could predict, one of the boys they rescued weapon hit the stair rails, the sound echoed through the entire school.
Takashi acted on instinct as he yelled his loudest to run, everything after that all of hell came loose. Naruto slashed through all the zombies in his path with such precision that it would make an assassin jealous of his ninja like skills, just Sasuke showed just as much talent as himself maybe even more, not that Naruto would admit that. But the two were so ahead of the rest of the group that they didn't notice the boy with the towel around his neck get grabbed and eaten, or the fact they left the group vulnerable as they made it to the bus guarding it's doors, killing the dead left and right.
When everyone arrived and seated themselves inside the bus, they noticed another group of survivors. It was the teacher Koichi Shido, and a group of students, Rei's face looked in between that of horror and disgust, laced with rage. While Takashi yelled for Shizuka to wait until the other survivors arrived.
"Live him here to die, you'll regret it if you save him." Rei yelled, Takashi was ready to retort until a cold voice chilled him to the bone,
"I guess the zombies aren't the only ones who're not human anymore." Takashi looked to the source of the voice, and found it to be Sasuke, the raven held unto his weapon tightly, as Naruto walked to his side with his sword ready as they jumped out of the bus. Naruto looked back at them, glaring hard at Rei which made her scared for her life as he held unto his weapon in a deadly manner, until he spoke his usually soft voice was rough and hard which scared everyone on the bus except for the small red haired boy Kyuubi who wasn't looking as he shut his eyes closed, Saya as she looked outside at the undead gathering in their way her fists forming a ball as she wanted so bad to defend the girl, but knew it was hopeless to go against the boy's judgment of the girl until later on
"You disgust me, regardless of your past with the man, you would allow other innocent people to die because of your hate." Naruto yelled as he fought the undead left and right, Rei wanted to yell back and defend her statement, but no words escaped her mouth, except for small sobs as the blond and the raven continued to fight.
Takashi knew right then and there, he was no match for these two. They were powerful, had the strength of a leader yet they follow under his leadership which didn't make sense too him, but he knew they were right there were others they had to save regardless of Rei's uncomfortable state with the man they had to save the others.
"You'll regret it." She cried into his ear as he walked out of the bus to help the godlike boys fight the oncoming waves of the undead.
I know I am horrible to make Rei seem like the bad guy in the end, but we all know Naruto has a tendency to be a hero, but regardless of the male teacher there were other students with them, and the reason I skipped the part where Shido kicked that kid in the face is because they missed it as they glared at the girl. Well I hope I won't recieve flame about the younger brother part but you'll see later on about what I meant to go for in the story, and the fact that Shizuka is Naruto and Kyuubi's aunt is because she is Minato's younger sister, as Saya's mom in Kushina's older sister, there I hope I covered every detail. If not just tell me so I can fill it out in the next chapter. XD