Some notes before the story starts. This character (and if you came from my other story you should know his name) is NOT me in anyway. We do not have the same story, we do not have the same thoughts on certain situations, we are not the same. He is his own character (albeit I created him) and I am my own person. Now that that rant is out of the way let the story begin. Oh, and this story will be in first person with shifting perspectives (it will say it when the perspectives change), unlike my other story, just for fair warning. I own nothing but the OC and parts of the future storyline.


I was out late on the night before the world went to hell. I was on another job, like any other job I do. The police had no evidence, but, then again, there was a reason I never worked with officers of the law. I had no clue that would be the last job I would ever do before everything went horribly, horribly wrong...


I leaned on the railing of an outdoor staircase with my bag slung over my shoulder. I didn't care about school anymore, I already had a fairly lucrative way to produce money and my intelligence was already way above average (well, in my opinion anyway). I sighed thinking back to the past (as what always happened when I was left alone in my own silence) and began to feel my inner demons pull me back into the recesses of my mind.

"We'll get married one day!" One of my childhood friends exclaimed as we played in the park.

"You think so!?" I replied naively, unaware of the true meaning of marriage.

"Mhm! Pinky promise! Cross my heart!" she replied

"And hope to die!"

My memories shifted and I remembered the moment when I first saw my (once) closest childhood friend Rei Miyamoto standing side by side with my best friend Hisashi Igou showing affection to one another on the other side of the tracks from me. Rei stopped when she looked across and saw me staring at them and I couldn't tell if she made a face of regret or disgust. It hurt for a while, a long while, fuck it, it hurt for a long time. I was in a perpetual hell of my own agony, angst and loneliness. My closest friend and my childhood sweetheart started dating one of my few closest friends behind my back while I was too nervous to ask her out like the scared, weak fuck head I am. After everything, the crying, the screaming, the silence, it changed me drastically, I forgot how to feel. How to feel a lot of things, a lot of good things. I became as numb as I was all those years ago, when once again everything I had cared about left me forcibly. However, even though I feel (or felt rather) that way, I still care for them, they were and still are, some of my closest friends, and despite the numbness that still encumbers my very being, I will not let harm befell upon them.

"Pinky promise my ass..." I mumbled to myself as I combed by long black hair with my fingers. Of course, the case was I was still sour about it, more of at myself than them.

"That's so stupid, Soul" a voice from behind me exclaimed, seemingly hearing my thoughts upon the matter, then again, it wasn't like it was subtle.

I looked back to see it was none other than another old friend of mine Saya Takagi "What do you want Saya" I said in a tired tone.

"You always come to this staircase whenever you find a problem you can't deal with! It's like your own little pity corner or something. God it's pathetic!" She paused to move closer to my face "the semester has barely started! How are you ever going to make it through the year"

"Like I've done every year, show up for the tests and get information on the homework from the people that don't hate me." I retorted matter-of-factly.

"That's stupid!"

"It isn't stupid if it works" I paused to sigh "why are you up here anyway, doesn't it seem a little hypocritical to lecture someone about cutting class while you cut class."

"It's alright because I'm a genius, unlike you" Saya said pretentiously, pointing her own thumb towards herself for emphasis.

"Yeah, and I'm a hired hit man" in hindsight that analogy doesn't really fit, but, there's no way she should nor would know that.

"Screw you" she growled.

"Why are you always so hostile to me?"

"'Cause I hate stupid people. Especially the idiots who cannot admit they are stupid. I mean you're pretty stupid, but at least you understand that much, so maybe if I tell you you're stupid then maybe by some dumb luck it'll make you less stupid, stupid!" I sighed again, turning away from her, facing the newly blossoming Sakura trees. "Grow up already, quit moping 'cause your little friend dumped you, it's really pathetic" she crossed her arms and walked away.

"I never said I wasn't pathetic..." I said under my breath. I closed my eyes and basked in the warm spring sun, enjoying it's warmth and doses of dopamine. I was pulled out of my thoughts when I heard the clanging of something on the gates of the school. I looked and set my eyes on those said gates where a figure had put his arm through and was attempting to force his way in.

"Who the hell that?" I said to myself as straightened up "A trespasser? Some disgruntled parent" I chuckled as I half joked.

POV CHANGE: 3rd person

A group of teachers went to confront the disgruntled looking man at the gate.

"You there! What do you think you are doing!" A female teacher asked the man. The man continued to hit himself against the gate with dead eyes "This is a private academy!"

"It's alright Hayashi-san, allow me to handle this" one of the male teachers said to the now named Hayashi as he pulled up his sleeves and approached the man.

He grabbed the man's collar and slammed his head against the gate "H-hey now, let's not use such violence" Hayashi said responding to the male gym teacher's rash actions. The man's eyes rolled up towards the sky and he grabbed the teacher's arm and bit deeply into it. The teacher yelled out in pain and fell back clutching now profusely leaking wound (the man had bitten into an artery). The man's wailing echoed for a few moments until he fell back and went silent.

"Oh my god he's dead" an older teacher holding a pole said in a raspy voice.

"No way, that's impossible, it was only a small wound..." Hayashi said in utter shock, apparently not fully understanding what an artery was. The male teachers hands twitched and he opened his eyes. Though instead of a normal white color his pupils with now a bleak gray along with his visible skin "Teshima-san, are you alright" she asked in a worried tone. She leaned down to assist him but he grabbed onto her shirt and bit into her neck violently.

POV CHANGE: Soul's View

I doubled back in shock as he watched the male teacher devour a teacher I believed was named Hayashi "What the fuck..." After staring for a moment I collected myself mentally and ran up the steps. I needed to get Rei, Saya, and Hisashi out of here, I need to make sure they're safe. It's all I'm good for anyway...


I barreled down the hallway as fast as I possibly could move, feeling panic travel up my spine. I've grown used to the sight of blood but seeing a human eat another of their kind... that's just a brand new kind of revolting. I opened my bag and pulled out a pair of military issue CCQ gloves (which I had received from a close friend of mine as a token of gratitude) as I ran down the hall. I fumbled to put them on, my panic beginning to turn to determination; determination to save my few friends. I slammed opened the door loudly and strided in, sweat trailing down my neck.

The room became ominously quiet from my sudden entrance "Sweaper! You couldn't just be happy with skipping my class?! It's not like I was going to write you up!" The teacher half-yelled from the front of the class, sounding somewhat agitated.

"Go fuck yourself" I responded back quickly, not putting much thought to the now bewildered teacher. I saw Rei look over to me, along with most of the class, from my out burst. I grabbed her arm "Come with me, we need to go"

"W-What are you talking about?!" Rei responded to me, pulling back lightly from my hold. From the corner of my eye I could see Saya get up from her seat and look at me strangely.

"Dude, what the hell are you doing" Hisashi said as she walked over to me.

I turned to face him "Some shit is going down"

He narrowed his eyes "What shit?" he asked, suspiciousness staining his voice.

I moved closer to him, my eyes reflecting the tone of my voice "someone just got fucking eaten outside, we need to fucking go" I hissed in annoyance.

Hisashi was taken aback for a moment, noticing that look in my eye "You're not kidding…"

"Yes I'm not fucking kidding"

Rei pulled away from my grasp, confused at what I was saying "Jeez! What's going on! I can never understand what yo-" I interrupted her with a sharp slap to her cheek. In hindsight, it wasn't necessary but I did so anyway. I didn't want to do it but this was no time for arguing. She clasped her right cheek in pain.

"What, first cutting class and now assualt! How did you get in this school?" the teacher exclaimed producing a stifled laugh from part of the class

Rei started again "What-"

I interrupted her once again "Listen! Fucking listen to me!" I exclaimed while turning to Hisashi. "This isn't some fucking joke! Something is happening here!"

A serious look on his face emerged and he nodded. "Alright, let's go."

I looked over to Saya "You need come too"

"Me, come with you?" She blushes lightly while scoffing "I'd rather die"

"Have it your way" I know Saya was resourceful enough to survive this, or, I at least hoped as much.


The three of us rushed the halls, ensuring to get away from the main building, whether we were away of that or not "At least tell me what the hell is going on!" Rei complained.

"There was this guy at the gates, the gym teachers went to check out what he was doing there but one of them got bit. He got up but literally killed and ate another one." I explained with little emotion in my voice, to stress the seriousness of this situation.

"That's impossible" she replied with fear filling her eyes

"Where are we going to go? Where can we go?" Hisashi asked me.

"We need to get to my stash" I replied to him swiftly l.

"Stash of what" he questioned in confusion.

"Weapons! What else?"

He seemed to give me a strange look "Why do you… never mind, it's not important right now, where is it"

"...on the other side of the school"

"Dammit, well we need to get some sort of weapons" Hisashi responded running up a set of stairs towards some locker. He broke off the handle of a broom and gave it to Rei.

He got a bat and reached it out to me "Don't worry, I already have a weapon" I said pulled out a 9mm pistol from my bag, one that has seen more than enough battle "You keep it."

His eyes narrowed for a moment confused on why I had a gun on me but he shook it off "I'm going to have to ask you about that later too... Anyway, I don't need it, I have a black belt in karate"

I took the bat and ripped the strap from a bag to make a makeshift shoulder sling for it "If you say so..."

"Now let's go, we need to get out of the school, we'll be sitting ducks here."

"Let's just call the police, we can talk to my father"

"Alright, worth a shot" I said pulling the smart phone from my pocket and handing it to Rei.

She took it and dialed 110 "No way..." She said shakily.

"What?"

She put the phone on speaker "-may stay on the line attempt to call back again later. Currently, 110 is experiencing an extremely high call volume. You may stay on the line or..." A female sounding automated voice repeated.

"It's busy... That isn't possible, it just can't be..." Rei said slowly obviously somewhat shaken. The hall was silent, dead silent, for a moment as we took in that information.

I jumped a little as a teacher on the intercom made an announcement in a breathless and fear ridden voice "This announcement is for all students and faculty" he paused to swallow hard and audibly "an emergency situation is taking place inside the school right now. All students must follow your teacher's instructions and evacuate. You need to exit in a calm and-" the mic fell down causing feedback to sound.

"We should start moving..." I murmured, motioning them to quickly follow me.

The air was silent for a moment before a groan was heard over the speaker "g-get the fuck away from me..." The panicked teacher said the monster that could be heard near him. There were shuffling noises of feet moving "Get the hell away from me!" It was silent again for another moment or two before the man on the intercoms began to scream loudly "NO PLEASE, I HAVE A FAMILY! KIDS! HELP! OH GOD SOMEONE HELP, SOMEONE HELP M-GURCK" the man was interrupted by a loud, squishy chomp. The chomp was followed by chewing and growling. The air went silent, not a single sound could be heard around us. Not the sounds of class going on, the sounds of janitors cleaning, not even the sounds of the people outside for gym, just the deafening silence. It... Scared me, something I didn't think I would feel ever again, but it really did. But I couldn't let this stop me, I have people to save and support. Suddenly screaming erupted and loud footsteps echoed throughout.

"Shit, here we go, that really helped ease the fucking panic..." I mumbled putting my finger on the trigger of my trusty gun, hoping it would provide me with the protection it's given me for years.

"This way!" Hisashi said deviating from the path I was going.

"Wait, where the hell are we heading"

"The building with the classroom is going to be too flooded with people, we need to go through the management building."

I thought for a very quick moment "You're right, let's move." We quickly ran to the bridge area that connect the few buildings that served as our private school and saw a gray, stumbling teacher moving in the center of the cross-section.

"Hey, that's Wakisaka-sensei, what's wrong with him." Wakisaka turned towards Rei as if he heard her. He opened his jaw widely in an inhuman manner and roared as if attempting to call others of his kind to him. He moved towards Rei with his fang-like teeth flaring. She tensed up and held her her weapon up defensively. She moved back and swiped at him with the handle "Get the hell away from me!" I held up my gun and aimed towards the teacher.

I was about to shoot but I froze up 'can you really kill someone who has not obviously done something wrong'. The voice of my mother echoed in my brain. It seemed as everything around me froze as I was thinking. 'Can you really kill an innocent person?'. No! No! I couldn't, it isn't right! That would make me like the people I hunt. Maybe he's just sick, maybe he's just confused, I wishfully thought.

"Rei, stab him!" Hisashi exclaimed seeing me freeze up. Snap out of it! Rei is in trouble, now isn't the time to think about morals. She was helpless for a moment barely holding back the teacher with her handle.

Though, soon determination shined in her eyes "Don't fuck with me! I'm the VP of the martial arts club!" She hit the teacher back with a swipe with the broom handle before stabbing him in the chest with the sharp, metal bottom.

"Hell yeah you got him" I exclaimed. Though my relieved smiled turned to that of shock when Wakisaka stifled a low groan and began to thrash violently. He pushed Rei back with ease and slammed her into the metal wall that is used for a border of the bridge with the handle lodged in his chest. "Holy shit..."

Rei looked dazed for a moment but she recovered quickly enough to hold back the advancing teacher "That is impossible! I know I pierced the heart! How the hell is he still moving!"

Hisashi quickly moved behind Wakisaka and put him in a choke hold "Rei! Pull it out now!" Rei headed to his order.

"Hisashi get the hell away from him!"

"Heh, don't underestimate me, I got it" he responded back to me with a cocky grin. Much to his dismay Wakisaka's head turned a full 180 degrees and his teeth dug into Hisashi's left arm. I couldn't see what but something metallic like pierced right through his arm.

Rei stabbed Wakisaka over and over again but couldn't get him to let up so she turned towards me "Soul! You have help! You have the fucking gun so do something with it"

I gritted my teeth and thought 'Fuck it! It's us or them!' Before aiming my gun. Everything seemed to slow as I lined up three precise shots, two to the eyes and one right between them. Blood splattered onto Hisashi's face and Wakisaka doubled back before falling to the ground. I swallowed hard and walked over to the two.

"Hisashi! Are you okay!" Rei asked in a worried tone.

"The sonovabitch stabbed me with something I think" he said looked at the gaping hole in his arm. I examined the corpses and my eyes widened.

It's tongue, it looked like twisted metal shaped crudely like a spike. "What the fuck is going on..."

Our thoughts were broken when we heard a female's scream and the breaking of a window "No! Let go of me!" I looked over to see a fellow student pinned down by another gray skinned one. As I raised my silenced gun to save her she was bit fatally in the neck.

"Fuck..." I lowered my weapon, knowing it was much too late for heroics.

"We can handle one of these fuckers but anymore than that" Hisashi staggered forward a little "We'd be done for"

"Where do we go now" I asked.

Hisashi thought for a moment "the roof, we should barricade ourselves on the roof, at least until help arrives." With a nod, we made or way up there.


We pushed opened the door to the roof and looked over the edge towards the city. My breath got caught in my throat "Oh my god..." Not words could describe the hellish scene before us. The street was clogged with traffic and there were giant smokestacks from fires all over the city. Those monsters roamed the streets looking grotesque and increasingly inhumane as they hunted down humans in droves. Large pools of blood on the roads and blood painting the walls. It didn't make me sick but it was still disgusting to look at. The sounds of sirens and screams filled the air and echoed far and wide. "This is impossible, how could everything go to hell this fucking fast! It was all fine just a mere few hours ago, a fucking few hours ago!" I hit my fist against the railing. So many people dead, lives lost in such brutal ways not even human kind could do themselves. We were pushed forward as a huge gust of wind blew. We turned around to see helicopters flying past going deeper into the city.

"The American military? No, that's not it... It's the self defense force" Hisashi pointed out. "Where the hell did they come from, there's no base around here"

Rei waved her arms "Hey! Over here!" She called out to the helicopters.

"Don't bother, that's the self-defense force, they don't help civilians like us unless it's their mission, which I doubt it with that much fire power." He pointed to the courtyard "They're not even helping out that" I looked over to what he was pointing at an saw a female student in gym clothes being attacked by a group of those things. "That's what's going on outside where you can still escape. Imagine what the hell is going on inside the school" he paused and watched a fat gym teacher dive out of a window to his death. "This is like a disease caused by 'them'"

"What do you mean by 'them'?"

"The dead are attacking people left and right. But this isn't some movie or a video game, that's why it's 'them'. 'They' bite people and then they come back to life as one of 'them'" (I am not going to keep putting them in air quotes, just fair warning) he paused and winced "And it looks like damaging the brain is the only way to get rid of them"

We looked around and saw more of the living dead come up to the roof "shit, looks like they found us" I hissed.

"They're way too many of them..." Rei said in a low voice.

I being to calculate what would happen if I attacked the dead and only came up with endings where Rei and Hisashi die, there was too many, we need to run "You're right"

Hisashi looked around and pointed to the upper area of the roof "Let's get up there and block the stairs" he said, seemingly sharing my idea.

"Alright" I shoved the gun into the largest of my school's uniform's pockets and took out the bat "Follow my lead." We all made a full sprint for that stair case. I slammed the dead out of them way as I made sure Rei and Hisashi stayed safe. Hisashi and I ran up the stairs first while Rei stabbed an undead attempting to follow us. She got slammed into the wall in a similar fashion as she did with Wakisaka.

Before I could react and save here Hisashi pushed me out of the way and took my bat "Rei!" He yelled as he bashed the head of the walking corpse in.


Rei covered her face with her arms as she shook with fear "Why, why is this happening..." She mumbled.

I patted her back reassuringly "There has to be a reason" I said "Maybe if we could find out what the hell is causing the shit to hit the fan we could try to stop it or, more realistically, protect ourselves." I opened my bag and took out a lighter "we need to find something to burn. If we don't get a fire or something going we're going to freeze to death when it gets dark."

Hisashi threw up a concerning amount of blood making me look towards him "Shit, are you alright" I said as both Rei and I moved to his side.

"What's wrong with him..." Rei said.

Hisashi looked up towards the sky in obvious pain "Are you... Turning?" I asked.

"I think I am..." He murmured to me weakly.

"Fuck... So it is just like those goddamn movies..." I growled.

"But that can't be true! What you see in the movies can't ever happen-"

I interrupted her "Well guess what? It fucking happened. Looked around us, does it seem like everything is just fine with this goddamned virus spreading?!" I half-yelled losing my temper. Rei looked down to her feet.

Hisashi put a hand on my shoulder, causing me to turn my attention back to him "Soul... Will you help me..."

"Help you with what?"

"I need you... to shoot me" he asked slowly.

My eyes widened. This isn't like the last time where I had to shoot that obviously dead teacher. I had to kill my friend, who is still human, still fucking human. My friend who had done nothing so far but save me and Rei. "No... I can't..."

"Just do it! I don't want to be one of those fucking monsters!" He said shaking violently. He threw up another large amount of blood violently. "Please Soul... Do it for me... I want to stay myself to the bitter end..." As if he didn't do it enough, he threw up more blood, growing grayer. He clutched his heart and stumbled onto the ground.

He writhed and yelled as Rei tried to soothe him. "Please Hisashi! Let me help you! No... Please... You can't die!" She yelled out so loudly that it echoed. Hisashi arched his back one more time and yelled in agonizing pain before going silent and limp. She cried on his now lifeless corpse but stopped and raised her head as he twitched his arm. I grabbed her gently and pulled her back "No! Soul let go of me!" Hisashi began to twitch more "He's not turning! He's fine! Look!" She said pointing at the now grating Hisashi. Her hopeful smile faded as Hisashi's fingers grew longer and sharper like those of claws.

He got up and I swallowed hard "Rei, close your eyes, you don't want to see this." She shut her eyes tightly and buried her face in my chest. I raised my arm and aimed by gun as Hisashi screeched in an attempt to gather more of his undead brethren around him. Rei began to sob loudly as I sighed "I'm sorry my friend..." He began to stagger towards me swinging his claws "But this" I pulled back the hammer "is how it is" Rei buried her face deeper into my chest as I began to unload on my undead friend.


One the day the world went to hell, I ended the life of my best friend, and held one of the only people that I have left on the cruel world close to me as she cried and mourned. And I realize something now. Life is just going to keep fucking with people like me until we either give up, or beat it.


And finished. I know this seems pretty similar to the anime but it's going to drastically change in the next chapters. I'm just using this to set up how Soul reacts to these things and how Soul feels towards the other character. It's all going to get more fun from here folks. And if you like sekirei check out the other story I am currently writing: "Fire and Steel", it's worth the read. Have a question? A suggestion? A pointer or some advice? Leave a review or shoot me a PM and I'll respond to you as soon as I can. Thank you all so much for reading!