Chapter 1: Can't Take Any Chances

She sat there staring aimlessly as she watched the corpses walk around. The said girl had green eyes and bright pink hair, that was dimmed down a few notches because of the dried blood that was staining it. The girl known as Sakura had a plan and she had to go through with it today. Her plan was to go to the grocery store that was located a few blocks down from where she was located, even though it was pouring down rain, she still had to do it. She was on her last few days of food and she knew if she put off getting more food, then she would end up starving. She wasn't very…. motivated these days, I mean, if you were put into a real nightmare, would you want to keep living it?

Yes, the nightmares of all little children have come true, today, in reality, was a zombie apocalypse. Sakura had seen her friends die, one by one. First it was her friend, Temari. She was trying to make sure, Hinata, Ino, TenTen, and herself were safe. Her last dying words were, "I love you guys, please live on."

They were all scared by it. Then a few days later it was TenTen you got bitten. It was when they were just starting to raid the grocery store when a zombie seemed to come out of nowhere and get her.

Then it was Hinata who had been killed off a few weeks later. They were trying to sleep when her and Ino heard a scream, and right there in front of their faces was Hinata, crying and bloody, a zombie eating at her neck. "Please save yourselves, I will always live on inside you," that's what Hinata choked out before she had started to bleed out, and they almost died that day.

When it was just Sakura and her best friend, Ino, she thought it couldn't get any worse, but those were always famous last words right? One day when Sakura had come back from raiding the grocery store, she had seen Ino standing on the roof of there little fort that consisted of a tiny house they had cleared of all zombies. Sakura could only watch as Ino slowly started to fall of the roof, Sakura started to yell her name but before she knew it, Ino was already gone. Sakura had truly lost everything, her friends, her family, and thus, she now was just a void of no emotion.

Sakura had managed to clear out most of her town of zombies, only a few here and there. She has yet to have seen another breathing human in four months, she honestly thought she was the only one left alive. Sakura had thought about suicide multiple times, but she could never bring herself to make that one jump which could end her pathetic life in this shithole of a world. She felt like she had to live on and honor her friends, she felt dying would be like giving up, and she couldn't give up, not now at least. Which brings her to her current predicament, she has to get food, or she would starve. She put her red hoodie over her head and made sure to stretch before going out. Sakura made sure that her blue tennis shoes were tied before she headed out into the rain, metal baseball bat in hand and black backpack on her shoulder.

"Another day, another fight." The pinkette said before heading out. She made sure her base was securely locked before leaving to go to the store. Like stated before, the pinkette had cleared her city of zombies, only a few of them here and there, but she couldn't take any chances. The 17 year old girl made her way down the similar route to the grocery store, still on guard, always looking around every corner, and turning at any sudden noise. Over the past several months, Sakura started training, her eyes and ears were so well that it would even stun doctors. Her muscles on the other hand….. people could say she was a walking powerhouse, if she focused hard enough, she could probably punch a wall so hard it could crack. Once the young girl heard the similar sound of the sliding of automatic doors, she knew that she was going into the front of the store. To her surprise, there was two or so zombies who were drawn to the sound.

"Goddammit. Who the fuck let you in?" Sakura said to herself, I guess she could also be described as a bit insane.

There were two zombies shuffling quite quickly towards her, one from her front, one from the right. Sakura quickly ran towards the one in front of her and hit it's head at a diagonal angle so that the force of the hit would make its head hit the floor and splat into pieces. After that one was done she used the now headless corpse, and pushed it, using her feet, into the zombie that was coming in on her right side. Once the two corpses collapsed, she quickly went over and hit the second one over the head with her bat to put it out of its misery.

"Gomen." She said quietly, without any real emotion. Sakura then heard footsteps in one of the many isles in the store. They didn't sound like the sloppy pattern of a zombie, could it be a human? Sakura had her hopes up only to crush them and put them in a box, she couldn't get her hopes up, for all she knew, it could be an evolved zombie. Sakura then ran into other side of the aisle from where the footsteps were coming from. She had her bat in her hands, her senses alert, and her body ready to attack. As she slowly made her way around to the noise she couldn't help but feel like one of those detectives from a t.v show. She was jerked out of her thoughts when she heard whispering.

"Ow teme! Get off my foot!"

"Shut up dobe! There could be something out here!"

By now Sakura had put on an emotionless face, but she was kinda hyped to face something new. I mean hunting zombies for about 7 months in a row could get a little boring at times.

"If you are human, please make yourself known!" Sakura was yet again knocked out of her thoughts as she heard a voice yell. Good god, where they stupid? I mean if you yell, and per say there were still zombies still in here, they would hoard you. Sakura almost scoffed at the stupid-ness of the people, well she had assumed they were people anyway. As for herself she stayed quiet and made sure not to make any noise. As she heard the footsteps come closer to her, she got ready to attack, after all she couldn't take any chances. When the footsteps stopped for a few seconds, Sakura assumed that they had heard something, but then they sounded like they were retreating.

"Oh well! I guess there's no one here! Might as well get some snacks while we're here!" Sakura heard someone say loudly, too loudly for her taste, doesn't he realize he has a bigger chance of dying because of his big mouth? After all, zombies are attracted to sound.

Once the pinkette could barely hear any footsteps, she deemed it safe to come out of her aisle of hiding, but she first grabbed a few waters and a few boxes of Pringles from the shelves and put the contents on her backpack. As Sakura stepped around the corner of the aisle, she was immediately grabbed to the side and had a hand out over her mouth.

"Why are you here?" A voice whispered in her ear, by the force of the pull, her hoodie had fallen off her head.

"I could ask you the same thing." She whispered back, her voice a little muffled because of the stranger's hand. To be honest, Sakura was kinda caught off guard by the sudden turn of events herself. The guy who was holding a hand over her mouth had her back pressed up to his chest, so she couldn't see who it was. By the sound of his voice, he sounded male, around the same age as her, if she had to guess.

"Have you been bitten?" The voice whispered. Sakura had to hold back a bitter laugh at his question, did she seriously look bitten to him? And what if she was a zombie? She would've bitten his hand off by now.

"What do you think dumbass?" Sakura said back, more like a statement than a question.

"Hm." Was all he answered back, then he lowered his hand from her mouth. Sakura then quickly spun around and was meet like a stranger's neck, god she was short.

As she looked up at the stranger's face, she saw that indeed it was a person, and he was actually quite scary looking.

He had black hair, with equally black eyes. She felt that if she started at his eyes long enough, that he could steal her soul or something.

"Are you the only one here?" He said, surprising her a little.

"Yes. Wasn't there someone else with you?" She answered his question with another question.

"Yea, he went off that way. He's going to get some more food." The male said back, pointing off to the left, farther down the aisle.

"I saw a few walkers in a room over that way. I'm guessing that was the employees lounge." He continued. Sakura guessed that made sense, she didn't really check out the other rooms in the store, she just cleared out the main area where the food was.

"So you're sending your friend to die?" Sakura said, still on guard. She really didn't trust this guy.

"He won't die. As long as he isn't that loud, he'll be fine." She was now going to call him, Jackass. Yes that's a very fitting nickname for him.

"Are you stupid? If he makes any sound at all, then the zombies could easily break down that door. They have better hearing than you think Jackass."

The guy looked very offensive and was about to say something back but was cut off by a bang.

"Dude! Come over here!" Some other guy yelled.

"Shit" was all said proclaimed Jackass said as he ran off in the direction that he said his friend went.

Sakura followed behind him, even more alert if possible. If there were survivors from this war, then she had to help as many as she could.

As the two rounded a corner in the store, they saw a dozen or so zombies quickly making their way around to a blond haired male, also about the same age as Sakura. The hoard was all that was separating the two teenagers from the other. Without skipping another moment, Sakura ran between the zombies with practiced skill, and quickly made it to where a guy with blonde hair and blue eyes was located. After she got to the place that was best in this situation, her mind quickly formulated a plan that would kill all the horrid creatures.

Sakura made sure her backpack was securely on her back and tightened her grip on her metal baseball bat.

"Stay here." She said to the guy beside her. She could not afforded any distractions and she couldn't have him getting in the way either.

Once she charged forward her bat meet with the head of a zombie, she had easily hit its head off. Without stopping, Sakura made her way over to two more. She kicked one's side so that it fell into the other one, as they both fell momentarily, Sakura caved both of there heads in.

Sakura's head snapped up when she heard a gun being fired. Her eyes meet with black as she moved on to face her next opponent.

Now there was only a few zombies left and they were all focusing on the sound of the gunshot.

'Goddammit. Why'd Jackass over here have to get involved?' She thought to herself. She was startled when, out of the corner of her eye, she saw a zombie go down that was about to grab at her arm.

"You should stay focused." Was what Sakura heard from the blonde haired guy before she went to kill off the last few last standing zombies. Without a second to spare, she caved in the heads of two corpses and then turned around to kick one in the direction of Jackass and he quickly shot it off, thus leaving one zombie left. Quickly killing it, thus ended the battle.

She then turned around to look at the two who were currently looking at here with expectant looks.

"Just spit it out already." Sakura said as she looked at the two males.

By the sound of her voice the two teens seemed to snap out of there trance. The blonde guy was the first to speak among the two.

"My names Naruto. Um, thanks for saving me back there." The blonde guy, now known as Naruto, spoke.

When Sakura stayed silent, the other boy spoke.

"My names Sasuke, we would like to know yours." Sasuke questioned.

"Are you two the only ones here?" Sakura asked ignoring the question, which Sasuke didn't like.

"No, there are more people in the back of the store with us. We decided to make camp here a few days ago."

Sasuke hit the blonde on the head for telling to much. I mean why should they trust her? She didn't even tell them her name.

"Ok well, I would like to share the resources in here. As long as you don't attack me, I won't attack you, alright?"

Naruto and Sasuke looked at her surprised for a moment. Didn't she want to be with more survivors?

Speaking his thoughts, Naruto asked another question. "Are you with anyone? Don't you want to be with other people?"

"I've been by myself for 4 months, I'll be fine."

"What if more zombies attack?" Naruto inquired. This boy never shuts up, so Sakura had now given him a nickname as well. He was now dubbed as, Loud-ass.

"Listen here, Loud-ass. I've survived for 4 moths by myself, and have killed most of the walkers out of my freaking city. I would like to be alone so I don't have to worry about anyone but me." With that said Sakura turned around, ready to get the stuff she needed and get out of here as quickly as possible.

But before she could get very far, someone grabbed her wrist. Turning around she was meet with cold dark eyes.

"We will agree with your deal if we can stay over at your base. No exceptions."

Sakura had a scowl on her face as she ripped her wrist from Sasuke.

"Give me one reason why I should let you stay with me."

"Because we could survive longer, we could get food quicker, and we could be safer."

"Just so you know, I don't trust you one fucking bit. If I see anyone of your pals miss with me, there dead. Got it?" Sakura ground out.

Naruto had to try not to shiver the sheer amount of killing intent her voice held, he could tell that she was telling the truth.

Sasuke just nodded and started making his way to the back of the store with Naruto close behind.

"Hey Jackass! The names Sakura, just Sakura!" Sasuke frowned at the name, but didn't stop to comment on it. Poor ol' Naruto just stood there looking between the two. Wondering why she didn't have a last name, Naruto then asked his thoughts again.

"You don't have a last name?"

"I don't have one I'm gonna share with you." She bit back. It didn't really matter if they knew her last name, but she can't take any chances.

an: I hope you guys liked the first chapter! I had actually had this in my drafts a long time because I didn't want to post it, but in the end I did anyway! If I have any mistakes please comment and I will gladly fix them (or just comment if you want too). Thanks so much for reading! Until next time enjoy reading your other fandoms!

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