The Cure

Hi people, this is my first chapter on Fanfiction, and I'm so excited to get my first story out. But before you read, please keep in mind that I'm a young girl from Norway, so my English is far from perfect. On the other hand I would be really grateful for all your comments, even if they are good or bad. I'm willing to learn.

So please comments me if you find several mistakes over and over again. Please give me a comment on what you think about the plot as well. I'm I going to fast or to slow? Is there something that you miss or would like me to put in? Please let me know and I'll see what I can do about it. 'thank you for giving this story a shot.

And just so you all know, this plot is inspired by the British series " Survivors". And i do not own Naruto!

Thanks again, and have fun reading :))


Chapter 1

born

I had been walking for days. I was hungry, thirsty and exhausted. No food or water for I don't know how long. I had now made it inside a city I didn't recognise, well you no longer recognised any city these days. Since the whole worlds population had been extinct by the terrible flu. Nobody knew where it came from or how it came to existed. And for some reason some people were lucky and didn't get sick, like me.

After just six month of the flu, more then 70 % of the world was dead, that meant that almost everybody on the entire earth was dead because of this terrible flu. I had gotten this sickness but to my disappointment, I didn't die. Why? I don't know. I got really bad and at some point I really believed I was going to die, but then I suddenly recovered.

When I woke up from being sick, I found out that everybody was dead. It was a horrible sight and memory that I wish could just vanish from my mind. I was extremely thirsty and went right for the refrigerator, only to be met by rotten food. The water was clear, so I grabbed the water bottle and swallowed it all. I was so thirsty, and by the look of the food I had been out for days. I struggled of dizziness and an shaky body, which I could tell was from dehydrating and starving. I took all the food that I was able to eat, like beans on cans and all the water bottles I had. Now the only thing left to do, was to find out all the information possible.

What had happened, and how? I was a doctor and I knew very well that a flu that kill 70 % of the worlds population in only a couple of weeks, was not something that had happened before. I had to find out what had cost this to happen. It would take years of hard work to put this world in place, and to its original way. Who knew, maybe we never were to see the world we once lived in.

I was a new trained doctor at the Konoha hospital when all of this happened. My mentor was long lost for the flu like most of the doctors. I didn't know how many there were left on this earth but the last thing they said on the television before it went all black in almost every city, was that there were less then 25 % of the population left. But the number continued to sink, it spread itself really fast.

It was a sad thing, but it was also reality. The world was no longer as it once were. The worlds population had tipped 9 billion and the year was 2020. There were almost no more space left, some countries was struggling hard for money or food, some was struggling from bad leaders and corruption. Everything was pretty much out of balance. Not that this was any better, but if only we could find civilisation and maybe establish ourself to a new community. We could make it. But it was going to be hard, that was for sure.

I continued my path forward into the city I did not know the name of, and it didn't matter. Because the world no longer existed as it once did. With no government or police, the world took its own way of living.

The city's was especial dangerous because of the higher number of people, which meant that there was a higher risk of meeting with someone that you could not trust. The possibility that there didn't exists much food or water here was big too, people were desperate now. The food just continued to drop every day.

As I walked further inside the large city I found it quiet and empty, or at least that's how it seemed from the streets, but I knew that there would be people watching from the high buildings. Some would be scared and some would be both scared and dangerous. I needed too hold my guard up. I looked on ever side of my body too be sure that there were nobody to attack me any time soon.

I was now wandering inside the city, looking for any kind of store or restaurant that could contain food or water. I kept a small gun in the back of my pants in case of thieves and murderers. Because there were a lot of those guys to see now and then. The people that was visible was usual bad people. At least that's what I had figured out. Considering the three times I had been robbed, and lucky to be alive. That's why I chose to keep a gun by my ass.

As I was walking I saw an restaurant coming into my sight. I walked carefully towards it, holding my hand free to take the gun at any possible moment. I walked inside, it seemed empty, no people in sight or in hearing range. I went further inside, looking at every corner. Nothing.

I lowered my guard and speeded up. I would rather not meet up with someone and get away with whatever was left in this restaurant, then actually have to draw the gun to get the food. I looked in every closet that I were able to find, but no food. I sighed, and it was then that I heard a noise. I kept myself completely still, not even breathing. Just listening. I waited for the sound to repeat itself. And it did, it was an small and almost not detective sound. I was careful when I followed the way the sound had come from. I turned around the corner with my gun in my hand. I couldn't help the shaking that my hands were undergoing.

As I turned the corner I aimed for whatever was on the other side. My face went completely stunned at what I saw. An little boy was sitting there on the floor, with his feet's pressed against his chest. Making him look much smaller then he actually was. He was dirty and smelly, but yet the most charming and cutest boy I had seen ever. With short brown hair, and a skin that was a little golden brown with matching eyes. He was probably around the age 5.

I lowered the gun and looked at him with a smile on my face. It didn't look like he had anybody with him. That was good for me, but at the same time sad for him. I didn't know how long he had been alone, but he definitely looked scared, cold and hungry.

"Hi there little thing. Do you have anybody with you?" He didn't answer, he just looked at me with horrified eyes. He had probably experienced a lot of traumatic things on these past weeks. His mom and dad was most likely dead. After all there wasn't many people that survived this flu. My experience as an doctor had given me the ability to read other people. Were they scared, angry, alone, stressed or maybe lying? It was an handy trait.

"Relax I'm not gonna hurt you, I have some food if you'd like that?" He was scared. I took of my backpack slowly, and laid it in front of me, and started to look for the little food that I had left. I found him a cookie that I handed to him. He didn't take it at first, but then he slowly went for it. He was then very fast, snapping it out from my hands.

I again smiled at him, warm and friendly. He just concentrated on eating the cookie that I had given him, just seconds ago, and now it was gone. He eat it fast, not that was so strange, I was hungry as well, but I knew very well as an doctor that it was necessary for me to eat small amounts of food time to time, so the body adjusted and learned the new style of living.

"what's your name kid, mine is Sakura, do you want to go with me, or do you have somebody looking over you? He looked at me for a while and then answered"

"My name is Rui I lost my mom and dad, I cant find them, and I'm so hungry, I don't know where to go!" The boy answered, as he held tears to his eyes.

"It's all gonna be fine, just come with me and we will find something to eat and a resting place . Okay?" I held out my hand and the boy took it after some considering.

We walked for several hours before I figured it was about time I gave that boy a rest. I found ourself an nice little building that was hidden from the main road, that way, we were kept more safe from uninvited people. I took out a blanket from my backpack and handed it to him.

"Sleep well, and I'll see you tomorrow, and then we can continue the search for your parents. Okay?"

The boy just nodded, and took the blanket. I watched him sleep for a while, remembering my own family, that no longer existed. The only thing that was left was my memory of them. I missed them already. It was a hard thing to know that you had lost most likely every single family member. A tear escaped my eye. I decided to lay down, and get some sleep. We had an long day ahead of us. I was so tired that I fell to an deep sleep unbelievable fast, maybe it was the thought that I wasn't alone?


The next morning I found the boy in my backpack, probably looking for some more food.

"you have to wait, I don't have more food then what's left there, we need to be careful with how much food we eat at the same time, okay?" I said with an warm smile. "lets go, and maybe we can find something good to eat?" the boy didn't like the idea of not getting any food right now, but it just had to bear, we needed to be extremely careful since we were two on the same little food that was in my backpack.

We walked for a while still inside the city, but we kept away from the main road. Just to keep us as safe as possible. Suddenly I saw an old store, it was small, but that was the usual place people skipped. Almost everyone went for the big ones.

"lets go and see if there is any food inside that little store, shall we?" the boy gave me a nod and we went carefully inside the store. Somebody had already been here, I could easily see that by all the broken glass and mess that was literally everywhere. "hold my hand" I told the boy. He took it and I helped him past all the glass. There could still be food in here. I looked under every newspaper and empty bottles. Under all this mess it had to be some food I just knew it.

"There!" the boy yelled out, pointing to my right. I looked for a while before I saw it, it was an box of Coca Cola. I took it and stuffed it in my backpack. But I didn't stop there, we needed more. I told the boy that he had to keep looking. He was standing on the same spot looking with an happy face, wanting to find more. I then noticed that there was an can behind the empty and broken soda machine. I walked towards it and then got my eyes on to cans of beans. They had to do the trick. I picked them up and showed them to Rui with a big smile on my face. He was happy I could tell by the big smile on his face, anybody could tell that that boy was an happy one.

"We have dinner" I said. I walked towards him with the cans still in my hands. I helped him futher inside the store, I opened a door and there was an little office. I walked in first to make sure that there were nobody inside. I then gestured him to follow me inside. We could make our food here without nobody smelling the food. Hopefully. I took off my backpack and let It fall to the ground.

That's when I heard the noise. An empty "tumph" "stop Rui" the boy stopped automatically, confused and excited at the same time.

"what is it?" he asked.

"I believe there might be an hidden basement. Just stand right there" I took away the backpack and the mat that was over the floor. As I had assumed there was a hatch. I told Rui to step a little to the side. I took my gun from my back and opened the hatch with fast moments, ready to shoot what ever was down there. Nothing came. It was completely dark, I then decided to walk down and see what was there. I made Rui hand me my flash light from my backpack and walked slowly down the stairs.

I was excited and scared at the same time. I was really hoping for a miracle. As I walked down I could feel air, could air. I was underground, and therefore no light. I used my flash light too see what was down there. I smiled big at what I saw, there were a stack with cans, beans and a bunch of other stuff that could keep us alive for weeks. But as fast as my happiness had come, it went away. I saw something that wasn't a good sign at all, there was a sleeping bag on other side of the room. Beside that sleeping bag, was a plate of beans. I walked towards it, feeling the heat from the food. It was still warm, that meant that there were people living here.

My heart started pumping hard, I had to hurry. I took all the food I could possible carry in my bag. I felt bad for stealing this food, but it was a matter of surviving, plus this person had food for more the weeks he could give us some of it. I hurried up the stairs.

But when I came up, I saw no Rui. My heart started pumping even harder. "Rui! Where are you!" to my relief I quickly got the sight of him outside the store jumping on the streets. I hurried as fast I could over all the glass, and towards him.

"we have to go!" I said in a hurry.

"what's the matter?" he asked with his cute little face. He showed no concern only innocent.

"I think there are people around here somewhere, that might get mad if they see us." I took the boys hand and we started running as far away from that store as possible. When I finally thought that we were out of danger, I heard a dog barking. The sound the dog made did not sound neither nice or friendly.

From long distant I could see an old man with a dog in leash. The surprising thing was that he bent down to the dog, and when he got back up, I could see the dog moving towards us with incredible speed. I didn't have time to think, I picked up the little boy and placed him on top of a rubbish bin. And as fast I had helped Rui on top of the bin, the dog was right in front of me.

The dog came at me with his teeth, I used my hand to defend my self from the dogs biting. But it did not help, he took a good hold of my arm, as I yelled out in pain. Not only did it bite, but it was tearing my arm back and forth. I didn't know what to do, but then I suddenly remembered my gun. I loved animals, but it was the arm or the dog at this point. It just didn't wanna let go. I took my gun and pointed it to the dog's head. Aiming to kill him instantly. I did my best to keep the gun steady, but it was hard with the dog still tearing on my left arm

I could hear the boy start crying, and that's when I decided to forces myself to get it over with. My gun and the aim was ready, it was just for me to pull the trigger, and I did. The thunder that echoed though the empty buildings from the gunshot, made the dogs owner yell out in anger.

"you son of a bitch! I swear your gonna pay!" the man started running towards me.

The dogs body was now on the ground lifelessly. Rui had stopped his crying a little and was now only sobbing. I then paid my attention to the man that was coming towards us, slowly but steady.

"Don't forget who has the gun!" I yelled back at him. The man stopped. He looked so fucking angry, but do you know what? I didn't care, actually I didn't care at all. The man had purposely put the dog against me, and that dog could have killed many more, if not he had done it already. The dogs ending was for the best.

My arm was bleeding a lot from the impact of the dogs teeth, not only that, but the pain was almost unbearable. The adrenalin would soon start to fade, then the pain would become even worse. I knew this as a doctor. I would need a tetanus shot for this as well. I needed that in time, after three days I might be dead with out the shot. And the man knew this.

"Well It doesn't matter, you will die anyway" he said as he smirked. He then chose to walk away. I was relieved, but did not lower the gun before I was sure he was gone. I looked up at Rui, he looked relieved as well, but still a little shaky.

"We need to find you an doctor" he said with small tears in his eyes.

"I am a doctor" I said with a smile on my face, trying my best to hide the pain that was slowly increasing. "let's go find some medicine for me" I kept smiling, and I believed it made things better for the boy. It looked like he relaxes a little. But he could still see my bleeding arm, and that was not good. It frighten him, I'm sure of it. I needed to fix my self up fast in case of any other attacks. My gun was back in my pants.


Yet another day spent with walking, what was I suppose to do? We could not stop resting now, I would probably fell asleep from all the blood lost and exhaustion And I still needed that shot, the faster the better. But the time was going by, and we had still not found any drug store. This city was big, but I had the feeling we were not going to find anything any time soon. I then found a new store, but with the last experience I didn't not want to go inside that one, but I knew there were possibility of bandages inside and maybe some painkillers.

I made Rui wait outside, as I went inside. The store was empty, at least that's what I hoped for. I easily got the sight of the medical cabinet, I opened it and found some painkillers and bandages, but no shot. Not that strange. Most likely I would have to go to a hospital to find one. And that would not happen to day, I could not bring Rui to the hospital, not with all of the sick things we might get to see. I would have to hide him somewhere safe and then go myself. But I were to tired to go any more today. I was feeling dizzy and absolutely exhausted. We hadn't got to eat yet.

I then found us a safe little apartment that seemed safe, at least it was out from other viewers on the main streets. We went up all the eight floors to be absolutely safe, nobody would bother going up all this stairs. After the trip up those stairs I could barely hold my self on my feets. I was absolutely finish for the day, and if this was the real life, I would not be on my feet's for a weak, but I knew that would not happen. I needed to get to that hospital tomorrow.

The first thing I did was examining my deep wounds, and then cleaned them up as good as possible, and the bandaging my wounds tight. I didn't want to bleed to death in my sleep with nobody to watch over me. I then made Rui some warm beans. The boy eat like a horse, and I didn't bother, he deserved it. It had been an extremely long day for both of us.

We then went to sleep. I made Rui an comfortable bed with the blankets I found in the apartment. Rui on the couch and myself on the floor. It didn't take long before I was in deep sleep.


I woke up early the next morning to find an empty place that was supposed to be filled with the little boys body. It took some seconds before I really realised what I actually saw. The boy was gone! I felt my heart start pumping really hard. Where was he? Where?! I panicked, it was still dark outside, that told me that it was still early in the morning, something that my body could confirm I was still tired. I rushed up from the wooden floor and started to look around. No Rui, nowhere. It was not like the last time, when I found him just seconds after I discovered he was gone. This time he was really gone. This place was big, if he got lost here, I would have big trouble with finding him again.

"Rui where are you!?" I shouted. I could not hear anyone in the house, he had to be outside. Maybe he was just on the toilet? I waited for some seconds, but I heard noting and no one. I picked up my backpack and went outside, I watched the city around me, looking for anything suspicious. The streets were unbelievable quiet. The air was foggy and wet. It was could, the sun was still far from awakening. How early was it?

I went slowly forward, away from the house. I could not shout, then I could allure people I did not wish to see at this point.

"Rui? Where are you?" I whispered. Nobody answered. Where could he be? I suddenly smelled some delicious food, and don't mean warm beans, I mean a big time real meal. Where did it come from?Then I suddenly saw something moving on the other side of the street, an little figure? That had to be him! It had to!

I started running carefully to the other side of the street. I slowed down when I was over, and even a little more when I saw where the figure had gone. It was a small, tight and dark alley. I didn't want to go there, so I tried calling after him. "Rui, you there?" no answer. I tried again"Rui?" again no answer. I walked slowly inside the smug, I could hear small footsteps, I followed them with care.

The smell of the food was getting stronger, this was probably some trick to lure us in, and Rui had probably awakened with the scent in his nose, not knowing what he was going in to. I slowly took my hand to my back and lifted my sweater, when I almost had the grip on my gun, I saw a movement in the dark. It was Rui, I took my hand away from the gun and went faster inside the alley, hurrying to get to him, but I stopped up when I saw to big figures behind him. Aiming for him with there big hands.

"LOOK OUT RUI!" then I hear some big, loud footsteps behind me, I panicked and spun around. But at the same time I could feel an sharp pain on my neck. My vision started blurring and I couldn't help my self but to fall to the ground. The last thing I saw was the big man's dark figure with an smirk on it.

"Found you"


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