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AU. Slightly OOC. Kagome Higurashi used to be such an innocent 15-year-old. When the zombie apocalypse hits, it takes everyone by surprise. She and her friends need to work together to escape the undead. Will they ever find love in such an environment, or will they get infected first?


~ How To Survive A Zombie Apocalypse ~

The Beginning


Adrenaline runs through my veins, my heart pumping painfully.

"Kagome!"

I turn to my friend. "What? I'm kind of busy!"

"You're running in the wrong direction!"

Huh? I stop, confused, and look around. Everyone's laughing, and I'm blushing. Inuyasha Takahashi, a huge jerk (and I'm also ashamed to say, my best friend), is smirking at me.

He jumps down from his chair and doubles over with laughter. I glare daggers at him, but that seems to make him laugh harder.

"Would you shut up!" I shout. Even Sango is laughing at me, and now I'm trying hard to resist a laugh myself.

"Stop!" By now, giggles are beginning to make their way past my lips.

Everyone spends the remaining three minutes of class laughing their heads off. I can't breathe. But maybe it's because I'm laughing too.

"Oh my God, that's the best thing ever!" Sango guffaws. "I can't stop laughing!"

Inuyasha is thumping his foot on the ground now, his eyes shut tight, tears of laughter streaming down his face. "Ahahahaah! You should've seen your goddamn face! AHAHAHAA!"

I stumble over to him and punch him in his shoulder, but because of my shaking arms and shoulders and wiping tears from my face, it barely fazes him and he gives me a wry look - while laughing.

"Class, you're dismissed," the teacher says grumpily. I guess she had been trying hard to get our attention… but no one was paying attention. Whoops.

We make our way to the locker rooms, where we proceed to get changed. I slip on my red plaid flannel shirt and my black leggings, tying my black leather jacket around my waist. Sango sports a loose t-shirt and a pair of jeans that reaches her lower calf before rolling up a little.

The other girls are only halfway done before an alarm blares and the school's speaker that is located in the corner of the locker room crackles to life.

"EMERGENCY," the speaker blasted. "THERE IS AN OUTBREAK OCCURRING. THE SCHOOL IS ON LOCKDOWN. DON'T GO ANYWHERE. STUDENTS, YOU ARE COMMANDED TO STAY WHERE YOU ARE." An outbreak? Like a zombie outbreak? Keeping students locked in is such a smart thing to do. Way to totally spread the contagiousness. That's exactly like keeping three people with strep throat in the same room as five other people who aren't sick at all. We're better off away from each other, honestly. Were they stupid, or were they stupid?

The background noise is deafening, making it difficult to hear exactly what the warning is. It sounds like screaming and growling. What the fuck's going on?

"I REPEAT - STUDENTS, STAY WHERE YOU ARE. AUTHORITIES WILL ARRIVE SOON TO TAKE CARE OF THE SITU-"

The person speaking is abruptly cut off as they were mid-scream but then there is a sound as if their head is being ripped off. A disembodied growl. And then nothing.

The students shudder.

Of course, the school's warning works just like the "18+" warning on a porn website, and immediately there are horrified screams as people all over the school rush to get the fuck out of here.

After swinging my hair into a messy bun, I grab my bag and begin dumping everything out of it, getting Sango's attention. I nod at her, and she does the same before we sling our bags over our shoulders. Apparently the boys did the same, because they, too, hold empty backpacks as they wait for Sango and I to run over to them. They probably feel just as bewildered and frightened as we do.

"Come on," I shout to them over the chaos. "This is obviously a zombie outbreak. Maybe we can find a few weapons somewhere."

They nod and, moving in the opposite direction of the other kids, we immediately make our way towards the kendo training room. Inuyasha and I both take a new, clean, and seemingly unused katana from the training rack and test them out, clashing them against each other, like we used to when we were younger.

Soon we bolt out of the kendo room. In the next room over, there's the baseball equipment, so Sango and Miroku each grab a metal bat.

Sango swings the bat between her fingers effortlessly. "So, where are we going?" she asks.

"Kagome, you're the one into horror movies and shit," Inuyasha says to me. "What first?"

"First, we find necessary necessities," I say. "The day isn't going to last forever. We each need flashlights. Ones that crank, so we don't need to worry about batteries."

"I think I saw a couple of those in the Janitor's closet after I spilled milk in the cafeteria yesterday," Miroku chimes in helpfully. "We can go check that out. Maybe we'll find more stuff in there, too."

"Good idea," I say. "After that we'll check out the nurse's office."

"Should we split up?" Sango asks. "Two of us can go to the janitor's closet while the other two can go to the nurse's office. It'll be efficient. Then we can meet up somewhere, outside the school maybe?"

I'm already shaking my head before she can finish. "No," I say. "Splitting up is the absolute worst thing to do during a zombie apocalypse. That's like suicide. It's better to travel in bigger numbers or, at least, in a small group. Never leave the group. That's a rule from now on. I don't give a shit about your pride - this is a matter of fucking life and death. Okay?"

Slightly shaken, everyone nods.

"Also," I add, "I'm not sure if this applies to real life, but zombies only react to sound. Maybe movement. Try to move as quietly as possible."

Everyone nods again.

"Good," I say. "Now, let's go get those flashlights."


"Awesome!"

There were enough cranking flashlights for each of us. We also found some hand sanitizer, which would come in handy before eating food if there was no clean water anywhere. There were a couple bars of soap, so we took those as well.

There wasn't anything else really helpful in there except for a bunch of stuff for cleaning. Everyone agreed that we should only take what we need. That way, we'll take up less space in our backpacks; they'll be easier to carry and won't slow us down.

"Alright," I say, taking a step towards the closed door. "We're going to the nurse's office now. Keep your eyes peeled and never, ever, under any circumstances let your guard down. Zombies have a horrible tendency to show up in the most inconvenient, unexpected places."

Everyone nods and the door opens with a soft swish. Luckily, there aren't any undead students or teachers in the hallway that we're in - for now. We manage to find the janitor's closet that's located on the far side of the school, where no one really goes until after school. This part of the school consists of mostly classes that involve after-school activities or club meetings. I'm a member of the high school Executive Council, so I know this part of the school very well.

"Let's go," I mouth.

Whatever you do…

We make our way silently to the end of the hall, where we make a left turn, exit the side stairs, and go down another hallway towards the health room.

don't scream.

I open the door, raising my sword in case there's a zombie inside. Fortunately, the office is empty. The nurse probably high-tailed it out of there the moment the alarm began blaring.

"Great," I say. "I don't know where everything is situated, so feel free to snoop around a bit. Be careful."

Everyone nods as we sneak off towards separate areas of the smaller rooms.

We gather items that will be useful for us in long-run, so after we finish gathering stuff, we decide what we will keep and what we will leave behind.

I find the medicine cabinet and fish out two bottles each of Advil, Tylenol, Claritin, and Sudafed, as well as a First Aid Kit and an unused tube of neosporin. Inuyasha finds bottled water in the teacher's lounge that was in the next room, so he gets four bottles for each of us and a few extras, plus a few sandwiches and any other remaining food that isn't moldy. Apparently, there was a watch that someone never claimed, so he took that as well after ensuring that the watch was accurate. When he's finished, the refrigerator is almost completely empty. Good. We'll need a lot of food.

Sango finds a box of matches that were in the other room. Why they were there is beyond me, but I don't complain as Sango puts them in a plastic bag that, miraculously, hadn't been dumped out of her school bag and places it in a smaller pocket. Miroku finds a map of Japan in the nurse's office, so he pockets that. He also finds six pocket knives and a shotgun in the nurse's desk. He takes the packs of ammunition that was left behind there as well. Not creepy at all, but useful.

And stupid.

Come on, man, you had a fucking gun in your desk! How stupid can you be?

We meet up back where we entered, and we all share a nod. Miroku gives Sango the gun, because she is probably the most familiar with them, what with her spending a week or two in the woods hunting with her father once or twice a year. She checks to see if the gun is loaded (it is) before placing it into her bag in an easily accessible pocket, making sure the slide of the gun hasn't been previously pulled. He also hands us each a single pocket knife and puts the extras back where he found them.

Inuyasha is the first to open the door. There are only a few stray zombies now, and from the look of the watch that he took, it's still only 12:30. We should be having lunch right about now.

On a normal day, at least, I think with a sigh.

Suddenly there's a growl. Inuyasha and I share a smirk as we step forward, Miroku and Sango behind us. We use our swords to kill the zombies.

"Aim for the head," I say quietly, but loud enough so everyone can hear as I easily behead a zombie. "That's what's keeping them alive."

Everyone nods again before we make our way silently down the side stairs again to go to the first floor of the school.

"Too many," Sango gasps.

There are still students screaming, trying to avoid the zombies, yet running straight into the horde.

"How stupid can you be?" Inuyasha scoffs, referring to the sight ahead. "If you're going to be that thick, you deserve to get infected."

I cannot help but silently agree with him. A top ten list of what not to do during a zombie apocalypse does exist, and they're doing number one - Never confront the horde. It's a no-brainer. I mean, come on. That's like walking up to the same guy who killed your neighbor, who has a bloody chainsaw in his hands. You can't just expect not to be killed.

It's not like their crazed state would help them survive for very long anyway. They were all hysterical.

Man, none of these guys have ever watched a horror movie in their lives.

I shake my head sadly as most of the students get bitten, wincing at their screams as I do so. It's even more pathetic to see other students pushing others into the red zone. How could you live with yourself, knowing you're the cause of the death of a fellow classmate?

"Let's go," Sango said.

We're just about to exit the school when there's a scream.

"Help!" someone screams. It's a girl. "Help us!"

We all turn immediately and begin rushing toward the source. Luckily, the girls aren't that far away, but we'd have to go back inside, which means facing another horde of undead students.

Everyone takes a deep breath and then we begin swinging, killing zombies left and right.

There are a few complications, because in Sango's zombie-killing frenzy, she almost beheads me. I duck in the nick of time, feeling the bat hit the top of my bun, and slowing Sango's movements slightly.

"Watch where you're aiming that thing!" I hiss at her, but she doesn't hear me. However, she does send me an apologetic look.

It happens before I can smile back.

All it took was a split second, because a split second was all a zombie needed.

Its arms outstretched, it lunges at Sango, who is screeching, and in so much shock she can't bring her bat up in time.

"NO!" I scream.

Sango's screaming, and I can't hear myself think. The zombie dips its head and its mouth ventures lower, lower, lower…

Blood splashes.

"SANGO!"


a/n: wow. what a cliffhanger. also, i noticed that people are nodding too much in the first chapter. i'll try to keep the nodding at a minimum, sorry.

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