I'll say this. I am a huge fan of Saeko. And she will be OOC in this story, so if you don't like it, I suggest you stop reading now. The plot in this will be Saeko in middle school. Also, this will be in Saeko's POV. Enjoy!

Ever since the beginning of middle school, I suddenly started to have dreams about monsters coming out to get me. They weren't like imaginary monsters, like the ones where kids think they're under their beds. They were monsters that had very sharp teeth, with blood dripping from them, and they had the eyes of the devil. Each monster in my dream had sharp claws. So sharp, that they could cut through anything.

The beginning of my not-so-pretty dreams started off about one or two weeks after the first day of middle school.

And this was the first horrifying dream I had.

(Saeko's dream)

I was in the middle of nowhere. There were very few buildings, but they were all, how you could say, worn out. They were so worn out that people never visited them again.

It turned out that I was the only person in this so-called 'town'. It was too quiet. The only thing that could be heard was the gusting wind blowing.

I was wearing a black tang top, with dark blue shorts. I also had a backpack on me.

As I walked in the 'town', I thought to myself, I wonder how this place got so empty.

It wasn't too hot out, but it wasn't too cold either. My hair was in a ponytail that way it wouldn't get messy if it were windy out.

I hanged on to the straps on my backpacks as I could see a huge dust ball flying on the streets. I only took a quick glimpse of it before it was far away from me. I blinked my blue eyes as I continued to walk to nowhere.

A while later, I decided to take a break from walking since I was getting a bit tired. My legs weren't really aching, but one of them felt like it had fallen asleep. So I sat down on a big rock near a crappy looking building, and set my backpack on the ground. I then opened it up, and grabbed my water bottle that was in the front pocket.

I opened the lip up, and immediately started gulping down the water. Within seconds, I was more than halfway done with the bottle of water.

I don't want to drink so fast, but I guess I was just really thirsty. I thought.

I tried my best to not drink it all at once, because where was I going to get water when I was in the middle of nowhere? Another fact was that I could get dehydrated if I didn't drink enough water.

A drip of water slid down the bottle just as I was putting it back. There, water was on my hands. It wasn't from the water itself. It was from condensation.

For no reason, I landed my hands (Covered with water) on my face because I was feeling a bit hot. I was feeling better, but I knew it wouldn't help much.

I decided to start walking again since I wasn't done looking through the 'town' that wasn't really a town anymore. So I grabbed my backpack, buckled it up, and wrapped the straps on my shoulders, grabbing them. My feet began to move as I took a breath.

Looking around, I could see houses that were destroyed. Roofs were almost completely off, and the doors were on the ground. They really looked like crap. It was so bad, it was sad.

I furrowed my brows slightly, and decided to check out one of the houses that looked like it would collapse anytime. But since it looked still, I wasn't that worried about myself getting hurt.

I took a few steps into the house, and the first thing that caught my attention were a few pictures of a family that used to live here. I blinked, and walked slowly to the picture that was now on the floor, with broken glass on top of the picture itself.

As I was right in front of the picture, I crouched down, and pushed the shattered glass away so that I wouldn't cut myself. When I did that, I held the picture up in front of my face, and just stared at it.

The picture was a middle-aged guy, with gray hair, and had very little wrinkles on his face. The mom looked middle-aged too, only she had blonde hair, and was a little paler than the dad. Finally, there was a little girl, with long dark blonde hair, and was held in her mother's arms. The father patted her hair, and the three of them were smiling sweetly.

As I mostly stared at the little girl, I made a tiny smile, and said to myself, "This girl must've had a wonderful family."

A bit of water was coming into my eyes, but I didn't care if I cried. I let my tears fall down my cheeks because I had remembered the hard times with my parents. My mom and dad got divorced when I was 11, and my mom left the house, so it was just me and my dad. But sometimes I wished that I could see my mom so often, because she now lived in Hokkaido, and I live in Tokyo, so it's pretty far away. Actually, I rarely get to see her at all.

Just when I put the picture down, and was wiping my tears away, I heard some sort of rumble. I gasped slightly, and immediately stood up straight. I then turned my body around, and walked outside of the torn up house.

I looked both left and right, wondering where the rumble was coming from. Was it a tank machine? No, I didn't see any of those. What I saw was some sort of giant tail.

I squinted my eyes because it was a bit hard to see since it was far away from me.

Then, without any warning, I loud roar was close to me. My eyes opened wide, and I turned around to see what the hell it was.

My eyes blinked widely in shock. It was an ugly looking monster that had more than ten eyes on its face. It also had sharp teeth, with very sharp claws on its fingers. Of course, the monster had ten fingers, just like humans.

The second that monsters hand was coming towards me, I had no choice but to run...and hide. I ran, and tried to get away from that monster as far away as possible. But I knew that it wouldn't be easy trying to lose him since he was huge.

But I ran as fast as I could, no matter how tired I was.

Seconds after the start of my running, I noticed a building, where I could easily turn to to hide. But would the monster know where I was hiding? Without a second though, I turned, around the corner of the building.

I thought, realizing, Wait, what am I doing? The monster will already know where I'm at!

But it turned out that he didn't find me. He just passed the building, and continued to chase me, or no one, I should say.

I gave out a sigh of relief while sweat came down my whole face. I ignored the sweat, and leaned against the wall of the building.

Unfortunately for me, the chaos wasn't over yet.

Right beside me, the wall broke, making a huge wall, and there was another monster. The monster was a lot smaller than the previous one, but that didn't mean that it was less gruesome.

He made a smile that was horrifying, and my eyes were opened wide in shock. I was about to run again...but it was too late.

The smaller monster swiftly swung his claw at me, breaking my body, literally in half. Tons of blood splattered everyone, and I only had a few seconds to live at this point. The last thing that I saw from my terrified eyes was my lower body falling to the ground while blood was still pouring out of both my lower and upper body.

A small tear escaped from my eyes as my view went black.

(End of Saeko's dream)

I opened my eyes widely in horror, and lifted myself up from my bed, gasping. I gripped the blanket, and landed it on my chest. I couldn't blink my eyes because my nightmare was the worst that I have had.

Thankfully, it wasn't real. But I felt my stomach under my pajamas, wondering if any blood was there. I gave out a sigh, and was relived that there was no blood there.

Before I knew it, my alarm clock went off. It went "BEEP! BEEP" seconds I had woken on my own. I turned my alarm clock off, and realized that I had to get up for school. So I got out of my bed, and changed from my pajamas to my uniform. The middle school doesn't look good as the high school uniform (I've seen them before), but it wasn't like I hated my middle school uniform.

As soon as I was done getting dressed, I fixed the blanket on my bed (I like making it neat, okay?), and pulled the curtains open just before I went out of my room.

I thought while rubbing my forehead, What a fucked up dream I had.

I closed my eyes, and I immediately had that picture of me getting sliced in half in my head. I gasped, and opened my eyes widely in horror. I stopped at dead tracks as I was shaking slightly.

N-No! That was just a nightmare! It's not real!

I shook my head violently, and tried to get that nightmare away from my mind and soul. But it wasn't working.

Just as I was about to fall to the ground, my dad called me from downstairs, "Saeko! Breakfast is ready!"

I gasped, and replied, "Coming, dad!"

I ran downstairs, and saw dad sitting at the table, waiting for me. I asked, "Did you wait long?"

"No," He chuckled. "I just sat down."

"Oh, okay." I forced myself to make a smile since I didn't want my father to worry about me. I then sat down at the table, across my father, and set my hands together, exclaiming, "Let's eat!"

The two of us began to eat breakfast in silence. I was used to the quietness at the table, but because of that nightmare I had, I wanted to talk.

I asked dad, "Dad, do you have a feeling that it might rain today?"

He stared at me, raising his brows up. He chuckled again, and answered, "Saeko, the news said that it'll be sunny all week. So there's no need to worry."

I blinked, and lowered my head down. I didn't think it was such a good idea asking that question because it was spring, and it doesn't rain that much during spring. I didn't exactly regret it, though.

Dad then asked me, "I know you've been in middle school for two weeks, but how do you like it so far?"

I stopped eating for a second, and answered his question as I lowered my eyelids, "It's good. I managed to make a friend a few days ago."

"Really? Good for you, Saeko." He gave me a warm smile as he continued to eat.

I furrowed my brows slightly, and thought, I really wish I could smile now. But I can't...

A little bit later, we were finally done with breakfast, and I was getting my backpack as I grabbed my shoes. I then sat on the platform in front of the door, slipping my feet into my shoes. After that, I tapped the front of my shoe when I stood up, and was ready to go to school.

"Have a good day at school," Dad said.

I replied with a small smile, "Thanks, dad." I walked forward, and pulled the handle of the door down. There, when I got out, it was sunny with very few clouds in the sky.

I closed the door behind me, and walked to school. I only looked at the clear sky for a few seconds before looking straight ahead.

My eyes saw a few more other students walking to school. Only to see that there were a few pairs of students talking to each other. I wasn't walking with my new friend to school because I didn't know where she lived, and she didn't know where I lived either.

I was pretty much walking by myself until I heard a familiar voice, calling my name.

"Saeko-San! Over here!"

I turned my head around, and saw my friend, Rei Miyamoto. She waved her arm high, and smiled sweetly. I really did want to smile, but I just couldn't.

She ran towards me, and was now walking with me. She asked, "Good morning! How're you doing, Saeko-San?"

"Fine," I answered. I didn't want to look in her eyes for some reason.

Rei leaned her head over, and asked, "Are you okay? You look like you've lost a relative."

I finally lifted my head up, and saw Rei looking very curious. Of course, I didn't want her to worry about me, so I answered, "I'm really fine. I just had a nightmare last night."

"A nightmare? That's bad! I don't want to know kind of nightmare you had, because I don't want to be terrified by it!"

I gave out a chuckle, and mumbled, "Okay then." To be honest, I didn't want to tell her about my nightmare anyways. Because it was bad enough to even think about it.

While we kept walking, Rei blinked her brown eyes, and exclaimed, "Oh, Saeko! I would really like you to meet my childhood friend later! That is, if it's alright with you."

"I don't mind, Rei-Chan," I replied, giving her an honest look.

She smiled, and exclaimed again, "Oh good! I'll introduce you to him at lunch then!"

I chuckled, and didn't even think about her childhood. Instead, I thought, While I was sleeping as I had that nightmare, why did I suddenly feel a sharp pain in my hip?

Earlier this morning, in the beginning of my nightmare (Before it got terrifying), I felt like something had stabbed my hip. I didn't open my eyes that time, surprisingly. But why did I feel that minor pain? Well, I didn't think I'd ever know.

Later, we were in class just as the late bell rang. I sat in my desk, where it was near the window. As usual, I rested my chin on my left palm, looking at the beautiful day of spring. But I knew I had to pay attention to the teacher, because if I didn't, the teacher would come up at my desk, say my name, and tell me, 'Saeko, pay attention, okay?' But strangely enough, I've never been caught.

That is, until now.

Right as I was spacing out, still looking outside, the teacher said my name bluntly, "Busujima-San."

I blinked, and yelped at the same time. He continued, "Were you spacing out?" He didn't look angry, but I could tell that he wasn't happy about it.

I shook my head, and said, "N-No!"

"Alright then. Please pay more attention, Busujima-San."

"Yes, sir," I mumbled as I lowered my head, feeling very embarrassed. I clenched my hands, forming them into fists, while biting my lower lip at the same time.

I was hoping to not space out like that again, but how would I if my nightmares were suddenly coming into my head?

What the hell was I going to do?

I wanted to write this story, not just because I'm a huge fan of Saeko (Let's face it, she seriously kicks ass.), but because I wanted to write something scary. And this is my first time writing horror. I know, there's not much horror yet, but I'll try my best in the later chapters.

To be honest, I don't exactly know how long this story will be, but I will say that it won't be too long. XD

High school of the Dead is pretty much the only ecchi anime that I really like (I'm a fan of it, actually. :O) because I'm no fan of ecchi.

And by the way, I'm making Saeko OOC in this story on purpose. So as I said, don't read anymore of this if you don't like Saeko being OOC. But the setting in this is when Saeko was in middle school, so she's not in the Kendo club yet, but I will let her join that club in a few chapters. And another thing, I know that Saeko and Rei haven't become friends in middle school in the anime, but this is pretty much AU (Alternative Universe).

Hope you enjoyed the first chapter! Please review! :)