A/N:

I have looked through most of the H.O.T.D fics and I haven't found one that is close to canon. So I decided that this one will follow along with the canon story except for when the main chars are not with Takashi and his friends.

I have named the first Arc; Rescue of the Dead. It is focused on Ryuu Busujima, younger brother of Saeko Busujima. He was bannished from the Busujima family and sent to New Zealand to stay with his Uncle, to learn how to cope with the Busujima 'curse'. He returns to Tokyo to find out he is unwelcomed at home, a few days later he goes to Fujima high to atend school.

I will use suffixes and other occasional japnese words, please tell me if I get them wrong, as I am not use to writing like this. Oh! And also in cases of cities where the main language is english, then I will write the proper english way. (This aplies to dialogue only, every thing else will be english.)

Arc Summary:

Ryuu Busujima, the bannished heir. Returns to Tokyo, Japan, and attends Fujima High. However things eventually go down hall, when the 'Killer Disease', makes its presence known to the school. In his attempt to meet up with his cousin at the Central Airport he meets up with his sister and old friend, and the group they are with. Due to problems with a certain madman, Ryuu is seperated from his friends.

DISCLAIMER: I do not own H.O.T.D, only Ryuu and other OC's.

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Act 1 – The Dragon and the Dead

Have you ever wondered what the end of the world would be like? Did you think 'Maybe there will be a large Meteorite, that will cause a Nuclear Winter', or perhaps you thought something along the lines of, 'World War III broke out and the radiation killed of most of the worlds population.'? But did you ever consider that the world would come to an end, by means of the dead coming back to life and feeding on the living? Maybe, maybe not, but that is what has happened.

I watched a movie once and a line from that movie was brought to my mind, when I first got a decent look at 'them'. The line was; 'When there is no more room in hell, the dead shall walk the earth, and thus judgement day has come,' or something like that.

Oh! Where are my manners my name is Ryuu Busujima, a kendoist like most Busujima family members. Today was suppose to be my first day at Fujima Private Highschool, if it wasn't for the large sum of money given to me by my uncle, to pay for the tuition fees, and other school costs, I would most likely be spending the rest of my life on the street. I still couldn't believe what had happened and I was really starting to hate the man I had once called father.

I had returned to my home in Tokyo, from my Aunt's house in New Zealand, to find out I was no longer wanted there. Apparently I had been bannished from my home, because of a simple accident, even if said accident almost resulted in the death of my older sister.

~ Flashback – 10 years ago ~

It was a day like any other, I was sparing with my older sister, Saeko. She got her purple hair, and blue eyes from our father, where as I got my dark blue, almost black hair, and bright yellow eyes, from our mother who had died giving birth to me. Saeko was one year older than me. Saeko's gi was white, like most female gi's, while mine was blue.

We were facing each other, our bokken at the ready. I was trying to find a flaw in her stance, but like usual it was flawless. I decided to give a teest swing, so I swung from the left, which she parried, taking advantage of my broken stance she sweeped out one of my feet causing me to fall over.

"You would have to do better than that, to beat me Ryuu – kun." she said as she offered her hand for me to take. "I think that will be enough for today."

I took her hand and once I was up, she started to head to changing rooms. "Wait!" I called after her she stoped and turned to look at me. "Lets go again! I will win this time Onee – sama!" I announced.

Saeko just rose an eyebrow, and settled into her usual stance. I charged at her, I made it look like I was going to attack from the left but as she brought up her sword to parry, I spun the bokken around in my hand so I was holding the pomel towards Saeko, and I thrust it in to her stomach as I ducked her parry.

What happened next would haunt my nightmares for the rest of my life. Something had happened to me it felt as though I had just taken a back seat as I watched my body move on its own towards my sister. I had lept at the still stunned Saeko and knocked her to the ground, holding my bokken to her neck. My right knee traped her left knee, and the foot of the same leg pinned her right foot to the tatami mats. Where as my other knee pinned her right hand, and my free hand pinned her other hand.

My out of control body then pressed the bokken down on her neck. She started to turn blue and I looked into her eyes, and what I saw broke my heart. Her eyes showed fear. Not fear for her life but fear of me.

Just then the door opened and our father walked in and noticed us, he yelled "What the hell is going on here!" he grabbed me and threw me off her, my control finnally returning. He checked on Saeko, once he had was sure she was alright, he turned to me, "Why did you use lethal force!"

"I... I..." I stuttered out.

When I hesitated to answer as I tried to calm down from what I had almost done, he made his way towards me, to which I paled, afraid of the consiquence which was to come. However it didn't come as Saeko jumped between us, I was surprised that she was defending me. "I am sorry Tou – san, but I asked him to go all out... it was my fault."

Our fathers eyes softened when she did that, it was clear that Saeko was his favourite child. "That is as it may be, but it does not excuse him from what he has done. In the mourning he will be going to your uncles..." He glanced at me at which time I looked up, and into his furious eyes, "... to teach him some self control, you two have this night to say your good byes." and having said that, he gave me one final look at me, and he walked off.

I was about to follow his example, but was stopped when I heard Saeko say, "I am surprised."

"You fear me, Onee – sama." I said while not looking at her.

She must have been shocked at what I said, as she said, uncertain of herself, "I... I..." it was the first time I had heard her say something like that it made me look her in the eyes.

"You fear me, it was so clear when I looked into you eyes, and the fact that you fear me scares the hell out of me." I said, okay I was a bit of a fowl mouth when I was seven and to tell you the truth I still am, except now its even worse. I looked away and said, "Sometimes I fear my self. Everytime I spar, a piece of me just wants to... to... k-kill..." The last bit came out as a whisper, but my sister still heard me.

Saeko turned me around and pulled me into a hug. Once we parted she looked at me and said, "Well how about we go do something to take our minds off what has just transpired." and we both left the room.

~ Flashback End ~

It wouldn't be until later that I found out that, some mebers of the Busujima family, suffered from S.P.D, mostly males, but females weren't unheared of. Well anyway thats all in the past, like I was saying today was supposed to be a new start, oh how wrong was I.

I was to meet with my new teacher at noon, which according to my watch was in about half an hour. I had been exploring the campus for the last two and a half hours, which found me alone on the roof. I was just thinking back to my training in the attempt to control my S.P.D, when I was interupted by the door opening. I turned to see a black haired student wearing the black male school uniform, walking towards me.

He seemed deep in thought because he jumped when I said, "Hi there, shouldn't you be in class, not that I care, but will you not get in trouble?"

Once he had gotten over his surprise he answered with, "Uh... yeah... I was up late last night, and couldn't be bothered paying attention to the teacher." He walked over to the railing and started leaning on it looking over the campus.

I turned to leave and said, "My name's Busujima Ryuu, by the way."

He replied with "Mine is, Komuro Takashi. Pleased to meet you Busujima – san" and there it was the formality, oh how I hated those, though I guess it comes with growing up in an english speaking country.

"Please, call me Ryuu, I don't like formalities, Takashi – san."I said as I started for the door again, but stopped as I looked over towards the entrance of the school. I walk towards the railing again and said, "Hey, whats going on over there?" Takashi followed my outstretched hand, which was pointing towards the iron gate of the school.

There was a person at the gates of the school, it had a males figure but there was something wrong in the way he was standing, he seemed rather rigid. Some teachers made there way towards the gates, and Takashi muttered, "The P.E Teachers." the teachers talked for a short while with the man but didnt seem to get a reaction from him. So one went up to threaten him violently, but as he reached through the bars, and grabed the person by the scruff of his neck, the person bit into the teachers arm and tore a chunk from it. The teacher was surprised and took a step back only to trip and smash his head against the concrete.

"What the..." I said to no one in particular.

Back at the front of the school the female teacher tried to tend to the now downed teacher a few tense minutes seemed to pass as the male teacher showed signs that he had died, to which the female teacher was crying. She burried her head into his chest which was the wrong thing to do as the once deseased teacher reached up. For one brief moment the woman had a look of reliefed which then turned to into fear as the dead teacher bit into her neck taking a large chunk out of it. And she promptly collapsed.

I was forced to turn away as I felt something rise up from the pit of my stomach and it wasnt nausea. Takashi on the other hand had gone pale and he rushed off into the interior of the school building.

I looked back over the side of the railing and saw that the female teacher was back on her feet not to mention the hole out of her neck. I knew almost as soon as I had seen this that something was wrong, since when do those who should have died get back up. I noticed that the gates had falleen down and a few zombie like people from outside were fileling in. I then decided one course of action I ran inside the stair well and made my way down.

What I would soon find out was that there had been another person who had seen what had happened at the front of the school.

~ Ground floor – School building ~

I had just reached the ground floor and was making my way to where I knew the kendo clubs dojo was located, I was running towards the lobby when I heard a sound from the room I had just passed. It was an odd sound like sobbing or something, so I decided it wouldn't hurt to check it out.

When I opened the door, I found out that it was one of the changing rooms for the gym. I noticed that it was a girls locker room, so I closed the door and called in, "Hello?"

The sobbing stopped, and a weak reply said "W-Who's there?" it was deffinately a female voice, she had a familiar accent to her voice, The fear that was in her voice sent me a message that said she had witnessed the attack.

"Come with me it is dangerous in here." I said trying to coax the girl out. I looked around the halls and I saw the female teacher from before walking towards the administration desk just down the hall. "On second thoughts, can I come in?"

This seemed to have an effect on the girl, as she asked. "Is Kamigawa – Sensei, coming!"as soon as she had said that the male teacher who had ripped the females throat out was just coming in. at the sound of her voice it stopped and slowly turned its head toward me.

It wasn't that I was afraid it was that I had seen how strong these things were as I had seen three push down the front gate even ripping the brick posts that the gates were hinged to. "Screw that." I muttered and I opened the door and went in. I slamed the door, and then flinched as I had remembered that the male teacher had reacted to the girls voice and the way they held its head made me think that these things were blind, of course this was only a hunch I hoped was correct.

I grabed the nearest bench and draged it over towards the door, wincing at the grating sound. I flipped it up side down and braced it under the door handle with the end of the bench on the bench opposite the door. I moved away from the door and said, "I hope that holds them off." I looked around and saw the girl huddled in the cornor.

I sighed as I looked at her terrified expression, and I walked over to her. I sat down beside her and she didn't even move. We sat in quite for a while, I noticed the silowuete of the male teacher out side the door, I decided, incase my theory was correct that I would whisper. "I am going to ask you something and I want you to answer quitely, okay?" to which she just nodded, "Right then, did you witness what had happened at the front of the school?" she nodded again, then turned to look at me.

"Why is this happening?" she whispered a bit too quite, but I was still able to hear it.

"I don't know. But what I do know is that we can't stay here." I looked around and saw the other exit, "Where does that door lead?" I pointed at the unbaricaded door.

"The gym."

"Is there a room that has sports equipment?" I asked remembering that schools in New Zealand usually had a sports equipment room near the gym.

"Y-Yes, exactly opposite that door. Only on the other side of the gym."she said and it sounded like she had some hope come back into her.

Before I could say anything the school intercom system came on. "Attention all students andd teachers, a violent attack has just taken place on the school grounds. We urge everyone to stay in their classrooms until further notice. I repeat there has been a violent attack..." There was a bit of static and some background noise, before a scream was heard that made the girl pale and squeck. "AHHHHHH!...ow ouch... ow ouch... No! Don't BITE ME! NO DONT EAT ME! DIE!" There was a loud clang sound then "GYARGAHHHHHH!" Then it all went silent.

I was so stunned that I didnt notice the girl beside me shaking in fright. "Shit! Talk about causing a fucking problem!" I said it probably a bit too loud as there was a bang on the door. "Damn." I turned to the girl and said "We need to arm our selves, come on." I grabed her hand and dragged her to the door that wasn't barred. She didnt protest, infact she didnt do much, I guess she was too scared to do anything else.

Once I opened the door I looked around, I noticed a boy with grey hair run out the door with a baseball bat. Apart from that the gym was empty, we quickly made our way across the gym to the sports cupbourd.

I opened the door and noticed that there was a few things we could use. I grabbed a pair of alluminium baseball bats. I turned to the girl who was standing just out side the door, I looked at her shaky form. "Hey, pick something out, I will keep watch until you are armed." and I walked passed her and she walked in.

I looked around the gym at the two entrances. I could hear the panicked students running around the upper floors. I was sure that by now there would be a lot of the zombie like things, due to the panic and chaos.

The girl walked out of the room with what looked like a javelin, I looked at it then at her and rose an eyebrow. "I am on the lancing team." she answered my unasked question, I just nodded and motioned for her to follow me. "Where are we going?" she asked.

"The roof, it will give us some where to think of a way of escape." I said as I thought, And lso a way to get to the central airport. "My names Ryuu by the way, Ryuu Busujima."as I said this she gasped.

"B-Busujima? Did you say -" she stuttered out.

"Yeah, why?" I asked curiosity in my voice.

"Are you related to a Busujima Saeko?" she asked.

"You know my sister?" I asked with amazement in my voice, "Does she go to school here?"

"Yes, she is the nation kendo champion. Wait you said she was your sister how come you didn't know where she went to school?" she asked with suspecian in her voice.

"Its been ten years since I last saw or heard anything about her." I stated a hint of sadness in my voice. It seemed that the girl got the hint to drop the subject as she said.

"My name is Sara Knight." she said, then she laughed halfheartedly. "To think that an american exchange student, would be caught up in something like this." she sighed and I realised that her accent was indeed american.

~ School Roof ~

We were climbing the last flight of stairs on the way to the roof. On the way to the roof we stopped out side a janitors closet to pick up some things, mainly anything that I thought would be usefull in order to get off the roof. So in my bag I had these newly obtained items; a box of six or five nuts and bolts. About 3 metres of rope. Some sort of double hook like object which I quickly tied to the rope making a grapling hook. I also ripped the arms off a flanel shirt and wraped one around my right hand and gave the other to Sara incase we needed to smash a window.

Speaking of which she was still scared shitless she would jump at every little sound, expecting to see a zombie coming towards her.

We had just walked out the door and I thought that Sara would feint in front of us was a sea of undead, but that wasnt what I was looking at. At the opposite end of the roof was a trio of humans running up a stair case that lead to the roof of the stair well. I identified the black haired male as Takshi and I knew that the silver haired boy was the boy that had been in the gym before us.

I was about to run across the roof when I was stopped by Sara. I looked back at her and saw her frightened look on her face as she shook her head. A million thoughts ran through my head and I looked at the others and I noticed that the female had been knocked off her feet and a zombie was closing in on her, I couldn't help but shout, "Yes!" it didn't get Takashis attention, but it did get the nearest zombies attention, I noticed Sara back away and I thought, Crap! What to do! Wait the nuts! I smirked as I took one of the nuts I had stashed in my pocket, out. I threw it across the ground towards the railing and the zombies followed it.

"Come..." I whispered so low that I barely heard it my self, as we quickly but quietly made our way to the opposite stair well. Once we reached the stairs I saw that they were blockedby tables and boxes and other heavy looking objects, I got Sara's attention, and I made handsigns indicating her to get the make shift grappling hook and swing it over the railing while I kept watch. I looked around and saw that the zombie people were heading towards us again. I fished into my pocket again and pulled out the last nut and threw to the stair well we had come out of. Most of them followed but some of them were atracted to the others voices.

I looked to the grapple hook and noticed that Sara was up top. I went to climb up behind her but a moan from behind me allerted me to the presense of the zombie behind me. I rolled to the side and spun around so I could see a zombie that was drooling, my face was disgusted I looked up the stair well roof and saw the three from before and Sara, my little stunt had got the attention of five zombies who where closing in on me.

I pull the two baseball bat from my bag and held them in a ready position. One to my right lunged at me, to which I ducked under its swipe while tapping the zombie, knocking it off balance. While it was still off balance I took the opportunity to smash it in the head.

The second one to my left lunged at me. I side steped it and had my foot held out triping it up I then took advantage once again and smashed its head against the concrete. I turned and the other two closest me were right beside one another so I threw one of my bats which hit the one that was slightly in front, right between the eyes leaving a dint.

By this time I was starting to pant as noticed that the others had figure out that there was something tastely over in my direction which I didnt hazard a guess that it was me. There was only one undead blocking my way, so I charged it and swung both bats at either side of its head crushing it skull. I looked around and saw that the other zombies where shambling to ward me. I ran for the wall and didnt stop once I reached it. I made it halfway up and was in reach of the railing which I grabbed and with the help of Sara, Takashi and the others, managed to pull my self over it.

It was silent for a while as I caught my breath leaning against the back of the shed that was up there which I guess explained the boxes and tables. Sara was sitting beside me hugging her javelin to her chest. I was looking at the ground thinking. Now I only need to figure out a way to escape and to reach the central airport. My thinking was interupted when the girl of Takashi's group said, "Hey? Are you okay?"

I looked up at her and said "Yeah I am fine. Just thinking about things. Like where the police or national security or something is."

The silver haired boy said "I could be that they haven't heard about this yet."

"No." I answered with out hesitation, the others rose eyebrows, except for Sara who was shacking again. "What would the first thing you do if you saw someone bitting people and those people dyeing only to come back to life and doing the same thing."

The brunette girl was about to say something but Sara beat her to it, "Run away and call the cops." and she went back to holding her javelin close, as if it where her life.

I nodded and said, "Do you honestly think no one thought of that, besides if there is no help here then my guess is that the same thing is happening all over the city, maybe the entire world." I stood up and walked over to the railing over looking the car park I took in notice of the buses parked in the park. "My name is Busujima Ryuu, exheir of the Busujima family." I said as I noticed their reaction to my name apparently they also knew my sister. Geez I wonder how famous my sister is? I gave an ironic sounding chuckle, "Pretty crap first day huh?"

This caused to chuckle a bit then selves. Sara just sat there minding her own business. "Oh this here is Sara Knight, an exchange student from America." I stated as I was sure she wouldn't say a thing.

Takashi took a step forward before anyone could introduce themselves. "Hey guys this was the guy I told you about. Ryuu – san this is Miyamoto Rei," He said indicating the girl, "and this is Igou Hisashi." who had just nodded.

Rei said, "Its a pleasure to meet you Busu-"

"Please call me Ryuu, I am Busujima in name only, now. Rei – san." I said as I made my way over to Sara. I kneeled down in front of her. "I am going down to the staffroom and I want you to stay with these three, and come down latter."

She had calmed down a bit and after what I said fear crept into her eyes again. "Wh-What! No! I want to go with you! Please don't leave me!" she tried to grab ahold on my uniform but I grabbed her hand and said.

"I serriously think you need to rest for a good while, as you are too frightened, I dont think it would be a good idea for you to go back into the school for a while and I trust Takashi to look after you." with that said I let go of her hands and stood up. I pulled out one of my bats and tied the second into my bag, and zipped it up. I walked over to where we climbed up picked up the grapple hook and went to the opposite cornor. I took one more look at Sara who was crying silent tears. I frowned and looked over the railing and saw the roof was clear in the area, were I would end up.

I placed the hook onto the railing and I slid down it and on to the roof. I then walked over to the railing and looked for a class room window. I once again hooked the hook onto the railing and wraped the end around my arm. I knew that doing this could very well dislocate my shoulder but I wanted to avoid the zombies.

So I jumped up onto the edge and slowly lowered my self over the railing. I was almost over and I sliped I could hear the pop in my shoulder and knew that my prediction came true. Before gravity could rip my arm off I managed to get my feet on to a window sill, but I didnt cry out, I grit my teeth at the pain, looked into the window and saw that the room was occupied by a few zombies.

I realised that I was about faint from the pain and so I steped across to the other window and saw it was empty. I swung my baseball bat smashing the glass, but I droped it as a freash wave of pain shot through my arm. I couldn't move as I started to black out so I just leant forward so I would fall through the window rather then the ground.

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A/N:

Sorry if the ending seemed a little rushed, but it is after all just the first version. I suspect that there are a few apelling mistakes and other ones, and I am sorry if anyone is upset with it.

Next Act Ryuu meets Saya and Kouta, and the three of them make their way to the staff room and enroute meets up with Takashi with both girls minus Hisashi, and has a reunion with his sister.

Anyway sorry if some thing is wrong, thats what reviews are for so tell me what you think of it and worry not those who read my other stories I will go back to them once I get more ideas for them.

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