Here's a new story!
It's August, so I felt like adding something new to my collection of unfinished stories.

I'm horrible aren't I. The Summer's made me lazy with updates.

Either way, my friend showed me a new anime called High School of the Dead, and I've been so addicted to it and eventually I came up with this.

This one's about Sakura Haruno and her old two best friends, Sasuke and Naruto, who try to escape their school from a sudden zombie-attack. After drifting apart through high school, they decide to band up together again and try to find their old friends who have moved away back in elementary school. However they must do it alone in an apocalyptic world.

Probably a cliche idea coming from me, but I hope you'll like it. Hopefully it's not too bad.
Anyway, onto the story! Review and tell me what you think please!

High School.

They say it's the most four important years of your teen life. They also forgot to mention that to some, it can be the most miserable.

I was in the back of history class, taking notes on an upcoming test. This was an average daily routine, take notes, take notes, take notes. Gets old pretty quick after elementary school.

'At least then I had my friends.'

Back before high school, I had a bunch of friends I grew up with since Pre-K and Kindergarten. We were pretty close, too. Never disbanding, never getting into other people too much. We were just our own little cluster of kids. Except for Ino. She was a people-person. We didn't blame her. She got pretty annoyed with the guys a lot. But growing up into pre-teenhood, people moved, transferred to other schools by parents. 'Drifting Apart' is a lot sadder than it sounds. At least to me.

I made everyone who left promise to keep in touch. Each and every last one.

That wasn't a promise that was kept very well up to this day.

By the time it was 8th grade, I only hung out mainly with Sasuke Uchiha and Naruto Uzumaki, the first two friends I made. We were the original trio that started our little gang of troublemakers. And now we were all that was left. We stayed pretty close throughout 8th grade. But after graduating that year and entering high school, the promise of friendship was one I lost pretty quickly.

In class right now there was a blond Uzumaki, fast asleep on his desk. The teacher didn't mind. He just gave out the F's to those who 'deserved it.' Pretty unfair, this teacher. He plays favorites, too.

Then there's another desk in the room. It's empty, though. It belonged to Sasuke. I got used to this though. In the classes that I did have with Sasuke, he would normally be always missing form his seat. He had the habit of skipping classes all the time.

So yeah, you can guess the three of us aren't that close anymore.

Naruto became a school delinquent, doing very badly in all his classes and just striving to keep up in decent grades not to get kicked out. He was also always the one to start fights and start a commotion in school that gave him a very bad reputation as a troublemaker. Not all that different from elementary school, but he gets involved with different kinds of people now. It's sad.

Then there's Sasuke story. Not to long after the beginning of Freshman year, he became a lot of a loner. He also started skipping classes, but doing decently well to keep up a good average in his grades, if that was remotely possible. Nonetheless, he got pretty popular with the girls (though that didn't surprise me. Other girls always liked him.) Whether it be because of his 'bad boy' image or the fact they like him for his looks. Either way, we drifted apart too, my best friend.

It's times like this I wish we didn't have to grow up. Growing up just ruins everything for me. I'm probably the only one left who still thinks about the others. It's been a dream of mine to reunite all of us together again and juts hang out like we used to in the old days. But after a while I began to understand the way of how dreams are just meant for dreaming. I still miss them, though. Not the fact that we were all so far apart, but the fact that teenager-hood might've changed everybody, and for the worse. Was I the only one still left with the mind-set of a middle-schooler?

RING RING

The school bell rung, meaning the class was over. Lunch period now. I left the classroom as casually as everyone else, passing by a now awakening Naruto.

I'm a Sophomore now. Age fifteen in the middle of the school year. About three more months until vacation. Honestly I hated the summer even more than high school. You're just passing time under a hot sun. Whohoo.

"Sakura!" shouted my friend Ino. I talked about her before right?

Turning around after paying for my lunch I saw the blond walking over. "Ino hey." At least Ino was still a decently close friend, one of the old originals from elementary. Like I said before, she was a people-person. A very popular cheerleader captain she became in this school. I still find it miraculous that she still finds time to talk with me at lunch every day. Being the most sociable person I know, you think she'd be the one to keep in touch with the old gang. I thought wrong.

"So, Sasuke skip classes again today?" Ino asked as we sat at our usual table. I shared my fries with her. She always free-loaded on my lunch. I didn't mind anymore. Naruto back then just used to take the whole tray. "I didn't see him lounging outside during P.E."

I arched my eyebrows, trying to act interested. "Really?" I asked, eating another French fry.

"Yeah! I mean he always goes to the same spot when he skips," she said, oh-so curious. "Is he absent today?"

"Nah. He was here for homeroom," I answered bored. He always went to homeroom. Although I did wonder. Where is he if he isn't lounging outside in the P.E area? He never hides out anywhere else, according to Ino at least.

"What a strange guy he turned into," Ino insulted with crossed arms and a pout. "I don't know what you ever saw in him before."

"I already said it before Ino, I never liked the guy, and I never will," I stated with the same bored expression on my face, spinning my fry in some ketchup.

"Uh-huh! You told me back in the second grade!" the blond teased with enjoyment.

"That was how many years ago now? Besides, even if I did have some childish crush on him I've outgrown it."

"Do you like anyone now?"

"No."

"Then you still like Sasuke," she pestered. Cheerleaders. It's people like Ino who want to know everything about everyone's social life. She's all I got though. Sad isn't it? Even the bored expression on my face and the bored tone of my voice wouldn't ward her away. "They say a girl never gets over a crush until they fall for someone else."

"That sounds kind of shallow to me."

"Well it's true isn't it?" Ino shrugged, standing up. "Anyway I'm gonna leave early. I have to set up a project in the presentation room for my next class."

"Oh so you're finally doing your school work this time," I called, teasing her.

"You're not the only bookworm in our class, Sakura," Ino grinned, leaving the cafeteria. "And tell me if you see Sasuke around. He's turned into a badass now but I still like to keep tabs on people."

"Yeah yeah go set up your thing," I waved off, Ino finally disappearing. "I swear it's like she's the one with the crush on Sasuke." Just about EVERYgirl in this school thinks they're in love with Sasuke. I probably would too if I didn't know him. I don't have a crush on the guy. I know that for sure.

'Although,' I began to wonder. 'Where exactly is he, anyway?'

Meanwhile, a raven-haired teenager laid in the school nurse bed, sleeping. His closed eyes squinted every now and then, probably due to the nightmare ensuing in his mind. Although it seemed a lot more realistic and scary than any old nightmare, even for the Uchiha.

There were zombies, all over the school campus. Everyone had turned. Many students he recognized had become one of those, those things. Even the one guy he knew once the most.

"N-Naruto?" he stammered in his dream, seeing a zombie-fied version of the knucklehead, limping towards him.

Even a familiar pink-haired girl he once proclaimed very close to him, his once most important person as a child.

"Sa...suke...," she moaned in pain on the ground, a huge abnormally-made gash in her neck and shoulder. Blood was spilling out at an alarming rate as her eyes went blak before him. At that very moment, the clock striked 1:00, its chime echoing down the hall and attracting many more of the zombie students who started coming his way.

Finally the boy's eyes adjusted to the forming light over his eyes. Awakening, he realized he was in his nurse's office at school. His eyes winced at the reflecting white blindness of the room and he groaned, sitting up. At that instant he felt a painful throbbing on the side of his head and his hand flew up to it.

"Calm down, Sasuke. You had a pretty nasty fall back there," said the school nurse, walking up to the teen with an ice pack.

Sasuke gratefully took the cold ice and put it to the side of his head. "What happened?"

"Students said you collapsed suddenly in the hallway," she said with a cheerful smile. The nurse was always smiling, strangely enough. "One said that right before you were dazing off and then you just fell from nothing."

"Oh," he said simply, glancing down and recalling his dream. Was it really a dream? he wondered. Suddenly he recalled more of the dream. The nurse's office. This was how his nightmare had started, vaguely remembering. Glancing up at the clock Sasuke saw the time was 12:30. Taking suspicion into his dream, Sasuke dropped the ice pack onto the paper-covered bed and lept off. "I'll be going now."

"A-Are you sure?" the nurse stammered, seeing the teen walk past towards the door.

"I'm fine," he said coolly, shutting her door.

Once it clicked, Sasuke pondered about the nightmare again, or prediction he wondered. Nonetheless, he called this dream more of a prediction. Everything he saw was a repentance of the beginning of his dream. In fifteen minutes, he predicted, this entire school would be in the shambles of chaos. And the deaths of two students he knew would come about just around the corner, too...

"I've got to find those two."

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I was sitting in my next class in the computer lab, doing a research paper. Naruto on the computer right behind me had his earphones, but I heard the beeps and sounds of a computer game he was probably playing, going unnoticed by the teacher. I didn't mind it though. I was used to it.

Typing quickly into my keyboard, I suddenly felt a cold air in the room. Well, it's a computer room so it was aways cold. But I got one of those goosebump-cold feelings. I looked at my arms to see them forming. "Calm down Sakura, probably just getting hyped up over nothing." She read somewhere you could get goosebumps from scaring yourself, even if there was really nothing to be afraid of.

Although that didn't really matter, because the classroom door suddenly clicked open. All eyes adverted towards it to see who came in. And much to my surprise, it was Sasuke. Sasuke Uchiha? Coming to class? Wait this wasn't even one of his classes.

"Mr. Uchiha," said the stern teacher. He had a slight sound of distaste in his voice, as would any teacher. "May I help you? Otherwise you're disrupting my class." What class? You're not even dong anything.

"I need to speak with two students," Sasuke replied with one hand in his pockets. His face looked calm enough. Wonder what's up.

"Sasuke you can't just pull students out of my class for-"

Sasuke ignored the man and just walked up to me, grabbing my arm suddenly and yanking me out of my spinning computer chair. "H-Hey! What's the big idea?" I panicked with alarm. I'd just gone to ignoring him after so long, so I was surprised by him suddenly appearing.

"Come on, we're leaving," he said suddenly.

Anyone would be confused, even by the 'great' Sasuke Uchiha. "Huh?"

"You too, dobe," he said to Naruto behind, still having a firm grip on my forearm.

The blond pulled his earphones out and sent a look at the Uchiha. Naruto hated that name 'dobe' for as long as I could remember. "Listen Sasuke, I don't know what your deal is but we don't need you bossin' us around like you own the place here-"

"Just come on," he recited again in a darker tone. Curiously I looked up at his dark eyes. I saw seriousness in them. I've seen that look before on Sasuke. Either when he was upset or mad, or when he was being totally serious. Naruto appeared to have noticed too.

"Sasuke what's going on?" I asked suspiciously as Naruto and I walked behind the Uchiha in the barren empty halls. Surprisingly we really did just leave the classroom without the teacher's permission. Naruto probably didn't care, but I was a normal student. I worried about punishments and consequences.

"The school's in danger," Sasuke stated, turning around to face us once we got to the middle of the hall. "Don't ask me how, but we need to get out of here."

This worried me. But I was also a tad suspicious. Who wouldn't? "What's gonna happen?"

"Don't listen to him, Sakura. He's probably just pulling some joke on us because he has nothing better to do," Naruto argued with crossed arms and a half-turned back.

"Why the hell would I make up something like this?" Sasuke asked obviously to him. "And besides, I never have the enthusiasm to pull a joke that'd require this much effort, pulling you two troublesome people out of a class."

"So first you get us into trouble then you insult us," I remarked to him. "Very nice."

Sasuke groaned from frustration. He couldn't really be telling the truth could he? "Come on. Just trust me would you?"

Finally I narrowed my eyes at him. "Okay, let's say this whole 'school in danger' thing was true. Why us?" I asked straightforward. I was quite surprised with myself actually, talking so boldly in front of these two. "As far as I know you don't care about us anymore. Why try and save us?"

Sasuke felt the urge to answer, but at the same time felt like he would be sacrificing his pride if he did. But at the thought of his pink-haired companion's question, his mind went instantly to his dream, seeing a dead Naruto and Sakura. Shaking these thoughts from his head, he returned his stern expression. "I don't have to explain myself to you."

"Then we don't have to go with you," Naruto said back with a smirk as I turned around to walk past them. Originally I planned on heading back to the classroom, but at my third step I heard an unusual sound in the distance, like the sound of a glass breaking or something. It as so quiet that probably only I heard it. Naruto and Sasuke were still arguing behind. They probably hadn't noticed.

However when I lifted the heel of my foot I heard a second crash, but louder this time. Naruto's and Sasuke's fighting ceased as well. Now I was certain that we all had heard it.

"W-What was that...?" I said out loud in a falter.

Behind me, Sasuke pushed Naruto out of the way and to the windows that lined the entire left side of the hallway. Outside the class, down below on the lower levels of the school on the eastern side, a couple of estranged-looking adults had broken into a classroom through a window, them trying to climb in. The students' screams from that one unfortunate classroom echoed through the air. Naruto and I eventually came to see what Sasuke had found.

"What are those things..?" Naruto hesitated, starring out the window in disbelief.

I narrowed my eyes. "And their skin..." It was so pale. No, forget pale. It wasn't even a normal skin-color. Purple almost, like a zombie's rotting flesh that you'd see in movies. Their muscles and veins and bones could be seen through their hands. I could only imagine their face. My fingers clutched into my hands, slight fear penetrating my already racing heart. It was then I finally understood Sasuke's earlier warning. "Sasuke," I began, my voice in a barely audible whisper. "How did you know that this was..."

He paused for a moment. "The school nurse said I fainted earlier..." he started. "But the story's too long to get into right now."

"Well, this goes to show you're right about us being in trouble," said Naruto. "What do we do now?"

"Isn't it obvious?" I spoke finally, receiving both boys attention. "It's like Sasuke said before, we need to get out of here."

"What about the rest of the students?" Naruto asked lost.

"Why do you think Sasuke got us out of class first?" I asserted, an almost angry look on my face. And the sad part was, that I didn't even know what I was angry at. "The entire school will become a war-front soon enough. Best we escape with our lives before it all becomes worse."

"H-How do you know that?" Naruto stammered. I wondered of denial. "If we know about this situation early enough because of Sasuke then why can't we just call the police before it gets out of hand-?"

"The police won't come," Sasuke interrupted without much emotion. "Those things, those un-dead, when they bite you it's all over." Naruto and I starred at Sasuke, wondering just how he knew that. It could've been a suspicion from zombie movies, but I highly doubted that Sasuke was one to be very interested in any kind of zombie movie. Let alone to see one rightbefore this situation. I felt myself gulp from the nervousness of it all. "Like you said, Sakura. This entire school will become infected very soon. The students will learn they're in danger, the panic will follow through, and soon enough there'll be too much chaos for a good amount of students to make it out of the building alive."

'Alive...?'

He seemed so accurate about this, as if he actually knew what was going to happen. I made it all according to his 'long story' he refused to get into right now. "So what do you suggest we do," I said to him.

Sasuke heard further crashes from that first-floor classroom. "We need to find a safe place before-" The speakers from the school intercom emitted an electric crackle, something that happened every time an announcement went on. I felt all of our eyes widen. 'Damn," he uttered under his breath.

"Students, I advise everyone to remain in your classrooms until further notice," said the voice, a very shaky voice at that. It felt rushed, too. Probably a teacher who had been alerted of the incident in that raided classroom.

"This is bad," Sasuke stated. "All the students are going to know soon."

"Then let's get the hell out of here already!" Naruto urged in a hushed whisper.

"Not yet," I said, making them both look at me. I held a nervous yet serious face. "We'll need weapons. If it's chaos and panic we're in for, and in a high school nonetheless, it won't be easy to get through the front doors."

"All teachers are ordered to let no student out and to lock all doors of the classrooms that you are-" The announcement was interrupted by another crash from the school office. Naruto, Sasuke, and I ran down the halls as the silenced halls echoed our footsteps. We had to be quick. Not even minutes were permitted to our ahead-advantage.

The intercom 'announcement' resumed. "NO! GET AWAY! NOOO-!" A painful and piercing scream came out of the speakers in the hall. This only made me run faster behind Sasuke and pick up my pace. Was this... actually happening?

And at that, the ground beneath began to shake, and multiplied screams ran throughout the school building. I could picture it now, every student for their life rushing out of their classroom with fear-stricken eyes. It'd be just like a fire-drill, but worse and less orderly. At this point, I was very much glad that I was with Naruto and Sasuke of all people. But at the same time, my mind wandered to Ino. I prayed to God that she was okay.

"Here," Sasuke said, us raiding the gym closet in an empty classroom. The school gym was right here on the second floor next door. They kept al the gym equipment in here. Naruto picked his choice of a firm hockey-stick. I went to get a bright metal-baseball bat, picking it up with ease.

Nauto drew a somewhat panicked expression. "A-Are you sure that's a good weapon for you Sakura? I mean it might be kinda heavy to lug around-"

"You have a point in here somewhere?" I interupted with a death glare, only scaring Naruto even more.

"No no not at all!" he quickly defended with waving hands. "It's just..."

I slowly swung the bright heavy bat in the air. "The bat's perfectly fine with me to use. I won't have any trouble with it."

"She has a point," Sasuke said, walking past the blond teen. He went towards the two-doored closet. "Sakura's pretty decent when it comes to muscle. Or have you forgotten how much she used to kick your butt back in elementary school?"

"S-Shut up, you!" Naruto retorted at the calm Uchiha. Meanwhile I starred at him, slightly taken back that he actually said that. Sasuke, actually remembered something from the old days? I couldn't help the faint drawing smile coming onto my lips. Maybe it was good fate brought us three together. Or maybe that was the reason Sasuke picked Naruto and me out of all people in the school to 'save'.

Meanwhile, Sasuke reached into the back of the storage closet, pushing away the other sports equipment thrown in there by the school. He found a secret compartment in the back and pushed it to the side, revealing a long bamboo kendo stick. It had a strap holder, too, and Sasuke pulled out the Japanese weapon from the closet. I starred at it in shock while Naruto had his own queering reaction.

"WHERE THE HELL DID THAT COME FROM?" Naruto shouted with a booming voice, pointing at the weapon.

"I practice in private after school with this thing," Sasuke explained, fitting the strap over his shoulder and across his waist to his hip. He pulled out the sword-like weapon, careful to aim it quickly at the wall with his hold, right between Naruto and I. "I can't practice at home, and it'd be a bother if a teacher saw me carrying this to school everyday. So after a while I just stashed it in here so no one could find it. Nonetheless, I have a better chance fighting with this."

"Somehow that doesn't make me feel better," Naruto muttered.

"Either way," I said, swinging the bat over my shoulder with my right arm. "What's the plan? We can't just walk out anymore with all of the kids in a frenzy."

"Even worse, they're going to be more of those zombies," Sasuke added. "In that first classroom we saw, I'm sure more than one student got bitten."

"So?" Naruto said.

Sasuke turned to the blond with a death stare. "So those bitten students have become one of them." Our eyes widened. I was expecting bad but that for the possibility of getting bitten, and turning into a, a, mindless zombie? "No doubt the infection will spread to even more students. And with everyone all mixed in together a lot more students will get bitten. We just have to make sure we don't."

"We could always try jumping out the window," Naruto suggested to him. "If it's as bad as you make it out to be out there, then maybe we should just take that short-cut."

"I really advise you rethink that idea," I said with furrowed eyebrows, starring out the class window. Naruto and Sasuke rushed over. Outside in the couryard near the front gates, many students zombified were going after running students, some caught and getting bitten and ripped of their flesh. I felt the urge to turn away and just get sick, but for some reason I couldn't. My fear was much greater than my stomach's instinct.

"What the hell...?" Naruto said with disbelief.

"There's no way we can get out of this place now," Sasuke grimaced, gripping his bamboo sword.

"Ahhh!" shouted a voice outside. Somehow I recognized that scream. Dashing towards the door I looked out the small window in search of the sound. Out in the hall I found more of those zombified students gathering around something.

'So quickly...?' It's only been how many minutes now? Ten? And already there were so many lost students. But what surprised me more was what was attracting the zombies out in the hall. I saw two non-pale students against a wall, one of whom I recognized as Ino. "Ino?"

"Gaaah!" shouted the other girl, grabbed and overtaken by the other zombie-students. Ino watched as her friend was eaten alive, blood splattering over the wall and some onto Ino's uniform. I realized it wouldn't be long until the zombie's meal on the poor girl would move onto Ino, and upon unsought instinct I moved the door to the side and ran out with my bat.

"Sakura wait!" Sasuke called out in a panic.

"Get away from Ino!" I shouted in rage, running with my bat ready to swing. The zombies who were about to bite Ino looked to the source of the yell, but before they even realized, I had come and swung my bat, slamming three of them across the hall and away from Ino. I stood in front of her against one last zombie of a male school student. This was the first time I saw one. One of his eyes was rolled back and one was completely white. His skin was as pale as that rotting purple and his teeth had yellowed and grown out-wards somehow. Their groans and movements were slow, but the bites looked deadly, as Sasuke told me.

"Ahhh!" Ino screamed behind me.

"GET AWAY!" I yelled out, raising my bat and slamming it onto the zombie's head. It smashed in a way I never thought was possible and the already lifeless body fell down, officially dead and gone. I took in breaths of energy as I lowered my bat down, the edge of it stained with some blood. The zombie didn't really bleed as much as I thought he would, actually. I turned to Ino, seeing her surprise/fear stricken-face. But she seemed to have calmed upon looking up at me. "Are you okay?" I asked her seriously.

Ino replied with a nod as I helped her up.

"Sakura!" yelled Naruto's and Sasuke's voices.

We turned around, seeing the guys stopping beside us. Naruto looked over at the damage done to the head-deprived zombie. His stomach jumped as I saw his face scrunch up, despite how much he tried to look unaffected.

"You idiot," Sasuke said otherwise, glaring at me. "You don't just run out of nowhere without any back up! You could've been killed!"

"You expect me to just let those things take Ino alive!" I argued back with temper, glaring at him with the same face. "Maybe Iwant to save people too, you selfish jerk!" Silence followed my statement. Sasuke and I retained our glaring contest as Naruto's attention adverted to the three zombies I had knocked out earlier across the hall. He saw them rise back up inhumanely, starting to walk again in a distance. "Guys, look," he breathed.

I turned around seeing the zombies coming towards us, unaffected from before. Forgetting my fears I held by bat ready in a stance, as did Sasuke who pulled out his sword. "Why are they getting back up?"

"They're the un-dead. What do you expect?" Sasuke remarked.

"It's not that," I disclosed. "That zombie there, the one whose head I smashed." Naruto glanced down t it again hesitantly. "He's not getting up. Why those three?"

Naruto's eyes adverted back to our three enemies. A smirk grew onto his mischievous grin. "Maybe that's how we kill them," he said in a low whisper, raising his hockey stick. "To get rid of 'em for good we smash their heads!"

At that Naruto and Sasuke ran ahead of me towards the zombies. With astounding teamwork and fighting-style, the two un-likely heroes smashed the heads of the zombified students, killing them for good. I almost considered going after them, but I remembered the defenceless Ino and stayed behind reluctantly.

"Sakura, what's going on?" Ino finally questioned. Her voice sounded demanding, just like mine before.

"I wish I knew," I answered truthfully. Sasuke was right after all. The school had become a battlefield, a war to live. Kill or be killed.