Chapter 1

It had been just a couple weeks after the regional tournament where Rei had given up his position for Rin to race with Haru, Makoto, and Nagisa. Summer was just around the bend, with everyone finishing up finals. In the past week though, there had been a new disease going around. It first started off in Africa, but has slowly spread worldwide and now to Japan. It is spread through biting and to the recently deceased in the air, and the symptoms leave the person to be mad. They attack any human that moves, and is rumored to even eat human flesh. People have been warned to stay inside during night and to lock their doors once they arrive home, but now our story begins when it is too late for anyone to stay home, and for the quarantine process to begin in this small suburb.

At Samezuka Academy, unlike all the local schools, just finished the last of their finals and everyone is getting ready to go home for the summer. Rin and Nitori are in their rooms, Rin packing his things neatly into multiple boxes, while Nitori is on his bunk bed reading manga.

"You might want to start packing now so you don't rush later on Ai," Rin told Nitori.

"Senpai it's fine! We aren't going anywhere for the next two days, I have plenty of time!" Nitori says happily, "Just relax, we just finished finals."

Rin sighed, kind of annoyed because Nitori's desk looked like a tornado just went through it after all the studying he did for the past month. Nitori might have a happy look on his face now, but deep down Rin knows he's genuinely terrified at what he got on his finals, so he left Nitori alone to relax for a bit.

Suddenly, there was a loud noise like glass breaking, a bunch of footsteps, and people screaming and…groaning? Nitori looked away from his book at Rin for answers, and Rin replied with a shrug that meant he didn't know. They both went back to what they were doing for a minute, then the sounds got louder and louder, as if the building was a fire and chaos was brewing. Rin got annoyed at all the noise, so he threw down the stuff he was packing and went to the door and opened it.

"Hey guys shut the fu—"

There was blood on the floor with two more people shoving Rin out of the way, which made Rin fall down back into the dorm room. Nitori was startled and put down his book, went down from his bunk to help Rin up.

"Senpai! Are you okay?"

Usually Rin tells Nitori to stop calling him that, but he was too stunned at the blood all over the walls in the hallway. All he did was point at all the blood for Nitori to see, which made Nitori look up and see the blood dripping from the walls. Nitori quickly closed and locked the door while Rin was still on the ground.

"What's…what's going on?" Nitori asked.

"What…what the fuck? What's with all the blood?!" Rin finally blurts out. Then they head another scream, but this voice was familiar. Seijuro.

"HELP! SOMEBODY HELP!" Seijuro screamed, then hearing his footsteps, ran toward Rin and Nitori's dorm room and slammed on their door, "RIN NITORI HELP ME!" he proclaimed.

Rin and Nitori hesitated to open the door, not knowing what the hell was going on out there, and then Nitori decided to open the door quickly with Seijuro falling in and another person who seemed to be attacking Seijuro in as well. Rin got up and threw the person who was attacking Seijuro back outside, and Nitori closed and locked the door.

"Seijuro what the fuck is going on?!" Rin yelled.

"Why is there blood everywhere?" Nitori asked.

Seijuro took a second to check himself for any bites on himself, and a chance to catch his breath, "You know that disease they've been talking about on the news lately? Well looks like we have an epidemic on our hands now."

"What are you talking about? It looks like a damn zombie apocalypse out there right now!" Rin said.

"That's basically what's happening out there right now. There should be an evacuation—" an alarm outside, which alerted the whole town for an evacuation during emergencies only, went off and interrupted Seijuro, "that, should go off to tell us to get to the shore to be evacuated out of our town to quarantine."

"Quarantine?!" Nitori exclaimed.

"Shit." Rin said to himself.

"Quick, gather basic supplies, we need to go now," Seijuro said.

"But what about the zombie that's right outside our door?" Nitori asked.

"They're not really a zombies, they're just infected," Seijuro corrected him.

"Does it matter? We can't leave with it being in our way!" Rin said.

"Look, gather some things first, then we'll figure out a plan to get rid of the infected," Seijuro said. Then, there was a boom noise at the dorm room door. The infected heard them talking and is now trying to get in. Nitori and Rin quickly gathered some supplies in a small bag, and then Seijuro opened their window, to where you could hear more chaos happening below them. Seijuro ordered Nitori to man the door while he and Rin got in a position where they could jump the infected. On the count of three, Nitori opened the door to which the infected ran into the room, Rin and Seijuro grabbed him, and threw him out the window to in a couple seconds could hear the smash of his body hit the payment.

Rin and Nitori grabbed their bags and ran out to the emergency stairs with Seijuro to the exit outside to see the real horror of their new reality. Blood spots on the street, people yelling down the block from infected, people being caught and eaten by infected, it was something that stunned Seijuro, Nitori, and Rin. They soon snapped out of it and began to run towards the evacuation center.

They were a couple blocks away from the boats that were taking people away, and when they were blocked off by a hoard of infected going after them. They took a quick turn into an alleyway that lead to the boats, but as they were running, Nitori tripped and fell flat on his face. Rin turned around to go back for him.

"AI!" Rin said as he went back for him.

"RIN! COME BACK!" Seijuro yelled at Rin to go back after him.

"RIN! GO BACK!" Nitori yelled at Rin as he kept coming their way as infected ran towards Nitori. Nitori stood up, but his ankle was messed up as well and his nose was bleeding from the fall.

"I'M NOT LEAVING YOUR ASS BEHIND," Rin said, then felt Seijuro pull him back.

"Rin we have to go," Seijuro yelled.

"WE'RE NOT LEAVING AI BEHIND," Rin proclaimed.

It was too late. An infected grabbed Ai by the shoulder and bit him. Seijuro grabbed Rin and practically dragged him away to the boats.

"AICHURRO!" Rin yelled in horror, seeing his friend being attacked by infected.

"RIN!" Nitori yelled and eventually went down and screamed in pain as his body was bitten all over by infected, and Rin could do nothing but run away.