My name is Naruto Uzumaki, and I was a member of the Umbrella Biohazard Countermeasure Service unit during the T-Virus outbreak in Raccoon City. While returning from a mission, I disobeyed orders issued by Umbrella, the organization that I worked for, and tried to rescue a woman who was being attacked by a group of infected. However, the survivor was bitten in the arm and thus contaminated with the virus. Knowing that she would eventually die and turn into the same things that had attacked her, the survivor decided to commit suicide by jumping off the building, despite my efforts to try and save her life.

After that my partners, Nicholai Ginovaef and Yuri Loginova, and I later received orders to assist the Special Tactics And Rescue Squad and the R.P.D. officers at an extraction point located in the heart of Raccoon City. We tried to help them, but the infected overran the streets, killing and eating anything alive on their way. In the middle of the confusion, Yuri was bitten and infected.

It wasn't long before Yuri died and came back as an undead.

When he came back, I was bitten and infected by him. I shook him off, but he came at me again, so I was forced to shoot Yuri in the head.

After that, Nicholai and I became rogue agents after Umbrella failed to get us out of the city.

At some point, we were contacted by Dr. Charles Ashford, who offered us a way out of the city in exchange for the rescue of his daughter, Angela Ashford, who was trapped inside the Raccoon City Junior School.

We accepted his terms, and we went to get the girl. When we arrived, my partner and I parted to cover more ground and find the hopefully still human and alive kid.

I met Lloyd Jefferson Wayne, L.J for short, inside the school after saving him from an Undead who caught him off-guard. It seemed the doctor had recruited help.

We both teamed up and eventually meet up with two women, Jill Valentine and Alice.

Alice was a high-ranking Umbrella security operative, but she joined a deep cover operation by members of the US law enforcement to reveal the company's illegal viral research data to the world. Obviously, it didn't work, and she ended up being captured and taken into quarantine at Raccoon General Hospital, where she was experimented on. To me, she was a hell of a woman.

We were prepared to shoot on each other when L.J interrupted and vouched for me as someone who was on their side. As my infection worsened, Alice, somehow aware that I had been bitten, declared me fortunate. After that, we contacted , who gives us the location of the extraction point, and assures us that "it is lightly guarded.". Yeah right.

On the way to City Hall Alice gave me the Anti-virus, which counters my T-virus infection. On the way there we shared our stories and found we were not so different from one another. I offered her my help and support to bring Umbrella down to their knees after I told my story.

When we got there, we defeated all of the guards, but we were confronted by Major Cain in the end.

Cain had been aware of Ashford's plan, so he captured him and finally killed him, forcing Alice to fight Nemesis, a monster created by Umbrella, for our safety. As she defeated Nemesis in hand-to-hand combat, she realized his true identity, her former friend Matt Addison, and refused to deliver the killing blow. Her mercy appeared to rekindle a trace of Nemesis's former humanity, and they join forces to defeat the Umbrella troops, but Nemesis was killed in the ensuing fight. I joined them and was capable to find a way out of the city by using Umbrella's last escort, the chopper. We were able to escape before Raccoon City was destroyed by a nuclear weapon that was meant to clean the entire city. Unfortunately, the shock wave from the explosion hit the helicopter, dislodging a piece of metal that hurtled towards Angela but Alice leaped in front of her and was impaled by it, saving the girl from a horrible death. The helicopter then crashed somewhere in the Arklay Mountains.

We fled but left Alice's body behind believing that was the best decision. And we were proved right when after a couple of weeks we received news that Umbrella was able to bring Alice back to life.

We managed to rescue Alice but she was different, they had done something to her.

After a few days, we got to a safe house that I had and stayed there for a few weeks. At first everything seemed fine, but eventually, the infection began to spread across the continent. After a while I approached Alice one night, when Jill and L.J were out to collect supplies, to talk and to see if she was alright.

Words were exchanged, gifts were given and, for a minute, I thought everything was going to be alright.

But I was foolish.

She left us, she left me... the only thing left behind was a note where she apologized, saying that it wasn't safe for us to be around her.

I was very angry for a while but eventually understood that she must have had a good reason to leave.

Weeks after that the infection was uncontrollable and had spread around the world. We left the safe house and, for a year, roamed the United States, searching for anything that would help us survive. After a while, our group was divided. Jill and Angie were separated from L.J and me when we were confronting a group of survivors that wanted to steal our supplies.

After a couple of weeks searching, we were able to find Angie, but not Jill. Angela stopped talking right about that time, I think she has some kind of trauma lingering from being alone all those days.

Months later we joined with Claire Redfield's convoy of survivors, traveling through the Nevada Desert and the ruins of Las Vegas.

I became a kind of lieutenant for Claire since my military training and my skills made me a very good survivor, so I help her guiding the convoy through the sea of death and infection that now covered the earth. Even if she already was doing a fine job at that.

Now, there is only one thing we all have to focus on...

Survive.

Present Time

In the middle of a highway somewhere in Nevada an undead that had just killed a human, that had stopped in the middle of the desert to fix his car but found himself cough off guard as the walking corpse surprised him from behind and killed the human. Now, the walking corpse was feasting on the flesh that it hungered for.

It was in the middle of eating a lung when it heard a sound, unknown to it, of a car. It turned it's rotten head and was greeted with a Hummer to the face. It rolled beneath the vehicle and came to a stop a few feet away. It raised it's ugly head again and received blades attached to the tires of a school bus full of people, including children, in the face again effectively killing it. The spray of blood that came from its head splashed the of the bus.

"Ohohohoh, that was a juicy one huh?" chuckled the driver of the bus, Otto, looking back to the cheering kids.

The convoy was constituted by six vehicles, a bus, an ambulance, a yellow Hummer, a van, a Military truck and another truck that carried gas. Driving the military truck was a man with short, blond hair and an equally blond beard, and deep blue eyes, he also had a scar going from the top of his left eye down to his cheek.

He was wearing a black long sleeved shirt, with a black bulletproof vest over it, where he had ammo magazines attached to. He had black combat pants, and he had attached holsters to his thighs. On his hands were finger-less gloves and he also had a dark green scarf around his neck.

In the holsters, he had his two trustworthy Desert Eagles and, strapped to his belt, was the sheath that had an all-black machete inside. He had found it over a year ago in an abandoned campsite and had learned to use it paired with one of his guns.

Naruto sighed as he looked to the teenager next to him, Angela was now sixteen years old but looked almost the same as the first time he had met her. After losing Jill and spending days alone, surrounded by flesh-eating monsters and God knows what else, she stopped talking, choosing to communicate using sign language that, thankfully, Naruto had learned it during his time at the CIA. Only a handful of people in the convoy knew how to sign, so normally the girl kept to herself, following closely behind her girlfriend, K-Mart, who also took upon herself to learn sign language.

Right now, the girl was looking out the window, trying to distract herself from the heat inside the truck. Dressed in her black tank top, jeans, and boots, she could do little to nothing against the weather.

Angie's gaze turned to the Naruto, who was now concentrating on the road and smiled. The blond had become her father over the last five years, and she trusted him with her life, he was her teacher her confidant, her rock, and her heart had broke seeing how personal he took when Alice had abandoned them. She knew that the mercenary had feelings for the mysterious woman and he had closed up after that, only showing his true self to her and a few selected people. Her condition had all but disappeared by some strange reason, and that had allowed her to survive this infernal world they now called home.

Noticing Naruto roll the sleeves of his shirt, she saw his metal arm. Due to the experiments that the scientist that had gifted Naruto with his new arm, the man now was almost superhuman, easily compared with the abilities demonstrated by Alice in Racoon City. His body had adapted to the strength of his metal arm and had balanced itself so that it was not only his arm that had an improvement, he was faster now, stronger, his senses were heightened, the wounds, that would take a normal human a month to heal, healed in a week or two.

Naruto had taken full advantage of his new abilities to protect the ones he loved, fighting tooth and nail to make sure they were all safe, even if that meant that he would get injured in their place.

"Hey, Naruto this is Claire." he reached for the radio and pressed on the transmission button as the voice of the leader of the convoy, Claire Redfield, came through the radio that was attached to the van's dashboard.

"Well, well, well, if it isn't the angriest ginger in the world... What's up, Red?" he teased, making Angie giggle.

"You got any smokes?"

Naruto snorted, he should have guessed.

"No..." he responded dryly, he gave up smokes after Angie had shown that she was curious about them, there was no way that his little girl was going to try them.

"Come on, like I'm supposed to believe that."

Naruto chuckled. "Come on Red, would I lie to you?"

She huffed and changed the frequency of the signal and started to ask the same question to everyone.

"Yeah people, it really is the end of the world..." Otto ended up saying.

Naruto looked out the window and could help thinking 'Yeah, no fucking shit Sherlock...'

Sighing, Naruto leaned back, and while he was driving, the image of the blonde woman that he had met five years ago popped up in his head. He closed his eyes and took a deep breath, he had decided long ago that, if he ever saw Alice again he would act upon them, in the world that they were living he could die at any minute, and he wasn't willing to waste any more time hiding his feelings.

Little did he know that, miles away, the same woman he was thinking about had also decided the same.

Miles away same time

Looking through the scope of her crossbow, Alice gazed at the zombie that was stumbling near the gas station that she wanted to check out. Alice lowered the sights of the weapon to survey the perimeter, alert to any more hostiles but didn't sense anymore infected nearby, so the lonely undead was her only target. She caught a glimpse of the nametag that the undead had attached to his shirt, previously worn by the employees of the gas station.

"Sorry about this Stevie..." taking a deep breath to stabilize the weapon, she pressed the trigger. The arrow flew through the air and nailed it dead-center in the forehead, sticking the walking corpse to the van behind it.

It didn't survive.

With skillful hands, she dismantled the crossbow and placed it back inside one of the bags hanging from the side of her bike, a BMW K 1200 R. She sighed as she mounted her bike, driving to the station.

Alice had a sand-colored tank top, with spaghetti straps. Over this, she wore a short-sleeved brown shirt, with a few buttons done up at the bottom. She also had brown full chaps with stocking-style straps at the front, which appeared to be part of her shirt, as well as short olive cotton cut-off shorts. Her olive twin leg holsters were held with waist straps that crossed over at the back, she also had a dark scarf and fingerless gloves and had a full length, light brown duster coat.

Under her shirt, she had the cross that Naruto, the man that she had feelings for, had given her before she left him and a few others. She had kept it, and it was very dear to her.

She approached the gas station and parked her bike in front of one of the gas tanks. Getting off the bike, she glanced around, taking note of the collapsing structure and worn out look of the place.

She neared the tanks, with the hope that it still had a bit of gas left. But as she took the hose and tried pressing the 'trigger' nothing came out. She put it back in place with a frown and knocked her knuckles against the gas tank, hearing the hollow noise that it made.

Alice sighed in frustration as she walked up to the door of the station and drew her gun from its holster. Raising the gun, she entered the dirty, rejected establishment, it had already been looted, the shelves that previously contained all kinds of food and liquids were now empty, and there were just empty cans of food.

CLINK

Startled, Alice turned around and looked down, she had stumbled on a jar with small coins near it. Sighing in relief, she carefully walked to the only closed door of the area, her silent steps making no noise as she approached it. With her right hand still gripping the gun, she opened the door with her left.

GASP

The foul smell of the decaying corpse and the flies hovering around it, made her grab her scarf and cover her mouth and nose to block the stench. Alice coughed and waved her arms around, trying to keep the flies away from her.

Looking down, she caught sight a journal so, she grabbed it fast and left the station, almost running out.

When she got out and approached her bike, she heard through the radio the transmission that she had been hearing for a good week.

"This is Claire Redfield's convoy, broadcasting for any survivors. Is anybody out there?" the voice was of a man, so she had long since come to the conclusion that this Claire was their leader.

As the message repeated, she looked at the undead she had killed when she arrived. There was crow eating what was remaining of its eye. She got on the motorcycle and opened the journal, where she saw pictures of satellite footage and postcards of Alaska with the word 'ISOLATED' underlined.

She looked at the horizon and, for a moment she thought of a place, a place where a blond man with the deepest blue eyes she had ever seen could be holding her in his arms, a place were the warmth that he radiated would cover her from head to toe, and maybe, just maybe, they could finally be happy.

Those feelings that she had for Naruto, were one of the things that kept her going through the hell that covered the planet. It had been so hard to leave him, it broke her heart to do so and, after years, she just wanted to see him again, and confess her feelings for him.

And that was what gave her hope.

Now, with a smiled on her lips, she started the engine of the bike and continued on her journey through the desert, with a certain blond man in her thoughts.