Chapter 2: The second group
This is the first time I'll be writing in years, I hope it comes out well and that you all enjoy it! Leave a review and I'll be sure to read it and respond, hopefully filled with some positive criticism (although any review is a good one), I really need to learn how to write better haha :) The story takes place in School-Live! and follows our protagonist, who has been trying to lead a normal life after living for hundreds of years. Watch as his world flips and he has to once again protect those that become precious to him!
In response to : I put the answer to your question in this chapter, about Aiko's resurrection. Also, I plan to make Yuki a normal high school student but just a bit delusional. No need to put her out of character. Although, since this is my first time writing, her personality may seem a bit off but I'll try my best to make them match the manga/anime! Sadly I have never checked out high school of the dead. Maybe I'll test it out.
In response to long live Uzumaki clan: It is assumed she was mauled by the zombies and killed. It seemed to me that some of the people died before turning into zombies so I had Aiko die and sealed before zombifing. Yes, Naruto is immortal (in the sense that he does not age. He can still take damage and possibly die of unnatural methods) and I'll explain how it happened in later chapters. There aren't any parings yet but I might make one later? It's just that usually immortal people are too emotionally hurt to make committed relationships.
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Chapter 2: The second group
"All right that's about everything. Let's move on to the next area." Naruto said, walking out of the store that sold gardening tools. Or, at least, it used to. Now, the entire store was devoid of any merchandise, leaving a pale light shining on the floor. After him came out Kei and Miki, holding hands and looking a little pale. In Miki's arms was Taroumaru, now sporting a red ribbon tied around its tail. "Um," Kei started "is it okay if I ask who you are?' "Huh, I told you, my name's Naruto Uzumaki" "No, no, I got that. But, who are you? Like, how did you make all the stuff in the room disappear?" "Oh, that, yeah sorry but that's a little secret of mine." Kei didn't seem satisfied with the answer but didn't ask further. The group walked up to the next store, which was a candy shop. Naruto didn't see how candy would be of much use in their situation and was planning to walk on when he heard "Ooh, candy!" from behind him. He turned around to see Kei pulling on Miki's arm and entering the store. "Hey, wait a sec, this place isn't secure yet." Miki said, trying to pull back but letting herself be pulled into the store. Naruto sighed but knew that children their age liked candy and, seeing as to the situation they were in, it made sense that they would be trying to take their minds off of reality. Naruto quickly checked for any danger using his henged sharingan and, noticing that there was nobody else in the store, entered the establishment. "Hey you, wait outside!" Kei said, turning to face the older man, "I'm grabbing the candy I want before you make everything go poof!" "Kei-chan…" Miki started but stopped when Naruto proceeded to head to the cashiers table. "Tell me when you're done then. I'll be waiting over here. Take whatever you want, I'll cover any expenses." "Really?! Okay Miki, come on, let's go grab some Nummy Sticks!" And with that, the two girls were gone, wandering further into the store. 'Good, the girls are gone.' Naruto thought, making one of his signature hand signs, "Shadow Clone Jutsu!" A smoke cloud appeared next to him followed by a small 'poof'. When it cleared, there was another Naruto standing next to the original, a small smile on his face. "Wow boss, you sure haven't made any clones in a while. How's it going?" the clone asked. "Sorry but no time to chat, you know your mission." the real Naruto said, tapping the counter surface and leaving an invisible set of symbols before making a hand sign and vanishing away. "Sigh," the clone said, drooping his shoulders and making a dejected face "looks like I'll be babysitting and scavenging for a while." The clone sat on the counter, looking towards where the girls had gone and took out a scroll. "Well, I might as well start." The clone opened the scroll, revealing strange symbols surrounding a circle. In the center of the circle was the kanji for "horde". He poured some chakra into it and the symbols started to glow. There was a big poof and, when the smoke cleared up, all the items in the store were gone, leaving bare shelves. "Hey, where'd the Pi Pola go!" he heard Kei shout further in the store, "I was going to take one and it up and vanished!" The clone then saw Kei running out from behind the shelves with Miki in hand, who looked like she was being dragged. Even Taroumaru, still held my Miki, looked like he was getting dizzy. "You!" Kei shouted as she stopped in front of Naruto, finger pointed at the man, "Where's the Pi Pola? Where'd you put all the candy this time?!" The clone simply gave a smile, saying "Hey, welcome back Kei-chan, Miki-chan, you girls ready to head out?" The clone saw Kei open her mouth, but close it as he handed her a box of Pi Pola. He gently tapped the two girls' shoulders, placing invisible symbols on them, and proceeded to walk out of the bare room, headed towards the next area. The girls followed suit, but showed a confused look on their faces. 'Since when did he get so nice?' they both thought.
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Jumping from the top of one building to another, Naruto scanned the streets for survivors. 'Dang, how did this happen?' he thought, 'The whole city is a mess. I can't seem to find anybody who isn't dead or undead.' He continued onwards, headed towards the school building in the horizon. 'Hopefully the school building hasn't been affected yet.' He wouldn't be able to smile for days if Megumi-san was gone too. He had already lost Aiko Kishimoto and he wasn't planning to lose any more friends if he could help it. He had thought about resurrecting Aiko-chan but had resorted against it for many reasons. First was that he didn't want to tamper with life any further. After his last incident three hundred years back when he had brought back his deceased friend only for the friend to try to kill him calling him a "Satanist", he wasn't too fond of resurrection. Second, even if he could resurrect Aiko, there was no way to flush the disease out of her body. He wasn't skilled enough in medical ninjutsu to perform such an operation and bringing back an infected Aiko would only make her a zombie. It was best to just bury the poor soul. 'Dang it, why didn't I put a Hiraishin mark at the school, or even on Megumi-san? I really need to start thinking like a shinobi again or this could get worse.' He had met Megumi Sakura a year back when he had been visiting his old high school. He had merely wanted to say hello to his old professors and mock them letting them know he had just got his doctorate in anatomy at Harvard, but stopped in front of the front gate where he saw a young lady. She was about 5'6" and sported a purple dress and a white ribbon around her hair. He didn't know who she was but felt a slighter large chakra signature from her than the others. In the modern age, there really weren't many people with a good amount of chakra. Heck, most people had so little chakra they suffered chakra exhaustion after a simple work out. The lady had pink hair, reminding him of someone long ago, and was walking into the school building. He introduced himself as an alumni and started a conversation with her. He found out her name was Megumi Sakura and that her mother's last name was Uchiha 'That explains the pink hair and chakra' he had thought. It had been a long time since he had met a descendant of Sakura and Sasuke and he quickly became friends with the woman, probably due to her cheerful personality. 'She's nothing like her ancestors.' Naruto had thought, 'She's so perky and smiling all the time. I can't see any of the Uchiha hatred or the Haruno anger management issues. She just seems so loving and kind.'
Coming back to reality, he noticed he had just landed on a rooftop nearest to the front of the school and frowned. 'The students at the front of the school have already been infected. It would be unwise to enter from the front gate. Why don't we start from the roof?' With that, he poured some chakra to his feet and made a big jump, leaping all the way from his spot to the top of the school building, cracking some of the tiles on the roof he leapt from. As he was mid jump, he saw what looked to be five figures on the roof of the school building. A quick check with his sharingan showed one to be infected and four still unharmed. 'Gotta get to them fast.' he thought, as he noticed the infected approaching one of the survivors. He created two shadow clones that threw him faster towards the rooftop. He landed at the corner of the roof nearest to the door silently and was about to intervene when he saw the zombie be smacked in the side with the shovel. Wham! The survivor, now identified as a girl with purple hair, dealt the finishing blow, effectively putting the undead back to his eternal slumber. Naruto gently opened the door and sent down the two shadow clones to look for any more survivors and to dispatch zombies as he approached the group. He breathed a sigh of relief seeing Megumi-san okay along with three other people. At least he hadn't failed her. Hearing the sigh the four girls turned in his direction, ready to run before they noticed he wasn't infected. The group let out a collective sigh of relief before they saw Megumi run towards the new person. Naruto braced himself. He knew just how dangerous a descendant of Haruno could be when they were angry and was wondering if he had strengthened his clothes enough when he felt arms go around his body. 'A bear hug! My ribs are done for!' he thought and took in a deep breath. When he noticed he wasn't in pain, he looked down to see Megumi-san hugging him and crying. 'I guess this event is just that traumatic.' Naruto thought, placing a hand on the woman's back and placing a Hiraishin mark indicated by a series of invisible symbols. That's when he felt the force hit him on his side, knocking the air out of his lungs and making him fall down. 'What?! This armor should be able to sustain a hit from a truck on the highway without me even flinching. What was that?!' He turned to see that Megumi-san had hit him in the side during her hug! Even the girls seemed to be shocked and Naruto could see from their expressions that Megumi-san had never hit a single soul. The woman looked shocked herself and seemed to be paralyzed, standing in place and watching the blonde with unwavering eyes. For an entire minute the whole group was immobilize before Naruto decided to break the silence. "Ahem" he coughed into his hand, raising himself up with the other and standing, "I'm sorry if I bothered you in any way Megumi-san. Is this a bad time?" He waited for a response but the pink haired lady just stared back at him. Naruto had been expecting at least a smile or some sort of jab at his sarcastic response but all he got was silence. "I-I'm…" Megumi-san finally started, "I'm sorry about that. I'm not sure why I did that. Are you okay Naruto-kun?" she said, worry filling her words. Naruto merely gave a small smile, happy that the woman remembered his name from that short time they had been together. "I'm fine Megumi-san. Seems like you've been a good teacher. You managed to save three other students, good for you." The woman gave a small smile for the compliment before she put on a more serious face. "Naruto-kun, I don't know how you managed to trespass onto school grounds but we'll discuss that later. For now, we need to barricade the door." Naruto merely walked towards the woman once more, his hands hidden under his cloak, strengthening the seals surrounding the fabric just in case. "No need for that Megumi-san, the school should be more or less cleared out by now. My, ah, team is down there dispatching of any unwanted threats. Oh no, don't worry, we won't hurt any of them. We're just knocking them out for now and moving them to another area, no need to look so concerned." He created another clone who ran to the other two to relay the new commands faster than the blink of an eye so that the girls wouldn't notice. The clones disposed of the bodies they had already defeated before sealing the rest of the zombies without killing them, a task that took a bit longer than simply killing off the hordes. "Now," the real Naruto said, turning to the group of girls, "my name is Naruto Uzumaki. I used to go to this school so I guess you could call me your senpai but it's not necessary. My team will be clearing out the school building then leaving to go get some help. I'll be staying behind to protect you and make sure you don't get hurt." Naruto didn't like lying to people but he couldn't help it. He couldn't exactly tell them that his "team" was actually a bunch of clones he created with "special powers". They would think he was crazy and that definitely wasn't how he wanted to start the day. Naruto continued, "Since we'll probably be seeing each other for a long time, I'll introduce myself. I like ramen and chilling at home. I don't really hate anything. My dream is to protect those that are precious to me and never miss convenience store discounts. I also never go back on my promises." he finished with a slight grin. "My name is Yuri Wakasa." one of the taller girls said. She looked to be about Megumi-san's height at 5'6", had brown hair, and wore her green uniform with a red ribbon. She wore black stockings and had a pin in her hair on her left. "I first wanted to say thank you for coming sensei. This is definitely a dangerous situation and your presence is welcoming. I like to read books from time to time and enjoy cooking. I dislike loud music. My dream is to graduate top of my class and go to a good college. Then I'll get married and raise a nice family." she finished with a smile. "The name's Kurumi Ebisuzawa" the purple haired girl said. She seemed to have broken out of her previous stupor after disposing of the undead and now stood next to the others. She was about 5'5", just a bit shorter than Yuri. She was still carrying the shovel which had a bit of blood on it now. She wore a green uniform with a red ribbon. "I would offer my thanks too but you came a little too late for that." She got a few frowns in her direction from that but went on, "I like to run and compete. I'm pretty athletic and am part of the track and field team. I hate rain 'cause practice is canceled on those days. My dream…" she suddenly blushed and Naruto was reminded of the way Sakura had blushed when asked the same questions centuries ago. "A-and I want to protect my friends. Anyways, yeah, that's me." she said the last sentence quickly. "I'm Yuki Takeya!" the last girl shouted! She had short pink hair tucked under what looked like the top of a black book cover. A little bear head toy was attached to the side of her hat. She was short and he would have assumed she was a first or second year had it not been for the red ribbon on her blue and white uniform. She also had long peach colored socks and a pair of black hair pins. The part that worried him was how the girl's eyes were glazed over. This usually happened to people who were traumatized and this could lead to serious brain damage. "I really love to eat food and play games and sleep and…" she continued to count things off on her fingers before turning back to the man. "I really dislike it when people call me short. Because honestly I'm not that short, right? My dream, it's to make lots of friends in school!" she threw out her arms for that last statement. "And I am Megumi Sakura, but the students call me Sakura-sensei. I like to teach and plan on doing so till I retire. I love to help my students whenever I can. I don't really have any dislikes… My dream is to help my students grow and learn." she then turned towards the door and started to head towards it. "Now that we have the formalities out of the way, we really need to head down. If your team did what you said they'd do, we should be able to set up a room to sleep in. Naruto-kun will protect us so we don't have to worry too much." And with that the five people headed down to the third floor to get ready for the night. Kurumi turned to see her now dead senpai on the floor of the roof before turning around and heading downstairs. It had been a long day…
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"We're almost done!" the clone shouted as he packed up the last store. He was glad he had finally been able to take everything in the mall. He wasn't sure why boss had made him pack everything, it seemed much too excessive to him. Nonetheless, he had finished his task! The two girls and the dog seemed pretty decked out, having to follow him around to every single store. They had seemed pretty happy for the first dozen stores, but after walking for three hours, even the girls were pretty tired. Miki had set Taroumaru down ages ago and the dog looked tired herself. The last room they arrived at was down the employee's hallway, at a door leading to part of an office space. Naruto's clone checked the room and, seeing it was clear, led the group in to see that the room was being used as a warehouse, the shelves and walls filled with canned foods and water bottles. The clone felt the scroll in his hand and felt a bit dejected. 'Dang, this scroll doesn't have enough room for the rest of this stuff. Boss told me to pack everything, what am I supposed to do!' The clone started to sweat when he thought up an idea! He'd just wait in here with the girls until the boss got back! This way he wouldn't have to unpack supplies all the time, he could keep the girls protected, and he wouldn't be neglecting his duty to get everything! He was a genius! "Alright girls, we're staying in this room until some help arrives. There's enough food and water in here to last us for months! I'm sure the boss will bring some help back in a couple days so don't worry!" The girls looked like they were going to object but stopped after considering it. They also didn't seem too bothered by his outburst. They were already used to the man acting so strangely. 'Wasn't he scared at all by what we saw?' they continuously thought. "Alright then," Kei said, "the side of the room near the window is the girls' side. Naruto-san will protect the door so he gets the door side." With that, she plopped down on a nearby sofa, which happened to be on her side, and began listening to music from a CD player. Miki gave a small sigh and joined Kei on the sofa, taking out her book, which Naruto noted was in English, and she began reading. 'Seems like this may work out after all.' the clone thought as he saw Kei lean into Miki and slowly fall asleep.
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It had been ages since Naruto had seen some action, not including his little episode in front of the mall, and his clones were more than happy to oblige with the boss's command. "Fire Style: Phoenix Flower Jutsu!" the first of the clones yelled, sending plumes of fire soaring towards the incoming zombies. Those that were hit let out a scream before they were turned to nothing but ashes. "Geez, I'm so glad we set up these sound barrier seals and light barrier seals or the boss would be pretty darn mad" "Yeah, mad that we get to have all the fun!" "Ha ha no I meant making sure nobody sees what we're doing!" "Particle Style: Atomic Dismantling Jutsu!" A large hollow cube appeared before the clone's hands before smashing into another horde of zombies, wiping them all out, their bodies torn into subatomic particles. The block stopped right before it hit the wall, minimizing structural damage was a must, else they face the boss's wrath. "I'm gonna test out my taijutsu, make sure I haven't slowed down too much!" the first clone cried out. "Sure, I'll finish off the third floor, you can head down to the second!" "Alright, see ya! Earth Style: Multiple Rock Walls!" Walls of Earth came up all around the third floor, covering the windows and stairs downstairs, the first clone jumping in towards the stairs leading down right before the wall closed. "Time to finish up the third floor then, Water Style: Water Release!" Huge amounts of water spilled out into the hallway of the third floor, flooding the hallway and submerging all the zombies. "Fire Style: Raging Storm of the Dragon!" The second clone bent forward and lit up in flames, using a good portion of his chakra to create a raging fire on his body while he was still immersed in water. This caused all the water around him to start evaporating into steam and the flood of water, along with the horde of zombies, poured towards him, creating a miniature whirlpool and all the zombies entering being burned to a crisp. The second clone lowered the earth walls and let all the steam out. The hallway looked sparkling clean! The second clone made sure that the rest of the rooms on the third floor were empty, dispatching what zombies he saw, before jumping out the window and landing in the schoolyard. "Ninja Art: Hidden Mist Jutsu" the second clone whispered, filling the entire schoolyard with a thick mist. The clone used sharingan within the mist, whispering "Kamui". A distortion was made in space-time and the clone reached into the space. He proceeded to pull out a long sword from the hole. The Kubikiribocho. An ancient sword from back in Naruto's day, Naruto had kept it after Suigetsu's successor had passed away as a memento. Now the clone would have some fun with it. The clone was about to charge in when he felt a tap on his shoulder. 'Crap, I wasn't paying attention." the clone thought as he turned, ready to chop off the opponent's head. The blade was a centimeter from the person's head when it stopped, the clone having pulled it back when he noticed it was another Naruto clone. "Boss told me to tell you two to stop killing all the zombies. Just seal them up and toss the scrolls in the pocket dimension" the new clone said. "What?! Ah, fine. And I was just about to have some fun too…" "Hey, don't be so bummed out. Just don't kill them. He didn't say anything about knocking them out" the new clone said with a grin. The second clone let out a small smirk as well along with a bit of killing intent. "Yeah, he didn't, didn't he…" It was a massacre. Just, without the deaths. Using the flat part of the blade, the second clone rushed through the horde of zombies, knocking them out unconscious as the third clone sealed them all up. Within seconds the deed was done and the second clone released the mist, revealing an area completely devoid of undead. The two clones jumped back up to the third floor to clean up the mess in the rooms, returning them to their original state. The two clones then put all their equipment and scrolls away, high-fived, and dispelled.
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The first clone jumped in right before the rock wall closed. He hadn't taken into account that the stairs leading down actually descended lower, however, and smashed his head on the stairs, rolling down it. "Ow ow ow ow ow! Any more damage and I would have gone up in smoke!" the clone complained as he lay on the floor. He had managed to avoid being destroyed as he had crashed into something rather soft. As he looked up, he noticed he had crashed into a woman on his tumbkle down and was currently cradling his head inside her D-cup breasts. This would have been a joyous moment for Naruto's clone, but sadly, it was not to be. The girl looked down at the boy and, with a low moan, attempted to bite into his skull (although, being a clone, he didn't actually have a skull. YOHOHOHOHO!). Naruto jumped back to make room between himself and the girl and lashed out with a kick to the girl's left with his left leg. To his surprise, the girl raised her right arm and blocked the blow, then spun into the leg, headed towards the blond. The blond quickly broke out of his stupor and lowered his left leg while simultaneously raising his right leg. He managed to get a hit into the girl's knee, making her stop in her movements and fall to the floor. The blond leaned back from his current position and summersaulted back once, creating some distance between himself and the girl. As the girl began to get up, the first Naruto clone decided to examine his target. Standing at around 5'11", the girl was fairly tall. She was dressed in a kendo outfit instead of the usual school uniform, which explained the zombie's physical strength. The girl had brown hair, brown eyes, and a purple hairband. With the visual check done, the blonde clone charged the girl, intent on keeping his skills only on the taijutsu level. The blonde lashed out with a punch which the girl pushed away from her body before rolling into the arm once more and attempting to elbow him in the gut. The clone used the hand that was not currently extended to grab the clone's arm before twisting it around and behind the girl's body, forcing the girl to her knees. The girl, stuck in the armlock, roared in anger before lashing out with a backwards kick, almost managing to hit the clone and freeing her arm in the process. The girl was about to rush the clone once again when a chop to her neck made her fall unconscious. The first clone looked up to see a third clone had stolen his prey! "Hey, what's the big idea?! I wanted to practice my taijutsu you know and this was one of the only chances!" "You'll have more time for that, you still have an entire two floors. Look, the boss wanted us to knock the rest of the zombies unconscious without killing them. Also, make sure to clean up after yourself. We don't want any bodies." "Gah, alright. I can knock them out with taijutsu just as well as kill them I guess. In that case, let's clean up this school too. There are just so many broken things my OCD can't stand it!" "You have OCD? The boss doesn't." "Shut up, not everybody is the same, ok!" "But… alright, whatever. I need to go to the second clone and relay the command. I saw him outside, I'll be leaving. Good luck with the second and first floor then." The third clone then ran back up the stairs after sealing the unconscious female undead. "Geez, ruining my fun like that. Hope there's someone else who can satiate my appetite." The rest of the two floors were a joke. The students here must have really skipped out on their physical training, every one of them fell before him like flies. He cleared the second and first floors within five minutes using only taijutsu, sealing all the unconscious zombies inside scrolls, then cleaned up the first and second floors. The cleaning took nearly three hours because of the clone's OCD and, finally satisfied, he poofed. The school was now a safe area.
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'Three hours?! Are you joking me right now?! What part of me was ever OCD?!' the real Naruto thought as his memories came flooding back. He had been wondering what had happened to the clone as the clone had not poofed in hours. Now that he knew, he was really bothered. He would have to look deeply into his identity and challenge who he actually was. Or… he could eat his ramen. "Itadakimasu!" the blonde yelled as he dug into his dinner. He had prepared some awesome pork ramen today and couldn't wait to enjoy it with the three girls!
YAY end of chapter 2! Much better than chapter one, or at least, I hope it was. Did you guys enjoy the fight scenes? I tried to make them the best I could. If you have any suggestions on how to make better fight scenes, or have any other opinion on fight scenes, please let me know! I would really love some reviews, especially ones that have positive criticism so I can learn to write better next time. Remember though, this is my first story in years so please go gentle on me. Thanks a bunch for reading my little story and I'll try to update again real soon! Please review~!