Chapter 2: Better Safe than Sorry

Zombie Apocalypse rule number 1: Never make noise if you don't want to attract Zombies, and that means don't yell, and that rule apparently doesn't apply to the two boys who are fighting.

Yes, who would've thought that Sakura would be leading a group of 9 guys to her base, where she kept everything important to her. Lets list them off shall we?

First there's Naruto, the famous loud mouth of the group. He is full of energy that he gets from god-knows-where. He has blonde hair and blue eyes, witch she is about to gouge out right now if he doesn't shut up. Maybe they could've been friends if there wasn't a Zombie apocalypse, maybe. She swears he's going to get killed soon if he doesn't quit talking.

Then there's Sasuke, the famous stuck up emo of the group. He likes bossing people around, and not to mention, he teases Sakura for her height. He's the one that likes to get her mad, even though they have only known of each other for the span of 34 minutes.

Then there's Kiba and his pet dog, Akamaru. Ok she likes Akamaru, but Kiba? Not so much. In fact he is the other guy who is fighting Naruto. She's this close to bashing both of there heads in. Anyway, Kiba was brown hair along with brown eyes, he has red triangles on his face. She was told that he couldn't get them off, whatever that means.

Then there's Shikamaru, he has black hair that and brown eyes. Sakura doesn't really mind him, he's mostly quiet. He loves to sleep and thinks that all things are 'troublesome'. She's surprised he's lived this long, but then again, she was told that he was a genius.

Next in line in Neji. She was surprised to see a familiar face, he was Hinata's cousin after all. The first thing he did was ask her about Hinata, and she didn't answer him. She just looked away from him, and he seemed to get the memo. He had long brown hair and pearl eyes. Sakura tends to avoid him because of the resemblance to his cousin, but she made it a goal for herself to, someday, look at him the same way she looked at Hinata.

Then there's Garra, another familiar face. He was Temari's younger brother, and it also stung to look at him. He hasn't spoken a word to her yet, and that's fine with her. Gaara has red hair and green eyes with the kanji for love on his forehead. From the looks of it, he hasn't slept in a long time, and she can't blame him.

Then there's Shino, he's quiet and laidback. Sakura likes him, he is very observant and knows al ot about bugs. He had brown hair with brown eyes, he wears glasses all the time, along with a grey coat. Like Sakura said, she likes him. He doesn't mess with her and she doesn't mess with him.

Choji is next, he has brown hair with brown eyes, much like Shino. She has learned that he is best friends with Shikamaru, he likes to eat, and that's about it. He's friendly enough, and she can make small talk with him.

Last but not least, there's Lee. Oh god, Lee is about as insufferable as Naruto and Kiba. He's so enthusiastic about everything, Sakura just wishes that he was that enthusiastic about killing zombies. He has black hair that he wears in a bowl cut. She knows it's the apocalypse and all, but this kid needs to find a barber. He's always yelling about youth, oh and did she mention that he wears a green jumpsuit. He looks horrendous.

Finally having been fed up with Naruto and Kiba's arguing, she broke Zombie Apocalypse rule number 1.

"If you two don't shut up, I will bash both of your heads in, with my fist!" Sakura's voice bounced off the walls of the abandoned houses.

Naruto and Kiba looked at each other with horrified expressions. "Yes ma'am." They said together, looking anywhere but at Sakura.

By now, they had reached Sakura's base, and she was in the process of unlocking all the locks.

"Why so many?" Choji asked, knowing he meant the locks.

"Better safe than sorry." With that Sakura finally made it in with everyone trailing in behind her.

"Woah, your base is awesome!" Naruto yelled when he looked around. It was really nothing special, it was a two story apartment building that had all the furniture. Sakura had guessed that this was a house that wasn't bought, so that's why nothing was a mess.

As the guys looked around, Sakura stared emptying her backpack.

"There's extra blankets and stuff in the closet upstairs, I'll go get them." Sakura said as she walked passed them, going up the stairs.

Making sure she was out of earshot, the guys started talking.

"Are we gonna raid her?" Lee asked

"No, we're lucky she's letting us stay here. I think that we should stay here for a couple days and take off." Sasuke answered.

"Are we gonna take her with us?" Shino inquired.

"Don't know. We'll make that decision when we come to it." Sasuke said right before Sakura came down with all the things they needed to sleep.

"Your lucky that the person who lived her had an obsession with blankets."

Sakura said humorlessly, only getting a few smirks in reply.

"Ok, let's get straight to the point, I don't trust any of you so let's set some rules. No taking crap that's mine, don't tick me off if you don't want to be feed to zombies, and there's a room upstairs that's locked, so don't try to get in or I'll kick you out with nothing. Got it? Good." She then dropped the blankets on the floor and went to a mini fridge that was located against the wall, right by the stairs.

Sakura then proceeded to take out a beer and open it.

"Aren't you underage?" Kiba said, voicing his thoughts.

By now the rain had lightened up, but you could still hear it as it hit the windows of the tiny house that the teens sheltered in. Then you could hear the laughter of the pinkette.

"It's a Zombie fucking Apocalypse, I'll do what I want. Unless an alive president comes knocking at my door saying that this world was just a game and everyone's alive and there are no dead people walking around, I'll proceed to break the law."

She could hear the sounds of muffled laughter coming from Naruto as hers died down.

"If you guys want one, then go get one. I'm not your slave." Sakura said in an even voice, after some of the males looked at her, her eyes demanding her to get them one. After everyone got their respective drink, they settled down and began to chat.

"Have you guys been together since the beginning?" Sakura asked with curious eyes.

"Uh- Yeah, sort of. We have all been friends before this zombie shit happened, but we all met up with each other a few weeks ago." Naruto said with a small smile.

"How about you?" Lee asked, directing the question at Sakura. She looked toward the ceiling for a few seconds, then decided to take a drink from the beer.

"Well I was by myself for the last four months, but before that I was with four other girls. They were really close friends of mine, but then everything just went to hell so, here I am."

Some looked at her with pitying looks, some just didn't have any facial expression.

"We're sorry for your losses." Kiba said looking at her, but instead of thanking him, she decided to throw her beer bottle at him. Kiba nearly dodged it, it almost hitting his head.

"What the hell was that for?!" He yelled from his spot on the floor.

"Don't pity me. I know the looks in your eyes. Saying shit like that won't bring them back, so don't feel sorry. Got it? Good."

Kiba's dog, Akamaru, came up and nudged her hand soothingly, and Sakura scratched behind his ears in return.

"Well I believe that's enough chit-chat for tonight, so I'm gonna go to bed. Good night losers, oh and if any of you try to take advantage of me while I'm sleeping, I'm-" She was cut off when Sasuke finished her sentence.

"Then you're going to feed us to the zombies, got it." He said while rolling his eyes. Sakura just stuck up her middle finger with a smirk while walking up the stairs, leaving a laughing Naruto in her wake.

"Dude I think I love her, let's take her with us." Naruto managed to say between laughs.

[All We Have]

Sakura sat in her bed, staring at the ceiling, she couldn't sleep. She had so many things swirling around in her head, it made it start to hurt. Now that she actually thought about it, she was crazy to let nine guys in her base. She wanted to trust them, she really did, but past experiences made it hard. She kept thinking; What if they steal my things? What if they try to kill me? What if- What if- What if-

These what ifs are what make it hard for her, make her life just that more difficult. After about an hour of just thinking Sakura sighed and decided to get up. She needed to clear her head, so she started making her way to the roof of her base. When she finally got to the roof, she saw Gaara sitting there, just looking either at the stars or the dead city.

Sakura walked up next to his sitting position, looking at the world around her.

"Beautiful, isn't it?" Sakura said as Gaara looked up at her.

He grunted in response, nodding his head as he looked back at whatever he was looking at before.

"Was she with you?" Gaara said gruffly, not looking at Sakura.

It took her a couple of seconds to reply, then she realized who this 'she' was.

"Yeah, she was. She saved me along with the rest of my group before, you know."

"How'd she die?" His voice sounded void of emotion but Sakura knew he was close to breaking down.

"We were trying to make our way out of our school, we had no weapons and there were too many of those shit heads blocking the door, so she offered to serve as a distraction, saying she would make it around to the back of the school and met up with us again. She was right at the door that was leading to the back of the school, but there was more coming and she pushed me out of the way, before- before they could get me or anyone else. I saw them coming, but- but I couldn't move." Sakura paused to take in a shaky breath, on the verge of tears. She then decided to sit next to Gaara, who was still not looking at her.

"I-I could've done something, but I didn't. I-I'm really sorry, Temari was such a good person, and I watched her die." Sakura refused to let her tears fall, but no matter how hard she tried, a few had fell.

She could see that Gaara was looking at her from the corner of his eyes, but he made to move to get up.

After a few minutes of silence, Sakura seemed to calm herself down a little, then looked up at the star filled sky.

"It's amazing how many stars you can see without all the light from the city." Was what she said, changing the subject.

Again, all she got was a grunt from the red head, who was now looking at the stars with her.

"You know, it wouldn't hurt to answer me once in awhile." Sakura said with a small smile on her lips. But yet again, he only grunted at her.

Sakura sighed as she stretched out her legs and leaned back on her arms, Gaara doing the same.

"So why are you up here?" Gaara asked her after a few more minutes of silence.

"The same reason as you I suppose, couldn't sleep." Sakura answered back.

"Is it because of us, or your friends?" Gaara said back in a quiet voice, probably trying not to upset her again.

"Mm. Both I guess, it gets pretty hard to sleep these days. I came up here to clear my thoughts, it's not really relaxing when you have nine guys sleeping in your base when there's a zombie apocalypse happening. You know what I mean?" She said with another sigh a small smile on her face.

"I'm surprised that you could deal with them so far, they're so loud and annoying. Hell, I'm surprised most of them have even lived this far." Gaara said with a grin.

"Me too, Naruto seems like the dumb blonde type, and usually those kind of people die first. I'm surprised that my friend Ino had survived as long as she did." Sakura laughed a little, if Ino were here she would have surely hit Sakura.

"How'd she die, if you don't mind me asking." Gaara said in the same quiet voice as before.

Sakura was quiet for a few long seconds before she got up and walked to the edge of the roof, standing on the ledge of it.

"Right here, this is where she jumped." Sakura said her back now facing Gaara, her pink hair tickling her neck and shoulders when there was a small breeze. When he didn't answer her back, she continued.

"I was on the way back from the store when I saw her. It's kinda funny that she decided to take her life instead of living, but I couldn't really blame her for doing it." She let out a bitter laugh after she finished. After a few minutes of silence that felt like hours, Gaara finally decided to say something.

"I'm-I'm sorry." He said awkwardly.

"Don't be. It wasn't you fault that this shit happened, my friends deaths give me something to live for. It's like I carry their hopes with me, and that's why I can never stop fighting, for them and for me."

"That's refreshing to hear. At least someone still has hope in this hell hole." Gaara said, walking up behind her.

Sakura turned around to face him, but she did not expect to be nose to nose with him. She was about to say something but Gaara put a finger to his lips, signaling silence. Sakura now had her senses on high alert as she listened and surveyed the area. When she had the sense of being watched she turned around quickly, she would have fallen off the roof if it wasn't for Gaara grabbing her waist. She could see that the sun was peeking over the horizon, but she could also see something else in the sky.

A helicopter? She thought, but she didn't have much time to think before it started moving toward them quickly. There was a surge of panic that went through her.

Sakura grabbed Gaara's hand and quickly ran to the stairwell that would lead down into the base they were staying in. By now she could hear the helicopter, and tried to urge herself to run faster.

"Gaara wake up everyone and tell them to get their supplies, we're leaving." Was what Sakura said before running to her backpack.

"Why? It might be a person trying to look for survivors." Gaara said back hurriedly, getting ready to run down the stairs and into the room where the other guys were sleeping.

"Better safe than sorry."

an: Here is the second chapter! I hoped you guys liked it as much as the first one! I am having a lot of fun typing this story and I plan to continue it. Feel free to comment! Until next time, enjoy reading your other fandoms!

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