Chapter 2

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Remember, this is rated M for violence, language, etc.

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Z-Day, 3 hours after mass infection in school

Takashi and Rei were both sitting together in silence. They stayed there like that until there until their barricade started to shift slightly from those things.

"We should get out of here," Takashi suddenly said. "These things may breach through the barricade in less than an hour." He got up and started to walk around the observatory, checking to see if there was anything that may assist them in escaping the roof. "What do you think we should do?"

"I… I'm not sure," Rei replied. "Wait… Do you have your phone with you? I- I have to call my dad! I need to make sure he's alright…"

Takashi sighed as he reached into his pockets and handed Rei his phone.

She frantically dialed in Detective Miyamoto's number and put the phone to her ear.

"Hello? Who is this?" Detective Miyamoto suddenly answered the phone.

"Oh my god! Dad it's me, Rei!" Rei yelled into the phone.

"Jesus-*zz* yo*zzt*… oka-*szz*… go*zzt* …lice stati-" The call was abruptly put to a stop when they lost connection. (Jesus you're okay, go to the police station)

"What? DAD? DAD?" Rei screamed into the phone, but the call had already ended.

"What did he say? Is he okay?" Takashi asked Rei.

"I- He's still alive. I think he told us to go to the police station.

Suddenly, Rei started to cry, tears falling down her face as she sobbed.

"What's wrong Rei?" Takashi couldn't help but turn around to try and comfort her. Despite everything that she did, she was still a girl, and still one of his oldest friends.

Wordlessly, she flung herself at him and wrapped her arms around his neck surprising him. "I-I'm scared Takashi," She whimpered. "I- *hic* don't want to die!"

He wrapped a comforting arm around her, and said, "Don't worry, it'll be all right. I'm here after all."

They held this awkward position for a few minutes before Takashi said, "Come, we need to get out of here." He wiped her eyes before pulling her up.

Thinking to himself for a minute, he asked Rei, "The fire hose should still work right?"

"Y-yeah, I guess so," Rei said. "There's no reason for the water to not work."

"Alright then, let's give these things some water to drink!" Takashi said with a radiant smile. "For now help me set it up!"

Ten minutes later the two looked back at their handiwork. They had uncoiled a firehose and connected the hose to a water outlet specifically designed for the fire hose. Takashi turned the water on until the water was built to an extreme pressure. He then picked up his bat and handed Rei her broom stick.

"Hold the hose ready," Takashi said. "On my signal, open the hose. The hose should be powerful enough to wash the barrier we built away and wash away all those dead things away from the stairs." He looked at the barricade, which was groaning and creaking from all the force those things had exerted on it. "After you open the hose, let it go and run to the stairs with me. We'll try to leave the building this way."

He walked over to the barricade and the twenty or so things that were pushing against it and held up an arm. "You guys really want to get through that badly? Alright, you guys are in for a treat!" Takashi said to all those things, which turned around to his direction the moment he spoke up, the barricade forgotten. He raised his hand and shouted, "NOW!"

Upon hearing the signal, Rei immediately let out a powerful blast from the firehose, effectively washing away the barricade and the things surrounding it. Takashi grabbed Rei's hand and started running down the across the roof to the stairs.

All of the things hearing noise coming from them immediately started walking towards them, and Takashi and Rei charged through them, smashing their skulls or stabbing through their eyes and damaging the brain, all the way to the stairs.

Saeko's Perspective, Mass infection of school under progress

Saeko was in the school dojo when the school speaker's turned on and all the screaming began. As she dashed out to the hallways, she was greeted to a sight that she would never in her life forget. All of her fellow classmates and students were either running around screaming while the others were attacking the ones panicking. She was still watching as they died, and rose up from the dead, to only attack the other students.

She was struck with a memory of the past, reliving her of the moment.

(Flashback)

She was 13 at the moment and walking down the streets home from club practice.

Suddenly, she heard a scream coming from the alley near her.

She immediately rushed over to check what was wrong.

She saw a man on top of a woman, forcing himself on her.

"What are you doing? Get off of her before I'm forced to take action," Saeko bluntly stated. She pulled out her bokken and held it threateningly towards the rapist.

The rapist pulled out his knife and slammed the blunt end on the woman's neck, knocking her out. He then stood up and turned around to face her.

"Oy, oy, little girl, put that stick down before you hurt yourself," He said while walking closer to her. "Or I might do things to you that you wish I didn't."

The man was clearly high, his eye's bloodshot, and he was salivating, most likely thinking about molesting her. The rapist lunged forwards, propelling himself towards her, hands outstretched to grab her.

Saeko sidestepped him and took a hard swing at the man's left arms, breaking his arms. He roared out in pain.

"GYAHH, THAT FUCKIN' HURT LITTLE BITCH!" The rapist yelled at him. Saeko watched as he held the knife in his only good hand, and ran towards her, trying to stab her.

Her only response was a jab to his stomach, which knocked his breath out, and she proceeded to break his other arm. She kicked the man in the face, knocking not only a few teeth out but also knocking the man clean out.

Saeko took out her phone and anonymously called the police, alerting them of an attempted rape, and left the scene.

(End Flashback)

She was rooted to her spot, frozen, until one of them slowly walked to her. She snapped out of her trance and held up her bokken and swung down hard, hitting the thing in the head with a lethal hit of a practiced swordswoman, killing it.

Saeko took one last look around, and thought, 'I'm going to have to need someone who has medical knowledge. I should go to the school nurse.' She turned around and ran to the nurse's office, killing all of the things as they approached her.

As Saeko neared the nurse's office, she heard a scream coming from inside the room, and kicked the door open. One of those things had gotten a male student in a death hold, and bit his shoulder. Blood. Scarlet red blood was flowing out of him, trickling down his shoulder and dripping on the floor. She could only assume that he had tried to protect the nurse when his friend turned after being bitten.

"Kyaaaa! No!" The nurse screamed out.

She quickly rushed to their aid and quickly neutralized the thing.

"Do you know what will happen after being bitten?" Saeko asked the boy.

He nodded.

"I'm Saeko Busujiima. Do you want to turn into one of those things?"

"Heh… I, don't want to ever become one of those… Kill me and end my suffering. I don't wish to harm anything after I die." The boy wheezed out. He had witnessed how his best friend has turned after being bitten. He even turned on him and the nurse after dying and reanimating. He would never want hurt any of his friends or family.

"Very well, I will honor your wishes." Saeko promised. She looked up at the nurse and asked her, "Sensei, what's his name?"

"K-kazu." Nurse Shizuka said. She had realized what the boy would turn to if he were to be left alone. 'Better a clean death than turn into one of those mindless things,' She thought.

"Thank you for protecting Nurse Shizuka. I assure you that you won't change. Your death will not be in vain." Saeko said to Kazu.

The boy closed his eyes and smiled. Saeko held up her bokken and swung down, ending the boy's life, and granting him a quick and painless death.

There was a banging sound on the windows, which turned out to be those things, attracted to their noise.

"Gather up anything of medicinal value! Quick! We don't have much time to spare!" Saeko shouted a command to the nurse, who nodded and started putting items in her bag.

As she was finishing, Saeko took a look at her outfit and went up to rip her tight skirt along one leg, which enabled the nurse to move more freely. Her actions revealed the nurse to be wearing a pair of skimpy lacy thongs.

"Ahh! What are you doing! That was a genuine Prada skirt that I had imported from the States you know! It's very expensive!" Nurse Shizuka cried out.

Staring back at the nurse, Saeko replied, "I don't think you'll care much about that when you're running for your life, Sensei."

"*Sigh*. I guess you're right," the nurse gave in as the windows broke from the thing's slamming on the windows. "KYAA!" The nurse screamed as one of the things took hold of her arms.

Saeko ran up to the nurse and used her bokken to snap its arms in half, releasing its grip from the nurse. She took her hands and ran for the stairs.

Saya's perspective, after Takashi left her

"Ohh, Takashi's going to get it when I find him again. Why would he ditch me like that? He knows I'm not athletic like him." She was looking around when the school speaker's opened and that horrifying message was conveyed across the school, leaving the school in utter chaos, the teacher's themselves unable to control their students and some panicking themselves.

'I need to find Takashi. God damn it, which the hell did he leave me alone? He's definitely going to come find me… After all we were childhood friends,' Saya thought as she ran to Takashi's classroom when she suddenly bumped into someone.

Saya looked up and saw who she bumped into. It was Kohta, the fat otaku that was in Takashi's class. "HEY, WATCH WHERE YOU'RE GOING YOU FAT OTAKU!" She yelled at him, venting out her anger on him.

"S-sorry…" Kohta meekly said.

"Hmph, at least you have some manners unlike that baka Takashi." She said.

She was about to walk away to find Takashi when all the bloodshed had started. She noticed that the situation the same as the teachers outside.

'It's likely that it was that stranger outside the school that started this. He must've been infected with something highly contagious, which turns people into cannibals. But what's strange is that they're rising after they die. Maybe they turned into zombies like the ones in the stupid games that Takashi plays…' Saya thought. Her thoughts were interrupted when Kohta grabbed her arms and pulled her into a run.

She was about to shout at him for touching her again when she realized that he had saved her from getting bitten.

"Let's get into that clubroom!" Kohta shouted, charging into the empty room. He slammed the doors closed and yelled, "Push the desks to the door! We need a barricade!"

"H-huh? O-okay," Saya said as she started pushing desks to the door.

Once the door was securely barricaded Saya spoke up. "Thanks I guess… For saving me. But that doesn't mean we're close or anything! If you try to touch me in any way I will hurt you!"

"O-oh, okay." Kohta stammered.

"Well anyways, we need to analyze what's happening. I was at the roof at the time, and the same thing happened to the students happened to the teachers outside. They were bitten and they turned into something sinister. So, we can conclude that whatever that is affecting them could only come from a bite. But they clearly died after being bitten, so it's very lethal. But they rose up from the dead… That shouldn't have happened. I can only guess that some parasitic organism, protozoa or bacterium infected people causing them to behave this way. The closes thing that this could be is probably a mass "zombie" infection, namely from the video games that I've seen," Saya theorized.

"W-wow, you're smart." Kohta suddenly complemented her, amazed at her intellect.

It was now Saya's turn to stutter. "H-huh? What are you saying?! Obviously I'm smart, I'm a genius after all." She said blushing.

"I said that you're smart. But what should we do after this? We can't stay in this room without any food or water, and how would we do our business?" Kohta asked her.

"Don't say such vulgar things, baka. Well anyways we need to get a weapon of some sort, to see what we can do in this type of a situation," Saya snapped out. "Anyways, you seemed like you knew what to do in that type of a situation," She commented.

"W-well, I played a lot of simulation video games that involves zombies, and one of them was all about survival, so I guess I just used the strategy that I always used in that kind of a game, and it worked. It is unrealistically similar to this type of situation. So that's how I knew what to do, I guess." Kohta said while rubbing the back of his head.

"Anyways take a look around this room, we need to find something useful to aid our escape. You WERE right about how we can't stay together in this room, especially if I don't know whether to still trust you or not," She bluntly stated.

"I said that I don't have any harmful intentions! Even so people can't survive in this kind of an environment alone," Kohta said indignantly. "Anyways, this is a woodworks club, so there should be a nail gun somewhere…" He started to mutter to himself as he walked away to the closets to see what he could find and forage. He returned not a minute afterwards smiling triumphantly, holding a nail gun in his left hand and a wireless electronic screwdriver with a long screw head.

"Here, I guess you'll be using this?" Kohta said as he handed the tool to her. "Now I need to "modify" this baby…" He smiled with a creepy glint in his eyes and walked away.

Saya watch Kohta as he used pencil, eraser, and some scrap planks of wood to create a makeshift stock, sight, and stabilizer.

He smiled and said, "Time to rock and roll. Help me move the desks away now if we want to escape this place. "Ohh I'm going to have sooo much fun playing with this," Kohta said as he took a few stacks of nails and put it in his left pockets and some gas cartridges in his right pocket.

After they moved the desks, Kohta quietly opened the door and took a step out, motioning to and whispering all clear to her.

'This idiot seems to be enjoying himself a bit too much,' Saya thought as she stared at him.

She stepped out of the classroom, electronic screwdriver in hand held protectively against her chest as she looked around.

As they started to walk to the hallways, Saya motioned for Kohta to stop. "They don't seem to see us… I could have sworn that one of them was looking over to my direction." She whispered.

She moved over to a sink which had some rags in it. She let the rag get wet and threw it at the thing's head. It was a direct shot, but it did not respond. She then took another wet rag and threw it at a locker on the wall, which made a dull clunk.

Immediately the thing reacted and started moving towards the sound, as well as a few others that weren't there previously.

"As I suspected. They don't react to anything other than sound." Saya muttered to herself.

"Wait, how did you know though?" Kohta asked.

"That was fairly simple. Amidst the mayhem that happened not a while ago, those things were acting very suspiciously. They were following mostly the loudest people there. When that thing was walking towards me, I realized that it was going towards someone else, I was completely silent, which lead me to this conclusion: these things are attracted to sound." Saya concluded. "Now let's go while they're distracted."

Their conversation heard by the things, which started to move towards them.

"Aw fuck!" Kohta shouted as he furiously began shooting metal tacks across the halls to kill the ones close to Saya.

"AAH," Saya screamed as she drove her screwdriver into the head of one of the things.

Just as the things were about to close in on them, Saeko appeared, taking out the dead quickly, and kicking the dead off of Saya.

"A-ahh, thank you," Saya weakly said, wiping off the blood on her face.

Saeko was about to reply as the stairwell doors opened, and out came a panting Takashi and Rei.

"What happened?" Takashi yelled out as he saw numerous corpse near the small group of survivors. "Ah, Saya, you're okay!" His face lit up when he saw that his dear friend was okay.

"Well yeah, no thanks to you, Takashi. This wouldn't have happened if you left me, baka." She snapped out.

"Ah, sorry about that, I wanted to make sure that Rei was okay," Takashi said guiltily, looking away from Saya.

Fortunately for Takashi, Saeko stepped up and saved Takashi. "Stop fighting, you two. You can fight later, but not now. This is not a good place to start an argument," Saeko said. "We should group together. Our chances of survival is not high alone. We should know our names though."

"Rei, Saya and Komuro are all in my class, and you're Saeko Busujima, Captain of the Kendo club right? I always see you in the dojo after school, practicing." Takashi spoke up.

"Yes, I am Saeko Busujima," Saeko said, surprised that Takashi knew her name. She was certain that he was an underclassman. She had never seen him in the third year classes.

"Anyways, how the hell are we going to get out of this place? There is no doubt that the yard is probably full of those things," Saya asked, stating what they were all thinking.

"We could get out of here by school bus, and they should be full of gas. Plus they are big enough to fit all of us," Nurse Shizuka said.

"Do you know how to drive one?" Takashi asked.

"Hnnn, well, it's more complex than driving my own car…" She replied.

"Then we should go to the buses then," Takashi said.

"What should we call those things anyways?" Kohta asked. "We can't just call them things, they were once humans before…" He added weakly.

"Wrong, those are not humans anymore, not if they can move around after dying. I'm sure all of you had seen it right?" Saya said, watching all of them nod their heads. "So, maybe we should just call them "them", as calling them zombies are stupid. Zombies by definition are corpse raised by witchcraft, which definitely is not true."

"That… makes sense," Rei said. Saya grinned, enjoying the attention.

"Anyways, although I'm not sure if this is completely true or not, but they don't seem to rely on eyesight, nor do they have any other senses other than hearing. I tested this out, but they may just have really weak eyesight." Saya added.

"We should test that out." Takashi said. He took a deep breath and said, "I'll go."

Saeko stepped forwards and said, "No, Komuro-kun, let me do it."

"I can't do that, you know, send a girl out in my place," He smiled at her.

This caused Saeko to blush, as she thought, 'He has a wonderful smile,'

"But-" Rei said frantically.

"You know you can't change my mind, Rei," Takashi said as he started walking. "Plus, I trust Saya. She's smart, you know,"

This caused Saya to blush, the complement getting to her.

Takashi walked down the stairs into a spaced out crowd of them. He noticed that most of them were standing still.

Suddenly, one of them started shuffling over to him. Sweat rolled down his face, and his hands started shaking. It stopped in front of him and turned around.

He sighed and turned around to the group, who were looking at him with a worried expression. He flipped them a thumbs up and motioned for them to come down to him.

As they were coming down, Takashi scanned around the area to see if there was anything for him to make noise with, and spotted a single shoe lying near him. He picked it up and looked at the group, and motioned to him that he was going to throw the shoe to another area to distract them, and escape.

After looking at them to see if they were ready, he threw the shoe as hard as he could onto the lockers in front of him, making a dull clonk.

The group watched as they all looked up and walked to the lockers.

Takashi motioned for them to move to the doors as soon as there was a clear path, and they ran to the doors.

He kicked the doors open and told them, "Quick! Run to the buses as fast as you can! Avoid any encounters with them," as he started running.

They ran towards the buses at a quick rate, only needing to kill a few of them when they moved closer.

As soon as they got to the bus Takashi yelled, "Get in! Get in! I'll clear them out," while killing numerous amounts of them that got close to the bus.

"I'll help too," Saeko said as she got near Takashi.

"Thanks," Takashi said as he smiled at her.

Suddenly, Takashi heard screams coming from the entrance. He narrowed his eyes as he saw Koichi Shido run towards the bus with a group of students.

"Quick! Run and I'll cover you! You'll all be safe with me!" Shido yelled out as h

"What the fuck are they doing? They're just attracting more of them," Takashi muttered.

Saeko didn't say anything, but merely scowled when she saw Shido.

As the other group of students got near them, one of them tripped.

"Gahh! Mr. Shido! Help, I think I sprained my ankles," the student weakly cried out as he held onto Shido's legs.

Takashi watched in shock as Shido merely shrugged the student off, sneered, and said, "There's no point in keeping the weak alive. This world has changed, it's now the survival of the fittest. Get the hell off of me."

He then lifted his legs and kicked the student in the face, crushing his nose and leaving him crying while a whole group of them came over to the student to eat him.

'What the fuck, did this asshole just leave someone to die without even helping him? And saying that shit about the survival of the fittest?' Takashi thought, turning his face away from the cries of the student as they tore him apart.

Takashi looked in disgust as Shido and his group of students ran into the bus and got in the back.

"Saeko, stop fighting! Get in! Everyone else is in already!" Takashi yelled to her.

"Yes Komuro-kun!" Saeko yelled back to him as they both got into the bus.

"Shizuka Sensei! Drive!" Takashi yelled to Shizuka.

"But, I…" She looked uncertain and scared.

"They're not humans anymore, Shizuka Sensei," Saya called out.

'Yes, they aren't humans anymore,' Shizuka thought. She took a deep breath as she floored the accelerator and smashed through them like a bulldozer. Shizuka flinched every time she felt a bump under her as the bus ran over a body.

The bus smashed through the metal fence at the school gates and disappeared around the corner, leaving them to slowly shuffle after the bus.

Author's note: Jesus that took forever to write. I guess you can call this a Valentines special, after all this is Valentine's Day. Anyways this is 4000 words long! That's 2xs the amount of chapter 1!1!1! Anyways chapter 3 should be ready sometimes this week.

Also, I'll be putting up a poll to see if you want Kohta to live or not, because if he's alive, then he will be paired up with Saya, instead of Saya being in Takashi's harem. You'll have 2 weeks to decide (I think?)

Anyways peace out and fave + follow and review :)