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_Rewritten_

Chapter 4: Quarantine Zone Flashback

On their search for Eren's sister, they came across groups who weren't friendly as one thought. In which caused Sakura to kill a couple of them and beckon Eren to do so the same. It took a while before he finally got into his head that it was the survival of the fittest and if he wanted to live long enough to find his family. He'd have to kill, whether or not they are human.

Although he was more reserved in killing; quick and painless and meant as a last resort. He had to calm down Sakura at times as she was often eager to kill people. He wasn't sure how he felt about that but he believes it might be an outlet for Sakura. She never really talks about herself and only talks to Eren about the now. She wouldn't even talk about her own friend's death. Something Eren knows bothered her for a long time as he often would hear her mumble in her sleep, tossed and turned and she says she's fine despite the dark rings under her eyes.

However he didn't expect Sakura to be open rather he hoped she would be at least sympathetic. He recalled a memory where he first killed a person within two weeks of knowing her and her advice was anything but helpful.

"It's a tough road buddy but look at the bright side, the economy is no longer a problem."

Sakura is many things, intelligent, sadistic, and psychotic, but sympathetic wasn't one.

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Titan City: 3 Months Later December 6:25 A.M (3rd POV)

Sakura exhaled a cold breath of air as she looked at the city in peace. It was eerily quiet, it would be unnerving for some people but for her, it was a piece of quiet that she savors. It was something about the morning air and the sight of the sky turning bright and yellowish orange from the sun that made her enjoy it. Then there's the fact that it was a tradition engraved into her since her youngling years.

'Hinata,' the wound was still healing as she used this moment to mourn for her late friend. Even though, she has mourn for the past three months; Sakura doesn't feel a bit angry or sad as she did within the first week. She is at peace with it but it doesn't stop herself from blaming herself for her best friend's death.

She took a sip of hot chocolate as she tucked her legs in and enveloped them with the blanket. 'Heaven in my mouth,' Sakura thought as she swished the cocoa in her mouth before swallowing it. She found the beaming lights annoying as it interrupted her morning ritual, but chose to ignore it as she couldn't do anything about it. Well she could, but Eren would disapprove and he gets irritating when he does.

Speaking of Eren, the door behind her opened but she kept her eyes on the sky as she already knew who it was.

"Sakura, how do you always manage to get up so early?" Eren asked yawning, rubbing his right eye out of soapy substance that somehow forms there in your sleep. It's the work of magic or fairies maybe leprechauns.

Sakura rolled her eyes, it's amazing how fast he sleeps when they get back from their runs. He walked over to her and sat himself down on his chair. Sakura shot a glance over at him. She let out a small shot of air through her nose as she thought about how ironic that she is now sharing her morning ritual with someone other than Hinata. She would never say it to his face nor does she want to admit to herself but the boy has grown on her, and that's all she had to say. She turned her attention back to the morning sky.

Eren had a mug in his hand. He pulled out a small bag of tea packets, as much he likes hot chocolate, tea was better for the morning as he often told Sakura who scoffs at him. He then poured water in, and added in some honey. Sakura is all for honey but he puts abnormal amounts in. She scrunched her nose as him which he promptly ignored.

"I am a woman of wonders besides it's not hard to wake up when you hardly sleep," Sakura mentioned as she took another sip. She often went through bouts where she couldn't sleep no matter what. Eren tried to help but to no avail as Sakura keeps herself blocked off from everyone. She now refused to let anyone in yet Eren is slowly inching his way in.

Eren let out a low hum to indicate that he heard and understood.

"I know what you mean, that's why you should drink some herbal tea. It helps with sleeping problems," Eren said once more, it was a lather rinse and repeat conversation that they had every morning. And Sakura would let out a grunt to say 'no.' Then Eren would shrug as it was suggestion that he knew she wouldn't care about. And now, they sit in silence as the sun begins to rise and light peeks over the horizon.

"We're going to need more supplies. Our food rations is running low, it would've been filled up and lasted another two weeks but someone had to play hero," Sakura suddenly spoke up in an accusatory tone, then glared at Eren. Eren immediately went into defense mode, "Well excuse me if I'm not a cold heartless monster like some people. I couldn't just leave them like that. And how was I supposed to know that they would backstab us?"

"It's common fuckin' knowledge! People will backstab when their backs are to the wall. And since it was your mistake, and I shouldn't have left that decision up to you, we're going to that quarantine zone to steal the army's supplies," Sakura pointed at the lights that ruined her mornings with the constant lights, while grinning widely. Eren had a look of pure horror as he remember what happen the last time they went to a quarantine zone. It was by far, the worst day to count, and to make it worse, an eight legged creature touched him.

Shivers went down his spine.

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Flashback: 3 Months Ago September 4:34 P.M (3rd POV)

It's been two weeks since Sakura reluctantly accepted Eren later to happily accepting Eren, as long he brought sake home. It was a give and take relationship. She gives him protection while he gives her sake, or forced to go with her plans, in payment. It's a nice system that they have. Although Eren would disagree.

Sakura decided on stocking up on supplies and establishing safe houses through the city. The logic she has is that if they clear out the nearby places, they'd have to branch out for more supplies but it would take longer to get back to the main base. So she decided to make the safe houses so they don't have to walk back in the dark with those freakish monsters. It's a pain to deal with if you're with Eren, one time he knocked over a pen and hell broke loose. They had to duck into a basement, it was a dungeon and there were weird people who wanted their skin and Eren cried twice. So Sakura hated getting stuck out in the night with Eren.

Soon enough, they stumbled upon a quarantine zone, many miles away from their base, to which Eren feared the worst when he caught sight of Sakura's widening grin.

"No."

"Yes."

"NO."

"YEESSS!"

"No, Sakura! We are going to die and I like living. It's suicide."

"Then live your life, man. You're so boring. C'mon, let's spice up things," Sakura encouraged Eren as she nudged him with her elbow. He knew he had lost the moment she had taken interest in the area. However, Sakura believed it's a lot more fun if they're both on board plus less of a chore to drag him around.

"Fine, but I'm complaining the whole time," Eren reluctantly started to let himself be pulled by Sakura. Sakura shrugged, "at least use your feet then," she let go of his arm as they made their way to the entrance. There were large metal towers with a fence set up around the area with barbed wire at the top. Basic set up, something Sakura could get through with no problem. They walked up to the entrance as Eren had a look of fear planted on his face. He was intimidated when a guard came up to them.

"Halt, state your name and business."

"Sakura and my business is to stay alive. Oh that's E-ren," Sakura put emphasis on the 'E' of Eren's name. It was pronounced as 'E-ren' rather than 'Air-ren.' Eren gave Sakura an annoyed look. Sakura stood in place with her arms crossed across her chest.

"Protocol says you will be registered into the system and checked for signs of bites or infection," he explained to the two and turned his back to lead them to base. Sakura raised an eyebrow at him and shared a look with Eren, who looked confused as him. They were lax and weren't too worry about possible enemies, at least human ones. Sakura's smile returned but mischievous.

'It's going to be so easy to rob these guys.'

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After a good hour, the two managed to find a room to rest in and it happened to be crappiest and dirtiest one. The walk to their room was rather depressing as there was so many people with dead looks, walking like 'them.' It shocked Eren while Sakura seem unfazed by it all. It got Eren to wondering of why Sakura is like so. He doubt it had to be all because of her friend, she was like this before they even found her friend. However, he doubt he'll get answers from her.

Once they arrived to their room, Eren didn't like the look of the room as it had holes in the floor, chipping paint, leak stains on the floor and ceiling, and the heavy stench of sewer. It made his stomach do flips, he scrunched his nose in disgust and half-expected Sakura to do this same. However, once more, Sakura was unfazed and walked on in like it wasn't a complete health hazard. Set her bag on the small coffee table which creaked under the weight of the bag. She plop onto the dirty couch and it cracked under the new weight and caved in the middle a little. Sakura didn't care much as she laid down with her arms behind her head as she rested her eyes.

"Sakura, let's leave," Eren said as he stood at the entrance of the room. He refused to walk into the dingy little place. It had cockroaches roaming around and he saw large cobwebs in the corners of the room. Sakura let out a grunt that can only be translated as, 'no,' and that was end of discussion as she went back to resting, ignoring Eren and his weird ways. Eren finally walked in after a solid minute of standing outside and closed the door behind him. It creaked loudly, it came off one hinge so he had to use both hands to put it back in place. Afterwards, he walked over to the Sakura who was in the middle of the room. He would've sat down on the arm chair but it was dirty with an occasional cockroach running around its chair legs. He set his bag down as well, only for the coffee table to break in two from the weight of both bags.

Eren winced as he looked at Sakura who didn't stir in her sleep. He would've shook her awake but he noticed how she hasn't gotten a lot of sleep. She often would be walking around, cleaning her weapons, or reading with a cup of hot tea. Eren knew it had to do with the recent death of her close friend, even if it was three months; she never talked about and this was a coping mechanism. He didn't know much about Sakura to pry too much into her business, even if he did, he doubt she'll ever open up to him. So he decided to look around to see how bad this apartment was; in case, Sakura decided to stay the night hence Eren would have to stay too. And he wasn't about to sleep on the dirty and sticky floor.

He went to the bathroom to ensure he doesn't catch any type of diseases from the toilet or shower. A look of disgust formed at the state of the bathroom. Tiles were chipping, bathtub had brown and yellowish rings all around and moss grew from the showerhead outwards. The toilet emitted a terrible sewer smell. Enough to be called a biohazard.

Then a rather large rat, about the size of a foot, scurried out from under the couch making Eren jumped back in fear, letting out a girlish scream.

"Holy crap, did you see the size of that rat?" Eren's voice broke, coming out as a falsetto, making him clear his throat, "I mean, did you see the size of that rate?" he said in a masculine voice (?) which failed and sounded like a low pitched female voice. Sakura threw a rat, a large grey rat, at Eren and it landed on his back, as a form of communication to 'shut up.' He didn't care to listen to her silent order. He stiffened at the sudden weight on his back and once it began to move, digging its claws into his shirt. He ran around like a chicken without a head, as he tried to get the rat off of him. He finally got it off and it landed on the ground with thud then scurried off to the hole in the wall.

"Sakura, please don't tell me that we're staying here. It's so…gross and unsanitary too!" Eren begged Sakura as he stood next to her as he looked around for creatures crawling about. He broke out in a cold sweat when the silence got long which meant, they would be here for a while. No answer from Sakura. She was fast asleep and if he attempted to wake her up, he'll get punch again. He made that error and he wasn't about to do that again.

Eren, then looked in the corner of his eyes and felt his heart stuck in his throat. He unconsciously felt his body walk towards the strange sight despite his silent protests. His eyes grew big as the realization.

"Oh god, there's fuckin' cockroaches living under the sink….there's something in the sink too….there is a slug in here. How? Sakura! Sakura! Sakura! We're being invaded by god damn bu- centipedes!" Eren ran out of the bathroom when a centipede that was on the ceiling had fall down onto his shoulder. It stood up as if to say 'hi' and its tentacles brushed against his cheek. It was enough for him to run out of the room with a shriek. The centipede fell to the ground at the sudden movement, uncaring of what happened and slowly made its way back up the wall.

Eren jumped onto Sakura, who opened an eye at him as he straddled her waist practically shaking. He looked her straight in the eye and said, "So many legs, it ain't natural." Eren shuddered as he tried to wipe off the invisible bugs on his body and flinching as if he could feel their many legs going down his back. Little itty bitty legs skittered down slowly and he was not amused. He keep himself planted against Sakura, who let out a small sigh, 'Why me?' she thought. She just wanted a moment's rest but Eren is too much of wuss to settle.

Eren refused to stand on the sticky and dirty floor with the bugs running about on the floors.

"Boy, we're only going to be here for a day so deal with the little buggies," Sakura assured the 'little child' whom didn't move only gripped onto her tighter, when he saw a cockroach each time. She didn't mind the huge weight on top of her with the occasional flinching at every bug in sight. It was just annoying how he scares easily. Before she entered in a long nap, she heard Eren whispered under his breath, "Little devils," it made her chuckle a bit.

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Times passes about three minutes

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"Sakura…there are infected entering the quarantine zone. What do we do?" Eren's voice increasing with each word. He was looking out of the window to get his mind away from the health code hazard behind him, in time to see the infected biting out a huge chunk out of a soldier's neck. A nice flow of blood came out and see the said soldier go blank.

Soon, gun shots followed after and the screams of people as they run through the streets with the infected at their heels, in a slow manner.

"Great! We're going to die in this hazardous waste hole. I knew this was a bad idea from the start," Eren muttered to himself as he heard multiple people running down the hallways towards the exit. Likely to leave the area before unwanted trouble comes. Kami knows what'll follow the madness.

Sakura opened her eyes and accessed the situation. She sat up, stretching out her limbs, and yawned. She hasn't gotten much sleep in the past two days so she is quite glad to catch up any type of sleep that she can. She looked over to see Eren pacing back and forth, anxiously. He didn't realize that there was a huge spider, tarantula perhaps, slowly walking down the wall to him. Sakura didn't say anything, pulled out a granola bar and waited for the show to begin.

Eren turned to look at Sakura to see if she had a plan, however her nonchalance made his anxiety levels jump up a peg.

"Sakura, why are you sitting there? The infected are gonna overrun the place and you're sitting there eating some goddamn granola bar?" Eren asked in disbelief. Sakura ignored his complaining as she eyed the spider then smiled. The spider landed on his shoulder and he stiffen up.

"Please tell me that there isn't a spider on me," Eren asked as his face drained of color. He tried hard to not to lose his cool but failed when he felted the hairy leg brush against his cheek. A high pitched screamed followed shortly behind the touch, "Kyaaaaah!"

Sakura let out laughter, bent over holding her stomach as she watched Eren running around in attempt to get it off of his back. It's been a while since she laughed like this, if anything, she needed it. She was pretty bummed out after Hinata's death. She'll never mention to Eren how she went out the following night when he slept to go back to bury her properly. She spent the night digging through the mess to find her body. The body remained intact but it's difficult to get a whole body out with infected all around you. She had to cut down infected left and right as she carried a dead body with her. She found a perfect area to bury her old friend. There was a hardware store nearby so she went there to get a shovel then proceeded to dig a hole. She laid her friend in and covered her up. Said her goodbyes then went back to where she left Eren.

Eren hadn't woke up or stirred from his spot on the couch. He woke up when she came in, in his sleepy state, he asked 'why she was covered in dirt.' Too which she replied, "I don't know. Why are you covered in blood?"

Nothing else was said as Eren shrugged before going back to sleep. He never brought up the topic in the morning so Sakura assumed he didn't care. However, he has no recollection of last night from when he plopped onto the couch to the current morning, so he didn't know she went out.

Sakura calmed herself down as she noticed Eren had knocked over an old lamp that still worked. It smashed to the ground and a fire was ignited. Eren forgot all about the spider as he begun to worry over the growing fire. He had no idea what to do and when he looked at Sakura, who picked out the dirt from under her nails. She was no help.

He desperately tried to put it out. Luckily, there was a bucket in the bathroom and unluckily, he tried to use the water from the toilet to put it out only for it to fuel it more. 'What the hell was in that water?' Eren thought, dropping the bucket in a panic. The fire was getting out of hand. It was spreading to the wall and licked at the wooden ceiling then the torn drapes.

Eren turned to Sakura as to ask what to do but she simply shrugged. Her answer was, "Shall we?" She indicated to the door with her hand as she threw her backpack over her shoulders.

"Sakura, we can't just leave. The entire-"Eren stopped mid-sentence as he stared at the spider then immediately ran out of the room, barely grabbing his bag. Sakura walked behind him shortly in no hurry as the fire roared behind her. She closed the door to hell's gate behind her. She walked down the hall as if she hadn't left behind a fire. In her mind, there was no point in putting it out with chaos roaming outside. They passed a few people who were hysterical and Sakura merely shoved them aside to avoid being trampled over. And she will not hesitate to shoot a bitch. She didn't particularly care about people, or at least these people. Why? Easy. What of benefit are they to her?

When she reached outside, Eren was waiting outside with his hand roaming all of him as if he was trying to get imaginary bugs, or spiders specifically, off of him. Sakura raised an eyebrow at him to which he responded by ignoring her eyes. It made her curious as to why he hated spiders. Not curious enough to ask him though. She looked around to observe the chaos that is around them. People were running down the streets from the infected. Some were being feasted down upon. She looked around to see a building where many of the soldiers were located. It meant the HQ for the quarantine zone, hence weapons and foods meaning supplies. It was easy to sneak past the soldiers who were in complete chaos. However, they had to deal with infected which wasn't much of a problem but it was a pain.

So they whacked infected after infected, beheading if possible, and Sakura put an infected's head between the door way and doors. Smashed its head in repeatedly until it was mere mush. Eren would've commented on her overkill but the words couldn't leave his lips as he got immediately grab by another infected.

"Are you kidding me!?"

They made it to the building exhausted, covered in sweat at this point and wanted to leave. Hell even Sakura was thinking of upping and leaving but she came this far and might as well get what they came for. They crawled in through a window that Sakura smashed in, stealth be damned. The noise was covered by the screaming. They got in and Sakura used her nose to find her way to the room with the supplies. Eren had to admit that she had her moments, as strange as it may be.

They had the luck of a horror movie character to encounter soldiers who happened to stumble upon them.

"What are you doing here?"

It was more of an order than a question. Eren froze as he stared at the end of the barrel of the gun held at them both. Sakura stood still as she went through the scenarios of what could happen. The soldiers, the seven of them, were not in the mood to talk. Their comrades were dying outside because of the horde of infected. However, the one in the front felt the underlying feeling that they were the reason why there was so much chaos. He aimed the gun at Sakura, her appearance isn't what put him on guard rather her eyes. Most people's eyes would have color, a warmness, and emotions. One would feel uneasy in this situation or at least tense. Her eyes, on the other hand, it was cold, empty and the only emotion found was, amusement. Amusement is the worse to expect from your enemy.

"If you do not leave the premises immediately, we will shoot you."

That feeling was backed up when she grinned widely and they had no time to react. She threw three throwing knives at three men square in the chest, hitting the heart accurately. Using their stunned state to her advantage, she pulled out a combat knife from her thigh and immediately redirected the gun's position to the roof. Keeping a firm hold on the gun, she pulled the man forward to insert her knife into his neck. Blood splattered on her face, her grinning face, and at that point, she might as well be a demon to the last three soldiers' faces. She kicked the gun up and grabbed it, immediately firing a bullet each into the middle of their foreheads. Their bodies dropped to the floor with a 'thud.' The hallway didn't look like a scene from a horror movie, as not much blood was splattered, but it was surely terrifying as one. Eren had his mouth opened in shock. He knew, he knew what she was and what she was capable of. But he never seen it up close before and so intense.

He was beyond shock and would've been if Sakura hadn't snapped him out of his trance.

"Let's go, no lollygagging. More will come, dead or undead," Sakura informed him, not caring that he may be traumatized. He knew what he was getting into so Sakura held no sympathy for him at the moment. Mission first then worry about him later. Eren followed behind her. He avoided the bodies completely and tried to not look at them. He didn't want to be traumatized than he is now. He looked at Sakura's back and only her back until they left that hallway. He let out a huge breath of air that he had been unknowingly holding in. Sakura glanced at him and proceeded to walk to the supply area.

When they reached the area that Sakura had smelled, it wasn't small like she had thought rather it was large room with five vehicles, jeeps, lined up with garage doors leading out to the streets. Sakura's mind began to click together ideas as Eren waited silently. He wasn't sure how to approach the idea of death. Or how Sakura could easily and effortlessly kill those people. Soldiers or not, they were alive and human. They had lives, families even, and she killed them with a disregard of that information. It made him rethink his decision to stick with Sakura but he knew, he knew that this is what he would've expected from her. He knew from the moment she found him. If he hadn't been so inexperienced or doe-eyed. He would've died alongside that other guy.

"Alright. Start packing up the supplies in this baby. I'm going to look around," Sakura didn't explain further as to why she had to look around but he wasn't in the condition to question her command. He did a small nod as he made his way to the room with the supplies that Sakura pointed to. Sakura disappeared within seconds, not really to his surprise. It was one thing she liked doing and was good at it.

If he had been close enough to Sakura, he would've asked about her family more, the tattoos she had on her body, or the large scar on her back, or her friend, or where she learned to do the things she can do now. He had a theory she might've been yakuza, what with the silent killing and disappearing act. However, she is well experienced in combat skills, almost military experienced. Another theory that she might be from the army.

Although now the situation conflicts that a little. She killed the soldiers who were likely like her, in cold blood. To make it worse, she enjoyed it. He isn't blind to her enjoyment of killing, or the smile she gets when her blade makes contact to their bodies. She preferred knifes over guns unless she had no other choice or wanted the situation resolved quickly. He thought it was to avoid noise but it wasn't like that.

Nonetheless, Eren started loading up the hummer. Sakura originally was going to make him drive but he mentioned how he didn't learn how to drive so it fell back onto Sakura.

They were stalled, right as Eren got the entire back filled up and closed it. The whole thing would've been simple if Sakura hadn't been held up by a soldier with a gun. Eren hid behind the hummer as the soldier aimed his weapon at Sakura. Yelling at her for killing his comrades, the soldier had the unfortunate luck of coming upon his fallen comrades. The scene meant they died by a living person rather undead. The knives and single bullet in the foreheads confirmed it. He didn't question that Sakura did it on her own. The look Sakura gives tends to give people an uneasy vibe.

"What are you after?" The soldier shouted at Sakura with his finger on the trigger. Sakura was thinking of a way out but it was a little hard with someone unstable at the end of the trigger. She bit her lip in frustration as her mind begin to fail her at the moment. She was too far to intercept him, and as much as she likes to think of herself as fast, she can't pull out her gun quick enough to shoot him before he shot her. The gun was aimed for her chest, one shot and it was over for Sakura. It wasn't her plan at the moment. She wasn't gonna die like this. A lot of fun to be made in this apocalyptic world.

Meanwhile, Eren didn't know what to do as he felt his brain shutting down. If he let the soldier kill Sakura, Eren wouldn't survive on his own. If the solider found him afterwards, Eren would die. If he tried to help, he might make the situation worse. He wasn't like Sakura, with fancy moves and what not. He can barely handle a spider. He knows he can't out best a trained military man with his no experienced body other than running. Eren was about to give up when he shifted his leg and he felt a gun press against it. He had a gun in his holster of his thigh. Why he hadn't remember until now? He doesn't use guns at all. He never killed a guy, at best, knocked people out. Not even to shoot them in the leg. He was a completely indifferent to a gun.

"Because of you, my friends are…are dead."

He pulled the gun out of its holster. It was heavy in his hands, much to his surprise the first time around. The first time he ever held one, he imagine it a bit light as people tend to handle it like it was weightless. He tried to remember the instructions Sakura had given him when she handed him the gun. It went like, "Safety off. Aim, breath, and shoot. Second guess yourself and you will miss. Be confident when you hold the gun. It's sensitive like that."

Eren took deep breaths as he prepared himself. He stood up from behind the boxes.

'Okay, take the safety off….now aim for his head,' at this point he started to hyperventilate as he realized what he was about to do.

Was he prepared to handle the idea of taking someone's life?

"And now we got a bunch of undead fuckers roaming around now! Everything is fucked! Because of you! You took them all away. And for what? Some god damn supplies?! Well you can go to hell, you fuckin-"

A shot went off before silence filled the air. Sakura touched her chest and felt no hole. She wasn't dead. The soldier in front of her fell to the ground, blood slowly seeped out of his head onto the cold pavement floor. And behind him was Eren. He was in shock as he let go of the gun as if it burned him. The gun fell with a clack as it hit the pavement. Luckily, it didn't go off again.

"O-oh, god… I can't believe...I did that. Oh my god. I just-I just killed someone," Eren said as he stared at his hands. It smelled like gun residue. Sakura looked at him and the body. She walked over to him. He was half-expecting her to have some sympathy and tell him it was going to be okay. Something his sister might've told him. Instead, he got something completely Sakura-like and he blamed himself for thinking otherwise.

"It's a tough road buddy but look at the bright side, the economy is no longer a problem," Sakura patted his back and went to the hummer to start it up.

Eren stood there, silent. In that moment, he felt like the world started to open his eyes. This is how life is going to be, whether he liked it or not. At this moment, he had to make an inner decision.

Does he want to continue down this path? Survive, even if it meant killing other humans.

Will he be the same person that his sister remember? He doubt it.

Would he be able to survive on his own? No way in hell, or else he wouldn't be with Sakura.

Can he actually put his morality to the side to live? He doesn't know.

Is this the life that he wants to live?

To be a cold hearted killer, to have the ability to sacrifice others, and lose his innocent outlook of the world?

Will one day he just not feel anything when he kills, undead or alive?

That's what scared him most. The thought of killing people without caring if they were good or bad, guilty or innocent, whether they had families or not. He wasn't sure about that and he didn't want that. He didn't want to reunite with his sister knowing how much blood he had on his hands.

Sakura noticed his downcasted self. She let out a small sigh before jumping down from the hummer; it was three feet off the ground. She had short legs and had to literally jump up to things, much to her displeasure.

"Look boy. Whether you want to accept it or not, this is the whole that we live in. Does it get easier, it does but only for a moment then it weighs down on you. The weight of those people's blood on your hands, how you took someone's loved one away, and how easily it felt to shoot them or slit their throats or crush their heads in.

However, it's them or us. Do you want to be the one laying on the ground as blood seeps out of your chest? Do you want to experience having someone shoot your limbs? Do YOU want to be alive while they torture you in the most unimaginable way and you can do nothing but scream?

No.

In those moments, you'll feel regret that you let them live and repeatedly ask for their deaths because the dead don't seek revenge. Whether I like it or not, I have to rely on you, trust you. You are in my group so you're my responsibility and I'll be damned if someone dies under my watch.…

Do you ever wonder why I was so reluctant to let you join me?"

There was a long silence between the two of them. Sakura had walked over to him and picked up the gun that he had dropped earlier.

"You didn't want to be responsible for me?" He asked, looking up at her with blank eyes. She resisted a sigh and a smidge of guilt swelled up in her.

"Yes…I've already lost people who were under my responsibility and I don't want that again. I already have blood on my hands but it isn't that kind that stains, it's ones of the people whom I failed to save that will forever stain my hands red. And I don't need another body on my hands so get your ass up and let's go," she shoved the gun back into his hands.

An explosion went off nearby, Sakura muttered under her breath. Eren snapped out of his trance and suddenly, it was like he came out of from under water, where everything was muffled to above surface, and everything got ten times louder.

"I hope that clear up things because we got to go," Sakura told Eren as she ran to the hummer. He followed shortly after her.

The explosion set off a chain reaction. Probably bad that there are gas tanks everywhere. Who made this layout? They should be fired effective immediately. Sakura put the hummer into gear and drove through the garage door, taking it down fully.

Sakura let out a howl of crazed laughter as the explosions went off. Fire was everywhere and infected roamed the streets. They went towards the hummer of course but they got plowed down as the two made their way to the gates.

"Hold on! This is either gonna go good or bad," Sakura shouted over the noise. The gates in right around the corner.

"What?" Eren asked in alarm before holding onto the handle above his head and his seat belt. It was then that he felt a six legged animal on him. It was a tarantula and it was the same one from before.

Eren would've let out a scream but he decided against it as at this point. He was so done with today.

"Well hold on tight, bud, we're in for a rough ride if she's driving."

"The fuck are you saying boy? I am an excellent driver!"

She hit an infected and its blood splattered on the windshield, covering it and disabling their eyesight.

"God damn it!" Sakura shouted before turning on the wind shield wipers. Eren would've gave a smug look but panic took over instead. They manage to look to see that they hadn't gone towards the gate rather drove towards a ramp. They let out a scream and went over the fences and landed on the street, causing sparks behind them.

"Holy shit, this day has been like Mulan. One moment, it's fighting montages, then the next, its setting things on fire," Sakura managed to say as she drove down the street in a fast manner. Eren tried to catch his breath.

"It's that the movie with the ogre and the donkey?" Eren asked confused and Sakura thought for a moment if he was joking but his face said otherwise. She had an intense desire to kick him out of the vehicle. Sakura looked at him with a 'wtf' look, "No, you dumbass. It's Mulan! A chick who dressed like a man and entered the war for her father then ended up taking down a Hun leader, saving China. What exactly did I say to make you think, Shrek?"

"Um, it had that arena where the donkey and ogre fought those knights. And the dragon set things on fire at the end…" He said sheepishly, honestly he didn't watch much movies or TV shows while growing up. His family wasn't exactly wealthy enough to afford cable at all. And movies could be spent on food. He only had paper and crayons to keep boredom away until his sister came along.

"…I need to find a god damn DVD player and movies because you need to educate yo'self in the art of movies, specifically children movies!" Sakura shouted as she took a hard right, causing the spider to hit Eren's face. He calmly took the spider off of his face and threw it in the back. He only let it ride on his shoulder because they had bigger things to worry about but his fear of crawly things is coming back. He tried to ignore the fact that a six legged creature is in the back seat as if it were a passenger.

"Fine. Whatever….Sakura?"

"What?"

"Thank you"

"…"

"…"

"….that's fuckin' gross, man…"

"…I hate you…"

End of Flashback

He sometimes wonder how they made this far and what exactly is in store for them in the future. He isn't quite excited to find out at all. He accepted that this is how things are gonna be with Sakura. And he was fine with it. Their relationship upgraded from a boy whom she owed a favor to someone she has to protect, it was willingly. It gave him a giddy feeling as it took three months to make a budge in their boy-Sakura relationship. It was feeling of pride and he was glad he met her.

However, right now he regrets running into her.

"No."

"Yes."

"No!"

"Yes!"

"Hell no."

"Fuck yeah!"

"Last time, I nearly came out scarred for life! Next time, I might end up beyond sanity. We'll get stranded in a small room with people whilst surrounded by infected."

"Boy, what are the odds of that happening is about 1 in a hundred. You're being melodramatic is all," Is what Sakura said before the conversation was dropped and she stood up to head down to gear up. Eren knew, he knew from a gut feeling that he developed from the past three months that they were going up in a situation that could've been easily avoided.

"Nothing can go wrong!" She patted his head, a little hard and ruffled his hair violently before heading to the roof door. Eren let out a sigh as he stared at the morning sky in silence.

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1 Hour Later

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"Everything went wrong!" Sakura shouted as she ran into a room; Eren wasn't too far behind. She held onto the door as she slid in, and turned herself around as Eren came running in. He slipped and went sliding across the floor. His stomach got smacked into the table, puking up the contents in his stomach. Sakura shut the door immediately after he slid in. The infected practically ran into the door and it pushed Sakura back a little.

Her dusty shoes didn't make a good foot holding. It made her slid back with no way to get a firm footing. She spit on the floor and rubbed her feet into it. Getting that dirt off of her shoe and making the floor grip able. She slowly pushed them back before shutting the door completely.

She breathed heavily while against the door as the pounding behind the said door began. It was quiet in the room for a while before Eren spoke up, after dumping the contents in his stomach onto the long wooden table.

"I told you that we would get surrounded by infected in a damn room, but nooo, you just had to come here," Eren said breathlessly as he wiped the throw up from the corner of his mouth.

"You know what boy, your negativity isn't needed in this situation and I'm not about to be reprimanded by someone who just threw up his lunch," Sakura told him as she turned to look at him.

"Fine then, then let me say this, I, told, you, so!"

"Shut up, you gremlin!"

End of Chapter 4

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