Eli put her foot on the brake pad. She looked at the rearview mirror and watched Nico stop the car in front of her. Honoka looked around a little.

"Why'd we stop, Eli?" Honoka asked. Eli pointed out the window.

"Look at all of these cars, we probably won't be able to move around them, and besides there's probably really good stuff in the cars," Eli said before getting out of the car. Nico also had gotten out of the car.

"What's up? Why'd you stop?" Nico asked as both of them walked over to each other.

"I'm going to take a guess and say that there's probably something good in these cars," Eli said pointing her thumb behind her towards the abandoned cars. Nico looked past Eli's shoulder and nodded her head.

"Yeah that sounds good, I was getting tired of driving anyways," Nico then turned around and walked back to the car and talked to the others.

"All right let's meet back here, alright?" Nico asked looking at the others. They all nodded their heads and with that they went their separate ways. Honoka, Umi and Kotori went into the forest that was on the right side of the road.

"I guess this the only thing you can technically count on as shelter for now," Kotori said looking at the trees.

"So we should probably try to make a fort or something like that," Honoka said grabbing a big branch off the ground before leaning it against a tree.

Hanayo and Rin were responsible for looking for survivors, Maki and Nico for any food or water, Nozomi and Eli for anything useful in the cars, and us for shelter... we're pretty far spread apart...I don't know if that's safe... Umi thought as she and Kotori helped Honoka build their shelter.

"We're literally in the middle of nowhere. I don't think there's going to be any food," Nico said looking around.

"You could also use your brain," Maki said twirling her hair with her index finger. Nico gave her a dull look.

"What do you mean by that?" Maki pointed into the woods.

"We could hunt for our food," Nico then sweat dropped.

"Your joking..." Nico said.

"I'm not. We can't live off of granola bars for the rest of our lives," Maki said pointing at Nico's hand which was holding a energy bar.

"This seriously sucks..." Nico said sighing as she and Maki headed into the woods.

"Hello! Is anyone here!?" Rin shouted through cupped hands as she and Hanayo walked down the road. Rin brought her hands down and breathed in before yelling again.

"Are we the only survivors left now?" Hanayo asked as Rin brought her hands down again. Rin looked at Hanayo not knowing what to say.

"I doubt it. There's gotta be more people," Rin said. "And you know as long as you're with me then I'm okay," She said blushing.

"Rin-chan..." Hanayo said smiling with a small blush on her face.

"Now I'm embarrassed, nya!" Rin said slapping her cheeks, before smiling again and grabbing Hanayo's hand. "Now let's go find some people, nya," she then dragged Hanayo along with her as they both ran to look for anybody.

Eli stabbed another zombie in it's head with her knife. She then looked inside the car and sighed as she found nothing useful.

"Nothing in here either! How's your end!?" Eli shouted to Nozomi.

"Nothing much so far," She heard Nozomi say. Eli then continued to search other cars. She then found a dark blue car, some of it's paint had been scratched off and it also began to rust a little. She looked through the window of the car. There were two bodies inside.

"There's more in this one too!" She shouted to Nozomi.

"Alright tell me if you find anything,"

"Gotcha,"

Eli opened the front passenger seat door as a body limply fell over. Eli backed up as it fell and took out her knife. However it didn't move. She knelt down next to it and examined it. She was clearly bitten... She thought as she looked at the blood on her white shirt where she was bit. She then noticed that there was a bullet hole in her head. Suicide? Then there was a groaning voice back inside the car. She stood up and looked inside the car and saw the other one. She then noticed that his hands and legs were tied up as he squirmed around. There was a gun next to him. She picked it up. No ammo... She looked back at him and was about to stab him when she heard a high pitched crying. She sharply turned her head and looked at where the voice came from, her eyes widened at what she saw. It was a booster seat. It was facing backwards in the seat and there was a tiny foot sticking out.

"Nozomi!" Eli yelled looking out the open door.

"Yes? Did you find anything?" Nozomi yelled back as she zipped up her bag and headed over to Eli.

"I think there's a baby in here!"

"A baby? Is it infected?" Nozomi asked as she began to pick up her pace a little.

"I don't know I'll check..." Eli got out of the car leaving the zombie still wriggling around and walked around to the back seat where the booster seat was. She opened up the door and saw the baby as it continued to cry. It was wearing a pink onesie, meaning it was probably a girl. Eli lifted up it arms and legs to check for any bites. She didn't seem to find any, but there were blood splatters on her onesie. She began unstrapping the straps on her seat.

"How is she?" Nozomi asked from behind Eli as she hoisted her up and held her,.

"She doesn't seem to be bit, but she does need a diaper change," Eli said holding her nose. Nozomi giggled and held out her arms.

"I'll change it, in the meantime..." She looked over at the driver seat. Eli nodded her head.

"Alright, I'll be right back," she gave the baby to Nozomi and as soon as she did the baby calmed down as she looked up at Nozomi. Nozomi giggled a little.

"It looks like she likes me~" Nozomi said teasing Eli.

"Whatever I'm the one who found her..." Eli said pouting a little. She opened the driver's seat and pulled out her knife. "I'm sorry that this happened to you. But your baby is in our care now, so please...rest in peace," she stabbed the father in his head as he stopped moving and slumped over. Eli sighed as she went over to the back where the booster seat was and rummaged through the back. She pulled out a pacifier, a empty baby bottle some diapers and wipes, before closing the door again as she started walking towards Nozomi. She handed them over to Nozomi.

"Ah thanks, Elicchi," she grabbed the diaper and wipes. "Hmmmm? Is something wrong?" She asked noting Eli's sad expression. She nodded her head and looked down at Nozomi as she started to change the baby's diaper.

"The father had tied himself up so he couldn't hurt the baby. And the mother was also shot by him to protect her," Eli said clenching her fist tightly. Nozomi then stood up as she finished changing the baby's diaper and picked her up. She then wrapped her arm around Eli's neck.

"But if it wasn't for you finding her then their sacrifices would've been for nothing," Nozomi whispered softly into her ear. Eli then hugged her back as she nuzzled her face into Nozomi's neck. "But you know...we can't exactly keep calling her 'her' forever," Eli then broke their hug as she looked confused at her.

"What do you mean?" Eli asked.

"What should we name her?"

"Huh? Name her?"

"Of course, we can't just leave her nameless, can we?"

"Then should we ask the others on what to name her?" Nozomi thought about it for a while before nodding her head agreeing with Eli.

"It's getting late anyways, so let's go meet up with the others,"

~About 10-20 minutes later~

Maki held up a rabbit and some squirrels that she had shot with her pistol. Nico also held a couple squirrels.

"Well we got dinner," Maki said plainly, while Hanayo freaked out a little over the fact that they had to eat a rabbit and squirrels. Honoka and Kotori then walked out from the forest behind them.

"Perfect timing guys! We finished making our shelter!" Honoka said as Kotori pointed behind her. The others then looked at each other before walking into the forest. They got to a small clearing in the forest where there was a tiny fire, which was being currently tended by Umi, as she threw some twigs into the flame to keep it going.

"By the way, where's Nozomi and Eli?" Nico asked as walked to the fire while putting her game on the ground next to it.

"I haven't seen them yet, maybe they're still looking for supplies?" Kotori asked. Nico shook her head.

"It shouldn't take this long, I'm gonna look for them," Nico said as she began to turn around and leave. However there was a loud snap noise as a twig broke. They all looked in the direction of the noise, with their weapons out and ready. Eli and Nozomi's faces then appeared into the light of the fire. They all sighed in relief only to be replaced by confusion as they saw another smaller face. "Nozomi? Eli? What are you doing with a baby?" Nico asked seriously.

"Um. Well Eli found her while we were looking through the cars and we couldn't just leave her alone," Nozomi said as she held the asleep baby in her arms.

"Besides you have to admit she's pretty cute, see?" Eli said pointing at the baby.

"All I see is another mouth to feed," Nico said. "Look I'm sorry to say but I'm not going to risk our lives here for a baby that's not even ours,"

"Oi aren't you being a little cold? It's just a baby, she doesn't need to eat what we're eating she can have baby food," Maki said looking at Nico.

"Exactly. We're going to have to feed her baby food. Making us risk ourselves for this!" Nico argued back. "Does she even have a name?"

"No. We were going to ask you help us name her-" Nozomi began.

"Don't name her," Nico said looking back at the now decent fire as her food cooked over it.

"What?" Nozomi asked angrily.

"Don't name her. We don't want to attach a bond with her," Nico said as she turned her squirrel around on her stick, so she could cook the other side.

"Maybe you don't, but I do and I'm not the only one who thinks that way," Nozomi said as Eli and Maki both nodded their heads.

"I'm sorry to say Nico but you're being to cold. She's just a baby I'm sure we can figure something out for all of us," Maki said. Nico glared at her before turning back again to the fire.

"Tsk. Fine have it your way," Nico said taking a bite out of her now cooked squirrel.

There was an akward vibe as all of them ate their meals silently, the only sound was the crackling fire and the occasional quiet snoring coming from the baby. They then all went into the medium sized shelter that the 2nd years had made. It was a little cramped but they were all able to fit in with their sleeping bags. Nico had decided to take first watch as she sat on a stump in front of the crackling fire. Maki sat up from where she was sleeping.

"Oi, did you really mean what you had said?" She asked.

"What kind of question is that?" Nico asked without looking back at her.

"Just answer me," Maki said annoyed. Nico sighed and slouched.

"I don't know honestly. I don't really know anything anymore," Nico said holding her head with both of her hands as her elbows rested in her thighs.

"Nico-"

"Just go back to sleep we have a long day tomorrow," Nico said interrupting Maki. Maki was about to argue back but then decided to listen to her and fell back down into her sleeping bag, before closing her eyes. Once Nico heard Maki's breathing change into a more calm and gentle one, she let her tears fall out of her eyes as she began sobbing.

Authors Notes

I'm so sorry for such a long wait but it's here now finally! I had lost my account and forgot my password so I couldn't get it back, but I've got it back now! Anyways I hope you're liking this story so far! I hope it's not going too slow or fast for you guys. I'd also like to note that I did a little bit of a time skip, so that they've all killed a zombie, so that they're all at least a little used to killing them, because I'm too lazy to write each of them killing a zombie for the first time if you know what I mean. Another thing I'd like to say is when I was making some scenarios for this story and the rest of them I came across my first fanfiction, but I didn't think it was good enough to put online so I was wondering if I should publish it? (It's a Haifuri fanfiction) but other than that I'll see you guys in the next update!