A\N Hey lovelies! So like I said before if you didn't read the closing of the previous chapter I made my due date for each chapter on Friday, just a little reminder of that. And I have a POLL OPEN for people who are interested, it's Normal Naruto and Normal Sasuke vs OOC Naruto and OOC Sasuke so if your interested check it out. I'll also be changing the summary for this story since I don't think it's gripping enough, I checked my traffic stats for this story and it isn't where I'd like it to be. I write for fun but I also write for my readers. Id also like to announce that the update for the last week of this month will be late due to the fact that I have midterms ;_; Sadly. Anyways I started a community, I'll write the link in the closing of this chapter so check it out and if you want to become a staff member then PM me and I'll add you :)
Summary: You know where to find it you confused fishes ;)
Warnings for chapter: Zombies, fighting, blood, gore, home wreckers, name calling, swearing, the works!
Chapter 7: Fear.
"A man who has been in danger, When he comes out of it forgets his fears, And sometimes he forgets his promises." - Euripides -Iphigenia in Tauris(414-12 BC)
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" How dare that stupid man run off without giving me my fucking money. I don't give a fucking shit if the dead are walking I want my fucking money by tomorrow!" A loud,brash voice shouted angrily as the hard fist connected with the wall. The man was angry,the man was so furious the dead would be afraid. Never would he make deals with punks again.
" S-Sir, I'm sorry h-he got away, those things blocked our way. We had no means to fight them." A brave woman,courageous enough to speak to the man in his moment of immense fury,said in a trembling but firm voice. The other occupants of the room turn to look at the young man, they all held nervous stares.
" I don't give a shit! You better fucking find that little piece of shit before I send you to play with the dead!" The man roared,his face red and his fist trembling. He wanted his money,and what he wanted he would get. The poor woman gulped loudly,her body trembling in fear. This man was a powerful man that was not to be messed with.
" B-but s-sir..." She tested the waters,but he casted her another fierce glare, shrinking her bravery down to size.
" I will say this one more time,and this will be the last time. You will bring me Kiba Inuzaka or you will be killed and so will the other Yamanakas. Got it?"
" Yes sir."She replied,Danzo really wasn't a patient man.
" This is terrible." Kiba groaned out as he held his stomach,he was an expert with cars but sitting in the back seat took a toll on his stomach,nauseous slowly creeping in.
"Yeah..." Sasuke drawled out,referring to New York city,the streets were empty and abandoned. It was strange for it to be so quiet in The Big Apple. Garbage thrown over,papers littering the floor. Smoke from burning cars fluttered into the air. It looked as if things went to shit in the a span of a day. I grew more and more worried for my father. The first street was hell,Imagine the rest of the city.
Sasuke looked around for any signs of danger before he rolled down the window,a light breeze entering the stuffy car. It was hot but we had been to afraid to roll down the windows and air conditioning was out of the question since it wasted precious gasoline that we needed. My eyes landed on a a car parked at the door of an old apartment building,the trunk was open and so were the doors.
I parked behind to the car,rolling down my window to get a better look. Suddenly the apartment building's old doors opened to reveal a frantic looking man followed by a scared woman and two small children. They all looked scared and anxious. The man carried luggages,throwing them into the car while he yelled,at what we assumed was his family,to get into the car. I stuck my head of the car,cautiously analyzing my surroundings. The coast was clear.
" Hey, you over there! We are looking for somebody. Do you know if he might be here?" I said lowly since we weren't that far from their vehicle. The man's head snapped in my direction,his eyes bewildered and afraid. He shot me a glare.
" L-leave us-s al-alone!" The man roared out,violently slamming the trunk before entering his car,slamming the door. I frowned,something was off with the man. I tried to recall his body language and his form. Wait, his arm was bandaged! He must have been bitten! He was gonna kill his whole family without even realizing it! The man was pale and sweaty, his limbs were shaking,it looked as if his eyes were losing color and his voice was stuttered and trembling. Was this how they become? I was about to get out of the vehicle to stop him but I was to late. Before I could even blink, he slammed the gas pedal in reverse, sending his car in our direction. The bumper* collided with the front of the car. I braced myself at the impact, the sound of metal against metal made me cringe. His back wheel earned leverage and rolled onto the hood. I gasped, The wheel only inches from killing me. Luckily he moved forward storming off but not before sending us a nervous look. He must have been so nervous that he put the car in reverse.
I looked back in the back seats, Kiba had his body wrapped around sasuke while sasuke had his head down against the others chest, his eyes shut tightly and hands over his ears in fear. The brown haired man looked at me bewildered, his eyes frantic.
" What the fuck!?" He cried out in a panic, I let out a breath I didn't know I was holding. My heart was beating terribly fast, I hoped I wouldn't have a panic attack. I leaned toward the steering wheel to carefully inspect the hood* of the car. The hood was letting out smoke and it was completely crushed. I turned to keys to start the car but it let out a strange sound and refused to start. I growled, slamming my palm against the steering wheel.
" Fuck. It's totalled." I groaned out, Kiba moved himself over the gears so he could sit in the passenger seat. Leaving sasuke in the back seat to recover from the shock but he soon sighed in relief.
" You're right there's no way I can fix this! Oh Fuck! Oh Fuck!" the man next to me repeated as he clutched his brown hair. He ordered me to try to start the car but the car only made the weird sound before turning off.
"Come on, Come on!" Kiba encouraged, his voice laced with frustration and fear. I heard faint groaning from behind us, I grit my teeth praying that the car would start.
"This isn't starting you idiot! We have to go!" I shouted in frustration, I wanted to pull out my hear, the groaning was getting louder but Kiba urged on.
"It will start, start the ignition again!" He retorted with fury in his voice, his pupils were dilated and his eyes were red, he was frantic and afraid and so was I.
"NO!" We heard sasuke's normally soft voice let out a blood curling cry. I snapped my head toward him and I felt my heart drop to my stomach. A bloody zombie had half of his body into the car by sasuke's window. His fingers, drenched in human blood gripped the boy's pale forearms in a painful looking grip. He was snapping his yellow stained teeth at sasuke, bits of black matter flying out of his darkened mouth. The undead's eyes were pale and rolled back into his head. I froze.
" Let me go!" Sasuke cried out again, tears rolling down his pink cheeks as he tried to kick the thing off him but to no avail the thing had a grip of steel.
" Naruto! Kiba!" He cried in desperation as the thing got closer, he was shaking and his tears were uncontrollable. I snapped out of it at the call of my name. I reached for the gun that I put in the front seat after we put the girl to rest and I aimed it at the undead. I carefully aimed as sasuke struggled.
" Close your eyes and mouth!" I roared, he followed my command quickly, shutting his eyes and mouth and I took the shot. The recoil sending me back a bit but not enough to throw me back. The zombie was thrown to the side at the force of the impact to his side, he let go of sasuke who scrambled to the front seats to sit with Kiba. Kiba held him close and I felt a twinge. He was sobbing.
I turned as I heard the thing groan loudly, slowly getting up but I didn't get him a chance to attack sasuke or any of us again. I wouldn't let them hurt him. I wouldn't let them hurt my father nor Kiba. I would never lose anyone again.
" Goodnight." I whispered as I shot my last shot, the bullet successfully hitting him in the head. He would never walk this earth as one of them again I thought in triumph. I didn't bask in the glory for much longer as I noticed we had attracted quiet the amount of undead.
" Were going to enter that building over there as quietly as we can." I ordered as I pointed towards the building the family had just come out of. Kiba's troubled and pale eyes feel on me, his was trembling and pale. Sasuke held him for dear life, he was sobbing uncontrollably. Dammit.
I tucked the gun under my arm, nodding at Kiba to follow me out of the car and he did with shaky legs, sasuke securely in his arms. Another twinge in my heart. We made our way to the building quietly, the zombies roamed around uncaring, some turning to follow us but we entered and closed the door quickly behind us. I turn to look around but I was soon shocked to see that our only way into the hallway was blocked by a mountain of furniture.
A fucking barricade.
Understandable but unlucky for us.
"It's all o-over m-me." I heard sasuke shudder, I turned to see him staring down at his blood covered body, the blood must have sprayed on him when I shot the thing. He had stopped crying but he look traumatized. Another twinge in my heart. Kiba put him down. The man moved to sink down against the wall, his face pale and sickly looking.
I quickly gathered sasuke in my arms, pulling him tightly against me. I didn't know what came over me but we both were in desperate need of human contact. I needed him in my arms. I felt him whined his arms around my back to grip my shirt. I tightened my grip even more, crushing him to my body almost painfully just for him to feel that he was okay.
"Sasuke..." I grunted in relief, he was safe. The thing didn't have him in it's clutches anymore. He was safe. Sasuke was shaking, he wasn't crying but his eyes were wide with shock and immense fear.
I rubbed his back soothingly. I was trembling as well. I was afraid, terribly afraid but in front of me was a teen, a teen a hundred times more afraid then me.
" It will be okay." I stated in a whisper, a lie. Would things ever be okay? I was starting to lose hope. Maybe nothing would ever be okay. So many unanswered questions. Too many.
I moved him out of my embrace to set him beside Kiba who looked terrible. He looked sick, his face was paler and he was sweating.
" Hey idiot are you alright?" I called out to him, but instead of retorting he looked at me with a dazed expression.
"I'm-" Then he puked all over the floor. He collapsed on the ground. The boy came out of my embrace to pull Kiba off the floor and into his chest. He lightly shook the man in his arms. I crouched down next to them to put a seemingly comforting hand on the brunettes tanned shoulder, he was cold and damp.
Sasuke looked up at me from his lower position on the ground, he sat on his knees to gently put the man's pale head on his lap. He was panting and I was getting worried. Sasuke's gaze was full of concern and dread.
"Naruto... what are we going to do?" He whispered in a pained voice. He moved his pale palm to caress Kiba's now damp locks. I swore under my breath things couldn't just go our way.
" Who's there?!" I heard a baritone voice call from the other side of the barricade made of furniture. I rushed toward the makeshift wall that blocked us from the person the other side in relief.
"We need help! One of us is sick and needs assistance." I yelled back, hoping that he would have the kindness to help survivors in desperate need.
"No." the voice said sternly. My eyes widened and my vision turned fuzzy in shock. No? What the fuck? I thought in dread. Did he kick out that family too? Did he refuse to help them.
"Please we need help!" Sasuke cried out from his spot on the floor, I looked back to see Kiba panting harder and harder, his cheeks turning red. A fever and a bad one at that.
" Were only three people!" I added hoping that the man would understand! He had to understand! We couldn't leave with Kiba like this.
"We aren't taking any one else!" another voice said this time it sounded like a aged woman, gentle and soft but was full of fear. I wondered how many people were hidden in there. I knew a few since this is a fair sized building enough to house a good amount of people. So why the fuck couldn't they take all of us!?
"Just take the sick one and the kid, you don't have to take me." I finally stated, looking down to the dirty floor beneath me. I heard whispering from the other side, they were discussing it. I prayed that they would accept this was the last resort. I wouldn't let Kiba wander around in this danger while he's incapable of movement.
"Okay. We accept the child and the sick one. I'll send someone over to get the sick one." The baritone voice said quietly but loud enough for me to hear.
"No!" I turned to look a sasuke who voiced his disapproval, he was feverishly shaking his head.
"Sasuke..." I started quietly but he refused to listen.
" No! We stay together!" He stated firmly, his voice loud and trembling. He was angry, I could tell. His usual kind eyes were burning with disapproval and anger but it wasn't directed at me. It was directed behind me.
I turned my head quickly, almost getting whiplash. A man maybe in his late twenties stood behind, he was pale and had dark hair like sasuke, his eyes dark. He had a fake smile plastered on his lips. He was dressed in worker clothes, giving me the information that he must have been a construction man.
" Hello. I'm here to take the sick one." he said in fake cheery voice. I glared at him, he was mocking us with his fake kindness.
" What's your name?" I said trying to stay as polite as I could, I didn't want him to refuse the previously arranged deal. He shot me another fake smile.
"Sai, now I'll be taking the sick." He said as he moved past me towards sasuke and Kiba. He threw Kiba over his shoulder like a sac of cement. He turned to look at sasuke, giving him a smirk.
" I can take you too..." He trailed off, his voice barely hid it's seductiveness. I growled, I was boiling with anger, dammit. The boy gave him a look of disgust, turning his head away.
"No thank you." he said coldly. Sai shrugged his shoulder before moving to claim the wall with minor difficulty since he had the sick Kiba in his arms. When the man was over the barricade sasuke turned to me, his eyes desperate and concerned.
" Sasuke..." I tried again, but he cut me off by throwing himself in my arms. I sighed heavily, racking a hand through my now dirty blond hair.
"I need to find my father." I stated in the blue, this would give me the opportunity to go alone because if it wasn't for the circumstances, Kiba and sasuke would surely want to come. I couldn't take the risk of them getting hurt.
" I know, I know!" he shouted, grasping onto the fabric of my shirt. We stayed like that for a moment before he reluctantly let go of my shirt. He looked at me with stern yet fearful eyes.
" I'll wait for you... So you have to come back."
"Sasuke... please listen to me." I said quietly.
"No! Promise me you'll come back." He stated angrily, he glared up at me, his eyes fierce and cold. It shocked me immensely. I sighed again, there was no turning away from this. I wanted to come back too but promising something that was only a 50/50 chance was terrible , I couldn't bear to imagine his disappointed face if I didn't come back but I had to go. I had to think positive.
"I promise."
He smiled happily, before nodding.
I watched as he made his way up the barricade and soon he was gone from my sight. Hopefully not gone from my sight forever. No I promised, I would return here with my father and take all of us somewhere safer. Somewhere where does things won't be.
Now to find my father.
End Chapter!
OHHHHH! Kiba's sick! I'm exactly like him, I get sick at the worst possible time and has some problems with Danzo!
(*): I'm not sure if it's called a bumper or something else I just figured it was a bumper with my limited car knowledge.
(*) Yea for the hood either I think it's the hood really not sure. Correct me if I'm wrong ._.
(*) Walkers. I heard someone call zombies that on the walking dead so I decided to use it since I was tired of saying undead and zombie.
everyone was pretty sensitive in this chapter. I tried to make it as realistic as possible without killing everyone. Sasuke tried to kick the zombie off but the thing had a tight grip. I read on the zombie guide ( a great book) That once a zombie get's a hold of you it's hard to get them off. And note that Naruto shot the zombie in the ribs first. Anyways I finished this early ( Wednesday to be exact) So the next chapter might come out earlier then Friday but I think I'll stick to the schedule. I've also been thinking of ways to explain how the infection started. Oh I also wanted to know if you guys have any other way to call zombies And don't worry sasuke will harden in the future but for now he will hang on to Naruto well you'll see in the next chapter! Oh yea check on my page to see my new community! PM me if you want to become a staff member ^_^ So this was expose to come out early but I wasn't happy with the ending so I changed it, I am still not happy though.
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