Ryoma lifted his head when he heard a scuffling noise from his right. He turned and saw Momo, Kisarazu, and Shishido, who was bloody and carrying Ootori in his arms. Ryomas eyes grew wide as he saw the bloody sight of Ootoris body. His gasp alerted everyone else who looked up and noticed too.

"What happened?" Tezuka asked, swiftly walking up to the group, who just returned. Shishido looked down at Ootori and began crying again. Kisarazu tried to comfort him, leaving Momo to speak.

"They were down there..." he began, pausing to look over at Eiji, who did nothing but looked away, "They must have died down there and had been turned into those things, we were attacked and...well you saw what happened." Momo took one last look over at Shishido, Ootori and Kisarazu, then back at Tezuka, finally walking past him, sitting on one of the couches.

"So, what happens now?" Fuji asked, walking up behind Tezuka, who shook his head.

"I really don't know Fuji, I really don't know." No one was going back down there tonight, it was too dangerous. So with that, they covered Ootoris body and went to bed. The only sounds they could here were the scratching and screeching of the zombies trying to get in.

"Damn those things are loud" Kaidoh said, he was on the floor, next to one of the doors, by the entrance to the store they were in. Inui nodded, he was keeping watch, finally he pulled down the gate, making the others feel a little safer.

"We'll get out of here, and we're going to do it tomorrow" Inui said, sounding sure of himself. Then the lights went out.

early in the morning...

Kisarazu was woken up by...nothing. The whole store was quiet, the zombies outside were'nt even making any noise. He looked at his watch, it was only 12:20. He felt like he's been asleep for hours, but he'd only been put for, at least 2. He looked around and noticed everyone was asleep, even Inui, who was supposed to be keeping watch. The silence of the zombies was starting to frighten him. He got up and went to the doors. The gate was still down. Kisarazu quietly lifted up the gate and opened the door, swiftly and quietly slipping out.

Now that he was out he decided to go to the roof and check on what was or might be happening. Kisarazu walked slowly up the stairs to the door of the roof, he hesitated before opening it. As he did, the cold blew over his face, and he shivered. He walked out onto the roof and looked around...there was nothing there. Kisarazus heart jumped into his throat. Nothing there. Oishis body was gone, as was the zombies, which Oishi had killed. He quickly ran over to the side of the roof and looked down. That was why they were so quiet! Those damn things had figured out a way to get up here and grab the dead bodies, and now they were eating them! Kisarazu backed away and threw up, dusgusted by the sight.

He then thought of something. How did they get up here? Kisarazu was now looking around for the source. He looked everywhere, but couldn't seem to find it. Suddenly he heard a screech from below. His heart stopped. He slowly looked over and saw the zombies looking up at him. They found him and they were still hungry. That's how Kisarazu found out how they were getting up. One of the zombies started to climb up one of the poles on the side of the mall, shimmying right up it.

"Shit" Kisarazu cursed, under his breath. He looked around, but found nothing. Then his sights lay on the axe which hung over the hose over by the door. Why was there a fire hose and an axe out here? Who cared. He grabbed it and ran to the side, where the pole was and began hacking away. After only a few seconds he had cut throught the metal and the zombie was tumbling backward, landing on several of its others. Kisarazu gave a small laugh, then went on to destroy any other poles, leading up to the roof.

Kisarazu went back down stairs, talking to himself.

"Damn those things" he said, he finally reached the store and saw everyone was up, but they were all surrounding something. Kisarazu walked up to them, smiling. He put a hand on Shishidos shoulder, making Shishido look at him.

"Hey what are you guys doing?" Kisarazu asked, he pushed past Shishido who tried to stop him, but wasn't quick enough. The smile on Kisarazus face quickly faded, when his eyes fixed on the sight. Tezuka was knelt down by Saeki, who was shivering and coughing, his eyes were screwed up in pain. Tezuka looked up at Kisarazu, sadly.

"Kisarazu, he's dying" he said, Kisarazu knelt down next to Saeki, who looked at him, weakly. Saeki gasped, he was fighting for air. Kisarazu felt tears in his eyes.

"S-Saeki I t-thought you were ok, why...why didn't you tell me?" he said, he was now holding on to the tennis players hand, as he still struggled for air. The others watched, there was nothing they could do.

"Come on Saeki, don't do this to me!" Kisarazu cried, slamming his fist down on the ground, he yelped as the pain shot up to his wrist through his arm. Kisarazu was in tears now. Saeki tried to speak, but the only thing that came out was...

"Lof..chu" Which sounded almost like love you to Kisarazu. The hand in his went limp and Saeki closed his eyes. Kisarazu lay his head down on the other boys chest, crying his eyes out.

"NO!!!" Kisarazu cried "I need you, come back, damn it!"

No one knew exactly what caused Saekis death, it was some kind of unique sickness he had. Everyone was getting tired of all the deaths and they wanted to get out, now. Inui decided to start putting the plan into action.

"Ok let's go" he said, making everyone stare at him. Inui stopped looking back at them, "Well?" the others got up and followed slowly.

"But what if their still down there?" Momo asked, no one said anything, so he said nothing else. The group reached the garage a few minutes later.

"Who wants to check?" Inui asked, looking at the others. Only one person spoke up.

"I'll do it" Shishido said, but he was held back, as he started walking. He looked back at the person who stopped him, surprised. Eiji opened his eyes and looked at Shishido.

"No I'll go you've done enough for this group, It's my turn" Eiji walked past the others before anyone could stop him and he dissapeared into the darkness.

There was no sound for the longest time, and the others were starting to get worried. Momo was about to bolt right in when suddenly they all heard a voice cry out.

"It's all clear!" Eiji cried, everyone looked at each other then followed the acrobat. They all came face to face with the trucks, and smiled. They were going to get out of here!

"Alright" Tezuka said, "Let's get to work".

(OK...this chapter was a little weird, I swear I'm just gonna make this whole story romance! ugh...I know crappy ending and don't kill me for making Saeki die, at least he didn't die of any MAJOR pain, it was only minor pain...ok read, review tell me what ya think! 3)