Disclaimer: I don't own NARUTO nor H.O.T.D.! I only own this plot!

AN: English isn't my daily language so be cool with me. Oh and sorry for the long absence but my works has accumulate like hell and my actual client is the air force of my country, so with M. Poutine who show his muscles in Ukraine. You will understand the pressure we have to speed up all the ongoing projects.

Previously: Naruto has been tricked by Saeko and his own lust. The Shidoist have sabotaged the bus of the other group. The fire is still strong at the airport after the massive explosion.


In the Dead of night

Shikamaru is working on adjusting his plans with all the information he has gathered since the start of the calamity and sorted this night when the other hosts were sleeping. The bridges are still a big no-no in his eyes but the strategist thinks it is time to move closer to the river but sufficiently far from the bridges. In his search for the best spot, he remembers that a friend of the school's nurse has an apartment who responds to these criteria. And in bonus, this Minami Rika is a SAT officer. He can't imagine that she won't have some weapons there nor some military grade defense. After some hacking, he learns she owns a Humvee "perfect" he thought with a smirk, sure it doesn't compare to their modified vehicle but it will better than the minibus of the school.

It is at this exact moment than his rotund friend comes to inform him of the treachery of the outcasts lead by Shidou. He knows that he should have kill the man but he spares him to let a chance to the others survivors who follow him. With a sigh, he asks the big-bones giant to search another means of transportation nearby, their own vehicle can't host so many bodies. With a nod, Chôji starts to leave in order to prepare for the task but the shadows user asks him to send his way their troublesome blond friend.

With his friend out of view, Shikamaru returns at his computers with a frown marring his serious face. The outbreak is spreading way too fast, nothing in the words of the nine-tails fox had suggest this speed nor his research on the virus in this word. Virtually, the hell has overcome the entire planet in less than a day and start everywhere as the same time! The Nara has supposed the walking dead were created only by classic means like any another pandemic but what he reads contradicts this hypothesis. There isn't a ground zero but multiple starting points for this pandemic. Why this major difference? By what means the undead follow the classic stereotype of zombies? The undead haven't even the behavior of animals, they follow more the conduct of mindless virus that just searches new hosts to survive and disseminate. After a bit of calculation, the genius estimates that all his projections will need to be correct for the worst. Time is now more than ever a very critical resource.

- Hey Shika! I made a big mistake… I think. Naruto cheaply says. The Nara pinches his noses before signaling his friend to explain. I… somehow… totally by accident and beyond my control… kind of… fucks Busujima-chan, one of my students of the Kobudô club. The blond explains laboriously explains.

- You have already forgotten? It is a good thing if you make her understand that in this new world, the polygamy will make a come back and that we don't need pregnancy before we find a safe heaven. So… Will she understand? Shikamaru observes his friend thinks about it but he already knows the answers. The girl has a good head and her background will probably make her obedient to the "alpha male".

- I think so but it probably is best if I discuss this after we have reached the Takagi Estate. Anyway, you want to see me? Asks Naruto.

- Yeah... Listen troublesome blond, it's worse than my worst nightmare. The genius announces bluntly. Naruto gulps loudly because he knows lots of theirs plans are based on the projection of his friend and some where very very bad.

- How bad is it? The former ninja asks seriously without a hint of playfulness. Shikamaru kept silent a moment then he turns his black eyes which seem even more dark than usual in the trouble eyes of his friend.

- I need you to make two clones, one to secure the dam because it is too soon for the survival of this area to lose electricity. WE NEED THE ENERGY, in this day and ages, too much infrastructure depends on it. Another one is to secure our next drop point before we move there. Finally, I need you to protect a little group of our guest who will journey the hard way to this new place. Naruto doesn't understand why but before he can open his mouth

- The bus with which you came here has been sabotaged, Chô is out there to search a new transport but he won't return with another bus, the best bet will be a pickup. You know our armored vehicle can't host these many.

- Why can't we pick another one for the rest? I mean we have others drivers?

- Good question but let me ask this. What do you think will happen when others people will see three or four vehicle in line moving in the street?

- …

- First scenario, lots of survivors will block the road to climb in one of them. You might think it is good but then what will happen when there isn't enough place for everyone? Enough food, weapons, water… I see in your eyes I don't have to continue. Second scenario, not all the survivors will be… good people. Some will be worse than Shidou and with firearms… four vehicles will be too much a temptation to ignore… You can understand the rest. Third scenario, the roads aren't cleared, we won't be able to speed our way across town and we will make lots of noise, the undead will heard and there is a risk of too much will be attracted to be crushed by the vehicles.

- …

- I won't even begin with the variant or the mixture of the three scenarios. The best would be only one vehicle but we are too many so we will go with two but no more.

Naruto wants to track down Shidou and kill the bastard but that is not the moment for vengeance. He needs to assure the survival of his group but he promised himself that the bastard will pay. Before he can leave, the Nara gives him permission to "suit up". THIS puts a shit-eating grin on his face:

- Oh yeah baby! Time to become Chessy Puff Master! Dattebayo!

- Look me in the eyes Naruto. I won't ever call you that! The strategist deadpans with blank stare. Seeing Naruto begins to pout, he chooses to be a little bit lenient. I will use Deadpool as your code name, how is that? And you can use this joke of a name to your future enemies, ok?"

When he sees the former jinchuriki nods, he mentally pats himself on the back for avoiding a headache. "The poor bastards that will cross him will go in the afterlife cursing Chessy Puff Master... how humiliating..." Now alone, the shadows user looks to the clock. He still has time before the videoconference with the Takagi but maybe he should go wake up the "princess" to appease their allies and the daughter too. Perhaps it will also calm the other to know that a plan exists and that they don't simply try to survive alone without clear goals. Maybe it is a stretch to say there's light at the end of the tunnel but at least they will know they're in a tunnel to begin with.


Naruto still with his idiotic grin comes to a sealed door. He bites a little his thumb to appose some blood on the array to unlock the door. Why such a security? Because behind theses doors are three suits which are posed on mannequin. They have been created by the genius intellect of the Nara who uses all the best technology in the world even the experimental kind, each is worth more than one million U.S. dollars and this is without counting the seals arrays place in, on and inside. Naruto is an Uzumaki, the son of the Yondaïme Hokage, the godson of the Densetsu Sannin no Jiraya. He pours all his stubbornness, his pride and his will to honor his family to learn Fuinjutsu. He can't call himself a master but he certainly is an expert and these suits wear his masterpiece, the result of all his knowledge in the obscure art. The Go Genso ryû no shömei (the illumination of the five elemental dragons) is a seal that connects nature chakra to another seal or human users but it isn't pure nature chakra. No it is better than just that, it's a seal that synchronize the need chakra to the part of the nature chakra similar. It means that the chakra reserves are maximized to their fullest for ninja, supply the best quality chakra to a seal. But like all techniques in the world, there is a weakness, here is a time limit before a terrible pain wrecks your body and for the seal connected to it, you need to lower the constant stream so it is a very low process to activate seals by this specific array.

Naruto has designed his combat suit with Deadpool in mind "seriously this comic is as good as ramen!" but Naruto will always be Naruto so he changed the red in a dark burnt orange with small patterns that give the impression of flames when lights illumine them. As for the black and the utility belt, he chooses to add the Uzumaki whirlpool in red on it. It is badass and his friend has found this idea when they went to the movie theater to see "Batman begins", he changed some parts after playing at Crisis on their Xbox 360. Obviously, his suits isn't complete without his two katana and two modified P-90 that look more like submachine gun than machine gun and yes, he paints these two a nice burnt orange almost dark red too.

Ready to unleash hell with style, Naruto creates two shadows clones but unlike when he still has Kurama in him, this time he uses all the hand signs and naming them aloud to limit the chakra needed and better his control of his limited chakra. Two copies appear near him with very little smoke and also deck in the suit and shit-eating grin. With a mock salute, the two goes on their way. The first will roof-hopping to the academy to recover his modified motorbike a black Suzuki SV650S R Racing Edition, with a little money and lots of knowledge and a massive brain on hand, he can proudly announces 125ch for 175kg ! Nobody in the city can match up to this power/weight ratio! This is his little toy and fun. And Shikamaru can't say a thing about it. The dam is too far to simply go to it by foot. The other goes to the Nara to take a radio and the coördinates of the new drop point.

Naruto wipes his forehead before he takes a meditative pose. He still irritates him that making clones takes so much from him. But in one of the scroll of his father, he learns a means to recuperate faster. The Yondaïme was envious of his wife and her stamina and search a way to limit the gap and like all great ninja he turns to the basics. Naruto will use the time he has before going to recuperate the most he can and think about whom he will take with him to the journey. Obviously, he will choose among the Kobudô club, they are the best with survival odds and he trusts them. Now, what should he do about Saeko?


Tuesday, April 14th 2010, Tokonosu Offshore International Airport, approximately twelve hours after the arrival of the reinforcement, sixteen hours after the outbreak:

The fire has finally been contained after hours of nightmare. The only flames still going strong are used to burn the corpse of the dead kills by the two teams in the basement and those kill after being attracted by the explosion. The stench is horrible but the emergency teams wear the special gears thought for biologic incident. Rika observes all this in the control room of the airport with what remains of legitimate authority still alive and sane. Ok so maybe the latter is subjected at discussion, who wants to be in charge during a worldwide outbreak that more than likely to be remembered as the apocalypse by the survivor... if there are any that is to say. The subject of the meeting is about the incident last night. Rika dreams of a good night but there is no way in hell that she will let some civies take stupid moves when she can avoid it.

"As protocols dictates, we have try to isolate the contamination by locking the heavy doors but the problem seems to appear everywhere as the same time. So we have asks the airport security to secure the generator group and the gas storage. We also have made an inventory of all our own resources. We have also begun to diffuse an alert on he sound system to ask the survivors to come here. As this time, we only have 648 people who have come. I don't think than more than a thousand people will come. All in all this is a disaster. Now that the smallest island is finally secured, I suggest we move the civilians there after they had been check thoroughly. We don't want an infected in the group to ruin the effort of the SAT teams and the paramilitary group."

Rika notes the disdain in the voice of the logistics' director when he talk about the men and women sent here by Don Takagi. "No respect, typical ingratitude of the civies. For them, it is normal that others sacrifice themselves for their better…bullshit!" the élite sniper thought with bitterness and anger. She plays with the idea to threaten to report this to the Don but it isn't the moment for power play... yet. "Let them think they have the power, I can't wait the moment when more troops of the political leader come here to take charge. There is no way in hell the SAT and I will side with pompous pen pushers who treats us as attack dogs." Rika thinks darkly.

"I will not forget to transmit your thanks to these women and men or the families of the late ones with your respectful words. I'm sure they will be… affected by those kind thoughts."

The de facto new Healthy Director calmly and too sweetly responds to this insult for the ones who have risk their life for strangers regardless of their motivations. Rika has cross her a few times in the airport. She is an odd ball in her books, she clearly has high martial training and good instinct like a veteran but that is the problem. Officially, this twenty-two years woman is a recently graduated surgeon, a very good one obviously since she is so young. Rika has never be able to be entirely laid back in her presence, there is something dark in her and the police officer can't hit the nail on the head. Another thing that bothers the purple hair woman is the beauty of the woman, she has a great body and it is all natural and she isn't above to use her assets to gain favors but the hearsay are all unanimous, nobody has succeed in capturing her heart. "Or maybe there is one but SHE is the one who has failed to seduce him… Yet, she seems so perfect" And therein lay the real problem, the uprising of the dead has barely disturb her. Rika can't help but suspect that the good doctor knows more than she lets on.

"Stop! I won't accept any petty argument here and now! The situation is too severe! This applies to everyone. I AM CLEAR?... Good. Doctor, I would like to know the condition of the twelve combatants, so if you please…"

Minami is agreeably surprised by the word choice. "Combatant" is a good term. It reminds everyone that we all have a role to play for our survival and contrary to "protector", the term chosen states clearly that we won't obey blindly any order from some nobody. If the smile of the doctor is anything to go by, she too seems satisfied by the terms "another reason to suspect her, no civ will give a damn."

"Of course, we regrettably have four casualties. After identification, we have burned the corpse to preserve their dignity and lessen the risks of their rising as undead. Three are still between life and death, they will need a heavy surgery to survive but I need to rest before I take my chances, the staff is limited for the moment. Two are in critical condition but no longer in immediate danger… I mean their injuries won't directly kill them. The others has just concussion and just broken bones, I will make them combat ready as soon as possible. It shames me but this three will be my priorities. I understand we already are understaffed in armed combatants."

Everybody turns to the airport security chief after these meaningful words. The man seems to age everybody's eye as his shoulders slump more than previously. Even counting all the S.A.T. team, the marine police station, the S.S.T., the narcotic g-men to help the airport security, this is still not enough to counterattack or even to think to secure an entire terminal.

"You are correct Miss Konoha! Without the help of the right-wing forces, we will be in an even force condition. I hope he will send more personnel here."


AN: So again sorry for the long wait. I am not too proud of this chapter but I want to post a chapter to say:"I AM ALIVE!"

I focused on our three shinobi and a little on the airport. It lacks actions but when I try to write the fight at the airport… It was less than stellar. I hope I will be able to offer you a better chapter next time.

Oh! Will you be able to discover who Miss Konoha is? Obviously a kunoïchi but who?

See Ya!