Hana's Dinner

7:45

Sasuke: Finally a chapter I'm in!

Sera: Shut up!

Sasuke: Hn.

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Sasuke was crouched behind the counter of Hana's Dinner breathing raggedly. The cold tile of the dinner's floor cooled his palm as he took in gulps of putrid air into his burning lungs, his thumping heart ringing loudly in his ears.

'Ok Sasuke think,' he thought to himself as he eased himself up from behind the small counter. He had come in through the opened exit door in the alley beside the dinner, through the kitchen. Thankfully, there were none of the undead lurking in the small building-just a dead waitress with no legs and a head half missing-her name had been Audrey. 'you're exactly seven blocks away from the academy where Naruto is. No one's picking up at the station and there seems to be a populace of Zombies over riding the living…oh and eating them. Can't forget the eating part!'

He let out a strangled sort of growl of irritation. What was worse; worse then the people dying-his older brother wasn't answering his phone. House phone, cell phone…phones of various lovers male or female…none answered.

"Itachi had better be alive." He said to himself as he leaned back against the counter, letting his legs weaken enough to let him crouch against it like he had been previously. His thoughts ran to Naruto.

Naruto, how was he? Was he still alive?

'He'd better be…despite him being a moron he's your best friend and losing a guy like that would kill you.'

He was right thinking that. He and his brother had met Naruto when the blond was four years old when Sasuke's parents had brought him home.

"Now Sasuke, since you're only a year older then Naruto I expect you to play nice!" His mother had said.

"When's he going home?"

His mother had looked at him sadly for a moment before patting his head.

"Some day."

It only took Sasuke a month to realize that Naruto wasn't ever going home-it was also obvious that Itachi liked the blond haired child as well.

'After his parents' died we were all he had…damn it and I just left running in the opposite direction like a sniveling child.'

Reloading the Desert Eagle magnum Sasuke took a deep breath and stood turning towards the front picture window…and froze.

A man stood there staring right at Sasuke or through him, the decay so bad that the skin on his cheeks sagged and fell from his face revealing pink puss filled flesh beneath it.

"Oh hell."

Sasuke hadn't exactly killed any of them-he'd been running too fast, non-stop since he'd come across the girl. They were slow though, which had been good for him as he easily dodged them.

But their unhindered pursuit left him exhausted when the terror and adrenaline ran out.

"Shoot at the head, at the head…just like the movies…shoot the head." He pointed the gun. "Ok…it's just the one. I can make it to the alley door before any more show up.

'And then what? Where are you gonna go? There aren't exactly any places zombie free…unless you somehow get lucky again…which is doubtful.'

Another appalling figure joined the one already at the picture window then another and while Sasuke watched them attempt to break the glass he felt adrenaline toil through is blood like fire and terror urge him out.

"Uuunn."

Ashen white fingers griped his boot. Looking down Sasuke's eyes widened in horror. It was Audrey, the dead waitress, dragging herself towards him! Her mouth opened greedily as she attempted to take a bite of his calf.

He pointed and shot, her head exploding in tiny pieces bone and goo.

"I…did it…I killed her…"

'I killed Audrey.' He thought to himself and before berating with his internal monologue over the fact that she was already dead the glass of the front window cracked.

"Shit!"

Turning on his heels and running back through the gray kitchen and through the exit Sasuke barely registered the sound of breaking glass.

Reaching the opening of the alleyway he ran left, towards the direction he had come, running towards the academy building.

'Audrey…poor dead Audrey…' He thought to himself as he lifted the magnum and shot at an elderly man at his right. The head exploding into tiny fragments-as he watched the body fall Sasuke tried not to stare too long and continued running.

'They're already dead…it doesn't matter if you kill them again…they're already dead.'

He really tried not to care.

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