If Sakura had been someone like Naruto, she would have immediately run off without a plan, without at least the basic information, but she wasn't. She was Sakura Haruno, known for not only her medical ability, her strength, and who she trained under, but first and foremost, her brain. She was a strategist, so though it made her heart burn in self-loathing at the thought that the longer she waited, the more children and people were dying, she knew that it would do good in the long run, so she sat in that tree and planned, watched, and observed. Summoning pen and paper from one of her scrolls, she wrote down the limited information she had on the undead.
THE UNDEAD
-One thing they seem to all have in common is the fact they all seem to have been bitten or scratched
That theory was quickly shot down when she ventured into a home in order to rest. She had went to check whether she was lucky enough to have running water, and being surrounded by things that were not living, she had no way to sense the undead being in the bathroom. Only quick reflexes had her dodge in time before it took a chunk out of her neck and a flick of her wrist had a kunai impaled in the undead's head. She had long learned that the usual kill shot to the heart didn't defeat them. Though it made sense since their heart had stopped and whatever it was was connected to the brain had them feeling that unquenchable, ravenous hunger.
Undead bites and scratches tended to be obvious like on the arm or neck, though there were a few where they were not in sight, so she killed those specific ones and always found them in a place where clothes hid, such as the stomach, but as she checked over the corpse, she found none, bitten not scratched. She double checked again: lifting the arms, cutting of hair and looking through the scalp, even searching his genitals (she had a healer's mindset at the time, so the man was not a man but a experiment), and she still found none. Though, she did see the slits, on what like to be a teenage boy's, wrist. Sakura leaned back against the bathroom door with a shuddering breath and looked up to the ceiling.
So that was it.
You didn't have to be bitten.
You didn't have to be scratched.
Sakura looked at the body again. It didn't look as rotted or chewed up as the others, probably from being locked in that bathroom. She looked back up to the ceiling.
Whatever this was didn't have to be transferred through bodily fluids.
'So not only is the disease transferred through the blood stream, but possible in the air?'
'Or food'
Sakura nodded. There's that.
'Could even be something else'
Sakura hoped this disease was not airborne because then she was screwed. Food she could handle, she had some food on her, and she always had a good amount of food and chakra pills. There was also the fact that she knew how to make the pills.
'But if the food is tainted...then...wouldn't the soil?"
Sakura froze, then she banged her head on the door once and groaned.
'We're screwed, aren't we?'
'Very much so' Inner sighed
It was quiet for a moment, thoughts running through her head.
'I refuse to become one of those things'
'If we ever get bitten, or whatever else...kunai to the head?'
Sakura nodded.
'Kunai to the head' she agreed.
Sakura stood up and reached for one of her medical scrolls, pulling out a scringe and two small plastic bags. She stuck a needle in the conjunction between the bisep and the forearm and drew its blood. The medical tool filled gradually with its black liquid and she pulled a piece of skin and dropped it in one of the packets. Sakura knew that if she wanted a better research result, then she should get a live one, but she hadn't had the safe haven nor the utensils for such a thing. She walked outside and picked up some of the soil near the trees and bagged it.
'I need to find the nearest hospital'
'A map would be a great help right now'
'Could also help me find out where I am'
Inner hummed in agreement.
'We should be able to find one in maybe a hunting store, other houses, or academy. Should probably stack up on kunai. bombs, and other materials'
'Like steal?'
Inner shrugged
'Don't think it matters, Saku-chan. Survival of the fittest, and I don't think these people even have ninja'
Sakura nodded solemnly.
'We would've run into some by now'
'Exactly. We need to help these people, and to do that, we need the information and the materials, and to get those, we're gonna have to steal'
'Yeah, yeah' Sakura sighed in defeat and ran a hand through her rosette hair. She huffed, 'Wow'
'What?'
'If there are not any ninjas, then how do they defend themselves?'
Inner shrugged
'I don't know. Maybe fight, but without all the...ninja-ness?'
Sakura gave her a deadpan look
'Ninja-ness? Really Inner?'
'What its not like there's a word for it. Powers is too...tacky'
Sakura shook her head at Inner antics.
'Alright, so we need to find a weapon's store and a hospital, but we don't know where we are'
'Bound to be in one of these houses. Oh! We should pass by a library as well'
Sakura nodded.
'Get some history in'
'And brush up on this world's medical properties. Well, let's get going. Time is of essence.'
Sakura rolled her eyes, but got going nonetheless.
As Inner said, Sakura found a map that said she was in Georgia; Atlanta, Georgia. Home of the peaches. Sakura and Inner 's erebrows rose at that.
'Home of the peaches?'
She found another map more in depth about the state itself. It seemed a hospital was on Jordan street, while the weapon's store was fifteen miles in the other direction.
'Easy enough'
'Let's go'
-The Undead was attracted to sound ,your smell, and could hear you
It's mind boggling how the things don't even obtain eyeballs to see with. For smell, the beings were practically bloodhounds. As soon as she was ten feet in the vincity, they were on her, snapping and snarling the whole way. Now sound,she found out about the sound when she went to the hunter/ weapons' store. To her shock, Georgia did not sell kunai. They sold metal contraptions of all shapes and sizes along with fitting metal cylinders, arches with string attached to its back that was next to unusually long arrows, throwing knives, and other weapons.
'Sure is a lot of weapons for people to just leave behind'
'This place is swarmed with the undead, they wouldn't make it out alive. Though one of the undead isn't much of a threat, a whole herd of them would be a different story.' Sakura explained as she stored the weapons in her appointed weapons scroll.
'Well, those things have caught wind of us, so we should probably scat'
'It's amazing how distinct their smell is for a corpse. Their sight as well-'
'This is not time to be fascinated with the things trying to kill us!'
'Right' Sakura blushed and quickly gathered their things.
Though they had a good amount of their own weeping, Inner convinced Sakura to find a spot in order to figure out the new weapons. Said that figuring out the speed, sound, and damage capacity would do them good in the future. They don't necessarily have to use them, but knowing their way around them wouldn't be so bad.
'Plus, seeing as these things come back after death unless you destroy the brain, a hospital would be one of the top casualties.'
'We just need to get in and out. The throwing knives should suffice.'
Inner shook her head
'We might as well set up base there. This world has different weapons. most likely healing properties and it's a given that their healing ways as well. To fit in we'll have to learn them and it makes no sense to go back and forth' Inner shrugged 'Might as well set up a fort could hold tons of people too'
Sakura sighed knowing Inner was right and got to work. She found an isolated part of the woods where only a few undead roamed to which she dispatched. She picked up the smallest contraption though it was half wooden. She held it so that it formed a 90 degree angle, but nothing happened.
'Maybe it's a type of boomerang?'
Sakura shook her head.
'Too heavy and metal isn't really made for throwing'
'I don't know. Pull that thing.'
'What thing?'
'That curved part in the hoop'
Seeing what Inner was talking about she pulled it (it's a trigger if you haven't guessed), but the only thing that happened was a "click" sound.
'Sounds like it's empty because if that's all it does then it's a pretty useless weapon'
'What do we put in it then?'
Inner shrugged, so Sakura just continued to play with the weapon. She pulled another curved part only on top. It jerked and the wooden part came halfway apart and hit her forearm to reveal six holes. A figurative light bulb flashed over there heads. and Sakura summoned the metal cylinders and pulled out six that matched the hole size and popped them in.
'Alright. Now let's try again.'
Sakura clicked it back in place and held it the same way. She pulled the trigger...and nearly blew off her toe.
'Holy-'
Sakura dropped the weapon like it was on fire and backed away quickly, breaths coming out more quickly than usual.
'Maybe you held it the wrong way?' Inner said after a tense moment. Sakura's eye twitched.
'Ya think!'
Not really wanting to, but knowing she had no choice, she cautiously picked back up the weapon and held it correctly this time. She slowly pulled the trigger once more making sure her legs were far apart and out of its shooting range.
'The cylinders seem to travel at about 820 mph'
Sakura hummed in agreement and fixed her stance to give a more stable foundation. Though her feet were still a bit more apart than necessary as she was still paranoid she'd blow off her toes.
'Try aiming at the trees'
Sakura shifted to a tree a little to the left and just as she was about to pull it again, she saw something moving in her peripheral vision. As she turned to it, a whole herd came into view and all headed in her direction with a determined stagger.
'So not only do they have excellent smell and sight...'
'but hearing as well'
Sakura sighed and quickly made haste.
