Hey there guys, welcome to another one of my plotbunnies. Yeah, I have a lot of these. So in the description you saw that this is a Naruto and HoTD crossover, however there is a THIRD. Normally I hate the word three-way-crossover, but it's primarily characters from the Naruto-verse inside of the HoTD-verse. The true crossover in all of this is HoTD and the Division.

Now I would like to note that this was originally started before the game actually released so therefore the ideas that I have inside this fic are different compared to the game and the game's lore.

Disclaimers: I own nothing. I only own my laptop and my copy of MS Word. Characters from Naruto belong to Masashi Kishimoto and Highschool of the Dead belongs to Daisuke Saito and Shoji Sato; The Division belongs to Ubisoft and whoever has the holdings of Tom Clancy.

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White House, West Wing Bunker. December 31, 2013.

"Are the lines secure?" a man asked.

"They are, Mr. President," a communications officer replied.

"Good. Patch them through." Around the table twenty faces appeared on computer screens, all with their individual webcams. "Ladies and gentlemen of the world. I asked you here this day via teleconference to make a proposition to all of you. As you all know global terrorism is at an all-time high and though over the years we have made strides together to prevent unnecessary loss of life, both militarily and civilian, we can't prevent it all nor can we truly expect how our enemies will strike next," the President stated.

"What are you proposing, Mr. Ambrose?" the British Prime Minister asked.

"I propose the creation of an international unit. As you all know Team RAINBOW was created years ago from our most elite units: the Army Rangers, Navy SEALS, Delta Force, Green Berets, MACV-SOG, FBI, SWAT, SAS, GSG-9, DGSE, and so on. These forces have done their job well under the command of Director Major General Terrance Clark and Deputy Director Colonel Alistair Stanley, however we need a force in place when everything goes to shit."

"How will this work?" the female Prime Minister from France asked.

"They are all selected from our best and brightest. They will remain sleeper agents in their respective countries in major cities waiting for the call to arms. They will know their team members and their strengths and weaknesses. They will be a semi-autonomous unit capable of carrying out their orders without the chain of command present."

"And how would this be a good idea for a unit?" the German leader asked.

"We need to plan for the very worst. If our respective country's leadership dies for whatever reason during the scenarios that are given to the members of the unit they will be able to complete their mission. If it is a viral outbreak then an antidote needs to be found, so on and so forth."

"And what do you wish to call this unit, if we approve, Mr. Ambrose?"

"I propose we call it the Division."

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One year and then some later. Tokonosu City, 1400 hours.

To everyone that knew the blonde English teacher of Fujimi Academy as Menma Uzumaki, the twenty-five-year-old was man with a laid back personality that, as long as you paid attention and did the work in his class, was a mellow guy to be around. On the other hand, if you interrupted his class for something outside of an emergency situation he'd berate you until your ears bled. One thing he would not tolerate in his classroom? Cell phones. If he saw your texting, and he would ALWAYS see it, he would confiscate it until the end of the day. However, he was a bit of a hypocrite as he left his phone on his desk with the ringer on full blast. He would always get calls and texts, but ignore them, which many of the students though was weird. It was as if he was waiting for someone specific to call or text him. He also always dressed in olive drab cargo pants with a t-shirt, which for some reason the school's principal allowed, much to both the Student Body President and many of the teachers' disapproval.

"And remember class, homonyms, while they are annoying to remember which specific word goes in the sentence, it's still important. If you were to submit an application and your resume to a company in dominantly English speaking nation and make horrible errors, commonly referred to as Engrish hilariously enough, there is a high possibility that you will be passed over for someone else. Remember, while Google Translate will assist you, you need to know correct sentence conjugation to avoid such errors." Menma picked up his instructor's copy of the book. "And if you'll turn to page one thirty-four you'll see-," he said before being cut off by his phone going off.

Normally he would ignore it, but this time it was a ringtone that the class had never heard the phone emit before. The weird thing for the students was, it was a completely innocuous ringtone, Flight of the Valkyries; however, the blond English teacher froze up instantly upon hearing the ringtone. He turned around towards his desk and picked up the phone before saying very professionally in English, "Go."

"Captain Naruto Namikaze, the Division has been activated," came the baritone male voice from the other side. This made the very careful façade of calm fall into worry with composure.

"Situation?"

"A weapon of biological nature was unleashed in several major cities all over the globe, as well as the city you and your team is in."

The blonde teacher then pulled the duffle bag he always brought with him out and placed it on the table. He opened it and placed a Bluetooth headset in his ear. "Why would they target this city? Washington or New York make sense, but here as a first strike? That doesn't make any sense."

He then unzipped the false bottom that hid what he needed. "We don't know, but we suspect that the father of a man named Koichi Shido, Ichriou Shido, is responsible for supplying the attackers with the agent with his connections to a biomedical firm he owns. Be warned, the CDC warns that infection with the agent is fatal within six hours, and transfer of the virus is done through bodily fluids, avoid all contact if possible, but more importantly avoid fluid exchange. The infected try to bite the uninfected, they also die within six hours of infection and turn into abominations."

"So zombies then," he semi-deadpanned. "Fantastic. Anything else I should know?"

"They don't move very fast, from what we've seen from surveillance in LA, but they are attracted to sound. Suppressors and caseless munitions are advised."

"Objectives?"

"Infiltrate the biomedical firm, find Ichriou, and find the antivirus if it exists."

"And if it doesn't?"

"Terminate both father and son with extreme prejudice."

He equipped himself with the items from his bag, which made some of the students recoil in fear, especially when he pulled out a suppressor and a Kriss Super V, otherwise known as the Vector, that had a holographic EOD sight on the top rail. "Status on the rest of my team?"

"Real-time navpoints have been added to your map. We don't know how long until we're overrun by these zombies but we'll support you as long as we can from here. Good luck, and Godspeed," it was then the line was closed. Naruto took the other firearm, a 45T with a suppressor, and placed it in the holster on his thigh.

Naruto then twisted the innocuous wristwatch until it started glowing orange around the dial. At once a holographic rendering of the entire city appeared with a marker over the school with the name 'Kurama' above it. "Woah," a few of the students said now impressed by the next generation technology instead of being afraid of their teacher now armed to the teeth. Naruto noticed that the designated marksman was downtown.

He switched his headset over to the frequency assigned to his team, "Hawkeye, how copy?"

"Naruto, I'm glad to hear your voice? What's your situation looking like?" a female's voice replied.

"Other than being in a school with untrained civs on the precipice of chaos any minute now? Unnervingly calm."

"Have you heard from Rook yet?"

"Shikamaru? No, I have not. It wouldn't shock me though if he's sleeping in his apartment unaware of our activation."

Naruto looked out of the window and saw a shambling person walking towards the gate and the PE teacher taking note, watching the shambler closely. "It wouldn't shock me in the slightest. Try calling him again and I'll try to meet up with you guys at the Alpha Site as soon as possible. I don't know how crazy it is going to get. Be warned that the hostile infected are sensitive to sound."

"Command sent me the memo. I'll try and if I hear nothing still I'll attempt to fetch him."

"Copy that, Kurama out," Naruto said, closing the call. The shambling corpse kept running into the gate in a moronic way, causing the PE teacher to go up to it. Naruto then turned to his class. "Listen up! As of ten minutes ago Japan and many other countries have declared martial law due to a viral outbreak."

"What kind of virus would cause for multiple countries to declare martial law?" one of his students asked.

"The kind that spreads through blood and saliva transmission and turns the living into the walking dead."

"Zombies?" a haughty schoolgirl scoffed. "What do you think this is, a bad sci-fi B-movie?"

"I don't know how they did it, but they did." Naruto sighed. "I do have a job to do so please try to stay alive, find fresh water, and watch your backs, you never know who is going to take advantage of this scenario in order to push their own personal agenda or ideals." And with that Naruto left the room which left the classroom in an eerie silence. Said silence was broken when a scream was heard from outside, the shambling "drifter", or zombie, had bitten the PE teacher in the arm and blood gushed from his arm, he rolled on the ground screaming in agony until he fell over dead, laying on the ground. The now dead PE teacher stood still for a solid minute before he shot up and grabbed one of the female teachers, biting her neck, killing her as well. Naruto was watching through the window, the safety on his Kriss already off. "And so it begins," he said as he fired a single shredder round towards the now zombie PE teacher, killing it.

His efforts were in vain as this virus would soon spread like wildfire from teacher to teacher, teacher to student, and student to student. Naruto didn't need some mathematician to tell him that a massive chunk of the student population in this school would die and become one of the horde. It was inevitable. Naruto took to the roof and make ready to bunker down until he could reach the Alpha Site, the primary rally point for their team.

Naruto chuckled almost in some sort of reminiscence. "I guess they were right, when society falls, we rise."

To be continued?

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Division Dossier:
Naruto Namikaze
Rank: Captain
Alias: Menma Uzumaki
Callsign: Kurama
Team Designation: Leader, Rifleman
Personal History: Naruto comes from a single parent family home due to his father, Minato, dying in the initial wave of Operation: Desert Storm II. His mother, a Japanese native, moved him back with family in Tokyo. Naruto finished in the top ten of his high school class regardless to the fact he constantly got in fights primarily because of his "gaijin" father and his inherited blond hair. When he turned 18 he moved back to the US using his dual citizenship and enrolled at UCLA. While he wasn't the valedictorian or the salutatorian, he did graduate with a solid 3.7 GPA. He enlisted in the US Army a month after graduation.
Service History: After enlisting with the Army, his skill and dedication did not go unnoticed by the higher ups, primarily those in charge of the Delta Company, 1st Battalion, 5th Special Forces Group; otherwise known as the Ghosts. After the 2013 campaign in Mexico City to rescue the President, Namikaze retired from the Army and moved back to Tokyo. In late 2013 he was approached by the CIA to participate as a sleeper agent, along with three others, for the Division. Due to his calm under fire, he was considered for team leadership and was later nominated for the leader of a team. Namikaze was assigned an English teaching job at Fujimi with a cover provided by the Prime Minister's assurance it was rock solid to await activation.

Hinata Hyuuga
Rank: Sargent
Alias: Rukia Kuchki
Callsign: Hawkeye
Team Designation: Overwatch, Designated Marksman, Scout
Personal History: Hinata is the eldest daughter of Hyuuga Optics CEO Higashi Hyuuga. She has a sister, Hanabi, who is three years her junior and a cousin, Neji, who is two years her senior. Her mother died when she was three due to birthing complications during her sister's birth. During high school Hinata joined both the Archery and Kendo clubs and excelled in both and would later join the same sports clubs at Tokyo University, though she was forced to choose one due to time constraints and chose Archery. Her prowess in archery and marksmanship would later translate over into the use of firearms, primarily rifles, during a business trip with her father during her third year in high school to America when they were the guest of a potential business partner who owned a large estate and trap shooting range. Despite never firing a gun before, she was able to shoot down every target, even when multiple clay pigeons were launched at the same time. This newfound hobby of hers would create a father-daughter bonding moment, though for her father it was an acquired taste. Hinata would later go on to join the JDSF as a markswoman until she was recruited by the Division.
Service History: While the Sargent has never personally seen combat deployment, she did see action in the form of an "exchange" program where she studied and completed the US Marine Sniper School. She was occasionally loaned out to local police forces to deal with hostile suspects from afar when they were uncooperative and threatened the safety of the hostages when things would come to a head. During every evaluation she scored in the top percentile of marksmen in the country and with an accuracy with a sniper or designated marksman rifle in the percent of the high nineties. When selected by the Division to become an agent, she was placed in her father's medical company as a "honorably discharged" veteran.

Shikamaru Nara
Rank: Lieutenant
Alias: Rintaro Okabe
Callsign: Rook
Team Designation: Suppression, tech expert, strategist
Personal History: Shikamaru Nara is what can be considered a genius. His IQ is reported to be of 160 and at times has been considered "abrasive" towards those who are of "lower" intellects, usually because of his occasional lack of social interaction. He graduated high school at the age of ten and graduated from Tokyo University as the Valedictorian of his class at the age of fifteen specializing in a degree in electrical engineering. He had no official military training until he was recruited first as a member of the Research and Development team on the JDSF and was later recruited.
Service History: The majority of Lieutenant Nara's service was in the Research and Development department creating new devices and strategies for the military. After he was picked up by the Division he was trained on the usage of light machineguns. He is currently living as a NEET until activated.

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Alright, so what did you think? This was one of those stories that popped into my head shortly before The Division was released and sat on my HHD forever before I rediscovered it similarly to that "Prodigal" story I released in here not too long ago.

Reasons why this most likely won't continue: Division lore. It's completely different from what I showed here. Not that it couldn't work, but there's too many continuity errors that would make it impossible to work with. Next up is how I would implement the HOTD universe into all of this. I mean the simple side of it would be capping Shido and just going with it, but where would I go from there? I mean the entire series hasn't been updated in forever and the manga is in development hell while we wait for the next installment from the mangaka.

If you can find all of the little easter eggs then kudos to you. This is being finished late at night so this is me calling it a night.

See you all next time!