I began looking at the buildings around and I found the perfect place to hide out.
I crawled back to the edge of the roof to see if any walkers noticed my presence yet, so far nothing. I sighed a quiet breath of relief.
'Now the tough part would be having to get inside the building without attracting any unwanted attention from my new audience." I thought in a whisper as if they could hear my thoughts. I carefully crawled over the edge of the roof and silently slid to the balcony. My heart was beating so rapidly in my chest that I could hear the blood rushing in my ears. I slid into the nearest apartment, the door looked good and strong. I carefully opened it, trying not to make a sound. It opened allowing a small squeak to escape the door in protest at being moved after a long time of staying closed. I quickly ran inside and shut the door quietly, I took my katana out as I scanned the rooms, to my right was the kitchen, and ahead of me was the living room, and down a slight hallway was the bathroom and bedrooms I heard a rattle from one of the bedrooms and after scanning the rest of the apartment quickly I slowly made my way to the bedrooms, checking the bathroom as I passed by.
When I made it to the bedrooms I scanned the first bedroom I came to and saved the dangerous sounding one for last. I walked into the room and looked around noticing the items on the wall, pictures, text books, reading books, and a neatly made bed. I went to go look at the photos when the thumping sound from the other bedroom started up again, it didn't seem like it was going to leave the room so I went back to looking at the photos, I saw the group I was staying with in the photos, they looked happy in the pictures even with Haruhi and glasses annoyed expressions I could still tell they were really happy to be with their friends. I grabbed the photo and decided I might as well face what was thumping in there.
I kept my katana ready to use if I needed to, I was really hoping I wouldn't though. I took a deep breath and grabbed the door handle, I opened the door with me standing to the side behind the wall in case a walker decided to run out and try to snack on me. Nothing came running out but the thumping noise stopped when I opened the door. I took the mirror out and carefully started looking around the room with it, when I got closer to the bed I could see a tall red head with long hair and stubble across their face, I noticed immediately that they weren't a walker.
"I'm human, never bitten, I'm gonna come around the corner don't freak out." I instructed as I put the mirror and my katana away. I came from around the corner my hands up in a surrender manner. The man as I figured out was wearing womens clothing but his facial structure and stubble gave him away as a male, if he didn't have his stubble I might have mistaken him for a her. He looked at me with wide eyes not knowing what to do about seeing another human.
"What's your name?" I asked gently as I put my arms down.
"Ryoji but you can call me Ranka." He said quite nervously.
"I'm Yuki, I need to know if you've been bitten at all." I stated, he just shook his head slowly.
"I've never been outside since all of this happened." I was shocked, how he survived without leaving to stock up on food was a miracle. My face must have shown my shock 'cause he continued with his explanation, "I wanted to leave to look for my daughter but I knew if I stepped a foot outside that door I would be dead in a matter of minutes, and I just couldn't handle the thought of leaving her behind to suffer alone in this world. I've rationed my food, but I'm almost out and I knew I wouldn't last long without any. I began packing up when I noticed a bunch of them out there. I got scared and stayed here, I was still trying to pack up when you found me." He finished I felt bad for him but I felt that he was lucky that I was the one to find him and not someone here to rob him.
"Well I would say you're lucky I'm the one that found you and not someone here to rob you and leave you to the walkers, look I know you just met me but I have no intention of killing you, actually I know of a place that's safe and has plenty of food. I'm actually on my way back there as soon as this herd passes." I said to him as I looked out the window to assess the situation that I was now faced with. I sighed as I realized that the herd was actually less then I thought and that we could move out tomorrow morning at first light.
"That would be really nice. I wonder if I'll ever see my daughter again." He said aloud, I stayed quiet letting him bask in the thoughts of what the reunion for them would be like, giving him that one ray of hope to continue to live for. I told him of my plan and he agreed to come with me at first light. I went through my bags and got out some of the food I got and gave him a metal bat to use when we leave, I told him I wanted him to practice swinging it without hitting anything. He did that while we munched on some of the food I got. Around night fall Ranka fell asleep while I stayed up and kept watch of the streets.
The walker herd ended a few hours past noon and now only a few walkers would pass by the building every few hours or so, some in small groups while some were alone. It was never unusual to see a few in a group but you never want to get caught by one. The loners were easy to take down, a simple bullet to the head and then run like hell outta there or just stab the brain and you should be safe. The moon and stars shone brightly against the pitch black sky, there was a feeling that everything was going to be alright, like when you wake up from a nightmare and are comforted by the fact that the monsters that haunted your dream was nothing more then an illusion that your mind came up with, however, this was no nightmare that one could wake up from, this was a nightmare that would continue no matter how hard you wished for it to end.
"Ranka it's time to wake up. We need to get moving." I said as I began to pack up everything I could. He woke up a bit groggy and with hair sticking up in every direction I held back a bit of laughter as I looked over at the man. I tossed a brush into his lap and watched as he fought with his giant mass of bed head. I couldn't help the laugh that escape my lips as he struggled to drag the brush through his hair. I walked over and took the brush from his hand and gently brushed his very tangled hair. When I got it tangle free I braided it and twirled it into a bun. He looked at his hair in the mirror in the bathroom and exclaimed in amazement.
"It looks so good! I've never been able to get my hair like this! Thank you!" He came running in and pulled me into a bone crushing hug. When he let me go it took me a few minutes before I was able to breath correctly again.
"Alright if we take the streets to the school then we should be alright. If we get split up get to safety until you feel that it's safe enough to return to the area that we split up. When we get outside we won't be able to talk to each other so that way we won't draw any unwanted attention to each other. You can handle this Ranka it's gonna be scary and you might want to run but just stay close to me and you'll be fine. If we see a walker don't run, scream, yell, or panic, stay close to me and stay silent nothing will happen to you. Remember the bat that you hold in your hand if you have to use it don't hesitate they can't feel pain and even if their someone you knew, you use that bat to free them from this world." I held back the emotions that threatened to overwhelm me. I grabbed the bags and we left the place he once called home.
We quickly and of course silently went down the steps and down the street, I kept looking around to make sure that no walkers were around and that none were going to surprise us. So far nothing dangerous was around that would cause us any harm. I continued to lead Ranka back to the school that was being used for shelter, I could see a million questions fly through his eyes, but nothing left his lips and for that I was grateful since we couldn't afford the noise. I could tell we were getting closer to the school and lucky for us it was only about midday. I opened a bag and threw a granola bar at Ranka so he would still have food in his stomach. Ranka hungerly ate the food and dropped the wrapper to the ground with a very soft crinkle.
We continued to walk in the streets making sure to walk around the trash that would make too much noise and draw unwanted attention. Ranka stayed close to me bat at the ready to strike if he needed to. I on the other hand only kept my hand on my katana waiting to see if I would need to use it and sure enough I would. As we were walking down the street I felt Ranka brush against my back and I turned around in question as Ranka, seeing that it got my attention, pointed down an ally where three walkers were enjoying what looked like a week old corpse, I motioned to Ranka to keep quiet and he did. We continued on our way and a few hours after midday we arrived at the school safe and without any problems. I pushed the bags between the gates when Ranka started to panic slightly, I looked behind us and found that a small group of walkers had found us.
I pushed Ranka up the gates and let him climb inside the safety of the school. I took my katana out and began kill the small group of walkers. One came up behind me and tried to bite me but I quickly spun on my heel and sliced their head off. Another one tried to gnaw on my arm but instead gnawed on my blade. I ducked and took out three walkers legs and watched them fall to the ground unable to do anything, I continued spinning and cut off the rest of their heads and the ones on the ground I quickly stabbed in the head killing them quickly. I climbed over the gate and landed on my feet, I picked up the bags and we walked into the school, and towards the third music room. I could see Ranka stiffen up as we got closer, I didn't think anything of it. I grabbed the door handle and pulled it open.
Well I hope you liked it! I couldn't update as soon as I would have wanted, having to move and having writers block doesn't help. XD Hopefully I'll be able to upload the next chapter soon. BYE AND THANKS FOR READING!
