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Chapter 3: Out of Here

Okay, so maybe he could have thought this through a little better. When both Sakura and Hinata made up the vent safely Naruto felt a wash of relief run over him. After neglecting all those people for so long, he just couldn't have bared the thought of letting any more of his friends die without him having done a single thing about it.

So, he moved, and admittedly he could have made a better fucking move. His arms hurt like hell, and he knew he couldn't keep this up. He needed a plan and fast. Somehow his mind wondered if his friends had gotten to safety by now and that had provided him with some solace, at least he wouldn't have died for nothing.

Apparently, by this moment his pressure slackened tot he point that; with one strong heave from the undead the door slammed open. Naruto was pushed a ways back and the hoard started to flood in. One zombie with a missing left eye, and had a good portion of his collar bone sticking out-blood flowing out and all was heading the pack.

Naruto was rendered immobile as he was stiffened by fear. Entranced he watched as said boy was crawling on top of his legs, his face inching up to the blondes. A mouth opened wide in front of Naruto's face and couriousily he noticed the boy without a tongue.

Petrified blue eyes widened when a split second later a hard red ball came sweeping past his head, landing perfectly in the boys mouth. Gaining his wits he tries to scramble backwards but was immediately tackled to the side. A body pressed against his and then a bomb went off. Splattered brains and blood rained down right in front of Naruto.

They boy's head had exploded and the fire from the explosion spreading through the mangled corpses. The body on top of him groaned. Turning white Naruto reeled in as much as he could before kneeing the body away from him.

"Ugh, Ow! dobe! WHAT THE FUCK?!" Naruto was stupefied.

"Sasuke!?" joy lit up his tan face but then quickly morphed into a look of annoyance and disbelief. "What are you doing here? Why didn't you go with the others?!"

"And then what, Leave you behind? Don't be stupid." Sasuke stood up nursing his bruised side. Naruto watched the raven, a tight wringing in his chest. The blonde stood up and lifted one of Sasuke's arms over his shoulder, hurriedly the two stepped over the corpses and began to speed down the hall.

"Thank you. And sorry, for… You know, kicking you" Naruto murmured. He didn't look at Sasuke, blue eyes were just trained forward. Cautious of anything that may come their way. Sasuke on the other hand, for a quick moment-couldn't help but stare at the sincerity inside those blue orbs. Naruto was so easy to read and the slight pink that dusted cheeks and the way his blonde brows furrowed and cheeks puffed was just too...

cute.

"Hn." Sasuke watched in sudden amusement as Naruto's face suddenly morphed into annoyance at his quip remark. He could have laughed, had it not been from the pain in his side and their current state of affairs.

Damn, Naruto can kick, this had hurt even more then the actual backlash of the explosion. Deciding that Sasuke would live, Naruto had let go of his arm and they started a faster pace. Sasuke took the lead and garbed onto Naruto's hand.

"Wah!" To say that Naruto was surprised at the contact was an understatement. The blonde then felt something hard in his hand. Looking down Sasuke had handed him two short broken pieces of wood, probably splinters from the carnage around them. They were jagged but sturdy with a roughly pointed tip.

Tan cheeks flushed even more and when he had recuperated from his shock he saw Sasuke looking down at him with that amused smug face that said; 'what? Thought I'll hold your hand?' Naruto just grudgingly took the makeshift weapons.

"This way" The raven then proceeded to tug at his hand through a series of classrooms. A few run-ins with the undead had Sasuke's side hurting even more, but still he wielded his wooden katana as if it were nothing. They both had each others backs, moving in an almost practiced dance they had synced with each other and had steadily cleared their path.

Just when things couldn't seem to get any worse, the two boys came to an intersection. Sasuke was inspecting the signages and decided that to turn right was the way. Problem is, the hallway was infested. Both the raven and the blonde stood motionless. A wrong move and there would have been no way out from their situation.

To say that they were exhausted was the understatement of the century. To try and maul their way through this would be suicide, their options close to null. Curious enough the zombies weren't making any moves towards them. That is, until moments later when a certain blood drenched girl who had lost both her arms came a little to close, and Naruto had taken a step back. Almost all heads had snapped towards them, the bodies in front of them twitching.

Naruto was quick as he swung his stakes against the nearest fight had resumed. They were beginning to move faster, swiftly he drove a stake above one students jaw, pricing his skull with a sickening moist crunch. Blood began to flow down Naruto's forearm dripping to his feat as the body above him thrashed and drowned in their own blood. He quickly pulled the stake towards him effectively slicing the boys face in half and swiftly he had kicked the mangled corpse resulting in pushing the other attacking bodies back. But it was no use.

Another student came attacking Naruto on his left side. He raised his arm to deny the teeth that wanted to sink into him, his arm positioned directly in front of her bloodied windpipe. He pulled the stake from his right hand and stabbed the girls temple.

Naruto's eyes by this point was manic.

"AHHH!" He screamed battle cry after battle cry swinging his arms as much he could. His vision was beginning to blur and all he saw was red. The sunlight of the mid afternoon sun was showing through the huge glass windows the had stretched the long left side of the hall. And for a split second he saw black. The light surrounding him had dimmed, and automatically his body tensed as his instincts flared. He watched as Sasuke's eyes had landed on him, and as if in slow motion, ice cold eyes careened to the side and there behind him was the huge undead body of their gym teacher casting his shadow upon him.

Wide eyes looked back as he saw the disjointed angle to which his teachers head was bent due to the good missing portion of his windpipe. Naruto wanted to hurl when he noticed he could see the bone that was supposed to connect this persons head to his body.

Naruto couldn't move, but a swift swish sound later the man's head was decapitated, blood has splayed from the arteries that were now completely severed effectively coating Narutos eyes. Now blue turned red irises trailed to the head as it rolled across the hall. Everything was silent at that moment. Red clashed with onyx.

Sasuke was still poised, his temples sweating and his wooden sword up in the air. Naruto couldn't tell what happened next. His eyes were blurry from the fatigue but he could definitely feel a tremendous pain in his abdomen. He could hear the blood rush to his ears as the knowledge of two of his ribs braking dawned upon him and then he was falling.

The next thing he saw was the clear blue skies and glass shards drifting in mid air

then darkness.

"There they are! Shika make it swing now, now, NOW!"

"Damn it!"

The truck swerved violently as it not only mauled bodies that got in its way but catching a certain falling target of the fifth floor of their school's building.

Hinata was squinting as she determined their target, her brows scrunching up at the sight. "Why d-does it seem that Naruto-kun's a little to b-"

Before she could even finish her sentence the two bodies came crashing down on the backside of sasuke monster pickup truck.

"Ahhh!" They all flinched at the impact. Hinata's eyes widened as she saw an unconscious Naruto, a big corps and seconds later Sasuke came in flying. His wooden sword had braced his impact as it slid into the teachers fat belly. He had landed almost directly on Naruto their distance only inches apart given that Sasuke had landed on his knees. Sasuke's knees had given out at that instant a pained look was on his face as he gripped his side, he turned to his companions

"Drive! Drive!" Sasuke screamed. Shikamaru didn't hesitate as he stepped on the gas pedal and zoomed over the undead students. The truck had broken down the school gates and finally they were out of there.

Sasuke's eyes dulled in pain and exhaustion he vaguely made note of pink hair crawling out of a window to make it's way over to them. His blurred eyes could see Sakura's lips moving and the muted voices of his companions in the background. He saw blonde hair and closed eyes then finally he too gave in to the darkness.

Sasuke's peace was short lived when his world began to shake. Groggily he began to open his eyes. His vision blurry but slowly he had made out the image of one Naruto Uzumaki groaning in pain swinging his arms trying to fend of a couple of the undead groping to climb up the truck. Sakura was swinging his sword doing the same while simultaneously shaking him awake.

"Sasuke! Wake up! WAKE UP!" When emerald eyes landed on a semi-wakened Saskue she threw him his sword and grabbed one stake from Naruto. "We need your help, the lot is infested!" Groaning, Saskue fought the heaviness of his body.

He swayed when he stood up. His nausea wasn't helping him balance on the ridiculously fast moving truck. He fell on his knees but began to attack those closest to him. Sakura turned to the front and shouted over the noise.

"Shika that's it! Swerve down the basement parking on the left!" The truck took a sharp turn. The monstrosity of Sasuke's black military grade truck was just barely small enough to fit into the small domesticated parking lot.

This turned to their favour when the corpses that had hung to the trucks sides were smushed on the parking entrance walls. Blood splattered and organs dripped down messily, but the group was still not in the clear. A hoard had followed them and it wasn't looking good.

Sasuke had mentally cursed for passing out at such a crucial time, but the fatigue of the day coupled by the stress and the pain in his side was too much. That five story fall might have had contributed as well. Though the raven might have hated to admit it, he was disoriented. Almost automatically onyx eyes sought for blue and the sight of Naruto's condition made him go pale.

The blonde was wheezing, he was obviously straining to breath. Sasuke's gaze fell downwards to the bandages on the blondes chest. It was a makeshift bandage and it didn't cover the obvious angry red and purple bruise in Naruto's ribs. Before Sasuke could develop anymore thoughts on the issue the car had gone to an abrupt halt. The car was parked directly in front of the parking elevator.

"Go!" Shikamaru yelled. Hinata on the other hand was violently slamming on the elevators up button. The hoard was catching up and an infinity later a chime was heard and the metal doors swung open. Hinata and Shikamaru hoped out quickly. Sakura was supporting Naruto to stand. Everyone had a frantic look on their face as they tried to quickly get Naruto into the elevator. Sasuke had long joined the group and was also helping Sakura support Naruto's weight.

Blue met Onyx and the look that Sasuke was giving Naruto almost made all of the blondes annoyances of the raven dissipate in an instant. Finally, the group got into the elevator and Shikamaru was violently slamming on the close button. The car was acting as a barrier to the hoard delaying them as the metal doors closed and they were safe.

Everyone was breathing heavily and were frantic. Sweat dribbled down their chins and they were all leaning in on somethings. No one talked as the elevator made it's slow decent to the 21st floor.

"Where are we?" Sasuke uncharacteristically was the one to brake the silence. But he had absolutely no Idea of what was happening and felt the need to be filled in.

"We're at my place" Sakura was the one to answer.

"Cell receptions were down, I couldn't contact my old man. Both you and Naruto looked pretty beat up so we needed to make the quickest stop." Shikamaru was the one to answer this time around. Everyone seemed to be distressed by this news. Shikamaru's place was their best chance of safety but the carnage they saw out there had made that thought less and less probable.

"It's the worst possible time to have reception be down at this moment... damn." Naruto panted out.

"Explosions could have been heard left and right. It wouldn't be a surprise if one of the signal towers were one of the places that burst into flames." Shika had helpfully explained.

"Most you and Naruto had been out." Sakura turned her emerald green eyes to Naruto.

"He's got two bruised ribs. He's not great shape but he'll live." This time Sakura had turned her stare squarely on Saskue and he simply gave the stare back. The tension left the air as the doors chimed and everyone froze, racing themselves for a possible onslaught. The doors opened and

Nothing came. They left and an eerie silence befell them as they entered into Sakura's apartment.

Authors Note: Okay so yes, this Chapter had gotten longer then it should, and almost every scene (not counting the flashback) is action packed. The next chapter would be a little more… er. Docile? I mean, I hope it would. Seriously at this point this just writes itself. Please review!