"Hey you ready to go?" Kaoru asked while breaking me out of my thought.
"Um yah, lets go." I said getting up.
Kaoru walked up to the door and pulled the plank of wood out of the door handles and placed it quietly on the ground so the walkers couldn't hear it. When he opened the door we quietly looked around to see if any walkers were around. When we didn't see any we started to quietly walk down the stairs. We had to hurry, because in about an hour or two it would be dark, and the night isn't the best time to travel. When we reached the bottom floor I could see the grotesque features of the walkers. Their grey green skin, yellow teeth and cold blue dead eyes just staring lifeless at you. After just thinking about that made me shudder. I couldn't imagine being one of the, I wouldn't know how I would handle Kaoru or I bit.
"Hey Hikaru there's a back way out of here and it's close to our bikes."
I stopped looking at the walkers and looked to where Kaoru was pointing at, and knew what he was talking about. The back alleyway had maybe one or two walkers, and I could see our bikes. A wave of happiness and relief hit me, I smiled.
"Looks like you like my idea," Kaoru chuckled.
"More like love." I said.
I opened the back door quietly and Kaoru and I walked into the alleyway. There was one walker in front of us. I pulled out my knife from my boot and snuck up to the walker. When I was close enough I stabbed him in the head. When I pulled my knife out the walker fell limp to the floor. Then I felt someone touch my shoulder. My first thought was Kaoru telling me good job, until I heard.
"Hikaru behind you!" Kaoru screamed in horror.
I quickly turned around to see a walker. It grabbed me tightly, I tried getting out of it grip. I fell backwards, the walker falling on top of me. I tried to push him off, but he was just too heavy. His hungry jaws was snapping and snapping closer to my neck. The walker was about a foot taller than me and was a lot heavier. When he was about one more chop away from my neck, then I heard a gunshot, the walker fell on me unmoving. I push the walker off of me and sat up. I looked over to where I heard the gunshot, and I saw Kaoru, gun in hand, eyes wide and full of fear. He quickly ran up to me and knelt down and hugged me. He stopped hugging me and started to check me.
"Are you bit, scratched, or hurt?" He asked in panic.
"I'm fine, just a bit shaken up." I said while starting to calm down.
"Thank God, Hikaru you gotta be more careful this isn't the first time this has happened either, but thank God you're ok. I wouldn't know what I would if I was too late." He started to cry a bit.
I hugged him back, "I'm ok I promise, and I know this isn't the first time, but I'll try to look more at my surroundings so it won't happen again."
He stopped hugging and looked at me and smiled.
"I know you can't keep that promise." He said.
I chuckled, "Yah I know. We better get going before we're in real trouble."
Kaoru wiped his eyes, "Yah you're right, lets go."
Kaoru helps me up and we start heading towards our motorcycles. When we reached them we quickly got on and started the engine. Hearing the roaring of the motor made a wave of relief and excitement wash over me. I started to drive, Kaoru behind me, and good thing we did to, because within seconds walkers started pouring in the alleyway we were in. After a couple hours of driving we stopped for the night. Kaoru got our gear and started setting up camp, while I went to get some firewood. When I found some wood I started back to our camp and saw Kaoru was done setting up camp.
"Wow that must be your fastest time yet," I said while putting the wood in the manmade fire pit.
"Yep, I was surprised to when I was done, but I did have two years of practice. Remember the first time I tried to put the campsite up, it took almost the whole night." He chuckled.
I laughed, "Yah, and we argued about how to put the tent up."
"Yah and we were both wrong."
"Good thing the walkers didn't hear us or we might be dead."
After I said that we both laughed. After a while when our laughing died down I started the fire, Kaoru got some food out of our bag.
"What's on the menu today chef?" I asked smiling.
He smiled back. "Well today we have some left over deer that I remembered to chill this time, water, and our favorite canned beans." He said while holding the can of beans for me to see.
I looked at it in disgust. "Ew I hate beans." I said.
"So do I, but it's this or starve." Kaoru said half joking.
"Well can I just eat the deer?"
"Yah, but I only have enough for one serving for both of us, or you can have all the meat and I can have one of your legs."
After he said that I got a little confused.
"... What?" Before I could finish Kaoru grabbed my leg and pulled me off the log I was sitting on. I could hear him laughing, and I started to smile and laugh also. It's been awhile since we laughed like this, and I'm glad that we are. Even when I live in a world much like hell, I'm glad I'm living it with him.
"Ok, ok we'll share." I laughed.
Kaoru let go of my leg and walked over to our food. "Aw and I wanted to eat your leg." He joked.
"Maybe one day." I replied. Kaoru laughed, "I can't wait." He pulled our food and started cooking, I helped cook the deer. When we were done cooking we plated our food and started eating. We ate in silence for a bit, just enjoying our food. After a while Kaoru finally decided to break the silence.
"You remember the day when all this first started?" He asked looking at the campfire.
"Yah sadly I do." I replied sadly also looking into the campfire. "I also remember shooting him."
Kaoru looked at me with guilt expression on his face. "Oh sorry, I didn't mean to bring up that, I guess I forgot."
"It's ok, you didn't do anything." I said.
After I said that we started eating in silence once again. I looked into the campfire again, thinking about the day this all started.
Two chapters in one night :). I know it's still slow, but stay with me ok, The the next chapters will be longer I promise.