Alright, here's the new update for this story. I felt that this story needed an update rather than my other story, so yeah.

Next chapter, "SDF takes action"

CHAPTER 2: ESCAPE

Music room... 10:32am

Uzumaki Naruto watched the scene outside his school from the window of the music room. He could still see his school mates or teachers being attacked by the monsters as they tried in vain to escape. It was nearly impossible to escape with them running as fast as a normal human with endless amount of stamina. The only way to stop them it seems was to kill them, which was quite hard seeing that their head was their only weakness.

The blonde grabbed his hair in frustration, unable to make sense of what had just occurred in the last hour. He thought it was just going to be an ordinary school day until this happened. His friends were also contemplating on the situation, especially Shikamaru who was always the critical and most practical one here.

Sasuke stood by the door with his arms crossed against his chest. He could hear the screams of his school mates from outside the music room, screaming for help or from the pain. The young black haired teenager also could not shake the feeling of killing a person, although that person was already technically a monster.

The whole school was in chaos and the security guards of the school were all dead. There were cases where some best friends had betrayed the other in order to survive the dead creatures from being eaten. Some students that could not emotionally handle the current situation had committed suicide. Everyone in the school grounds were dying.

"There's no dial tone," Sakura said, looking at her phone, "All the lines are busy."

Shikamaru found that not surprising. He assumed that the school was not the only one going through this mess but the city too. The police must have had their hands full by now. He wondered if the government would call in the defence force to neautralise the threat. That was when he wondered if this problem was happening in a nation-wide scale.

"So, what do we do?" Naruto asked, taking a sit on the nearby piano stool.

Everyone stared at one another, waiting for someone to speak up. Obviously, this group had no leader so none of the four did not know who to look up to. Sasuke grunted and everyone turned to him.

"We obviously can't stay here," Sasuke spoke out, "Those things will come here eventually. Besides, we have no food or water. We should start to plan on how to get out of here."

"First of all, we should wait until things are a little calm." Shikamaru suggested, walking towards the window and looking outside, "With the way things are, the chances of us making out of here are slim if we make our move now."

"Why?" Naruto questioned.

"I'm not being cold by saying this, but the students that are still alive right now will be troublesome for us. They will fight for survival, pushing anyone blocking them. This will put us at a disadvantage. What's more, some might not care who it is and attack on sight, whether we're normal or a monster. No... I think until most of them are dead, only then can we escape."

After a moment, Sakura spoke out, "What Shikamaru said is true. It's cruel but we have to fight for our own survival. Any survivors we find later will be much more co-operative than now."

Naruto grapsed his hair, "Still, what the hell is going on?"

In other parts of the school... 10:40am

Students and teachers were screaming for their lives as the monsters chased them. It was unbelievable that these creatures could run, unlike the movies which represent them as walking, slow creatures. Even worse, these creatures could form a horde and easily surround anybody, easily eating away the lives of the living.

One particular male student was smart enough to remain in his class until the coast was clear. He decided that he could escape through the windows since his class was only on the first floor. He would jump on some bushes to soften his fall and make for his car.

He opened the window and started to find a soft spot to jump off. He also spotted one infected student below, but seeing that the monster could not reach him, he was safe up here.

The infected student was a little different than the others. He couged constantly, giving out wheezing and gasping noises every few seconds. Also, the left side of his face was bloated and clearly infected like some sort of disease. (A/N: Those who don't play L4D, this is the special infected known as 'The Smoker.' Speciality is using his tongue from a distance to drag people where he will claw them to their death)

The survivor in class took his time when the infected student below coughed out a long tongue at him, catching the student by surprise. The tongue wrapped the student around his body, and with a powerful force, dragged the student towards the infected student.

"HELP!"

No one heard his cries for help unfortunately and the infected student, upon bringing his target close enough for him, began to devour the student quickly. The screams brought other infected monsters to the scene and they joined in the feast.

Back with Naruto...10:43am

"I think we've waited long enough?" Naruto questioned, his patience growing thin.

"I guess it should be okay," Shikamaru said, looking out the window, "Most of them must have been caught by those 'things' by now. And perhaps some few that have survived, like us."

Sasuke grabbed the fire axe from a table and swung it around a few times. On the axe, he could see the dried blood from the student he had killed earlier. The young Uchiha never thought something like this could happen. He thought this happened in all those horror movies but it looks like he was in the movie now.

"So, what's the plan?" Sakura asked.

"First of all, we will each need a weapon to defend ourself. If we depend solely on Sasuke to protect all of us, we're as good as dead. Those things can easily surround us, and fast too."

Sakura and Naruto took in their surroundings. There was nothing much here that could have been used as a weapon. Sasuke's fire axe was the best weapon of choice so they would just have to improvise. Naruto opened a small box and took out a silver Flute and hit it on a table. There was a small crack on the table from the impact.

"There," Naruto stated, waving the flute around, "This should be able to smash a skull."

"It will have to do," Shikamaru said as he picked up a clarinet his weapon of choice.

Shikamaru checked the outside of the school from the window once more and could now see that the students that were trying to escape were now transformed into one of them. He took note that when these undead beings could not sight any living beings for a meal, they just loitered around aimlessly, some even vomitted blood on the ground. There were others that hung around the walls as if they were sick.

Sakura looked around for a weapon, wondering which she could use. She considered using a violin as a weapon but realised that it was not as hard a flute and would be easily broken into pieces. She finally decided on picking up on a metallic recorder, which looked like a flute. The four teenagers were ready and Shikamaru gave the signal to begin their escape operation.

Sasuke moved the barricade away and opened the door slowly to avoid making any noise. He took a peek and making sure it was safe, stepped outside of their haven. The corridor was empty but there were blood stains on the floor and on the walls. There were also dead bodies around now.

"This must have happened when we were in the music room," Shikamaru stated, looking at his surroundings, "These dead bodies weren't here when I passed here."

Sasuke steadied his axe, "Let's just go..."

As the four teenagers of Konoha high school walked silently in the corridor of the third floor, they could occasionally hear the screams of students before they were consumed by the monsters. Sakura kept flinching when she heard them, not used to this sort of environment. None of the boys were either but they stood their ground.

"We only planned to escape," Naruto said suddenly, "But we never discussed which way we're going to use."

"He's right," Sakura added, "We don't have any plans on how we're going to get out of the school grounds. Not to mention which route we should take."

"I've already considered that," Shikamaru assured as he held tightly onto his weapon, "And I plan to go to the ground floor using the normal stairway and get to the parking lot through the cafeteria."

Sasuke raised an eyebrow, "The parking lot?"

Shikamaru nodded, turning towards Sasuke, "You're the only one among us who has a car. I assume it can fit the four of us?"

Sasuke shrugged, "Yeah, but you do realise that the ground floor is going to be filled with those things. We're going to have to fight through them to get to the parking lot."

"That is the only option I am willing to consider," Shikamaru said as he led his friends down the stairs, "I thought to use the emergency stairway and get out through the back gate, but I feel that the gate back there is locked and we will waste time climbing."

"Isn't the main gate also locked during school hours?" Naruto pointed out.

"True say, but if we compare the two gates, the main gate is much more... fragile than the back gate. I've taken note of that and we will have to break our way through using Sasuke's car."

Sasuke wanted to protest at that plan, not liking the sound of using his car as a ram. But he kept quiet since it was their only way out. If they were to climb out using the back gate, it would mean having to fight their way to the city whereas if they were in the car, they would be safe in it and faster too.

"Fine, let's go..."

When they reached the ground floor, none were surprised to see the creatures, formally their school mates, loitering around the corridor, groaning and making other sounds. The nearest creature saw the new arrival and stared at them for a second as if it was analyzing them. It groaned loudly and then started running towards Sasuke.

Sasuke waited for the right moment and then when the creature was within range, he swung his axe at the creature, slicing the undead's head in half. The loud sound caught the attention of the other undead monsters and they too started approaching the group.

"Form a circle!" Shikamaru ordered, "We need to protect each other's back!"

Naruto smirked, "Don't worry, with me on this team, I'm going to make sure we get out of this school alive!"

Somewhere above the skies, in a Black Hawk chopper...11:04am

The sounds of the spinning blade annoyed the hell out of the leader of the team. He never liked riding inside a helicopter but seeing that this was an emergency, he had to comply. For the life of him, he never expected something like this to happen in his career. Wheh he sat for the briefing three hours ago, he thought it was someone playing some sort of sick joke, but the news report convined him. Not to mention when he saw the footage of what was going on in the city of Konoha.

Hatake Kakashi was probably the youngest person ever to be made a captain in the Secret Defense Force(SDF). The SDF were basically a group that operated something like how the SWAT does, but they normally take up missions that required superior skills from their officers. Kakashi was one such officer that was a prodigy with a weapon. He had served under the SDF for three years and never had he been assigned on a mission such as this. Then again, the SDF had assigned five teams on this assignment to Konoha. The other SDF teams were sent off in other major cities.

His team were comprised of three men under him. His second-in-command of his team was Maito Gai, the martial arts master and also the instructor of martial arts in SDF. The next person under him was Sarutobi Asuma, a specialist with all sorts of sub-machine guns. He was a valuable member since he was also a bomb specialist. The last member of the team was Genma, a team member that was newly assigned to Kakashi's team.

Kakashi's choice of weapon was just two normal 9mm handgun. He claimed that despite it's common use, it was still a powerful handgun and since it was so light, he could keep more 9mm magazines in his pouch for reloads. Gai, being a martial arts specialist prefers to use his fists as a weapon but he also wields a shotgun. Sarutobi Asuma wields his favourite sub-machine gun, the MP5, powerful and also light. Genma however, prefers to use the normal assigned weapon for SDF officers, the M-16 assault rifle.

The team were precisely an hour away before they reached Konoha and this gave Kakashi plenty of time to catch up on his adult orange novel. Kakashi was a man that was always found reading that novel, even in briefings.

"Ey, Kakashi," Sarutobi shouted as the propeller of the chopper was too loud, "Do you have any idea on what the hell is going on?"

Kakashi shrugged, "Who cares? Undead creatures or not, we're assigned to maintain order back in the city, which basically means killing those beasts off."

"You're not even interested on how this happened."

"Doesn't matter," Kakashi yelled back, "It's happened! No point in wondering how or why it happened. What we have to worry is deal with it and coming out of it alive!"

Kakashi got back reading to his book. Despite what he said, Kakashi couldn't help but wonder how this had happened. He thougth zombie apocalypse only happened in movies. The silver haired captain sighed, closing the book and staring out at the clouds.

Konoha high school... 11:14am

The door of the cafeteria burst open from the kick of Sasuke. He surveyed the surroundings of the cafeteria and could see only a few monsters lurking about. The undead students turned at the source of the noise and saw Sasuke. They slowly approached them before sprinting towards them.

Shikamaru screamed a battle cry when the closest infected neared him, smashing the clarinet into the skull of a female student. Blood splattered on the ground and on the clothes of Shikamaru, staining it. His clarinet weapon was also stained with dried and fresh blood. Sasuke got on a table and then jumped from it, smashing his axe into the brains of a former student council, relishing the thought of doing this on a student council.

Despite being outnumbered, the four teenagers were able to make it to the cafeteria without being bitten. They had left the corridors safely, leaving behind corpses of students that had their skulls smashed.

"A little help over here guys!" Sakura called out from a corner, surrounded by three infected students. They were trying to get a bite but the closest one that attempted it had it's face cracked by Sakura's recorder. The other two took the opportunity to sprint forward, their jaws open and the arms prepared to grab her.

Naruto jumped from a table and smashed his flute on the back of one of the infected, incapacitating it. The remaining one was trying to bite Sakura but the pink haired girl was fending it off, giving Naruto the opportunity to finish it off by smashing his flute into the brains of the infected.

"Thanks..."

Naruto had a dspleasing look on his face, "Stick together, Sakura-chan. We have to work as a team or else, one of us will be in danger."

Sakura nodded and ran off to join Shikamaru. Naruto preferred to walk and on the way, smashed his foot into the head of the zombie he had incapacitated earlier on. When he reached the group, the cafeteria was clear of the infected, only their dead corpses laying around. Sasuke's axe was stained with so much blood after cleaving through them one after another.

"I hope that you won't repeat that Sakura," Shikamaru said, looking at the girl, "It was reckless of you to be on your own. If Naruto had not arrived on time, you would have been outnumbered."

"I'm sorry..."

Shikamaru sighed, "These things are different from those typical horror movies. They're stronger, faster and they know that they stand a better chance if they surround you. We must not underestimate these creatures."

"Come on, the way to the parking lot is over there." Sasuke pointed out at a door.

The four teenagers decided to proceed cautiously than just running since they had to be careful. They formed a circle formation once more to watch each others back. Despite being students, it was surprising that the four of them were already used to killing what was formerly their school mates.

However, Sakura and Shikamaru was in turmoil. They wondered how they could change into murderous beings. Shikamaru however reasoned that what they were killing were not their friends but monsters using their friends bodies. Despite that, the young intellingent boy still felt tremendous guilt and fear.

Naruto and Sasuke however were not badly affected. Sasuke himself had seen this sort of violence since he was the heir of the Uchiha corporation and thus, been trained to defend himself. As for Naruto, although never seeing this kind of violence, had been exposed to the world of jiu jutsu and muay thai. He had seen people breaking bones in fights or tornaments.

The four were about to exit the cafeteria when from the main entrance of the cafeteria, another infected student appeared. Shikamaru however immediately noticed that this infected was different from the rest. The left side of the infected was bloated from his face, shoulder and arm also seemed to have tumor growing on the skin. It also coughed frequently. Naruto at first thought it was a living being since it was coughing but he immediately changed his view.

"Let's just get out of here," Sasuke said, "My car's parked nearby."

The three of them agreed and walked out of the cafeteria, leaving the door open. The Smoker started hacking loudly and then spat out it's long tongue, wrapping it around Naruto and dragging him towards the infected. Naruto started screaming for help, still unaware of what was going on. All he knew was that he could not move and was being dragged by something away from his friends.

"What the!"

Sakura was the first to react upon hearing Naruto's call for help and saw the blonde headed boy being dragged by that same infected they saw, with it's tongue! She sprinted towards Naruto and upon reaching him, tried to remove the tongue but it was tied tightly. Sasuke ran past Naruto and slammed his axe into the tongue, stopping it. The smoker screamed in pain, which attracted more infected to appear.

"Shit, get Naruto out of that crappy stuff and let's get out of here!" Sasuke ordered, slicing an infected in half.

Sakura nodded and started to remove the tongue. Naruto was trying to shake it off him too, but it was going to take a few seconds to do this. Shikamaru found it difficult that only he and Sasuke had to fight them off since Sakura had to help Naruto. This left them more responsibilities and more openings.

"Come on, get up!" Sakura urged when she was finally done with unwrapping the disgusting tongue.

"Damn it, where's the flute?" Naruto demanded, searching for it amidst the chaos.

"Over there!" Sakura pointed out at the exit. Naruto had dropped it when he was suddenly grabbed by the infected.

"Naruto!" Shikamaru called out, "Don't you dare fight with your fists. You get bitten, we're going to leave you behind! The weapons are the only means to protect yourself!"

Naruto understood and stood in the centre between Sakura, Sasuke and Shikamaru. The three of them continued supporting one another, smashing their weapons on the monsters that approached them. The scream of the smoker had attracted twelve monsters but they were now all dead. Sasuke released a sigh of relief.

"What... What the hell was that thing?" Sasuke panted out, looking at Naruto.

Shikamaru wiped his sweat from his brow, "I don't know, and I don't want to find out." Shikamaru stared at the infected that grabbed Naruto with the tongue, "But I have a feeling that if we see one here, we will see more of them."

"Let's go," Naruto whispered, "Let's get the hell out of here!"

"Agreed!" Sasuke and Sakura said in unison.

The four got out of the cafeteria and fought their way to Sasuke's car. Sasuke took out his car keys and quickly unlocked the doors. Naruto scrambled into the passenger seat while Sakura and Shikamaru entered the backseats through the driver seat, causing Sasuke to guard his door. After that, he entered and started the ignition.

"What now?" Sasuke asked, looking at Shikamaru through the rear-view mirror.

"We continue as planned," Shikamaru replied, "And we better get out fast. Those things must have heard the sound of your engine."

Sasuke nodded and pressed his foot on the accelerator, the car blazing forward. Sasuke picked up speed when he sighted the gates, crashing through the infected that stoof in his way. It was a shock to still find some survivors screaming for help, waving their arms to get Sasuke's attention.

"Why are we not stopping to help them?" Sakura spoke out, staring at one who was calling for help only to be then bitten by an infected.

"We can't take that chance," Shikamaru replied calmly, "Stopping for them puts us at a risk. I know it's cruel but we have to face the reality of the situation. We're now in a world where every man for himself."

"Brace yourselves!" Sasuke warned as he neared the gate, his Toyota Celica speeding at over a hundred kilometres an hour.

The car broke through the gates, leaving pieces of the gates broken from it's hinges. Sasuke had to fight for control as the car nearly got out of control from the impact. Once that was done, he calmly drove his car, taking note that outside the school compoud, there were already infected civilians outside loitering around.

"Even outside the school...?" Sakura said in despair.

None of them said a word. The four teenaged students of Konoha high school have escaped the school compound, but they were now aware that this was just the beginning.