The room had gotten awkwardly silent the past few minutes. I sat there afraid to move, how much longer til I ended up dinner for a hungry dead person? I beamed the light around the room seeing what looked like some sort storage room. My first instinct was to search around for anything useful to bring back to the girls., my whiny teenage girl inside wanted to just ball up and call for my big brothers to save the day.

'Don't kid yourself,' I thought with a small laugh and lifted myself from the floor.

I was able to get a good glimpse around the room, oxygen tanks, surgical tubing, surgeon gloves and masks, a few boxes sealed tight, and other random things you'd find around a hospital. The tape needed to go. I dug around in a tool box for something sharp to cut the boxes open, my luck came through and I found a box cutter. I went at opening the first one noting the packages of vending machine junk food. I moved that aside and opened another seeing cans of easy lift vegetables of all different assortments, another box contained fruit cups and juice box galore. 'Oh man did I get lucky,' I wonder if it was possible to get a big amount of this back to the girls, We could probably come back through here and take more. Only the necessities. I wanted to just feed myself first.

I made my fill with a can of cream corn and a bottled water, those definitely needed to come back. I stuffed as much food as I could into a large medical duffel bag and searched the room for anything else to put into my back pack. Drip bags, peroxide, alcohol, bandages, medical tape and bandaids. Different kinds of pain relievers, sterile needles, any little bottles filled with liquid I could probably use at some point. With a lot of the stuff I was grabbing, I could make something to fix Suzumi no problem, thank you genius IQ. I found another medical bag and filled that up with drinks, soda, water, anything that looked liked it would help. A few thermometers and empty first aid kits, just enough that I could carry by myself and get back to the group.

Thud

I had actually forgotten about the infected while I scavenged the room; naive. I was supposed to be smarter than this and I've just been making one mistake after another. I lifted the hunting rifle and approached the door, it would have been so much easier if I had my bow and arrows. I took a breath and opened the door slightly and peeked out adjusting my eyes. I didn't see anything. My eyes traveled down spotting the dead body of the thing that chased me down the hall earlier, torn open. The door felt heavy like it was being pressed on. I glanced down spotting the familiar body that I had bandaged earlier. Did...did he come after me?

"Help..." I heard come from him. I quickly opened the door and dragged him in before closing the door again and laying him face up on the floor. His eyes were dull and he looked around slowly.

"Y-you can talk?" No shit sherlock. His chest rose and dropped slowly with every breath.

"W-water," He panted.

I went over the the case and quickly drew another bottle and brought it over to him. I twisted the cap quickly and lifted his head. He drank quickly obviously extremely dehydrated. The bottle was emptied in a matter of seconds and he took deep breathes.

"Are you okay?" I asked hoping to get more out of the infected male. His eyes gazed up into my own. I was running out of time, I needed to get back to Suzumi. "I don't have much time to wait around I'm sorry," I put his head down and went over to the bags. He sat up slowly and put his hand on his head. I spotted a paramedic jacket and threw it over to him. I still didn't know what he was, but he couldn't be too bad if he hasn't attacked me yet. "Come with me if you want, but you need to carry something," I offered putting the backpack on my back and heaving one of the heavy bags over my shoulder.

I glanced over to him again, he pulled the jacket on and stood, not zipping it up. His dirty brown hair was longer than what I thought it to be reaching his shoulders. He came over and lifted the bag from the floor effortlessly before taking the other one off my shoulder and backing away.

"Thank you..." He said. I smiled and zipped up his jacket. He watched my every move.

"No problem, my name is Natsumi-Yuki, do you remember your name?"

"Natsumi-Yuki?" He breathed out testing it. "Arthur,"

His body lurched forward when he made to take a step and I quickly caught him. Probably from the blood loss. I made one more small bag and filled it up with as much bandages and antibiotics as I could and put it on my shoulder.

No time to rest now.

"Let's get going,"

The travel back to the store wasn't as brutal as the trip from it. It seems having the male with me kept most of the infected off of me. The door had been barricaded shut since I ran out this morning, I hope everything was okay. I knocked a few times and pulled the male out of the drizzle.

"Who's there?" I heard Kyoko ask, she didn't sound like she was crying, so there was a hope Suzumi was still alive.

"Natsumi," I said. The door was quickly unlocked and the purplenette smiled and let me in and stared worried at the Arthur. "He's okay, I found him at the hospital,"

"Hello," He greeted walking in.

"Right, we were really worried, it seems you got a lot," Kyoko led us back to where the others were. Suzuki sat next to her sister holding her hand, Asa was sitting by the wall half asleep, and Kyome stared out the window from the barely lit room. "Natsumi is back,"

"Nee-sama!" Asa jumped to her feet and ran over to me wrapping her arms around me. Her eyes left me and landed on Arthur. "Who are you?"

I rolled my eyes and ushered the male to put the food in the corner. I put the medical bag and my back back by Suzumi.

"This is Arthur, we kinda saved each other," I gave a small explanation of what happened, but that didn't really make them feel any better.

"So, he's a zombie?" Suzuki cautioned. I set up the drip and pain reliever and checked her sisters temperature. 101.2. No real damage yet.

"No, he's still got a heart beat and can talk a little here and there. Arthur beat the infection I think. He's infected, just not dead," He sat in the corner of the room, watching me.

"Maybe that will happen to me. I'm not feeling as bad as I did this morning," Suzumi spoke under her blanket. "If he helped you carry things back, he's okay in my book. Just get the poor boy a shower," She laughed sweating lightly. There was a good chance that she could end up like Arthur, not everyone was going to be immune, but it was a possibility to still be infected and alive.

"I found some clothes up in a box upstairs, I think it might fit him," Kyome came down from the attic with clothes in her hand. "There's soap and clean towels in the bathroom,"

"Okay, c'mon Arthur," I walked over to the man who smelled worse than I did. I pulled him up and walked him to the bathroom with the clothes tight in my hand. He leaned against the shower. 'Okay, I'm bathing a guy my own age...' I blushed and shut the door.

"Okay um...lets get you out of these clothes," He nodded and unzipped his jacket dropping it to the floor. I swallowed and turned around to turn on the water. I made it warm enough to my liking and turned around, my eyes drifting over the now naked male. I blushed deeper and looked back at his face. I didn't realize he was so tall.

"R-right, um, let, let me just get the bandages off," I shook and reached for the slightly red coverage. 'C'mon Natsumi-Yuki, grow some ovaries,' I took off the bandages and put them on the edge of the sink. My stitch work was actually better than I thought it was now that I was seeing it in the light. I pulled him towards the water and pushed him underneath. His eyes closed in content and all the blood, dirt, and grim came down his body. It took every ounce of will power not to stare and drool. He combed his fingers through his mane getting all the dirt he could out.

"Do you want me to cut your hair?" I asked holding out the shampoo for him. He looked down at my hand and back at my face. He stepped out of the water and sat on the toilet.

So I washed his hair and trimmed it to below his ears and got it out of his eyes. The light blue reminded me of the others out there. Was he really different?

"Just go wash the hair off," He got up and walked under the water again. I took my jacket off and stretched. I needed to shave.

"Join me," He grabbed my hand and pulled me against him, the water soon drenching my jeans and tube top.

"W-wait," I felt like my chest was going to burst. I had never been this close to a naked guy before. What did I get myself into?