《General》

"Our mission today is to find Hinata and save her. So, I want two of you to be more cautious with the surrounding. We don't know where the zombie's lair supposed to be. But I'm sure it must be around the pharmacy in the city since we got ambushed last time." Neji, the leader of the team gave the briefing to his teammates, Sakura and Sasuke Uchiha.

"Hey, you forgot about me, dude," someone suddenly interrupted them. A guy with gray shaggy hairstyle and a pair of blue eyes. He already completed with a rifle and a backpack, just like the three of them.

"What are you doing here, Toneri?" Neji asked him.

"General Hiashi asked me to join your team," he replied with a smirk, being arrogant and didn't respect Neji as a leader at all.

"He did?" Sakura asked for a confirmation.

"Yup, last night after you guys left." Toneri answered while blowing the dirt from his rifle.

"Alright then, let's get going," Neji suggested to his teammates. He then signalled the tower guard to open the huge gate in front of them, which separate the city full of zombies and the human city.

"I really have a bad feeling about this," Sakura whispered to her boyfriend.

"Don't worry, Sakura," Sasuke tried to calm her. "There's nothing going to happen."

Sakura gave a small smile while leaning her head on Sasuke's arm. "I love you, Sasuke-kun."

"I love you too," he kissed her on her head. "I'll protect you no matter what. And I'm not gonna fail just like the last time."

She gently pokes on her boyfriend's stomach, "Hey, it was not your fault. Don't blame yourself." Then looked into his boyfriend's black pearl eyes.

But he moved his gaze away from her, "It was my fault. And I regretted it so much. I should come a bit sooner and save him. Now he turned to be one of them."

Sakura lifts his chin a bit, "Please, don't blame yourself. He might not be happy if he heard it, you know"

He nodded.

"Now, that's my Uchiha," She gently pinches both of his cheeks.

《Naruto》

"Naruto-kun?"

Yes?

"Are you sleeping?"

No? A zombie shouldn't be sleeping actually. We just can't because we already lost the ability to do that. And I even forget how it feels to be sleeping.

"Wake up, Naruto-kun..."

I'm already awake.

Am I?

My body was shaking as someone shakes it, but I'm too weak to move. Maybe because I didn't eat my 'food' for this past few days.

"Naruto-kun!" Hinata's screaming startled me so much and she was looking worriedly at me as I opened my eyes. "I thought you already left me..." She hugs me tightly while crying. "You haven't moved at all and I couldn't even check your heartbeat too. It makes me worried so much."

"I-I'm s-sorry..." I apologized to her.

So I did really sleep, huh? And I was dreaming too.

"Come on, it's already dark now," she said to me. "We need to hide in this house and continue our trip tomorrow morning."

I nod, following her lead wherever she goes. I have to make sure that she return safely to her city and free from my kind, although I have to sacrifice my life.

We entered a house, it was not that big and safe for temporary. She then locked all the doors so the zombies couldn't enter the house.

"S-sleep..." I told her so she could take a rest. Her eye bags already showed up since she didn't get enough rest for days.

She replied with her cheek lifts a bit, "I will, but I need to grab some food first."

I just nodded and watching her rummaging the kitchen cabinet, looking for something to eat.

"Found it!" She said out loud. "And it's still okay to be eaten."

My right chin lifts a bit when saw her. I really wish that I could be with her forever. But I can't, since we are the different creatures.

"Oh my God, this is so good," she said while eating the can food in front of me. "I really missed this so much."

I only sit in front of her, not moving at all and watching her eating the whole can food. Sometimes, I feel like my right chin lifts a bit whenever she making a weird-looking face that I find it cute for me.

"You know, Naruto-kun," she started the conversation. "I saw you smile frequently since yesterday."

Smile? What was that? When did I do that?

"W-what s-sm-smile?" I asked her confusedly.

She did it again, lifting her cheek a bit, "Like this, awww… it's hard for me to explain it to you, actually."

I tilted my head once again, totally have no idea about it.

"Well, in your case, you always lifted your right chin...it was called smile actually. I hope you understand what I'm trying to say to you, Naruto-kun."

I replied her with a shrug.

I'm sorry Hinata, but I'm so clueless.

She sighs, "That's fine, actually."

"S-so-sorry,"

"It's okay, Naruto-kun," her warm hand touches mine. "Now, let's get some rest, okay?"

"O-okay..."

I was sitting on the couch, watching her sleep calmly on the bed in front of me. I was thinking about what happened earlier. It's kind of weird actually. How can I be asleep and dreaming like that? I never experience it before, not until she came to me.

Hinata is really changing me back.

Maybe she's my cure for me, to get out from this darkness.

The next day,

We started our journey early in the morning with the Ferrari which Hinata was driving. She said the fuel is not enough for us to arrive to our destination and we might need to walk there for a few miles.

And that thing has worried me the most. Because I'm afraid the Skully or the other zombies might ambush us.

She's totally right. The fuel is out now.

I looked at her who seems a bit scare now. "I-I...p-pr-rotect y-you."

She lifts her ch-...I mean, she smiles at me, "Thank you, Naruto-kun."

I replied her with a smile.

"Now let's get going," she offered her hand towards me that I gladly accepted it.

"Wait," she stopped and turned to face me.

I tilted my head confusedly.

"Your hand is so warm now," she was examining both of my hands.

I just shrugged as for the reply.

She smiles, "That's a good thing, though. You are more human now."

"R-re-really?" I asked in disbelief.

She nods, "Yup, I'm sure you started to change to be human back. I know it's weird, but we have all the proofs right?"

I nodded several times with a smile.

"Good boy," she touches the tip of my nose that I find it really weird when she did that. But anyway, I like it though.

We were walking for almost 2 hours now, according to what she told me earlier. And she seems a bit exhausted which worried me so much about her.

"Wait...did you see that?" She pointed her index finger to the north side.

I nodded, "Y-yes." There were four human figures not far from us who walking straight in our direction.

"Are they all zombies?" She asked and sounds a bit frightened.

I tried to smell them to identify whether they were all zombies or human. But I couldn't. I just lost my ability to do that anymore.

"I-I d-don't k-know..." I told her.

"They are my friends!" Hinata said happily as she managed to identify them. She runs towards their direction with me following her from behind.

"Hinata! Duck!" A male voice instructed Hinata. With a blink of eye, a loud gunshot sound was heard that makes me fall hard on the ground.

"Naruto!" Hinata screamed my name loudly and even tried to run back to get to me. Unfortunately, that long brown hair guy stopped her with two other human beside him. One of them is a pink hair girl and the other one is a spiky black hair guy. And they seemed really familiar to me and we even met once at the pharmacy when I found Hinata.

H-Hi-Hinata...

That thing inside my left chest, it hurts so much. I stand back on my feet, and there was warm liquid coming out from my wound and it was red.

"No...Naruto!" Hinata was crying as the gray hair guy pointed his gun towards me. "Don't kill him!"

His blue eyes fill with killing instinct looking straight into mine. "Goodbye, Naruto..."

That was the last words I heard when I was totally black out.

To be continue...

Sorry for the grammar mistakes and some misspelled words if there's any