Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto or Highschool of the Dead

Warning: This chapter sums up a lot of the reason why this story is rated M now, and for future chapters.

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Rei stepped into the bathroom, having already passed both Shizuka and Saya resting on separate couches. Shizuka had all but crashed it appeared, as she had little care that the towel she was wrapped in barely covered her assets. Saya on the other hand still appeared to be awake, but at the sight of the two people that had walked into the room, she was quite unwilling to talk given their earlier encounter.

Naruto absentmindedly wondered if Ayane was still in the bathroom, but upon following Rei into the steamy bathroom, it was obvious that wasn't the case.

Rei went over to one of the shower heads and turned the water on to the highest temperature. She felt almost pathetic that she was silently hoping that the water was indeed cold, so Naruto couldn't simply opt to take a shower in peace. She was just simply wishing for anything to take her mind off of the situations that had been going on in the world around her. And lately for her, "Anything" had been the blonde trailing after her.

Her wishes however were answered as sure enough all of the hot water had been used up by the girls before. The double shower heads shooting onto bathwater likely did in the hot water a great deal faster than if they opted for a simple bubble bath.

Naruto made his way past Rei to situate himself, and his bucket in the corner of the room. He sat down on a plastic stool on the ground in front of the mirror, before gently sticking his hand into the still incredibly hot water.

Rei blushed as she took in what she was going to help her blonde friend with. She was still trying to wrap her head around where she got the courage to even ask the blonde if he needed assistance. One part of her mind was telling her that she was simply returning the favor to the blonde. The other part of her mind was yelling at her quite clearly that if the world hadn't gone to shit, she wouldn't even be considering this situation.

Despite herself she quickly made her way to the bathroom door before she turned the lock. If she was going to go through with this, she was sure as hell not going to have anyone walk in. She almost felt slightly guilty for being so embarrassed with the situation. It was obvious that the blonde during their time had treated it in a far less sexual light than how she was looking at it right now. She was acting like some sort of teenage girl that was just about to see her first...

'Oh wait...' she thought to herself as if coming to a sudden revelation. 'I am a teenage girl about to see her first p...' She flushed even more so now as she crushed the train of thought under anything her mind could think of, which was two rhinos, three zebras, six enormous caterpillars, and a disfigured dolphin.

Rei shook her head free of thoughts, particularly the ones that told her she was about to go further with virtually a near stranger than she had ever been with any other boy... Takashi... Hisashi... Her best friend... as she opted to try and just go with the flow of the situation. The blonde had already started washing his arms with the orange sponge, allowing it to soak up all of the dried blood.

Rei slowly came up and moved her stool slightly to the side of Naruto, if not a small margin behind him. She grabbed the orange sponge he was holding, and ran it through the surprisingly still hot water with care. If it weren't for the blue color of the bucket, she was sure she may have found the water to already be fogging up with the blood being dispersed.

Rei ran the sponge over the blonde's back, silently wishing the blonde hadn't grabbed a sponge so she could appease her curiosity and truly see how hard those muscles of his were.

"You should take your top off." Naruto said in a tired voice breaking the silence that surrounded the two. He said the comment in a rather even tone despite the hint of a yawn in it, a tone that Rei had become to know the blonde for. It was at times like these that she wondered if there was more of an emotional spectrum to him just simply hidden under a number of walls, of if this was all that was truly there.

That thought actually made her feel sad, although it didn't erase the blonde's comment from her mind. "Why?" she asked curiously, far past the glaring faze of their relationship when he asked something like that of her.

Naruto seemed unfazed as he politely replied, "You only have one set of clothes, if you get them wet you will catch a cold if we have to move again. Getting a cold at a time like this wouldn't be wise."

Rei blinked a couple times at the reply. She was almost disappointed that it seemed the blonde was apparently immune to any form of temptation. Heck, she probably would have appreciated the blonde simply just telling her to take her top off, because he wanted to see her naked. She would say no, of course. However that didn't stop it from being a flattering thought.

If a boy at her school had told her to take her top off in their current situation, she knew it was only so they could get a better view. They didn't care if she got wet. Hell... on the other hand they probably wouldn't care either way if she was forced to wear a wet skin tight t-shirt. It was virtually the same result either way.

Still she proceeded to do her best to shift out of the blonde's vision as she stripped off her top, although his words didn't make her feel much more comfortable about it, "I don't know why you did that... I can still see you in the mirrors." Naruto drawled at the girl's attempt to hide herself.

To him her actions half the time when they were together like this were just illogical. "If you aren't comfortable with this, then don't do it. I am simply trying to get clean." he pointed out with a frown coming onto his face.

Rei's hand with the sponge stopped realizing that she had just been washing the same area of his back for the last couple of minutes. She also felt a bit of a stab to the gut at those words, as if the time right now with her here meant nothing. Rei shook her head into the mirror, her eyes firm as she proceeded to go almost double time to catch up on the areas of the blonde that she had formerly neglected.

Naruto sighed heavily as he just allowed himself to be washed in silence. It was on one hand slightly irritating. He could practically read the girl's thoughts flashing through her eyes by just looking at them through the mirror. And on the other hand the situation really brought him back to his time with Uzuki, if only briefly.

He only silently hoped that he wasn't that shy when he had first started his little sessions with his ANBU captain. Something in the back of his mind told him he was considerably worse with how naive he had used to be. He still remembered back when he was twelve and Hinata would blush around him, he thought she had a fever.

Yeah...

Yugao had thankfully killed that idiot with a blight so profound on his character that it was impossible to even attempt to recover from it.

Naruto closed his eyes and relaxed as the girl had quickly left his back and begun to work over his arms with the sponge. The only sound was the occasional splash as she rapidly dunk the sponge into water. Naruto instinctively fell into an almost meditative state with his hand outstretched.

Although meditation very rarely worked when you instantly captured the attention of the person sitting beside you who had to ask.

"Woah!" She cried out as she nearly fell off her stool after having looked at the palm of the blonde's hand. "What are those?" she asked wide eyed, having never seen anything like it before in her life.

Naruto opened his eyes and looked down to his fully open and spread hand. On the fingertips and slowly circling the fingers were five incredibly tiny balls of chakra. They were about the size of large marbles. While they appeared to be quite the impressive feat of chakra control itself when any ninja happened upon them. Closer inspection would reveal it to be probably one of the hardest chakra control exercises known in the shinobi world. All but trying to make a whirlpool temporarily rotate the other way.

"My father's creation." he said slightly bitterly as he rotated five little Rasengan balls on his fingers. He looked toward the shackle on his wrist, and was thankful what he was doing didn't seem to apply to whatever mechanics made the bracer work.

"Whats is called?" Rei asked, having slowed down her speed considerably as her curiosity was peaked.

"The Rasengan." Naruto replied simply, but the dry tone in his voice spoke about more than just the name.

"Were you two close?" Rei asked to be polite, prompting a snort from the blonde she was assisting.

"I was an orphan." Naruto replied bitterly at the thought. It was a thought he was not too happy about particularly after he realized he could have had a better life if his parents weren't just some stubborn righteous crusaders.

"But I thought you just said..." Rei began, but Naruto cut her off before she could finish already knowing where it was going.

"I did." Naruto said distastefully as the tiny little marbles of chakra began to roll around faster in his palm. "My parents both decided to sacrifice themselves for the 'Greater Good' when I was born. When I joined Anbu I learned about them from reading a mission report." It was actually multiple reports. He had passed upon the name Kushina Uzumaki listed in the ANBU headquaters when he had gone to file his own mission report assignment. Apparently it was safe enough to have his mother's files on record for 15% of the Konoha shinobi division to see, but not safe enough for a young boy to know who his mother was.

"Then... how did you find out about this... Rasengan." she said still trying to wrap her mind around the idea of this blue force she saw before her. She almost forgot that her hands weren't supposed to simply stop on his chest, and were supposed to actually wash it.

Naruto shrugged in a non-committal way. "I just figured it out shortly after I turned fifteen when experimenting with different forms of chakra control. One of my clones found it out I guess I should say." He said recalling the image of himself walking up to him during his circuit training. He didn't have time to listen to it in a minute long break, so he simply stabbed the poor clone. Naruto then began to muse over how his clone had come to grasp the idea of the Rasengan just naturally, but those thoughts didn't matter as Rei was simply stunned.

"Y-Y-Your clone!" she all but yelled the question in utter shock and surprise.

Naruto turned to her abruptly before turning to the door realizing how loud she had just been. "Are you kidding me right now?" Naruto asked harshly as he gave her a glare. "Quiet down." he said tensely.

Rei's surprise quickly died down as she felt like something akin to a scolded child. It was worse for her though as she still felt that she was being scolding by a person only a couple years older than her. She doubted she would ever completely accept the idea. "Sorry..." she whispered meekly.

Naruto dispersed the tiny spheres in his hand and let the chakra seep back into his skin in order to run a hand through his hair. "There are many things I can do." he whispered as the sponge finished up with his legs. "Chakra provided shinobi with virtually endless capabilities to do anything they set their mind to. Making clones on one's self was just one of the many things myself and my subordinates could do." Naruto explained.

Rei's jaw tightened at that thought, "How many clones... how many could you make?" Rei thought at the idea of ten Naruto's guarding their group, they could probably live safely for the rest of their lives.

"When I was younger I often used anywhere to a hundred to a couple thousand clones in a single encounter. However as I grew older, I usually just made three or so clones. Any more than that got in my way." Naruto said before closing his eyes as Rei continued washing, apparently absentmindedly below his belly button.

"A couple thousand..." Rei stuttered out her eyes drifting off at the thought of Naruto coming to their world, and stopping all of the Zombies by just making that many clones to protect all of the people, jumping from rooftops to rooftops. "But if you can make that many why don't you help people?" Rei said still washing, and not paying attention to what was under her hand and sponge.

"The shackle on my wrist..." Naruto all but growled out as he opened a single eye to glance at Rei, whom was apparently oblivious.

The young brown haired police officer's daughter looked down to the strange ornament on the blonde's wrist. However she was brought out of her thoughts by Naruto's voice.

"Rei!" Naruto called out a bit louder than usual to grab her attention. "You can stop, you don't have too..." Naruto squinted his eye back shut and let out a groan.

Rei looked curious as to what he meant before looking down to her auto pilot hands that were repeatedly working over, 'Oh my...' Rei thought to herself, her eyes growing wider than she ever thought possible.

"God!" she yelled out as she jumped up, nearly tripping over the stool she had been sitting on as she scrambled behind her for her discarded top. "I'm sorry! I'm sorry!" She continued to repeat as she scrambled to her feet, pulling the shirt over her head as she backpeddled out of the room.

"I'll let you finish or well..." She said as she was reaching behind her for the door knob. "Well you know!" she said quickly as she finally reached the door and nearly pulled it off it's hinges with how quickly she pulled it open.

"Yeah... sorry! Bye!" she cried out, her face red as a Uzumaki's hair as she sped out of the room, slamming the door behind her.

Naruto blinked a couple times before looking down, trying to fix his faster than normal heart beat. Naruto took a deep breath as he looked between his legs, a small irritation at the fact that he had decided to even mention anything.

He stepped up, and walked over to the shower handle, and turned it on to it's hottest level.

'Good.' Naruto thought as he tried to block out the stiff friend between his legs. 'The water is still cold...' he thought as he decided to finish rinsing off.

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Naruto sighed as he made his way up the stairs, wearing a fresh pair of pants he had unsealed only minutes before. He had the rest of his clothes unsealed perfectly in his grasp, even an article he hadn't intended to be carrying around, his ANBU mask. Although it didn't both him as he walked around drying off his hair and upper body with a towel.

Naruto was always in the his own awkward middle ground when it came to being wet. He didn't mind walking through the rain in the slightest. He didn't mind blistering dry heat from Suna either. But that annoying feeling you get when you are only barely wet, and you put on a shirt? The effect of having only about three random spots on your shirt wet from little droplets. It was one of the most annoying sensations Naruto felt he ever had to put up with besides a few choice genjutsu he would get caught in before he obtained the Rinnegan.

Naruto felt his eye twitch as he spotted Rei, now fully clothed sitting on the bed overlooking Saito's shoulder as he subtly moved his fingers over the plastic machine on his lap. He gently reminded himself that it was not entirely her fault for stopping in the shower. 'It was just mostly...' he added dryly as he recalled the cold cold shower he needed to take before he could leave the bathroom.

Naruto glanced over to the other side of the room, and saw Ayane sitting quietly, one leg over another as she impatiently tapped her foot. This was further exentuated as she padded her fingers on the arms that was supporting the weight of her head as she looked out the corner of the balcony.

"Everything alright?" Naruto asked as he stood in front of Saito and Rei to glance over to the bored looking Ayane. Naturally this attracted the attention of everyone, but only prompted a single response when they realized where the blonde's gaze was cast.

Ayane looked stiffly up to Naruto before a frown fell upon her features as she cast her gaze elsewhere, "Nope." she replied bitterly.

Naruto raised an eyebrow at that, "Care to talk about it?"

It only took Ayane one glance around for her to say, "Not really."

Naruto leaned back as as he crossed his arms over his chest giving the girl an questioning stare, "Not really isn't a no." Naruto knew it probably wasn't the best option to try and pry the girl open, but out of everyone in the large team he had fall under his command, she was one of the few he still simply didn't understand.

"You're right Naruto. Not really isn't a no. My sister died for me, how about you come back later?" she spat out with a roll of the eyes.

This was no surprise to Naruto, however the other couple students in the room were rather surprised at that. So far in their group besides the most recent Ryo, they hadn't lost anyone. As far as they knew, no one had even lost family members. It was a sad reality that let the other students understand why the girl was so closed off. Although Naruto didn't care.

Naruto shrugged his shoulders, "Yeah she did. Your sister also told me to look out for you, and that's what I'm trying to do." Naruto said as he shifted his weight leaning back to the other side.

"Regret saving me Uzumaki?" Ayane asked, not sparing the blonde a glance.

Naruto shook his head, there wasn't a point trying to talk to the girl right now. She obviously didn't want to talk as far as her disinterest. He looked out to the balcony and saw the scantly clad Saeko alongside both Kohta and Takashi.

He slid the glass door open before thinking over the question Ayane had asked. Naruto shrugged his shoulder as he mulled over his answers, "No I don't. I regret not saving you both." he replied honestly as he stepped out onto the balcony, effectively ending their conversation.

"Naruto-san!" he heard Saito call out before he slid the door shut.

Naruto gave the map making teen a questioning glance.

"Why are you carrying a mask?" he asked pointing to the uniquely designed black and red face plate Naruto had opted to utilize in ANBU. A prototype mask that was able to see heat signatures if chakra was channeled through it. Although it never went through production as the cost of making them were apparently too steep after the Suna-Oto invasion.

Naruto looked down at the mask that held many memories for the blonde jinchuriki. Naruto had worn the mask almost constantly with the exception of in the shower for a good couple years shortly after joining ANBU. He even wore it when he slept. He had only stopped wearing it when Konan had commented on it upon their arrival at Ame.

I was the one designated to watch you Naruto. You have lived your entire life behind a mask. However one needs to know when to remove the mask before the perspective of a person's views become permanently changed.

Naruto snorted. At the time he was only fifteen, he had thought the blue haired paper wielder actually meant the physical plate he wore on his face. He later realized in life that her comments served to strike upon a deeper level.

When a person wears a mask, the person becomes someone else entirely and is able to achieve great things while never revealing who they truly are. However it is important to never forget the difference between who you are, and who you're trying to be.

Naruto's lips formed into a thin line. He had thought she was speaking of Tobi at the time. It turned out that the woman was simply giving him a pep talk that he dutifully ignored at the time.

Naruto looked up at Saito as he held his clothes and the mask in hand before narrowing his eyes and simply sliding the glass door shut. That was a question he was not going to be answer for anyone.

"What do we have?" Naruto asked with a tone of authority that seemed to surprise the three on the balcony. Komuro had quickly turned, while Saeko had gone stiff lowering the binoculars to look at Naruto. Kohta on the other hand was the most amusing, but at the same time the most impressive of the bunch as he almost instantly snapped to attention at the mere tone of his voice, an impressive feat which he had to teach his own shinobi at times.

"The situation is getting worse..." Saeko said slowly as she brought the binoculars back up to enhance her vision, all the while keeping an eye on Naruto out of the corner of her eye.

Naruto nodded and leaned over the railing to take in the sights himself. Despite the fact that he was in an incredibly impressive city that dwarfed Konoha, given the fact that it was overrun with the dead made it considerably less attractive scenery. Naruto gazed over the streets like a hawk, with the vision of something better as he used his shinobi acute eyesight.

There was a man getting overrun by a group of zombies. A young woman desperately trying to hop a fence into a back yard, only to get bitten on the ankle. A man running down the street, only to get tackled by one of them from his blind spot around the corner. There was even a man running with his pink haired daughter.

Takashi nearly yelled in disgust, "Damnit, this is awful." he said as he clenched his hands on the railing.

Naruto had to agree, but there was frankly nothing they could do about it. Particularly if they wanted to survive, getting more people into the group was asking for trouble. He was already having a frustrating time as it was knowing that Shido was consistently isolating his group from the rest whenever he had the chance, likely to give his little speeches.

Takashi quickly turned, probably intent on once again trying to be the hero.

"Komuro!" Kohta quickly bit out, looking away from the scope of his rifle. "Are we going to shoot them?" he asked, looking to follow orders.

"Well yeah! We'll shoot..." Takashi began anger rising in his voice at what he just witnessed on the streets before him.

Naruto was more than ready to tell the trio they wouldn't be doing a damn thing, and they would be staying put. However he didn't seem to need to as he felt at least one person had their head on straight and was thinking with their brain and not their heart.

"Have you forgotten that they react to sound Komuro-kun?" Saeko asked the teen. Naruto simply sat back and watched the exchange. It would be nice to see people within the group being capable of listening to reason from one another. However if he needed to step in, and create order, he would.

Saeko slid open the door and dimmed the lights to blackness using the high tech switch just inside the doorway. "The living will gather once they notice the lights and our figures. We lack the ability to help those that are still living, even if we wanted to. Look for yourself Komuro, you must grow accustomed to this." Saeko said as she held up the tool for the brown haired teen, "Furthermore, this world has become a place where you cannot survive on chivalry alone." she finished as she dropped the binoculars in his hands.

Komuro had a withdrawn expression on his face as he stood up straighter and looked at the purple haired young woman. Even the rest of the room had taken an interest in the rest of the conversation. "I thought you were a little different, Busujima-sempai." the brown haired teen said, using her last name and suffix purposefully, hoping to get a rise out of the woman. She had only not that long ago asked for him to use solely her first name.

Saeko turned around with a very weak smile on her face, "Don't get the wrong idea Komuro-kun. Whether you like it or not, I am merely stating the truth." she commented before making her way down the stairs.

Takashi's face tighted as he clenched his fists and jaw before walking back out onto the balcony to overlook the street.

"She's right." Naruto commented from his position leaning against the railing, finally deciding to pipe in on the discussion. "We can't house them." he said as he stepped away from the railing and to the open glass door, and spoke loud enough so both the inside and the outside could hear him just fine. "No one is to leave this house for any reason tonight, especially to make some sort of foolish rescue attempt. Understood? I'm sure you remember what happened last time people went off against those things outside." Naruto asked as he gave everyone a pointed stare.

Most of the people inside seemed to agree. However the two boys on the balcony seemed a bit more reluctant to do so.

"I mean it." Naruto said sternly. The last thing he needed was them being forced to give up their safe haven because people wanted to play the hero. "Most of you should just go to bed."

"And you Naruto-san? What will you do?" Saito asked with a questioning stare as he looked up from his mechanical contraption on his lap once again.

Naruto pursed his lips distastefully, "I will as well, after I check on Shido's students..." he said slowly as he made his way inside, sliding on the remainder of a hooded form of ANBU uniform in the process.

It was at that time Takashi used the binoculars to spot a father and his daughter running down the street.

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Naruto sneered in disgust the moment he opened the door to go downstairs. Loud music blared into his ears as the sound proof room had been breached. One foot in the doorway forced him to inhale the heavy musk that saturated the air. The room's air was hot, thick, and heavy. The room completely void of windows, and any form of outside light. Only the slight flickering of light of a movie illuminated the room.

Naruto quickly closed the door to the loud room behind him. Why was it loud? In part it was due to the movie that was playing over everything else happening in the room. However that didn't stop the occasional cry of pleasure, or even the feminine yelps of pain to pierce through the recording.

Naruto made his way down the steps to be greeted by the sight of a small movie theatre, playing what appeared to be a rather impressive action film. However anything that was impressive about the scene was utterly erased by the sight before him.

Lust, Gluttony, Greed, Envy, Sloth, Wrath, Pride. The seven sins were laid out before him as he narrowed his eyes at the sight.

Jin with the beautiful short haired busty girl bouncing in a fit on lust on his lap.

The looks envy and greed from the other lone longer haired male in the room as he savagely took the dark brown haired girl from behind like she was a bitch in heat. The look of sheer wrath and hatred on her face as her hair was being pulled promised a future pain for the boy behind her, despite her pride diminishing in her eyes.

However what disgusted Naruto the most was the teacher. The closest thing to a leader that this offshoot group had. He sat in a chair, not facing the big screen, reclining back in a chair like a lazy sloth with a look of pride of his face as he watched everyone in the room, not having noticed Naruto, likely lost in pleasure.

Why the pleasure? The young long dark haired girl was on her knees, hands spread on either side of the couch, her head between her sensei's legs, bobbing up and down. Shido appeared none the wiser of the new guest as he gripped the back of her head tightly with his hands wrapped in her hair, roughly pushing the girl's head down upon him causing sick gagging and choking sounds.

'I have killed people for less...' Naruto told himself as he looked over the room. His left hand twitched desperately at the grip upon his mask, urging him to put it on, to become another person. A person that no longer cared about rules and regulations, a shinobi that got the job done. His other hand, desperately twitching on his tool bag.

Exactly 2.78 seconds...

That is how long it would take for a kunai or shurikan to strike true on every skull of every person in the room.

"On your fucking feet!" Naruto yelled out in a booming voice full of rage as he stormed over to the 'teacher' that had apparently become some ridiculous leader for this group of students under Naruto's own watch. A matter Naruto knew that he was surely going to rectify in the next passing moments.

Killing intent leaked from every pore of his body as he stormed down the row of chairs. His voice causing any and all people in the room to stop any action that was formerly taking place.

The young brown haired girl that was on her knees before the young boy scrambled for her clothes that had been forcefully discarded on the ground before her. She didn't even put them on as she scooped them up into her arms to cover herself, tears in her eyes.

Naruto walked by the young longer haired boy and viciously rammed his knee into the boy's nose, instantly crushing it under the might of a shinobi's chakra enhanced limbs. The act alone didn't even break the blonde's stride at the longer haired teen doubled over with a scream of agony, spitting out several of his teeth as blood poured from his destroyed nostrils.

The girl that was in between Shido's legs seemed to no longer care, seemingly lost in her own world as she went back to work on Shido, despite the man himself scrambling to pull of his pants that had pooled and been caught under his shoes as Naruto approached.

He was too slow. He would always be too slow.

Why?

Shido was only human.

Naruto delivered a crushing hook to Shido's face, but by the time the impact had effectively hit, despite the momentum Naruto caught his neck with his other hand. He hoisted the former teacher off the ground by the neck, choking the man all the while.

Any erection he had mere moments ago from the girl's activities had completely and utterly died as his entire body hung flaccid in mid air. Naruto's eyes narrowed harshly before the man got the opportunity to speak, and roughly threw him into one of the chairs on the other end of the room. While the seats were cushioned, when not in use they were big bolted down pieces of metal in many areas.

Shido impacted hard against the seat, his head whip-lashing violently as it rebounded against the wall with a resounding crack.

'Don't harm civilians...' Naruto fought down a laugh as he reached for a black and red mask, and adjusted it on his face, before slowly pulling the hood over his recognizable blonde hair.

Anonymity is power in our world Naruto. But it is easy to get consumed by that power and forget who you really are, and where your true loyalties lie.

Naruto gaze turned to the teacher as the seals on his mask restored his vision to him completely. Shido had since slumped to the ground groaning in pain, clutching his sides, no longer caring that his pants were still around his ankles.

Naruto turned to the last couple in the group, both of whom had since bolted up and stood by the doorway. The girl was frozen in fear, and Jin was considerably tense, his hand seemingly trying to grab for something on his shoulder that simply wasn't there.

Naruto moved towards the couple before the girl blurted out, "I wanted it!" she said quickly. "I actually wanted to do it!" she repeated again as if to make the statement more true.

Naruto's advance upon the final couple halted as he heard that. Oh he was a hairline fracture away from not giving a damn, and taking out his rage on the last two remaining members.

Naruto however scowled under his mask as he looked away from the two. "Get the fuck out of here." he bit out harshly.

Jin and the girl apparently didn't need to be told twice as the two of them bolted up the stairs.

Naruto glared at the deflated Shido, and saw that the girl he had been with had since actually gone and sat by his side to see if he was okay. Naruto was sure he would break that delusional mentality shortly.

The long haired boy still gasping, not quite grasping on how he should breath with blood going down his throat from his caved in nose on the other hand...

The girl he had been with had backed up into the wall, tears staining her face, her ripped skirt having been put on if only barely clinging to her waist. Her top on the other hand was in ruins.

Naruto gritted his teeth as he disappeared and reappeared with his foot in the boy's gut. At least that is what it appeared like in the eyes of the civilians. The boy heaved over in agony, coughing up blood onto the floor as Naruto deftly moved to the side before the boy could spit it on him.

Naruto grabbed him from his hair and hefted him off the ground like a piece of luggage. Not entirely off the ground however. He still wanted the boy's legs to bang against every step as he carried him up the stairs.

Naruto turned to the crying girl, "Go upstairs and go see Busujima Saeko, the purple haired girl. She will take care of you."

The girl nodded her head frantically before she wiped her eyes and scurried up the stairs.

Naruto however merely looked down at the boy in agony under his grip. The truth was the girl wouldn't be okay. There was nothing Saeko could do for her.

The physical trauma done to her body may recover in perhaps three weeks. The potential emotional trauma? Three years, if not more.

Naruto stomped up the stairs with the boy crying out in pain. However Naruto's emotionless mask only served to be a barrier between his emotionless face.

Naruto opened the sound proofing door only to hear the sound of gunshots.

'Yet another problem I will attend to shortly...' he thought coldly as he looked down to the boy, despite his injuries doing his best to kick and scream out of his grip. Surely no different than the girl had potentially done long not before.

Naruto stepped into the kitchen to which he was slightly surprised to find empty. However as more and more gunshots sounded, his irritation only served to grow. He suddenly felt really old as he felt like he was taking care of children.

Civilian children. Shinobi children wouldn't even be that stupid.

"What are you doing?" the teen gargled out with blood as he was strung along by his hair.

As no one was around to hear him, he humbled the boy. "In the new shinobi world, treachery is punishable by one way and one way only. Treachery is hanged." Naruto said with the same cold chill to his voice as he heaved the boy up the stairs, his hair tearing under his grip. Thud after thud sounded as the boy's back and ankles hit each and every wooden step along the way.

Naruto's lips curled into disgust at the boy who had likely felt he was so strong with the girl mere moments ago, and now was just so pathetically weak. A shinobi... no even a bandit would have at least got on their feet like a man and faced their punishment.

Naruto walked across the empty bedroom with the kicking and screaming boy. He reached down during his march, ripping off the bed sheet with a single stroke. As he walked to the glass door leading to the balcony, he repeatedly whipped the sheet until it was a thin rope. However instead of sliding open the glass door, Naruto simply opted to throw the boy through it.

Komuro would later wonder why Kohta had a bullet graze so close to his face that it was actually able to cut his hair, before marking his first missed target.

"Are you trying to make me kill Komuro!" Kohta yelled in a panic, looking up from his gun's scope, as he turned around.

The boy flew through the door, his face once again impacting harshly against a surface, this time the balcony's railing.

Naruto took a moment to register what the shorter boy had exactly said. It was only when he saw Komuro running down the street below, just past the wall that Naruto went ahead and growled out, "That sounds like a personal problem, disobeying a direct order."

Naruto however wasted no time waiting for a reply as he took the length of bed sheet in both hands, and wrapped it tightly around the boy's neck.

"Naruto-san!"

"What the hell!

"Ahhh!"

"Uzumaki-san?"

"Naruto?"

All tones from the five people situated on the balcony asked the unasked question of what the hell the blonde was doing. Even though they could not see his face, the feeling that overcame them the moment his presence was known was momentarily suffocating. That was until his killing intent was refocused on the boy with the bed sheet around his neck.

And it was in these next few moments in time that while frozen in shock... Kohta, Saito, Jin, Ayane, and the short haired girl could only look on in horror as the blonde lifted the boy by the back of his head, and threw him over the side of the balcony.

The fall would have surely killed him, if not injured him beyond the point of medical treatment for their situation. However their eyes would never forget the sight of the blonde tightly holding onto his end of the bed sheet, and whipping it moments after throwing the student over.

The resounding crack that sounded loud and clear in the silence of the night would forever plague their memories.

Naruto's sneer behind his mask died down as he tied the end of the bed sheet to the railing. He would let that be a reminder to everyone. Treachery against the team would end as such. Rape however he felt simply needed no explanation. He didn't need to give the boy a pamphlet on how to be a human being.

"Now please all of you." Naruto said as he looked over the stunned teens gathered around. Naruto turned and sneered at Jin. The boy had taken the crossbow from the locker inside. Naruto quickly snatched that out of his grip, with minimal effort. "You don't get to have this." Naruto said coldly as he stepped back and tossed it on the bed inside.

"Now someone tell me whose god awful idea was it to piss me off by disobeying a direct order." Naruto behind his mask had long since forgot that he was talking to simple civilians. Human beings that still held their emotion's close to their heart.

"Dude! It was a little girl!" Hirano yelled out in an animated fashion more than willing to take the blame for something he believed in. However quickly he shook his head as if suddenly remembering his job he was supposed to be doing before quickly turning back to the scope, and firing several shots.

Naruto's eyes narrowed at that as he looked out over the street. Sure enough, there was Takashi running around with the golden baseball bat in a small yard in front of a house, doing his best to not get eaten.

Naruto rushed up and yanked the gun from Kohta's hands, momentarily taking the time to examine it. "Go to bed." Naruto said coldly as he looked over the gun for a mere second curiously before his gaze returned to a hardened one.

"What! Komuro needs me!" Kohta cried out, and much to Naruto's own surprise, jumped up and snatched the gun back.

Naruto was stressed enough as it was, he was all but ready to use force against the chubby boy beside him. But his jaw tightened at the sight of the little girl, and Komuro trying his very best to defend her. An effort that was surely going to end in failure without actual assistance near by.

Naruto growled, "Fine. I'll go get him." Naruto all but spat as he brushed past the students, and passed through the broken window, leaving everyone else to stare at the troubles Komuro was facing, and the sick feeling in the pit of their stomachs at the sight of the tied up piece of bed sheet.

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Alright and this is pretty much the second half of the last chapter I opted not to post. As I am sure you can see it is quite the darker chapter. Anyone who reads my stories knows I don't tend to go the "Happy go lucky, everything is fine" route, no matter what I decide to write. So whether it comes down to sex, rape, death, torture, extreme violence. I don't really care as long as I feel that the story works, and the scene fits.

I have no doubt that this may turn a few readers off whom were hoping to see a rather light hearted Highschool of the Dead story. However the fact of the matter is that the story will definitely have dark elements to it.

Anyways with all of that said, I won't try and explain myself here. If you have questions or concerns about the story now that this chapter is out there? Feel free to put them in a review. I am pretty solid about getting back to anyone and everyone in a PM if you word your review like a question. Now onto some questions.

"Hey Bleed, Bro, Broski, Dude! I think you should stop letting people control your story. Tired of reading you keep telling people this story isn't NarutoxRei."

Well hello there good chap! But no seriously, I could honestly care less what people care about my story. It is just after writing fan fiction for a number of years(probably 7-8) and being on the site probably a bit over ten years now? One comes to appreciate the fans of their stories. And over my ten years of reading on this site, it isn't like buying a book. You are never putting down money for a story, and as such you are never really committed to finish it. As such there have been numerous times that I have been reading a story that has been going relatively well, and then the writer would make some completely random turn that would lead the story down a road I would no longer wish to read. (EX: Reading a very solid story with a Naruto that had grown up a lot more street smart. And then suddenly spinning the story into a Sasuke/Naruto yaoi fest 14 chapters into the story with no warning.)

After that moment, I felt it to be almost imperative that the fans at least have a vague feeling of where they are going or how the story will turn out, so they don't get any sideways surprises like that. I'm sure you all wouldn't like it if 16 chapters into this story, I decided that Takashi and Naruto were going to have sex in a changing room at the mall now would you?

"Yo Bleed! Will Naruto be getting all the girls?"

No.

"Bleed! My brotha from anotha motha! A lot of people gave you suggestions in the reviews about mutations. Others said they were against it. Can you tell us anything you plan to do about that?"

That I can. I guess the term "mutation" can get some bad flak from people because with the term mutation people instantly think of Resident Evil or Left 4 Dead, and they don't want to see tanks or Wesker's or Nemesis running around. Fear not, that won't be happening.

When I was thinking over the idea of mutations? I was toying with things more along the lines of human beings that were already sick with a disease becoming zombies made their disease run rampant to an extreme.

I'll list a couple examples.

Someone with cancer pre infection may be able to resist head trauma, or recover and regenerate from head trauma/wounds.

Someone with Muscle Dysmorphia may have extremely tight skin and muscles, and be bulkier and resistant to physical trauma.

Someone with anxiety issues may have over active adrenal glans causing the zombies to move faster, perhaps even run.

Someone who was already Deaf upon being infected may retain all of his senses and simply never recover his hearing

Perhaps even go down the route of having a zombie have some sort of illness or wound that causes his bodies' sweat glans to instead secrete hydrochloric acid through his pours, and his stagnant bloodstream burning anyone who touches him.

These are just ideas, I don't even know If I will put them into practice. If you fans know any interesting medical illnesses that would potentially create interesting zombies, please mention them. The more ideas I have, the more I have to work with.

"Dude... Not cool! Bleed you keep focusing on OCs and not on the original cast. What is up with that?"

I will keep this short. However the main reason for this, I believe I have mentioned. We all as fans know how the original cast acts. We also know where they get expanded on as characters. Right now I want to establish every person as a character, and part of the group.

Like a lot of people I already see in reviews are like "Oh I hate Shido, he is evil! Kill him soon plz!" and yes, he is evil. However that doesn't mean he can't be interesting and have redeeming qualities. He guided an entire group of unarmed students out of a school. He obviously has a lot of charisma to be able to turn all of those students into essentially drones. And to top it all off? He is truthfully trying to just get back at his father who he feels betrayed him.

In fact? Shido is probably the most in depth character in the entire series... which is a bit sad. However fear not. Everyone will get expanded on. I am just going to be doing it where I feel they fit in the story.

Anyways read and review.