Thank you for the review! So I have some news, this story I will need some OC's for later chapters. I can't guarantee they will survive but these OC's I'd like of you readers to create. Basically creating your own character for this story. There will be more information on this at the end of the chapter, so please read the Author's Note once you reach it.

In The Flesh

Please, tell me why

My time has stopped

I cannot comprehend this unknown pain

Piercing my chest

~ Cruel Clocks by Hatsune Miku

Chapter Two: Bullets

"Kairi shine some damn light over here!" Ikuto yelled as gun shots went off all around him. Kairi hurriedly turned the flashlight on; shining it right under Ikuto needed it to see the fuel tank. Ikuto groaned and hit the metal of the jet hard enough to make the sound reverberate.

"What's wrong?" Kairi asked surprised at Ikuto's quickness of giving up.

"It's out of fuel Kairi- we won't be flying out of here tonight." Ikuto explains, pulling a hand gun from the waist of his jeans, aiming it at the Infected that begun to run across the runway, trying to help Amu take them down.

Amu couldn't focus, not with trying to aim and with Ami being useless and getting in the way. It was still irritating Amu that Ami still hadn't thought of the idea to grab some sort of weapon to protect herself with, so that left Amu constantly looking over her shoulder to check on her younger sister. The gun was heavy in her hands, but Amu seemed to be a natural at shooting it right at her target.

"Ami get a damn bat!" Utau yelled for Amu, letting curses out at the younger Hinamori about how stupid it was just standing there weaponless. Amu mentally thanked her friend.

"Amu-Chan, I don't like this one bit." Yaya says, standing beside Amu with a bat.

Is she mentally smashing their heads? Amu asked herself, just then her gun stopped firing. Shit. Amu tossed her gun to Kairi. "Please reload it! Bullets are in that bag right there!" Amu called pointing to the bag just as the Infected came closer to her and Yaya.

Ikuto saw that Amu and Yaya were going to be in some serious trouble, but right before he could stop himself from pulling the trigger- Amu grabbed Yaya's bat, doing a 360 turn- colliding the bat right into the Infected skull. Just as his bullet hit her right in the shoulder, making Amu yell in pain.

"Amu!" Kukai yelled, as more Infected ran towards her and Yaya, but Yaya already had the bat- coping Amu's movements and swinging it at the skulls of the Infected.

"We can't stay here for much longer!" Rima yelled, using the bow and arrows she had left in the bag. She aimed, pulled the string back before releasing the arrow into the air.

"I know we can't!" Ikuto shouted back, reloading his gun before aiming it again. "Amu was accidently shot, she's injured! Plus we don't have much room to run!"

"And who's fault was that!?" Amu yelled angrily, clutching her shoulder and trying to ignore the pain as she looked at Kairi. "Kairi, where is that gun?"

Kairi turned the bag over to show Amu that the bag was empty. "You lost them all on that zip line ride!"

Amu cursed, blaming Kukai. So instead of relying on a gun, Amu grabbed another bat, using her other arm, the uninjured shoulder, and tried to help Yaya, but the infect kept coming and soon enough, Amu and Yaya were slowly getting surrounded. In the distance, both girls heard the rush of footsteps, the Kukai was batting away the Infect with Kairi and Nikaidou. That's when Amu heard it, one thing she was fearful of.

"AMI!" Utau yelled, just as one of the infected lunged at Amu's younger sister.

Horrified, Amu froze, watching as the Infected went straight for her sister and not even seeing Yukari shove Ami out of the way. Yukari's scream echoed loudly as the infected tore into her arm, biting and yanking a good chunk of flesh out. Right then and there a van speed into the runway, the sliding door of the ice-cream-truck type of van opened, and there stood Tsukasa and Nobuko Saeki, both holding guns that should be illegal for citizens to even have.

They both aimed and fired at the Infected, their bullets completely random aim- almost hitting some of the previous Guardians. Soon enough, whatever left of the Infect were dead and Kairi was besides his sister who was going in and out of it, and Amu went to check Ami.

"Yukari-San." Kairi whispered with Nikaidou across from his holding her hand.

"Kairi.." She whispered weakly. "I'm sorry."

"It's not your fault." Kairi reassured. "Why did you save her?"

He knew it was selfish to ask why his older sister saved Amu's younger one, but this was his only family left. He couldn't lose her to, not so early on in this epidemic. Kairi would need her, as a sister, to be there for him to talk to. He didn't want to face this world by himself. No, not yet.

"She's young Kairi- she has more life than me and." Yukari coughed. "And she deserves to live it."

"You can't go yet." Kairi whispered as a tear slid down his cheek.

Yukari gave him a small smile, "I love you, and if you loved me- Don't let me become one of them."

"No." Both males deadpanned, shaking their heads, but it was Utau who noticed that Yukari had closed her eyes and stopped breath. It was also the singer who knew that neither males who fulfil her wishes, so Utau grabbed Ikuto's gun and went to her beloved manager, placing the barrel onto her forehead.

"Thank you for everything, Yukari." Utau whispered, pulling the trigger.

"Are you crazy?!" Kairi yelled, getting up and shoving Utau out of anger. She didn't take it personally; she'd be the same way if she lost Ikuto.

Utau face was void of expression, "You were about to let her turn, I did her the favor she wanted before she woke up as one of them and took a chunk out of you." Utau's voice was cool as she walked away from the grieving brother.

"Ami, are you okay? You aren't bitten?" Amu frantically asks, checking her sister for any visible injuries.

"I'm better than you." Ami says and points to Amu's injured shoulder. "I wasn't the one who was shot."

"I wasn't the one who almost got bitten either." Amu retorted, doing a double check, hissing in pain when she moved her shoulder.

"Kairi's sister saved me." Ami whispers. "It's my fault she's dead, because I wasn't paying attention to the side of me."

Amu's head whipped up so fast as she grabbed Ami's hands, her own shaking. She lost a lot of blood from that gunshot wound. "Don't you ever blame yourself Ami, okay? It wasn't your fault, and I owe my life to her for saving you-", Amu cut off as black spots danced around her vision, and she fell forward into Ami's lap, her eyes rolling to the back of her head.

"Amu?" Ami shook her shoulder, feeling a warm liquid on it. Bring her hand back; she realized it was blood, which Amu had been bleeding out for the past fifteen minutes from that bullet wound. "Help! Amu fainted!"

Ikuto was the first one there, checking Amu's pulse. It was stead, but slowing down. Panic infiltrated him. "Put pressure on her wound!" Ikuto yelled the demand at Ami as he ripped the sleeve of his shirt and pressed it onto her shoulder. Rima had come over to help, moving Ami's hands and applying pressure herself.

"Hurry, get in so we can leave!" Nobuko Saeki demanded loudly, getting everyone's attention.

"We can't move Amu! She's lost to much blood!" Rima snapped, applying more pressure, but Kukai came over- moving both Rima and Ami aside to swiftly pick Amu up, despite the fact that blood smeared onto his shirt.

"What are you doing Kukai-san!?" Ami screeched, worry flooding into her when Amu let out a groan.

"We have to get in the van before more Infected come Ami! Now get your ass up and into the van!" Kukai snapped impatiently, gently laying Amu in the back of the van as Tsukasa hopped into the passenger side of the car with Kairi and Nikaidou getting into the back- silently grieving over the loss of Yukari.

Ikuto was by Amu, watching as Rima continued to apply pressure and as the van got full, Utau sliding the door shut. Tsukasa shoved over a first aid kit as Nobuko started the car. In the distance, the Infected could be heard making their animalistic sounds, but none of that mattered as the sound was drowned out as the van lurched forward with a vroom, so fast that the unfastened people in the back of the van lurched backward. When Nobuko took a sharp turn, the road got bumpy. She was running over the Infect manically laughing and Amu's body jerk right- her head colliding right into Ikuto's knee. Poor pinkette was just having a bad day.

"In that first aid kit there should be a small roll of thread and a thin needle. You can stitch Amu's wound with that." Tsukasa instructed.

Utau sweat dropped, "We actually can't, one- Nobuko's driving is moving the car too much. Two, you can stitch a bullet would with the bullet still lodged into the shoulder!"

"We can at least apply some alcohol onto it." Rima mutters, getting a cotton ball and the bottle of alcohol that was found in pharmacies. Carefully saturating the cotton back, Rima dabbed it onto Amu's wounded shoulder, and her eyes jerked open from the pain and a scream escaped her lips. Instinctively the pinkette swung her arms, confused about what was going on.

"Amu! Calm down!" Rima cried out when Amu's fist connected with her cheek.

Ikuto was the first to react, grabbing Amu's arms and pinning them down, forcing her to look at him. Her honey eyes were wild with adrenaline, but as soon as his blue were in her line of sight all of her muscles visibly relaxed. Her breathing became more even as she looked around the van.

"Where are we going?" She whispered her voice cracking.

"Not sure." Nagihiko answers, glancing towards Tsukasa's seat. "Tsukasa, where exactly are we headed to?"

"Somewhere safe." Was all he replied, which sent a wave of uneasiness down Ikuto's spine.

"That's not a reassuring answer, Tsukasa." Ikuto retorted.

Tsukasa looked back over at the blue haired male, "All the places you'd deem safe in this town are compromised by the Infect. The safest place we could be right now is in this, and until further notice we stay here."

Silence filled the car with Tsukasa's answer, leaving the young adults pondering at his answer. The only one who wasn't pondering was Amu, who had pain shooting through her shoulder with each turn Nobuko took, making Amu hiss in pain. Ikuto would cast her glances, and Amu would glare as if to say this-was-your-fault- it should-of-been-you-asshole, but that was just the pain talking. So Amu decided to distract herself.

"Nobuko, what happened to your RV?" Amu asked curiously, just staring up at the van's ceiling.

"It was overrun by the Infected. I was lucky enough to get out of that thing in time. Blew the damn thing up witch a match and gasoline before Tsukasa found me. That's when we found this van in the parking lot, and after making sure it was Infected free- we begun looking for survivors around town and that's when we heard your gun shots. Thus here we are." Nobuko explained, her eyes never leaving the road.

Amu didn't respond, instead she closed her eyes feeling tired. Her head was spinning, and now Ami had Amu's head in her lap, stroking the pink hair. Mostly everyone watched the two sisters, watched how Ami looked so worried that she was going to lose her sister. When Amu had fainted, Ami gotten so scared that Amu had stopped breathing and she was gone. It was as if time had suddenly stopped, and Ami's world shattered. To lose a sibling was just a horrible idea to think of, and Kairi lost his sister. Ami risked a glance up, looking at the green haired male that slouched against the van wall. His sister saved her life, now she owed Kairi everything she had.

Kairi just couldn't wrap his mind around why she did it. Sure Yukari saved Ami, a girl she didn't even know, and for that Yukari was truly selfless. There was a selfish part in Kairi though that believed Ami should have been the one bitten instead of his sister. After it was Ami's fault that she wasn't paying attention, but yet the girl was just fourteen and seen her sister get shot. There was a part that was grateful Yukari saved Ami, she saved a life even if it coasted her own. For that, Kairi truly forgave all her sins in the past that were caused by Easter.

"We could go to a ranch." Kairi suggested suddenly, earning looks from the people around him.

"A ranch?" Ikuto questioned. "That has people- which means there is Infected there, so it's out of the question."

"We have nowhere to go." Yaya groaned, shaking her head.

Ikuto shook his head at Kairi's innocent stupidity. They had to go to a place people rarely went to, and for now there was no where he could think of. Mountains were out of the question, they needed a way to get food so they have to stay close to a town. Woods were a defiant no just because the reason was obvious; an Infected could just be lurking in the dark and could just attack. It would be bloodshed.

Nobuko took a sharp turn left, with jerked everyone to the right. Ikuto then decided enough was enough and picked a groaning Amu up and held her in his lap. Utau was holding Ami at her side, stroking the younger girls brown hair. Somehow, she'd fallen asleep through this entire ruckus and Nobuko's horrible driving. Kairi just was silent now with Nikaidou. Nagihiko held Rima as she curled up next to him, the two silently talking in whispers. Yaya just sat there, for once in a long time she said absolutely nothing to cheer anyone up, because there was nothing to say to make anything better.

It was silent in the van as the bumpy road turned smooth and the snarls stopped. They were going somewhere, and they only hope it could be somewhere safe. Maybe even on the way, they could meet other survivors, fighters and join together.

That was wishful thinking.

Author's Note

I'm not sure, I think this chapter was a little slow but like- I don't want to rush this plot line, but it should be fast paced. I'll work on that in the next chapter, but I tried to put some twists in this. Ikuto shooting Amu by accident was my favorite, and I killed Yukari off, and I promise more character deaths with come. Did you know it's hard to kill them off? Like I tried thinking about which favorites will die and I was like I'm dying when I kill them. Haha.

So like up above, I mentioned that I need OC's. I will be accepting five for now of my decision, and then as we go on I will be asking for more. These OC's I want you readers to create, so it's kind of a reader and author interaction. Like I said, I can't guarantee your OC will survive but I can guarantee they become a major part of this story. I'll explain OC guild lines now, because you can have them close to the canon characters, even like close close, but no pairings. Parings will remain the same.

You readers can have OC's get close to any of the female or male canon characters. If no one knews what canon characters are, it's the main characters. So yes my lady readers, you can have an OC kissing Ikuto and cause friction in the Amuto relationship.

Here are the guild lines.

Name:

Age:

Looks like:

Personality:

Chara (if any):

Any Secrets:

Criminal or no:

Are they good at fighting :

Can they use a Weapon:

Background (history):

Any relations to canon (could be a past flame just don't make it to complicated please):

How are they reacting to the 'zombie' situation:

Have they lost anyone dear:

Like:

Dislikes:

ATTENTION DUE TO THE FACT THAT I HAVE BEEN 'WARNED' PLEASE DO NOT SUMBIT AN OC IN THE REVIEWS. IF YOU NEED TO SUBMIT AN OC- PLEASE PW YOUR SUBMISSION.

Okay so these are all the requirements. Please, if you can or want to- submit a character! I think it will be fun and I'll tell you if your OC has been accepted and I will work with you from there!