Waking with a start, I feel my entire world spin as I register the horrible dizziness I woke up to.

Hearing a snort to my left, I notice a woman with shoulder length black hair seated at a desk, dressed in casual clothes under a lab coat. "Not the smartest thing to do, especially after getting your face kicked in."

Glancing all around me, I find nothing close enough to use as a weapon, just open curtains around my bed. '...Is this a school? Definitely not a hospital.' Ignoring it for now, I focus on the woman.

"Looking for something?" She giggles. "You won't have to worry about me attacking you, well, unless you attack me first."

Meeting her gaze, I try to find what she wants. Violet orbs meet mine, before she snorts, again. "Oh, man. What's with your eyes, you look like a dead fish!" Too busy laughing at me, I ignore her and begin to inspect my wounds.

Feeling something stop my left arm from further movement, I notice the cuff connecting my arm to the bed. 'No wonder she's so lax.'

"No escape attempts just yet." She teases after her amusement dies down, but again, I ignore her as I use my right hand to pull my shirt up to my chest.

'I thought so…' Wincing at the bruising, I let my shirt fall back down.

"Dojima sure doesn't hold back, huh?" Turning back to her, I find her with a cigarette and lighter in hand. "You don't mind, do you?" She doesn't wait for an answer, as she lights the tobacco stick.

"I do, actually."

Blowing the smoke out of her mouth, she smirks. "So you can talk. Anyway, I have a few questions for you. Mind telling me your name, freshie?" She picks up a pen and clipboard from the desk at her side.

"Where are we? Why am I here?"

"The clinic, but I made it into my office. Anyway-"

"Don't dodge the question." I glare.

Her casual smile drops, as she looks back at me. "I could say the same to you."

"...It doesn't take an idiot to realize this place is the nurse's office, you know what I meant and are choosing to withhold that information."

"Oh? Why would I tell you anything?"

"Because, I might be a more willing participant to your questions."

Smirking, she seems to ponder on what to do. Seems, because I knew she had already made her decision, and was purposefully testing my patience. "Okay, fine... My turn first!" She excitedly plays along. "I'm Haruno, what's your name, fishie-kun?"

Taking this moment to fully focus on her, I finally notice the thin scar running down her right temple to her jaw. "Hikigaya."

"That tracks with Dojima's story at least. Nice to meet you, Hikigaya-kun." She smiles, sending a shiver down my spine. "We don't need a full name for the records, just something to call you by, so I won't ask for the rest of yours."

"Why attack us?"

"Hm? Oh, that. You can blame that on Dojima, most runners usually aren't so aggressive when it comes to making the sales pitch."

'...Somehow, I don't believe that.'

"What about you? Why kill Suzaki? I get he was creepy, but he was never much of a threat."

"He deserved it." I spit out. "He was worse than the zombies outside."

"Hm? You're quite the ball of hate, aren't you? What did he do?" Replaying the moment in my head, I feel my blood begin to boil.

"He…He tried to…" I killed him. "...H-He…" He was garbage, but I…

"Slow breaths, Hikigaya." Following her advice, I calm my mind from any further racing.

Drip…

'I'm…crying? Why am I…for a piece of shit like him?!'

"I…don't think it gets easier, killing someone, but the fact you feel something, anything even, is a good thing. It says a lot about you." She sighs, putting her cigarette down onto an ashtray. "...I don't need a long answer, and I have a feeling I know what may have happened for you to have done what you did. So, did Suzaki try to…sexually assault one of the girls you were with?"

Again, the memory played out in my head, this time far more vivid, slower, and too in-detail. With a sick feeling forming in my stomach, I find myself having trouble speaking, so I just nod.

"...Thank you. You did the right thing." Looking back up at her in shock, I find her crossing her arms with a mean look in her eye. "We already have enough on our plates." She sighs again, this time sounding exhausted. "I'll be honest with you, life here isn't easy. You'll have to earn your keep, and if you don't? Well, you won't have to worry about that, I'll see about setting you-"

KRRRT!

The sound of a sliding door opening sounds out from my right, but I'm unable to see who opened it due to the curtains in the way.

"Haru-senpai~..." The intruder shows herself as she slumps her posture. "Governor-san is far too scary…" The "intruder" being a girl with brown hair styled into twin braids, who hadn't noticed me yet.

Snorting, Haruno throws me a look. "Really setting quite the example for your newest kouhai, Megurin."

"Eh?" Her head snaps in my direction, as our eyes meet, and realization settles into her. "Eh?"

"I never said I'd join you." I glare at the woman.

"That's the thing, fishie-kun, you never had a choice in the matter." She stands up and begins to approach my bedside, digging into her lab coat pocket along the way.

Feeling my body tense up, I cautiously glare at her, as she stops just before me. Gripping onto the bed's blanket, I wait for her to make her move.

Pulling out a key, she unlocks the cuff holding onto the bed. Taking the chance, I throw the blanket at her, and immediately begin my escape.

Yet, it was not meant to be, as I immediately lost my balance after standing.

"Pfft…Hahaha! Did you forget the kick you got to the head?" Pushing myself off the ground, in an attempt to continue my escape, I feel a heel dig into my shoulder. "Not the worst escape attempt so far, it was smart of you to throw the blanket, buuut let me just tell you now, you wouldn't have gotten far." Haruno chuckles.

"Haruno-senpai? Who is this?"

"Oh? Sorry about that, Megurin. This boy is Hikigaya-kun, our newest runner, and the one who killed Suzaki."

"...Oh."

"You'll be giving him a special tour of the place, while I go report to the Gov."

"Eh? But isn't he..?"

Feeling her heel push me back down, I grit my teeth as I throw a glare her way. "He'll behave, or else. Won't you, Hikio-kun?" Feeling a shiver run down my spine, I begrudgingly drop my gaze, and nod mutedly.

'Komachi, I'll get out of here, so wait for me.'

Kawasaki, a week after that day

I swear, that guy's luck rubbed off on me somehow. "What do you all want? Planning on robbing me?" I break the silence, as I eye the group of four in the gas station with me.

"Woah, nothing like that!" Headband starts, holding his hands up in surrender, with the peach haired girl next to him nodding.

"Yeah, totally!" Peach adds, but the other two in their group…

Blondie and Serious Girl, they both keep their gaze steady and cautious. 'Two naive idiots, and two more not so naive idiots.'

"So? Why approach me?" My hold on his spear tightens.

"We haven't seen you around before, so we were wondering if you'd like to join our group." Blondie makes his sales pitch, but his little friendly schtick just rubs me the wrong way.

"Is that why you all approached me?" I scoff. "The answer's no." My answer visibly disappoints three of them.

"I knew this was a waste of time." Quiet finally speaks. "Let's get going, Hiratsuka-sensei gave us a time limit for a reason."

"...Hiratsuka?" I unintentionally murmur. Finding their eyes back on me, I sigh. "This Hiratsuka you're talking about…she's a smoker and wears a lab coat, right?"

"You know Hiratsuka-sensei?" Peach gets a bit too close, so I point his spear at her, and she gets the message."Whoops. Ehe…Wait! Are you also a sobu student!?"

So they are too? Wait, if idiots like these got into Sobu, why did I try so hard to get in? …Not important. "No shit."

"Can I assume your answer has changed?" Serious Girl asks.

Before I can repeat my refusal, a loud shattering of glass sounds out. With groans of the undead sounding out soon after.

I throw peachy and headband the meanest look I can. 'Good going, idiots.'

Seeing them ready their makeshift weapons, I sigh, for what is probably not the last time today. "If you all can help me get out of here, I'll come along with you."

Stepping past peachy, who looks ready to die from fear, I give the walkers a once over. 'Four? Nothing too bad. Oh?' Running to the back, I gut the one who split off from the group.

It struggles under the spear's grasp, but I kick it off, and it slides off the bowie knife with ease. On the ground, I step on its chest and stab it through the eye once…once I get my aim right.

"Woah, she's crazy just like Yukinoshita…" I ignore the headband wearing idiot's useless chatter, as I look back at blondie and…the serious one.

They were fighting two, with blondie on the front lines, and serious at back.

Blondie held his ground even as they grabbed at his shield, worked well as he pushed the two of them to the ground, but he hesitated once he had the chance to finish both, which the serious girl took as her sign to do it for him.

'A katana? What the fu-'

"Finally!" Headband breathes out, a dead walker at his feet, literally, as his foot is covered in brain matter. 'Gross.'

"Is…Is it over?" Peachy peeks out.

Not giving her a second glance, I look out the window that broke, and find two stragglers on their way to us, moving erratically. "Oi, let's get a move on. I'd rather not be here by sunset."

They quickly agree with my assessment, grimaces forming on their faces.

Chibachuo Station

'Chibachuo Station? Not a bad place to be, all things considered.'

"Welcome to paradise, …Uh, I never did catch your name." Headband pulls up beside me.

Scoffing at his little attempt, I move past him. Though, I stop as I hear my walkie go off.

"Hey, where are you? It's late."

Miura's voice comes through, and her voice is just bitchy enough to thin my already thinning patience. "I'd like it if you didn't breathe down my neck everytime I went out, Miura."

"Haah? I'm just asking where you are, stop being a dumbass."

"And like I said, get off my ass."

"Tsk! Okay, be a bitch about it."

The walkie cuts off, and guilt soon hits me as I realize just how snappy I got. '...Fuck.'

"Onee-chan? What was that?"

"...Taishi. I…I won't be home tonight."

"Eh?! What?! Did something happen?! Do you need us to come get you?"

"You keep your butts there, got it? I ain't dying or anything, not yet. Just…wait for me, got it?"

"...Okay, stay safe."

"You too, and…apologize to M-Muira for me, yeah? Bye, love you."

"Bye."

With a sigh, I put the walkie back on my hip. Looking back up, I notice the stares being thrown my way. Feeling my face grow red from em…anger, I glare at them. "What the hell are you all looking at?"

""Nothing.""

'Dumbasses.'

"...Who's this, Hayama-kun?" An adult asks, clearly guarding the gate.

"A new member, hopefully."

"...She's not one of the Governer's Runners, is she?" He warily eyes me.

Yet at the mention of runners, I am reminded of that day, and what that man told us. "I'm not."

"What's the issue over here, Tanaka?" I heard a voice I hadn't heard since the start of this all.

"Hayama brought a "new mem-"

Once our eyes met, she immediately barked out a laugh. "...Well, I'll be damned. Good to see you're still alive, Kawasaki."

"You too, sensei."

To Be Continued…

Hey… So, two months, huh? I just couldn't find the time to write. Work, playing games to destress, or stress me out, I'm looking at you R6, I just forgot about this story.

Well, I'll try not to let it happen again.

It won't be mentioned how she got it, but that lab coat Haruno was wearing? Definitely Hiratsuka's.

Why was it just lying around? All in due time.

I won't bother explaining how big Chibachou station is, but it's a decently sized building. Google it if you need or want to.

If it wasn't obvious, the group that was with Saki? Hayato, Yukino, Tobe, and Yui.

Lastly, about the OC thing, there will be a few here and there, ie. Dojima (The guy who brought 8man to where he is), Suzaki, and Tanaka, but they will never be major characters who will have crazy plot armor. *Cough* Komachi. *Cough*

…Just watch me go back on that in the future, as I kill off characters left and right.

Anyway, what I'm trying to say is, I'll include OCs and Characters from other shows/games, but they will never be part of the main group.

Review Time

Sixdry: Yeah, that's where I got it from.

WhyareUsernamesTakenAlready: Hikigaya is in hell already, just at a deeper level now. Good thing he has two "angels" at his side.

JCarrasco: I will try.

Guest: Uhh…I'll see about updating TGR soon, but no promises! I'm taking it slow with that story, I'd rather not drop than drop a rushed chapter.

Hachiman Fan: I'd rather not spoil what I am cooking with the Yukinoshita Family.

G0dz1llex: We've got ourselves a punny guy here! Also…no? Sorry, but Haruno is the one running a gang, not the Yukinoshitas. *Take that last sentence with a grain of salt.

Done. Later.