Disclaimer: First Chapter
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It was day 3.
"Wow! Kohta-chan you're so strong!"
"Eheheheheh... it's nothing, it's just skinning wild game." Kohta was blushing and scratching the back of his head as girls fawned over him. His heart was beating much faster than usual as he had what was practically a harem around him. If he did anything with talent, he was given heaps of praise he just wasn't used to.
Even on day 3.
He went hunting for wild animals with the girls, showed them the traps for hunting, and taught them techniques used for letting all the blood out of an animal better. The school was such a safe location with a working power supply, and creature comforts that he had found himself missing. The super cute girls all around him, girls older than him and girls his age, who made him feel important.
"Nothing, it takes us a lot longer to skin the animals we catch, but you did it by yourself so easily."
-In the Library-
"Maresato-san, you've got quite the wealth of knowledge... you've got much to teach us."
"Oh... well... I guess I do have some experience. I was a journalist, though I guess it isn't that important now." Maresato humble/bragged about his career as he accepted a drink from the girl. He had a few girls who would follow him around and ask him to help them out. Even now he was at the library reading books about survival techniques, that way he could try and be more useful to the group.
His health wasn't the best.
He wasn't athletic like Naruto or Takeshi.
He wasn't useful with a gun or tool like Kohta.
Among the men in the group, he offered the least to the group and took more resources to take care of thanks to his larger appetite as a man. He wanted to start feeling useful as more than just a look out for the girls to help them avoid danger.
"You must have met a lot of celebrities."
"Oh, nothing like that, I worked as a photographer for a newspaper with my... wife..." Maresato thought about his wife and his mood fell.
He never got to mourn her properly.
What would she say about his current situation.
-On the School Grounds-
"You're the best Takeshi!"
"Heheheheheh." Takashi laughed under his breath with confidence. He was just stacking bags of sand at the school gate, he was sweating and doing physical labor. Kohta wasn't strong enough to move the heavy sand bags by himself, so he decided to offer to take care of it while Kohta took care of hunting. '... Hirano really is more useful than me... he can hunt, but I can't...' Takashi looked in the distance.
He saw Naruto being approached by a couple of girls.
Naruto was the least popular male on the school grounds at the moment, but even had girls constantly approaching him. It was weird, because Takeshi knew that Naruto should be all rights be the most popular of them.
Naruto was tall, handsome, strong, had amazing survival skills, was a natural leader, had wildly strong charisma, and was kind. Takeshi was jealous of those traits that Naruto had in greater amounts than he himself had. He had come to terms with the fact that Naruto was just a more mature man than him, and while he was trying to change himself... he was starting to understand why the girls in their group were geared towards listening to him.
'... Honestly... if this whole zombie stuff never happened... I would have looked up to him.' Takeshi couldn't let go of his jealousy, but he also couldn't deny his respect. He knew that if he had met Naruto under different circumstances, he would look up to the blond like a hero. Naruto was everything a man wanted to strive to be. '... and... right now I'm more popular than him.' Takeshi watched as Naruto waved the girls away from him when Saeko approached them.
The girls that approached Naruto backed off, and Naruto walked off with Saeko to join up with Rei.
"Takeshi, come help me out over here. I think there is a hole in this wall that needs filling."
"I'll help with that!"
-With Naruto-
'Nobody wants to leave... but the longer I stay here, the more of a dangerous feeling I get from this place.' Naruto was walking side by side with Rei and Saeko. Both girls had completely abandoned the clothes that were given to them by the school girls, and had returned to the outfits they wore previously.
Food was plentiful.
The building had AC.
Sleeping was comfortable.
"Can you believe it... I almost walked in on Maresato having sex with one of the girls here." Rei complained with red cheeks. She had opened the door to visit the library, and she just saw the oldest man in the group having sex with a high school girl. Nobody saw her enter the room, because she quietly closed the door behind herself.
"Oh?" Saeko questioned.
Naruto raised an eyebrow.
"I'm not getting a haircut, stop asking!"
"That sounded like Saya." Naruto pointed out as he stopped his mental line of thought. He looked up and saw Saya arguing with one of the girls on the second floor of the school. The window was open.
"You would look so good with the same haircut as us... you're so beautiful."
"I'm not interested in joining your damn sex cult!" Saya stormed off, far away from the window and out of earshot. Saeko grabbed Naruto by the shirt and stopped him. She wanted them to go and follow Saya.
-Later-
"Sex cult?"
"God you're all so stupid... these bitches practically worship men, even more than this one does." Saya complained as she gestured to Saeko.
Saeko did not take offense to that.
"Cult?"
"God, you are all just so stupid. Naruto, when are we leaving this place already, or have you been brainwashed like the other guys?" Saya poked him in the chest. Naruto rolled his eyes at her.
"Right now, the 4 of us are the only ones who want to leave. Trust me, I'm just as sick of being here as you are. If Rei or Saeko aren't by my side, they try to seduce me constantly." Naruto wasn't a fan of the seduction attempts, because he was now understanding them for what they were. The girls were trying to prevent them from wanting to leave. He didn't have the feeling that they were a sex cult like Saya, but he could see that they were doing everything possible to prevent them from wanting to leave.
He couldn't force the others to want to leave.
The older women in the group had succumbed to the delights of the comforts that living in this place offered them. They just didn't want to leave, and Alice didn't want to leave because her father wanted to stay here.
"They try to seduce you?" Rei realized what Naruto said. "... WAIT, they are trying to seduce Takeshi too... why... he's so childish?" Rei questioned it as she went from happy, to angry, to confused in the span of a minute. She didn't understand why the girls would want a younger guy like Takeshi who couldn't really protect them, when Naruto was around.
Saeko had the answer.
"Because, the girls here have lived in relative safety. You might consider Takeshi childish, but the girls here still see him for what he is... a useful man." Saeko didn't have any issues with Takeshi at all. She just prefered the strongest man of the group was all. "So... how do we convince everyone to leave?" Saeko asked Naruto.
It was getting dangerous for their mental health to stay.
"Naruto-chan!"
"Hey Alice, do you need help with something?" Naruto saw the girl run to him, and latch onto his side.
"A zombie got into the school and bit a hole in the tires on the RV!" Alice shouted to Naruto, giving him news.
They started running.
-At the RV-
'... There is the zombie... and Alice is right, one of the tires is popped...' Naruto looked at the corpse of the zombie. It looked like one of the girls at the school had stabbed it in the back of the head. Naruto looked at the remains of the popped tire.
"Cult popped it." Saya called it.
'These puncture marks look like teeth marks, they really do... but as strong as zombies are, they shouldn't be able to bite through rubber like this.' Naruto looked at the puncture marks more, traced them with his fingers. There was also the fact that a zombie got into the school at all. 'Did it get in... or was it let in.' Naruto thought as he stood up.
This was sabotage.
One of the girls at the school popped the tire.
"It was one of the girls here... lets cause a scene and force them to admit it."
'... and the spare tires are gone...' Naruto walked around the RV, and he noticed that the tire he could change the popped tire for was gone. He frowned when something didn't add up. It was clearly sabotage at this point, there was no denying it. "Rei, don't cause a scene... because..." Naruto unlocked the door to the RV and walked inside.
There it was.
"Because?" Saeko repeated.
"... The weapons are all gone. I lock the RV door whenever one of us aren't nearby it. That means a member of our group is helping the girls here sabotage us. It also means... we're defenseless right now." Naruto stated with a deep frown.
"... but you're so strong."
"I'm strong, and if it was just a fist fight I could beat everyone here easily... but the guns are missing too. Your spear is gone, and Saeko's weapon too. We don't have any weapons, and now the guns are in the hands of the girls here... lets play it cool, and go along with the lie that a zombie bit the tire for now." Naruto couldn't protect them from guns if he didn't have a gun too.
"There is a traitor among us?"
"I'll bet it was Hirano, Takeshi, or Maresato... or maybe Naruto here-" Saya started to say.
Naruto smacked her.
"Do not go around accusing anyone of being a traitor like that, and cause us to start infighting."
"You hit me." Saya whispered as she backed up. She saw Naruto's eyes were stern, and she backed down. She stepped back, glanced up and saw his eyes were still stern. He locked his eyes onto her, and he made sure she was calm. She felt anger in her soul at being slapped, but she took a few calming breaths.
She analyzed the situation.
"Better?" Naruto asked her.
"... Whatever." Saya was calmer, not happy she got slapped, but she was thinking more clearly now. Naruto slapped the sense back into her. '... he's right. If I go around accusing everyone of stealing the tires and guns, then tension will go up... we need to look for the traitor without the traitor knowing about it. Also, if everyone is suspicious of each other... the traitor can use that confusion.' Saya was now thinking clearly again.
"I'm not the traitor, I can't stand these girls." Rei raised both her hands up to chest level and awkwardly smiled.
"... I follow Naruto." Saeko admitted that she was neutral. She wasn't the traitor though. Saya looked at Naruto, who just crossed his arms and nodded his head.
He could have slapped her to cover his trail.
"I am actively avoiding the girls here. Rei and Saeko have been protecting me from their seduction, so I'm the least likely to have been exposed to any brainwashing... and you said it yourself, this is a sex cult right... so you have no reason to want to stay here." Naruto pointed to Saya and cleared her name as well. "... Kurama hasn't returned from delivering my message yet, but he's smart enough to find me no matter where I go. Waiting for him to come back isn't a reason to stick around." Naruto cleared any reason he might feel like staying.
The air was a little tense.
'... My Mom, Takeshi, Alice, Maresato-san, Kohta, Asami, and Shizuka have all gotten used to this place... one of them is the traitor.' Rei thought as she looked at the stopped RV. "Naruto... you're the only one with the keys right... who have you let borrow them?" Rei asked.
Naruto sighed.
"... So far, in these last 3 days... everyone has borrowed the keys to the RV in our group... actually, in the last 24 hours alone everyone has borrowed the keys at least once." Naruto regularly had people in his group ask for the keys so that they could get something out of the RV. He was actually the one who spent the least amount of time at the RV, since he had spent most of his time walking around the school and looking for any signs of suspicious activity.
They had no clues yet to go on.
There was a traitor among them, and a cult of sexually excited teenage girls trying to seduce them.
Not great.
Chapter End!
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