Chapter 022
"I..." Saya fought the tears that were gathering in her eyes, she had not expected the outburst of the always happy and carefree boy who for the first time since she knew him yelled at her, with a hard and angry expression on his face.
"I'm going to make you a promise, I'm going to get you out of this school, I'm going to take you to your parents, just to kick you and make you their problem, because I'm tired of having to save your ass."
The silence after such a heavy discussion was long and awkward, with Saya sitting silently with her head down, as she fought not to cry, while on the other side of the room, Naruto was rifling through several boxes.
"Well…uh" Hirano took the brave step of breaking the awkward silence, drawing everyone's attention, "What do we do now?"
"It's going to get dark and the situation is not getting better, everything is food and water will not last more than three or four days" taking the floor, Seako stood up and was looked at by everyone in the room, "An infested building is the worst place." to stay, so we can figure out what to do when we find a safer place, and then go look for our families, then we could escape to a possible refugee camp if there is one."
Everyone agreed with the girl's plan, who kept a hard look in her eyes.
"I want you to understand this, we only crossed paths due to circumstances, we don't know each other, but now that doesn't matter, because we are a team, we must stay united to stay alive, we must put aside our differences and work together, do you understand?"
The last question was directed towards Saya and Naruto, with the former just nodding her head and the latter muttering a 'hai'.
Seeing that things had calmed down now, Kyoko spoke up, "The quickest way to get to the parking lot would be through the main entrance."
"Well, the position will be next, Rei and Naruto will stay in the rear to make sure no one is left behind, Kohta cover us while Takashi and I make a path, and the rest will stay in the center as close together as possible" Before Seako could ask them to get going.
"Wait!" Naruto dropped a box in the middle of the room, which was full of copier papers and several rolls of duct tape, "Use this to cover your arms and legs, believe me, it saved me from being bitten more than once."
Everyone agreed with the idea and helped each other to place the protectors in the areas most likely to be bitten.
"Isn't it too tight, Onee-chan?" Naruto wrapped the last of the tape around the nurse's arms.
"It's okay," smiling, the nurse ran her hand through the boy's hair, happy for her concern for him, "You look tired, have you gotten any sleep?"
"I'll do it" both Naruto and Seako were the two most exhausted people in the group, beyond their lustful activities, also for being the ones who have risked the most for collective survival.
Already helping the nurse, Naruto moved on to help Yuuki, who had been very silent the last few hours.
"All good?" she asked as she tied the ribbon around the girl's ankles and legs, who frowned.
"As good as it can be in the apocalypse"
"It could have been worse, it could have been aliens"
"I envy your sense of humor," the orange-haired girl murmured with a small smile, "That you can smile at times like these tells me that you're crazy or you don't care about anything."
"There are things that matter to me and I'm not crazy," he responded calmly as he finished putting the protectors on the girl, "It's just that I learned that crying and complaining doesn't change anything, sometimes you just have to smile and carry on, at least that's it." what helped me get there is here"
Ready, Naruto stood tall and everyone seemed ready, although Saya seemed to have her problems, "Do you need help?"
"No," he snapped as he tied the papers around his arms.
"Whatever you want"
Naruto ran towards the door and pulled out the two twin swords on his back, giving the signal to the others who nodded, everyone was ready.
"They listened to Seako's plan, all together" As soon as he saw the door open, Takashi was already running in front with the swordswoman who led the group.
"Only fight if we have no way to avoid them! Simply knocking them down is also effective!" Seako reported that he knocked down the first infected in his path by breaking his leg and pushing him against the wall of the hallway, causing the others to surround him.
Reaching the end of the first hallway, the group of teenagers and teachers were about to go down to the stairs that would take them to the second floor. They stopped when they heard a loud scream from the stairs.
The group noticed that five students were surrounded by a group of infected.
Saeko fell from the top of the ladder and with a downward slash hit a zombie in the head causing its skull to crack. Hirano and Takashi quickly dispatched two others. Leaving the staircase free of danger.
"Thank you..." one of the girls in the group tried to say thank you, but Saeko stopped them.
"Don't be so loud. Have any of you been bitten?" He asked coldly with his sword raised.
"Huh...No, I don't think so"
Takashi looked at them quickly, there was not a drop of blood on them nor was any part of their clothes torn. This is a good sign.
"We're leaving school, do you want to come?" The brown boy offered, unable to leave anyone behind, something Seako and the others could respect.
"Guys, this is not the time to socialize!" Rei shouted from the top of the stairs when in the third hallway several of the infected came towards them, piercing the first with his spear, but the second was about to bite his shoulder.
Fortunately, his jaw was broken by the hard blow of the wooden kanata, and he finished off with a brutal blow behind his neck.
Naruto used his two swords to take down and then finish off, fortunately these infected had bite marks and missing pieces in their joints which made them easier to kill.
"Thank you Uzumaki-san!"
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