"All bad times are better with good people accompanying you" returning the handshake, for the first time the girl felt that beat in her heart, not one driven by lust or worldly desires.
No, it was something much more magical.
She would have laughed at herself months ago at the mere idea of feeling something like this for a boy, it all started out of lust, but now she was pushed by a true effect of affection that she had for him.
Both teenagers stopped looking at each other when they heard the firing of a shotgun.
"Come on you son of a bitch! Come to me!"
A few streets away, there was a young man a couple of years older than the swordswoman.
Armed with a shotgun and a manic smile he began shooting left and right, knocking down several of the undead, but attracting many more to where he was.
Naruto and Seako watched as it didn't take long for the subject to be trapped, even though these infected were some of the slowest and clumsiest, their large number made them too much for that man.
Who ended up being eaten alive, until only his remains remained.
"He went crazy," he murmured, Uzumaki shaking his head, maybe the boy was in a group and lost them, or maybe he was just a crazy man who believed he could wipe out all the infected on the streets.
"Yes, we couldn't have done anything for him."
"I know," nodding his head, he took some binoculars to start looking at the other houses, he thought he could see some silhouettes in the houses, apparently some were smart enough to stay locked in.
Having to eat and drink would be something else.
Looking further, he saw two silhouettes running between the streets.
"Senpai" standing up Naruto gave the binoculars to the girl, who looked in the direction he pointed.
"..." She adjusted the lens to see a grown man running with a little girl holding his hand, the father armed with an industrial mechanical wrench, knocking down the few walkers in his path, "What are you doing?"
Naruto stood still halfway through tying the wooden sword, "Isn't it obvious? We have to go help."
"No" the swordswoman's response was emphatic, the horde that killed the madman earlier was now heading towards where the father and his daughter were.
"What? They're not like that crazy guy from before! They really need help."
"..." She looked at the streets again, both father and daughter arrived at a house, when she thought they were going to be welcomed.
The worst happened.
"¡Papá!"
"Shit…" Naruto couldn't believe the baseness of stabbing a father who only wanted to save his daughter, who burst into tears, making the horde now advance faster towards her, "I can't just watch"
"..." The girl couldn't say anything, when he already took off to jump from the roof of the apartment, to the building he had winged, to start running across the roofs, to start the race for the girl's survival, " That boy..." shaking his head, he went down to where the others were, "Hirano wake up!"
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Alice couldn't remember much of anything she did in the last two days.
He remembered going to school, he was still in second grade, he had many friends and a kind teacher, he never thought that anything bad could happen.
Until his father walked into his class with a look he had never seen on his face, and a dress that seemed to have red paint on it, he seemed to be very afraid. And when he took him out of school where her mother was waiting for her in the car.
Screams.
Hitting and many bad words.
Also sounds of crashes and people begging to let the car in, but his dad apologized and said no. Even though her mother prevented her from seeing what was happening, she could see those monsters that looked like humans kill people and eat them.
I was afraid, very afraid of being eaten too.
And even though their mother promised them that everything would be fine, they were cornered when they saw the bridge being taken over by those monsters, who made them go another way.
Unfortunately, his father crashed into several of them, causing him to lose control and he ended up crashing into a light pole, everything was darkness after that.
And when he woke up, his father was running through the streets, asking for help from the houses where there were lights.
Could it be that something bad happened to her mother just like her father?
"Papá-a"
"Alice..." her breathing was getting heavy and the loss of blood was too much to try to get up, to at least get her daughter to safety, but there was nothing she could do.
The feeling of uselessness was worse than the wound in his chest.
"Dad-a!" The girl burst into tears without knowing what to do, seeing her father bleeding and hurt would make any child desperate.
"Alice-e run, run away and hide-e... I'll go after you..."
"You lie! You're lying to me!"
"Alice... run" The man's eyes were filled with despair as he saw the infected that were entering through the metal door, the tears of frustration were so bitter.
*Bang*
"Ay…"
Both father and daughter did not expect a boy to fall from above and roll across the yard and crash into a wooden fence.
Pained, Naruto stood up and dazedly ran to the gate and kicked it shut, using the key that the man brought as a lock so that the infected could not enter.
"That'll hold," saying that he turned his attention to the man on the ground and frowned, he had no idea how to treat a wound, "Calm down sir, I'll help you out of here." Bending down he tried to lift the man off the ground, but he he shook his head.
"My daughter, my daughter... get her out of here"
"Come on old man, don't give up" taking a shirt that was hanging from the shopkeeper, he used it to try to stop the bleeding.
"My daughter takes care of my daughter"
"..." Naruto didn't know what to say when he saw the man's gaze, which seemed to be getting weaker by the second, that look of begging, "I will."
"…"
"Daddy?" The girl's heart rose to her throat, seeing the blank stare of her father and the loss of strength in the hand she was holding.
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