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Biohazard

“Tch.” He ripped the blood-soaked bandage off of his arm and took out a fresh roll from his med pack. “At this rate, we won’t be able to get out.” He murmured, wrapping the bandage around his arm, secured it and took his M16A4 rifle back, loading another clip. He was glad that the RAS provided them with one rifle of their choice, an M21 sniper rifle along with two handguns. Too bad his partner had the machine gun though. He really needed his help right now. “Look, stay close to me alright?” he told the girl, looking at her in the eye seriously. She nodded, her eyes showing how frightened she was from the monsters that were after their human flesh.

“Good.” he peeked from his hiding place behind a wrecked bus, checking if the coast was clear before getting up, making sure the little girl was following him. “Tch. Shit.” He cursed after hearing the hissing sound of a licker that he shot it in the head to save more ammo, inwardly thankful that his training was fruitful in actual battle. “It would be embarrassing to miss a headshot for a sharp shooter like me.” He thought, grabbing the girl by the hand while her other one continued clinging to her stuffed bear.

“Onii-chan…”

“What?”

“Dogs are following us…”

Sasuke just had to look behind him to see a mutated dog make a jump at him. But of course, Raiko countered the attack, managing to bite the neck area of the mutant, giving Sasuke a clearer shot of the other dogs that ran after them. “Tch. Assholes…” he murmured, seeing the dogs dead. He took out a kunai and threw it at the one dog’s head, the one Raiko battled against to make sure it was really dead.

“Onii-chan..?”

“What?” he asked again, checking if Raiko got bitten before sighing in relief when the dog wasn’t infected.

“What’s asshole mean..?”

Sakura was going to kill him for that.

Chapter 8: Kick Ass and Bad Ass

She sighed and leaned against the wall of a building, slowly sliding down on the ground before turning to look at Shino who just finished reloading his machine gun. He checked the area first before letting his guard down a bit, and then turned to Sakura, who was glad that she had a few days of RAS training, even if Jiraiya appointed her as a rookie medic.

“How do you find our military uniform?” he asked, toying with his gun for a bit.

“They’re more comfortable than my old lab outfit.” She murmured. “Easier to run in combat boots and pants, but,” she frowned. “Why can’t I get a jacket like you guys?”

He raised a brow. “You’re only rookie level.”

“Pfft. I’m Tsunade-shishou’s apprentice! I’m the best medic there is.”

“Yeah, but the commander said your assault level is rookie, even if your status as a medic goes up to Hinata’s level.”

“So I lack experience in combat, but,” she pushed a new clip inside her handgun. “I’ve got accurate shooting.”

“True, but the commander still sees you as a rookie level soldier.”

“Geez.” She sighed and looked down at her black gloves, brought one hand up to pull out the chain that was hidden underneath her black shirt. She looked at the white gold ring, the one Sasuke had given her when he proposed, which was secured by the chain. She gave a small, sad smile before tucking it back inside. “Koi, how are you doing..?” she thought, closing her eyes. “I hope you’re okay…”

“Sakura, we have to get going.” Shino said, glancing at their area, waiting for her to stand up and get ready. When she was, they proceeded to rush off elsewhere, in hopes of finding a survivor, a teammate, and more importantly, Sasuke and the little girl. “This shouldn’t have happened. Everything was already according to plan until these monsters found a way in.” Shino thought. “They’ve grown smarter…”

Eight Hours and forty-six minutes ago…

People started coming out of their homes, carrying their bags with them and a few necessities that were small and light enough to be carried. Families began to line up as some of the RAS members who weren’t in Kakashi’s team began to guide some of the citizens, others keeping the line formation straight and proper, keeping other impatient civilians from pushing or cutting in.

Among these soldiers were Sasuke and Shino, both deprived from the fun their team was having in dealing with the zombies that were trying to enter the vicinity. Of course, in order to keep the people safe, team SAS had to stand in-between the borderline of Tokyo’s rural and urban area.

“Shino, is everything clear there?” he asked, walking around to make sure the soldiers he was currently in-charge of are doing their duties.

“Yeah, every single citizen is out of their homes. How are our maggots keeping up with the crowd?”

Sasuke smirked at Shino’s term with the lower-ranked militants. “Well, our maggots are doing a pretty good job in hiding their annoyance with some old coots.” He murmured against the communicator, eyes scanning the area for any stray mutant. “Has our commander successfully evacuated the org?”

“Last time I checked, your brother and Shikamaru are the last ones who came out. No sign of Sakura though.” Shino responded.

“Hn. That’s because she’s with me right now.”

And for proof, he let his fiancée speak through the communicator to greet Shino, who only shook his head and smirked in amusement. “Well, whatever.” He looked down at Sasuke’s dog, Misha, who was growling. “Hey, Sasuke, Misha seems restless.”

“That’s because she isn’t with Raiko.” He patted the said dog’s head. “Even Raiko here can’t stop pacing around.”

“No, not that kind of restless...”

“What kind..?”

“The kind wherein something bad is approaching...” Shino grabbed a pair of binoculars from one of the maggots he ordered to come with him. “Shit. Sasuke,”

“What?”

“You’re gonna have to hustle up over there,” he said. “Zombies have broken in one of the gates.”

“…the fuck? Already?” he did not wait for any confirmation from Shino and quickly instructed a few higher ranked cadets to take over, calling out three men to come with him and Sakura with Raiko leading the way, following the scent of Misha or Shino.

“Listen Sakura, this is going to be your first time in actual battle as a medic of RAS, so it might be a little hard for you to-” he got cut off when she pulled the trigger of her gun, causing a bullet to come out and hit a stray zombie’s head. She turned to her fiancé with a haughty smirk. “You were saying?” The cadets following them were awed by this, and Sasuke blinked for a few moments before smirking slightly, shaking his head as well. “Never mind…”

“Sir, they’re fast approaching…” A cadet said. Sasuke gave a nod and told the others to aim. “Fire at will.” And gunshots were heard as the zombies that managed to enter the border were shot down. “Everybody stand your ground. These guys are slow and weak, just aim for their heads!” He added, earning a round of “affirmative” from his team. “As long as Lickers won’t arrive, everything will be fine.” He thought, hoping that zombies would be the worst of their worries as of now, until the civilians have all evacuated.

“Sir, trouble at gate C, some of the civilians are showing signs of being infected!”

Sasuke cursed upon receiving that message through his communicator. “Status, soldier…”

“Not good sir,” he replied. “Other civilians are getting restless.”

“Tch. Shoot them down.” He ordered.

“Sir..?!”

“The infected people you idiot.” He loaded another clip and continued firing the zombies. “We don’t have the antidote with us, some of them are with Team SAS, and right now, we don’t want more people to get infected.”

“Affirmative…”

Sakura glanced at Sasuke, studying how his expression turned from one of pain to blank. She understood that he had to make a tough decision to kill the infected civilians. It was an order from the higher ups after all, someone higher than their Commander that is. But it was obviously the right choice, because if the people infected by the mutation virus were to evacuate Tokyo, the virus would only spread faster, enabling more infection, or worse, the wipe-out of the human race in Japan.

“If we don’t stop this from spreading, other countries would surely be involved.” She thought, turning her attention back to the creatures. “And we can’t let that happen, all of humanity depends on us now, unconsciously or not.”

“Sakura,”

“Hai?” she turned to her fiancé, aka her superior in the team.

“Head back to the border with the team.”

“…What?”

Sasuke didn’t look at her and just reloaded his rifle. “Don’t make me repeat myself; that was an order, not a request.”

“…Are you saying that-”

“Get out of here, help the evacuation team. I need to meet up with Shino.”

“I can’t just leave you here!”

He lowered his gun and eyed her. “Just go.” He gave a small smile. “I’ll catch up.”

She tried to protest, but knew that she couldn’t, because even if he was her fiancé, he was still her leader in this team.

“Hai...”

He turned to the rest and gave a nod, and the four left. “Cadets, protect your medic.” He ordered, before killing off the zombies. “And yourselves, you’re all still too young to go through this.” Once he was done, he quickly contacted Shino, telling his partner that he was on his way, before heading off to the direction Shino gave, Raiko in tow.

Three Hours and fifty-eight minutes later…

Sasuke tried to run as fast as he could, hoping that there were still some cadets waiting for him and the team to reach them before closing the gates. Everything in Tokyo was in ruins. Buildings were cracked, some stained with blood, some ready to collapse, some burning, vehicles turned upright or wrecked, windows of every house broken, shards of glasses on the cement floor – in other words: Tokyo was completely in ruins.

“Hang on Shino.” He said, carrying his partner behind him as he tried to make it back to the border ASAP, his two dogs following closely behind.

“Sasuke!”

“What the hell?! Sakura, I told you to get out of here!”

She ignored him and stopped when he did as well, putting Shino down when his fiancée immediately provided medical assistance.

“You ought to be thankful I came back, Shino’s injury needs treatment right now.”

He sighed. “You’re too stubborn.” He murmured. “But you’re right, I wouldn’t be able to search for the team by myself with Shino down, and if you hadn’t come back…” he added the last part softly, earning a small smile from her, “A thank you would be good by now, Koi.”

“Hn.” He smirked and leaned down to kiss her lightly on the lips. “Thanks Ai.”

“Are you both forgetting I’m bleeding badly here?”

“Oh, sorry Shino.” Sakura said.

“Damn.” Shino cursed, thanking Sakura after she was done bandaging his head. Apparently, when a licker jumped at him, he fell backward to avoid getting killed or bitten easily, and then aimed his gun at the monster’s head, shooting it dead. Although, the back of his head had hit debris of a building, he was lucky to not lose consciousness and did not have it fatally injured.

“You alright?” Sasuke asked, keeping an eye out for zombies.

“Yeah. I hope the team’s fine though.”

“Tch. They tell us to not participate but we end up coming back to save their asses.”

Shino only smirked at Sasuke’s comment before loading his gun. “At least we won’t owe them anything anymore.” He glanced at Sakura. “Are you sure it was wise to bring her with us?” Sasuke looked at his fiancée, then back at Shino and shrugged. “She would’ve forced me to anyway.” They both pointed their guns at the trash bins as Sakura stayed behind Sasuke, waiting what was about to come out. They sighed when they spotted a little girl holding onto a stuffed bear that had one of its ears ripped.

“Looks like a survivor.”

Sasuke nodded at what his partner said before walking over to the little girl who clutched the bear tightly when he was approaching. “Hey, it’s alright.” He said, stopping to not alarm her. “I’m not a zombie, okay?”

She looked up at him hesitantly, analyzing if he showed any signs of attacking a human. When none was present, her eyes watered and she quickly ran to him, gripping his pants. “I’m scared..!” she cried. “I can’t find my mommy or daddy!”

Shino and Sakura approached the two as Sasuke knelt down to be in eye level with the girl. “It’s alright, we’ll find your parents, and don’t worry about those… things.” he patted the girl’s head and turned to Sakura who also knelt down to check if there were any injuries or signs of being infected. “She’s clean,” she finally said. “But just to be sure,” she took out an anti-virus vaccine, and injected the girl with it. “And before you two ask, Kurenai gave me a few of them in cases of emergencies, like this.”

“Hn. Good thing then,” Sasuke glanced at his watch, checking the time. “Tch. It’s been four hours, we have to find them soon.”

“Yeah, problem is, we only seem to get static from their communicators.”

“That is a problem…”

Shino sighed and scanned the area. “Well then, no use staying around, let’s get moving.” The group of four, plus two dogs, headed deeper into the city, eyes sharp in case another survivor or teammate was around. “This is harder than I thought…” Sakura said to herself, hoping no one would hear her complain.

“Heh. Too tough for you Ai?”

Sakura blushed and glared at Sasuke. “Mind your own business.”

“Well, your opinion is my business, you’re in my team now.”

“Just… shut up.”

Shino chose to ignore the two and instead, decided to have a small conversation with the little girl so that she wouldn’t be frightened.

“So, how did you get separated from your parents?”

“Daddy was working, mommy was supposed to pick me up from school, and then… they came and attacked…”

“Hmm… schools are supposed to be closed when the evacuation plan was announced. Aside from that, shouldn’t work be canceled for non-military employees?” he asked, glancing at the child. “I don’t know…” she answered truthfully. “Mommy still took me to school, I was wondering why no one was around yet, and later on in the afternoon, I just saw people rushing out of here, with… bags…”

“Your family should really pay attention to the news.”

The child didn’t say anything, and instead, clung onto Shino’s pant leg, pulling him back for a stop.

“What’s wrong?”

“There’s something crawling over there…” she pointed up ahead.

Sasuke and Sakura stopped “arguing” and directed their attention to where the girl was pointing. “Tch. Shino, pull her back slowly…”

With a nod, Sasuke aimed his rifle at the crawling creature while Shino slowly and quietly pulled the girl back.

“Sakura, identify.”

She nodded at Sasuke and took out a device from her pocket. “According to research, these things are an advanced breed of the so-called “Lickers”, more known as “Crawlers”. They move faster, especially when running after their prey. However, if their target shows no sign of escaping, they slowly make their way to them before leaping to an attack.”

“Hn, Crawlers, huh?” he smirked. “We’ll see how far it’ll be crawling once I’m through with it.” And without warning, he pulled the trigger, shooting the creature down until it was swimming in its own blood, laying on the concrete floor, unmoving.

“I forgot to mention,” Sakura added. “Crawlers hunt and travel in groups, and they attack without a moment’s pause once a teammate is killed.”

Sure enough, they could hear the hissing sounds of the monsters coming towards them. “Ah geez Sakura! Thanks a lot!” Sasuke said, telling the others to run as the four of them started sprinting the other way, both Sasuke and Shino turning to shoot down the Crawlers that were getting too close.

“My bear!” the child yelled, getting away from Sakura’s grasp as she ran back, passing Sasuke and Shino who stopped and stared before realizing the danger the girl just placed herself in. “Ah, shit. Shino, cover me!”

“You got it.”

The Uchiha quickly ran towards the girl, trusting his partner to not miss a shot when Crawlers would leap at him. “Don’t do that!” he yelled, grabbing the girl when she got a hold of her bear before carrying her and running back to Shino and Sakura.

“Sasuke! Watch out!” Sakura yelled. He looked to the side and saw a Crawler leap at him. Acting on his instincts and reflexes, he used his left arm to block the kid he carried, taking the bite for the child instead. “Shit!” he cursed, feeling the impact as he was pushed to the ground by the Crawler.

“Fuck.” Shino cussed, attempting to shoot when another Crawler came from the side and took his gun with its teeth. Sakura made a move to aid her fiancé when two more Crawlers had decided to attack. One was tackled to the ground by Misha, the dog targeting the Crawler’s throat for impalement, making Sakura’s job easier.

She turned to Sasuke once she was done fending for her own, glad to see Raiko easily kill the Crawler that dared to bite his master. “Phew.” She sighed, not exactly worried about Sasuke being infected since he was immune to the virus. Soon enough, the area was cleared. Shino only got a few cuts but it wasn’t anything too serious. The dogs were injected with anti-virus for precautions, Sasuke’s wound was tended, the child was safe and so was Sakura.

“That was a close call.” Shino commented as the team rested for a bit behind a wrecked bus. “Yeah…” Sasuke breathed, turning to the girl who remained silent for fear of being scolded by the militants. She looked up though when Sasuke placed a hand on her head and ruffled it a bit, giving a grin. “Don’t feel too bad kid, we’re all alright.”

“…But nii-chan got bitten.” She said, pointing at his wound as her eyes turned to a worried look. “Will nii-chan turn into… those scary monsters?”

Sakura, though still keeping a watchful eye around like Shino, glanced at the two from time to time, smiling at how her lover was acting with the kid.

“Heh. This?” Sasuke glanced at his arm. “It’s nothing, I won’t turn into them.”

“But I’ve seen them bite people, and the people turn into them!” she looked down. “It’s scary…”

“Hmm…” Sasuke thought for a while before turning back to her. “Do you trust me?”

“Hai, I trust nii-chan, nii-chan saved me.”

“Alright, then,” he smiled a bit. “Trust my word that I won’t turn into those monsters.”

“Promise, nii-chan?”

“Promise.”

The child turned serious and pouted. “Pinky swear!” she proclaimed, holding out her pinky.

It was a little embarrassing, but she was a kid, so…

“Alright,” Sasuke intertwined his finger with the child’s. “Pinky swear.”

Shino snorted. “Right, the bad ass can do a pinky swear. Nice.”

Sasuke glared at Shino before smirking. “And the kick ass panicked earlier when a Crawler attacked his gun, wow. Pretty ass kicking...”

The two guys earned a bash on the head from Sakura. “Language you idiots..!”

“Hai…” they both groaned, rubbing their sore heads.

One Hour and a half later…

“This isn’t good…” Sakura murmured, eyeing the monster before them. “I thought you killed him?” she asked, turning to Sasuke. “I thought so too…” he murmured, pushing the kid back as he and Shino aimed their guns at the monster. “Is this the Izegawa guy you were talking about?” Shino asked. “I can understand why you rejected him Sakura.”

“Oh yeah sure, piss him off further.” Sakura muttered, seeing Riku growl and charge.

“Oh poo…” Shino said, not having enough time to feel embarrassed when he said that instead of “shit” since he and Sakura had rolled to one side, while Sasuke and the child dodged to the other, causing Riku to smash head on at the worn down building, which ended up collapsing upon the sudden impact.

“Duck!” Sasuke yelled, shielding the child as a few piles of rocks and cements, debris and wreckage began falling, some sharp edges grazing their skin while some had miraculously missed them.

As soon as it was over, Sasuke checked the area, seeing Riku knocked out for the time being. But instead of sighing in relief, he groaned, noting how the multiple layers of heavy cement and rocks had separated him from Shino and Sakura. “Shino! Can you hear me?” he yelled, keeping the girl close to him when she clung to his leg.

“Yeah! We’re both fine, how about you two?”

Sasuke was glad they were alright. “Still okay. Listen, we have to circle Tokyo, we can meet up at where the tower is. Until then, proceed with rescue mission. And… my communicator’s dead, so we can only contact through cell phone.” He informed.

“One problem,” Shino yelled back. “My phone has one bar left, Sakura’s has no signal.”

“Tch. Sadly, I ran out of credits too.” Sasuke called back after checking the balance of his phone bill. “Contact for emergencies only, and try to get something to charge that!” he yelled.

“Hmph. Get some card loads for that too.” Shino answered back.

With that said, they parted ways.

Back to the beginning…

“Onii-chan?”

“I’ll tell you when you’re older.” He said.

“But I am!”

“You’re only what, five? Six..?”

“Seven!”

“Wait for ten years then.”

“Nine.”

“Eight.”

She pouted but nodded none the less. “Fine. Eight years then.”

“Good girl.” He patted her head lightly before checking the area. “Alright, the coast is clear, let’s-”

“Nii-chan watch out!” she yelled, pulling him back, just in time as another monster almost sliced his head off. “Geez. A licker is still around?!” he asked no one in particular before shooting it down. Once he was sure it was dead, he looked at the child and raised a brow. “How did you know it was going to attack?”

“I saw it!” she exclaimed. “You have to believe me!”

“Hey, calm down, I’m not saying I don’t believe you, I’m just wondering…” he said with a shrug. “Though I didn’t even see it with the sharingan, so how did she? Much less, predict it was going to attack me like that?” his brows furrowed a bit. “I hope Shino can handle Sakura, they’re both ass kickers and he might not be able to take the competition.” He smirked as a memory of how their last physical training ended. Sakura really whipped his ass. “Though the aftermath was a lot better…” he shook his head, clearing his thoughts from images of their after training session.

“Nii-chan…” she tugged on his pants a bit, and he looked down at her, finding the area safe. “What?” he asked. She seemed hesitant at first, but concluded that he could be trusted. “I… have a gift nii-chan…”

“Hn, a gift?” he echoed.

“Mm.”

“What gift?”

She looked around, trying to see if anyone was eavesdropping before she motioned him to bend down. He did, and she whispered in his ear:

“I can see things that no human can…”

That was pretty creepy. But what could she possibly mean?

To be continued…

Next on Biohazard: Chapter 9: Reality VS Fantasy

“Trust me, the reason I’m still alive and kicking is because of her warnings.”

“You expect me to believe that a seven year old kid can predict?”

“Shino, I know it sounds… unbelievable… but I’m not one to tell when I myself don’t believe it.”

“True…” Shino eyed the child who was busy being entertained by Sakura so that she wouldn’t be frightened. “But what’s so strange if she does have a gift?” he asked, turning back to Sasuke. “Well,” the Uchiha began. “Aside from the sharingan that can detect heat and predict movements earlier, the byaakugan that can see through anything, this gift she’s saying… it’s…” he trailed off. “It’s one of the symptoms of Lickers, if not Crawlers.”

A/N: I’m a college student! XD Okay, that’s twice in a row. Anyway, yeah. Since I’m in college now, expect SLOWER and LESSER updates.