Hello Sankarea fans! I'm Flora216!

I hope you'll like my story and the new characters that I'll add along the way!

Enjoy!

The screen shows an abandoned hotel in the middle of the night, it showed various rooms in it that looked like something copied from a horror movie. It stopped at an old bowling alley in the hotel showing a teenage girl with long black hair with a hydrangea flower hairclip on it, a black T-shirt with a skull on it and blue skinny jeans. The girl is seemed to be making some sort potion.

*Step… Step… Step…*

The girl gasped as she heard the footsteps, got up and slowly looked out the window and saw a teenage boy with a cat-ear like short black hair wearing a dress white shirt and black tailored pants. The girl peeked out closer looking curious as she saw the boy coming up to the hotel's old well, he fell to his knees, took a deep breath and yelled:

"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!"

"I should start from the beginning…" said the girl's voice and the screen showed a room.

"AHHHHHHH!" screamed a woman in a movie as she ran from zombies, the movie paused on a teenage zombie boy and then revealing the girl from earlier closing up to the TV looking interested at the zombie boy.

"Hi, I'm Rea Sanka, a first year in Sanka Academy, I'm the daughter of the academy's director"

Rea continued the movie and it showed a zombie hunter shooting the teenage zombie boy and Rea looked in shock and hanged her head down.

"What a waste… As you can see I'm a super fan of zombies, most girls fans of idols but not me" said Rea and the screen shows her room filled with all sort of zombie dolls, posters, CD cases and even a zombie alarm clock.

The movie showed the woman approaching a middle-school boy, the woman touched his shoulder and he turned around revealing himself as a zombie and Rea closed up to the TV with an interested look on her face again and a little heart floated above her head.

"I know its sounds crazy but since I was a little girl I dreamt of having a zombie boyfriend" said Rea and started to fantasize about it:

"Please… I don't want to hurt you…" said the zombie boy as Rea dressed as zombie hunter defending herself with a bat.

"I didn't choose to be like this… Deep down I'm just a regular boy who wants to be loved…" said the zombie boy and Rea looked in pity at him and threw the bat and ran over to him and hugged him.

*End of fantasy*

"No matter how many times I hear it, it's still weird" said Rea's classmate and best friend Helen; she has light brown hair with light brown eyes. The screen now showed Rea and Helen at school on the staircase during lunch break.

"I don't get why you are so into zombie guys, how can you ever do a zombie guy?" said Helen.

"I didn't say I want to do a zombie guy" comment Rea.

"How can a zombie guy can be compared to live hot guy idols that you see in magazines?" said Helen blushing at the thought.

"I can't really explain it but I think it would be cool to have a zombie boyfriend" said Rea looking at the view from the stairs.

"Its good thing you only tell me 'cuz the entire school would disagree with you" joked Helen.

"And that why you're my best friend" said Rea and the girls giggled and Rea looked at the view again in thought.

"Helen just don't get it, I can't say I blame her while I can't understand the addiction myself…"

The screen shows a medium size house and beside the house a greenhouse and inside hydrangea flowers and all sorts of plants.

"This is my house, because my dad is the director of Sanka Academy, it's obvious we're rich"

The screen shows Rea in a round dining table with her family.

"I live with my grandma Sada"

A short elderly woman with white hair tied up in a bun and glasses was shown drinking sake and giggling as the fact that she was drunk.

"My father Dan'ichiro"

A man with black hair, a mustache and blue eyes was handing out the food.

"And the little twins, my brother and sister Yuki and Maru"

A girl and a boy with sky-blue hair and grey eyes were preparing the meals for the family as their father was handing out the food.

"My dad makes breakfast but other than that Maru and Yuki do all the work, you won't meet a lot of 12-year-olds like them"

"Thank you for this meal!" the family started dinner.

"Yuki why is there green slimy things in my soup?" asked Sada and Yuki giggled.

"Grandma its just cabbage" said Yuki in a cheery tone and Sada looked surprised.

"Well I'll be damned…" said Sada looking at her soup suspiciously.

"Even though we're rich, my dad never did rich person stuff like maids and servants and all luxurious things that every person would dream of. He's down to earth and educated us not to be spoiled brats just because we're wealthy"

A gray cat with a black crooked tail came out, Yuki saw him, smiled and gave him a bowl of catnip and the cat approached and started eating.

"That's Babu. He was a street cat before I found him while I was cleaning the outside of the house. He became a fast member of our family"

"Maru why is there green slimy things in my soup?" asked Sada again.

"Yuki told you grandma, its cabbage" said Maru in a serious tone and Sada looked surprised.

"Well I'll be damned…" said Sada looking at her soup suspiciously again.

"My grandma can be a bit of a handful but our family is happy. Well… There is one downer…"

The screen showed a picture of a woman.

"My mother died when I was young… I barely even remember her anymore… Life's easier when your memory starts to fade, we still miss her but it gets a little better every day, my family is happy"

"At least we were… Until one of us died…"

*CRASH!*

The screen showed a tire skin mark and Rea gasped in shock.

"BABU!" yelled Rea and ran to Babu who was lying in a fatal position motionless.

"I'm so sorry Rea… He just jump in front of me, I couldn't stop in time… I'm so sorry…" said the old man who ran over Babu, Rea fell to her knees and shakily took Babu in her arms.

"Babu was run over by an old man I've known forever… I couldn't yell at the guy so I just cried…"

"BABU!" yelled Rea and broke into tears.

The screen showed a small grave with Babu's name on it and hydrangea flowers were next to it in the backyard of the Sanka house. Rea was on her knees with her head hanging down and Maru, Yuki and her father were beside her.

"I'm sorry about this kids, but there's no services for animal funerals, I tried to convince them but no avail, they just don't understand what we're going through…" said Dan'ichiro and bowed in respect in front of the grave and came back inside the house.

"Hey… Big sis…" said Yuki.

"Yeah?" said Rea.

"I know dad always told us to be strong… But would it be okay to be crying at a time like this…?" said Maru and Yuki was holding his tears.

"Yeah… We're only human…" said Rea and Maru and Yuki approached next to her and kneeled beside Rea and started to cry and so did Rea.

The screen shows Rea in bed.

"Babu's death hurt more that I could ever imagine… He wasn't even that old… He should have had a long life ahead of him… But it was taken from him far too soon, it wasn't fair and that's when I got a crazy idea"

Rea got up and started looking for something and found it after a few searching for awhile.

"Found it!" said Rea and took out a box and opened it revealing an old book.

"I went to visit a relative last year and we were sorting through stuff to donate to a museum and then I crossed something amazing, it wasn't really a book parse, more like a collection of notes, it was so beaten up I couldn't tell when it was written. The museum guy told us it wasn't worth anything but after taking a look in it I was sure it was some sort of reanimation ritual"

Rea was in the backyard digging up Babu's grave.

"I knew this was full of bull but it couldn't hurt to give it a try"

Rea was seen riding on a bike while carrying a cooler; she eventually stopped when she came across an abandoned building.

"I chose an abandoned hotel as my lab; I knew no one would look for me here"

Rea walked in the hotel and climbed some stairs and got to a bowling alley.

"My love of zombies is about to be put to the test… What am I gonna do when a real one will stand right in front of me…?"

Rea opened the cooler revealing Babu inside of it.

"I'm going to bring you back to life Babu…" said Rea and she started to make the potion.

"Things got weird on the second day…"

*Step... Step... Step...*

Rea heard the footsteps and she looked out the window and saw a boy coming up to the well and started screaming as she looked confused.

"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!"

On the next day, Rea woke up tiredly and she came down to the kitchen and shoved ice cubes into a bucket.

"What are you doing?" Rea flinched and turned around to see Maru and Yuki.

"Nothing! Geez you two are like ninjas!" complained Rea in surprise.

"It's not a fit answer to our question. You've been acting so strangely lately" said Maru.

"I'm not doing anything and that's my story and I'm sticking to it!" said Rea in hurry and grabbed the ice bucket and climbed up to her room.

"Yup she's up to something and I think I know how to squeeze it out of her" said Yuki with a playful smile.

In her room, Rea was wearing her Sanka uniform and was ready for school but before that, she slide open her closet as the cooler was in it and poured the ice cubes in it.

"Just hang in there little buddy" said Rea and closed the closet and went off to school.

"Hey! Earth to Sanka! Are you listening to me!?" complained Helen as she and Rea walked to school and Rea responded with a yawn.

"Yeah… I'm listening…" said Rea tiredly.

"Oh yeah? What was I talking about?"

"Um… Something?"

"I knew it! You should really get more sleep! You are the director's daughter after all; you need to be cheeky all the time"

"You how it hurts after a whole day of smiling?"

"Whatever! Anyway I was talking about how it would be awesome if Sanka and Furuya academies would combine to a boy and girl school!" said Helen in excitement.

The screen showed the Furuya Academy boys wearing jackets with striped red ties and on the jackets a pin with the acronyms FA on them.

"I mean this school is for girls to become ladies and there school is for boys to become gentleman! It makes perfect sense to combine them!" said Helen excitedly.

"I think you're the reason why they won't combine the schools" said Rea.

"Why is that?!" comment Helen.

"Because you're boy crazy" teased Rea.

"And I'm proud of it! I only wish we had the same route to school…" said Helen in anime cry as the screen showed the schools were separated by a river.

"How can I prove that combining the schools is a good idea if I can't even get close enough to flirt!?" complained Helen.

"More like scare…"

"Anyway! Did you hear about the idol hottie?" whispered Helen into Rea's ear.

"You'll see him across the river for sure!" said Helen and looked across the river.

"Look see! The one with cat-ear like hair!" said Helen pointing and the screen revealed the boy from the hotel in the school uniform walking with other boys.

"He's the son of the Furuya Academy director, Chihiro Furuya!" said Helen while blushing.

"So I and he have something in common"

"You two would make such a cute couple!"

"Sorry, my heart belongs to a zombie guy"

"Oh come on! You can't deny he's cute!"

"I'm not and I think one of them had the same idea at hooking us up" said Rea pointing at the red headed boy tagging Chihiro to look at their direction.

"You two are a match made in heaven" teased Rea.

"You think!? Because I don't mind meeting him! Hehe…" said Helen while blushing.

"Besides, I think your marriage plan had just sunk" said Rea pointing at a girl with short blonde hair and green eyes who wear a Sanka uniform ran and hugged Chihiro.

"He has a girlfriend" said Rea and Helen looked in shock and then in disappointment and Rea looked curiously at Chihiro.

"Chihiro Furuya huh?"

In the afternoon,

"Delivery!" said a boy with short black hair and brown eyes and in a Furuya Academy uniform wearing a restaurant apron.

"Hello Ryou, thank you for coming I really appreciate it, Yuki at baseball practice and Maru busy with a school activity so I had to improvise with dinner" said Dan'ichiro.

"No problem Mr. Sanka, it's just helps me more to help mom" said Ryou handing the delivery.

"Still not feeling well huh?"

"Yeah, the doctor said she's getting better but still far from being healthy anytime soon"

"She must be very proud of you taking a job and taking care of her at the same time"

"Yup, she told me lots of times, somebody needs to help dad to earn a living while she can't"

"Such great responsibility on such young shoulders"

"It so quite here, where's Rea?"

"Probably lying down in her room again"

"Is she okay?"

"I'm no psychologist but I think she depressed, I would be too if I lost my best friend"

"Oh, she misses Babu" said Ryou and he smiled and climbed the stairs to her room and slide the door open.

"Wakey wakey!" said Ryou as he burst in and Rea tiredly looked at him.

"What do you want Ryou?" asked Rea tiredly.

"Oh please don't get up" said Ryou sarcastically and handed over a CD case to her.

"Oh right, I lend it to you"

"It's not the only thing, you said you come over to pick it up!" said Ryou while pressing his finger against her cheek.

"Hehe, sorry I had a busy weekend"

"Oh stop fooling around!" snapped Ryou as he climbed up to the bed and put Rea in a head lock and giving her a noogie.

"You were sitting here all by yourself watching movies when you could have watched them with me!" comment Ryou as Rea struggled to get out of the head lock.

"H-Hey Ryou can I ask you something?" said Rea while been chocked by the head lock.

"Yes I'll let you watch a movie with me next time" joked Ryou.

"N-No, not that, what I want to know is there a boy at your school named Chihiro Furuya?" asked Rea and Ryou stopped the noogie and had a confused look on his face.

"Well yeah why you ask?"

"I just wanted to know if he's cool"

"Well I couldn't tell you because we aren't in the same class but he is the director's son so it's hard to miss him, he's okay I guess. Why the sudden interest? Don't tell me you have the hots for him! You pervert!" joked Ryou and continued the noogie much for Rea's dismay.

"N-No! I just asked a simple question! Because Helen was making a big deal about him!" said Rea while struggling.

"Heh! I thought you were sulking because Babu died but you're just day dreaming about boys!"

"N-No I'm not! Would you let go of me already!" complained Rea and Ryou flopped her on her bed and Rea sighed in relief.

"Okay I guess I'll catch you later" smiled down at her Ryou.

"See ya" said Rea and Ryou walked to the door.

"And don't you dare forget to come over this weekend! You never know what will happen when a girl is all alone in a boy's bedroom…" said Ryou in a dark smile and then giggled and went out.

"He's so weird" remarked Rea and Ryou came in again.

"And don't forget to bring me another zombie movie for me to borrow!"

"Just take one with you now!" said Rea angrily and tossed Ryou a movie and he went outside at her bedroom window.

"See you next weekend!" waved Ryou at Rea's window and went off.

"Ryou Yoshizawa is my childhood friend, he attends as a first-year in Furuya Academy, he's working at a part-time job as delivery boy at a restaurant to earn money to help with he's sick mother. I like his helping nature but he sure can be bossy…"

Ryou stopped when he went out the gate.

"So, she got a thing for Chihiro Furuya huh?" said Ryou in a sad expression and looked at the sunset.

It's nighttime and it was raining. Rea was in the hotel again trying to make a reanimation potion again, she flipped the page but a piece ripped off.

"Aww… Should have been smart to make a copy first…" sighed Rea and put the piece in the box and carefully flipped the page.

"The book is extremely fragile and there's a page that's unreadable… It's calling for some poisonous plant but its name is completely blacked-out… I tried using water hemlock the night before but it didn't work…"

Rea took out a lily of the valley and started to grain it.

"Let's hope this will do the trick…" said Rea and looked at the cooler.

"I feel bad carrying around Babu in a cooler… If I can't get this to work by the weekend I'm going to bury him…"

*Step… Step… Step…*

Rea gasped and looked outside the window and saw Chihiro outside walking to the hotel well with an umbrella. He tossed the umbrella aside and fell to his knees and screamed into the well:

"AHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" Chihiro screamed and Rea watched him.

"What did I do to deserve this!? I wish I was NEVER BORN INTO THE FURUYA FAMILY! I just want to be normal guy! I want to have friends and hang out with other guys my age! IT'S NOT FAIR! You're so over protective! I've always been the perfect son so WHY WON'T YOU TRUST ME!?" yelled Chihiro into the well.

"I feel sorry for that poor guy… Its sounds like his parents are really hard on him…" said Rea in pity while drinking a bottle of juice.

"I follow your rules…I do everything you tell me… And I kept your secret… Even though it hurts…" said Chihiro in a low voice but Rea was able to hear it as she leaned closer in curiously.

"I don't care if you just want to commemorate my growth mother! I DON'T LIKE YOU TAKING NAKED PICTURES OF ME ON MY BIRTHDAY!" yelled Chihiro and Rea dropped her bottle in reaction of what he said and Chihiro gasped as he looked up the window and Rea hid her head but with no avail, he saw her and Rea looked out the window and saw Chihiro still looking up and he was blushing from embarrassment.

Inside the hotel, Rea and Chihiro were sitting separately from each other and an awkward silence accompanied there situation until Rea broke the ice:

"So… It's really coming down huh?" said Rea and Chihiro turn around and was on his knees and arms facing her closely.

"Please! Don't tell anyone what you heard! I'm begging you! I'll do anything! Nobody knows! She'll be so angry! Promise you won't tell!" begged Chihiro while blushing shyly and Rea backed up a little from him and then both teens looked aside.

"Alright I promise but can I tell what I heard last night?" said Rea and Chihiro backed up in shock and curled up in a ball.

"You heard what I said yesterday as well…?" asked Chihiro in a depressed tone.

"Yeah probably shouldn't have said that…" said Rea in a guilty tone.

"I wish I could just curl up and die…I'd be better off that way…" said Chihiro and Rea looked at him in concern.

"Maybe I could come back as someone else and live a happy life…" said Chihiro with his face buried in his knees.

"Hey, I know what it's like, I'm from a wealthy family as well but I can't say it's exactly the same at your house…" said Rea and Chihiro lifted his head and looked at her.

"My dad always taught me even though we're rich it doesn't change the fact we're all equal. He always says that we can choose our own fate only if we really want it and believe you can achieve it" said Rea and Chihiro looked interested and leaned closer to her.

"So what brings you here? Are you escaping from your troubles like I am?" said Chihiro in an interested tone.

"No, I'm here for a personal reason…" said Rea while looking aside.

The screen shows Babu in the cooler.

"No way! You're actually bringing him back from the dead!? That so cool! Are you sure it's going to work!?" said Chihiro in excitement.

"It hasn't yet but I'll keep trying, I don't know what to expect but even if he comes back as a zombie it's better than not having him around" said Rea in a sad tone while Chihiro looked around excitedly.

"You have a point" said Chihiro in a calm voice.

"I don't know if Babu is going to be too happy becoming part of the ledge of the undead but I'm hoping he won't hold it against me, I know it's selfish but I just want my buddy to be part of my life again…" said Rea with a soft smile and Chihiro looked touched.

"It's a win win situation, I get Babu back and he gets…" Rea stopped at midsentence and sighed.

"Now that I think about it, maybe it's better off if I just gave up…" said Rea and Chihiro looked shocked.

"No! You can't give up on Babu yet! I'm sure he wants to be with you as much as you do!" said Chihiro in a determent tone and Rea looked at his white dress shirt that got wet from the rain which clearly shows his chest.

"That's one way to convince me…" thought Rea blushing.

"Ah, I just noticed I never asked for your name" realized Chihiro.

"Oh it's Rea" answered Rea.

"I'm Chihiro, nice to meet you" said Chihiro with a soft smile.

"Don't you mean nice knowing ya? I didn't think you'll stick around" said Rea and Chihiro had a confused expression.

"Oh, actually I wanted to ask you if I can join you tomorrow" said Chihiro while scratching his cheek shyly.

"Huh? Why would a nice guy like you want to hang out with a zombie obsessed girl like me?" asked Rea confused.

"I always wanted a pet but my mother won't allow because she's a germaphobe" said Chihiro while petting Babu.

"If this works and it does bring Babu back to life, it'll the closest I've ever being of having a furry friend…" said Chihiro with warm eyes on Babu and Rea looked at him curiously.

"Oh I mean, he's your cat but I hope you'll let me play with him" said Chihiro to Rea.

"Well… Maybe" said Rea in a teasing voice and Chihiro giggled.

"Earlier you said you would do anything I want right?" asked Rea.

"Yeah why you ask?" asked Chihiro confused.

"You want to play with Babu?" asked Rea in a creepy tone.

"So prove your loyalty by acting as the test subject for the potion" said Rea with an evil grin.

"What? You want me to drink?" asked Chihiro nervously.

"That right… Didn't you say you want to die and come back as someone else…? Now's your chance… To become… A zombie…" said Rea darkly and Chihiro looked confused but also in hesitation.

"Pfft! I was only kidding!" laughed Rea and Chihiro froze in shock in realization he's been tricked.

"Hahaha! Man, I didn't know you were so gullible! You shouldn't believe everything you're told prince! I'm telling you girls can smell naive a mile away and I know a lot of girls who would love to take advantage of you" said Rea in a teasing way and Chihiro faceplumed.

"How would I know that!? I've never been on…" Chihiro stopped in midsentence blushing.

"I've never been on a date with a girl before there I said!" said Chihiro blushing from embarrassment.

"What? But I saw you with a girl all clingy on you yesterday, blonde with green eyes? Ringing any bells?" said Rea confused.

"Oh, you must mean Ranko, she's not my girlfriend, far from it actually, she's my cousin" said Chihiro with a soft smile.

"So in that case, the prince of Furuya Academy never had a girlfriend?" asked Rea in a teasing tone.

"I want to but I can't! It's my mom... Fine you win so what about you?" asked Chihiro in defeat.

"What about me?" asked Rea confused.

"Did you have a boyfriend?" asked Chihiro curiously.

"I haven't met the right guy yet" said Rea looking aside and Chihiro faceplumed.

"You have no right to tease me about not having a girlfriend when the princess of Sanka Academy never had a boyfriend!" said Chihiro while crossing his arms around his chest.

"I don't want one, my heart has been stolen by the beauties of the undead" said Rea as she got up from the blanket.

"What?" said Chihiro confused.

"I know you think I'm joking but I'm not, they're the only ones who make my heart skip a beat, I loved them since I was a little girl. I would definitely have a boyfriend right now if I could find one but they don't exist so what can you do. Call me crazy but I refuse to give up hope, you know what I mean?" said Rea honestly and Chihiro looked at her in interest and hung his head down.

"What's the matter? Are you feeling inferior?" teased Rea.

"Rea…" said Chihiro quietly as he got up from the blanket. He raised his head but his eyes were looking aside and put a hand on his chest.

"If I… Ever become… A zombie… Will you take responsibility… And take good care of me?" said Chihiro while blushing slightly and Rea looked speechless.

"Wow… The way he said it, it was like he was proposing to me…" thought Rea blushing red.

"Well… All of a sudden… Um…" Rea was blushing red brightly as she looked for the right words to respond for that sentence and Chihiro came up to her and looked in I'm-waiting face and then it turned to a grin and chuckled.

"Hehehe! You should see the look on your face! You shouldn't believe everything you're told princess" said Chihiro in a teasing tone as he patted Rea's head and she was embarrassed that the fool became the fooler on her.

"Well, it's getting late, I should had home now, good night" said Chihiro and put on his shoes and headed to the exit.

"Why that little…!" thought Rea and she looked as if she was about to strangle him and sighed to relax herself.

"Oh by the way Rea!" said Chihiro as he turned around.

"Thanks for letting me hang around and help you! See you tomorrow!" said Chihiro with a warming smile to Rea and she looked touched and Chihiro waved goodbye and left.

"At that moment… I never would have imagined… That handsome guy in front of me… would ever become… A zombie…"

Hope you guys liked it! Don't forget to leave a review! There are more chapters along the way and I'll try to update as fast as I can!

Flora216 out! ;)