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Chapter 1: Waking Up In Hell

Cling! Clank!

The sound of metal crashing into each other as Uzumaki Naruto's kunai was used to block another ninja's kunai. The mission had been compromised and Naruto's instructors had told him they were on the retreat.

Any ninja they had ran into, they killed and kept retreating. They could only run so far before pain. It was a horrible, burning, agonizing pain that shocked Naruto's body as they were running. Naruto's scream yielded his teammates he had been following and they looked back at him. Naruto could hear a female's voice scream out his name.

Naruto screamed out in pain when whatever caused him pain in the first place was ripped out of him like it was nothing. The blonde collapsed to his knees clutching his shoulder where something had pierced him from behind. His vision began to blur as he saw a blur of silver jump behind him. A sickening sound of flesh being torn and screams from someone that was behind him fell silent.

Naruto heard a barrage of questions that sounded like something along the lines of 'Are you okay?' and 'Can you keep moving?'. Naruto just nodded to whatever was going on and tired to get back up. Usually Kurama's chakra would have been healing him by this point but for some odd reason, the wound was still bleeding out an Naruto was becoming more dizzy with each step he took.

Naruto collapsed to the ground again but this time he felt himself being helped. He looked up to see who it was, it was a short-haired male his age with his fake smile. Naruto scoffed but he was in no position to fight him off. He was gravely injured somehow and wasn't healing fast like normal.

Naruto walked a few more steps before collapsing to his knees once more. The pain in his shoulder was more intense and the burning sensation was getting worse. He heard his female teammate mention something about being poisoned. Shit, couldn't this mission get any worse? He then heard one of his instructors say they needed to find a place to hold up and get the poison out and let the boy rest.

Naruto's vision was going in and out of focus and all sound was starting to fade away. He could tell he was slipping into unconsciousness but he tried to fight it the best he could. Suddenly he heard a loud bang and his female teammate scream out something along the lines of 'What the fuck are those things?' and 'Oh my God, they're eating people'. It was the last thing Naruto heard as the darkness over took him and everything fell silent.

Cough. Cough.

The coughing caused pain to register in the brain.

Cough. Cough.

Ok this coughing needs to stop as darkness turned into a dim light and a scene of a white ceiling. Naruto winced in pain as he coughed a bit more, aggrivating the injury to his shoulder. Certaintly it didn't take him this fucking long to heal, wouldn't it? The blonde looked around and found himself would appeared to be an abandoned house. He looked around, it was rather small and it looked like it only had three rooms: A kitchen and living room combined with a one bathroom and one bedroom.

Naruto saw his belongings in the corner by either the front door or back door as Naruto wasn't sure which one it was yet. Naruto finally found the strength to get up and walked to the windows and at first he thought they were just extremely dirty so he wiped it with his orange and black jacket only to find it wouldn't come off. He touched the window with his bare hands and felt the texture of it and it felt like paint. It clicked. It was his teammate's ink. Why the hell would he waste his ink and black out the windows like that? Was it to keep enemies from finding where he was? Naruto couldn't find an answer.

He then began searching the house for any signs of his instructors or teammates but found he was the only one in the house. He sighed as he wondered where the rest of his team could be. Could they be looking out for food? Looking for supplies? That's the conclusion Naruto decided to go with.

Naruto made his way back to the kitchen and looked through the cabinents to find anything to eat as he was quite hungry. He found a cup of instant ramen, much to his delight. He looked through other cabinents and found a pot which he took to the sink and filled it with water. He took it to the stove and prayed it worked. Thank Kami it did. The stove lit right up and he placed the pot of water on top of the flame in order to get the water boiling.

Naruto impatiently waited for the water to boil. Fifteen minutes passed and the water was now boiling. Naruto took the water off the flame and poured some into his ramen cup. He closed the lid and had to wait before he could chow down on the ramen. Once it was ready, Naruto basically inhaled it and threw away the cup and chopsticks he used.

He sniffed as he smelt something raunchy then he realized it was him. Just how long was he out? He decided to take a shower to get the smell and grime off of him from what he could remember as a mission that had gone terribly wrong. A mission near the border with Kusagakure when a group of Kusagakure Missing-nin attacked them.

Naruto, now naked, looked in the mirror to see the bandage on his shoulder was old, it looked to not been changed out in a couple of days but the blonde paid no mind to it as he ripped it off. Kurama finally healed it but he still felt his shoulder being tender.

Naruto turned to the shower and got in. He washed away all the dirt, grim and stink. He was only in the shower for fifteen minutes and was done. He dried off and put on his orange and black jumpsuit on.

After getting dressed, Naruto got curious to whether it was night or day so he went to the front door but before he opened it, he noticed a hand-written message in his teammate's ink. It read 'Don't Go Outside' and nothing more. He could tell it was in his instructor's handwriting. I guess they were out finding supplies after all and just wanted him to stay put. However, he did want to see what time of day it was so when he pulled the door, it wouldn't open. It felt like it was barricaded from the outside, trying to keep him in. Just what the hell was going on? Did that mission really turn into shit that much where his teammates had to barricade him inside of a house?

Naruto went back to the kitchen to see if the door was the same way. He turned the knob and pulled but it wouldn't open either. It was barricaded from the outside as well. Naruto sighed, he had no choice but to wait until his team got back from wherever they were. He then turned to the table and sat down in the only chair and noticed a note. It was from the female member of his team and it read:

If you wake up while we're gone, we went to get more medical supplies and food for you. We will be back.

Love, Sakura.

Naruto smiled to know she was still okay. Naruto continued to stare at the note and nodded off to sleep again.

Naruto woke in a panic, he had fallen asleep at the table. He looked around the house and there were still no signs of his team. Naruto started to wonder how long ago Sakura had written the note she left on the table. He then remembered when he went to take a shower and saw that his bandage looked like it hadn't been changed in a few days. With those thoughts, Naruto started to scare himself thinking maybe they had abandoned him. However, he again questioned why they would barricade him inside the house if they were just going to leave him behind without a care? Surely they'll be back any time.

Naruto just sat at the table and waited and waited and waited. Naruto fell asleep waiting at least four more times until Naruto finally believed they were never coming back. Maybe they did go out for supplies and then got ambushed by the same Kusagakure Missing-nin again and were lying somewhere injured and unable to return or even worse, dead. Naruto didn't want to think of his female teammate that he loved so dearly dead.

Naruto decided he was going to leave the hose and look for them as he believed his team shouldn't have been gone this long. Naruto created one Kage Bunshin and it helped him create a spiraling ball of chakra in his bandaged right hand. He slammed the spiraling ball of chakra into the door as it broke through he noticed it had been boarded up on the outside and that was the reason he couldn't get out.

Naruto walked outside and the sunlight, which he hadn't seen in who knows how long, was bright and it stung Naruto's eyes. Once his vision came to focus and got used to the bright sunlight, what Naruto saw was unreal. The entire yard looked broken up as if a earthquake and happened and inside the rubble were hundreds of dead bodies. They were decayed and he couldn't even tell if they were male or female. Just what the fuck happened while he was unconcious? The smell was horrible and Naruto had to get away from it. He ran as far as he could before falling to his knees in his weakened state. He reached his goal of getting away from all the dead bodies.

Naruto rested underneath the shade of a tree before getting back to his feet. He continued walking down the road and Naruto notice that the road was usually crawling with wild life and singing birds but today, there was nothing but dead silence and it scared Naruto a bit. As he continued walking down the road, he found it strange that he hadn't ran into a single person. He remembered when they came down this road to their mission location, there was people walking along this road the entire time but today, nothing. To the horizon he saw the village they were staying at during the mission but there was smoke coming from it and it alarmed him. Maybe the village was under attack by those Missing-nin or something. Naruto, being curious as evere, decided he would go investigate the village as well as maybe finding his lost team.

Naruto, who was practically running, made his way to the village. The village, which was lively when him and his team had arrived, was empty. Several buildings in the distance were on fire. He was right, it was attacked by those Missing-nin. He walked further into the village, hoping to find any signs of life or his team but there was no one. There was no sign of life at all. Naruto walked to an intersection in the village and he looked down the right and found nothing. He looked ahead and still nothing. He looked to his left and saw a silhouette of a person standing there. He couldn't tell who it was because of the smoke coming from the corner building which was on fire.

"Sakura-chan?" the blonde called out. "Kakashi-sensei? Yamato-teichou? Sai?"

All the blonde heard as a reply was a few grunts and groans. Naruto watched as the figure slowly made its way to him. The person made its way out of the smoke and Naruto's eyes widened at what he saw. The person was actually decaying, the eyes were no longer white with a colored iris but just yellow with no pupil. Blood was dripping from its mouth. The decaying person continued walking toward Naruto slowly. Naruto seemed to have been frozen in fear because he hadn't seen a reanimated corpse like this one before. At least the ones he came across in the Fourth Great Ninja War still talked and didn't look half as dead as this guy did.

As Naruto stood frozen, he didn't notice the others that were following the one he saw first, it turned out to be a massive group of them. The grunts and groans from the group got louder and Naruto was pulled out of his trance when he heard someone yell.

"Are you fucking stupid? Run!" the male voice yelled as he threw a kunai that hit the closest one to Naruto in the head. Naruto turned to see a male wearing a Chunin vest and he noticed the headband had Kusagakure's symbol. The male had medium length brown hair and green eyes. Naruto ran towards the the man.

"Follow me," he said.

The two ninja from different villages ran into the forest, leaving behind the group of decaying people. The two came to a tree which the Kusagakure Chunin opened with Naruto following. The two climbed down into an underground shelter. It was fully lighted and fully stocked with supplies.

"What the hell was that all about kid? You trying to commit suicide or something?" the Kusa-nin asked.

Naruto didn't answer but asked a question of his own, "What the fuck was all that back there?"

The Kusa-nin looked at Naruto confused. He isn't really asking this question is he? He had to know what had happened, right?

"You do know what happened right?" the Chunin asked.

"No, I don't know," replied Naruto. "I just woke up. I fell unconscious from battle and I woke up in a house with all the windows blacked out and the doors boarded up from the outside."

"Son of a bitch, you must have been in a coma for at least three weeks," said the Chunin.

"Three weeks?!" yelled the blonde. The Kusa Chunin nodded.

"My name is Shinji, by the way,"

"My name is Uzumaki Naruto and what's going on with those people in that village?" Naruto asked.

"Those aren't people anymore, they're dead, Walkers I like to call them," answered Shinji.

"Is someone using the Reanimation Jutsu again and attacked that village?" asked Naruto. Shinji laughed.

"Sorry kid, this isn't any Reanimation Jutsu, those are real walking dead out there," replied Shinji. "It started about three weeks ago, some strange flu hit the village and it was killing the villagers but then all of a sudden they came back to life as those flesh-eating monsters you just saw. Those Walkers are bad news kid, they feed on the living like you and I. If you're bit, you might as well either let them devour you or just wack yourself because in the end you'll turn into one of them as well."

"That's impossible, the dead can't just rise without the use of the Reanimation Jutsu!" Naruto protested.

"Believe it kid, it's no jutsu, it's the real deal," Shinji said.

"Why'd you save me?" asked Naruto. "Being a ninja from Kusagakure and all."

Shinji was taken back by the question, "I hate to say it but there is no 'I'm from here', that world doesn't exist anymore. This shit hit Kusagakure from the north and it spread quickly."

"So my team must of been killed because there were a bunch of bodies out front of the house I woke up in," Naruto said sadly. A tear formed as the thought of his pink-haired love being dead.

"You said the doors were boarded up from the outside?" asked Shinji. Naruto nodded. "It's possible they're still alive. Maybe those bodies were just Walkers they had killed and since you were in a coma, they boarded up the house to keep you safe."

"I hope that is the case, I just wonder where they are," Naruto said sadly.

"I don't know, but it's possible they're too many of them to kill and couldn't come back for you," Shinji said.

"Do you think whatever this is spread to Konohagakure too?" asked Naruto.

"I can't say for sure, you're pretty far north so maybe it didn't go in that direction," answered Shinji. "Say, did you close the door up there when you came in?"

"I- I don't remember," Naruto replied. Shinji got up.

"It's no big deal, I'll go check," said Shinji as he walked to the steel door. He entered a numbered code and it opened.

"Fuck!" yelled Shinji as he began fight Walkers that had gotten in from the opened door above.

Naruto's eyes widened in shock. The group from the village must have walked all the way from the village to here. Naruto took out a kunai and helped Shinji fight them off. They killed a few more.

"Naruto!" Shinji yelled, "There's too many of them, there's a secret exit in the next room. Use it and get out of here, return to your home and find your team. My time is up here I guess."

Naruto shook his head in protest but Shinji pushed him to go. The moment Shinji pushed Naruto, he witnessed first hand what these Walkers were capable of as one bit into Shinji's arm. Shinji yelled out as he continued stabbing Walkers in the head with his kunai. Naruto got off his ass and ran into the next room and entered a tunnel and continued to run. As he ran through the tunnel, he could hear Shinji's screams until they just stopped. He was right, they did feed on the living. Tears formed in Naruto's eyes as he ran through the tunnel. He was scared shitless and whatever shit world he woke up into, he woke up into it alone. To tell the truth, Naruto didn't even know if he would make it back to Konohagakure to see if it was still in one piece.

The tunnel he was in exited through a waterfall. He jumped through the waterfall and landed onto the lake below, using his chakra to stay above the surface. Naruto ran across the lake and made it to shore and looked around to see if there any Walkers around. At the moment, he was in the clear. He climbed into a tree to regain himself. He tried not to let the fear of this new reality take control of him. Once Naruto regained his composure, Naruto began to jump from tree to tree, heading south. Naruto hoped he was going in the right direction and praying to Kami that Konohagakure was still in one piece.

UPDATE 10/15/17:

Finally got around to rewriting this chapter. Sorry for the original with the wall of text.