"he left?"
"Yeah, man was anxious. His wife and son had probably left alive in the outbreak from what we saw on his house" Morgan said, sippinig from his cup of coffee.
"We tried to make him wait until we found a good plan forward but guy just left, broke into the police station where he used to work, armed himself and hit the road toward Atlanta. he thinks the refuge there is where his family is" Billy recounted what happened with the man named Rick Grimes.
He was surprised when Sasuke showed up first thing in the morning.
And Sasuke just felt frustrated, he came here as soon as he can in the morning after Katniss and others woke up.
Yet the man had already left leaving some guns, ammo and a Walkie-talkie with Morgan.
he wondered what was wrong with Rick.
Sasuke had already said to them after he returned to the building that he will be there in the morning.
But he also understood that for someone who woke up yesterday and still hadn't met with the walkers, a lot herd of them...Cautiousness wouldn't be in mind.
And Rick just wanted to meet his familiy as soon as possible, of course he won't waste time waiting for some young guy to come and talk to him.
"Well, let's go back" with that they boarded an SUV Morgan found and drove with the supplies back to the building.
' He is Rick after all, he will survive...guess our next stop is— Fuck, i don't remember where their camp should be '
He scratched that idea and just focused on his next goal, resources.
The women back already had breakfast ready for them.
Once they all had their stomachs full, Sasuke went to his room and started gearing up.
Soon Katniss came and asked what he was getting ready for.
"I will head for the military outpost Morgan heard about from Rick, there must be vehicles and guns there"
"I'll come with you"
"No you won't, there can be a herd there for all we know"
"Weren't you the one who put the rule that no one moves alone? And now you are gonna break it after less than a day?" Katniss crossed her hands leaning on the door frame looking at him with a little smirk.
' Fuck me...' that sass made Sasuke rub his forehead, she just had to use that against him.
"Alright you win, but i want you to follow my words. So enough when i say enough okay?we move forward when i say, and we retreat when i say."
"Noted, i'm not stubborn don't worry"
' yeah i'm not buying that '
"Go gear up, wear those too" he tossed her chest protector, arm braces and knee protectors.
"And go first pack everything you have, we may be leaving the place soon. you know how to drive right?"
"Yeah got my licence when i turned 19"
"Good, you may be driving back one of the vehicles if we end up finding any"
With that Katniss left to pack their baggages while Sasuke went down to talk with others.
"Are you sure you don't want us to go with you? Can be dangerous there"
"Don't worry i'll take care of us, we need those Humvees, in case we have to leave this place"
"What's the plan? We stay here and let you two go and risk yourselves with no backup?"
Billy knew this wouldn't be their base, the corpses were all cleared but traces of blood and tragedy were everywhere.
And honestly, such a big building in the town was like a beacon, sooner or later a big group would set their eyes on it for scavenging.
"You guys are our line of defense here, there are kids and a woman here. So i'll make it quick, find vehicles, any weapons, fuel and we set off back here. What i ask you two is to think of a route out of here, you know the place better than me. while helping siphon the fuel from the cars around here if possible. Billy got a map"
"I have one on me too, but to where? the location we may leave toward?"
"Let's scout the area outside the city first, i don't know what has become of Atlanta but if it was...bad. i don't want to risk it so we circle out of it first, make contact with Rick at the discussed time.
We join if it is safe or think about our next stop from there. Better a place to be away from the population, have suitable land to plan a shelter around it. Anyway that's my thought, discuss it and we will talk what better course we need to take. The important things is...we stay together."
He remembered what Rick found in Atlanta from the serie, and he thought that starting with that is good, but he can't just say that and ignore how everyone is feeling about this.
With that the group separated and each headed to do their work.
Morgan goes around the building to get fuel from the few abandoned cars with Billy, Katniss who finished packing joined Sasuke heading to the outpost while Jenny and Duan started packing too. In case they were in a hurry to leave.
...
"This time too, they are all yours until i say otherwise"
Sasuke had already witnessed how good she is with archery, she didn't lie.
Any target within 30 meters was in her hit domain.
"Happy to hear that" nocking an arrow on her hunting bow she aimed to the right and released. Another walker had his eye pierced.
"So Sasuke, what are you planning for the future"
He answered in the same breath already having a simple plan forward.
"Find a good shelter for us, secure it, become self-sufficient as soon as possible. maybe find more people...Good people deserving help. Overall, The same goal since the begining. survive"
She nodded with a smile retrieving her arrow from the walker's head.
"And that matter...the one of the ancestors– i'm not mocking you" she held her hands up defensively as she saw him looking at her with that same expression he had most of the time thinking he may be offended.
"I didn't even say a word, i know how ridiculous that must've sounded to you. All the talk about reaching heights edging to being superpowers"
"Haha i'm just so curious...can't you tell me more about it?" She pleaded with cute eyes that showed no such warmth to the next walker stumbling toward them behind a car as another arrow was nocked and launched in two seconds screwing its head.
"It's a long story, Madara Uchiha wasn't the first legend, there had been one before him. The true ancestor to our Uchiha clan that goes by the name Indra. Anyway, back to Madara. The man can be said to be a one-man army, even against hundreds of shinobis in his era. And it's said that he awakens the true power of an Uchiha. The sharingan"
Katniss who kept advancing and dropping walkers all around listened to every word of his.
It sounded fascinating, that kind of history and belief he and his clan held.
Even if it sounded like a fairy-tail to her.
But she tried not to judge. In the end, they are now living in a world where the dead are walking around and hunting for thr flesh of the living.
And Sasuke is smart, logical and...real.
Every decision of his hinted at that, he never did a thing that showed he is the delusory type.
Thus she didn't say a word and just kept asking about this Sharingan thing.
Yet hearing about that bloodline, and the red eye, one that gave and upgraded vision that makes you perceive everything differently...
Even enabling you to do the impossible like sticking to surfaces and manipulating things...she started wondering if he was brainwashed by that clan.
"Haha i know that look, promise you'll keep a secret? That no one has gotten to know, ever?"
Honestly? He had had enough. He can't keep hiding all the time, not from her.
Some will notice soon, those who know him truly well and his movements.
He grows tired of hiding from them like a thief.
A single small thing would be enough to make her stop looking at him like he is a crazy man and it would stop her from saying more when he goes on making weird decisions.
Moreover, he figured that this might be the chance to test her really, see what she truly is.
"Sorry Sasuke but you can't expect me to believe that, even coming from you. But yeah i promise" Katniss shrugged her shoulders as the outpost came into their view.
Few walkers were stumbling at the entrance.
"Sure, how about this then"
Katniss looked beside her, Sasuke who was walking with hands in pockets raised one in front of him. palm open, empty.
He did nothing, literally nothing before a puff of smoke suddenly erupted from his wrist surprising her.
Yet what happened next nearly made Katniss drop her bow in disbelief.
A big metal weapon in the shape of the stars named shurikens he used, as big if not more than a car wheel appeared in his hand. From fucking nowhere.
' There's no way he can hide such a thing in him '
"This beauty here is named the demon wind shuriken, i know how that sounds but i can't say it is wrong seeing what it can do" to make his point Sasuke pulled his arm back, took a breath and threw it.
Katniss instinctively winced from the harsh sound it produced as it cut through the air.
The big weapon spun like a helicopter's overhead blades flying at great speed forward and she watched in amazement that big thing cutting straight through the midsections of a whole 5 walkers ahead before being embedded deep into the ground behind their now ripped bodies.
"It, that...i, your fucking clan was telling the truth? Just Who the fuck are you people?" The girl who never used foul language now lost control after witnessing something just as mindblowing as the first time she saw walkers.