Surviving a Zombie Apocalypse

Chapter 10: Comatose

"Right there!" Sasuke said to Naruto over the headset. "The entrance is two blocks down that street- WATCH OUT, NARUTO!"

The blond teenager saw the roadblock, but he knew it was too late to slow down properly. Turning his bike sideways, he slammed on the breaks, and the bike stopped so suddenly that they were both were thrown from it. Naruto's hands were wrenched from the handlebars, and the momentum with which he flew off sent the bike into a spin. Both boys slammed into the concrete barrier, and their helmets were knocked off by the impact. Naruto felt bones breaking and gritted his teeth against the sharp pain, even as he tasted the blood in his mouth.

'This is how it ends,' he thought wryly. 'I always thought I'd go out in a burst of glory, saving a baby from a burning building or something, not in a freaking motorcycle accident…'

"Naruto?" called Sasuke from off to his left, and he looked up just in time to see the raven-haired teenager standing up and limping toward him and then getting thrown as the heavy bike crashed into him. He slammed back into the concrete barrier with a cut-off cry of pain and then dropped like a stone, bleeding from the head.

"Guys, what's going on!" Naruko was yelling from the headset in his helmet, which was lying on the ground beside him. "Naruto-nii-san! Sasuke-chan! One of you answer me!"

Naruto ignored his twin, crawling toward Sasuke's inert form and turning him over. The pain just from those two simple actions was intense, and he fell over with a yell of agony, but he managed to hold on to consciousness. Grabbing the smaller teenager's wrist, he checked for a pulse and found it, although it was weak. Breathing a shaky sigh of relief, he crawled slowly back to his helmet and put it on with a hiss of pain.

"Naru-nii!" Naruko cried.

"Don't yell so loud, sis," said the blond teenager, wincing as he crawled back over to Sasuke and set his boyfriend's head carefully in his lap. "You're making my head hurt more. We just ran into a concrete barrier two blocks from the compound. We got thrown off, and then Sasuke got hit by the bike when it rolled. He's alive but unconscious, and I dunno how badly hurt he is. As for me, I've got a concussion, a broken leg and at least three broken ribs. Hurry up," he added nervously as a loud collective moan went up from the zombies chasing them. "I dunno how far away the undead army is."

He heard Naruko relaying what he'd just told her to the rest of the car, but it sounded very far away, as opposed to right in his ear, and he knew that he was losing consciousness.

"Naruto, baby!" said a new voice, the voice of Uzumaki Kushina. "Where are you!"

"You're almost here," said the blond faintly, hearing the roaring of the Hummer's engine getting closer. "Imma sleep…"

"NO!" shouted Kushina. "Don't you dare fall asleep! Stay awake! We're almost there, sweetie!"

At that moment, the Hummer rounded the corner and skidded to a stop a few feet away from the seriously injured couple. Car doors opened, and someone pulled the helmet off of Naruto. He looked blearily into the scared and concerned eyes of his mother, siblings, and best friend.

"How the hell did you manage to keep your helmet on?" asked Kiba.

"I didn't," replied Naruto groggily. "We both lost them when we got thrown off. I grabbed mine after the fact."

"Come on, get them into the car!" yelled Juugo from the other side of the Hummer. "We've got company!"

"Can you walk, Naruto?" asked Kyuubi.

"Leg broken," said Naruto, hissing in pain. "Feel like I'm gonna pass out…"

He felt a lack of pressure on his lap as Kushina picked Sasuke up and carefully moved to the Hummer, where she gently laid him out on the back seat. Naruto was picked up by Kyuubi, taken to the car, and deposited on the passenger's seat in the front. His older brother started to close the door, but he stopped him.

"Gimme a gun," he said quietly.

"Are you insane?" said Kyuubi. "In your state? No fucking way am I letting you touch a gun!"

With a burst of strength, Naruto grabbed the neck of his brother's T-shirt.

"Gimme my fucking rifle, 'ttebayo," he snarled, wincing at the pain. He coughed, and blood trickled from the corner of his mouth. He must have punctured a lung or something.

"Okay, okay!" said the redheaded man, grabbing Naruto's sniper rifle, which had miraculously been undamaged in the crash, and handing it to him. The blond teenager cocked the gun and lined his sights up on a large zombie's forehead.

"Move!" he shouted with all the strength he could muster, and then fired. The zombie dropped. Kyuubi turned to him indignantly.

"Why'd I have to carry you, you bastard?" he yelled.

"Because my leg's broken, dumbfuck," spat Naruto, trying to blink away the darkness at the edges of his vision. "We need help; there're too many!"

At that moment, a small ovular object flew over the concrete barrier that Naruto and Sasuke had crashed into only minutes before. It landed in the middle of the zombie horde, and with a loud boom body parts flew everywhere. Suigetsu and Juugo, who were the closest to the zombies, were splattered in congealed blood. Karin screamed.

"We're going to die!" she yelled hysterically, running toward the Hummer.

With a loud grumbling noise, a gate that hadn't been in the concrete wall before opened up, and a dark-haired woman dressed from head to toe in black waved them through. Kushina jumped in the driver's side and drove through the gate. She was closely followed by the others, and the gate boomed closed behind them.

"Is anyone bitten!" barked the female, training a power rifle on the group. "Everyone in the car get out!"

"We have two injured boys in the car!" cried Kushina. "They can't be moved!"

"No, Mom," said Naruto, fighting through the pain, "I'll get out…"

He slid down carefully, but the second he did both legs gave out beneath him, and with a cry of pain he went down. He only heard the cries of alarm from a distance, and then he knew no more.

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Three days later...

"Whaddya mean, it's my little brother's fault that your little brother is lying unconscious in bed?" snarled Kyuubi, poking Itachi in the chest with his finger. "If you hadn't put up that big-ass concrete barrier Naruto and Sasuke might not have run into it in the first place!"

"Maybe your brother shouldn't have been going so fast!" the raven-haired man spat.

"We had a horde of zombies after us, 'ttedana!" shouted his red-haired counterpart. "Would you rather have us going fast or would you have us all get turned into flesh-eating monsters!"

"Shut up, both of you!" snapped Naruko, slapping both men in the face. "You might wake them up!"

Itachi looked shocked, as if no woman had ever hit him before. The look on his face sent Kyuubi into gales of laughter, which stopped only when Naruko kicked him in the crotch, turning his tears of laughter into tears of pain.

"I told you to shut up, you no-good sorry excuse for an older brother!" she hissed. "What happened to Naru-nii and Sasuke-chan was a horrible accident. The Uchiha clan had no idea that there were any more survivors out there, and none of us had any idea there was a barrier between us and the Uchiha compound! Leave it at that! This case is officially closed!"

Just then there was a thump and a cry of pain from inside the room where Sasuke and Naruto had been put. Rushing in, the three found the latter of the boys on the floor, trying to pull himself back up.

"Naruto!" Naruko whispered urgently, hurrying to her twin's side. "What happened?"

Naruto ignored her. His eyes darted around wildly.

"Where're the zombies?" he yelled hysterically, backing up until his body was pressed against his boyfriend's bed. "Don't let them hurt Sasuke!"

"Hey, hey, hey," soothed Kyuubi, placing a hand on his younger brother's shoulder. "It's fine. You're both safe now. We're inside the main house of the Uchiha compound. You and Sasuke both got hurt pretty badly though, and you really should be resting."

Naruto seemed to calm down for a moment, and then he sank to the floor with a groan.

"How long has it been?" he queried.

"Three days," responded Naruko.

"How bad is it?" he asked, gritting his teeth against the pain.

'Well, you've got a broken leg, a mild concussion, five broken ribs, a sprained wrist, and numerous cuts and bruises," said Naruko, but Naruto was shaking his head impatiently.

"I wasn't talking about me!" he snapped. "I don't care about how badly I got hurt! How bad is Sasuke!"

"Why do you care so much about my brother?" asked Itachi, looming over the blond.

"I thought Kyuubi might've told you already, 'ttebayo," said Naruto, nonplussed. "I'm Sasuke's boyfriend. We've been together for almost a week."

The look on Itachi's face was priceless.

"Nani?"

"Never mind, 'ttedana," Kyuubi interjected quickly before the raven-haired man could get a word in edgewise. "It's pretty bad. He's got a moderate concussion, right leg broken and one sprained wrist, and the lower right part of his ribcage caved in. There was some serious internal bleeding, but the doctor managed to stop it and set his ribs. He's obviously still unconscious though. You're both lucky you're still alive."

Naruto ignored that last part. Dragging himself up by way of Sasuke's bedpost, he limped to the head of the bed and gazed down at his boyfriend.

An oxygen mask covered the lower part of the raven-haired teenager's face, and a bandage was on his left cheek, but he still looked beautiful. Farther down, IVs went into his arms, injecting plasma, nutrients, and meds directly into his bloodstream. Naruto sank down to the floor and took one pale, effeminate hand in his own, cupping it between his own tan appendages.

"Please, Sasuke," he begged the inert form before him, tears in his eyes, "wake up… I love you… I love you, temee…"

"Let's leave them alone," said Naruko quietly, pushing Itachi and Kyuubi out and closing the door behind her, drowning out the sound of Naruto's sobs. Immediately Kyuubi turned to Itachi.

"Do you mean to tell me you seriously had no idea that your brother was gay?" he asked incredulously.

"No," said Itachi, "he told me four years ago, and I'd kind of figured even before then, what with his fascination with dolls and make-up and Lady Gaga and the way he called people 'sweetie' all the time even back then. It's just that he's never brought home a boyfriend before."

"Never!" said Kyuubi, shocked. Then he shook his head. "Whatever. Is there something bad about that?"

"Not in my point of view, and Mom would be fine with it if she were still alive," said the black-haired man, "but if Father finds out he'll disown Sasuke."

"Not very accepting?"

"Not very accepting at all," agreed Itachi with a sigh. "So Father can't find out. Do you hear me? I told him I was bisexual and he was murderous. The only thing that stopped him from killing me or disowning me was that Mom was there; she told him that he had better not do anything or she would take me, Sasuke, and the dogs and divorce him. Imagine what he would do to Sasuke for being gay if he was that worked up over me being bi."

"Hey, I got you loud and clear the first time," said the redhead, putting his hands up defensively. "I'm not telling anyone. I didn't know you were bi…"

"Well, we've never really talked much before this, have we?" said Itachi coolly. "And when we did you weren't really being sociable."

"I wasn't being sociable?" said Kyuubi indignantly. "I am extremely sociable, 'ttedana! You're the introvert!"

"Well excuse me, Mr. Social Butterfly," said the raven-haired man, rolling his eyes.

"YOU'RE AWAKE!" came a loud cry from the room, making everyone jump. "OH MY GOD I WAS SO WORRIED!"

"Itai… N-Naruto… g'offa meh…"

"Sorry…"

Kyuubi and Naruko ran in, followed by Itachi, startling Naruto so badly that he jumped a foot in the air and landed on his bad leg with a yell.

"Fuck!" he snapped. "Could you guys not scare the living crap outta me, 'ttebayo?"

"Hey, Nii-san," mumbled Sasuke weakly. "Ouch!" he gasped as Itachi hugged him fiercely. "N-nii-san, tha' h-hurt…"

"Don't ever do that again!" Itachi yelled. "You had me scared to death, you smug little bastard!"

Despite not being able to move much, Sasuke glowered at his brother.

"Though' ah toldja t' stop callen meh that," he slurred… The painkillers were still running through his system, and he was extremely tired despite having been unconscious for three days.

"Your brother's nickname for you is 'you smug little bastard'?" said Naruto, looking like he was trying very hard not to laugh.

"On'y when 'e's mad a' me," growled the raven-haired teen. "Y'laugh, N'r'to, an' I swear when I get th' use of my legs back imma kill you painfully."

Naruto burst out laughing anyways, which put a strain on his newly set ribs.

"Hahaha, oh ouch! Hahaha, it's so hard to take you seriously when you're slurring your words like a drunk! 'Smug little bastard'… Ow!" Naruto roared with laughter. Sasuke sighed in resignation.

"Dunno why th' hell we're lovers," he muttered peevishly. "Dobe annoys th' fuck outta meh halfa th' time…"

"Because you love me, temee," gasped Naruto, wiping tears of mirth out of his eyes.

"Th' question though ish why…"

"What the hell is going on in here!" yelled Kushina, running in, followed by Fugaku.

"Sasuke woke up, 'ttebayo!" said Naruto, still wiping the residue of his laughing fit off of his face.

"And that's why you're laughing like a maniac, 'ttebane?"

"Nope, I just found out that his nickname from Itachi is 'you smug little bastard,'" said Naruto, and he was off again.

"It's not that funny," said Itachi, Naruko, and Sasuke at the same time.

"I think he's just relieved, 'ttedana," said Kyuubi. "Like I said, he'll wear out eventually."

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Hey! Yeah, this is chapter ten! Hopefully it's okay despite being somewhat short...

Why it is that Naruto chooses stupid moments to burst into maniacal laughter in this story, the world may never know. Why it is that in the actual series Sasuke seems to get batshit crazier every time he reappears, we can speculate. Me, I speculate that he didn't take his anti-psychotic pills in the morning. All this talk about revenge and shit and his "I-will-destroy-everything" mentality is getting seriously annoying. I just want him and Naruto to meet up, beat the shit out of each other, then have makeup sex and go back to Konoha and have a few kids and Naruto can be the hokage and Sasuke can be the stay-at-home wifey character. XD

As if. That will never happen. And I'm kidding about having a few kids… I can't stand m-preg most of the time. I mean, come on! Although the way Sasuke bitches all the time he could very well be preggers… XD

Sasuke: :( I'm not pregnant!

Me: -_- Says you. What the science says, I'm not so sure. 8)

Sasuke: :( It's scientifically impossible for a guy to get pregnant!

Me: o.O What about that guy a few years back who got preggers?

Sasuke: #-_- He was a hermaphrodite or something! I'm not!

Me: ^.^ You sure? 8)

Sasuke: -Tearing his hair out- Argh, you infuriate me so much… #*_*

Me: 8) I infuriate a lot of people. Like my mom. She frequently gets angry with me. I've given her a lot of gray hairs in my almost twenty years of life. She's fifty now, and she looks it. Why? It's all because of the little bitch standing in front of you. –Smirking-

Sasuke: o.o That's not a good thing. Why are you grinning about it? And why do you still live at home?

Me: ...Because I'm a douchebag with no fucking money. 8D Get over it and review people!