Arrows and Scars

AN: Hey everyone XD! This idea has been racking around my brain since season four of The Walking Dead and now I'm finally getting off my lazy butt and writing it down.

Warning:

The rating of this story *points to the rating* is 'M'. Which stands for mature audience only. Mainly for gory zombie apocalypse situations, colorful language and possible future lemon scenes. (That's right, I'm going there) This is your overall caution for the entire fic.

This is also my first 'M' rated fic, so don't judge me too harshly.

Things to Know:

This fic follows The Walking Dead show on AMC.

Inuyasha the Final Act DID NOT happen. At least not in the way we know...You'll get it when you read it.

Kagome is twenty years old in this story and her brother will be twelve, the same age as Carl and Sophia.

Note: Due to The Walking Dead being an uncompleted series, it makes it a little difficult for me to update at my usual once a week update pace, since I have no idea where the plot is going. That being said I've decided to only update this fic once...at the beginning of every month...Just let that sink in for a minute...Anyway, that's how it's going to be and unfortunately it's not going to change anytime soon.

Well, that's about it for now. Now on with the show!

Summary: After her time in the Feudal Era, you would think Kagome would be prepared for anything. But nothing could have mentally prepared her for a zombie apocalypse. Or being stranded in Georgia with her brother during said apocalypse. However, the group that the Higurashi siblings come across seem to be handling the situation well enough. Follow Kagome and Souta, through the story line of The Walking Dead.

Chapter Warning: Character Death. (AN: People dying in The Walking Dead? Who knew?)

Disclaimer: I don't own Inuyasha and I don't own Walking Dead. *insert day dreaming sigh here* If only...*insert reality here* Anyway, no suing.

Chapter 1: A Living Nightmare

The sky was gray and cloudy.

The air held a slight chill as tiny rain droplets began to fall from the dark clouds.

A fit setting for the end of a battle that had taken place today.

Kagome let out a whimper at the horrific sight before her.

The smell of blood and burnt flesh stung her nose, which almost made her vomit.

Slowly, Kagome limped her wounded body over to the corpse that lied in the middle of the field. She felt as if there wasn't one part of her body that didn't get cut, bruised, or broken.

Still Kagome moved onward.

She had to see him.

"…Inuyasha," Kagome whimpered, dropping to her knees beside the half demon that she was in love with for so long.

After a year of searching for the Shikon fragments, the Shikon Jewel was finally whole once again. And thanks to Shikon Shard hunting group's efforts, the Jewel's power had vanished for good.

After what felt like a never ending battle, Naraku was finally dead. The evil half demon had tried to fight Inuyasha and the others face to face, since he had the whole Shikon Jewel in his possession. However, he didn't suspect Kagome's ability to shoot an arrow and transport it to anywhere of her choosing. During the battle Kagome had shot at the Jewel, instantly purifying it and releasing it from Naraku's grasp.

After all the pain that had been inflicted and tears that had been shed, Inuyasha and his friend's fight was finally over…But at a terrible cost.

In a final attempt to avenge their fallen friend, Sango, Inuyasha attacked Naraku head on. By using the last of his strength in his attack with Tetsusaiga, Inuyasha struck Naraku down.

Unfortunately, Naraku didn't die before unleashing an attack of his own...Killing Inuyasha in the process.

Kagome ran her blood covered hand over her beloved Inuyasha's face, accidentally smearing the blood on his now cold cheek. Tears of sorrow began to run down her eyes as the rain started to fall harder around them.

The longer Kagome gazed at Inuyasha's fallen form, the more her body ran cold with grief.

In her anguish she screamed, "INUYASHA!"

Kagome awoke from her deep sleep in a startle. 'Oh for God sakes,' she thought to herself in mild annoyance, 'Not again.'

She hated that nightmare...That memory.

It had been four years since that dreadful day.

The day that changed so many lives forever.

The survivors of that final battle against Naraku were herself, Shippo, Miroku, Kouga and Sesshōmaru. Rin and Jaken were far away from the fight. The survivors regrouped in Kaede's village, once the word had spread that the evil half demon was dead. Kikyo was absent during the battle, but once she heard that both halfblooded demons from her past were dead, she took her own life to join them in the next world.

Kagome remained in the Feudal Era for a few days after the fight, so she could recover from the injuries. After a long and heart filled good bye to her friends, who Kagome had grown to see as family, she left the Feudal Era forever.

After seeing her injuries after she returned home, Kagome's family took her to the hospital for her to heal completely. The Higurashi family had to lie about Kagome's current injuries, and her past ones, but luckily none of the doctors questioned their story.

Physically, Kagome had healed as much as the doctors had expected...But mentally, the young priestess wasn't the same after she returned home for good.

Kagome had fallen into a depression, and lost a lot of weight, making her look fragile and sickly. Kagome's family tried to help and support her as best they could, but there was only so much comfort they could give her.

How do you ease the pain of someone who watched their best friend and first love die in front of their eyes?

The young priestess had tried returning to her normal life, barley making it through middle school with a small impression of emotion. Many of Kagome's old school friends didn't speak to her much after a few months. They didn't understand what had happened to their friend to make her behavior change so much. So, they avoided speaking to Kagome all together, afraid that they would say the wrong thing to send her over the edge.

Things didn't get better for Kagome until a year after she had returned home, on the day she was cleaning the storage room. While going through some old boxes, Kagome found some dusty old scrolls that were written by her ancestor, named Miroku Higurashi. In denial that it was the same Miroku she knew and loved, Kagome read the scrolls, only to discover that her Miroku was indeed her ancestor. Once it clicked that she was related to that perverted monk, Kagome recalled the time when Miroku asked her to bare his child and all the times he groped her. She began to fall into fits of laughter realizing that her own relative had been making passes at her.

That was the first time Kagome had truly laughed or smiled since she had been home.

Kagome calmed down form her laughter, and continued to read the old scroll. Miroku had written down everything from his travels with their group and what had happened to him after the battle with Naraku. He expressed how difficult it was for him to move on and how things didn't seem to matter anymore after losing Sango. That all changed when Miroku met a woman named Nayomi, who he married and had children with years later.

"Although I love Nayomi dearly, the love I have for Sango can never be replaced. My beautiful demon slayer will always be in my heart. Thinking of Sango hurts sometimes, but I know that she would want me to live. And to find happiness again."

Kagome read Miroku's words over and over again. Even with the hundreds of years between them, Miroku's wisdom still managed to reach her.

'If he could find a way to move on from the past…Maybe I can too,' Kagome thought to herself.

That's when Kagome made herself a promise: She will live, with the memory of her best friends, to the fullest.

Little by little Kagome kept true to her word and tried to find the will to live again. She regained the weight she had lost, and focused on getting her education to make her family proud.

Kun-lun, Kagome's mother, was thrilled to see 'life' in her daughter again. She was so proud of Kagome when she finished school and encouraged her to follow her dream and passions.

It turns out, Kagome's dream was to become a writer.

Writing stories, many of them inspired by her own past adventures, led Kagome's way into a respectable University and possible future career. 'Just because I'm no longer mourning my past, doesn't mean I need to forget what happened,' she reasoned when she began to write her memories down on paper.

Unfortunately in doing so, Kagome's devastating memories occasionally re-surfaced.

Just like today.

Sitting up from the motel bed, Kagome lightly stretched her muscles before slipping out of the covers, trying not to wake up her mother and brother.

But she had failed in her task.

"Kagome?" Kun-lun whispered as she awoke form her daughter's movements, before glancing at the clock next to her bed. "Sweetheart, its six thirty in the morning. Are you alright?" she asked with worry.

The priestess looked at her mother and gave a small smile that did not reach her eyes, "I'm okay, Mama," she said trying to sound assuring.

Unfortunately, her act didn't get past her mother. "You had another nightmare didn't you," Kun-lun concluded, quietly getting out of bed. Both of the women did not want to wake up Souta.

Kagome gave a small nod in reply. She never could lie very well. The priestess didn't know why she thought she could with her own mother.

Kun-lun frowned as she walked up to her daughter and gave her a small hug. "Do you want to talk about it?" she asked.

Kagome shook her head as she hugged her mother back, "I'll be fine. Don't worry about me," she assured her mother.

Kun-lun let out a sigh before pulling back to kiss her daughters forehead, "I'm your mother. It's my job to worry about you," she said simply, making Kagome smile.

"Well you can take a five minute break for now," the priestess teased before she made a small frown. "Besides, you have enough concerns as it is. I know you're still upset about Uncle Jason passing away."

Jason was Kagome's uncle and Kun-lun's brother-in-law, who had passed away quietly in his sleep a few days ago. Kun-lun's little sister Kisa met Jason, who was an American, when he was studying abroad in Japan. They fell deeply in love and married each other in less than a year of meeting. Shortly after, Kisa moved in with Jason in his home town in Georgia, where they had lived happily together. In time, the Higurashis learned how to speak English for Jason, just like he learned how to speak Japanese for Kisa. Both parties had become fluent in both languages.

Unfortunately, Kisa passed away in a terrible car accident a few months ago. Jason was so devastated after losing his beloved wife that he eventually lost the will to live.

'He died from a wounded heart,' Kagome thought, having felt the same way when she lost Inuyasha. It frightened her to think that she could have easily been taken away from her family like her uncle.

Kun-lun loved Kisa and Jason dearly, and immediately flew herself and children to United States' Georgia for her brother-in-laws funeral that was held yesterday.

Kun-lun's breath caught when Kagome mentioned Jason and tried to hold back her tears, "I'm going to miss him...Jason was such a good man," she whimpered.

Kagome nodded in agreement, "I'm going to miss him too," she told her mother, as she tried to regain herself. "Why don't you stay here and rest. I'll go and get us some breakfast, since our flight doesn't leave till later today," Kagome suggested.

Kun-lun nodded in appreciation, "Thank you, Sweetheart."

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"Yes," Kun-lun said into her cell phone a few hours later. This was the third airport she had called today since their flight had been canceled. "Thank you very much," she said before hanging up, "For absolutely nothing!" she yelled at the phone in frustration.

"What's going on?" Souta asked as he pulled his gaze away from the television, hearing is mother's irritation.

Kagome looked up from writing in her notebook to hear what her mother had to say.

"They have no flights leaving either," Kun-lun told them.

"Ah man," Souta whined, "But I want to go home now."

Kun-lun sighed as she rubbed the bridge of her nose in frustration, "I know, honey, I know. But there's nothing I can do. I called two other airlines but all flights have been delayed until further notice."

Kagome raised a brow, "All of them?" the priestess questioned. 'That's strange,' she thought to herself, 'What in the world could have caused them to do that?' Kagome looked over to her brother's pouting face and rolled her eyes. "Look on the bright side, Souta. You get a few extra days off school."

Souta's face brighten at the idea, "I didn't think about that. Sweet!"

Kun-lun chuckled lightly at her son's delight, but couldn't help feeling that something wasn't right.

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It had been one full week since the Higurashi's had been stranded in Georgia. Luckily, Kun-lun had brought some extra money with her, just in case something happened, allowing them to stay in the motel for a little longer.

The Higurashi's didn't see their delayed stay as too much of a nuisance.

However, there were a lot of police cars, fire truck, and ambulance sirens that have been going off endlessly though out the last few days and nights.

The television news ran irrational stories about people going crazy and attacking everyone they see.

Kun-lun and Kagome continuously tried calling everyone they knew, both in Japan and in America, to see if they could find out what was going on. Unfortunately all calls were disconnected, making it impossible to find out what was really going on outside.

"Nothing," Kagome told her mother hanging up her cell phone, "I can't get a hold of any of my friends from school...What do we do, now?"

"Mama," Souta muttered as he leaned in closer to his mother on the bed, starting to get a little freaked out by this whole situation.

Kun-lun rubbed his arm affectionately, "It'll be alright, honey."

Suddenly, a banging on the door startled the Higurashi family.

"Help me!" a young woman screamed, "Please, let me in! Help me!"

Kun-lun gestured for Kagome to go over to Souta, which she immediately did. Their mother looked through the key hole of their motel room door and saw a middle aged red haired woman hold her arm. Kun-lun could see blood seeping through the woman's fingers. "Oh my goodness," Kun-lun said alarmed as she unlocked the door and opened it, "Come in. Come in," she urged the red head.

"Thank you. Thank you so much," the woman said gratefully as she wept. Kagome ran to the back to grab some motel towels and place them over the woman's wound. "I've been so scared. It's insane out there."

"What happened to you?" Kagome asked the woman, wanting to know what led to this woman's wound.

It took a moment for the woman to calm down and explain what happened, "I was walking down the street by my house, and this nutcase came over and bit me."

"Bit you?" Kun-lun questioned.

"Yes," the woman nodded, "He tried to bite me again but I pushed him off and ran away. I ran to the hospital but there were these military guys taking over the place. And with all the craziness out there, I didn't know where to go."

"Freaky," Souta said as he stood in the corner of the room, not liking the sight of the blood.

Kagome continued to work on the woman's arm, making a bandage by tearing some pillow cases, as her mother continued to get the woman's story of what happened.

But something was wrong.

No matter what she tired, Kagome couldn't get the woman's wound to stop bleeding. And what was even stranger was her holy powers were beginning to prickle ever so slightly, as if it was warning her of upcoming danger.

Shaking off the sensation, the priestess finished binding the woman's arm. "There you go. That should help."

Kun-lun sat next to the young woman, "Why don't you stay with us until things settle down. It wouldn't be good to be out in your condition."

"Thank you so much," the woman said, looking slightly paler than before.

The next few hours were spent either talking or trying to shake off the cabin fever of being inside a small cramped room.

When it was time to go to sleep, Kun-lun and Souta were going to share one of the beds while Kagome offered to sleep on the floor so the woman could have a comfortable bed to sleep in.

The woman was grateful, feeling very light headed and needing to lay down.

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Unknown by the Higurashi family, the red haired woman was sweating ferociously throughout the night, lightly groaning in pain as her wound got worse.

She was growing weak from the blood loss.

And from the lingering infection that had yet to present itself.

The woman grunted one last time as she slept before the infection of the bite mark caused her untimely death.

Over the next few hours, the unknown virus started spreading fast throughout the dead woman's body.

Suddenly, without any warning, the dead woman opened her eyes. She growled as she got up from the bed, and slowly walked over to the unexpected Kun-lun that she saw sleeping soundly next to Souta.

The dead red haired woman was hungry.

She needed to feed.

And she choose to feed on the closest person to her.

The dead woman immediately grabbed onto Kun-lun and bit into her neck, tearing off her flesh to sustain her ravines hunger.

Kun-lun screamed out in pain as the dead woman took a piece of her neck, waking up Souta and Kagome.

"Mama!" the Higurashi siblings screamed in union as they took in the sight before them.

The dead woman paid no attention to the Higurashi children, too invested in her current meal. She took another bite out of Kun-lun, this time in her belly. Tearing Kun-lun apart to feast on her insides.

Souta froze in place and instantly paled at the horrid sight of his mother being eaten in front of him.

Kagome was also terrified of what was happening, but was still able to react. The priestess quickly yanked her brother out of bed and pushed him into a corner of the room, away from the dead woman, before going back to push the redhead away from her mother. "Get away from her!" she yelled at the redhead.

The dead woman stumbled to the ground before she slowly got back up.

This time, her new target was for the young Asian woman.

Kun-lun was gasping for what little life she had left before glancing over at her daughter and then her son. 'My babies,' were her only thoughts before she began to chock to death on her own blood.

Kagome shoved the dead red haired woman again before she spin kicked the woman hard in the head, wanting to knock her down. She succeeded, and was also able to hit the dead woman's head so hard that it came clean off her body. Kagome gasped, not knowing that her attack held that much fatal force.

But none of that mattered after she looked at the discarded head.

The head was still alive.

This woman, this thing, was still living even though the head was no longer connected to its body.

Souta's eyes winded at the discarded head.

It looked like the undead head wanted to move towards him.

Even without a body it still wanted to feed.

Kagome looked at the head in disgust and wanted to put the thing out of its misery. She grabbed the motel lamp, walked over to the head, and smashed it as hard as she could, causing the bone of the skull to stab its brain. Kagome glanced quickly over at the woman's dead body to make sure it was really dead.

It didn't move.

It was over now.

Souta slowly made his way back over to his dead mother. Tears flowing down his face, "Mama!" he cried out for his mother to awaken, "MAMA!"

Kagome walked over to Souta, finally allowing to let her emotions go, as placed her hand on his back, "Souta," she whimpered just as upset.

The boy quickly turned and buried his face in his sister's chest in despair, crying his eyes out as he did so. Kagome embraced him back, allowing her own tears to fall down her face. 'What do we do now?' she thought in despair.

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It had been two weeks since that terrible night.

After the attack in the motel, Kagome and Souta wrapped up their mother's body in a thick blanket and carried her into the car they rented for their trip. That's when they learned that there were more of those undead creatures out there. The siblings were attacked more than once on the way to the woods, barley managing to survive the living dead with every encounter.

They drove deep into the woods and gave their mother the proper burial that she deserved. Arranging a funeral was a preposterous idea with people dying and then coming back as the living dead. So the two Higurashi children gave their mother a final goodbye and hoped to see her again in heaven one day.

Afterwards, Kagome had to consider what she and her brother were going to do now. It was obvious that whatever was going on, things were probably going to get worse before they got better. 'I need to protect Souta,' Kagome told herself and tapped into her survival skills that she gained in her adventures in the Feudal Era.

Excluding the cloths they brought for their trip, the siblings had no supplies or weapons that would help defend themselves.

So, Kagome took her brother in their rental car and found the closest general store to stock up on supplies.

Preserved food, matches, a first aid kit, and all the water that she and Souta could carry.

The siblings caught a lucky break when they came across a sporting goods store and found some weapons. Kagome was able to salvage a 54" silver OMP Explorer 2.0 Recurve Bow along with two dozen arrows, which helped them on the road so far. It had a different feel then Kagome's long bow back in Japan, but she quickly got used to it. She was also able to find two hunting knives for her and Souta, and even some camping gear.

The first week on the road was the hardest. Kagome made sure to stay on country back roads, having learned that the highways were jammed, until they ran out of gas on day three. There wasn't any nearby cars or gas station for miles, so the siblings made a small camp with the rental car. They pushed the seats down so they would have room to sleep and store their food supplies, so critters and bugs wouldn't get to them. Kagome used some big blankets and some shirts to block the windows of the car so the undead creatures wouldn't see them inside. 'If they don't see or hear you, they move along,' Kagome noted from their past experiences.

The young priestess also learned an important, and a rather annoying, inconvenience about these undead creatures.

Kagome's holy powers couldn't sense them.

These living dead creatures, wherever they came from, were not demonic.

And as far as Kagome could tell, they also didn't have living souls.

Either way, Kagome had no way of sensing if one of those undead creatures were nearby.

She could purify the creatures to ash with her sacred arrow, but that would also destroy her arrows, which were in short supply. So Kagome had to be extra careful and hit these undead creatures in the head or else Souta would be in danger.

'Either way, they're in the pain in the ass to kill,' she thought in annoyance.

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Today, Kagome awoke from a dreamless sleep inside the car, with Souta snuggling closely at her side. She gave a small smile at his innocent action, which he would probably be embarrassed about when he woke up. Her sweet little brother may try and act tough, but he's still just a young boy.

Kagome yawned, still feeling completely exhausted, before she lifted her head to look over at their remaining supplies. 'We're running low on water,' she noticed while making a mental note to get more, 'And we should try to find some more clothes for when the weather starts to change.'

The priestess didn't like or want to leave Souta and their supplies alone, but sometimes she occasionally had to leave their camp to hunt for food. 'Thank you, Inuyasha,' she thanked him in her mind. The half demon had shown Kagome how to hunt a few times, even though she found killing and skinning animals completely disgusting at the time. 'Even when he's gone, he protects me,' she thought gratefully.

"Hey, look over here," a male's voice suddenly broke Kagome out of her thoughts. She lowered herself from the covered windows, hoping that the person out there didn't hear her movement.

"What do you say, man?" said another man's voice, "Think whoever's camping here will be back any time soon?"

Souta grunted ever so slightly by the noises going on outside. Kagome quickly put a finger to her mouth to shush him from making any further noise.

Souta, who was now fully awake, looked at his sister wide eyed. 'What's going on?' he wondered before hearing the movement from people standing by the car outside. 'Maybe they'll go away if they don't hear us,' he hoped.

But it was too late.

"Did you hear that?" the second man asked his friend.

'Damn it,' Kagome mentally cursed.

"The car," the first man pointed out.

"Hello?" the second man called into the car as he tapped on one of the windows, which made Souta squirm close to his sister.

"Dude stop," the first man warned, "What if it's a Walker?"

The second man sighed, "Only one way to find out."

Souta turned his gaze to his sister, obviously frightened. Kagome gave her brother an assuring look before she slowly lifted herself up to grab her bow and arrow. And just as slowly, she aimed it towards the door, ready to fire at a moment's notice.

"Ready, man?" the second man asked the first.

"Ready," the first man assured.

The back car door opened.

Kagome drew her bow string further back, "Stay back!" she warned the two men.

One of them was a young Asian man, who looked only a few years older than her. The other was an African American middle aged man. The Asian man was holding an aluminum bat, ready to attack, just in case someone or something came out of the car.

"Whoa whoa," the African American man held up his hands in surrender once he saw the arrow, "Easy."

"Drop the bat!" Kagome ordered the Asian man, as she exited the car and kept the arrow aimed at his friend. Souta backed into the edge of the car, away from the two men.

The Asian man immediately acted to Kagome's request and dropped the bat, not wanting him or his friend to get shot with and arrow. "Okay okay," he told her, holding his hands up in surrender like his friend.

"We're sorry," the African American man told her, "We didn't know there were living people inside the car. We thought you were Walkers?"

Kagome raised a brow at the term.

"You know, the dead people that are walking around," the Asian man explained, "Look, um, let's start over here. My name's Glenn," he gestured to himself before pointing to his friend, "And this is T-Dog."

The man named T-Dog gave her a friendly way hello, but he priestess didn't ease the pull of her bow.

"Wait a minute. Are you-Are you both out here by yourselves?" T-Dog asked with genuine concern, once he noticed that it was just Kagome and her brother. 'She looks like she's younger then Glenn,' he thought, 'And she has a kid with her. How the hell are they surviving out here?'

Glenn swallowed nervously as he pointed to the other side of the woods, "We-we have a camp a few miles from here in a quarry," he explained to Kagome, "There's lots of people in our group. And there are little kids there too. You'd be safe if you came with us, instead of being out here on your own. There's a lot more safety in numbers these days," he said, hoping she'd listen to him.

Kagome tapped into her holy powers to sense the men's souls.

Neither of them held malice or ill intent.

After sensing the genuine feelings in their souls, Kagome wanted to trust these men, but wasn't so hasty in making a decision about their offer. She glanced over at Souta, who gathered the courage to get closer to the car's open back door. 'More people for us to be around...And they have kids Souta could be friends with...Is this our best chance of survival?' the priestess pondered to herself before looking back at the men. 'But I can tell these are good men.'

The priestess slowly retreated her bow and put the arrow away, "How many people do you have?" she asked Glenn and T-Dog.

"A lot," Glenn answered truthfully, letting out a breath that he didn't know he was holding. "And we have supplies and weapons for protection too. The quarry is close to Atlanta. We set it up for when the world gets better and they come to rescue people."

Kagome nodded in understanding, before looking over to her brother, "What do you think?" she asked him. The priestess didn't want to make a final decision like this without Souta's opinion first. "Do you want us to go with them?"

Souta looked at the two men, then glanced around their small camp, then back to his sister. He could see the tiredness in Kagome's eyes from the nights when she stayed up late to make sure that they were safe from the living dead. She had been there to protect him all this time and he knew that it was starting to take its toll on her.

After a minute of silence, Souta finally nodded yes.

"Great," Glenn said excited, glad that they were helping more people.

After carrying what supplies Kagome and Souta had in their car to T-Dog's van, the four of them made their way to the Quarry.

"So," Glenn said from the passenger seat of the van, turning around to look at Kagome and Souta. "Where are you both from?" he asked, knowing they couldn't have lived in Georgia for long. The Higurashi siblings may have spoken English well, but they still had noticeable accents.

"Tokyo," Kagome answered, "We came to Georgia for my uncle's funeral...That's when everything started."

"That's rough," T-Dog replied as he drove, "I'm sorry about your uncle."

Kagome nodded in thanks.

"So, you've both been alone all this time?" Glenn asked, not being able to imagine such a thing. From the very beginning, he started out in a group. 'Safety in numbers,' he thought, repeating his earlier statement.

"We handled ourselves just fine," Kagome assured him, "It's what we had to do."

Souta lowered into his sister's side, not really wanting to hear anymore talking.

Glenn noticed the movement and smiled at the boy, "You okay, kid?" he asked, realizing the boy hadn't spoken up yet.

Souta didn't respond.

Kagome wrapped her arm around brother's body and kissed the top of his head. "Why don't you close your eyes for a while," she suggested to him. Souta looked up at his sister with slight worry, "I'll be here," she promised him.

With that, Souta closed his eyes and a few minutes later he fell asleep.

"Is your brother alright?" T-Dog asked her, noticing the boy hadn't spoken once since they met.

Kagome shook her head, "No...Souta hasn't uttered a word since he saw our mother being killed by a...a Walker. It came at her and," she began to say but couldn't finish her sentence. The priestess knew that her brother was grieving and that she shouldn't force him to speak until he was ready. 'But he may have to with more people around though.'

Luckily, Glenn and T-Dog had caught on what Kagome had tried to say. They mentally winced at the thought of seeing a loved one die like that.

"Oh man," T-Dog muttered sympathetically.

"I'm sorry about your mom," Glenn told her.

Kagome wiped a silent tear that went down her face. "Me too."

The rest of the ride was filled with silence until they reached the Quarry.

"Welcome back," a man with black hair greeted Glenn and T-Dog. He then glared slightly at Kagome and Souta when they came out of the van. "Who are these two?" he gestured to the young woman and child.

"This is Kagome and Souta," Glenn introduced, "We found them when we went out scavenging. Kagome, this is Shane. He was a police officer before all of this."

Kagome walked up to Shane, and offered her hand in greeting, "Nice to meet you."

Shane gave a half smile and grabbed her hand to shake, "Welcome to our camp."

After introducing herself and her brother to Shane, Kagome was led to a woman named Lori, who seemed to be very close to the police officer. Lori had a son named Carl, who was the same age as Souta. Even though Souta still didn't speak, Carl was happy to have another friend at camp.

The next group of people she met was the Morales family. Morales and his wife Miranda had two children named Eliza and Louis. They were a sweet family and were very grateful for whenever the group helped their family survive.

The next person she met was Dale. An elderly man who had been traveling across the country in his RV when things went bad. He often took watch on top of his RV, making sure that no Walkers got too close to camp. Dale often spoke to Andrea and Amy, two sisters that he met on the high way to Atlanta. The two sisters had a pretty big age gap between them, but Kagome could tell that both sister's loved each other very much.

Kagome met another family named the Peletiers'. Mrs. Peletier, Carol, was a very nice woman, although she was a tad quiet. Throughout the day, the priestess couldn't help but notice how whenever Carol spoke to anyone, she would quickly look over her shoulder to make sure her husband, Ed, wasn't around. When Kagome spoke to Ed for the first time, he told her to 'get lost.' He got even more aggressive at her when she was caught chatting with Carol and their daughter, Sophia. Immediately, Kagome detested the man. Not because of what he had said and done, but because of the wickedness she could sense in his soul. Even with Ed's warning, Kagome refused to stay away from Carol and Sophia, whose souls were genuinely good.

Kagome also met a woman named Jacqui, who wasn't afraid to speak her mind and a man named Jim, who kept mostly to himself.

'Wow, Glenn hadn't been kidding when he said there were a lot of people,' Kagome thought to herself, 'I haven't even met everyone yet.' There were more families scattered around the campsite, including a set of brothers who hunted meat for the camp.

After taking it all in, Kagome wondered if this really was the right decision.

But one look at Souta playing with Carl and Sophia made her smile.

This was what they needed.

People.

It was the only way the Higurashi siblings were going to survive.

Yep, a lot of stuff happening. And it's only chapter one. I'm trying not to use the term 'walking dead', but it's really hard. Anyway, what do you guys think so far? Good? Bad? I want to know. Next time: Enter the Dixions and the Walking Dead series begins.

Till Then My Readers