"who are you? What are you doing in our house, how did you get in?"
The lady with similar blonde hair looked at him coldly and asked as she kept her sister behind her while gripping a bow and arrow ready to scerw this damn good-looking stranger.
A stranger who simply leaned on a desk with hands crossed looking at her with calm eyes.
It was ciri, the little girl who broke free from behind and lowered the bow her sister held.
"Stop it katy, sasuke isn't a bad guy, he gave me food and helped you to wake up, don't scare him" katnis looked at her little sister wondering if her brain stopped working from hunger, she obviously was the one who opened the door for this man.
But on second thought she felt guilty, guilty about seeing how much weak her sister look.
And now slightly at how she was threatening the man who helped them.
Still, she didn't let her guard down.
Her family faced hell in those two months and they come to understand the hard way that people were not to be trusted.
"Hello, you passed out from hunger and your body is still weak so it's better not to force yourself, you won't be able to nock the string anyway" there was no mocking or anger in his voice, sasuke stated calmly as he knows she didn't have the strength to even stand now let alone shooting him.
And she herself seemed to know that too as she merely used it as facade.
"Still didn't answer, mister. Who are you?"
" He is uchiha sasuke, he is living here too"
Ciri wishpered to her not wanting to see her beloved sister and the person who helped them fight.
"I don't remember seeing you here"
"I arrived yesterday, took refuge on the top floor, and found you guys while clearing the building"
"Clearing, walkers?" Katnis found it hard to believe.
She and her grandpa fought tooth and nail just to deal with this floor and search the apartment, which sadly cost his life to protect her.
Remembering this she shut her eyes pained to recall that scene.
But now, this...ridiculously clean and soft looking guy who seems unable to even crack an egg said he cleaned the whole fucking building? She found it hard to believe.
She passed out due to how weak she became from not eating and how many walkers where on this floor.
Yet he is claiming to have killed them all?
But then again, how did he found them and passed the lower floors which were override with walkers last time she checked which is yesterdays's morning?.
She saw the sword on his back, or what looked like a sword scabbard.
"Hmm?, Yeah you are the first people i found, your sister was worried about you and asked for help, like i said your body is too exhausted and need nutiritions and proper rest. Both of you" nodding he opened his backpack once again uncaring for the guarded glare eying every movement of his as he started pulling things out.
Another bottle of water, a pack of biscuits and soldier pills.
"Sadly i don't have what your body truly need now but i think this will be a good start, here" he handed her the food.
"soften them with water, make sure to chew good before swallowing slowly, don't rush. And only take the pill half an hour after you finish them" he then withdrawed to a corner and sit into a chair drinking a sip from another bottle.
Katnis looked at him with complicated gaze, she felt hesitant not knowing wether to trust or not.
But she knows that if he wanted he could do whatever bad thing he had in mind with their current condition, no matter how pretty his face is.
A healthy guy of 1,85 m(6,1 ft) and in good physical condition like him wouldn't find it hard to overpower her weak self.
Thus she followed his instructions putting a small hard piece of biscuite in her mouth befor using water to soften it chewing lightly.
The sweetness made her feel relieved, at least ciri beside her won't face the same fate she feared, she knows how painful it was to pass out from sheer hunger.
"Are you strong sasuke?" The little girl asked with curiousity seeing the thing he put beside him that looked like a stick and the little traces of blood on his boots.
Her sister was strong, she often hunted those scary walkers with just arrows, and her...grandfather was strong too hitting them with big iron rods.
She wondered if this man was strong like them.
"Hmm, yep, i am. Why?" If he had to say, he was at his weakest point.
Well, the sasuke part.
No chakra, jutsu, sharingan, and basically everything that give an edge in the shinobe world.
But he is still strong compared to every zombie here or humans.
"Did you kill them too, walkers?"
'walkers? Did she means zombies?' he found the naming the sisters used strange, and too familiar.
But didn't dwell on it much and just nodded taking a look at the few zombies walking aimlessly down the street from the window he was sitting beside.
"How many?" This time the question came from katnis, who was still eating slowly sharing with ciri while watching him with that same sharp look.
The girl was truly beautiful, even when she looks sick, disheveled and slightly unclean.
yet he didn't really have the heart to enjoy it, not when she looked at him as if he was a wolf threatning a bunch of sheeps.
"Enough of them, i guess" was he supposed to say he spawned here yesterday and killed around 30-40 one?.
Then what if she killed more than 500 in those months? He would looks weak as Fuck.
And if she killed too few and even risked her life to do that then he will only look like an arrogant foul boasting which will make the conversation ahead only the more difficult.
Even if such thoughts seemed childish.
Sasuke knows, he truly knows that he didn't look like the killing machine he is.
Even back in his shinobe life, any unfamiliar face understimated him unless he showed his sharingan terrifiying them to the bones.
As everyone knows who is the last uchiha and what he was capable of.
Thus he simply choose a vague response leaving it to her to measure how much ^enough^ was.
And katnis? She simply ignored him and continued eating, what can she say is that...this guy is either bluffing to have something with her or he is truly what he said.
Because she knows that anyone who survived until now unsheltered wasn't weak, especially if he was truly alone.
"Mind if i ask something?" Sasuke crossed his fingers on his lap unable to hold his curiousity hearing the sudden colliding noise from the other closed room
"It's, grandpa...was" and katnis answered already figuring what he wanted after she heard the noise too.
"I see, i'm sorry"
"It's okay, he...turned while we were trying to escape after we searched the apartment beside this and slipped on something while running.
A walker got him, we managed to escape but He was injured.
So he decided to be sealed there after we returned. He protected us. Always" she didn't know why she was telling him, she just wanted to talk about it.
Their grandpa was the pillar that kept them alive and hoping, he did everything to keep them safe and alive all those weeks.
always eating the least amount, and the first to risk his life to search around once food rans out after a month and half.
He was also the one who stacked enough food to last them that long once the news about sick people became widespread, he didn't run like others fearing the chaos.
he was just that smart and cautious in taking care of them.
Unfortunately, even her grandfather didn't thought it would suddenly flip to hell and that even that stock won't hold to rest them enough making the call for that risk.
The first supply run was successful, and so was the second with her helping after a long discussion to convince him, but the thrird was a grim reality.
It took but one slip, one scratch from a failed bite and he succumbed.
His last words before closing the door and locking it before attempting to suicide was telling them to stay strong, to never abandon each other, to never lose themselves and to survive.
But maybe he was too late, he turned before fully following his plan to end his life and from then got stuck there.
The noise making a cruel reminder of what their beloved grandpa was once.
And katnis never had the strength to do what she should, nor the power to leave this place.
Hearing all this Sasuke remained silent nodding in sadness, while ciri had little tears on the edge of her eyes, the only her body can produce after all the crying.
"*Sigh* you have gone through so much"
"Who hasn't"
"i know this may sound stupid, maybe uncongenial coming from a guy you met an hour ago, but i can help, and protect you, both.
"What's the catch?"
"Nothing, really" katnis stared at him slightly surprised, his expression held no slyness or malice, just simple honesty, his eyes seemed clear as he expressed his willingness to help.
For a moment she wondered if it was because of her, she know she's beautiful.
But even that won't make someone say those things in this new world without wanting something back, most of them would just take it.
He wouldn't have to waste food and such.
People showed their true colors once they became fully aware that law was no more.
Even a week ago, she watched, helpless with her grandpa from the window as a group of three man chased a woman to her house on a street below, what happend later to her was obvious, that woman's fate was theirs to decide, if she was still alive...
Thus she dropped the thought as he looked as calm as ever, eyes meeting hers with the same honesty as he waited her reply.
Ciri beside her tugged at her shirt, clearly wanting her to agree but as always, she would follow her sister's words. She always do.
"I can protect us, but i wouldn't mind teaming, helping each other" she is still not sure if he is really capable, to her....the guy looks too damn clean for a supposed survivor.
A state she didn't saw in someone for too long.
Now everyone look as if they had just walked out of a torn battelfield.
Haggard, tired, scarred, ruthless, tattered dirty clothes, unshaved.
This uchiha guy? He looks like a man who is about to start filming a ninja movie.
Tight clean black clothes, small knives on a pouch stripped to his thigh. A long blade. Bondages, face mask...
She found the guy to be too innocent to be true, maybe even a naive idealistic, if only she knows what kind of being he truly is.
But she decided to give him the benefit of doubt. Maybe he is really what he tells.
"That works for me" sasuke nodded as that all he wanted.
He knows he would feel like shit if he abandoned those two to the harsh world.
With time, they will come to know that he at least have what it took to keep them safe, to keep the little girl away from the dark side.
After all, that is the kind of guy he had always been.
Nosy idiot, as yuri had always called him.