After seeing katnis recovering a little he told her about his current objective and left reassuring ciri that he would visite again after finishing with clearing the remaining floor.
Katnis objected his actions as reckless but she nodded after he told her that all walkers were already cleared and she heard the silence out.
It took him an hour to got through the three last unchecked apartments on fifth floor before finally heading back to "his" apartment.
It was now noon and he figured a new bath would be good. He already stored 6 water tanks that were on the roof leaving only one filled that connected to his apartment.
He got to know that water in katnis was no longer available.
Thus after quick bath, he took a heater, a small gaz container he found in one apartments and begun cooking a simple meal, boiled rice.
The only one he can do with his current arsenal.
Katnis and ciri situation kept playing on his mind, sasuke knows, now after meeting them.
Unless they betrayed him or try to end his life, which he knows wasn't really on their plan. Then he would take care of them.
Keeping them safe at least.
He just wanted to, for the sake of ciri, that cute and obediant little girl, and katnis...well maybe her beauty helped too but he wasn't really one to fall in love for such a thing quickly, otherwise he wouldn't have been mocked as the eternal virgin.
"Well at least i finally got to meet some kind and normal people...somehow" he nearly spat in disgust remembering the last four months spent trying to win the trust if those rich monsters planning to do their atrocities.
Four months of bottled anger and vengeance while working like a literal dog to win their trust.
And now here he is, in a world seen only in movies and heard about in stories, with a superior body and knowledge, and now companions...real ones, hopefully.
He only have to keep moving forward, getting stronger and make sure to keep himself and others important to him safe.
After changing he covered the plates with food preservation-plastic and headed down to their apartment.
The building now was eerily quiet, and stinky. But he already plans to leave it soon, with them hopefully.
Knocking on their door he waited for a moments before it opened, this time it was katnis, still weak and leaning on the wall with ciri peeking behind her.
"Were you here keeping watch from the beginning?" He asked not hearing any footsteps before she opened the door.
And katnis just nodded telling him to enter eying the tray curiously, she didn't tell him that she was here from the moment he left keeping an eye on the other side of the door ready to take her sister and run if he ever headed down to leave the building instead.
In case he was going to call for other companions.
She would never trust others fully now, but it seem she was just overthinking it, maybe.
Sasuke, unaware of her inner thoughts and uncaring put thr plates in front of the duo in the table they cleaned gesturing for them to eat, even taking a bite from each plate to show he didn't put anything in there.
And even then katnis waited without eating, while ciri followed even when they were painfully hungry and the smell of the warm meal kept assaulting them.
' i like her, this cautiousness would at least make her survive in most scenes' for sasuke, that was the best thing, to have this kind of survival instincts.
If she simply trusted him in few hours just because he looked good and give them some food with a smile, he would be disappointed, slightly.
As that would've made him know he would need to keep them from doing stupid things later and endangering themselves.
At least katnis, and ciri was obediant enough to follow and trust her sister's judgement.
"I don't mind, really, i understand. But at least make ciri eat something first"
She didn't accept, katnis took the plate in front of her and pushed it toward him telling him to eat it, fully.
While she told ciri to eat only quarter of hers.
Even when ciri didn't understood she nodded quietly eating silently and very slowly, as if savoring the best meal in long time.
'what a woman, overcautious but i can't blame her' he nodded, eating his plate clean in seconds, before taking a canned meat passing it to her.
"Eat, i will make something warm for dinner again"
"I'm sorry" katnis lowered her head in a quiet apology before accepting the can he opened for her.
No one would like to be ungrateful to their benefector, but...she wasn't alone.
And she promised their grandpa to take care of ciri.
If she failed due to carelessness and stupid ideals, she would never forgive herself.
Thus she apologied to him due to her actions and watched while eating as he nodded and got back close to the window watching the outside world while starting to clean his blade, which was already clean.
"The place here, isn't suitable" after some silence while the duo eat sasuke spoke calmly.
"How is that?"
"Unprotected, visible, too many corpses which may result in some kind of decease or infection to spread from their rot"
"Yeah, but we didn't have an option really, there were just too many walkers, and that's why other survivors didn't broke in, that many walkers in such tight place like stairs, it is hard for them to break through"
He nodded, 29, that was the number of walkers he killed on the stairs and corridors of the building.
A small group would be overwhelmed, especially considering the ones on the apartments.
"I am planning to leave, search for some better location, but first i need to find places to restock. But i'm not familiar with the area around here"
"Alone?" "Yeah"
"That's a suicide, i don't know how you managed to clear the building as you said, but out there...there are too many walkers that would crowd you in seconds once they spot you, and let's not forget other hostile survivors. Yet you plan to deal with them alone. With a sword?"
"You don't have to worry"
"Ha ha, you flatter yourself, i just don't want our new friend to kill himself in the most idiotic way" she snorted and busied herself with the can.
"Well, i'm honored. Seriously though...can you give me a discription about the surrounding, anything that may seem useful. A mall, shops, police station, hospital. Anything nearby that can help us"
"Look sasuke, i admire your courage, really. But you are alone, please just admit it, even if you are good enough to not be killed by walkers, you won't be able to loot those buildings alone.
How are you planning to loot a whole mall with only a backpack, making multiple trips to and from? That's even worse. And we can't exactly change location to there, it's wide open and worse than this building"
"So you suggest we sit and wait here?"
"Yeah, until i recover a little better, two persons can hold much more than one"
"Its not about how much i or you can hold katnis, just tell me about the area, you know i can simply leave and search myself, i just don't want to waste time"
' why is he so stubborn? This idiot won't be able to live much more with this suicide mindset ' while katnis found herself frustrated with the man, Sasuke was no better.
How was he supposed to explain that the problem she is thinking about, how much a single person can carry even if he "risked" himself heading to the mall...Is the least thing he worry about.
He didn't plan to expose the storage, not now, and maybe not to anyone. Thus he didn't find a way to make it clear that carrying things wasn't the focus now.
' let's play on her emotions, sorry but i need answers before night '
Standing up sasuke marched to where he put the big backpack, katnis watched in confusion as he turned and emptied it on her bed.
Canned food, bottle of waters, some bondages and meds, even a bag of rice.
"What are you doing?"
"Everything is yourse, i will leave those here, just tell me the nearest place to restock our food or anything useful, trust me alright...i have what it takes to survive out there and i will find a truck or something to help with the load"
"Why are you doing this? We don't even know you? Have you lost your mind...why would i take your things?. Pack them, i didn't do this to take your things. I just don't want you to kill yourself.
A truck will only make it worse, walkers are sensitive to sound and an engine would be akin to a bell calling them over. You will just dig your grave if you go alone"
"There's...a framacy, and a restaurant behind the basketball court over there" ciri who didn't want them to fight anymore spoke to sasuke pointing from the window to the direction a small court should be two blocks away.
She didin't really understand what they were fighting over and just thought that if she helped sasuke he will not abandon them and will give them warm food again like he promised.
"Ciri!!"
"Thank you princess" sasuke knelt patting the girl who looked guilty as her sister shot her a glare.
"Katnis, just trust me on this one okay? I will be back before dinner. Here" he said tossing a set of keys to her.
"What is this?"
"The keys to the apartment i'm living in now, number 18. Go there and rest, there's water too if you want to bath" with no more he turned around picked his blade, bid them farewell and left the apartment.
He didn't go to the main entrance down but climbed up the stairs until he was on the roof.