"I can take care of samples. What else do you need?"
"Something that isn't existing, a sign of immunity, one that is somehow better than the one we got into our body naturally against it."
With a hesitant silence, Sasuke decided to share something.
He really want to prevent that major problem.
Otherwise, everything they may do, even if they ended up building the biggest shelter with the most advanced protocols to prevent surprises of natural deaths, he knows.
At some point, if only out of small carelessness, it will be all gone, just like that.
It's not even a question of how, but when.
It may be in a week, a month, year, ten years. But that looming death won't change anything until there's a cure.
And if there happens for someone to exists with the necessary defense, who might have the right antibodies in his blood? Then that is him.
Sasuke.
He can't recall how many poisons he survived from Orochimaru's experiments.
So much, enough to become immune to every known poison to Orochimaru at that time.
The same genius who cloned himself and lived longer than any surviving shinobi.
' I can't believe I'm missing that filthy snake, but if he were here...' He shook his head, that mad asshole might've even worsened things. making zombies mutate to become even more troublesome than they already are.
They might not be the same, poisons and whatever is causing this, but Sasuke decided to give it a go, in the off-chance that there might be a solution.
"Try me, i won't go on and on about it. But i assure you, no one in the world is as immune as i am to poisons."
To further make a point he retrieved a Sodium cyanide bottle, moved away from them to not affect them and consumed it all ignoring, the horrified doctor, Rick and Billy.
"Do your test" Sasuke stated revealing his forearm.
Unlike what they thought, he was far from reckless, he also didn't want to die the same as everyone else here who is fighting to survive.
Not a stupid death like this at least.
But he had already tested his own poisoned substances he had on his scrolls that used to coat some of his senbons against specific enemies.
And nothing worked on him, not even the deadliest.
"You are one crazy fuck Sasuke." Billy gritted his teeth seeing how far the boy was willing to go just to have an inch against the madness they just heard about.
Taking a blood sample Jenner run to anearby equipment working on it than back to his computer to analyse the data received.
"You...you are really immune, how? That was highly toxic, and a whole bottle, a small dose would make a man thrashe like a worm after few minutes. Yet your body destroyed it immediately. This...isn't normal"
"Nothing makes sense when it comes to him doc, so...is there any hope?" This wasn't even as unbelievable as vanishing things, Billy himself was gaining immunity to the thing called Uchiha Sasuke's singularity.
"Yes, yes there is actually a big chance, at least to have a way to fight it. The one in the air" he couldn't believe it, his heart throbbed like drums with excitment, maybe this is it...the hope his dying wife talked about.
"And that's all i ask. What do you need me to do?" Jenner hesitated, he was unsure how to phrase it.
" I need more blood, a-and..."
"It's alright just say it"
"A p-piece of flesh, it doesn't have to be big, nail-sized...it's necessary to speed up the process and up the success chance"
"Noted" unfazed Sasuke nodded rolling up his sleeve farther up.
"Boy, you don't-"
" it's a mere piece of flesh billy. We now have a chance to stop worrying about being bit when all thought everything is secure" Taking his blade, Sasuke applied the sterilizing liquid Jenner gave him.
Choosing the area near the left shoulder, he skillfully slashed at a part of it and then another.
Taking the part of flesh the doctor needed with a pained frown.
Jenner rushed to secure it into a clean carrier and scurried around grabbing things to treat him, unable to believe how calm the boy was after tearing a part of his skin and flesh.
"It's okay i can treat myself, just focus on your work now please" Sasuke said pressing a clean cloth to the injury
Then rushing to his backpack, he retrieved two bottles from his storage giving them to the anxious Doc.
"Here, I thought about the situation before coming here and made sure a few samples from different walkers are secure. Some who were recently turned.
I didn't know what to choose so i took from different parts. Brain, heart, skin, a tooth and even tongue. Is it enough?"
"More than enough, meet me here in one hour and take care of your injury"
"Go for it Doc, we all hope you can make it"
"Sasuke right?, thank you...for everything" Jenner said to him solemnly before rushing to the laboratory with his things, ready for one final fight.
"Hey boy, are you okay?"
"Don't worry it's not serious" Sasuke said taking a pill, and just like that, blood stopped and he started working to mend the injury.
"Since when did you know?" Rick asked them.
"About what?"
"About this...how those bites aren't the only way to turn into one of them"
"3~4 days, Sasuke noticed it first and we started investigating. Go to your family, they will be worried about you"
"No, i will stay here, i need to see, to hear it"
They sat around doing nothing, Sasuke's mind kept on going through his actions and what to do next, he didn't have a clear destination because those lands weren't familiar to him, so he just put the prison as his next goal.
That place should be a good start to invest time into making it a shelter.
...
..
.
One and a half hours later Jenner came striding as fast as he could almost running with a big smile that told them everything.
"It worked, you are really special" He hugged Sasuke and they all smiled laughing and hugging like madmen.
Jenner still can't believe how Sasuke's defense system worked, it was as if it had a life and special energy of its own.
"Whooho, now I can sleep myself without worrying i might be attacked or doing it myself" Billy sat on the ground grinning.
The world was still hellish, walkers are still dangerous...but at least now they gained something.
"It did, i...i tested it on myself, it was successful"
"So now can we produce it?" Sasuke asked what matters, mass production to his people.
"It...there are many of you and to make the serum i need more blood, but...time won't be enough to get that much to last everyone"
"Don't worry about blood loss, i have measures, I only need a copy of the formula"
"Of course, VI, print the full formula"
[Done] Vi's reply came a few moments later.
Sasuke marched taking the papers reading them briefly before tucking them into his backpack and then straight to his seal.
"I don't know what you mean by measures against blood loss, i have solutions, but that would only speed it a little, and even then it still will take longer"
"Let's do it, Rick...you need to leave and rest, you too Billy. I will be back right after this" He contemplated telling Rick about the remaining time they have, but then he refrained.
Man needs sleep and Sasuke just told Billy they will wake everyone two hours prior to the explosion time.
...
It was 5:30 am, and everyone was up.
No one here knew that yesterday an event that would shape their future happened, and the two who made it were now joining the kitchen.
Sasuke looked normal, for others that is...
It wasn't Billy, Rick, Morgan not even Katniss, but Ciri who noticed that he wasn't his usual self, he looked almost weak.
The first time she is witnessing it.
For Ciri, she ranked Sasuke as almost invincible, and that almost part is only because he had engraved an idea onto her.
Nothing is absolute, nothing lasts forever, and no one is invincible...not even him.
He told her that once she reached the right physical condition, he would start training her, to protect herself, as he didn't know when and what could happen.
"Good morning" They greeted them, and Sasuke passed by the Everdeens, who were sitting beside other ladies patting Ciri's head.
Unaware that she was fighting her inner self as to whether speak her mind or not.
"Morning Sasuke" she decide to not.
"Hey jawbreaker" that faint whisper from Katniss nearly made him slip.
Turning to her, he chuckled.
' I'd already apologized, it wasn't even my fault...she was the stubborn one about it '
He spotted Billy on a side and took a seat beside him.
"How are you feeling boy?"
"The usual, we had the necessary number and even an extra batch that was produced"
"Mhm, you sure you are good?" "Yeah"
It was then T-dog closed on them with a spatula.
"Scrambled eggs! And one special for our samurai" he laughed, putting parts of it into their plates.
"Appreciate it man but it's not samurai, i'm a Ninja..." He couldn't help it, he respected samurais but it just felt wrong.
"That's even more awesome" T-dog didn't even refute it, if someone else can put a dozen walkers with little stars in two seconds? T-dog will believe them to be Ninjas too.
"What's with Glenn?" Sasuke asked, looking at the Asian guy who was literally suffering from a hangover, leaning like his soul is about to leave his body, while Jacqui, one of the women, was helping him to ease it with a massage.
"Guess he isn't well with drinks...enjoy yourselves"
With that, the people started enjoying their breakfast and T-dog suddenly asked Shane when he passed by him.
"What the hell happened to you? Your neck?" He asked seeing the red marks.
"Sure i did it in my sleep" Shane just glazed over the matter exchanging a brief look with Lori, who stole a glance back at him then Sasuke. Angry and humiliated.
"Is it just me, or there is really something going on between Rick's wife and the cat-scratched man."
"Oh, don't worry, you are just misunderstanding, She was just feeling an itch somewhere she couldn't scratch, so Shane helped her, she helped him back by scratching his."
"I see, well boy... make sure you don't scratch the wrong person." Billy nearly believed the first part.
"I won't"
"Not sure about that..."
"What do you mean?" Sasuke looked at him, was he that kind of man?
"Little Katniss wasn't the only one who sought you yesterday, another one, married i guess...came to look for you before her when you were still out. She was about to discuss the global warming with ya" He sneered recalling how clueless Duan looked at that time.
" So yeah, know who to scratch" Billy patted him and left, greeting the Everdeens who were walking to them, while Sasuke just looked confused from what he heard.
"Doc i hate to be asking first thing in the morning..." Dale suddenly said after being given a look from Andrea.
"But you would anyway" Jenner, now relaxed and even content answered him while making his coffee.
"We aren't here for eggs" Hearing Andrea say that, Sasuke nearly cursed, were those people seriously saying that shit now?
"Sure, follow me" Unbothered, Jenner took his cup and left with them to zone 5.