Asano awoke to the sounds of screams from the neighbors house. His wind up clock read 1;13am. Looking out the window he saw only the darkness. It was the last week of summer, a plane flew overhead followed by the whistle of something they dropped. The sky tuned red. Fire blazed from the center of town but the light was bright enough to send shadows into his home. 

Asano threw on his clothes and ran down stairs to catch the front door being smashed in. A person stood in front of him shadowed by the light outside and more screams. "Are you hurt? Are you alone?" It was a girls voice.

"Hello?" she was a girl he recognized from school. She was covered in blood and holding a shovel also covered in blood. Her name was Mitsiko Ashihara. 

"No. Whats happened?" 

She stepped closer and he could see she was in her pajamas. "No time for questions." She went upstairs and opened his closet. She tossed Asano the shovel. The blood was sticky in his hands. "Get out!" 

With out really thinking about it he left the room and shut the door. Mitsiko started to talk to him threw the door but Asanos focus was the growling thing at the bottom of the stairs. It was the neighbor from next house over. He had a knife in its chest and covered in blood. his eyes had a white sheen and his neck had a few deep cuts. "Stay back!" Asano held the shovel in a spear like grip and made a few menacing jabs at the neighbors face. The neighbor lunged forward and caught the tip of the shovel in his mouth to leave his jaw in a downward position adding to Asano's belief the man was dead. 

To focused on his neighbor Asano didn't realize Mitsiko was standing next to him shouting. She grabbed the shovel pushing him down. From the floor he watched her give a hard forward thrust shoving the tip deep where the eyes were. She took more steps to drive it deeper and watched it fall down the stairs.

She turned to Asano with a stern look "Idiot! What were you doing? You wanna die?!" she was breathing heavy.

"You're In my school uniform.." The shirt was a little tight and his pants were a little long. She used the tie for her hair to make a pony tail. 

"Idiot.. we're fighting for our lives and that's your thought? Don't you see whats happening around us. We need to get out of here hand head for the city! Do you have anything for a weapon?"  

Asano got to his feet and thought. "I have some garden tools out back." 

"No good. You don't want them to get within arms reach. Come on we're getting outta here. Maybe together we can get to the warehouse at the edge of town." Mitsiko was looking for movement from the corpse at the bottom of the stairs. 

"I.. I have a bike around back." Asano tried to focus on everything that happened and calculate a strategy. Asano felt his arm being gripped. 

"Idiot, lets go already.." She lead him down the stairs and waited for Asano to get his shoes on. Then they got the bike. "You drive, I'll hold the shovel." Steadying the bike he felt her hand on his shoulder as she climbed on the back of his bicycle. "Lets go."