Apocalypse

Chapter 8: Struggles Of Life

"In Sarada's community, now named Hunters"

Sarada walks down the street with Shikadai next to her, she looks to the left and sees people harvesting crops, and planting seeds for the next harvest. She looks to the right and sees people working together to build a house

Sarada: This isn't going to last long.

Shikadai: What makes you say that?

Sarada: I can feel how frustrated the people that surrendered are. I can see it in their eyes.

Shikadai: Six years and you'd think they'd accept their position. They have roofs over their heads, food, electricity, hot water for showers.

Sarada: How many were there again?

Shikadai: We killed about a good one hundred. For people that surrendered in that city was about four hundred. From Jigen's other bases there were about sixty people each.

Sarada: Housing construction would go a lot faster if at least half of them did that before the mutants.

Shikadai: The ones that had that job in the old world were actually half of the people that surrendered in those bases. I wish Shinki would let us borrow some to speed this up, make them build theur own houses.

Sarada: Shikadai, we've been over this. We aren't going to force them to build on their own like they're prisoners.

Shikadai: I'm just saying, that maybe we shouldn't be helping them.

Sarada: If you keep talking like that they're going to think we'll kill them all. Some of them are parents, we're not going to separate children from their parents.

Shikadai: Right. Sorry.

Sarada: I ever hear this topic come up again, you'll be banished for three days. I'll even send a message to Shinki to not let you in his community. Same for the Brits.

Shikadai: I know. Have you heard from Boruto, Mitsuki, and Iwabee? They've been gone for two weeks on that recruitment run.

Sarada: No. But I'm sure they can handle themselves.

"With Boruto, Mitsuki, and Iwabee"

Boruto stands on their car and whips the scorpion tail whip into a lion mutants skull. He pulls it back with some brains on it, he throws a kunai into a falcon mutants throat and it falls from the sky and onto the ground. Iwabee spins a pointed staff and bashes a wolf mutants head in, some of its teeth flying out. Mitsuki stabs tiger mutants in the chests with claw weapons on his ten fingers, his hands covered in blood. All the mutants are dead now, Boruto sits on the car and cleans the scorpion tail

Boruto: How much further until we pass Farming Town. (Shinki Community name)

Iwabee: About six hours.

Iwabee picks up a gas can and puts it in the fuel tank

Mitsuki: We spent a good twenty minutes on these things. God I love fighting.

Boruto: What have I told you about using that word around me.

Mitsuki: I know you have no faith, but that doesn't mean you can't let others believe in something.

Iwabee: I'm with Mitsuki on this.

Boruto lies on his back and looks at the clouds

Boruto: I just can't wait to sleep in my own bed. Remember that motel we slept in two days ago?

Iwabee: The one where the second I sat on the bed, cockroaches ran out from under it and crawled out through the broken window? Yeah how could I forget?