Dead Rising (Naruto Fanfiction)

Chapter 1

"What is your name child?"

"My name is Naruto Uzumaki. I don't remember where I live. Where I came from. I don't even remember the day I was born...only the month." Was Naruto's almost bored tone as he spoke into the radio recorder the German scientist provided him.

Sitting opposite him was a bald elderly man with a white scruffy beard. His name is Ludvig Maxis. The leader of the organisation who had found him, bloodied and unconscious in the middle of nowhere a few miles from Der Riese. That was three days ago and the blue eyed whisker faced blonde hadn't regained his memories as of yet.

"What is the furthest you can remember?" Ludvig asked as he leaned forward on the table.

Naruto scrunched up his face as he tried to think. He eventually shrugged, coming up with a blank. "The furthest I can remember is literally three days ago when I woke up here."

Ludvig sighed and stopped the tape recorder from playing, having heard all he needed to from the Asian in front of him. "It appears, young one, that you have a severe case of amnesia. Now I see two possibilities. Either it will resolve itself in time, or you may never regain your memories."

Naruto shrugged his shoulders not looking bothered at all. "Oh well. It's just memories. I can easy replace those with new ones."

Ludvig narrowed his eyes confusingly at the blonde. "Do you not wish to know of your own past?"

Naruto crossed his arms against his chest and negatively shook his head. "No, I don't. Why should I bother if I can't remember anything about that is worth bothering?"

X.X.X.X

The Elemental Nations is in a middle of a crisis. Three years ago a month after the disappearance of one Naruto Uzumaki, the elemental countries was suddenly invaded by an enemy the likes no one had ever seen. With no explanation at all the dead started to rise from their graves and attack the living. In the beginning of the crisis the conflicts was easy. The shinobi and kunoichi's of each hidden village were able to fend off the zombies during the first few weeks and were able to push them back.

Just when the undead were close to being defeated something completely unexpected had happened: the zombies began to adapt to their method of attacks and the ninjas learnt that some of their attacks had little to no effect on the zombies themselves. It was quickly learned that genjutsu was completely useless against the dead. Most ninja techniques that involves disturbing an individuals chakra network was also proven to be useless. Fortunately lot of the offensive techniques are still effective against the zombies and were able to keep the undead at bay.

It was then they discovered another setback. The zombies adapted once again to their method of attacks and all of a sudden they became faster and more agile. They're now able to jump up several feet in the air, being able to reach places a normal person wouldn't be able to. All without the use of chakra. As the days turned into weeks, and the weeks into months, more and more different type of zombies began to appear across the nations, over running countries that were not protected by a Hidden Ninja Village within the span of a month.

Within the first two years of this only the Five Hidden Villages and a few others were left standing from the continuous onslaught of the undead. Humanity as a whole had suffered heavy casualties during the first two years. The zombies being able to adapt with each encounter and with new type of zombies appearing out of nowhere it was beginning to take its toll on the survivors.

For two years it had gone like this. Two years that the hidden villages fought against the onslaught alone. And very rarely fought together. Two years since the zombies appeared out of nowhere, Tsunade Senju the Fifth Hokage of Konohagakure, knew unless they did something the complete and total annihilation of the human race would be inevitable. She called a Kage Summit in the Land of Iron, and with all the Kage's from their respective countries in one place Tsunade began to discuss the enemy that threatens all life as they knew it and suggested that they all band together to face their common foe as one, or die as many.