The dead boy (zombie AU)

A night with a zombie

Rin POV

I quietly stared at the human who had huddled themselves in the corner of the room that I have called home. Kuro was eating out of the tin that I've managed to open for him. I have been practising using my hands for things such as opening tins, use the lock on the door and to open and close things. I've gotten good at using doors, climbing stairs and using the rucksack I own.

At the moment I was trying to a can of food for the human in the corner. He had wrapped himself with the blanket I offered and has his leg out which I tried to help but he kept saying that he could do it, so I let him. His leg was wrapped properly and the leaking had stopped thankfully. My failed attempts to open the can were starting to freak out the person for some reason so I stopped.

" open food?" I asked him in a quiet voice so that he wouldn't freak out more than he already was.

He looks at me with a look that showed he didn't want me near him. I thought that maybe if he opened it he would feel better knowing that his food wasn't bad.

He took it off me and opened it immediately! How?! I've been trying to open it for ages and he goes and opens it straight away! I guess my face looked weird because he started to laugh? Yeah that's what they call it, he started to laugh. I was a bit confused as to why he laughed but I wasn't like him. I knew I wasn't a human. I'm suppose to be like the others outside. I'm meant to eat him really.

But I've never seem to have the urge to do so. Killing living animals wasn't my thing. I didn't like the sound they make when eating them. The high pitch sounds, or when they say " help me!"or " please stop!" Or " it hurts stop it." Or the one that really puts me off killing things is when they say, " please don't kill me! Please!"

I never understood why these things make me feel like that. It makes my insides twist and hurt. So I don't do what the others do. Also I know that I'm not like them because they leak out red stuff. I don't. My insides don't work properly like theirs as well.

The humans call it being dead. I don't know what that means though. Being dead, but that's what I am.

I'm dead.

I'm dead that likes undead things. Like my little friend Kuro. I remember walking around for a while when I found a box of with blood on it. Their was a man, who was dead trying to open and eat what was in the box, the box made those high pitch screams so I killed the already dead man.

I mean, he's already dead, and was trying to hurt something. I opened the box to see a very tiny animal. It was no bigger than my hand at the time and it felt really nice in my hand. So I took it home. Soon the small creature grew bigger and I called it Kuro.

Anyways back to the human!

I was still confused as to why he was laughing at me so I asked him.

" why laugh at me?" I asked him while he STILL laughed at me.

" because you looked so surprised when I opened the can!" He replied while he still laughed. I just sat there and stared at him, trying to pull on of those annoyed faces at him.

" I don't understand." I simply state as I watch the human eat the content out of the can. He seemed to really enjoy it. Maybe I should try it next time I go out to find stuff.

" don't worry about it, anyways... you got a name?" The boy asked after he places the tin down on to the floor.

" name?" I don't know what name means but I'm guessing it's something to do with communication.

" what do you call yourself, I'm Shima by the way." The boy replied, pulling the blanket around him a bit tighter.

" oh! That, Rin. Me called Rin!" I said quickly while pointing at myself. Shima smiles

" it's nice to meet you Rin, and thanks for helping me out back there." He said in a less fearful tone. I decided to look at the books with the cool character on them, I like the pictures and how cool they look.

" wait you got manga!" Shima yelled in a... excited voice? Yeah he was excited!

" manga? Is that what these are?" I asked as I looked at the front cover. It had a creepy creature on it with some people as well. I'm guessing Shima likes these books as well.

" and from the looks of it it looks like you found a lot of it!" She said as he opened the manga book, he he says some stuff about owning the manga in his hand before the zombies took over. I don't remember what it was like before. I know that already dead for a while then came back to life, maybe that's what happened to me? But then again I don't really remember.

" hey you can read these?" Shima asked while he placed the manga back onto the pile with the others.

I simply shake my head. I don't know how to read. He asks why I got them in the first place, I simple explain as best as possible that I simply like the look of them. He also asked about the cook books too, I told him that I like the pictures in there as well.

Shima seems very alright, but not cool enough to be on my cool people paper! So far it Kuro and a guy that come here often who is very good at jumping over stuff which I found cool. I didn't tell him though incase he asked to be on it.

I do hope when Shima goes that he will remember me. I'll make a stash of people food for him so that he doesn't have to worry about the other dead people like me. However, for now I'll keep Shima safe until he can leave on his own.