"Follow Me"

Chapter 1

"Mittens!"

"Fido!"

They chanted as Naruto arrived the next day to see a tag waiting for him. He clicked his teeth in annoyance. They fucking rigged the game yesterday. There was no way Kiba should've won yesterday! Being part of the Student Council certainly had its perks. That Nara bastard had the gall to smirk at his loss. He'd break his face if he had to! He picked up the chain, admiring it before a smile broke out on his face.

He turned to the girl who sat behind him and was calling him mittens. She was grinning maliciously and in retaliation Naruto slung it around her neck and crossed it over and brought her in a chokehold. The silence was deafening, only the girl's choking could be heard as she fruitlessly kicked at Naruto while clawing at his arms. He leaned closer and looked into the wide eyes that were straining from his sockets. "I'm sorry, what was that?" He asked mockingly as the girl started to turn blue, it was the trigger and many people screamed and ran from the class. Many ran to the student council office to report the incident.

The secretaries were alarmed and even some of the council members sat up straight but the President only glanced at the panicked students before sighing. He turned to Kiba who was holding onto his puppy Akamaru. "This is your problem, you solve it," Shikamaru ordered and the Inuzuka looked offended. "Do you want a lawsuit on our hands? You cheated him so go fix it."

The Inuzuka bristled at being outed so blatantly but got up and quickly headed to the classroom to see Naruto sitting on the desk while the girl lay unconscious on the floor. Their eyes met and Naruto grinned. "You could've played a fair game but you were getting scared," Naruto gave him a narrowed gaze before he lunged at the Inuzuka. The fight broke out but it became obvious that Naruto was the better fighter as he fought dirty, whatever his hand could reach for he would beat the Inuzuka with it. Chairs, desks, school supplies, and even went as far as stabbing the other with pens and pencils and then a box cutter slid across the ground and into Kiba's hand and he didn't hesitate to use it but was stunned when Naruto grabbed the blade even when it sliced his palm.

"You think this would make me back off? Don't be stupid," Naruto chuckled as he wrestled the blade from Kiba's hand and didn't care that his blood was getting everywhere. He was pissed. "Play fucking clean you mother fucker!" He barked.

Kiba took the embarrassing beating Naruto gave him and the blonde only stopped when the Inuzuka fell unconscious. He was straddling the dark-haired male and he leaned back and sighed slowly before opening his eyes. His eyes met with Shikamaru's who had made his way to the front. The blonde scowled at him and the Nara raised his brow in response. Naruto's hand rested on his boot before he pulled out a jack knife.

The air was tense and with the blood cooling against his tan skin, he rested the blade back into his boot as he got up. "Follow me," Shikamaru spoke before turning away and making his way to his office with the blonde following him. They made space for the blonde, no doubt Naruto's wild reputation was now in the trash from his violent outburst.

Behind closed doors, Naruto took a seat while Shikamaru brought a first aid kit and a wet towel. He cleaned the blonde's face, being tracked under keen dark blue eyes. He then cleaned and bandaged the knife wound in his palm. Once he packed everything up Naruto smiled but it didn't have any humor, his blank eyes would unnerve anyone but Shikamaru was different.

He sat across from the blonde who had taken to playing with his new tag. "Work for me," Shikamaru threw it out casually and Naruto tilted him to the side to look at the live leaderboard that kept track of every student, their debt, and social standing. Currently, Naruto was dead last in the ranking.

"Interesting," Naruto chuckled softly. "What's in it for me? I don't care about social ranking, I'll tear apart anybody who comes across me. Money is finite and maybe the perks of being a fido will be too tempting to leave behind."

Shikamaru stared at him seriously. "You'll be expelled if you go down this road."

Naruto gave him a manic smirk. "Do you think I care? I was on the poverty line before this stick in the pussy picked me up for a scholarship."

"And you would go back?"

"Let me ask you something," Naruto leaned forward. "You've been born with a golden spoon feeding you premium formula since birth. You love your life, right? The wealth, the power, the control you wield over everything and everyone within this school."

"I do appreciate my life."

Naruto noted that he didn't say, love.

"It is the same for me," Naruto leaned back as he propped a leg on Shikamaru's desk. "I despise everything I've seen so far. I miss living on the edge, never knowing when the next meal would be coming. Robbing and beating the shitty corporate shit stains who look at me like scum. Here I'm tied to that leaderboard but it is irrelevant, it doesn't dictate what I do or how I act."

"So again. What do you have to offer?"

Shikaku Nara had warned Shikamaru that those on the edge of falling under the poverty line were extremely dangerous.

They had nothing.

Wanted nothing.

They become mindless, losing all rationale.

He was certain Naruto was heading down that point, he wasn't quite there yet. He had nothing but wanted something. The blonde was walking on a tight rope, no he wasn't walking. Naruto was fucking dancing, waiting to make a misstep, and finally, fall over. He had truly come face to face with the depths of humanity's depravity.