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XXVIII

"I swear to god, Naruto, if you don't come with me, someone in this room is going to wake up shirtless for all the guys to see and it's not going to be Kiba!" Sai shouted as he chased me around the pool table. 

Yes, the pool table. Don't worry: we're still in school, only its just break time. I know—I told you guys that dad chose a great school this time.

"I don't care! I'm not going!" I shouted back, grabbing the cue stick and using it as a weapon to defend myself while Kiba calmly took his turn, ignoring both Sai and I.

"It's just for a few minutes, how hard can it be?" The boy continued, using his own cue stick to spar with me. "Can you at least stop moving around so much?"

"No, actually. I find I'm better able to avoid peer pressure when you can't catch me." I stated, stopping Sai's attack by holding up the cue stick horizontally.

"Oh, for fuck's sake, Naruto. Just come with me, tell the guys you'll hang out with us, and I promise I'll buy you something nice!" I began pushing him back. "I'll even let you call Sasuke!" He shouted as a last resort as I now had the advantage over him.

"You promise?" I asked, finally stepping back and letting Sai fall down towards the floor.

"Seriously? That's all it takes?" I heard him ask himself.

I nodded. "You better keep your promise," I said and reluctantly, he sighed and agreed. It looked like he had regretted it, but a promise is a promise. He can't go back on his word now.

You guys might not know this, but dad didn't just send me here to 'keep me safe,' as he called it, but to break ties with Sasuke. 

But, seriously though, let's face it: never. 

Dad had prohibited me from calling or making any sort of contact towards Sasuke, but that didn't mean Sai and Kiba couldn't. Before leaving, dad had placed a special rule where I wasn't allowed to contact Sasuke and he made sure to drill that rule into their brains. He had placed Sai and Kiba to look after me and make sure I couldn't even send out a smoke signal. I had been begging them for hours but since those two traitors were following my dad's orders, they didn't let me. Until now, that is.

"Your dad's going to find out," Kiba told me while Sai stood up. "You do know he's monitoring our every move, right?"

I scoffed. "Not every move. Watch this, watch this." I pointed to one of the cameras in the top corner of the room. "Hi, Ibiki!" I waved my hands at the camera and to Kiba's surprise, said camera moved from side to side. "See? It's not dad, therefore he's not here, right, Ibiki?" The camera moved up and down.

"This is crazy," Kiba scoffed, bending over to hit another ball when Sai passed behind him, slapped his ass, and made Kiba miss. While Kiba reigned terror over Sai, I thought about what Sasuke must be down right about now.

Leaving Kiba behind, Sai led the way to one of the pools in the interior campus where the group had grown from four guys to at least ten guys now. 

"Like I said," Sai began as he faced them and introduced me for the first time to them, "Naruto's going to hang out with us for a bit, right Fox?"

I nodded, smiling and finding it funny how some of the guys cheered silently. I wondered what the other guys in Konoha were doing. 

Gods how I actually missed them.

Back in Konoha...

"We're holding this classroom hostage until Sasuke communicates us with our Naruto!" The guys all shouted in unison, blocking the classroom door as to not let anyone in or out.