Chapter 1: Why are we Friends?

"I don't know why I even bother waiting for you. I should just leave your fatass here. Less headache for me." Sasuke glared at his blond haired best friend for being late for the millionth time.

"HEY! I can't help it, my alarm didn't go off." Naruto said, walking off towards the school.

"You need to set your alarm for it to go off. Dobe".

"I did that, Teme" Naruto hurried after him. 'Damn bastard with long legs and stupid speed.'

"Oh, I believe you, deadlast."

"You do that. Asshole."

"Fucktard"

"Jerk"

"Baby face"

"…..that was a low blow, bastard"

"It was meant to be, Usuratonkachi" said Sasuke knowing full well how much his friend hated to be compared to a baby. Not only he has yet to lose his baby fat but his short stature and baby blue eyes made him look like a cute puppy. Though all of this cuteness goes down the drain when he opens his big mouth and talks rubbish.

"Troublesome." Came a bored response. "You guys are too loud, this early in the morning." Shikamaru Nara was having a peaceful walk to school which was unsurprisingly interrupted by the loudmouth blond. Though, at one look he can be described as an average looking guy, he was quite handsome with sharp dark wide set eyes and shoulder length hair tied in a tight ponytail on his head, hair sprouting from the tie in all direction making his head look like a pineapple.

"Shikaaaaaaa, Sasuke is bullying me."whined Naruto.

"Nothing new there, Naruto." Shikamaru muttered.

"Shikaaaaaaaa…"

"Not so loud, Naru." he said squinting his eyes. 'I need a nap'.

"Shut up, Moron. We need to hurry". Sasuke heard the first bell chime and was relieved to see the school gate still open.

The three of them were able to make to the homeroom in time. Atleast two of them did. Shika preferred to keep some distance from the arguing pair for the sake of his ears. Sasuke walked in to the room and towards the last bench avoiding the grabbing hands of his many fangirls, and a few fanboys. He usually sat at the corner left bench of the room, next to the only other classmate he can tolerate apart from his blond childhood friend and that lazy genius Nara.

"Looks like you made it on time". Tenten whispered, not lifting her eyes from the notes she was going through for her today's Test. Tenten has been Sasuke's bench mate for 2 years in a row now. Not that he is complaining, she was one of the very few girls who didn't fawn over him for his good looks or brain and treated him just like any other guy in the class. The 17-year-old was a transfer student as her parents moved from China years ago. She was actually a pretty girl with almond shaped brown eyes and long dark brown hair that she wore in two buns on both sides of her head above her ears.

"Don't I always." Sasuke scowled.

"You do, but usually not at a second before the last bell." She smirked, finally letting go of the boring notes to enjoy the irritation on Sasuke's beautiful face. Even with his glaring face, which seemed to be his standard look, he could be described as a handsome Ice prince. With his Pale, smooth ivory skin and deep onyx eyes set on an angular face with sharp jawline, he could give any supermodel a run for his money. Long Dark bangs framed his face from both sides giving him an aristocratic look. Even though the hair at the back of his head always stood up in the shape of duck's ass, he was still considered a fashion icon. Very few peoples knew that the haircut was an accident and that he does not use any hair gel to make it look like that. Hell, he doesn't even pay attention to how he looks most of the time but still manages to make people swoon on him, unnecessarily.

His looks and his wealthy background would always attract admirers from male and female populations. And this formed his non-trusting antisocial and blunt nature, not that anyone minds.

"Oh, Shut up. It's not as if there is anyone to scold here. That lazyass excuse of a teacher is yet to step in the class." He said opening his book bag and removing a few necessary books.

He sighed at the loud noises coming from the front of the class where two idiots where talking and challenging each other loudly about some video game.

Kiba Inuzuka was another loudmouth rivalling Naruto's idiocy. He could even be called his unidentical twin in terms of stupidity, volume and unnecessary energy level. Where Naruto was blond, Kiba was a brunette with shaggy dirty brown hair. Naruto was 5'6 being shortest among the guys but luckily being taller than most of the girls. Kiba was 5'8 a little taller than Naruto and loved to rub this fact on Naruto's face at every given opportunity. Both boys had face marks. Naruto had three whisker like marks on both cheeks which were a result of an abuse by one of his foster parents. Kiba had inverted red colour Trible triangles tattooed on both side of his face starting from below his eyes running vertically till the end of the cheek.

"Haah, I can defeat you using my toes and closed eyes" Shouted the brown-haired idiot.

'Forget it, he is worse than the blond idiot.'

"Oh, it seems everyone has already arrived. Sorry, I am late. I was helping an old sheep with scratching her back as she was…" Kakashi started.

"Liar" came a unified yell from Naruto and Sakura. Kakashi Hatake was one of the many weird teachers in the school. He wore a dark brown mask that covered half of his face leaving two mismatched eyes, one eye was grey while the other was a peculiar dark red. His silver-grey hair seemed to defy gravity by standing up and tilting on one side as if they were struck by a hurricane. He was always late and carried an orange book around.

"Hey, I'm not lying. You can go out and check. She is still standing in the teacher's parking."

"Kakashi Sensei, you should stick to your daily excuse of being lost in the road of life or something. Now, could we please start today's session." Sasuke asked, eager to avoid any more ultrasonic waves from the over loud students.

"Aah, you are right, as usual Sasuke. We should not waste any more time as time is precious. It is equivalent to money…"

Everyone rolled their eyes at this and someone cleared their throat interrupting his blabbering.

"Ok, Right. Today we have a new student joining us. He is at the principal's office and will be here any moment."

Right on que there was a knock on the door and there stood a tall red head boy, almost as tall as Sasuke maybe shorter by an inch. He had piercing teal green eyes which seem as cold as ice and as sharp as freshly sharpened knives. Dark circles adorned his eyes making his glare seem scarier. He walked towards the teacher and stood in front of the class, glaring at everyone and no one in particular. He was wearing a plain full sleeved white shirt with dark maroon pants and dark red running shoes.

"Hn." Sasuke's response seemed to echo in an acutely silent class. This, unfortunately was not for long as a certain blond idiot had the urge to give his two cents

"Ano, ano. Why do you not have any eyebrows? Do you shave them or did you never have them? Don't worry you can borrow some from Lee. He seems to have yours and everyone's share on his face" snickered Naruto.

By this time the red head had directed his deadly glare at Naruto and was emitting a killing aura.

Kakashi was about to stop the beginning of a blood bath but Sakura took the liberty to give Naruto his senses back.

"Ow!" Wailed Naruto holding his head as she smacked him hard on the back of his head.

"You shameless, rude blockhead. How could you even say these things? He just arrived. How inconsiderate of you. You know what? I am not surprised. What can you expect from a half wit, dumb parentless boy?" She shouted standing up with her hand fisted on her hips.

"Shut up, Sakura" Sasuke said in a cold monotone.

"But Sasuke, Naruto is…."Sakura started in a softer, politer tone.

"Just Shut up" He never had any patience for Sakura Haruno and the dobe was usually at the receiving end of her harsh words. The pink haired girl was one of the smartest and the prettiest girls in the class, with a heart shaped face and sparkling green eyes, however, she was blessed with a little too big of a forehead. The attractive girl would ruin all this charm by screeching every time Sasuke (her self-proclaimed future husband) was near.

"Ok Class, enough of this. We should let the new boy introduce himself" Kakashi said putting a stop to the commotion in the class. He looked at the red head but the said boy had yet to stop his glaring which somehow had ended up on Sakura instead of Naruto.

Kakashi sighed "Alright, this is Gaara Subaku. He is a transfer student from Suna. Please be nice to him. Sakura, I want you to show him around."

"Why me?" Sakura said in a low tone full of fear of not surviving a day in Gaara's company.

"Because, I said so. Now Gaara, you can sit there…Ok, whatever." Kakashi stopped himself as Gaara already walked to the right side of the class towards a vacant seat near the window. It was a perfect spot, with Shikamaru sleeping on his right, Choji eating chips silently behind him and the ever-silent Shino sitting in the front.

He sat there staring out of the window unaware of the thoughtful glance sent towards him by a supposed blond idiot. 'Are you lonely?'

Lunch was another headache. Sasuke had no idea why he sits with so many people despite being a noise hater. He sat next to Shikamaru who was snoring and drooling on the table, Naruto on his other side who was chatting nonstop with his evil twin. Next to Kiba were Rock Lee, Choji Akimichi, Shino Aburame, Hinata Hyuuga, Tenten Cheng, Ino Yamanaka and Sakura Haruno.

"No it doesn't. Shouldn't they call him something else rather than Big Foot. His feet weren't the only part that was big. Its wrong to focus on one thing. He must feel insulted." came Naruto's argument on a useless topic. Sasuke let out a mental yawn on the interesting topic 'forget it, I am tuning him out'.

"Hey Teme" 'Oh,no'

"What name do you think we should give Mr Big Foot so that he is not offended".

"Naruto, If you really don't want to offend him, you just need to keep your mouth shut". He muttered nibbling his veg sandwich. Kiba started howling with laughter and there were snickers around the table.

"Hey, stop insulting and answer the damn question"

"Ok, tell me what occasion it would be, for you to meet him. Will you meet him at dinner or during a morning walk"

"I don't know, they kinda look big and dangerous. I think I don't actually want to see Mr Big Foot".

Sasuke wanted to stuff his half-eaten sandwich in the moron's mouth. "So, why the hell are you even worried about offending him. Besides, Big Foot is a cryptid. There is no actual proof that they exist. So just call him whatever you want" 'even if they did exist, I doubt he would mind you calling him anything as long as you run away after a glimpse and don't sit and chat'

"So, I can call him Big Ass?"

"Do what you want and leave me alone."

"Hey Kiba, Sasuke said we can call him Big Ass, he won't mind."

Sasuke sighed and put is head on the table.

Opening his eyes for a moment he saw that there were several pieces of tomatoes on his plate. Naruto, as usual has moved all tomatoes from his salad to his, during that dumb Yeti conversation.

Sasuke sat up looking around his friends…no, correction, lunch group acquaintances.

Ino and Sakura were busy arguing as to who will be Sasuke's future bride, Choji was busy concentrating on munching chips, Shikamaru sleeping, Tenten telling Hinata about the awesomeness of weapons, Hinata, though listening, kept giving glances towards her not so secret crush-Naruto. Lee shouting his motto and not so new thoughts about joy of youth, exercising and crap, Shino being polite and staring quietly at his lunch pretending to listen.

Sasuke really could not understand, how he ended up sitting with so many people. People, who he had nothing in common with. People, who had nothing in common with each other. But they were there. Everyday. Talking to each other. About nothing and everything. His moving gaze ended on the bright yellow head.

'How did I end up here? How the hell am I even friends with so many people'

As if to answer that, the yellow head turned and bright blue eyes met his deep onyx eyes.

"Hey Sasuke, Do you think Mr Big Ass would want to be our friend. He might be lonely."

Sasuke shook his head and let out a sigh 'I know why', "There is no more space on this table, Naruto, So no."