Chapter 1: The randomness of friends

He was the shit, no one stood a chance when he was on the war path. He was the master, his subordinates followed orders without hesitation, knowing if they dared to question him surely they'd be punished, he was the king! His enemies fell easily at the end of his blade, others ran from the inevitable death he brought with him wherever he went. Though it was common knowledge that none challenged him and lived, some still dared to confront him in battle, and their bodies quickly joined the others that were building up on the already blood soaked snow.

his eyes strained against the white flurries that swirled in every direction making the world look like a blank piece of paper. some where off to the left there was a new opponent, a new fool who would be taught a lesson immediately. He took his time loading his weapon, holding it up and squaring his shoulders at the would be attacker waiting. There, a twig snap, rushed footsteps and crunching snow, heavy breathing and a clack of metal as a gun was hastily brought up so the foolish shooter could take aim. He stood still, counting the steps he heard, he took one last beath and let it out slowly. His head snapped up and his eyes caught the outline of his enemy as it moved irratically in a zig-zag pattern, a ridiculous hope that maybe he would throw off his opponent. No use, the new guy lept over the last hill that divided him and his would be victory. A sound of metal ringing through the air and then a 'thump' as one more body fell lifeless.

"If you sit that close to the TV you're going to go crooss eyed" Kiba walked into the common room to find his friend with his chair pulled up inches from the screen.

"they say the same thing about jacking off," Sasuke threw a smirk over his shoulder "doesn't keep your hands out of your pants." and went back to playing.

Kiba frowned and crossed his arms, "just trying to save you from going cross eyed! Excuse me for caring."

"what's all the yelling about?" Gaara pushed open the kitchen door and made his enterance, followed closely by Neji, then Shino and Lee.

"where's Cloud?" Lee turned around and opened the door again, ushering the last member of their group in.

"why is he named Cloud again?" Kiba cocked his head to the side and looked over at his notoriously lazy friend.

"for the last time, it's because he likes to look at clouds" Neji supplied in his normal cool tone, though his irritation at having to answer the same question for the 100th time was obvious.

"you're still playing? We already missed first and second period, and longer and we minds as well not bother going." Gaara wasted no time in turning off the PS3 console and, ignoring Sasuke's glare, grabbed the over night bag off the leather couch pulled out the boys uniform and threw it in the brunette's face. "get changed."

Sasuke let his face fall into one of no emotion, as he pulled the garments off his head and smoothed out his hair. "what do I care if I miss class? I'm not stopping you from going." he set aside the custom red and black controller, and stood up. Glancing at the clock he wasn't surprised to see that it was already 10:30am, he'd been playing all night.

"just go get dressed!" Kiba stomped his foot and put his best annoyed pout on. Akimaru yapped loudly in agreement at his ankles.

"my friends we must hurry! my perfect attendence record is suffering!" Lee had huge tears flowing down his cheeks, soaking his hidious green polo shirt. "If I do not go to school today I will run 100 laps around that wonderful building of knowledge!"

"yeah think of all the fan girls you'll disappoint if you don't go." Shikimaru spoke up, no doubt his first full sentence all day, at least the first without a yawn.

All the sexy men present groaned, while Lee looked on in confusion at their protest of getting so much positive attention. He really couldn't understand why they had gone to the length of designing alternate names that they could use in the privacy of their homes. Neji had been the one to explain it to him, saying it got annoying when they heard their names shouted by strangers all day long, so to get some kind of rest they opted to call themselves something else, that only they knew. It was a secret, you got a name when you became part of the crew, not that there had been any additions for four years. Lee had been the last, and even though no one really called out his name the boys had given him a name anyways, so that he felt included.

"Rocky?" Kiba waved his hand in front of the busy browed boys face. "you ok?" Lee smiled wide and thrust his fist skyward, accidentally catching his friend on the chin. Kiba cried out as he fell backwards, his dog barking angrily at his master's attacker.

"for gods sake" Gaara massaged his temples, his frustration level quickly rising. "see if you had gotten dressed and were ready to go half an hour ago" he paused in his rantings to geture at his platnum diamond encrusted watch, "we could have avoided all this!"

Neji made quick work of wrapping his arms around his lover's slim waist and rocking him side to side in a soothing motion. One that Gaara was unable to resist, his posture relaxing instantly and his mood shifting to one of content, as the taller brunette whispered sweet nothings in his ear.

"good god! get a room!" Kiba was back on his feet and covering his eyes at the adorable picture. To which Neji smirked and turned his boyfriend's head to give him a sweet kiss. Kiba and Lee feind embarassment and ran back into the kitchen, squealing girlishly.

It was all in good humor, each and every of the boys knew the other's sexual preference, however skewed they may be. They'd each had their own little conquests, notches in their belts, but they had yet to nail down whether they were straight or not, and had no honest interest in doing so. Obviously Gaara and Neji were a couple but that had come out of them knowing eachother for as long as they could remember and going through some serious family issues together. But that didn't mean the two didn't enjoy looking at a female from time to time.

Sasuke got bored of observing his friends and thinking about how they all made up the weirdest group of friends imaginable. So he took his outfit and went to his office to get changed. He stripped off his black sleeping shirt and sweat pants, and replaced them with the navy blue long sleeve button up shirt that his school ordered him to wear. He'd tried to defy them before but the principal had called his older brother. Not that that was really scary, but the eldest Uchiha son had made it his personal duty to force his brother into the uniform every morning for a month, until Sasuke stopped fighting and just did it on his own.

That had been two years ago when he had been new to the private school. Now he was a senior and knew how the system worked, and how to manipulate it to his liking. He tugged on his black jeans, not protocol but he found that he could get away with it since the other pants were black too. There was a full length mirror in the corner, Sasuke took in his appearance. Giving a slightly conceited nod, he smirked and combed his fingers through his hair. 'I make this look good.'

There was a knock on the door and Shino stuck his head in. "we are ready to leave." Sasuke studied his friend for a second. The boy wore his usual sunglasses, he'd only actually taken them off a handful of times, enough so that Sasuke knew they were a dark forest green. The man was a mystery, despite being one of the crew that Sasuke had known the longest. He always wore his khaki overcoat with its high collar. The principal had tried to make him take it off once but the effort was futile, and for the past four years the jacket had turned into more of a trench coat getting longer as the years went by. So that now he looked like a private eye from a Dick Tracy comic.

"I'm coming." Sasuke grabbed his folder off his desk, backpacks were so uncool, and stuck a pencil behind his ear.

They travelled in style, as you would expect the sons of some of the wealthiest familes to do. Shino drove with Shikimaru, since they didn't trust the boy to stay awake behind the wheel, they drove in his brass colored CT 200h Lexus, that was a present for passing his midterm. Naturally Gaara and Neji rode together in the red head's equally red Cadillac CTS coupe, with the tinted windows it was hard to see what the two love birds were doing at stop lights, though one could imagine. Of course Lee and Kiba were car pool buddies, today they jokingly took Lee's lime breen VW bug, unlike the other's Lee didn't get a new car every year his was the present he got for his 18th birthday. Before that he'd had to ride a motorized scooter, not that the ever enthusiastic boy minded.

Sasuke brought up the rear in his midnight black Dodge Challenger, the only one of the group to truly appreciate American muscle, despite living in Japan. He was in no rush to get to school, the same thing would be waiting for him that was waiting five out of seven days of every week. Squealing females, annoying timid teachers, and guys that either wanted to fuck him, or be best friends with him.

They pulled into the school parking lot one after the other and took the spots their fan girls made sure were available for them whenever the members of the sexy group decided to show up. The school was gated but the boys knew the code, since their families had donated excessive amounts of money the school was always likely to look past the boys constant absences and occasional fighting. The building itself was gigantic, four stories a hundred plus rooms, and at least five hundred students. It was a private school, so the average student came from a well off family, unless they were like Lee who's test scores were so high the school pulled some strings to allow them admission. It was an old place, they had bought it cheap and restored it to its present grandeur, with refurbished interior nd extensive sports facilities.

Sasuke climbed out of his car reluctent to start his day officially. He watched his friends pile out of their vehicles and lock them up, there were quite a few people who didn't like them and wouldn't think twice about stealing their cars.

"Shall we go my friends?" Lee was already running up to the front door, followed closely though slightly less enthusiastically, by Kiba and then Shino.

Gaara was leaned up against the hood of his car, Neji standing in front of him obviously trying to resist the urge to ravage his lover in public. Even though their passion bubbled over in private when they were out and about they were like frenemies, unless you knew what to look for. Sasuke was quite sure his best friends got off on leading two seperate lives. As if to prove his point Gaara stood up and shoved past his boy friend on his way to the enterance. Neji cast the Uchiha an amused glance before turning and following his friends into school. Sasuke held back watching his crew leave him behind. They certainly were an odd bunch.

Lee and Shino had to go to gym for third period Neji and Kiba had English and Shikamaru, Gaara and Sasuke had math. Sasuke suggested the three of them just stay in the hall until it was actually time for third period to start, he had a tendency to start riots when entering a classroom late. And much to his dismay his two biggest fans were in each of his classes, how they had managed that he would never know, not that he really cared as long as they stayed away from him. they didn't have to wait long for the bell, a minute tops. The three turned their backs in an attempt to hide their identity as the door opened and the previous class filed out. Karma seemed to want to punish them for coming in late, and the evidence of that came running up the hall shouting at the top of it's lungs.

"Sasuke-kun! You made it!" Sakura was the president of his unholy fan club. The girl lived to see the Uchiha every chance she got it seemed. She crossed the distance that separated them in the blink of an eye and had her arm wrapped around Sasuke's like a lock.

The Uchiha tensed and had to suppress the growl that was rising in his throat, he settled for looking at the girl with disinterest. Behind him Gaara tugged on his shirt signaling that they could go in now. Sasuke moved fast, in one motion his arm was free and he all but twirled through the door way and took steady but faster steps than normal up to his seat. By the time the pink haired girl realized her love interest had freed himself and disappeared the brunette was already safely seated behind his desk.

"Sasuke-kun?" she poked her head in and then ran up the stadium like seating steps to sit on his desk "how are you today? We missed you in the first two period. Ino went home early after I pushed...I mean she fell and hit her head on a desk" Sakura finished with a big smile and blinked innocently at the Uchiha waiting for some kind of response. When none came she started to draw random shapes on the table's surface nervously.

"Sakura, last time I checked your seat was down front here." Kakashi walked in and ushered the now frowning girl down to her chair. The man flicked through some papers on his way to the chalk board. He was a tall wiry man, but muscular in the shoulders. All the girls that didn't have a crush on one of the sexy boys usually crushed on this sensei. His hair was prematurely grey and seemed to naturally spike directly up, but the most noticeable thing about the man was not his lithe form or strangely styled hair but the mask that he wore covering half his face. It showed only the left eye and that was usually glinting with mischief.

Sasuke turned his attention to the people now filing in to the classroom, all the usual chicks and dicks as he liked to call them. The time passed by slowly and Sasuke pulled out his playing cards five minutes into the lecture. By the end he had beaten five games of solitaire. Finally the bell sounded and everyone filed out of the room eager to get to lunch. Sakura held back until she became uncomfortable with her teacher's expectant stare as she sat and waited for a good ten minutes. "see you at lunch Sasuke- kun!" and she rushed out.

"Gods I hate school." Shikiimaru woke up from the nap he had been taking since class started and was currently stretching. He was a genius, he was tested and given a 180 IQ the Einstein of his generation. So needless to say he was bored with having to sit and listen to someone tell him something that he already knew. So he slept and watched clouds to pass the time between intellectual challenges, which reminded him he had a test next week and really needed to read that text book before he forgot again.

"well just deal with it, you are just gunna sleep no matter where you are." Gaara stood up and cracked his back.

"How come you boys were so late today?" Kakashi was leaning on his desk with arms crossed over his chest. Of all the teachers at Konoha High he was definitely the one that all the boys got along with best. Minus Lee who had bonded, abnormally, with their gym teacher Gai sensei.

"Sasuke was up all night playing video games again." Gaara made his way down to the floor level and plopped down on one of the desks in the front row. Shikimaru made himself comfortable on one of the deep windowsills of the huge bay windows and was doing what he loved best, living up to his nickname, watching clouds.

"tsk, tsk, Mr. Uchiha. You should really prioritize, and staying up all night is really a poor judgement call on your part." the older man was joking which was made evident by the extra sparkle in his eye.

"whatever." Sasuke collected his cards and stuck them back in his pocket. He was used to playing this little game, Kakashi would try to fill that father figure role that Sasuke so desperately needed filled and Sasuke would pretend to be annoyed. Yes it was a welcomed normalcy in his otherwise hectic life.

"well get out of my classroom." Kakashi balled up a piece of paper and tossed it at the brunette as he was walking towards the door. The boy caught it with ease and dropped it in the waste bin.

"yes, sensei."

"smart ass."

Gaara and Shikimaru fell into step beside their friend as they headed to the student council room, where they'd be able to avoid most of the annoying fan girls and meet up with the other guys.

It was a nice room, everything in it compliments of the Uchiha's. His reasoning for donating to the student council room was that if he was going to be spending so much time in the space it had to be up to certain standards. He had hired a crew and selected everything out himself, oddly enough Sasuke was usually more than happy to be part of things that he started, it was the things he was asked to do that he was reluctant to do at all. This was one of his better projects. The hideous tile floor had been replaced by beautiful dark hardwood. The walls were painted a crisp white with the schools' colors painted in a stripe across the four walls. The large window was dressed with a navy blue curtains and dark wooden blinds that matched the floor. As far as the furniture went, Sasuke had spared no expense there were was a large L' shaped desk that jutted out from the wall next to the door and to the center of the room. That was Sasuke's desk, which was why it had the best accessories. A white leather chair and a touch screen desktop computer, and a few more touch toys in the locked drawer under his key board. There were two other desk on the other wall with black chairs and normal computers anyone could use those. Finally there was a sitting area that framed the large window, suede couched and over stuffed arm chairs. This week they'd be getting that espresso maker and snack bar.

"bout time you guys showed up." Kiba was spinning in one of the office chairs, not Sasuke's since he knew it pissed his friend off to no end. "we had a serious mob problem over Neji."

At that statement Gaara's emerald eyes lit up with fire, burning with anger and possessiveness. The red head grabbed hold of his lover's wrist and hauled him into the joining bathroom to do something he didn't want his friends to see. Which could only be one of two things (or both) considering the red head would do all but blow or fuck his boyfriend in front of the other boys, not that the other guys would watch.

"why do you have to get him riled up?" Sasuke plopped down in his chair and switched on his computer, rolling his eyes at the boy's purposeful aggravation of their fiery crew member.

"who is aggravated? with all the youthful energy in this room none of us should ever be aggravated! if I am ever aggravated I will get rid of my frustration by running a hundred laps around the town" Lee thrust his fist into the air and jogged into place to prove his point.

"Kiba told Gaara that Neji got mobbed." Shika supplied as he took his usual place on the couch next to Shino who was reading some kind of book about bugs. "so now they're in the bathroom fucking to prove that they still love each other."

Of all the boys Lee was the shyest, and at the mention of sex his face went bright red and he coughed embarrassed. "well," he shifted clearly uncomfortable, "I have the fund raising schedule for this next semester." Lee was the secretary, though he probably should have been president since he was the only one who actually showed any interest in doing the student council jobs. But it was a popularity contest and Sasuke was chosen, despite not even being on the ballot. Poor guy, if he was handsomer or richer he'd probably have gotten the position he deserved. As far as the hierarchy went, Sasuke was pres. Gaara was vice pres. Neji was treasurer, and Lee was secretary, Shino was the historian and Shika was the webmaster. While Kiba wasn't officially a member, a lot of people had suggested he be the court jester, which the brunette responded to with outrage, but none the less accepted.

Sasuke took the small stack of paper and gave it a look over, "who is Princess Nao?" the Uchiha spat the name out like it was a kernel that had been stuck between his teeth all day.

At the mention of the woman's name Kiba jumped up so fast his leg got caught on the arm of his chair and he toppled over with the furniture. "Princess Nao!"

"I take it you know her?" Sasuke opened up the internet and typed the person's name into the google search bar. He was redirected to the Princess Nao fan page. Turned out she was a sexy blond with big blue eyes and huge tits. Honestly she looked like a stripper but with a down to earth girl next door quality that seeped through even in her pictures. There was a list of movie titles under her picture and they all had her name in them, which lead the Uchiha to believe the movies probably weren't that great.

"isn't she beautiful?" Kiba had recovered and was now staring over the president's shoulder.

"if you're into that whole fake boobs and plastic surgery look." Sasuke leaned back and crossed his arms.

"she's never had any surgery!" Kiba looked genuinely offended.

"who hasn't had any surgery?" Gaara walked out of the bathroom tucking his shirt back into his trousers. Lee blushed and sputtered something about studying before he rushed out of the room.

"this patchwork chick, Princess Nao." Sasuke got bored with the conversation and went to sit in one of the arm chairs. He tuned out the others and looked out the window at the soccer field, 'yeah, she's kind of pretty.'

OK, so there you go, I worked all day on this I hope you like it. R&R and me love you long time :)