A/N:This is my first fanfiction ever. Please if you review and don't like it, give advice instead of being mean. Also, I promise the next chapter will be better and detailed.(It's almost done already.) I hope you enjoy it so far. Also, the rating is for future chapters.

Please check out the sequel to this story if you enjoyed this. It is called All Because of Puppy Love and is a continuation of this story after the two and a half year time skip. Enjoy.

Chapter 1:It Happens All the Time

This wasn't the first time this had happened to Aburame Shino. It wasn't usual of him to think so much of the event, but this time it was extremely personal. These kind of things happened to him all the time, since he had become a genin of Konoha village about 4 months ago. He had been put on a team with two people he really hadn't liked being around. Back at the academy, Hyuuga Hinata and Inuzuka Kiba had kept their distances from the Aburamae. He never minded, considering every time Hinata talked she stuttered and Kiba was a loud mouthed idiot who liked to get his dog, Akamaru, to mess with everyone else in the academy.

Kiba's pranks, commonly known as puppy pranks, were not only annoying and childish, but most of them were focused on either Shino or the Uzumaki kid, Naruto. Today, he had Akamaru attack Shino's kikaichu bugs when he let some of them out to spy on Naruto, which Kiba told him to do. Shino felt the disturbance inside him from the other bugs when Akamaru started dancing on the ones he let out.

Shino immediately called for the bugs to return to his body, but before he knew it, most of the ones he released were dead from the stomping. He started to panic and ran over to the stone steps leading to Naruto's door from his hiding place behind a tall pillar about 20 feet from the house. His bugs were still being danced on by the small dog, so he grabbed the dog off the ground and tossed it backwards away from the steps. He had no intention of hurting the puppy, but was only trying to save what was dearest to him. At seeing Akamaru thrown back by Shino, Kiba jumped out from a pillar some ways away from where Shino had hid and started running at Shino. The bug boy was trying to get the bugs that were still alive to help the injured ones to get back into his body. He didn't even notice Kiba until his inside bugs started to jump around.

Remembering what he had done to Akamaru, Shino hurriedly turned around to see Kiba less than 5 feet away running at him with his fists clenched. Shino's first reaction was to make his own fists and swing. Then he would send out a bunch of bugs so they could eat away the offender's chakra and then return to his body safely and well fed. Making a fist with his left hand, Shino punched Kiba in the right side of his face, sending the boy backwards and slightly to Shino's right. He landed on the ground about 10 feet away. Shino looked at him and realized that he had just hit his teammate, really hard.

Kiba tried to get up from the ground but failed. He covered the right side of his face with a hand and noticed his mouth had already swelled up. Rage was boiling up to the surface of his skin just looking at Shino. He looked over at his puppy and noticed the dog was standing in a defensive pose a few feet away from Shino. Akamaru was fine. Shino had merely tossed the dog out of his way to protect what he loved. Kiba looked at Shino still trying to get his traumatized bugs back into his body. The bug boy didn't pay any notice to Akamaru's threatening stance.

Kiba spit out the blood coming from inside his mouth, which had been cut on his teeth on contact with Shino's fist. He tried getting up off the ground again and this time it worked okay. Kiba walked towards the Aburamae with a sorry expression. He picked up his little dog and put it inside his coat where it always was. Shino noticed the movement behind him and looked back towards Kiba and Akamaru. The part of Shino's face that the two could see had a look of misery on it. More than 70 of his bugs had just been killed. Now he only had maybe 100 or so left inside him.

Shino felt guilty. He had listened to Kiba and sent his bugs out and then let them be trampled on by a dog. It was his fault he just lost so many bugs. It was his fault he just lost so many of his companions.

He had also just punched his teammate in the face so hard he landed feet away from him. Shino wondered how Kiba got up after that. But he felt guilty that he just hurt his own teammate. They were supposed to work together, not fight.

Kiba walked towards Shino. The boy stood up and looked at Kiba, who didn't look angry anymore. Instead, he looked kind of sad and ashamed.

The Inuzuka stopped about 2 feet away from the Aburame and opened his mouth to speak, but was interrupted by Shino.

"I'm sorry I-" Shino said but was interrupted by Kiba.

"No Shino. I'm sorry for telling you to let out tons of your bugs to put all around Naruto's house to spy on him. And I'm sorry I sabotaged you and told Akamaru to stomp them." Kiba looked at the ground when he talked. His face had turned red. "It's okay that you threw Akamaru. It's not your fault. He's fine, anyway." He didn't hear Shino say anything in response, so he looked up.

Shino looked taken aback. He was wondering why Kiba was apologizing to him. He did these things all the time. Why was he suddenly apologizing, even though he had managed to kill some of his bugs in multiple pranks before and didn't seem to care at all? This was so out of the norm. Shino was a bit freaked out over it.

Kiba noticed his awed stance and explained his feeling. "Well, usually I don't care about killing a few of your bugs and I usually think it's funny and all, but I feel kinda bad about it now. Thinking about how I felt when I thought you hurt Akamaru, I noticed how you must be feeling since I really did kill some of your bugs." Kiba was looking at the ground again.

Shino was still shocked. Still, why would Kiba suddenly start caring? "Kiba, you killed a lot more bugs this time than you have any time before. I've lost a hundred or more of my bugs over a childish prank. Do you realize how long it could take to regain all those bugs back? They only live so long to reproduce, and I only have so many left." He wasn't going to let Kiba off easy this time. "I lost a lot of my bugs before during the last practice mission and haven't got them back yet, and it was your fault you didn't back me up. Now I have even less, once again, because of you."

Kiba looked up again with a worried look. "Shino, are you going to be mad at me for a long time?"

"Yes." Shino replied a simple answer that he wasn't sure would stick.

"But Shino..." Kiba whined.

"I think it's best if we just part now. If you'll excuse me, I'm going home to try and get my bugs moving again. You've traumatized them to extreme points. How would you like to be stepped on by something that is that much bigger than you, lose your family and friends and witness their deaths?"

With that Shino turned and walked away from the way they had been hiding. Kiba watched him walk away with an upset expression. How was he going to make it up to Shino? He was his teammate after all.

Kiba turned and walked the opposite way Shino had gone. He decided he would go and get some Ichiraku ramen to try and forget about what just happened. He didn't notice that Naruto had been watching them the whole time after he heard Akamaru yelp from being thrown. He also didn't notice the blonde boy leave his house and follow him towards Ichiraku's.

As Shino was walking home, he was still thinking about what had happened with Kiba. Had he gone too rough on him this time? The truth was, he cared about Kiba, and he didn't want to see him hurt. He couldn't stand seeing his face when Shino said he would be mad for a long time. He didn't know why, but Kiba seemed to like being with him and hanging out. But he deserved what he got.

After all, Kiba should have known Shino wouldn't forgive him easily. Shino's relationship had gotten a little better with Kiba for a while after they became teammates, but with Kiba's immaturity, Shino didn't want to be a close friend of his. He was annoying and loud and rude and perverted and...and...he was also kind of nice sometimes and sometimes fun to talk to. And he was a softy for puppies-obviously. I like puppies, Shino thought.

What are you thinking? Shino thought to himself. You are too be mad at him until he earns his way back into your heart. Wait...that sounded kind of gay, he thought again.

Shino was getting angry at himself. He no longer wanted to go home and be trapped inside of his mind right now. Instead, he turned around and walked in the opposite direction of his home. Hmmm, I guess I'll go to Ichiraku's and try to forget about it for now.

Next chapter!:What will happen when Kiba and Shino both show up at Ichiraku's, even though they're trying to get away from each other? What about Naruto?

(Sorry, that's all)

Please check out the sequel to this story if you enjoyed this. It is called All Because of Puppy Love and is a continuation of this story after the two and a half year time skip. Enjoy.