Disclaimerzorz: I dun own Naruto or any of its characters….I wish I did though….that'd rock… OoO

A/N: ahhh…. Kiba and Shino…my favorite yaoi paring hands down… this ought to be a fun experience! (; …please no flames! Reviews equals power!! Muffins equals more chapters!! Nao…Onward to the land of happiness and glee and super-uber, throat-slitting, chop-your-head-off ninjas that is Konoha and the other villages!! W00T!!!

WARNINGZ: This is a YAOI!! As in boi x boi…don't like it? Go away. This story also has some pretty bad language and violence…especially in later chapters. Again, don't like it? Go away. This story is rated T for a reason…

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Chapter 1

( Wolf )

Shino was a man of few words. Of course this hardly mattered to Kiba. Kiba could do enough talking for the both of them, and Shino was just fine with that. But there comes a time in every relationship where one must express their feelings for their significant other. Now this day could be an anniversary, a special occasion, or just a random day in which the need to express a feeling of love is great. Today was such a day. (1)

"Kiba?" No answer. Shino looked around at the messy apartment that Kiba resided in. It was quiet aside from a radio on the kitchen counter playing a form of alternative rock. Kiba always left it on when he left Akamaru home alone so that he would have something to listen to.(2) Shino looked over at the old and worn couch. Akamaru was curled into a little dog-ball snoring peacefully. "Kiba?" Shino called again. No answer. He had come to wake Kiba up to go get breakfast with him. But there was no Kiba to be found.

"Where could he be?" Shino said in Akamaru's direction, though more to himself than the dog. He glanced at a clock hanging crookedly on the wall. 8:15. Shino was beginning to worry about his boyfriend. It wasn't like him to be out this early in the morning and the only time he left Akamaru home was when he was going somewhere he knew dogs weren't allowed; or when he thought it was too dangerous for the little dog to accompany him to wherever he was going…which was rare.

But what worried Shino the most was that the apartment was clean. Kiba didn't clean his apartment unless he knew he wouldn't be coming back for a while. Shino stooped down at the couch and gently shook Akamaru awake. "Akamaru…wake up boy." A sleepy Akamaru reluctantly opened his eyes and yawned.

"Akamaru, where is Kiba?"

"…rrrff…" Shino silently cursed himself. Yes, Shino. He's simply going to open his mouth and speak words to you. He grabbed a shirt of Kiba's laying in a pile of laundry and held it up for Akamaru to smell; of course he probably wouldn't have needed it considering how well he knew his master's scent. "Find Kiba."

Akamaru barked and ran to the door, scratching and biting at it. Shino opened the door and ran out with the dog, slamming the door behind him. Akamaru ran down the street barking and panting, nearly beating down anything or anyone that stood in his way. Shino sprinted just feet behind him, hardly able to keep up; waving apologies to the people the dog had knocked over.

"Aka…maru …slow…down!" Shino panted. They had run nearly half a mile through the town and a painful stitch was eating at Shino's side. But the dog kept going until the came a small forest-like area. Akamaru abruptly stopped, almost causing Shino to fall over on him.

"What is it boy?" Shino looked around but could see no sign of Kiba. Akamaru was sniffing at the ground and whimpering. Shino looked down at the dog and saw what he was staring at. Akamaru was standing in a large pool of blood. Kiba's blood from the way Akamaru was acting.

"Oh God…" Shino whispered. He had seen blood plenty of times in his life but he always got sick when he saw Kiba's. He became frantic, wanting to find his boyfriend before it was too late. "Kiba!? ….Kiba where are you!?" Hs voice cracked as he yelled. He wasn't used to using his voice for yelling. That was Kiba's job.

A noise rustled from behind and Shino slowly turned. "Kiba?" Faster than Shino could comprehend, a wolf had jumped him and he was on his back. He had instinctively put his arm up to guard his face and now it was being gnawed at by the beast.

"GAH...Shit…Get off!" Shino flailed his arms and legs as much as he could but the wolf simply bit down harder on the boy's arm. Akamaru decided to take action and leaped onto the wolf's back, biting and ripping at its ears and neck. Shino used his free hand to grab hold of the wolf's thick neck and squeezed. The wolf gagged but bit down harder still on Shino's arm, his teeth beginning to dig into the bone. Shino screamed in pain and made another attempt to choke the animal. It weakened its grip as it died and Shino shoved the beast over. Just as Shino propped himself up on his arms a flash of brown fell from the trees, landed on top of him and a stinging, poison-covered kunai slid into his ribs. A startled and pained Shino looked up at his attacker.

"K- Kiba?" Shino's glasses had fallen down to the tip of his nose and he was staring directly into the dark and mythical eyes of Kiba. "Wha- why did…"

Kiba stiffened and his eyes grew wide with horror. "Oh God. Shino..I – I didn't mean to- I was…th- the wolf…I was aiming for the wolf! And you-…fuck…Shino…I'm so sorry…I didn't want to hurt you! I wanted to kill the wolf!" He let go of the kunai and stumbled off of the wounded boy beneath him. Shino sat up the best he could and pulled the kunai from his rib cage. He gasped as it departed from his pierced lung and dropped it to the ground.

"It's okay Kiba." Shino sighed. "No harm done." He smiled and leaned over to cough up the blood from his lungs.

" 'No harm done'!?!" Kiba yelped. "I just stabbed you with a kunai! A poisoned kunai! There's enough poison on that thing to drop an elephant! Damn I fucked up this time. I don't know how to remove poison. I'm so sorry Shino…" He frowned and his eyes began to water.

"Kiba, settle down. You should know by now that the bugs inside me will easily suck out whatever kind of poison you put into me…besides, I think YOU are the one we should be worrying about…what happened to you?" Shino finally got a chance to look Kiba over. His knees and elbows were skinned and bloodied and his shirt had several bloody rips in it. His dirt colored hair was matted and stained with even more blood and his left leg was completely mangled.

"Me?" Kiba looked down at himself and realized for the first time just how bad he looked. He sat down on the ground so that he could be eye-level with Shino. "Ah…well…I came out here to find some butterflies I saw yesterday. They were really somethin' Shino! I never saw anything like them! And I wanted to catch one for you 'cause I know you like bugs and stuff…" Kiba looked off at nothing in particular and tried to suppress the inevitable redness that was creeping across his face. "And well that wolf and his pack jumped me…" Kiba pointed to the corpse of the wolf Shino had strangled. "He was the only one left I hadn't killed off…but they obviously did some damage on me. I had no idea you were here. What are you doing here? …And while you're telling me, take of your shirt so I can fix up your chest."

Shino did as he was told and took off his tall-collared jacket and undershirt. "Akamaru and I came to find you. I wanted to take you out for breakfast but you weren't home so I had Akamaru track you down. Looks like I just got in the way." Shino took off his glasses and set them down with his shirt. He sighed and watched silently as Kiba pulled a roll of bandages from a pocket in his pants.

"Got in the way?" Kiba would've yelled but he tried to keep his voice down for Shino's sake. "Shino, you never get in my way. It was just a horrible coincidence that you were in the wolf's path. I should've told you I would be gone so you wouldn't come looking. It's all my fault."

Kiba tied off the bandage around Shino's chest and was about to stand when he noticed Shino's right arm. "Oh shit! Shino, you didn't tell me he got your arm!" He started to wrap up Shino's arm and glanced at the Aburame's face.

Shino had a pleasant face with soft, pale skin and running across his nose was something Kiba hadn't noticed in their three months of dating or at any time before then. Shino had freckles. They were faint and hardly visible but Shino had freckles across the bridge of his nose. Kiba leaned closer to Shino's face, trying to get a better look at these new-found specks. He leaned so close that he would've felt Shino's breath on his cheek…had Shino been breathing…

A/N: AHAHAHAHAAAA!!! Nice cliff hanger, eh!? That's it for chapter one! Reviews please! No flames! I promise the later chapters won't be so wordy! (: Love to all!!! ♥

Also:

(1)- This will make more sense in later chapters...

(2)- I got this idea because my cat likes to stay in my room while I'm gone to school so I leave music playing for him so he has something to listen to. LOL

Anywho…so long for now! I'll be back soon to write more!! ☺