Ok the pairing is Shino and Ino. If that wasn't already known. lol Spaz went through my account finally and show me the mistakes and redid alot of them. Dont know about them all but at least most.

I want to point out that when i get into a chapter i forget to do spell check and all that lovely stuff gag sound Sooo yeah... here it is..

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Always Here

Chapter One: Childhood

The 6 year old boy ran after the girl. Her short blonde hair flies behind her as she jumps over the seesaw and ducks under the slide. The brown head went around it all trying to block her only to fall back from being rammed by her.

Both sat laughing, rubbing their heads. Today was the last day they could play for awhile. He was getting his own Kikaichu. His father told him that he couldn't play for along time after he got them, he could hurt them. And that was the last thing he wanted to do.

For another hour they played. Running, jumping. As they play tag. Before becoming tried and resting on the swings.

"So are you happy?" The girl asks. Her blue eyes watching some ants march by her feet.

"Hmm… Well yeah… I am." He answered.

"Well just remember when you get done and can walk outside your gates. You come straight to my daddy's shop and see me, you got that?!" She spoke using her 'grown-up' voice on him, making him stuck his tongue out before pushing backwards, swing.

"Right, like you could make me." He shot at her.

She too started to swing. "Yeah I could! Daddy's going to teach me the family Jutsu soon than I can make you run around in girl clothes!"

"Could not."

"Could too."

"Not."

"Too."

His brown eyes glare at her before turning away and whispering. "Not.".

"Oh give it up Shino you know am right."

"Yeah right, how are you right?" Shino ask looking at a butterfly that land on the swing next to him.

"My mommy said that girls are always right no matter what! And boys know it but just want to be pains. So there!" The blonde said with a big grin on her face like she knew something great.

"Hmm… In. Ino?" Both stop their bickering, seeing a pink hair girl standing nears them. Her green eyes downcast towards the ground watching her foot move back and forth.

"Oh! Sakura! Hey. Shino this is Sakura. I met her a few days ago." Ino said jumping off her swing. "Sakura, you're late!" She said putting her hands on her hips. Shino slows down to a stop but stays sitting.

"I'm sor… Sorry. But mommy wanted to go to the store…sorry." Sakura said sounding close to tears.

"Oh jezz…" Ino sighs. "Sakura I was just kidding with you. I wasn't mad." She said walking over to the other girl and patting her back.

Sakura looked up at her. "Your not?"

"Of course am not. You really need to stop letting people push you around. Now come on. I want you to meet Shino." Ino was already pulling the pink head over to her friend. Pulling her in front of Shino, Ino continue. "Sakura, Shino. Shino, Sakura."

"Hello…" Sakura said.

"Hello…" Shino said.

"Oh jezz…" Ino said rolling her eyes. "How did I get stuck with two shy people?" Shrugging her comment off, she adds. "Well let's go. The fields have some pretty flowers now."

Shino makes a face.

"And bugs." Ino giggled.

Sakura makes a face. "Bugs?"

Rolling his eyes, Shino jumps off the swing. "Yeah bugs." Turning he missed the Sakura's' eyes widen. He starts walking with Ino following pulling a shy Sakura behind her.

The little group walked across the playground to field next to it and before long the girls were picking flowers and the Aburame watching and talking to the bugs about how annoying girls were.

"Hey Ino what kind of flower is this?" The shy voice of Sakura asked.

"Hmm? Oh that… That's a weed." Ino's voice came a few feet away.

"Ohm…"

Shino listens to them but does really pay attention. He was to busy watching a purple butterfly flying around over his head. He stands and follows it as it flew over to the girls and lands near them. He lies back next to Ino and the Butterfly trying to understand its quick speech. Butterflies were hard to understand. They didn't really say much nor thought much about anything other than food and rest. There was always something else they talked about but Shino didn't really understand that and his dad said he would when he was older. And getting his bugs would help out.

"Hey Ino, what's your favorite color?"

"Oh I don't know. Maybe Orange."

"Why?"

"Like I said I don't know. Maybe I don't have one." Ino said before turning to Shino. Poking his side she asks. "What about you. Got a favorite color?"

Rolling his eyes up to her than back down to the butterfly, he thinks.

"Purple."

"Purple?"

"Purple." he repeats releasing his breath slowly. He just knows this is going to lead to something, like being picked on again. His eyes close. That's all he needed.

"Why purple? Aren't you a guy?" Ino said. Most of all the guys she knew only like boy colors; if that were true.

He sighs. "Yes Ino. Am a guy. And yes I like purple." he looks back to the butterfly just in time to see it flap its wings and take off again. Sitting up and placing his hands on the ground next to him, he adds. "Purple is a nice color on butterflies. They come to the spring festival every year and makes the trees come alive. So yes, purple."

Sakura giggles making both Ino and Shino look and blink at her. Sakura has her mouth covered by one hand and pointing at Ino with another. "Like that Butterfly, Shino?"

He looks at Ino to see the butterfly he followed had landed in Ino's hair making it stand out against the blonde.

With a slight smile Shino said. "Yeah, like that one."

Ino blinking at them both goes to reach into her hair only to be stopped by Shino.

"Leave it. It's resting."

"Ohh…" She said putting her hand back down. Shino laid back down lacing his hands behind his head. He watched the purple against the gold as Ino and Sakura still played with the flowers.

"EEEEEKKKKKKK!!!"

Shino was startled out of dazing and the butterfly took flight.

"Ow!" He yelled as two bodies' lands on top of him. All three wiggle trying to get off each other.

"Sorry!"

"Sakura move it!!"

"Not there!"

"Sorry"

Shino dodges the elbow aimed at his head. "Watch it Ino." He warns.

"Whatever!" She said sticking her tongue out as Sakura falls off the pile of bodies. Ino rolled to the other side, leaving Shino to sit up in the middle, rubbing his head.

"What was that about?" he asks.

"Well… There was this…Beetle." Sakura explain weakly. As she rubs her hands together.

"All that over a bug? Come on Sakura. We got an Aburame here. He could have just told the bug to go away." Ino said as she stood up, wiping the dirt off her pants. Shino rolled his eyes as he too stood up. Ino put a hand out to Sakura and helps her up.

"Oh… Sorry. It's just… it had pincers on its head and it scared me." Sakura said.

"We couldn't notice…" Shino said under his breath only to get glared at by Ino. "What?"

"I heard you." She said. "Come on." Ino threw her arm over Sakuras shoulder leading the way out of the field. "We can take Sakura home than to the flower shop and meet up with your mom."

Left with little choice, Shino followed the girls down the road. They walked past some shops and people. They stopping to let carts go by or to watch as some ninjas walked by. Them being used to seeing ninjas but it was always something new with them, the style they wore or how the acted.

It was mostly out of how some acted. Some were really mean and the three little kids didn't want to get on the bad side on them. That's when Sakura notice she had leaded them the wrong way; they should have turned right awhile back. Turning suddenly she grabs Inos arm.

"Ino we didn't turn at my street!"

"Oh. Don't worry so much. All we have to do its turn around, right Shino?" Ino asked turning taking Sakuras arm instead as she walks past Shino.

"Hmm…" was all they got from Shino as he to turns and follows the girls again.

"Jezz. Your not allow to start acting like your dad yet, Shino." Ino said with a roll of her eyes.

"What was that? I think you said girls drool." Shino replied crossing his arms over his chest, watching the blonde's hair. That color brought out the purple really well, what could he say?

"Keep it up, Aburame and I'll give you a knuckle sandwich." Ino said turning around long enough to shake her fist at him and just long enough to run into someone. "Ofm!" She said falling backwards, pulling Sakura to her knees.

"Oh. Ino are you alright?" Sakura asks. Shino came up behind them, staring at the man.

"Yeah, yeah. What did I hit?" Ino said rubbing her head, also looking up. "Oh…" her face dropped see him. He was a ninja, one of the ones Shino tried to stay away from; a Hyuuga. You could always pick one out of the crowd for their eyes, all white with no pupil. Hyuugas and the Aburame never got along. The Hyuuga sneers down at Shino.

"Watch was your going, Aburame." He said, making Shino last name sound like an insult.

"First I'm not a proud member of the Aburame Clan; I'm a Yamanaka." Ino said standing up pushing Sakura behind her. Putting her small hands on her hips she continued. "Second I was the one who walking into you and for that I am sorry. Now if you don't mind we have to get home."

The Hyuuga laughs. "Proud? That clan? What a joke!" he bends at his waist and looks down at the blonde before him. "It's nothing more than some people letting bugs nest inside of them. Walking corpses that's what they are." he sneers.

"Well this 'Walking corpse' would like it if you left his son and friends alone, Hyuuga." a deep. Male voice spoke from behind the man. He straightens and turned to come face to face with Shibi Aburame, the Clan Leader of the Aburame Clan.

"Son. Gather your friends and come. Your mother waits for us at the shop." Shibi said glaring from behind his sunglasses at the man before him. Oh how he hated this man.

Shino pushed Ino and Sakura around and behind his father. He could tell just got his fathers bugs were acting he was not happy. And a mad Clan Leader was a dangers thing.

"Now leave here, Hyuuga and I won't bring this up to your leader or maybe even the Hokage." Shibi said before turning on his heels and herding the children away.

"Why are you down here?" he asks once he got them away from the man.

"Well Sakura lives down here, but we miss the turn and so we were going to circle back but yeah… you saw him." Ino said pulling Sakura by the arm again.

"Oh? This must be Sakura, no?"

"Yes father. Ino invited her to join us today." Shino said from next to Shibi.

"Hello…" Sakura said, staring at the man. Making him chuckle.

"Hello Sakura, how are you?"

"Oh wow! See Shino your dad says more than a mere 'hello' to her!" Ino said turning on Shino, who grabs his dads coat and hides from her.

"Father, she's been acting weird all day! She said girls are always right. That's not true right?" shino asks.

Shibi chuckles. "Nope their not."

Ino stomps her foot before walking faster. "Of course he wouldn't think so, hes a guy!"

"But my dad is always right!"

"Hes a guy he can't be!"

"Can too!"

"Don't start that one please." Shibi said rolling his eyes skyward. Why did they allow their son to play with the girl, again? Oh yeah… wife. He thought. Sighing he puts his hands back in his pockets and watch as the girls' team-tag against his son and currently the blonde girl had his son in a headlock.

The group dropped off Sakura to her mom who appears nice on the outside but Shibi knew she was scared of him and his son. Happens all the time.

Don't understand something and you fear it or hate it.

Ino and Shino came talking. Well Ino talking about random things like she always does and Shino just trying not to get in a headlock again.

Once they got to Ino's dads flower shop they saw Shinos mom and Inos mom talking outside with Inoichi, Inos father, sitting with his head in his head looking like a little boy who got in trouble.

"Daddy!!" Ino yelled running at him.

"Princess!!" Inoichi yells back opening his arms allowing his little girl to fall into a hug. "How did your day go, baby?"

"Oh fine. I played with Sakura and Shino. Told Shino that girls are always right but he didn't listen to me." She said with a pout.

Inoichi looks up at Shibi. "You know, it would make life a lot easier if you got him to believe that now."

Shibi crossed his arms over his chest. "Why would I need my son to believe that when it's not true?" Shino mirrored his father stance, with a nod.

Shibi wife's, Akiko raises her eye brow over her sunglasses. Inoichi grins and gives Shibi a look meaning 'you're in shit now'

"How is it not true, O husband of mine?" Akiko said, crossing her own arms over her chest.

Ino mirrors her father's look, as Shinos dad tenses up. "You cheated." He hisses at Inoichi before walking over to his wife to suck up. Ino got up from her fathers lap and walked over to Shino.

"Well…" She stops and stares at her feet. "Ill sees you around, huh?"

Shino looks down too. "Yeah I guess so."

Blue eyes snap up at him, angrily. "You guess? No guessing Shino! We will! You said you would come to the flower shop when you got better and you better!" she yelled before claming down. "But really… don't over do it ok?"

"I won't…" Shino said leaning away from her. She really was strange.

"Let's get going Shino. The clans waiting." Akiko said after she said her goodbyes to the Yamanakas'.

"Alright mother. "Giving a quick hug to ino, he ran off to join his parents walking down the road.

Ino waves and calls out. "Ill see you later!!"

"Yeah later!" Was all Shino said before walking to his clan and home.