It's strange how I've barely noticed her beauty. Her ruby red eyes and her vibrant lipstick, her wild raven hair and her sensual taste in style. She was more than beautiful, she was amazing. It was as if I saw her a woman and not just my sensei. The woman who worried for me day by day, trained with me day by day...
And I grew to love and desire her, day by day.
Though I have no chance with her, I fantasied of us. We were alike in so many ways, yet we differed in the most simple of things. She was a woman. I was a boy. I wouldn't forget her, she wouldn't even memorize my last name. She could have any man...
I was cold, strange and unwanted, but she still respected me. Something few ever did.
"Shino, were you listening?" Kurenai asked.
He blushed lightly and turned away, "Sorry. My mind was elsewhere."
Her eyes glimmered as she rested a hand on his shoulder, "Don't be. I don't know where I would be without my fantasies."
Shino only nodded as her lipstick shimmered in his glasses, "Neither would I."
Yes. It's a ShinoxKurenai couple. No, I don't care if I'm sick. I like Kurenai & Asuma, and ShinoHina, but I needed something different.