Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto or any of it's characters, because as you can see Sasuke has not yet died a slow and painful death at the hands of Gaara, sigh...

Anyways, onto the story...

Kiba leaned just a little bit closer to shino.

Shino seemed completely oblivious and continued to focus on watching hinata train

Kiba sighed and went back to his normal position. Kiba had known he was gay since he was thirteen, and fallen in love with shino at fifteen He'd had other relationships but he'd always had this crush on shino. Shino, whom eyes he's never even seen. He'd spend hours just imagining what his eyes looked like, were they dark? Would they betray any emotion on his stoic object on desire? What about his lips? Kiba desperately wanted to see shino smile, just once, no, kiba knew he would never be satisfied with just one. Most importantly kiba would wonder how those lips felt, how they would taste on his.

"Kiba?"

Kiba looked up and notice hinata had finsished her training and was looking at him with a concerned expression.

"kiba are you okay?"

He could see that hinata was starting to become increasingly worried, so he abandoned his thoughts of shino,sigh, and reassured the girl before joining her and shino to a trip to Ichiraku

After there food came kiba kept sneaking glances at shino, loving the way eating would leave his moulth temproarily exposed. he fought back the urge to reach over and kiss those lips.

They'd be going on a mission tommorow, so the conversation mostly featured around supplies and the mission itself. That is until naruto showed his face, kiba personnally did not have a problem with naruto, except that he always leaned a little to close to shino, there were always a few attempts to remove his glasses until shino would get angry and leave. This always upset kiba, seeing shino walk away without a word, body tense. Right now, Naruto was just leaning into shino's face, squiting his eyes, trying to see through. Shino leaned back, rarely uncomfortable he saw shino was starting to lose his calm already.

"Naruto, i'd rather watch someone eat my own foot then stare at your ugly face, so if you would be so kind i am trying to enjoy my dinner".

Naruto was used to shino's insults when he invaded the comfort zone, and luckily he leaned back and ordered his food, apparently too hungry to care much about shino's face. Shino relaxed, and continued to eat, if a little cautiously, prepared for any sneak attack naruto would make. Even among his family shino wore his glasses, unlike the rest of his family who would show thier eyes to those whom they loved most, shino cringed at the nakedness of being without them, they were a safety. Maybe he knew he was hiding, maybe he didn't care, he liked hiding, gives you a better chance for a sneak attack. After all is always better to have a trump card. Well he's worn them all the time since he was seven, and there was that incedent with his cousins.

...Flashback time...

A family get together was rare with the aburume family, and usually only happened once a year for the whole family. He'd usually see an aunt here or grandfather there but get togethers were increasingly difficult to coordinate. He saw his two cousins often, and tried to avoid them just as much. Hotaru was a beautiful child, eight at the time she was fast and fierce, living up to the name giving to her, lightning bug. Her name also could mean firefly, but instead of give light she seemed to steal others while in the room, she was beautiful, she was talented, and she wanted everyone to know it. In her mind she must assert her dominance, and proceeded to do so in every situation. Usually when the parents left the room, she would zero in on shino or one of the other younger cousins. But unfortunately, as explained earlier, family meetings were sparse and usually shino was the youngest one present. Shino did not wear his glasses within the home at the time, and had the same emotional response to a situation as anyone would. When he laughed she would shake her head, if he fell and cried she would remind him how disgusting he was. Eventually she got bored with these tactics and would wait until the parent left them with older cousins (who would soon disregard the younger ones for different activities) and "teach" shino how to be strong. The first time this happened shino had laughed when having fun, a gentle laugh that Hotaru despised, immediately she tugged him into the closet, and locked him in there. He asked if he could come out, when she said no and he asked why she explained,

`` Your weak Shino, an embaressment to our family. You laugh joyously as if you haven`t a care in the world, but you know it isn`t even that. It`s the joy in your eyes which you show so effortlessly, as if you aren`t even trying, even now you are crying in the closet, pathetic, disgusting! As you are you are worthless, i am trying to help you Shino, you must learn, you shall spend the rest of your time in solitude as punishment, i shall be back, if i don`t forget. Don`t cry out, or else the rest of the family will know how weak you are. ``

She always said those last words, Shino would always be silent and pray that she would not forget to come and get him. He must always thank her properly and without emotion for releasing him, or else he must go back in. Sometimes 20 minutes, sometimes an hour or two Eventually Shino learned how to react, and constantly wore his shades as to conceal any weakness which might show through. His cousin had less and less reason to punish him. And was becoming increasingly bored without it. Her older brother Arashi noticed her agitation and and asked what was wrong. This gave Hotaru an idea.

`` Brother``, She said, `` It`s Shino, it seems he thinks he`s better than us, than our family, did you notice he no longer takes off his glasses? He has become so smug since i showed him a few tricks and no longer considers us worthy, he needs to be humbled, any ideas nee-san?

Arashi had never been very goos at controlling his anger, and would do anything for his sweet younger sister. So next time the families he met, he took Shino ouside. Shino was delighted to not have even the possibility of being locked in the closet because Hotaru was inside, still he had become accustomed to his glasses scared now to show any weakness, to be thrown into that confined dark place. Once in the forest Arashi threw and held him to a tree.

``You really like those shades don`t you? When were out here they will be takin off, i want to see every emotion on your face, i want to enjoy your pain, your discomfort. With that he took the glasses off his face, and kneed Shino in the gut,

"Learn your place!" He shouted before leaving shino there.

That was the first time but not the last, he would always remove his glasses, and stare into shino's eyes with each blow, and when that wasn't enough he would remove clothing, sometimes stripping him naked and making shino uncomfortable, he would taunt him with words such as

" Are you blushing? Is the superior Shino embaressed?"

" Your pain and awkwardness and fear, i see them all and enyoy every minute of it"

Shino no longer allowed his parents to see any part of his body usually covered by his jacket because of the injuries and would always have an excuse if it was something he couldn't avoid such as a docter's appointment ( rare in the aburume clan because thier bugs would usually be able to tell when somthing was worng with thier home and usually take appropriate measure to fix it, or alert shino if shino did not already know).

This went on for about two years, at which time his father and aunt stopped talking to eachother. Father had found the bruises on his aunt and figured out it was from his uncle beating her. When she refused to leave him or give up the kids for a safer enviroment she cut all ties with Shino and Shino's parents and no longer allowed the children alone together, Shino never told anyone. He found it too difficult to talk about for the most part. He now felt very uncomfortable exposing parts of himself or his eyes to other people, he felt weak and embaressed and defeated.

-Flashback end-

Kiba was ordering another bowl for himself and akamaru, and hinata was still dazed from the appearence from naruto, while Shino lost in thought only had a quick split second to react to the hand now dangerously close to his face. He quickly took hold of the arm and pinned it to the owner's back. Naruto was held for a moment before Shino let him go, and proceeded to walk home. Kiba quickly finished his bowl and ran after him, asking naruto to escort Hinata home for him. He may not partcularily like naruto's rude violation of shino's space, but he knew it was pretty hard to resist what with Shino being so mysterious.

"calm down, just calm down!" Shino was mentally reminding himself. He knew he was shaking a bit,remembering hands reaching for his face, to rip off his protection. He needed to get home where he could shake and no one could see, he could control crying as he hadn't cried since he had last saw his cousin, but shaking was another matter. It was then that Kiba ran up beside him, a smile plastered on his face.

Kiba; Hey Shino, ya know i don't think Naruto means anything by it, and i know he's really annoying but i think you should forigve him, it's obvious you don't like him because your quieter than usual when he's around exept to insult him. I think he's just curious like the rest of us but can't control it.

Of course i know that naruto didn't mean anything by it, and that to most people it wouldn't be such a bad thing, he knew naruto wasn't trying to do this to him, but Shino couldn't help but be on edge when he was around. And of course there was the whole laughing incedent. Naruto had already seen him like that and it made him uncomfortable enough around the boy, wait had Kiba just said "curious like the rest of us", did that mean that kiba too, was curious? He didn't seem like the type who wouldn't act on his curiosity as Naruto had, strange, Shino thought. By this time Shino had stopped shaking as his mind was on other things. Kiba on the other hand had kept rambling on about various uninteresting, unimportant things. He knew Shino wasn't listening. just didn't like the silence.

"Are you curious?"

Kiba stopped mid sentence and looked at Shino. They were in front of his house now, it was pretty dark and he could barely see his face. Kiba took a moment, then just nodded.

He saw shino's hand reach up and push his glasses farther up his face and said,

"well, goodnight then"

And disappeared into his house.

Kiba was kinda dissapointed, he thought when his hand had gone up that shino was going to remove his glasses, how naive could he be?

End of chapter one.

Ps. Does this seem rushed to anyone?