Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto.
While reading Fan Fiction, I noticed that practically everybody except Shino has a story where they fall in love with another character. I increasingly feel sorry for the Aburame boy, so I decided to write a couple stories about him. This is a one-shot, and it is my very first story. Review please!!
And, without further ado…I give you Sapphire Butterfly.
Aburame Shino walks down the street, hands in the pockets of his trench coat, and face hidden by dark glasses and the collar of his jacket. He is a ninja of the Aburame clan, and, like other members of his clan, Shino had colonies of Kikai bugs living inside his body. Needless to say, people often avoided the bug-nin.
Shino sighed, he was almost at his destination, the gates of Konoha which led to the forest he was visiting. Villagers edged away from the boy as he walked down the street, causing him to sigh again.
Once outside the gates, his thoughts come to the surface, and he talks to the sentry insect on his shoulder, but more to himself than anything.
"Why? I am a shinobi, a chuunin of Konoha, I protect their lives, and yet they look at me like I am the algae that grow upon the surface of an unkept pond."
The boy sighs again…..and remembers a girl he saw right before he walked out of the village. She gave him a curious look, and smiled at him, her deep purple eyes shining slightly, her hair a deeper hue of violet.
This was not a manner he could dwell on, however, because he had reached his destination, a heavily wooded area home to a colony of strange looking butterflies, all a piercing blue. It was the time of year when they emerged from their chrysalis and Shino wanted to watch the beautiful insects.
He sat there, recording information in a field notebook, allowing himself to smile, even if it was hidden behind the collar of his coat. He had wait years for this moment, he studied this rare species for along time, and finally learned their mating cycle and how long they were in the beautiful violet chrysalis…snap.
Hearing the snap brought Shino out of his thoughts, and he shot up in a defensive position, kunai already in his right hand. He circled, but could not see anyone. Not convinced, he called some sentries from his flying colony to look around, but….
As soon as the insects started to crawl out of his collar and sleeves, he heard a gasp, and then, more surprisingly, a very feminine giggle. It caught Shino off-guard, and he stopped his bugs. The next thing he knew, he was tied to the closest tree, with rope covering his arms and midsection.
"Well, this is most unfortunate," he stated and then started to struggle against the rope, when another giggle stopped him. Shino looked ahead, into the darkness, and saw a flash of violet. It's that girl!! The Aburame exclaimed to himself.
"Please don't struggle against those ropes, I won't hurt you and I have a surprise or two for you, Shino-chan," the girl whispered.
Shino…..chan? "Who are you?" he asked, too dumbstruck at the personal use of his name to do anything else but stand there.
"My name is Agamiato Kitah, but you can call me Kit-san or Kit-Chan."
She brought her index finger and middle finger level to his eyes for a moment, palm up, but then quickly grabbed the collar of his jacket. Shino almost flinched, this girl was really close to him, and she had his arms bound. So, he called on his bugs.
She laughed, and said "None of that now, I'm not gonna hurt you or fight you." She then started to unbutton his jacket, down to his chest, and pulled it open so she could see his face. Cute, she thought.
Shino flinched, visibly this time, but more with nervousness this time.
"What do you think you doing, Kitah-san?" he asked her.
She smirked. "You'll see."
She put her right hand back in front of his face, and started to draw upon her chakra, molding it.
"I've been working hard to make this perfect for you, Shino-chan."
He stared at her from behind his dark glasses and looked confused, but watched the chakra that was now visible on the tips of her fingers. Then he gasped…it has taken the shape, perfectly, of the Sapphire Butterfly, the very kind of butterfly he had been studying just ten minutes ago. The chakra butterfly flapped its wings and flew…right onto Shino's nose, and then dissipated, startling him. He looked down at the girl, who was shorter than he, and started to question.
"What…?" Almost immediately, she brought up a finger to his lips, silencing him.
"Shhhh," she said, "I'm not done yet."
She placed her hands on his shoulders and pulled herself eye level with the bug-nin, who gulped at her closeness. Before he could further inquire at her antics, however, she closes the gap between their close faces and pressed her lips to his.
She ended the kiss quickly, and both shinobi had pink in their cheeks. For the Aburame boy, who had never received any kind of affection from a female, and who rarely showed emotion, found it difficult to cope with the foreign burning sensation in his cheeks. He did the only thing he could do. He turned his head away.
"Shino? Are you okay?" Kit asked with worry.
"Y-y-y…." Shino gulped and sighed, he had never found a problem with his articulation before, but now it seemed that he was stuttering more than Hinata when she tried to converse with Naruto.
Kit took her fingers to his chin and brought his face back to hers, where she looked him in the eyes. Or tried to, at least.
"Shino-chan…do you mind if….I…um…look at your eyes?" She asked rather nervously.
At first he wanted to say no….but got a strange fluttering sensation in his stomach. Not trusting his normally emotionless tone at the moment, he merely shook his head. She let go of him and dropped back to the ground. Kit then reached up and slowly removed Shino Aburame's trademark dark glasses, folded them, and set them at the base of the tree.
She looked back at his face, and her jaw dropped slightly. This boy had the most beautiful chocolate brown eyes she had ever seen…and they were deep and expressive.
Where his emotions were superbly controlled, his eyes told a different story. Confusion, embarrassment, past hurts, and even slight admiration. She leaned up again and, even more softly than the first time, brushed her lips against his, and then looked back into his emotion-betraying eyes. She was startled by what she found there. Caring. She blushed, and it was almost as dark as his, which had already rivaled Hinata's.
She bent down and picked up his glasses, replacing them on his face, and then re-buttoned the collar of his jacket. She took a kunai from her hip pouch and sliced the rope, freeing the astounded bug-nin. He shrugged the ropes off and straightened out his jacket.
Kitah suddenly felt timid. "A-arigatou, Shino-san. I shouldn't have done that."
She turned around to leave, but stopped for a moment when Shino cleared his throat and grabbed her shoulder. "Wait," he said simply.
She stayed where she was, too afraid to turn around and see if he was mad at her approach to him. Instead, he shifted around and was in front of her, looking down into her face. Then, surprising them both, he leaned down and gave her a tight hug. The butterflies in Shino's stomach, the ones that apparently lied dormant for years, started to flutter again. He broke the hug, and then unbuttoned his jacket collar so his face was visible.
And then, what he did next shocked him them both. He wrapped his arms around the girl's waist and kissed her, harder than she had hissed him. Kit was so shocked that she didn't react at first, just stood there. But then the kunoichi found her footing and stood up on her toes wrapping her arms around the Aburame's neck and kissing him back, nibbling on his lower lip.
The butterflies were gone, but it was replaced by a new feeling that Shino inevitably couldn't describe, and he didn't know what to do next. Kit apparently felt him stiffen, because she stopped, but only for a moment and then she took the matters into her own hands.
Kitah squeezed her arms more tightly around the bug boy's neck, turned her head to the side and pushed her tongue across the barrier of his lips. At fist he didn't know what to do, but then he opened his mouth and gave the girl access…this had to be the best day of the boy's life.
Kitah ended the kiss and looked into Shino-chan's dark glasses, and she almost saw a pleading in the eyes behind them. She had finally broken the hard shell of the usually conservative man, and he was showing his affection back. The bug-nin had a very rosy blush, and she giggled.
"You are adorable, Shino-chan," Kit whispered in his ear.
He looked taken aback, the chuckled quietly.
The Agamiato girl took his hand and led him through the woods, coming to a grassy meadow clearing. She found a relatively soft spot, and led Shino in front of it. She traced her finger along his jaw line, and he blushed again. She giggled, and then pushed him onto the ground, right into the soft patch of grass. The young man looked up at her, slightly confused.
She then lie down next to Shino, taking his hand into her own, and lays her head on his chest, listening to the rhythmatic heartbeat. The Aburame then took his other hand and placed it on her shoulder. Somehow they both dozed off in the heat of the day.
Shino awoke before she did, feeling a little disoriented. He looked down at the violet hair of the girl sleeping on top of him.
"I wondered how she managed that?" the bug-nin thought aloud. His mind finally completely woke up and he found himself feeling the heat of the situation coloring his cheeks again, as well as the heat of the afternoon.
He gently pulled her off of him and stood up. He sent out some Kikai sentries to guard the field. And then, for the first time, Shino found himself unbuttoning and removing the trench coat in order to relieve himself of the sweltering heat he had never before felt. He wore a white shirt underneath, contrasting to his black pants, and it showed off the boy's considerable muscle tone.
After signing again, he pulled off his glasses and blinked at the bright light. Running a hand nervously through his hair, he looked at the sleeping girl in the grass. He places his folded shades atop his folded jacket, and returned to his place beside the girl.
Shino pulled the upper half of the girl back onto his chest and sighed. This is nice, he thought. He put his hand behind his head and gazed up at the clouds. Now I feel like Shikamaru, laying down and gazing at the clouds. The girl shifted in her sleep, and started to mumble. Shino leaned his head closer and listened. What he heard changed his whole outlook on life.
"Shino…chan….I think that…I love you," mumbled Kit in her sleep. Shino leaned back down and smiled. For the first time in his life a genuine heartfelt smile. He kissed her forehead, and in doing so, roused the girl from her slumber. He whispered, "I love you too, Kit-chan," he whispered in her ear.
"Wha-?" then she realized she, must have talked in her sleep. She looked at Shino, and her jaw really did drop. This was not the boy she tracked down and followed into the forest. This was a man, and she looked at the pile next to them…Shino's coat…and glasses...wow.
Shino smiled. This was definitely the best day of his life.
SO, what do you think? Everything came off the top of my head, and I don't have a beta so I don't think that it's up to expectations. But that's for you to decide. Review please….and I'll make more stories.
THANX!!
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