Summary: Nadette Melissa had been born into the small bee clan of Konoha who have long ago immigrated from a far away country. Her mother knew the Aburame's as true allies and friends and when something goes wrong Nadette has no other choice than to stay with Shino and Shibi. Includes ShinoxOC and flashbacks including ShibixOC

Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto, nor would I ever want to, considering the fact that there are way too many crack pairings floating around. Oh, how I would feel sorry for Kishimoto if he ever stumbled upon such things.

Notes: This is my first story and I hope to bring you guys enough awe and comedy so that I won't get flamed too harshly. But I can only hope. Be nice if you can. I am still trying to collect enough data about the Naruto world and I am trying my best.

The names of my OCs are linked with such meanings that include mythologies nonexistent to the Naruto world, however, I can be creative, now can't I? If anyone has any questions about these meanings or anything that may be linked to them I will try to answer the best I could.

I also tried not to make the main character, Nadette, such a Mary Sue (gawd I dislike that name very much). I will continuously try to include her in comical situations to get me to keep writing.

All In a Matter of the Bears and the Bees

Chapter 1: Recovery Time

She lied there, certain she was going to die from and extreme loss of blood. She had known that she sent a worker out to call for help but she wasn't sure if anyone would come to her aid in time.

Her skin began to buzz and ripple from the workers inhabiting her body. They were growing excited. She was too weak to even speak but she tried to drag herself to the front door with as much strength that she had. Of course her blond hair had been drenched with her own blood so it was hard to make anything out when her bangs got in her eyes. Could anything become any worse?

She tried very hard for the next moment to claw her way out of her blood stained home. She then fell on her face completely and curled up into fetal position, growing cold and faint. This wasn't good. Considering the fact that she inherited great height and strength from her family no human alive could live to stand the pain she was in.

Still curled up and whimpering from the pain she looked down to see her hacked up abdomen. Great. Just what any woman needed. If she would live through this then it's for certain that she would attain gruesome, scarred skin. "Damn," was all she could say.

She heard a growl outside and people speaking. No, more like shouting. Someone was coming after all.

Creak.

'Help me,' she thought. She was thankful that someone had come to her rescue. She was still too far away from her door way so she tried to speak once again.

"Ugghhh... He...lp..."

"I heard a sound over here," said a familiar male voice.

Tack. Tack. Tack.

She looked up to see her savior. Her vision was blurry of course but how could she forget those distinct features? Her savior happened to be Shibi Aburame, a close friend of her mother's. He was more like a caretaker to her when she was young whenever her parents had gone on missions. "Shino, help me get her up. We need to get her to the hospital right away."

'Oh, Shino's here as well. Great. How embarrassing,' she thought while faintly glancing over at the younger Aburame. He nodded to his father's request and quickly walked over to help pick her up. 'It's great to know that I need two men to pick me up. I can't be that tall...or heavy.'

"Hang in there, Nadette. We'll get you to the hospital shortly," Shibi said, trying to comfort her while picking her up. Shibi had gripped her underneath her arms and Shino got a hold of her lower abdomen. Nadette felt a little ticklish from their contact despite all the pain that she was going through.

Nadette was feeling rather heavy, even though others were lifting her. At this point she felt rather faint and just wanted to drift away to sleep. Before she let herself give in to her weakness she let a small grin seldom seen across her face. She was grateful.

She looked up at the starry sky for half a second that seemed like five minutes and then everything went black.

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Nadette awoke in the hospital room with a pounding headache. Much to her surprise, Shino was sitting in a chair next to her bed. He just sat there expressionless as far as she can tell. She eyed him for a moment as he lifted a single brow in return. She also felt her breath becoming rather hot. It had to have been because half of her face was covered with a blanket.

Their exchanges were interrupted by people arguing in the hallway. She recognized Shibi's voice and her mother's voice as well. Apparently, her mother was arguing with a nurse to have her calm down.

Nadette stared at the door for a second and then stared out the window to her right side. It was a beautiful sunny day and she couldn't help but wonder why all of this bad luck just had to occur today, June 20th, the day of her birthday.

Shino finally spoke to her, "Happy birthday?" Nadette looked at him again, glaring. That was the most subtle gesture that a true Aburame member could think of.

"Thank you?" She replied weakly.

He nodded. She couldn't see most expressions on his face because of his high collar but she thought that he might have been frowning a little.

"What do you mean she was attacked? By whom?" A female voice yelled out in the hallway.

"I am not certain but calm yourself Artio," Shibi replied calmly.

"Fine," Artio finally composed herself.

The woman, Artio, just walked into the room, Shibi following. Her height was immensely emphasized when Shibi had stood next to her. She also had the same blond hair and golden and blue eyes as Nadette. Actually, Nadette resembled her almost completely, except for the fact that Nadette was gifted with a height difference of an inch or two taller than her own mother. Lovely.

"Nadette," Artio said slowly as she approached her brittle daughter.

"Mother," Nadette replied dryly, now focusing her gaze towards her.

Artio untied a large gourd that was placed on her back for her workers. She opened up the gourd and a small cloud of bees flew out and rushed onto Nadette. Both Shibi and Shino just stared at the display. The bees were forcing themselves into Nadette's skin to determine if anything could be fixed internally. The bees within Nadette's body hadn't retaliated, instead they sounded like they had a little argument and they began to repair Nadette's damaged innards.

"They will help you heal faster. Your bees are already doing what they can, however, it seems as though you lost a significant amount of them," Artio said and then sighed. She loosened her scarf.

"Would you like to sit down, Artio-sama?" Shino offered her his chair.

"Yes, thank you." She finally sat down and tried to calm down. Nadette could see the worry on her face. "So, Nadette, could you tell me what happened to you?"

Nadette still had a migraine but that wasn't enough of an excuse to answer to her mother. She let out a huge sigh and composed herself as well. "I came home after going out on a mission. I was so looking forward to sleeping because I was exhausted, so I headed to the kitchen for a glass of milk and tried to retrieve some honey from my gourd. Then I heard father come in through the door," Nadette looked down and paused. She seemed really upset about what she was about to say.

Shibi took a step forward and placed a hand on Artio's left shoulder, as if he knew what was going to be said. Artio began shaking from anxiety and she looked down with a scowl, trying to hide it, "Go on."

"He came in and put his hand around my neck, not really hard at first but then he tensed up. I had no time to react before he stabbed me with something. I tried my best to retaliate but then I was ambushed by three more men. I suspect that they might have been rogue ninja."

Artio was shaking with resentment. "I swear to god," she muttered then bolted up much to Shino and Shibi's surprise. "You are serious..."

"I am telling the truth, yes," Nadette replied, also with a tone of aggression.

Artio just stood there for a moment, not knowing what to think. She looked down at Nadette and glared at her wound while clenching her hand at her side. Some of her bees had escaped her body and they began swarming around her fist. She was angry indeed. "And did you summon Artaois?"

"I did. He fought them and protected me while I was down and managed to scare father and those men away. He tried to find help but he was too weak to go out and instead he directed some of my workers to find some help."

"I have no choice then. It must be done. Shibi-san, may I have a word with you?"

"Certainly." He followed her into the hallway. They were speaking in a low tone so that neither Shino nor Nadette could hear them.

Nadette sighed and tried to sit up in the bed. She was having a hard time trying to use her arms to push herself up but she finally managed.

"You shouldn't sit up. Why? Because you might strain your body and reopen your wounds." He walked closer to her bed and then took the chair that Artio was in.

Nadette glared at him with a most priceless expression on her face. "I will do what I please. Why? I would like to sit up and I don't want to develop bed sores," she retorted, trying to mock him. She scowled on then moved her legs to the side of the bed. She was attempting to stand up. She was determined to get out of her bed and start training right away. 'Ughh! I need to get out of here. I need to find that sorry excuse of a father.'

Shino's face was still expressionless but he stood up. "You should rest. You are not well."

"Shino-san..." She looked down at her wounded body and felt a little discouraged. She then looked up at him and replied, "You don't understand. I need to start training. I need to become stronger!"

"I do understand what events have just occurred and I can assure you that when you're properly healed you can get back on your feet slowly. Until then you need to rest."

"Please just move."

"No."

"Why not?"

"I already told you why. I wont explain myself again."

"I'm going to get up anyway. I don't mind if I have to walk over you," Nadette sounded more serious than before, even though she acknowledged that Shino was a few inches shorter than her. She wanted to feel superior in some way, why not bring up her height?

"I will not let you do that," he replied, sounding a little annoyed. A few of his kikaichu had crawled out from underneath his skin. Seconds later a whole cloud was surrounding his arms.

"Oh, I see how it is," her voice sounded a bit darker and tense. She tried to release a few of her own worker bees to even the match. They weren't responding to her call. She was really irritated at this point. "You have got to be kidding me."

She wasn't about to give up though. She stepped one foot on the floor followed by another and tried to stand. Her legs were so weak that she almost stumbled on the floor but she was caught by a cloud of kikaichu.

"I told you it wasn't a good idea," he said with a little amusement in his voice. He commanded his kikaichu to set her back down on the bed.

She glared at him again and huffed over her shoulder. She accepted defeat, blushed a bit and lied back down. "Well, if I am not able to stand could you at least retrieve my clothes? The nurse had folded them and set them on that table over there. I am not liking this hospital gown not one bit."

Shino finally nodded. He got up from his chair and walked over to the table that had her clothes, not really paying attention. The door suddenly opened right next to him and as he looked at the door he also had one of his hands on the stack of Nadette's clothes.

Shibi had walked through first and just stood there in front of Shino, gaping, "What are you doing, Shino?"

Shino then squinted his eyes behind his glasses and dared himself to look down at what he was touching.

It happened to be Nadette's panties.

Shino turned red and quickly withdrew his hand. Nadette sat there, chuckling. She stopped as soon as Shino turned his head to send daggers at her through his glare.

"She asked me to get her clothes for her..." Shino just stood there, not knowing what to do about the situation.

"Oh."

Shibi had cleared his throat so that he could speak and get rid of the awkward aura in the room. "Nadette, your mother has made a request that you stay with me for a while. I have accepted her request. She has already gone to your home to fetch some clothes and the things you might need."

Shino stood behind his father, both brows up.

Nadette just sat there for a moment. She didn't want to be rude to Shibi so she accepted to stay with him.

"Good. Well, I will be heading home already to start lunch. The nurse said that it would be alright for you to be sent home tomorrow after Lady Tsunade has a word with you. Shino, stay with her for now."

"Yes, father..." Shino replied sounding monotone. After Shibi had left the room Shino just glared at Nadette and blushed a little, while she was busting up laughing at the panty situation.

It was going to be a long day for both Shino and Nadette.

End Chapter 1