Disclaimer: Naruto characters (c) Masashi Kishimoto. Rei, her father, and the boy mentioned belong to me.
Author's Note: Just a oneshot to introduce my character.
The Way I Want by Mika Casey
A petite seventeen-year-old girl with long brunette hair and tan skin was sprawled out on the black comforter of a queen-sized bed. She was making her kikai bugs swirl in circles above her, muttering her jutsu and attempting to annoy the other person in the room.
"Rei!" Growled a tall boy with dark brunette hair, exasperated. He was sitting at a desk at the opposite side of the room. "Please make them stop!"
The girl laughed. "They need their exercise." She batted her dark chocolate eyes from behind her sunglasses and lifted her lashes to look up at the swirling bugs.
Aburame Rei was Shino's cousin. She lived in Waterfall Country in the village Tsuina, and was visiting while her region was peaceful and her team wasn't going on any missions. She was Shibi's brother's daughter, and she had grown up with Shino for her first five years of life before her parents moved to Tsuina. Shino was the same age as her.
He clenched his pencil angrily. "I'm trying to write a birthday card, Rei!"
"Who's it to?" She wanted to know. Calling her bugs back, she sat up and crossed the room to his side. She was wearing a black leotard and a flowing black cloak. The hood was pulled off of her head, but when on it covered her face and sunglasses. The cloak fluttered around her knee-high black boots as she walked. Leaning over his shoulder, she awaited his answer.
She could tell that Shino was blushing as he spoke, flustered. "Hinata, okay!" He shuffled so his arm was covering the paper so she couldn't see what he was writing.
Rei smirked. "Oh, I see! You're writing a love note to your ladybug. Shino and Hinata, sitting in a tree..." She started to sing melodiously.
Shino didn't answer, just waited for Rei to leave. She huffed, and then walked away from his side and flung herself onto his bed again.
"What about that boy back in Tsuina? The one on your team? How have things been going with him?" Shino sneered at her, turning in his seat to look at her.
'I can't tell him how I feel!' Her mind yowled, but her mouth spoke in an even tone. "Shino, I don't think that's your business."
Shino snorted from behind his collar. "Which, to my ears, means things aren't going the way you want them to?"
"Hardly." Rei sniffed. "I haven't even told him. So I guess it's not possible for things to not go the way I want."
Laughing empathetically, Shino spoke. "You know, that's exactly how I felt about Hinata. I was so shy and felt like I didn't deserve to have her beauty and kindness, but when I was finally brave enough to tell her my feelings, she reciprocated." He glowed, most likely caught up in a memory.
Rei rolled her eyes. She did not have time for Shino's sappy love stories.
Shino shook himself out of his reverie and spoke to her. "Come on, Rei. Maybe going to Hinata's birthday party will take your mind off him."
Getting herself up off the bed, Rei followed Shino out the door to his room and headed down the stairs to depart for the extravaganza.