Title: Little Worm
Characters: Shino and the Aburame Clan
Rating: PG
Challenge: History Repeats Itself
Bonuses: Butterflies
Words: 138

The entire compound was silent except for the steady breathing of two individuals. One stood, calmly watching the other as he slept. His eyes were narrow behind the sunglasses he always wore. The crawling sensation was gone from within his body, his constant companions busy for the time being. Some of them crawled atop the body of the sleeping child.

Shino leaned down and tugged his collar lower, whispering into the ear of his young nephew.

"Grow strong, little worm. Grow strong, and grow angry. Let us see if adversity turns you into a hungry beetle...or a radiant butterfly."

He stood again, the bugs swarming back into his body from off the desiccated corpses of his clan-mates. In a flash of whirling cloth, he was gone into the night. Maybe, sometime, he'd return. And maybe, he'd have a beetle to fight, or a butterfly to catch.