Title:A Swarm of Butterflies
Summary:Shino becomes a Missing-Nin because his Kikaichu have the abilities to steal Kenkai Genkai.
A/N: I was reminiscing about a fic I read where Shikamaru became a missing-nin after the Chunin exam when this idea hit me, Now I wanna go find that fic and see if the author wrote anything more on it.
A butterfly
Fluttering over the vendor's
Dry flowers of spring
Only two days it flies
Caught by the lost boy
Yet still.
* For Peng Fajardo by Shane Castro in The Now
C H A P T E R T W O
The Kikaichu paused in its journey, and warned the others that it didn't know what would happen when it laid down its prize, three other workers came up to join him, prepared to watch and wait with him; to command the others if something went wrong. The prize was laid down, they slowly fed it chakra to seal it in place, it was minutes later that Shino collapsed. Shikamaru shouted, Sakura checked him over, but they couldn't find a problem, Naruto rushed him to the hospital and prayed that Tsunade would help him. The Kikaichu buzzed angrily at the shifting of their unconscious host, but he wasn't in danger, the other chakra's meant no harm or ill intent. So they buzzed and moved about, relaying chakra down for their host when they saw he didn't have enough.
They buzzed again when they saw the new chakra come in~new food, they would finally be allowed to eat and not be forced to regurgitate it later. They watched as Shino's Chakra rose again steadily, slowly, the next time he awoke he would still be low but he would have more chakra then he did now.
Shino woke in a white room. He tried to recall why he had ended up in the hospital in the first place. He remembered walking towards the Ramen stand, joining Naruto and Sakura, and then nothing; the world had suddenly tilted. But before that...he had been walking back from the Interrogation offices. He winced sitting up.
He remembered being angry and frustrated all week because of what happened to Hinata...and he had taken his vengeance out on the man who was responsible. He recalled ordering the Kikaichu to dig and dig deep, then when they were deep he told them to dig deeper. The man was catatonic by the time he left for lunch, Shino hadn't thought anything about it when he had left, his superiors didn't question his method. They were as angry as him that own of their own hadn't been injured, but not as angered as Shino had been, because he knew Hinata.
Sometimes working in the Interrogation squad was hard. The first couple weeks he found it harder to interact with his teammates, more so then he usually did, they had noticed the distance. Kiba had physically attacked him, going for his throat with his first punch, the fight lasted no more then three minutes and ended with Shino sitting on top of his attacker. Kiba had growled and howled and threw his usual temper tantrum he always threw when he felt Shino was trying to be the leader or the 'cool' guy.
He had calmly explained that he was just adjusting to his new life in the squad.
Only a year into his job and he had already failed to protect those closest to him.
He sighed, leaning his head against the white wall. Had he collapsed from exhaustion? He was a Ninja first and foremost and though he hated it he managed to knock out the appropriate hours needed for a good rest, he had even continued to eat even when he had felt sick knowing his teammate suffered.
It all paid off when Ibiki had called him in and told him they had caught that bastard. He smiled in sadistic glee as the man screamed, at first refusing to give up the information, but Ibiki was a pro at all things torture. When they were through with him they let him have his fun. They didn't care if he ended up killing him, the man wasn't going to go free, and he already had a death sentence.
_Time Skip_Line_
Ginrei watched his only son, Shino, as Tsunade told him the news.
"The council will want you dead when I submit my findings. The Hyuuga will demand your death after they force the Caged-Bird seal on your forhead. Shino, you have no choice but to run." Ginrei watched them stare each other down. Watched as Tsunade watched Shino process the news that he had to become a missing nin and be hunted down by his comrades and friends...his people...his clan...his family.
"..." Shino understood what Tsunade was saying. Somehow his Kikaichu had taken the stolen hyuuga blood line information DNA stuff from the spy, reading his basic desire to take back what had been stolen, and had given the Hyuuga Bloodline limit, the Byukugan to him. He had collapsed from the chakra exhaustion of commanding his Kikaichu and the chakra they used to fuse the new Blood line limit to him. There were gaps in this knowledge, even he could see it, but until everyone realised that he didn't need to be the enemy he had to pretend. "I understand, Hokage-sama."
"I have given you a mission, according to the mission you are supposed to be travelling to Iwagakure to obtain additional information about the spy. The mission has a five day deadline, the day to get packed and leave was yesterday, In four days the council will make thier demand that upon your return that you be captured. A week after that, you'll be labeled AWOL, two weeks a missing-nin, three weeks an S-class missing-nin and your fave will be in everyone's Bingo book, a month and the council will send out the Hunter-nins."
"...What about Naruto and everyone else, they'll demand a search and rescue team the second they realise I'm missing." He wondered when they would notice he was gone. Kiba would be the first to notice that he hadn't come back from his mission, he'd start asking around, Kiba would be the one to realise that something was going on and inform everyone of it.
"I'll hold them back and deny them for as long as I can; the council might force my hand to grant them their wish to bring you back. You got a month to dissapear. The next time we meet may not be on good terms."
Ginrei place his hand on Shino's shoulder and squeezed gently, he wasn't the kind of parent to show affection, but Shino was his only child and he was just given a death sentence.
