Rain drops in Konoha
Anime: Naruto
Pairings: Shikamaru X Naruto and Shino X Kiba
Genre: Romance… so far
Warnings: Yaoi (Shonen-ai maleXmale), OOC-ness, and swearing
Personal thoughts: Gasp! I'm continuing, I really don't know why ; I guess I just figured I should actually try to complete something for once in my life. Not to mention when someone really likes a story and the person doesn't continue it, this has always frustrated me. Yay me for being a hypocrite X3 oh well. Well enjoy!
Anyways, if you want to read it, try to enjoy it.
Or you can bash it if you swing that way.
PS
"Talking"
'Thinking'
Chapter two
-------------------------------------------------------------------
Before…
Shino had walked to the backdoor of Kiba's house, he watched as the heavy raindrops pounded on the door, almost as if they wanted inside. Shino didn't shift his head towards the sound of footsteps coming his way, it had to be Kiba coming to try and convince him to come back. Maybe Kurenai made a bad decision when she said that the two should stay together, this whole thing was starting to seem like a bad idea. Not to mention the rain didn't seem like it was going to let up anytime soon. Shino never liked crowds, he wasn't used to friends, for Hinata and Kiba were the first people he could really consider friends.
Kiba walked up beside him.
"Hey Shino, you really should come back, games are funner when they have four people. Plus it's hard to think of a game that only involves three people."
"I'm thinking of heading home."
"Huh? In this downpour? Come on Shino! It'll be lots and lots of fun!"
Kiba gave a toothy grin to Shino but did not succeed in swaying the bug lover.
"I'll be seeing you."
Shino opened the back down and went outside, Kiba wondered when Shino had managed the time to get his shoes. Kiba sighed as he went out barefoot after him but stopped as Akamaru yapped.
"Hey Akamaru, you have to stay here okay? I'll be right back."
Akamaru yapped for he understood as he sat there at the door, Kiba closed it so no more water would spray onto the floor. Kiba followed barefoot after Shino to try to persuade him into staying.
"Hey Shino!"
Shino walked at his normal pace and made no movement to avoid the boy. Kiba smiled at the bug boy as the two walked beside each other.
"Come on, it's pouring, you should come back to my house! Shino you always say teamwork is important, so come on, just one day, it won't be that bad. Not to mention we stopped the game so how bout it Shino? Hm?"
"…"
"Don't tell me you're mad at me."
Kiba crossed his arms, quite disappointed in Shino's behavior, but Shino honestly couldn't place why he didn't like being stared at. It was just something about the stare from his team mate that he just didn't like.
"I'm already close to my house."
Kiba sighed and scratched the back of his head.
"Fine, I have to head back anyways, who knows what Shikamaru and Naruto are doing, well… see you later Shino."
Shino gave a small nod as he continued in his stride to his house. Kiba turned around and began to run back to his house to avoid getting further wet. Kiba and Shino both tensed as a presence appeared in between the two boys. Kiba felt the back of his shirt tugged at as he was swept off his feet. Shino turned to the leaving presence as he sent his Kikai after the danger. Shino also pursued the man as the Kikai chased after him.
Kiba felt the hand release his shirt as he was flung into the water, the person disappeared in a replacement to avoid the Kikai. Shino looked around and did not drop his guard even to help his team mate Kiba.
"Who was that?" Kiba choked out as he spat out some water he had accidentally got in his mouth from the large puddles around. Shino sent some of his Kikai around to spot the enemy. A few kunais were thrown at them, they dodged easily. Shino looked at the angle.
'There.'
Shino rushed over with Kiba following as they found a trap set to fling the kunai knife.
'He's hiding where he truly is…'
It was Shino's turn to be surprised as his head got shoved down into a puddle, he couldn't breathe and he soon felt a sharp pain… then nothing. Kiba clawed at the guy who had a hold of Shino and managed to draw blood from the tall cloaked man. The man flinched as his hand moved from the unconscious Shino to Kiba's throat. Kiba gasped as he felt his feet being removed from the ground, he let out a growl as he clawed at the man's hand. But it didn't seem to matter how much blood he drew from the hand, or how hard he kicked, it still kept it's grasp.
The man moved swiftly as he punched the small nin dog away before he got his chance to bite him.
'Akamaru!?' Kiba questioned.
He was at a loss of oxygen and it was starting to get to him. Naruto finally moved and ran towards the guy.
"Put Kiba down!"
Shikamaru's eyes snapped from side to side.
"Naruto wait!"
Naruto didn't listen as a trap was sprung and Naruto was only able to avoid it because Shikamaru pulled him back. Naruto's hands snapped into a hand sign.
'Shadow clone jutsu!'
"Naruto barrage!" he yelled.
Four clones slid towards the guy but he threw Kiba into one of the clones and took off in that direction. Shikamaru let him run, there was no point in chasing after him when he had no clue what was going on… well, he was just too lazy to. Shikamaru went over and flipped Shino over so he wasn't drowning but it didn't help much that much because of the rain though. Kiba got off of the ground and looked over at Akamaru.
"Akamaru are you okay?"
Akamaru gave a yap in reply and looked at him worried.
"I'm fine…" Kiba sent his glance at Shikamaru "How's Shino?"
"Breathing."
Kiba didn't like that response, breathing? What was that suppose to mean, does that mean there's something worse? Shino better have not been hurt. And who was that guy, attacking him out of no where, what a pain!
"Breathing? What that's suppose to mean?!" Kiba asked, he hadn't realized the volume of his voice until Shikamaru mentioned it.
"… Don't yell…" Shikamaru replied lazily "He's just unconscious."
"So… do we just wait for him to wake up?"
"Why is he unconscious…? hold that thought. Naruto!"
Shikamaru stood up to look at Naruto who was trying to sneak off to go hunt the guy down. He was not going to let him get away, not after what he did to one of his friends, as in friend he meant Kiba. Naruto personally couldn't stand Shino but he would still give that guy an ass whopping even if it hadn't been someone he knew.
"What!? I'm going to go kick his butt!"
Shikamaru grunted at Naruto's comment "He's gone, we don't know where he went."
"So!? Are we just going to sit here and do nothing!?"
"You're so troublesome. We should inform someone that a stranger has infiltrated the village."
"Not now! Come on Kiba let's go! We'll use your noise!"
Kiba got riled up and Shikamaru just had to douse their fun "You can't pick up his scent in this rain."
Kiba growled "I have to agree with Naruto! We can't just leave that guy out there! He could go after someone else!"
Shikamaru rubbed the back of his neck; these two were troublesome to take care of.
"We don't know anything about the enemy, we could be walking into a trap. Anyways if Shino was hit with something he could be seriously ill… or was it a pressure point that was hit?"
"Erm… pressure point."
Shikamaru sighed and stood up "Okay, you and Naruto take Shino back you're house and stay there. I'll go inform the officials."
'This is such a drag… I can't trust them to tell the guards and I can barely trust them to stay at Kiba's house. If I'm lucky, they'll fight over who has to stay and take care of Shino.'
------------------
Kiba had his jacket back on, he was freezing and he felt like he was catching a cold. He had been outside with only a t-shirt and pants. Naruto was pacing and Kiba had to constantly tell Naruto not to leave and that Shikamaru is lazy, so he was going to take his sweet time getting back. Kiba guessed he stayed here to watch Shino, although he couldn't figure out why Naruto was listening to Shikamaru, he never listened to Shikamaru.
Naruto growled. 'Where the hell is Shikamaru… one more minute and I'll-'
"Want something to eat?"
Naruto blinked at Kiba's voice.
"Well, it's around time to eat supper."
"Ah! Yes!" Naruto gave a fox-like grin at the thought of food. Kiba got up and went into his kitchen to go prepare something. Kiba dug threw his things.
'Hmm… some instant ramen will be good, Naruto likes that… I wonder if he eats anything else.'
Kiba came back with four cups and set them down. Naruto reached for the other cups, thinking they were his. But he got his hand smacked by Kiba.
"That's for Shino and Shikamaru."
Naruto pouted. "Like Bug boy is going to wake up anytime soon and the lazy bum isn't probably going to come back for another hour."
'Hour? Had it been that long?'
Kiba glanced at the clock, only twenty minutes, just like Naruto to blow things out of proportion. Kiba and Naruto managed to get conversation going, just with random stuff, they're personalities had a bit of a similarity, so it was easy. Naruto was finally calmed down until he heard the door knob turn. He was off his feet before Kiba could even blink.
"Shikamaru!"
Shikamaru turned around in time to get a hand full of Naruto. The boy had lunged at him and since Shikamaru was friends with Naruto, he ended up grabbing him instead of dropping him. Naruto had wrapped his legs around the boy and had his fingers tangled in his fishnet, pulling him forward. Shikamaru's back was against the door from the force, Naruto was surely angry at him.
"What took you so long!?"
"I wasn't gone that long, so let go."
"So what do we do? Hmm!? Do we get to go kick some ass now!?"
Shikamaru sighed as he slid slightly down from the door, being careful to remember Naruto's legs were back there, he wanted to sit down. Shikamaru felt something wet below him and his eyebrow twitched. He had forgotten the floor was wet.
'Great… coming here was a waste, I got to go home to change now… man, this is such a drag.'
"Oi, Naruto, we're not doing anything, they're tracking the person down."
Shikamaru realized what he said and tried to remove his hands from below Naruto (from holding him) to plug his ears. It didn't work.
"What!?!?"
"Do you have to yell so loud… I'm right here."
"How can they expect us to do nothing!?"
"Baka, we're all genin! And that person may be after Kiba or Shino, it would be better if we stay protected!"
"Protected!? We can take care of ourselves!!"
"Geeze, don't you understand anything… you're so troublesome."
"Don't you two look comfy." Kiba mused to himself. Who apparently had come into the hallway and was resting against the wall, watching the two amused. Naruto didn't understand at all and Shikamaru just groaned at Kiba's perverted remark. Sure he did have his hands under Naruto and Naruto was sitting on his lap with his feet wrapped around him but really… They were friends and that was it. And what was with Kiba…
'I never heard him make gay jokes before. Never knew Kiba was cool with those sort of things but I guess he would have to… the truth and dare game… he was the one who sort of started the kissing war.'
"Naruto… off."
"Make me!" Naruto said sticking out his tongue at Shikamaru.
Shikamaru shoved him off, mainly because he didn't want the water soaking any farther into his pants.
"I'm heading home."
Naruto blinked "But Shikamaru, you just got here! Why are you heading home?"
"Yeah." Kiba joined in "And you're the lazy bum, you wouldn't go home without a reason."
Shikamaru grumbled and then kicked the floor lightly, spraying up a bit of water, it was easier than wasting his breath explaining. Kiba and Naruto both began to laugh. Shikamaru had token the umbrella while Naruto, Shino and Kiba was forced to use Naruto's jacket for cover. So it was going to be really weird seeing a very wet spot on the back of someone's pants.
"Ha ha! Let me see!"
Naruto shoved Shikamaru forward slightly as he began laughing harder. Shikamaru groaned, he just wanted to get home and relax.
"Relax Shikamaru, just take off your pants instead of going home!"
"What!?"
That had caught Shikamaru off guard and the blush rose in his cheeks slightly before he could die it down. Naruto was not like that, it was just so unexpected of him. And Kiba was holding his sides from laughing so much at the two of them.
"There's only guys here Shikamaru, walking around in your underwear really isn't that bad."
"Just because you don't mind doing that doesn't mean that I do."
"Come on Shikamaru!" Naruto joked.
"Oi… I'm heading home."
Shikamaru turned around but his hands retracted right away from the door knob to hold his pants up. Naruto had tugged at the back of it, attempting to pull it down and Shikamaru flushed.
"Naruto!"
Shikamaru's pants weren't exactly tight, so they would easily slide off if he didn't hold them up when Naruto grabbed them. Shikamaru kept one hand still gripped tight on his pants as he used his other hand to try and shove Naruto's hands off the lining of his pants. Naruto then proceed to pull and Shikamaru began getting pulled backwards instead of having his pants pulled off.
"Naruto! Let go! At least let me take my shoes off! … Naruto!"
Kiba didn't care Shikamaru still had his shoes on and was tracking stuff into his house, it was just too damn funny. The normal non-caring Shikamaru was getting embarrassed and trying to shove the persistent Naruto away from him. He was being dragged around from being tugged and not a normal tug either. And it looked funny because Naruto was dragging him off fast. Shikamaru was stuck facing backwards and stumbling to keep up with the speed of the young fox like boy.
"I'd hate to ruin your fun." Someone said sarcastically "But… what happened?"
All three boys had stopped what they were doing to look at Shino, who most likely managed to wake up so early because of how loud the boys were. Shikamaru managed to wiggle his way out of Naruto's hands to stand in his normal "posture", he was not going to get out of here without much trouble.
'Shino's lucky not to have Naruto as a friend… Naruto forces people to do everything… what a drag…this is so uncomfortable…'
The four sat back at their seats, Shino and Shikamaru opposites, and Kiba and Naruto opposites.
"Well, I'm glad your up Shino." Kiba commented.
"…"
"You're mad aren't you?"
"…"
"Hey, it was just bad luck, he caught us off guard."
"…"
"Good."
Kiba glanced over at the two boys, they were staring at the two weirdly and Naruto was the first one to speak about it.
"Wha…?"
"Oh!"
Kiba forgot about his apparent telepathy with his two team mates, he had to develop some way to talk with the two. They were both quiet and weird and didn't say what they meant often, mainly by keeping their mouths shut.
"Just an advantage of hanging out with your team, we have excellent team work."
Shikamaru raised an eyebrow, he didn't see Shino move an inch, or even stiffen and yet Kiba could read his friend and apparently… have a conversation with only one person talking. Shikamaru sighed, it was too troublesome to think about. He then looked at his food and began to eat, Shino didn't, it was awkward around other people to eat. He was used to Kiba but Shikamaru and Naruto were like strangers.
"Mmm?" Shikamaru mumbled with the noodles in his mouth.
He had noticed Naruto staring at his food, as he eat it in front of him… was he hungry? Shikamaru sighed and shoved it over in front of Naruto and Naruto just blinked.
"Huh?"
"You wanted it didn't you?"
"A-uh… thanks Shika-kun!"
Naruto eat the rest of it happily, Shikamaru wasn't that hungry anyways, and seeing Naruto's eyes sparkle made him want to smile. Kiba then stood up.
"I'll show you guys to your rooms."
Kiba grabbed Shino's cup and walked off with it as the three followed. Kiba pointed to a room.
"Naruto and Shikamaru, you don't mind sharing a room, right?"
"Nope." Came Naruto's response and only received a slight nod from Shikamaru.
"My room is just across, so good night you two."
"Night!" Naruto yelled as he walked in and Shikamaru followed suit.
Kiba turned to Shino "We'll be sharing a room and… here." He said pushing the cup into his hands.
"I know you don't like to eat around strangers, you can have privacy in my room for now. I got to go do something."
"…" Kiba just smiled at Shino.
Kiba took off and picked up Akamaru, they were most likely going to be staying here for a bit, Mize as well pick up their stuff, he already had a cold anyways. Kiba slipped out the door.
Shino sat on the couch, this is probably where he'd be sleeping, Kiba probably didn't have any other spare beds. Well he might… but that would mean sharing a room with the "strangers". Him and Naruto did not get along well. Shino slowly ate the food and waited for Kiba to return before he would go to sleep. When Kiba did return, he tossed Shino a bag.
"Here's your clothes."
"… Excuse me…?"
Kiba gave a toothy grin "You're staying here whether you like it or not… and if you like we could share a bed?"
"And have you kick me…"
"Eh heh heh… right."
Kiba had forgotten that he liked to move around a lot at night.
"Well at least let me take the couch, I am making you stay."
"No. you would suit the bed better, you'll end up rolling off the couch."
"Well…"
Shino stood up and pushed Kiba onto the bed and gave him a look, hoping that Kiba would obey instead of lash out like he normally did. Kiba pouted in response and tried to worm his way out of it but damn Shino could be annoying sometimes! Kiba had a head ache anyways, he didn't want to "mentally" argue with Shino.
"Fine, just tonight though."
Shino didn't give a nod as he returned back to the couch to go to sleep.
-------------------------------------------------------------------
Personal thoughts: I still don't think I've mastered their personalities yet but I'm trying very hard to master it. Anyways any tips to improve on working them would be very helpful! Ugh… I'm not really happy with this chapter, I couldn't think of a good idea to get everything riled up. Oh well… be warned, I like being really fluffy X3 … I had a better idea for this before but I forgot it, X( oh well.
Anyways enjoy, don't review if you don't want to… I really don't care. But I will appreciate them if you do give comments, since I finally decided I should be replying to them…yes?
I wonder if X-Words-That-Turn-To-Scars-X has read this yet XD I wonder how far I can get till she tells me she's read it. X3
Have a good day! And thanks for the reviews!