Heyllo again! Less tired now! Maybe cuz cross country track was Friday.

Any who R & R (Rate & review!) ! Disclaimer: If I owned Shino & knew how to build a robot with his abilities & sentient thoughts you would see a lot of them around! Cuz hey Shino needs to be seen EVERY WHERE! And if I were a talking potato I wouldn't be able to use the genius piece of equipment known as the computer.

The day so far was going good for the possibly youngest Aburame in the Hidden Leaf. No one new for sure if Shino had any younger siblings. He stopped a to-be enemy of the Village from taking a top secret document to much stronger enemies out there, & helped a young girl that seemed interested in being friends with him though his family had beaten hers in the past. He didn't seem to show any signs of it, but he was happy with himself today.

He walked back to the spot where he was to meet Kurenai Sensei. To his surprise Ukiyokou was standing there waiting for him to return.

"'You can't find anything else to do so you decide to wait for the most boring person in the village to show back up?'" He stared at her for a moment then went into thought. Why would she wait for me when she could be off doing more entertaining things than wait for the most serious person in the village to come back to the exact same place?

"Because..." Her voice broke his train of thought. "I think your less boring than you realize. Your thoughtful, observant... & caring!"

Shino had to suppress a blush. No one said anything much about his ideal character before like that. Most of the time it was either he was boring, dealt with creepy bugs, too silent, too smart, & complained many a time. But this girl complimented him instead of ridicule.

"You really think I'm... 'caring'?" He knew he was the first two but he didn't know about the last.

"Of course! You value your teammates, you help out a lot on missions even when they aren't really assigned to you, & you always know what's best for people & nature!" Shino was stunned. For once someone who wasn't being forced to be around him just because they were part of Squad Eight actually said something other than ridicule.

Well, Shino... it seems you have made a friend without having any trouble what so ever. And, if I do develop feelings for her, there may be a chance we can be together... "I have to get some items be back in a bit!"

Shino walked over to the tree deep in thought after she left. But why me? Of all the people why me? Naruto walked by babbling about needing another teammate for a mission, barely noticing Shino. This stirred up new thoughts in his mind. I'm standing here in plain sight & Naruto barely notices I'm here. Still forgotten... he needs to remember his comrades.

"Long time, no see, Naruto..." Shino walks out into more plain view.

"Huh?" Naruto looks over at Shino unaware of his old comrade. "Who are you?"

"It's me..." You'd think he'd recognize my voice at least... Naruto ran up to Shino to get a better view of his face. Noting that his face was partially covered he sent an insect out as a subtle hint.

"Oh yeah! Oh, yeah your uh... uuummm..." Who is he? Naruto starts to think but Shino interrupts his thoughts.

"I know it's been a while..."

"but you should at least try to remember your friends..." Shino continued.

"Or else it just hurts the other person's feelings." Shino stated finally.

Naruto gasped. "Whoa... That voice & that weird way of talking... Could it really be? Yeah! Shino, right" He half exclaims, half asks finally remembering the young bug tamer.

"It finally came to you huh-?"

"How am I supposed to recognize you with your face all covered up like that?"

All of a sudden Kiba lands on the ground with a large crash, riding on some white furry beast. Naruto braced him self as dust flied every where & the ground shook.

Kiba looked over to his long time comrade. "What's up? You're early Shino!" Meanwhile Shino was almost ignoring them both.

The only parts of the conversation he caught was Naruto asking if it was really Kiba & if the large white dog was Akamaru. Why am I always forgotten...?

"You remember, Shino-?" Naruto turned to talk to him but he was sulking for not being recognized right away.

"You remembered Kiba right away... Didn't you Naruto?" He was a little hunched in a lonely sulking position.

Naruto heard a familiar, faint, female gasp. He ran to the corner where Hinata was hiding. "I thought that was you, Hinata what's up?" To Shino's knowledge, Hinata, as usual fainted when she saw him close up.

"Hey, you guys, can I barrow one of you for a team member?"

"'Fraid you caught us at a bad time. We just got assigned a new mission ourselves! Once Kurenai Sensei shows up, we're on our way!"

All Shino heard afterwards was mentioning taking Akamaru & Kiba needing him for ninjutsu. He was far to hurt to really listen & observe them.

"Well, Shino? You wanna... he he...?"

"I see you recognized Hinata right away, too, Naruto."

"Ok! Forget it! Some friends you are!"

Shino immediately dived right back into thought about why he was always forgotten. He looked up at the sky, vacant & blue, just like him.

Wow... tied that in to a Naruto Shippuden eppie. Yay Me! Besides I gotta have something epic to start it off... Whooo! I may get done blabbing so I can get some sleep now! Buhbye! -.^y ~Yuni~