So here's Shino's Ten. When I got to Seasons, I swear it became something so long, it was a one shot or two shot at least instead of the normal theme/drabble. So look for that sometime over the next week. For those of you reading 'Home Again,' I'm working on that too. Just give me a little time. I haven't abandoned it. :)
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#28 Band.
"WHAT DID YOU DO TO MY BOYFRIEND YOU BAKAS!" Sakura screamed at the top of her lungs to Inuzuka Kiba, Uzumaki Naruto, and Nara Shikamaru. "Why does he have a tattoo!!"
As if to add effect to her words, Sakura pulled the sleeve of her soon to be husband's shirt revealing a tattoo on his upper arm. The band of sakura blossoms wrapped around his muscular arm. Placed on each blossom was the image of two destructive bugs of the Aburame clan.
The three jounin looked at the raging cherry blossom in front of them. Each could only blink as they wondered when she crossed the line into being a complete and even more so scary version of her mentor.
"I'm waiting!" The sound of her foot tapping growing more irate, if possible.
"Well, Sakura chan, see it was his bachelor party, and we were drinking and," Naruto stumbled over the words.
"And you did something completely stupid!" Sakura screamed. How was she going to explain this to the elders of the Aburame clan.
"Listen Sakura, he wasn't the only one to get a tattoo that night we all did." Kiba pulled his sleeve up to show off his tattoo of his clan fangs wrapped around his arm with shadows below them. Shikamaru moved his arm to let her see the same tattoo on his arm. Naruto took off his coat to reveal a tattoo of a the swirl of his curse mark seal and the symbol for the Hyuuga clan intertwined.
"Have you shown that to Hinata yet?" Sakura cocked her head to the side, knowing the heiress would be equally pissed.
"Uh, no not exactly." Naruto answered.
"Mhm." Sakura looked at the four. The feeling of being scolded by Iruka sensei quickly returning to their memories.
"Come on Sakura appreciate the gesture, I mean Shino's the first one of us getting married. He wanted to do something to show his love is permanent. We all did." Naruto finally said. The other three nodded in agreement.
Sakura noticed Shikamaru's hand slipping over Kiba's.
"Ugh! You guys are so infuriating!" Sakura stormed from the room. A collective sigh was released as they knew her anger was subsiding.
Later that night, Sakura asked the bug nin, if he thought one would look cute around her belly button.
#8 Dare
"How dare he ask me that?" Shino said untying his weapons holster and placing it on the dresser. "He's got some nerve."
"Shino, what did you expect?" Sakura answered him. She rubbed the lotion on her skin and walked over to their bed slipping inside. "They've been dating for over a year. And it's Kiba's son. She will be more than loved and taken care of. Come to bed."
"It has nothing to do with Kiba. Nothing, you know how much I love him, but it's my daughter. My only daughter." Shino pulled his shirt off and headed toward their bathroom.
Sakura knew this conversation was far from over, and she made herself comfortable with a book, waiting for her husband to return. She could hear him muttering to his bugs about the situation.
"How can you be happy about this," he asked slipping into bed. He removed the book from her hand and pulled her into his arms. Security when everything else was crumbling.
"Because, I remember how in love with you I was when you asked my father for permission to marry me," she smiled softly at her husband and kissed his nose.
He hated when she was right.
#23 Air.
Fourteen year old Shino had a problem with Sakura. He wanted to speak to his father about it, but couldn't or at least didn't know how. When she was near him there was no air. It was suffocating. At first he thought it was her perfume. Something about it made him choke slightly. The sensation drove his bugs crazy. It would get to the point that his head hurt from lack of oxygen. So he avoided her like the plague she was to his body.
At fifteen, he realized that it didn't matter if he stood directly next to her or twenty feet away, because now not only did her perfume cause his airway to close, but so did the sound of her voice. It wrapped around his throat choking him, to the point he'd have to hurry from the room for fresh air. That posed a problem, since Aburames were not know to run anywhere that wasn't mission related. Now it wasn't just her scent, but her voice. He didn't fancy the fact that a fellow Leaf shinobi, a kunoichi none the less, would be the death of him.
When he turned sixteen, it became apparent that someone had it out for him. One more than one occasion, he was sent on missions with the pink haired girl. The sensation of her hand on his as she healed his cut was still fresh on his skin. What the hell was happening to him. In a tent beside her, he could hear her soft snoring. His throat sealed off, the hairs on his arms stood up, and as much as he fought against it his pants tighten. Weak his ass, Uchiha was an idiot, this woman was dangerous.
#3 Run.
"Uh, Shino...I don't know how to say this, but you'd better run." Sakura looked at her new boyfriend with a serious expression.
"What do you mean, why," he asked as an eyebrow was raised over his sunglasses.
"Well, it's just that Ino saw us kissing," Sakura stammered. "And she told Shika, who told Chouji, who had lunch with Naruto."
Sakura's explanation was cut off as a cry was heard throughout the streets of Konoha.
"ABURAME WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING KISSING OUR SAKURA CHAN?!" Naruto screamed. "I'M GOING TO KILL YOU!"
Shino and Sakura turned around to see Naruto and Kakashi racing toward Shino. The angered faces of Sakura's closest friends alone told Shino he should have listened to Sakura when he had the chance.
#38 Touch.
Her skin looked so delicate. A trace of his finger, showed how soft her skin was against his callous fingertips. As he ran his hand over her cheek, he sighed deeply. For the past four days she had remained this way. Eyes closed, body still, and breathing shallow. He wanted to pick her up and hold her, but the bandages that covered her burn marks wouldn't allow it. Tsunade healed her so there would be no scars on her pale skin, but that wouldn't stop the pain. He felt guilty for not being there with her on this mission. However he was grateful that the fire only touched her left arm and side of her body. The stroke of his hand over her cheek, made her smile in her sleep. He made a vow that from that moment on nothing like this would ever touch her again.
#43 Clean
Sakura looked at her husband as if he'd grown a second head. His entire face was practically covered with the exception of his eyes.
"What are you doing," she asked.
"Ifts mfy tfurn tfo clfefan tfhe bafby," mumbled a reply from inside the pillowcase that was wrapped around his mouth.
"What? Oh Shino, take that off I can't understand you." Sakura pulled the fabric away from his mouth.
"I said it's my turn to clean the baby, and you don't have to be an Inuzuka to smell what he's left me." Shino replied.
A whiff of the nursery, and Sakura laughed, "Good luck with that! I'm off to meet Ino."
Sakura ran from the house as the smell crept from their son's room and literally grabbed Shino and pulled him in. Curse girls' night out he thought.
"Wait, honey don't you want to switch times," were the famous last words as Aburame Shino was put on poopy doodie duty.
#33 Seasons.
For sometime Shino hated the change of seasons. It reminded him of a time in his life where each day was plagued with sadness in two forms. His father gone. The girl he loved from afar, he now hated. Winter. Spring. Summer. Fall. None gave him any relief.
#13 Hate.
If there was any mission Shino hated taking, it was one with Ino Yamanaka. She was as loud as Naruto, as quick tempered as Kiba, and basically a pain in his ass. There was never a way for her to know it though. He kept his emotions guarded as always, but secretly wanted to smoother her in her sleep. Kiba chuckled at the subtle body language his oldest friend gave off. "I feel the same way man," Kiba would comment.
Sakura loved when Shino had missions with Ino. He always came home grumpy and irritable. The bug nin would complain for a half an hour, then pull Sakura into his arms and ravish her the entire night. She wondered how mad he'd be if he knew she asked Tsunade to assign him a mission with Ino at least once a month.
#18 Melody.
The music sounded through the house. Shino could hear it before turning the door knob. His oldest son greeted him at the door.
"Good your home, make her stop. It's been the same song for the last three hours," he looked at his father as he left their home. Not too far behind was Shino's second son.
"Where's your mother," Shino asked the pair.
"She's in there with her," he jumped off the back steps, running to catch his brother.
Shino knocked softly on his daughter's door, but realized there was no way either could hear him. He opened the door and found clothes scattered around the room. He raised his eyebrows. His daughter was the exact image of her mother. Even as an infant her body rejected the bugs that are infused in every Aburame. The clan leader was not sure why every article of clothing was on her bed, even some of her mother's. The smile of his daughter melted his heart.
"What is going on here," he asked. Sakura got up and quickly walked toward her husband. She kissed him quickly and led him to his study. "Koi, what is going on?"
"Well, see honey, she has her first date tonight." Sakura stated.
"What! Why wasn't I told? And with who," he asked. His daughter on a date. He remembered the things he used to do with Sakura on a date. "No, she's not going."
"Don't over react. She's been looking forward to this all week," Sakura shook her head at her husband. "Haven't you noticed how she's been sing the entire week?"
Shino did remember the melody of her voice filling the house the entire week. He didn't care.
"It doesn't matter. She can't go," he sat at his desk. "Do you remember what we did on our dates?"
"Yes, and look at how happy we are now," his wife sat on his desk in front of him. "You are being a silly man."
"Who is this boy that thinks he's worthy of my daughter, my only daughter," the Aburame head began thinking of ways to torture the boy.
"You already know him. You've known him all his life, and in fact you're his Godfather," a smile crossed Sakura's face.
"Hell no! Not Kiba's son," Shino shouted.
"Oh silly man, you couldn't ask for a better first date for her." Sakura chuckled at her husband as she slipped down into his lap.
#3 Colors.
Many people thought of Shino as a guy that only saw black and white. The was only black and white in his world there was no gray area. He would have to agree with them. That was until Sakura came into his life. She brought color to his world. Pink, green, yellow, orange, blue. His world opened to new life, and he was able to see the middle ground. She opened his eyes to a world that was different. The flood of colors warmed him. If anyone would ask him to describe what Sakura had given him, he would say a rainbow of colors, that wrapped his world in love.
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