Shino Aburame

The Tinyest One

Chapter Four

If Shino lived to be a hundred he would never forgot how he felt when his lips came in contact with Hinata's, and it was not very likely that he would live to be a hundred, or even fifty he was a shinobi not a farmer. He would never forget the soft gentle almost hesitant response to his lips invading hers. Or the way that her hands wrapped themselves are far around his waist that she could manage.

She was truly the most amazing creature and he would be haunted by her forever. At least he hoped that she would allow him to be haunted by her forever.

Shino did not arrived home for nearly an hour and a half after he had left it, Mayane Aburame was awaiting his return none to patiently, in fact she was almost tempted to send her husband out after him, when he came through the door, in a dream like state. Something had happened with the Hyuuga, Mayane could feel it in her very veins.

So before her son snapped out of his dream she concerned him, and he looked frightened. His mother was evil and she was good at being evil, he was not going to be able to escape her. So he took the easy way out, he hugged her left her shell shocked and disappeared down the hall to his room, where he could lock her out sufficiently well enough that his father would step in to stop Mayane attempting to get in through the window ("Your in your forties, dear, that means no climbing along the guttering")

Oh yes, life was good for Shino Aburame.

The same could not be said Miss Hyuuga Hinata, who had come home in a dream to find her cousin in law giving birth, her cousin pulling out large qaunties of hair, and the general clan in a state of pure uproar. For the next generation was coming, and much like its parents this child would wait for no one, so Hinata was there, seeing much more TenTen than she would have liked. But that child, Hinata didn't need the bloodline to realize that when it came out they were going to need Sakura, she sent a boy running for her. She knocked Neji and Lee out, before having a good look at the baby, covered in blood, and goodness knows what else, she cleaned it off as best as she could. It was white, and why was it not crying, a silent baby was a worry. It was so small, and it was early, and Hinata was very worried. She anxiously checked the infants pulse, it was too faint, and then before she could do anything it stopped completely. Tears hit the baby, the beautiful little boy, became wet with her tears and Hinata handed the boy to TenTen. Who had already guessed what happened, and she ran from the compound. To her it did not seem fair that one so wanted could only grace there world for a few brief seconds before it was cruelly taken away. She didn't quite realize where she was going, the rooftops disappeared with each step, and she found her self hanging upside down on The Aburame's roof, using her eyes to work out which room was his.

Shino opened his window as soon as he heard the small tap of someone on his guttering meaning to tell his mother off, instead he found Hinata hanging upside down by her feet tears falling down her forehead, words weren't needed, he just let her in. Terrified that he had caused this. Then he noticed the blood on her dress, on her arms, and the impossibly sad look in her eyes. This wasn't his flaunt, no this was something else, so he just contented to hold her, and hope to heck that he could do something to make it better.

It was an hour or so before Hinata calmed down enough to tell Shino what had happened and even then it was in broken hiccuppy sentences. Shino didn't know what to say, what does one say in a situation like this? Should he just stay quiet, hold her, should he try to say something to make her feel better. Shino hadn't felt this lost since he was in kindergarten, trying to explain to the teacher that the bugs crawling over his skin were normal for an Aburame (he had learned when he was older that she had been new to the village). So he just held her quietly in his arms, until she was ran out of tears.

"His, his, his will, I felt him, move…whi-while he was in there. He was so…so..s-so strong I just don't understand…" Hinata said looking at Shino in the mornings earliest pale pink light. Her eyes were all bloodshot and swollen, salt stained her cheeks, and she was so pale, not to mention freezing cold. Shino could not warm her up to save his own life. She still had blood on her hands and in her hair, so with relative ease he picked up and carried her into his own parents room .

"Shi-bug? What up's?" Mayane Aburame asked groggily. Sitting up the elder women wiped her eyes, and saw Hinata being carried bridal style in her sons arms. She sat straight up, noticing Hinata's general condition.

"Shibi, Run the bath, now, GO" Shibi Aburame was out the door and into the bathroom, and Hinata was popped down on the bed, while Mayane heard a explanation from Shino. Mayane cried, with Hinata, as a mother she knew exactly what the Hyuuga family would be going through, and it broke her heart.

"Shi-bug, go tell your Dad to make that bath extra hot, I think Hinata needs the heat to snap her out of the shock," Shino went at run, somehow Miko slept through it all, only waking up when she heard Hinata get into the bath.

Confused she came out, in her long white night gown curls surrounding her heart shaped face and her bugs all over her face.

"Mummy, what's going on? Whose in the bath?" Mayane couldn't answer she burst into tears and hugged her now terrified daughter tightly, Miko, now panicking screamed for the only member of her direct family who wasn't there thinking something had happened to Shino. She fought her mother's grip, and leapt into Shino's arms as she saw him come up from the basement arms full with clean clothes that had belonged to his mother when she was a shinobi for Hinata to wear.

In other words the Aburame household was chaotic. No one could find the words to explain to Miko what was wrong, and after her bath, Hinata would not say a word or leave Shino's side. Which was fine with the red eyed Mayane, who was in the kitchen salting the porridge with tears. She knew that this hadn't happened to her family, but the thought of happening to her upset her greatly. The Aburames' knew that Hinata should be at home with her family, but Hinata herself refused to go, not that she said so, but the little color that had returned to face disappeared completely when Shibi had very, very tentatively suggested it. He had watched Hinata turn the color of a corpse and decided it was best to just drop it entirely. Not mention the glare the other three members of his family had sent him, including his little butterfly Miko.

Hyuuga TenTen and Neji buried Hyuuga Kalif on the next morrow, neither the mother or father were present, TenTen was in hospital, and Neji couldn't leave her, she hadn't stopped bleeding after the boy had been born. Sakura would not let her leave yet, and Neji couldn't do it without her. The Aburames (with Hinata) were there, along with Rock Lee and Maito Gai, and all the Hyuuga clan as Hinata dropped the violet in the tiny hole where her second cousin would lie. She opened her mouth and spoke for the first time since she had told Shino what happened.

"There has never been a baby more wanted, and more mourned, Little Kalif, you are our angel now," And as she began to cry again, Shino ignoring Hinata's father stepped forward and softly pulled her back to the crowd where he could hold her, to comfort her, to let her know that he was still there. She tilted her little doll head up, white with sorrow, and kissed him once more. She tasted of salt and sadness, it was the most bitter kiss, and he hoped he would never have to taste another like it from her beautiful mouth.

Well, that's all for this chapter sorry for the delay people. University went back, so I've been busy with various things like Anthropology, Sociology, French and Human Development and Counseling. I promise it will get happier soon, on another I note my club had a very special meeting on Wednesday and I got nominated and voted in for president. So yay for that, keep an eye out for a one shot about Ino, and another about the weasleys' not to mention the next chapter of SHINO ABURAME!

Love,

Tiny