A/N: This chapter starts out pretty slow :/ but I wrote the end of it late at night and I always get weird ideas at late times :D Anyways, I have plans already for during and after the chunin exams. I had no idea what I was going to do this chapter, so this is what came out of it. I didn't get to answer a few of my questions for this chapter, but they'll be answered next time! Well, I don't have anything else to say soooo, enjoy :)

Chapter 7: What an idiot..

"Ah, yes," Hana paused, "the chunin exams," she finished with a small smile. At the moment, she was staring into a small crowd of leaf genin. They, Kiba, Shino, Naruto, Chouji, Shikamaru, and Hinata, had gone to Kiba's house to ask his sister about the exam they would be taking in a week.

"Well, what exactly do you want to know about it?" Hana asked the group.

"How many people will be competing?" Shikamaru decided to ask first.

"Well, it can range from any number really. It's not something you can tell before the day it starts," was Hana's reply.

"What about rules?" Shikamaru asked again.

"The rules happen to change sometimes, too. The best I can say is there aren't many rules."

"Well then, what can you tell us for sure?" Shino asked.

"Hmmm, it will take a while for me to explain. Would you like to hear my experiences in the chunin exams that I took?" Hana asked the group.

Everyone in the crowd shook their heads yes and waited patiently while Kiba's sister gathered her thoughts. These kids really want to know, she thought. I just have to...remember first. The genin waited longer until Hana finally spoke up. "Okay, well...let's start with what the rules were of my first test and what exactly I had to do. But remember, it's different now than what it used to be."

"Thank you very much, Hana," Hinata said to Kiba's sister as she walked towards the door to leave Kiba's house. "Good-bye Shino, Kiba," she said waving to them.

"We'll see you later Hinata!"

"See you."

Hana led the girl out of the house and returned inside to see Kiba and Shino standing awkwardly in the entry way of the house. She stared at the boys for a couple seconds until Kiba spoke up. "What are you looking at?" he asked her sounding annoyed.

"What are you guys doing?" she asked the two who looked at one another in confusion.

"What do you mean?" Shino asked her.

"You guys have time to spend doing something together but you're standing in our house staring at the damn wall!" Hana yelled at the two. "Go out and do something fun."

"But...won't people suspect something of us?" Kiba asked his sister.

"What?" Hana asked as she stared at her brother like he was stupid. "What are you talking about?"

"Won't people think we're...together or something?" Kiba asked again.

"What? No! Haven't you ever seen two friends who were guys hanging out in the village before? You guys are just extremely paranoid!"

"Really? Are you sure no one will suspect anything?" Kiba asked his sister.

"No, you idiot! They'll think you guys are more like best friends if you don't do anything stupid!" Hana yelled at her brother in annoyance.

"Oh," was all Kiba could say. All that time, he and Shino had been worried that someone would notice they were going out.

"Look. You guys need to take it easy and not think so much of going out in public together. Seriously, where did you get the idea that someone would automatically assume you were dating?" Hana said.

"I...don't...know," Kiba replied.

"Gahh, and I thought Shino was smarter than you," Hana said.

"Don't say that!" Kiba yelled at her. He started walking up to his sister to obviously fight with her but Shino stopped him.

"Come on Kiba. Let's go do something," Shino told him, grabbing Kiba's arm and holding it close to his chest. He pulled his partner out the front door and started to walk down the path from his clan's homes.

Kiba pulled his arm out of Shino's grasp and instead held onto Shino's right hand. "Where do you want to go?" he asked him.

"I don't know," Shino replied simply.

Hmm, I should go do something with him that he enjoys doing. Kiba thought for a moment before pulling Shino onto another trail leading farther into the forest that they were walking through. Yep, he'll enjoy this! Hopefully I don't annoy him too much.

"Kiba, where are we going?"

"You know how you were trying to teach me about different kinds of bugs and what they're useful for and stuff?" Kiba asked his boyfriend enthusiastically.

"Yes, and you weren't listening half the time," Shino said.

"Well, now you can try to teach me again, but I promise I'll listen this time!"

Shino thought about this idea for a couple seconds. "You better listen this time," Shino said in a playfully threatening voice, "or else."

"Or else what?" Kiba asked, interested.

"I can't just tell you. It's your choice to listen or not. You get to control the consequences."

Kiba and Shino had been in the woods for about 3 hours now. Only part of the time was Kiba listening to Shino's explanations of each kind of insect they found. So far Kiba was pretty sure Shino thought he was listening, since only twice Shino had to snap him back into attention.

It's not that Kiba wasn't enjoying learning about the bugs. It was just difficult for him to concentrate and listen to what the boy was saying. Kiba was thinking too hard about him, not his bugs.

He was remembering what had happened when he went to Shino's house to tell him his sister knew about their relationship. Shino didn't seem to mind at all until Kiba said that the reason she knew was because she could hear them making out. Kiba swore that the Aburame actually turned a little red after he said that.

The best part about that event was when Shino told him that Hinata knew. Kiba had just stared at him blankly. It was a bit shocking to him that they each had made it known that they were dating on the same day. He didn't mind, but it was interesting to him that it happened like that. Not that it was anything special, just funny.

Shino was talking about an insect that was bright green and bigger than his thumbnail when he noticed that Kiba wasn't listening again. Seeing Kiba staring at the ground twiddling his thumbs made Shino think something was wrong. He stopped talking and set the bug down, and when Kiba didn't seem to acknowledge this, Shino got down on his hands and knees and crawled towards Kiba. The boy still didn't seem to acknowledge him, so he crawled over to where Kiba was sitting.

Shino put his hand underneath his boyfriends chin and lifted his head up, placing a soft kiss on his lips before looking into the other's eyes.

"What's wrong?" Shino asked his boyfriend.

"Nothing, sorry, I was just thinking," Kiba said quietly.

"About what?" the Aburame asked.

"...us," was Kiba's reply.

"What about us?" Shino asked again.

"...us being together." There was a pause. "I don't know." Kiba looked away from Shino's dark glasses.

Shino was starting to get nervous. What did he mean?

"I...just...it's so different...than having a best friend. I can't just tell people we're dating and I hate that," Kiba said sadly.

Shino thought about this for a moment and said, "Why does it bother you so badly?"

Kiba looked back at the place the Aburame's eyes were covered by glasses. "I want to tell people you're mine." He paused. "You're amazing, Shino, and I love everything about you!" Kiba was starting to sound hysterical. "Keeping this a secret is hard and it hurts me every day to have to lie to everyone around me! No matter how big and bad people seem to think I am, it bothers me!"

Shino quickly covered Kiba's mouth with his hand and started to tell him something. "Kiba, Hinata told me before, when I told her about us, that if we stay together and wait until we're sure about ourselves, things will get easier. I believe what she said and I believe that we can both hold out for a few years to tell people. If you really love me, then we can stay together and wait it out with each other," Shino said calmly and reassuringly.

Kiba stared at him. He lightly pulled Shino's hand off of his mouth. "I do really love you."

Shino looked at him for a moment and said, "I love you too. Just think about the positives and everything great that's going to happen in the future." The boys continued to look at each other.

Kiba started to giggle. "Why are you still on your hands and knees? Your face being right abo-"

Shino had realized just how close to Kiba's "private area" he was and cut Kiba off before he could say anything perverted. "Kiba!" he yelled at his boyfriend.

"I was just going to say you were making me-" Kiba tried to say, giggling, but was cut off again. "Kiba! I know what you were going to say!"

"Are you sure? Because it wasn't perverted," Kiba said with a grin.

"Maybe what you were going to say wasn't but what you were thinking was!" Shino concluded, finally getting up from the ground.

"Well, yeah! What guy wouldn't think something perverted when anybody he's attracted to is that close to his dick?" Kiba asked, getting up from the ground, smiling.

Shino started to walk away. "I'm done with this conversation," he said to his partner. On the outside he tried to show no emotion, but really he was trying to suppress giggles. He thought Kiba was amusing when they were alone. Kiba never held anything back when it was just the two of them, which meant that he was ignorant, loud, perverted, energetic, and especially talkative. There was never a truly dull moment when they were together.

"Shino wait for me!" Kiba yelled towards him. He ran up to his boyfriend and grabbed his hand. "What're we going to do now?" Kiba asked as he and Shino walked back towards the main part of the village.

As the two boys were walking past Ichiraku's, they heard someone giggling loudly mixed with the sound of noodles being loudly slurped up. They both looked towards the shop to see Naruto and Hinata eating-together. Hinata was giggling along with Naruto.

"Do you want to go say hi?" Kiba asked Shino.

"Sure, I can't think of anything else to do."

Walking over to Naruto and Hinata, Kiba remembered how Naruto has been acting lately after the sleepover. "Hey, Shino. Why do you think Naruto's been acting so weird to us recently?" he asked.

Shino had been pondering the thought for a while now. "I'm not sure, but I bet it has to do something with our little secret."

Hinata looked away from her bowl of ramen to see who was behind her. Their voices were familiar and she noticed Shino's unique smell. It smelled amazing to the point that she wished Naruto smelled like him. She could always smell him from feet away, and that's how she knew he was near her most of the time. Kiba had a unique smell too, but it was more...spicy?...she thought, and she didn't like spicy very much. Shino's scent was really strong today. Kiba probably loves the smell too. It probably drives him crazy, since his nose is so strong and everything, Hinata always thought to herself.

"Hi! Kiba, Shino!" Hinata said cheerfully to the boys approaching her. "You smell amazing today Shino!" Hinata started blushing. I just said that out loud! That sounded really weird!

"Umm, thank you."

"Yeah Shino, you do smell good all the time. I gotta admit, it smells pretty amazing. Makes me wish I smelled like you sometimes!" Naruto said cheerfully while still eating.

"Thank you?" Shino replied to him. Kiba was giggling because he knew everyone thought Shino smelled good, but the boy himself was completely oblivious to the fact.

"What do you use?" Naruto asked Shino.

"Nothing..." he replied.

Naruto stopped eating for a second. "What?" he asked the bug kid in disbelief.

"I don't use anything. Everybody always tells me I smell good, but I don't smell anything."

"Ohhhhkkaaayyy, then why do you smell like that?"

"I don't know," Shino said, obviously annoyed.

"Are you sure you don't use anything?"

"Yes, I don't use anything to make me smell like this," Shino replied, getting a bit angry.

"Really, are you sure?"

"Yes, I'm sure!" Shino rose his voice slightly.

"But that smell can't be natural. You have to use something to make yourself smell that good."

"No, I don't use anything to make myself smell this good," Shino said again, this time with an icy tone that made shivers run up and down the other three's spines.

"O-Okay Naruto. Shino doesn't use anything to make himself smell so great," Hinata said. "Um, w-we were just talking about you guys be-before you got here."

"Really? What'd you guys say about us then?" Kiba asked, worried about what the answer would be.

Before Hinata could give an answer Naruto gave one. "We were just talking about how you two are dating and stuff! It's crazy! You two, together! It's just really weird that you guys, of all people decide to be gay with each other!" Naruto yelled it. He yelled everything so everyone around and in the shop could hear him.

The other three's mouths were hanging open, and Naruto was smiling widely. Kiba was looking around to see just how many others had heard the moron's outburst. To his horror there were people everywhere, staring at them, whispering to each other. Some people had their mouths open and some looked at them like they were ashamed. Most people looked shocked. Kiba even heard someone say they were going to talk to Shino's dad about it.

Shino was staring at Naruto with murder in his eyes and the intent to try to strangle him when people started to clear the area. He had also heard the comment someone made about telling his dad, and started freaking out inside. His shocked look turned into one of anger. He actually started to...growl...at the blond boy.

Hinata looked like she was going to fall off of her chair backwards. She wasn't sure how many people had just heard that, but she knew Kiba and Shino were pissed. She just hoped they didn't try to kill Naruto.

The blond was calmly slurping his ramen like he hadn't just revealed the biggest secret of Shino and Kiba's lives to probably at least 25 people. He looked up from his bowl to see why all the chatter had stopped. Noticing everyone was staring at Shino and Kiba, the blond noticed what he had just revealed. Suddenly his look of enjoyment turned to a scared and sorry one. He looked at the people behind the counter of Ichiraku's with a "help me" expression. They just stared back at him in disbelief at how stupid he was.

Shino clenched his fists so hard his entire hand and wrist started to ache. Kiba noticed and tried to get him to leave the shop so they could just go home, but before he got a chance to pull him away, Shino dashed at Naruto with his right fist raised.

The blond didn't even see it coming. Shino's fist collided with Naruto's face so hard his left cheek and eye instantly swelled. Kiba grabbed Shino before he could start hitting him anymore and pulled him closer to Hinata.

Naruto's head was inside his third empty bowl of ramen, barely conscious. Hinata was ready to pass out. Kiba was happy Shino had almost knocked the traitor out. Everyone else that had been watching started to clear out of the area, still whispering to each other, now saying Shino had an "anger problem." The Ichiraku staff returned to their work.

Ahhh, thank god I was done eating. I would never be able to eat with my face like this, was all Naruto could think.

Kiba turned to the staff. "Can we get him some ice?" he asked before one of the people behind the counter handed some to Hinata. Kiba forced Shino to sit behind Hinata and went to pull Naruto's head out of his bowl.

Naruto had snapped back into the world. He looked at Hinata from his head's resting spot on the counter, who was holding ice on his face. "What did I do again?" he asked her with a dazed expression.

"Naruto, do-don't talk now. I don't know if you re-remember anything from a few minutes ago, but I can explain later," Hinata said to him gently. Naruto closed his left eye that was almost swollen shut itself.

Hinata turned her head around to look at Shino. She looked sorry. Shino was staring at the ground with his hands clasped together. Kiba was standing beside him with a hand on his shoulder. "You guys, I-I'm so-sorry," Hinata said, holding back tears.

Shino looked up from the ground and stared at Hinata for a few moments. Kiba did the same. "Don't be sorry for anything, Hinata. You didn't do anything wrong anyways," Kiba said to her.

"Bu-but I-I di-did," Hinata told him still holding back tears. The boys looked at her questioningly. "I confirmed to him th-that y-you were dating."

"Don't cry about it, Hinata. Everything will be fine," Kiba told her.

"Did he tell you how he figured out?" Shino asked her.

"He said he saw you guys holding each other one night at your house when he slept over. He woke up in the middle of the night and saw," she said, pushing away the tears. "And h-he asked me if you were dating a-after seeing you kiss in front of our training field last week." He's been confiding in me a lot lately. We've become real friends, Hinata thought about their relationship.

"Hmm, didn't even notice he was watching," Kiba said giggling, remembering the day clearly.

"He must be scarred after seeing that," Shino said, making Kiba laugh out loud.

"Wh-why?" Hinata asked.

"Because," Kiba started saying through laughter, "it wasn't a little kiss! There was plenty of tongue and so-"

Kiba was cut off. "Kiba! I don't want to know!" Hinata yelled, turning red.

Kiba laughed harder at her expression. "Don't fall off your chair!" he yelled in amusement.

Shino was staring at the ground again. "Is he even awake?" he asked in regards to Naruto.

"Yes," Hinata answered.

Naruto heard the whole conversation and wondered why Shino would want to know if he was awake. Shino got up from his seat and walked to Naruto's.

"Can you get up?" he asked the boy.

In response, Naruto got off of the seat and took the ice from Hinata's hand. Shino saw the damage he had caused to Naruto's face and felt a pang of shame in his stomach. "I'm sorry Naruto," he told the blond.

"I-It's okay. I'm the one that made a huge mistake. I'm really sorry you guys."

"Don't worry Naruto," Kiba said to him.

"Well, sorry that I find it weird and all, that you two are dating and I saw you making out that one time and stuff," Naruto said loudly.

The other three stared at him in shock and horror. He did it again! Shino was screaming inside his head. Looking around, there were new shocked faces crowded around the shop. Kiba and Hinata both ran to Shino's side to hold him back, as he looked like he was going to try to break Naruto's face.

"Naruto! You big dumbass! What the hell is wrong with you that you don't get it! You can't just yell stuff like that! It's supposed to be a secret!" Kiba yelled at the boy before grabbing Shino and pulling him through the crowd of people staring at them.

I hope you liked it! If you did, then you should definitely leave a review :P hehe

Next chapter: Where's Hinata? What's wrong with Sasuke? (two questions supposed to be answered already) How's Naruto doing with Kiba and Shino?