The sun had set and Naruto decided that everyone should tell ghost stories. Kiba lit a small fire and everyone gathered around it in a loose circle, so you could barely see the face of the person across from you. Kankurou volunteered to go first. Scary stories never scared you, you found then more thrilling than scary, that is, unless someone jumped out at you. Kankurou set up the story and you listened. It sounded like this: blah blah blah knife blah blah dark room. The usual scary story material. You're eyes were closing a little as Kankurou neared the end, and unfortunately he noticed.

"…and then he said th next one will be…YOU!" Kankurou shouted and appeared behind you and grabbed onto your shoulders.

"GAAAAAAAH!! HAAAAAAHOLYCRAP!" you shouted and lunged straight for the person sitting next to you.

Poor Shino didn't know what hit him as he suddenly found a hysterical kunoichi sitting in his lap and hugging him so tightly he thought his bugs were going to come popping out. When you had calmed you released him a little and stared wide-eyed into his face as the other ninja were falling all over the floor laughing and Kankurou looked very pleased with himself.

You gasped and let go of Shino, stood up, then stomped away from the fire to take your anger out on tree or a piece of the ground.

"Why did I have to jump at, of all people, the quiet, elusive, most likely smoking hott under all his clothes Shino?" you said to an owl in a tree.

It hooted at you and flew away to eat a small defenseless rodent.

"What was that you just said?"

You spun around to face a figure leaning against a tree and watching you from behind his dark glasses. Feeling really stupid and afraid that he had heard you, you snapped at him. "What are you doing here?"

"I just came to make sure you didn't get scared."

You blinked at him. Great, now the one who never talks is making fun of me.

"I'm not scared. I just get jumpy when things jump at me."

It was very frustrating that you couldn't see the expression on his face, even Gaara gave things away from subtle glints of the eye. You were pretty good at reading faces and it irked you when you had to speak to someone without seeing his or her face. Shino intrigued you to no end because of his utter quietness and the small glimpses of his face you manage to catch every once and awhile while on a mission. You'd give anything to see what he was hiding.

Shino stood up straight, no longer leaning against the tree trunk, but didn't move forward. He was a very serious shinobi but you had a niggling feeling that he was one of those people who had a hidden evil side to him, so you stepped back.

Suddenly something wrapped around your mouth and Shino poofed away. You freaked and tried to hurl the person over your shoulder but he avoided it. "So something like this would scare you?"

"Shino baka!" you screamed when he let your mouth go.

But when you turned you found his face, his REAL face, looking back at you and you forgot your anger. On the ground by the tree were his glasses and his hood and jacket, leaving him in his netting muscle shirt and dark pants.

"I've been waiting for quite some time to do this," he said and pulled your body flush against his and covered your lips with his own.

Everything you suspected about him was correct. His face and body were so damn freaking sexy and he gave you the best kiss you ever had. You felt yourself falling, but Shino caught you and laid you onto the ground. You grabbed onto his arms, which were on either side of your face, muscles taught with keeping his weight off you. He wasn't shy, and his hands roamed everywhere when his lips latched just below your neck and he sucked on it hard, leaving a red mark.

"Shino, they'll notice…"

"I don't care," he grunted and un-hooked your bra, took it out from under your shirt, and flung it away.

………………………………………………..

"He-he just took off her…" Hinata paused.

"Ne, ne, her what?" Naruto said, poking his face near hers.

The ninja were all watching Hinata, who had been peer-pressured into spying on you and Shino.

She gasped. "Shino-kun!!" and flushed red and refused to look anymore.

Neji started snickering.