A/N:This chapter is a bit uneventful. It was just something I threw together to fill space before the exams. I also wanted to have a little encounter with Kurenai so I put it in this. It also may not be well written considering I'm so tired :( but it can't be that bad, right...haha. Well,,,enjoy?


Chapter 9:Why does he want to see that?

"My dad took it better than I thought. He only stared at me for a minute or so, and he talked in between," Shino told his two teammates as they walked to the training field together.

"What about you Kiba?" Hinata asked the other teammate.

"It didn't go so well," Kiba started.

"What did your mom do this time?" Shino asked his boyfriend.

Kiba was walking with his head down and his hands in his jacket pockets. "Well, first she stayed calm and told me and Hana we shouldn't go behind her back and she said some other stupid stuff. But I knew she really wanted to yell at me and she must have been really frustrated." There was a pause. "I was dumb enough to go to her room and find her reading a note from your dad," he said looking at Shino. "I told her that she could yell what she wanted to and let some of her anger out at me..."

"You didn't," Shino said in disbelief.

"I did," Kiba started again. "And she started yelling stuff about going behind her back, your clan's involvement with insects, what my priorities should be. She had to have yelled at me for those things only for minutes until she decided to start yelling at me for not training enough and not doing things around the house. She changed the topic, thank god."

"Sounds like you got her on a good day," Shino said.

"Yeah. I guess so. It could have been way worse than that," Kiba said.

"So, Shino. What exactly did y-your dad say?" Hinata asked.

Shino thought about what he should say to her question. He didn't want to say that his dad was disappointed because he'd never have a family of his own because that would probably make things awkward. That was planning to far ahead. What should I say? I guess I can tell them he was disappointed but what if they ask why? Eh, I guess I could just tell them.

"Shino?" Hinata said his name to get his attention back.

"Oh, sorry. He said that he was disappointed. But he said he can deal with it. He likes Kiba, so that's a good thing."

"Cool! He actually likes me! That's funny, cause my mom doesn't seem so fixed on you!" Kiba exclaimed. "But I bet it's just because she doesn't like the thought of me and another guy," Kiba said before Shino had to silently suffer thinking he wasn't appealing enough for Kiba's mom to like him.

"So I'm guessing she doesn't want me around anymore."

"That's what she told me," Kiba replied. "What about your dad?"

"He said he doesn't want you around right now. I guess it has to set in for a while first."

"Well, at least he doesn't hate you," Hinata started. "Everything will be fine. I'd expect both of your par-"

Hinata's words were canceled out by a crash and a yell of pain from behind a tree on the trail they were taking.

"What was that?" Hinata exclaimed as the three of them went to see what was behind the tree. When they saw who it was, a pang of anger shot through all of their bodies, even Hinata's.

"Oh, hey guys. What's going on? How've you been?" a bloodied Naruto asked the group awkwardly.

"Oh, Naruto! What happened?" Hinata asked her crush, who had a small gash on his arm and another in the chest area of his shirt. Both areas were leaking blood.

"I was pushed out of a tree," he said quietly.

The three of the genins looked upwards to see Sasuke sitting on a branch smiling down at them. "He was spying on you guys. So I gave him what was coming to him," Sasuke said smugly.

"If Naruto was spying on us and you were with him, wouldn't that mean you were spying on us too?" Kiba asked him.

"I was just following him. We're on our way to train too. But he kept running his mouth about you guys so I pushed him out of the tree."

"O-kay then." There was a pause and then Kiba started to walk away.

"Kiba? Where you going?" Naruto asked innocently.

"To train, dumbass."

His teammates started to follow him as Sasuke looked away from them and started to head for their training field. "W-wait!" Naruto yelled after the three.

"What do you want?" Kiba whined, annoyed.

"Have you guys noticed how Sasuke's been acting lately. He seems so much more competitive now," Naruto said to his fellow shinobi.

"How would we notice? We don't hang out with him," Shino replied.

"Well, I don't know. He's just worrying me about this whole exam coming up soon. That's probably why he's been acting like that. Yeah, that's why. He wants to do his best in the exams!" Naruto exclaimed mainly to himself and then got up to chase after Sasuke.

"Okay then," Kiba said, "let's get going so we're not too late."


It was almost noon and team 8 was taking a break. Kurenai had been acting oddly during training. She seemed to have something to say, but every time she started talking she'd almost instantly shut her mouth again.

"Do you think it has to do with us?" Shino asked Kiba.

"I don't know...probably."

"Maybe we should ask her," Hinata said.

"Let's do it," Kiba replied as he put down the bottle of water he had been drinking.

The three got up from their log and walked to their sensei who was picking berries off of a small bush. She took notice to the three standing by her side. "Hello," she said happily. "I'm picking some berries for you guys. These are delicious and healthy for you," Kurenai said.

"Th-thanks," Hinata told her as Kurenai stood up, holding a basket filled with the berries out to the three.

"I already had my fill," Kurenai said and laughed.

"Thank you Kurenai sensei," Kiba and Shino said.

The four sat down on the ground and the genins started to eat the berries. "Mmm, these are really good!" they all exclaimed.

"Kurenai sensei, is there something you want to say to us?" Shino asked suddenly.

Kurenai looked uneasy. "Um, well, I...um, heard, about...you, two," she said awkwardly.

"You did? And how do you feel about it?" Kiba asked her, making her look more uneasy.

"Honestly, I don't care. You're good kids, I don't have a problem with you. Do what you want. But I have a problem with almost everyone in the village knowing now."

The three stared at their sensei in shock. "You mean, it got out...th-that quickly?" Hinata asked.

"Yes. Everybody was talking about it earlier today. I'm sorry to say boys, but some people really don't approve."

"Yeah, we know. You should have seen my mom last night," Kiba said.

"That must have been wonderful," Kurenai said sarcastically.

"Hmf, it sure was," Kiba replied sarcastically.

"I want you guys to know that I won't judge you. You're part of my team right now, and you'll always have a special place in my heart. I want you all to become strong and be happy," Kurenai said. "The exams are right around the corner. We need to make sure your all prepared. Try not to get stuck on the village knowing about you two and keep your mind on the exams. If you don't you could falter and mess up your chances of becoming a chunin," Kurenai concluded.

"We'll try to ignore it for a while. It's no one else's business anyway so they don't know the whole story. Overall they have no valuable reason to say anything about us," Shino said.

"That's true, but they'll still judge. Just keep your head on being a ninja and you'll be fine," Kurenai said. "Hurry and eat you guys! So we can train some more!"


The three were done training now. Kiba wanted to give the villagers a little show as they walked Hinata home, so they held hands on the way. Some people glared at them, some people made it clear that they didn't mind and some made it clear that they supported them.

"I thought this would have been worse, you know, everyone knowing about us," Kiba told Shino.

"I know. Nobody even seems to care..." he replied.

"Hey, Hinata! Does your dad know about us?" Kiba asked the girl.

"Yeah, he talked to me about it," she replied.

"Those people in front of Ichiraku's really are big mouths," Shino said.

"What do you mean he talked to you about it, Hinata?" Kiba asked.

"He asked me if I thought it was wrong, and I said you guys are my friends and I'll always support you both. I think he was just curious," Hinata said.

The three continued to walk home silently when they noticed there was someone in the shadows. Hinata activated her byakugan to see where they were, Kiba threw a kunai at them, and Shino had his insects ready in case they needed backup. The kunai flew into a fence by the person, who jumped up and yelled, "Hey, don't do that! Don't be so defensive!"

It was Naruto and Sasuke again. "What the fuck?" Kiba yelled as he walked over to pick his weapon out of the fence.

"Hey, why haven't you been carrying Akamaru around with you?" Naruto asked Kiba.

"I want him to train with Hana for a little while to get him ready for the exams."

"Don't you have to practice your jutsus with him?" Sasuke asked.

"I already did that a while ago," Kiba replied, "and I practice with him every night when I get home."

"So, Shino, how's your bug population doing since Kiba stopped pranking you?" Naruto asked.

"Excellent. It's very high again. Almost 2,000."

Naruto looked a little grossed out. Sasuke just stood there. "Cool..." Naruto said.

"You asked," Shino answered, pulling Naruto away from Sasuke. "Now tell us why you keep following us."

Naruto walked closer to Shino and leaned close to his ear. "Sasuke lied to you guys about me following you earlier. He wanted to follow you so he could try to see what gay people look like when they kiss," Naruto said hoarsely into Shino's ear.

Hearing the reason, Shino pushed Naruto away from him and told Kiba and Hinata to come closer. He told them what Naruto just said and then pulled Naruto close again. "Are you serious?" he asked the blonde.

"I swear on my life," Naruto said, "and I don't want to die until after I become Hokage, so that's a promise."

"You guys stay here," Kiba said as he walked to Sasuke.

"What do you want?" Sasuke asked Kiba.

"You want to know what gay people look like when they kiss?" Kiba asked him in disbelief.

Sasuke's eyes got wide. I'm going to murder that damn kid, he thought angrily. "Uhh...wh-why would you..." he trailed off.

"Naruto, duh," Kiba replied to Sasuke's half said question. "So do you want to see or not? I'm not saying I'm gay completely, but for now I'm cool with it...Shino, come over here!"

Shino walked over to the other two boys only to be pulled into a kiss by Kiba. Shino took notice after the quick pang of shock and deepened the kiss, then began licking Kiba's lips.

Kiba opened his mouth and let Shino's tongue in. The two tongues were fighting over dominance when they heard Sasuke yelp. The two broke apart to see what happened.

"What's wrong," Kiba asked knowingly with a grin showing his large canines.

"This feeling...it's," Sasuke started.

Kiba burst out in laughter and Shino started giggling. "What's it feel like?" Kiba asked again.

"It feels like...like...gahhhh!" Sasuke yelled and then ran off in embarrassment towards his apartment.

Shino and Kiba were rolling on the ground laughing. Naruto had been having a conversation with Hinata about...ramen, but seeing Shino dying of laughter made him run in terror. Awwwwwwwwww, Hinata thought unhappily. She walked towards her teammates to try and get them under control.

"What happened?" she asked the two.

"No-nothi-ng!" Kiba yelled. "Nothing im-por-tant!"


The boys had finally stopped laughing and decided to hurry Hinata home before they got on her dad's bad side. "We'll see you later, Hinata!" Kiba waved goodbye. "Bye, Hinata," Shino said.

Hinata walked into her house and the boys left to walk to their own homes. The two of them were going to torture Sasuke every time they saw him now. Hopefully they saw a lot of him during the exams.


The boys were at their separating paths once again. "I wish nobody knew about this," Kiba said. "Then you could still sleep over and my mom wouldn't think it was inappropriate."

"Well, I don't think we'll be having another sleepover anytime soon," Shino said before grabbing Kiba's hand and giving him their ritual goodnight kiss.

"See you tomorrow," Kiba said sadly.

"I love you," Shino answered as they started to walk away from each other.

"I love you too!" Kiba yelled, sounding happier now.

"Goodnight, Kiba," Shino replied as he stopped walking.

"Goodnight, Shino," Kiba copied.

"See you."

"See you."

"Okay..."

"Yeah..."

"Bye..."

"Bye..."

"Kiba, are you done now?" Shino asked.

"Are you done?" was his reply.

"Whatever...goodnight, love you," Shino said one last time as he finally started walking home again.

"Goodnight, love you too," Kiba said, walking away.

After a month or so with Kiba, Shino had finally learned that Kiba always had to get the last word in. Or at least he had to on a good day...


Okay...this is kinda short and nothing special. I kind of just needed to fill some small space before the exams. So this is what happens when I feel like filling space. Something pointless happens haha...