A/N: A little bit of actual progression in this chapter instead of smut. Lol

Bubbling Butterflies

Chapter 9

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Rain was pouring outside; drops of water clattering against the window invaded the young bug user's mind as he sat at the table eating his breakfast quietly, Sakura was currently showering and Shino was tapping his foot vigorously at the thought of her body slicked under the cascade of warm water as it washed away the frothy soap suds...that she lathered...all over.

He flicked his collar up over his mouth and secretly licked his lips under it. He marvelled at how well their bodies moulded together in the confines of his bed, images of their bodies writhing together under the moonlight flashed through his mind and he gripped the table silently. His father, Shibi who was at the other end of the table munching on a piece of jam toast hummed as he turned another page of his news paper. Noting the first page saying the Chunnin exams were to be postponed to the next day thanks to foreseen good weather. Shino raised an eyebrow as his father cleared his throat loudly, took a large swig of his coffee and folded his news paper up neatly on the table.

This was very out of character, Shino had concluded and he began to sweat, his father on the other hand had entwined his fingers and rested his chin on them. His glasses covered his eyes conveying his true intent and Shino tried to keep his poker face on. "Now Shino" His father began, doing the best to make his only son nervous. "I want to talk to you about something" he continued and took his glasses off. His dark eyes bored into Shino's soul and said boy gulped loudly. "I've noticed that you've taken a keen interest in the young Haruno girl, I approve of her without question but you need to be careful" Shibi raised his brow as he saw his son stiffen in his seat, it was obvious he knew what was coming and Shibi tried not to grin.

Silently the older Aburame removed an item from his pocket, with a thud he planted a small green blue box on the table in front of his son, Shino jumped in time with the thud and began to sweat. He knew this was coming, the world famous 'talk', his father continued his painful speech. "Now Shino, not that I wouldn't mind grandchildren but I think you'd regret it this early, I think it would wise to use these" he gestured to the box sitting innocently on the table. Shino nodded wordlessly and nearly screamed as his father opened the flap of the box, he slowly pulled out a silver and green foil square and ripped the top off it. Shino winced as he did so and wringed his sweat covered hand together.

As if he was prepared in advance for the speech, his father whipped out a broom from nowhere and pulled the end of it towards himself. Shino in all honesty was expecting a banana or something but a broom was a lot less…personal. "Now son, I know you were expecting a banana but I haven't been to the market in a while so this will have to do." Shino was thrown back into his world as his father delicately picked the slimy lubed condom out of the foil packet; he placed it on the end of the broom and began his demonstration.

A slapping sound was heard as well as the vague sound of an "Oh my god" as Shino was forced to watch his dad gingerly place a condom over the tip of a broom stick. Both of the Aburame men's heads swivelled around to look at the extremely embarrassed pink haired girl standing in the doorway of the kitchen. The slapping sound was her covering her eyes in haste, trying to keep her sanity. The older Aburame coughed under his collar "I'm sorry you had to see that Sakura, I was just educating my boy on the wonderful world of sex" He waggled his eyebrows and swiftly disposed of the small rubbed doohickey and placed the broom back against the wall for later use. "I'll leave you two to it."

"Hey dad" Shino spoke up before Shibi could evacuate himself from the interesting situation and Shibi looked at his son "You know you came into my room last night and put a box of...these" he gestured to the condoms "On my nightstand." Shibi tapped his chin in thought.

"No I don't believe I did" He emphasised by stroking his beard.

"Well you did, but you probably can't remember because you were pissed."

Shibi smiled and began to leave the room "Pssshhh, that doesn't sound like me!"

Shino rolled his eyes under his shades and spoke up from under his hood "Do you want breakfast?" he motioned to the pantry behind him and the red face Sakura nodded. "Please" she replied and sat at the small oak table in extreme discomfort. Not only had she been forced to look Shino in the eye after they almost did the dirty, but she had walked in on Shino's dad giving Shino the talk! She knotted her fingers in her red dress and gulped silently. "What are you hungry for?" he looked away from the contents of the pantry to look over at her. She smiled softly "Strawberry toast" she mumbled and Shino chuckled, so typical.

He masterfully made her toast and placed it before her "Thanks" she blushed and looked away from the handsome young Aburame, her nodded "Anything to drink?" she nodded and took a bite of her toast "Do you have any tea?" she swallowed and scratched her leg, Shino shrugged "No, but it's not hard to make" he pulled the domes of his jacket open with a few pops, deciding he wanted to interact with Sakura face to face and not from behind a collar. She seemed to appreciate the thought and smiled softly at him before quickly looking away in the fury of a red blush.

Shino switched on the jug and began to prepare tea for himself and the pink haired beauty nibbling on a piece of toast at his table. He smiled, oh how he wished he could wake up to her nibbling away at a piece of toast every morning, but that was a delusional thought, she was only here to find out more about herself and her strange new abilities, not to peruse late night passions. The boy frowned and quietly poured water into the two cups. He slowly handed one to her and she accepted it heartily, he sipped his own and sat across from her at the small table. They sat in utter silence until he noticed her staring, what was she looking at? Was something on his shirt? On his face? He inspected both but no, he was fine. A green blue box in the middle of the table suddenly caught his attention, oh god, he left it here! It was the box of baby preventers and she was gazing intently at them, as if she was deep in thought.

The boy swiftly captured the box in his grasp and mashed it into his jacket pocket; he cleared his throat and took another sip of his tea as if nothing had happened. Sakura tried to stifle a snort as she laughed at his over the top calm demeanour. He continued to sip his drink wordlessly "Did your dad give you those?" Sakura raised and enquiring eyebrow of her own as she held her tea cup. He nodded "Yeah" and she smiled "How embarrassing" he nodded "Yeah" this time with a smile. A comfortable silence came over the peer as they drank "We have the Chunnin exams tomorrow don't we?" Sakura pushed stray strand of hair behind her ear. Shino nodded wordlessly, sipping at his tea.

Another silence passed over the two until Shino spoke up "I was talking to an elder last night and he told me that he might know a little bit about your heritage…he's offered his aid all you need to do is go and see him" Sakura looked up from her reflection in her tea cup, her eyebrows raised with a keen interest "How do you mean Shino-kun?" Shino placed his cup on the wooden table indicating that this conversation had gotten serious. "Well, he said that your green eyes, pink hair and butterflies are probably from your father's side, since family bloodline traits are stronger in men. Meaning that we can track your heritage back due to your abilities."

Sakura smiled brightly and nodded, dipping her finger in her now luke-warm tea. "I'd like to pursue my heritage so yes; I'll take him up on his offer." She looked up at Shino with twinkling eyes and he smiled. "Have you finished your tea?" he nodded, she smiled and motioned to walk to the sink, he swiped the half full cup from her hands and put it in the sink. Sakura gaped "I could have done that myself y'know!" Shino began to walk out the door, almost completely ignoring her "I know, but you're my guest" Sakura just rolled her eyes and stood up from the table, neatly sliding her chair back under the table.

Shino stuffed his hands in his pocket and blushed profusely as his hand hit the cardboard box of condoms. While walking next to him she saw the soft dusting of blush under his glasses, she smiled knowingly and jumped when he cleared his throat. "So you want to see the Aburame elder?" Shino cheekily raised his eyebrows and swayed as he walked, Sakura raised an eyebrow "Sure" trying to seem impartial to see what he was getting at. "What do I get if I take you to him?" He turned and gazed at her from underneath his dark, emotionless glasses. Sakura gaped again, this time looking exactly like a fish. Shino turned away from her and chuckled "I'm kidding Sakura" Sakura sighed with relief, sure Shino was a great guy and she really liked him, but she only really got to know him yesterday, not to mention that yesterday she made herself look like a slut when she…slept with him.

Sure they didn't have sex…but they weren't far from it in all honesty…all the…rubbing and jabbing. She bit her lip as the memories of last night invaded her thoughts, how their bodies twisted together and how he looked under the moonlight. It was amazing, nothing like she could have imagined with any other man. Even Sasuke, trying to envision Sasuke making noises like that was impossible, and even so, she kind of preferred Shino in that position with her over Sasuke anyhow.

Before she knew it they had arrived at the elder's quarters and the pair stood wordlessly in front a huge, heavy oak door "What's he like?" she rubbed her hands together to try and calm her nerves, she hated being nervous, things she wasn't familiar with happened. Like the butterflies for example. And she grimaced as she hiccupped; Shino chuckled and knocked confidentially on the hard door. An old man with greying brown hair answered the door. "Ahh Shino, what a surprise, welcome!" Sakura who was trying to be polite and ignore the butterflies crawling over and dipping between her hairs was wringing her hands and turning cherry red. "This must be your girlfriend, Sakura!" he wiggled his eyebrows suggestively and smiled. Sakura somehow became redder and Shino started chocking on his spit, "I'm only joking, come on into my study you two." He motioned them into his office and Sakura smiled cheekily at Shino at the familiarity of the Elder's comment.

The study was magnificent. Insects in frames were put up high on the walls, bookcases stood proudly against the brown oak walls. Books of all ages and sizes filled the shelves with different fonts on the spines. A huge fireplace sat in the middle of two tall bookcases, crackling away contently and a red couch and a rough leather arm chair sat on a rug in front of the smouldering fire. "Come, sit" he motioned over to the fire and closed the heavy door behind them softly. The pair sat on the comfortable red couch and watched silently as the old man dropped his rear roughly into his arm chair. Sakura gulped and tried to flick her glowing butterflies off her head, failing desperately. The old man chuckled and stooped her "I wouldn't do that if I was you dear, you don't know what will happen." She looked at him intently with her jade green eyes and slowly lowered her hands.

Shino cleared his throat and sat rigidly on the couch "Elder? We have come to inquire about your offer of knowledge for Sakura" the elder nodded and entwined his fingers as he leaned forward. "I see" he turned to the pinkette who was looking at the pink and green glowing butterflies with angry eyes. "You want to learn more about your heritage do you Sakura?" she nodded wordlessly "Well to trace your heritage back we have to differentiate your mother's and father's Blood line traits." She nodded again with slightly knotted eyebrows. "Where does your hair colour come from, mum or dad?" she thought for a moment "Well judging from relatives and photos I'd say my father." He nodded "And your eyes?" again she thought "Most of my family have very earthy coloured eyes like brown, black and grey, some shades of green but nothing like mine, but my mum is probably where I got my eye colour from."

The Aburame elder nodded "And I take it your mother knows nothing about these butterflies" he held out an old, worn out finger and smiled warmly as one of her butterflies fluttered over to his finger. Sakura nodded, a small smile graced her face and she relaxed in her chair, leaning over with her elbows on her knees and her open palms supporting her blushing face. "And tell me about your father?" The elder looked at her and she smiled "Well he's a bit of a dork but he's a great father and ninja. Wouldn't trade him for the world, but he doesn't have any blood line traits."

Slowly he pushed himself up from his armchair and walked idly over to one of the bookcases, with an old finger he traced over the spines of countless books. Hopefully these books had some sort of order otherwise he was going to be spending all eternity looking for what he wanted. Luckily it looked like they did and he stopped on a tattered green book with red ligature writing. "Ah here we go" with a craned finger he slid it out of the case and opened it. "I acquired this book from my father who got it from his father when your clan was very much alive. It was wiped out by a plague many years ago but it looks like there's a few still out and about." He smiled and looked at the smiling girl. "Here, read this book, it will tell you everything about your clan." She nodded and rubbed her hands over immaculate book that held the answers too many of her problems.

She was interrupter however "Now I'm going to tell you a few things that the book doesn't contain, you're butterflies are pent up chakra that releases through nervousness, your butterflies are defence chakra that's ready for your needs." She nodded "Your chakra is very different from usual chakra; you can actually use your chakra to blow things up. You should try it, not in here of course but try it, play with your new abilities and see what you are capable of."

Sakura nodded, concluding that this would probably be a good idea the night before the exams. "I might go to the training grounds then" She puffed out her chest and clutched the book between her fingers. Shino stood up "Would you like company or would you prefer to go it alone." She thought for a moment and shook her head "I think I should go about it alone, I don't want to make an idiot of myself in front you." He nodded, understanding her request. "Do you want me to show you out so you can get a jump start" she smiled and nodded.

The elder clapped his palms together and rejoiced "Wonderful, I hope you'll be okay then, come back again tonight, I want see your progress!" He showed them out of the door and shut it behind them. Sakura still clutching the green book between her fingers followed Shino to the front door. The double doors were open widely and the garden outside was alive with a variety of insect life. She stood outside and turned to Shino "Thank you for helping me Shino, I really appreciate it and I guess I'll be seeing you again tonight" He nodded wordlessly from under his hood. She stood there looking at her blue sandaled feet not knowing what to expect. Neither did he honestly but he felt he should do something watching her twiddle her…feet somehow made him feel a little bit guilty.

So he buried her in a caring hug "Be careful Sakura, don't push your abilities" she nodded and he went back inside.