Chapter Eleven: Shino's Walk Home
Shino was walking back to the training field from the captain meeting. He had quite enough of crazy people wanting to dissect innocent people. As he was walking, the bugs that lived in his body started jittering. Shino stopped walking.
"Who's there?" he called out. If it's the captain of the Twelfth Division, I'm going to run for it, he thought. A woman with black hair stepped out. He sighed with relief. Yes! It's not the mad scientist! But why is she stalking me? Turning to the woman, he asked, "Who are you?"
"I'm Nemu Kurotsuchi, lieutenant of the Twelfth Division," said Nemu.
Shino slowly backed away. "If you're going to ask if I want to be dissected, the answer is no!"
"Oh," said Nemu in a disappointed voice. "Then I'll have to do it."
"Do what?" asked an uneasy Shino.
"Captain Kurotsuchi said that if you didn't come willingly, I'll have to bring you by force." Nemu flash stepped behind Shino and stabbed him with her zanpakuto. Shino dissolved into bugs. The bugs crawled away.
"That's interesting," said Nemu. "If I just follow this trail of bugs, it must lead to him!" Nemu began chasing after the bugs.
Shino was actually fleeing down the street not far away. "Good! My bug clone fooled her! But not for long." Racing down the street, he turned the corner and entered the training field where all the other ninja were. He was fed up with this whole Soul Reaper thing.
"Why is everyone so weird in Soul Society?" he screamed. "I'm sick of this dissecting business!"
"Did Shino just scream?" said Kiba, dumbfounded.
"Well, there has to be a first time for everything," said Naruto, though he was just as disconcerted.
Shino was actually quite wrong when he thought that Nemu wouldn't be fooled for long. By the time it was midnight, she was still following the trail of bugs. She had made ten laps around Seireitei without knowing it.
Shino, who was still controlling the bugs, thought, "Not only are Soul Reapers weird, but stupid too." He told his bugs to go though bushes and into the main houses, and the first division complex, places she wouldn't go without permission. But she kept following the trail of bugs. Shino had no way of knowing that she was actually a robot, or artificial life form, created by the mad scientist Mayuri Kurotsuchi. Consequently, she didn't need any sleep and Shino stayed up till midnight before he finally gave up and dispersed the bugs.