Title: Study Session
Rating: Mature
Pairings: Kiba/Shino and Shikamaru/Shino
Characters: Aburame Shino, Inuzuka Kiba, Nara Shikamaru, Uzumaki Naruto
Additional Tags: Modern AU. High School AU. Aburame Shino-centric. Pre-relationship. One-sided atraction. Self-Discovery. Fluff and Hurt/Comfort. Friendship/Love. A little bit of Sexual Crisis.
Summary: Shino isn't shy, he's just quite reserved. That's why he couldn't really find any interest in these indecent talks about girls curves that his comrades particularly appreciated. Well, maybe he was asexual after all. Who knows? But, he didn't know that this one particular study session would change his entire life
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Study session
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Shino isn't shy.
He'd rather consider himself as someone reserved.
That's why, it was hard to tell that his closest friend was Kiba, likewise he'd enjoy spending time with Naruto. They were definitely his total opposite and yet he could find it pleasant to have them as his friends, sometimes. His lonely yet comfortable life quite changed when he encountered them and wasn't really sure which he liked best.
Back to middle school, he didn't know that defending Akamaru, Kiba's dear puppy buddy, from some psycho dog haters would have been the first path to a strong friendship between them. Shino never felt more acknowledged than the day Kiba proclaimed that he will be his best friend from this moment. Since then, the Inuzuka would drag him in every one of his 'adventures' and introducing him to his friends.
Soon, even though he was a top student, visits in the principal's office became his daily routine and later, normal teenager talks weren't like mysterious blabbering to him anymore. That's how he understood the difference about him and other boys his age. Their interests were focused around women and sexual activities while his were more about insects and tea.
So, clearly, Shino isn't shy.
Still, he started to wonder if he wasn't asexual.
But, once again, this question wouldn't have popped out if Kiba wasn't involved somehow.
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"Oi, Shino!", Kiba sat on the chair in front of Shino's desk. "We'll have a study session at Naruto's place Friday, after school. You coming, right?"
Shino raised his head from his book.
"This is about the upcoming test, right?"
It wasn't the first time Kiba or Naruto would ask him to tutor them. They'd always wait for the very last minute and miraculously ace in the tests, thanks to Shino most of the time. It was one of the good things about having friends, right?
"You sure are a genius, so?"
"I have nothing planned, so I guess I can come" Kiba grinned and stood up.
"You're the best, Shino!" And Shino's lips would arch into an almost invisible smile, as always.
x
"Shikamaru and Chouji aren't coming?"
Shino could tell they weren't by the gloomy expression on Kiba.
"Shika said he had an emergency, and well, Chouji couldn't come because he had to help his parents with the restaurant" Naruto answered as Kiba flopped down next to Shino.
"Tsk. Chouji is forgiven! But I bet the other lazy ass is just busy napping again!" Kiba groaned as he took his books out of his bag.
"Since we're not waiting anyone anymore, should we just begin then?" Shino asked.
After deciding which subject to deal with first, the study session started quite smoothly with full focus, which surprised Shino since basically these two were the most 'troublesome' ones when it comes to study, as Shikamaru would have said. Besides, Shino was amused how wise it was to cancel at the very last moment pretexting an emergency. Kiba would have made a scene out of it if Shino was the one who did the same. But since he promised to help, he couldn't really break his promise anyway. Plus, both of them were studying so devotedly. So, Shino had a little hope …
"Can we stop for a moment? My brain is at its limit" Kiba groaned throwing his head back.
"Me too, to be honest" Naruto said as he stretched his back painfully.
… but it couldn't last forever, right?
x
Somehow, Shino wondered how the conversation drifted from their usual bickering to… sex, once again. Whatever the topic, they'd always find a way to end up with sex-related things as an argument. Was it their way of youth? It was almost impossible to follow their discussion sometimes so most of the times when they start, he would mind his own business, mainly reading books about his dear insects.
"Haha! So, you've never watched one!" Kiba defiantly questioned Naruto with his usual grin. "Look, it's okay. Shino is the same, right Shino?"
Hearing his name so suddenly in the discussion caught Shino off-guard which forced him to leave the interesting world of insects to focus on their squabbling. The red cheeks of Naruto betrayed his embarrassment and irritation. It was obvious he tried to act cool, as always, and Kiba's proud grin was the proof he was winning the debate.
"What is the reason of your fighting this time?" Shino asked.
"Naruto haven't seen any adult movies yet, ha!"
"Of course, I did! Who do you take me for?"
"Then, prove it. Hehe."
"How?"
"Not my problem, Uzumaki!" Kiba snorted.
"Can't we just go back to study?" Shino asked with a bit of annoyance in his usual monotone tone.
Kiba grinned and turned his body toward Shino with a sadistic expression on his face. As the good friend he is, he wanted Shino to experiment a normal teens' life as well. Sometimes, he felt the wall of awkwardness between them, especially about these topics Shino always qualified 'indecent'.
"How about you, Shino?"
Shino tensed up as he was packing his things. "I guess I'll be going back home if we're still having this discussion in the following ten seconds"
"Oh, come on! Just stop being like this already!"
Here it comes, Shino thought. When Kiba wanted something, he could use all ways to do it and since Shino couldn't really refuse him anything, he decided to answer even though he didn't felt really comfortable.
"No, I haven't watched any of them and I don't want to. Why? Because I don't have any interest in them. Can we go back to study now?"
"Eh?" Naruto whined not really fond of the idea "But, we just want to know your type, that's all. My love for Sakura overcome her lack of curves but Hinata-chan sure is cute, right, Kiba?"
"Uzumaki!" Kiba groaned.
Naruto smirked, he knew exactly how to tease the Inuzuka and play with his patience. But his words frustrated Shino as well. For an unknown reason, he never really appreciated this girl which was really troublesome since Kiba fell head over heels for her. There was no way he could expose his thoughts to his best friend, so he'd just dodge the topic.
"I don't have any type and I don't think any movie will change that"
"Maybe you're just waiting for the right one then? I didn't know you were the romantic type Shino!"
"Or just asexual" Kiba teased but Shino didn't really like the sound of this sentence, or much like he felt a little humiliated to be called this way by Kiba.
"I'm going home"
As he stood up in a quite agile way, he was able to quickly leave before any of Naruto nor Kiba could hold him.
"What? Wait, Shino!" Naruto called trying to retain his friend but he already left the room.
Kiba finally was able to catch him when he was putting his shoes in the genkan. The Inuzuka grabbed his arm and squatted down to face him, Shino noticed the confused look he gave him. They never really fought and the situation was quite new to both of them so they just stayed quiet for few more seconds before Kiba broke the silence.
"Shino, I-"
"You're not at fault." Shino said since he knew the other was about to apologize.
"What do you mean?"
"You're not mistaken, I'm certainly asexual. Why? Because I don't have a type or a girlfriend, which is quite reasonable since I'm not attracted to anyone. Unlike you or Naruto, I don't want to have any sexual intercourse with anyone as well, or not to my knowing at least. Nonetheless, hearing it from you is truly… irritating."
Kiba smiled and then chuckled which made Shino tense up once again.
"Why are you laughing?"
"Sorry, don't take it bad, I'm not mocking you or anything" His lips formed his usual amused grin again "It's just that this situation felt… like a couple fight."
"Do you even hear what you're saying…" Shino mumbled and Kiba robbed the back of his head.
"Anyway, I'm sorry, okay? I won't tease on that anymore. We can even continue the study session if you want. Plus, Naruto certainly feel lonely without us. So, won't you just go back with me, please?" Kiba asked with puppy eyes.
Shino rolled his eyes as he moved his arm freeing it from Kiba's grip. His cheeks were burning and he really hoped Kiba would think it was because of the awful heat of summer nights, he hated when his best friend knew exactly how to make him change his mind, and his sneakers were already on this time.
"Fine, but we need to finish what we started first! And no more off-topic talk before we're done!"
"Sure, whatever you want" Kiba smiled and Shino felt… happy.
x
Maybe or maybe not because of Kiba's influential request after they finished their study session, or Naruto's convincing arguments, but certainly not –even a little bit– out of curiosity, Shino Kiba and Naruto's recommendations on some adult videos, they even made sure to send him some links by message. Though, these were sent in their group chat which earned some shocked emojis by a quite mushy Chouji and the usual 'seen' by a participative Shikamaru.
"If you find any of them interesting, please tell us!" Naruto said with an enthusiastic voice.
"But you're free to look for some other as well if these doesn't match your likings" Kiba added with a wink.
"Make sure to send the links in the group chat! Okay?"
Shino wasn't really sure what was so exciting about knowing his opinion about these videos but he just nodded to finally be able to regain his home as soon as possible. He was quite aware of the danger of study sessions after this incident somehow. When he arrived home, what he did first was to take a relaxant bath and made himself a proper tea to calm his victimized nerves. He loved his friend but spending too much time with them drained too much of his energy.
Ting!
He put down his cup for a moment, checking his phone and rolled his eyes at their messages.
Naruto: Don't forget to watch these videos Shino, you promised!
Kiba: You're a man of your word, right Shino? Keep your promise!
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As he expected, the vulgar moaning and the image of the boobs moving along with the thrusting movements only brought embarrassment for him, not exactly desire… but he could easily picture Kiba getting aroused by them though. As the video kept going on, he wouldn't even see the girl being brutally assaulted by the man, instead, the screen of his laptop went blurry and a vision of Kiba completely hard and groaning his pleasure was the only thing he could see.
Shino urgently stopped the video and took off his earphones, his chest felt compressed and it became really hard to breath. He quickly shut his laptop and that's how he noticed his shaking hands. And he couldn't refrain a gasp when he noticed the bulge under his short.
He hastily ran to the bathroom and few tears somehow made their way to his cheeks as he tried to get rid of his problem with a cold shower, but it didn't really help. Every time he forgot to keep his mind busy, his brain would desperately remind him of the vision of his friend having pleasure. As time passed, it became even worse, involving both of their body sensually moving together and his erection would growing painfully bigger.
After half an hour fighting against his natural needs, he finally gave up and released himself by means of these incessant obscene thoughts. When he saw the loads of semen on his hand, he couldn't refrain a feel of guilt and disgust.
x
"Shino, are you really going to be okay? I mean, look at your face. You should probably stay home and rest for today, don't you think?"
Shibi Aburame looked worriedly at his son and his dark circles that his goggles couldn't hide.
"It's alright Dad, I just need to get more sleep tonight"
"I know the entrance exam aren't easy but you should also take care of your health, it's important"
Shino nodded and opened the door. "I'll get going."
"Be careful"
It sure has been the most productive weekend of his whole life. Shino tried to convince himself that it was a normal body reaction, checking all the books he could find at home and even made further research on internet to come to the most logical conclusion… Since nobody else than Kiba could put him in such a state, he decided to just accept the awful reality.
He was in love with him.
The good new? He wasn't asexual nor aromantic –yes, he made lots of researches indeed– even though Shino was certain it would have been better since his one-sided feelings would never be returned. He was shocked when he realized how right Naruto was about the fact that he was the romantic type. Just how many times he wasted few precious minutes on some kissing, holding hands and cuddling scenes about Kiba since Saturday morning? At first, he felt like vomiting because of all the cringe these scenes would make him feel, but he got used to them little by little.
He started to understand a little better why he was so irrationally angry when Kiba would ignore them –most of the time instinctively– when the Hyuuga was in his sight, or when he'd just happily blush because Naruto was teasing him about her, or when… he was acting intentionally cool during sport hours to earn girls' cheers and get the Hyuuga's attention, once again.
To keep his mind busy and temporarily forget about all of it, he scheduled an endless studying program and even started looking for some entrance exams model questions which increased his focus level. Failing because of some dumb and heartbreaking love stories wasn't really in his life plan after all. He felt sorry for despising the poor girl so much and getting unnecessarily in a bad or horny mood because of his clueless unrequired love. If he got enough time and energy for all this utter foolishness, he should use it well to graduate, right?
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"Are you going to tell him?" Shikamaru asked as he flopped down on the bench, next to Shino.
"Can you be a little more specific?" Shino raised his eyebrow at his friend.
Shikamaru kept his usual emotionless face then sighed.
"So troublesome… Your feelings! Are you going to confess them to Kiba?"
"I really don't know what you're talking about" Shino answered as he focused on the match again, but Shikamaru's word made his heart race like crazy.
"Are you really going to play dumb with me?"
"How did you know?"
"That's obvious" Shikamaru said as he sighed.
"At least not to him" Shino chuckled. "Don't …tell anything to Kiba… Please"
They exchanged a pretty long eye-contact.
"I didn't even though about doing it"
"Then, that's a relief"
Another few seconds silence happened before Shikamaru broke it.
"You know it's going to hurt, right?"
Shino didn't answer but just nodded as he looked at Kiba showing off his basketball skills, he was certainly trying to impress Hinata again which made him unconsciously sigh.
"You still have a chance. I mean, the girl is interested in Naruto anyway. And even though he declares loving Sakura, he could-"
Shino shook his head. "I'd never wish for Kiba to suffer… And Naruto is the same"
"You're right… And, he is already going out with the Uchiha anyway"
"Yeah… What?" Shino asked as he turned to Shikamaru.
"Just look at them glancing at each other, and the desire within their eyes… Isn't it love?"
"I didn't notice…" Shino answered honestly.
"You only notice Kiba anyway"
Shino gave him a quite cold look which earned an amused smirk from Shikamaru.
"So, you're going to confess?"
"No. Why? Because it's useless." Shino said and even though Shikamaru couldn't see his eyes hidden behind his goggles, his tone was enough.
"They say first love never work after all"
"Is that so. How about you then? Got any interest?"
"Yeah, and I was thinking about confessing to be honest"
"Oh, so what are you waiting for?"
"The person I love already loves someone else"
"We're in the same boat then"
"Yeah, but I'm a little more courageous that you" Shikamaru said with a tone that irritated Shino quite well. But he answered with a smirk.
"Talk back when you'll be able to confess"
"Then, will you go out with me?"
Shino blinked at the two dark eyes looking at him.
"Are you serious?"
"I'm dead serious"
"I… I-"
"I give you until the end of this week, by then, I hope you'll make the right decision" Shikamaru said he stood up and joined Chouji who was already sitting at their usual spot, secretly eating chips since their professor was against it during sport hours.
Shino was left completely confused, wondering what exactly just happened.
x
"Your answer?"
"Y..Yes"
Later this day, the Inuzuka was proudly holding the brunette's hand while Shino's heart broke into pieces.
Not so long ago, Naruto made a quite bold coming out by kissing Sasuke Uchiha in the middle of the classroom just like in middle school. But this time, they could all see the smile they exchanged when their lips finally separated. Sakura seemed to be already aware since she just shook her head desperately on the side looking at them. The other girls, in the opposites, haven't changed. They all went after an amused Naruto while Sasuke was laughing happily which shocked his classmates.
"Chouji, my mother asked if you can bring the sushi in the morning" Ino asked as she stops next to the round-faced desk.
"Eh? What is happening on Saturday?" Naruto asked popping his head from under the desk.
"It's my dad's birthday party"
"Ohh" Naruto nodded "Wait, Chouji is coming?".
"Of course. Chouji is my boyfriend"
x
The sun was already setting, and a refreshing breeze blew on their face as they were both sitting on the grass behind the gym. It was their favorite spot, well-hidden with a great view since the school was built high in the hill.
"I didn't notice so many people in our class were already in a relationship" Shino said.
"Yeah, it's how things are going I guess"
"Is it the reason why you wanna go out with me?"
Shikamaru turned his face to Shino. He was completely stoic and his face wasn't showing anything but seriousness.
"What a troublesome guy you are… I don't even know why I love you"
"So, you really are in love with me."
"As you can see"
"Since when?" Shino asked just after the Nara answered.
"We can't decide of these things Shino."
"When did you realize it then?"
Shikamaru sighed and thought about few seconds. "I don't know, I just did "
"How?"
"I wanted to kiss you"
"Aren't you embarrassed?"
"You were the one who asked"
Few seconds of silence passed by.
"Then, okay"
"Can you be a little more specific, Shino" Shikamaru answered with a smirk.
"I have no problems with the fact of starting a romantic relationship with you but… but I have one condition"
"I see, I'm all ears"
"Can we… Keep our relationship a secret?"
"Sure. It will be easier than explaining how it happened to the others anyway"
"We don't have to keep it a secret for too long, I just need to get ready for… You know… All of it"
"Take your time Shino. It's not like I expect you to fall for me right away"
"So why did you ask to go out with me in the first place?"
"I don't want you to suffer." Shino's cheek burned this time. "But I don't want you to find happiness anywhere else as well. It's a little selfish, but I'll make sure to be the one who bring back these smiles you only gave to Kiba" Shikamaru said as he looked right into Shino's eyes.
Shino's cheeks were burning "It's… strange to hear this kind of talk from you"
"You don't like it?"
Shino shook his head. "I guess I can get used to it."
Shino isn't shy.
He's just quite reserved.
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