Team Eight
Kurenai was late for her appointment to meet with her first students. "How will anyone take me seriously if I'm late?"
Outside the Ninja Academy of the Hidden Leaf Village, Yuuhi Kurenai turned her red eyes to a grey haired book worm named Hatake Kakashi, who sat on a wooden plank swing underneath a tree and read his book. With his face covered in blue cloth, and his left eye underneath his slanted headband, he directed his exposed eye back at her and nodded.
"Kakashi," she said to the experienced Jounin, which she had only joined the ranks of recently, "haven't your students arrived yet?"
"They have." His feet moved from heel to toe to slightly swing. "They can wait. The teacher of my teacher used to make his students wait hours as he frequently used the washroom. It is a matter of respect to wait a long time for your teacher."
"Wasn't your teacher a student of Jiraiya?" Kurenai recalled the name of the legendary ninja and writer of the erotic book that Kakashi continously read. She thought about questioning the story more, but Kakashi had either known what the wait was for or was completely clueless. She changed the subject. "I heard you have the number one rookie under your wings."
"That's news to me. I always wanted to fail the top rookie." He replied.
Kurenai was shocked. "Does anyone enjoy talking to him?" She thought. She deployed a long silence and waited for him to get back to his book. When the connection severed, she walked into the academy.
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Team eight consisted of three new Genins; all of them were successors of their clan. Kiba, with a white small dog named Akamaru on his wild black hair, leaned on the wall near an opened window. "Isn't this cool Akamura?" He said and the puppy barked. He chuckled. "I suggest that I will be the leader of this group." He looked at Hinata who sat on a chair avoiding eye contact. "Do you have a problem with that, Hinata?"
She glaced at his war painted face. Two long upside down triangles placed under his eyes and down his cheeks. Her technique that passed down from her clan had not activated, but her pale blue eyes could still see stuff that she did not want to know. When she looked at some people, they frightened her and she didn't have any luck when one of those people were in her group. She faced away from Kiba and straight ahead against the backboard stood Shino with his hands in his pockets. She looked down quickly. "I hope I didn't offend him."
A flare in his coat collar covered up to his nose and the rest of his face hid under black round lens of his sunglasses and his head protector. "Shino? He can't lead!" Kiba pointed towards him and his puppy barked. "Akamura's right; he doesn't smell human."
Shino stood without reacting to Kiba and instead turned to the door that soon opened. Kurenai walked into the classroom. "Hello group eight, I'm an your instructor, Yuuhi Kurenai. Can everyone take a seat please."
Kiba took the nearest seat but Shino had not moved. Kurenai walked up to the black board and tapped Shino. The clone vanished in a fading cloud. Kiba and Hinata searched the room and found him sitting behind Hinata. She bit her finger as Shino did not return any stares.
"Sorry for my lateness. We will start my introducing ourselves, telling each other what we inspire towards and your life." She smiled, took in a deep breath and began. "My name is Kurenai. When I was five years old, I had wanted to be a world famous musician, but being a successor to the clan, they wanted me to be ninja. The next goal in my life was made at the age of seven when I had recieved my very first and last pencil set. From then, my life was going to be an artists and I went out everyday to draw. This dream ended a month later because I was a successor ot my clan. Well, we don't get everything we want in life. I have just remembered that once I had a camera that I bought with extra money for helping out my teacher. My closet became my dark room for processing the picture I had taken, and I got an award. My parents were very proud of me, being photographers, and said that once I get a successor to the clan that I can take up the career myself."
Kiba started though the instructor had pointed at Hinata. "My name is Kiba." His dog barked. "And this is dog, Akamura. I'm the leader of this group. You can count on Akamura and me."
Hinata waited a bit then opened her mouth. It closed and she played with her fingers and played with a long strait of blue hair that boarded around her faint round face that showed her embarrassment plainly with red hot marks, the same tone as Kiba's face paint, as vertical slants under her eyes. She conceded everyone waited for her answer and recoil with playing with her head protector that wrapped around her neck. "My name's Hinata," she released in a small voice. She placed her hands over her face and muttered what no one heard. A bee on her table took flight, and Akamura watched it.
The teacher said, "Okay, there is plently of time to get to know each other. How about you?"
Shino was watching a bee that danced on a table and paid little attention to what Kurenai said. The bee flew into Shino's pocket that his hand was in and Akamura leaped off Kiba's head and approached Shino. "Come on, I heard you have an allegry. What is it? When I know, you wouldn't have to say any more." Kurenai paid no attention to the prowling dog. The dog had caught her eye when it jumped up next to Shino and growled. The question of his allegry and the enigma that surrounded him that Kiba and Hinata could sense was answered without words. Shino was allegric to dogs, and what was in him that made him smell inhuman and what Hinata never wanted to detect came out his nose and mouth as he sneezed his what technique his clan inherited. Hundred of bugs swarm out of his body and into Hinata's face and hair. Akamura had his own problem with the bugs as they suck the chakra that they normal fed off from Shino. Shino had lost his attention and the bugs acted on their own.
Hinata shrieked and ran her hands in her short hair aggravating the bugs that fended in their own defense as they tangled in her hair. When Kurenai shook off the shock, she ran to Hinata and found the bugs had returned to Shino who sat still. The bugs on Akamur had also taken the same plan. Kiba held his dog that hung weak in his arms. In anger, he punched the static Shino and dented his face that dissolved into bugs with the rest of his body. "I knew he wasn't human." Kiba said with a clutched fist. He looked over at Hinata who grasped her arms around the instructor. The bugs that had created Shino's body marched to the open window.
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Shino waited with his knees bent near a river and then the destruction bugs that filled his body that he inherited from his clan moved out of the forest and up his pant legs. He looked into the water and removed his glasses and removed his grey coat. All of the bugs filled him and his exposed eyes crawled with a female bugs exiting and entering under his eyelids. He let out a sight, and his open mouth brimmed over with bugs. Shino knew what he had to do, his pet bee that he kept around told him everything and left him with a choice. He reached behind his head to his black spiky hair and untied the knot of his head protector. All of his face was bare and the falling bandana rippled the water.
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Hokage sat ahead of Kurenai at a table with tea. "I heard your first day of training Genins had not gone so well," he spoken in a rash but polite voice. The Hokage, the head of the hidden village, waved another ninja over who brought him a scroll. "The history of the Aburame clan and all of its members are a mystery. Their origin is unknown as the first Aburame member entered his village with this ninja techinque that allowed him to control destruction bugs. They don't speak much about anything as you have found out; so we don't know if they are a clan springing from another hidden village, though no one has claimed them."
"I didn't know that Shino was from that clan. Also, his classmates were surprised to know of his technique to control those bugs. With the Byakugan of Hinata's and Kiba's sense, how did he keep it a secret?"
He took a toke from his pipe. "I can only answer why he would keep his origin a secret. There is a stigma for young Aburame members to fit in as they are likely to hear harsh insults about their clan. I would advise you to encourage this boy and find a way to make team eight cooperate." He handed her a scroll. "Here is your test to give to your squad tomorrow. If Shino does not show up for the test, then the whole team fails."
"Understood."
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Kiba and Hinata walked down the street, with Akamura in the hood of Kiba's grey sweater. "I rather be paired up with Naruto." Kiba said to show his disgust in Shino. Before Kiba could continue, she injected: "Me too."
He looked at her and she blushed; he thought she had taken the same position of hating Naruto with that remark. "At first, I thought that Shino would be a strange teammate, but can I be paired up with a sack of bugs?" He reached behind him and patted his dog. "The only nonhuman I will ever fight with is Akamura."
"He's not inhuman," she said and shocked herself as well as Kiba. She thought: "Now I know why I couldn't look at Shino, it was like the first time I saw Naruto. But Shino still creeps me out while I have no wrong feelings on Naruto."
Down the road they came to a bar that Shikamaru sat in front at a table of playing a game of go. Kiba knew right away that his old classmate was coming up as he heard a complaint: "Complaining, how troublesome."
"Hi, Shikamaru," Hinata said. Shikamaru could control his shadow, and if he connected his shadow to another person, he could make them do what he does. At the momemt, his opponent was the top female student, Ino. She moved some thread of blonde hair out of her eyes, and Shikamaru rubbed his head. "Hi, Ino."
"Hello, Hinata and Kiba." Ino said. Her abilities were mind control, and that had been the reason she challenged the unbeatable Shikamaru to a game. They had went to his favourite table and she tried to get her hands up to her face to perform the technique, but she couldn't bring herself to do it. Shikamaru brushed off a stone of the board. "Wait, I didn't mean to make that move." That was a common phrase she had said as many of her moves seemed logical but made little sense. Her first mistake happened after she put her hands on her face, and all she would have needed to do was move her hands in front of her face and form a triangle. She had question in her mind, "I'm not that bad at this game! Why am I making all of these mistakes?"
"Ino?" Hinata said. Ino and Shikamaru were looking at her. Suddenly, a narrow shadow moved from under the table and aimed for Hinata. She jumped out of the way. Ino knew what happened.
"You have used your shadow technique on me haven't you." Ino said. She remembered all the times he touched the board when she made her moves. "You were leaving behind debris on the table so you could pretend like you were moving it off the board but you were controlling me to make bad moves as I mirrored your movements!"
Shikamaru calmly said: "I knew you would try your technique on me, and only after you put your hands on your face did I keep you from using your technique. And for misguiding your moves, I did so to practice my own technique."
Ino knew Shikamaru was right, but she would not tell him. Kiba laughed and was impressed by the tactics. He had thought this lazy class mate wasn't any smarter than Naruto. "What do you think of Shino?"
"Aburame Shino, the one would controls bugs?" Shikamaru asked.
"Yeah, how did you know he could control bugs?" Kiba asked.
"He has a pet bee." He replied. He adjusted his headband that went around his shoulder. "Only an idiot couldn't figure that out. Aburame is the clan that controls distruction bugs in their bodies. At a young age, the leader of the clan throws the child in a nest and allow the bugs to live off the person's chakra. As a result, the bugs can fight for them."
Ino got out of her chair and punched him into the table. "I didn't know he was part of that bug clan!" She walked away. Shikamaru got up and sat back up. "So?" Kiba continued, "what do you think of him?"
"I'm not good with him, too troublesome." He watched the clouds past by for a while. "I guess not many newer ninjas know about all of the clans in Hidden Leaf Village. I can't tell you much about him since he doesn't talk much. I asked him once if he didn't like speaking because bugs would fall out of his mouth. With a simple word, he said 'yes'. He's a bit insecure about it, but I think he hides it as much as possible for the element of surprise."
"I thought he was a bag of bugs, but he's a human filled with them. That's even dirtier." Kiba said. Shikamaru got up slowly and with his eyes closed stretched his hands high and pointed his index finger out to the sky. Kiba and Hinata looked up to see only sky. "I've wasted enough time. Ever notice when one person yawns, another person does too?" Shikamaru yawned into his fists, and then extended them to his side fast. "Bye."
Kiba looked at Hinata and rubbed the arm closest to where she was standing. "Why did you hit me?" Kiba asked. He remembered her standing up for Shino earlier: "He's not inhuman." However, Hinata had spoke about how he was not made of bugs, then turned up to the sky at which Shikamaru had pointed.
She worked it out in silence; "I thought the hit was a reflex, but Shikamaru used his shadow intimation on me when he made us look at the sky. Then explained why I would have my hands in front of my face if Kiba had seen me. How awful!"
"I think we should part ways now." Kiba stated.
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The room had a collection of bugs and arachnids on spider web shelves hanging from the ceiling that Shino used to train individual destruction bugs. The floor was nothing more then ground and around his room was a garden and in the middle was grass so soft that one may mistake it for carpet. For his pet bee, flowers were planted. He rested in his hammock made from vines that crawled on the ceiling. He listened to a song with a monotone voice: "I got bugs/ I got bugs in my room/ Bugs in my room/ Bugs in my bed/ Their eggs are in my head/ Bugs are in my pocket/ Bugs are in my shoes/ Bugs in the way I feel about you."
From the foliage covering his doorway to his room, Kurenai entered. A bug followed an order to turn off the song. She looked around and questioned why she had taken off her shoes in the first place. Kurenai noticed bugs everywhere: a bee was on the window; a praying mantids was cutting the grass; and a spider busied itself with the shelves. This was the special nursery for the successor of the Aburame clan. "Shino, you don't have to talk to me if you don't want to, but I came here with something to say." He stared at the ceiling and bugs crawled on his face obstructing his view. This was the first time he had shown his full face to another person, and she wondered if he had hid his face because of shame or mystery. When she thought of Shino, she thought about Kakashi: "With his face and one eye always covered up, and that book. That bib around his mouth to absorb the drool. No, I shouldn't think about him that way." She shook her head back into reality. She put a scroll on his desk. "This scroll is your first mission. You don't have to come if you don't want to, I'll understand."
Looking at his face, she wonder about a rumour he must have heard: "Why do you never hear a person from the Aburame clan talk or see them eat? Because they have puke on their food and they have insect tongues to suck it up." She could feel something solid on the back of her legs. She looked around to see a chair and took a seat. The desk that she put the scroll on separated and broken into bugs that gave him the scroll. She knew from where the chair had come. "Does he try to bug, ah,annoy people on purpose?" She thought. She vanished in smoke.
Kurenai was outside holding Shino against the wall. She retrieved a kunai and stabbed him in one of his uprised hands. Blood rushed out and bugs under his grey jacket's sleeve crawled out to mend the wound. He raised an eyebrow. "You may be able to fool your contemporaries and spy, and you may have some reasons to expect people think you're different. But you are different." She yelled. The bee on the window and the collection of other small bugs would have not grabbed the attention of other lower class ninjas. "That doesn't give you the right to take away other people's privacy to know if they are insulting you. I understand you have it hard, but you aren't making your life any more easy. People have a lot worst things inside them that are real burdens. A lot of ninjas would like to be part of a clan, but you're too self-loathing to know you're gifted."
She left him hanging there, and the bugs crawled under the foot of space between the wall and the ground and helped him.
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Next Chapter: Tomorrow, will Shino arrive for the test? Of course, you've seen the show. But how will Shino grow as a teammate with Kiba and Hinata... and Akaramu. The relationship between Kiba and Hinata is a bit rocky as well. There's a promise of mishaps and super cunning tactics. Find out how team eight passes the test.
Notes: The song that Shino was listening to was "Bugs" by Pearl Jam.
Some names may be incorrect as I used some from bad sources: message boards.
Predictions: I have expected this story to go on until the Chuunin Selection Exam so I don't state too much that has already happened in the television show. I expect that team eight, including the second exam has a lot of screen time to explain what had happened to them during the exam.
Shino didn't say anything in his chapter, but he had a major role in it. As with next chapters, there will be a focus on him, as well as the others, but I prefer that he doesn't speak. He's suppose to be a mystery. Out of all the characters, I thought that he would be the biggest challenge to write correctly, so I hope I wrote him well.
Comments and suggestions are welcomed as long as it doesn't involve pairing up two characters romatically. These paragraphs have been cut out for personal usage.
Kurenai was late for her appointment to meet with her first students. "How will anyone take me seriously if I'm late?"
Outside the Ninja Academy of the Hidden Leaf Village, Yuuhi Kurenai turned her red eyes to a grey haired book worm named Hatake Kakashi, who sat on a wooden plank swing underneath a tree and read his book. With his face covered in blue cloth, and his left eye underneath his slanted headband, he directed his exposed eye back at her and nodded.
"Kakashi," she said to the experienced Jounin, which she had only joined the ranks of recently, "haven't your students arrived yet?"
"They have." His feet moved from heel to toe to slightly swing. "They can wait. The teacher of my teacher used to make his students wait hours as he frequently used the washroom. It is a matter of respect to wait a long time for your teacher."
"Wasn't your teacher a student of Jiraiya?" Kurenai recalled the name of the legendary ninja and writer of the erotic book that Kakashi continously read. She thought about questioning the story more, but Kakashi had either known what the wait was for or was completely clueless. She changed the subject. "I heard you have the number one rookie under your wings."
"That's news to me. I always wanted to fail the top rookie." He replied.
Kurenai was shocked. "Does anyone enjoy talking to him?" She thought. She deployed a long silence and waited for him to get back to his book. When the connection severed, she walked into the academy.
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Team eight consisted of three new Genins; all of them were successors of their clan. Kiba, with a white small dog named Akamaru on his wild black hair, leaned on the wall near an opened window. "Isn't this cool Akamura?" He said and the puppy barked. He chuckled. "I suggest that I will be the leader of this group." He looked at Hinata who sat on a chair avoiding eye contact. "Do you have a problem with that, Hinata?"
She glaced at his war painted face. Two long upside down triangles placed under his eyes and down his cheeks. Her technique that passed down from her clan had not activated, but her pale blue eyes could still see stuff that she did not want to know. When she looked at some people, they frightened her and she didn't have any luck when one of those people were in her group. She faced away from Kiba and straight ahead against the backboard stood Shino with his hands in his pockets. She looked down quickly. "I hope I didn't offend him."
A flare in his coat collar covered up to his nose and the rest of his face hid under black round lens of his sunglasses and his head protector. "Shino? He can't lead!" Kiba pointed towards him and his puppy barked. "Akamura's right; he doesn't smell human."
Shino stood without reacting to Kiba and instead turned to the door that soon opened. Kurenai walked into the classroom. "Hello group eight, I'm an your instructor, Yuuhi Kurenai. Can everyone take a seat please."
Kiba took the nearest seat but Shino had not moved. Kurenai walked up to the black board and tapped Shino. The clone vanished in a fading cloud. Kiba and Hinata searched the room and found him sitting behind Hinata. She bit her finger as Shino did not return any stares.
"Sorry for my lateness. We will start my introducing ourselves, telling each other what we inspire towards and your life." She smiled, took in a deep breath and began. "My name is Kurenai. When I was five years old, I had wanted to be a world famous musician, but being a successor to the clan, they wanted me to be ninja. The next goal in my life was made at the age of seven when I had recieved my very first and last pencil set. From then, my life was going to be an artists and I went out everyday to draw. This dream ended a month later because I was a successor ot my clan. Well, we don't get everything we want in life. I have just remembered that once I had a camera that I bought with extra money for helping out my teacher. My closet became my dark room for processing the picture I had taken, and I got an award. My parents were very proud of me, being photographers, and said that once I get a successor to the clan that I can take up the career myself."
Kiba started though the instructor had pointed at Hinata. "My name is Kiba." His dog barked. "And this is dog, Akamura. I'm the leader of this group. You can count on Akamura and me."
Hinata waited a bit then opened her mouth. It closed and she played with her fingers and played with a long strait of blue hair that boarded around her faint round face that showed her embarrassment plainly with red hot marks, the same tone as Kiba's face paint, as vertical slants under her eyes. She conceded everyone waited for her answer and recoil with playing with her head protector that wrapped around her neck. "My name's Hinata," she released in a small voice. She placed her hands over her face and muttered what no one heard. A bee on her table took flight, and Akamura watched it.
The teacher said, "Okay, there is plently of time to get to know each other. How about you?"
Shino was watching a bee that danced on a table and paid little attention to what Kurenai said. The bee flew into Shino's pocket that his hand was in and Akamura leaped off Kiba's head and approached Shino. "Come on, I heard you have an allegry. What is it? When I know, you wouldn't have to say any more." Kurenai paid no attention to the prowling dog. The dog had caught her eye when it jumped up next to Shino and growled. The question of his allegry and the enigma that surrounded him that Kiba and Hinata could sense was answered without words. Shino was allegric to dogs, and what was in him that made him smell inhuman and what Hinata never wanted to detect came out his nose and mouth as he sneezed his what technique his clan inherited. Hundred of bugs swarm out of his body and into Hinata's face and hair. Akamura had his own problem with the bugs as they suck the chakra that they normal fed off from Shino. Shino had lost his attention and the bugs acted on their own.
Hinata shrieked and ran her hands in her short hair aggravating the bugs that fended in their own defense as they tangled in her hair. When Kurenai shook off the shock, she ran to Hinata and found the bugs had returned to Shino who sat still. The bugs on Akamur had also taken the same plan. Kiba held his dog that hung weak in his arms. In anger, he punched the static Shino and dented his face that dissolved into bugs with the rest of his body. "I knew he wasn't human." Kiba said with a clutched fist. He looked over at Hinata who grasped her arms around the instructor. The bugs that had created Shino's body marched to the open window.
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Shino waited with his knees bent near a river and then the destruction bugs that filled his body that he inherited from his clan moved out of the forest and up his pant legs. He looked into the water and removed his glasses and removed his grey coat. All of the bugs filled him and his exposed eyes crawled with a female bugs exiting and entering under his eyelids. He let out a sight, and his open mouth brimmed over with bugs. Shino knew what he had to do, his pet bee that he kept around told him everything and left him with a choice. He reached behind his head to his black spiky hair and untied the knot of his head protector. All of his face was bare and the falling bandana rippled the water.
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Hokage sat ahead of Kurenai at a table with tea. "I heard your first day of training Genins had not gone so well," he spoken in a rash but polite voice. The Hokage, the head of the hidden village, waved another ninja over who brought him a scroll. "The history of the Aburame clan and all of its members are a mystery. Their origin is unknown as the first Aburame member entered his village with this ninja techinque that allowed him to control destruction bugs. They don't speak much about anything as you have found out; so we don't know if they are a clan springing from another hidden village, though no one has claimed them."
"I didn't know that Shino was from that clan. Also, his classmates were surprised to know of his technique to control those bugs. With the Byakugan of Hinata's and Kiba's sense, how did he keep it a secret?"
He took a toke from his pipe. "I can only answer why he would keep his origin a secret. There is a stigma for young Aburame members to fit in as they are likely to hear harsh insults about their clan. I would advise you to encourage this boy and find a way to make team eight cooperate." He handed her a scroll. "Here is your test to give to your squad tomorrow. If Shino does not show up for the test, then the whole team fails."
"Understood."
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Kiba and Hinata walked down the street, with Akamura in the hood of Kiba's grey sweater. "I rather be paired up with Naruto." Kiba said to show his disgust in Shino. Before Kiba could continue, she injected: "Me too."
He looked at her and she blushed; he thought she had taken the same position of hating Naruto with that remark. "At first, I thought that Shino would be a strange teammate, but can I be paired up with a sack of bugs?" He reached behind him and patted his dog. "The only nonhuman I will ever fight with is Akamura."
"He's not inhuman," she said and shocked herself as well as Kiba. She thought: "Now I know why I couldn't look at Shino, it was like the first time I saw Naruto. But Shino still creeps me out while I have no wrong feelings on Naruto."
Down the road they came to a bar that Shikamaru sat in front at a table of playing a game of go. Kiba knew right away that his old classmate was coming up as he heard a complaint: "Complaining, how troublesome."
"Hi, Shikamaru," Hinata said. Shikamaru could control his shadow, and if he connected his shadow to another person, he could make them do what he does. At the momemt, his opponent was the top female student, Ino. She moved some thread of blonde hair out of her eyes, and Shikamaru rubbed his head. "Hi, Ino."
"Hello, Hinata and Kiba." Ino said. Her abilities were mind control, and that had been the reason she challenged the unbeatable Shikamaru to a game. They had went to his favourite table and she tried to get her hands up to her face to perform the technique, but she couldn't bring herself to do it. Shikamaru brushed off a stone of the board. "Wait, I didn't mean to make that move." That was a common phrase she had said as many of her moves seemed logical but made little sense. Her first mistake happened after she put her hands on her face, and all she would have needed to do was move her hands in front of her face and form a triangle. She had question in her mind, "I'm not that bad at this game! Why am I making all of these mistakes?"
"Ino?" Hinata said. Ino and Shikamaru were looking at her. Suddenly, a narrow shadow moved from under the table and aimed for Hinata. She jumped out of the way. Ino knew what happened.
"You have used your shadow technique on me haven't you." Ino said. She remembered all the times he touched the board when she made her moves. "You were leaving behind debris on the table so you could pretend like you were moving it off the board but you were controlling me to make bad moves as I mirrored your movements!"
Shikamaru calmly said: "I knew you would try your technique on me, and only after you put your hands on your face did I keep you from using your technique. And for misguiding your moves, I did so to practice my own technique."
Ino knew Shikamaru was right, but she would not tell him. Kiba laughed and was impressed by the tactics. He had thought this lazy class mate wasn't any smarter than Naruto. "What do you think of Shino?"
"Aburame Shino, the one would controls bugs?" Shikamaru asked.
"Yeah, how did you know he could control bugs?" Kiba asked.
"He has a pet bee." He replied. He adjusted his headband that went around his shoulder. "Only an idiot couldn't figure that out. Aburame is the clan that controls distruction bugs in their bodies. At a young age, the leader of the clan throws the child in a nest and allow the bugs to live off the person's chakra. As a result, the bugs can fight for them."
Ino got out of her chair and punched him into the table. "I didn't know he was part of that bug clan!" She walked away. Shikamaru got up and sat back up. "So?" Kiba continued, "what do you think of him?"
"I'm not good with him, too troublesome." He watched the clouds past by for a while. "I guess not many newer ninjas know about all of the clans in Hidden Leaf Village. I can't tell you much about him since he doesn't talk much. I asked him once if he didn't like speaking because bugs would fall out of his mouth. With a simple word, he said 'yes'. He's a bit insecure about it, but I think he hides it as much as possible for the element of surprise."
"I thought he was a bag of bugs, but he's a human filled with them. That's even dirtier." Kiba said. Shikamaru got up slowly and with his eyes closed stretched his hands high and pointed his index finger out to the sky. Kiba and Hinata looked up to see only sky. "I've wasted enough time. Ever notice when one person yawns, another person does too?" Shikamaru yawned into his fists, and then extended them to his side fast. "Bye."
Kiba looked at Hinata and rubbed the arm closest to where she was standing. "Why did you hit me?" Kiba asked. He remembered her standing up for Shino earlier: "He's not inhuman." However, Hinata had spoke about how he was not made of bugs, then turned up to the sky at which Shikamaru had pointed.
She worked it out in silence; "I thought the hit was a reflex, but Shikamaru used his shadow intimation on me when he made us look at the sky. Then explained why I would have my hands in front of my face if Kiba had seen me. How awful!"
"I think we should part ways now." Kiba stated.
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The room had a collection of bugs and arachnids on spider web shelves hanging from the ceiling that Shino used to train individual destruction bugs. The floor was nothing more then ground and around his room was a garden and in the middle was grass so soft that one may mistake it for carpet. For his pet bee, flowers were planted. He rested in his hammock made from vines that crawled on the ceiling. He listened to a song with a monotone voice: "I got bugs/ I got bugs in my room/ Bugs in my room/ Bugs in my bed/ Their eggs are in my head/ Bugs are in my pocket/ Bugs are in my shoes/ Bugs in the way I feel about you."
From the foliage covering his doorway to his room, Kurenai entered. A bug followed an order to turn off the song. She looked around and questioned why she had taken off her shoes in the first place. Kurenai noticed bugs everywhere: a bee was on the window; a praying mantids was cutting the grass; and a spider busied itself with the shelves. This was the special nursery for the successor of the Aburame clan. "Shino, you don't have to talk to me if you don't want to, but I came here with something to say." He stared at the ceiling and bugs crawled on his face obstructing his view. This was the first time he had shown his full face to another person, and she wondered if he had hid his face because of shame or mystery. When she thought of Shino, she thought about Kakashi: "With his face and one eye always covered up, and that book. That bib around his mouth to absorb the drool. No, I shouldn't think about him that way." She shook her head back into reality. She put a scroll on his desk. "This scroll is your first mission. You don't have to come if you don't want to, I'll understand."
Looking at his face, she wonder about a rumour he must have heard: "Why do you never hear a person from the Aburame clan talk or see them eat? Because they have puke on their food and they have insect tongues to suck it up." She could feel something solid on the back of her legs. She looked around to see a chair and took a seat. The desk that she put the scroll on separated and broken into bugs that gave him the scroll. She knew from where the chair had come. "Does he try to bug, ah,annoy people on purpose?" She thought. She vanished in smoke.
Kurenai was outside holding Shino against the wall. She retrieved a kunai and stabbed him in one of his uprised hands. Blood rushed out and bugs under his grey jacket's sleeve crawled out to mend the wound. He raised an eyebrow. "You may be able to fool your contemporaries and spy, and you may have some reasons to expect people think you're different. But you are different." She yelled. The bee on the window and the collection of other small bugs would have not grabbed the attention of other lower class ninjas. "That doesn't give you the right to take away other people's privacy to know if they are insulting you. I understand you have it hard, but you aren't making your life any more easy. People have a lot worst things inside them that are real burdens. A lot of ninjas would like to be part of a clan, but you're too self-loathing to know you're gifted."
She left him hanging there, and the bugs crawled under the foot of space between the wall and the ground and helped him.
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Next Chapter: Tomorrow, will Shino arrive for the test? Of course, you've seen the show. But how will Shino grow as a teammate with Kiba and Hinata... and Akaramu. The relationship between Kiba and Hinata is a bit rocky as well. There's a promise of mishaps and super cunning tactics. Find out how team eight passes the test.
Notes: The song that Shino was listening to was "Bugs" by Pearl Jam.
Some names may be incorrect as I used some from bad sources: message boards.
Predictions: I have expected this story to go on until the Chuunin Selection Exam so I don't state too much that has already happened in the television show. I expect that team eight, including the second exam has a lot of screen time to explain what had happened to them during the exam.
Shino didn't say anything in his chapter, but he had a major role in it. As with next chapters, there will be a focus on him, as well as the others, but I prefer that he doesn't speak. He's suppose to be a mystery. Out of all the characters, I thought that he would be the biggest challenge to write correctly, so I hope I wrote him well.
Comments and suggestions are welcomed as long as it doesn't involve pairing up two characters romatically. These paragraphs have been cut out for personal usage.