Section 24: Hinata's Setup

Shino and Hinata sat on the roof top silently, without looking at each other. Hinata took her peeks at the remaining motionless Shino. "Is he mad at me now... Shino-sama?"

Shino glanced over, "Yea?"

Hinata dropped her head down, and started to twiddle her thumbs, "...The reason I was asking if you liked any girls..." Shino looked over curiously. "...Well there's a new girl who came here, who I overheard talking about you. I thought that you might have met her before... and maybe even like her."

He turned and faced forward, "There aren't many girls who like the fact I have bugs in me... I doubt this one will."

Hinata turned her head towards him, "...even if she was in the same clan as you are...?" Shino sat there stunned. He had never known of any girls from his clan, he never thought of it really. "She found out you were here... and wanted to meet you... I think it would be nice if you met... so..."

Shino turned to her panicking, "...What'd you do?!"

Hinata curled up, "I told her to come and see you here... right before I went to see Naruto-kun... I'm sorry!"

Shino looked worried from what he just learned, and started sweating profusely. "A girl... Wants to meet me? I don't know... If I can handle it..." Before he knew it, there was a large rapping on the front door, which drew Shino to dive forward to the edge of the roof. He peeked over the edge to see who it was, and he saw a blue haired female in a black vest, wearing a familiar pair of sunglasses.

She seemed to be nervous, swaying back and forth, as Shino hid still watching her. Hinata snuck up behind whispering, "Shino-sama, aren't you going to talk to her?"

"...No... I can't" Hinata sighed sadly, and got up from the roof-top. She started climbing up to the window, while Shino remained at the edge watching. "...she's pretty... but you don't even know her!"

Shino felt a strand tickling on his face, as he noticed the bugs were filtering out of his body, and crawling down the base of the house. He popped up when he noticed they were crawling towards the girl below. "What are they doing!? Those damn bugs!!"

When he looked closely, he noticed begs were coming out from her vest sides and pockets as well. His and her bugs met and started to mix, and she noticed it. She trailed the path of his bugs up to him perched on the roof.

"...Shino?" Shino recoiled in fright, and stood up slowly.

"...Hi."

The girl looked up blushing to Shino, and then jumped up onto the roof next to him. She nervously stepped up to him biting her lip. She waved bashfully, "... I... I'm... Romi..."

Shino stood there silent, blushing significantly. "Those mischievous bugs... did that on purpose! Hinata too! They all set me up, humph..." He forced his words out, despite his hesitation when it came to girls. "Hi, nice too... m...meet you, heh."

Romi leaned straight up, trying to regain her composure, since she was just as nervous as Shino was. She smiled, and looked down to the ground. Their two bands of insects were still mixing together, her red bugs and his black ones. "They seem to like each other!" She giggled nervously.

Shino's eyebrows rose up, and he gave off a soft chuckle. Hinata pops up from the window in amazement and surprise to hear Shino laugh.

A few windows down, Kiba smashes open his window looking left and right, "Do NOT tell me I was hearing things! Shino laughed?!" He spotted Shino, and pointed yelling hysterically, "I heard you laugh! Holy crap! Ha ha!... huh?" Kiba noticed Romi standing next to him, and cracked a huge smile. "Who's the hottie?! Holy shit Shino! You met a girl too! YEA!"

Shino looked over towards Kiba, with a large drop of sweat running down the side of his head. "What a crazy ass..." He turned towards Romi, and she was looking at him engagingly.

She leaned forward and grinned, "You want to go somewhere... to talk or something?"

Shino smiled, "I'd... like that."

She grabbed his hand, "Come with me! I want to show you something!" He nodded, and they headed off, leaving Kiba and Hinata in the windows.

"Hey! Where are you two going?!" Kiba started screaming out the window.

Hinata looked over to Kiba screaming in his window, "Should I... talk to him now? I'd be doing it again..." She sighed with discontent, "What a weird night..." She looked towards Shino and the new girl, Romi, and smiled happily. "But Shino-sama... he looks happy with her, I hope things work between them."