TenshiUmiko: Alrighty! Sorry about the extended date thingy whatever. Here's the next insert of Shino's Problem! Read and Review! Sorry if Shino seems ooc but who knows what he really is thinking, ne!

Disclaimer: Naruto is not mine, nor is Shino or his problem.

Summary: Shino wakes up to find his bugs have gone MIA (Missing In Awaking) on him so he travels to Hinata's house…

Shino's Problem

Chapter Two

Once again Shino was walking. Where to? Hinata's house. What for? To help him find his bugs. But for some strange reason, a nagging feeling at the back of his mind kept on telling him that he is forgetting something important. Very, very important. But he just couldn't reach it. Guess that means that they were also short on the memory retrievals too.

Shino felt as if he had been walking for hours and was beginning to worry about being lost when he walked right into a tree. WHAM! He lay on the ground for a while trying to sort out his thoughts, etc. Was he in for a surprise. Suddenly after walking with absolutely no sight and hearing, he could see, well more like see blurry and dark images, and hear, okay more like hear static over everything else. But it was better now because he, sort of, recognized the area he was in. He and his team practiced here all the time. Well, more like Kiba.

Once again his mind was filled with annoying memories of his prankster friend. His friend, although is his friend, was always so annoying and pranksterioush…Was that even a word? Shino ignored the question and tried to focus on the problem at hand. He stood up and once again began to walk towards what he believed to be the correct direction to her house. He had to get to Hinata's house before…WHAM!

Shino was once again disorganized and on the ground when something stepped? on him. He silently cursed the fellow who did so as his vision became even more blurred and his hearing even more static.

"…sorry…." He frowned as he got up unto his hands and knees and retrieved his sunglasses on the ground near him. Putting them on he wondered if he had heard that or if that had just been his imagination. Once again he heard the soft and static-filled voice.

"…help you?...Shino…." Oh! He realized the person knew him. So he tried to stand up but a sharp pain on his right shoulder left him back on the ground. The pain was so fresh and unexpected that Shino almost did not notice the blurry hand in front of his face.

"…me…you…go…where?" Shino shook his head muttering loud enough that he'll be fine and he'll find his own way, no thanks to the person in front of him. Suddenly, his left hand was grabbed and he was wrenched up into a standing position.

"…are…pathetic….c'mon!" Shino couldn't help but slightly squeeze the hand back to feel the vibrations of the blood in the veins, the sweaty warm. It was a ninja's hand and a callused one too. Shino tried to zoom in on the voice to tell him the sex of the ninja.

"…are…going….no?" It sounded mildly high. Shino blushed into his coat. A girl. A koinochii.

"Hinata's house." He answered. Then while gingerly keeping his right shoulder from moving too much, he was gently turned back where he came from and pulled to follow. Shino sniffed the air. It smelt of a heavy sweaty musk. The girl must've been training when they met (more like collided) each other. Her hand holding his was gentle. As bad as the day had begun, Shino was beginning to feel that fate was finally in his favor. In all of Shino's history, the other sex had always ran away from him because of his bugs, but this female was different….

Shino began to lag and daydream of the girl before him. If she was beautiful or ugly or plain, or if she had long hair or short hair. A blush overcame his face as he began to daydream of a wide open field of flowers and hundreds of bugs of different species surrounding a couple, him and the girl, as they ran through the flowers. And just as they were about to fall and tumble in the grass and all that flowery schmict, a huge pain to his cranium happened to tumble him out of his sweet daydream.

"Stop…dreaming….weird….hole…." Shino was then dragged forward even faster. The pain in his shoulder and cranium were became bittersweet memories as once again he fell into a blood-squirting-out-of-nose daydream. The girl was in a tight leather leotard outfit and thigh-high boots. Her hair was short and red and hung loosely around her face. Her green eyes flashed a sweet rebellious as she whipped a whip around demanding order from a leather roped Shino who squirmed delightfully on the floor near her heels. Blood trickled down his nose as he came back to from the daydream and tried to hide his nose from the girl who pulled even harder on his hand. Then they stopped.

"We're….Hinata's…." When he heard that, his world seemed to shatter. What's going to happen?

"Well…." Shino didn't bother trying to listen as he held out the hand that was just released and grabbed the edge of her black coat.

"Wait!...I…I…" Shino blubbered and turned a tomato red as he looked down to where his hand held her coat. He didn't notice the trail of bugs that were climbing up his leg or Hinata who held a white dog in her arms come up behind them. He did notice that his hearing became sharper and the static was no longer there. His eyes were now focused and he was now staring clearly at his rough, dirty hand clinging to the girl's coat. Shino quickly took the opportunity to look up at the girl and….

Well, let's just say he's shocked.

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