Disclaimer: I do not have Naruto in my arsenal of 'own'!
"No! I don't want to go!!!" Shino retorted as his father announced that they would be attending the annual Konoha New Year's party. That girl that he had kissed last time still literally robbed his once pleasant dreams about Hikari (if you've read my other fic, 'Survivor' you'd know that Hikari is Shino's very annoying ((in a cute way)) bug who is always hungry) finally stop bugging him about asking him for food. What horrid nightmares…
"But Shino, it's required, besides, what could be so bad?" I don't really want to go either, but at least I can beat the heck out of Inuzuka. "Besides the fact that you have to find a date to go along with you, but besides that!"
"DATE???!!!" Shino gasped faintly. No Hikari, I'm NOT asking that girl out!!! She's older than me!!! AND I ALREADY TOLD YOU SHE DOES NOT HAVE ANY SPINACH!!! Hikari!!! Stay on the subject!!! What?! Do I look gay???!!! He's a boy!!!! So what if he has long hair???!!!! Hikari!!!!!
"You will be going, and that's final." Shino's dad told him shortly. "And who is this girl I'm hearing about?"
Shino groaned. Hikari was such a loudmouth. Even his father could here the talking from over there.
He was going, he had to go… My goodness… HE'D HAD TO ASK A GIRL OUT!!!!!!!!! The thought of that made him faint, but he'd better get going, because if there was no one left, boy, his father would murder him. Well, not murder, just take Hikari away from him for a day. Even if that loudmouth was away, Shino really did like that loudmouth.
So our poor friend Shino set out on his quest… To find a girl he could ask out on a date. So… This was true torture… Painful… Really, really painful…
He started walking down the street, paying not a lot of attention whatsoever, until right out of the blue…
"AH!!!!!! SHINO-KUN!!!!!" Shino swiveled around, preparing for the full force of that girl he met the other day, only to find a huge banner with the words :The Official Shino-Kun Fan Club written on it. Great, since when did he get a fan club?!
"Er…" Then there was yet another sheik, followed by two more.
"SASUKE-KUN!!!! I HAVE YOUR BABY BOY RIGHT HERE!!!!!!!"
"NEJI-KUN!!!!! MARRY ME!!!!!"
"SHIKI-KUN!!!!!!! I LOVE YOU!!!!!"
After that, it was followed by a quick haste of blabbering words.
"TOO BAD!!!! I'm uh… I'm going with, uh… Er… I'M GOING WITH NEJI'S COUSIN!!!!" The boy, whom Shino remembered as Sasuke hollered at his club, pointing at the kid with long hair. All of them hung their heads down at that.
"Hey! She's not going with you! She's… She's… SHE'S GOING WITH SHIKAMARU!!!!!" The boy named Neji screamed.
"Me? No… She doesn't want me…" The kid named Shikamaru said simply. After that, everyone dispersed.
Silence.
"MY GOSH!!! YOU DID NOT ASK HINATA TO THE PARTY, DID YOU???!!!!" Neji screeched at that Sasuke boy.
"Of course not!!!" Sasuke said, slightly offended. Then they noticed Shino
"Oh… It's you… Now you're really welcomed to the club." Shikamaru said as Neji and Sasuke broke their conversation. "I'm Nara Shikamaru, the kid with the white eyes is Hyuuga Neji, and the kid with the red eyes is Uchiha Sasuke. And you?"
"…Aburame Shino…" Shino answered flatly.
"Nice to meet you, welcome to our unofficial club." They all said in unison. Then suddenly this kid with the yellow hair that looked kind of drunk on Christmas came walking down.
"Club?" He asked. "Can I join? Boy, you won't believe how many girls chase me. Phew… I barely made it out of there alive!!! I'm Naruto by the way." Sasuke glared at him, Neji scoffed, and Shikamaru groaned.
"Go away Naruto." Sasuke said shortly, his hair flinging to one side.
"…" Neji said nothing.
"Yeah… Whatever…" Shikamaru answered, rather bored. Shino said nothing, just like Neji.
"Hey! How come I can't join?!" Naruto pouted.
"Because you don't have a fan club to clobbered you everyday." Sasuke answered, his hair flinging again.
"Hey! Then how come he can be in the club?! All he does is play with bugs all day!!!" Naruto pointed to Shino, who flinched.
Gee, just what I needed. Yes Hikari, you're a bug. What's wrong with bugs? Everyone except a handful hates them. Yes, they hate you!!!
"You do?!" Sasuke asked, stunned.
"Uh…" Was what came out of Shino's mouth. He was paralyzed, but nether less, he released his bugs, causing much commotion.
"WAAAAHH!!!!!! EWWW!!!!! GET AWAY FROM ME YOU CREEP!!!!!!" Naruto screeched.
Shino called them back, but they were now staring at him as if he was a creep, which in terms of normal, he was.
"Y-y-you… Cool…" (remember, they're five, save Neji, who's six) Shino stared at them usually when that happened, they'd all call him a creep and throw tomatoes at him. At least Hikari enjoyed it.
"Heh. So you have already mastered your clan's secret, eh?" (just pretend) The kid named Neji said. Those eyes again… "So that makes two of us."
"Tch, keep wishing Neji, keep wishing." Shikamaru snorted. "So, who are you taking to the party?"
"…"
"What? No one?" Sasuke taunted.
"Who are you taking then?" Neji asked. Plan backfired.
"…Hmph…"
"What? No one?" Neji mimicked.
"What about you, Shikamaru?" Sasuke suddenly asked.
"Oh, me? I'm taking this twig to the party." Shikamaru answered, showing them a stick he had just picked up.
"You're hopeless… 'Shiki-Kun'." Neji snickered. "What about you, Shino?"
"… I don't know…" Shino confessed.
"Really?" Sasuke asked. "I could hook you up with either Sakura or Ino." He offered. Sakura, that pink-haired girl that was dancing with Neji before, and Ino must be a that yellow haired girl, disdainfully dancing with the boy with the puppy.
"I could hook you up with Hinata." Neji offered also. Sasuke and Shikamaru laughed at this. Hinata was that shy girl as Shino remembered.
"What about TenTen?" They asked him. So, that was her name, TenTen… Little by little, step by step. Cute… Tch.
"Her too I guess… But I'm telling you, she's got game in her." Neji warned them.
"What's her new game this time?" Sasuke asked.
Neji thought about it for a minute before he decided what suited it best. "Sudden Death." Neji answered. Shino would never have thought about that girl in a way like that. She seemed more like on of those fan girls from their clubs.
More snickers.
"How do you play?" Sasuke asked.
Neji thought some more. "Well, first she'd take out all her kunais, then all of her shurikens, and she'd climb up a tree, and wait until I pass by. Then she'd start chucking them at me like there's no tomorrow. And when she runs out of ammunition, she starts chucking random objects, namely, two pound logs." Neji explained as he clutched his right arm, which Shino had just noticed have been bandaged. (So now you know. Jk.) So was his right leg.
"Sounds like fun, I want to play too!" Sasuke snorted as Neji started leading them to what seemed like to TenTen's house. Shino, having nothing better to do, and not realizing where they were going, decided to tag along.
Meanwhile…
"Oh, Shino-Kun! I shall not let the grasp of your evil fan club steal your precious heart… For I, TenTen, shall now be engaged in a game of 'Sudden Death'!!!!!" TenTen cheered as she held up a kunai to the air, tip sparkling. (remember, she's six.) "But first, I must accomplish the task of annoying Neji to death!!! I'm sorry my love, but duty calls!"
And with that, she proceeded to take out all fifty-four of her kunais, and thirty-two of her shurikens. Then she climbed up a tree, and waited. And waited, and waited, and waited.
"No way! You're going to ask Ino???!!!" TenTen was now fully alerted. That voice belonged to Sasuke, that meant Neji and Shikamaru were there as well. TenTen smirked. Three for the price of one.
"So, have you decided who you want to go with, Shino?" That was Neji. Shino… SHINO-KUN!!!!! Hehe… This was going to be more fun than ever!!!! And with that, she started throwing like there was no tomorrow!!!
"Whoa! You weren't kidding when you said 'Sudden Death', were you, Neji?!" Sasuke asked as he barely dodged TenTen's kunai. Suddenly, weapons from all directions flew at them. (I don't know if Neji can use Byakugan then, but let's assume he can.)
"Byakugan!" Neji muttered as veins popped out around his eyes. Now Shino was even more creep out by the eyes.
They kept dodging. Shino by far, as pretty much unscratched. Sasuke was severely bruised, finding the tree roots more damaging than TenTen's game of 'Sudden Death'. Shikamaru was smart enough to dodge up into a tree. Neji? He was picking up weapons and chucking them back. Now it was Neji vs. TenTen. Sudden Death. Shino was just… there…
But all too suddenly, TenTen ran out of weapons, so she started shucking whatever she could find. Now, since you know Shikamaru was up a tree, and so was TenTen, well…
"Ugh… Why is this log so heavy?!" She moaned as she accidentally tossed Shikamaru. Remember, it was nearing dusk, so her comprehension of 'random objects' wasn't really to keen then.
"WAAAAAAAHHHH!!!!!!" Shikamaru screamed as he came tumbling into Shino, who was caught off guard. "…Ugh…"
"Oh my goodness!!!! Shino-Kun!!!! I- AAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHH!!!!!! …Cute…" Try and guess. Bugs dispersed where Shino should have been. Instead, he was now behind her. A kunai pressed lightly against her throat.
"Game Over." He muttered into her ear. Bad idea.
"OH!!!! SHINO-KUN!!!!!! YOU'RE SOOOOOOO TALENTED!!!!!!" She screamed. "Go on, ask me out to the New Years party!" She willed. Great, another predicament…
"He can't, he's going with Hinata, aren't you, Shino. Besides, he's a year younger than you." Neji sneered.
TenTen looked at Shino with those big round eyes again. "You didn't, did you, Shino-Kun? WAAAAAAAAHHH!!!!!! I THOUGHT YOU LOVED ME!!!!!!!" And with that she ran away. (remember again, she's six)
Shino, at that point, didn't know if he was to be happy, or a bit sad. Finally, he decided: happy.
"Thanks Neji, but how will I live up to those words of yours?" Shino asked him. "Neji?" Neji was gone, instead, Shikamaru answered.
"Don't sweat it, Hinata's Neji's cousin, even though they do have their family disputes. She kind of shy, so she never leaves the Hyuuga house, so there's not much of a chance she'd be taken. It'll be fine, she'll agree." Shikamaru assured him as the trio went on to find Sasuke.
Pretty soon, they did find him, but they immediately decide to hide in trees.
"Um… TenTen… Are you alright?" He asked as he knelt down to the curled ball in front of him.
"N-No!!!!" She sobbed. Now Shino was feeling a bit guilty. "Y-You won't understand!!!!!! Now I've got no date, and the party's in two days!!!" She sobbed some more as Neji sighed. Shikamaru and Sasuke started trying to hold back snickers. Shino then knew. Neji had a thing for the perky master of 'Sudden Death'.
"Well… A lot of people don't have dates yet…" He said, tossing a rock into the trees, narrowly missing Shino by centimeters.
"Y-Yeah?! Like who?!" She demanded, still sobbing.
"Like… Me… TenTen, will you go to the New Years Party with me?" Neji asked, blushing madly. The crying stopped. TenTen lifted her tear-tainted face to look at a REALLY embarrassed Neji.
"R-Really?! THANK YOU NEJI-KUN!!!!" She exclaimed as she gave him a small peck on the cheek. (remember, six year olds…Just learning what love means…)
"S-Sure…" Neji mumbled. Shikamaru and Sasuke couldn't keep it in anymore. Even Shino was snickering inside.
"BWUAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!! TO THINK, YOU OF ALL PEOPLE!!!!!" Shikamaru cried as he and Sasuke tumbled out of their trees, Shino followed, having no choice really.
"SHIKAMARU!!!!!!!!!!!"
Later…
"So, um… Hinata… Will you go to the party with me?" Shino asked. Now Neji and the others were trying to hold back their laughter. Hinata blushed. She was hoping for Naruto, but he already got a date with someone else.
"Uh, sure…" She answered, starting to play with her fingers.
"Thanks…"
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Blah… Next chapter:
I heard the whole thing. They always underestimate me, Kiba, Kurenai-Sensei, and at some times, Hinata. Why? Why am I never taken seriously?
"Go wake up Naruto and Shikamaru". They all think I'm just there by the sidelines. Well, you're wrong. I've gone from the sidelines, into the game itself.