AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHH!!!!! I'm so sorry! You must forgive me!!!!! I know, I know, too long are the updates, but you have to know how much stuff I have to work on. You try going to two schools at once and playing the piano and the violin and make sure your two siblings don't draw on the T.V. with oil pastels!!!! It's actually quite challenging!
Anyways, read on!
This is in Shino's point of view, so it will be a bit out-of-character seeing we never really do know what he's really thinking…
"Pss, Hinata, do you think he's dead?" I heard Kiba whisper to Hinata. Who was dead?
"I-I don't think so, Kiba. He looks a bit…" Hinata stuttered and I felt someone pick me up. What was going on?!
I cracked open one eye.
"H-Hinata?" I asked, amazed that she was picking me up. Wait, what's with my voice? I sound like a three-year-old!
"Shino! Buddy! Pal… Uh…" Kiba trailed off slightly, then cautiously poked me in the stomach.
"Kiba, do not poke me!" I demanded, now fully conscious, though the fatigue on my muscles prevented me from moving, so I just laid there in Hinata's arms. How… embarrassing… and, wait, isn't that a bit impossible?
"S-Shino? A-Are you f-feeling alright?" Hinata asked, placing her hand to my forehead, probably to see if I had a fever or not. Hey, wait, did Hinata just grow or something? Her fingers are awfully longer…
I didn't answer, nor did I have a chance to because Kiba broke in right then:
"Yeah, because you're like, three feet tall and sound like a four-year-old." Kiba remarked, as he picked me up- wait, Kiba's holding me?! "See?" I looked at myself in the reflection of the lake. There was Kiba, standing next to Hinata, and me…
"Why am toddler-sized now?" I demanded, trying to keep cool, but hardly doing so. "Why are you holding me, Kiba? What happened?!"
"I-I'm sorry, Shino, b-but we don't know…" Hinata replied, looking down at the ground. "I-I'm sorry…"
"…"
"Aww, don't worry yourself, Hinata. It was my fault that I let Shino dive headfirst into that jutsu." Kiba said sympathetically, placing an arm around Hinata.
"Would someone please explain?" I asked rather impatiently. I really didn't want to be stuck like a three-year-old for too long!!!
"Oh, yeah." Was the answer Kiba gave me. I had to admit, he could be quite slow at points… "Well, we were on this mission, and then we were sort of ambushed, and then you kind of, well… you kind of dove headfirst into some kind of jutsu, and then here you are, a toddler!" Kiba finished with a sheepish smile. Smile? How dare he smile while I am completely… AAAAAAH!!! No, Shino, you must remain calm, cool, and collected… That's right, calm, cool, and collected…
"M-Maybe we should tell this to Kurenai-Sensei…" Hinata suggested. Kiba looked at her for a while, making her a bit nervous, and then came up with the most despicable answer ever imaginable:
"Yeah… But not before we take Shino out for some fun!!!" Kiba replied as he threw me in the air and then caught me again. That was really frightening, I must admit, but I didn't realize that after my mind went: NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! But of course, I didn't show that on the outside, naturally…
At The Clothe Shop
Well, of course they took me to the clothe shop first, I mean, my overcoat was just a tad too big for me, but I protested, seeing I could still walk around in it, but Kiba insisted that I looked ridiculous in that outfit. He should look in the mirror someday. Then he'd know what ridiculous meant, but, like always, I didn't voice this verbally…
"Oh! Kiba, look at this!" Hinata laughed as she picked out a yellow T-shirt with a smiley face on its front. I, who had been trying to avoid everyone, suddenly looked at what Hinata as referring to, and stop dead. She couldn't be serious. No, she couldn't be. She can't. Oh, no… Kiba's smiling… oh, no…
"Kiba… stay away from me…" I said with a deadpan voice, but really, I was quivering in fear. I quickly looked around. Oh, no… Sakura was there with TenTen, and Neji and Sasuke were with them, obviously being dragged into it. I really hope they do NOT recognize me.
"Oh, come on, Shino!" He cooed as she took me into a changing room, threw off my coat, and stuffed the T-shirt of me, changed my shoes, and then Hinata called, so he just pushed some shorts to me, and went out to Hinata. Great, just great.
And then I came out. Very, very, very, VERY bad idea.
"Oh! Shino!!! You're so cute!!!" I was immediately lifted off my feet as TenTen picked me up and started twirling me around lie a rag doll. "Such a sweet thing!!!" I was in a living nightmare. I could see Sasuke and Neji smirking. Great, my reputation's been ruined too… This cannot be happening!!!
"Come on, TenTen, my turn!" I felt myself now in the hands of Sakura. She looked at me as if I was her little cousin or something. I wanted to throw up… "You are just a regular sunshine!" Eww… eww… eww… someone wake me up!!!
At A Café
So after that dreadful experience, instead of trying to get me to being normal, they sweep me off to a café, where whom else do we find but Chouji, Ino, and Shikamaru? Drat…
"Hey guys! I didn't know you people went to this café!" Kiba exclaimed. Chouji looked at Shikamaru, who looked at Ino, who was happily sipping coffee.
"Oh, we LOVE French stuff, so that's why we decided to come here!" Ino told them, nudging Shikamaru.
"OW!"
"Right, Shikamaru?"
I looked around some more. Oh, great. There was Lee with Naruto, arguing about something stupid and petty, and Hinata ordering some stuff… Oh, why me?!
"Oh, hey, who's that?" Asked Ino, pointing to me. I glared at Kiba, pleading him not to tell, but he obviously didn't see that.
"Oh, it's Shino, well, mini-Shino. Some kind of spell turned him that way, but before we try to change him back, we're going to have some fun!!!" Kiba exclaimed. Ino and Chouji gasped as they swarmed around me, poking me, and much to my dismay, picking me up and such. Shikamaru just looked at me. I now officially hate all of them, but again, I didn't voice that in words of course.
"Oh, here you go, Shino." Hinata came back, and handed me a cup of warm milk, tea for Kiba, and water for herself. "Do you want a cookie?" She handed me a oatmeal cookie. I felt absolutely pathetic. And then Naruto and Lee came over.
"WHOA! Shino?!" Lee gasped, slapping his cheeks. Naruto just bent down to my level, squinted hard at me until we were nose-to-nose. I quickly backed away, recalling that thing that happened with Sasuke. I didn't want that to happen to me! No way.
"Ha! You're smaller than me!!!" Naruto pointed at me with a triumph grin. I just stared at him blankly, mind flashing: 'what an idiot' all over.
"Hey, has it ever occur to you that perhaps the only person who could change Shino back could be the person that cast the spell? But then again, he or she is probably a long ways away now…" Shikamaru told them. There was silence. And then I cracked.
"WHAT?!"
"Shino…?" A voice… Someone… Hinata?
"Yo, Shino, buddy!" I felt water being trickled onto me. It wasn't pleasant, so opened y eyes and blinked out the water droplets. The sky was dark, it was night.
Then I remembered the whole three-years-old incident, and I sat bolt up, taking sharp inhales.
"Shino, are you okay?" That was Kurenai as she came over to me. "Here, drink some water, don't dump it on yourself, okay?" I gingerly took the bowl of water, and looked into it. By the light of the moon, I could clearly see: I was me!!! Wait, I cannot rhyme! Oh, who cares?! I'm not three!!! But what is the time?
"So I am not three?" I said happily. "For a while I thought that I would be…" They looked at my funny. "What is it? You look as if I was a long lost relative coming for a visit." And then I realized, that though I wasn't three, I was rhyming and buzzing like a bumblebee. Oh, why, why me? I am but a simple leaf shinobi. NO WAY!!! I CANNOT RHYME!!! OKAY?!!! Oh I'm a poet, and sadly I know it…
"SHINO!!!!" I woke up, and I finally realized I must have had a dream within a dream… queer… "YOU'RE GOING TO BE LATE!!! GET UP!!!"
Thank you! Thank you, whoever you are, that made me wake up!!!
So concludes the most pathetic piece thus far!