Different
The first time they have a proper conversation, it is after the Sasuke retrieval mission. Their teams are broken up and their sensei's are all away on missions or hurt.
Shino is willing to train with Tenten because he knows she is strong, and Tenten is willing to train with Shino because she'd rather die than train with Sakura or Ino. (Hinata is busy with her clan) Shino unexpectedly vents his frustrations about not being to ho on the Sasuke retrieval mission (he was on another mission with his father).
Tenten sharply snaps that at least he would have been able to go. None of the boys even bothered to ask the kunoichi, she says bitterly. He looks startled, or at least he would if he showed any emotion. He is lucky, she says. Look how everyone else came back, she reminds him.
No, not lucky, he says calmly. It was my destiny. Her head snaps up startled at this comment that she once made long ago.
She realizes, he is different, this one. This kunoichi, she's not all squeamish like the others, not even about his bugs, Shino thinks.
Ok, this chapter isn't much good. Oh well. Please review anyway.