A/N: Um… here's another one. Thanks again to JusticeDream for reviewing, I appreciate it a lot. :)
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"Those who think before they speak will often never say a word"
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People often asked him why he was so silent. They asked him every once and a while why he wore glasses or why his coat had such a high collar. People asked him, every so often, who he was. And honestly, Shino couldn't say he was all that surprised people in the village of Konoha didn't know him very well. They were all so caught up in their own lives, talking to people who actually talked back, though their words were meaningless.
If you asked him, he would tell you that people talked too much in this town, and possibly in this whole country, and you would probably say to him that he didn't talk enough. He would say you were wrong. When the people around him talked, he often found himself drifting out, ignoring them because they never said anything important… anything interesting. It's not as if he could blame though, they didn't exactly grow up the way Shino had. They were different, and that's why he liked this place. It wasn't too quiet, but it wasn't so loud that you had to cover your ears. He liked that people here liked to talk; to fill in the gaps where he himself could find nothing to say.
But once in a blue moon, Shino wished that the people here would only try to understand him better; try to make an effort to comprehend why he didn't talk, but he knew they would think he was just being silly. The people of Konoha liked to waste their words, but he… he liked to make them count.
