A priest came into the room as all the Aburame sat on the floor. Kiba sat next to Hinata who had her daughter with her dressed in the same black and grey attire as everyone else here. Kiba felt a little out of place with his outfit, it matched everyone else's, he just felt weird. Shino was closer to the priest, his face showed no emotions aside from a large green and brown bruise on his face. He tried his best to cover it with his collar before the funeral but it was noticeable now in the open. Kiba was sure all the others could see it but they made no mention to it. Kiba felt sick, emotionally and physically, he was sick from the heat in these robes and sick from the feeling of guilt in him of what he did. He didn't even know why he did it, he just felt so angry and conflicted at the same time. Shino hadn't spoken a word to him since that had happened. It had been three days, Kiba was sure his poorly put together peace offering of daisies wouldn't make anything better between them because he didn't make any mention he did that. It had been rough for him to exit his house but he did anyway that day and picked a few flowers he found on the side of the roads. It wasn't much but he thought it would do something.

The procession went on for what seemed hours to Kiba. He gripped his pant leg as the short but fat priest left the roof. The bamboo floor matting made a soft squish sound at each step. Kiba was so relieved to finally stand after sitting in his legs. Many of the Aburame stayed around to give condolences. The short Dog nin wanted to leave but he came with Hinata who wanted to stay and talk, plus for the close family and friends dinner afterwards. Kiba had no problem with staying to eat but his problem was with the tallest man in the room surrounded by many that looked like him. Kiba couldn't help but to stare at him, just because everyone in the room looked the same Shino looked somehow...different. In a good way, Kiba noted. The short man scratched his beard and stood next to Hinata. The hold up was with Choji talking to him, it had been a year since Choji's father death as well. Shikamaru stood next to him with the same tired expression he's carried for years, Temari wasn't able to attend since she had to be with, Gaara for a meeting. Which Shikamaru was slightly happy she wasn't here, he loved her but at times she got alittle mean in front of all his friends.

"Hinata." Kiba spoke making her turn her head to look at him. Kiba remembered the first time he saw her eyes look at him, he thought them scary and soulless but he now loved it when she turned her head to him.

"What's the matter, Kiba?" She could feel the tension of the man next to her, he hadn't spoken to Shino since they got here. She saw Kiba shift uncomfortably in place waiting for Choji.

"How do you talk to someone who..." He stopped mid sentence to think the words through. She had a look of concern on as he thought. "what if something bad happened and you want to make up for it?"

"Did some the happen between you and Shino?"

"What!?" He shouted making all the Aburame turn to Kiba with their black glasses to look at him. He put his head down and spoke softer, "No...between me a Tamaki." He lied and moved forward as Choji finished talking to Shino.

"Well, first thing to do is apologise then explain why you did what you did, then the both of you should come to an understanding."

She makes it sound so easy...Kiba kept his expression blank as she came up to Shino. Her eyes went to the large mark on his face but gave a smile. She took her opportunity to hug him, his hug was awkward but he gave one back. Himawari gave a hug as her mother did. Kiba braced himself for his turn up to say his words of sadness. She let go letting Kiba come up and the two men looked at each other.

"Sorry for your loss, Shino." He kept his eyes down as he shook hands with his friend of 20 years, Hinata could tell at this moment it wasn't Tamaki who Kiba had messed up with, it was Shino. She knew that bruise on his cheek must have also been from Kiba, she gave a sigh. These two had always been a little unbalanced as friends. Kiba would get mad and Shino would just say the wrong thing to make Kiba even more angry. And it wasn't the first time Kiba had resulted to violence to get Shino to listen to him. But that was when they were little and just learning to be a team, she thought that surly they could get along now.

"You two may stay for the dinner. Because-"

"We would love to Shino. Kiba?" Hinata tried to make her friend budge but he stayed content of not saying a word. He just nodded, making the man standing next to him grow a little annoyed inside. But Shino pointed them to area where the dinner would be.

"Kiba, what happened between you and Shino?" she spoke as they entered the room, only a few where here. Choji sat and waited for more food as Shikamaru sighed along side Ino and her husband Sai.

"Eh! What makes you think something happened?" Kiba was a terrible lair at times he was too open with his feelings, 'easy to read' as Shino would put it at times. He was saved by the entrance of the man he was going to speak about.

Shino sat at the end of the long rectangular table with Kiba on his left and Lee to his left. Kiba unfocused his mind from the situation and looked at the grain in the wood of the table that was replaced by food. It was salads. He felt too sick to his stomach still to eat, he just played with the water chestnuts hidden under the lettuce. Hinata gave him a small bump to eat, he didn't want to get her mad. She's a mom of two and knows how to handle kids like me Kiba told himself and ate. The dinner was quiet, he was sure that you could hear everyone chewing. Well, he could what with his acute hearing. And with his extra sensitive nose, he smelt the unmistakable scent of meat.

Kiba didn't hear Shino calling his name until he snapped back into reality.

"Kiba." Shino's voice was a whisper. Kiba's eyes grew large when his friend spoke his name. "I need to speak to you. Because-"

"Yeah we can." Kiba stood when Shino stood.

"Excuse us for a minute." Shino told the many familiar faces of the other teams. He walked through the white sliding doors, pass the other Aburame standing in the halls. Kiba was sure it was not somewhere good. The journey stopped at the door to another room, opening and shutting the door, Shino had brought him to an empty room used for what seemed to store things.

"Kiba." Shino started and the shorter man knew it wouldn't go well. "I apologise for my actions."

"Wha?" it wasn't the words Kiba was hoping for but he knew Shino. His friend would do or say something, then mull it over for hours or days all while beating himself up and making it seem he was the bad guy when Kiba was the one that hurt him.

"I did something terrible to you, because it is not the way for men to act on another man." Shino dropped to his knees and bowed so far he covered his face with the ground with his arms extended.

"But Shino..."

"No." the man's head popped up from the ground. Kiba knew he wasn't going to win this today. The tall man stood again towering over Kiba's small 5'9" height. Those soft lips he remembered, the heat from his tongue like he remembered, the skillful way it licked his neck...If Shino thought it terrible then Kiba wanted to be terrible with him.

"That is what I wanted to tell you, I needed to apologise-" Shino was cut off by a knock at the door. It was one of the lookouts for the new to be Clan leader. The little man didn't say a word just stared at the two, or what Kiba thought he was. His eyes were covered as well.

"We must return to the dinner." Shino let the other Aburame leave and stood looking down at Kiba. They both could swear the only sound in the room were their hearts beating fast, neither knew what to do. Kiba wanted to return a kiss from the other day, Shino wanted to continue his kisses but he was the first to leave the room and Kiba.

The feast was painful awkward for the two of them. They usually were so cheerful of each other but for today Kiba ate silently as Shino picked at the meat on his plate. Hinata looked at the two, she sat next to her daughter. The dognin began to get restless, he just wanted to yell out. The silence, the out of no where apology and the very fact he was confused with himself made Kiba go to angry fast. As long as no one talks to me, I'll be fine...

"Kiba, would you mind passing the Ponzo-" Shino asked gently while pointing to the bottle, he chose the wrong time to.

"Why don't you take everything from me." Kiba said quietly not moving. The room came to a hush as quickly as Shino's expression changed slightly.

"Kiba I asked you-"

"Just take it, like you took advantage of me a three days ago!" Kiba yelled making everyone gasp. They all thought in their heads as to what that meant. Shino had turned pale, more so than his normal colour. He was sure that would be the end of it all, the town would catch wind of this and he'd be ostracized from the village. Kiba soon came to terms with what he had blurted out.

"Shit, Shino..." Kiba said quietly to the man next to him, who stood as fast as he could.

"If you'll excuse me." Shino gave a bow and left the room to the hallway. He was going to stay in that small room he and Kiba were in before. Just to avoid anyone who may seek him out.

As the guest still talked with each as to what the situation meant, Kiba looked to Hinata who gave him a sad look. So this what made Kiba so worried or...Shino would never take advantage of anyone if that is true of what Kiba said...

The short man began to get worried but tried to cover his emotions as he left the room faster than Shino did. I have to apologise, I fucked up so bad.

Not really having an issue finding the hiding man in the storage room, the door slide open and there he stood with his back to the door. Kiba shut the door and stood there. Say something.

The air was filled with guilt and remorse. Kiba stepped forward and placed a hand on the tall man's shoulder, it was heaving. The slit pupils of Kiba almost shrunk and knowing what he did caused his friend to cry...a man that never showed his emotions to anyone cried, in a storage room.

"Leave me alone." a soft yet poisoning tone came from the man.

"What?" Kiba didn't mean to act dumb, the shoulder he was clinging to was pulled away.

"I said leave me alone. Or I will have to use force." Shino stood straight to his towering height of 6'1, he was the tallest of the graduated ninjas from the Konoha11.

"Gee, you'd think you'd be a little more happy I'm coming to apologise." Kiba started to get snappy with him.

His bark is worse than his bite Shino thought as some of his Kikai slipped from under his skin. The newly made holes from under his jacket bled as they crawled out his collar. "I am giving you time to leave, Kiba."

"Well deal with it, I'm staying and that's that!" Kiba put his hand forcefully on his shoulder again only to get covered in the black beetles. He gave a scream as they began to bite and leach the chakra out of the man.

"Fuck sake, get them off me!" Kiba shook his hand and heard it. The buzzing of hundreds of beetles, Kiba knew he had made a mistake coming today.

"Alright fine, I'll leave but don't expect me to come back to you and your stupid friends!" Kiba yelled as Shino slowly turned around. His face was bleeding from the new openings in his pores.

"Very well...it would be nice to get away from your loudness."