A/N: So yeah, this fic really hasn't been getting many hits at all. Guess the summary sucks. Thank you to those that read and especially to those that reviewed though. I'm not sure if I'm going to continue this fic, I just wanted to at least have this chapter so I could have messed up Shino.

There's this ringing in my ears and it won't go away. This incessant screech that's piercing my skull. I'm disoriented. Dust is everywhere, blocking my vision and stifling my breathing. I'm trying to make sense of things but I can't. Where am I? What just happened? My ears are still ringing but my visions coming back now. I look around trying to get oriented again and…

Hinata!

I'm frantic now, shaking off the haze and looking manically around for any site of her. I see her on her knees on the side of the walkway, just as disoriented as me. I'm at her side in an instant, helping her to her feet. I think she's crying. Her eyes are red and closed tight and she's wiping them; although it may be just because of the dust from the explosion.

I lead us away as quick as possible. I steal a glance back at the smoldering building behind us, I'm curious but I have other things on my mind now; I can find out what happened later. We head back to my car on the outside of the town. The streets seem more crowded now. It's late at night and the town was relatively barren but now it seems packed. There are a few people like me and Hinata that are scrambling away from the scene but the majority of people crowding the street are bystanders, coming out to see what all the noise was about. Some are asking questions but I ignore them, all I want to do is get out of here.

When we reach my car my ears are still ringing and I still feel like I'm in some sort of haze. I help Hinata into her seat and then jump in as well before speeding off. Hinata has been quite the entire time, she seems like she's in shock. Her clothes are all dirty and tattered as well as her hair and face. I look down and find my clothes in a similar state. I look into the rear view mirror and find I have a few scrapes on my face and my hair is covered with dust. I had been too busy getting away before that I hadn't had time to clean myself off.

Once we're far enough away I start wiping dust and dirt off of my clothes and face, letting it fall onto the floor in front. I look worriedly over to Hinata who still hasn't said a word or so much as moved. I give her a gentle tap on the shoulder and she looks at me, her eyes even more barren and cloudy then usual. I wipe some dirt from her face and fix her hair a little but she still remains silent. I can't think of anything to say so I turn back to the road and continue driving.

After a little more driving we arrive at her house. I put the car into park in front of her car and lean back a little, trying to calm my nerves. She doesn't get out; she just sits there still, starring blankly ahead. I was hesitant to bring her back to her house looking like this but I didn't know what else to do. I figured it would probably be best to get her back as soon as possible and just have her dad a little furious with me then waiting and having her dad on the verge of murdering me.

We wait a little longer still, sitting in silence in the car, and she still doesn't get out. I don't rush her, I actually prefer for her to stay here, so at least I can know she is safe. Even though there was no way I could have for seen this happening I know that Hinata's dad will still blame me for it. That's just the kind of person he is.

"Are you okay?" I ask, breaking the silence that had spanned from the explosion until now. I see her lips move but I don't hear any words, my ears are still ringing and her voice is too quite to hear over it. "What?"

"I'm fine," She whispers; louder now so that I can hear. I know she doesn't completely mean that, she's just saying what I want to hear. "Just a little surprised."

"Do you want me to come in with you?" I ask, thinking maybe dealing with her dad would be easier if I were there to take the brunt of his anger. I know she won't accept my offer, she's too nice to drag me into something like this, but I'll ask anyway every time.

"It's okay, I can go in alone," She replies predictably. She still doesn't get out though. I think she still needs a moment to recuperate. Again, I don't rush her, it's not like I have anywhere to be. I'm not sure how my mom will react to this. She'll probably get mad at me for taking the car when I'm not supposed to drive and maybe will feign being worried about me nearly getting killed, although she'll probably just shrug it off in the end and forget about it by morning. I'm not sure how my sister will react either. In all honesty, I could care less; she'll be gone in a day or two anyway.

"I should go now," Hinata says, finally coming back down to reality. She wipes off some more dirt from her clothes and hair and opens the door. "Thanks, it was fun until…yeah."

I laugh at this and watched her get out of the car. I wait until she's in her house before I leave. Even after she's gotten inside I wait outside for a couple seconds. I take a few deep breathes and glance over at Hinata's house one last time before putting the car in gear and heading back to my house.

When I arrive home my mom's car is back in the driveway but all the lights are off. I park the car at the end of the driveway and get out. I don't plan on going home just yet. Instead I walk down the street some and end up at my neighbor's house. It's late but he'll be up, he's more of a night person anyway. I head for the back door, the one the leads to his basement, where he lives. I knock once and wait exactly five seconds before knocking again twice.

Moments later I hear footsteps on the other side of the door and see an eye block the light of the peep hole. A few seconds after that and I hear the sound of countless locks and bolts being undone before finally, the doors creeks open.

Now I'm starring face to face with him, Shino. We've been neighbors for a while, when Hinata moved out, he moved in. We weren't friends at first; he was just too strange and creepy for me. But my mom said I should be nice to him because she didn't think he had any friends so I started to talk to him some. I didn't really become friends with him at first; he was still too weird and he was paranoid about everything. But like my mom said, he didn't have any other friends so he started showing up at my door wanting to do something and eventually we became something like friends.

When he opens the door he doesn't greet me, he just leaves the door open and turns back around, heading back into the house. I walk in after him and shut the door behind me, bolting just one of the locks. I never really saw why he had so many locks. The front door only had one so if someone wanted to break in they could just go through there. I follow Shino to his room where he's sitting on his bed reading some tattered book.

I sit down on a chair in the corner of the room and try to relax for a few more moments. My nerves are still shot and even though it's been at least half an hour my ears are still ringing. Looking down at myself I see my clothes are still incredibly dirty and I have a couple scratches on my arms that are still trickling blood. I grab a tissue from a box Shino has in his room and start to wipe some of the blood off although I probably should bandage them soon or else they'll probably get infected because of all the dust that's getting in them.

After a while Shino looks up from his book and looks over at me. I know he notices what I look like and he starts to look me over, trying to piece together what happened to me before he asks. That's something Shino has always taken pride, knowing everything. Well he obviously doesn't know everything but he is smart and he is very good at piecing things together. He's definitely smarter then me, although that doesn't take much, according to my mom I'm practically retarded and it would take three of me to be as smart as Akamaru.

"So you blew something up?" Shino says after studying me for long enough. Like I said, he's pretty good at figuring stuff out. "So what happened?"

This is the main reason I came here before I went home. I'm not really afraid of what my mom or sister will say; I just knew Shino would want to know what happened. Shino is kind of a weird kid; he's incredibly paranoid and thinks everything is a conspiracy.

"Why don't you go see for yourself?" I joke, laughing as he gives me an annoyed look. That's another thing about him: he's a shut in. He has been for nearly two years, I don't know what's going through his head but ever since the last election I think he just lost it and couldn't handle the outside world anymore so now he spends all his time locked in his house. The only time I ever see him go outside is when he comes over to my house maybe once a month in the middle of the night because he needs to talk or something like that. I like to joke about his weird situation, although I don't think he appreciates it.

"Well you won't believe what happened," I say, serious now. I tell him everything that happened, from when Hinata and I first went into town till when I arrived here. He listens intently although he doesn't show any excitement. That's another thing about Shino; he is a very calm and almost emotionless person. I don't think I've ever seen him laugh or yell at someone.

"Sounds like a-" Shino starts to say but I interrupt him.

"A conspiracy, yeah I know," I say. I really don't know what he's thinking when he says that, what exactly his 'conspiracies' are, but I knew he would say that anyway. Shino lays back on his bed now and is starring at the ceiling. He's probably coming up with some highly improbable complex plot on how the government is trying to fuck with us. I don't know how he got so paranoid but it probably had something to do with his parents who, while not quite as messed up as him, were still pretty paranoid.

"You want some?" Shino asked as he reached over into a drawer in the nightstand and pulled out a small bag. This is probably another reason for his intense paranoia, his incessant drug use. I don't know where he picked it up, he doesn't talk to anybody besides me for the most part and I never gave him any. Well, however he picked it up, he smokes now, and a lot. He's got a room connected to his own that he keeps locked most of the time but I've seen into it a couple of times and he's got I don't know how much marijuana plant hanging there. I guess that means he grows his own but I've never seen the actual plants, although based on how much I've seen hanging up he has to have a lot of them. I really hope he doesn't smoke it all though, because he has a ton and smoking that much can't be healthy.

"No, I'm good," I reply. I don't think it'd be the best thing to arrive back home when my moms already going to be mad at me smelling like pot smoke. "Well I've got to go now; I just thought you should know what happened. Tell me if you hear anything." I continue. That's another reason why I told him. He tends to hear about before I do, although I don't know how because as far as I know I'm one of the only people he talks to.

Shino nods and I walk out of the room and out the door. I hear him bolting the locks behind me as I walk back towards my house. It's pretty late now and I'm hoping my moms asleep, I'm exhausted and I just kind of want to go to sleep. As quietly as possible I make it back to my house and unlock and open the door. I make my way to the stairs and curse as the first step creaks loudly.

"What the hell do you think you're doing Kiba?"

I turn to face my mom who had just made her way from the kitchen to behind me on the stairs. Should have figured trying to sneak in would be pointless. My mom is sort of a night person and she rarely went to sleep this early.

"I was just at Shino's, I'm going to bed," I say. Technically that was true; I just skipped the whole part about stealing the car and going into town before.

"I told you, you couldn't use the car," My mom said, getting right to the point. "How did you get keys to it anyway?"

"I found them," I lied. "Where's Hana? I need to talk to her."

"What the hell do you mean? How the hell should I know where your sister is? She hasn't been home in years."

I knew instantly what Hana had done.

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