They had a club for unrequited love towards people that didn't even know you existed. Hinata was undisputed president since she'd been ignored the longest. Kiba was spokesperson, and Shino was just there on principle. Kiba had suggested they invite Ino, but that idea had been unanimously shot down by stutters and a bug in the ear.

Maybe it wasn't actually a club. They were just Team 8, hanging out, but Kiba thought of it as a club so he wouldn't feel alone. Hinata still mooned over Naruto, he had yet to realize it or even pay much attention to Hinata, really. At least he'd taken up her cause once, even if he ahd left without a word after that, but anyway...

Kiba was mooning after Sakura. He didn't know if she was still in love with Sasuke, or if she was just still caught up in the drama of her team being broken, but she never gave ihim/i the time of day. She hadn't dismissed him, but she never really noticed him. She was too focussed on everything else. Kiba sat as that guy she knew, who'd been in the Academy, yeah him.

Shino had yet to confess any secret longings, but Kiba included him under the pretext that any love Shino might muster up would probably be unrequited because off all the rumors about the Aburame. Eyeless freaks filled with parasitic bugs. Yes, that was what they were. Nevermind Shino, Kiba felt, was often the one propping him and Hinata up. Shino was their core, and damn anyone else that couldn't understand how great he was.

"You could go for Sasuke," Kiba suggested, sprawled in the grass with Akamaru. He could feel Shino giving him that galre of ultimate scorn.

"Well, if I'm for Sakura, Hinata's got Naruto, you could just tie it all up neatly and go for Sasuke. Team on team, one big happy family," Kiba expanded, waving his hands through the air witha crooked, cracked grin over his face.

"Think about it. You're both creepy solemn, you never talk, perfect match!" Kiba laughed, and he swore he heard Hinata twitter.

"Ah, Kiba-kun. . .don't tease Shino like that. . ." Hinata protested. Kiba glanced up and saw that she was twisting a flover crown together with fall grass.

"I'm serious."

"You're facetious," Shino corrected. He crossed his arms and Kiba could hear the muted buzz of insects. "While I'm sure that my seducing Sasuke back to the good side would make your chances of love much easier to obtain, I both doubt my ability to seduce and remain happy."

"So what you're saying is. . ."

"Even if it did work, it would be a short, torrid affair ending in a messy break-up that would have an adverse effect on your own attempts at happily ever after," Shino nodded gravely. "I think it would be best if I contained my passions for a less problematic source."

Kiba just stared for a moment, then grinned even wider. "Dude, sometimes I love you."

"I think our group dynamic would be complicated, so I will have to rebuff your protestation. I am flattered non-the-less," Shino's dry reply came with a soft hum of insects. Not agitated, just restless.

"Threesome then?" Kiba grinned and looked to Hinata with a wink. She flushed and threw her flower garland at him.

"K-kiba!" But she was flushed behind that smile, amused like Shino was with Kiba's lewdness.

"Yosh! That's our new goal!" Kiba jumped to his feet and threw his hands in the air. "Orgy with Team 7!"

Kiba might have been the fastest and most fit on their team, but there really was no way to hide from a Hyuuga and a Aburame intent on dunking you in the cold, cold river to help you 'inhibit the uncontrolled passions of adolescence' that were obviously getting the better of his sense.