Chapter 7:

Tobi quickly turned around.

There he was. He was leaning against a tree like some prey camouflaging from his predator lurking nearby. Tobi could barely make him out from the tree.

"Are you...?"

"Yes, I am Aburame Shino. The one my team mate, Kiba mentioned." He got up from the tree and took a step forward, but not far enough to get into the light.

"Hm..." Tobi stared at Shino. "Are you allergic to the sun? Or do you have skin cancer?"

"No, I do not have allergies to the sun or cancer. I do not even have anything against the sun." Shino replied, finally stepping out into the light as if to prove his point. But it didn't make a difference because not even a single square inch of his skin had been exposed to the light.

"Then why...?" Tobi pointed at Shino's clothes.

"Personal style." Shino said quickly. "Why? Is there something wrong or weird about the personal style of the Aburame clan?"

"Um..."

"Why do people always look at me weird? Is it wrong to wear a lot in the middle of the summer if I don't have skin cancer? Is it wrong to wear sunglasses if I'm not blind?"

"...No..."

"It's not unique. Goths and emos wear black jackets in the middle of summer too."

"I guess..."

"But you people don't look at goths like their weird, no; you decide to pick on the Aburame clan instead. Why? WHY? WHY? WHY?" Shino's face was now inches from Tobi's. Tears dropped from the bottom of Shino's sunglasses and into his coat.

'Wonder what happens to the tears..?' Tobi thought to himself. He backed up a little. He was nervous because he could feel the dark aura coming from Shino.

"Um...I don't know?" Tobi said.

"It's called prejudice Tobi." Shino said turning away as if he had been rejected by his girlfriend in some soap opera. "Everyone assumes stuff based on the appearance of people."

"I'm sorry Shino-san."

"No, don't apologize. You probably didn't mean it." Shino said turning back to him, the last of his tears going down his jacket. Tobi looked down at his feet but there was no puddle so the tears had seemed to disappear into no where.

"Now to business." Shino stood back up. "I'm sorry but I can't help you. Unlike Kiba, I have no interest in sex and sleeping with women. I get enough of it inside of me."

"Inside of you?" Tobi asked. (Now the normal person would be thinking something perverted but Tobi has no idea what he is talking about.)

"The bugs inside me are mating all the time and multiplying to fill the empty spaces in my body as I grow. As soon as I'm an adult, it will stop. But for now, it will continue."

"Oh." Tobi said.

Shino suddenly grabbed Tobi's shoulders.

"You don't understand what it's like!" Shino yelled in agony. "To hear moaning in your ears ever since you were born and as soon as you were old enough knowing what it was. And now feeling like you're going to hurl all the time. That's why I keep quiet! Because if I speak, I'll probably hurl! And because the moaning is so loud that I can't hear anything!" Shino quieted and calmed down. He let go of Tobi who was freaking out, but not following the conversation. "This, my Father said, is the curse of the Aburame clan. Every member has to endure it at one point. Some take it easier than others."

"I'm sorry." Tobi said feeling the need to say so.

"The only thing that keeps me alive is the fact that I know that this will all end as soon as I stop growing. The fact that this won't go on forever." He started to cry again, the tears going into his coat, his feet staying dry.

"I'm so sorry." Tobi hugged Shino; he felt that he needed a hug. Shino cried on his shoulder for the longest time. When he was done, he stood up and lowered his glasses and rubbed his eyes.

"Thank you Tobi." He said.

"But I didn't do anything." Tobi said.

"You did Tobi. You let me say everything that had been on my mind for the longest time. You let me release all of my anger. You cured me." Shino said smiling behind his coat. Too bad Tobi couldn't tell.

"Well I'm glad that I could help you."

"I'm glad that you could too." Shino said. "Sorry I can't help you with that other stuff. I'm sorry but if I do, I'll seriously have to hurl." Shino apologized.

"It's fine. I don't need that anyway. Tobi just wants you to love Tobi." Tobi said smiling.

"...Okay Tobi." Shino said. "That's easy enough."

Tobi looked up at him.

"I love you Tobi."

The next morning, Shino woke up with a start, opened up his window as wide as he could and shouted out at the top of his lungs.

"GOOD MORNING!"

He smiled at the faces, all shocked, looking at him. Then the faces smiled in return and shouted back.

"GOOD MORNING!"

They all laughed.

Thank you Tobi.

With your help, I will fight 'The Curse of the Aburame Clan'!

Deidara was walking around the Akatsuki lair. Without Tobi around to take up his day, he really had nothing to do. Then he heard the Akatsuki leader's voice from a door nearby. Deidara pressed his ear against the door to hear what was being said.

"How's Tobi been doing?" A female voice could be heard.

"I've heard that he's doing fine." The leader said.

'They're talking about Tobi!' Deidara thought and pressed his head closer to the door.

"Then everything is going well?" The female asked again.

"Yes, soon we may be able to complete it successfully." There was laughter and then everything went silent.

Deidara shuddered and wanted to hear more but he didn't want to get caught so he ran back to his room.

'I don't know what's going on but if I get caught then who knows what will happen to Tobi.' Deidara thought closing his door.

Okay, this chapter was easy and was fun to write.

It was fun to show a whole different side of Shino that no one could've imagined. And to explain his behavior in a silly way too. I have a request to make Deidara come out more. I apologize, but he will come at the end. I promise.