A/N: I updated! In what seems like forever at the moment, but what the hey :)
Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto.

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Shino pulled away from Hinata, with a feeling that his ears were starting to burn red. He looked at Hinata, and noticed her bright red face. He stepped away and went near the wall, behind Kiba who flinched slightly, but didn't move.

Kiba was brave, he'd grant him that.

"Wow…" Tenten breathed, which was agreed by mostly everyone else.

"What is so wow about a dare?" Shino snapped, losing his cool for the first time. Stupid Kiba. Stupid Ino. I will kill them both.

Neji jumped to Tenten's defence. "Most of the people here were under the impression that you were asexual. You seem to have cleared yourself from that."

Shino closed his eyes for a moment and then said in a calm voice: "I will personally castrate anybody who assumes that I am asexual from hereon after. I am perfectly heterosexual."

"And that you're a good kisser," Temari pointed out. "It looked better than most peck on the lips that you see around."

"Yeah. Plus, seriously? You have got to do that again, but longer. You…did look pretty good," Sakura admitted.

"Hinata? What was it like?" Ino asked, spinning to face the blushing girl. "Spill. Now."

"I-i…it w-w-was…li-like…a p-p-peck?" Hinata stuttered, blushing even further. She glanced at the faces of the girls crowding her, and tried to amend, sending Shino an apologetic look. "I-I m-m-mean-"

"Hinata, I forbid you to answer that question," Neji hissed, glaring at the girls, although his eyes visibly softened as he reached Tenten.

"I concur. May we pursue a different topic of conversation?" Shino asked, his fists clenched in his pockets. He was going to personally suffocate most of the people in this room by stuffing insects down their throats whilst they were sleeping. Especially Kiba and Ino.

"Well…Naruto, truth or dare?" Ino said, grinning at him.

"Dare, 'ttebayo!" Naruto grinned, as naïve as he usually was. The smirk crossing Ino's face proved disastrous for the hyperactive blonde.

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Shino opened the door of the room he would have to share with Neji for the next week. He sighed. Sharing was not on his list of things that he wanted to do, and especially not sharing with Hyuuga Neji, who was horribly overprotective of his cousin, who Shino just happened to have a crush on.

Just as he was about to close the door, he saw a miserable Naruto with green hair trudging into the room next to him. He grimaced when he caught Shino looking at him. "I guess I shouldn't have taken that dare after all," he said with a shrug.

"Serves you right, Naruto," Shino said, walking into the room and closing the door behind him. He nodded at Neji, who was sitting on what was now his bed, arms folded and staring at him thoughtfully.

"Shino," Neji said, frowning slightly at the boy. "I wanted to speak to you. About…certain matters."

Shino frowned. The phrase certain matters didn't bode well, and he would not like to get on the Hyuuga's bad side. "Yes?"

"Hinata. That kiss today was nothing but a dare. I sincerely hope that you do not get any ideas from it. It was a dare and nothing more," Neji stated, staring at him as though to find any feelings from him. Finding feeling from a, say, rock would have been easier than finding any on the Aburame's impassive face.

"I am well aware of that," he said coldly. There's no need to bloody rub it in, Hyuuga.

Neji raised an eyebrow. "Very well. So long as you know that. But at least it's rather you than some others. You are to be the head of the clan when your father dies, I take it?"

"Yes. But what that has to do with the current topic is beyond me." You know full well, Shino, a voice inside him complained. He's talking about marriage. If you were to marry Hinata, at least it would be better than someone else, say, Naruto. He doesn't have a clan. Or Lee. Or, no that's it. He's staring at you. He's just asked something. Listen, for crying out loud!

"I hope you understand. Whilst you would be preferable to others, I'd rather she wait until she was older. Good day, and don't use too much of the hot water," Neji finished, and left the room.

"Well, that was quite an eye opener," a voice that sounded suspiciously like Kiba's came from the edge of the room. Shino spun around and stared at Kiba, who fell out of the cupboard, still grinning. "Well…it looks like you have a chance then. I mean, if Neji is approving you, then boy, you're all set to go. You have got to tell her!"

"Kiba…it's very disturbing that you have been hiding in the room. I believe Neji was changing his clothes?" Shino asked, determined to change the subject.

"Yeah, but whatever. It's not like I looked or nothing!" he protested.

"Double negative," Shino smiled. "Out, Kiba."

"But-" Kiba's protest ended there when a swarm of Shino's bugs sent him flying out of the room.
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A/N: I love Kiba. He's so much fun when you put him in the underdog position :)
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