I think you could have guessed where I was going with this chapter hehe ^-^

Bugs

I had saved up enough money to buy a new weapon. It was a new katana and I left the shop with it all wrapped up in paper and string. I was too busy marvelling my wrapped up weapon to notice a person about to bump into me.

"I'm so sorry." I looked up and saw Shino standing opposite me. "Oh hi Shino."

"Hi Tenten." He replied. He never really did say much to me.

"I didn't hurt any of your bugs did I?"

"No they are fine." There were a few bugs flying out of his jacket and one landed on my weapon.

"Well hi little guy." I placed my finger next to the bug and he climbed on my hand.

"I better be going now." He quickly dashed away before I could respond. The bug on my hand has started flying after him.

Shino was always a bit different and reclusive to everyone apart from his team. I can remember the first time I met him. It was during the Chunin exams. It was just before the preliminaries when we were allowed a break to train or relax. I was relaxing outside when I could hear some of the younger Genin come rushing out. I sat and watched as eight of them were ahead and one was straggling behind. It was Shino. There was something about him that intrigued me. I decided to walk near them, I had already met them before the exam in the corridor but I wanted to get to know them a bit better. We were all in the same boat so why not. I got near them and I could see the blonde haired girl screaming.

"Shino one of your bugs is attacking me, get it away." She kept screaming and running about until the boy removed the bug. She fell to the floor and started breathing heavily.

"Are you ok?" I rushed over to her.

"I'm fine, I just don't like bugs." She kept brushing her hands against her body as if removing imaginary bugs. Suddenly she started screaming again, flailing her arms as a bug flew around her head.

"Hey, hey calm down." I screamed at her. I managed to cup the bug in my hands and returned to Shino. "I think this guy belongs to you." I opened my hands and the bug flew to him.

I turned to the rest of the group and introduced myself.

"I'm Tenten."

"You are with Bushy brows aren't you?" I turned round to see a blonde haired boy push past and talk to me.

"Yeah, I'm part of team Gai."

"Doesn't he get on your nerves?" The pink haired girl had spoken up now and she seemed to be shaking as she spoke about Lee.

"He has his moments, but I knock him back down."

We had a little giggle before I decided to leave to go back to my team. As I started walking away, the same bug from before had landed on my hand. I turned round and walked back to Shino.

"I think this little guy likes me." I held out my hand towards Shino. He dug his head down in his coat before placing his hand near mine to let the bug return to him.

"Thank you." He said it so quietly that I almost hadn't heard.

"No problem, and it's Shino isn't it?"

He gave a small nod.

"It was nice meeting you Shino." I gave him a huge grin before walking away. "Oh and good luck everyone."

Shino was definitely different, but I liked that about him. Different is always better.