This is basically in response to a review I got. I figured why not give another character the spotlight? So a Fem!Shino (Shina) was born.

This is a foray into new territory, so Shina is OOC. As stated by the pairing above, it IS a Shina/Naruto/Shikamaru thing...

I have no idea what in the hell I was thinking, okay?

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She's like the sun.

For a long moment, Shina stared at her through the typical sunglasses of her clan, the Aburame.

There was no rationality that came with the whirlwind of illogical Uzumaki Naruto.

Shina loved rational things. Things that she could dismiss easily.

But she could not dismiss Uzumaki Naruto, because the other girl shone out in the class as the class clown, as the dead last.

There was no rationality to Shina's next actions. Naruto was sitting all alone, and she had a goofy grin on her face.

Shina was glad her jacket hid her face.

"Naruto-san." Shina was brought up to be polite and distant to her peers. She'll be assigned to a tracking squad, anyway; there was no use in being in any other squad.

She was also brought up to look at all the facts, something her father obviously did not do when looking at Naruto when he was warning Shina away.

Shina mentally did the math before today. The answer was, of course, obvious.

"May I sit here?" she asked politely as soon as she looked up.

Naruto's blue eyes widened with shock.

"S-sure," she stuttered. "But - didn't your dad -?"

"I have come to the appropriate conclusions," Shina said in her monotone. "It is illogical for my father to request me not to be friends with you, if, of course, you accept my offer of friendship." Shina waited for a moment.

Her thoughts proved correct - Uzumaki Naruto did indeed have knowledge of the bijuu inside her.

"Okay," the other girl said, though her face was guarded.

"If I make you uncomfortable with my bugs, I understand," Shina added after a moment. "But it is a fact that my bugs settle better around you."

Shina was very uncomfortable, but she was not going to let that stop her from befriending a fellow student.

"I love your bugs!" Naruto blurted.

Shina nodded and sat next to her.

Naruto didn't have much in the way of lunch. Wilting lettuce leaves was all she had, with a few large pieces of cheese.

Shina had already eaten half of her pre-prepared bento.

"Here." Shina held out the remains of her food. "I already ate half of it. It would not be logical for you to finish the day starving."

Shina was very glad she had prepared herself through observations. Naruto was a very touchy person, as proven by the hug Naruto gave her.

Shina was glad she was wearing her jacket.

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Aburame Shibi looked at his daughter.

"Did you befriend any children your age?"

"Yes." His daughter's monotone answer made him hope. Shibi quashed that hope as Shira entered.

"Who?" Shira asked, smiling. As Shibi's wife, she was not a clan member. He loved her for her personality.

"Uzumaki Naruto."

Shina's words made his thoughts about possible alliances halt.

"I ordered you not to." His voice was calm.

His daughter's black eyes, no longer hidden by the sunglasses they did not wear in the compound, turned to him. Blankness was in them.

"You did."

"Disobeying me was not a logical choice." He tried to think -

"Uzumaki Naruto is human." His daughter had a monotone, no tones or inflections. So why did he think she sounded annoyed? "She was born on October 10, nine years ago."

Shira stared at Shina with a hidden smile.

Why was his wife smiling?

"The child will let the monster loose -" began Shibi, only to be cut off by his daughter's chopsticks snapping in half.

She literally calmly snapped the two utensils in half, her eyes as calm as ever.

"If she was going to let the 'monster' loose, she would have done it years ago."

Shina stood. Shibi knew Shira would have added the 'moron' that was so conspicuously hanging off the end of Shina's sentence.

"It is illogical to fear something that has not happened," Shina added, bowing. "Father."

She left the room.

Shira snorted.

"I knew that girl was related to me."

Shibi simply blinked.

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Shikamaru was surprised, to say the least, when the heiress of the Aburame clan approached him, the blonde everyone knew right behind her.

"Nara-san, I must ask you something as heiress of the Aburame clan," Shina began, only to have Shikamaru sigh and wave lazily.

"Shikamaru, Aburame-san! I think being in the same class means we can call each other by our real names, yeah?"

Shina stared at him for a moment (he thought. He couldn't really see with those sunglasses on.

"Indeed. Then it is only logical that you should call me Shina. I would like your help in teaching Naruto-san to read."

Shikamaru opened his mouth to ask, can't her parents do that?

No, they couldn't.

"As you know, my father and I are not on the best of terms concerning my decision." Yep, his father had made a passing comment about that.

Shikamaru sighed.

"Yeah, I'll help you."

Shina bowed. "I am in your debt, Shikamaru-san."

Naruto bowed, too, unusually silent.

"Please do not bow," Shina said unexpectedly. "You are strange when polite."

Naruto chuckled, looking a little sheepish.

"Sorry," she said, rubbing the back of her neck. "S'just I'm trying to be more formal. Ky - er. Jiji says it's polite, -ttebayo."

"You know you don't have to pretend you're not talking to him in front of us," Shikamaru grumbled, well aware Naruto was talking to her inner demon. "Everyone with half a brain in this village knows."

"Then nobody but you, Iruka-sensei, and I have half a brain," Shina said flatly. "Though I suppose Iruka-sensei blinds himself to that fact to make it a little easier."

"Oh," Naruto said, looking sad.

"A lot of people hate you for what the Kyuubi did," Shina said.

Shikamaru stared at her. "Are you crazy?"

"I did not break the Third's Law," Shina said placidly.

(Of course not! Aburames love technicalities!)

"I guess not," allowed Shikamaru. "Let's teach her to read."

"I suppose we shall meet at Naruto's accommodations," Shina said blandly. "If you try to hide it from me, know that all of my classmates have a bug placed on them for security purposes," she added to Naruto. "My father likes to make certain I am safe. My mother was the one to give me your address," Shina finished, her left hand twitching.

Shikamaru mentally cataloged that.