Forever Unloved

I watch as Hinata blush at the site of him. Why him? I thought, he's an idiot. He is blind to your love and chases after Sakura. Yet I wish I was him so that she can look at me that way. With that love shining in her eyes – oh how I wish she would look at me that way. However I'm nothing but a friend to you. Just like him, you are blind to my love. Well my coat and glasses are the reason because they hide any sign of emotion on my face. My heart aches for you every night. I cannot bear the thought of you hating me or rejecting me because you don't have the same feelings for me.

"Shino," my father drunkenly said as I got home, "get me another bottle of sake." My father wasn't like this before. I used to have a mom but she died trying to save a villager from top rate bandits. She saved the villager but at the cost of her own life. I grabbed the bottle of sake and tossed it to my father who used his kikaichu to catch it. My father truly loved my mother and her death unfortunately took away the good man that he was. I was only 8 when she died and I observed my father become the person that I see today.

"Thanks son," Shibi said to me. I merely nodded and started heading to my room.

"Son, your teammates came by saying something about a surprise that has happened. They said to come by tomorrow to the training grounds," my father said. I nodded again and continued to my destination. As I laid in my bed with my hand raised and watching some kikaichu crawl on my hand, I wondered what could possibly be important that my teammates had to tell me. Then I thought about Hinata. My dear sweet Hinata, my beautiful butterfly – I stopped my thoughts. She was never mine so why am I thinking these thoughts? I shook my head and got off my bed. It was time to free the butterflies. As I let them loose one by one, I noticed that one of the caterpillars that I caught was in a cocoon. I was amazed with the beauty of this beautiful sight. As I finish freeing the insects, I watch the cocoon and awaited the day it hatched.

- Time skip-

The next morning, I woke up and got dressed. I did my morning routine; I observed the cocoon, wrote notes, made breakfast for me and my dad, gave my dad his usual morning sake, and headed to the training grounds. As usual, I was early so I warmed up and practiced my techniques on some wooden practice dummies. After I beheaded one of the dummy's head with my kikaichu, some of the perimeter kikaichu sensed Hinata and Kiba watching me. I eased out of my stance and turned towards their direction.

"You can come out now," I said in my unemotional voice. And in a second they popped out of the trees and Kiba patted my back.

"wow bug freak," Kiba said, grinning from ear to ear," you're getting better every day, what's your secret?" I rolled my eyes. The same question every day, I thought.

"Train everyday dog, why? Because if you practice every day you will get the results that you wish to achieve," I said. Kiba frowned, he knew that to do that, he will give up precious time that could be spent hanging out with his friends and Akamaru, sleeping, or flirting with girls. Akamaru whined sensing the conflict that his master was going through and licked his cheek. Then I heard her, I heard Hinata giggle. Oh why must you torture me? Shino thought, why must everything you do torture me?

"Shino," Hinata giggled, "don't be mean to Kiba." There she stood in her usual attire, a cream colored jacket and navy blue pants. So beautiful, I thought and felt my cheeks get hot but luckily not too much for either of them to notice. Then I remembered what my father told me.

"What was the thing that you wanted to tell me?" I asked. Both Hinata and Kiba grinned and I was immediately was on alert. The only reason they would do such a thing is because they have something planned and it somehow involves me. And I was scared because the last time Kiba got super drunk and I was the unlucky person who had to drag him home because Hinata, for a unknown reason that everyone but me knows, had joined Kiba in drinking. I shuddered remembering how many time he nearly threw up on me, but one good thing did come from it. I remembered how Hinata clung to me that night, the feel of her skin- I stopped, blushing and thought about the current situation.

"Me and Hinata were thinking," Kiba said, wrapping his arm around my neck, "it's about time to we go out and celebrate." What? I thought.

"Celebrate what?" I asked. Hinata blushed and I was scared. Did she confess to Naruto? What happened? My mind was racing and I started to picture the worst of my nightmares. Hinata and him together, holding hands, kissing-

"Our princess finally got over that idiot Naruto," Kiba grinned, "and she needs a date to the ball that our village is holding to confront her new crush."

AN: well this is my story for Hinata and Shino. this is my favorite couple and people that i know compare me to Hinata and we call my boyfriend Shino... oops sorry i dont want to disturb you with my personal life. anyways please review and know that flames are allowed. and if any of you guys like Death Note and poetry please check out my other story Bittersweet Love