Shino closed the door to his and Kiba's room. With his mind and body on neutral he walked over to his desk and sat down. He just couldn't wrap his mind around what had just happened. Kiba had been looking at him as if begging him to not let him go and he did. He had watched Kiba's face fall in that moment but he did nothing about it! Cursing Shino rested his head on his desk. "What the hell is wrong with me?" Shino asked the empty room.
Matsui fluttered his wings and poked Shino with one of his antenna. Shino looked over to his familiar with a questioning gaze. "Jealous?" Shino asked the large beetle. "Of what? Kiba even said she meant nothing to him. Why would I be jealous?" As Shino asked the question he realized how stupid he was acting. He had no reason to be jealous of this girl, yet he most definitely was.
A knock at his door announced the arrival of the two he knew were going to show up. The second Naruto had taken Kiba away he knew Sasuke and Neji would be at his door. Getting up he walked over to it and opened it up. He was met with Neji's words cutting into him like a knife, "How stupid are you?"
"I don't want to argue in the hall come in," Shino said moving back into his room.
Sasuke and Neji walked in and sat down, Sasuke at Kiba's desk and Neji on the foot of the bed. Both were glaring at Shino as if he was the biggest moron they had ever met. "So what is wrong?" Sasuke asked figuring it was best to get down to the root of the problem.
"I don't really know," Shino answered.
Sasuke and Neji both let out irritated sighs. "Something has to be wrong! I mean you just don't tell your partner that you should spend some time apart, especially when you have just formed your partnership!" Neji lectured.
Shino wanted to scream at them that he knew all that, and he really didn't know what was wrong, but he held back. "I asked him about that girl, Ni, and what she was to him," Shino finally said.
"And?" Sasuke pushed for more.
"He said their families had hoped to form an alliance through marriage," Shino bit out. "In other words she's his fiancé."
"No she isn't," Neji stated. Shino looked over to the Hyuuga wondering what he meant. "You said "hoped" which means it wasn't a set in stone agreement. Besides I don't think Kiba is the kind of person who would lead you on like that."
"Yeah," Sasuke agreed. "He seems to be more the type to tell you things flat out."
Shino sighed, they were right. He knew they were right, but he just couldn't get over the fact that Kiba was, at one point, this other person's. It dug into Shino in more ways than one and refused to let up. "I know that," Shino sighed hanging his head. "But I-"
"You're jealous," Sasuke said with a shrug.
"No I'm not," Shino instantly denied.
"The hell you aren't," Neji countered. "If you aren't jealous then what are you?"
Shino opened his mouth to reply and realized he had no reply. He was jealous, he had admitted that to himself not too long ago, but admitting it out loud was harder. It made it so much more real. He heard Sasuke sigh before he heard the scraping of the other chair in the room. Looking up he saw the youngest Uchiha walking towards the door.
"If you aren't going to even admit how you're feeling to yourself then there is no point in us being here," Sasuke said reaching for the doorknob. "But you should know," Sasuke added looking over his shoulder, "That Kiba's in tears over in Naruto and Gaara's room." With those words Sasuke left the room with Neji following after him.
Shino sat in his chair completely still with Sasuke's words echoing in his mind. Kiba was in tears and it was because of him. He had caused his precious Kiba to cry. Standing up abruptly and causing the chair to topple over Shino rushed out of the room and towards Gaara and Naruto's room.
