Falling For Bug Boy? (Shino Love Story)

Chapter 2. Living Through A Tsunade Lecture

As soon as I had saw Shino in the meeting room, I walked over and smacked his head. I was not too much of a violent person around my friends, but Shino knew about my fear of bugs. My hands went onto my hips and my facial expression had clearly shown my annoyance. He was never much of a joker. If that was his attempt of his joke, he had failed miserably at it.

"Shino Aubrame," I said through gritted teeth. "I don't know what you were trying to pull with that bug trick, but it was not funny."

"I had not meant for it to be funny." he said to me as he rubbed his head with his hands. "Was it needed to hit me?"

"Y-Yes!" I stuttered out in surprise and in an attempt to stand my ground. I furrowed my eye brows together in confusion. "What was it supposed to be then?"

Instead of answering me, Shino turned away and became quiet. I had gotten even more frustrated at his lack of a response. He did put a bug on me, albeit he knew about fear. It was angering to know that he was being uncooperative about answering me. I did believe that hearing somebody's reason for doing something could make or break a situation. However, I couldn't apply that belief into my current situation with Shino since he would say nothing.

"Okay, listen up!" Tsunade yelled from the front of the room. Right away, all of us merged into a few vertical lines facing Tsunade. "After getting a lot of complaints about the amount of missions I have been sending people off on I thought it was needed to have this meeting."

I heard Kiba mutter under his breathe just next to me. "Slave driver."

Then random voices began to mutter also.

"About time."

"I hadn't seen my wife much in weeks."

"I have a kid to take care of."

"It's about that old hag started to listen to us."

The last remark was what made Tsunade explode. It was not a pretty sight to see.

"YOU ARE NINJA!" loudly, she shouted to us. I jumped a bit in surprise because of her sudden change in her tone of voice. "YOU CAN COMPLAIN ALL YOU WANT ABOUT MISSIONS, BUT KEEP IN MIND THAT WE NEED TO KEEP GOING AT THE PACE THAT WE WERE GOING BEFORE THE VILLAGE WAS ATTACKED! UNLESS YOU WANT TO BE ATTACKED AGAIN BECAUSE OTHER VILLAGES THINK WE ARE WEAK, STOP BEING LAZY ASSES AND GO ON YOUR MISSIONS! YOU CAN COMPLAIN ALL YOU WANT, BUT IF YOU COMPLAIN IN FRONT OF ME ONE MORE TIME I WILL DESTROY YOU. EVERYBODY IS SACRIFICING SOMETHING FOR THE GREAT GOOD OF THE VILLAGE! WHEN YOU GO ON MISSIONS, YOU ARE HELPING PROTECT YOUR LOVED ONES BECAUSE OTHER VILLAGES THINK THAT THE LEAF VILLAGE IS STILL STRONG!" things were quiet for a few moments as she let it set in. "That is all, are all dismissed!"

When I looked over at Kiba, I saw how white his face had become. Despite the fact that Kiba acted courageous and tough, he was fearful of Tsunade and her strong fists. Many of us had seen the destruction that her fists could cause when she had been training Sakura.

"It's okay Kiba, we just have to hang in there just a little while more until we get things under control." I said to him in an attempt to comfort him as I patted his back. "Just because you complained before doesn't mean that she will hold it against you."

"How do you know?" Kiba asked me in a bit of a worried tone. "She doesn't look like the type of person to let things go. Besides, she just lectured all of us as if we were still in the Academy."

"Oh I think there are some things she will let go. Come on, now all of us have some more bonding together since we lived through one of her lectures. Not many people can say that probably." I said with a soft smile on my face. "But just do not be stupid enough to complain to Lady Tsunade again about the amount of missions you're being sent on. Then she will most definitely hang onto that and kill you."