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Reading Totems	By : GrizzlyTeddyBear Category: Naruto > Het - Male/Female Views: 1242 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
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Author�s Pre-ramble:�
OK OK�I�ve been pestered, and I now deliver! �Here�s a short chapter filled with yummy
build-up for the council meeting. �Squint,
find the Gaara reference, and get a cookie!� Don�t be too sad about the shortness�I
promise the next chapter is extra long to make up for it and filled with
action, fluff, romance, drama, and totems!�

A huge hug to all of my reviewers:� HumanInfiltrator, OX
King, Lady Slave, kodama, MsMina,
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Valla, Jess, Kilrath Sluzath, jewel

Title:� Reading Totems
By:� GrizzlyTeddyBear
Disclaimer:� I
don�t own Naruto, and this makes me sad.�
I do own Paige Stone, my OC!�
Main Pairings:� ShinoxOC, NaruxHina, SasuxSaku
Rating:� M for
mentioned adult themes
Warning:� AU,
Post-series start time. �Rookie 9 is
23-24 years old.� Fic mentions pagan
religions, if you can�t handle it, don�t read! Also is OC-centric.� Hold your pants, all will be revealed as the
story progresses.� I like to take my
time.

Chapter Summary:� Shino
shows up at Paige�s door with unexpected and unwanted news.� She goes to the library and bumps into
Jiraiya.

***Chapter 12***

For the first time since her arrival in Konoha, Paige had
actually slept in.� It felt
glorious!� To be able to just languish in
bed instead of realizing she had to jump up and accomplish 80 things at once
was a gift from the spirits.� She was
grateful that someone was thoughtful enough to let her regain the sleep she had
lost yesterday from being up extra early and being out later than normal.�

Shino! �That someone
was Aburame Shino!� Quickly Paige bolted
up in bed and ran through her mourning routine like a mad woman with a mission.� He could come any minute!� She didn�t want to answer the door looking
like she just woke up.� She was not
hospitable until after her shower and breakfast.� Team Kakashi had experienced that first hand
on her first morning in Konoha.

Once she had finished her shower, eaten breakfast, and
gotten dressed she had a new dilemma.�
Was she supposed to wait for him?�
Was he waiting at the library for her?�
Were they supposed to meet in the clearing anyway?� Paige was pacing back and forth trying to
figure out what she was supposed to do when a knocking at her door stopped her
in her tracks.� Beetle.� �Well, think of the
Aburame and he shall appear,� she mused to herself as she walked to the door.� �Hi��
Whatever else she was going to say died before it had a chance to become
words in her mouth.� Shino was occupying
her doorway, yes, but he seemed a bit more�stiff than she had previously
seen.� After taking this in, she spoke
again.� �Is something wrong?�

�Mission.�

�That would explain everything,� she thought.� �He is a ninja after all; it was bound to
happen�and will continue to happen too.�
Might as well start to get used to it now,� she resolved silently to
herself.� Aloud she said, �When do you
leave?�

�In a few minutes.�

�Oh�� He wouldn�t
have time to come in.� �When did you find
out about it?�

�This morning.�

Paige was trying really hard to not sound so dejected, but
it wasn�t working.� So, it wasn�t a date;
it was practically doing research together, but damn it, she liked him�a lot�a
huge ton.� She wanted to spend more time
with him.� �How long will you be
gone?�� She was asking questions to his
feet now. �They were nice feet.� She was too crushed to look at his face.�

�Most likely a few days, but it is never certain.�

Paige nodded and tried to force her gaze back to his face.� That meant he wouldn�t be able to play moral
support for her at the council meeting either.�
�Can you tell me what it is?�

�Classified.�� Shino
sighed after a short silence and shifted on his feet slightly.� It didn�t look like he was enjoying this any
more than she was.� That was a small
comfort to Paige, but not much.� Suddenly
a hand came into her field of vision�a hand with a kikaichu crawling on
it.� �Here. �I want you to have her while I am gone.�

Paige held out her own hand, accepting the bug and letting
it crawl up to her shoulder where it stayed.�
It didn�t tickle.� �Her?�� She wanted to make sure she had the gender
correct.

He nodded.� �Her.�� This meant he would be keeping tabs on her
and would be able to find her.� Paige�s
sour mood melted a little at his thoughtfulness.� This appeared to be what he took as his cue
to leave, and he started to turn to walk away.�

Before she thought about her actions, or how sudden
movements might not always be OK with possibly jumpy ninjas, Paige found
herself hugging Shino.� She just didn�t
want him to leave without one�without some way of letting him know she
cared.�

He appeared to be shocked by the hug because he suddenly
went still under the contact before his arms circled her and hugged her back.�

�Be safe.�� Her voice
was muffled as she spoke into his grey hooded jacket.� He was so tall compared to her.� The top of her head barely met his chin.

�Kiba and Naruto will be on my team.� was his response to
her concern.� Before letting go of the
hug, he leaned down and whispered in her ear through his shirt collar, �I will
be there, if you need me.�� And then he
performed hand seals�and was gone.

Paige stood frozen for a moment in her doorway.� She had hugged Shino�Shino had hugged her
back�he would be there, if she needed him.�
She wasn�t too sure about what that meant if he was on a mission, but his
voice did sound even more like sex when he whispered in her ear.� She really hoped he stayed safe.� Sighing to herself, she decided the best
thing was to try not to worry�it never really did anything helpful�and go to
the library anyway.� She could ask for
directions.� Paige left her front door
open while she walked back to her bedroom, gathered her bag of non-medicine bag
items, transferred a few blank notebooks into it, and walked out the door,
closing it finally behind her.� She was
careful not to place the strap of the bag on her kikaichu tag-along, but she
seemed to know to move to avoid being squashed.�

The walk to the library was relatively uneventful.� Evidently the library was well known to the
villagers and they were eager to provide her with directions.� Unfortunately she learned that it was by the Hokage Tower.� The walk would not be a short one.� Paige hoped that no one important would see
her out on her own since technically she was still supposed to have an
escort.� To have something to keep her
mind occupied and try not to draw unwanted attention to herself, she decided
she wanted to name her kikaichu tag-along�something simple.� She liked having names and nicknames to call
people and things.� After considering
several possibilities she settled on Scarab.�
It was not a flattering name for any other animal, but for a beetle, it
worked.� However, now that Scarab had a
name, this meant Paige would eventually start talking to it like people would
to other household pets.� At least this
one didn�t need food that she had to buy.

Once she had arrived at the library, she decided she had
died, evidently been a very good girl, and had gone to nerd heaven.� The library was huge!� There was a strange mix of scrolls and books,
but Paige could deal with that.� It was
the sheer amount of the scrolls and books that first had her head spinning, and
then her mouth drooling.� She could spend
days in here and not get bored!� But
first, she had to find a librarian and figure out how they organized things,
and how to go about checking out materials.�
Spotting an older woman sitting behind a desk, she took a guess and
walked over.� �Excuse me.� Are you the librarian?�

�Yes dear.� I am.�� She wore plain clothing.� Her hair was black with a light dusting of
grey mixed in.� Her brown eyes looked
kind.

�I�ve never been in this library before.� I�m new in Konoha.� Could you tell me how things work here?�

�Sure.�� The
librarian�s eyes lit up.� It looked like
she loved her job and relished the chance to enlighten another person to the
joys of the library.� She reached down
and brought out a few pieces of paper.�
�This is a map of the library that explains what books and scrolls you
can find in each section on each floor.��
She handed the map over to Paige.�
�And this is the form you need to fill out in order to bring anything
home with you.� We need your address for
mailing purposes if anything becomes overdue.�

Paige obediently filled out her current address.� She wasn�t planning on checking anything out
just yet, but if things went well with the council meeting, she could see
herself being in the library often.� She
handed the filled out form back to the librarian.

�Is there anything I can help you find?�

�Yes actually.� I�m a
big animal person, both real and animals found in local myths and legends.� Is there a certain section I could look up
that information for Konoha?�

�There are actually two separate sections for that�one for
the animals native to Fire Country and one for myths and legends�� The librarian then proceeded to mark on the
map she had given Paige the areas she was to start her search.� �Just let me know if you need any help, my
name is Miko.�

�Thank you.��

Paige began her journey through Konoha�s library.� When she arrived at the section marked for
native animals in Fire Country she discovered it wasn�t just native animals,
but native plants, imports, exports�in short, she had basically found a
gigantic encyclopedia of information on Fire Country.� She spent a few moments just browsing the
shelves figuring out how they were organized.�
Soon the shelves on animals were located.� She pulled several volumes and scrolls from
the shelf and walked over to a nearby table to see what she had found.� Paige decided on pulling the volumes that
looked like they were overviews of many animals.� She would find more specific materials if
something intrigued her.� Tapping into
her connection with the spiritual, she settled in for reading and some
note-taking if something called out to her abilities.

***

After a few hours, several books, and a few scrolls, she
sensed frog closely followed by the
emotions Intrigue, Arousal, and Curiosity.� �Jiraiya-sama.� I know you�re there.�

Shock� Arousal.

�If you�re here to ogle, then you get to leave�if you�re
here to ask me intelligent questions you can pull up a chair.� The table currently has three of them
available.�� She was partially amused and
partially nauseated that she was currently arousing him, but it�s not like she
could actually control that.

Intrigue.� Curiosity.�
Arousal.

�Ero-sennin, get out here, or I�ll tell Miko at the front
desk you�re being perverted in a public library.�� Suddenly she heard the shuffling of feet a
few bookcases down from her table.

�Eh�there�s no need for that now.�� Jiraiya walked up to Paige�s table and sat
down on one of the previously offered chairs.�
�What are you doing?�

�Looking up information on the animals native to Fire
Country�for future reference materials.�
So far I�ve come across some I�ve never seen before.� It�s possible they�ll show up as totems.� I want to be informed.�� She held up a book on mammals pointing to a
picture in it.� �This one�a tanuki�never
heard of that before.� And apparently
they�re well known around here.� I�ll
need to cross reference it with some myths and legends that the nature book
mentions�Wanna make yourself useful?��
For some reason tanuki seemed important to know.� She didn�t question the feeling.

�Are you always this�thorough?� he asked, pushing the book
down from his face...� His eyes had gone
a bit wide while she was waving the book in his face and was going on and on
about tanuki.�

�When I have the luxury of time.� She continued scribbling
notes in her notebooks while they conversed.�
�It was one of the reasons I was going to graduate in the top 2% of my
class.�

�Do you miss it?�

�Yes and no.� I didn�t
have much outside of classes and my job in my life.� But it�s nothing that I couldn�t regain here
if things go well with the council.�

�I noticed you walked over here by yourself.� Arms crossed
and a smirk firmly planted on his face, he waited for an answer to his
not-so-question.

�Guilty.� My planned
escort was assigned a mission, so I decided to go it alone.� Besides, I was getting restless.� I�m basically on house arrest.�� She gave an exasperated sigh as she broke off
her note-taking to look up at the sannin.�
�I don�t enjoy not being able to walk out my front door whenever I
like.�

�I like a free-spirited woman!� he proclaimed.

Was this guy for real?�
She rolled her eyes.� Grabbing the
map of the library Miko had given her and thrusting it at Jiraiya, she said,
�Here.� Go find me tanuki legends.� It�s marked on the map.�

�Uh��

�Shoo!� I need to
concentrate.�� A few minutes later
Jiraiya had brought her a scroll on the folklore related to tanuki.� While Paige was busily adding this into her
notes, she asked, �So why are you really here, Jiraiya-sama?�

�The meeting time with the council has been
decided�9:00AM.� They didn�t like that
Tsunade had delayed.� I saw you walking
over and figured I�d deliver the message to you.�� He hadn�t sat back down, but was reading over
her shoulder now. �Paige let Jiraiya read
over her shoulder.� It wasn�t anything
for a personal reading.

�Has anyone else been told?��

�The others that will be present for the meeting.�

She nodded.� That
included those that needed to know from last night�s meeting.� After she had completed transcribing the
tanuki information, Paige closed all of the books and scrolls.� Facing the sannin, she asked, �So what
unclassified history lessons about Konoha would I find in a library?�� She didn�t bother to cushion it.� He was sannin.� He probably could tell if she was lying.

Looking mostly amused, Jiraiya circled more sections on the
library map for Paige.� �And something
tells me you�ll be able to fill in any holes.�

She just grinned in reply and instead asked, �Did Tsunade
get my physical results from Sakura?�

�Yes, why?�

�Curious to see if she saw anything unusual.� I doubt Sakura missed anything, but I�m not opposed
to second opinions.�� Paige�s wheels were
turning in her head.� She had an idea of
who some of her possible allies could be on the council among the jounin, but
the clan heads and elders were unknown.�
She would need a way to communicate with Tsunade if she suspected
something was going to go badly and needed to run out on things.� Medical discussions would be a good cover.

�She didn�t see anything,� was Jiraiya�s reply.� He gave her a piercing gaze.� It looked like he knew something was going on
in her head, but wasn�t quite sure what it was.

�Did anyone else see them?��
Her plan of using medical things as a cover would only work if no one
else had seen the records.

�The council was given notice of your clearance, but they didn�t
see the records themselves.�� Jiraiya had
a smirk on his face now.� He might have
figured out her plan, but that was ok.�
Naruto trusted him�Paige would trust him.

The rest of the day at the library was spent with Paige
wandering the shelves and Jiraiya trailing after her, comically holding a large
stack of books and scrolls on the history of Konoha.� Instead of a jounin escort, she had a sannin
escort, but she didn�t care.� Ninja rank
be damned!� She was gonna make him work
if he wanted any kind of excuse to hang around and look at her butt!

***

Author�s Post-Note:�
Don�t hurt me about making Shino disappear on Paige! �I promise it�s for a purpose!� At least she got in a squeeze before he left!� Anyone see where I�m going with this? �Huh?�
Huh?� *goes back to plot weaving*
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