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Love Note Left Behind	By : HavocTellenoi Category: Naruto > Yaoi - Male/Male Views: 1015 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
Disclaimer: Don't own Naruto, never will. Don't make any money on this, but that's what day jobs are for.

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AN: This next bit contains some Neji bashing. I love Neji as much as I love Shika and Shino, but someone has to be �the bad guy� here, and Neji got nominated by my muse despite my grumblings about it. It also contains the back story as to how Shika and Shino got together. I hope everyone likes it. ^_^ And I do have some plans for the Hyuuga later, but currently he's just a bit player.
Also, to all my lovely reviewers: Thank you bunches for all your suggestions and for reviewing!

'It wasn't necessarily a significant dinner, but it did hold it quirks.' Shikamaru mused lazily as he lay on his bed, rereading the note his lover had left him. He wasn't nearly as lazy as everyone thought but really the whole relationship he shared with the Bug Nin was as troublesome as it was enjoyable. Truly the Nara did love the Aburame, it was just rather difficult for him to mince words even with the man he loved.

::Flashback::

Three nights past, Shikamaru had taken his lover to dinner. It had started out normal enough, at least to the Nara. They had been an item for the last four months and even if he was lazy about most things, he remembered the importance of certain things like anniversaries and even birthdays. It had gone well, that was until a certain ex-lover that both the Nara and the Aburame shared had come on the scene with his current squeeze of the week. One Hyuuga Neji had turned up the quiet dinner between the Shadow Nin and the Bug Nin into a total disaster. And that had taken only one sentence from the magnificent Hyuuga prodigy. 'Well, a finer pair of well played pets I've never seen, but where's the master of you lovely ukes?'

That had quickly turned the night out into a trial of godly proportions. They had excused themselves from the Hyuuga's presence as quickly and efficiently as possible. But it was the getting home that had worked havoc on them. It was still a new enough thing between them that seeing their shared ex-lover and mistake hurt them both too much for words to actually describe. It had not gotten any better upon their return to their shared domicile.

Shino wasn't known for being verbose or exactly the most emotionally active person, but he did know what heartbreak felt like and it was something he was beginning to tire of feeling every time he saw one Hyuuga Neji. It was the empty silence that was stretching out between himself and the Nara that was beginning to get to him now. One of them needed to say something or do something instead of the two of them just walking around in the darkened loft getting ready for bed. It was as he was reaching for his sweats that he realized the Nara was behind him. It was as natural as breathing for the Aburame to wear clothes at all times to cover his body, but right now he wasn't feeling so much insecure over his looks and interested in protecting the pores for his bugs as he was needing the security of being hidden from prying eyes, even those of his lover.

�Don't. I've seen it Shino.� Shikamaru said softly as he firmly removed the heavy sweat suit from the other nin's hands. He stood behind the slightly shorter Anbu for a moment contemplating the situation and then slowly and gently wrapped an arm around the other man's bare waist. Shino's skin was warmer than his and he enjoyed the feeling for a moment. It was troublesome trying to navigate this relationship thing with someone so like the Hyuuga he had been with before and yet so different and vibrant emotionally.

The tone in Shikamaru's voice hadn't been harsh, but it did nothing to soothe the way Shino was feeling after the botched attempt to go out on the town with the Nara. He didn't need the other genius to tell him that the Nara had seen him naked already. He needed his lover to hold him and tell him that it was okay to be hurt by the Hyuuga's words and that he had been hurt too. But, as well as he knew all the genus of the butterflies in his Mother's garden, he knew that his beautiful Shadow wasn't the most reassuring or tender lover. He hadn't meant to get attached to the Shadow User. Not that his desires to not get attached had worked with the Hyuuga either, but he had still tried. It had started so innocently with Shikamaru, both trying to help the other win back the Hyuuga prodigy so at least one of them could be happy, but then they'd discovered that neither were really suited for the stuck up playboy and they had stayed together after that. It really was a good match. Most of the time. N ow was not one of those times, as Shino stood in the warm circle of Shika's arms and all he felt was sad, even if the face in the mirror behind his dark sunglasses showed nothing of what he was feeling.

Looking in the mirror above the dresser over his lover's shoulder, Shikamaru was struck by their physical similarities. Both were tall, lean, toned males. Both had jet black hair and rather aquiline faces. Both never really carried any sort of facial expression and both were rather quiet and highly intelligent. However as he reached up and removed the sunglasses from Shino's face, this was the biggest difference in them: Shino's bright colored eyes. One was as blue as Naruto's and the other was the loveliest shade of green. Shino had confessed to him once that it was an Aburame trait that usually skipped a generation. He really did love the mismatched eyes of his Shino, even if he never could be troubled to say the words.

The silence was back again, but now it was almost comforting in a way. It was nice to stand in the warm circle of the Nara's arms and not be troubled too much by the pores. They weren't so much huge and unsightly as they reminded Shino that he was very different from most other ninja. Three holes lay on his sternum, three more adorned each bicep on the inside of his arms. Each forearm carried four holes on the underside. He turned his arms over to look at them, half smiling at his reflection. He could feel the nine holes on his back as they pressed into the warmth of Shikamaru's chest. It was always a curiosity to him that his legs had no pores, but both his parents did.

�Analyze genetics later. We need to sleep.� Shikamaru said softly, giving the Aburame a light squeeze before releasing the other nin from his grasp and shuffling off towards the bed. He was tired now, after the emotional wringer of one Hyuuga Neji. Sleeping would be the first thing to set him right.

�We aren't going to talk about Him then?� Shino asked suddenly as he turned away from the mirror to watch the Nara walking away from him. It actually physically hurt to see the man he loved currently walking away from him right now. It wasn't so much that he wanted to rehash the pain of the past, but he didn't' exactly want the ghost of exes past to haunt what he and Shika had now forever.

Quirking a brow, Shikamaru gazed over his shoulder at his lover. Something was off about the Bug Nin now, but he couldn't quite pinpoint it, which was troublesome. �Do we need to?�

Shino shrugged and walked towards Shikamaru and then passed him by, heading into the partitioned off section that contained the four poster bed with its curtains. He crawled into his side and lay down, snuggling his pillow close and shutting his eyes. The words were on the tip of his tongue, but he couldn't make himself speak such emotional things.

Sighing softly and padding over to the bed, Shikamaru climbed into his side and cuddled up next to his lover. He didn't really know what was troubling his lover, but he wasn't about to let the other go to sleep thinking he didn't care, because he did care even though he didn't quite comprehend the issue at hand. Instead, he snuggled up to Shino, wrapped an arm around his waist, kissed his neck and buried his face in the soft black tresses laying across his pillow. �Goodnight Shin-kun.� He whispered quietly as he closed his eyes and let himself drift off to sleep.

Shino had lain there for awhile still awake, until the calming presence of his lover and friend had lulled him to sleep. It would be a bit before he confessed to how upset he had been, but he would do it. Eventually.

::End Flashback::

The next two days had flown by after that. Shikamaru had been sent on a short mission the next day to retrieve a lost message hawk and then Shino had gotten a mission that had him scheduled to leave early in the morning. They hadn't even made love in the last seventy-hours, but that wasn't what bothered the Shadow Nin. What upset him was how wordy and communicative his lover was in print, but not in conversation. Not that this was the first time his lover had demonstrated emotions in print far more easily than in person. There was a small box under their bed that was a testimonial to the Aburame's penchant for leaving love notes.

Heaving a sigh and muttering under his breath about troublesome lovers and the hunger patterns of beetles, Shikamaru got up from his bed and made his way about getting ready for the day. It couldn't hurt to do some cloud gazing as he mulled over what his lover had left him.
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