Title: Just to Love

Rating: PG

Disclaimer: I do not own Shino nor any of his family nor Kiba and his family either, they belong to Kishimoto sensei

AN: the style of this writing just popped out of my head. Its sparse and not very wordy, perfect for Shino's POV

Somehow I could never see myself with anyone other than him.

I was startled to realize this.

For years I thought it was just being friends.

You see my family isn't very social so I wouldn't know.

But when I was 17, two years ago, I realized the truth.

I was in love with my best friend.

But that was when it got hard

It took almost three weeks of serious worrying and anxiety before I got the courage to actually do it.

To tell him I loved him.

I knew we would still have problems.

Most people including some of his family were sickened by me.

I promised though, to do my best to get along.

My family thought he was too loud.

That, because he was an Inuzuka, he was inappropriate and quick tempered, because he was a boy and I wouldn't be able to carry on the clan.

That I just had a childhood infatuation.

But we told them.

"we love each other" we said, him grinning like a madman.

And in the end that is all we would ever be able to do.

Just to love and to expect nothing else.