Sakura wasn't someone he spoke with on a regular basis, apart from off-handed communications about assignments for biology classes and the occasional polite little conversations in passing. The class period also wasn't a time when he typically spoke in almost any sort of capacity--he rarely offered to speak or present and was almost never tempted to speak in sidebar with any of his classmates.
For once, in this moment of quiet bonding, this absolute extension of obvious friendship (because who else in this room could truly appreciate what the Haruno girl had just done? there weren't even other biology majors that he could see to understand the quiet magnitude of the moment), Shino wanted to say something. All that came to mind was to tilt his head in just a little more, to let his face stay soft and receptive as she spoke to him. When she finished, his lips parted in a purely human reaction, the desire to reply, to give back, to connect over something with another warm-blooded mammal.
Instead of something witty, he flashed a quiet smile and offered in his typical monotone, "...they can't all be ladybugs."
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