Shino stood upright; his hands slipped into the pockets of his jacket while all the others were leaning over with their hands on their knees. The main reason he did not give into his exhaustion was because logic demanded that he never give an unnecessary show of weakness, but in reality he was just as tired as the others, perhaps even more so. Despite common beliefs that the insects inhabiting their bodies were what actually composed their internal structures, the Aburame merely allowed a nest of insects, kikaichuu among the species utilised by his clan, to coexist within them in symbiosis. Essentially, that meant that not only were they carrying around their own body weight but an entire colony of chakra-sucking insects with them. Put into simpler terms, unless he started working on his stamina and endurance like a majority of the Aburame clan members at his age would, Shino would be in for a very short shinobi career indeed.
