Shino was settled on a small area of paving, legs folded neatly as he pondered the question for a moment. The kikaichu responded to his mood and emotions, anger, fear, joy anything strongly felt sent them into agitation or disarray in varying degrees, but did that extend further?

"Normal insects don't have emotions as far as we can tell, but Kikaichu are a contract creature and react to chakra.. Would they laugh? or become dizzy? Tou-san has the ability to remove poisons with his hive, would they consider sugar one, the same way they do other chemicals?"

He was thinking out loud, but these were all questions he had thought of himself. They felt too menial to present to his clan members, none of them having much of an impact on their lives as shinobi, but that didn't stop him from being curious.