Yay! Next chapter! I'm so on a roll! After this I'm gonna work on Ayu's birthday fanfic! Woot!

Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto or anything that involves Naruto; I only own Kitten…and Shikamaru.

Shikamaru led me to a house that he claims is his, and walked in with me right behind him. "Mom!? Dad?! I'm home!" Shikamaru called out.

"Do you have that girl with you?" a male voice answered from the next room.

"Yeah…" he trailed off. "Is my mother here?"

"I'm in the kitchen," I heard a female voice reply. "Just let me," I heard a clang. "Dinner's ready!"

"Mom, we already ate," Shikamaru whined, walking into the kitchen. I followed and looked around. There was a fridge, a garbage can a sink and a table. The walls were a welcoming yellow color. Hanging on the walls were paintings and small ornaments with cute little sayings like "M is for mom, not for maid."

"Oh~" a kind looking woman giggled. "You mean like on a date?"

A man walked in from another door. He was tall with Shikamaru's hairstyle and a scar going down his face. "No son of mine is going on a date with a woman that I have yet to meet!" he said in mock anger.

I don't like her like that! How troublesome…I barely even know her," Shikamaru interrupted his parents. "We went with the team."

Shikamaru's mother came over to me. "It's great to finally have another girl around," she smiled welcomingly at me. "My name is Yoshino and this is my husband Shikaku. Welcome to our home! I'm sure you'll be happy here?"

"It depends~" I sang. "Can we make cookies?"

She laughed. "Sure we can! And cakes and brownies and cupcakes-"

"Mmm," I giggled. "I make the best pancakes EVER!"

She laughed again. "Really?"

"Yeah, they're light and fluffy and delicious!" I smiled.

"Well any girl who can cook is a girl that I'll easily welcome into my home," Shikaku said. I stared at him in shock. "What?" he asked.

"I-I can't cook…"

"You just said you made good pancakes though," Shikaku said. Shikamaru sighed.

"Well, I can make pancakes, just not anything else."

"And why not?"

"Because I tend to…set the stove on fire…" I smiled innocently.

"You…are an interesting girl," Shikaku smiled. "I look forward to getting to know you. It'll never be boring having her here, Yoshi."

"Ah! Yoshi!" I announced.

"Yes?" Shikamaru's mother answered. I stared at her in shock too.

"Noooo! Not you! I meant…the…video game character…Yoshi…" I blinked, confusing myself. "Uh…so…I uh have to do my summer reading, is there anywhere I can read?"

"Uh…the living room might be quiet enough," Yoshino said, still confused at what I had said.

I nodded, making my way through the door. "It's this way, yes?" the three nodded. I grinned and walked over, plopping down on a really comfy couch. Who would expect anything less for the Leaf Village's number 1 lazy ass ninja?!

I pulled out my bag that I had happened to have with me while I played in the rain, and pulled out Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck. I was on…page…ten. Huh, better get reading.

I began reading out loud. For normal people that wouldn't be a problem, but for me? When I read out loud, I start to read in a country accent; don't ask me why, it just happens.

After I had read two more chapters, I put the book down. "Damn, I really hope he gets to ten to those rabbits," I sighed, stretching.

"What book is that?"

I jumped, looking over at Shikamaru. "Of Mice and Men, I have to read it for school. We're being tested on it the first week we get break from summer vacation."

"You get tests?" he asked. In reply I nodded. "Man, what a drag. I would hate to live where you do!"

I shrugged. "Eh, it gives me something to do every day."

"Then what do you do during your summer vacation?"

"I read and write fanfictions about you," I shrugged as if it were obvious.

"You what?"

"Yeah, you wouldn't believe how hard it is to find a Shikamaru/OC fanfiction that's longer than one chapter long," I told him, then realized what I was saying and covered my mouth. "But I don't read them all the time. Sometimes I read them about random members of the Akatsuki that you don't meet yet."

"Okay, you're really strange….it's kind of a drag…" he said, reclining on his chair with his hands folded behind his head.

"So what do you do for fun?" I asked, suddenly hyper.

"Sleep…watch the clouds…"

"That's kind of boring…can you show me your shadow possession jutsu?" I begged.

"Why would I waste my chakra?"

"Please?"

"No."

"Please?"

"No."

"Please?"

"You're being annoying."

"Pease?"

"No."

"Please?"

"No."

"Please?"

"No."

Please?"

"No."

"Please?"

"No."

"Please?"

"This is such a drag."

"Please?"

"No."

"Please?!"

"No!"

*Fifteen minutes later*

"Puh-lease?"

"No."

"Please?"

"No!"

"Shikamaru's mom! Shikamaru is being mean to me!"

"What? No I'm not!" he denied.

"Shikamaru, what are you doing?" Yoshino asked, walking into the room.

"She keeps bothering me to show her my jutsu, but I keep telling her no. she's been asking me 'please' for the past fifteen minutes nonstop!"

"Shikamaru's being a drag," I told her when she looked to me for confirmation of what he just said.

"Well, the cookies are done!" Yoshino said.

"Cookies!" I jumped up, excited. I love cookies! I just made some giant ass cookies at home yesterday, but my brother ate them…aw… "Shikamaru, I don't think Ino likes me that much…"

"Well, you did call her out on a lie and make her look stupid," he shrugged. "Don't you want a cookie?"

I shook my head. "Does it ever rain here?"

"Only sometimes. Not very often, why?"

"No reason," I shook my head, walking into the kitchen. "Yoshino, what do you do for fun?"

She looked over at me. "Cook. Clean. Shop."

I grinned. "Can you teach me how to cook? I promise I won't catch anything on fire! Please? Please? Please? Please? Please?"

She laughed. "Now I know what Shikamaru was talking about, sure, I'll teach you how to cook."

"I'll clean too," I told her, crossing my heart. "I'd feel…dirty if I stayed here and didn't help out somehow. So is that all you do all day?"

"Pretty much," she shrugged. "While Shikaku and Shikamaru are out ninja-ing, I stay here and cook and clean, do all the shopping."

"Sounds like how it is back at home," I smiled at the memory. "Guys go work and support the family financially while the woman stay home and take care of the house and family."

She laughed. "So you know how to cook and clean?"

"Well, I know how to clean?"

"Good enough! Every day I'll train you with my awesome cooking skills!"

I laughed. "But first," Yoshino continued. "I want you to make pancakes tomorrow morning."

"Eh…what time?"

"Around nine, maybe? It's both Shikamaru's and Shikaku's day off," she suggested. I scrunched up my nose. "No?"

"Make it eleven," I suggested. "Mama needs her beauty sleep!"

"Me?"

"No! I call myself Mama, I don't know why though…it just caught on with me, I guess," I shrugged. "Where will I be sleeping?"

"Uh…the couch if that's alright?"

"The couch is A-Okay!" I gave her a thumbs up. "So, I'm going to pretend that I'm tired and I'm going to kick Shikamaru out of the living room."

She laughed at that. "Have fun!"

"Okay!" I waved. "Goodnight!"

"Goodnight!"

Yay! Kitten and Yoshino are bonding! Yay! So, time for thank yous!

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