Once they finished eating and Minato had paid for their meal, he and Mizuki started to leave when Mizuki finally realized that she wasn't wearing the ring that she had chose and quickly dug it out of the bag and slipped it on her ring finger as Minato checked his wallet for several moments before finally saying, "I think I'll have to lend you my credit card."

"That's fine."

"It is? Should I take it that you know how to use one?"

"My former village leader used to give me his when I needed to go out and get groceries, clothing, and pay for doctor's visits." Mizuki said, though she conveniently forgot to mention just how badly she had been treated on each of those trips. Not to mention how much she had to pay for even the most basic of services.

Minato blinked at her and then muttered about how he would love to meet her former village leader, nearly causing her to trip over her own feet and fall flat on her face as he was trying to hand her the card. Carefully righting herself she managed to take the card before she could actually fall over and then tucked it in the bag of jewelry that she was carrying.

"Is there a budget that I should be aware of?"

"No. But I do ask that you do take it a little bit easy on my bank account. I kind of like being able to eat and pay my bills."

"Fair enough." Mizuki said with a small grin as he nodded his head and then muttered something about who he should summon to help her when she reached out and grasped his sleeve between her fingers and lightly tugged to get his attention.

The second that he looked at her, she gave him a mischievous little smile and then summoned three shadow clones and simply watched his eyes widen mere moments before his jaw dropped open at the sight of her clones.

"T-That is a jounin level-"

"Jutsu? Yeah I know. Back in my former village there was this forbidden scroll that our leader kept under lock and key. I didn't know it was off limits and was conned by a chunin to steal it. But he never really expected me to be able to read, much less understand it. I taught myself the shadow clone jutsu, and maybe two others before he came to kill me and take the scroll. Fortunately for me, I had someone watching out for me who became a lot like an older brother. He saved me from being killed, and with his help- the two of us stopped the other guy and sent him away. Afterwards, the one whom had been watching out for me, put in a good word with me with the village leader so that he'd know that I didn't steal the scroll for the reasons that everyone first thought. Gramps was awful pissed at me, but he let my actions slide since I and the other guy managed to escape with our lives and return home."

"I see." Minato said awkwardly as he thought, I never realized how chatty she was before. Maybe it was simply her way of letting him know something about her aside from her name and such? "And what happened to the two of them?" Minato asked, though he already sort of suspected the answer to his question.

Mizuki cringed a little bit but said. "Gramps died defending the village. And Ruka...he to my knowledge is still alive somewhere. He was on a mission before our home fell to enemy nins. And he never really returned. We aren't exactly sure if maybe he died on the mission. Or if he possibly came home and found everything in ruins and simply thought everyone dead and left again to find a new place to settle down."

"You must miss him a great deal."

"More than most. But if he's still alive, and he's happy where he is, then I have no complaints. If anyone deserves happiness, it's him. Now if you will point me to some of the stores, I'll go and check them out and see about finding what I need."

Minato gave her a bemused look before he pointed out. "Even if I were to point you in their direction, your forgetting that you'll still need someone to point you to my place. And I dunno, maybe let you in."

"I can find it on my own and simply pick the lock." Mizuki said offhandedly as she started walking in the opposite direction as Minato, whom merely watched her through slightly narrowed eyes. He wasn't the only person who lived in his home, and he very much doubted that Kakashi would like someone picking the lock to the front door and entering when he was at home probably trying to rest up from his last mission.

It was on the tip of his tongue to call her back and tell her not to pick the lock on his door. Kakashi would probably attack her, but then decided not too. Let the brat learn the hard way if she must. It was no real skin off of his nose as long as Kakashi didn't kill her.

Though he supposed that sending Kashi a message to let him know about her and the fact that she would be living with them from now on, wouldn't be such a bad idea.

Shrugging his broad shoulders, Minato lifted a hand to run through his golden blond hair as he walked.

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Sighing as she paused in mid step to watch as Minato completely disappeared from sight, she shook her head for a moment and then started walking again in the direction of the clothing stores that she had seen earlier. She figured that she would need to go by the kimono store first since it would likely cost the most to get the stuff that he had told her to get.

The accessories, the little silk drawstring purses and tsumami hair combs would cost a little bit extra, but would be totally worth it, she supposed. However she didn't like kimono's. Now don't get her wrong, she understood that as the Hokage, any female that hung off of Minato's arm had to look a certain way at formal events.

Charities, political meetings and such.

However formal kimono's were such a pain to wear!

You couldn't walk in them, couldn't run in them when you needed too. The obis were usually tied so tightly that they restricted one's breathing in a seriously bad way. Not to mention any woman or girl with curves- because formal kimono's usually consisted of several heavy layers- made any and all curves on a gal's body disappear. Like poof! Gone!

In Mizuki's opinion men should be the ones to always wear the damned things.

They needed to suffer a little more than they already did in normal day to day life. Not only that, but maybe if they wore them and they decided to start some stupid pissing contest about who's cock was bigger- everyone would realize that in a multi layered kimono- it would be as if their cocks didn't exist.

Poof! Gone!

She could just imagine the state of panic that the males would fall into. Giggling at her own morbid thoughts, she paused outside of the shop where she would get the kimono's and took a moment to look at the displays in the windows. And she had to admit, they had some nice stuff.

She already saw at least one formal kimono that she would probably be buying. Huffing slightly, she reached for the door and then pulled it open so that she could slip inside.