Okay I know that this intro stuff can get kind of boring, but thank you for reading! I promise things will speed up. In fact, I've introduced one of Nanami's love interests in this chapter. Don't assume that this will be the person she ends up with though. I'm putting in someone else later, and haven't decided which one I like better yet.

Oh, and even though I think that it should be obvious: I don't own anything Naruto or any of the stores I mention later. I only own Nanami.

Chapter 3- Where Do Normal Girls Shop?

The sunlight streamed in through the window at the perfect angle to shine down on Nanami. She shot up instantly, trying to get her bearings. That's when she remembered that she was in Naruto's house, her brother's house. She jumped out of bed already knowing this was going to be a great day. She changed clothes pulling on her usual attire of jeans, a red sleeveless shirt with small ruffles at the ends, and a pair of black flats.

She went down the hall until she found the bathroom Naruto and Nanami shared. She checked herself out in the mirror. She decided it wasn't too bad except for her hair. It has been down far too long for her taste. She decided to fix it her usual way. She divided her hair into four sections, braided each section towards the middle, and then gathered the ends of the braids into two buns. After a few more tweaks to her appearance, she looked into her sapphire eyes and decided that it was good enough.

She walked down the stairs into the living room, and then turned right hoping to find Naruto and Jiraiya in the kitchen/dining room. She found it surprisingly empty. She checked the clock on the wall: 9:00. She guessed that they were still sleeping so Nanami decided to make breakfast for when they got up. It was the least she could do since they were letting her live here. She searched the fridge and the pantry, but couldn't find anything to make a good meal. She rolled her eyes; of course a house with only guys would have nothing to make a breakfast from scratch. She remembered seeing a grocery store on her way to Ichiraku's with Naruto yesterday.

She grabbed her keys and headed out toward Little Red. She really took in the town on her way. Konoha really was a beautiful town. Their motto was "The Village Hidden in the Leaves" and Nanami could certainly tell with all of the trees she passed. Finally, she reached the store and hopped out.

She decided to make pancakes and bacon. She picked up some milk, pancake mix, eggs, bacon, and decided to grab some orange juice as well. As she walked toward the register she mentally started adding up the price seeing if she would have enough money. She turned the corner and ran straight into someone.

Her butt hit the ground, and she tried her hardest to keep the eggs from breaking. However, everything else started falling out of her hands landing around her. Luckily nothing broke.

"Oh man, I'm so sorry. Here let me help."

She let the person help her up and then help her gather her groceries.

"Uh, no, I'm sorry. I should have been looking where I was going." She tried to apologize.

As she straightened up she finally got a good look at the boy before her. He wore a gray zip-up hoodie with the hood up, dark washed jeans, and basketball style sneakers. His eyes were sharp and alert like a wolf, but she could also see a softness to them. She also spied a small tuft of curly brown hair sticking out from under his hood. She tried to picture him with all of his hair showing, and couldn't wrap her mind around it.

"So here you go." He said handing her the groceries.

"Thanks," she replied. She reached her hand out, and jumped at a small bark. Sticking out of the hoodie was a small white dog.

"Akamaru." The boy scolded. The dog continued to yelp, and from the looks of it, wag its tail.

Nanami thought that it was a little strange, but didn't question it.

"So, it looks like you're making breakfast." He pointed out.

"Yeah, I just needed to grab a few things."

"Did you just move here?" he asked, almost out of the blue.

"Yeah, I guess you could say that." I asked perplexed.

"Well, it was just that I hadn't seen you around before, so I just figured…" he blabbered, a small blush rising in his cheeks.

Nanami smiled, finally getting it. "Yeah, yeah, this is actually my second day in Konoha."

"Oh, well then welcome. My name's Kiba." He pointed to himself.

"Nanami." She replied.

She finally reached the register, and pulled out her wallet to pay.

"Here allow me." Kiba offered, pulling out his own.

Nanami looked surprised. "You don't have to do that."

"Consider it a welcome gift. Maybe next time I can come over and actually have some of those pancakes." He teased.

"Yeah, maybe." She replied back.

She grabbed the groceries of the counter. "I guess I'll see you later. And thanks, again." She called back walking out of the store.

When she got back to her car she finally let the nervous butterflies take over. Did he just flirt with her or was he being friendly? She couldn't help but think about his hair, his eyes, and his smile the whole way back to Naruto's house.

Before long she was cooking up a great smelling meal as the sound of bacon sizzling filled the silence. Even cooking couldn't distract her from Kiba. She shook her head. What did she really know about the kid? All of a sudden she heard two loud thumps and pounding feet getting closer to the kitchen. She smiled. It seemed like she knew how to get those two out of bed.

"Good morning, boys." She said cheerfully. "Ready for pancakes and bacon?"

She turned around to find them practically drooling over the sight before them.

"You made this for us?" Naruto asked eagerly.

"Well of course." She replied. "It was the least I could do after you let me stay and everything."

She set the plates of food down before them at the table, and watched them devour it almost instantaneously.

"Kid, if you cook breakfast like this every day, there's no way we'd let you leave." Jiraiya praised between bites.

Nanami took the compliment to heart, and sat down with her own plate feeling absolutely giddy. They finished up their breakfast fairly quickly, and Jiraiya already had instructions for how to proceed with the rest of the day.

"Look, you can't live on that one duffel bag full of stuff. You are going to need some new clothes, stuff to fill your room, and school supplies. You and Naruto will go to the mall to do some shopping."

Nanami wanted to protest, but she knew he was right.

"Fine" she conceded.

"Good, here's some money and I'll take care of getting you enrolled at Konoha High School. What grade will you be going into?"

"I'll be a junior." She declared.

"Alright, two years older than Naruto. I think I can remember that. Now go, have fun, and uh, don't be afraid to do some shopping at Victoria Secret." He said with a greedy grin on his face.

Nanami blushed. Even if this guy did know her dad, he was still incredibly creepy.

"Pervy Sage!" Naruto hollered, anger painting his cheeks red as well.

"Alright, alright. Just be back before dinner." He conceded.

Naruto already had Nanami halfway out the door as Jiraiya was giving his last instructions. He dragged her over to Little Red and they peeled out toward the Konoha Mall.

"Hey, don't worry about Jiraiya. He can be a little weird sometimes, but he's really a good guy." Naruto tried to defend him.

"It's no biggie, Naruto."

They rode in silence for a little while.

"So" they both said simultaneously. They gave a small laugh.

"So what?" She forfeited to Naruto.

"So, how did you find me?" He asked curious.

"Well, that's actually a long story. The gist of it being that I was trying to find out about our father, got my information crossed, and ended up seeing a football roster for Konoha instead. The rest I suppose is self-explanatory."

"Then it was by accident?"

"I guess…" Nanami was puzzled not sure what he was after. However, she didn't have time to question him as he nearly jumped out of his seat announcing that they were here.

Nanami parked, and then worked hard to catch up to the excited teenager.

"Naruto, wait up!" she hollered.

"Nanami! Where do you want to go first? Hibbett's, Game Stop, the food court?" His eyes lit up at the last one. Nanami shook her head.

"Naruto, we just ate like not even an hour ago. And no. I'd really like to do what I came for and go clothes shopping."

"Fine." Naruto grumbled, following instep behind her as she led the way over to a directory.

"Now where's a good place to start?" she studied the chart.

"You mean you don't even know where you want to go?" Naruto asked baffled.

"Look, the most shopping I've ever done has been at Wal-Mart."

"Seriously?"

"Yes, Naruto." She sighed already tired of the conversation.

"Well then, I'll show you where to go." Naruto took upon himself.

"You know where to find women's clothing…" She raised one eyebrow, both doubting and appalled.

"Yeah, Sakura always makes us go to these really girly stores." Was his reply.

Nanami brightened up. "Oooh, is that a girlfriend?" she asked slyly.

"No!" Naruto yelled, his cheeks flushed bright pink.

Nanami laughed. It was obvious that he had a crush on this Sakura girl. After dragging her halfway across the mall, Naruto stopped. Nanami looked into the store.

"Here? Really? This is where normal girls shop?"

"Yeah why what's wrong with it?"

Nanami looked in the beach front style store windows trying to see into the dark store that pumped loud music. She couldn't even figure out what the store's name was until she saw a surfboard peeking out. Hollister, huh?

"No not that one!" Naruto yelled at her.

She looked over to where Naruto was standing across the pathway. The store he was looking at was definitely more her style. Rue 21 definitely was more inviting, and had tons of cute stuff. She stepped inside and instantly found several outfits she liked. She started grabbing clothes off the racks to try them on. Then she proceeded to a changing room making Naruto sit outside and tell her how she looked when she came out. After about thirty minutes of this, she could tell that he was getting irritable.

"Alright Naruto, I think that's the last one." She called out from the dressing room. She put back on her original clothes and grabbed the outfits she liked. She walked out to see that Naruto was no longer sitting in his chair.

"Naruto?" She walked around the corner hoping she would catch a glimpse of his blonde hair. That was when she heard laughter off to the right. Curiously, she moved over there to see her brother talking to a group of people. There was a girl with pink hair who he was practically drooling over. She took a guess and figured this was Sakura. She was also accompanied by a dark haired boy in a white dress shirt and dress pants, a girl with a blonde ponytail and a purple dress, a boy with a dark ponytail and a sleepy look in his eyes, a bigger boy with a bag of chips in his hands that he continually stuffed into his mouth, a shy girl with purple hair in a large hoodie, and to Nanami's surprise Kiba.

Naruto was friends with Kiba? Nanami started to feel out of place. She didn't know whether she should go over there or just pay for her clothes. She decided to go with the latter and was inching away from the group when Kiba spotted her.

"Oh, hey!" He hollered at her. Well now she was in the spotlight. Everyone turned to look at her as Kiba walked over to her.

"So I guess you felt like you needed to go shopping again?" He teased.

"Oh yeah, just couldn't get enough of what Konoha had to offer." She agreed, lamely.

"Well, I bet those pancakes were good."

"Um, yeah, they were alright." She answered modestly.

"Alright? They were stinking awesome!" Naruto finally stepped in.

Kiba looked surprised. "Wait Naruto, you know Nanami?"

"Of course I do. How do you know her?" He asked protectively.

"I ran into at the grocery store this morning."

"Huh. How come you didn't say anything Nanami?" Naruto asked her.

Nanami blushed, once again being the center of the attention. "Well I didn't exactly have a chance to bring it up."

"So wait a minute. Naruto got some of your pancakes this morning?" Kiba asked. Nanami thought she heard jealousy in his voice, but decided she was mistaken.

"Of course. We live in the same house after all." Naruto fired back, stupidly.

All of the girls gasped, and a couple of the guys smirked. Nanami turned bright red at this point.

"What?" Kiba asked, his face revealing his shock.

"Yeah, I was going to tell you guys. This is Nanami, my sister."

Oooh, kind of a cliffhanger. In case you didn't figure it out, the guy I was talking about at the beginning was Kiba. I just love him, he's so sweet! But he may or may not win Nanami's affections, like I said I haven't decided yet. Also, I'm sorry if I offended anybody with the Hollister jab. No offense to anybody, but I had a really bad experience there and have vowed death to the store! So it could have been worse, but don't use that as an excuse to quit reading because I'm done mentioning it.

Thank you for keeping up with the story and don't forget to review! :)