Okay so I've been working hard to get to the exciting stuff, but its not here yet. This is pretty much filler, but go ahead and read or else you won't know what's going on in the next chapter. I don't own anything Naruto or anything else that sounds like it needs a disclaimer.

Chapter 5- Are You Always Like This?

Nanami and Naruto left the mall after spending a couple more hours with the guys. Somehow, she managed to stuff her giant bags in the back seat of Little Red, and still have room for Naruto and herself.

"So your friends were nice." Nanami commented nonchalantly, although her thoughts were still stuck on Kiba.

"Yeah, they're the best!" Naruto agreed with a grin.

"Are they all freshmen, too?"

"Yep."

"Oh." Nanami commented disappointed. She would still go to Konoha High School soon and not know a single person in her grade.

Naruto had started fiddling with the dial on her radio and came across a good rock station. They both started rocking out and singing along all the way back to the house. Naruto helped her bring all of her bags inside and up to her room.

"Man! You got a lot of stuff!" He commented as he carried the last bag up.

Nanami had thought so too until she started unpacking. She had half a closet full of clothes, new bed sheets, new curtains, a jewelry box, a fold-up chair, some posters, new shoes, and some notebooks. Her bedspread was navy blue with brown, black, and white hoops. She had matching curtains, and the fold-up chair was brown shag. She hung up the posters that the girls told her she just had to have which included an Eclipse movie poster, a Justin Bieber poster, and a Brad Pitt poster. Nanami didn't understand why she had to have these things, but she figured as long as Jiraiya saw something in there it really didn't matter.

"Hmm, it still looks like you're missing something." Naruto assessed.

"Oh yeah, like what?"

"Well. I don't know it just looks empty."

"So what does your room look like?"

"Come here, I'll show you."

Nanami followed him down the hall to his bedroom. As she first stepped inside she could understand why he felt hers looked empty. His room was a mess! There were clothes and games and everything else thrown around everywhere. Looking past the mess she could make out a bed, a desk, a dresser, and a bookshelf. The bed was unmade and littered with more clothes. The desk held notebooks, pencils, footballs, baseballs, and Nintendo DS games. The bookshelf held five books down near the bottom, the rest of the shelves were occupied by a TV and several different game systems, controllers, and disks. The dresser was the only thing not very cluttered and she could see that it held a couple of picture frames.

"Yes, I can see why mine looks different from yours: my bedroom is clean." Nanami clarified.

"What? It's not that bad." Naruto defended.

"Not that bad? I bet you don't even know what color your carpet is."

"Sure I do. It's brown."

"You have wood floors, moron. It was a trick question."

"I knew it was brown didn't I?"

"That's not the point!"

"You're just mad because my room is so much better than yours!"

"For a pig, maybe!"

They continued to yell back and forth like that for several minutes until they heard the door open downstairs. They stopped and leaned down the stairs until they could see Jiraiya walking in with pizza.

"Hey, if you two are hungry, I brought dinner." Jiraiya hollered at the two siblings.

"Alright!" Naruto cheered, pushing past Nanami to get to the pizza first. Nanami also made her way down the steps, though not nearly as quickly as her eager brother.

"So Nanami, how was shopping?" Jiraiya asked as she finally made it into the kitchen.

"Productive." Was her only reply.

"Good! Well, I talked to Tsunade, and you're in."

"I'm in?"

"Yeah, you start class Monday with Naruto."

"Oh" She replied, finally understanding.

"Oh man! You mean school starts Monday!" Naruto yelled from the living room while still chowing down on pizza.

"Yep, only five days left until summer vacation ends." Nanami summed up.

"We've got to go to the Hole one last time before school starts!" Naruto exclaimed before he ran off to grab his phone.

"What's the Hole?" she asked Jiraiya.

"The Hole is a place on the outskirts of town that all the kids hang out at during the summer. It's where I get a lot of research done that's for sure." He said his face lighting up as he said research.

Nanami could feel herself blush and wasn't about to ask what he was researching. She still hesitated before she picked up any papers lying around the house anymore.

"Oh and before I forget, I got you a couple of things."

"Really?" She asked her eyes wide with surprise. What else could he possibly do for her?

"Here I figured you wouldn't think about getting these while you were out shopping so I got them for you."

Nanami looked down at the two boxes in her hands. One was larger and had DELL written across it the other was small with a picture of a phone on the box. She couldn't believe it: Jiraiya had gone out and bought her a cell phone and a laptop. She looked up at him unsure of how to express her gratitude while tears began to form at the corners of her eyes.

"Stop it. It's no big deal, now why don't you run upstairs and set them up." He said waving her off.

She smiled and nodded as she gleefully ran back into her room. She could hardly contain her excitement as she pulled out the red Dell Studio and the purple Blackberry. She went through the initial set-up for both of her devices as Naruto burst into her room.

"Nanami! Don't plan anything for tomorrow; we're going to the Hole!"

She didn't know what she would possibly have planned for tomorrow, but she knew that there would be no way of getting out of this.

"Hey Nanami. Did you get new stuff?" He asked noticing her computer and cell phone.

"Yes." She announced proudly.

"Wow! I don't even have a laptop! Can I use yours sometime? Jiraiya's is usually…cluttered."

Nanami knew what he meant from the way he blushed and stammered causing her to blush as well.

"Yeah sure I don't see why not. But not when I'm using it and not unless you ask first." She established.

"Fine." Naruto grumbled.

"Oh, and let me get your number right now while you're here."

He told her the number and she saved it as her first contact. Naruto then proceeded to go down his contact list giving her Jiraiya and the all the guys' number from earlier. They chatted for a little while longer, and Nanami dug out her iPod that had died a long time ago finally able to plug it in. After that they compared songs and bands until Nanami could feel her eyelids droop.

Nanami was up at nine again the next morning, but this time it wasn't by her own choosing.

"Nanami, wake up! I don't want to be the last one there!" Naruto hollered in her ear while shaking her awake.

"Naruto, I guarantee that no one is there this early. And it's not such a bad thing to be late." She grumbled trying to hold on to the last bit of unconsciousness that Naruto was forcefully shaking out of her.

"C'mon will you just get up!" Naruto growled giving her one final shake.

Nanami groaned, finally opening her eyes. Naruto was already dressed in Hawaiian print orange swim trunks with a black tank top. He was wearing black flip-flops and sunglasses as well.

"Well aren't you the early bird." She teased.

"Just get ready. I told the guys we'd be there by ten."

"Is it even warm out at ten?" She replied back, but he was already out of her room.

She sighed and pulled back the covers. She supposed there was no arguing with Naruto when he was set on something. Luckily, the girls had convinced her to buy a swimsuit yesterday. Nanami pulled out the purple bikini with the brown and white design. It was sports bra style with short-like bottoms. She stared at it with aversion wondering if she couldn't get by with just sitting on the shore in a tank top and shorts. After contemplating the pros and cons for a little bit longer, she finally put on the suit with a white tank top and black shorts over it. She left her hair done up, found some flip-flops, and grabbed her duffel bag. She stuffed a couple of towels, sunscreen, her make-up bag, and a book in it. She also grabbed her iPod, phone, and billfold and put them in the side pocket. When she was finally ready she headed down the stairs to where Naruto was waiting in the living room.

"Finally, I thought you would never get done." He complained.

"Are you always like this? Strung out over every little thing?" She asked giving him an incredulous look.

"I'm not strung out over every little thing!" Naruto yelled back, proving the point further.

"Yes you are, Naruto." Jiraiya stated matter-of-factly.

Naruto crossed his arms and huffed from being ganged up on. Nanami rolled her eyes and smiled.

"Well I'm ready with five minutes to spare even."

Naruto didn't answer her, probably still smarting from earlier. Instead, he marched out to her car carrying his own bag. Nanami sighed again before she followed him saying goodbye to Jiraiya on the way out the door.

Nanami took her place in the driver's seat, and looked over to make sure her brother was ready before pulling out of the driveway.

"Alright where to?" She asked.

Naruto finally seemed to get over her earlier comment, and was eager to point out the way. Before long Nanami was driving down an old dirt trail with trees lining both sides. Nanami was starting to get nervous about her jeep as they bounced up and down on every bump in the road. Nanami came off of one bump and had to slam down on the brakes as she found herself in a dead end.

"Naruto, where the hell are we?" Nanami tried not to yell.

"We're here at the Hole!"

"Where? There's nothing here but trees!"

"Yeah, we'll have to walk the rest of the way. Just park next to those other cars." Naruto admitted, pointing to the left where Nanami did see three other cars much to her surprise.

Nanami didn't say anything mainly because she didn't know what to say. She was embarrassed that she hadn't noticed the other cars, and was surprised that there were more than just freshmen here. Maybe she would finally be able to meet some kids her own age. She parked behind the silver Porsche Cayman making sure there was still room for it to maneuver around the green Camry, and red single cab Chevy.

Nanami was practically drooling over the Porsche as she got out. Naruto, on the other hand, didn't even notice that she wasn't behind him as he took off running through the tall trees. When Nanami finally grabbed her stuff to go to the Hole, she had no idea which direction to go. She wasn't too worried though. How hard could it be to find a large group of teenagers?

Yay! Next week is fall break so I'm actually going to post two chapters next week, and possibly two chapters the week after that. By then we'll actually be getting into the main plot of the story. Sorry that it's taking so long! Thanks to everyone who has been reading and please review.