"Hey Inazuma!" Naruto shouts, waving.

Tsume chooses that moment to emerge. "Hey guys, how'd you do?" she asks.

"We passed!" She says as she jumps up to tacklehug her mom. "He totally just wanted us to demonstrate our team working abilities. Old hat."

She spins her little lightning around. "That's great! Kiba got in with his team not too long ago, too. I'm so proud of you all!"

"Oh! I wanna meet them. But, Mama, you know Naruto. Obviously. This is Uchiha Sasuke. He's a really good teammate and was second place on this years graduation test. Sasuke, this is my mom Inuzuka Tsume. She beats up genin for a living," she teases.

"Gotta get the brats into shape somehow. Why don't you all come inside, get comfortable. I can get you guys something to eat and drink, or feel free to raid the fridge and pantry."

"Thanks Miss Raizume's mom!" Naruto shouts as he heads inside to acquire snacks and gossip.

She looks to Sasuke.

"Want me to give you the tour?"

He shrugs then nods.

She takes him around her house first, pointing out the kitchen and the bathrooms and her bedroom. Well, she shows off her bedroom. Her walls are covered in what looks to be seperate complex murals, all depicting what seems to be fantastic and abstract scenes of another world. The ceiling is a stunning galaxy with hundreds, maybe thousands, of individual stars. Despite the stark differences in each wall, they all blend together to make up something whole.

"It took me nearly two years to finish all this."

"You paint?" he asks after a few moments.

"If I wasn't a shinobi I probably would have become a professional artist. Getting commissions and that sort of stuff."

He seems a bit taken aback by 'not a shinobi', but does nod.

...He has no idea what he'd be if he wasn't a shinobi.

Dead, maybe. Itachi didn't leave the artists alive.

She leaves him to his silence and continues showing him around. Pointing out different family members, introducing him quickly and then moving on.

Eventually: "Hana should be home by now..." She looks around for her sister.

Her sister can be found, down in the main room where the meal seems to be happening. She's talking gently to Hinata, apparently asking her something about dogs, and she looks up when Raizume enters.

It's easy to spot that Sasuke's a bit overwhelmed.

"Hey you," she says, waving. "Rai, mind if I borrow some of our guests? Figured they could grab food and then I could show them the clinic. Some of the puppies are nervous, thought they might appreciate an introduction to new people who aren't so boisterous."

There's a possibly unacceptable number of people in the main room. Two of them are Naruto and Kiba.

Sasuke nods at Hana.

Hana is the best sister. Though she keeps that to herself.

"If the guests want to be borrowed, borrow away."

Sasuke and Hinata will be borrowed, after Hana thanks Raizume and then insists on getting them snacks.

She takes them to the clinic, where it's quiet and there's no other people, and sets them in a room with some very very nervous puppies, giving them soft instructions on how to hold their bodies, where to set their gaze, how to talk or not - 

(Sasuke doesn't mind Hinata, he doesn't think. She talks even less than him. And Hana seems nice enough.)

Inazuma deigns to appear after a while and quietly sits and watches him with the puppies.

He'll jump a bit if Inazuma doesn't telegraph their arrival but not too bad.

Nope! They don't bother trying to hide from him. They promised.

Watching wolf-dog is acceptable, then.

(He's a bit too hesitant in patting the one puppy that gets over her nervousness - he's used to cats, who prefer a lighter touch - and gets nipped. He pulls his hand away and looks away and stops offering pats until she licks him in apology, then keeps patting.)

Raizume spends most of her time going over the days events with various friends and family and eating a lot of food. She checks up on Inazuma intermittently, but mostly leaves them to themselves.

Naruto talks to Kiba - gets into a series of competitions with Kiba - tries very determinedly to make friends with Shino - tells Tsume all about how awesome their team was - 

And, in general, has a great time.

He's quiet by the time the party ends - and not being required to be always present is weird, but a good kind of weird - but it's not an agitated quiet, not like before.

He even pets Inazuma a bit before he leaves.