"Heeeeeee. And I'm glad I got you! You're my favorite."

She smiles.

"I wonder who our jounin instructor will be."

"Dunno! Hopefully someone fun..."

"It'd be a real shame if they were boring. We'd have to liven them up."

"Give their life a bit of flavor."

"The curry powder of experience for the flavorless rice of their life."

She giggles. "Come on, let's go spice up Chihiro's life, first!"

"She probably needs it," Elieyha agrees.

Hisame grins, then runs over to Chihiro.

"Hello!" she chirps. "I'm Hisame! We're on a team together, and I'm really excited to get to know you!" She's maybe channeling Naruto a little bit, but, hey, graduation! Being a real ninja! Eventually not being surrounded by people she isn't allowed to stab!

"Yes. I am Chihiro. It is nice to meet you."

"Same! Do you happen to know who our jounin sensei's gonna be?"

"Such information is not distributed to Academy students."

"Of which you are one."

"Yes. As are you, Elieyha of Suna."

"Hey. Be nice. We're all a team now - genin of Konoha."

"As you say."

"Hisame has the right of it," a woman's voice says from off to the side. "You're all part of this village. Elieyha is no more foreign than our first three Hokage - none of them were born in Konoha."

She appears to be an Inuzuka, wearing a jounin uniform and accompanied by a large brown dog.

"Konoha did not exist at the time."

She shrugs. "New people join all the time; my own clan joined relatively recently. New blood strengthens us."

"Chihiro, Elieyha, and Hisame, right? I'm your jounin-sensei, Inuzuka Sesshi."

"Hello."

"Hi!"

Chihiro nods in greeting.

"Come along, then. We'll all introduce ourselves properly," she says, turning to lead the way out of the classroom.

Goodbye Academy, she hopes to never need to come back here.