"Magic doesn't exist! It's stuff that can't be explained, and everything can be explained if you think hard enough."

"Well, if you figure out how a guy can turn into a duck on being hit by cold water, let me know."

"Use a transformation technique? Or have a transformation seal on him triggered by cold water."

"I don't know what those are."

"We're gonna learn the transformation technique in school. It turns you into other stuff! Seals are stuff written on things, that do stuff. They can do anything. I read about them in a history book!"

"Oh, cool!"

She nods. "I noticed seals 'cause Uzumaki Mito was mentioned as the First's wife, so I read more about her, and she was the best seal-master ever."

"The First?"

"The First Hokage? He founded Konoha."

"Oh, I see. Where I'm from we don't have Hokages."

"What do you have instead?"

"Uh, Prime Ministers and stuff."

"What's a Prime Minister?"

"Runs the country? I never paid much attention to politics."

"So like a daimyo? He runs the Land of Fire."

"--Japan hasn't had a daimyo in a while but kinda I guess."

"Why not?"

"Something something Admiral Perry Meiji restoration my brother did shit in school and I haven't existed separately from him long enough to catch up on history."

"Okay." She finishes getting all her things together. "I want to check with the Hokage before training with you. I'm not supposed to wander off with strangers. But I can find you after that, your chakra signature's really obvious."

"Okay!"

"...Thank you for helping with them. Even though I didn't really need it. I think I gotta get going now, though."

"See you later, then."

"See you!" And she runs off, books clutched to her chest.

"It was good of you, standing up for her," Yamato says quietly.

"Ganging up on a kid that much younger than you is ridiculous," she scowls.