"Sure, though Akamaru will find us, if all else fails."

Challenge?

"We don't need you scaring them off, silly," Naruto says to Inazuma.

More for us.

Raizume pets her pretty, smart, talented and perfectly terrifying puppy.

"There's enough for all of us and more. I promise."

They are all those things, it's true! They lick Raizume's face in approval and contentment.

-- and Naruto's too. To foster good manners.

He laughs and scritches behind their ears.

To food and companionship!

They find Kiba and Akamaru and eat many foods and celebrate their assignments. Inazuma is on their best behaviour, except for a few minutes in the middle there when they decide they want to race Akamaru and show off and prove that they are good puppies. Not that they need to prove it, but giving their humans the occasional reminder is good idea.

The humans mostly just laugh at their antics. (Kiba's a bit iffy on being on Shino's team, but overall thinks it could've gone much worse - he at least doesn't get along too poorly with his. He expresses his sympathies for Naruto's assignment with Sasuke.)

After lunch, Naruto leads the way in bouncing to their assignment room. Sasuke's already there, ignoring them, but Naruto's chattered at Raizume plenty so he starts excitedly talking Sasuke's ear off with wild speculations about their jounin-sensei, who isn't there yet.

Raizume knows that they are probably going to be waiting a while, so saves some of their lunch for later.

She interrupts Naruto. "So I know we all kinda already know each other, especially Naruto and I. But we're a team now, we should reintroduce ourself in that context."

Sasuke nods slowly. "I don't know you much. You were the number one rookie, though. How old are you?"

"Ten. Mama wouldn't let me graduate until this year. It's a Inuzuka thing. We're really not about the whole child soldier thing. There's history there."

"Hm. What're your abilities?"

"I'm best with my taijutsu. I'm strong. I've learnt how to add chakra to my movements and that gives me a great edge. I'm thinking about attempting to grow claws, I'm not really interested in other weapons. I know a bit of fūinjutsu, but thats more of a hobby at this point. I'm hoping our jounin-sensei will give me a leg up there. I'm really fast, and with Inazuma I'm a very good tracker. But that's par the course with my clan."

"Hm. I scored relatively high in analysis, critical thinking, ninjutsu theory, and weapons. I can use fire release; my current most usable technique is a C-rank, the Great Fireball. I was best in our year for taijutsu, but behind benchmarks for 'taijutsu prodigy.'"

"I'm good at not going down when hit!" Naruto says, bouncing again. "Though not so good at not getting hit. I punch hard, and Rai's been working on my taijutsu with me but remembering all the forms is kinda really hard, but fighting itself isn't so much. I'm good at shapes! Like, looking at something, seeing what it is, what it could be. I like traps! They're fun. And easy to spot the way most people do 'em. Iruka-sensei said my chakra control's bad but my capacity's good, I think I might do better when we learn stuff that's not all weird and, like, trying to do tiny stuff?"

"I can't wait until we work together long enough and our taijutsu improves by leaps and bounds. That will be a fun fight."

"Fighting you two properly would be fun!" he says, nodding and grinning.

Sasuke makes a vaguely considering noise.

"I'll even have Inazuma sit out to give you both a chance."

Said puppy huffs in response.

"Just you wait, me and Sasuke'll kick both your asses! Right, Sasuke - "

Sasuke 'hmph's but his lips might be considering grinning.

-- Inazuma takes that as a challenge and pounces at Naruto.