She finds this all fascinating and spends all of her time observing the world around her.

Her clan is the best clan. Filled with so many interesting people and hounds. She feels like she has a pack again. Except this time it feels right. They're family. She loves them.

She misses her dad and Klaus and Hayley and Hope and Tyler and Stefan. But they help so much.

She picks up the language quickly, she knew a little Japanese before, but she was no where near fluent. She has fun in the attempt of actually producing her own words, it comes out as babbling nonsense, but it's fun and she needs to practice.

Eventually, while ruminating on something for a while, she reaches up and pulls on her moms hair to get her attention.

"Yeah, pup?"

Okay, she will get this right. And her body will obey her.

She reaches down to her wolf, holding them tight and says, pronouncing her words clearly and deliberately, "In-a-zu-ma."

Tsume grins.

"Saving that one up, huh?" she teases, then scoops both pups up and declares, "You two can have your name party together! Does Inazuma have ideas on yours?"

"Grrrr!" She giggles.

Inazuma doesn't say much of anything.

Inazuma snuggles closer and starts nipping at Juliet's foot instead.

"I think the records office won't let me put 'Grrrr' on your registration, unfortunately. Quite silly of them."

And she starts back home.

"Tsu-me?" She suggests. Her mom's name is pretty.

"Hm... Kids should get their own names. How about Raizume?"

"Raizume," she sounds out, curious. She doesn't know what it means.

"Means 'next claw' or 'lightning claw'. The tsu in my name becomes a zu when it's the back part of a word."

She nods. She didn't know that, she's still learning.

"Lightning?"

"Lightning causes thunder. Thunder is the boom when it rains."

Inazuma perks up and growls playfully.

"Or maybe the sky wolf is going grrrrrr because she's telling the ground wolf to leave her little lighting alone."

She giggles and hugs her mama and her Inazuma.

"Little lightning!"

Tsume tosses her in the air, catching her on the way down. "Little flying lightning!"

(She'll have to see about finding a lightning-natured trainer for Raizume eventually; the pup's dad was probably a Kumo shinobi, after all.)

She screams with excitement and starts growling some more.

Her mom growls back and nuzzles her nose.

Then, as they arrive at the compound: "Guess which pup had her first word!" she calls.

There's quite a cacophony of congratulations, from humans and dogs alike.

"Inazuma!" she gifts them all.

They flop into Kiba's lap in response.

Kiba is very impressed! Naming a pup is a good use of a first word!

He clumsily pats Inazuma and says, "Inuzuka Inazuma!" in a delighted tone.

Their response is some more nibbling!

Raizume snuggles her mom some more. Snuggling, she has decided, is the one of the best new parts of her existence.

Happy mom snuggles!

And, later that day: the name party, with a not sweet pastry sort of thing both Raizume and Inazuma can safely eat, and a show of Raizume giving away and receiving little gifts (Tsume lets her help pick the little gifts, from a collection of foods. She mostly gets 'future wishes' in return - things like little charms blessed by a mountain priest, books, toys safe for both dog and human, and red stripes painted on her cheeks by her grandmother so she looks like her mom.)