[No one wants to be Shino.]

I don't know! Maybe, they're good at making things pop up like that. Kankuro showed up, and bits of his puppets did at the same time, so maybe the same will hold true. You never know!

[Hearing him lilt her voice in that familiar, cheerful rhythm lifts her heart; Naruto sounds so cheerful, in a way that he hasn't in far too long, by her estimation.]