"Yeah," Reno sighed. "I know how that feels, too."

Really, Ino had been just another fellow student, while he was one. And then senior year had happened, and everything started to shimmy about while he'd prepared himself to leave, and then after graduation, it was like taking a weird step away from it all, alongside a handful of fellow crazies all selected at random.

And now, he was teaching some of the leftover crazies, and a bunch of people that he would never have met, if he hadn't come back.

School was friggin' weird, that way.

"Your puppy grads at the same time as you, though, right?"