It's not the first A-Rank mission she's ever been on, but it is the first where she was assigned it personally to act as support for other jounin, rather than Team Shirakumo picking up an easy A-Rank for one reason or another. If she were completely honest, it's less the mission itself that is notable to her (given it's easily B, perhaps even C, were the items involved not so valuable and the alliance to Konoha so close) but the company. Rather, the lack of Kiba Inuzuka.

It wasn't like she was never assigned personal missions, or paired up with other ninja than Team Shirakumo, but she did appreciate whenever her partner happened to be more like Shino than Kiba. Neji Hyuuga semed to be of that sort, and if nothing else, she appreciated the quiet trip.

She dropped to the ground after the older jounin only once he signaled for her, and glanced briefly over at him as he spoke. There wasn't much point in scanning the area ahead for the genin he spoke of--some Byakugan could see for miles, couldn't they? That's what she'd heard of the Hyuuga clan, anyway.

"Genin? I hadn't heard Uzugakure had its own Genin yet." Then again, maybe it was mentioned in passing near her at some point. It sounded vaguely familiar, after all.