Someone actually acknowledges how pointless saying certain things, usually she just leaves it with her polite brush off. Other peoples hopes and well wishes don't make up for hardwork. But she sits there stunned for a moment before smiling a little, "I lived in Konoha for a while as a girl." Suffice to say she's seen plenty of the village it just never quite felt like home so much as a stopover between her home with her parents and settling in Uzushio. As such, she was far better traveled than the average genin, and maybe on equal footing with an early chunin.