"Mmhm! And it sounds like you have met her since that was her team. It's my niece, Karin."

She reached across the desk for one of the picture frames and turned it on an angle so Adela could see. It was a picture of Karin with her team, similarly posed to one of Naruto's from about three years earlier, also on her desk. She pointed out her niece on the right of the shot to indicate.

"I really want her to be the one who takes over the village from me, but she needs to make jounin first. I've made sure she knows it too. And just because she's family, I won't just slide her through. I think there's some lessons she could stand to learn from being on a squad that I can't teach her myself."

She shifted a few papers heading for Adela's piles closer to her and found some old letters from Nagato. Those got moved back into the foreign correspondence pile, even if they were a bit more on the casual side for conversation.