Kurumi found her hands shaking as she approached the staff table carrying a rather large box of her Hogwarts house cookies. Having finished distributing the proper cookies to each house - and making sure that her charm on the Gryffindor ones was still intact to keep the parade in the air going - she knew that she had to give a box to the professors as well. However, her mind became uneasy and she found her jaw dropping a bit as several of the professors she had come to love were missing. She knew Professor Ruffles was leaving, he had made that announcement during their final...but where was Professor Markovic and her Head of House Professor Carlton? She had finally gotten to talk with Professor Markovic at the end of the term and had been thinking about questions to ask regarding curse breaking because it sounded like a fascinating profession. Then there was Professor Carlton, who didn't want to spend time with her. Kurumi glanced around the table with a small glimpse of hope that then quickly faded. Nope, Dragon Lady was still around. Then there were some unfamiliar faces, new professors and one person in particular that looked, well, suspicious and a little scary.

Realizing that she had probably been standing there in front of the table for a good amount of time with her mouth semi-opened and shaking like jello from nerves, Kurumi found herself bowing at a perfect 90 degrees with the gold box wrapped in a white ribbon in her outstretched hands. Now she had to try and translate what she wanted to say in her head into words without making too much of a fool of herself.

"I'll do my best this term as a second, so please give me good teaching," she said rather quickly. Did that make sense? Was it a little ambiguous? It was probably better than the I humbly ask you to be kind to me sentence she had originally thought of. Sometimes, trying to keep up her Japanese traditions made her look silly. At least her mother would be proud. "Please accept these cookies as sign of my appreciation for everything I was given last year and for things to come."

There, that sounded much nicer. Kurumi looked up and opened the box before setting it on the table. Inside the box, the cookies were aligned in four different rows of cookies: Gryffindor, Ravenclaw, Hufflepuff, and Slytherin.

She then decided it would be best to take her time and bow to each of them - which took a little while because there were so many of them. Her eyes stopped on one of the new female teachers and Kurumi felt like a giant question mark appeared over her head. Hadn't she seen this woman somewhere before?

"Jake never mentioned that his mother was a teacher," she said aloud tilting her head to the side.