[knockity knock]

[looking out over camp from the hospital roof after a visit with Itachi.]

[...yaaawns.]

[chilling nearish his cabin, twirling a flower by its stem as he waits...]

((aftermath of DUMB and DUMBER))

Itachi-san? Come on in!

[from the corner of his mind that had been previously calm, quiet, peaceful--nearly nonexistent... is the feeling of faint surprise. a sort of mental yawn and stretch, if you would.]

[a few hours after this, it's mostly stopped raining. And if Itachi and Raphael go back to their rooms, they'll find a hastily scrawled note on their desk:

Help me. I know wh --- but it --- be at ---

It's wet, and the ink had bled, making some of it illegible. Where is Raikou tonight?]

[there's a knock-knock-knock on the door of the ItaNeji cabin]

[knocks briefly before poking his head in]
Are you busy, Lan--

Dietrich! What a pleasant surprise.

I hope I don't disappoint.

[after leaving the MEET YOUR NINJAS, Raikou takes the lead, taking them a bit into the woods, away from everyone else]

…Is this all right?