[OP: "Dear Wormwood"-- The Oh Hellos]

Mabui peered over the rock, afraid of what she'd find.

She then grimaced and looked away.

Dabi backed up and fell over the rocks since he lost his footing.

Thankfully, this didn't break his leg, but he did land next to the guy who was moaning in agony as the rain irritated his burns.

Dabi glanced at him then got up and stumbled toward the water.

He thought he'd be sick for real, but he didn't actually throw up. He just felt dizzy.

He didn't notice the guy on the ground pulled out a shuriken to heave at the back of his head.

Mabui picked up a rock and threw it, hitting the guy in the temple.

He dropped the shuriken and Dabi looked back, surprised.

Mabui wondered if that was enough to kill the thug, but she didn't want to wait to find out.

"Time to go," she said.

Dabi glanced at her like he didn't understand what she was saying.

"The other one is dead, but he might not be," she explained, as if thinking that was his problem. "There are more of them, I think...I think they said it...though it's hard to remember what they said now..." she shuddered suddenly. That was too close.

"Did I just kill them?" Dabi said, as if he hadn't heard a word she'd said.

"I...I don't know if you did it exactly or not," Mabui said, uncertainly. "It looks as if your...jutsu just spiraled out of control for a moment...is it fueled by emotions? Some are."

"It... can be," Dabi didn't say this as if that was a nicer thought, but if that was a worse thought.

"I'm sure that was...unnerving to see," Mabui rubbed her shoulder. "He almost had me."

"Why aren't you bleeding?" Dabi finally recalled that she'd been run though.

"Oh...I moved his blade into the in-between space just as he moved it...it's a very delicate trick, I was fortunate to do it at all under the circumstances," she explained. "I mean I practiced it before, but I've never had to use it in a real fight...good thing he was more focused on you at the time...I moved it to that spot behind his back."

She tilted her head. "That would have killed him without a medic anyway...honestly, you made it shorter."

"You say that so casually," Dabi still sounded like he was in a daze.

Mabui felt shaken up enough without him freaking out too, but she didn't yell at him, instead she pointed. "We need to go. Before the others find us...there's more people in danger."

"They said something about another...Cloud," Dabi finally started to remember the real reason he'd come out here. "And more people...they also said I attacked someone on my own team."

"It was probably a lie," Mabui said, in disgust. 

"No doubt it was true," Dabi looked down. "Sounds like me."

"No, it sounds idiotic," she insisted. "How can you fall for that? I thought you were more skeptical after our conversation earlier...what is the matter with you? You let you guard down as soon as you had the upper hand."

[Which is kind of what Dabi does a lot, you know.]

Dabi was silent, he wasn't sure what his problem was.

He didn't think he'd ever been bothered as much by this happening...

Finally, he just followed her as she hurried back into the woods.

The rain soaked them, because it immediately began once they were off the beach area and back in the glade.

The experience began to catch up to Mabui also then.

She stopped and leaned on a tree. "That was too close...what did they do to me? I...I knew it was wrong, but I couldn't wake up...Genjutsu...I hate genjutsu!"

It was not a Cloud tactic anyway. She wasn't even sure she knew someone who used it.

It was seen as the coward's jutsu by them.

"Mind trick," Dabi still was unclear on what genjutsu was, but he got the idea. "I heard them say they could do it if they were close enough...I didn't get close. Still there could be more of them, they said there was more...how did they do it so fast, though? I swear it was minutes..."

"Who knows?" Mabui shivered again. "I wonder what they intended to do..." then she didn't want to think about it. "Well, we know how they captured the others then."

"What others?"

"The other girls--" Mabui stopped.

She'd read the list in her bag, but that remark had felt more like she was thinking of something else, not just the names...

She had been on the verge of remembering something!

Maybe being snapped out of the genjutsu once had made it easier to snap out of the memory loss one...well, at least partially.

She still didn't know who Dabi even was, but, something seemed to shake loose in her head.

"Kidnapping," she said oddly. "Disappearances...memory loss. We've dealt with it before, there was someone else who they did this to, and then put them to sleep... it's the same culprits all right...they're selling these people, aren't they? There were more...that's who the names were. I remember now..."

"What like some human trafficking scheme?" Dabi came a little out of his own funk at this thought. "That's disgusting."

"Well, it's the most likely explanation," she said. "It must be. A cult, or just...people trying to make money in the worst possible way. I don't know what else it could be...Perhaps that's why I'm the only Cloud out here..."

"No, they said there was one more, another girl. Bad plan on whoever is your boss' part."

"One more? Only one? But there were more fighters...so... maybe the Raikage didn't want to risk too many Clouds on this, in case they got captured, and asked other shinobi to help."

"Oh so they could get captured, nice guy," Dabi said.

"Well, not risking your own people is the way of Cloud, even if it seems rather callous to the others involved. But you have to look out for your own people first."

"Nice idea," Dabi said sarcastically. "I guess I can't talk, but, that's cold."

Mabui hesitated. "It... might be. Well, I'm not saying that we should abandon them...if I knew who 'them' was, I would try to find them. Warn them."

"Those jokers couldn't take a whole team of people like us," Dabi also leaned on a tree, still looking shaky. "At least not if it was bigger than 4 people, I'd say. They weren't any good at fighting...they use this mind trick stuff to get around it, obviously. So...yeah, everyone else who's out here might be fine if they just stuck together. We've been alone all day...I'm surprised we didn't get picked off already."

"I think I know why," Mabui looked up and nodded at him. "They were clearly afraid to attack you...your power must have been too dangerous for them. I know why they left us alone all day. They waited till they thought they could sneak away, with me. You should be flattered."

"Oh, I'm tickled pink," Dabi replied sarcastically. "Yeah, they got what they deserved then..." he looked at his hands. "I lost control. I haven't done that in a long time...years even."

"I suppose it was unsettling...Anyone might have lost control at a time like that..."

"And killed myself, you, and them all at the same time," Dabi said. "This is what I get for trying to act like the hero, who was I kidding? I never could pull it off."

"Is that pity talking? In the end, they only got what they deserved for what they were trying to do. Men like that don't deserve pity."

"That's not the part that bothers me...but, it should be my choice if I want to go that far...I just blanked out." Dabi shook his head. "And why does it feel like I broke a promise to someone? This is not good."

"I wouldn't bother yourself too much about it. They'd have died anyway, at least, one would have, I had already run him through. The other may still be alive. Why would you even feel guilty about it? They're scum. And, they're taking children..."

"Yeah, well, they might deserve it but I still feel like I did something I wasn't supposed to," Dabi sounded like he was losing his grip again. "It's gonna kill me, not remembering this. Why do I think that? Why do I feel this way? This isn't like me! What happened? Maybe it's the d--m amnesia."

He hit his head on the tree.

"Stop it!" Mabui was afraid he'd knock himself out. [Though that's nearly impossible to do to yourself.]

She grabbed his arm and yanked him--she was stronger than she looked.

"I understand that you're feeling some side effects of the...genjutsu," she said. "I am too. I feel deeply shaken, it was ... a deep casting they did. That's normal though, side effects, and it'll pass, eventually. This isn't the time to do anything reckless because of it."

"It's not the genjutsu."

"You may think not, but it likely is," she jerked his arm again. "Control yourself. Perhaps after it breaks, you'll feel different. Wait till then to punish yourself. Preferably, wait till we're not in mortal peril. I hate to say it, but I can't escape them alone, clearly...so can I count on you to help, or do you want to roll over and just accept this?"

"I feel as if I don't really deserve better," Dabi was still in a bad state.

Mabui had no way to know if it was the jutsu talking or him.

"Well," she said finally. "Even if you deserve it, do you want these perverted killers to be who deals justice to you? Seems like they're beneath it."

Surprisingly, this had some effect.

"That's true," Dabi brightened. "However bad I am, they're worse. I wouldn't give them the satisfaction of being the ones to do me in...I mean, might as well take them down first."

Mabui was amazed that had been so effective. Perhaps appealing to his sense of wrongdoing on their part was the way to manage this guy.

"They do deserve to go down," she played it out. "Lord Ay finds this kind of thing abhorrent...and I need to make sure he learns about this so they can be found out fully. Or who knows how many other people they'll claim before they're stopped? So if you focused on that for now, I would appreciate it."

"Fine, lady," Dabi straightened. "For now..." he felt a little better. At least these guys were still the bigger problem...his own feelings about it would have to wait.

Well, he was used to that.

Deciding this, he suddenly noticed her hand on his arm and pulled free. "Okay you can stop now."

"I was just trying to help," Mabui stepped back. "Don't harm yourself next time then."

"Yeah well--" Dabi glanced at his hands. "Too late for that...s--t."

He was only slightly singed, but in the cold air and rain, it felt worse.

"I think we can't wait," Mabui said after a pause. "I can't let them get to the other Cloud. It would be disastrous. We have to find them and warn them. Before the others can find us. We need more help, anyway. The rain won't make your fire ineffective, will it?"

"It won't help," Dabi said. "I start sizzling when it rains."

"As for the others, we should find them also," she said. "We should just check the area more thoroughly this time...we may have been nearly on top of them before and just not known it..."

She looked around and then headed where she thought they'd be less exposed.

Dabi was silent for a while...he felt cold... and then warm with burns at the same time.

He thought of what happened.

"This is going to sound like a stupid question," he said aloud. "But do you believe in a Higher Power?"

Mabui glanced back at him. "Like a god?"

"Yeah."

"I've...never really given thought to it...I suppose I'm not against the idea of one," she mused. "It would line up...the world is very complex. I think it must be ordered somehow. But, one that can be worshiped? I don't know, we don't really have that in Cloud Village. It's seen as radical."

"I've heard all that too," Dabi said. "Radical, outdated, ridiculous, you know...but I keep thinking about it. I even tried praying to one a while ago...and then started walking...I dunno, I just found you after that."

"As if you were guided?" she said oddly.

"Yeah, it sounds dumb, but, it started raining and then the Moon just came out, and I followed it, and there you were, all of you." Dabi said. "Cheesy right?  I mean 'the light on the path'."

"I don't know, there's an old saying in my Village 'if you look for the light, you'll find your way'." Mabui quoted. "Also that 'the light is behind the clouds, but it's never gone, just obscured from our view.' which I think means the lack of us understanding something or knowing it does not mean it is not real, just that we're not able to know everything all the time."

"Sounds 'bout right. I never bought into religion, but, I keep getting the idea that I do now."

"A belief in something that you can't remember the reason you believe in? That's a strong belief, then." She paused. "I might almost envy that. If I thought something was helping me now, I would probably feel more sure of getting out of this alive."

"That's a nicer way of not thinking it's real then. That it sounds hokey."

"If it worked, I don't know if it's hokey. Unusual, and perhaps frightening, but, if you have divine guidance, you should be glad of it," Mabui mused. "People like that are special...if they exist."

"I thought you just said they were radicals."

"That's the general belief, but then...my clan had a belief that perhaps there were some people who really were touched by a divine power. Not that they were... gods or anything, but that they had special gifts that seemed beyond human." Mabui almost was amused at the memory. "Even that our family jutsu could be such a gift...it's so unusual, and rare, it seems like godlike power...but I really don't think it's that strong. I think it's just that people attribute it to that whenever they can't understand."

"I guess...do you have a scientific explanation of it? No one knows exactly why warp quirks happen, they're ones that are hard to classify," Dabi mused.

"No...we just can do it, I don't know scientifically how it's possible. It can send objects or people into some ethereal realm which I've never seen, but somehow can access, and then pull them back out of it. Or, else, they move so fast we can't see, but then how come they don't run into things?" Mabui reasoned. "But I don't know what is, or how we came to achieve it, or why only my clan can do it. I think I heard that one Uchiha power could also...but that it was so destructive they couldn't do it more than once or twice without dying. So, who knows how it really works? Why do the sharingan work the way they do?"

"The what?"

"Nevermind...the point is, many jutsus are mysteries, even to their users. They know they work, but not where they came from."

"Same as quirks, no one knows why they happen--or if they do, they hush it up," Dabi shook his head. "But now most people have them. Maybe jutsu and quirks are the same thing."

"Maybe." Mabui cleared her throat. "I suppose I should thank you, that's twice now."

"What?"

"Saving me?" Mabui said. "It's...embarrassing to need it twice in a row. I would have thought I was more able to defend myself."

"I'm not one to comfort anyone, lady, but I think mind tricks aren't a fair fighting tactic," Dabi scoffed. "Perhaps the only reason I wasn't caught is they want you and not me...which is not surprising, who would want to capture me?"

Mabui smiled weakly. "I can imagine not wanting a victim who'd give them so much trouble, so I assume you're right... still..."

"Both times you still stepped in, I guess I don't watch my back."

"True. And you should. Not everyone goes down easy."

"Most people can't survive flames long enough to get in a second shot."

"Ninjas aren't most people...even impostors like these ones...I wonder how they learned such despicable tactics..."

"Hmprf, you call it witchcraft, maybe they read a spell book," Dabi snorted.

Mabui paused so abruptly, he nearly ran into her since he took much bigger steps.

"I suppose that should have been the obvious answer," she said thoughtfully. "There may be some ancient scroll they found. People like this could never have figured this out on their own, it's too complicated for such incompetent imbeciles... I shudder to think what it was invented for originally then."

"I was kidding."

Mabui glanced up at him. "Maybe you're kidding is more on point than being serious."

Dabi decided she was a little too close, it was uncomfortable.

He backed up. "Well, I'd burn that scroll, or whatever...I still don't see how it connects to this if that's their quirk though... there must be some other kind of way."

"There is more than one way to do something," Mabui said, almost offhandedly. "Perhaps they're using a blood ritual."

"What? Like a cult would?"

"You keep saying cult...it may be true, but those are the only reasons I'd think it made sense. And not be just because we're ninjas."

"I'm still trying to figure that one out," Dabi rubbed his head. "Whatever we are, it's not going to make sense till we get our memories back, and it's just making my head hurt to try to figure out...or maybe it's the rain..."

Mabui thought he looked glassy eyed, though it was hard to tell in the light.

"Did your symptoms return?" She said with more concern.

"Symptoms? No...getting hot and cold fast together isn't a great combo for me...cold resistance doesn't really work if you overheat first... I have a weak constitution, thanks to Mom."

"I see...this rain is not helping then...but there's no way to get out of it, not in such thin trees..." Mabui looked around. "It's frigid anyway...the rain will cover any tracks left though... unless you can ask the moon to help again."

"Very funny," Dabi sneezed. "It's getting colder, honestly."

"We'd better hurry," Mabui said, not liking this.

They kept looking.

It must have been the wee hours of the morning by now, but it was still clouded and dark.

They turned around in circles for all they knew, though Mabui was sure the shape and layout of the rocks changed... but they could have walked right by someone and she'd not have seen them or been seen by them in the rain.

Finally, it stopped raining.

Dabi kept sneezing though, which made it impossible to be stealthy, but no one attacked them.

Then, Dabi slowed a bit more, his chest felt heavy.

He wasn't surprised his immune system would fail him this time, considering how bad it was.. .but then he'd been drugged, and he'd not had sleep for 24 hours also, and he'd used his fire, honestly it was surprising it took this long to kick in.

"We can't stop," Mabui turned to him. "We can't afford to."

"Shut up, I know," Dabi rubbed his head, which ached more than before. "It's hot all of the sudden."

"It's...not hot," Mabui said, warily. "Do you feel worse?"

"Oh I feel fine," lying, obviously. "Not sick at all... is the ground soggy here or what?"

"It's...not that unusual..." Mabui glanced down at it. "Damp maybe, but it should be mostly dried by now."

Dabi moved and he was kind of off balance. "Right..."

"Maybe you should sit down..." Mabui said.

"Like you said, no time to waste," Dabi insisted, sounding a bit woozy. "Can't let a little cold get in the way of stopping those freaks...what would Dad say after all? You have to power through it..."

"I'm not sure that applies here," Mabui said. "I--"

Before she could finish speaking, Dabi keeled over.

"Dabi-san?" Mabui was alarmed.

She bent down, though the grass was cold and uncomfortable and she was wearing a skirt. (Why did she always wear a skirt?!)

"Are you conscious?" She tapped him.

Dabi muttered something unintelligible and then said nothing at all.

His head was spinning.

Mabui knew it was bad...he was much too big for her to carry even if she'd had the energy to...what now?

* * *

Hours ago now, the remainder of the team had had a less exciting time, which was just as well for them.

Due to his speed, Bakugo had outrun all the bad guys long before he even fully realized he was in danger. By the time his mind cleared, he was alone and had left a streaming trail from his explosions.

But the Hunters were far too afraid of him after seeing him in action to try to take him down. Even under genjutsu he'd not quit fighting, and they didn't think their hypnotism one would work on him either. They assumed him to be extra-resistant--maybe he was.

Bakugo also remembered more than the others. It might have been because he'd been memory wiped before, on Poison Mist Island, and now he had more built up resistance to this kind of suggestion.

He didn't remember them, not fully. But he had the dizzy idea he'd been here with classmates, that they'd been looking for someone, or something, and that the teachers of UA were not around.

This gave him a better idea of how to handle it, which was, that he should not draw attention to himself.

Which was why he didn't go running around the trees. He chose to walk, though it slowed him down.

(Otherwise the other members would have heard him while they were lost.)

But, he'd gone much farther west than anyone else, it seemed, he didn't find people for a long time.

But finally, he ran into Suigetsu.

This was because he found the river, and Suigetsu, in his mind-confused state, had done what came naturally to him, and jumped into the water.

This was a good thing, the water washed some of the toxic drug off of him and his insides, even, when he dissolved into it.

When Suigetsu got out, a lot of the dullness had worn off.

He didn't fully remember, the genjutsu part still worked on him, but, he remembered that he'd been running from guys trying to attack him and there were people he couldn't remember the faces of, but he knew they were with him.

And when Bakugo ran into him, Suigetsu was pretty sure he was one of them.

Bakugo wanted to fight him at first, but after Suigetsu turned into a puddle, Bakugo realized he couldn't, so they began to discuss what happened.

Since both of them remembered more than the others, they put together quickly some of what had happened.

"But, I can't remember anyone else's faces or names," Suigetsu said. "Bakugo, you said? You do seem familiar, but I don't know how we know each other. Seems like this crap jutsu of theirs works pretty well."

If he'd known that they were affected the least, he'd not have been reassured.

"It's a powerful quirk," Bakugo said. "Or...no, a jutsu...that makes more sense. But shouldn't I be immune?"

"Should you?" Suigetsu rubbed his head. "Oh, yeah, yeah, I think I remember something about that...who told us that?"

"Not sure," Bakugo's head suddenly hurt. "Who I was here with, I think. D--n it, I still can't remember everything. But, this is the ninja world, I remember that."

"Yep, right, that's right, you're from..." Suigetsu stopped talking. "Probably shouldn't say that out here. What if the bad guys listen?"

"Right," Bakugo recalled. "Fine, let's say everyone else is like us and can't remember s--t about why we were out here, other than we were looking for someone, then what?"

"They could be attacked completely unprepared," Suigetsu guessed. "Whoever they are...how will we know? Do you think we'll know once we see them?"

"Better hope so or we could attack our own team," Bakugo realized the danger right away. "We should find them."

"I get the idea we got pretty far away."

Not only were they west, but they were further south too. The river flowed to the ocean, but Suigetsu had swum upstream because he thought that would be the least likely thing anyone expected him to do if they were following him.

The river started from the south west, flowing from some distance mountain that was that direction, but they didn't have any reason to figure this out.

"I swam upstream for a long time," Suigetsu explained, when Bakugo looked puzzled. "For several kilometers at least. And probably the others were back where I started from. Or further even."

"So we head back that way, but we'll have to walk, if I use my d--m quirk, every bad guy will hear it." 

"Yeah, well I can sneak down the river, but once we're out of water, I'm as lost as as you," Suigetsu shook his head. "We might be too late. I'm nearly indestructible, so it makes sense I survived, and you're clearly just fast, but the other schmucks might not have been so lucky."

"I can't remember them, but I'm sure they could handle that, if I was working with them. I don't work with wimps," Bakugo said. "They'll be alive. Probably beating up the b-----ds as we speak."

He was partially right.

"Some confidence you got in them, it's kinda sickening," Suigetsu said. 

Bakugo huffed.

They headed back down the river, northward.

This was how they found Karin.

Karin really had only not been captured because she could mask her chakra. Many of the bad guys had gone right by her.

But she was so scared and freaked out that she was alone and had amnesia, that she hadn't dared move out of her hiding spot.

But when she caught wind of their chakra...she dimly remembered that she knew them.

[Smell is actually the strongest stimulant to memory, so it makes sense that Karin would be clued in by it.]

She got up and headed towards it, assuming she knew them for a good reason.

They were pausing, Suigetsu was leaning on a rock, drinking water.

"It's humid, even though it's cold," he said. "I feel Iike I'm running out of drinking water here. I can't just drink any water, you know. I hope that river was clean."

"Stop whinging!" Bakugo snapped. "We should have found someone by now."

"Maybe they're captured. Or dead." Cheerfully.

"Shut up, they're not dead," Bakugo said. "I--" he stopped. He'd heard something.

Karin peered out of the trees.

Suigetsu jumped up and had his sword out immediately and was behind her.

Karin sensed him and turned, but then froze.

Suigetsu stared at her a long moment. "I know you..." he said. "But...from where?...the team I guess. Yeah...Bakugo?"

"I'm not sure who she is, but she can't be a villain," Bakugo said. "Skulking around like that. Who are you, b---h?"

"I...you...how do you know me?" Karin said. "I don't know you."

"I think you must," Suigetsu said. "Not sure how, but I know you from somewhere...I feel like more than just this mission, whatever it was...be hard to miss someone with hair like that."

Karin put a hand to her hair self consciously. "Shut up!"

Suigetsu thought that sounded familiar.

"Yeah, I definitely know her," he looked at Bakugo. "She's gotta be on our side."

"Fine, I won't kill her then," Bakugo hadn't been going to, but he would have blasted her if necessary.

Karin swallowed. "I thought I recognized your scent, something sharp and jolting, and then something kind of comfortingly familiar, but, I can't remember you...it's making my head hurt."

"Join the club, hag," Bakugo said. "They used some crap jutsu on us."

"That's it..." Karin said. "I thought maybe I hit my head, but then, I didn't have a lump... so both of you? That's a relief."

"Us losing our memory is a relief?" Suigetsu said.

"Well, if it's not me only, that means it's just a jutsu, not...permanent, I think," Karin said.

"That seems a little messed up," Suigetsu said. "But, then it's good news if it means we can break it. Can we?"

"I don't know..." Karin said. "I'm not good with genjutsu...do you know how to break it?"

"Not like this," Suigetsu said. "I mean I tried already...but just knowing it's a genjutsu doesn't work. I think I absorbed some toxin...but even after washing it off, it didn't seem to go away."

"Maybe once you touch it, it affects you even if you get it off," Bakugo said. "Like an allergic reaction."

"This area is full of people," Karin said. "I didn't look for anyone... I mean, they seemed familiar a bit, but, there were so many, and I wasn't sure I knew them for a good reason..."

"Then why did you approach us?" Suigetsu asked.

Karin looked down as if feeling ashamed. "I don't know...when I caught your chakra, I thought it seemed familiar in a good way...I don't know why. I mean...reassuring."

Pause.

"Ew," Bakugo said, unceremoniously. "Sounds cheesy."

"Also doesn't sound like me," Suigetsu was trying to hide that he was kind of flattered, but he didn't know why he'd be flattered by that as it was not the kind of thing he'd expect anyone to say.

Karin felt horridly embarrassed even more. "I don't know, that's just what I thought! Maybe I was wrong!" she exploded.

Suigetsu thought her getting agitated like that was kind of cute, like an angry puppy.

"Shh," Bakugo said. "Whatever, at least it got you out here. Where're all the other people?"

"All over...some of them are in clumps now, but it'll be dark soon," Karin pushed her glasses up. "I can warn you if anyone gets close."

"I want to find people who are with us," Bakugo said. "They might be alone...sense anyone alone?"

"A few people are alone, and...they seem vaguely familiar," Karin sniffed. "Not as familiar as you...maybe there's one or two who seem that way. I can find them...but I'm not much of a fighter. I hope you two are."

"Oh sure, deadly," Suigetsu said, raising his sword.

"I always win," Bakugo said.

"Is this the club of guys with big heads?" Karin adjusted her glasses again. "And overly large swords that definitely aren't compensating for something."

"What? Hey!" Suigetsu snapped. "It's supposed to cut people in half!"

"Maybe it should start with your ego," Karin retorted. "Because, being cocky at a time like this is crazy. There's gotta be a bunch of enemies we don't know about out here."

"Carrot Top is right," Bakugo said. "Even I can't be too cocky right now."

If they'd remembered him, they would have known that was a pretty outlandish thing to hear.

"I sense someone near who's got faint chakra," Karin said. "Could be wounded...or it could just be they don't have a lot of it."

"Fine, let's go that way," Bakugo said.

So they did.

Karin stopped them before they got within view of the person.

Bakugo said he'd go around the other way, and that they should be ready to jump in if the person ended up being a trap.

Even asking for help conditionally was so unusual for him that he wondered at himself. Had he changed on whatever mission he was on?

Karin didn't think the person was likely to be much of a threat, but, she didn't want to find out.

She and Suigetsu hid.

"So, we're on the same team?" she said. "But how long? Why can't I remember anything? You'd think at least something..."

"I don't know, must be a strong drug," Suigetsu shrugged. "Orochimaru would love this."

"You worked for him? So did I," Karin said.

"Oh... well that explains how we know each other then," Suigetsu said. "Also some other guy, can't remember his face, though..."

"It sounds kinda familiar, but only like dejv-vu..." Karin rubbed her head. "This is so frustrating."

"Well pipe down, I want to see if Blasty Mcgee fights this person or not," Suigetsu slunk closer to see.

Karin frowned but she went quiet.

[I wonder who it will be. We're running out of new people.]