A Funeral in the Making (Mission)

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Kakaru entered the Wind capital through it's gates, awing at it's size. Noticing the buildings were much more vibrant and less dull compared to the buildings of the Sand village. Walking past the shops, Kakaru marveled at the low prices of the produce. Being from the Hidden Sand Village rarely sees low prices on fresh produce. "Wow! Everything looks so fresh, so alive, so... Cheap." Kakaru says as he eyes a poorly made replica ANBU mask on a market's rack distastefully. "I doubt whoever made that was as talented as a Li" He mutters under his breath. Quickly walking through the vendor streets, Kakaru looks at the paper where the location of his mission's destination was written. "Lets see here... it says here it should be at the Funeral home. Hopefully their bodies are all ready to bring to the Cemetery." Kakaru says to himself as he leaves the market area.

Kakaru walked past a Weapons Shop, a Blacksmith, a couple of apartments and a movie theater, not to mention countless crowds of people. Finally coming up to the funeral home. Noticing a large cart in front of the home, Kakaru felt shivers up his spine as he recognized it as a coffin transport cart. Gulping, Kakaru sets up the small set of stairs as if they were miles long. Opening the door, he walks up to a small desk with a guest book on it, picking up the pen, he signs his name and began walking to the parlor where the bodies were being displayed.

Walking in, Kakaru noticed an older woman and a young man, only a few years older than himself sitting in chairs facing two coffins, crying. Kakaru slowly walked into the area and sat down in a chair next to the older woman and put his hand on her shoulder comfortingly. Suddenly looking over to Kakaru in surprise, Kakaru says "It's ok, I'm from Sunagakure. I'm here to help put your Husband and Son to rest" Kakaru says with a warming smile. The woman's eyes swell up once again as she begins weeping once again. "I know I can't offer much in the way of saying how these two were in life... but I can tell they were good people who didn't deserve to die the way they did. I hope they will find peace knowing that Sungakure has made an example out of the man who took your family from you." Kakaru says as he continues to attempt to comfort the woman and her son.

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Kakaru turned to the woman and asked "Has the Priest already preformed the service?" The woman nods, her face not leaving her hands. Kakaru looked to the caskets and notices that the child had a small toy under his left arm, the man had a pack of Cigarettes in his hand as he had enjoyed them in life. Both of the victims had 6 coins placed around their bodies. Kakaru sighed as he looked to the family and said "Any time you're ready... we'll send them on their way." The woman and son nod as they get up, the son says "We're ready, the priest left an hour ago." Kakaru nods and thinks 'Ok... I can't let a the family carry out the coffins.' Suddenly remembering he could make clones. "Ummm, please stand back, this isn't going to pretty... or nice looking... I'm going to make several Ink clones to help me carry them out onto the carriage." The mother and son back up a few feet as Kakaru quickly made the Boar, tiger and Rat handseals.

"Hadasumi Soushi" Kakaru says silently as he converts 10% of his bodily water to ink and spits it onto the ground in 4 puddles. The woman and son look a bit sickened as Kakaru quickly makes the Tiger, bird and rat handseals and says "Sumi Bunshin no Jutsu!" The ink begins bubbling into exact clones of Kakaru slowly until they're fully formed. "Ok, one of you go open the doors, the other four help me carry out the father's coffin." Turning to the father, the real Kakaru says "Is there anything you'd like to put inside of the coffin before we seal it?" The woman grabs a handful of flowers and puts them on her husband's chest, kissing his cheek yet again crying afterwards. She did the same with her son's coffin. Kakaru and his clones sealed the coffins with nearby nails and a hammer.

Four of Kakaru's clones pick up the coffin of the father and Kakaru gets the back. Going through a doorway, past the desk and outside. When outside, they put the first coffin in the large carriage. Going back inside, they retrieve the lighter coffin of the slain son, carrying it out the same way, they place it next to the father's coffin in the carriage. Kakaru dispels the clones and shuts the carriage up. Kakaru goes back inside to see that the family had already left. "Hmmm, must have gone ahead to the Cemetery already." Kakaru says as he shrugs, shuts the door and goes to the carriage, but notices there is no horse, donkey or even mule to pull it to the site. Quickly thinking, Kakaru pulls out his scroll, pulls it out and in one fluid motion, removes the brush from his Yatake Set, dips it in what little ink is left in it's well and quickly draws up 2 medium sized lions. Making the Tiger handseal, he utters "Nimpou: Choju Giga". The two Lions stretch and distort as they tear from the page, leaving a blank scroll behind, which Kakaru quickly picks up and puts back in his pouch, along with his Yatake Set.

Attaching the Lions to the Carriage, Kakaru climbs into the driver's seat and commands the lions to walk at a fast walk as the Carriage creaks towards the cemetery with it's morbid payload.

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Trotting down the dirt roads of the capital, Kakaru somberly brought the coffins of the slain farmers to their final resting place, The Wind capital cemetery. The Choju Giga lions walked at a decent pace, pulling the slightly heavy carriage to it's destination without the distractions that a normal horse or mule would have. Passing several more stands, Kakaru didn't take in the sites this time. Nearly at the Cemetery, Kakaru has the lions slowly quicken their pace, eager to get this done as fast as possible.

At the gates of the cemetery, Kakaru slows down a bit until he is at the area where two grave markers of simple wooden crosses were along with a shovel. The mother and son pair were already there, still grieving their loved ones. Kakaru pulled the carriage so that it was sideways with the back of the carriage sideways to the grave spots. The Choju giga exploded into ink, being exhausted and evaporated from sight. Kakaru hopped from the driver's seat, feet hitting the ground with a thud. "So this is the burial site?" Kakaru says. The woman and boy nod, Kakaru looked to the shovel and thought to himself 'That's going to take forever.' The proverbial lightbulb went off in Kakaru head has he kneeled before one of the grave markers and said "Shinjuu Zanshu no Jutsu" as he seems to melt into the ground, about 6 feet down, from there Kakaru began thrashing around in a spin, throwing dirt around him, making a hole in the ground.

Climbing out of the hole, Kakaru grabbed the shovel and edged off the hole, making it big enough to fit the the coffin. He threw the rest of the dirt from the hole and looked at it. "Ok, next is the other one." Kakaru said as he stuck the shovel into the earth next to him. Walking to the other grave marker, the sand shinobi placed his hands on the ground, once again using Shinjuu Zanshu no Jutsu and thrashing around underground to create the son's grave. Climbing out, he followed suite and edged off a smaller hole to bury the smaller coffin. Happy with his work, Kakaru made the Handseals of Boar, Tiger and Rat and quietly says "Hadasumi Soushi", Turning another 10% of his bodily water into ink, spitting up four puddles of ink, he then quickly makes the Tiger, bird and rat handseals and says "Sumi Bunshin no Jutsu!" The ink begins bubbling and taking the form of Kakaru.

"Ok, me, me, me and.... ummm... me. Time to unload them from the carriage." Kakaru and his four clones walked over to carriage and undid the latch, opening the door. two clones pulled out the end of the coffin as two other caught the other end as it fell out. The older man's coffin was first, Kakaru and his clones walked the coffin to the hole. Slowly all five lowered the coffin into the ground. Next they did the same with the son's coffin until it was resting 6 feet under. Kakaru called over to the mother and older son. "Come here, mam, could you please throw the first handful of dirt on your husband's grave and you sir, please do the same for your brother's." The two came over slowly and did as Kakaru asked. "Ashes to ashes, dust to dust. Two lives have been taken for absolutely no reason and we wish that our god will take these two into his waiting arms and take comfort that they are finally home." Kakaru said as the woman turns to Kakaru and says "That was beautiful, thank you so much for helping us." The Boy looked troubled as he spoke up "... Mom, I've made up my mind... I want to be a Shinobi, I want to make sure this never happens to anyone else here in Wind country." Kakaru smiles and reaches out the shake the boys hand. "You'll become a fine shinobi some day." The boy grasped Kakaru's hand and shook firmly. After Shaking hands, Kakaru turned to the shovel and began to fill in the grave of the son, Completely filling it in, he turned to the other grave and did the same.

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After filling in the graves, Kakaru held his breath and let it go shortly after as a sign of uncomfortableness. Looking to the wife and the son in their moment, Kakaru bowed and said "I think my work here is done." The mother walks over to Kakaru and hugs him like a mother would her son. "If you were my son, I'd be absolutely proud of you. Keep up the good work brave Shinobi." The woman says still sobbing as Kakaru says softly "Thank you very much, I really must be getting back to Sand." Kakaru says as he begins to walk away waving to his newly befriended friends. Kakaru begins walking back, leaving the carriage for the funeral director to pick back up later.

-Exit and Mission finished-