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Karai sat down silently, a moment passed and he mourned the dead Hyuuga.
He hadn't known him well, but he knew that a truly great shinobi had been lost.
Karai clicked his neck and yawned, he knew what was coming, what would happen sooner than later.
"Sakurai..." He finally found the words.

"This will end with you."

Nobonaga, after a long time of wondering, comes up to a small stream to refresh himself. He splashes his face with water until he notices a body comeing down the steam. He walks over to the body. Grabing the man by his waist he carries him to land. Laying the body down on it's back, he examines him. After a few smacks and a bit of compressions of his chest the man spits up water and comes to.Nobunaga hands him a bottle of sake. " You might wanna try this instead of water."

The man coughed roughly and shook his head. Thankfully he took the sake and gulped down a large portion. His body warmed up considerably. "Thank you..I..." he pressed his head into his hands and tried to rub away the fatigue. "Who..who are you?"

The group from the Kadou region was seated near those from the Kandichime, dressed in formal black clothing from their region. Issui looked rather worse for the war still, on top of the fact that he was one of the only from the group to have had any real connection with Shinji, if even just a budding one.

Among the procession of people waiting to stop by Shinji's casket and tombstone was a man in a black robe that obscured his face. When he reached the body he looked down, muttering to himself as he placed a palm on the tomb stone for a moment before letting it drop off. By the time the next person, Yuenji approached the casket the man had moved off, seeming to blend into the crowd.

On the Tombstone, next to the normal text was a few symbols, roughly cut but in a still elegant, foreign handwriting. It said "Worthy of Honor, Worthy of a good death".

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A few minutes later....

Kasariyuu was sitting in his cell, staring at the wall. He wore a simple shirt and pants, his armor and sword lay on a table across the room. He was separated from his weapons be a cage covered in tags to dampen his chakra and disallowed jutsus to penetrate either way. His arms were bound by a strong set of bars and behind his back, his legs locked and connected to his arms.

He sigh, looking bored as the guards still paced the area, making sure that he and many other criminals would stay cages until they had been properly sentenced.

Just then there was a commotion, followed by the sound of two, no three bodies Kasa counted hitting the floor with muffled thumps. The guards heard it too and went to investigate. There was the sound of more fighting and more bodies falling, accented by the last guard being thrown past Kasa's cell with incredible speed and force.

Kasa heard footsteps approach and readied himself as he saw a shadow play across the floor. His eyes widened as Kira walked through his vision. "Don't worry," Kira said as she popped her knuckles and place a single hand on the bars, "Onryou-kun explained everything."

There was a snap and crack as the bars were ripped from there set place in the wall all in one piece. Kira threw them aside as she said. "I must leave soon, an excuse has been made for my lateness, but I cannot linger longer. Onryou cast a illusion to make me appear as Yang Tao Eiju to all but you. You still have important work to do. It has been assumed that since you are one of the three remaining members of the Bakufu to still stand with them that losing is at the time, not acceptable. Still we must also assume that Eiju would release all the criminals here to cover his tracks as you two escaped. I wounded all the guards fairly badly, but they should live, the shift change is in about ten minutes. I had to make it look like Eiju was here and just knocking them all out would have given us away.

"So, since you escaping on your own is not impossible we need you to leave here now and attempt to meet up with Eiju. "You are our only lead again, make sure this one doesn't get broken." Kira handed him a small object, which Kasa took as he nodded. Kira was about to help him with his locked arms but Kasa strained for a moment and ripped the metal blocks apart with a huff, reaching down to free his legs.

"Oh ho, looks like someone was playing dumb in the forest," Kira said with a curt chuckle. "You could have taken more than I dealt out to you couldn't you have Kasa-kun?"

"Yes Kira-dono, but I thought it would be better for me to be captured at that point. I had no idea Eiju would manage to survive that fight. I mean no disrespect, bur Onryou-sama was careless, he should have made sure Eiju had no way to escape from his battle."

"Funny you should say that kid, he's been blaming himself for that since he saw Shinji-san's body." Said Kira as she adjusted her black, blue inlaid kimono. "Anyway, I assume you've at least met the last member of the Bakufu, Sifu?"

"Yes," replied Kasa as he made a single seal and the armor from the table meddled into one liquid blob, floated over to him and reformed on his body as his suit of armor, his sword attached to the back.

"Do either of them suspect?" Kira inquired.

"No, I don't speak much unless necessary and complete the tasks that I am assigned without incident so they have no reason to suspect."

"Good, than go, I must leave now," Kira bowed as she disappeared in a swirl of fire and lightning.

Kasa made his way to the door, passing many criminals, all shouting for him to break them out. He passed without saying a word. Just as he reached the door he saw Eiju walk in through the open doorway, the door missing and impaled in the ceiling. Eiju looked around and said nothing, turning around and motioning for Kasa to follow....

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Kira walked up to the funeral gathering a few minute late, excusing herself and apologizing profusely about her tardiness to the correct people before seating herself. An explanation for her delay had been given by Onryou before hand, as a matter of the utmost priority to the relations between the Kadou and the leaf involving some files that had to be delivered and processed immediately, which would cause Kira to be only about ten minutes late for the funeral.

When she sat she looked at Onryou for a moment before they both turned to their heads back tot he procession, some for of exchange obviously done by two teammates who had work for years together and need no words.

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Eiju arrived back at the spot where Ifuuki rested, Kasa tailing him. Just as he summoned a triad of black wolves for them to travel on a alarm was sounded from in Konoha.

"Looks like they finally noticed your handy work," Eiju said as they mounted. "Which means we need to get as far from here as possible as fast as possible, none of us are in any shape to fight."

With that they wolves sped off through the forest.....


(The male formal clothing from the Kadou region is much like that of Gaara's Kazekage outfit, the females is a simple Kimono, the more detail on the suit the more status)

Ifuuki did her best to hold on to the wild wolf with her now frail hands. She took this opportunity to speak with Eiju.
"Our power hath been theverly deminithed. We need to vithit my firtht lab... The one in Gunga Mountainth. I think it ith finally time to awaken the clone of your thister."

Sokitsu nodded. "I have no choice but to believe you my friend. But what do we tell these children. They weren't happy to leave Konoha without even going in."

"I'm not sure my friend, to keep them happy I will just tell them that we are going to see Mai, but as to tell them that in my mind's eye their village was burning. That I just don't think I should due."

Sokitsu nodded. "Indeed. I believe there is a town up ahead, perhaps we can gain some information there. And perhaps a bit of tea."