"Hey…" said the Jonin "He was sick and the hospital is faraway"
"Sheesh oh really?" whined the woman
The mother still holding the baby explained
"It seems he is having horrid flashbacks, so I need your clan's ability to find out what exactly they are."
They looked at the man, still in a trance like daze. The Jonin took the crumpled up list out of the old mans hands. He read it and sighed.
"Hey you two, come here" he said motioning to come and read.
They brooded over the list and the women gasped
"Oh how sad…" The women chorused
The Jonin sat down and the Blonde went to make tea. The pink haired woman set the baby in the ninja's arms and followed the blond. The Jonin plopped a cigarette out and lit it. He shook his head and said,
"The blonde one is mine" the man said "She is such a hassle" "Thankfully the kid acts like me" He exhaled
The smell of cigarette reach the man nose and he grabbed his head and slammed it down on the Jonins table.
The man remembered…
Rays of sunlight reached the man's eyes and illuminated the room. He looked at the candles seeing they were all melted. He slept on the ground that night and stretched his sore back. He heard a tap at the door and he made his way over to it. He opened it and there were men hoisting a slab of marble towards him, he saw the marble and was overcome with grief… he pushed the pain away and let the Hokage's voice echo in is mind
"You are not causing pain, you are making closure" "You are signing the signature of all who have died for their villagers, for protection of all those people you mentioned"
The man pointed to a clearing in the small shack of where to put the marble. They placed it on blankets that were laid and they helped move the furniture for him. One of the men smoked a cigarette and ran his hand through his brown hair. He asked a question but the artisan was to numb to process it. The artisan nodded to the ninja and asked them to leave. When they left the one task he was assigned is what he shall think about, only the completion of his job. The man drew a chair and looked at the marble visualizing its shape and layout. He looked upon it; he was a craftsman a sculptor, which made people. He was not a tombstone or memorial sculptor, which signified dead people. Then man put his head in his hands looked up and picked up the letter that was on the box to re-read it.
You are to sculpt a memorial for all the Shinobi that have died in the attack. Inside are the dog tags collected from each dead ninja that was found. You will get a private shack to construct the memorial, along with everything you need. You have three day to complete the memorial.
The Kohona council
The man noted that he had three days. He will not eat, sleep, or rest. He shall construct day and night, to give the village what it deserves.
Someone was shaking his shoulders the pink haired Woman was kept repeating
"Old man! Old man!" he jerked out of his state.
"Huh? Oh…." He looked up at her, she was speaking to him shining a light in his eyes.
He heard the whistling of a tea kettle. He squeezed his eyes shut
He remembered…
The loud whining of the blade sharpener did not damage his hearing, for he did not hear a thing he-
He was slapped across the face…
Pay attention!! Yelped the blonde women, you keep going back to your memories
The old man winced and backed away in his chair for the blonde woman raised her hand but the jonin grabbed it
"It is fine" said the pink haired coming into the room with tea.
I put medicine in the tea, it will help you so have to drink all of it" she soothed.
He thanked the mother as he drank the hot tea. She was right; it helped him made him alert. He was going to polish it off but a crash sounded the room and a man in long robes came through the windows, sending wood chips everywhere. He carried the little girl that found him in his arms set her down. The man and ran to the pink hair woman.
"Sakura! Sakura!" "What are wrong are you in pain???"
"No, No…I'm fine Naruto" She reassured
After the man inspected the woman, his face grew pale searched around.
"Where is Minato?!" "Is Minato okay??" "Is he sick?" "Did he get stolen?!"
The Blonde man's fears were interrupted by the blonde woman hitting his in the head with a frying pan.
"Naruto!!!!" "You better replace that window or you'll be dead in your sleep!!" "Hokage or not!"
The man's eyes widened. The blonde wore Hokage robes, he is the Sixth Hokage. The Old man bowed to him. But there was no need to he was out cold. The mother went to the Blonde woman and yelled
"How dare you hurt my husband!!"
"Yeah, what are you going to do billboard brow?"
"Shut up Ino pig!" The mother growled
The baby busted into tears letting out a loud cry; The Women stopped fighting The Hokage jumped up and snatched the baby and cradled it…
"Truce" The Women chorused