Rem felt better the next morning. Sleeping drastically improved her mood. Rem decided to wear a black kimono. It seemed fitting, considering the circumstances.

Rem walked downstairs to her shop. Everything looked mostly clean. Some of her kimonos were ripped but there was no blood on the floors. She looked at her counter top and saw a pile of kunai knives on the table. Rem shuddered.

There was a slight odor in the air.

Rem remembered Haru's corpse was below her shop.

If I manage to place Haru's corpse in the woods and make it seem like bandits attacked him, I could have a few extra days to prepare to strike the masked man's gang.

Rem knelt over and pulled the floorboards out of the way. She brought some linens with her when she crawled into her cellar.

She saw Haru's body lying there on the floor. Rem wrapped his body in the linens and then dragged his body out of the crawl space. She had a wheel barrel out back. She put the body in the wheel barrel and then more linens on top.

She stood back and examined the wheel barrel from every angle. This did not look suspicious.

Rem took the wheel barrel and pushed it to the outskirts of town. She looked around and saw that there were no witnesses near by. She quickly dumped the body onto the ground, put the linens in the wheel barrel, and skirted off back into town.

When she arrived back at her shop, she saw Kakashi standing outside her shop.

"Just dropping by." Kakashi waived.

Rem put the wheel barrel back behind her shop. She wiped the sweat off her brow.

"How may I help you, Kakashi Hitake?"

"I see you got attacked last night."

"Did Guy tell you?"

"No. I just saw the bandage on your neck and shoulder."

"Oh."

"But I am curious, what does Guy have to do with all this."

Rem shifted her weight.

"He helped me last night. That is all."

"Does it have something to do with the drug trade that you have been running through your shop?"

Rem froze.

"How…"

"How do I know?" Kakashi smiled from underneath his mask. "Oh, it's obvious. The different visitors coming to your shop every week, the letters you get, your conversation with Kiba—oh, the boy in the hospital. Last but not least, the stockpile of drugs that you have underneath your shop." Kakashi folded his arms.

"Why did you not say anything?"

"There are other actors involved here. I could figure that much out, at least. I thought that it would be best to take a step back. For now."

Rem looked down at the floor.

"Guy and I plan to attack them."

"Who's 'them?'"

"The drug gang. They are taking my siblings hostage."

"So what is this plan of attack?"

"After my shoulder recovers, Guy and I are going to storm the orphanage and wipe out the drug gang."

Kakashi leaned against the façade of Rem's shop.

"I'll join."

"Thank you." Rem bowed her head. "Why are you helping me?"

"Oh, it's not for you, it's for the village. These contaminated food pills have proven to be quite…problematic. We ninja need a guarantee that our food pills will be safe. The more ninja addicted to food pills, the less ninja we have available to complete missions."

"Regardless of your motives, you have my gratitude."

Kakashi chuckled.

"I'll see you around."

With that, Kakashi vanished in a cloud of smoke.