A/n: Welcome to the last chapter(2nd to last if you include the epilogue) of my story! Thank you for taking a ride during this journey, I hope you all enjoyed it! Well, I won't hold you all back, enjoy!
Kairo cradles her head in his arms, rocking back and forth slowly and whispering apologies and 'I love yous' repeatedly. Very warm tears stream down his face in large amounts, drenching all over the lower half of it. "W-Wh-What am I going to do now? I-I-I-I was suppose to reunite you with your son and then ask for your forgiveness s-s-s-so that w-w-we can start o-o-o-over. It-It-It wasn't supposed t-t-t-to be this waayyy," his voice rises in pitch as more sobs tore through his throat and body, "...fuck it! FUCK!" Suddenly, he hears little rustles behind him.
"Nnngh..."
Oh no, poor baby...he can't see his mom.
Kairo turns around and quickly crawls towards Ulysses Jr, making it just in time to gather him in his arms. Positioning the baby so that he can't look over at the horror. Kairo gives a small smile, "Hey buddy, let's go back to sleep. You will see mom soon, okay? Shhhh...there you go...shhhhh..." Ulysses frowns and lifts up a small, chubby hand to place against Kairo's cheek. Kairo takes it and turns his face, pressing little kisses against the baby's palm. Ulysses Jr feels some of the tears, but decides to not focus on it. He soon falls back asleep when Kairo pulls him closer to his warm, comforting body. Rocking him side to side slowly.
Once he is certain that Ulysses Jr will stay asleep, Kairo stands up and takes out two large and tall plastic bags, stretching them out by shaking them slightly when opening them up. "I wish that this was used for something more useful. Not something like...this," he looks down at his watch, "I have fifteen minutes left. Let's speed things up and get out of here." He takes a deep breath and starts gathering Neji's remains in the bag.
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"Kairo, what's going on, and who is that baby?"
"LEAVE ME ALONE!"
Rudolph watches as Kairo storms in, with a confused baby bouncing in his arms with each furious step. He notices the plastic bags in one of his hands. Kairo soon disappears, leaving Rudolph alone once more. The older male wonders if it's a defense mechanism sort of thing, just in case Rudolph himself gets mad at him for calling in late. He assumes that means the target is dead. Rudolph really doesn't care, it's not like he wasn't going to kill them anyway. He was. He isn't even mad, in fact, he was worried for Kairo. Part of him wanted to go after him but the other part, which won at the end, wanted to wait and trust Kairo to be okay on his own.
It's probably that brotherly instinct within him. Damn you, Uncle Victor.
Rudolph soon starts to analyze the mental image he took of the bag. It does look very full and...bloody. It must be a body. But who would it belong to? That's when it hit him. Other than just having bad days or Rudolph being annoying, the only time Kairo would get like this if it involved Neji. Rudolph's face soon went from concern to utter horror. Oh damnnn, no way...
Neji is dead.
Kairo soon appears with the baby, who is clean of dirt and other filth, wearing one of Kairo's shirts. He storms over to Rudolph and plops the baby in his arms. "I'm going to a...home, I will be back," He looks at the baby and kisses both chubby cheeks, "Bye papa." Kairo says affectionately, combing his fingers through the baby's hair before leaving.
Rudolph and the baby look at each other.
"What's up with him?"
The baby shrugs, "...Bah."
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Kairo finds Neji's mini flower bed in her backyard. It looks so beautiful and peaceful, just like her. He picks up a empty headstone on his way to her home, and he makes some space behind the flowerbed. Digging a little bit and pushing the headstone securely in. He takes out some carving tools and gets to work. The sunset soon arrives, casting a warm glow onto a determined looking Kairo. Twenty minutes later, he is finally done.
Here lies Neji Ashanti.
Daughter, Mother, Friend, an absolute queen.
Kairo puts his equipment away and gets up, going inside the house to grab a long wooden box he saw when he got in. That can be used as her coffin. He drags it outside and opens it. He opens the bag of her remains and puts each part inside one by one. He does his best to rearrange them to look like a body. Then, he closes the lid of the coffin and goes to dig some sort of opening. Once he got it, he slowly moves the box inside the ground before putting all the dirt back.
"That's awfully kind of you to do all of this and to bring the baby in."
Kairo looks behind him, "Who are you?"
"My name is Luke Skywalker, a friend of Neji Ashanti. I assume that you are a friend as well." The blond haired man says.
Kairo shrugs, "Yes, I guess you can say that. We did had a falling out at some point though."
"But yet you're still here, you made a beautiful burial for her. You should go home though, that baby seems attached to you. Once he is close to someone, he is clingy and will even have a huge fit if he's not next to that person. I will fix the rest up for you, get what you need and leave it to me." Luke says with a smile.
Kairo smiles back and straightens himself out, "If you say so, Luke. Thank you."
"No problem, it's the least I could do."
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Kairo wipes away the tears on Ulysses Jr's face, cuddling the baby close. Rudolph leans his back against the sofa he's sitting on, watching the duo. "Sooooo, are you going to reunite with your biological son? Neji is dead, so there is no use to travel." Kairo looks up at Rudolph with a blank expression, "He's better off without me. However, this baby needs me, he doesn't have either parent. That other boy has his mother and her relatives. Assuming they're still alive. I don't have anyone, neither does the baby. Me and him are sticking together till he either grows up and leaves me or till death do us part. That's final, Ru." Rudolph sighs.
"So that's that?"
Kairo nods his head as Ulysses Jr looks at Rudolph calmly, sucking on Kairo's thumb.
"Alright...I guess I can tag along for a while longer."
Kairo smiles, "We appreciate that...thank you."
Ulysses Jr closes his eyes, never letting go of that thumb in his mouth.