Board Thread:Konoha Arc/@comment-25687356-20161020211256

A lament,  that was the best way to describe the sound of mourning echoing out of Konoha and into its surrounding forest. Today had finally marked the return of a legend in the making, presumed dead or worse, and news of it spread like wildfire. Within minutes the streets were lined up with countless of civilians, Shinobi, and even Ikeru Senju, the Hokage himself, was seen amongst the commoners in a shabby and old Bushido uniform that looked way past its prime; a man of the people.

Everywhere one’d look the women cried, the man looked down at the ground in shame and sorrow, and it seemed like only the children were actually running up to the gate en masse to greet the approaching envoy that including far less than were sent out. The only adults at the gate were the spouses of those who had returned, most of them disappointed at the first sight they got of only six of the original fifteen individuals. Behind these six walked another four men who were made of nothing but sand and in between them they carried another individual who didn’t move one bit; Keldran.

At the sight of him many kids began to cheer and run out of the gates. Meanwhile the wailing of women who lost their men and howling of men who lost their women welled up like a painful wound as family members in mourning sought to each other at the loss of their lost ones.

However, the children rejoiced and ran up to Eidel, the Kazekage of Sunagakure, Nalini Shinigami,  two Konoha shinobi, one Sunagakure Shinobi, and one ANBU member who had escorted them from a sentry point at the border at the party’s first sightings. However the ANBU immediately vanished from sight, only seconds later, to deliver his report to the Leader of the ANBU.

Yet even while the children laughed, all survivors had a somber and grim expression on their faces and never spoke a word as they, led by Eidel, walked through the gate of Konoha to enter a mist of misery of those reminisced all those lost a year ago. Behind them four sand soldiers carrying a horribly disfigured, malnourished, and injured Keldran who was recognized only by his blue hair and the swords that laid beside him, on the makeshift stretcher made of tent-cloth and bamboo.

Without saying a word the group passed through the streets of Konoha… seemingly on a direct course to the Medical Center. Upon passing by Ikeru Senju, the Hokage stepped out and bowed his head to the group in respect before walking by Eidel’s side.

In front of the Medical Center was a small stage that looked to be set-up in preparation for a speech which most commoners and shinobi assumed would be given by the Kazekage; to brief the village on what had happened. 