Editing Ruatapu (section)

===Return to the Cook Islands===
All this time, Ruatapu had been on Tongatapu waiting for Rangiura to return with news of a safe arrival to Rarotonga. Due to the amount of time that had passed, he feared the worst, and tracked down his eldest son Tamaiva to ask where Moenau and Rangiura were. Tamaiva, now an adult, told Ruatapu that he had indeed met Moenau long ago as a child, but sent him to Ngaputoru. This angered Ruatapu, who at once set out for Ma'uke Island where he found a group of children playing by the beach. One child was his grandson, Te Aukura, who told him that Moenau had been killed. Te Aukura brought Ruatapu to his mother Te Kaumarokura, who was with Taratekui and Taratekurapo. She told Ruatapu they were her relatives, not her husbands, and that they were looking after her and the child.

After Ruatapu had fallen asleep in their house, the warriors confessed to Te Kaumarokura that they feared him - surely he must be a great ariki, or even an [[atua]], and begged her to not tell him what they did to his son, to which she agreed, so he could not avenge his son's death. The next morning, Ruatapu enquired about his son's death and whether he could take the child with him. Te Kaumarokura told him a half-truth; Moenau had 'fallen' into a cave at Makatea, and had not been slain. Te Aukura did not wish to go with him, which Ruatapu respected, saying that if he left the island, Moenau's name and lineage would be forgotten there.

Three days after leaving the island, Ruatapu finally met a fisherman who told him the truth of Moenau's death, as every other person on the island had been afraid of him. Ruatapu, though, said it was too late to turn around and kill them, for he had already left in peace.<ref name="TKoro"/> Alternatively, Te Aukura had told him on their first meeting what had happened to Moenau, and so he killed a large number of the island's inhabitants by rolling the logs of coconut trees atop of them from a higher place.<ref name="PolySoc06-213"/>

The next evening he arrived at Atiu Island and went ashore, meeting the ariki Chief Renga, who asked him to help improve a natural passage through a reef called Taunganui, and make it fit for canoes. Ruatapu agreed, but had to cut his time on Atiu short when he found there wasn't enough food for everybody on the island. Chief Renga gave him food and gifts for his next voyage; some coconuts, a [[Kuhl's lorikeet|kura]] bird, a moo bird, and the roots of the [[Gardenia taitensis|tiaré maori tree]] which grows sweet-smelling flowers.<ref name="TKoro"/> He also renamed his then-canoe from ''Te Kareroakite Enuamanu'', to ''Tueumoana''.<ref name="PolySoc06-213"/>
[[File:Starr 070221-4646 Gardenia sp..jpg|thumb|left|250x250px|[[Gardenia taitensis|Tiaré maori tree]] at the [[Lahaina, Hawaii|Lahaina]] Aquatic Center. A specific tree that Ruatapu planted, ''Te tiaré a Ruatapu'', is said to still be the largest of its species in the Cook Islands.]]
After three days of travel, Ruatapu found two large uninhabited islands sharing a lagoon, collectively naming the area [[Manuae (Cook Islands)|Manuenua]] because of the large groups of [[Red-billed tropicbird|tavake]] that were nesting there. He spent four days resting here, freeing the birds he was given, planting some of the tiaré maori roots and the coconut to grow a tree which he named ''Te Tuia Rongo'',<ref name="PolySoc06-213"/> or ''Tuiorongo'', and naming the planted tiaré maori roots ''(Te) Aravaine''.<ref name="TKoro"/>