Tūhaitara instructed Tamaraeroa and Huirapa to kill Marukore at a place called . However, Marukore knew of their plan and defeated them in the Battle of Hūkete after which their sister Hinehou laid them on the floor of her for her grandchildren to see, and left her belongings with them before burning down the building in an incident now known as ("The Laying Down of Fighting Chiefs"). Alternatively, Marukore himself burned their bodies on a funeral pyre. Tamaraeroa's wife was killed as well, but they left a son named Te Aohuraki. Huirapa's son Marainaka also survived the fighting.