"Hi! I'm Nina!" said the little girl. "This is Alexander!"
The Third Hokage nodded to the dog as well. "If you'll excuse me, Nina."
Hiruzen Sarutobi was many things. On seeing Minato and Kushina standing there, he first checked for genjutsu. On seeing others whom he KNEW were dead, standing around and waiting for him, he had to check again.
"Minato?" asked Hiruzen. "How?"
"Naruto," said Minato. "Shall we get to the office?"
"Oh yes, I think that might be a good idea," said the Third to the Fourth.
"So, you are real," said the Third Hokage.
"Yes," said Minato.
"This is going to cause Iwa to crap their collective pants," said the Third, looking out at the monument mountain through his window. "Not only that the Yellow Flash has returned from the dead - but that his SON fought his way out of the Underworld and made a deal with the Shikigami that returned people who have been dead a decade."
"Oh yeah," said Minato. "Let them."
"There will be assassination attempts," said the Third.
"Perhaps," said the Fourth.
The Third glanced back at his colleague, having expected more threat and less speculation in the response.
"Naruto didn't defeat the god of death to win the freedom of myself and the others," said Minato. "There was a deal made between a god of mischief and the death god."
"Yes, but the rumors already circulating indicate that Naruto managed to beat the god of death in some game of chance, and as a result was able to bring back to life many of those whose lives were cut untimely short," said Hiruzen Sarutobi.
"Rumors are rumors," said Minato, shrugging. "No, I'm still trying to figure out what that deal consisted of. There's always give and take on those sorts of things - so what does a death god want?"
"That's... a very good question," said the Third.
"Hi, I'm Nina, this is Alexander!" chirped a little girl. "That's a BIG doggie!"
"Yes, this is my dog partner, Kuromaru," said Tsume Inuzuka. "Is Alexander your dog partner?"
Alexander woofed.
"Really?" asked Kuromaru directly.
Alexander woofed again.
"Fascinating," said Kuromaru. "What was so bad that her memories were largely wiped?"
"Eh?" asked Nina.
Alexander woofed and growled.
"We have a version of that, but it's not painful and is temporary," said Kuromaru. "Come along, we'll get you settled."
"Excuse me?" asked Tsume.
"Kid's going to need training," said Kuromaru. "Besides, I've got to hear the full version of this story."
Sasuke Uchiha brooded as he considered what he'd seen. What he'd been unable to accept at the time. What he now knew was likely true.
His mother was back. As well as that annoying cousin of his.
Back from the dead. This was good.
Back as SERVANTS of the dead-last clown of the Academy. This was not good.
He had to do something.
If one approached it from space, one would at first see it like a desktop snowglobe with Himeji Castle surrounded by forest. The base might be a bit thick, but it would look similar enough. The glitters underneath would not immediately be as easily understood.
When that hypothetical traveller got closer, the glitters underneath would be revealed as tiny rectangles.
When that hypothetical traveller was fairly close, the scope of what they were seeing began to penetrate.
The castle complex had a circumference of 2.53 miles. In order to give it proper room and clearance, the dome itself was five times that area or 12 miles roughly.
Beneath the dome, the thick "base" of the snowglobe itself extended another half-mile, followed by a spidery network of connectors that held hundreds of solar panels.
There was also a space-dock, a large pennant reading 'shaved ice' and another reading 'cold drinks' while a neon sign underneath the dome had the slogan 'Don't Panic' in friendly pink lettering.
It also had:
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