Orochimaru rarely did a mundane thing such as sleep. However, that night, he wanted to sleep for no particular reasons. So he told Yamato, who monitored his experiments, to knock him out; because he couldn't sleep on his own.

He was having a pleasant dream where he had the Rinnegan, wielding all Ninjutsu like the Rikudō Sennin, and lived forever 'till the universe ended.

... that was when a yellow blitz suddenly erupted from nowhere, erasing everything in sight. Everything became white and yellow. And then he spotted someone crouching down, not far from him.

Orochimaru wanted to rage, his dream was abruptly stopped; and it was done by someone he knew so well. But he wouldn't allow himself to lose his calm in front of Namikaze Minato; the most sissy and incompetent Hokage to ever exist.

"Is that you, Minato?" he hissed out, holding in the rage of having an unwanted guest in his dream.

"Orochimaru-san, glad to see you."

The man had the nerve to grin at him. He held in his fury and chose to peacefully converse with the man.

"How are you here?" he asked.

Minato chuckled as he elaborated, "Ah, it's a handy trick Obito had taught me. You see, I'd placed my hiraishin marking on you, back when you revived me and the other Kage."

Orochimaru was silent for a second or so before he bit out, "And that enables you to invade my dreams?"

"Essentially, yes." Minato nodded.

"What do you want?" Obviously Minato wanted something.

Minato's expression became increasingly grave as he said, "Naruto is going to marry."

"And?" He didn't care that Naruto was going to marry. He didn't even know what was going on in Konoha because he was too busy with his experiments.

"I want you to revive some dead people."

Oh. Oh.

Reviving dead people, that he could do easily without protest whatsoever. Approvals from Konoha? He didn't need them.

"Name them."

Minato cleared his throat. "Kushina and I for one, after that; Mito-sama, Shodai-sama, Madara-san, Obito, Rin, Itachi-kun, Mikoto, Sandaime-sama..."


Naruto was, or rather, Naruto and Shisui were having a crisis.

Naruto didn't want to have a wedding, a big wedding that would bring too much attention (oh the irony). Shisui had agreed to her wish, but they conveniently forgot that Uzumaki Naruto was a war hero; her wedding alone could increase Konoha's economy by a lot.

"The wedding will be the biggest event, ever. Trust me, it'll boost our economy."

That was why Tsunade was trying to convince Naruto to have one.

Naruto facepalmed. "Tsunade-no-bāchan, please don't use us. I just... I just don't want a wedding."

Tsunade gritted her teeth. It was almost fifteen minutes and Naruto wouldn't budge. She almost had aneurysm for trying to convince Naruto, who was stubborn as a rock, to have a wedding. It's ridiculous.

"Naruto, think that the wedding is for Konoha!" she bellowed.

Naruto rolled her eyes. "... yeah, yeah. For Konoha, she said."

Scowling at that, Tsunade added, "If you want to become the Hokage, start thinking like one."

That. That definitely hit her hard. "Oh, goodness. Shisui, I don't like this," Naruto said, turning to the person that sat next to her.

Shisui deadpanned as he mussed his already messy hair. "We're going to be a tourist attraction; obviously we don't have to like it."

Naruto huffed and faced the old hag. "Fine, but I won't help arranging a wedding I don't want."

"That's okay 'coz Shizune will handle everything." Tsunade smiled and then she left their apartment.

"This is the worst..." Naruto mumbled, leaning her head on the back of the chair. "I can't imagine wearing layers upon layers of wedding kimono. Ugh."

Shisui patted her back and sent a calming smile at her. "You won't be alone."

Naruto weakly smiled at him. "Yeah..."

She wouldn't be alone, she had Shisui by her side after all.