| 4 | Minato Namikaze

Looking at the reanimated three Hokages, Suigetsu asked Orochimaru "But there are only three of them. Where's the Fourth?"

Looking at them Orochimaru started to ponder, but the answer came from Sasuke "I don't know what it was, but something similar to a white fog went out of the shrine right when you opened the belly of the reaper."

Hearing that Orochimaru looked at Sasuke and asked "Are you sure?"

"Yes. I saw it with my eyes." Sasuke said.

"Well, that might be our Fourth Hokage. As far as I know, he died when the Kyuubi rampaged in Konoha seventeen years ago. His death was a mystery to us all."

Then looking at the Third Hokage, Orochimaru said "But don't worry, we will have our answers from the Third."

As he said that, the three Hokage got their consciousness then looked around.

"So that's... the first hokage...

The god of shinobi... the real Hashirama..." Suigetsu asked.

"That orochimaru brat again..." Said Tobirama Senju, the Second Hokage.

"What's going on?" Hashirama Senju asked his brother.

"He removed the Shiki Fuujin seal... that bound us... then used the Edo Tensei... " Answered Hiruzen Sarutobi the Third Hokage, looking around he didn't find the one who should have been here.

Seeing his sensei looking around Orochimaru said "If you're looking for Minato, we couldn't reanimate him. His soul just took off from here."

Hearing that Tobirama was intrigued as he knows that, when someone performs Edo Tensei, they have full control over the soul form. So he looked at Hiruzen and said "Who is this Minato?"

"He's the Fourth Hokage." Orochimaru said.

"Holy crap a fourth?" Hashirama said excitedly.

"Yes. But he died at the age of twenty four, and was sealed inside the belly of the Shinigami." Orochimaru said.

Hearing that confusion was shown on the face of Hashirama, he asked "So why is he not reanimated again?"

"For that, we will have to ask Sensei." Saying that Orochimaru looked at Hiruzen.

Seeing this Tobirama asked "What are you implying here?"

"The death of the Fourth Hokage was killed by the Kyuubi when it attacked the village seventeen years ago. But how he died is a mystery to us all and we didn't see anybody during his burial and I have come to believe that only sensei knows what is happening here." Orochimaru explained.

Looking at Hiruzen, Tobirama asked "What's happening Saru?"

Sighing, Hiruzen said "The day Minato died because of him using the Shiki Fūjin Jutsu, at least that's what is said in official records. But the truth is, his body was very much alive but it was frozen in time. He didn't age a single day, he didn't decay like a normal human would and when the doctor tried to cut him open the would closed itself before he could do anything."

"That is almost similar to Nii-san." Tobirama said.

"Indeed it is, but I'm sure that I didn't have the power to remain frozen in time." Hashirama said.

"Yes. Because of that he was not buried like the rest of the Shinobi who died that day. He was placed in a secure room that is only accessible to me and the doctor. If I'm right, the doctor is also dead after Orochimaru attacked Konoha during the Chunin exams." Hiruzen said.

"So you're saying that, right now Minato Namikaze, the Yellow Flash of Konoha is not dead?" Orochimaru asked Hiruzen.

"No. From what Saru has said, the soul of Minato was in the belly of the Shinigami, but his body didn't die. If my assumptions are correct then, if the soul returns to the vessel, it could come back to life." Tobirama said after analyzing the conversation between Hiruzen and Orochimaru.

"Then that means the white fog that went out of the Shrine, might be the Fourth." Sasuke said.

"Most probably." Orochimaru confirmed it.

Then looking in the direction the war is happening Orochimaru said "We unknowingly helped the Allied Shinobi Force."

"Allied Shinobi Force?" Tobirama asked him confused as this is a term that he hadn't heard before.

"We are in the midst of war... Uchiha madara has been resurrected and has begun his genocide of all shinobi." Orochimaru said.

Hearing that all three Hokage had a surprised face and Hashirama said "...... It's always something with him..."

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As that was happening in the Naka Shrine, the soul of Minato wandered off to its body.

A couple of minutes later, the soul arrived at a secured room with seals on the door. Not even bothered by it, the soul went inside and found the body of a young man in his twenties laid on a hospital bed with some machine connected to his body.

Not lingering around for any longer, the soul entered the body and with that the automatic restoration process stopped which started seventeen years ago when the Kyuubi attacked.

A second later the soul entered the body, the young man's eyes suddenly opened and took a deep breath through his nose and mouth. Then muttered to himself "It's good to be back."

Then he disappeared from that room leaving no traces and arrived inside the room. Looking around he smiled and thought 'So they didn't move from here, that's good.'

Then after a minute of searching he found his old clothes and his Hokage Haori. Putting it on he said out loud "Now then, time to save some friends."

Just after he said that, he disappeared from the room.

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