Three days later, dinner at Minato's house.
Amid great anticipation, the United States of Fire in Ninja World 4 was established as scheduled, and a grand founding ceremony was held.
Hundreds of thousands of spectators from around the world gathered in Konoha.
The lively celebrations went on all day and all night.
The entire village—or rather, the capital of the United States of Fire, newly renamed the Capital of Fire—was bustling with activity.
Of course, Minato, the Fourth Hokage and the United States' first speaker of the senate, had been run ragged all day.
He had to receive all sorts of distinguished guests, attend the ceremony, read out announcements, sign regulations, and more.
Fortunately, Minato was a ninja and could make shadow clones to handle things.
Otherwise, after all that running around, he'd definitely have been stretched too thin tonight.
Still,
compared to the celebrations on the surface during the day, the private cross-world dinner tonight was far more important to Minato and the others, and far more worth looking forward to.
Five in the afternoon.
After taking care of most of the important matters and leaving several clones behind to assist and stand by,
Minato himself flew home early and began preparing for the dinner with great care.
Miso chashu ramen, dried bonito rice balls, three-colored dango, salt-grilled saury, a seafood feast, cinnamon rolls, assorted hot pot, hijiki, apple omelet rice, sardine dumplings, grilled saury, spicy hamburgers, black tea cake...
There were far too many dishes.
In all, he had at least twenty or thirty specialties to prepare.
There were a lot of guests coming tonight, especially, so he needed to make plenty of everyone's favorite foods. Fortunately, with all the information he had, none of it was too difficult.
Outside the kitchen,
Kushina was a little nervous. Holding