Orochimaru burst out laughing when he saw his prank had worked. Still smiling, he said, "All right, life here is too dull. I was just teasing you!"
Then his expression turned serious. "He came to tell me that the Chunin Ninja Exams between the Five Great Nations are about to begin. He wants me to go stir things up!"
Deidara's already large, round eyes widened even further. "Obito Uchiha is completely insane! The Chunin Ninja Exams are for kids!"
Orochimaru's hands paused. "He's always been ruthless. It's hardly surprising that he'd want to do something like this." He looked up at Deidara, his expression earnest. "Has Uchiha Itachi returned?"
"Not yet. His assignments are always the most troublesome, and he still hasn't come back!" Deidara admired Uchiha Itachi. With his imposing presence and sharp mind, the man seemed capable of anything.
Orochimaru nodded and sighed. "There's still time, so we can wait a little longer. As for you, brat, you can leave. Unless you'd like to be an experimental subject, stop hanging around here!"
Deidara pulled a long face. It rained all day in Amegakure, and the villagers wandered around like ghosts. The place was unbearably dull. He had finally found somewhere to spend a little time with Orochimaru, only to be thrown out. It was a disaster, but there was nothing he could do. He trudged away.
Meanwhile, in the Hokage Office in Konoha, Uchiha Yin sat on the Hokage's desk, grinning down at Minato Namikaze as he worked through documents beside him. "Minato, after all these years, why are you still so slow with paperwork? I've never seen that stack on the desk get any smaller!"
Minato had intended to ignore Lord Hokage, who had only grown more outrageous over the years, but he could hardly bear that