Orochimaru emerged from the side and stood behind Hatake Ziyan.
"Lord Ziyan! This must be Sasori! I'm Orochimaru!" Orochimaru bowed to Hatake Ziyan, then addressed Sasori.
"Orochimaru the Cold Lord, one of the Konoha Sannin? I didn't expect you to follow Lord Ziyan too!" Sasori's head suddenly turned a hundred and eighty degrees as he stared at Orochimaru, who had just arrived diagonally behind him.
"Hahaha! Sasori of the Red Sand, you're one of Sunagakure's rare puppet-making geniuses yourself! I never imagined that you'd been serving Lord Ziyan all this time since your disappearance!" Orochimaru flicked his tongue and spoke to Sasori.
"All right, it seems you two already know something about each other, so I won't bother with introductions!" Hatake Ziyan interrupted their exchange of each other's backgrounds.
"One of you plays with puppets and researches the Human Puppet Technique, while the other plays with corpses and researches Immortality Reincarnation and Impure World Reincarnation! You both study the human body, so I think you should be able to find inspiration in each other's work! Stop getting in the way of my sunbathing! Go outside and talk among yourselves!" Hatake Ziyan waved them away.
"Yes, Lord Ziyan!" Both bowed respectfully.
Then Sasori returned to his puppet and left with Orochimaru!
While Hatake Ziyan dealt with the Allied Shinobi Forces, Minato Namikaze had suffered damage to both his body and soul from using the Reaper Death Seal, even though Hatake Ziyan had forcibly stopped him in the end.
After Kushina brought Minato Namikaze back to the village, Tsunade's treatment healed most of his physical injuries, but she could do nothing about the damage to his soul!
That damage impaired Minato Namikaze's ability to sense spatial fluctuations and slowed his mental reactions, greatly reducing his ability to use the Flying Thunder