"Minato!"
Yahiko bounded up to the hospital's top floor, his glossy orange hair making him easy to recognize. Everyone who saw him knew he was the Head of State's "drudge," so no one stopped him.
He pushed open the door to Minato's office and found Minato staring at him with a miserable expression.
"Yahiko, what does Dad want now?"
"I haven't even finished the empire's paperwork yet!"
Minato's voice carried deeply resentful helplessness, while his hands blurred as he kept pulling documents from the piles on his desk and stamping them with the Head of State's seal, bang, bang, bang.
Yahiko gave an awkward smile at that. If even Minato, with his famed speed in the Shinobi World, couldn't finish the paperwork, had Lord Danzo dumped absolutely everything on him?
"Minato, Lord Danzo wants you to take the former Raikage A to the Laboratory."
Of course Yahiko wasn't going to put himself through the trouble of finding A again. There was a Flying Thunder God user right here, and besides, all the shinobi now bore the marks of both the Second Hokage and Minato.
As Minato complained incessantly, Yahiko moved closer.
Bang!
Minato brought the Head of State's seal down especially hard!
Resting a hand on Yahiko, Minato closed his eyes and sensed the mark on A.
If he hadn't also received an injection of Hashirama cells, placing this many Flying Thunder God Marks would have taken him over half a year.
A was having a gathering with his old Kumogakure subordinates at an izakaya belonging to some obscure bearded clan in Konoha.
Suddenly, he felt heat on his back and quickly realized that his Flying Thunder God Mark had been activated!
After joint improvements by the Second Hokage and Minato, the marks now went dormant if unused for a