I took it upon myself to take a week off of work.

I needed a longer break from constantly reviving the Uchiha clan. I'd nearly revived close to five hundred already and none of them had been happy about it. In fact, some had even committed suicide and left a note saying not to revive them again.

Cowards.

I spent my first day in my lab looking through my old notebooks and trying to revive my previous love for experimenting and recreating things from my previous life only to quickly lose motivation when I remembered being executed by my sensei for this very same reason.

My heart still aches when I think back to it. It was one of the reasons why I had drowned myself in the missions that Minato gave me, and spent all my free time working on music. It kept my mind off of my personal issues and fears.

However.. twelve years of singing the same fifty songs as well as the ten or so songs I'd created myself had begun to grow tedious.

I didn't have anyone I trusted well enough to show my music to without worrying about what they'd think about my voice either. Which made singing even less fun.

My voice truly was not the best. It was deep, with an undercurrent of raspiness that I'd taken on since my contract with with the snake summons. Though I found it pleasant enough, sometimes I would just get sick of hearing it.

The second day I went out using Minato's disguise seal to explore the city only to be sickened by the similarity it had to my home town in my past life.

Did Sarutobi really have to follow my notebooks word for word? What was with his obsession of transforming a perfectly beautiful mundane village to this tropical like city?

I went for ice cream and hoped for some sort of fated encounter with 'the one' before going home with a defeated slouch.

It was a ridiculous notion anyway. Childish.

The third day I'd tattooed storage seals into my wrists and began packing everything that meant something to me.

The fourth day I was leaving the village through the sewers and heading to an area that was relatively untouched by man kind.

Rice country had been a place that didn't make many treaties with any of the five big villages.

I could live there comfortably, though even there I knew I wouldn't be able to show my face unless I wanted everyone in the world to know my location. No, if anything I'd be using Minato's disguise seal, with different faces each time I went out.

I found myself missing Minato, my little student Naruto, and even the parents that always looked at me with disgust when they thought I wouldn't notice. I also surprisingly found myself missing that nuisance of a man Sakumo.

My team mates had long since grown out of my presence, with Tsunade having children with that Kato Dan, and Jiraiya off writing his perverted novels based on his escapades. They were utterly dull.

Kakashi and his team had never come around since that first time when I had first been revived, so I felt nothing for them.

Ah, but if I were completely honest I'd have to say I missed my past life most of all. My previous overly loving parents, my overly adoring older siblings, and the whoring life I had participated in.

Being alone... I did not like being alone.

At one point I used to delude myself into thinking being alone was something that was part of my personality.

Of course, I understand now that it was an excuse I had told myself to make myself feel better about not having anyone I wanted to share my time with.

How long have I been living alone now?

Far too long.

I had seen the way my apprentice Minato looked at me on occasion and sometimes found myself fantasizing about the possibility..but I did not feel as if I were the best fit for him.

The man had a sunny personality, while I was constantly sarcastic and pessimistic. I could only imagine myself dragging him down emotionally, and mentally.

It would not work.

Though whenever he discovers that I'd vanished he could always just hiraishin to my side. The needy little blonde had tattooed his seal into my hip quite a few years ago, though I had since made a few adjustments on the thing.

One of which makes it impossible for him to be able teleport right by my side, instead he'd be made to teleport ten feet away at the closest.

I continued on my way to Rice country. I found a beautiful little area hidden in some mountains and proceeded to build my castle out of diamond inside.

It should be hidden, but extravagant, like my heart. It should be large and beautiful like my soul.. and dark and barren like my mind.

Perhaps Jiraiya was right when he had called me dramatic all those years ago.

Look at me, running away from my responsibilities because of my depression.

Sure I know I'd return one day, but I wouldn't be returning with plans to rejoin, instead I hoped to return with more power in my body so I could crush Sarutobi under my feet for how he disgraced my life and ruined my name.

I was no longer known to the world as the Shinigami King. I was simply known as the traitor. The name was just reaching of being more creative than a dogs excrement.

It sucked.

~

So I build my castle inside the mountains.

It took a couple days but once it was done I was immensely satisfied at my work. I hadn't really been much for infrastructure in my previous life, but I did have great control over my Kekkei Genkai and an amazing imagination.

It had honestly been the most fun I'd had in years. The last time I'd had this much fun was when I was building my base in Ame and had everyone worshipping the ground I walked on.

Which made me miss being worshipped. One day..one day I'd have that again.

Currently, I was working on my garden and getting various shadow clones to furnish the places in the castle that needed it.

Such as the throne room near the entrance at the base of the mountain, the massive kitchen area in the floor above, as well as the cafeteria that took up even more room.

There was the recreation rooms with all the different types of activists I could do, or anyone else that I decided to abduct and get to live with me as a servant. (I'm kidding)

I made myself a giant lab in case I ever got the motivation to start experimenting once again, as well as a library where I put all of the books I'd read and all of the ones I hadn't read inside. The library had taken up quite a bit of room considering I'd had thousands upon thousands of books, including the ones I'd made.

I had made sure Minato had continued to buy me books while I was toiling away reviving soul after soul. So my collection had grown quite a bit, with books coming from all around the shinobi nations, and further still from the other side of the world.

I also made various training rooms, all large enough for S ranked battles, and even made some living room areas scattered around for rest, with snacks.

Then I made the bedrooms.

All of them were in the higher parts of the mountains, with balconies over looking a vast and beautiful world. My own bedroom was down by the base of the mountain behind my throne room.

The garden I was currently working on was in the valley between two mountains, it wasn't too big of a valley, but it was amazingly beautiful.

This area had the perfect fairy tail look, with the large cedar trees, the grassy earth and the scents of various medicinal herbs and poisons surrounding me.

Much better than Konoha. Far more beautiful and relaxing.

In fact I wondered why I hadn't done this sooner. Despite the fact that Minato needed help raising his son.

I could have just taken Naruto with me.

My fantasy world could do with some fantastical beasts. Perhaps I will go and gather some jinchuuriki and bring them here. I heard they weren't treated well by all of society after all. Besides Minato and Naruto, who both held one half of the kyuubi inside them.

They were well respected in Konoha.

Somehow, as I worked on my garden I found that everything I had ever planned for this life had come back tenfold.

My ideas began surging once more as the freedom of this beautiful country filled me with its magical aura.

So what if I wasn't in some fantasy world like I had first hoped, I could make this world a fantasy.

I could create all those beautiful creatures from the novels in my past life and become the king of it.

This was a world of ninja and betrayal? No! I would not have it!

I would not live in that kind of world!

I would live in a world of my own creation, and use my chakra to make it that way. The shinobi nations could either accept it, or die fighting against it.

~

Once my garden was complete I took it into my hands to begin gathering some strong knights for my kingdom. Or ninja, whatever you wanna call them.

First I went for the Ichibi in the land of wind.

He was quite eager to leave after I'd defeated him and fixed his mess of a seal, but he had wanted his siblings to come along.

The more the merrier I supposed.

Gaara was his name. He was quite the pretty child compared to most. With a delicate body, a soft feminine face with large teal eyes, and a burst of beautiful bright red hair.

He knew of me of course, but he truly had not cared about who I was. Only that I had easily subdued him and his beast and fixed his seal so he could sleep. The poor thing hadn't slept in years.

Next was the Nibi jinchuuriki. I found her in kumogakure working as a basic jonin. Her name was Yugito Nii, and she had been quite the beautiful woman.

I did manage to speak to her and offer her my home, however she refused. I figured I'd come back for her later, I did not want to force her to join me after all.

The Sanbi was a little more difficult to take. Considering he had been the mizukage up until recently.

I found Yagura on an island in the land of water living peacefully, so I asked him to follow me peacefully but he wanted to test his power against me.

So I defeated him easily enough.(It was a three day battle) The genjutsu he had constantly tried to cast on me was nullified by a quick seal I'd placed on my upper arm. From then on it was a simple thing to take him out.

Afterwards I'd asked again and he came along willingly surprisingly enough.

I did have to create a large pool of water for him once we'd gotten to the castle however, though it wasn't too difficult. I just made it on a ledge of the mountain and created an entrance into the castle from there. It was far prettier than his measly little island he'd had in mizu.

The Yonbi was far more difficult to find since he had actually gone rogue from Iwa quite a few years ago. When I did find him I was surprised to realize he had taken one look at me and smiled before agreeing to come along.

He even told me where Han was located and offered to come with me to take him with us.

I wasn't going to refuse of course, not when I was curious about the sideways glances he continued to give me.

When we found Han he was sitting on a large rock overlooking a river with a handful of fried lizards on a stick. It certainly brought back memories, and I had found myself smiling when he had come down to greet me with a nod.

Turns out he'd also gone rogue shortly after I was executed.

The both of them came willingly, while Roushi had teased Han the whole way. It did make me curious, but I wasn't the type of man to barge in on someone else's conversation.

I gave the both of them the option of choosing whatever room they desired and left them to their own devices. I gave the child Gaara a hug and kissed his forehead when he had come up to me before heading out to find the Rokubi.

Yagura had explained that he should be somewhere around fire country since he'd also gone rogue from Kirigakure a few years before.

So I went on my search and found the man just outside of hot water country. He'd been blowing bubbles out of a pipe and arguing out loud to no one in particular.

I went up to him and gave him a wave with a curious tilt of my head then frowned when he had stood and walked up to me before nodding his head.

"I am Utakata, Orochimaru-sama, it would be an honour to follow you." He bowed respectfully. He then pulled out a worn book with a pen and smiled up at me shyly.

I wasn't entirely certain how he'd known I was planning to take him with me but I didn't ever look a gift horse in the mouth.

I blinked at him before giving him a gentle smile in response, though I did find his apparent fan like behaviour curious. I did not think that I would still have fans after Sarutobi had sent out the notice that I'd been executed for treason.

I signed his book and discovered it was the first novel in a yaoi series I'd created years ago, shortly after I had lost my virginity to Jiraiya. I felt my face heat up as I wondered how in the world this series got published.

I was not the one to send it out.

Utakata smiled warmly at the autograph before following me back to the castle. He asked questions the whole way about various subjects before he got around to asking me how many people I had slept with.

I told him I was a virgin in this body, but that I'd had sex once in my previous one.

Utakata had been stunned.

I then left him to get along with his fellow jinchuuriki before heading to Takigakure for the Nanabi jinchuuriki.

I shouldn't have to mention the reasons why I knew where all the beasts were located. Not when my Hokage had spoken to me about everything he found interesting as well as showed me a seal that could help locate missing beasts if they'd ever gotten kidnapped.

Minato was such a kind boy.

As I looked around for a green haired girl named Fuu, I wondered when Minato would come to visit.

He didn't forget he had a seal on me did he? My apprentice could be a little scatter brained once in a while after all.

In fact, throughout the years when he visited he always did use the seal outside my home rather than the one on my body.

I shrugged and decided to leave the thought for another time.

I found the girl outside of Takigakure beating on her fellow comrades and flying about like a fairy. I went and helped her fight them off so I could talk to her sooner.

Afterwards she had called me her hero and asked me for my name. She had no idea who I was.

So I introduced myself and offered her a place in my castle and she immediately accepted without a fuss. Something about Chōmei saying I was trustworthy, whoever that was.

So I took her back to meet the others, gave Gaara another hug and went to see the hachibi.

I also went and looked for Yugito once more and found myself surprised that she willingly came along this time, with a large man named Killer Bee, who happened to be who I was looking for.

He had said he'd come to visit and decide what he wanted later with his atrocious rapping skills.

Now I just needed Minato or Naruto. Preferably both.

But I'd go and retrieve them another time.

For now I had eight rowdy jinchuuriki to help settle into the castle and a bunch of experiments to conduct.

I wanted to start with creating fairies, since I already had a plan in mind.

I hoped to thoroughly study Fuu and x-ray her body, and recreate her wings and balance on others.

Perhaps she would lend some of her chakra to assist me in my endeavours.

So I went on my way to gather some willing test subjects from the villages around Rice Country.

~

"Dad when's Oro-ji coming back?" Naruto whined as the two of them ate supper at Ichiraku's to congratulate Naruto for finishing the second part of the chunin exams in the forest of death.

Minato sighed in response and put his chin in his hand in defeat. "I can't be certain, he didn't leave a note when he left. He was due back for work a month ago but he's still off somewhere doing who knows what with who knows who.."

"Can't you just go find him?" Naruto sighed with the same tone in his voice. Naruto missed his favorite sensei immensely.

He missed Orochimaru's kind smile when he did something right, and the way he'd ruffle his hair, and he especially missed the times when Orochimaru would let him sleep with him in his bed.

Naruto has grown to be just as needy for his Oro-ji as Minato had, perhaps even more so since Orochimaru had been a lot kinder with him than he had with Minato.

Minato was still jealous that Naruto got to cuddle with his sensei, but he couldn't really be upset about it since Naruto hadn't cuddled with him in years.

After Naruto had reached the age of ten Orochimaru had basically banned him from his bed.

Minato still felt embarrassment for when he had asked to sleep with Orochimaru in a joking manner, only for Orochimaru to look him over curiously and look away dismissively.

Minato didn't want to feel this way about his sensei but it wasn't like he could help it.

Orochimaru was too pretty, too beautiful in every way. His personality was adorable, and his expressions even more so, especially when Minato would attempt to flirt.

Though he was always unsuccessful.

He really missed Oro-chan. And calling him Oro-chan and seeing his blushing face as he lashed out at him.

He was such a tsundere sometimes.

"If I could just go and see him whenever I wanted I would have already done it Naruto." Minato sighed helplessly.

He'd completely forgotten he'd tattooed his sensei's hip with his hiraishin years ago.