Obito smiled and the world suddenly shifted again revealing an all too familiar office which looked brand-new at the moment rather than stately and old like it usually did. The Shodai Hokage sat groaning behind a desk covered in what had to be at least twice as much paperwork as the head of the Military Police had to deal with on a bad day. As the Senju reached for one of the forms in front of him with an air of doom about him, a secretary rushed in setting a stack of documents on the nearest pile.
"Hokage-sama, your brother is here." the woman said as she laid the documents on the overcrowded desk.
"Can you wait five minutes before sending him in?" the Hokage asked, setting the document he'd grabbed when she'd arrived aside.
"Yes Hokage-sama." the secretary replied before turning to leave.
As the secretary departed, the First Hokage pulled what looked like a storage scroll from his desk which he activated before carefully shoving the papers that covered said desk into the seal. He had barely refurled the scroll and grabbed a novel which he flipped to a random page from the same drawer from which he'd fetched the scroll before Senju Tobirama entered the room.
"So, you little pest, how's the Genin team working out?" the First Hokage asked casually as his brother stalked into the room.
As the two men began to converse, the scene shifted once more.
"I can't believe I let my brother talk me into this!" the Nidaime said as he tried to rub away a tension headache. There were several stacks of paper surrounding the man. The piles were, if anything, higher than they had been on his brother's desk. As the Senju lamented his fate, a shinobi on secretary duty entered carrying a cup of coffee and a morning paper. Looking out the window, he saw that it was pretty early in the morning rather than early-afternoon as it had been when the Nidaime's brother had been sitting at the desk.
"Your students are here." the man said as he handed the paper and the coffee over to the Second Hokage.
"Give me a few minutes before you send them in." the Second Hokage said.
As soon as the other man turned to leave, the Hokage pulled a storage scroll from the desk and started haphazardly throwing papers into it, smiling wickedly as he did so. Once the papers were put away, he unfolded the paper the secretary had brought him and started pretending to casually read it as he drank his coffee when the students in question - the Third Hokage and two of the Council members - entered.
As the three greeted their sensei, the scene shifted again
The Sandaime sighed as he read one of the numerous documents scattered on his desk. As he grabbed a brush in order to sign it, a member of the Shinobi secretary pool entered.
"Orochimaru is here to see you." the Kunoichi said.
"Give me a few seconds before you send him in." the Third Hokage said as he set the signed document aside.
"Yes Hokage-sama." the woman said as she turned to leave.
Not having enough time to fiddle with a storage scroll, the Hokage swept most of the papers that littered the top of the desk under the desk almost faster than the eye could see, leaving only one or two reports on the desk. As soon as the papers were dealt with, he grabbed the report nearest to him and started pretending to read it.
Moments after the Third Hokage had hidden the papers that had covered his desk, Orochimaru entered the room followed by a blond ANBU who couldn't have been older than sixteen.
As the traitor started speaking to his former teacher, the scene shifted again.
The Yondaime slammed his head against the desk in front of him repeatedly.
"Why? Why? Why? Why? Why?" the Fourth Hokage asked with each thump as a much younger Teuchi strode into the office carrying a takeout box from his ramen stand.
"Kakashi's outside chatting up your pretty new redheaded secretary. From the looks of it, he's got a very serious crush on her." Teuchi said smirking slightly as he sat a bowl down in front of the Hokage amidst the piles of paperwork that virtually covered his desk.
"Really?" the Hokage said looking absolutely murderous, moving to get up and tipping the bowl over in the process.
In a move that was too fast to see, the Yondaime grabbed the bowl before it could ruin the paperwork. After setting the bowl down on a stack of forms, he inspected the paperwork to make sure none of it was damaged. As he looked over the papers, his murderous look turned into an evil one as an idea suddenly came to him.
"Tell Kakashi to come in here in two minutes, I need to finish a report." the Hokage said.
"Sure thing Minato." Teuchi said.
The instant the owner of Ichiraku's vanished, the Hokage grabbed a blank scroll that he turned into a storage scroll in under ten seconds. The instant the seal was complete, the Hokage quickly cast a drying jutsu on the scroll and stuffed the papers into it. He had the scroll put away and was started on lunch when a teenage Hatake Kakashi entered the office.
"Ah Kakashi. Sit. Sit. I just heard that you came by and didn't bother to see me. Naturally I was hurt at this." the Hokage said.
"Sorry Sensei. I was going to see you, but I got distracted by Uzumaki-ch-san..." Hatake said, his excuse trailing off.
The Hokage's eyes started glinting dangerously at the mention of his secretary.
"I hear that you haven't yet chosen your career path." the Hokage said. "You'll need to decide on one since..."
"I was considering joining Toriyama's tracking team." Hatake said.
"Have you ever considered becoming Hokage? Joining the ANBU would help you on that path." the Hokage said with a positively evil look in his eyes.
As the Hokage and the young Hatake discussed career options, the scene shifted again.
The desk was covered in paperwork. There were also stacks of paperwork as tall as the desk surrounding it.
"Minato, if I'd known you'd leave this much paperwork behind, I'd have sacrificed myself instead." the Third Hokage said, sighing before he headed to the desk to get started on the paperwork.
As the Hokage seated himself with a groan, the scene shifted again.
The Third Hokage sat regaling a young Uzumaki with tales of exploits from his youth.
"...And so, I was made Hokage." the Hokage finished his story as he smiled down at the blond four year-old who was then escorted out of the office by an ANBU that had his new sensei's hair.
"It looks like I'll be getting my revenge for the paperwork you left me with after all Minato." the Hokage said with an evil smile once the two were gone. "Soon as your kid turns eighteen, I'm naming him Hokage and skipping town."
As the Sandaime plotted, the scene shifted again.
A woman who was presumably the Godaime considering the fact that she had the hat and the desk looked down at the stack of papers that was nearly as tall as she was in front of her before taking a swig from the bottle she held. It was at that moment that an older looking Uzumaki Naruto burst into the room.
"Hiya Ba-chan. Any missions for me today?" the Uzumaki asked cheerfully.
"Well no, but I have a bunch of documents that are "For Hokage's Eyes Only". I'm pretty sure I can trust you with them if you'll be willing to help me file them." the Hokage said gesturing to the giant pile of paperwork.
"Really?! Wow!" the Uzumaki said as he practically dove towards the pile of papers.
"And they call me the Legendary Sucker." the Hokage muttered before she went to show the Uzumaki how to fill out paperwork.
As the Uzumaki eagerly did the Godaime's work for her, the scene shifted yet again. This time though, rather than finding himself and Obito in an older version of the Hokage's office, they were in a completely different room.
A rather old and tired looking Danzo who was presumably the Rokudaime stared at the piles of paper stacked in his temporary office.
"Where the hell did all this paper come from? The village was virtually destroyed less than a week ago." the Sixth Hokage said before moving to inspect one of the piles.
As the Rokudaime poked the paper with his cane, the scene shifted.
"Tenzo, Sai, we need about a hundred more D rank mission report forms stat!" a shinobi said poking his head into a room where a brown haired man that was about his new sensei's age and a black haired teenager a few years older than him were located.
"Roger." the man said before doing a mysterious jutsu that made paper. As soon as the paper had been crafted, the teenager promptly pulled the first few papers off the stack before drawing on them almost faster than the eye could see. As soon as he was done drawing, the teenager did a jutsu that he couldn't identify that caused ink to flow off the papers that he had grabbed and onto the papers in the stack that had just been created before he set the stack aside next to about another hundred stacks of paper.
As the older man started creating another stack of paper, scene shifted back to the temporary Hokage's office.
"Trust bureaucracy to be the first thing to recover." the one-eyed old man grumbled as he one-handedly grabbed a bunch of papers off a random stack and started reading them.
As the Rokudaime read, the world shifted again, and he was back in his bedroom.
"They chain the strongest shinobi in the village to a desk and force him to fill out paperwork?!" he said, stunned after the last of the scenes had played itself out. He had considered becoming Hokage after killing his brother and restoring his clan, but now he knew better. There was no way in hell he was going to let someone sucker him into becoming Hokage much less coming within five people of that position. If the Uzumaki wanted the position, he could have it.
"Yep. Poor Minato-Sensei, he only took the job because he thought he was going to be helping out the village that gave so much to him after he was orphaned." Obito said before he wavered out of existence for a brief moment.
Edited 12-25-12