"Saru, it's good to see you in better conditions. Sasuke had indicated he wished to try to stop Orochimaru peacefully. You were his teacher, weren't you?"

Severely: "I was. I tried repeatedly to stop him peacefully. It never worked."

"We have massive bribery available!"

"My plan was 'giant alien library,' 'surveillance,' and 'clear rules with clear punishments for breaking them.' I think he'd be entertained for a while at least, possibly long enough to address most other problems, and I think he could at least acknowledge non-hypocritical rules. The shinobi moral system is not the type of thing that makes sense on close inspection."

He has no idea what other moral systems even look like, except Cam's thing about consent. Maybe he can ask for a book on different ethical systems.

Mildly: "It always seemed self-evident to me, and to many other shinobi."

"Looks pretty wild from here. Not like, inhuman, but wild."

"Moral rules shouldn't apply differently to people who happened to be born in the same village as you. That's bizarre and arbitrary. Also no one even agrees on what the Will of Fire means in cases like if you should get your teammates killed just for a mission."

He sighs. "You don't really have a concept of loyalty, do you?"

"Wow," comments Cam.

"Actually, no, I don't."

"A concept of village loyalty as something that supersedes clan loyalty was rational to promote during unification, but is not actually significantly any different than clan loyalty. It does have drawbacks as a moral system."

Sarutobi's lips just thin a bit.

"Anyway, welcome back to being alive, it has great features like the ability to advance your understanding of moral philosophy. What do all you folks want to do next?"

"I'm going to put back the First, then - Namikaze, there were five souls in the Death God's seal, do you know who the fifth is?"

Somewhat sheepishly: "Ah, I do, and he's not someone Orochimaru - or the resurrection technique - could bind." Partially because he's currently very grouchily cohabiting in Minato's head. He's not sure why Tobirama's failed to mention that...

"I couldn't conjure for him, what's his deal?"

"He's a chakra construct, one of the Tailed Beasts. He'd been attacking the Leaf - I already communicated the circumstances as I know them to Jiraiya, though if you can conjure for people - can you conjure for 'the person controlling the Nine Tails the night of his attack on the Leaf'? Or I can make an illusion of that person as I saw him. He was masked, unfortunately."

"That doesn't sound like a conjurable parameter but the illusion will probably work."

So he forms an illusion of a masked man.

"And behind door number one is..." Little model.

" - That's Uchiha Obito," says Minato, voice hard and severe.

The little model looks like its right half underwent some serious and not really skilled reconstructive surgery at some point, and is missing its left eye. Otherwise, could plausibly be one of Sasuke's relatives.

"I'm, uh, sorry to hear that?"

"He was a student of mine, reported killed in action during the Third War. I - don't know how he went from that to trying to destroy the Leaf, or how he survived - "

He goes quiet. "I suspect to bring true peace, we're going to have to unravel many secrets."

"Well, conveniently, I'm a demon."

"I would appreciate an explanation of that," Sarutobi says, voice deceptively mild.