Flashback no Jutsu: day after Endo arrived at the village
POV Shikaku
Shikaku was just minding his own business tending to the forest's deer, and passing time as he would have a meeting with the elders this even. After finishing, he went to a decently sized patch of clearing and started cloud watching when he heard the quick footsteps of what he presumed to be an anbu. 'The Hokage probably wants me, why cant he and his elders decide things for themselves. This is way too troublesome for me.'.
"What" Shikaku yawned, but not other motion besides lazily looking at the sky. The anbu who were trained to be stealth and converge with their surrounding felt a little apprehensive that someone, even if they are the proclaimed the strategist of the century. He researched and found intel about the Nara clan, and it is taled that the only person who rivaled Shikaku's intelligence was his father.
'Must run the his genes' the anbu quietly sneered.
The anbu still trying hide with the foliage whispered "Hokage wants to see you", and then Body flickered from the site.
'Must be important if he didn't ask when am I coming, I probably should head over then.' Shikaku after thirty minutes of finishing up his cloud watching, he Body flickered to the hokage's office and since he was going at a decent pace he arrived within 5 minutes. He walked up the tower with the guards letting him in due to already knowing he was and being notified by the their superiors. Shikaku walks up to the opened door, and sees an old man looking out towards the hokage monument.
"Sit" Hiruzen asks. He knows he's been leaning on the Nara clan's head tremendously, but that's only because he's been busy with the vast amount of paperwork that comes from being responsible for all of those under him. Shikaku sits, and lits up a cigarette, his wife Yoshiro doesn't allow him to smoke in house and there's no smoking in the Nara forest. He looks at Hiruzen and thinks about why is he here, and how troublesome this is.
"Your step brother was found and killed by bandits..."Hiruzen hesitates while looking at his sensei.
'Lord sensei would admonish me for what happened to his great grandson.' Hiruzen sighs, reminiscing about his sensei's lessons. While that was happening Shikaku was wide-eyed on the news. He knew that Toshiro Nara, his wife's brother, was considered a missing-nin after a mission he went on a couple of years before the nine tails attack, but he didn't think he'd die. Toshiro was top in his class, only being topped by the likes of era defying geniuses like Konoha's yellow Flash, Minato Namikaze, also known as Lord Forth Hokage who stopped the kyuubi attack. Shikaku's thoughts were interrupted by the Hokage clearing his throat signifying that he had more to say.
"We've retrieved his scythe from the Bingo association, we retrieved news that he had a son and a wife by Jiraiya boy himself looking into the incident. Though he had no leads to where the person who took the boy went with him, until the boy named Endo arrived at our vill-"
"Is he Toshiro's son?" Shikaku interrupted.
"I think so, Shisui found with a bookbag containing his birthfile, a stack of Ryo, and a note from a man name 'the ocean sage'" Hiruzen explained
"Who is the boy's mother?" Shikaku asked. Hiruzen then went on to explain that this both due to his mixed blood would be classified as a low s class secret. Shikaku nodded figuring this out, so he just waited for Hiruzen's anwer.
"Endo's mother is a Senju. Not any senju but the granddaughter of the great Tobirama Senju."
At this information Shikaku's eyes widened slightly. The boy must be kept safe, but he knew that the Nara clan elders wouldn't allow Endo to stay with them. Guessing what Shikaku was thinking Hiruzen continued.
"I place him with Shinobi Gekko Hayate, and an anbu. Endo is only three right now but he has great intelligence. Shisui, who brought him to my office, actually said Endo reminded him of Itachi" Hiruzen finished. Leaving Shikaku contemplating what to do, he figured that his Yoshiro wanted to know.
"Can I let Yoshiro know?"
"Only what she should know, nothing on the mother as that's the classified part." Hiruzen agreed with conditions, as he thought completely isolating Endo wouldn't be fair for him, or his relatives, but since his other pupil Tsunade is gone, it only leaves his nara part. Shikaku nods and leaves without being dismissed, as he knew that he knew Hiruzen was done with him for the moment. Shikaku walked to the secretary, and asked for Toshiro's Nara scythe back, the main weapon of Toshiro and what made him stand at the top quickly and efficiently. It was an odd weapon for most of Yoshiro's lineage, but he loved it. He retrieved the Scythe, and body flickered back to his house. He smells himself, and decides the smoke smell left him so he walks in to see his wife. He see's her prepping lunch, so puts the scythe down quietly and quickly hugs her.
"What's wrong" Yoshiro worried something happened, because her Shikaku always makes snide comments complaining how much he works, and usually sits and talk to her.
"I'm sorry" Shikaku somberly says. Yoshiro turns around and behind him she sees her brother's scythe. The same scythe he left with. The very scythe that he got from their father. Yoshiro stumbles slightly as she becomes entrenched with sadness, utter tears pour out of her, and she falls quickly. Losing control she cries into her hands silently, she is flooded with memories of her brother, how he was always better than her, but he was always kind and acted like a blockhead during training. He was there for her everystep of her life, before he left the village. Shikaku went down with her, comforting the sobbing Yoshiro, he knew that he couldn't help as they were very close. So, he decided that he just wanted to be there for her. So grasped they did, until time passed, and since Shikamaru was at Choji's playing, No lunch was made, instead they moved outside where Shikaku just gave her a shoulder. Yoshiro gladly accepted it, and she looked out to the forest that her brother loved so much. Gaing the will she asked
"How did he die."
"He was attacked by bandits. He was already hurt due to the bingo book hunters fighting him. It seems like he lived a peaceful life for awhile though. He had a wife, and a kid. The kid is here actually" Shikaku said peacefully absorbing the sun's rays to give him strength to be there for his wife.
"Here right now?!" Yoshiro peaked out when she heard she had a nephew.
"No, he's in custody of Gekko, and Yugao. Lord Third says he's really smart, and he's only three."
"Mmmhmm" Yoshiro replied and remained quiet. They stared at the forest thinking the same thing.
'I wonder If I will ever meet him'