023 -- [Accidental Post]

[endgames]

[Earlier, when looking through his father’s book for the first time in several months, Shikamaru found some pictures he’d never seen before being used as bookmarks. It was… nostalgic, to say the least.

He finds another bookmark to replace them; puts the photos in a drawer to look at later. Because haha, he knows how this works, right? He leaves them out, and somehow his journal accidentally records it. Yeah. Hell no. He’s smarter than that and doesn’t leave his journal anywhere near them. On top of that, he takes it with him when he leaves to assist with a chakra training lesson. Crisis averted!

Guess what he sees when he opens up his journal two hours later.



Where’s the nearest wall. He needs to beat his head softly against it while he attempts to figure out how this happened. Feel free to action it up when he’s back at CH1 too, if you like.]

[ooc: original artwork from here]

Comments

[corrinesbell]

[This is a most undignified and not at all stealthy laugh. Somewhere between a giggle and a full-out HAHAHA.]

Okay that's kinda adorable.

[endgames]

So I've been hearing.

[So resigned. Sob.]

[corrinesbell]

Is that, uh, your mom?

[What was it like?]

[endgames]

Yeah. --not my dad, anyways. That's been a common theory today.

[One he doesn't sound offended by, but still.]

[corrinesbell]

Then a lotta people don't know how to tell a guy and a lady apart, I guess.

[It takes a lot to make him sound offended.]

Must be nice to have pictures like that though. To remember stuff.

[endgames]

[There's an approving snort, before she moves the conversation back to the picture.]

They're not really mine. I'd feel intrusive if most of them weren't of me.

[corrinesbell]

Not yours? Someone else left a bunch of pictures of you around?

[endgames]

They were in a book belonging to my clan that I brought home at one point, last year.

[corrinesbell]

Huh. ...I've never found anything like that but I wasn't exactly looking, either. Must be nice.

[endgames]

[It makes him feel guilty, and homesick. But trying to talk his way around the point just makes him sound ungrateful.]

Yeah. [Underneath all of that, after all, it is as she said... 'nice'. He guesses.] A bit.

I'm surprised you haven't found anything at all, though.

[corrinesbell]

I've found some of my stuff, and a couple of books from my world, but...uh, no Mizuho records. We're not great at keeping records where other people'd find them, anyway.

[endgames]

[Neither are the Nara Clan - this is just a medicinal encyclopedia. 8|a]

I was thinking of other things outside of that. Not that it'd change your answer.

[corrinesbell]

...So d'you have a big clan?

[endgames]

[Do you?]

It's one of the bigger ones.

[corrinesbell]

I've heard about stuff like that from this guy named Itachi. [No word on whether she knows they're from the same world or not.] My village's too small to have anything like that.

[endgames]

[And now he's put in a difficult spot.]

Uchiha Itachi?

[It would be easiest to ignore the comment about Itachi. He'd prefer it. But in the act they've conjured up to throw off Tobi, it would be suspicious if he didn't even ask...]

[corrinesbell]

Yep, that's him. Or, uh, it was him. A long time ago.

[When they had an awkward crush on each other. Baby's first Valentine's Day experiment.]

[endgames]

Went and came back scenario, I take it. It's not like he's had a name change.

[corrinesbell]

Yeah, more than once. [And he never remembers.] It's not a big deal, I guess.

[endgames]

Well he's here again...

[He's fairly sure only not a hundred percent as I can't remember if the threads were voice or action that he's seen the two of them talk before. With this Itachi, that is.]

[corrinesbell]

Yeah, I know. Not the same, even though he's the same, y'know what I mean?

[endgames]

Somewhat.

[corrinesbell]

That sounded so enthusiastic it might kill me.

[endgames]

Heh. I'm not the one you have to worry about.

[corrinesbell]

You think we've gotta worry about him?