(A/N) The Hyuuga mess! As Shikamaru is physically 3, he can't exactly see the mess, so we get Shisui's point of view for this chapter. Likely won't happen again, but was needed here. I apologize for this, but Shisui was feeling chatty.
Shisui couldn't say he was exactly enthusiastic to spend the four nights that the Kumo nin were in Konoha waiting in the treetops near Hinata's bedroom and well within the Hyuuga clan limits, but he had to admit he was honored that Shikaku had picked him. He was barely a chuunin, and only 11 years old. Maybe he could ask about a jounin promotion after this.
"If you're gonna think that loudly find another tree," Shikamaru, his apparent new friend, groaned. Seriously, what was with Shisui and finding tiny traumatized geniuses? Ignoring the fact that technically he was one himself.
"I'm not thinking loudly," Shisui decided to protest.
"Yes you are," Shikamaru complained, placing an arm over his eyes. "Shaddup and let me sleep."
Shisui grunted in true Uchiha fashion, and went back to thinking. Sue him, he wasn't a Nara and was not capable of falling asleep in trees at a moment's notice.
Perhaps it would be good for him to pick up the jounin promotion, his parents weren't exactly in the best of health, and it would help him provide for them. It would mean longer missions, but it did also mean fewer graveyard shifts and fewer paperwork shifts. Both of which were boring as heck. He hated them, but who didn't.
On another hand, it may put him in Danzo's crosshairs. He'd already been in them, but he was more of a background target for reasons he didn't know but was thankful for. Itachi, unfortunately, was a top target, being traumatized early by his father, and already a genin, even at his young age.
Shikamaru didn't appear to even be on Danzo's radar, well, any more then any other Nara was, and Shisui had no doubt that it was the work of Shikaku and Inoichi. They held a lot of sway in the village, due to being the jounin commander and head of T&I respectively.
Although to be fair, if the kid hadn't shown him that scroll, Shisui never would have guessed he was a time traveler. All Nara acted basically the same, 'I'm smarter than you but too lazy to tell you so'. Made it hard to tell if something was wrong with one of them. They acted basically the same at all times, whether sick, injured, or in high levels of emotional distress. Which, honestly, Shisui wasn't quite sure if they were capable of yet. It didn't really seem like it.
"You should probably relocate," Shikamaru noted tiredly. "The Hyuuga will call on you soon. And I'd rather not have my nap interrupted when that happens."
"Fine, if you hate my presence so much," Shisui said, somewhat dramatically, as the situation called for, "I'll leave."
As he had clearly been dismissed, Shisui hopped down from the tree and exited the Nara clan forests, thankfully without any roots springing up to trip him, or any carnivorous deer to give him a heart attack. They had been near the edge of the forest after all.
Unfortunately, on his way to the Hyuuga compound, two walls, a root, and a tree branch all conspired to injure him, but he evaded them, albeit with some difficulty.
The Hyuuga that met him at the walls looked displeased, but when didn't the Hyuuga. They were like Fugaku, always annoyed.
...Don't let either the Hyuuga or Fugaku hear him say that. Or tell them he said that. It would only spell disaster for him. He would be doomed, and without a trial too. How terrible!
Besides that, he was led to the sanctioned tree, and left to climb up it. Itachi said he was like a squirrel with how he climbed trees using all four limbs, but Shisui will have you know that he taught himself how to tree walk, and just happened to learn it that way, so now it's how he does things. Shikamaru had muttered something about him being troublesome when he saw Shisui do it, so who knew what the Nara was thinking. Not Shisui that was for sure.
The tree had a nice fork he could settle into, which he did gladly. It was certainly easier and more comfortable than the prickly branch he was stuck with in the Nara clan forest. He had no clue how the kid managed to sleep on those branches.
With practice from many long graveyard shifts, Shisui only caught 30-minute naps consisting of light dozing for the next two days, finally getting some actual action in the third night.
A ninja, with a headband, which was the important part, if they had a headband it could be traced to the village. Shisui quietly snuck along above the shinobi, cheerfully using the fact that few people think to look up.
"Boo!" Shisui whispered, knowing the shinobi would hear him, before dropping down to pin the shinobi to the floor. A brief wrestling match that Shisui won through sheer ability honed from years of wrestling with older cousins and the occasional younger cousin, and pinned him to the ground before tying him up in ninja wire.
"Congradulations!" Shisui chirped. "You're gonna be charged with an attempted kidnapping of the Hyuuga heir!"
Well, that was easier than expected, really he'd thought the guy would put up more of a fight. At least SHikaku seemed impressed, so maybe he would ask about a jounin promotion.
(A/N) Sorry about the paragraphs, someone got chatty. If there are any requests for things to do in the time between this and the time of the Uchiha massacre, and between the occasional plot, I'm up for taking them. The more requests there are, the longer the fic!