"...Itachi killed off the clan and then left the village as a rouge nin." It is stated monotonously. He'd come to know about it from Itachi himself, and they'd come to expect it as one of the possible outcomes of the sacrifices they made even before the order was dispatched to Itachi, weeks following Shisui's death. He wasn't going to lie, it did bother him that he couldn't save his clan, but he was in the process of accepting it as the best move.

"Sasuke is my cousin." Was. "He was younger to me by seven years, but he's older than I am here, by three."

Now, knowing that Shikamaru was from a future generation, he was itching to ask about Konoha. What was it like, what was it like without the Uchiha, was it peaceful, just like the Shodaime intended it to be? "Konoha, I--" A pause. "Is it better... Without us?"