A|N: I've liked the Boruto series, but it could be so much more. Anyways - this is my version of Naruto - Next Generations! It follows canon of Boruto up to chapter 20 of the manga, and episode 50 I think of the anime. Starting with the fun stuff - Sarada's Sharingan(be warned much humor - I can't help myself so - jokes!)

CHAPTER 1

It's been decided, Boruto is going to leave and train with Papa. Sarada walks through the village, thinking how in one month they'll both be gone. Not only is she losing Papa again for another long-term mission, but now Boruto is going too. Boruto gets to go on an adventure, getting to spend more time with her father then she ever has, getting to train under him even though he's not a Uchiha, and still manages to whine about his so called 'Misfortunes'.

So now, here she is, walking by Boruto's side as he complains to Mitsuki because he's not allowed to go out on any missions until he and Papa take their leave. The Seventh Hokage doesn't want Boruto's mysterious Dojutsu falling to enemy hands before they get a handle on what it even is.

"Maaaaan! I can't believe my stupid old man – he totally just put me on village-arrest! I'm a ninja too!"

"It's going to be weird, not having you on missions." Mitsuki says serenely, smiling without emotion as he always does.

"Like – if you two and Konohamaru -Onii-Chan end up with another cat-retrieval mission I'm not really sorry to miss that, you know?" Boruto says, looking relived by the mere thought. "But what if you get some super-awesome-major-badass mission – and I'm all the way here at the freaking village?! I could just die!" Boruto yells, grabbing Sarada by the shoulders and shaking her to emphasize his words.

She shoves him away. "Shut up you moron! You're so annoying!" she snaps, fixing her glasses.

"What?! What's your problem?!" he demands, indignant.

"You're my problem!"

"How am I a moron?!"

"How are you NOT a moron?!" she yells back, by now they are in each other's faces.

"You two really make the best couple." Mitsuki grins.

"Seriously stop saying it! Dattebasa!"

"Are you blind, Shannaro?!"

They both round on Mitsuki, who as usual, doesn't seem the bit concerned.

The three walk in silence for a while, Sarada and Boruto both disgruntled with the other, and Mitsuki not one to break silences and start up conversations.

Sarada catches Boruto glancing at her, sulky and confused as to why she picked a fight over nothing. He blushes when he sees he's caught and turns away resolutely, facing Mitsuki's side of the town.

Sarada hadn't resented Boruto when her dad started training him during The Chunin exams four months ago, she hasn't resented him when it was decided Sarada's father will need to leave again to protect and train him, because she knows he didn't ask for all of this mess with Kara – no, he is her moron childhood friend, and he never does these things intentionally or with ill will. But when he's like this – all ungrateful and whiney – she can't help but want to rip him apart piece by piece!

He has no idea how lucky he is, and that just rubs me the wrong way.

Sarada sighs; as always, she's going to have to be the bigger person here, since Boruto's maturity level borders on the non-existent (and it may be possible that, theoretically, this time, she is the one who started it). She shoves her feelings aside, as she does before any mission, and elbows Boruto in a friendly peace offering familiar gesture.

Boruto chuckles happily and elbows her gently back, grudge washing off of him.

Sarada rolls her eyes at him fondly.

"Don't couples usually make up with a kiss?"

"Would you drop it already Mitsuki?!" they both roar.

POFF!

"Hey you ugly humans! Don't go stepping on me, damn it! Down here you puny punks! Down here!"

The three look down to see one of Konohamaru -Sensei's toads, a cm away from getting squashed by Boruto's foot.

Unsurprisingly, out of the three, Boruto is the only one to take the bait. "Hey! Where do you get off calling us puny punks? You're smaller then my shoe!"

"Stop your yammering! Humans are so annoying! I gotta get back home, its fish intestines Tuesday! So take your message and screw off!"

Sarada's stomach turns at the thought in disgust and she covers her mouth with her hand to keep her breakfast in. Mitsuki reaches down to take the sealed scroll attached to the toad's belly, untying the knot.

"Oh yeah? Well you're a slimy -!"

"Write the rest down in your journal pretty boy!" the toad yawns and breaks the summoning as soon as Mitsuki relieves it of its duty.

POFF!

Boruto nearly has steam coming out his ears as he is left with his words stuck half way out his mouth. "That's it! I've decided! No toads for me, Dattebasa! Ha! Take that you little -!"

"Mitsuki?" Sarada inquires.

Mitsuki looks up once he scanned the contents of the scroll. "Mission tomorrow, we leave at dawn." He tells her.

"Meeting place?"

"The usual."

Sarada nods.

Boruto kicks a rock into a flurry of doves moodily; some of them open and close their wings in surprise, but otherwise they ignore it. "Guess I'm actually staying behind… Stupid old man."

"Cheer up Boruto, this means more time to train with my Father. Besides, it might be another cat." Sarada frowns; getting depressed just thinking about doing the same mundane job again for the twentieth time.

Boruto nods, trying to look more energetic. "Yeah, you're probably right Sarada, thanks."

"Actually I doubt it'll be another cat, they usually don't make those C-Rank missions." Mitsuki interjects.

Both Sarada and Boruto look at him in surprise.

"What?"

"You're joking!"

"Says so right here."Mitsuki shows them. "Came directly from the Hokage's office too, making it hard for it to be a mistake."

"A C-Rank mission? Really?!" Sarada calls, barely believing it.

Finally.

Team Seven hasn't had a mission over D-Rank since Boruto cheated at The Chunin Exams.

"I wonder what changed The Seventh's mind about our missions." Mitsuki wonders out loud, looking curious. "Maybe we've left an impression from the last mission. Or maybe Lord Seventh is just really nice."

Sarada rolls her eyes; she has no doubt Mitsuki saw right through this 'coincidence' right away.

"Or all that Raman has turned his head to steam, most likely." Boruto mutters, expression completely unimpressed with Lord Seventh.

Or maybe, now that Boruto isn't taking part in any of our missions, this team has the professional level to be trusted with higher ranking jobs. Sarada itches to say.

"This totally sucks! Right when I can't go with you guys he gives you an actual mission! Come on!" Boruto yells, looking like he can't believe his bad luck.

Sarada can't believe Boruto doesn't see the clear connection; without him on the field Lord Seventh doesn't have to worry that sending them will create more problems then it'll solve - easy logic overall. She doesn't say as much, even though she has no doubt its true, because starting a fight a second time won't be forgiven with some lame elbow gesture, but might require her to actually apologize verbally, and that's something Uchiha do their best to avoid. So, she does not comment on it.

"How unfortunate, but timing in life is everything." Mitsuki consoles Boruto.

"I guess… I'm gonna go meet up with Sasuke-Sensei now, I'll see you guys later!" Boruto calls, turning another direction and starting a slow jug.

"Bye."

"See you later Boruto." Mitsuki waves, and as soon as Boruto is out of earshot he says to Sarada "Lord Seventh didn't wait an hour before assigning us a C-Rank mission, hu?"

"Is the departure actually at dawn?"

"Yes, but the meeting place is by the West Gate."

Almost an hour in the opposite direction.

"Good call." Sarada praises.

"Mmh." Mitsuki nods.

There's about 99% guarantee that Boruto will show up tomorrow at dawn at the usual meeting place demanding and begging Konohamaru -Sensei to let him join them just one more time, not letting up until Konohamaru -Sensei finally gives up and allows it because Boruto has a very strong Annoy-Them-Till-They-Drop-No-Jutsu.

"Oh hey you two!"

They both turn to see Sumire heading their way, carrying a backpack.

"Hey Class Prez, you heading out?" Sarada smiles, having missed the girl since they'd finished the Academy.

"Yes, Team 15 got a mission; I'm on my way to meet up with everyone now. How have things been for Team 7?" she asks, and Sarada snickers, causing her to blush. They both know she's asking about Boruto.

Class Prez sure is weird, liking that stubborn guy.

Boruto never pays attention to anything – doubtful he'll notice Sumire's affections.

Sumire coughs, her blush receding.

"What sort of a mission did you get?" Mitsuki asks, and Sarada wonders if he's really interested, or he asks because he's making progress in his study of The Art of Small Talk. At first when Mitsuki brought it up, she and Boruto thought he was making a joke; then Inojin told her his dad made him a disciple – study case: social interactions.

Why are both of my teammates so difficult?

"C-Rank – guarding mission for a Lord, I wonder how we'll do, I'm so worried, I haven't gone on missions in a while!"

"I'm sure it'll be easy for you, after all you're stro –"

"Hahahahahah! I'm so late! So very late! Well, um say hey to Boruto for me, I'll see you two later, bye! Ahahhaha!" she calls hysterically, swallowing Mitsuki's voice with her loud one, sprinting away from them.

Sure is weird. Sarada thinks fondly; she's always liked the girl and got along with her.

Sarada looks at Mitsuki, who seems to be looking at the direction Boruto left towards. Mitsuki loves sticking close to Boruto, after this morning's meeting that will need to change, and eventually Mitsuki will lose sight of Boruto just as Sarada will lose sight of her father once again.

"Do you want to work on formation? Without Boruto, we'll need to change our usual strategies." Sarada offers. She originally thought about meeting up with Cho-Cho and hanging out, but with a C-Rank mission, and a different line up of her usual team, she needs to be ready and much more invested. Besides, her teammate looks very lost at the moment, he needs a distraction.

"…For a short while, I don't see why not." Mitsuki says. "But we may need your Sharingan tomorrow if it turns out complicated, so I'd suggest you rest up your energy, and not exhaust your chakra."

"Don't worry about my strength I'm an Uchiha. The Sharingan uses a lot of chakra, true, but it replenishes almost completely after a few hours like everyone else."

Mitsuki actually chuckles, which surprises Sarada – it's a rare sight (she's never seen him outright laugh at all – she doubts he ever did).

"It's only so because you possess the bloodline that can handle your Kekkei Genkai. Most would need at least two days to completely recover their chakra levels after exhausting them." He says, sounding robotic, like he's reading from a textbook.

Sarada shrugs, frowning. "Yeah yeah, I know that, stop trying to sound smarter than me. But it's easy to forget since all of us are the same in that respect in our team."

"Mmh. Boruto is an Uzumaki, their chakra is very unique." Mitsuki agrees.

"Yeah, and there's you who's – erm – well – haa… And then there's Konohamaru -Sensei who looks like a squeezed lemon after any battle he participates in for at least two days later still…"

I guess we found the exception for Team Seven.

They both contemplate this, thinking of Konohamaru -Sensei, and how there's no reaching him after a series battle because he usually sleeps for hours and hours.

"Is that really normal?" Mitsuki asks looking like something like that is just beyond his understanding.

Sarada is a Uchiha, and her mom breaks houses like most people break cups. She shrugs; she has no idea what's normal.

Mitsuki seems to accept that as a response, and wordlessly they head out to practice their new formations.

A\N: oh I don't really know where this is headed… like I know where I'm taking this – but hands down I don't really have it mapped out yet at all! I guess I'll let the characters steer me for now :\ I'd appreciate any suggestions from you guys! It's my first Naruto\Boruto fic so I hope I didn't butcher any of the names or words – I tried to make it understandable even for those who only read\watched Naruto in English – but keep some of the fun Jutsu words here and there that are just too iconic to change