The shards of blood red crystal started to rain down upon the small village of yoku. They lit up the black night sky and turned it a bloody crimson. The screams that came from the village were utterly gut wrenching. Nobody in the village could be spared from the carnage that was occurring. The enemy had won. The ninjas from the hidden leaf had lost. They had to watch from a outcrop in the mountainside. They had to watch as the people that they had sworn to protect were destroyed by the flaming molten shards that rained down on them. This was supposed to be an easy B rank mission at best. They were only supposed to be there for less than a week. But this B rank mission had quickly turned into an A rank maybe even an S rank, and the ninja's soon found themselves to be overwhelmed. Striking blue eyes stared at the scene. He knew that this image of pure bloody carnage was going to be burned in his brain for the rest of his life. He knew that he could never forgive himself. This was his fault. And now he had to fix it. He pulled a few kunai out of his pocket and then jumped from the cliff, soaring into the blood bath that lay beneath him, not even listening to his team mates as they shouted for him to stop. He had to fix this, he needed to fix this. He wasn't going to lose so easily.

Three weeks ago

Boruto Uzumaki groggily got up from his bed, and slowly went to his closet to put on his classic outfit, his white v-neck t shirt, and his black pants that possessed a red trim at the bottom. His favorite colour was red. It had always been his favorite, ever since he was a little kid and that is why he decided to switch out his black coat for a cool sleek red one, just so that the enemies could always know who they were dealing with. He had started to earn a nickname for himself, because of this jacket. The Crimson Bolt is what they liked to call him. It was a fitting name he felt, but he wished that it could be just a little flashier. He wished that it sounded just as cool as his grandfather's nickname the yellow flash. But the the crimson bolt would have to do for now.

After getting dressed he left his quaint little room and headed downstairs and into the kitchen. There standing next to the kitchen table was his mother hinata. She was slowly placing a plate of food down on the table, food that he assumed she had prepared for him.

"Mom you didn't have to get up so early and make me breakfast, I could have done that myself," Bolt said as he strode over to the table. Hinata looked up and stared at him with her pale violet eyes. Then she ever so sweetly gave him a smile and said "Honey I know that you have an important mission today in fact it is your very first B rank mission and I wanted to prepare you a special meal to commemorate this day, plus I get the feeling your definition of breakfast is a big fat unhealthy burger, I swear you get your unhealthy eating habits from your father."

Boruto rolled his eyes and then sat down in his chair and thanked his mother for the special meal that she had prepared for him. He blessed his meal and then began to eat, and as he ate his thoughts overtook him. Mom was right today was a special day, one that he had been waiting for since he had become a chunin. This was his first ever B rank mission and he was not going to screw it up. He wanted to show to his dad that he was strong enough to take on anything that this shinobi world could throw at him. He wanted to show him that he possessed the will and power of a true shinobi. And deep down he just wanted his dad to acknowledge him. To look at him and see how far he had come. Boruto felt his chopsticks hit an empty bowl and he realized that he had completed his meal without even knowing it.

"Are you okay," Hinata asked him from her place at the sink. She had a worried look on her face.

Boruto put a smile on his face, and reassured his mother that everything was fine, and then walked over and deposited his empty dish into the sink. Then he kissed his mother on the cheek and went to the door. He would have said goodbye to himawari but he didn't want to wake her. Hinata came to meet him at the door just as he was about to leave and wished him good luck on his mission.

"Thanks mom, tell himawari goodbye for me, and that when I come back I'll have a special present for her from the place that I visited. See Ya." Then he quickly left and headed for the front gate.

There he met up with his team. Of course Sarada was there already, and had to point out that she had already been waiting for a good ten minutes. "Oh come on sarada we weren't supposed to be here until 7:30 and its," he quickly looked down at his watch and then back up at her, "7:23!"

Sarada rolled her eyes and sighed,then replied, "It's always best to show up early, you know the saying the early bird catches the worm."

Boruto's eye twitched as he looked at sarada like she was a crazy nuthead. "You are crazier than I thought," he whispered to himself.

"What was that" she said with malice in her voice.

Boruto felt shivers roll up his spine as he quickly looked at the ground, and squeaked out "Nothing."

Boruto then felt a shift in the air, and all of sudden mitsuki was standing next to him. Boruto fell back, scared out of his mind. "Mitsuki you have got to stop doing that!"

Mitsuki looked at him from the corner of his eye, and then smirked "Now why would I do that when it is so much fun."

Boruto glared at him as he picked himself up from the ground then started to dust himself off. Then he sheepishly walked over to sarada and stood next to her since he couldn't trust Mitsuki at the moment. They then stood at the gate for another good ten minutes before konohamaru decided to show up.

He landed in front of them without even making a sound. He was wearing his classic jonin outfit, including his classic blue scarf which he never seemed to part from. He looked at his group as he slowly stood up from his landing position. He could tell from the looks on their faces, that they were ready to start off on their journey and complete their first B rank mission. He could feel the waves of determination just rippling off the three of them. This was a mission that could make or break their future as ninja and they knew it. They knew that they had to succeed Failure was out of the question, especially since they all had such lofty goals to accomplish. Well I mean sarada and boruto did, Mitsuki never really explained what his goal was but konohamaru had a feeling that he had one, and that it was just as lofty as his other pupils.

"It seems that you guys are ready to embark on your next mission," Konohamaru stated.

"Ummmmmm obviously sensei, could we leave already we are wasting our time just standing here," boruto said stating the obvious.

"Fine fine, did all of you guys read up on your mission logs." they all nodded at him. "Alrighty then let's get this show on the road. Now this is all your first B class mission, so it is extremely important that you listen to all of my directions. If there is even one slip up, it could mean the failure of the mission and possibly even injury. Do you all understand" They all looked at him with steely eyes and then again nodded.

"Don't worry konohamaru sensei, we promise that we will follow your every command," Boruto said in a serious tone, that surprised everyone. Sarada nearly fell over from the shock of his words. "What! I can be serious sometimes to."

"Yeah sure, that is like saying cho-cho doesn't like to eat chips." Sarada said with sarcasm in her voice, as mitsuki chuckled from her comment.

"Okay okay, stop everyone let's not get into a fight before the mission gets started" konohamaru said sheepishly as he placed his hand behind his head, "Boruto, as weird as it is, I'm glad you are taking this mission seriously… you actually might be maturing for once… anyways let's set off towards yoku village. It's a full day's journey from here and I want to make it there before night hits."

Boruto, Sarada and Mitsuki then set off on their journey with konohamaru leading the way. As they began to travel Boruto started to run over the details of the mission log in his head. The mission log had said that they were to go and investigate the disappearances of children in the village of yoku, which was located near the outskirts of the land of fire. Many of the villagers believed that a evil spirit from the volcano which overlooked their village was stealing away their children at night, and they had come to their village seeking help. It seemed like a mission that could be classed as a C-rank, but due to the mysterious nature surrounding the disappearances the village had decided to class it as a B-rank. Their job was of course to go in and investigate the disappearances, and try to figure out who was behind them, and then defeat them. It seemed straightforward but Boruto had a feeling that this mission was going to be harder than it looked and that is why he was taking it so seriously, and by the looks on the others faces they felt the same way.

They made it to the village just as night was falling. It truly was a very quaint little village with a great view. The village had a population of about 1000 people and it was nestled in the valley right underneath the famed volcano. The houses or should I say huts were made from the materials that the villagers found out in the wilderness that surrounded the village. You could tell that it was a village thats survival depended upon the raw resources that they could find out in the valley. The volcano that was situated above them was unique. It was coloured a crimson as if it had been stained by blood. Now Boruto understood why they called it "Blood Mountain." It was both beautiful and creepy. Boruto didn't know what to think of it, but that didn't matter because his thoughts were interrupted as a raspy voice called out to them.

"You made it" bellowed an old man at the entrance, "I'm so glad you arrived… another incident has occurred, but this time it wasn't a kidnapping, but rather an adult was killed and something truly interesting was left behind on the body " he said in a serious tone. " You should hurry up before the trail ends up going cold."

When they showed up to the scene Boruto knew that this mission was more that what he had prepared for. This was something that no one had expected.