Author's notes: Hellou. This series will basically be my attempt at guessing what will be happening in the mysterious kawaki arc of the new naruto generations. and will be using the Naruto Mythology for it. This will be a weekly thing, in case you're interested. Maybe I'll publish more if I can . Anyways, I hope you'll like it, and hope you will give me some feedback so that I can continue to improve.Oh, and also, I will be using 'Dattebasa' for Boruto's speech quirk. I just like it better than 'you know' or 'believe it'. Oh, and another thing, is this how you're supposed to do the author's notes? I really didn't know how so I just did it like this, but I guess it is essentially the same thing. But I just want to know in case it could bother someone, and also, I just want to become more familiarized with the way everything works here. Sorry for this been too long. Again, I hope you like what I've written.

Side by side, master and student...

"Master?" Boruto requested permission from Sasuke to engage him in conversation as both of them continued to go further into the great, bright-green open fields before them.

"What is it?" Sasuke asked without taking his eyes off of his current view. He wanted to fully familiarize himself with the area, and have a plan set and ready to go prior to the imminent assault of their foes. He wasn't concerned about the enemy, but it was a habit of him to not leave anything up to chance. No matter the opponent, or situatuation at hand.

Boruto was the same. The low chakra signatures he'd felt following them gave him little to worry about.

He didn't even have to think it over. He had complete and total confidence that half of what he was capable of would be more than enough to easily overpower whomever was behind those vivid, yet cold shades of chakra skulking in the distance.

In fact, part of the reason why he wanted to start a conversation with his master, was to merely kill some until their stalkers, as he saw them, revealed themselves.

"How did you…" Boruto said thoughtfully, before slowly beginning to take on a sly appearance. He was already anticipating what would be of his master once he heard what he had prepared for them to talk about. And he was in the best possible spot to see this transpire, too. Because, unlike his master's right profile, the left side of his eternally stoic face would not have lengthy, pitch black hair to hide the emotional showcase, which Boruto was sure, it would shortly turn into.

"How did you fell in love with aunt Sakura, dattebasa?" Boruto deliberately asked as he turned all his attentions to Sasuke.

Sasuke was always ready for battle at any moment… he just wasn't and would never be ready to talk about that, as shown by how rapidly the entire portion of his left eye had expanded in shock.

Nonetheless, he kept his view forward. No longer devising the next step of his engineous plan, no. He had just finished with that. But, nervous of giving any sign of vulnerability to Boruto, and in turn, give his, annoyingly smart, student enough reason to start picking at his brain.

"This is no time for heart-to-hearts!" Sasuke noted, somewhat annoyed, but mostly flustered. He was in a hurry to get Boruto's mind away from the subject.

However, Sasuke instantly realized accomplishing this would be no easy task.

For an instant, he had glimpsed over to his right with the corner of his eye. And his right eye, being the master at seeing through emotion that it was, had seen a great deal of desire in Boruto to continue with that conversation.

"Focus!" Sasuke demanded Boruto, feeling his face already beginning to melt.

"They could be here at any moment!..." Sasuke warned Boruto as he aggressively turned to him. Sasuke's sudden motion had momentarily uncovered the left side of his face, giving Boruto enough time to gaze into his Rinnegan, before his marter's straight hair swung back into place, and concealed his left eye once more.

Sasuke had hoped the activation of his Rinnegan would've been enough to convince Boruto of his fabrication regarding the short time remaining before their enemy's arrival, and in turn shut his curious mouth.

Sasuke had contemplated activating his Sharingan instead, as he thought it could have also been enough to make his lie convincing. But, as previously stated, Sasuke liked to take no chances, specially when it came to getting rid of that subject.

"Master," Boruto began, an extremely unimpressed look on his face. "What are you doing?..."

Sasuke gulped, terrified. He could already tell that Boruto had found him out. His lie had been his only defense against the full summoning of that subject, but now, such discovery had basically assured that that subject would be talked about. That is, of course, unless he came up with a lie much better than the one he'd just told. But, that was proving to be an unusually difficult task for him.

"Master, you know that I'm a sensory type… They're nowhere near us. In fact, I can't even sense them anymore… I think they might've gotten scared, and ran off, dattebasa." Explained Boruto, with an annoyingly bored tone of voice, to Sasuke's ever growing embarrassment.

Suddenly, Boruto took on a full smile and joyous demeanor.

Anytime Boruto was about to talk about anything regarding his kid sister he couldn't help himself from feeling anything but extreme happiness. Such feeling was something his little sister could always invoke in him, and which had remained in him, even after she had been gone.

"But, if you don't believe me, I can use the eye my little sister gave me to confirm their location." Boruto offered Sasuke as he used his finger to repeatedly tapped his closed right eye… right in the middle of the scar that stretched across his eyelid down to his cheek.

Then, just as suddenly as Boruto's smile had appeared, his eyebrows dropped, changing his expression from that of one which expressed sheer joy to an exaggeratedly judgemental, though playful glare.

"But... I don't have to do that… Do I?..." Tauntingly, Boruto inquired, as he observed how Sasuke's cheeks had reached a red tone capable of rivaling the one of Sarada's Sharingan. But,without being impartial, he couldn't decide which one was the reddest just yet. This was the first time he had seen his master's face be anything more than pale, and therefore, he could not fairly compare it to the red of Sarada's hateful eyes, which he knew all too well.

"Why do you want to know?!" Demanded Sasuke, angrily staring at Boruto, trying to mask his embarrassment.

Sasuke wasn't even trying to get away from the subject anymore. Not that he didn't want to… But he just couldn't think straight anymore about anything. Sakura's rose hair was constantly invading his every thought, right before the image of her kind smile completely took up all the space in his mind, and made him forget what he was thinking of.

Boruto's face relaxed until only a slight smile remained, which he then turned to the green fields.

The sight of Boruto's smile had brought Sasuke instant serenity. Mostly to his face, but also in his being. He had Naruto's same dumb smile. It was the same dumb smile he had hated so much in the past, but which he had come to appreciate ever since. Since it always reminded him of all the good things that had happened in his life.

"My resolve…" Boruto began, as if pleased with the pair of words he had just pronounced.

"It grows stronger the more I become aware of what it is I'm fighting for. And… It makes it easier to fight for it as well, dattebasa.

So," Said Boruto, stretching that 'o' as much as he could, before resuming. "Each time I have the opportunity to find out more about the precious things that lie in the village, such as your and aunt Sakura's love, I take advantage of it to further my resolve." Boruto explained.

Boruto then turned to Sasuke, seeming somewhat guilty, but still, without losing that liveliness of his. "I know that is a bit selfish of me, but… Uhh… Ahh..." Boruto struggled to explain his thoughts, to Sasuke's amusement.

"I mean, you did tell me, 'A ninja is what its village needs him to be.' Does that mean, me being selfish is fine as long as it serves the village? No that doesn't sound right, dattebasa… Ummm…"

"Fine." Calmly, Sasuke stated, and confused, Boruto turned to his master, seeking clarification.

"Huh?" Boruto asked.

Though, it had been a long time since Sasuke had accepted Boruto for who he was, he had never stopped hoping that Boruto would inherit his father's will. He had seen glimpses of it in a few occasions, but it had never quite been the same. Sasuke knew that Boruto had a strong will within him, but it had never taken full form and was different from Naruto's, and Boruto's latest words just seemed to confirm that.

Nonetheless, Sasuke believed in Boruto, as well as in himself to help Boruto in his journey.

Sasuke let out the biggest breath of his life, and then returned his sight to the vast greens ahead of him, readying himself to tell Boruto the tale of how he fell in love with Sakura.

Just as he was about to begin, Sasuke's senses were struck by great surprise. His mouth was now ajar, and though only one of them could be seen, both his eyes were about to pop out of his eye sockets. It seemed to be the sign of great danger coming, but then, all of that surprise began rapidly accumulating on the center of his face until it all eventually turned into a slight chuckle.

"Lord second… It appears you were right. Love does cause madness within the Uchiha…" Thought Sasuke as he musingly observed a lone cherry blossom leaf carelessly dancing just slightly aloft the sea of green, tick spikes known as grass.

Madness. He could find no other explanation for what he'd just seen. Even though it was their season to grow, Sasuke had not seen any cherry trees for miles. And the possibility of the single leaf having found its way from a far away place seemed way too far fetched for him. And so, as unreasonable as it sounded to him, the madness caused by love became his only reasonable explanation to the current location of that beautiful flower.

Sasuke continued to observe as the leaf, barley and clumsily, continued to avoid the green sea's surface until it finally landed on top of a single tattered leaf of grass.

The sight of this caused Sasuke's eyes to shut halfway, as once more, like in so many past occasions, Sasuke began to melancholically reflect on all the suffering Sakura had gone through in the past as she continued to care for him against reason.

And then… Sasuke smiled. He was finally ready to tell Boruto the story of how he fell in love with Sakura.