Shino Aburame paced slowly towards his home, hands in his pockets, after a long, hard day's work at the Academy. He yawned as he put his house key into the lock. Earlier that day he had to stop a fight between Daiki Hyuga and Boruto Uzumaki. Boruto had stopped his usual pranks, but ever since then he had kept on getting into fights. It was as if his classmates were bored with Boruto now that he stopped these pranks. Then an awful realisation hit him. The Graduation Exam was tomorrow. He groaned, dreading the stress this may cause him (yes, even Shino can getted stressed).
The alarm clock went off. Boruto Uzumaki woke up, picked up his alarm clock and yelled as he threw the alarm clock at the wall, smashing it to bits.
"Big brother, that's the fourth alarm clock you've broken all week," his sister Himawari told him as she poked her head through the door.
"How long are you going to call me 'big brother' for, Himawari? I'm only four minutes older than you, ya know," Boruto replied. "Anyway, what time is it? I can't tell for obvious reasons," he nodded towards the remains of his alarm clock.
"Five forty-five," Himawari answered.
Boruto's eyes widened with shock. "Why the hell did my alarm go off this early?!"
"It's graduation day!" came a voice from the garden. Boruto looked out of his window and saw nobody. "Up here," came a whisper. Boruto was so surprised at his father standing upside-down on the bottom of the roof that he fell out of his window. He felt a hand grab the back of his pajama shirt. "It's all right, Boruto, I gotcha," Naruto laughed as he put his son back into his room. "Get dressed and come out here, it's time for some last minute training before your exam- hopefully you'll be able to pass first time- unlike your papa here!"
Boruto yawned as he slouched in his chair. A twelve-year-old boy shouldn't have to be woken up that early. He felt his eyes get heavier by the minute. He leant forwards started to slump onto his desk. He gradually started to fall asleep until the person next to him prodded him with a pencil. Shikadai Nara, the laziest kid in class, and Boruto's best friend since he stopped his pranks.
"Geez, Boruto, what's up with you?" he asked. "I'm the lazy one here and you're the most lively person I know, even without all the pranks."
"Dad made me get up early for last minute training," the Hokage's son replied.
"Oh right," Shikadai acknowledged.
"Boruto Uzumaki!" called Shino.
"Good luck man," Shikadai smiled at him.
"Thanks, you too."
"Good luck, big brother," Himawari said to her brother.
"You too, Himawari. And stop calling me 'big brother' for Kami's sake."
"Bad luck to you, Uzumaki," sneered Daiki Hyuga, Boruto's cousin and rival.
"Bad luck to you too, Hyuga," Boruto sneered back as he walked on.
"Ok, Boruto," Shino said as he sat down in the examination room. "Produce seven clones. Shadow clones are accepted, but they have to be exactly seven clones."
Boruto completed the Shadow Clone hand seal and focused his chakra. His father had taught him how to walk up a tree using chakra control before he had become Hokage. His chakra control was very good back then and had become even better since his Aunt Sakura had taught him to walk on water. There was no way he was going to get this wrong. He released enough chakra to produce exactly seven Shadow Clones. No more, no less. He completed the jutsu and opened his eyes. He looked behind him to see seven exact copies of himself standing before him. Boruto released the jutsu and looked at his teacher. Shino nodded and gave him his headband. Boruto walked out of the door, pleased with himself and proudly showing his classmates the headband. After a quick chat with some of his friends, he left the classroom and went to have lunch. He spotted his godmother, Ino Yamanaka, and ran over to her. She spotted the blond as he ran towards her.
"Boruto!" Ino smiled at her godson. "You passed! Nice job! Do you know if Inojin passed or not?"
"Inojin's still waiting to take the exam," replied Boruto. "Hey, Aunt Ino, since your a good friend of Mom and Dad, I was wondering if you knew who my sensei would be."
Ino thought for a moment then a look of enlightenment appeared across her face, "Knowing Naruto, I think I know just the guy, but I also think that he'll want it to be a surprise. You'll find out after lunch break."
"Ok..." Boruto sighed.
Ino laughed, "I know the feeling. I wanted to know who my sensei was as bad as you did, honest! But I waited it out, just as you will have to. Tell you what, Boruto, I'll buy you some ramen at Ichiraku today."
Boruto's face lit up. "Hell yeah!"
Boruto stood up and grinned, "Thanks for the ramen, Aunt Ino! I better get going now, Shino-sensei's gonna get angry if I'm late for the shinobi orientation!"
"No problem, Boruto! See ya!" Ino smiled back.
Boruto ran back towards the Academy as fast as he could. Suddenly, he crashed into a boy running in the opposite direction.
"Watch it!" Boruto yelled.
"You watch it!" the young boy replied as he stood up and launched his fist at Boruto.
By the time the boy's fist had reached Boruto's face, the blond had vanished. Without warning, Boruto reappeared behind the violent kid and grabbed the back of his azure scarf.
"Hey, leave that alone!" he shouted as he struggled to get out of Boruto's grip. "My dad gave it to me for my birthday!"
"Why'd you try to hit me?!" Boruto yelled. "That was pretty uncalled for! What's your name?!"
"Mokuza Hatake, the distant cousin of the Sixth Hokage!" the boy answered proudly. "What about you?"
"Boruto Uzumaki, son of the Seventh Hokage," Boruto sneered back just to annoy him. He threw Mokuza at the fence. "Control your anger next time. Or the next guy might do more than just throw you at the fence."
And with that, Boruto continued to rush towards the Academy. Unbeknownst to him, two jonin was watching from the roof of a nearby house. The ninja smirked.
"I think I see Boruto having a similar relationship with this Mokuza kid to my old relationship with Naruto," the first jonin said.
"You think so?" asked the other jonin.
"Yeah, I think so."
"Well, good news," the second jonin smiled at the first. "Lord Hokage gave me the list of the new jonin sensei. Boruto is gonna be in your team... Konohamaru!"