The tournament was going by well for Boruto. He had won every match so far and got into the finals. Better yet he was forced to use the new ninja tool a few times. It's not that he didn't like it, in fact it was awesome. But he still felt a bit bad about using it. Especially against Shikadai, his best friend.

He would probably have to use it again in this fight. Shinki was strong, absurdly so. Even Mitsuki lost to him and he was one of the strongest genin in the whole Leaf in Boruto's opinion.

The fight was hard. Even with the combined strength of Sarada and himself, they were outmatched. Boruto hated to admit it, but he also couldn't think of a way to beat Shinki. His armour was impenetrable, no amount of paper bombs or shuriken would do anything. Worse yet, none of them knew any high enough rank lightning jutsu to make his armour fall like Mitsuki managed to do.

He even thought they were making progress when he captured them and Sarada threw that fireball at him. It was pretty stupid to hope. Of course he would just use a stronger form. Why wouldn't he?

"Sarada we need to think of a plan."

"Do you have any long range jutsu?"

Boruto thought about it for a moment. Wind Gale palm wouldn't do much and he didn't want to use the tool yet, it would be too obvious. So he just shook his head.

She sighed in frustration, not at Boruto, but at herself. "Well I'm out of chakra, kunai and paper bombs don't seem to work. And if you can't learn a new long range jutsu, preferably lightning style, in the next minute we are going to lose."

Right as she said that Shinki let loose a volley of iron feathers at Sarada. She dodged them and started running straight at him. Shinky didn't even flinch at her war cry and continued sending more feathers at her, which she dodged.

Boruto noticed that the attacks were centered. Sarada was in the center of the feather circle every time. It made it harder for her to dodge, but not even Metal was that accurate. That's when he noticed it. The small patch of iron sand on Saradas back, the same thing he used on Mitsuki. It was a beacon, it helped him aim. And the feathers were all in neat circles… they were still on the ground...he would have taken them back by now if he wasn't planning on…

"Sarada wait!" Boruto called out to his friend, but she didn't hear him, or just wouldn't listen.

In the meantime the Uchiha jumped high and readied her fist. At that exact moment she understood her mistake. Shinki pulled the thrown feathers back to him, or more accurately to the beacon. She couldn't dodge it, she was already airborne.

But Boruto could and had started running towards them as soon as he understood the situation. Even so, he wouldn't be able to reach her in time. If only he could be a bit faster, only a little.

He ran and ran getting closer to them. What he didn't notice was his eye. He activated the Jougan without knowing again. And as he wanted to get faster, unbeknownst to him a blue aura was enveloping him and he sped and reached Sarada in time to use gentle fist and disrupt the chakra flow from the sand on her back. He then threw her out of the way of the incoming projectiles.

To Boruto it felt like he just got a bit lighter all of a sudden. But to the audience he was so fast that the only thing they saw was a blue lightning bolt. It wasn't a long distance to cover, he had already crossed half of it, but the other half happened in an spectators were speechless.

In the meantime Boruto was screwed. He got in and got Sarada out, but he didn't think of how he would get out. There was no time to make a shadow clone and the feathers were coming from all sides so a gale pamm was useless. He was stumped, there was nothing he could do.

'Sarada better buy me burgers when this is all done!'

In a last ditch effort to at least mitigate some of the damage he did a spinning kick. Using his left leg as a center point and extended it towards the ground while bending his right leg and spinning counter-clockwise. He shut his eyes tightly and braced for impact.

It never came. All he heard was the whistling of wind and an audible gasp from the crowd. Boruto opened his eyes and saw the feathers on the ground, or more accurately the iron sand in piles.

"That's my grandson!" Came a scream from the crowd encouraging the incoming cheer from everyone else.

Boruto landed and looked around in confusion. He could see his grandfather jumping around in joy. Sis Hanabi and bro Konohamaru were hugging and cheering. Himawari was jumping and running around. While mum was crying with her hand on her mouth aunt Sakura was patting her on the back. His dad was sitting with the other Kages, with a proud smile on his face.

One thing bothered Boruto. How did he know all of this? Grandpa was on the other side from Himawari and mum. Dad was with the Kages and there was no way he could see everyone that well. He landed away from the sand piles.

He turned to Sarada who was on her feet and watching him in awe. Her chakra was concentrated around her eyes and her center seemed to be less bright than Shinki, she must be running low on chakra…

Boruto stopped in his tracks. He could see peoples chakra pathways!

He started rummaging through his puch, looking for something reflective. Anything so he could confirm his suspicions, but he couldn't find anything.

"Boruto what are you doing?" Sarada asked.

'Sarada!'

He ran towards her, stopping right in front of her.

"Sarada do my eyes look strange?"

"Yea, they're black and your iris is white. Are they supposed to do that? They don't look like the regular byakugan."

"You can see it?! Yes, Finally!" Boruto exclaimed, pumping his fist in the air. "I told you my right eye was a byakugan!"

Sarada tilted her head to the side. "What do you mean right eye? They're both the same."

Now it was Boruto's turn to pause. 'Both?' Last time this happened only his right eye changed. He thought it was just genetics, since he was only half Hyūga. Could it be that they activated like the Sharingan, one at a time? No that doesn't make sense. Himawari had both her eyes on when she almost murdered him, they also weren't black.

'This is weird! Aaaa, I'll ask mum or grandpa later.'

During his musings Shinki decided to continue the fight. It wasn't over and he couldn't let them stand around for so long. It was only dragging on the battle and giving them time to recuperate and plan the attack. That wouldn't do at all, he was already starting to get tired and his chakra pool wasn't infinite.

While the two of them were talking he retrieved his iron sand and prepared another volley of feathers while they were distracted. He didn't have a mark this time so the accuracy wouldn't be the best, but that was more than enough. With a single hand motion he sent the feathers flying, this time there were so many of them that no matter how fast they ran there was no chance of dodging. A blanket of projectiles was coming their way.

Unbeknownst to Shinki, Boruto knew about his plan as soon as he started pulling the sand. His range wasn't wide, it could barely reach the audience now, what with the adrenaline fueled boost gone. But it was enough for him to notice the small things, he also kept his attention on his opponent during his exchange. Not fully, but in the back of his mind he was notting his movements.

"Sarada, run." He whispered to his teammate while she was inspecting his eyes.

"Why, something wrong?" She went on alert.

"The sand guy is doing something. Don't look!" he started, but the harshly whispered the command."If he sees you looking he'll know. So get ready to run, it's going to be big. He's using a lot of chakra."

Sarada stopped herself from looking behind Boruto and kept her gaze straight. "We can't run forever, I'm almost completely out of chakra. And if I turn the sharingan off I won't be able to dodge his attacks."

Boruto thought about it. He wasn't completely spent, but he was reaching the low point. He couldn't produce a strong enough lightning jutsu, unless... 'No. That's going to be my last resort.'

He focused on Shinki again and saw something interesting. His chakra points where not all active. Then meant that he wasn't using his whole body for the jutsu. 'So if only his hands are glowing that bright, it must mean those are the main focus point! If we take out his hand then he won't be able to attack us, at least not as much!'

"Sarada, I have a plan."

"I'm more scared that you have a plan than the other guy to be honest, but go on." She sighed.

'Hey! I have great plans that work...most of the time.' Boruto suppressed an indignant huff.

"His chakra is focused around his hands. If I can get close enough to block off the chakra points with gentle fist we can win."

"That's not a bad idea. Just one thing, how do we get to him?"

"That's the part I don't have down ye...RUN!" Boruto screamed and jumped to the side, Sarada did the same but in the different direction.

They almost didn't make it. Boruto got out by a hair, but sarada wasn't as lucky. The feathers grazed her left side. Her arm was riddles with the needle-like feathers and completely useless. Her leg was doing better, it was full of cuts but she could still move. Even though it hurt like hell.

'Shit! Think, think, there must be something you can do.' Boruto thought frantically. 'The rasengan! No wait, it won't do much damage.' He mulled over it for a second, but was reminded to hurry up again by radas scream. She got hit again in the thy. 'Wait, that's it! I don't need to do the damage, Sarada can. I'll distract him!'

With that Boruto started making the rasengan. It was small, but bigger than the last time he tried. The eyes were helping him concentrate on making it. Subconsciously he was adding lightning chakra to it, which allowed it to be used as a long ranged projectile.

"Sarada go in!" He yelled and threw the rasengan.

Sarada saw what Boruto did and went in as well. Her leg was killing her, but she mustered enough strength to jump.

Shinki was starting to panic. If he had all of his sand it wouldn't be a problem, but most of it was on the ground and he had no time to gather it back. Dodging would be hard, again he lacked the sand to move that fast and was focusing on throwing more at the girl. He looked back at the swirling sphere and saw it disappear. 'He must be out of chakra!' He seized the moment and focused even more sand into stopping the Uchiha girl and then it hit him. Like a mallet to the head, a strong pressured hit him from the side. He lost concentration and most of his feathers turned back to sand and fell. He had to focus on keeping afloat only to be greeted with a ear-piercing scream and a punch ten times stronger than the previous hit.

"SHANNAROOO!" Sarada screamed her family's warcry and punched the Sand nin as hard as she could. She sent him flying to the ground making a crater.

Boruto, not wanting to lose the opportunity, ran as soon as he threw the rasengan. He two clones and headed towards the crash site.

In the meanwhile Shinki was slowly getting up when he got grabbed from behind. What little he had left of the iron sand he used to cushion the fall, it didn't do much but still mitigated most of the damage. The clone was holding him under his arms so he wouldn't be able to move hile the real Boruto and the clone got to work shutting down his chakra points. They already managed all of his arms and started working on the rest of his body, when Shinki caught on to what they were doing and pulled and expelled all of his sand popping the clones and showing Boruto away from him.

'That was too close! I can't let him get in melee range again!' He panted and pulled all of his sand back and made a cloak around himself. The sand was moving much slower than usual and he had trouble keeping it in place. 'What did he do!? I can't use my chakra properly!'

"Go Sarada, show him what you got!" Yelled Sakura, startling the people next to her.

"That's my grandson! A real Hyūga!" Came an overly excited voice from the audience.

"He's an Uzumaki!" Replied the Kage room.

"Not anymore! He's a real Hyūga no...cough-cough-cough!" The voice tried again, but got interrupted by a coughing fit.

"He said he's a real Hyūga now!" A female voice finished.

"Nice one Boruto!" Sarada exclaimed.

She was battered, bruised and could barely move. Her sharingan disappeared on its own due to the lack of chakra. She was done. Even if she wanted to she couldn't do much to contribute to the fight. If only she hadn't taken the brunt of the hits so much. 'I should have played it safer, used the sharingan less and conserved chakra.'

The audience cheered. Shinki still had a lot of fans.

Shinki quickly turned around and shot a torrent of sand at her. It wasn't graceful anymore. Gone were the elaborate feathers and fists, replaced with simplistic yet brutally strong waves of iron sand. He hated it, it was wasteful. He wasn't like his father, he didn't have that much chakra to waste and he lost a good chunk of his shield doing it. Iron sand was finite. Yet it was very effective. Sarade was showed into a wall and knocked out.

"Sarada, no!" Boruto scream as he watched his friend get taken out.

The attack worked. Shinki was much slower with his attacks and it took a good while for him to get the sand back. Boruto could use this to his advantage. He made three more clones and sent them all in opposite directions, in order to surround their opponent. They threw a kunai with an exploding tag simultaneously, to test his defenses.

Instead of taking them head on, Shinki decided to dodge the attack. He strafed to the side and popped one of the clones. His control wasn't as good now and he didn't think he could take four exploding tags at once. The sand was soft now, it was difficult to make it hard and he didn't want to test his luck.

'Good, he can't defend himself now. All I need to do now is make him use the sand and hit him then.' Boruto made his plan and made two more clones and got to work. On his first step he staggered and fell on his knees. 'Oh, wow. The eyes use a lot of chakra. I feel like I've ran around the village a few times.'

He made the hand sign for genjutsu release."Kai!" but nothing happened.

'Uhh, how do I turn them off?' He didn't know. No one ever taught him to do that. He was about to try again, but was interupted by Shinkis sand. He saw it coming and dodged, his clones using this opportunity to engage.

First they threw more exploding kunais and when he dodged they went in with gentle fist. Shinki didn't have that much sand with him so he was forced to use his taijutsu. He popped them all, but a few got lucky and now his right thigh was numb.

'This is not good, I can't take another attack like that. I need to finish this now while I can control the sand.' Shinki though frantically and pulled all of his sand to him. Then he moulded it into a giant lance and aimed it at Boruto, using the newly placed beacon on his back to home in on him. He was using all of his strength and willpower to keep the lance solid. He was imobile because of it.

"That's not good." Boruto bubbled under his breath.

He wasn't aware of the beacon on his back, it was in his blindspot. So his dodging attempts were futile. After the third time he finally caught on and tried to throw an exploding kunai at the Sand nin, but it got stopped by a piece of sand breaking off from the lance and intercepting the kunai.

"Damn it!"

He was running himself into a corner. He could outrun it, but for how long? With every second he was losing more and more chakra and Skinki didn't seem to be getting tired.

He summoned a clone and launched himself behind Shinki. Then summoned two more close and brought his remaining chakra into a lightning release jutsu. It didn't have a name, he was just releasing the chakra in his palm.

Without a second thought he had his clones launch him with Gale palms at Shinki. He was intercepted by the lance and unable to dodge so he decided to face it head on. It was all or nothing.

He met the lance head on and pushed as hard as he could. He could see it starting to crack, but

It wasn't enough to go trough. The lance was pushing him back and if he didn't do something he was going to lose.

He was out of options. He was tired and the eyes were draining his chakra to the point where he couldn't use any jutsu, not even a clone. 'I have to use it if I want to win, I'm not going to stay in his shadow anymore!'

He activated the Shinobi Gauntlet, selecting a lightning release, and activated it on top of his failed lightning release.

"Purple Lightning!"

It went through.