He won.

The Ninja tool made him victorious. Thanks to the stored Purple lightning Boruto was able to break through the iron sand lance and score a hit on Shinki, knocking him out. After such a long and grueling battle Boruto managed to pull through.

But something was off, everyone was silent. 'I got caught didn't I!?' he frantically though.

His worries were unsubstantiated as the crowd erupted in a loud cheer. They were simply taken aback by the duel. They expected a good show out of the exams, but no one could have foreseen such an exciting match. Three geniuses and exceptional shinobi already, facing each other. While some were disappointed when the Leaf ninjas partnered up, it still made for an incredible fight. Most expected Boruto to lose and were very surprised by the tricks up his sleeve. Some more than others.

Naruto, for example, was angry. He knew Boruto wasn't able to do such a high level Lightning release. Especially not Kakashi's signature jutsu, which he hasn't taught anyone else, not even Sasuke. That meant that he was using the Ninja tool, the very same one Katasuke showed him. It all made sense now, the water jutsu with no water, multi-shadow clone jutsu when he knew Boruto's limit was four and now Purple Lightning. He was suspicious before, but he didn't want to believe his own son was cheating, disgracing the name of ninja and the village.

Meanwhile Boruto was basking in the glory. Waving to his friends and family happily. This was his moment, he was going to be a chunin now. Everyone will finally see that he wasn't just Hokage's son, but a real ninja. They'd acknowledge him, more importantly his dad would too.

'Speak of the devil'

Boruto turned and saw his father standing behind him. Naruto had a stern expression, his mouth pressed in an angry frown. None of which Boruto noticed in his excitement. To him the only thing that was important were the next few words his father was about to utter. Congratulating him, telling him how proud he was.

Boruto thrust his fist in front of Naruto, expecting a fist-bump.

'He's gonna say it! After all the work and effort, he'll finally acknowledge me! He'll start with "Boruto Uzumaki is…"'

Naruto grabbed his wrist and revealed the ninja gauntlet.

"...disqualified from the chunin exams for using illegal ninja tools!" Naruto said with a raised voice, so everyone could hear.

Boruto was stunned. This wasn't supposed to happen. 'No,no,no,no! I tried so hard to hide it! Please no, not in front of everyone! What will Hima think, or grampa or my friends! Shikadai won't want to talk to me!"

He wanted to scream for him to stop, to do it in private. He'd rather take a punishment ten times as harsh than his friends and family hearing this. He would have cried if he had the strength.

"This gauntlet allows the user to utilise justu's stored in a scroll, that they would otherwise be unable to do." Naruto continued, directing a glare at his son." It defeat the purpose of showing your true strength in the Exams!"

He turned to Lee."We will have to Deliberate how we'll revise the results up to now."

"Uzumaki Boruto is disqualified!" Lee addressed the crowd and a buzzard sounded indicating the change on the screen. Boruto's name was crossed out.

Gasps and murmurs erupted immediately. Hiashi was downcast and started to get up, motioning for his daughter to come with. He loved his grandchildren dearly, but some things hurt even him. He was so proud of him during the fight. He unlocked the Byakugan, quite early for someone not beaten to it, and being able to see chakra points from the start. Not to mention the use of Heavenly Rotation, a very advanced jutsu, and in the air no less. But, as it turned out none of it was true. He used a tool for the jutsu and probably other things as well. He wasn't angry though, just a bit sad and disappointed.

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"Mummy, did big brother do something wrong?" Himawari tugged at her mother sleeve.

"I…" Hinata cast a sad gaze at the arena and pulled Himawari onto her lap."Your big brother will be fine, daddy's just a bit mad at him at the moment."

She started to tear up."Is he going to be ok?"

"Yes, of course." Hinata tried to smile encouragingly,"That's why you need to be there to cheer him up" She brushed off a tear from her daughters face.

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"I can't believe it!" Shikadai growled standing up from his seat and grabbing the railings.

"Ya, me neither." Chōchō was munching on her fourteenth bag of chips. "I mean he was doing pretty good and probably would've gotten promoted regardless. But guess some people can't take a loss."

"What?" Shikadai turned to look at her. "No, I meant our fight. He cheated against me!"

"You sure you just can't stand losing either?"

"No, I'm ok with losing if it was fair. But," he pointed at Boruto," he clearly cheated. Ugh, i should have known there were too many clones! He can't make that many!"

In his frustration Shikadai hit the rail with his fist, only to regret it the very next second.

"I don't know what you're so mad about, Shinki is too good looking and strong anyway. You'd have no chance."

"It's not about winning, Chubs." Inojin interjected," If he lost to Boruto without the glove thing it wouldn't bother him so much."

"You'd still lose in the end, so i don't see what the big fuss is about." Chōchō said opening another bag of chips, mint flavoured.

All Shikadai could do was sigh in annoyance. 'What a drag.'

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Konohamaru was looking dejected, feeling that the situation was his fault. Thinking that he failed as a Sensei. Why else would Boruto cheat if not because of him?

'I'm not cut out to be a Sensei. Look at me, I didn't teach my team anything! Mitski is good on his own, Sarada never asked for help. Boruto was the only one and that was only so Sasuke could take him as an apprentice.'

Konohamaru rubbed his face with his palms. 'I should have done more. I should have made THEM do more!'

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Even the Kages were commenting and giving the cheater looks of disdain.

All of this and more Boruto could see. Thanks to his newly awakened dojutsu he was able to see everyone's faces in sharp detail. He didn't know why, but the range and focus were constantly fluctuating. He couldn't make them stop.

He couldn't turn them off either.

He'd dreamed of the day when he would unlock the Byakugan, quite recently at that. Whenever he activated his eye, by accident at that, it would always disappear before he could shove it to anyone. And now, when he finally got it to work properly and people saw it, he wished more than anything that he never discovered it in the first place.

Seeing everyone's faces hurt. It was his fault, he knew that, but never expected to affect his loved ones in such a way. Boruto never meant to hurt them, he just wanted to prove himself to his dad. He stabbed his best friend in the back and he could see he was angry, probably cursing at him and saying how horrible friend he was.

Grandpa left. 'Wouldn't be surprised if he renounced me. I embarrassed him and the clan in front of everyone.'

Even brother Konohamaru was disappointed, and he was the only one who actually taught him things.

Even Sarada was watching him with sad eyes. She didn't look angry or disappointed, just sad. She seemed confused, as if she lost something and was just realising she would never get it back.

Seeing his sister cry was the worst, he loved Himawari, he was her big brother who was supposed to protect her, not hurt her. He didn't care if the whole Leaf or all of the Elemental Nations started hating him, as long as it wasn't his sister.

If only he could turn off the stupid eyes. 'Please, I don't want to watch anymore.'

Boruto felt a soft, comforting touch. It was his dad, he put his hand on his head. He really needed that, tears were already starting to pool in his eyes. The comforting touch was calming, it made him less anxious and afraid. It was like old days, before his father became the Hokage, back when he would play and spend time with them. The good times.

'Maybe dad's right. I...I'll apologize. No matter what the punishment is I'll take it and train for next time. Without the gauntlet. '

Then there was a pull and Boruto felt his headband being taken off.

"You are not qualified to be a ninja."

Those same words quenched the very last spark of hope. In Boruto's mind it was clear as day, his father was the worst. Not only did he publically humiliate him, but he even stripped him of his rank as a ninja.

"Let's go." Naruto placed a hand on his back. "The exam is still underway. We will have a talk later."

Boruto shoved his fathers hand off of him."Later!? You'll talk to me later?!"

"Boruto, calm down…"

"No, I'm not going to calm down! You always do this, it's always 'Later', but that never happens!" Boruto vented his pent up frustration."You sent me a fucking email instead of congratulating me in person!"

"Watch your mouth!" Naruto vent in to grab his son, but Boruto dodge it.

"What are you going to send one of your clones to talk to me me too? Like you did for Hima's birthday?" He growled the last part."You haven't taught me a single thing! Everyone else had their parents train them and you didn't even come to our birthdays!"

"That's not true I tau..." Naruto began, but was cut off by the angry teenager.

"No you didn't! I learnt taijutsu from grandpa and Aunty. Shadow clone and the rasengan I was taught by brother Konohamaru. Even mum and uncle Sasuke taught me more than you! He even had time to train both Sarada and I and you didn't!"

Naruto's anger was starting to be replaced by sadness. Did his son really think so low of him?

"You're not my dad, you're the Hokage!"

Naruto felt like someone stabbed a rusty jagged kunai trough his heart. It hurt more than the chidori through the lung, more than losing his arm and almost as much as wen Pervy sage died. He failed. Not himself, but his family. 'How did it get to this point? I thought...I didn't realise...I guess I'm not even myself anymore, breaking my own nindo.'

"As amusing as this all was, I believe you have something of ours." Came a voice above the stadium.

Everyone looked at the source and saw two floating figures clad in white. One of them was large and held the other on his shoulder. They were too high up for anyone to see clearly, besides a Hyūga.

Naruto pushed Boruto behind him and took a battle stance. These two looked exactly like the people Sasuke described. If it was them then they would need to evacuate the premise immediately if their power was comparable to Toneri.

He looked around, the stadium was filled with civilians and children. It would be difficult to fight them at all here, any amount of damage would cause casualties. Not to mention that his and Sasuke's children were in the center of it all. The civilians shouldn't be that big of a problem if he kept the assailants attention on him, the ninjas amongst them would take care of things. Only problem were the people on the arena floor, Boruto can't keep up and he would be a liable target if he tried to run, same went for everyone else.

They landed with such force that the ground crumbled underneath them. The shockwave knocked everyone, besides Naruto and Sasuke, to the ground. The aforementioned ninjas wasted no time and caught their children and grouped near the exit.

"We finally found you, fox." The smaller of the Ōtsutsuki clan members said, jumping off of his companions shoulder. "How about you make it easy for us and come peacefully. I'd rather not waste time you as we did with the bull."

'Old man B! What did they do him!?'

"Boruto, Sarada as soon as the fight starts run. Don't try anything, just go." Naruto half whispered.

"What was that, fox?" Momoshiki said next to Naruto's ear,"I didn't hear it."

With a single kick he sent the Seventh Hokage and his Shadow flying. While Neither Boruto nor Sarada were directly attacked, both of them felt as if Metal got rough during sparring again. They were pushed to the side, breathless.

'What just happened, he was way over there.' Boruto thought as he scrambled to get up.

"I...I couldn't follow him with my Sharingan!" Sarada breathed,"He's so fast!"

"So that's how he was able to fight us." In a moment the Ōtsutsuki clan member was crouching in front of Sarada, without her registering his movements again. He was centimeters from her face, looking at her uncomplete sharingan.. "Hm, yours look different. Incomplete?" He grabbed her by the neck. "Nonetheless I can still make use of them, this planet does make for some interesting mutations."

"Let her go!" Boruto roared and released the whole clip of jutsu scrolls.

"Pathetic." Momoshiki spat and raised his hand, revealing an eye on his palm. Without even blinking, any of his eyes, he absorbed the jutsus. "Never expected much from you humans, but his was… Where did you get those eyes!?"

Before taking a single step towards the disgraced ninja he was kneed in the side of the head by the Hokage. If it weren't for his accomplice catching him, he would have likely gone through the stadium and continued at a similar velocity.

"Kinshiki," He spat blood and placed a hand on the area he was hit, "Kill everyone."

Authors Note:

I will post smaller chapters for now until I get better at it. Constructive criticism is appreciated.

Thank you.