The storm-ninja spread her arms out away from herself and closed her eyes. Nothing happened for two seconds then suddenly the world began to spin. She pointed out two fingers on both hands and started mumbling words under her breath. She was talking too fast for Boruto to understand what she was saying and Boruto didn't want to find out, he ran again back down the corridor he'd just been down.

He got through the academy's back doors down the passageway. He could hear the storm-ninja's laugh behind him as he ran. He didn't stop and he didn't look back.

But it didn't matter as a strange light chased him down the passageway, he thought it was lightning at first, but the charka was all wrong. He had no idea what it was, but didn't stop to ask questions.

"What's that Boruto?" Hima-chan asked as she stared at the strange light that shone on the walls around them. Boruto didn't answer her.

The laughter got louder from behind them and suddenly the strange light overtook them. It stuck to their skin like glue; it covered the whole of them. But it didn't feel sticky. It felt as if they were just being wrapped in a soft bright quilt.

Hima-chan gasped down at herself as the light covered her completely. Boruto ignored it, even when it completely blinded him. He just kept running, running into the nothingness...

Boruto lay on soft ground, his back against the warm grass. His hands sunk into the soil and the wind gently blew his hair back from his face. He yawned deeply in his sleep.

"Naruto-niichan" someone nudged Boruto in his back with their feet. Boruto moaned in his sleep and when the nudging didn't stop he snapped forward and instinctively pressed his hair down with his hands – waiting for his dad to ruffle it. "Dad!" he moaned to a small boy when he opened his eyes. He looked at the boy confused and then looked around himself he was on the hill he usually sat on with his comrades. But they weren't here.

"Naruto-niichan..." The boy moaned at him. 'Naruto' Boruto knew he looked like Naruto when Naruto was his age, but not now that his dad was much older. Why was this boy that he'd never seen before mistaking him for his dad?

Boruto jumped to his feet, he was trying to remember how he got here and what had happened. But looking around at Konoha nothing was destroyed, but it did look strangely unfamiliar.

"Are you going to show me that new technique now?!"

Boruto looked down at the boy; he looked like someone he knew. But the person he knew was too old to be this boy and yet as he stared down at the boy, the resemblance was too exact, he could swear he was looking down at Konohamaru.

"If you've got time to lie about, you've got time to teach me!" Konohamaru moaned up at Boruto.

Konohamaru looked at who he thought was Naruto bit more closely, he then backed away when he noticed there were no whisker marks on Boruto's face. Other little things about the boy looking down at him, he noticed there was no way this was Naruto.

"Oh, sorry I thought –"

He squinted, his eyes as he still looked up at Boruto. "You look a lot like – like his double..."

"I know" Boruto sighed.

"You know Naruto?" Konohamaru asked.

"Yeah," Boruto was confused at how this boy knew who Naruto was and yet had no idea who he was. Not that it bothered him, just that it was weird everyone in Konoha and properly even the world, knew him as Boruto Son of Uzumaki Naruto, the 7th Hokage.

"I'm Konohamaru" Konohamaru held out his hand to Boruto.

Boruto shook his head, he knew Konohamaru well enough to know he wasn't a little boy.

"Are you calling me a liar?!" Konohamaru fisted his hand away from himself and up to Boruto. Boruto couldn't help but laugh. The boy was tiny, there was no way he could hurt him.

Konohamaru didn't like being laughed at he went to hit Boruto, when a noise interrupted them. A cat sat stuck in the tree above them, both Konohamaru and Boruto looked up at it. It hissed down at them.

"AHA!" Konohamaru pointed at it. Boruto recognised the cat right away, even though it looked younger.

"Damn cat" Boruto mumbled under his breath.

Konohamaru ran to the tree and began to climb it, Boruto watched him go. He must be on the same mission Boruto had been on earlier today and it had already ran away again, that cat must really hate it's owner. He thought about that 'earlier today...' It had been night time before he awoke here. Did that make it the next day? Suddenly a memory hit him in the head and then started scratching his face. No not the memory, the cat!

Boruto ran around shaking his head, as he tried to get the thing off of him. Its claws dug into his skin.

"Hold still!" Konohamaru cautioned as he climbed down from the tree and ran towards Boruto. Boruto didn't stop running nor shaking his head. Konohamaru made a shadow clone and ran with his clone at Boruto as he made a Rasengan.

Boruto looked at Konohamaru as if he was crazy. Was he trying to blow Boruto's head to pieces?

"Hold still!" This time Konohamaru ordered.

"NO WAY!" Boruto ran to the lake and jumped in, the cat flung off his head off down the lake. Boruto sighed in relief.

"Where did it go?" Konohamaru and his clone asked in unison. Boruto shrugged. Konohamaru ran down the lake looking for the cat. "Why did you let it go?!" He shouted at Boruto.

"Why did you, drop it on my head?!" Boruto shouted back.

Konohamaru ignored him. Boruto figured he'd help the boy, after all he still couldn't remember where he was and to be honest he was bored.

"Byakugan" Boruto looked down the lake and across the hills, past where the Konohamaru was searching for the cat. He stopped looking around when he spotted the cat clinging to a stone, as it shook of the wetness from it's' fur.

Boruto ran to it, within seconds of him breaking into a run he was next to the cat. He grabbed it before it had even noticed him. It scratched aggressively at his skin, just like it had done to his head, the memory of it made the scratch marks on his face sting slightly.

"WOW" Konohamaru mouthed as he ran to where Boruto stood handing out the cat towards him. Konohamaru took the cat from Boruto's hands. "Thanks. "I've got to go" Konohamaru told him and then ran off with the cat.

"Bye" Boruto sighed.

When he was alone again, he sat back down on the hill. He rested his head down on his knees; he was trying to remember the memory that came back to him just before the cat was on his head. He really tried but it was gone, after awhile he stood up and decided to go home, things will make more sense once he sees his family.

Kiba and Akamaru, Lee and Ten-Ten were coming back from a mission; they were walking towards the Hokage's office. Akamaru all of a sudden stopped walked and sniffed on the ground.

"What is it boy?" Kiba asked.

Akamaru barked and looked towards the tree.

"It can't be Hinata, she'd out on a mission" Kiba said, shaking his head. But Akamaru still barked and walked over to the tree. Lee, Ten-Ten and Kiba followed. Ten-Ten gasped, as they looked down at a little girl, who was sitting against the tree.

Akamaru didn't understand why it wasn't Hinata, the little girl smelt just like her.

"I know. It's weird" Kiba told him.

Ten-Ten leaned in towards the girl; she put her hand on the girl's forehead.

"She's freezing" Ten-Ten said as she snatched her hand away.

"Should we take her with us?" Lee asked.

"Well, we can't leave her here" Kiba said. Akamaru barked.

The girl moved suddenly, she stretched her arms out in the air and sleepily opened her eyes. She looked into the eyes of four familiar faces. At least that's what she thought. After all, they've always been taller than her.

"Akamaru" the little girl stood up and skipped over to Akamaru. Akamaru stepped back away from her confused, she was confused too.

"It's Himawari" she told him, pointing at herself. Then she looked at the height of Akamaru, he was bigger than her, that much was the same but he still wasn't as big as he used to be. "Akamaru..."

He moved away from her and went to stand next to Kiba.

"How did you know his name?" Kiba asked.

Hima-chan looked up at Kiba even more confused. "It's me," she looked at Lee and Ten-Ten, "Himawari."

They looked at each other, whispering: "Do we know her?"

Hima-chan wanted to cry. How didn't they know her? Why were they all smaller than they were the last time she saw them?

Ten-Ten walked over to Hima-chan.

"Himawari-chan is it?"

Ruby nodded her head.

"Hi, I'm Ten-Ten and this is Lee." She pointed at Lee and he waved. "And Kiba and Akamaru" she pointed at them too.

"I know" Himawari said.

Ten-Ten ignored her. "Where's your home?"

Hima-chan pointed in the direction she hoped was home.

"Can you get there on your own or do you need us to come with you?"

Hima-chan didn't answer. Lee came towards her now, and knelt down to her height. He smiled, "Just to make sure you get home safely."

That triggered a memory. Distantly she remembered running after Boruto in the dark and then – nothing. Her memory ran blank.

"Where's Boruto?" She asked.

"Boruto...?" Lee asked.

"My brother" She said.

"I don't know anyone called Boruto in Konoha" Lee thought aloud.

"When did you last see him?" Kiba asked.

"I don't remember" Hima-chan sobbed. How could they not know who her and her brother were?

"Okay, okay we'll walk you home." Lee said as he tried to calm the little girl, he smiled and stood up. "Now which way are we going?"

Ruby wandered down the way she had pointed before, they all followed her.

She led the way, with them behind her. She skipped down the familiar street, not thinking once how it was strange that nothing was destroyed, everything stood perfectly as though there had been no attack.

"We've got to get to the Hokage's office" Kiba moaned from behind.

Hima-chan stopped skipping and turned around a smile clear on her face.

"I could go with you there!" She called to them.

"No, I think you should go home." Kiba said confused as to why she would want to see the Hokage.

"My daddy will be there!" She sang. She was missing him although she had no idea how long she'd been apart from him.

"Your daddy...?"

"Yep" Hima-chan nodded her head. She changed direction and ran towards the Hokage office instead.

"Who's her dad?" Ten-Ten asked, Kiba and Lee both shrugged. They all guessed they'd soon find out.

Hima-chan began to run, faster and faster so fast that the others soon lost sight of her. As she got closer to the Hokage office, happiness and relieve spread over her as she saw who she thought was Boruto walking down the steps that led to the office.

"Boruto!" She shouted to him. He looked up.

She ran a hug at him; they both fell to the floor from the force of the hug.

"What-the –?"

Hima-chan hugged his chest, her arms wrapped around him. Naruto sat up and tried to rip the girl from his chest.

She looked up at him confused and then her breathing froze, as she stared up at who wasn't Boruto but who looked like her daddy.

"Daddy...?" She asked confused.

Naruto looked down at her like she was crazy. He stood up and pushed her away from him.

"Naruto" Lee greeted him, as he and the others got closer.

Naruto nodded his head at him and smiled. "What you guys doing here?"

"We just got back from our mission, you two right?" Lee grinned.

"Does that mean Hinata's back too?" Kiba asked.

"Yeah" Naruto answered.

"Hinata...?" Ruby stepped closer to Naruto. "Daddy" she said again. She knew he looked younger, so much younger he really did look like Boruto but she didn't doubt for a second that was who he was.

Everyone looked at her as if she was crazy. Naruto backed away from her questioning eyes, quite scared but mostly confused. Why did this little girl think he was her daddy?

"Erm...no" he told her.

"Daddy...?" Kiba laughed.

Hima-chan didn't take her eyes from him. Something was wrong, why is everything so different? Why did they look at her like they didn't know her? She wanted her mummy and Boruto. She wanted her daddy, but he didn't seem to know her at all.

Tears filled in her eyes, she ignored them. She was a big girl now, she could walk home all on her own and big girls didn't cry. She turned away from Naruto and hung her head for a couple of seconds while they watched her.

She forced herself to pretend he wasn't her daddy, they didn't know her because they didn't know her. She didn't know what was going on but she didn't like the way they looked at her, so she thought she'll just have to pretend till she found Boruto and could go home.

She looked back at him and smiled. "Sorry, you look like someone I know" She grinned at Naruto.

"Your dad...?" Kiba smirked.

"Yeah, though of course you're younger."

Naruto smiled at her. "That's okay." He brought his hand out to her, "I'm Naruto." She knew that. She took his hand in hers, it felt like his hand.

"I'm Himawari." She looked into his eyes.

As Naruto shook hands with Hima-chan he felt this weird natural connection with her, that when she took her hand back he almost didn't want her to. It felt like they should hold hands. He looked into her bright blue eyes, wondering why they looked so familiar.

"Is your dad inside, then?" Lee asked pointing up the steps, interrupting Naruto's thoughts.

It took Hima-chan awhile to understand what he meant. "Oh, no..." What should she do? There was no home here.

"Didn't you say he worked here?" Kiba asked almost annoyed.

"Not yet" Ruby grinned as she stared up into Naruto's eyes, he grinned too not sure why.