Good evening everyone! I apologise for the late updates (been over a year now) however life has been hectic but now things are calming down and my passion for fanfiction has returned… so here we go, chapter 4.
Chapter 4::
It was coming close to four in the morning when Boruto stepped into the gates of the village. The boy was tired, worn out, but he'd do it all again in a heartbeat to protect his loved ones. He moved into the village where he was stopped by a member of the front gate asking for the papers. Boruto was quick to refuse as he moved past the man, he needed to warn his father, he'd seen the mans desk and knew that there was no way he'd look at this straight away. He bypassed the man who told him he was disobeying the Hokage, but he shrugged and ran all the way to the hokage tower, as rain started to fall from the sky. He got inside to be informed his father had retreated home for the night, and that Boruto had to continue on to a mission. He shook his head and moved to head home, his pace never changing, he needed to get home and inform his father, he needed to get to Sarada and warn her too, not even knowing she was out on the mission they were trying to send him on.
Running down the garden path Boruto started banging on the front door as soon as he could reach it, his key was in the bottom of his bag and he wasn't digging it out when his father needed to be up anyway. His mother, his sister, Sarada, Sasuke, his grandfather, everyone with any eye jutsu was going to be in a vast amount of trouble and he couldn't let that happen. He hadn't been banging long when he heard double footsteps coming down the stairs, just by the sound he knew it was his father and mother.
Even before Naruto got a chance to speak Boruto had pushed his way into the house. He didn't want to hear that he had disobeyed orders. "You need to call Sarada back." He informed his father as he slipped the bag off his back, Hinata asking him what was wrong as he got his bag open.
"Your mothers talking to you-" Naruto snapped in but Boruto pulled the document from his bag and started to talk, Hinata had shut the door on behind him as she felt the rain coming in.
"Sarada's in danger, mom, Himawari, Grandfather Hyuga." He said handing his father the document, Naruto watched his sons out burst as he took the document and opened it up to read Gaara's letter that was on top. Hinata had obviously read it faster beside her husband as she gasped and covered her mouth from the shock of what was written. Gaara had always been straight talking and even in his letters they were straight to the point.
"You need to go and collect Sarada. I doubt any phone coverage will be available where they are now." Naruto informed his son, minutes ago he was ready to shout at the boy, his outgoing loud self had been completely pushed to bay and his serious self had taken over realising the urgency of the situation. His wife and daughter were a target, his father in law and best friend and his family too. Naruto couldn't be angry at Boruto now his son storming home was the right thing to do, the document would have been lost on his desk, he'd agree to that. He filled his son in on the location and route the team was taking as they stood in the hallway as Hinata grabbed Boruto something to eat on the go. "Head east to the battle grounds. If Konaharmu has his way that's the route the team would follow."
Boruto nodded, he swapped his travel bag for his ninja bag by the front door as his mother came back and handed him a sandwich to eat on the road. "Protect the village. I'll bring Sarada back." Boruto told his father, who nodded at him, the two fist bumped one another and Boruto was off, opening the front door and taking off running. As soon as he was gone Naruto was on the phone to Shikamaru he needed him to meet him at the hokage tower at once.
The movement on the battle field was the men searching, it was dark and the ninjas were searching corpses by torch light as they looked around. They wore black clothing, black gloves and shoes almost hidden completely by the darkness, the only give away was the lights coming from the torches themselves.
"Here." One man said and the rest moved over to gather around. The men removed the eyes from the body that laid lifeless, another of the group placed the eyes on eye in a small container for experimenting on later.
"The sand village was a dead end. The leaf village holds Sasuke Uchiha and the Sharingan eyes. And if the stories told on the streets of the sand village, his daughters eyes are activated too." Another said as they stood from around the corpses. "We'd need to practise on his eyes first. Her eyes will be perfect for the masters." The man said, who spoke like the leader of the group. "Though she might be easier to steal from her bed then he would be." They had no idea that Sarada was a ninja, these men hadn't heard a lot of information, but they were out to find what they were looking for no one was going to hold them back.
"The Sun will rise soon. We best finish up these last bodies and move away before people come looking for there families to lay to rest." Another said as they all agreed. The one who collected the eyes moved to place them inside a cooler bag that was in the small area they were working.
Boruto took no time in calling upon his oldest friends; he first phoned Shikadai explaining to him the situation. For a while now he knew that Shikadai had had strong feelings for his sister, and had even dated her a couple of times, but nothing more then that, she was a little younger then they were but they both enjoyed each other's company. Boruto blurted out the importance of the phone call, as soon as the Nara boy heard what was happening he was up out of bed and whilst moaning what a drag it was, he was getting changed to go over and sit with Himawari incase anything was to happen.
His next phone call went to Sasuke, his sons were equally at risk as Sarada was. Lucky enough Sakura answered and top the young ninja that Sasuke was on the phone to Naruto at that moment and not to worry about them.
"I'm going after Sarada now. I'll let you know when I'm with her." He told the pink haired lady over the phone, Sakura was always a strong women in his eyes, but he knew that when family was in danger she would be worried.
"Boruto, she may not say it but she thinks the world of you. Keep her safe." The women said, the words made Boruto flush slightly, even Sarada wouldn't admit it to him.
"I'll protect." The blonde said before hanging up. He sent a message out to a few of his fellow friends Inojin, Iwabee, Metal and Denki asking them to keep there eyes open for any strange movements around the village and if they suspect anything to report straight to the hokage. None of them were at any real risk, however he'd rather know he warned them and that he knew they wouldn't ask questions. Shifting his phone away, Boruto picked up speed now, he needed to find them sooner rather then later. He could feel the sun rising the light stretching across the sky as he pulled himself up a rock to have a better look of the area, to check he hadn't been thrown off course. He felt the adrenaline slightly when he noticed a small camp fire. Konaharamu never left them light fires, it gave away to much for the enemy to see. So he knew that it couldn't be his group. Moving to jump into a close by tree Boruto got closer, watching to see who it was at the camp fire, it was better to be safe then sorry.
Shifting silently threw the trees to over look the camp fire, he noticed a trio of men all in black, he didn't recognise them and he didn't like the way they were acting. They were silent, just staring in the fire, one talking about master as he opened up a small bag, taking out a circular looking object and poping it into his mouth. There was no sign of Sarada, so Boruto took a silent photo on his phone, updated the location to have the longitude and latitude on the image so his father knew the location and sent it to the hokage. He couldn't sit around waiting to see what they did next; he stood up in the tree and went to move off when he heard one of them speak. 'Stop eating the eyes of the death. Master won't be pleased.' One of the men said. Boruto felt a wave of sickness hit him, but he couldn't stop here; he had to keep moving, the sun was rising and Sarada along with the others would be moving out soon.