Disclaimer: Naruto belongs to Kishimoto Masashi.


At the final horn of alarm, Aburame Shino finally woke up from his motion sickness to see the train approaching its end route among the sandy domain. Still darkened with the light presence of the moon, he could see the slight gleams of the rising sun across the orange horizon. Having his insects to manage his bodily circulation, Shino walked out of his cabin, leaving Sarada and Chouchou occupying the two couches in their slumbers. With a slight knock on the next cabin door, the Sarutobi jonin opened it quietly with dark circles surrounding his eyes like a panda.

Puzzled by the sudden change of appearance, Shino tilted his head to see through the jonin's head and realized the main cause. While Shikadai and Inojin were sleeping like quiet angels on one couch, Uzumaki Boruto was surprisingly snoring loudly for his age while constantly spreading his whole body around the other couch.

"Ah, so that's why Konohamaru couldn't sleep…" Shino sighed with pity on the jonin and also gratefulness for his spare from the snore. "We're reaching soon. I received from my bugs that they're waiting for us there with Kankuro-san."

Konohamaru nodded "Understood."

He turned around and first shook Shikadai and Inojin from their deep slumbers. At the wake, Shikadai yawned loudly while Inojin silently rubbed his green eyes out of their tiredness. Reluctantly, Konohamaru tried to shake the last boy but only to receive several unexpected words to be heard in the entire cabin.

"Mamhmm, don't think you're all that…Inojin…cause I…Sarada…Stupid…Hokage…"

"What on earth is he dreaming about?" "Wake up, Boruto. We're reaching soon."

Slightly opening his blue eyes to see a close-up of his sensei's face, Boruto yelled out of surprise.

"AHHHHHH!"


Boruto then leapt out of the train with a small puff of sand emerging from his landing. Carrying his bag over his shoulder, Boruto scratched his head and yawned together with the always-sleepy Shikadai.

Sarada, tired of seeing such act, spoke out "Will you guys even stop yawning?"

"Whatever, four-eyes. It's not like you never yawn before."

"What was that, troublemaker?" The two started shooting electric daggers towards each other.

"Let's not fight, guys and let's eat!" Chouchou tried to break the fight, which succeeded with two heavy sighs from them.

Sarada then realized her bag pack was removed from her shoulders and turned immediately to get the person stealing, only to see Inojin carrying hers and his on each shoulder. Without any words, Sarada tried to get her bag back but Inojin pulled away.

The Uchiha then pouted to her annoyance "I can carry that, Inojin."

"My dad told me to help girls out by carrying their bags." Inojin smiled.

"Hey, then what bout me? I'm a girl too, you know." Chouchou called out.

"I don't think you want me to touch your bag of food, right pig?"

"Hmph, says the one with the word pig in his name, but you got a point." The Akimichi leisurely walked away, leaving the two behind.

With the conversation between the two acting as her opportunity, Sarada tried to reach for her bag again, only to let Inojin to shake her off and walk away. Her Uchiha genes have then led her into thinking it as a challenge as Sarada immediately ran to the Yamanaka with the Uchiha smirk "Come on, just give it back to me!"

Inojin easily dodged the girl's advances, even with two bags on his shoulders "No can do, glasses."

On the sidelines, Boruto realized the sudden commotion between the two and the unsettling feeling in his stomach escalated with Shikadai's words.

"Don't you think those two are getting closer lately?"

"Ha…Huh?! Them? Closer!? Not a chance in my sharp eyes!" Boruto hastily denied the fact that was totally unrelated to him.

Shikadai's curiosity heightened as he decided to push it further "Well, it's not my concern or a surprise to see those two together when we get older."

"To….Together!? Those two!? How can that be, Shikadai?!"

Shikadai then pointed his finger to the two who were running in circles with smiles surrounding their faces "Isn't that what guys and girls do if they like each other? This thing called the push-and-pull method?"

The Uzumaki started to get flustered as the thought of having Sarada and Inojin together irked his mind a lot. He then jumped out of the sand carriage to at least grab Sarada's attention from Inojin.

"OOOIII. What are you guys…Argh!?"

Boruto's shout had the two stopped on their spots before he accidently kicked his own ankle with the other foot and fell onto one of them. Other than the scorching wave steaming out of the hot sand, Boruto could also feel the other person's breath. Once he opened his eyes, all he saw was green.

Standing in front of them, Uchiha Sarada was in deep shock to see Boruto landing on top of the surprised Inojin, with their faces apart by little inches. Boruto, after realizing, jumped out in panic and Inojin pulled himself from the hot sand, saved from the two bags behind him. The three were in deep shock as the memories of that kiss suddenly emerged in their heads.

Only then, Sarada collected herself and voiced out to bring the other two back "Weirdos."

"Wa…Wait! It's not like that! There's nothing going between me and him, four eyes!" Boruto explained in deep panic.

"…" Inojin kept quiet, only to have his ears to be covered in deep redness.

Behind Shikadai, Chouchou was also watching the entire commotion and a brilliant idea suddenly popped out, leading the girl to quietly snicker in her snacks and Shikadai to wonder about the meaning behind her evil snickering.


Third day after the children's leave, same dawn

Naruto was buried by work and ramen cups with Shikamaru looking through the mission papers. At the sudden swing of the door, the Uzumaki lazily welcomed the shinobi.

"Yo, Sasuke teme…"

"I've completed the mission." Sasuke handled own a scroll to Shikamaru, ignoring his friend's usual condition as a Hokage.

"Thanks for the work, Sasuke." Shikamaru spoke.

"Hn." Sasuke turned away to the doors before Naruto stopped him.

"Come on, Sasuke, can't you just stay a little longer?"

"Hn, who wants to be with you, dobe?"

"Haa…can't you just spare some time with me other than Sakura-chan? I know she's your wife and you want to have her all night…" Naruto paused at the sudden glare from the Uchiha. The current Hokage could not risk his papers to be in a big mess again but continued his words carefully "…but you should at least spend some time with us too."

"Haa. Fine." The Uchiha agreed reluctantly to keep Naruto's nagging shut and go back home quickly.

Naruto stood in shock "Huh? Really!?"

"…"

"Then let's go to the hot springs!"

"Huh!?" Sasuke and Shikamaru questioned in unison at the sudden call.

"YOSHI! Shikamaru, get our usual gang to meet at the usual place at 3 today! Alright, I'm gonna finish all of this!" Naruto excitedly shouted out his declaration of the day.

Without words, Sasuke and Shikamaru exchanged eye contact and sighed because there is no way to stop the Uzumaki's enthusiasm at all. The two then left the Hokage office; one to inform all their available male friends to join the hot spring union while the other to return to his wife's side with this sudden news.


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