Author Note: Merry Christmas
I do not own Boruto.
Enjoy!
"What is this? Instead of going on cool and awesome mission like my former classmates are going on, I'm stuck here readings" said Lavi with puffy cheeks as he was in Shikamaru office.
Shikamaru two assistants sweat dropped, what they did was not glamorous but they practically ran the Village behind the Hokage.
But still.
This kid mysteriously stopped complaining, when Shikamaru was here, he would shut up and read but when the man was with the Hokage or somewhere else, the complaining storm came.
Even though Lavi knew the jobs Genins had were far tamer than when the Hokage was a kid, the world is considered much less dangerous now and the need for Ninjas was so low, over 60 percent of children born in this village were content with living a civilian life and never picking up an actual weapon.
The door opened and Lavi suddenly looked attentive when he saw Shikamaru.
"So what do you think?" Said Shikamaru.
"Its hard to unpack it all" said Lavi, well not without revealing he had to a way of spying on people.
Like for instance the record in front of him was the tax on a business owner and his income reported.
The problem?
He had seen this man house, it was stocked with servants and he had a massive jewellery room just for his wife.
There was no way he was reporting his whole income, but if he said anything Shikamaru would ask him why he thought so and he would have to reveal how he knew the face beyond the name.
And he was pretty sure Shikamaru could pick up a bold face lie.
"Lots of people with adult problems" said Lavi. "But thanks to all of you, the approval rating for the Hokage is high. The Hokage is the guy who saved the world, it must be magical for you"
And Shikamaru grinned and said. "Nice try. You clearly have seen something"
"Sorry, it's a clan secret but I can only give you one half of it" said Lavi before he started pointing at documents. "This person, this person, this person, this person, this person, this person and this person. Their all commuting tax fruad."
Everybody in the office was shocked.
"It's impossible for this office to know about every single person in the village but if you crack down on these people, the village would have a bit more disposable income. And if you have to trail them, make sure they don't have ninja bodyguards because their being paid to tell and they'll cover their tracks before you get close" said Lavi before they heard a ring from his phone and he said. "We'll, my times up. I'm going to help my grandpa" he smiled, getting his stuff walking out before Shikamaru could ask in-depth.
"Did a kid just say a bunch of adults were committing tax fraud?" Said one of his assistants with wide eyes.
Even that word would never come out of Borutos or Shikadais mouth, maybe Sarada mouth though.
"I'll send a clone and check on one of the people named" said Shikamaru. "There isn't any harm to it."
However not even 4 hours later, Shikamaru witnessed a shopping trip that shouldn't be possible with what was recorded for the person to earn for this month and were the money was supposed to go.
When the clone told the original, Shikamaru knew that the Konoha police will be very busy making arrests through the week.
He used the information he was given effectively knowing full well, somebody with loose morals would use it to blackmail and get checks from those evading the law.
He didn't know how this kid knew but Lavi had trusted him with this information and all Shikamaru had to do was use it correctly.
Meanwhile Lavi got home only to almost cry at the sight of how awesome Borutos team was doing while he was stuck under heavy watch in the Hokage office.
The favouritsm was very clear to the Bookman clan, him and his grandfather saw what the other teams were doing.
Before Boruto team even got their first mission, they battled a Jounin on a bridge and their first mission was to defend a whole village food supply from another village.
Shikadai team, on the other hand was tasked to help a rich lady shop with no exciting advanture what so ever.
To Lavi the massive favouritism was alarming.
However what was even more alarming was witnessing Boruto relationship with his father who came to greet him at the mission hall.
The boy looked ready to punch his father who had never raised a hand to him and it showed.
"Sometimes a child needs a good smack on the rear to get them to act like a decent person" said Bookman. "His father has done so much to give him every thing he never had. What a brat"
Bookman may not agree with how the Hokage has done things, but even he could see the way Boruto treated his father was appalling at times.
There was honestly nothing stopping Boruto from visiting his father in the man's own office any time he wanted or taking his sister there.
Hell, they could have birthday parties in that office.
He was the Hokage son, legally they couldn't stop him from seeing the Hokage.
Lavi went to shower and felt the hot water on his skin and tried to visualise something, it really had occured to him that he needed a Jitsu to make him stand out, but everybody in class pretty much cleaned the Konoha jitsu library out.
And where was his inheritance?
You would think Sand would draw towards him or he would get mysteriously stronger when the moon was in the sky but no.
By alright he should have been a god.
But he didn't seen anything that he obtained from the two, perhaps it was because of this eyepatch?
How strong would he be if he took off his eyepatch?
Lavi hands went for the eyepatch but when he touched it, the very real possibility that he could die because of the sudden Chakra bursting through a system that was clearly not ready for it.
Would he be old and wrinkly the day he perminately took off his eye patch?
We'll, all he could do was prepare his body for it, he went into his bed and began mediating.
Mediating to draw out more Chakra and have his body handle it.
When he woke up he woke up to something strange.
There was flecks of sand falling off him and there seemed to a barrier made from candles around him.
Bookman was alerted to this and came in.
"So your finally awake, Brat? About time" said the man looking grumper than usual. "You've been asleep for 2 months"
"Wait, what?" Said LavI, how long!?
"If we weren't a clan, the Hokage and Shikamaru Nara would have burst in here but even they have to respect a Clan privacy" said the old man. "There was even a huge incident reguarding the Byakuya gang, Shikamaru Nara wanted to ask if you can participate in it but I told you are still deep in Clan business"
Lavi blinked.
The Byakuya gang was a gang who stole just to provide for the poor.
They could be seen as good people but for those who weren't swapped up in the kindness could see they stole from hard working people who earned what they took away.
Imagine, working for several days just to do that weekly food shop, only to find the food missing the next morning and you were not expected to call the police because those who stole the fruit of your hard work, had given it to somebody who was worse off them you and didn't work.
The gall of that gang to parade themselves as Hero's.
"However it was quickly resolved" said Bookman. "I recorded it all for you. You can play it while the village sleeps"
"Panda...you are the scariest old man I know" said Lavi.
"I'm about to get a lot more scary kid" said Bookman, the man got out a little hammer and stake.
"Huh?" Said LavI.
"I'm going to peirce your eyes. It's time to receive the Bookman earrings" said Bookman.
Lavi eye went wide.
The old man was serious.
He ran, only for the old man to not show his age and chase after him and tackling him to the ground football style.
Those walking by heard his screams and got chills.
Several minutes later, Lavi was in tears, in his earlopes were large blue hooped earnings.
"Stop crying. It doesn't hurt that bad" said Bookman. "And besides these earrings are special. There is a weapon inside the earrings that you can bring out by channelling Chakra"
"Wait, really?" Said Lavi, his tears mysteriously disappeared.
He channelled Chakra into them and there was a pop sound, followed by the falling on the ground in front of him, revealing itself to be a toy hammer.
Is that?
"You need to ch-" Bookman didn't get to finish as Lavi channelled Chakra into the hammer.
It grow and smashed both sides of the wall.
It was than Lavi knew he fucked out, as he heard Panada cracked his aged knuckles.
"I'll pay for the wall. I swear!" He said, "I'm making money now. Take it out of my wallet"
The man actually did go and take his wallet and empty it out before his eyes.
"Consider this as a down payment" said Bookman. "You need a lot more than this to pay for two walls."
But than Bookman activated a seal and both damaged walls grow back before his eyes.
He was silent.
Why did he feel like he had been scammed?
"Anyway, brat. We need to talk about he Chunin Exams that is due in a few days" said Bookman. "To advance, you have to compete. You cant disguise yourself and enter it. There are too many powerful people gathering. So there is a high chance that you will meet your father, as long as you deny anything and treat him like the important person he is, the storm would blow over"
His father?
Lavi blinked in surprise.
Thats, right he had a father.
Thinking THE Gaara of the Sand was his father was so weird.
It was going to be hella awkward if he ever met Gaara adopted son and the man was there to see him looking like him as a child.
"Are you listening to me brat?" Said Bookman.
"Yes, make sure the Village of the Sand doesn't poke their nose in the Bookman Clan business" he said.
"Good" said Bookman before he said. "Now I got a uniform you are going to wear to the Chunin Exam"
The man went to a room and took out, the best version of Lavi Bookmans uniform he had ever seen.
It was shinning before his eyes.
"Wear this with pride" said Panda. "You are the Bookman Clan Heir after all"
And scene!
As I follow the anime, I've realised the writing for the exams is terrible, you barely see any of it so I'm going to have to do some imagination on my part for the next chapter.