A pebble was flipped into the air. As it dramatically clacked back on the ground, two very familiar males took off from Konoha's Entrance Gate. Rushing through the hastily cleared paths of rubble from Pain's attack, the two tore down the paths and left dust clouds in the wake of their speed.

Gai was smiling a huge grin, while the majority of Kakashi's emotions were hidden behind his famous blue mask. The 'camera' zoomed ahead of the racing duo to show how the dirt path dropped down into a deep canyon, the place where Konoha would rebuild the majority of their city in.

Boruto muttered out, "Geh. Konoha's a mess, ya know?"

Gai exuberantly jumped in, even opening his legs into a split in hopes that would improve his chances of winning. Kakashi held his arms back, while he leaped high into the air. They hit the ground hard and fast. The speed kept building up, to the point that Kakashi's left eye were widened comically while Gai's mouth flapped open at the force of wind rushing past.

Metal Lee sighed, "Back when Master Gai still had working legs. Rock-sensei and Tenten-san would always tell me stories of their genin days with him."

They rushed down the canyon, and back up. With no more land to climb up, the two continued high into the air. As they did so, their legs were moving as if they were still running on solid land.

Himawari chanted, "Up, up they go! Boruto, can you fly high in the sky like Kakashi-chan?!"

Boruto smirked and puffed up his chest, "I can go higher than that, Hime!"

As Gai was concentrating on maneuvering his body to get into landing position, a ladle suddenly smacked him right on the cheek. Gai flinched and yelled out, "Ouch!" He looked over to Kakashi to see him holding up a hammer and a pan. He didn't show any emotions through the mask, but you could somehow tell he was smirking at Gai.

Metal looked over at Shikadai with a deadpanned expression, "I feel like you're exactly like Kakashi-sama sometimes."

Shikadai spluttered indignantly while he mentally agreed with that statement; that statement wasn't too far from the truth, if he was being honest.

He yelled over the wind, "When did you get them?!" while rubbing the offended spot. Kakashi replied with a, "Ohh, before we started. From a pile of rubble."...He still had the 'I'm-smirking-at-you" vibe.

ChoCho grumbled, "I hate that kind of vibe."

Gai grumbled a bit while spinning the ladle he was smacked with in the air, "Keh, that's not fair!" He threw the ladle hard at Kakashi, "Take that!" Kakashi mumbled out a small grunt before using the pan to smack away the ladle. Gai swiftly used his leg to kick it back, grinning widely as he did so.

The two began a rubble-throwing contest as they descended from the air. Soon, the fight was over as Kakashi and Gai hit the dirt again with large dust clouds. The trash they used were sent flying back to where they were snatched from.

Sarada sniffed, "How petty were Kakashi-sama and Gai-sama back then?" Inside, Inner-Sarada found it quite funny how the former Sixth Hokage and Team 3 mentor were when they were younger.

* mini time skip :) *

Shikamaru was about to eat a potato chip, offered by Choji. However, just as he was about to eat it, Gai and Kakashi flew by overhead. The two boys watched with widened eyes, staring at the two rushing by. Shikamaru uttered out, "What...was that?" Choji had nothing to answer.

ChoCho was digging around in her butterfly-decorated satchel, "Geez, where are MY potato chips? Seeing Papa eat them makes me hungry," she turned to Sarada, "Do you have any snacks?"

Soon, the two squad leaders encountered another obstacle: A ox-drawn cart carrying beams for Konoha's rebuilding. Without a second thought, Gai slid under while Kakashi took to the walls. As he ran by a woman doing laundry, the wind caused by Kakashi ruffled her hanging clothes. The female civilian stared at the silver-haired nin in the distance, jumping on the newly-made rooftops to another.

Sarada answered, "No, I don't have any. Sorry, ChoCho." Said- Akimichi whined at the answer and pouted as the memory faded away from the screen.

Ahahah, so I promised that I would update sometime in January since Christmas 2017. That...didn't happen, loll. But, I finally managed to move my lazy ass and type all of this out.

*NOTE: I kinda lost interest in "Boruto: Naruto Next Gen", and so, lost my general idea of the characters. Also, I barely watch the anime. So, keep in mind that characters might be a little OC. I prefer "Naruto (Shippuden)" over "Boruto", so character writing for this fic will be off. I can't find it in myself to keep up with the, in my opinion, crappy anime that is called Boruto so *shurgs*

*LMAOO I SPENT MORE TIME ON THE A/Ns THAN ON THE ACTUAL FIC LOLL IM PATHETIC :')*

{like I actually just typed out the Naruto episode, and just left it at that for like a month cause I couldn't bring myself to type about Boruto characters}

FINAL NOTE: PLEASE DON'T KILL ME OVER MY OPINION ABOUT BORUTO (please and thank you kind readers ;-;). That being said, I'm not going to Boruto-bash or the anime. I just really hate how the creators made Boruto look out to be. Like Naruto suffered a poor childhood, wasn't a genius like Sasuke and had to work VERY hard in order to have the jutsu arsenal he has now, lost BOTH his parents because of a bitter Obito , had to go through a lot in order to be accepted as the Hokage, was mainly lonely and hated by Konoha when he was young, often ate/drank expired food/drinks, those who knew Minato's son barely made a effort to help out, and the only one who actually CARED was busy being the Sandaime; not to mention being the Nine-Tail's jinchuuriki. Yet here is Boruto, surrounded by friends made through Naruto's efforts, semi-wealthy being the Hokage's offspring, has a loving environment he thrives in, and has natural TALENT (that he wasted on with technology, nononono). Yet, here he is whining about Naruto not paying attention to him while Naruto is busy trying to protect the ENTIRE village he calls his family. Like seriously, attention/daddy issues? (Boi, Naruto was so happy to restart the Uzumaki clan with Hinata)...okie rant over, this is the just the general assumptions I had while watching the first 20-ish episodes of the Boruto anime. I'm not biased at all and god forbid that this fic becomes a fic that bashes Boruto or the anime. I'm just saying. (LMAOO, this entire section is like half of the actual chapter)

*if you actually read this entire thing, then digital kudos from me to you. if you (strongly) disagree with my opinion, either write a constructive paragraph in the comments professionally explaining why OR pm me. please don't use any type of vulgar language (including profanity) in either option. let's be civil human beings :) *