Hello and welcome to the fourth chapter. Took long enough and I also had quite some problems in the last few weeks. This chapter is a bit shorter. I hope you still enjoy.

Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto/Boruto


Chapter 4: Memories

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Senju-Park:

"She literally broke his heart", Mitsuki said while looking at the broken hair clasps he picked up.

Boruto was unconscious, lying on the bench near the entrance.

Mitsuki looked at Boruto, thinking about what just happened a few minutes ago.

'These people are really strong. I couldn't put my snake on her so I can track her later. Now it's going to be difficult to locate her'.

He was picking up his dead snake and the Kunai which killed it from the ground and returned to Boruto.

'First I have to bring him to an hospital. I never thought the class rep to seriously hurt him like that, but she did it probably for his sake'.

He began to pick him up, carrying him to the next hospital.

'After that I have to report that to the Hokage and the ANBU. We have to pursuit them for the sake of the village. I am sure they want her Nue. Once they extract the beasts Chakra out of her, they're probably going to use Nue to destroy all the hidden villages'.

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Mitsuki arrived to the hospital and entered the building, where he saw a certain pink haired woman in all white walking to the next room.

"Woman, I asume you're a doctor. Please help out my friend", Mitsuki said to her.

She started to turn around: "Sorry but I am pretty busy".

She looked to the boy Mitsuki carried.

"T-This is Boruto!", the pink haired girl shouted. "What happened? He doesn't look good".

"There was a little confrontation between him and his class mate. I am in hurry and can't tell you anything. Please call her mother. She's probably worried about him by now. I am going to the Hokage", Mitsuki said as he left the hospital.

She picked Boruto up and brought him to the next free bed in a hospital room. She lied him down onto the bed and quickly grabbed her phone. She entered the phone number and waited until someone picked up.

...

"Here are the Uzumaki's. Hinata on the phone", she heard.

"It's me Sakura. Your son Boruto is here and injured!", Sakura said to her.

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Somewhere in Konoha:

Mitsuki ran to the Hokage building, thinking about how to handle the situation from now on.

'The Hokage needs to send out a group of ANBU member to pursuit them. We need to hurry or we won't be able to locate them anymore'

He almost arrived and saw Naruto leaving the building.

'There he is'. Mitsuki jumped from the roof of a building, landing directly behind Naruto.

"Lord Seventh, I need to speak with you'.

Naruto turned around and saw Mitsuki standing in front of him.

"Good evening Mitsuki. I am on my way home and I am already late for dinner. We have a special guest and I don't want to..."

"Boruto is injured and in the hospital", Mitsuki interrupted him.

"W-WHAT?", Naruto was shocked by this. "What happened with him?"

"That's a long story and we don't have much time left", Mitsuki said.

"What do you mean with no time left?", Naruto asked him.

"There's another bad news. Miss Kakei was blackmailed to leave the village".

Naruto was speachless for a couple of seconds and a shocked expression was on his face.

"Blackmailed? By who?", Naruto asked him in a serious tone.

"They call themselve the leftover of the old Konoha organization Ne, the Roots of Konoha".

"Do you have any more information?", Naruto asked him.

"No, not really", Mitsuki answered.

Naruto, still shocked, quickly came to an conclusion.

"I am going to prepare a special team of Jonin and ANBU-members to find them. Please run to my home and inform my family about everything".

"Not necessary anymore. I told someone in the hospital to call Boruto's mother", Mitsuki answered.

"That's good. Please return to the hospital and look for Boruto then", Naruto said and prepared to depart.

"Kage-Bunshin no Jutsu!", Naruto said, creating three clones of himself.

'He's just like Boruto', Mitsuki thought.

"Go to Shikamaru clone one, clone two to Sai and clone three to Kakashi-sensei. Inform them about the current situation and say them I am awaiting them here", Naruto said

"Alright", the clones said, now running to their destinations.

"See you later", Mitsuki said to Naruto.

Mitsuki left and instead of returning to the hospital, he instead ran back to the Senju-Park.

'Maybe there's still something there helping me to track them'.

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Konoha hospital:

Boruto was lying on his bed, still unconscious. It felt like he falled into a thousand year long sleep.

"S-Sumire", Boruto said very weakly.

"S-Su-Sumire"

...

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Boruto's dream:

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"S-Sumire! Where are you?", Boruto shouted.

He was in a dark forest. All alone and only the moon was illuminating the forest with it's moonlight. He looked around and saw someone walking towards him. The wind stopped whistling and it felt like the time stopped. He looked at the person and his heart felt like it's melting.

"Sumire I finally found you", he looked at her. However he noticed the tears on her face and walked to her.

"Why are you tearing?", Boruto asked her.

He got no response, but instead a steady serious face without any emotions.

"You don't need to tear up. I am always there for you. I like you"

"Boruto I never liked you", Sumire just said to him emotionless.

"W-Why? I thought you would like me at least a bit", Boruto said with a sad face.

"Boruto, I never liked you a bit. I hate you", Sumire still said. Each time it hurts Boruto more and more.

"But why? Why Sumire?

"I don't need to explain that to you. I am leaving now", Sumire told him and turned around, now walking back into the dark forest.

"Wait Sumire! Please wait", Boruto ran to her but tripped down to the ground.

Meanwhile Sumire vanished in front of his eyes, leaving a sad expression to his face.

"S-Sumire!", Boruto cried.

...

End of the dream

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"S-Sumire!", Boruto said every few seconds weakly. While unconscious, he moved his whole body, not able to bear his trauma.

That went for a couple of minutes, before his mind totally broke and forced himself to wake up.

"No please don't leave me", Boruto said with a more stronger voice. It only took a couple of more seconds before he finally woke up.

"SUMIRE!", he woke up and screamed her name.

He looked around and found himself somewhere else.

"W-Where I am? Where's she?", Boruto questioned himself.

He was looking around and noticed he was in the hospital. Nobody else than him was in the room and saw out of the window.

"I-It is night! For how long I was sleeping?", Boruto panicked.

He turned his head towards the door and heared somewhere in behind it before the door opened.

"You woke up?", Sakura entered the room.

"M-Miss Uchiha!", Boruto shouted. "Who brought me here?".

"Mitsuki brought you here but he didn't told me about what happened to you", Sakura said.

"And where is Sumire", Boruto said with a sad tone.

"Sumire? You mean my daughters girlfriend? I don't know but maybe Sarada knows", she said to him.

'I-It's true! She left the village', Boruto thought and he started tearing up, the tears running down his cheeks like a waterfall.

'Why she did that and why she said those things to me?'.

"Why are you crying like that? Did something happen?", Sakura said.

"...", she got no response. Boruto was just looking on the ground, thinking about what Sumire said to him.

"Boruto, please tell me", Sakura tried to get him to speak.

He still didn't responded. Boruto closes his eyes and felt backwards to his bed, still crying.

"I've called your mother and already told her that you're injured. She'll be here in some minutes", Sakura said to him, now leaving the room.

"There are other patients waiting for me. See you later", Sakura now left the room, letting Boruto all alone once again.

Boruto looked at the ceiling, lost in the thoughts about that conversation from earlier with Sumire.

'She was so happy when we went to the theatre and when she was staying for dinner. Why she changed her opinion so suddenly? I tried everything to make her life more precious and now she suddenly acts like she hates everybody. It's just like it was before I saved her in the Nue dimension'.

Boruto thought once again about the incident when they were in the academy and what she did said about her past.

'Her father forced her to do those terrible things and he treated her like some soulless weapon. Maybe there's still something worrying her or something else we don't know'

Boruto looked at the table on the other side of the room and found his clothes lying there together with two broken hairclasps. Those he wanted to gift Sumire.

'Those heart shaped hairclasps probably broke during our battle. That's pretty depressing. Now I have nothing to give her anymore', he thought about them.

'I still can remember when I first saw her. Back when I saw her during my first day in the academy, I didn't noticed, but as time progressed, I remembered. The first time I saw her was even before the academy started'.

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Flashback: A week before the academy started

Konoha-Downtown.

Boruto ran to the next Burger shop together with Shikadai.

"Hurry up Shikadai. I want to try those Double Chili-Cheese Burger before they run out of them", Boruto shouted to him.

"You're such a drag Boruto. They won't run out for sure because nobody likes that unbearable spicy food", Shikadai told to him.

"Oh shut up Shikadai".

They were entering the store. They passed two boys, who were talking about a young girl they recently bullied.

"That girl sure was pretty weak minded", the one boy said

"Yeah next time we should bully her even more to give us more money", the other said as they left the store.

"Those stupid retards", Boruto said with an angry face.

"Calm down Boruto. We're going to follow them and if we see them bullying someone then we're picking up a fight", Shikadai said.

They also left the store and followed them without attracting their attention. Soon enough they stopped and looked to a purple haired girl on the other end of the block.

"There is she", the one guy noticed. "It seems she's going home".

"Let's go to her", the other said, now running towards her.

As they approached her, she turned around to see two boys running towards her.

"Not again this time", the girl started running away.

"She's running away from us", both of them said.

"Shikadai! Let's follow them!", Boruto said to him now running behind those two kids.

The girl turned around a corner of the street. The boys quickly ran to the corner but completely lost her.

"Where is she?", the one boy said.

"We've lost her. How she could escape that quickly?", the other boy said.

Boruto and Shikadai stopped and watched those confused kids talking about that girl.

"It seems like the girl managed to escape", Shikadai said to Boruto.

"Yeah. She was pretty lucky", Boruto told him. "Let's return to the Burger store".

As they walked back Boruto saw someone standing on the roof of a building on the other side of the street.

'It's that purple clothed girl! She seems to be pretty good in hiding', Boruto thought.

After a couple of seconds she vanished out of the sight.

Flashback: End

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Konoha hospital:

Boruto was still lying on his bed as he heard someone running down the floor and opening the door.

"BORUTO!", the door opened and he saw his mother and sister entering the room.

"Boruto! What happened. Please say it to me", Hinata quickly hugged her son.

"Onii-chan what happened and why are you hurt", Himawari said to him.

"I...I can't...explain", Boruto stuttered. "I d-don't know it f-for myself".

"Oh honey you don't need to be ashamed of yourself. You can tell mommy everything", Hinata said to her son with a motherly smile.

"I-It's about Sumire", Boruto said to Hinata. "S-She d-did that t-to me".

Hinata's smile dropped immidiately and was quite suprised.

"W-What?", she said in complete suprise. "What happened between you two? You've argued about something?", Hinata asked him.

"Is big sister angry to you Onii-chan?", Himawari also asked him with a sad tone.

"L-Like I said I can't explain anything", Boruto simply answered.

As they talked, Sakura entered the room with the next dose of medicine.

"Hello Hinata and Himawari. It seems like you already started to talk", Sakura said.

"Yes Sakura and I am worrying about his state", Hinata told Sakura.

"Me too and I have to speak with Naruto about him. Mitsuki already went to him so he probably sends one of his clones here", Sakura said her.

"Is there anything causing trouble to Boruto's regenaration?", Hinata asked her.

"Well there's something pretty unusual. Based on the blood test, he took some kind of drug, which changed his actual blood count", Sakura said to her.

"What?", Hinata said in shock. "Boruto what does that mean?".

"I-I can't explain", Boruto told in a weak tone.

"BORUTO!", Hinata shouted at him.

"Mommy please don't shout at Onii-chan", Himawari said to her mother with an scared face.

"Boruto, please try to remember something", Sakura said to him.

Boruto thought about his fight with Sumire and remembered one situation which still left him confused.

"T-There was probably something", Boruto said.

"What happened Boruto", Hinata still asked him.

"I fought Sumire and at one time she put something on my mouth and forced me to swallow it. After that I felt pretty sleepy and weak before I falled unconscious", said Boruto.

"That sounds like some K.O pills. But the effect of it was much much stronger than usual. That dose should be enough to keep someone unconcious for a whole day. It's pretty incredible that you only took one hour before you woke up".

Sakura was turning around and walked to the other side of the room. Hinata followed her with a question in mind.

"But where she got those K.O pills? I can't imagine those are available for some Genin, Chunin or even Jonin that easily", Hinata asked Sakura.

"And here is the problem. You can't buy or get those super strong pills anywhere on the streets of Konoha. Usually only the ANBU or the military are able to produce or use them.

"That means...", Hinata started to say.

"Yes it's exactly that. We have to speak with Naruto about it".

"What are you talking about mom and Miss Uchiha?", Boruto shouted at the end of the room.

"It's nothing Boruto. We're just talking about something", Hinata answered, making them look suspicious on Boruto's eyes.

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Senju-Park:

Mitsuki arrived at the Senju-Park and immidiately started to investigate.

'The dimension traveling jutsu they used are causing problems. My father already told me about the Sharingan and it's abilities, but that's the first time I actually saw something like that. Even if I would find something like some clothing pieces, I won't be able to track them so easily. The Kunai that the big guy throwed at my snake slightly smells like them, but I won't be able to sense them from such a high distance'.

He looked at the spot the group of strangers and Sumire dissappeared. There was only one thing he could do.

'I have to ask Sarada's father about that jutsu'.

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Hokage office:

Naruto was investigating about the past of the Root members. Suddenly three well known shinobi appeared before his desk.

"You called us Lord Seventh", Kakashi started to talk. Sai and Shikamaru were standing behind him.

"You can drop that Lord title Kakashi-sensei".

"Your clone already told me everything and I can't believe that there are still Ne members running free out of Konoha", Sai started to talk. "In that case I'll preparing some special ANBU squad I am going to lead for that mission".

"Sai first we need some information about them before we can send out the ANBU", Shikamaru told him. "First we should send out a shinobi tracking team trying to locate their position".

"That's going to be a problem. Kiba is on a mission with his team and isn't aviable for the next few days", Naruto said.

"How was it possible for them to get into the village without attracting attention from the border control that easily", Kakashi asked them.

"I know how", said a boy entering the building through the window.

Naruto turned around to see Mitsuki standing in front of him.

"It's you Mitsuki. I've told you to visit Boruto in the hospital", Naruto spoke to him.

"I thought it would've been better if I would look for something helping us at the current situation", Mitsuki explained. "You're not my father so I decide what I should do".

"Naruto, don't change the subject. Let him tell us everything he know", Kakashi said to him.

"Ok...you can speak Mitsuki", Naruto said.

Mitsuki walked behind the desk and started to speak.

"They escaped via the Sharingan's dimension traveling jutsu".

"Eh what?", Naruto and the other were shocked. "I thought Sasuke and Sarada are the only one left with a Sharingan".

"So they escaped via the Kamui technique or something similiar", Kakashi said. "That's going to make it very difficult to locate their positions"

"I know that", Mitsuki said. "And that's why I came here. You Lord Seventh are befriendet with a Sharingan user. He may help us".

"You mean Sasuke? He could help us with that", Naruto told him. "We got some reports from him some days ago saying that he wasn't that far away from the village, but we don't know where he currently is".

"I am going to send him a bird with a letter to immidiately return to the village", Shikamaru told Naruto. "Hopefully the bird will find him pretty quickly".

"I will prepare the ANBU team. But before that, I am going to run over to Miss Kakei's apartment", Sai said to Naruto. "Mitsuki, I think you can help me with that".

"That's a good idea. Let's go", said Mitsuki before leaving the building with Sai.

"I'll trying to gather some more information about Danzo and his organisation", Kakashi said to Naruto and also left.

'I hope it isn't too late yet', Naruto thought, looking out of the window.

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Konoha hospital:

Boruto, still lying on his bed, was still thinking about the past.

'I still can remember what she has said to me when I saved her. That was the day when I realized that I truly like her'.

...

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Flashback: The day Sumire returned to school

Konoha academy:

"Class rep, I am happy that you're back", said one boy to her.

"Yeah we've missed the last few weeks", another boy said to her.

"T-Thank you", Sumire said to them, before more class mates approached her.

Boruto was standing at the other end of the training hall, looking at the crowd around her.

'I still got no opportunity to welcome her back properly', Boruto thought. 'She seems to be very popular here, especially for the boys'

He still looked at her, not happy about his bad luck to finally confront her.

'It seems like I also really like her'.

Sumire, still surrounded by her class mates, looked over to Boruto and noticed his sad face looking down on the floor.

'Boruto-kun doesn't look very happy. He seems to wait for a moment where I am all alone', she thought.

"Please let me alone for some time", Sumire said to the kids near of her and walked over to Boruto and grabbed one of his hands.

"S-Sumire? What are you doing?", Boruto said before he was pulled by Sumire forcing him to walk away with her.

Sumire dragged him to an empty corner before she started talking.

"Boruto-kun, thank you for everything you did for me", she said to him.

"N-No problem", Boruto said to her.

"No really if it wasn't you I would've been dead or living with the thought of having killed thousands of people including my friends. I am so happy that you believed in me and cared about me and my future back then when we were in Nue's dimension. Your words changed me and the only thing left to say is that I started to admire you", Sumire said and started to hug Boruto afterwards.

He felt her warmth and his heart started to beat faster and faster. He wished for that moment to last forever, but then the clock rang, signaling the break to be over.

"Let's go back Boruto-kun", Sumire said as she started to walk away from him on her way back to the training hall.

He looked at her with a blush on his face.

'It seems like I indeed really really like her'.

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Flashback: End

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Sumire's apartment:

Mitsuki and Sai were in Sumire's apartment, looking for something helping them to investigate the incident.

"Some people tried to phone her, but she didn't picked up once", Sai said.

"There's a strong smell of her in the bathroom", Mitsuki told Sai.

"Your sense to smell seems to be more advanced than other persons", Sai said back.

'Of course because my father made me perfect', Mitsuki thought. "Her clothes are still here so that may help us locating her. I know now her current scent so that may help us".

"There isn't anything else here. They actually did a good job not leaving anything behind", Sai said to him.

They walked out the apartment and Mitsuki sensed something similiar smelling as Sumire near him.

'That's weird', he thought as he looked over the entrance with the letter boxes just next to the door.

He walked to them and the smell just got more intense. He used his snake like arms to grab something out of the box and pulled out something looking like a letter.

'For Boruto, from Sumire', he readed the title. 'So that seems to be some kind of good bye letter to him'.

"You have found something Mitsuki?", Sai asked him as he finally left the apartment.

"No nothing", he quickly hided the letter under his jacket. "I am now returning to the hospital. See you later", Mitsuki said to him.

"Ok and thank you for the help", Sai said to him before Mitsuki left the building.

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Konoha hospital:

Boruto looked out of the window. His mother and sister were currently out buying some food for him. Suddenly the door opened once again and was surprised to see some girls entering.

"Boruto! What happened!", the girls said as they ran towards him.

He turned around and saw three girls standing in front of him.

"Sarada, Namida and Wasabi! Why are you here?", Boruto said in suprise.

"My mother called me that you got injured", Sarada said to him.

"She also asked me about where Miss Kakei is since you've asked my mother about that. I tried to call her but she didn't picked up. With that I called Namida and Wasabi to accompany me to the hospital and here we are".

"So what happened to you", Wasabi asked Boruto.

"Did something happened between you and Sumire? Maybe you have argued about something?", Namida also asked him.

"Tell us everything Boruto", Sarada said to him.

"We...fighted", Boruto told them.

"No she wouldn't do that! Not to you", Namida shouted.

"But exactly that happened!", Boruto shouted back.

"There's no reason for her to do that. Maybe you said something wrong to her?", Wasabi spoke to him.

"No I treated her like a real lady. I also have no clue why she started to hate me so suddenly", Boruto talked to her.

"But something definitely happened explaining her sudden character change", Sarada said. "You are sure that you've done nothing to her?".

"FOR THE LAST TIME I DID NOTHING!", Boruto shouted at her leaving the girls speechless.

"I would never do something hurting Sumire. I care for her and I just want he to have a happy life with us. Everytime I see her in a sad state it hurts deep down in my heart", Boruto calmed down.

...

"It seems like you finally woke up", a boy entering the room said to him.

They all looked over to the door and saw a boy with white hair looking at them.

"Mitsuki! Miss Uchiha said to you found me and brought me here", Boruto shouted to him.

"Yeah I was the one. I heard something happened with the class rep", Mitsuki said.

"M-Mitsuki...", Boruto said weakly. "S-She l-left the village".

"What?!", Namida and Wasabi said in union.

"She did? That's pretty weird", Mitsuki said back.

Sarada sensed something and tried to get more information.

"Mitsuki...do you know something?", Sarada asked him with a serious tone.

"...Yeah I know something", Mitsuki answered her question.

Boruto looked at him with with an concentrated expression on his face.

"To be honest I know everything".

"Mitsuki! What do you know?!", Boruto started to shout at him.

"I know...the truth".


That's it for this chapter. Next time Boruto learns the truth about the whole situation. I had fun writing it despite being all busy in the last few weeks. Also something I have to let you know is that English is not my native language, so sorry for the bad spelling (I may rework those chapters in the future in that aspect). The next chapter will be out in once again two or so weeks.

Thank you for reading and please leave a comment. Have a nice day.