This is the last chapter of the story.

I hope you enjoy it.

The next morning the remaining squads finally arrived at the gates of Suna. Gaara allowed them two hours to eat and rest up for the part of the exams. For part two each squads will be given, not a scroll like Boruto and Shikadai originally thought, but a unique gem that is placed on a chain. They will have to try to take the other teams' gem. The Hokage and Kazekage were the ones to chose who wears the gem around their neck from each squad. They made it to where the individuals who joined the squads can't wear the gems. This resulted in Boruto and Shikadai getting the necklace.

Each squad started at different points of the points of the desert, but Boruto and Shikadai were able to find each other within ten minutes. Their two squads joined together as they tried to find Himawari. After about three hours they happened to run into Himawari and Shinki's team with Shinki, Yodo, and Araya each having a gem around their neck.

Walking to where there was only a meter between them, Shinki scoffed as the Iron Sand became more prominent on his body. "This will take no time at all."

Although Shikadai was more than willing to fight his cousin, he sensed something was wrong. "Do you hear that?"

"Hear what?"

Shikadai looked at Himawari, who took it as a cue to use her Byakugan. With it, she was able to detect a sand storm a few hundred meters away, which she relayed back to Shikadai. "It's going to hit any minute," she estimated. "And it's coming straight for us."

"Everyone step closer to me," he ordered.

"Why should we?" Shinki challenged while the rest did what they were told.

At that moment Shikadai's eyes changed. Instead of being the usual green color that was the same as his mother, they turned a gold color with a cross like symbol that had a dot in between each line. His voiced also changed to where it sounded like two completely different people were talking at the same time as he said, "Because I said so."

Shinki reluctantly moved forward till he was a couple feet away.

Less than a second later, the group was encased in a cocoon of sand. As soon as that happened, the sand storm hit the cocoon with a pounding force that could have torn down any building in a second. Shikadai struggled as the storm started coming harder and harder, forcing him to come lower and lower to the ground, but he wouldn't give up.

While he was trying to prevent the shield from cracking, his two cousins thought it would be a great time to interrogate them. "Is this why you hate us?" Shinki wondered. "Because you're the jinchuuriki of the same demon as our father and you hate the demon?"

"No!" Shikadai yelled in denial, his voice now sounding like himself. "I do not hate Shukaku and if you don't stop calling him a demon I swear I will throw you into the storm!"

"Then why do you hate us?" Yodo pursued. "What did we do to make you not like us?"

"I don't hate you!"

"Then why-?"

"Because I want to be Kazekage!" Shikadai confessed. "But I can't because you two are Uncle Gaara's kids and you two are more likely to have the purer blood because of my father being from the Konoha!"

The mood was now tense from the revelation. To get rid of his frustrations, Shikadai threw back the shield. The force was great enough to cancel out the storm, but it left Shikadai exhausted with no energy to do anything. He couldn't quite remember all of what happened next. He knew that Shukaku went silent inside of him, a group that called themselves the Akatsuki appeared and threatened to kill everyone, and Himawari-

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Where is my Himawari?!