A/n: Thank you very much for your reviews, I really appreciated them and they make want to write as soon as I receive them (that and the favorites and followings, they are the best solution for quick writing), I'll try to update the fic once a week or twice if I could, with this fic I have obligated myself to not publish all that I have, I already wrote the next two chapters so when I publish the next chap I hope I'll have another two more or at least one so I don't delay the updates.
Chapter's summary: As Konoha's shinobi they will inherit the will of fire and in order to make that possible, they begin with being assigned to a four men/women cell.
First Leaf: Shinobi Academy.
Boruto was now an eight year old boy and already a grown up if he could say so not matter what his mother said. So he just begged to his father to let him enroll to the Academy.
"Please dad, I'm old enough and all my friends will begin this year" Boruto told him putting his best puppy eyes.
"You all are too young, maybe when you are ten…"
"Sakura-san told me that Uchiha-san and she are enrolling Sarada this year"
"That bastard if he thought that he could win…"
And that is how Boruto convinced his father to let him enroll to the Academy. His father was too easy dattebasa.
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Though the Academy was boring and his father never had time to teach some awesome jutsus, he passed the time making pranks and painting the Hokage's faces.
"Come on Inojin, Shikadai it will be amazing" Boruto tried to convince his friends to go with him and did some pranks.
"Troublesome"
"We have to go to train, sorry Boruto… maybe next time?" Inojin said apologetic.
"Che, whatever"
He left with bad humor the Academy and it did not improve when he walked to home.
"Ara Boruto-kun! You are just like your father when you were young"
"The Hokage's son, do you think he will be as strong as him?"
"Make Hokage-sama proud Boruto-kun!"
It was always his dad, no one saw him as who he was, continuously comparing him with his father and saying to do his best for the Hokage, for a man who was never in home and seemed to forget he had a family.
One who put that sad smile in his beloved mother and never had time to scare the monster under his little sister's bed.
"I'll be a better Hokage, dattebasa!"
So immersed in his brooding he did not notice the pair of black eyes that were following him.
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Even though the classes were boring, he actually wasn't the top of his class – which pissed off the blond – that post went to a certain Uchiha heir.
"Wow Sarada-chan you obtained 100 again!"
"You're so intelligent Sarada-chan"
"More like a worm book" Boruto murmured scathingly seeing how his classmates conglomerated around the girl to congratulate her.
"Ho, so you hate Sarada-chan ne?" The boy next to him said, he was new and Boruto still did not know his name, though the boy's looks were outstanding with a skin almost as pale as Inojin, blue hair and golden eyes, "Mitsuki" the other said seeing Boruto's doubts as how to refer to him.
"Boruto" he said shaking the other's hand.
"So you hate her or you are envious of her prowess?"
Let's to say that that day a peculiar friendship was born. Mitsuki was his new partner in crime and sometimes the dubious voice of his conscience.
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"Did you know that Sarada-chan is always following you?"
"What!?"
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The years passed, Uchiha Sarada was still the top first in their year, his father was still absent, Himawari was growing more annoying, Inojin and Shikadai sometimes went with him and Mitsuki in their pranks.
He did not learn any jutsu from his father and Sarada was still watching him but never saying anything to him, at least nothing apart from 'dobe', 'baka-Boruto', and 'looser' when he lost in a challenge.
Yet he learnt more from her and their challenges than from his useless father.
"Hmm, if you know that you will be defeated, why did you challenged her?"
"I did not know that I would lose Mitsuki, and even if I knew, I would still challenge her… never giving up is my ninja way!"
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When he was younger and his father was not Hokage yet, he remembered some of the stories that his father told him about his genin team and his own times in the Academy.
"Sasuke-teme was always showing off, he was the rookie of the year y'know" Naruto said to the child in his arms, "He represented what I wanted to be so I challenged him whenever was possible, he was my rival and the one who I most wanted to beat 'ttebayo"
›› "It's good to have a rival, someone that impulse you to be better, but it's more important that you have in that rival a friend, Sasuke was my rival in the beginning but then he turned up as my best friend though it didn't quit that he was still showing off and being a bastard"
He told him a little about how Uchiha-san's brother was a genius and Uchiha-san a prodigy himself, also how Sakura-san was too intelligent for her own good. About the three of them being 'the second generation' of The Sannin being taught each one for one of them.
Although, he never told him anything about his mother until his chuunin's exams.
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Sarada was the rookie of the year like her father whereas Boruto passed the exam with flying colors unlike his father.
Both of their fathers did not come to the graduation ceremony, Uchiha-san far away of the village doing only God knew what – or so he tried to read when he went to make a prank in his father office but the old man discover him before he could read something interesting – while his father was busy in the Hokage's tower doing paperwork.
"Congratulations Boruto-kun!" Hinata said.
Boruto hugged his mother tightly with one arm and with the other hand held Himawari's gently. With the corner of his eye saw Sarada receiving a package from a Hawk's summon while, as him, she was being held in the arms of Sakura-san.
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"Team seven: *** Mitsuki, Uzumaki Boruto…"
The boys shared a grin after hearing that they would be in the same team, Boruto thanked his luck, he did not know what he would have do it if he was placed with Sarada or another annoying girl.
"…and Uchiha Sarada" Shino-sensei finished.
Forgot it, only with his rotten luck he could have finish with his best friend and his mortal enemy.
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"I am Sarutobi Konohamaru" the Jonin presented himself with a big smile, "I will be his Jonin-sensei and team leader"
The Gods hated him for sure! He had his father lapdog as his sensei.
"Introduce yourselves saying your name, likes and dislikes, hobbies and goals" Sarutobi-sensei said happily, "Girls first"
It could not be worse, Boruto was dreading the next months until he could do the chuunin's exam and changed of team.
"Uchiha Sarada, I like reading" Boruto rolled his eyes, "and training, I dislike liars and people loudmouthed" pointed stare towards the blond, "I do not really have a hobby but it could be beating Boruto and my goal was to be a Hokage"
"WHAT?" Boruto shouted after hearing the last part ignoring what she said about beating him, "I will be the Hokage four-eyes so forgot that useless dream, dattebasa!"
"Baka-Boruto the Hokage will be I, shannaro!"
'How they can't be more like Udon and Moegi' thought Konohamaru seeing as Boruto and Sarada fought while Mitsuki was observing entertained and riling his friend.
"Grandpa help me" the sensei sighed and proceeded to try to separate the children.
Next time he would guard Naruto and left Mirai deal with this kind of things.
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Before the graduation.
'It's done, I will return to Konoha in few days.
S'
"About time bastard" Naruto said seeing the message.
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[tbc]