It was now the start of a new day, the sun still hidden in the clouds as the air turned cold. It wasn't even 6am yet but Naruto burst into the boy's room, ordering everyone to wake up. Inojin and Shikadai were wide awake but for Boruto, it was a battle with sleep.

"Boruto! Hurry up and change already! The hokage-sama is waiting y'know?" said Inojin as he tried to pull Boruto out of the bed.

"F...Five more minutes..." mumbled Boruto.

"Hey....what happened to your hands?!" said Inojin with surprise as he looked at Boruto's bruised hands.

"He probably did some weird stuff while we were sleeping." sighed Shikadai.

"Doesn't look like he'll wake up. Help me out here, Shikadai." said Inojin as he tried to drag Boruto out of his bed.

"How troublesome." sighed Shikdai as he helped out.

~X~

At the girls side, Sarada and ChoCho faced a similiar problem with Himawari. She couldn't get out of bed at all. Furthurmore, they were especially surprised at the dirt stains on Himawari's legs and hands.

"Did she went out while we were asleep?" sighed Sarada.

"Like a sneaky little fox huh?" said ChoCho.

"Himawari, the hokage-sama is waiting for us so you gotta get ready now." said Sarada as she gently tapped Himawari.

"It's okay, tou-chan can wait as long as he wants~" mumbled Himawari as she continued to sleep.

"Haha, I don't think that would work Sarada-san. We gotta force her." said ChoCho as she easily pulled Himawari out of the bed.

"I don't have as much strength as you do ChoCho-san." said Sarada with a smile.

~X~

After a long wait, the kids finally arrived at the inn's cafeteria where Naruto was waiting for them. He had already finished his breakfast and was wondering what took them so long.

"Your food's already gone cold dattebayo!" said Naruto.

"Blame this idiot over here who won't wake up." sighed Shikadai as he pointed to a sluggish Boruto walking to the table.

"Hima-chan wouldn't wake up too..." said Sarada.

"Haha, don't mind them. Now then, eat up as much as you can!" said Naruto with a grin.

"Itadakimasu!" said everyone as they dug into their delicious breakfast.

~X~

Soon after, Naruto brought the kids to an open hot spring. There was hot steam engulfing the entire area until you couldn't see anything farther than 5 meters.

"Yosh! Today, I'm going to teach all of you how to stand on water!" said Naruto.

"I knew it..." mumbled Sarada to herself.

"First, let me demonstrate for you! It's not a magical trick alright?" said Naruto as he easily walked onto the water with chakra focusing on his feet.

"So, all we have to do is to focus our chakra flow onto our feet?" asked Inojin.

"Yup! But it's not gonna be very simple on the first try!" said Naruto with a smirk.

The boys went first as they slowly took a light step into the water. Shikdai and Inojin managed to float steadily for a while before dropping into the hot, steaming water. Boruto on the other hand, immediately fell into the water. It was definately a wake-up call for him.

"HOT! IT'S HOT DATTEABASA!!" shouted Boruto in pain as he quickly climbed back to the surface.

"I almost got it right. Let's do this again!" said Inojin with confidence as he stepped into the boiling, hot water again.

"That's not fair dattebasa! If you're going, I'm gonna go too!" shouted Boruto as he followed Inojin into the water.

"How troublesome." sighed Shikadai as he didn't bother to follow the two and instead, sat down in the corner.

After a couple of tries and splashes of hot water, it was time for the girls to try. Surprisingly, they all got in without a single falter. The girls were steadily floating which no difficulty at all. They stood for about three minutes before falling into the hot water.

"Not bad you three! Definately better than those soaked boys over there haha!" laughed Naruto with pride. It seems that the kids would have no problem being a ninja.

"It's easy. We just need a sense of meditation." said Sarada.

"Tch! So, you want to see who can stand the longest dattebasa?!" challenged Boruto.

"Very well. I'm confident that you will fall first." said Sarada with a smirk.

"We haven't even started yet!"

Eventually, the duel between Boruto and Sarada was finished within seconds. Boruto fell in after just less than twenty seconds.

~X~

Next, Naruto taught the kids various taijutsu techniques in order to better protect themselves. He had set up various lessons that would take up the whole day in order to make them better ninjas in the future. He had already identified the chakra types the kids had and arranged it to suit their fighting styles.

It was definately a tiring day for the kids as they went through chakra control, taijutsu, basic ninjutsu and learning how to escape a basic genjutsu lessons. They learnt a lot in just one day and even thought that the hokage was better than their academy teachers.

It was finally lunch time and the kids were all at the cafteria chowing down their lunch. But, Naruto noticed that his kids, Boruto and Himawari were missing. He headed out to the garden and smiled. Boruto and Himawari were sparring with each other, wasting no time to train despite being hungry.

Naruto couldn't hide his fatherly smile as he quietly watched on, sitting at the side.

"Hokage-sama, aren't you gonna eat? Ah, Boruto and Himawari..." said Sarada as she noticed Naruto watching the two children.

"It's kind of nice to see them so hardworking. Reminds me of myself back then." chuckled Naruto.

"Was papa like that too?" asked Sarada as she sat down beside Naruto.

"Sasuke was just like you. Strong and undefeatable."

"I see...."

"Anyways, you should go and eat lunch. You've done a lot of training today." smiled Naruto as he gently caressed Sarada's head.

"Hokage-sama!!" yelled a voice from across the corridor. It was ChoCho running towards Naruto and Sarada.

"Yeah? Did something happen-ttebayo?" asked Naruto casually.

"Like yeah! I mean, it's serious trouble!" said ChoCho as she tried to catch her breath.

"Inojin and Shikadai are...."

"Great, not again." sighed Naruto.

Naruto and Sarada's eyes widened as they quickly followed ChoCho.

~X~

At the garden where Boruto and Himawari were busy sparring with each other:

"Yosh! Hima-chan, you gotta aim your thrusts a bit more to the vital points dattebasa!" said Boruto as he pointed where Himawari should actually hit.

"But you keep blocking those areas, how am I suppose to hit it?"

"That's why you have to try and overtake me!"

"Nii-chan's arms are so big, there's no way I can do that" pouted Himawari.

It was at that moment, the two noticed something strange. There was a sudden speck of black smoke coming from the side of the garden. The smoke slowly developed into a human-like shape and eventually formed into a snake.

It was Orochimaru.