So this is just going to be a cute short story about Minato, Naruto and Boruto! It might be like up to 10 chapters, but not really longer than that. There are TON of spoilers for the recent Boruto movie so I warn you before you read if you haven't seen the movie yet. Yes, the characters may seem a little out of character- I tried to stay close to there characters but ya know, sometimes I just get carried away. I hope you guys like it!

Ps- this may or may not be why I haven't updated my other stories in a while! XD

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CHAPTER ONE

Naruto sighed as he looked at the clock; it was late and he was suppose to be home for dinner tonight. Hinata, his wife, had requested him there due to what happened with their son during the Chunin exams earlier that day. Sasuke was wrong; the heart of the shinobi has changed. It's different that it was then they were kids. He glanced at the photo of his genin team that sat on his desk; compared to now those times were so much simpler. His eyes moved to the Konoha hitai-ate on a black headband that sat right next to it. Shaking his head, Naruto grabbed it and stood up. Shikamaru would understand why he hadn't finished his paper work. There was something more important he needed to take care of.

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The metal from the hitai-ate clinked against the wood of the table as Naruto threw the headband down so that it landed in front of a young blonde haired boy. Boruto was sitting in one of the chairs with his shoulders slumped over and his hands in his lap. His head was down but when the noise of hitai-ate hit the table his head snapped up. Boruto's eyes widened when his saw his father. He wasn't expecting his father to be home tonight, after all he rarely is. In fact Boruto knew he could take a scolding from his mother, but his father on the other hand had a fiery temper when it came to anything shinobi related, especially when it went against his ideals.

Boruto looked from his mother to his father; who were standing on the other side of the table, waiting for someone to say something. It was already dark out, and Himawari had already gone to bed. Boruto wasn't sure what to say or do. His mother looked sad and disappointed while his father looked out right pissed. Before any one could say anything, his father pulled another object from his cloak and tossed it on the table. Boruto looked at it; that stupid shinobi tool that he used during the exams. He knew what this was about. He knew the speech about what a being a shinobi was all about was coming. He knew he was grounded. He knew his father had stripped him of his shinobi status in front of all of Konoha and the other Kages. Boruto looked down again, preparing himself for what's to come. He heard his father let out a loud sigh.

"Boruto," Naruto started, "I hope you realize that you are no longer a shinobi of Konoha."

"Naru…" Hinata started but was cut off by Naruto holding his hand up. She then realized Naruto wasn't talking to their son as his father, but as the Hokage.

"You are a civilian," Naruto continued, "You broke a rule I specifically put into place, therefore you have been stripped of your hitai-ate and shinobi status."

After a moment of status, Hinata saw her husband relax, knowing the he had taken off his image of the Hokage and was about to speak to Boruto as his father. Sometimes it was hard for Naruto to switch back and forth from years of working under the stress of being Hokage, especially with their son.

"Son," Naruto said in a softer voice, "I am sorry. I know I haven't been around much to train you and for that I am sorry. I don't know why you felt the need to use that. Was it because you felt you weren't strong enough without it?"

Boruto shrugged his shoulders; he honestly didn't know why he used it.

"Boruto, you are my son," Naruto's facial features softened, "therefore I know you are strong, but taking short cuts and cheating will only make you weak."

"Boruto," Hinata softly said, "say something."

"I…" Boruto started with his head down then suddenly snapped it up, "I wish I wasn't your son!"

Hinata noticed how Naruto stiffened at those words, then Hinata's worse fears were confirmed, "if that is what you wish, Boruto," Naruto said, "then so be it."

"What?" Boruto replied.

Naruto grabbed both the shinobi tool and Boruto's hitai-ate then turned to leave but stopped momentarily, "from now on, I am just your Hokage."

Then his father was gone.

"Boruto," Hinata said, then shook her head and followed her husband out the door leaving the young blonde boy sitting alone at the table.

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"I trust you Naruto," Hinata said with a slight edge to her voice, "but why did you do that?"

She and her husband stood in the center of the Hokage office facing each other. She had followed him there, knowing when he was struggling with something; he just threw himself into his work.

"Hinata," Naruto looked her in the eye, "I grew up without parents, and I learned to be come strong on my own. I fear we have made the mistake of giving Boruto everything he desired without effort, because we didn't want him or Himawari to grow up struggling like we did."

When she didn't say anything, Naruto continued, "I hope is that by taking everything away from him it will push him to work harder to get it all back. I haven't officially pulled him from the shinobi ranks yet, but if I don't see any improvement I will have to eventually."

"I see," Hinata nodded understanding where he was coming from.

"I just hope I haven't made the biggest mistake of my life," Naruto whispered pulling Hinata into an embrace.

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Several months later, Boruto walked slowly to the Hokage's office. He hadn't seen his father, let alone speak with him since that night. His father came home after he had gone to bed and was gone by the time he had gotten up in the morning. His mother and sister weren't as cheerful around him anymore. It was almost like he was being purposely separated from his family. He also hadn't trained with his team or gone on missions since that night, the Hokage was true to his word, he wasn't a shinobi anymore.

Boruto made the climb up the old stairs and walked past the secretary, who out of habit let the young blonde boy by. He grabbed the handle to the office and started to open is slowly.

What the younger blonde didn't know was that Naruto wasn't in his office, he was walking up the hallway and turned to the corner just in time see Boruto slowly pushing the door open. With the reaction of a trained Hokage, Naruto grabbed one of the Yondaime's famous kunai out of his back pouch and threw it so that it landed right above the younger blondes head, then immediately flashing to it. Landing silently behind his son who by that time had opened the door and walked through it already, Naruto grabbed the kunai and walked through the door behind him.

"Otou-san?" Boruto called.

"Boruto," Naruto replied in his harsh Hokage voice making the younger snap his head up to look at his father, "its Hokage-sa…"

Naruto cut himself off when he glanced around room. Boruto noticed his father's reaction and looked to see what his father was looking at then he noticed it too.

This was not the same Hokage's office.

Naruto's eyes landed on the blonde figure that was sitting at the large wooden desk who had almost the same expression on his face as the other two did.

"Um," Boruto started, "Otou-san, isn't that…"

Naruto cut his son off by placing his free hand over the younger's mouth. Naruto narrowed his eyes. He didn't know what was going on, but he didn't like the fact that he was starring at his father or that fact that Boruto was with him.

Minato stood up from behind the desk, when he noticed the elder of the two blondes that had just walked through his door had stiffed his body like he was preparing to fight.

"Can I help you?" Minato offered in a soft voice trying to calm the elder blonde down. But seeing how the orange-clad man was discreetly searching around the room with his chakra while keeping an eye on what Minato assume to be his son, Minato made the assumption the elder blonde was strong. Minato's plan had backfired; his voice only seemed to set the blonde more on edge.

Naruto stiffened at the sound of his father's voice. He had to get Boruto and himself out of here before he reacted. Naruto moved his hand from his son's mouth to his shoulder and searched for a Hiraishin seal at a far enough distance, and then once he found it, he and his son vanished from the office.

Minato stood at his desk a little bewildered. The elder of the two blondes, looked too much like himself for it to be a coincidence and the younger one looked at him like he had seen a ghost. Minato sat down and thought for a minute coming up empty handed. Closing his eyes, he tried searching for the chakra signatures with a slight amount of sage chakra that he could use, and he only came up with one. It seems the elder blonde couldn't hide his son's chakra, only his own. They weren't far, but they were outside the village at least. Then that slight signature of the younger blonde disappeared.

Minato was worried, it wasn't everyday a man walks into your office that you think is a lot stronger than you. Minato didn't fear many people, in fact he only feared one and that would be his wife, so for Minato to feel fear from a man who flashed into his office was something that he thought was totally inconceivable.

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Miles away, Naruto landed softly with Boruto right next to him. Letting out a sigh, Naruto knew he needed to figure out what was going on. Its not everyday you walk into your office and find your dead father sitting at what was suppose to be your desk. Naruto looked around, he seemed to be in the large forest that surrounds the village. The first thing he needed to do was make sure he and his son were safe. He made several hands signs and formed a one-mile barrier around him and his son. It was similar to the one that he could activate in his office. Then he took out another one of famous three-pronged Kunai and handed it to Boruto.

"If we get separated, throw it and I will be right there," Naruto instructed, "Understood?"

Boruto nodded taking the kunai, "Tou-san, what is going on? Where are we?"

"Honestly," Naruto shook his head looking at his son, "I don't know."

"Are we in the past?" Boruto asked shocking his father.

Naruto looked at his son, he hadn't even considered that. He thought for a moment, it was conceivably possible but how would they get there? Then it hit him. Naruto looked at the kunai he had thrown above Bolt's head. There it was on the Kunai.

Naruto shook his head and showed the kunai to his son, "did you make this one?"

"Uh," Boruto looked at the kunai's marker, "yeah I did. That's my hand writing."

Naruto let out a sigh, "you swapped two of the characters."

"What?" Boruto replied holding the kunai that his father gave him to the one he was already holding and noticed that the markers were slightly different.

"Unfortunately the two characters you swapped were for 'time' and 'place,'" Naruto explained grabbing the kunai from Boruto's hand, "which explains why we were in a different time but the same place. I didn't realize I was using one of your kunai when I threw it."

"Why do you have one of mine anyways?" Boruto asked.

"Because I confiscated all your kunai when I took your shinobi status away," Naruto said contemplating what to do with the kunai.

"You did WHAT!" Boruto yelled.

Naruto looked over to his son, and he realized that this was the first time they were speaking in several months then replied, "civilians aren't allowed to have registered shinobi gear."

Boruto opened his mouth to reply but then shut it again.

"Anyways," Naruto put the kunai away in a separate area so he would know not to use it, "we need to figure out what to do."

"We could just live here," Boruto mumbled.

"What?" Naruto asked turning to the young blonde.

Boruto looked up with a worried look, he hadn't realized he had been heard.

"Why would you want to live here?" Naruto asked a little confused.

"It would be better…" Boruto replied quietly.

"Whys that?" Naruto pushed.

"Because you wouldn't be the Hokage," Boruto said, "We could be normal."

It was one of those rare moments when Naruto honestly didn't know what to say. These moments occur more often with Boruto than anyone else.

"I'm sorry, Boruto," Naruto replied looking at his son with a soft expression.

When Boruto didn't reply, Naruto continued, "I'm going to see about where we are time-wise. I just hope we didn't land right in the middle of the third war."

"How are you going to do that?" Boruto asked.

"By seeing how old everyone is, then I can guesstimate what year it is," Naruto replied sitting down in a Indian-style position and closing his eyes. He started to spread out his chakra looking for familiar signatures. He knew he would have to go pretty far to find one he knew.

After a few moments Naruto found one and whispered, "Neji?"

"Neji?" Boruto repeated, "You mean Uncle Neji?"

"Yes," Naruto nodded looking at his son, "Judging from how much chakra he has, I'm guessing he's not even a year old yet, meaning my mother must be pregnant with me or about to be."

"You mean my grandparents?" Boruto asked.

Naruto chuckled at all of Boruto's questions, "Yes your grandparents. If we are indeed in the past."

"Oh," Boruto replied, "What are we going to do?"

"I'm thinking we are going to need help from Konoha," Naruto thought for a moment placing his hand on his chin, "I think I will have to talk to my father."

"The Yondaime?"

"Yeah," Naruto nodded, "we saw him earlier, but I bet it will take a lot of convincing that we are related and that we are from the future."

"Oh yeah, because its totally believable," Boruto crossed his arms.

"You've been hanging out with Shikadai too much," Naruto laughed.

Boruto rolled his eyes, "Are we going to the village?"

"Not tonight," Naruto shook his head, "the sun is setting and shinobi are always more on edge at night."

"Right," Boruto said looking at the darkening sky through the tree lines.

"Get some sleep, son," Naruto said patting the ground next him as he leaned up against a near by tree. Naruto took off his cloak while waiting to Boruto to sit down.

The younger blonde hesitated, but he gave in a sat down next to his father.

"Sleep," Naruto order and Boruto obeyed by lying down with his head in his father's lap. To his surprise he was actually tired and felt his eyelids starting to get heavy, but before he fell asleep he felt his father place his cloak on top of him like a blanket. Looking up he noticed, his father had leaned his head back against the trunk of the tree and closed his eyes, but Boruto wasn't fooled, he knew his father had probably set up another barrier to protect them.

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Meanwhile, Minato paced back and forth in his living room while his wife was in the kitchen cooking dinner for the two of them. He glanced over noticing how she was standing slightly farther back then normal due to the enlargement of her stomach. He smiled knowing in a few months, he would be cooking while she fed their child.

Minato took a deep breath and went back to the topic at hand, making him go back to pacing, only to be brought back to reality by a knock on the door.

Kushina poked her head out of the kitchen, "Minato, I forgot to tell you I invite some people over for dinner tonight."

Minato chuckled a little, "alright."

Opening the door, Minato's face dropped. Jiraiya, Kakashi, Rin and Obito were standing there, with Fugaku and heavily pregnant Mikoto Uchiha behind them with Itachi standing next to them.

"Some people?" Minato repeated, "more like a several people."

"Problem, Hokage-sama?" Fugaku asked.

"No," Minato shook his head and stepped aside to let them in, "and it's Minato here, Fugaku."

"Right," Fugaku nodded.

Minato shook his head, he was surprised at how well he and the leader of the Uchiha clan got a long, and it was only because Mikoto and Kushina were such good friends.

"Evening, sensei!" Obito greeted while Kakashi just nodded and Rin gave him a big smile.

The last to walk by was Itachi who was always quiet, but he was one of Minato's favorites, "Evening, Itachi."

"Hokage-sama," Itachi nodded.

Always so formal… Minato thought

"Call me Minato, Itachi," Minato laughed, "when we are in a setting like this at least.

"Ok, Minato-sama," Itachi nodded, making Minato sigh and give up.

"Don't be to hard on him sensei," Obito laughed walking up to him, "he's been like that since birth."

Minato laughed at his student but guessed he was right. Minato ruffled the boy's hair, closed the door and walked over to the rest of the group. Kushina ran out of the kitchen to gently embrace her friend prompting Minato to finish dinner for his wife. Jiraiya, Fugaku, Itachi and Kakashi followed him into the kitchen, not wanting to be involved in the girl talk that was about to ensue in the dinning room. Minato starting working on the food where Kushina had left off, while the others started their conversation.

"This may be what they are talking about in there," Jiriaya started while pointing to the women (and Obito) in the other room, "but have you decided on a name?"

"Yes, we are going to name him Sasuke," Fugaku nodded.

"Sasuke? After Sasuke Sarutobi?" Minato asked.

"Yes, Sarutobi was a strong shinobi," Fugaku nodded, "and Mikoto likes the name."

"How do you know it will be a boy?" Kakashi asked.

"There hasn't been a girl born in the main line of the Uchiha in over 4 generations," Fugaku said, "we are fairly certain that tradition wont be broken just yet."

Kakashi nodded.

"Are you excited to be a big brother, Itachi?" Minato asked.

"Yes," Itachi nodded.

"I think it will do Itachi good to have someone looking up to him," Fugaku nodded in agreement.

"When is he due, Fugaku?" Minato asked.

"Any day now," Fugaku replied, "What about Kushina?"

"Not until October," Minato smiled.

"Maybe the two brats will be friends," Jiraiya laughed.

"I hope so," Minato smiled, "then we can get Kakashi to babysit."

"Wait! What!" Kakashi protested while the others just laughed.

The conversations went on the two rooms, until dinner was finally finished then everyone gathered around the small dining table. After a while people finished eating, and the table quieted down. The thought of the other two blondes, never left Minato's mind and now with every thing else settling down around the table, the topic became the center of Minato's attention causing him to with draw from the conversations and become quiet. Jiraiya picked up on Minato's sudden withdraw from the group.

"Something the matter, Minato?" Jiraiya asked catching everyone's attention.

"Huh?" Minato replied suddenly being shaken from his thoughts and glancing around the table noticing everyone was focusing on him.

"I asked if something was the matter?" Jiriaya repeated eyeing his former student.

Minato shook his head trying to wave it off, "its nothing."

"Bull shit," Kushina swore.

"Kushina," Minato warned referencing to Itachi, "there are children."

"My son is going to be a shinobi," Mikoto laughed, "I'm sure he can handle Kushina's cussing. Now, are you going to tell us what's going on?"

Minato sighed, "these two blondes showed up randomly in my office late this afternoon."

"Blondes?" Mikoto repeated.

"Minato, you're like one of the only blondes in the village," Kushina said.

"I know that's what makes it odd," Minato thought out loud.

"Where there any indications that they were from Konoha?" Fugaku asked.

"Not specifically," Minato shook his head.

"Can you elaborate on these two blondes? What did they look like? How old?" Rin asked.

"One was older," Minato started to explain, "older than me, maybe in his mid thirties. Short, spiky blonde hair. He was wearing orange and black with a white cloak… with flames on the bottom… looked just like mine actually."

"Maybe he's a fan of the Yondaime?" Obito laughed.

Minato laughed a little, "Anyways, the other one was young; genin age, like twelve or thirteen? He was dressed in black and white with a little bit of red. Same blonde spiky hair but looked a little more tamed."

"Hm," Kushina thought, "I guess they are related?"

"Ah," Minato nodded, "he called the other one dad…"

And the older one corrected him with Hokage-sama…. Minato thought.

"So father and son," Fugaku nodded

"Maybe they are visiting and accidently went into the Hokage's office?" Obito suggested.

"I don't think so," Minato shook his head.

"Why's that?" Rin asked.

"They're shinobi," Minato replied.

"How do you know?" Itachi spoke up.

"What's bothering me the most… well there are a few things," Minato replied, "the first is that they looked just like me, to point where it was like looking in the mirror with the older one. The second was the way they looked at me. The elder one looked pissed and like he was going to attack me, even more so when I asked if I could help them. The younger one looked at me like he'd seen a ghost or something. He looked terrified. But they knew who I was. The younger even went as far as to ask the elder one. And when they first walked in, the elder one corrected the younger by saying 'its Hokage-sama,' which I don't know if he was referring to himself or me. But…"

Minato paused.

"But what?" Kushina pushed knowing something big was bothering him.

"The older one…" Minato started but looked down at the hand he had rested on the table, "he's…"

"He's what, Minato," Kushina pressed with a harsher tone forcing Minato to spit it out.

Minato looked up a very serious look on his face that many hadn't seen in a while.

"He's a lot stronger than me."