"Konohamaru-sensei!" Boruto called out. "Why are we out here again?"

The Blonde, his team, Shikadai's team, Metal Lee, and a Chunin, Mirai Sarutobi, were walking through an ancient forest, filled with heavy fog and Giant trees.

"We're here to investigate the forest." Konohamaru told his student. "Apparently there have been rumors about strange occurrences happening and that a person is behind them."

The group of nine walked up an incline, leading deeper into the forest.

"Okay, then why are they here?" Boruto asked, pointing at the people that weren't part of his team.

"More eyes make will make this go faster." His Sensei told him, scratching a cheek.

The fog began to thicken even more. They could no longer see a foot in front of them.

"Careful not to get lost!" Konohamaru told the eight kids "And be on alert, we don't know what we're dealing with."

Just as the older ninja said that, he dissapeared in the fog.

"Don't worry Sensei." Sarada said. "The only one we have to worry about is Boruto."

"Hey! No we Don-" The blonde was interrupted by running face first into a tree.

"Point proven." Shikadai piped in.

"Shut up!"

Boruto rubbed his face before crossing his arms behind his head.

"Sensei, how much farther do we have to walk?"

No reply came.

"Sensei?" Boruto said again.

Again no answer. Now everyone was tense.

"Did we all just lose Konohamaru-sensei?" Chocho asked.

Suddenly, the fog was disturbed, followed by a laugh. The eight young ninja took formation. Backs to each other's, weapons drawn, and in a circle to guard each angle.

"Who's there?" Mirai demanded.

Another laugh followed the demanded.

"Pitifully spoil kids." A woman's voice rang out. "Think about nothing but themselves. I only see potential in a few of you."

"Show yourself!" Boruto demanded. "And where is our sensei?"

"Oh your sensei is a little... Occupied right now." The voice said, the kids tensed even more. "But don't worry, I haven't hurt him."

The fog cleared a bit, it revealed a woman, no older than their own parents, sitting on a boulder. She had long, unruly black hair, and wore a ninja outfit consisting of black, greys, and purples.

"What do you want?" Shikadai asked the women.

"I'll tell you but first, what do you guys really know about your parents?"

No one answered, mostly because they didn't understand why they were asked that. This cause the woman to smirk.

"Some of you think so little of your parents, that they don't understand how you feel, or that their childhood was much easier than your own, or even that they are so unlike you you don't even think they're your parents."

Some members of the group tensed even more.

"What do our lousy parents have to do with us?" Boruto demand, stepping forward.

The woman lost her smirk.

"Ignorant brat." She snarled. "You are the most guilty one here."

Her glare cause the young blonde to step back.

"Do you know you father was once hated by your entire village? Have you ever asked him why he wanted to be Hokage?"

Boruto flinched. This stranger seemed to know more about them and their parents then they do.

"What do you want?" Sarada piped up, trying draw the attention away from her teammate.

The women's smirk returned before the fog closed in around her again.

"You'll see young Uchiha." She said. "I'm going to be showing you spoiled kids the past, the lives of your parents and then you can decide who had the better life."

Her voice faded to a whisper and the young ninja were plunged into darkness.

All around them was nothing, just blackness. Not darkness as everyone could see each other clearly, just black.

"This is obviously a Genjutsu." Mirai said, performing a hand sign. "Release!"

Silence, nothing happened.

"What! Why didn't it work?" Chocho asked.

The women's voice rang out with laughter once again.

"This isn't something you can just escape from, this is my domain." She said. "I control who enters and who leaves here."

"Can you at least tell each of us why we are here?" Mitsuki asked.

No reply came at first.

"Oh I suppose it won't hurt." The woman said. "You're all here to learn a much needed lesson."

All went quiet. None of the young ninja said anything.

"Let's get started"

A sound of snapping fingers resonated around them. The blackness was suddenly filled with colors. The view showed a sunset that casted everything with a yellow glow. It was a very pretty site. They were by a river. The sound of running footsteps drew everyone's attention away for the wonderful site of the yellow sunset. They turned to see a young, blonde child running towards them. No one did anything as the child ran right past them. The anger in his eyes was enough to either shock or scared those watching. They had never seen so much anger before, let alone in a child that young.

"Is that…. Lord Hokage?" Chocho asked.

The scene followed along the young child as he ran and ran. The child ran past villagers, which seemed to only make him try to run faster.

'Always those eyes. Why? Why do they always give me those looks?'

Everyone jumped. They weren't expecting to hear what the child was thinking as he ran but it did cause them to look at the other villages. What they saw were cold, glaring eyes all directed at the child no older than five? Maybe seven?

"Dad?" Boruto whispered to himself.

The scene changed to the academy grounds, not that any of them recognized it seeing as it was much different the the much 'newer' one they grew up with.

"What is this place?" Inojin asked.

"It's the old academy." Mirai said.

The oldest had recognized it from pictures, but just barely.

"Look." Shikadai said, pointing to the group of kids off to the side. "It's our parents."

Everyone looked. They each recognized at least one of their parents in the group of kids, if not both of them. Minus Metal Lee and Mirai.

"What are they doing out here? Don't they have class?" Sarada asked.

That's when they noticed the adult, Boruto recognized him first.

"Uncle Iruka?"

"Shikamaru, Choji. You two are facing each other next." Iruka called out after the current sparring children finished. The two boys got into position but didn't move after go was called.

"I don't want to fight my friend." Choji said.

"It's not a fight Choji, it's just practice." Iruka told him.

"Well, then you can say I went out of bounds." Shikamaru told his teacher, he wasn't going to fight someone who didn't want to fight.

Iruka spent a moment trying to argue over this but because both boys weren't going to fight he called it a draw and moved on. After some yelling from young Ino as well calling the two boy either lazy or cowardly. The next fight was Naruto and Sasuke. It was evident that the two boys didn't like each other very much. The fight was very one sided with Sasuke being the winner and Naruto being the loser. The girls all cheered for Sasuke, not that boy himself cared.

"Man, your dad sucks." Mitsuki said.

"Shut up." Boruto muttered. "At least he fought unlike those two's."

He wouldn't admit it but it was embarrassing and pitiful to see his father like this.

"He's not my dad." Chocho said, crossing her arms, "My dad is supposed to be cool and handsome."

"Your still on about that?" Inojin asked.

"Ha, little girl, how much do you know of your father or your clan?" the woman's voice rang out. Making the eight jump. "Let me show you something."

The scene changed before Chocho could say anything. It showed Choji and Choza, Choji's dad, in front of a stone with the Ino-Shika-Cho clan symbols carved on it. Choji was on his dad's shoulder as he talked about how the other kids picked on him and stayed away because he was fat.

Chocho's eyes widen at the words the child form of her father spoke. Choza explain that everyone in their clan was big because that how they fought and how their calories were used to replenish their chakra during battle.

Chocho didn't say anything, she had alway thought her father didn't care. That he didn't understand being the biggest person in their class, and alway stuffing their face that only added fuel to the fire. She had avoid training sometimes because she thought it was mostly a waste of time and that it was just an excuse to just eat some more then physically train only a little.

( please note, I know very little about this matter at hand and just asks that you go with this because it's at least close to the issue)

The scene faded and the black abyss returned

(sorry but the far past is real fragmented in the series and hard to put together.)