Sasuke is literally the angsty father who lets his kids run into danger and is like, "they have to learn". Very much in line with the rest of his family and his general upbringing, so it's really not surprising.

I'm glad Sarada really got to have that bonding moment with her dad though, it must be really refreshing to not be chasing after a shadow for once and actually have it acknowledge you. yes, that is how shadows work.

Amazing fanfic! I loved reading it :)) You're an amazing writer and I can't wait to read your other works. This is actually one of if not the first fanfic I've read that took place in Boruto and I loved it! Anyways awesome fanfic n 'till next time

I must say the story line is fresh and each chapter is very well written and impossible to put down. I hope there is a part 2

wow this was super intense! the plot thickens...

Hey :D so I finally managed to read a bit more :D
Himawari is safe! that's good. Poor hinata has to go through hell here. Of course Sasuke and Sakura still do.
I was a bit surprised how quickly the himawari situation was dealt with tbh, but I guess it was all just a distraction and all my theories were just wrong... so yeah XD

Also, I find the Komma between 'Uchiha, Sasuke' a bit distracting :o I don't think that should be there.

This is a sweet start, but I didn't like one thing. Some of your lines spoken by Sasuke are put in separate paragraphs that are one after the other, and it was just kinda disorienting. Starting a new line of speech in a new paragraph usually means another person is talking, so that just messed me up.

Other than that, though, I like how this story started. Their confrontation was pretty real feeling and not something that was simply gonna be instahealed with a 'my bad, bruh, we good?'

It seems like you're planning on a story with more nuance and depth than that, and I'm looking forward to reading it.

Okay ... So, I'm kind of back where I started at several chapters ago. I don't trust Bhanti XD
Though I don't expect that he's some evil mastermind who wants to hurt sarada, I could see this being some elaborate ploy to tell Sasuke something about Itachi. Itachi and he are clearly involved.

It's not too easy to understand all that's going on. Like the case just exploded with two missing girl and ... you really had to bring in this cliffhanger where you don't tell us about what Sarada could read with her sharingan.

The fact that Himawari is missing now too makes me think that maybe it's abou both Sasuke and Naruto :o But if that were the case they could have also just taken Boruto when they had the chance... maybe they need a byakugan and a sharingan?

Well I guess I'm getting nowhere like this.

Oh, what happened here!
So Sarada was/is in the process of being kidnapped? :o That's not good, and Sasuke will not be happy!

I actually wanted to comment how interesting I thought the first part was. I have no idea about buddhist religion and temples. At least not beyond some general knowledge. You clearly either know a lot or at least did your research well. That was very interesting to read. It's also a bit of a new thing to essentially read a buddhist service/sermon in a story. Didn't really have that before.
I wonder if Sarada can maybe take some of these lessons and ideas and apply them to her later life, maybe her relationship with Sasuke.

And then the action happened. Oh, dear, they can't be left alone. Well, I guess if it really is Orochimaru - though I'm not really certain it is - he was always stubborn when he really wanted something.
This action scene I thought felt a bit passive. I don'T know. It felt more like a retelling or description, than actually being in it. I think what I had most issue with was the "Despite desperate calls of his name, he does not move." I think I would have preferred to actually hear the calls.

Poor Mitsuki suffering a heatstroke. I wouldn't even get the idea to use something like that.
Also ... Sakura, please, it's Orochimaru. You know him well enough xD Everytime a question starts with 'What kind of twisted monster would...' you know it's probably going to be Orochimaru XD

I liked this one a lot.
It's time someone tells Sarada about Itachi ... reading it it's really funny, but its really slowly time for her to find out, that the person Crow remembers when eating Tomatoes is probably the same she thinks of when she buys them.
Also Bhanti says some things to Sarada that she really needed to hear. While it's totally believable for a girl her age to be more egocentrical with her world view and see her own problems primarily, it's good that finally somebody points out that this whole seperation wasn't easy for Sasuke either.

One minor critizism is something I've been thinking for a while now, though haven't really brought it up, because I'm still only 10 chapters in and there's still a lot to come. It's also not that bad, because it fits Sasuke's character and the general awkwardness that he doesn't really know what to do. But now I thought I just bring it up and then look if maybe this changes in later chapters: Sasuke does not take the initiative ... ever.
There might be some exceptions I'm forgetting. But this is something I realized earlier on and so far that appearance has stuck. This is a story about Sasuke trying to gain the forgiveness of his daughter, and of the two of them to get to know each other and build a relationship. While it is believable that Sasuke is rather quiet and doesn't push Sarada, also doesn't know how to go about it, because of who he is as a person ... it doesn't really go with the theme of the story I think. Especially in the beginning (now too though not quite as obviously) we could read Sasuke's very sad thoughts about how he wants to reconect with his daughter and is willing to do pretty much everything to gain her acceptence ... but he never really does anything by himself. For the most part he's just sitting around waiting for somebody else to come up with an idea how to interact with Sarada, or it's Sarada herself. He doesn't tell her anything about him (apart from that small tidbit about his mother), he doesn't plan any activities with her unless Sakura makes him (or so it seems), he hardly even talks to her unless she comes to him first. While this is in line with the character, what we know of him and your interpretation of him, it's kind of hart to believe that he tries really hard, if he doesn't really try all that much from what we see - unless other people force or push him.
As I said ... at the moment this is just a minor critizism. I'm only 10 chapters in and I could perfectly understand if he needs some chapters to jump over his own shadow - since he never had a family, or didn't have one in so long, that would be perfectly understandable. So, I hope that in future chapters I see him act on his own more.

Oh what a beautiful little memory. It always really warms my heart to hear Itachi mentioned in these stories. Having an older and more mature Sasuke thinking back to his brother. I really wish we see some conversation between him and Sarada about Itach later on.

Funny how perceptin of time changes with age, huh. This encounter between itachi and bhanti must be what ... 20 years past, yet he thinks it was not too long ago. Don't know if I quite agree with everything said here, but it's definitally interesting to think about :D

Anyway, I'm looking forward to how Sarada will react and act to the comparison Bhanti made between 'Crow' and Sasuke.

Oh mysterious. What exactly is going on with this Bhanti and especially the connection to Itachi are very curious. I'm looking forward to these revelations.
Also I always like these small father-daughter moments when Sasuke finally gets a chance to offer some emotional support. That was much needed.

Oh, wow, straight into the action. That was exciting.
My favorite part was right after the Kaboom :D It's really rapid then and Sarada's fear and excitement for her first big battle come through nicely. Also later after the battle her shock about the first few death's she'll ever see.
It's very nice to see the clear difference in their professionalism here. Sasukie though he fears for his daughter is much calmer and objective than Sarada. I thought the first part with the clones was a tiny bit confusing at first, but that's the nature of the clones I guess.

Aw! Damn it, I guess the villains have impeccable timing! And that right when Sarada finally found her courage to ask Dad to stay. Sasuke is really bad with the touchy-feely stuff XD He never knows what to say, it's really endearing but also really sad, when I think about why that is.
I like it that we have Boruto here a bit more active :D (Although, you spelled his name wrong in the very first sentence. Not really anything I normally care for, but it was setence so XD guess I couldn't just overlook it )

Personally I'm not a big fan of explanations given in brackets. Before now it didn't really bug me, because it was always just translation (I think). But here you basically introduce Bhanti in brackets which is ... weird, and disrups the reading flow, I think. Even if he's just a very minor side character (even more so since I think he's an OC of yours? I at least don't think I know him) you can write an actual sentence to introduce him to us :D

Oh man, so finally it happened, Sasuke has to go on a mission and leave Sarada behind. But wait! I guess her shock at seeing him there is very much understandable. Her anger too. I wouldn't even be surprised if Sarada is so mad at him, that even possibly having to accompany him to this mission (or meeting him again during the mission) might not completely calm her anger.
I liked her conversation with Sakura, btw. The dialogu had a nice flow and so far, apart from last chapter, she's been a bit pushed to the side - of course, since this focuses mostly on sarada and sasuke, but it's nice to see her be there for her daughter.