Boruto was certain this was the perfect hiding spot. No one would ever find him up here. No Uchiha, no Hokage or even who pursued him now.

There was an abundance of places he could look, but only so many places where he could hide. In the end he chose to hide in plain sight.

Afterall his pursuer wasn't very bright.

He was just like his father or even Boruto's, if you were to ask him.

Boruto clung to the Hokage mountain or rather hung from it. With a rope nailed into the nose he hung from the face of he most recent-and his least liked- of the faces on the side of the mountain.

The view was nice at least.

Dangling up there and trying to make sure all his blood didn't rush to his head Boruto had only his thoughts to pass the time. Things he wondered was what some people might think of seeing the Hoakge's son dangle from a monument dedicated to all of them? He didn't care what they thought anyway. But more important was how long he would be left up here and whether or not he would be found at all?

As it turns out he would have that answer very soon.

"BOO!" a voice screeched into his ear and he was so taken by surprise that he nearly jumped out of his skin and more importantly out of his life line.

Regaining control of the dangling limb he managed to stabilize it and turn to his assailant.

He saw a young boy around his age in a orange gi with blue sleeves and a distinct hair to match his father's and grandfather before him. Though unlike Boruto he had no rope to hold him up.

Instead he floated in mid air.

"You know hanging down from a rope like that you look like a big booger!" Goten exclaimed and then laughed. Like Boruto would care if this Hokages face was humiliated. He was just honored it was him who got to do it. So he of course thought that was very funny.

Boruto joined in on his laughter on the joke and the two made their way off down the side of the mountain.

"You know I bet it would be easier to get around if you flew" Goten pointed out. One of his many bright ideas.

Upon their first meeting he had pointed out a simple observation.

"Hey! Are you a super sayain too?!" Goten pointed at his blond spiky hair "Hey why's is it that your hair goes down and not up?" Before Boruto could even register what that even meant his young counterpart answered by shouting "I wanna go blond too!". He then proceeded to transform into a Super Sayain. After taking in this transformation Goten was told by Boruto that he didn't need to change hairdo's to get stronger; although later tried to change his hair black, then red and finally blue, thinking it would lead to the same result.

It didn't.

"Alright! I've found you! I've found you!" Goten exclaimed happily, jumping up and down for added effect much to the chagrin of his playmate.

"Yeah, Yeah you did" Boruto crossed his arms "Don't have to rub it in or anything".

"Oh now it's my turn!" Goten said wide eyed, barley able to contain his excitement.

"Alright" Boruto said lowering his arms. He raised a finger to him "But you can't-"

"Here I go!" Goten shouted and flew up into the air and outside of the village, which was exactly what Boruto was going to tell him not to do. Goten blasted off into the air to find a hiding spot and he knew exactly where to go. He knew Dende wouldn't mind anyway. And Mr. Popo always made such good food.

But after sitting atop the lookout for a few quite and indeed lonely hours, Goten assumed that his friend had given up on finding him. Figuring himself the victor he decided to fly back to the leaf village after bidding his friends atop the lookout a happy goodbye. When he returned in a short time he landed in the spot where he left him.

"Huh? Where'd you go?" he looked around confused "Boruto?" he looked up to the sky and then down to the ground. "He must still be out looking for me" he concluded simply. Perhaps the game was still on? A loud rumble was then emitted from his stomach distracting him from such thoughts. "Oh maybe while he's looking for me I can look for some place to eat" he said grabbing his stomach which did little to muffle the sounds it made. "I knew I should have eaten more at the lookout" he grumbled in disappointment despite the massive amounts gave him. He began running through the street looking for a place to eat, which would turn out harder than he expected since he had absolutely no money.

The smell from most of them was pretty alluring and he would have easily eaten them out of house and home, but when they found out he had no money they sent him on his way. With a growling stomach and still no sign of his friend he continued on his way.

He heard a familiar voice let out a satisfying "Ahhh" followed by a slurping sound. Turning his head he saw the Ichimaru Ramen. He ran up to the side and pressed his face up tightly against the glass window. In one of the booths a mere inches from his face planted against the window he was his friend, the Hokage's son Boruto. But he wasn't alone. He was instead sitting down and sharing the company of two other friends. Shikadai and Inojin. Now Goten himself thought both of them were cool, but he knew Trunk's dad didn't really like their parents that much. He wasn't exactly sure why something about "inherent weakness".

But that wasn't on his mind as he was more preoccupied with why Boruto was with them when he said he wanted to hang out with him.

The three talked casually among themselves. They laughed, talked and carried on as if there wasn't a care in the world. That was until one of them just happened to look over and find a face plastered against the window staring them now.

"What the hell is that?!" Inojin shouted. Boruto just rolled his eyes. His two new companions watched as whatever this thing was stormed out of the window into the restaurant and up to their booth.

Up close it didn't look like a monster. In fact it looked just like a little boy.

"Boruto!" Goten whined "You ditched me!"

"I did not!" he retorted

"Yes you did" Goten crossed his arms "I came back and you weren't here"

"I was about to tell you the rules again" Boruto slammed his hands on the table "Like no flying off"

"Hm.." the sayain pondered as the ninjas watched him"Oh yeah!" Goten let out sheepishly after recalling their agreement. "But those rules aren't fair!" he managed to find a response. "I can't fly, but you can still do a switch-er roo!" he flailed his arms in defiance.

"Switch er what?" Shikadai asked

"What on earth is he talking about?" Inojin asked.

"It's called a substitution jutsu" Boruto educated him "Any five year old could tell you that" he insulted, and it clearly worked.

"Hey I'm not stupid you take that back"

"And any five year old could do it too" Boruto continued.

"Well your dad couldn't" he pointed a finger a bit too close to his face.

"Pah" Boruto let out as he fell back into his seat, placing his feet up on the table. "I'm better now than my old man ever was at my age" he waved his hand his right hand casually through the air "And I 'll only continue to get better" of course his gloating did little to calm the young sayains rage. Boruto let out a sigh "Alright come on and sit down with us" he patted the seat next to him.

Instantly forgetting all the negativity goten happily obliged.

"These seats are pointy and purple" he stated taking a seat alongside the others. Just as he got himself comfortably seated in his chair a waitress returned with three very edible looking platters and set it down before the three ninjas.

It was then that Goten felt left out yet again because he had to watch everyone else eat while he got nothing. And he was still hungry.

"Hey where's my food?" He turned and asked Boruto who instantly heard that his tone reverted to the annoyance he gad before.

"You weren't here when we ordered" he said simply as he slurped up his noodles.

"But I wanna eat too!" Goten whined. The grumbling in his stomach becoming louder.

"Oh great. We'll start a tab" Inojin stated.

Boruto rolled his eyes "Fine. I'll wave down the waitress when she comes by" he turned fully to Goten "but for now sit still"

Goten nodded happily and sat peacefully in his chair "oh wait?!" He exclaimed "I have to go to the bathroom" he excused himself and ran off to find it leaving only the three ninjas.

"You have no idea what you've gotten us into" shikadai said.

"What's that supposed to mean?" Boruto glared at him.

"Have you seen how he eats?" Shikaku asked "it's disgusting. He doesn't even look at it he just shovels it in"

"Come on. That's enough guys" he said a little more seriously than before. Sure you can have a laugh at a friends expense sometimes, but these two didn't know Goten like he did.

No matter how much they were right it was different when they did it.

"I said that was enough" this time more stern and menacing to his ninja comrades. The two quickly took notice and cowered in their seats.

Goten unaware of the confrontation he left behind returned happily to the table. He was even more excited when he returned to see a plate of some of the most delicious food he's seen. He had little time to thank Boruto who had ordered got him in in a sense as he bag and arguing down all the food on his plate like a savage wild animal.

He also didn't notuce the glances exchanged between Inojin and Shikadai towards a very mortified Boruto.

They finished up they're meal there. Boruto ended up paying for himself along with Gotens numerous courses. Even then he still did not notice the glances exchanged between the ninja youth.

The owner was sad to see them go. Goten had become his favorite customer with all the food he ate hat Boruto had to pay for. Though in the end he had a hard time kicking them out even at dusk; the usual closing time.

So with the sun setting Inojin and Shikadai parted ways with Boruto and Goten. When they were finally gone Goten turned to tell Boruto something.

"You know I never got why he was so pale. He stays out in the sun long enough" he confessed to Boruto.

"I think it's genetic" Boruto responded. He then turned to Goten. "So whadda want to do?" He asked. He didn't inagine this day going on much longer. And they weren't old enough for the leaf villages night life.

"I don't know" Goten shrugged "what do you want to do?" He turned to him. Both them took time to ponder and come up with a solution to this boring predicament. "I got it!" Goten shouted a little too loudly and closely into Boruto ear. "Let's go see if our dads are back" his rationale being that like them probably wasted the day away.

However since Borutos relationship with his father was vastly different that Gotens he merely shrugged in response.

"They probably still on some stupid mission" he sighed. Gotens father being an 'honorary ninja' was often invited to come to the village to take part in S-ranked missions. When he did he would usually bring his sons. Gohan would come less and less as becoming a father apparently wasn't as easy as his dad made it. So training sessions he had with his pupil Marai Sarutobi would take place at numerous different locations convenient to him, cancelled or pushed on Piccolo. She sometimes was even the babysitter for Pan. But Goten more often than not was stuck with Boruto, not that he minded it.

"But if they're back we could at least go check it out"

"Hey sure, let's go"he said trying to mask his emotions of seeing his father which he did rather well.

"I bet I can get to the Hokage's house before you can!" Goten suddenly exclaimed in a playful matter. Though it was clearly bait to a challenge.

Bait which Boruto took.

"Please" he sneered "you don't even know the way"

"I'll show you" Goten smiled before taking off into the air.

"Wait!" Boruto yelled after him. "You don't know the way!". Which was true as he was. going the wrong way, but learning from last time he saw Boruto going the opposite way. Either he was trying to trick him or he was going the right way.

He assumed the latter. In the air he schreeched to a halt, did an about face and took off after Boruto.

The race was on. One last game to end the day.