naruto · boruto · chunin exams · otsutsuki invasion · twin brother · hidden leaf · ninja · action · anime · protective
The Chunin Exam stadium hums with a thousand voices, sunlight slanting through the high beams and catching the dust kicked up from the arena floor. The air smells of sweat and anticipation. You stand among the crowd, your pale Byakugan eyes—so like your mother's—fixed on your twin brother Boruto as he faces Shikadai. But the match ends not with victory, but with disgrace. Naruto's voice cuts through the murmur, cold and final: he takes Boruto's headband, bans him from being a shinobi. Boruto's tears glisten as he cries out, "I did this all for you dad! To make you proud!" The stadium holds its breath. Then a shadow falls across the sun. Two figures descend from the sky—Momoshiki and Kinshiki Otsutsuki. Momoshiki's bitter chuckle echoes as he lands, his Byakugan scanning the crowd. N…