Boruto Uzumaki

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Boruto Uzumaki is a male anime and manga character who features in Naruto.

Biography

Boruto Uzumaki in Borutu: Naruto Next Generations v1 #5.

Boruto Uzumaki (Japanese: うずまき ボルト, Hepburn: Uzumaki Boruto) was the blonde haired son of Naruto Uzumaki and Hinata Uzumaki with him having a younger sister named Himawari Uzumaki. His parents remained in Konohagakure alongside their close childhood friends leading to Boruto knowing their respective children. One day, his father was set to be inaugurated as the Seventh Hokage of the village with the Uzumaki family ready to attend with him. During this time, his sister Himawari wanted to bring her panda toy with her to the ceremony but Boruto thought that he would end up carrying it the entire time. This led to him trying to take it away from her with the two fighting over it with the toy's head being ripped off in the tug-of-war between them. Seeing her toy broken, Himawari in anger manifested her Byakugan and attacked her brother who made multiple apologies to her with little success. Naruto could sense the killing intent in Himawari when he arrived at the scene and moved to protect him but was knocked out when one attack hit one of his chakra points. After seeing this, Boruto tried to run away from Himawari and hid in a closet but she easily found him and from that point onwards he vowed to never anger his sister again.

Boruto later came across Denki Kaminarimon who was being bullied by some kids and decided to rescue him leading to the two becoming friends. In that time, he came to hear about Denki's fathers expectations of him with Boruto encouraging him to stand up to his father for being forced to join the Academy against his will. The next day, he was on route to begin his studies at the Academy when he unknowingly awakened his dōjutsu and noticed a dark shroud surrounding Denki.

Afterwards, he came to be appointed class leader for his homeroom's class field trip to the Land of Water, much to his annoyance. Upon arriving in Kirigakure, they are met by their village guide Kagura Karatachi. Upon personally introducing himself to Boruto, Kagura escorted the class into the village, where the class is amazed by the scenery. Boruto noticed Iwabee wandering off into a back alley, leading to Boruto and Denki pursuing him. There, the three are confronted by Hassaku Onomichi, who Boruto engages into a fight with. The skirmish is stopped by Shizuma Hoshigaki, who applauded Boruto and Iwabee for having guts before walking off with Hassaku. Later, the class met Mei Terumī and Chōjūrō, who welcomed them to their village. Afterwards, the class continued their tour to the Kirigakure Academy, where Chōjūrō organised Boruto to fight Kagura in kenjutsu. Upon starting, Boruto is swiftly disarmed and defeated. Shortly after, Kagura took the class to Memorial Park, where they payed their respects at the Memorial Stone. Afterwards, Kagura talks to Boruto and his classmates about the history of the "Bloody Mist Village" and the Fourth Mizukage, before Tsurushi Hachiya's group approaches them. Realising Boruto is the Hokage's son, Tsurushi attempts to attack Boruto, but Kagura and Iwabee fended him off, leading to him retreating with his friends. During the night, Boruto's classmates receive a message that Denki had been kidnapped, and tells them to come to Pier Number 4 if they want him back. Arriving at the pier with a few of his classmates and Kagura, Tsurushi reveals himself as the culprit, as erects a barrier around them all before having his group attack the students. After defeating the Kiri shinobi and returning to their hotel, Boruto invites Kagura to play a card game with him and his friends. While Kagura enjoys the game, he continues to lament about his past. Boruto however insists that he can't let his family ties define him, as Boruto could relate to being compared to father and grandfather. As a sign of friendship, Boruto decides to give Kagura his playing cards. The next day, Kagura calls Boruto to meet him at the Academy, where he finds Kagura training with Hiramekarei and says the village will be in good hands. Their conversation is interrupted when Shizuma captures the pair with water, who insists now is the time to start a revolution in Kiri. Rejecting Shizuma's words, Boruto unsuccessfully attacks him, leading to Shizuma has his peers reveal themselves and overwhelm Boruto. In his weakened state, Shizuma attempts to persuade Kagura to kill Boruto, but Kagura protects him at the cost of joining the group. Failing to stop him going, passes out.

Later, Boruto awakens to Sarada beside him, who found him and applied first aid. Hachiya approaches the two and reveals Shizuma's intentions and how Kagura was in debt to him, leading to Boruto becoming determined to save Kagura. After Mei and Chōjūrō become aware that the New Seven Ninja Swordsmen stole the village's Seven Ninja swords, Boruto and Sarada approach Mei and Chōjūrō, and explain that Kagura actions are due to Shizuma exploiting his weakness. Boruto insists that to treat the recent incident as a children's fight, leading to Chōjūrō allowing the two students accompanying him in stopping the swordsmen. As the swordsmen attempted to destroy Kiri's Memorial Stone, Boruto stopped them, leading to Shizuma erecting a mist barrier around the surrounding area and separating the three. Boruto then found himself fighting against Kagura, desperate trying to reason with him. As Boruto continued to point out Kagura's reluctance to join this rebellion during their clash, Mitsuki arrived, revealing proof of Shizuma' lies. He revealed that Shizuma and his followers not only conspired with the Land of Waves, but also killing various people in Kirigakure who learned of his plans and refused to help him. When Shizuma took the allegations in stride, proud of his actions, he decided to finish the battle personally when Kagura refused to fight. He unleashed a blood mist that enabled him to absorb enemy's chakra through their open wounds. Boruto and Mitsuki's coordinated tag-team enabled them to over-power the foe. Refusing to accept defeat, Shizuma reclaimed Samehada, backfiring on him as his inexperience allowed Samehada to overwhelm him into a feral state. When Kagura wanted to make things right but was too exhausted, Boruto joined him, taking up half of Hiramekarei and together were able to defeat their foe. The Konoha-nin then quickly ran back to their hotel to make curfew. Some after the incident, the class depart Kiri by boat, leading to Boruto wondering why Kagura didn't see them off. Upon returning to Konoha, Hinata reminds Boruto that he hadn't brought back a souvenir for Himawari as he promised. Unable to bring himself to tell his sister, Boruto lies and says he misplaced her souvenir of Kirigakure Water Cinnamon Sweets, which he begins looking to get in the village. Upon retrieving them, he received a letter from Kagura which explained his situation. Taking from Kagura's boldness at confronting his mistakes, Boruto decided to both give his gift and admit his mistake to Himawari, which she accepted.

Sasuke, however, refused to take Boruto on as a student unless he learnt the Rasengan with the overconfident Boruto going forth to begin his training. This saw him going to his sensei Konohamaru in order to learn the jutsu.

On the day of the exams' first stage, the competing teams are given a true or false question. When Boruto and his team select their answer they are dumped into a pit, which Boruto, assuming this means they've failed, makes no effort to save himself from. Sarada and Mitsuki prevent him from falling into the ink at the bottom of the pit, which is the first stage's true objective and thus permits them to continue to the second stage. Naruto sends Boruto a congratulatory email when he hears the news; Boruto is upset that Naruto didn't send at least a shadow clone instead. Three days later during the second stage sometime later, the teams compete against each other in games of capture the flag. While Sarada and Mitsuki go off to capture the opposing team's flag, Boruto defends their own, believing he and his four shadow clones give him an advantage over the other team's three members. When the Three Senka Brothers make two shadow clones each, Boruto is quickly outnumbered and his flag is nearly captured. While initially reluctant, he eventually uses the Kote to perform a combination of elemental attacks to defeat them, allowing Boruto's team to continue to the finals. While Boruto recuperates at home later, Naruto visits him in person to state his pride in him and encourage him not to lose to Shikadai; Boruto remarks afterwards that Naruto's brief words could have been put in an email, but he is nevertheless moved to tears by his father coming to see him.

On the day of the final exam, the competing genin are scheduled in a series of one-on-one tournament matches, with Boruto facing Yurui. Unable to engage him, Boruto used his Kote to defeat Yurui. Afterwards, Boruto faced Shikadai, where after being caught by his shadow, he relied on using his Kote to pressure Shikadai into surrendering. While in the manga Naruto noticed Boruto cheating and subsequently disqualified him from the tournament, in the anime his cheating goes unnoticed, leading to him progressing to the finals against Sarada and Shinki. During the match, though he teamed up with Sarada against Shinki, their opponent managed to defeat Sarada, before Boruto relied on using his Kote to overpower Shinki's Iron Sand to win. Having won, he came to see his father approach him seemingly to congratulate him on his success. However, Naruto grabbed his son's arm and revealed that scientific ninja tool that was hidden there. This was a clear violation of the rules of the exam with Boruto feeling ashamed at having been caught cheating during the exam. With tears in his eyes, he blamed his Naruto for not being there in his life more and that if his father was there that maybe he would not have cheated.

Lashing out at his father for his actions, the venue was attacked by Momoshiki and Kinshiki Ōtsutsuki in their search for Naruto. Attacking Momoshiki in a panic with his Kote, all his techniques are absorbed, before Naruto returned to save him and regroup with Sarada and Sasuke. Momoshiki then launched a barrage of elemental techniques towards the group, which Naruto blocked with Kurama's assistance. Naruto instructed Sasuke to focus on protecting Boruto and Sarada while he engaged Momoshiki, during which Boruto calls out to him before losing consciousness from Momoshiki's large scale attack. Waking up in hospital, he learned that Naruto was captured, and runs to the Hokage's Office, where he puts on his father's old jacket and feels guilty for his attitude towards him. He is then approached by Sasuke, who invited Boruto to rescue his father. Accompanied with the Four Kage, the group departed through Sasuke's portal.

Upon making eye contact with Garaga, he was drawn into the giant snake's memories which showed that in the past he had been betrayed by his shinobi summoner on a mission which left him with a wound on his eye. It was then that Garaga demanded to know why Boruto was seeking his reverse scale with Uzumaki stating that it was needed so he could find out what happened to his friend Mitsuki. Garaga was dismissive of Boruto's childish views and believed that Mitsuki had betrayed his friend as this was the way of the shinobi. After seeing Garaga's life, Boruto decided to prove the giant snake wrong and asked him to be Uzumaki's temporary summons so he could show that Mitsuki was innocent out in the world. However, he promised that if he was wrong and Mitsuki had indeed betrayed him and his friends then he would allow Garaga to consume him. The giant snake was amused at the deal and decided to accept it as he was confident that Boruto was wrong with the two making the temporary summoning contract. They then approached the White Snake Sage who was amused at Boruto's actions and decided to help uncover the memories within Mitsuki's snake. From there, they determined that Mitsuki had allowed the chunnin guard to live and that there were other people responsible for the attack at the gates of the hidden leaf village.

Overview

Personality and attributes

In appearance, Boruto Uzumaki was a young human male with spiky blonde hair, blue eyes and two whisker markings on his cheeks that made him resemble his father.

For these reasons, Boruto has a high opinion of himself and freely brags about his abilities. Still, his arrogance has made him put no value in teammates or teamwork, believing he can do anything on his own.

Initially, he had no issues with cheating as he believed the ultimate goal of a game or a fight was to win. This led to him initially being willing to cheat in order to win such as his use of a scientific ninja tool in the Chunnin Exams.

Boruto had said that he was determined in forging his own ninja way.

He said that as a man he could take being disappointed by his father for not being there for him. However, he did not want his younger sister Himawari to go through the same experience and thus did not want her to cry as a result. Boruto even said that he would fight with his father if he made his sister cry by not being there for her.

Boruto Uzumaki was the son of Naruto Uzumaki (うずまきナルト, Uzumaki Naruto) and Hinata Uzumaki (うずまきヒナタ, Uzumaki Hinata) with him having a younger sister named Himawari Uzumaki (うずまきヒマワリ, Uzumaki Himawari).

Boruto came to admire Sasuke Uchiha as he saw him as a shinobi that did whatever he wanted and did not do the boring duties of a Hokage. Thus, he was resolved in becoming more like him rather than his own father.

It was during his fathers fight against Momoshiki Otsutsuki that Boruto came to admire his father and understand the weight of the responsibilities on him along with the hardships he had experienced in his life.

Powers and abilities

As a shinobi, he came to learn to harness his chakra and could use it to perform a number of jutsu. The child of two strong bloodlines, Boruto was noted for being a prodigy where he was accomplish anything he attempted in a remarkably short period of time. It was said that he had inherited his paternal grandfather's genius and his father's unpredictability. Boruto came to score at the top of his class in the Genin Exams and was viewed above the rest of his generation where it was said he already possessed a chūnin-level prowess. As a genin, he was regarded as among the elite who excelled in all fields of combat. He was noticeably fast with him being able to quickly get behind his opponents unnoticed.

Similar to his father, he was noted for possessing very large chakra reserves. He later came to manifest the Jōgan (浄眼, literally meaning: Pure Eye) which he subconsciously activated in his right eye when he was 7 years old. Its emergence was prompted by a prophetic dream imparted by Toneri Ōtsutsuki and the appearance of Nue. Originally, the eye was only instinctively activated at times of great threats, as it remained dormant again for an extended period, however, by age 16 he was able to activate it at will. This dōjutsu granted him the ability to detect things generally unseen by a normal eye. It could perceive the flow of chakra enabling the user to see the visible changes in one's chakra and likewise track a target through its chakra. It can also determine the chakra pathway system and its key points, and see through the invisible barriers that connect dimensions.

As a descendant of the Hyūga clan, he was taught the basic usage of the Gentle Fist (柔拳, Jūken) that was a form of hand-to-hand combat which inflicted internal damage through attacking the body's Chakra Pathway System. However, without the Byakugan, he was unable to target an enemy's tenketsu and thus could not use fighting style to its full potential.

Among the techniques known to him included:

• Boruto Stream (ボルトストリーム­, Boruto Sutorīmu) : a technique using the wind release jutsu whereby others helped accelerate the movements of a person. Boruto often used his Shadow Clones to propel him forward and could also have his allies use the technique to increase their speed.
• Wind Release: Gale Palm (風遁・烈風掌­, Fūton: Reppūshō) : a wind release technique where they could either increase their velocity or compress wind into a powerful gale that could knock a person behind.
• Summoning Technique (口寄せの術­, Kuchiyose no Jutsu) : the ability to instantly summon and teleport an object to his location. On one occasion, he made a temporary contract with a giant snake named Garaga that he could summon out in the world.
• Shadow Clone Technique (影分身の術­, Kage Bunshin no Jutsu) : from a young age, Boruto could manifest the Shadow Clone jutsu where initially he could only produce 3 copes of himself and he had to have them in line of sight in order for them to work.
• Vanishing Rasengan (消える螺旋丸­, Kieru Rasengan) : a variation of the Rasengan that Boruto had created subconsciously when attempting to learn the technique. He changed the chakra nature creating a new jutsu by the addition of lightning style into it. This led to a Rasengan that formed and disappeared only to reappear just as it hit the target thus making it invisible mid-flight.

As a genin, he came to be assigned to a shinobi squad consisting of two others and headed by a senior shinobi with them officially being known as Team 7 (第7班 第七班, Dainanahan). They came to be known also as Team Konohamaru (木ノ葉丸班, Konohamaru-Han) that was headed by Konohamaru Sarutobi.

Notes

• Boruto Uzumaki was created by Masashi Kishimoto where he featured in the setting of the Naruto universe.

In other media

Television

• In Boruto: Naruto Next Generations, Boruto Uzumaki appeared in the setting of the anime television series where he was voiced by Japanese actress Yūko Sanpei and English actress Amanda C. Miller in the dub.

Films

Video games

• In Jump Force, Boruto Uzumaki appeared as a playable character in the setting of the crossover fighting video game where he was voiced by Japanese voice actress Yûko Sanpei.

Appearances

• Boruto: Naruto Next Generations:

External Links

• Naruto Wiki Entry
• Comicvine Entry
• Wikipedia Entry

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