The Other World

                                    

                                          
I hope you enjoy ~

                          
"This is impossible." Even Mitsuki said so.
                          
"Kai. Kai. KAI ! KAAAIII !!! DANG IT THIS GENJUTSU IS STRONG ! WHAT ARE WE GOING TO DO ?!"
                          
"You idiot !" And a punch to the head. "You've tried it a hundred times !"
                          
          The three genins met up on the same place after an hour again. And no one found a weak point to the genjutsu - if it was one - nor a clue where Urashiki had gone. Dawn was breaking.
                          
Sarada sighed. "We don't have a choice. We need to get in the village. No genjutsu last forever."
                          
"Yea." Boruto frowned. "But I'm having a bad feeling about this... C'mon. Let's go."
                          
          And so they did. So far, so good. There was nothing out of ordinary except for the huge Hokage faces mistake, at least, for them. But adding to that mistake, the Fourth Hokage was not Minato Namikaze, but Kizashi Haruno. Sarada wondered how her grandfather blackmailed the previous Hokage in order to attain the position.
                          
"So, where do we go first ?" Boruto asked, "Our respective places or the Hokage office ?"
                          
"I'm...not sure." Sarada answered honestly.
                          
Mitsuki, after thinking a bit, suggested, "Let's look around first. And I say we start from the market."
                          
The others nodded and Boruto leaded the way. The village looked more or less the same. Some people were already up and about; taking exercises, opening shops. Every street and every corner was exactly the same. There was no suspicious person they come across as well. Eventually, the three of them decided to head for the Hokage's office after all.
                          
*Knock knock*
                          
"Come in."
                          
The door opened. Sarada half expected her mother sitting there at the Hokage's table, however impossible that might be. She often wondered how her life would be if their Seventh Hokage, Naruto, was her father. Although she would never say that to anyone and right then, she would be lying is she wasn't a tad ecstatic about this. But what met them was not Sakura Haruno. However, Ino Yamanaka, blond hair trimmed at shoulder length, greeted them. She seemed to be arranging the papers before they came.
                          
"Oh, Anma-kun, Sarada-chan, Mitsuki-kun. You guys are already home ?" The softness in her voice was uncanny and the three genins almost shudder. They had never seen, not even in their wildest dreams, the beautiful, strong hearted, hard working, obsessive Yamanaka this...this... There's no word.
                          
Boruto's, and not only his, eyes bulged.
                          
Anma ?!
                          
"...y-yea." Sarada barely got a word out.
                          
Boruto was able to ask despite their surprise, "W-well, we were just looking for da- Ah, I mean Sakura-san."
                          
"Aa, didn't you kids know ? She already left for the Kage Summit. I thought at least she would tell you, Sarada-chan. Or maybe you guys are simply too forgettable, ufu."
                          
ufu
                          
"What the heck." Boruto murmured.
                          
"T-thanks, Ino-san." Are they even allowed to call this stranger, that ? Sarada forced a smile. "I guess we'll be going."
                          
"Alright. Oh, how did your training go, you three ? I hope you didn't give Konohamaru-kun a hard time, ufu."
                          
ufu
                          
Boruto and Sarada were speechless at this point.
                          
"We're not yet that strong, Ino-san." Mitsuki gave her one of his signature smile, eye closed and seemingly sincere. He was undoubtly the best actor among the three.