Questionable Questing

Thinking what if Boruto banished from the village by Naruto only for Naruto to return him after a set amount of time. Boruto conspiring to take Hinate and Hinwari as his women while his father wants his help and to rebuild their relationship

I wonder what it would take for Naruto to be willing to do that? He's usually the exact opposite, constantly pushing and prodding, trying to have a normal happy relationship no matter how toxic or self destructive it's become.

I'm thinking Boruto grew up dealing with assassins and attacks on his family and turned to the Old ninja ways as he felt the strength and force of the true Shinobi was more effective at protecting his family then his father's dammed peace.

Imagine Boruto went rogue for the sake of the village and was Naruto's Orichmaru

Yeah, but with Snake boy he was dissecting the bodies of loyal soldiers and experimenting on children, and even then Saburato couldn't bring himself to kill him. Which ironically considering their relationship, I could see Naruto making the same mistakes. But the thing is, if you make Boruto a monster like that, then he kind of loses a lot of his appeal as a character.

He becomes a big standard psychopath and while it could be fun seeing Naruto try and fail to help him and the drama surrounding that. It doesn't make him a compelling main character.

Oh no. Not orichmaru as psychopath. Orchimaru as personal disgrace. My idea? Sasuke is femboy mistress of Naruto and mentor to Boruto and Sasuke taught ninja were warriors and assassins. Boruto as fighting for his village in ways Naruto considers against his New Way of peace.

What I was thinking then, rather than a banishment make it a training trip. Boruto uncovers a threat of some kind, and he immediately resorts to a ton of violence. Gets a bunch of people and starts a fight in the streets that also ends up getting some innocent people killed in the crossfire. Where Naruto shows up towards the end, finishes everything going on and then explains to Boruto he knew the entire time.

Basically Naruto was giving the bag guys enough rope to hang themselves, and was waiting for them to make the move first. Since they could also be followers of the old ways like you said. Who wanted war and nationalism back, and a lot of them were prominent members of the clans. So in a political master's stroke, Naruto was waiting for them to commit treason, so he could implicate that entire faction.

But now Boruto likes being a old school Shinobi. A Sharpened Blade. Forged in the Fire of War

But Boruto pulling the trigger early, causes a lot of drama since the treason weren't as clear cut as Naruto wanted and a lot of people were killed, creating a bit of a political crisis because Naruto's long been under fire for the amount of control he has as Hokage and lack of respect towards the clans. So he sends Boruto, to go on a three year long training trip with a close friend.

As kind of a homage to his old mentor, and also to get Boruto away from everything going on and how nasty the politics are about to get. With Boruto hurt, angry, and a little confused. Since he doesn't know what's worse. The fact that Naruto was so unwilling to resort to violence that he left his family in danger. Or that he was willing to put his family in danger to achieve his political goals.

With the correct answer never given, and just how ruthless Naruto actually can be is always carefully hidden. Kind of make it some good background tension for the story if you have a smiling Naruto, whose true nature you can never know, in the background.

I am really liking this set up

Now we need to figure out who that friend is and what kind of relationship they'll have for Boruto. Standard mentor? Reluctant spy? Love interest? Relative? Lots of fun ideas.

Femboy Sasuke I'm telling you

He could work, I was just wondering if there was a more obscure character we could go with that doesn't get nearly enough love like Shikamaru. But no your right, it would be the greatest honor Naruto could give someone. Not just training his son but in his eyes Jirarya was like a surrogate dad so he would see it the same way for Boruto.

The core to me is exploring ninja philosophy. Naruto the reformer while Boruto grows up disillusioned by his weakness and the suffering of his family and mix in ancient ninja clan traditions of strong Shinobi getting pick of hot kunochi family members

Be right back going to get a snack. But that does feel like a much more natural forming drama than the real Boruto we got.

Lean into how he's more Sasuke in orgin then Naruto with his upbringing. Make him a cool ninja pride in conflict with his father's beliefs

More a regal prince with money, girls and good looks, to really contrast it with Naruto's upbringing.