School Trip Arc

Spanning episodes 25 through 32, this is the third arc of the Boruto: Naruto Next Generations anime. It follows the Sarada Uchiha arc and gives way to the Graduation Exams arc. The plot sends Shino's Academy class to the Land of Water, and the events were later novelized as School Trip Bloodwind Records, which retells them from Sarada's point of view.

The class travels by train and boat to Kirigakure, where a young guide named Kagura Karatachi shows them around. They meet the Sixth Mizukage, Chojuro, who hopes Kagura will one day succeed him and inherit the blade Hiramekarei. Kagura, haunted by having wounded classmates during a past loss of control, hesitates. A band of local delinquents led by Shizuma Hoshigaki keeps harassing the visitors, going so far as to abduct Denki to bait a confrontation. The Konoha students and Kagura repel them, after which Kagura admits he is a grandson of the feared Fourth Mizukage, Yagura.

Shizuma, bent on shattering the village's fragile peace, wins Kagura over by exploiting his shame and his bloodline, casting himself as the head of a revived group of swordsmen. He captures Boruto and departs with Kagura after declaring that war has begun. The rebels raid the vault holding the legendary swords and arm themselves. Boruto and Sarada, backed by Chojuro, then race to stop the group before it can strike at the Mizukage and touch off a wider conflict.

To keep the incident from becoming an international crisis, Boruto persuades Chojuro to treat the uprising as a squabble among misguided youths, on the condition that the Mizukage join the students in resolving it within a strict time limit. As Shizuma's swordsmen move to destroy the village's Memorial Stone, Boruto, Sarada, and Chojuro confront them, and the clash between the two sides begins in earnest.