Boruto and Shinki

Carrying Shukaku onward, Shinki reaches the Land of Fire border, where Mirai stops him before recognizing him as Gaara's son. Since he can only share his mission with a jonin, Sai, dispatched to check on Sasuke's silence, hears him out and puts the border patrol on alert. Meanwhile Urashiki hunts Boruto by Byakugan, shattering a clone disguised as Shinki and pinning the real boy with a borrowed shadow drawn from Shikadai's chakra. Discovering the kettle Boruto guards is a decoy, Urashiki decides to hold him hostage in exchange for Shukaku, only for Shinki's Iron Sand to block a chakra-stealing strike.

Urashiki tears free of the Iron Sand, shifts to the Rinnegan, and evades every counter by teleporting. When Boruto's dojutsu awakens, it lets him predict exactly where the next portal will open. Using clones as bait, he and Shinki corner Urashiki and snap off one of his horns. Urashiki lunges for a kill, but Sasuke intercepts him, having tracked the hunter through his constant space-time jumps. Cornered, Urashiki vanishes without a portal, leaving behind red-energy origami cranes that soon dissolve, and a drained Sasuke cannot give chase.

Gaara wakes in a Sunagakure hospital to the relief of Yodo and Araya, and a battered Kankuro survives as well. Days later Naruto and Gaara agree the other Kage must be warned. When Boruto learns Shinki has been discharged, he sprints to the train station to send him off and scolds him for nearly leaving without a word. Shinki keeps up his haughty front but smiles as he departs.