Himawari Kidnapped!

While Kawaki handles cleaning duty at the Academy, Himawari heads out shopping and lingers with her classmates Osuka and Neon. After the girls part ways, two masked men seize Himawari and Osuka, leaving only a dropped sunflower pendant behind. The men had only meant to grab the wealthy Osuka for ransom, and taking the Hokage's daughter complicates everything. Their leader, a rogue ninja called Aniki, recognizes Himawari at once and decides to sell her to someone who holds a grudge against Naruto.

Back at the Academy, Kawaki notices Himawari never returned and spots her fallen pendant, quickly piecing together that she was likely taken alongside Osuka. With Batora, Kae, and later Neon helping, the group chases every lead, from Osuka's household reading the ransom note to Neon's mother's home. Neon, who understands Osuka's strained feelings toward her often-absent mother Hibari, turns out to hold the key to tracking the captives down.

Held captive, Himawari stays remarkably composed, assuring the frightened kidnappers that her father would never demand harsh punishment and might even forgive them if they apologized. The two men confess they turned to crime after failing out of the Academy and drifting through jobs they could not keep, with Aniki, a deserter genin, taking them in. When the pair doze off, Himawari and Osuka attempt an escape, with Himawari striking at Aniki while Osuka binds the other man, and Osuka pleading for her friend to be freed.

Kawaki crashes through the ceiling and pulls the girls to safety just as the others arrive. Aniki traps Kawaki behind a wall of fire and attacks, but the flames leave Kawaki unharmed and he knocks the rogue out cold. As the police take over, Kawaki returns the sunflower pendant. Neon reveals she located them using a drone whose tracking function her mother and Hibari built together from a Yamanaka technique. Hibari arrives to reconcile with Osuka, the discarded item that hurt her daughter turning out to be nothing more than expired pudding, and she invites everyone to share dessert. Aniki, meanwhile, curses the unnamed superior who set him to the task, and a hooded figure watches Kae from the trees.

This episode belongs to the Kawaki and Himawari Academy arc of the Boruto anime. It aired in Japan on September 11, 2022, and in English on March 26, 2024. The opening theme is Kirarirari and the ending theme is Biboroku.