Himawari's Birthday

On the moon, Urashiki Otsutsuki confronts Toneri, revealing that the clan's main branch has been watching his struggles and questioning why he still shields the planet. When Toneri lashes out, Urashiki pins him with a chakra thread and uses a special powder to lock him in frozen time for ten thousand years, since clan law forbids killing one of their own. As Urashiki leaves, Toneri can only worry that Boruto is not yet ready. Back in the village, Naruto gives an interview stressing that the younger generation must learn how peace was bought with the sacrifices of the last war, and he shares words of advice for the genin about to sit the Chunin Exams.

Boruto, however, has no interest in the exams, preferring to imagine himself becoming a shinobi like Sasuke. When Katasuke asks that scientific ninja tools be allowed during the test, Naruto refuses, insisting the exams should measure each genin's own strength. Sarada finally talks Boruto into entering by framing it as the perfect stage to prove how strong he is, and Boruto heads home to celebrate Himawari's birthday.

Boruto is delighted to find his father at the party, only for Naruto to vanish partway through, exposed as a mere shadow clone kept at the office. Furious that yet another promise has been broken, Boruto snaps at Hinata's attempts to soothe him, hurls Naruto's old worn coat out the window, and storms to answer the doorbell with his fist raised, certain his father has come back. Instead his punch is caught by Sasuke. Flustered, Boruto apologizes and introduces himself, and when Sasuke asks after Naruto, Hinata explains he is still at the office. The boy is thrilled to have finally met the shinobi he admires most.

This episode opens the Versus Momoshiki arc of the Boruto anime and draws on the first chapter of the manga. It aired in Japan on April 11, 2018, and in English on April 21, 2020. A brief animation slip shows Sasuke with a normal left eye rather than his Rinnegan when he blocks Boruto's strike, and Koji Kashin makes an early cameo ambushing Katasuke, a scene the manga later ties to the plot against him. The opening theme is It's All in the Game and the ending theme is Beauties of Nature.