Metal Lee Goes Wild!

Shino starts a shurikenjutsu lesson that most of the class tunes out. Sumire has trouble with it, while Inojin and Shikadai, drilled at home by their families, sail through. Metal Lee handles the throws smoothly until he catches the two watching, and his self-awareness wrecks his form. When Boruto hurls a fūma shuriken at the target, Lee is sure he can knock it aside, but with eyes on him he fumbles, snags his foot on the blade, and gets hauled along by it. Shikadai wonders aloud how Boruto got a fūma shuriken, since the students are not cleared to use them, and Boruto admits he found it in a locker that turns out to be Iwabee's.

Shino summons everyone involved and assigns them community service repairing the damage Boruto did to Naruto's carving on the Hokage Rock. During the work only Lee's portion remains, and his anxiety causes him to botch the carving and gouge the face further. Shikadai observes that Lee clearly slips up when nervous, sometimes to others' cost. That evening Shikadai's mother scolds him for the trouble, though Shikamaru shrugs it off as part of becoming a shinobi, drawing a rebuke of his own from Temari. The next day, as Shikadai goes to apologize, Boruto glimpses through his right eye the same darkness that had overtaken Denki settling onto Lee.

Lee lures Shikadai off and attacks, then turns on Boruto and Inojin when they arrive, chasing all three through the Academy. Shikadai's plan comes together as Boruto's shadow clones create an opening, Inojin's ink birds distract Lee, and paralysis pins him from two angles, the trick being that the visible Shikadai was a disguised Boruto and the binding shadows were actually Inojin's ink snakes. As Lee strains against the hold, he breaks loose by accident and knocks himself out, and the darkness lifts. He wakes to Shikadai's apology, and the group heads to class. At home, Boruto questions Hinata about the Byakugan and what he has been seeing, while an exhausted Naruto stumbles straight to bed. The following day the boys try to loosen Lee up with video games, only for him to break Boruto's console.