Five Kage Sentenced Boruto For Execution For Naruto’s Murder

The Unthinkable Turn in Boruto’s Fate

Boruto: Two Blue Vortex Chapter 13 left us all in shambles after Boruto got shot and watched as his only chance at saving Sasuke was once again ripped out from his literal fingertips. To make matters worse, Jura vowed to kill Boruto for the threat that he posed to the existence of the awakened Shinju. However, despite Boruto getting arrested and taken into Konoha, we have to ask ourselves a fundamental question: Now that Boruto has been arrested and will be charged for Naruto’s murder after 3 years—a crime he didn’t commit—will this be the moment the Boruto Five Kage assemble at long last? How much does a Five Kage Summit change everything? Will Boruto prove his innocence to the Five Kage?

We will discuss the importance of Boruto saving Sasuke and how all of this is potentially linked back to the destruction of Konoha in the flash-forward sequence of Boruto: Naruto’s Next Generation in this newest Boruto: Two Blue Vortex discussion. I think it’s safe to say we need to have a serious conversation about the Five Kage in the Boruto era now that the unthinkable has happened in the last Boruto: Two Blue Vortex chapter, which is the involvement of the Boruto-era Kage and the matter of Boruto Uzumaki.

The Five Kage Summit and Its Implications

Usually, this would be the moment where I say, “Shinju DNA’s love, Shinju’s DNA life, Hashirama cells,” but this is going to be a somber discussion because there are nuggets of information in the lore that has me thinking that whoever Boruto’s defense attorney is, whether it be Class Rep or whether it be Sarada, they’re going to be in for one rough time trying to keep this man from getting his head cut off. Boruto is sitting at the witness stand with Shikamaru as the judge, Kawaki as the prosecutor, Sarada as the defense attorney, and Boruto crying like a baby, holding some prayer beads that have Hagoromo’s face on them because that’s about the only thing that’s about to save this man.

So, why exactly should we have a conversation taking a look at Boruto’s current situation and asking if the Five Kage should be involved or if they are being involved in this matter now that Boruto has been arrested? Well, the answer is pretty simple: This is, without a shadow of a doubt, the very moment you bring the Five Kage together because Boruto’s capture in-universe is a huge deal, and I do believe the narrative has been teeing up for this moment for a while now if we’re being honest here.

The Political and Emotional Weight of a Kage Summit

So, let me back things up and explain what I mean. The stage has been set for a Five Kage Summit as far back as the end of Boruto Part One, and we never got the payoff for it, but now I think that payoff is here at long last. Let me paint the picture for you: When we go back to Boruto: Naruto Next Generations, in the chapter where Kawaki killed Boruto, and the chapter right after that where he’s boxing up Code, he’s slapping around like he’s Jigen, and Code is Naruto and Sasuke, there was a line that was dropped in this story that can be so easy to overlook because it was buried beneath all that deeply emotional weight of the scene at hand.

While Kawaki’s fighting against Code on his way to killing him but not being quite able to finish the job, you had Shikamaru correctly tell Naruto, “Hey man, if we team up right now with Kawaki, we can kill Code, and we can finish off our biggest threat,” or at least the most significant threat that they knew of at that moment in time. And while that was going on, this gut-wrenching scene was taking place and unfolding. Naruto, a man who grew up an orphan and without a family, was now holding the dead body of his firstborn child, the son born after a night on top of the Hokage monument where reason gave way to passion. Naruto first tasted juices that didn’t belong to a couple of instant Ramen, and 9 months later, out popped Boruto. Naruto was holding that kid, and his whole world was spiraling out of control. The weight of those Hokage robes he wore was bearing down on him. It was his dream job, the job he always wanted. It was his duty as Hokage to help Kawaki fight off Code, the threat to his village that he was protecting, a threat to the entire ninja world, yet he was unable to move, not just because of the invisible weight of the Hokage cloak. It was because of the trauma and the shock that came from holding his child, his firstborn child’s dead body, in his arms while he screamed and mumbled and blubbered in disbelief at what was happening. He had tears in his eyes as a result, asking Shikamaru if this was even real.

For Boruto Part One, Naruto struggled to balance being a father and being Hokage. Prior to that moment, the whole world had told him, including his best friend Sasuke, the man who Naruto saved from the darkness, that he had the nerve to look Naruto in the face and say, “You need to kill your son.” For a moment, Naruto got flashbacks to that final Valley and said, “Sasuke, I’m going to take your other arm if you keep talking to me like that.” His son was too big of a threat to be left alive, and he needed to make a decision. Naruto knew he needed to make a decision and knew that his son was a threat, but he couldn’t bring himself to kill him. Yet, at that very moment, he was robbed of even being able to decide that he owed Boruto as a parent because Kawaki decided for him that Boruto needed to die. Upon hearing Kawaki’s reasoning, a scared Boruto agrees to allow Kawaki to kill him. Naruto, a man who had fought aliens with the power to destroy entire solar systems, had stared down monsters of the ugliest kind, in humans who abused him as a child, the worst kind of monsters he’s ever faced to facing milk mommy alien goddesses like Kaguya, Naruto was unable to leave his son’s side at that moment, too shocked to move, and arms that were too heavy to lift the lifeless body of his dead child. 33 years of suffering and enduring had finally caught up to him, and in that one moment, Shikamaru told him, “You have a Hokage duty that you need to see through. You cannot afford to be a father here. You are not holding the dead body of your son. You are holding the dead body of a Konoha Shinobi who gave his life to protect the village, and you are dishonoring that sacrifice by not setting him down and killing the threat to the village that exists.” He told Naruto, who was so grief-stricken that he couldn’t even maintain a sage mode, that he needed to find courage because they needed to assemble the Five Kage when this was all over.

While Naruto didn’t care, and at that moment, the Five Kage Summit was never shown, that line was dropped for a reason. It was a reminder to us, as the audience, that the Kage have a treaty in place, part of them not going out to hunt down the other Bijuu and seal them into people who could be Jinchuriki if they were compatible and start dropping Bijuu nukes on each other. They purge to get rid of useless Shinobi like Kiba and Denki. It wasn’t just because of that agreement not to fight each other. It was also the understanding that they would share all data and intel regarding Otsutsuki Level Threats because they understood threats larger than any of the petty squabbles of the nation against nation. If they had been divided again, like in the past, under the past leadership, they would have been picked off a lot easier against a threat because they would not have been united. In the days after that, we never saw that Kage Summit because there wasn’t time for it. We had Code invade Konoha shortly afterward, Boruto was obviously brought back to life, Kawaki sent Naruto and Hinata on an all-expenses-paid honeymoon, and Kawaki stole Boruto’s life, making him a rogue ninja wanted for the murder of Naruto.

That battle with Code alone was enough for a Five Kage Summit, but now he was the supposed murderer of Naruto. That is something that the other Kage wants answers to. When it comes to Boruto, even after Naruto lost Kurama, he was still more potent than the other Kage. When you add in Sasuke, who went and aided Boruto, the boy they believe was responsible for Naruto’s death, you now have a situation where they have another shinobi that is stronger than them out there to worry about, on top of having to deal with Code.

In Chapter 6 of Boruto: Two Blue Vortex, we learned via Shikamaru’s conversation with the elders that the other Kage was getting impatient with Konoha. Shikamaru still hadn’t officially become Hokage, and they had issues with Boruto. Now that he had reappeared, it was letting us, as the reader, know that the other Kage knew what happened and planted the seeds in our minds that the other Hokage would be coming at some point. It was then further shown to us that the other Hokage had an active role in the three-year time skip because we see Boruto hiding from the Stone or the Sand Village ninjas hunting him down in that three-year time skip. Twenty of them were surrounding his location, closing the net on him, and Boruto was so desperate that he was even thinking of crossing a line he would never be able to recover from, killing innocent people in self-defense, which is why Kashin Koji stepped in to save him.

The Kage were sending out Shinobi to hunt Boruto to answer for the crime of killing one of their own. What will happen now that they learn Boruto has been captured? Konoha isn’t the only village that will want answers, especially since none of the other villages know what happened to Sasuke. As far as they know, Sasuke is still out there in the wild as a threat, having years of information on each of the Ninja villages, including passwords to the barriers that surround their villages to enter them because Sasuke was given free rein to move through the other villages during the blank period as he investigated Hokage’s dimensions and all clues that were connected to Kaguya. They’re going to want answers, which might be too big of a moment to sit there and go, “Let’s get on a ninja Zoom call and let’s have a meeting. Hey, Shikamaru, make sure to have Denki get on stream. That way, he can stream Boruto’s interrogation via Ninja Live so we can all tune in.” This might warrant the Kage hopping on that Thunder train and riding down personally for this one.

That’s going to force Shikamaru’s hand. Right now, it’s not just the people of Konoha who want Boruto’s head. It’s the entire Ninja World itself, which speaks volumes about how beloved Naruto was as a Hokage. I cannot stress that enough, and just as a figure in the history of the Ninja World itself, when it’s all said and done, Naruto might very well be this mythological being the way the Sage of Six Paths was. When you get a thousand years into the history of the Ninja World itself, this is one of those inflection point moments where things will never be the same moving forward after this.

Boruto survives this whole thing; the flash-forward sequence tells us as much, but the conflict comes from the fact that we don’t see how he gets out of this situation. It looks grim right now. This interrogation of Boruto is essential because it goes back to the Five Kage Summit point earlier, and they’re treating their petty squabbles as humans. It is not as important as everything we’ve seen unfold here. It’s dramatic irony at play, making it so beautiful. We, as the audience, know that not only do they have Jura and the other three awakened Shinju out there to worry about, as well as Code, who’s out there in the wilderness looking for a new meaning of life or he’s training with Scooby-Doo and Sonic the Hedgehog and Yogi Bear and the Teen Titans before he comes back to Konoha to say he’s got to finish his story to honor his dead daddy Isshiki, but also the fact that there’s another Shinju that has been awakened, one that Boruto doesn’t yet know exists at this point in the timeline.

The other Kage has to be made aware of the coming threat, and Boruto is the only one who can do so. This is the only trump card he has left to play to keep them from killing him. They need Boruto a lot more than Boruto might need them, and it’s because Boruto has intel on what they’re dealing with. They have to rethink their entire strategy from this point on. He is essentially in a position to do what Amado is notorious for doing, only instead of making the problem intentionally to come back and say, “That sucks that you got this horrible stain in the carpet, but I got the right thing to get the stain out. I’m just not going to tell you that I’m responsible for the stain being there in the first place,” the way Amado will purposely do to make himself indispensable. Boruto is in that position where they cannot do without him because he is the only one they have right now who has extensive knowledge of the threat they’re facing. He’s the strongest person they had to go against them outside of Daemon, but based on everything we’ve seen so far with Daemon, as long as he’s resting on those soft, long legs of Eida and Patrol, this man is not getting up anytime soon to fight someone unless he has to. The only fight we saw him have was when Code attacked him, and it was self-defense, and he decided to be a little mush-face menace and start bullying Boruto and Kawaki, which I forever love.

This is where it gets exciting. Kawaki did all this work to make it easier for Boruto to be killed, and this is the very moment he has been building towards since Chapter 80 of Boruto: Naruto Next Generations and he is now right back in the exact spot that he was in in Boruto: Naruto Next Generations Chapter 79 right before he cast Omnipotence. That’s the irony of it. He’s learning that it wasn’t because Boruto was just Naruto’s son that people weren’t going to be able to kill him; that was a significant component in it, and if you just say Kawaki is suitable for that reason, you’re not wrong. He’s technically correct, but it wasn’t the only reason Boruto would not be killed. Boruto is just one of those characters, just like the father; he has this uncanny ability to serve as a star that pulls people into its orbit, the same way that the Sun does with other planets in our solar system. You might not see it right away, and you might not understand why, but it’s there, and it’s happening.

Boruto Uzumaki has made himself into the Sun for the Ninja World, just as Mitsuki is shown looking into the Sun, which is Boruto, to be the Sun to his Moon. Just as the solar system can’t support life without the Sun, the ninja world is now in a spot where it cannot survive without Boruto, and Boruto has become the Sun of the Ninja World. In that regard, he’s replaced his father, which is almost as poetic as this anime.

As Boruto faces the dire consequences of being accused of Naruto’s murder, the stakes have never been higher in the Boruto: Two Blue Vortex narrative. For those wanting to dive deeper into the events leading up to this shocking turn, check out the original Chapter 13 of Boruto: Two Blue Vortex, where the foundations for these dramatic developments were laid. It’s clear that Boruto’s fate is intricately tied to the larger forces in the ninja world, making it essential to stay updated on the unfolding story. For more insights and analyses on the latest chapters, don’t forget to visit https://borutochapters.com/ .