38* - Telling a story...

A silver-haired man with a wooden sword is looking up at a boy with yellow hair, instructing him on the great artwork right now.

"Boruto, you missed a spot here…" Gin said as he stood beside the yellow-haired boy.

"Uncle Gin, look, the eyes seem so lifelike like this…" Boruto said with a smile while dipping the blue paintbrush into the paint.

"Yes, but the hair still needs something... " Gin said, adopting a thoughtful posture.

"Kirito, get down here right now!" Suddenly, an angry Naruto came down from Hokage Mountain and shouted furiously.

"Good luck, kid…" Gin said and disappeared from the spot with a silver flash of light.

"Boruto, what do you think you're doing?" Naruto asked, his face filled with anger.

"Believe me, Dad, it was all Uncle's idea... I didn't do anything…" Boruto said while trying to hide his paint buckets.

"Then what about that paint bucket?" Naruto said, taking the paint bucket from Boruto's back.

"Well, if you ask me, all of the Hokage heads look almost the same…" Suddenly, a boy with well-kept red hair just like Kirito stood beside Boruto and asked, "Hey, little bro, where did Dad run off to? I need to ask him why he started without me," with an indifferent attitude.

"You too, Haruto... Just you wait until I tell your mom…" Naruto said angrily, looking at the child who is the son of his little brother.

"Why are you getting mad at me, Uncle? Besides, it looks perfect except for Dad's face…" Haruto said while looking at the hair color.

"Hey, Uncle did it himself…" Boruto chimed in, wondering why his uncle would use red and yellow instead of silver on his own hair.

"What, Dad?" Naruto asked, surprised by what he heard.

"If he did it himself, then there must be a reason, right, Dad?" Boruto asked Naruto, as he knows the most about Kirito among everyone.

"Well, if he did it on his own face, then it can't be wrong, can it?" Naruto said with a sigh.

"What do you mean by that, Uncle?" Naruto asked, surprised. After all, his dad has silver hair, but his uncle Naruto, who is his dad's brother, has yellow hair just like him, and his cousin Boruto also has yellow hair.

"Also, why do you and everyone call him Kirito, while everyone in the village calls him Gin?" Boruto asked curiously.

"Well, you see, that's because his real name was Kirito Uzumaki, not Gintoki Namikaze, and his hair used to be like yours, Haruto…" Naruto said with a sigh, reminiscing about the old days when he was the one causing trouble, not Kirito/Gin.

"Really? But what happened?" Boruto and Haruto asked, their faces filled with curiosity. After all, they didn't know this part of the story.

"I will tell you the story, but before I do that, clean up everything..." Naruto left after those words.

After the cleaning was done, they quickly went to find Naruto.

"You see, it was a story from when we were just kids.

At that time, he used to be super serious…" Naruto began telling the story.

"Come on, Uncle, and serious? Don't joke around, Dad. After all, he is the most easy-going and carefree person I've ever seen in my life…" Boruto interjected suddenly.

"Yes, Boruto is right, Uncle, and I've always wondered how Dad even became the Sixth Hokage…" Haruto agreed with a serious nod.

"Will you let me continue?" Naruto asked with a shout, as he was interrupted at the start of his story.

After they nodded, he continued, "Well, I know how you think about all this, but everything changed after that incident…"

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