with boruto to Blue Vortex chapter 12 we get a classic example of what the Naruto franchise has hammered home for decades now which is that a ninja must see through deception and sadly for boruto after looking like an absolute monster for the majority of this time skip story boruto has been utterly humble This Time by jur who teaches him the fight is never truly over even when you think you've won so we pick up with the last chapter left off and Boro he saves sorta and he's staring down hidari in the most brutal of Fashions and he is completely p pissed off right now he's got his sword in one hand and in the other he's got the unconscious body of his younger sister himawari and he's got his body positioned protectively between sarda and hidari after the last three years where he's had his parents sealed Away by kawaki he's had his life stolen at the hands of kawaki and he's lost his Sensei Boro is done taking any more losses and the aura surrounding bord to right now it is changed this is Bor already to finally stop holding back because the threat level is too great to approach all the fights that are ahead of him with a restraint manner like we've seen him do previously after Boro sets down himari ordering konah hamu to watch over her hiari goes right In For the Kill by trying to cut boro's head off but Boro being the Swift guy that he is has already begun moving to block using his sword to stop the attack and while hiari is focused on the attack Boro wasting no time and is using one-handed hand seals as he's got one hand on his sheath and this is a pretty big deal because as we're told in Naruto's manga only the most elite of the most elite Shinobi are capable of using one-handed seals putting boruto in that rare class of skill with people like Mino Naruto Sasuke and Itachi but he's also using a very powerful wind relase Jutsu that was a roochi Maru signature wind release the wind release breakthrough Jutsu which uses more Force than the gilp pal Jutsu but it requires less hand seals for the chakra to be summoned with this one move boruto has now pushed hiari through the air and away from the battle further away from the people that Boro has to protect however like one would expect from someone who's made out of the chakra Sasuke uchia hiari isn't taken out with a simple win release and before he ever hits the ground he is shown using his toes to make the claw Mark in order to teleport through it and Retreat and reather himself and this is where it gets very interesting while everyone else is stunned borto is shown taking in the situation and he's breaking down hii's application of cod's claw Mark Jutsu while keeping his sword at the ready to be drawn and while technically this is the right move for hiari it also was an error because boruto is in that small Lista Shinobi who have genius level perception and they only need to see how use a Jutsu once or twice before they begin to start making counter strategies in order to bring you down for every second that hiari is in Retreat he's given boruto the time to calmly process what it is he's seen meanwhile kawak and Delta are now at the locational where team 10 were reported to have been in battle and Delta ends up being the one who clocks jurus location before kawaki and kawak is left admitting that Boro in possession of A Spacetime Jutsu that moves this fast instantaneously it is a problem Delta takes the time to ask the sensor unit the most important question which is where are the members of Team 10 that they were sent to assist his backup and when you think about it she's got a really good reason to be concerned for their safety the members of Team 10 while they aren't weak in any definition of the word they might be lacking when compared to the current threats but to different degrees each of them has surpassed their parents when their parents were the same age and in the case of someone like Cho she surpassed her father from the war but those levels of power they are nothing to a threat level like Jura and Delta definitely knows it the only thing left standing where team 10 should be is Jura and she's basically asking for clarity here where the members of Team 10 where they wiped out and the sensory unit gives her the update that they are currently safe they're headed back to the village and that Boro has appeared with himari and they have joined up with s's location what's crazy about all this is that Jura is just so unserious right now he's completely unbothered by the situation he is standing there with his hands in his pockets he's not concerned with kaaki or Delta and he doesn't really have a reason to be upset or concerned he already not kaaki unconscious once before what's kawaki going to do in a rematch this soon this is something that even kawaki himself knows because he doesn't never make the attempt to charge juror he just stands there in the sky brooding watching his juror is taking taking in the scenery and he's trying to figure out what is jura's next move while it is very smart on kawaki's end not rushing to fight someone who is that much stronger than him it's also telling that someone as quick-tempered as him isn't flying in there blindly because he still remembers that ass whooping he got from a few chapters ago we then transition back to borto situation and things they gotten pretty tense very quickly over there konah hamu once he sees hiari is gone is laying into Boro telling him that his position hasn't really changed and that Boro keeps coming to and from the village like nothing has happened 3 years ago and that's our reminder that once again omnipotence it is still an issue for Bor to deal with his Good Deeds they don't change the fact that everyone's memories outside of himself kawaki adaah Damon solder and class rep they have all been altered the belief is is that boruto is the adopted son of Naruto who killed Naruto and Hinata and that kawaki is the innocent son of Naruto just being told the truth it does not reverse this their memories they will forever stay altered the only thing they can do is as Sasuke and shikar have done trust the information told to them and ignore their memories it's a tragic reminder that Bor to for as heroic as he is he is still seen as the villain in the eyes of konaha this leads to S tell Konohamaru once again that he is wrong about Boro and for the first time we see konah hamu silent as he's digesting her words and what his eyes are showing him before he informs Boro of how hii's fighting style is similar to co but Boro is already one step ahead the time that he spent thinking to himself he's already thought of a way to combat hidari and he tells Nishi to use his sensory skills as a ninja to monitor the claw marks and he walks him through exactly what he needs to do and we once again see omnipotence on full display Nishi is pushing back against Boro saying who are you to give me orders because in his mind Boro is the guy who killed the Seventh Hokage Boro he can't win for losing here but he doesn't have time to go back and forth with Nishi instead he's being brought up to speed by class repons sarda who tell him that sarda was the target of hiari and sarda demands to know if her being the target of hiari and him using Sasuke's Jutsu has anything to do it Sasuke be turned into a tree and before Boro can answer the question that saer clearly already knows in her heart konah hamu is the one who interjects realizing exactly what this means the tree that he saw Moi was trapped in back in chapter 5 where he and the members of Team 10 they all vow to take down who is responsible he now realizes that Moi has suffered the same fate of Sasuke that there's an awakened shin version of her out there as well it's here that Boro lays it out on the table for everyone including us as the readers that each of these Shinju they were directly born of the chakra the person who they consumed and with a serious look on his face Boro says the only way to save Sasuke is to defeat hiari something that as we've been going through the story looked more and more evident like that would be the case but now we have official confirmation that this is indeed true and konah hamu asked Boro how does he know all this information and Boro refuses to answer instead redirecting konah hamu back to being focused because his guard is too lowered and that he can get himself killed and this right here my friends is completely ironic one of the lessons that Boro consistently had to learn over and over in part one of the story was to never let his guard down Sasuke taught him that when Boro tried to approach him when he tried to make Sasuke his teacher so Joi remind him of that when he caught borto off guard during their fight Naruto both times they spar with each other in part one reminded Boro to watch his Blind Side and konah hamu during the owl fight was almost killed by a laser by pushing Boro out the way because Boro had his guard lowered here the tables have turned the Sensei is now the student here Boro is now the one who is reminding konah hamu to keep his guard up before he gets himself killed and this doesn't come a moment too soon Nishi suddenly begins to start freaking out as he sens this the chakra coming from the claw marks and Boro as calm as he is looks over at the corner of his eye and he tells Nishi to keep his nerves about him and he's already clocked the emergence of one of the claw marks at his feet however it isn't just hiari who's coming out of the claw marks instead it is a whole team of claw marks and Boro has immediately figured out what hii's plan is and he begins giving the orders with the assessment and the clarity of someone who has seen extensive life and death battle which in the case of Bor so the last 3 years has been exactly that he tells s don't worry about the claw Grimes he will go through and cut down the ones that he can but he just needs her to be on the lookout for hiari instead of trying to help him fight she needs to only worry about the claw Grimes that are approaching her and as basically B to say asard hiari is trying to use numbers in the element of surprise to get us to react if you focus on battling and fighting blindly he's going to Blindside you when you least expect it which you would have to think that is a tactic that code used in the flashback of chapter 5 when code was battling Bor on SAS screen this leads to conamar on class rep go ahead and stand back and stay away from the battlefield basically saying this fight is above your weight class which that's the right call to make class rapping part one of the story was not a combatant in a situation like this if you can't pull your own weight you just become a burden to others time that they spend worrying about you is time that they could have been spending making sure that the enemy is defeated it it's here that we see Boro quickly draw his sword and begin to start hacking away at the claw rmes while watching the belts on their bodies because he knows at any moment more of them can emerge and even hiari can emerge if he chooses to the trauma from that battle with Sasuke something that he has likely spent the last 3 years replaying that entire fight over and over in his head every night before he goes to sleep it's aiding him right here in this battle where he's fighting alongside Sasuke's daughter taking his chance to write the wrong of his failure to be there to save Sasuke in chapter 5 but he couldn't do so because of his lack of skill and strength this is a much more of all boruto than that one to sard's credit though she's already fought against some of the CLA grinds before she knows their strength and she knows her fighting pattern so as she's fighting them she doesn't have her showing gun on meaning she at the very least thinks that their movements aren't anything that she needs to use a shingan ey insight for with the precognition and she doesn't think she needs to waste the shingon because of the chakra that it requires to use this can also be attributed to the fact that Boro is right there to cover her Blind Side however this is very tricky and it is a risky gamble all things considered when you think about it if you go back to part one of Naruto or even part two of Naruto someone like Itachi even for all the stamina issues he had Whenever there was an actor threat on the battlefield he left nothing to chance and he kept his shingan cuddle on the entire time what we're seeing here is that for as talented as sarda is she is still the byproduct of someone who spent most of her life growing up in a time of Peace which that's no fault of her own and against her defense she doesn't need it against this enemy but it is a very risky decision and as expected it's one that bites her almost literally right there on the spot hear has reached his hand through the belts on the stomach of the claw Grime that she's fighting that she's attempting to kick away and he's pulling himself through it with the intention to devour her something that could have been prevented now that we know for certainty how the claw marck work and what one of the weaknesses is which is that when someone emerges through the claw marks themselves their chakra can be sensed in that Split Second which means that someone who has a showing gun like sarda on top of having the precognition which is now even more advanced due to her having awakened the [ __ ] shingan even if she's only using the three Tomo the effects of the shingan precognition and shingan genjitsu are amped up in the three Tomo because you've awakened the [ __ ] she would have been able to see the chakra hiari emerging through the belt first hand because the shingon can see chakra as a color however boruto's already one step ahead and so he's thrown the shuriken that has been marked with his flying Ren seal right into the neck of one of the claw Grimes that hiari is emerging from and he's got his hand in position to make a ringan instantaneously and this my friends is Boro taking a page out of his grandfather's book by slamming a ringan into hii's back the same way that Mito did to Obito in volume 53 of the Naruto manga whereas Mino used the flying R in stage 2 for a faster version due to caly boruto just uses the basic teleportation and he slams a high powered ringan into hiari which destroys his arm before he can begin to start consuming sarda this of course leads to hiari once again retreating and going back into the entails Dimension so he can recover and reconsider his course of action rethink his plan and what's interesting is that when hiari is finished recovering and he's now appearing in the claw marks right behind Boron and sarda we get the reveal of what his special renegon power is so using his renegon he can produce as many claw marks as he wants which that makes it much more difficult to fight him and it explains how the claw Mark that got behind sard in chapter 11 was suddenly there when previously it had not been behind her it's because he used his renon power it's hii's renon power and sard she tries to come up with a plan to use boro's ability to fly thinking that if Boro is in the sky he can see where hidari is going to emerge from and Boro can just fly down and slam a ringan into him and to a certain degree it makes sense however Boro shoots it down for two primary reasons number one he already can't fly there's no need for Boro to take to the air and then number two the unspoken reason is that Boro he's not going to do something as risky to use sard's bait he is still very much protective of her because of Sasuke's request that Boro protects sarda even if it means just a few seconds Boro is not going to allow that the moment that hiari was on her he didn't hesitate to teleport directly to her so if he's in the air it's going to take longer to just fly down and if he uses the flying rent to teleport to her assuming she's holding a marker he's just wasting his chakra instead Boro gets right down to business by saying he's seen enough with hiari and so he's going to use a full version of the ringa uzio to kill hidari in one blow that way they don't have to worry about the claw marks and so Boro explains to her how this Jutsu uses the chakra of the planet and the rotation of the planet to amp up the ringan revealing that the Jutsu doesn't have a limit to how strong it can become what Boro gave her here was a pretty simplified version explanation but I got a video that I'll be dropping in less than two months for the Ninjutsu handbook playlist on the channel that breaks down exactly how boruto uses chakra of the planet and the concept behind the ringa uzo cuz there's still some confusion with that JSU that video is currently on patreon so if you want it early you can become a member you can watch it there however one interesting thing there is that boruto reveals some information that we previously did not know about this shutu which is that the use of the ringan uzo requires him to draw on the chakra of the planet through his feet so he's got to remain stationary on the ground so he cannot fly but also he doesn't need to fly due to the fact that hiari can't fly either which for someone like Jura and kawaki people who can fly Boro has just revealed a major weakness to the uzio the time that he needs to gather the maximum output and the fact that he needs to stay grounded those are weaknesses that can be exploited by people who can fly and it's just as Itachi told Naruto in the war every Jutsu has a weakness you just have to remain calm and keep your eyes open that way you see the weakness when it presents itself this leads to konah hamu stepping in to use his wind release for sin barrier Jutsu to stop hiari from Landing a shidori on board so from behind and we see once again more lessons from Naruto part one which is that your special moves and your combo moves you better not use them too often in a fight when you use them they better take down the enemy because your enemy survives they will come up with the counter perfect example being how Zaba only needed one fight with Kakashi and his shingan to come up with a way to fight it konah hamu now has figured out a way to battle hidari because he knows the guy likes to emerge from the CLM marks that come from The Blind Side and use the shidori without fully emerging so konah hamu steps in with the win release rossin barrier Jutsu in order to protect boro's Blindside all while Boro gathers his chakra and konah hamu tells boruto to hurry up in get the chakra he needs for his Jutsu however as Boro and konah hamu are going back and four about Boro using this new Jutsu and konah hamu not listening to Boro about his demands to protect Kari hidari has taken advantage and he's emerged and he has grabbed solder from behind and so now he's attempting to make the play of just dragging her through the claw marks and consumer in the tinel dimension that's the smart play since he can't win this fight because he's outnumbered but like Konohamaru sard she's caught on to hii's methods and so this time she is prepared she quickly weaves the hand signs so the shidori stream and she shocks hiari until he releases her which is our sign that she has continued the lightning release training that Sasuke worked with her on part one of the story because she has now pulled out one of Sasuke's signatures to Dory variants she then follows up with her Element of Surprise by using her superhuman strength that she gets from her mother by hurling hiari towards Boro and she tells Boro use that Jutsu you were just bragging about and what we're seeing here is that sarda has used information Boro gave her to put this whole plan plan into play hiari is basically too high up to use the call Marks to escape and he can't fly like jur or bore to kawaki and so Boro at this point unleashes the ringan U ahiko at Max output even though it's not fully complete the Jutsu has not gathered all the chakra and this is where you have to sit down for a moment Boro wasn't lying when he told coat that killing coat would be easy he nearly still killed the guy while holding back and with this new Jutsu that's more amped up than the first time we saw it the SP that Bor or creates it isn't just limited to the surface of hii's body instead it stretches up high into the air like a self-contained tornado the wind damage is only limited to hidari himself and none of the other stuff in the area think of it like hiari has been trapped into an EF5 tornado only the tornado doesn't destroy the area it just destroys hii's body and this is where we see that a majority of hii's body has been vaporized by the attack with only part of his shoulder part of of his arm and his head still left behind but it's too early to celebrate because boruto sees the way that hiari is falling to the ground and he realiz as hiari is going to fall right onto a claw Mark and escape and that defeats the whole purpose of using such a highlevel move like this because the intention was to defeat the enemy with one shot but this is where kawaki comes in clutch after kawaki appears and instantaneously shrinks all the claw marks he pins down hiari by transforming his arm into that wood relased nin ninja Tech appendage that kawaki uses and he quickly fires off a Chaka blast to destroy hiari right through on the spot and this my friends is kawaki acting like that one party member in a role playing game where they just swoop in at the last minute to dish out the final blow and take the bulk of the experience points for the battle and get whatever rare item that the boss drops that the person who beats them gets which in this case it's a rare item that is a chuner fruit but it has spikes on it and it has a renegon and for a now unexplained reason and it flies into boruto's hand and boruto immediately shows it to the toe that's hidden inside of his collar and Kashi Ki reveals that this is the item that they've been looking for it's called The Thorn soul but the thorn Soul what it is the story doesn't tell us right now just yet we have to wait a little bit longer the only thing that you know as of this moment is that the thorn Soul can be used to save Sasuke who's now been turned into a tree which also by extension can save the other people who have been turned into awakened Shinju but then out of nowhere miluk suddenly grabs Boro by the collar and he's threatening him and he's demanding to know how Boro knows all this information and Boro then tells kawaki to release him saying he'll pull a Sasuke he'll cut his arm off the way that Sasuke did when he was interrogating aato and kawaki burst in the room and Sasuke said you want to be like Naruto you can lose an arm like Naruto however boruto never gets the chance to make good on this promise because suddenly a beu dama bullet a compressed down beu dama the size of a bullet bullet is shot out from a long distance that hits boruto in the vital spots and as Boro is falling onto the ground and he's coughing up blood Zarda is rushing forward to collect the thorn soul that will be needed to save her father aaki demands s Delta to check in with them tell them what's going on and we see that jur is several miles outside the village with one renegon eye closed and he is preparing to fire off another beu dama bullet into the village which is absolutely crazy jur is just casually sniping from from that long of a distance which is another sign that jur special when it comes to Shinju and even Delta is shocked at the accuracy at which Jura can shoot and when sard tries to run forward and grab the thorn Soul so she can save her father sard gets shot right there in the arm and she is taken out of the fight this leads to the thorn Soul being summoned by Jura and Jura utters the same words that Jan did to Sasuke when they fought which is where he said the most dangerous between Naruto and Sasuke was Sasuke jur declared Boro the more dangerous between Boro and kaaki because of his knowledge of the thorn soul and says that he has to kill boruto and that kawaki and is good enough to be used as bait to produce a chakra fruit where he isn't wrong here kawaki is 100% atusi now he is as good as anything to be fed to a entails but prior to this Jura had no intention of going after kawaki but now he's got no choice Boro in the last 3 years has learned way too much which leads to jur preparing to make his next move while this is a very action heavy chapter meant to set Bor to up winning very slowly over those who doubted him like konah hamu it was also meant to give us a plot twist surrounding the thorn soul and give us a subversion of Expectations by having Boro use his max output re sing on uz ahiko only to fall in the same fight and it walked a very careful line by having borts and kawaki working together but not work together at the same time due to the open tension between the two getting in their way which makes her almost of a good of a payoff as learning about every Dragon God in fairy tale 100e quest which this video on the left breaks that down and over here on the right we got another Naruto explain video