So there’s these guys who apparently robbed a bank or something because they’re carrying a crapload of gold or something in a bag and they’re all like “No one will ever find us!” and then they all get killed by what I assume is the bad guy for this episode/arc.
Then catchy ass opening music.
Then cut to Team 7, having completed their latest mission and some randos are talking about how they’re jealous that Boruto is Naruto’s son (which just goes to show how ignorant they are since Naruto is a horrible father).
Then Boruto is bummed because people are always comparing him to his shitty father and there’s a flashback to Boruto’s last birthday party.
Sakura and Sarada show up because they’re awesome. Mitsuki is there and he’s wearing a party hat, and having fun as this is the first birthday party he’s ever attended.
Naruto - to not one’s great surprise - is absent, in spite of his assurances that he would be there.
Cut too some time later in the flashback and the cake is all ate up and Naruto, to the continued lack of surprise from anyone, is still absent.
Then phone call. Turns out Naruto has so little interest in being a good parent that not only does he not keep his promise, but he didn’t even call to tell them he wouldn’t be coming. He made someone else do it hours after the fact.
Boruto, for some inexplicable reason, is sad about his absence but tries to play it off with bravado. If I could reach through the screen and give him a hug I would.
Sarada, being a sweet girl who tries to see the good in everyone even when they’re utter garbage, tries to rationalize Naruto’s shitty behavior by suggesting that maybe there was an emergency that he had to see to, rather than the simple fact that he’s just not interested in keeping any promises he makes to his family.
Then switch back to present just long enough to jump to another flashback later that night. Naruto tried to buy Boruto’s love back by giving him an expensive present (instead of actually making the effort to become involved in Boruto’s life in even the slightest way) and a half-assed apology card (or more likely he made Shikamaru buy it and write the card since Naruto had other things he would rather do).
Then back to present day again, but then Hinata’s like “I want to get in on this flashback action.” and then she flashbacks to the night of Boruto’s birthday where Naruto deigns to return home and plays off his failures to Hinata, which she naturally takes hook, line and sinker because she’s an enabler.
Then she lies to herself about Boruto and Naruto caring about eachother when it’s clear that while Boruto may (for no justifiable reason whatsoever) care for Naruto the opposite is very clearly not the case.
Anyway, back to present day. Boruto went to visit that one scientist dude from that other episode.
And Boruto’s all “Do people think I’m just a kid?”
And the scientist dude’s all “They’re jus’ jelly cause you’re a badass so they make excuses like you’re Naruto’s son. By the way I got you a birthday present.”
It’s some kinda of weird ball. A scientific ninja tool, whatever that means.
Anyway, back to the Uzumaki residence. Boruto returns home and poor Himawari thinks that if she marks her birthday on the calendar ahead of time Naruto will come to her birthday party even though he “forgot” about Boruto’s, because she hasn’t realized that Naruto didn’t forget, he just doesn’t care.
Then Boruto, being an awesome big brother, wants to make his sister happy so he foolishly promises to make sure that Naruto will attend (whom we all know won’t).
Anyway, cut to the next day and Team 7′s next mission is to capture those thieves from the beginning of the episode. Turns out it was a train they robbed, not a bank.
To my honest surprise, Boruto actually mentions the Byakuya gang, suggesting the mission would be more exciting if the thieves were part of their gang.
Cut to Naruto and Shikamaru talking about someone discovering ruins connected to Kaguya and Naruto making excuses about why he couldn’t go to Boruto’s birthday.
Then Naruto and Shikamaru walk outside and Team 7 is there waiting for their mission to start and Boruto asks Naruto to come to Himawari’s birthday party and Naruto, being human excrement as he is, brazenly lies to his son’s face, promising that he will attend the party.
And then Boruto’s like “This is a promise man to man” and Naruto doesn’t even acknowledge it, he just puts his hand on top of Boruto’s head like he considers Boruto a stupid child on account of the fact that Naruto is shisno excrement of the highest order.
Anyway, then Team 7 is on their mission and it turns out the townspeople caught one of the robbers. He came running out of the mine all on his own. All his friends got kill by the bad guy and he went crazy.
Apparently his friends were killed by a white guy! Those who are savvy in the lore of the series will presume he means someone from the Otsutsuki clan, a bunch of people that live on the moon that have white skin and wear white clothes. Like Kaguya. They occasionally come to Earth and wreck everyone’s shit until the good guys give them what for.
Then Team 7 goes into the mines and Boruto is mad cause his dad’s shisno excrement and Sarada’s just like “Get over it, scrub.” which is kinda harsh, but they are on a mission, so I guess she does have a point. They got stuff to do and Boruto don’t need to be moping, he needs to focus.
Anyway, then they stumble across the bodies of the dudes that were killed by the bad guys and find something, or someone’s tracks.
So then they follow the tracks but it turns out it was a trap.
Then the bad guy attacks from above!
Turns out the bad guy is some kind of weird ass fusion of a bunch of White Zetsus.
Then catchy ass ending music.
