A Ninjutsu Battle of the Sexes!

Konohamaru arrives with exactly the lesson Boruto cannot resist

Shino brings Konohamaru into class to demonstrate the Summoning Technique. Konohamaru calls Gamagorō, and the room reacts the way any Academy class should when a giant toad appears indoors: everybody is impressed except the one child determined to pretend he has seen better.

Boruto calls the display ordinary because Chōchō has already accused him of jealousy. Pride takes the wheel. He attempts the technique with no summoning contract and produces nothing.

Shino explains the missing requirement. Boruto hears the explanation. Boruto also sees a challenge waiting for a stolen scroll later, because consequences have not yet become part of his creative process.

Episode 4 begins as a class demonstration and ends with the Academy roof nearly collapsing. That escalation is pure early Boruto.

The class moves from animals to sealed weapons

Since students cannot summon animals without contracts, the lesson shifts toward releasing weapons stored in scrolls. This is practical Academy work. Shinobi need supplies without carrying an armory on their backs.

The exercise also gives Boruto enough information to believe he understands the advanced technique. He watches the hand signs, sees how chakra activates a seal, and decides the gap between “sealed shuriken” and “living creature from another realm” is probably not worth respecting.

Boruto learns frighteningly fast. His problem is never the absence of talent. His problem is believing that quick understanding removes every reason for preparation.

Konohamaru sees Naruto's improvisational streak in the boy. The family resemblance is about to become everybody's problem.

One classroom argument becomes boys against girls

The weapon practice turns into bickering about which side is more mature. Sarada and Boruto antagonize one another until the entire class starts choosing teams.

The disagreement is not deep. Nobody presents a serious philosophy of gender. These are children looking for the easiest banner under which to continue an argument. Boys versus girls gives every classmate an instant side and every insult a bigger audience.

Shikadai knows the situation is troublesome. Chōchō is delighted by any contest that lets her talk trash. Inojin contributes exactly enough sarcasm to keep the fire alive. Sumire tries to calm everyone.

At lunch, the whole fight threatens to restart. Shino decides shinobi exercise is safer than letting them keep talking.

Shino builds a capture-the-flag mission

Shino places a flag on the Academy roof and divides the class along the line they already chose. The goal is simple: reach the roof and capture the flag before the other team.

He intends to observe individual strengths, weaknesses, and teamwork. The students intend to prove their side superior for reasons nobody will remember by dinner.

The Academy becomes the course. Hallways, stairs, classrooms, and rooftop access turn into routes to defend or trap. Sarada and Chōchō take charge for the girls. Boruto pushes the boys forward before Shikadai finishes complaining.

For one afternoon, a school building becomes a shinobi battlefield without an enemy. Boruto soon supplies one.

Sarada takes command naturally

Sarada approaches the contest as a mission. She thinks about routes, assigns positions, and refuses to let Boruto's noise rush her team into a weak move.

Her leadership arrives before any formal team or rank. Sarada does not need a speech about becoming Hokage here. The instinct already exists. She sees a group, an objective, and the fastest way to make everyone useful.

Chōchō supplies confidence and muscle. Sumire remains quieter, easy to overlook, and therefore perfectly placed to win while louder fighters occupy one another.

Sarada plans for the match everyone understands. Nobody plans for Boruto to summon an unknown creature from a scroll he had no right to take.

Boruto leads through momentum

Boruto's strategy is movement. Get ahead, break through traps, improvise around obstacles, and refuse to let Sarada enjoy one second of superiority.

Shikadai offers the thinking Boruto skips. Inojin gives the boys range. The team has enough variety to reach the roof if Boruto can stop turning every delay into a personal attack.

He cannot.

The girls' traps work. Sarada and Chōchō block routes. Every setback convinces Boruto that the ordinary plan is too slow. His need to win stops being about the flag and becomes another chance to prove Sarada wrong in public.

That is when the stolen scroll starts looking like a brilliant idea.

The traps make the Academy feel alive

The boys race through obstacles the girls prepared inside the building. Trip lines, sealed tools, blocked passages, and surprise attacks turn familiar corridors into a proper training course.

Nobody fights like a finished shinobi. That is the charm. Their plans are clever, loud, and held together by school-level technique. Small successes feel enormous because every student still carries fresh pride from learning one useful move.

The contest also reveals how well these children already understand one another. Sarada knows Boruto will charge. Shikadai knows Sarada will expect the obvious route. Chōchō knows hesitation is an invitation.

Their future teams are years away, but the class chemistry is already doing the work.

Chōchō turns defense into a personal event

Chōchō does not guard the route quietly. She treats every confrontation like the crowd came specifically for her.

Her confidence keeps the girls from being framed as Sarada plus assistants. Chōchō can hold space, challenge the boys, and make the entire ridiculous gender contest feel entertaining rather than mean.

She also becomes the person placed in real danger when Boruto's shortcut goes wrong. That matters. The class can laugh about team pride until one friend is thrown off the roof. Then the argument disappears and everybody becomes one group trying to keep her alive.

Chōchō does not need a lesson about being valuable. Boruto needs the lesson that her life is not collateral for his clever stunt.

Boruto steals another Academy scroll

Boruto has apparently learned nothing from causing chaos with forbidden or unattended materials. He takes a summoning scroll and brings the advanced technique into a children's contest.

His plan is embarrassingly small. He wants a little toad that can scare the girls long enough for the boys to reach the flag.

That mismatch makes the disaster sharper. Boruto is not attempting to summon a legendary monster. He believes he is adding one harmless prank to a game. The scroll, his chakra, and the hidden force connected to Sumire have other plans.

He forms the signs with no contract and no idea what waits on the other side.

Something answers anyway.

The creature is definitely not a tiny toad

An unknown beast erupts into the Academy. The animal is huge, violent, and nothing like the harmless summon Boruto imagined.

The class stops caring who reached the roof first. The creature attacks, damages the structure, and turns a controlled exercise into a real emergency.

Boruto has no relationship with this summon. He cannot command or dismiss the beast. His success is more frightening than his earlier failure because the technique should not have worked at all.

Konohamaru later asks the same question viewers should ask: how did Boruto summon anything without a contract?

The answer belongs to the Ghost arc and the Gozu Tennō, not to Boruto's talent alone.

Chōchō goes over the edge

The creature strikes Chōchō and throws her from the rooftop. One second she is defending the girls' route. The next, she is falling from the Academy.

Boruto, Inojin, and Shikadai catch her. Their bodies end up dangling from the roof while the creature turns toward them.

This is the moment the entire episode snaps into focus. Boruto wanted to scare the girls. His friend could die because he treated an advanced jutsu like a shortcut in a school game.

Nobody asks which team Chōchō belongs to while holding her above the ground. Boys and girls disappear. Only classmates remain.

The theme does not need a lecture. The rescue shows exactly how shallow the division was.

Konohamaru brings the Rasengan

Konohamaru arrives before the beast can attack the dangling students. He uses the Rasengan and destroys the creature.

The save gives us a lovely generational line. Naruto learned the Rasengan from Jiraiya. Konohamaru learned through Naruto's example. Now Boruto watches Konohamaru use the technique to clean up a disaster Boruto created through another inherited impulse toward reckless improvisation.

Konohamaru is not merely the goofy older brother figure from Naruto anymore. He is a capable adult who reads the danger and ends the threat before any child falls.

Boruto receives no victory pose. His teacher's student had to rescue the class from his stunt.

Sumire wins while everybody watches the monster

During the chaos, Sumire quietly takes the flag.

The girls win.

That detail is perfect because Sarada and Boruto spent the episode making leadership loud. Chōchō became the center of the rescue. Konohamaru defeated the creature. Sumire completed the stated objective while nobody looked at her.

On a first watch, the moment reads as clever class-representative efficiency. On a rewatch, Sumire's relationship to the summoned beast gives the timing another shadow. Whether the episode expects us to connect every dot yet, the quiet girl and the creature occupy the same victory in a way that grows more important later.

Boruto loses the flag and nearly loses much more.

The girls postpone their victory favor

Boruto apologizes for putting Chōchō in danger. The apology lands because he does not hide behind the accidental nature of the summon. He brought the scroll. He chose the technique. His plan created the opening for harm.

The girls had expected to collect a favor after winning. Chōchō and the others put that reward on hold rather than turning the aftermath into more humiliation.

The competition can resume another day. The class just survived a creature none of them could control.

Sarada sees Boruto's remorse even if she remains ready to argue with him before the next bell. Their rivalry survives because Boruto can admit when the line moved beyond fun.

Shino gives everybody the real punishment

The students prepare to leave. Shino reminds them that the Academy is damaged and needs cleaning.

Of course.

Capture the flag has ended. The monster is gone. Somebody still has to repair the classrooms, rubble, broken walls, and roof. The consequence is not a dramatic expulsion or speech. The children clean the mess created by their ninjutsu.

That ending fits Shino. He tried turning conflict into a lesson. The lesson turned into a disaster. He returns to the practical fact that school must open again tomorrow.

The repair work also sets up Episode 5, where one worker rebuilding the Academy becomes the Ghost's next victim.

Konohamaru cannot explain Boruto's summon

Konohamaru wonders how Boruto produced such a large creature with no contract. Boruto does not know. Shino does not know. The class mostly knows they never want the answer arriving through the roof again.

The summoning connects Boruto's unexplained eye to a larger system moving around Sumire. He believes he activated the scroll. The beast's appearance may have used his chakra and timing without truly belonging to him.

That uncertainty is far more interesting than declaring Nue Boruto's personal summon. The creature answered a seal and a hidden plan the children have not uncovered.

Boruto reached into the mystery by accident and pulled out one claw.

Mitsuki watches from a distance

A pale newcomer observes the aftermath from afar. The class does not know his name yet. Viewers will meet Mitsuki properly in the next episode.

His presence turns the closing shot into another question. Did he see the creature? Does he recognize the chakra? Was he already searching for Boruto before the transfer papers reached Shino?

Mitsuki enters the story as a watcher, which remains appropriate for a boy whose first friendship begins as observation. Boruto is loud enough to attract everybody's attention. Mitsuki arrives knowing which light he came to follow.

The Academy thinks the day ended with cleanup. Another mystery is already standing above them.

Sarada and Boruto reveal future leadership problems

Sarada prepares, delegates, and keeps the objective in view. Boruto inspires movement, adapts quickly, and takes risks nobody else would attempt. Both styles can save a team. Both styles can fail a team.

Sarada can become rigid when Boruto's chaos threatens her plan. Boruto can confuse improvisation with permission to ignore every limit. Their capture-the-flag fight previews years of tension before either becomes an official leader.

The class needs Sarada's structure. The class also needs Boruto's willingness to move when structure collapses. Episode 4 does not choose one child as the complete answer.

Sumire taking the flag reminds both of them that the quietest teammate may still complete the mission.

The title is sillier than the lesson

“A Ninjutsu Battle of the Sexes!” sounds like the episode will prove one side stronger. The actual story makes the division irrelevant as soon as danger appears.

The girls prepare better and win the flag. The boys catch Chōchō when she falls. Konohamaru defeats the summon. Sumire completes the mission. Everybody cleans the Academy.

No single result explains an entire gender. The contest gives Boruto and Sarada a stage for rivalry, then the monster forces every student to remember they share one classroom.

The fandom fun comes from how quickly childhood trash talk turns into a rooftop summoning crisis. This school can never have a normal activity.

Sarada plans for the assignment Boruto keeps rewriting

Sarada takes the rules seriously because rules give a team something shared to build around. She assigns roles, anticipates routes, and refuses to let Boruto's boasting decide the pace. Her leadership can sound bossy, but the girls reach the flag because preparation creates options.

Boruto treats every obstacle as an invitation to invent a louder solution. That instinct helps when a real crisis breaks the exercise, yet the same instinct creates the crisis in the first place. Stealing a summoning scroll is not brave improvisation. He reaches for a technique he does not understand because Konohamaru made the result look easy.

Their rivalry works because neither child is simply the sensible one or the fun one. Sarada can become so focused on controlling the plan that she stops hearing useful disruption. Boruto can recognize a changing battlefield faster than anyone and still refuse to admit that preparation would prevent half his emergencies.

Sumire wins the flag while both future leaders focus on the monster. The class representative quietly demonstrates that leadership also means remembering the objective after everybody important starts performing.

Chōchō refuses the role the contest expects

The boys-versus-girls setup invites easy stereotypes, and Chōchō walks through them with a bag of chips. She is confident, physically powerful, socially fearless, and completely uninterested in making herself smaller so the boys can feel impressive.

When the creature throws her from the roof, the moment does not turn her into a helpless prize. Her classmates catch her because teammates protect each other when the game becomes real. Chōchō returns to the group as Chōchō, not as a humbled girl who learned to stay behind somebody stronger.

Her presence also keeps Sarada's side from becoming one personality. Sarada brings planning. Sumire brings attention and follow-through. Chōchō brings force, appetite, and the confidence to say what everybody else circles politely.

The girls win without the episode claiming they represent one correct way to be girls. They win because several very different children cooperate better than Boruto's side does.

The unknown summon exposes a larger problem than stolen homework

Konohamaru knows what should happen when a shinobi uses a summoning contract. Boruto has no contract, no established partner, and no reason to pull that creature into the Academy. The impossible result turns a school prank into evidence that another force is touching him.

The creature does not resemble the cheerful toad Boruto expected. Violence arrives through a technique he borrowed for attention, which makes the danger personal without suggesting he consciously created the larger mystery.

Konohamaru ends the immediate threat with a Rasengan, but experience gives him enough humility to remain confused afterward. Adults in this arc often know more than the students, yet nobody receives a complete explanation simply because they are older.

The cleanup therefore hides unresolved evidence in plain sight. Broken walls can be repaired. The question of how Boruto opened that connection remains, and Mitsuki's distant observation suggests somebody else may understand more than the Academy staff.

Boruto apologizes because the damage came from his choice, even if the creature itself belongs to a mystery beyond his knowledge. That distinction lets accountability survive without assigning him supernatural guilt. He stole the scroll, ignored the contract problem, and endangered classmates. He did not deliberately summon whatever larger force answered. Cleanup is therefore consequence, not a declaration that one child caused every unexplained event surrounding him.

RaeRae's reaction

Boruto watching Konohamaru summon Gamagorō and deciding, “I can absolutely do that without a contract,” tells us everything we need to know about this child. He fails in class, steals the scroll anyway, aims for a tiny prank toad, and nearly drops Chōchō off the Academy roof. Confidence without brakes is a full-time villain.

Sumire quietly taking the flag while Konohamaru Rasengans the monster is my favorite beat. Sarada planned. Boruto improvised. Chōchō fought. Sumire remembered the assignment.

I also love the Mitsuki tease. The class is sweeping rubble and wondering what Boruto summoned while the next mysterious child watches from above. Academy life has not been peaceful for four consecutive episodes, and Shino still believes lesson plans are possible.

Bottom line

Boruto Episode 4 turns Konohamaru's summoning demonstration into a boys-versus-girls capture-the-flag disaster. Sarada and Chōchō lead the girls through traps, Boruto pushes the boys toward the roof, and one stolen scroll summons a violent unknown creature instead of the tiny toad Boruto wanted.

The beast throws Chōchō from the building, Boruto, Inojin, and Shikadai catch her, Konohamaru ends the threat with a Rasengan, and Sumire quietly steals the flag. Boruto apologizes, everybody gets cleanup duty, Konohamaru questions the impossible summon, and Mitsuki watches from a distance. The girls win the game. The whole class survives the lesson.