Board Thread:Boruto Discussions/@comment-25319479-20160708115044/@comment-24949460-20160709210314

JouXIII wrote: @GoldLiger Sorry to burst your little bubble, but just because you guessed correctly that Shinki and Gaara are related, it doesn't make novels canon to manga. It's sure nice to speculate whetever Shijima is Shinki's mother or not, but unless manga itself says that, it remains as speculation and she remains as novel-only character.

So congratulations, you guessed correctly. Just remember to keep your headcanon seperate from actual canon. I don't know where you've been this past year, but all the novels were canon for a long time. Why do you think Itachi Shinden had an anime adaptation? All the novels were supervised by Masashi Kishimoto himself and he made it part of his canon timeline. So Shijima is just as much canon as Iruka and minor characters that appeared in the manga of Naruto.

So really dude their is no speculation about this anymore. As of YESTERDAY(or whenever this chapter was released) Gaara and Shijima are the parents of this team of Genin. I know it can be salty to those fans that loved that one anime chick Gaara was teaching but lets be real we all knew it wouldn't go anywhere.