Board Thread:Boruto Discussions/@comment-25319479-20160708115044/@comment-30991949-20160710113655

Which is why I said the Boruto manga may confirm or deny your speculation. It's likely Kodachi will use material from his novel, but that hasn't happened yet so it's still just speculation. And just because he works on canon material doesn't mean all his material is canon. Kishimoto's involvement tends to determine if something is canon or not.

I also said that if the book is canon, it doesn't confirm Shinki being Shijima's son. Are you being purposefully daft?

But this isn't a thread about the novel anyway.