Board Thread:Boruto Discussions/@comment-25319479-20160708115044/@comment-30991949-20160710091144

GoldLiger wrote: 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.

Even so, the books being canon (which they're not atm) != Gaara having kids with a character from the book. I translated it, no where does it explicitly say they're in a relationship. The Boruto manga may confirm or deny your speculation eventually.

SuperSaiyaMan wrote: According to Organic Dinosaur, from the raw, it does seem like Shinki is addressing Gaara as their father.

Thank you for letting us know.