all three of them and the missing Yamato would team up together to defeat him.

He even doubted the fact that Yamato could even stop him alone. Speaking of the brown haired man, Where was he? What has happened to him? Did he got lost in the maze as well?

He could only watched helplessly and thought of the possiblity of this moment being his last.

On the other hand, Sakura had just snapped back to reality. She really had to something or else the situation would go at hand. She was disappointed at herself for not being to attentive and this time she was going to make up to her mistakes.

And as she was about to charged at him, she was prevented once more by the Uchiha himself.

"You don't have to fight me, You know what will happened if you did, Sakura."

She stopped her tracks as she was then startled and surprised that he had spoken to her for the first time. Although, there was something in his voice that continued to baffle her.

The atmosphere slowly began to calm down as there was a stoppage of fighting that happened thereafter.

(MEANWHILE)

"I wouldn't do that If I were you."

Sarada took a deep breath as she immediately turned around to face a certain hooded figure in front of her. The raven haired rookie soon went into her fighting stance, she can sense the danger surrounding her. She wondered on what would this hooded figure's intentions be this time.

"You again?" Sarada replied back as she narrowed her eyes in a hostile manner towards the figure.

There was silence that followed giving the raven haired teen another chance to speak once more.

"Alright, If you're gonna try on fighting me, you might as well keep that hood on!" The Uchiha girl warned the person if anything else goes down the drain. She was already establishing her presence as early as possible.

It was also at this time that the hooded figure decided to removed his hood as a familiar face surprisingly greeted the raven haired rookie.

Sarada widened her eyes in shocked as she found herself staring at the familiar face of a person to which she seen before. "Tensai" She muttered under breath.

Tensai stood there calmly as he finally revealed his identity to the girl." You look like you've seen a ghost." He commented with a small smile.

Sarada kept her guard on as she continued the conversation." So you're the one responsible for making all of this happened!" She said, ignoring the other's comment.

There was silence in the air and in between the two, a conversation was established.

Tensai smiled as the young man then moved and sat down on a certain boulder, much to the surprised of the teen. He beckoned the raven haired Uchiha to observed the main scene happening in front of them.

Sarada had let her guard down as she did on what she was told. She turned her attention towards the main scene of the battle and saw the current aftermath.

Tensai slightly nodded." I wasn't fully responsible for this event, I'm only here to monitor on what has been controlled, but sometimes we have to think that some of the slightest actions can change things for the worst." He explained as he freely raised up his hands towards the scene of the battle.

"As you can see, there were supposed to be 5 people in there, The kid over there wasn't supposed to be impaled on that boulder." He explained, before continuing on." I can really see that because of your meddling, things would be worst than it was before." He said.

Sarada raised an eyebrow." So you mean that someone will be killed today because of us?" She clarified the other's statement.

Tensai simply nodded but gave a slight shrugged." Who knows? But once the event has been changed, it will likely happen." He said, before standing up.

"But my question is..." He trailed off as he observed the raven haired teen.

"Who are you people?" He asked." How come I've never seen you and your friend before?" He wondered." You two would always appear on the worst moments."

Sarada gulped as she was found herself in a situation where there's a possiblity that their real identities would be revealed, so she pretended to not know anything.

"I don't know what you're talking about." The Uchiha girl replied." We're merely just rookies that want to contribute in this mission." She explained.

Tensai gave a small smile." Well, rookies that could handle a heavy situation much like what happened back at the bridge?" He said." As if you two know what was going to happened next." He added.

There was another quietness that took over once more, Sarada was a bit annoyed but surprised that the man knew every word to make her admit the truth.

"If we knew what would happened then, what is it you?" She replied back." Why do you care so much about our presence?"

Tensai gave small smile as he moved closer towards the girl." Because, you two were deemed potential hindrances to the plan since from the start." He explained." I'm not the only one who's doing the job here." He added, implying that there are more people like him who has been monitoring and manipulating this events.

Sarada stopped for a moment to think as she recapped her memories, recalling that her blonde teammate claimed to have seen white hooded figures during their first mission and up until now. She's now realizing that there's something up with all of these things happening around here. Continuing her memory searching, she finally found a small revelation.

"So you mean, Lady Chiyo and Sasori weren't supposed to die in that mission." Sarada said, finally figuring out a mystery.

Tensai simply nodded." Correct, although we really had to manipulate it in some way, so that the favor would go to ours." He explained." Now that one of them has been save, I guess we have to adjust to that."

Sarada widened her eyes as she then took a brief looked at the main scene." Then that means..." She trailed off as she focused on her teenage Papa." He was supposed to be saved earlier!" She thought to herself as there was an urged growing inside, which was also telling her to finally enter the scene before it was too late.

By the time she was about to jump and make her presence known, she was then interrupted by the young man once more.

"I hope you don't get yourself killed out there."

She once again stopped her tracks, as she wss beginning to have second thoughts. If she were to interfere right now, would she only caused unexpected changes that are considered to be fatal consequences? Would here meddling be just useless since it would only cause a life or even her?

At the same time, her walkie talkie came back to life as static was then heard, followed by a familair voice.

"Sarada-chan! are you still there?"

"Please let me know if the fighting has started!"

"I'm almost there."

The communication stopped at the same time as the raven haired teen was about to give it all up. When she heard the blonde knucklehead's voice, all of those doubts were erased, as she finally realized that no matter what happens right now, things would still be end up the same, she gave a smirk and muttered:

"Consequence my ass!"

Sarada then gave a short glanced at Tensai, who was still there and to the young man's surprise, she gave him a small confident smile followed by shaking her head before turning back towards the main scene. She didn't care what would happen to her, as long as she would put an end to this once and for all.

(Interview)

"I really don't bother much about this whole consequences thing, someone's going to die out there and here I am doing nothing! What's the purpose of this mission if I don't even contribute to it? Whoever this guy is, I'm pretty sure he's been worried much about this whole thing if ever interfere."

-Sarada

(MEANWHILE)

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Location: Mindscape

It was the one place that he always hated going to. It often smelled like a sewer and looked very much like a giant isolated prison, it was none other than his mindscape. The place where the Kyuubi No Youko was currently sealed and residing and waiting for any chance to come out.

The atmosphere was tense inside as the Kyuubi began taunting the blonde, tempting him to use his power in order to kill the Uchiha.

"This is our chance Naruto."

"Let's show him what we're like when we combine our powers together!"

The fox said as he began to physically manifest in the form of crimson bubbles that build up to form a giant head of him.

"You've waited so long to finally face him and yet still you find yourself on the brink of being defeated once again"

"You're weak!"

The blonde stood there, in front of the cage, where the big fox himself resided, ignoring the tempting words the tailed beast as he fought to keep his sanity in check too." You stay away from this furball!" He exclaimed, showing no fear but calm as he turned around to walked away from the scene.

There were crimson bubbles surrounding the blonde as he decided to walked away from the fox to avoid any temptation. Yet he still received a more number of taunts and words from the fox.

"Get back here Naruto!"

"You needed my power!"

"Without me you're nothing, Kit!"

The Kyuubi was getting furious as seconds passed by. He seemed to be struggling to control the teenage blonde this time and he doesn't even know how the heck was this happening. He seemed to be a different person than the last time he saw him back at the bridge.

The last few moments of him walking away, the big crimson fox saw what appears to be an outline of a taller person, walking alongside the Uzumaki, He seemed to have the same body structure as the kit but more taller and share same blonde hair as him but taller, he had this long white coat with orange fiery designs and there was a simple Kanji symbol of "Seventh" imbedded on the middle of the cape.

The Kyuubi himself was also confused, this was the first time he had seen that person in this mindscape. He thought of every explanations that he could think of but still he can't explained on what was happening in front of him. There is a higher possibility that he may never know that mystery person.

The only question that was circulating around him was that:

"Who was that person?"

(FACE OFF)

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Naruto closed his eyes as he kept walking away from the place, a little later his world began to change and he found himself back on the real world as the light of the sun greeted him first.

The blonde still laid on the ground, beaten by the Uchiha prior ago, Although, he could feel himself recovering fast as he noticed a little hint of crimson Chakra surrounding him. He gave a small smirked as he didn't expected the fox would lend a helping hand this time.

"What made you so generous?"?Naruto thought to himself as he slowly stood up grabbing his own Kunai on the ground.

Now fully recovered, He focused his eyes on the Uchiha once again, as this time he was ready for another round of fighting. He will never give up no matter what as he charged without any second thoughts.

This was also noticed by a very worried Sakura, who tried to stopped the blonde from continuing on, although she was already too late to prevent him for getting another beating.

"Naruto, Please stop!"

With the rest of Team Kakashi, incapacitated, Sasuke stood in triumph as he stabbed Sai on the shoulder, pinning him against a giant boulder. The Uchiha gave an emotionless stare at the young root, reminding him on not to interfere with other people's business once again.

"Sasuke!"

Then again, the familiar voice of his former blonde teammate exclaimed as he then turned around only to meet the teen charging towards him once more with a kunai on his hand. The same blonde, who he had tried to penetrate the mindscape in hopes of seeing the Kyuubi in person but was unable to due to unexplainable reasons.

Sasuke gave an arrogant smirked." It's no use, He's can't even control his own balance." He thought as he proceeded to removed his blade, which was stuck from Sai's shoulder.

He then proceeded to make his next move by swaying the blade towards the charging blonde in hopes slicing him in half, although his efforts were suddenly interrupted by something he didn't expected.

The world around him slowed down in motion as he felt something headed straight for him, He was just about to activate his Sharingan when suddenly he felt someone grabbed his hand from behind, preventing him from slashing Naruto, who also stopped his tracks, and when he turned to face that certain someone, he widened his eyes in surprised to see the raven haired rookie, Sarada Inoue in front of him with a looked that felt like a knife in the heart.

He was distracted for awhile as another presence had unexpectedly entered the scene, to which he also felt. The second that he was about to turned around, He saw what appears to be small blue ball of energy, which appeared from thin air and flying straight towards him with incredible speed.

The last thing he saw before being sent away was a flash of yellow lightning.

"BOOOM"

Everyone was startled and shocked of what had happened just now. The sudden appearance of the rookie, Sarada started it all by appearing beside of the Uchiha in a blinked of an eye as she grabbed his arm to prevent him from slicing Naruto in half.

It was also at the same time that a new but familiar presence arrived at the scene in the form of a certain blonde rookie, who just couldn't wait to get there in time and help the rest.

Boruto stood on top of a debris as he finally arrived after a long run with the maze. How he was so glad of getting out of the endless hallways and corridors. By the time, he was on his way to the exit, he immediately saw what was happening and he decided to take action by using his Vanishing Rasengan once more to temporarly take down his young master.

"I'm sorry that I had to do this, Uncle Sasuke." He muttered to himself as he observed what was happening around him, also successfully receiving reactions from the rest.

"Rookie!?" Naruto was the first one to react as surprised and confusion took over him. He was glad that his blonde counterpart was alright but he was confused because of the ball lf energy that hit Sasuke just now. He hadn"t seen that kind of technique before, but it somehow resembled the Rasengan.

As for Sakura, she was more focused on the Rookie, Sarada Inoue, as all of her concerns regarding the raven haired teen had been cleared. She was glad that she was alright but how did she managed to get out of the maze by herself?

Sai was surprised as much as the others, it was indeed another same scenario happening once more as these two rookies had appeared out of nowhere to save the day. He was starting to realized the negative effects of underestimating someone.

He was really sorry for it now.

For the meantime, Boruto and Sarada stood as they calmly observed the Uchiha, who crashed landed on a boulder. Both of them had that feeling that things were about to get escalated from now on.

There was silence in the air as both of them watched the Uchiha as he slowly recovered from the crash. Unbeknowst to the two, he had a smile and a small tear fell from one of his eyes.

He really can't believed that they were here!

Boruto and Sarada waited as they positioned themselves into their fighting stance. Both also turned their heads to Naruto and Sakura, who were still in shock mode.

"Go somewhere safe!"

"Don't worry, we'll handle this!"

They both warned their respective young parents, before turning their attention back towards the main scene.

As for Sasuke, He wasn't angry about what happened just now, getting hit in the face by some kind of Rasengan was the only thing new that happened to him once and awhile. If his not mistaken, the blonde person in front of him had the guts to performed it right in front of his face literally. The raven haired one had that grabbed his arm, had that fierce look in her eyes, which kind of reminded him of a certain person.

It was all coming back to him right now, the mysterious memories and flashes of dreams, it mean't something more and these two people in front of him could know the answers.

A small smirked slipped on his lips as the Uchiha finally recovered. He stood there thinking about the possibility of engaging these two on a battle right now. He wanted to see how strong they were or how strong they've gotten.

He'd been waiting for a worthy and strong opponent for a long time and these two could possibly be the ones so far.

"I never really thought that this day would come." Sasuke commented as he adjusted his blade." I wish I could've known it earlier, but showing it to me as a suprise is fine with me."

Boruto and Sarada paid no heed to the Uchiha's statements. They were ready for another face off once more as they kept their fighting stances. The only strange thing that they noticed was that their opponent seemed to have a different aura now. It seemed so familiar yet they couldn't figured it out. Although, both noticed an outline of another taller person alongside the Uchiha.

As for the two rookies, they found themselves in a very familiar situation.

"Is it me or are we going to have an unexpected sparring session with Uncle Sasuke?" Boruto commented as he recalled the many times that he had engaged his master on a session.

Sarada could only sigh." Looks like a full blown fight to me knucklehead." She replied back with slight sarcastic tone of voice.

Boruto gave a small chuckle. He knew he was in trouble for being late, although he was going to make it up for it this time. He gripped his kunai tight as he focus his eyes on the opponent.

Both of the two knew that this was no ordinary opponent. It was a young Sasuke Uchiha, former Shinobi of the leaf, and the lone of survivor of the Uchiha massacre.

As for Sasuke, The teen proceeded to walked slowly towards the two, gripping his blade as he was ready to go full on out towards them. The excitement was there once more as he activated his Sharingan and at the same time, his own world began to change back amd forth as the mysterious memories began to flash in front of his eyes once more.

The last thing he saw in those memories was that of two kids that eerily looked like the two newcomers, who seemed to be grown up versions of them. As moments passed by, an unexpected feeling of Deja vu overwhelmed him.

A very familiar scene indeed.

(CHAPTER END)

(Interview)

"We really found ourselves in a situation that was pretty much bound to happen, I've been having that kind of expectation since from the start."

-Sarada

"I never really thought that I would have to face a very young Uncle Sasuke, with two complete arms! It's weird and mind blowing at the same time!"

-Boruto

Extra Scene:

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The corridors of these place were eerily quiet. Showtaro always hated this type of atmosphere in every similar place that he went to. Now thrust with a new task of escorting his still weakened Otsutsuki friend, things could get more worst as the feeling of being watched was always there. They were now heading to the exit, where the rest were located, as fast as they can, they still have the task to assists the rookies and the rest of Team 7, especially for Showtaro who also cared for the teens' safety.

What was to expect besides this?

Although unbeknowst to them a certain silver haired young woman, was actually observing them from certain spot with a wide sadistic grin on her face.

"Oops, Looks like I broke another promise, Tensai-kun."