"Shut up you three." Sasuke commanded, "Someone's here."
The genin assembled into a defensive formation, weapons brandished.
"Show yourself!" Sarada exclaimed, careful not to activate her sharingan and blow her cover.
A tall, slim figure emerged from the shadows. From the looks of the body, the stranger was female. She had long, black hair, tied in a loose braid. Her eyes were red and cold, making her seem more terrifying than she already did.
"Who are you?" Boruto asked, prepping for a rasengan, "Tell us now!"
The woman chuckled softly. "I have no interest in you." She stated frankly. Her voice was sharp and flat, "Give me the Uchiha boy. That's all."
"You're not getting Sasuke-kun!" Sakura shrieked, "If you want him, you'll have to get through me first!"
"Quiet little girl." She teased, "I only want his eyes. If he doesn't bleed out after the extraction, you can keep him."
"What would you do if we said no?" Boruto asked, gritting his teeth, "You wouldn't hurt a bunch of innocent kids would you?"
The woman chuckled again. "You underestimate me. I will do whatever it takes to get what I need. And you won't interfere."
"Try me." He growled, throwing a barrage of kunai at the enemy.
She gracefully dodged them and appeared behind Boruto, knocking him clean off his feet. Sarada jumped into action, drawing her newly acquired katana. Sasuke had gotten it for her thirteenth birthday and she's been training with it non-stop. She leaped toward the enemy, bringing her sword down in one clean arc. Her attack too was blocked and quickly countered with several rapid fire kicks. Sarada went flying backward, careful to break her fall. Before she attacked again, Mitsuki wrapped his stretchy arms around the woman. Noticing the opening, Sarada ran towards Mitsuki and drove her sword into the body of the enemy. As soon as contact was made, her body dissipating in a puff of smoke and was replaced with a log.
"Goddamn substitution jutsu!" Sarada cursed, pulling her sword out and jumping back into a defensive stance, "I don't even care about this enemy any more! We need to get Sasuke and the rest of us the hell out of here!"
Sakura pulled a smoke bomb out of her bag and threw it behind them as they ran as far away from the enemy as possible.
They ran through a rather normal forest, making sure to take as many twists and turns as possible.
"So, Mitsuki mentioned something about you being from different time streams," Sakura started, "What point in time are you from?"
"I don't think it's safe to tell you that." Mitsuki responded, "You don't want to mess up the timestream."
"Hmph. Fine then."
"Let's find a place where we can figure out what's going on." Sarada suggested, "Right now, the only way we can escape is far behind us and occupied by an enemy."
Sasuke stopped abruptly at a small cave.
"Let's go in here." He ordered.
A musty smell filled Sakura's nostrils as she gagged quietly.
"It smells like death in here." She groaned, plugging her nose, "Can we stay anywhere else?"
"Can you suggest any better places?" Sasuke retorted, lighting a small fire with his fireball jutsu.
"So," Naruto started, eyes narrowing, "Tell me, who are you and where are you from? Also, Boruto, why do you have those whiskers on your face like I do?"
"Oh it's 'cause-" Boruto started before being tackled to the ground by Sarada, in hopes to stop him from revealing confidential information.
As Sarada threw Boruto to the ground, the jacket she was wearing to cover her Uchiha symbol went flying off.
"How do you have the Uchiha symbol?" Sasuke asked, grabbing Sarada by the collar and holding her up to his face.
Sarada glared back, undaunted. It was no use now, why not reveal her sharingan? She activated her recently fully-matured sharingan and looked deep in Sasuke's eyes, causing him to drop her.
"You understand why now?" Sarada snarled, "I'm obviously an Uchiha and I don't appreciate having my fa-relative threaten me like that. Now I could be from the past or future, that doesn't matter."
"I know you're from the future." Sasuke sighed, "Mitsuki gave it away when he mentioned everyone knowing my name. If you were from the past, no one would know squat about me."
Mitsuki smiled subtly, "He's not dumb." He stated, his bright yellow eyes glowing vividly in the dimly lit cave.
A sudden realization washed over Sasuke. "Y-you're my daughter." He muttered, his body tensing.
"I could be from any other generation." She replied worriedly, "You can't know that I'm your daughter."
"Yes I can."
"How?" Sarada's eyes were wide, "What proof do you have?"
"I always wanted name my child Sarada." Sasuke said, his voice reduced to a whisper, "And your eyes, they're not mine, but my father's."
Sarada stood staring into Sasuke's dark eyes. She'd seen many emotions from those eyes but what she was witnessing now wasn't one of them. There were hints of awe and sadness in those familiar eyes but also triumph and happiness.
"Who's the mother?!" Sakura cried, breaking the tension, "It's not Ino is it?!"
"I can't mess up the time stream more than it already is." Sarada sighed, "But I can tell you, my mother is the strongest kunoichi in the world."
Sakura's head fell. He probably went and married some girl from another village. Some girl with crazy skills.
"W-wait!" Naruto exclaimed, "That makes you my son!" He pointed accusingly at Boruto.
"Hehe, hit the nail on the head." Boruto admitted, blushing slightly.
"And you?" Naruto pointed at Mitsuki, "You look weird. I don't even know who you look like."
A shiver ran up Sasuke's spine. Something about that kid made him uncomfortable.
"My lineage has no importance to this situation." He stated, "There are several tunnels in this cave and I can sense a strange chakra coming from them. Maybe there's a way to get out."
"Brilliant," Sakura muttered, "follow the weird chakra in a place where we were ambushed the second we arrived here."
"Oooh!" Sarada cooed, "Sakura's got some real attitude over here!"
Sakura glared at the Uchiha. She was living proof that Sasuke didn't like her. Living proof that Sasuke found someone better. A feeling of resentment towards the kunoichi bubbled to the surface as her glare intensified.
"Get down!" Boruto yelled, dropping to the hard floor of the cave.
Several shuriken flew over the genin's head, impaling themselves in a wall.
"Damn it!" Boruto spat, "Not another enemy!"
"Let's get out of here, through the front of the cave!" Naruto suggested running towards the mouth of the cave.
He stopped abruptly and hastily pulled out a kunai.
"Never mind," he muttered, "not going that way."
A hideous beast emerged from the shadows, right in front of Naruto. The beast had greasy, matted fur, frothing fangs, and too many eyes to count.
"Eww!" Sarada groaned, "It looks like a demented spider!"
"Finish it Naruto!" Sasuke ordered, "We don't have time to deal with this!"
Naruto threw his kunai at the beast, all of them hitting their target. The 'demented spider' fell like a log, allowing the children to pass.
"I'm getting this crazy feeling that there are more of those creepy-ass things in the direction we're going." Boruto said worriedly.
"As much as I hate to say it, Boruto's right." Sarada sighed.
"Yeah Sarada agrees with me-WAIT!"
"Shut up mini-dobe." Sasuke spat, "We're trapped here. You understand that, right?"
Right on cue, the evil lady from before walked towards the genin. With every step she took, her hips swayed, making her pitch-black braid move from side-to-side.
"You thought you could escape?" She asked menacingly, blood red eyes glinting in the darkness, "I'm going to get Sasuke Uchiha and you're not going to get in my way."
"We already said no!" Sarada growled, "And we don't go back on our word. Right Naruto?"
"Yeah!" Naruto replied, adjusting his hitaite, "And Sasuke's our comrade, you can't take him from us!"
The enemy cackled, "You pathetic little children really think that you can beat me?"
"Yeah." Boruto said, "Yeah we do."
"Don't get overconfident! You don't know how strong she is!" Sakura advised.
"We'll be fine." Sarada said, "She's just a crazy lady from another dimension. Nothing much."
Naruto launched at the enemy, several shadow clones backing him up. The woman's eyes zipped from one clone to the next destroying them with a single hit. Within a few seconds, all the clones had been destroyed.
"I'm not done yet!" Naruto exclaimed, brandishing a glowing rasengan.
He charged forward, the spinning ball of chakra lighting the cave up. The enemy jumped out of the way at the last second, just to be axe-kicked in the head by Sarada. No normal human being should be able to emerge from one of Sarada's attacks conscious. Much less unscathed. But this lady must have been a freak of nature, because she stood right back up, throwing Sarada violently to the wall. The minimal scratches that adorned her body disappeared as her body was surrounded by a strong, evil chakra.
"Oh shit." Boruto muttered, "We're really screwed."
