"I sure hope we make it in time." Sakura said as she raced alongside Naruto and Sasuke. "We've got to." Sasuke began before he turned to look at his wife. "I'm sorry, I should have listened to you." He told her. "It's alright, it's not your fault. You didn't know what they were up against." She reassured him. "Don't worry guys, they'll be alright. After all, even though Sasame is the youngest, she's probably the strongest out of all three of them. I mean didn't you tell me that she almost didn't make it?" he questioned Sasuke as he turned to look over at him. "Naruto's right, Sasame's a fighter. I remember that day when she stopped breathing, but she never stopped fighting for her life. That's a mark of a true ninja." Sakura said even though it wasn't to say that her brothers were weak.
Meanwhile Sasame had still been glaring down at Mari through her sharingan eyes. She had her fists clenched and didn't even bother to fix it when the wind started blowing her hair into her face. Suddenly Mari stopped what she had been doing and looked up realizing the Uchiha girl's presence for the first time. "Well, well, if it isn't Sasame Uchiha. Prince Haru warned me that sooner or later you'd come." She said. "Yep, and sooner or later I'm gonna kick your butt if you don't give me the money back that you just stole from that grave!" Sasame snapped but Mari just simply grinned at her. "I highly doubt that, you're nothing but a kid." She told her.
"You're wrong, I'm a genin, a true ninja of the hidden leaf village!" Sasame exclaimed when suddenly from out of nowhere her mother, father, and uncle leapt down from out of the sky. "Don't Sasame!" her father warned sternly as he too glared at Mari with his sharingan. "Mom? Dad? Uncle Naruto what are you guys doing here?" Sasame questioned. "We're here to protect you, you don't have any idea who that girl is do you?" Sasuke asked her. "Well, no but_" she began. "You're Akuma's cousin Mari aren't you? My wife told me all about you." Sasuke said. "Yes and I guess that would make you Sasuke Uchiha, the kage and the prince told me an awful lot about you as well.
"You were my uncle's pet from what I heard, that was until you decided to run away and become a good little doggie again. However, I didn't expect you to be so attractive." She began. "You stay away from my husband! He's mine you got that!?" Sakura yelled angrily at her. "Relax Sakura, I never said that I wanted to marry him. Besides, unfortunately in order for me to form an alliance back with the Kurosawa clan I have to kill you three and take your children back to Akuma and Hebi." Mari said. "Over my dead body." Sasuke growled.
"Precisely!" Mari snapped as she lunged her fist at him getting ready to punch him but luckily he saw it with his sharingan before she had actually gotten a chance to do and dodged her attack grabbing ahold of her arm and twisting it. "She's using taijutsu!" Sakura exclaimed with a gasp before she widened her eyes with astonishment. "Well let's just see how this little girl is going up against a real woman!" she said before she lunged her own fist at her and punched her in the face. Mari went flying so hard and so far that only Sasuke and the triplets could make out where she was at.
"Alright! This chick is toast!" Sasame said as she saw that Mari was slowly starting to sit back up. "Ooh, Ghostbusters." Naruto said as Sakura simply just rolled her eyes at him wondering why he was even here when apparently he wasn't any help or use to them at all. Sasame dug deep down inside her holster and threw a bunch of kunai knives at her. Mari just got to her feet and with a simple sigh caught them in midair. "Really, is that the best you got?" she questioned as though she was bored out of her mind. That's when Sasame did a few backhand hand springs over to her before punching her in the face. "Not quite!" she exclaimed.
"Sasame get away from her! She's dangerous!" her mother yelled but it was too late. Mari caught ahold of her wrist just like Sasuke had done to her and twisted it around her body and over the top of her head. Sasame gave out a shriek of pain while Mari grabbed her tightly and held a kunai knife to her forehead. "Surrender Sasuke Uchiha, your daughter's life depends on it." She said. "Sasame!" Sasuke cried as Naruto gasped. "Sasame." He whispered before the two men looked at each other before looking back at Mari and Sasame who gave another shriek and started struggling to try and get away from her.
"Hey you, the bitch in the purple jumpsuit." Naruto began before he closed his eyes and then shot them open again revealing that they were now bright red and the lines on his face had now stretched while the chakra of the Nine-Tailed Fox surrounded him. "Get away from my niece!" he shouted on the top of his lungs before forming a blue ball of chakra inside his right hand. "Rasengan!"
Next Time On Naruto The Next Generation; Squad Three's Search For The Lost City of Atlantis Begins.