KAKASHI THOUGHT THIS WORLD WAS... weird. The infrastructure of each building he saw was too big, the smell was god awful, and some of the civilians here could put Hoshigaki Kisame to shame with how outlandish they looked. Then there was the whole issue with the lack of chakra. How was such a thing even possible? All these people should be dead and—

He was getting a headache from dealing with this. He'd have to ask Sakura to heal it later. Speaking of the rosette, he wondered how she was coping with this. The three of them had parted ways to gather intel, but he wouldn't blame her if her mind kept drifting back to Sarada.

He wouldn't be surprised if his hair were to start from falling off from how worried he was. What happened to Sarada? Did she get sucked into the wormhole too? Or was she okay?

She was probably back home, safe and sound, but scared out of her mind. Those scientists that kidnapped them would've mentioned bringing in a fourth 'alien'.

With that thought in mind, Kakashi was able to stroll around with a slightly calmer peace of mind.

"You guys can't believe what I've learned!" It was Sakura who spoke first as they gathered at their designated meeting place, the fountain at some random park. She was breathless, but both men doubted it was from physical exhaustion. The exuberant look on her face told them that she had learned something quite interesting.

"It's amazing, I almost didn't believe it, but there was so much information and—"

"—Sakura-chan," Kakashi sweetly interrupted. "What did you learn?"

She recovered quickly, a sheepish look on her face. "Sorry. Anyways, I found out that this world is so much more bigger than ours! There's nearly 200 countries with their own languages and we're in the one called Japan, specifically, Musutafu City like the lady had told us. But the most amazing thing are these abilities called 'Quirks'. According to this encyclopedia, it's this superhuman power that a person can have—like a Kekkei Genkai! It was initially called Meta Abilities but they changed it to 'Quirks'. After people started to grow used to having them, some people with Quirks used their abilities to break the law while others used their Quirks to stop them. This created an actual profession where Pro Heroes would fight the criminals, or villains. Today it's become a really popular career and there are now 80% of people in the world with Quirks while the remaining 20% are Quirkless."

She finally stopped, gazing at them expectantly with a beaming grin on her face.

Kakashi scratched the back of his head. "Well... damn. That's more than what I found out."

"Where did you learn all this?" Gaara wondered aloud.

"I went to the library." She said, as if the answer should've been obvious, and honestly, it really should have been.

"Oh."

"So what did you guys learn?"

"Pretty much the same thing. Just... less detailed." Kakashi said, his shoulders slumped in defeat.

The other Kage nodded in agreement. His information gathering was less than stellar and it didn't help when one child approached him and shamelessly questioned his lack of eyebrows. Even before he became the Kazekage nobody had the audacity to ask him such a thing (though that may be because he had the reputation of psychopathic serial killer).

"So these weird looking people—those are actually their Quirks?" Kakashi questioned.

She nodded excitedly, opening her mouth to explain further. She sounded as if she had swallowed a whole encyclopedia. "Yes, sensei. That's called a 'Mutant-type' Quirk, it's where their Quirk actually changes how their body looks. There's also the Emitter-type Quirks where the user can generate and control certain things or alter existing things around them in certain ways. Then there's the Transformation-type Quirks that temporarily alter the user's body in some way."

"And chakra?" Gaara asked.

She shook her head, looking downcast. "No, I couldn't find anything. I tried googling it but I was just led to these websites talking about Hinduism—which is an Indian religion by the way, and India is another country from this world where—"

"—Wait," Kakashi raised a hand, giving her a confused look. "...'Googling'? 'Websites'?"

Sakura perked up. "Oh! You guys it's amazing the sort of things the people here invented! Computers and laptops exist in this world too, but it's so much more advanced than ours!" In their world, the only purpose of a computer was to store data or create documents, simple things like that. But this world took it to a whole other level and it literally blew her mind away once she discovered it. "There's this thing in the computers called 'Google' and it gives you all the answers you need—as long as it exists of course. And a 'website' is it like a page or a collection of pages where specific types of information are stored! You can even buy things from a website and I stumbled upon this one online store that sold these plants—"

Gaara perked up next. "—Plants?"

"Yeah!" She nodded hastily.

As Sakura started to describe the sort of plants she saw in that 'online store' to a very intrigued Gaara, Kakashi stood off to the side, lost in his thoughts.

It was no surprise that Sakura managed to accumulate so much information in a span of an hour—and memorize it all no less without sparing a single detail. Out of everyone in Team Seven, Sakura had the highest intellect. He remembered Ibiki approaching him one day during the Chunin Exams to inform him of Sakura being the only one to get a perfect score on the exam, the very exam where it should've been impossible to answer anything.

Ahhh, how much his cute little not-genin-anymore student had grown~

"Did you try searching if it's possible to travel through dimensions?" Kakashi asked her.

She pursed her lips, "I tried my best, but nothing helpful came up. So far, I couldn't find anything about a dimensional traveling Quirk but I did find some about a portal-making one. However, those types of Quirks are limited as they only allow the user to teleport themselves to somewhere they know. Nothing about going to a different world or anything. I couldn't find any forms of technology that are capable of doing it either."

"The people back at the lab must be working on something top secret then," Gaara muttered, his two partners nodding in agreement.

It would take them a few more days to get back all the chakra they lost, but they decided to return to the lab after one day passed. As Kakashi expected, it was completely empty. Even the large machines they had were all gone too.

"So this is where the both of you woke up," Gaara trailed off, looking around the room where the two operating tables once were. "Where did you find me?"

"In this crazy man's lab. He was going to cut you open, and he was really eager about it too." Sakura answered with a shudder, but Gaara didn't even look the littlest bit perturbed. She envied him for that.

"They really weren't much of a threat, so I'm surprised they actually managed to subdue us for a time. Though a part of me believes the only reason we were unconscious was due to the wormhole we were sucked through." Kakashi mused.

"Did you fight them?" The redhead asked.

He snorted. "No, they were just morons."

"Ah."

"Creepy morons! They wanted to cut us up and look at our insides!" Sakura exclaimed. "Am I seriously the only one who's bothered by that?"

"Yes," both males answered in unison.

She muttered profanity under her breath, clearly disgruntled. Kakashi let out an amused laugh and pat her fondly on the head. She glared at him.

"Maa, maa, Sakura-chan, don't tell me this place scares you or something..."

"It doesn't! It just creeps me out what these people were attempting to do to us. They genuinely thought we weren't humans..." She trailed off.

"Do you recall why exactly we were brought here? What they wanted us for?" Gaara asked as they exited the room and started to roam the unlit hallway.

Sakura recalled the words she heard those two women—Miyumi and Hanae—exchanged while she was feigning unconsciousness.

"They look more human than extraterrestrial beings," the first voice—Miyumi—noted. "When are we going to be able to sample them? I want to know just how these... aliens work."

"Not until we get the go-ahead from the Doctor. I'm sure he'll be ecstatic to hear about this though. He's been itching to send one of his Nomus to UA for so long now!" Hanae chirped.

"I doubt he'll be using these guys," Miyumi refuted. "They're just prototypes at the most. We still need to do more research on them first. According to Tanaka, he's already prepared a Nomu to bring to UA once the term starts."

"I don't quite understand it, but apparently we were to be used as prototypes for something. The woman I knocked out—Hanae—mentioned a Doctor who wanted to send something called a 'Nomu' to UA. The other woman—Miyumi—said we couldn't be used yet since we were still prototypes and that the doctor had already prepared a 'Nomu' to bring to UA once the term starts." She explained.

"Nomu?" Gaara questioned.

She shook her head. "No clue. The term UA is unfamiliar to me too."

Kakashi placed a hand under his chin. "We're 'prototypes' hmm? It seems to me they were hoping to use us for experimentation."

"L-like Orochimaru?" She never understood why that mad scientist was never punished for all the screwed up things he had done... But then again there was Sasuke... Ugh.

He nodded in confirmation. "Exactly like Orochimaru. Though these people are less competent."

Yeah, she had to agree with him there. It was just way too easy to walk around and escape with Gaara in tow. Seriously, their security was terrible and they were so so clueless.

Once they were done thoroughly searching the laboratory-slash-hideout and found nothing of importance, Sakura then led them to the library in order to formally introduce them to 'Google'.

As expected, both men were interested with how informative Google was. After getting over their awe, they proceeded to look up a few keywords like 'Nomu' and 'UA'. The former got them no results other than a link to a website selling kitchenware, but UA got them pages of results.

"It's... a 'high school'?" Sakura uttered, her brows crinkled in confusion. She had never heard of the term 'high school' before. She went on to a new tab and did some quick research. "It says here that in Japan, high schools consists of students usually between ages 15-18. What the heck? People are still going to school at that age?"

She had graduated the Academy at twelve, which was the average age most people graduated from school whether they be civilian or ninja. So it was a huge shock to hear that people were still attending school past the age twelve—by then they would've been considered adults.

"Maybe people's brains work slowly here. That would surely explain those scientists back there..." Kakashi was still reeling over how moronic those people were. He honestly couldn't let it go. It was just too funny.

"It seems their education lasts longer in this world. Look," Gaara pointed to a paragraph explaining how students (those who weren't attending hero schools at least) usually moved on to some place called 'college' once they were done with high school. College usually lasted an additional four years, maybe even more depending on what your 'major' was.

Sakura actually liked the concept of there being more subjects to study. Back in her world, the civilian school mainly taught the basics. In here, the students seemed to be provided with extensive classes about a plethora of subjects, leading to a plethora of jobs to choose from.

She would've liked the variety had it been available in her home world.

Now back to the UA tab.

'U.A. is the #1 ranked high school for heroics and is considered as the top Hero Academy in Japan. Students are separated based on their abilities into specific Departments and Classes: Department of Heroes, Department of Support, Department of General Education, and Department of Management.'

"Sounds pretty prestigious," Kakashi let out a low whistle once he finished reading.

"So the Pro Heroes here are quite similar to the shinobi, and these hero students must be equivalent to Academy students." Gaara surmised. "I'm curious to see how they work..."

Sakura gasped. "YouTube!"

She earned blank looks and explained, "It's this thing I stumbled upon that lets you watch videos. They're really good, I saw one about a cat—"

"—You were watching cat videos while doing research?" Kakashi deadpanned.

"—A-anyways, let me show you." She sent them to the red and white website and typed in something about Pro Heroes. The first video to pop was something about a blonde man called 'All Might'.

The first thing they heard was deep, almost maniacal sounding laughter. The video—with surprisingly clear quality—zoomed in on a man standing atop a pile of rubble. There was a bunch of people gathered over his shoulders and under his arms, and he was dressed in a ridiculously skin-tight suit.

"It's fine now." He spoke. "Why? Because I am here!"

Then he proceeded to send the injured people to safety while battling this one guy—the villain on the video. His Quirk must have had something to do with physical enhancements. It wasn't anything new though—just a few strong punches and the bad guy was down. Loud cheers were heard from the video as people celebrated.

"He's still alive." Kakashi noted, staring at the defeated villain. "He failed to kill the target."

Before either Gaara or Sakura could comment, an excited voice cut them off.

"That's my favorite video ever!"

They turned around to see a scrawny young boy with curly green hair staring at their computer screen in awe. Then, he seemed to realize what he had done and began sweating buckets.

"I-I am so sorry, I didn't mean to bother you, please excuse me, I'll just be going now!" He squeaked in a painfully high pitched voice before high tailing it out of there.

"Well," Kakashi said, watching as the boy accidentally bumped into a book shelf and actually apologized to it. "That was weird."

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It was dark by the time they finished at the library. Well, they never really 'finished' there per say, but one of the librarians caught Kakashi trying to google erotic literature and promptly kicked them out.

At least they weren't banned...

Despite it being nighttime, the streets of Musutafu City were still lively as ever. In fact, it seemed even more lively since all the lights were on and every large building and skyscraper were properly illuminated in the night. It was a stark contrast to Konoha, where everyone would already be tucked into bed (except for the shinobi who had guard duty, of course).

Speaking of Konoha, she hoped Sarada was doing fine. That her daughter was safely tucked into bed and was adhering to her bedtime. She hoped whoever she was staying with had given her bedtime stories too...

She wondered if Sasuke was aware of what had happened to her and Kakashi (and Gaara too since he was apparently at Suna). Naruto most likely had sent him a letter about it, and knowing how much her husband obsessed over Naruto, he had probably received it and read it over.

Did he even care? Was he returning home right now? He better be, Sarada needed him. Or perhaps not... She would probably be furious should he return now after six years of absence and no contact.

Suddenly a body was thrown out of a glass window from a store they were just a few feet away from. Another figure rushed out of the door in a hurry, his face covered in a ski mask. One hand was holding a bag full of money most likely while the other had literal blades sticking out from it, each covered in blood.

A woman shrieked and everyone started to run away.

"Move, move!" The robber ordered, waving his bladed arm like crazy and cutting into some unfortunate people.

Then he came across the three ninjas.

"I said move—"

Gaara sighed and manipulated the sand from his surroundings to trap the man in a sand coffin—or a less lethal version of it since the guy was still alive. For now though, since Sakura can now hear the obvious sounds of bones being crushed and his screams of pain.

Sakura ignored that and focused her attention on the injured. She approached the closest one, her hands already glowing green. "Are you okay? Here, I can heal you."

More people started to approach her once they saw the cut cleanly gone without even a scar. She healed them one by one and by the time she reached the last injured person, a rough sounding voice stopped her.

"Stop right there."

She turned and saw a scruffy looking man storming towards them. His inky black hair was floating in the air and his eyes were glowing red.

What the heck? She marveled. What sort of Quirk was that?

Something's wrong, Aizawa thought as he glared at the boy. The sand, which should've fallen to the ground, stayed up, encasing the villain in what looked to be a sandy torture grip.

His Quirk wasn't working on him.

"Release him, right now!" He ordered Gaara, deciding to release his Quirk now that he knew it was useless.

The red head rose a brow at the rude tone, but released the robber from his sand coffin nonetheless. He fell to the ground with a thump, his body slightly mangled but his breathing heavy.

Shocked gasps echoed the scene and people started pulling out small devices—phones, she had learned—and started taking pictures.

"Everyone leave the premises, as for those that are injured, an ambulance is coming on the way! This is an order from a Pro Hero!" Aizawa called out and people started scattering. He turned the boy and demanded, "Who are you?"

"Is there something wrong?" Gaara asked dryly, rather than answering the question.

He clicked his tongue in annoyance and turned to Sakura, who suddenly felt like a child about to be scolded. "You. Come here."

She gulped, and warily approached the pair, feeling Kakashi's inquisitive stare as he watched the scene from a tree branch, completely hidden.

"Did we do something wrong... sir?" She asked politely, hiding her nerves. Her hand instinctively reached out for her wedding ring, only to feel the bare skin of her finger instead. A painful pang struck her heart at the reminder that her beloved ring was gone.

"I'm a Pro Hero, call me Eraserhead." He told her. "I was called in for a robbery. So imagine my surprise when I enter the scene and see two punks trying to act like Pros. What made you think it was alright to use your Quirks?"

"He was attacking people," Gaara said in monotone voice. "I subdued him and she healed the injured. Are you implying that we should have left the situation be when he was the one who stumbled upon us?"

He was still a groaning mess on the ground, completely ignored.

"Public Quirk usage is illegal here in case you weren't aware." Aizawa stated firmly. "Neither of you have any license to use your Quirks, so what you both did was breaking the law. Now tell me your names."

Oh shit, oh shit, oh shit, Sakura panicked. Gaara, however, looked perfectly calm. Damn him.

Suddenly a large hand was placed over her head in comforting manner. Kakashi had appeared. "Maa, maa, what seems to be the problem here, officer-san?"

"I'm a Pro Hero," he informed him after recovering from the brief surprise of his sudden appearance. "Sir, your kids just publicly displayed their Quirks and this one even used it to attack another individual."

"M-my kids...?" Poor Kakashi sweatdropped. He wasn't that old...

"It was self defense!" Sakura argued. "And I was healing people, I don't see anything wrong with that!"

Aizawa just gave her a tired look. "Like I said, using your Quirks in public is illegal. The only way it isn't is if it was for self defense, which I doubt is the case here given that the suspect is now a mangled pile of... flesh right now."

The four of them glanced at the man, who was still in obvious pain from the sand coffin. Honestly, she had seen Gaara use that move and he was actually pretty merciful this time. This guy just had a weak tolerance for pain.

"He's fine." Gaara deadpanned.

Aizawa gave him a disbelieving look.

"He is alive, isn't he?"

Kakashi attempted to diffuse the situation for a second time. "Look, Eraserhead-san, these kiddos were just doing what they thought was right. Besides, would you really wanna punish such cute faces~?"

Much to Sakura's embarrassment and Gaara's annoyance, Kakashi reached out and pinched them both in the cheek with each hand.

"Sir are you really their parent...?" He asked suspiciously.

"Well—"

Just then, something chimed from Aizawa's ear—an earpiece. "Eraserhead! We got a villain group robbing a bank! Several civilians have already been harmed!"

Eraserhead cursed. "Dammit. Alright, I'm coming in." He looked at the three of them. "You guys got lucky. Don't use your Quirks again."

And then he dashed away.

"That was nerve-wracking..." Sakura sighed. "That guy seriously looked like he wanted to pummel us! Just because we tried to help people!"

"I wasn't aware there was such strict laws here," Kakashi hummed thoughtfully. "Next thing you know, they'll say killing is illegal too. Hahaha."

— author's note —

Oh Kakashi. You have no idea how right you are. Ending was lame, sorry, but I ran out of ideas for how to end it.

Sakura's canonically smart. Like super smart, so it's only natural that she'd be a huge nerd (she could rival Deku in nerdy-ness). She's also really amazed by this new world she's in so she's gonna learn as much as she can about it before she returns home (or doesn't return home, who knows???)

Izuku made a brief appearance and Aizawa was introduced! I promise you once he notices the crazy harem Sakura's got going on he's gonna go Dadzawa real fast.