So, somehow Sakura was not just sent into another fucking dimension, but the time period was also fuck. When Sakura had first crashed here, she had been confused, to say the least. Meeting the younger vision of her friends had really fucked with her mind. She may have sent Naruto’s old man flying, but she could hardly be blamed for that!
Turned out they didn’t have a Sakura Haruno of any kind. In other words, Sakura was stuck in this time and dimension. The only highlight Sakura had found so far was that flirting with Genma was totally acceptable now as they were almost the same age.
It took her three whole days to connives Minato that no, Sakura did in fact NOT need a guardian and no she wasn’t up for adoption. No, Sakura was in fact not changing her last name to Namikaze. THANK YOU VERY MUCH!! Sakura may have thrown his deck out the window at that moment before he realized that: 1, she was fucking 19 years old no matter how short her height was, and 2, she was probably Tsunade 2.o. The table did seem to help her get her point across, so she wasn’t really all that sorry about destroying it.
After a seventh visit from the blond devil himself, Minato had somehow convinced her that it was a good idea to become a sensei. Apparently, they had in this dimension lost a lot of shinobis in the last shinobi war, they had still won of course. Instead of teaching 3 kids, Sakura got stuck with 14 kids instead. 14! She might as well be given a classroom at this point! And they had been on different levels as well!
Madara, Izuna, Hashirama, Tobirama, Kakashi, Rin, Obito, Yamato, Itachi, Hanna, Shisui, Naruto, Sasuke, and Sai. Sakura didn’t even want to know how the founding fathers could be alive as children. Best not to touch that with a 10-foot staff. It was left in the back of her mind to freak out about later. Which she had done in the safety of her home. Their file had laid out before her for days, laughing at the horrifying situation she had been stuck in.
The only one she had known how to teach anything from the start was Rin, maybe Hashirama seeing as they were both interested in medic-ninjutsu. Obito, Naruto and Sasuke could work on improving their control on chakra. Tobirama liked seals and Sakura knew something about this. It was only thanks to her need to learn and Tsunade’s glee at someone willing to learn more about her heritage. You know, back in her own fucking dimension.
That was half of the kids. What could she possibly teach the other? Sakura wasn’t from some fancy clan, half of all her knowledge was self-taught and self-discovered through trial and error.
She had spent 3 weeks worried before meeting the kids. She might have overworked herself to the point that the Hokage assigned her a team that would drug her at times to get Sakura to sleep. Turned out that they really were just kids and were nothing like the people from her timeline. All she had to do was smash the ground once and they all thought of her as if she was a god. It made them much more compliant to listen to what she had to say.
In the end, they had all made a compromise that everything they wanted to learn Sakura would teach herself the subject first before teaching it. How would she have known how to teach it if she didn’t understand it? It had really improved the skill range that Sakura herself was capable of too.
It had gotten her the “title” Jack of all trades, shorten to Jack. People actually had the audacity to use it instead of using her simple fucking name. It was so fucking rude, like wtf.
When she had reported back to the Hokage 3 weeks into having the team, he told her in amusement that he had expected her to sent at least half her kids back to school. Like the fuck? He should have told her that from the very beginning! Before she grew too attract to these little shits, now they were all her small ducklings. There was no way she could let them go now.
While still in the Hokage’s office Sakura broke his desk in pure retaliation. When she returned to her team once more, she told her small minions about the conversation with the Hokage. They were just as eager to get back at the Hokage. For the next couple of weeks, Minato had a son that didn’t want to talk with him much less acknowledge his presence, and a group of kids from high-ranking families doing their best to make life hard on him.
So, now 9 months later Sakura had 14 a very loyal and overprotective pack of minions. That everyone in Konoha had begun to call them “Sakura’s ducklings”, having apparently heard her call them that. Those kids took waaay too much pride in that supposed title.
Sure, Sakura had to move out of her apartment and into a really big house due to all the visits from her ducklings. Yeah, Sakura might have a hard time getting a date now. Not that she was really looking for it after convincing Genma that it could work. This was more due to the shinobi clans having taken a liking to an unaware Sakura than her small ducks. Being unofficially adopted by so many made most men run away in fear of just breathing wrong in her present. Not to mention that most of them were unworthy in the eyes of the clan leaders, the Hokage, and her ducklings.
Genma and Sakura were currently friends with benefits that both did their damndest to keep far from the public eye. They also kept it quiet since neither was sure where it was going yet and decided to take the romantic aspect slowly. Might as well since everything in Sakura’s life was done in a roundabout way.