Sarada reached for her katana and activated her sharingan. The mission was supposed to be a simple C rank escort but nothing ever goes right with her team now does it. They had recently found themselves in the middle of an interdimensional, possibly time warping incident that required her father Sasuke Uchiha to use the extent of his rinnegan just to keep them from zipping off into some random dimension. Oh, right, there were also enemy ninjas from the original escort mission and Sarada was in charge of getting rid of all of them and watching out for dimensional holes with her sharingan.

"Boruto, Mitsuki!" She exclaimed, jabbing her sword behind her and impaling the incoming enemy, "Avoid the area 30 feet to your left. I'm not sure, but I think it's a portal!"

Boruto and Mitsuki nodded and ran back over to Sasuke, lending him more chakra. Sarada's attacks were slowing after the myriad of enemies she had taken down. They honestly seemed endless. Sarada wasn't the only one tiring out. Sasuke was having difficulties keeping the seemingly infinite amount of portals from opening and sucking them all into abysmal nothingness. Or maybe a warzone, or some time in the future. The point was, they were seriously screwed and they were running out of ways to fix it.

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Life was a crap ton calmer on Sakura, Naruto, and Sasuke's side. No dimensional holes and portals opening at random, no endless army of enemy ninja, just one knucklehead and a subtle portal that not even Kakashi of the sharingan noticed.

"Hurry up usuratonkachi." Sasuke said, scanning the area with his sharingan, "Let's finish this stupid mission and be done with it. All we need is a few of these chakra-replenishing plants and we're done. Don't screw this up."

"Yeah Naruto!" Sakura announced, dealing him a knock on the back of his head.

"I'm coming ya know!" Naruto whined, rubbing the spot where Sakura hit him.

"Wait." Sasuke said abruptly, "Something's off."

"I agree." Kakashi replied, "Be on the lookout, I don't know how to describe it, but there's just-something."

"I-is it a genjutsu?" Sakura asked worriedly, preparing to dispel it, "Kai!"

Nothing happened.

"I don't know what it is but keep your guard up." Kakashi warned.

Right as he was finished speaking, Naruto came bounding toward Kakashi, Sasuke, and Sakura. He overshot, being the klutz he was known to be, and fell face first into… a crack in the air?!

"Naruto you idiot!" Sakura screeched, "What did you do?!"

A blinding light consumed the team of genin as Sakura screamed insults at Naruto.

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Sasuke's chakra was depleting rapidly, forcing him to leave a few portals open. Unfortunately, the second group of unsuspecting genin walked straight into an open one.

"Papa!" Sarada screamed as the bright light consumed her and her teammates.

Sarada squeezed her onyx eyes closed, secretly hoping this was all a nightmare. When she opened her eyes, she was laying on the forest ground. It seemed to be night in this dimension, yet it was pleasantly warm. She blinked several times, and looked around. There were her teammates, sprawled on the grassy ground, unconscious. And three other kids. One of the kids, sat up groggily, eyes half closed.

"What the fuck just happened." The raven haired child asked quietly.

Sarada gasped upon realizing that this foul-mouthed, duckbutt-haired kid was her father. As a child of course.

"P-What are you doing here?!" She exclaimed, careful not to reveal her identity.

"Who are you?" Young Sasuke asked, taking a defensive stance, "You seem to be a Konoha ninja yet I've never seen you in the village."

"I could say the same about you." Sarada replied, wanting to confirm that this ninja was really her father, "You wear the Uchiha crest. Do you possess the sharingan?"

"Hn." Sasuke replied, demonstrating his dojutsu, "How am I supposed to prove that you are not an enemy?"

Sarada assessed her situation. There was no way in hell it was safe to reveal her identity now so that was out of the question. But the Hokage seemed like decent proof.

"The Hokage of Konoha right now is Tsunade Senju." Sarada replied.

"Anyone could find that out. Tell me something less obvious."

"Her pig's name is Tonton." Sarada was suddenly insanely grateful for all the uncomfortable time she spent with Grandma Tsunade and all of her mom's endless rants about her brutal training.

Sasuke raised one eyebrow and let his guard down, "I'll trust you for now but if you do anything suspicious, I will not be afraid to end you."

"Okay then, no need to be so intense shannaro!"

Sasuke's eyes widened, "Only Sakura says that. What are you hiding?!"

"Fine!" Sarada exclaimed, "I'm a huge Sakura fan and actually adopted her catchphrase while learning about her. It's really embarrassing!" Sarada almost enjoyed lying to her father, especially since he seemed to believe it wholeheartedly.

Sasuke muttered something under his breath along the lines of 'girls tend to be like that' and responded with a bitter 'fine'.

Sarada sighed and went to go wake her teammates up. She was about to turn around when she realized she had the Uchiha symbol emblazoned on her back. She walked backwards slowly, grabbed Boruto's jacket from his unconscious body, draped it over her, and proceeded to wake him up.

"Boruto!" She whispered, "Wake up but don't you dare say a thing. And whatever you do, don't say dattebane, got it?"

Boruto's eyes fluttered open as he nodded confusedly.

"Whatever you say Sarada." He muttered, "Hey where's my jacket-why are you wearing it?!"

"Look around closely and you'll understand."

Boruto scanned the area, gasped, and nodded quickly. "Yeah. I get it."

Sarada sighed and went to go wake Mitsuki up.

"Wake up." She said, pulling him to his feet, "Knowing you, you already know what's going on so I trust you not to say anything stupid."

Mitsuki nodded in understanding.

"Hello Sasuke Uchiha!" He said pleasantly.

Sasuke turned around abruptly, "How do you know my name?"

"Why everyone knows about the Uchiha prodigy now don't they?" Mitsuki responded, still smiling brightly.

"Sasuke?" A sweet, quiet voice asked, "What happened?"

The young girl stood up slowly. "Who are you guys?" She asked, eyeing Sarada, Boruto, and Mitsuki.

"I'm Sarada." Sarada stated, "That's Boruto, and that's Mitsuki."

The pinkette nodded in acknowledgment and walked over to Naruto who she proceeded to beat up.

"Naruto you idiot!" She yelled, "This is all your stupid fault! Kakashi-sensei specifically said to be careful but no you rush off and pull us into this stupid mess!"

"Owww!" Naruto whined, "Sakura-chan, that hurt! Wait, where are we?"

"Probably in another dimension." Boruto replied, "Unc-Sensei was umm talking about weird portals showing up around where we were so it only makes sense."

"Whoah. So is this like the ghost dimension or something?" Naruto asked, a clueless smile spreading across his face.

"Of course not dummy!" Sakura replied, punching him in the arm.

"Why are you always hurting me Sakura?"

"Yeah, why are you always hurting him ma-Sakura?" Sarada asked, butting in.

"You don't know anything about him." Sakura shot back, flipping her long pink hair, "Trust me, if you knew what he was like, you'd be punching him too."

Sarada smirked, "Fine then. I'll take your word for it."

"All this small talk is great and all," Boruto started, "But why don't we address the elephant in the room. How the hell did we get here?"

"Well there was this light and-" Naruto started, but was interrupted by Mitsuki.

"Sorry to interrupt, but it's obvious that someone is manipulating these portals. And not to reveal too much, I assure you, we're from different timelines." He stated, still smiling, "I presume some mastermind wants to find a time-neutral zone and take all the enemies from the past and future and pitch them against each other, causing a devastating war."

The genin looked frankly taken aback.

"How on earth did you find all this information?!" Boruto exclaimed, "And if you knew before all this, why the fuck didn't you tell us?!"

"Because it wasn't pertinent." He replied.

"How is an all out, annihilating potential war not pertinent?" Sarada asked, looking extremely confused.

"Well I didn't think it would actually happen. See, my parent was talking about how he had overheard some plans for this years ago. Since it hadn't happened since then, I really couldn't assume it would happen now."

"The ton of spontaneously opening portals wasn't proof enough?!" Boruto spat, always questioning his teammates antics.

"Shut up you three." Sasuke commanded, "Someone's here."