A/N: This was all because Kirbygirl13 told me that not only was the idea of a Sakura/Ino fanfic in space stupid but pulled out of my ass. I'll show you! help me show her by reviewing and flaming the life out of her! Besides i wanted to write something light after Gone Tomorrow and Live the wrong life.

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"Could she rip off that old tv show anymore?!" Temari ragged stalking down the sterile grey corridors of the ship. She was looking at her red vest in disgust as her shapeless black slacks sat squarely on her figure.

Sakura laughed as she didn't really mind her own green and black doctors uniform. "It could be worse she could have called the ship the Enterprise."

Temari glared at her fiercely as they entered the lift. "Please state the floor you wish to travel too," the impersonal female computer voice said. "That's the first thing to go," Termari glowered.

"That is not a recognised floor, please state the floor you wish to travel too," the computer voice said again.

"The bridge," Sakura grinned enjoying Temari's smouldering fury. The lift moved silently only the glowing numbers that lit up as they passed the floor gave them indication of movement. The doors whoosed open and they stepped out onto the bridge.

The two tiered deck was almost exclusively grey broken only by the black consoles and the red vested crew. In the centre of it all Tsunade sat on a mini throne gazing smugly out at space. Beside her stood her first officer Shizune wearing a glowing ball around her neck. It was a pulsing pink colour telling everyone that Shizune was already annoyed with the captain.

"Tsunade!" Temari raged stalking onto the bridge "what the hell do you think you're doing about these uniforms?!"

"Cool aren't they?" Tsunade said barely looking at Temari.

"They're ugly! And take away my curves!" Termari yelled making the crew on the bridge stop working to stare at her curiously.

"They help the crew feel united and disciplined," Tsunade said reasonably. She quite liked her uniform plus the additional gold weaving and tassels on her shoulders that she got for being captain.

"We aren't an army!" Temari snapped stalking forwards looking ready to pull the captain out of her chair. Tsunade struck like a snake snatching the blaster from the side of her chair and shooting Temari squarely in the chest. The blonde didn't even have time to scream as she was propelled backwards. Sakura quickly ran to her side but was amazed to find the blonde blinking up at her in shock rather than dead.

Tsudane pushed Sakura out of the way and straddled Temari's chest. "Your daddy might be funding this operation princess but I'm the nut he put in charge. We're going out deep into the black, to hostiles partially known, as far as you are concerned we are an army, we're the only things we got." Tsunade held her down through brute strength "the uniforms are armoured from blasters so the only idiots we have to worry about are our own ninja attacks. Now, the next time you want to make a scene on my bridge you better be planning a mutiny because I'll stuff you out an airlock, got it?"

Temari nodded and Tsunade thrust herself to her feet. "Get off my bridge," she ordered. Temari rose slowly trying to regain her pride before stalking to the elevator. Sakura followed her dumbly.

XxXx

"I had to make sure," Temari side rubbing her hurt elbow as she sat on the medical bed.

"You've heard how crazy captain slugger is and you still did that?" Sakura shook her head as she used her chakra to heal the minor scratch.

"My father is putting a lot of money into this," Temari said thoughtfully "he wants to find Aliens for his new coliseum. But i want to rescue Shikamaru."

"It's been five years," Sakura said softly.

"I know he might be dead," Temari said softly "but i owe it to what we were to at least try."

"Do you still love him?" Sakura asked.

"Can you love someone who isn't there?" Temari asked but then shook her head "whatever feelings i have for him are too faint to call love."

Sakura hugged her friend tightly.

XxXx

"Hinata anything on the scanners yet?" Tsunade asked bored out of her mind.

"No, Tsunade-sama," Hinata sighed wearily at having to answer the same question again.

"Keep looking," Tsunade gave her response as she tapped her fingers on the captains chair boredly. She glanced sideways at Shizune who's ball was glowing white with intense concentration. "What you doing?" She asked just to be annoying.

"I'm going over the known star charts of the region. It should be two weeks until we reach dark space," Shizune said absently. Dead space was just space human's hadn't entered into yet. Their own solar system had found no other intelligent lift forms but a few plants and animal things.

Shizune, Tsudane mused, was the closest thing the ship had to an alien. She came from a small hidden community that used Chakra to force all emotions into the crystal's on their chest where they could then remove the pesky feelings to make logical choices. They where the early stages of Vulcan's Tsudane liked to think but Shizune got really offended. Her eyes slid around the bridge but found everyone working like ants. No one to shout at, she sighed. In her rush to escape the debt collectors she had forgotten how boring space could be.

"Shizune," She said her voice being the verbal poke that she couldn't do physically. "Shizune..."

Shizune's face started twitching with irritation as she knew what Tsunade was trying to do but was ignoring it. "Shizune..." Tsudane whined "Shi-zuuuuunne."

"What?!" The first officer snapped not looking away from the star charts. If she did Tsunade would only win.

"Let's do a strip search of the ensigns," Tsunade suggested.

Shizune's eyes bulged with annoyance at the suggestion but would not turn to gap at Tsunade. "Oh, come on!" Tsunade needled.

"No!" Shizune snapped then jerked as Tsunade began to physically poke her. She stopped suddenly and turned to give the blonde a smug smile. Tsudane thought she had won until Shizune's hand reached around the pink pulsing ball of irritation and took it off her neck. Tsudane's face morphed in outrage "that's not fair! Cheater!"

"We are not playing a game Tsunade," Shizune's voice became more monotone as she placed the ball down beside her. It glowed a multicolour of spectrums as Shizune's face became as impassive as a sheet of ice. In this state it didn't matter what Tsunade said or did it would not annoy Shizune in anyway.

"Aw damn!" She flounced back in her seat glaring at the defeat. Shizune couldn't feel or look smug right now but she would be later.

XxXx

"So Sakura, lets talk about your love life," Temari grinned as they sat down at lunch in the mess hall.

"What love life?" Sakura laughed.

"Exactly," Temari said "are you going to go out with Lee?"

"No!" Sakura screwed her face up at the thought "he's like my brother. Although," she grinned as Temari leaned forward eagerly "they guy he works with, you know the tall dark one? I wouldn't mind being stuck in a Jeffries tube with him."

Temari laughed then the glint grew wicked "I'm sure there's someone else you wouldn't mind be confined with," and she waved her eyebrows knowingly at the doctor who frown in confusion "a certain crazy captain maybe?"

"No!" But she flushed guiltily ruining her denial.

"Teacher student bond gone too far one night?" Temari egged.

"Shut up," Sakura said hiding behind her water glass.

"Like the captains pips do you," Temari leered.

"I wonder when Hinata will make her move on you," Sakura brought out the big guns. Temari's smile fell quickly to Sakura's satisfaction "we're just friends," she defended.

"Yeah, but that's not what she wants is it?" Sakura took her time to enjoy the tables being turned.

"Shut up," Temari muttered.

Most people in the future were bisexual or just extremely horny as Sakura often thought as she walked down the main city street of her home on Friday nights. Gender wasn't a big issue except for the few stubborn people that clung to one or the other.

"SAKURA!"

The doctor braced herself as she was tackled. She managed to stop herself from falling of her chair but just. "Naruto! Get the hell off me!" She raged.

"Aw Sakura, we haven't seen each other in ages!" Naruto whined as Sakura tried to pry him off.

"We saw each other yesterday morning!" Sakura glared at Temari who was laughing and not helping her unstuck the affectionate blonde.

"That was ages ago!" Naruto said finally letting go and pulling up a chair. He smiled widely as he straddled the chair and rested his chin on the back. Kiba came holding Naruto's forgotten tray and behind him Hinata came holding her own tray. She sat down next to Temari and without paying much attention switched the blondes empty glass with a full one. Sakura looked at the glass pointedly but Temari ignored her. "Hinata has been telling us all about the captain but you already knew her didn't you Sakura?"

"Yeah, she used to be a great doctor," Sakura said. It was her turn to ignore pointed looks "I went to train with her for a while on mars."

"Was she also..." Hinata cast around for a nice word to describe the captain not wanting to insult her.

"Crazy?" Sakura suggested and Hinata nodded embarrassed. "Oh, yeah," Sakura confirmed.

"Odd that it was on mars, the red planet, very romantic," Temari said with feigned nonchalance.

"That was Venus idiot," Sakura growled. Temari shrugged unconcerned.

"All hands on deck!" Tsunade's voice yelled over the intercom. "We have identified an unknown object!"

XxXx

"How was i supposed to know?!" Tsunade raged as she undressed.

"Maybe if you didn't get so excited and actually check the sensors you wouldn't panicked the whole ship," Shizune said her crystal pulsing white because she didn't have the energy to get annoyed at the captains foolishness.

"Well at least we've managed to rescue a piece of history," Tsunade said.

"Old Tv satellites are worthless," Shizune said rolling her eyes.

Tsunade glowered and shoved her trousers down around her ankles before stepping out of them and unclipping her bra. She turned sharply and Shizune froze in mid sentence. Her pearls flared a bight yellow as a flush crawled up her neck.

"Don't think i'm going to," Shizune took a deep breath as she tried to concentrate. "To, stop mocking you just because, because, you, ah..."

Tsunade had sat on the bed with her knees pressed primly together but her back arched as she lent back on her arms. "Sorry what was that?" She asked coyly.

"Oh, shut up," Shizune muttered with genuine hatred as she hurried to the bed.

Tsunade didn't bother to hide her smug smile. This was why she was the captain after all.