CHAPTER 2 The Job
A girl with pink haired girl about seventeen years old, wearing brown robes walked out of a room in the jedi temple of Coruscant.

"Hey Sakura." Called a female voice causing the pink haired girl to turn her head to see a platinum blonde walking toward her wearing a similar robe as herself

"Oh hey there Ino." She called back "So you ready to go?"

"Yeah." Ino replied holding up a medium sized back pack.

"Yeah nice thing about being a jedi. You can pack light." Sakura replied holding up her own pack.

"Yeah it's nice but it would be nice to have a bit more choices in clothes." Ino whined. "Plus they leave everything to the imagination."

"Oh stop whining, we are jedi and not supposed to think that way." Sakura said in a somewhat scolding tone.

"Oh just a little flirting wouldn't hurt anything." Ino said in a playful tone.

"Whatever." Sakura said rolling her eyes as she turned away and started walking down the hall. "You coming."

"Yeah." Ino said as she ran to catch up to her.

The pair were walking and laughing with each other as they walked up to the shuttle bay where a girl their age, with black hair and wraps around her eyes indicating she was a Miraluka, was waiting for them.

"Hey there Hinata." Sakura called out as they walked up to her

"Ah Sakura, Ino good to see you." Hinata said "You guys ready?"

"Yeah I haven't been too Tython in a while, and Master Tsunade went ahead for council business." Sakura said as they walked past the loading crew onto their shuttle.

"Well seems we have a republic guard squad as an escort back to Tython." Hinata said as a look of fear went across Sakura's face.

"Wait don't tell me It's…" Sakura began but was cut off by a high pitched voice

"Ah Lady Sakura!" said a man about a year older than them with big bushy eyebrows, wearing the standard republic commando gear. "It is an honor to be protecting you, and if I do a good job I hope that you will allow me to take you out to dinner."

"Sorry Lee I'm a jedi we are not allowed to have relationships." Sakura said with a bit of a cringe at the thought.

"Very well I'll…" Lee began but was smacked upside the head by a female brunette.

"Would you shut up already." The brunette said.

"Ah but Ten-Ten." Lee whined

"Knock it off, I have to deal with you and our squad leaders excitable shit way too much." Ten-Ten said shaking her head "Just go over there and check the pilot's credentials"

"Right." Lee said as he saluted and marched over to the two pilots who were walking up to the ship.

"Yeah sorry about him." Ten-Ten said "He is just one of those who just says what is on his mind no matter what it is."

"Well at least you know what you're dealing with." Sakura said

"Sometimes ignorance is bliss." Ten-Ten sighed shaking her head as the three padawans headed onto the ship "oh Hinata."

"Yes?" Hinata asked

"How is your cousin doing?" Ten-Ten asked

"Good as far as I know." Hinata said turning back to the ship "and there is more than one way to be transparent." She said getting Ten-Ten to blush as she followed them on to the ship along with Lee and the pilots.'

"Commander Guy we are all set" Ten-Ten said as she walked up to a man with a bowl cut and bushy eye brows that rivaled Lee's

"Good tell the pilots they may take off." Guy said

"Got it." She said as she walked over to the cockpit.

Ten-Ten walked into the cockpit "Hey guys we're all set." She just got a thumbs up from the pilots who didn't even turn to look at her. Once they did that the ship began to take off and shot out into space and they were soon in hyperspace.


Sakura sat meditating in the room she had been shown she would occupy for the long trip back to Tython.

'Damn't why can't I focus.' Sakura said to herself

"Because you can't stop thinking about what Ino was talking about." Her innerself chimed in.

'What are you talking about?' Sakura asked

"About having a little fun, flirting and what not." Inner replied

'Oh you're saying we should flirt with Lee and string him along?' Sakura asked 'That is just cruel and not the jedi way.'

"I'm not saying him I'm saying sneak out with Ino on one of her little escapades to one of the clubs sometime. Then flirt with a guy there." Inner said

'That is not the jedi way.' Sakura replied

"But we are also part Zeltron so we have a higher sex drive than most, and we have a call to action and danger. But you had to choose the path of a healer." Inner replied

'And keeping that part of me under control is the biggest trial I have had as a jedi so I won't let it get any sort of foot hold.' Sakura replied

"Well I'm all those repressed feelings you have, so this is my foot hold." Inner said sticking out her tongue.

'Whatever.' Sakura shot back as she felt the ship come out of hyperspace. "Huh? We shouldn't be there yet." She said just then she got a tingle in her nose and the back of her throat. "gas!"

She jumped up and sucked in a deep breath and ran outside her room to find Ino, and Hinata standing in the hall holding their breaths and with the same confused look on their faces. They gestured toward the common area. They moved up and found Lee, Ten-Ten, and Guy draped across chairs and laid out on the floor. Sakura bent down and checked their pulse to find they were still alive, that was when the proximity alarm went off indicating something was getting close to their ship. They then went to move up to the cockpit to see but the door slid open first and the two pilots walked out wearing gas masks. The moment they saw them they brought up their blasters and began to fire. Instead of lasers Hinata was hit with a stun round and knocked out. Ino and Sakura both took cover and then drew out their light sabers, but before they could ignite them a grenade landed in between them and detonated tossing them across the room.

Sakura was barely able to hold on to her conciseness as she heard on of them say. "alright let's get them loaded up." Then everything went black.

END CHAPTER 2