AN: Hey hey! 'T is Chapter Two! And here are the boys!
Shikamaru lay outside watching the clouds when Naruto rushed out.
"Shikamaru! The pervert wants to see us!"
"What?"
"Jiraiya wants to see us! Now! He says it's urgent!"
Shikamaru groaned, "How troublesome…"
He got up slowly and followed Naruto into the palace.
Neji and Sasuke were already in Jiraiya's study when Naruto and Shikamaru got there.
"Ah, hello boys! Well, I've got something very important to tell you!"
Sasuke was suspicious, "It's not something perverted, is it?"
He shook his head.
"No, no. Of course not!"
"Just making sure."
"Be quiet. I need to tell you this."
They all sat expectantly.
"Sixteen years ago, the Yondaime wrote a Prophecy, about four boys and four girls. You, and four girls that live with Queen Tsunade."
"The one you always try to feel up?"
"Yeah!"
"Well, why haven't we met these girls?"
"The Yondaime expressly forbid us from letting you meet before midnight on your sixteenth birthday."
Naruto was confused, "Why? What's this prophecy about?"
Jiraiya grabbed the Prophecy off his desk and threw it to Sasuke, who read it aloud. Unfortunately, it just made Naruto more confused.
"What the hell?! Are you saying that we are the Metals? And we have magical powers? And the Yondaime gave them to us? And we have to meet these girls at midnight tonight?"
Jiraiya nodded.
"Cool!"
Sasuke rolled his eyes.
"What if we don't want to?"
Jiraiya sighed, "Then you are effectively pushing ahead this future that the Yondaime wanted to change.
Neji shook his head.
"The future cannot change, it is set in stone. What will be, will be."
Jiraiya laughed and said, "If that is what you believe Neji, but you are the Metals, I'm sure the shards, and your friends, will make you go anyway."
Sasuke and Naruto nodded. Shikamaru was asleep.
"Oi! Wake up!"
Naruto kicked him and he snorted, but sat up, awake.
"Here," the two boys turned to Jiraiya, who was handing out silk pouches, "Your shards. Neji, platinum. Sasuke, cadmium. Naruto, gold and Shikamaru, silver."
The boys pulled their shards out and suddenly felt incredible power go through them. It went as quick as it came, but left the boys feeling stronger and more confident about the journey to come.
The boys walked along the corridor to their room, discussing the girls, the Prophecy and the journey.
"What do you think the girls will be like?" Naruto asked, "Do you think they'll be pretty?"
Shikamaru yawned.
"Who cares? It's far too troublesome to do this."
"Troublesome?! It's exciting! We're going on an adventure! We'll save the world! Everyone will worship us!"
Neji said, "That's if we don't get killed on the way. Anyway, Naruto, are you just doing this so that people will worship you?"
"We won't get killed if I'm there! I'll save you all and the girls will love me! Of course I'm not doing it so people will worship me! I'm doing it to save the thing that's "more precious than anything", whatever it is. What do you think it is?"
Sasuke shrugged, "Could be anything."
The boys packed their bags and went back to Jiraiya to find out where to meet the girls.
"Oi! Pervert! Where've we to meet the girls?"
Jiraiya looked up from the piece of paper he was writing on.
"Were you writing porn again?"
He looked indignant.
"Of course I was!"
The boys rolled their eyes. Of course.
"So where've we to meet the girls eh? Eh?"
Jiraiya chuckled, "Patience, patience. You've to meet them at…"
He rummaged around in a drawer.
"Now, where did I put it? …"
Naruto rocked on his feet.
"Hurry up old man!"
Jiraiya smiled and looked at Sasuke.
"Patience is not his virtue, is it?"
He rummaged a little more and then finally pulled out a little slip of paper.
"Ah! There it is!"
"Give me it!" and Naruto snatched it out of Jiraiya's hand.
"Hey!"
Naruto squinted at the scratchy writing on the tiny piece of paper.
"I can't read this! Here," he shoved the paper at Neji, "See if you can read it."
Neji took the proffered slip of paper and narrowed his eyes until he could (almost) see it clearly.
"I think it says… Rofsrat wood… Next to… The river?"
"Surely my writing's not that bad…is it?"
The boys nodded.
"Oh, well, anyway. As I said before, you have to meet them at midnight. And it's now… Five o'clock?When did it get so late? Well, you have a very long journey ahead of you, so you must be off."
The boys grabbed their packs and Jiraiya walked them to the gates of the palace.
"Goodbye."
"Bye! Hopefully we'll never see you again!" said Naruto.
"Cheek!" Jiraiya slapped him on the back of the head, "You'll be seeing me sooner than you think."
The boys left and thought about what was to come.
AN: So, what did you think o the second chapter? I know that it's a little boring so far, but they need to be written. It's not like you can just jump straight to the action.
Next chapter, the girls and boys meet!
Please review!