Chapter 2: Shikamaru will know

Summary: Naruto, Sasuke, Hinata and Sakura...these four children fought to fit in, in their home and they succeeded. But their parents left them a keepsake…a country known as Country of Diamonds. Now these four must go to Diamond or risk losing Konoha forever.

Disclaimer: I no own Naruto

Naruto snuck into Tsunade's room looking around. Quietly he whispered "Baa-chan….oh Baa-chan?" Seeing nothing in the huge, posh and clean room he snuck in and dived under the bed, chuckling.

"Sasuke-teme always said that the best place to hide from is under their very noses. Hehe…" he said slyly. He scooted deep under the queen sized bed until his sweats hit cool metal. Naruto shifted slightly and the cloth of his sweats shifted, so his bare ankle touched the metal. Suddenly, the metal grew white hot. Naruto screamed in pain and pulled back. He crawled out from under the bed, pulled on some socks he took from a drawer and picked up the box.

As soon as his skin lost contact with the metal box, it cooled. "What the hell?!" he growled. Slowly, the socks still over his hands, he reached to open the box when "THERE YOU ARE NARUTO UZUMAKI!! COME HERE SO I CAN KILL YOU!!!" screamed Tsunade running into the room. Naruto screamed like a puppy and ran out of the room like the devil was on his heels…the metal box still clenched in his arms.

Tsunade's eyes widened when she saw a flash of silver. "Oh no…he has it…Shizune!! SHIZUNE COME IN HERE DAMN IT!! IT'S TIME!!" She roared stomping out of the room.

Inside the little metal box, was a small tattered scroll with a diamond seal and the words '…There's a little light nearby'

"SHIKAMARU!!"

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Sasuke Uchiha silently made his way out of his clean apartment. He needed food and left all his money in the Uchiha family safe, in the Uchiha mansion. As he made his way to his old home, he thought 'So many bad memories here…-sigh- Why do I always postpone moving the money into a real bank. It hurts…'

He sighed as he came upon the permanently darkened walls of the Uchiha mansion. Its not that the walls were dirty it was just that…blood stained. He walked down the empty hallways until he got to the huge separated building that was the Uchiha storage for money. Though made of wood, and very shabby looking, for anyone who could see it, or sense it, the wood was teeming with offensive chakra. The only way to neutralize it was to have Sharingan active and if, by the tiniest chance you get it, you won't get out without Sharingan still active.

Sasuke walked up to the building and growled "Sharingan!" His onyx eyes grew red with black marks and he opened the door. It closed behind him, leaving the Uchiha boy alone with the shelves upon shelves of piles of money. Sasuke sighed again and grabbed the nearest wad of money. About to walk out, a creaking noise was heard from the wooded ground.

Sasuke wanted to keep the money safe so, not wanting any secret passages ways, he bent down and tapped the ground. A panel of wood came up so fast; it smacked him hard in the nose, forcing him to fall to the ground. "Mother…." He cursed and crawled around the panel of wood to see a secret compartment. In the hole was a small metal box. Something told Sasuke not to touch it but like every person, it must be a see for yourself thing. Sasuke reached out to touch the box when it went for ice cold metal to searing hot.

He yelped for the second time that day and jerked back. Knowing he would regret it, Sasuke stuffed the wad of money in his pocket, for some reason grabbed another, took off his shirt and used it as a glove to pick up the box.

The second his hand left the box it cooled down and our little Uchiha glared at it like it was the fault of all his bad tidings. He sighed and put it on his hip as he activated Sharingan and walked back out again. A red falcon cawed and flew off, startling Sasuke to the point he made the mistake of loosening his hold on the box and letting it touch his elbow.

With a yelp and a growl, Sasuke went on his way, ignoring the looks girls were giving him for walking around without a shirt on. "Kami help me…" he groaned. Inside that little metal box, that Sasuke was seriously considering burying a few hundred feet underground, was an envelope with the words 'Fear not…' and inside the envelope was a small, steel, coat of arms.

"I bet Shikamaru will know what's the deal with this box…"

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Sakura ran into her grandmother's room yelling "Grams! It's the middle of the afternoon; I can't find a mirror to put my contacts in and Ino said Sasuke was walking around without a shirt on! Do you have a mini mirror?!" Sakura's grandmother yelled from the living room "Yes, dear flower! Look under my bed in the brown jewelry box!" Sakura's parents were gone, leaving her as a child and with her grandmother.

Sakura's short pink hair and large green eyes left Sakura pretty but too many hours staring at the sky had made her eyesight deplete so Sakura was forced into contacts.

"Yes Grams!" she yelled and dove under her grandmother's bed. Under her bed were two boxes. A metal box and her grandmother's jewelry box were there. Completely ignoring the metal box, she flipped open the jewelry box and took out a hand-sized mirror.

Every single one was either cracked or murky.

Sakura sighed and pushed the jewelry box back under the bed. Leaning close to the metal box, she tried to see her refection in the metal. Leaning close, she put her contacts in but brushed her pale nose against the box.

Sakura screamed at her nose felt like it was being torn off. "Yeouch!" she yelled, jumping back and rubbing her nose. She growled, put on some gloves and clicked open the little silver box. Inside the metal box was the most perfect little mirror she had ever seen. The mirror itself had an intricate golden frame, decorated with animals fighting side by side with a giant snake. It was a war and looked like angels themselves carved it. The glass was shimmering like no human fingers had ever brushed it.

Finally tearing her eyes away from the frame, Sakura looking into the mirror and blinked in surprise. Instead of plain old Sakura dressed in her usual red top and khaki skirt, she saw a more beautiful Sakura. This Sakura had a thin gold circlet with a diamond sitting with a sun around her tightly curled pink hair; this Sakura had eyes glowing with knowledge no one had lain eyes upon in centuries. She had on a gorgeous ruby red dress with diamonds around the neckline. This Sakura was beautiful, powerful and wise. Sakura gasped and dropped the delicate mirror. To her surprise it stayed in contact but landed face up. On the wooded back mysteriously is said '…the shadows'

Sakura blinked in surprise as the Hokage's red falcon took off from her window sill. "What does that mean…? Shikamaru will know…" said the pink haired girl as she took off outside.

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Hinata was sitting in the Hyuuga library, as usual, her nose buried in a book. She was sitting in one of the common rooms in the huge library, sitting with her lithe legs curled up under hear sitting near a warm fire. The flickering light and the big fluffy chair she was sitting on made Hinata look more small and fragile than usual. The big chair looked ready to swallow the small girl up.

Hinata had her long navy hair tied up in a high ponytail, out of her milky lavender eyes so the fire flickered over the handwritten page. The book was written by none other than Emona Hyuuga, Hinata's young beautiful mother. It was about a fantasy country hidden from every other one. The country was supposed to be beautiful, more powerful than Konoha and supposedly, four teenagers led it. It was a wonderful tale that Hinata often read to herself.

A noise resounded in the quiet library making Hinata jump and instinctively activated Byakugan, the book clenched tightly in her hand. Seeing nothing but a bird, she looked at her book and gasped.

The small tattered book was glowing with powerful churns of chakra. It clumped near the thick bottom of the book so carefully, Hinata tapped it with a long thing finger. She yelped when the bottom of the book open to reveal a hidden compartment containing a tiny silver metal case. It landed on her bare leg, making Hinata yelp again as she pushed it off her lap, onto the ground.

The tiny box opened and a gorgeous sapphire diamond pendant on a thin silver chain flew out it. A tiny letter written wrapped around the pendant uncurled slightly. Carefully, Hinata bent to pick up the delicate necklace and picked up the paper. It said 'It only means that…'

Hinata looked confused. "What only means what…?" she asked to no one in particular. She put both the necklace and the book in her pocket and went outside. "Maybe Shikamaru will know…" An ANBU watched Hinata leave the house with the necklace and ran off to Tsunade's office.

A necklace, a mirror, a coat of arms and a scroll…sounds familiar if you ask me. But no one asks me. Whatever. Anyways, this is the end of chapter two. They're getting closer to knowing about Diamond. Isn't that great?

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