Chibi: I felt like making chapter 2 because I was bored.
Disclaimer: I'm not a japanese guy, I'm a chinese girl.
Tenten pulled out a flashlight as the group descended down the stairs. They came across a storage room.
"Tenten, what's that chest over there?" Sakura asked, grabbing the flashlight and shining it upon a chest.
Tenten frowned, and walked over to it. "There's something engraved." she felt her fingers along it. "Bring the light over here."
Sasuke blinked. "There's no lock on it, and what does that symbol say? I can't read it."
"That's because it's in Chinese." Tenten could almost immediately read it. "For fire." she realized why it had been so difficult to read. One of the strokes was facing in the wrong direction. She slipped her finger next to it, and twisted it in the right direction, and the chest unlocked.
Shikamaru opened it the rest of the way, and pulled out an old paintbrush used for strokes. On the top of the brush, was an engraved sign for the Chinese kanji, fire. The base where the tip of the brush meets the part where you hold the brush was metal, and Shikamaru unscrewed it.
"Shikamaru you're going to break it!" Sakura cried.
"No he's not." Sasuke almost snapped at the girl. He took the blade from Tenten. "Let me see that Shikamaru." Shikamaru handed the metal base and wooden stick to Sasuke, and he observed it under the light of the flashlight Sakura was holding. "Neji, let me see a slip of paper."
Neji pulled out a slip of paper from his kunai pouch, and handed it to Sasuke. Sasuke pricked his own finger, and heard Sakura gasp. When some blood had come out, he slid it over the metal part, and when that was completely covered in Uchiha blood, he pressed it down on the paper, and rolled. "Tenten read this." he motioned for the Chinese girl to read what was pressed onto the page.
Tenten nodded and came forward. "It reads:
The secret of the will of 10, 10's
Locks the 5 in dense kanji
It's ghostly nature
conceals the cache of beasts
"What the hell does that mean?" Sakura asked.
Shikamaru blinked. "It said 10-10, that's you." he referred to Tenten.
Tenten shook her head. "This is referring to Chinese, there was thought to be a girl by the name of Tien Tien, she was the beautiful spirit that led...Ng, Teru." none of her comrades seemed to notice her unease at this. "The beautiful spirit that led Ng, Teru to the tailed demons." she pressed her hand against her forehead. "No one believed that she existed."
"But if there's a will..."Sakura started.
"Then we'll know or not if she was real." Shikamaru finished.
"What's The Five?" Sasuke mumbled.
Tenten shook her head. "I'm not sure..."
"It said 'conceals the cache of beasts'" Shikamaru pointed out. "So it's hiding more than one beast."
Tenten's heart skipped a beat, and she had a flashback to when her grandfather told her about the beasts from Shukaku, to Kyuubi. 'Wait a second.' she thought. "It said THE FIVE!" she cried out.
"So?" Sakura asked, raising an eyebrow.
"What are there five of in these nations!" Tenten practically screamed.
"Sunagakure, Konohagakure, Iwagakure, Kumogakure, and Kirigakure..."Shikamaru pointed out.
"A little deeper than that!" Tenten wailed.
"Mist, Leaf, Sand-" Shika began.
"No! The leaders!"
"The five kage's?" Sasuke asked.
"Yes! That's 'The Five'!" Tenten was relieved that they had figured that out.
"Uh...the five kage's weren't dense kanji the last time I checked." Sakura pointed out.
"But they wrote something in dense kanji!" Tenten exclaimed. "The Creed of the Five."
"Hn. What's that supposed to tell us?" Sasuke asked.
"So there's a will of Tien-Tien." Shikamaru begain. "And there's the Creed of the Five..."
"Don't forget 'its ghostly nature'." Sakura reminded him.
"Ghostly...invisible?" Tenten suggested to Shikamaru.
Shikamaru nodded. "So it's naturally invisible."
Sasuke gave another 'hn'. "I got it. The will is invisible on the Creed of the Five, and it reveals the location of the beasts."
Sakura laughed. "Oh Sasuke, that's ridiculous!"
Tenten and Shikamaru stared at the girl. "He's right."
Neji shrugged. "So we steal the Creed of the Five. It's in Konoha right now."
Tenten shook her head. "No way Neji. Wanna know why? Cause if we do, chances are, we'll die trying. Plus, it's a historical piece of evidence."
Neji gave that little smirk he only gave ever so often. "Which would ensure it making it for years and years to come."
Sakura shrugged. "I'm in."
"I'm out." Sasuke growled.
"Me too." Shikamaru rolled his eyes.
"Me three." Tenten agreed with the boys. "We'll make sure you get caught before you even try."
Neji pulled out a gun. "Well then I guess we have some eliminating to do."
Sakura stepped back. "Please remember that I'm in." she reminded Neji.
Tenten smirked. "You can't shoot me. You can't solve anything without me."
Neji blinked. "That's true." he replied. "But you don't need Sasuke." he pointed the gun towards Sasuke.
Sasuke froze. He didn't exactly feel comfortable with a gun pointed at him.
Tenten grabbed a match and struck it, and Neji pointed the gun back at her. "Don't move." he demanded.
"Neji, look around us. You apparently don't know what these boxes are filled with. Don't worry, I'll tell you." Tenten smiled. "Explosives." she smirked. "Catch." she tossed the match at him, a stupid thing, since the only thing separating the two was a box of the explosives. She stuffed the slip of paper in her pocket.
Sasuke and Shikamaru ran to Tenten, one on either side of her, and they looked just in time to see Sakura catch the match, but before she could put it out, she dropped it, because it had begun to burn her.
"Sakura, let's go!" Neji grabbed the girls hand and the two ran up the stairs seeing as they were the only one's close to the exit.
Tenten immediately knew that Neji and Sakura had gotten away in time, and the boxes began to explode. She found herself in an embrace with Shikamaru and Sasuke, thinking that it would be their last moments. They had no way to escape, but she felt something in her eye, not something painful, something annoying. She opened them to see sand shielding her and her two friends.
Chibi: Here's chapter two, I hope it's pretty good. BTW little poll for you. Later on I will be bringing in Kiba, Gaara, and Ino. Not necessarily in that order. For a couple, should it be InoKiba, or InoGaara? You decide. Reviews are encouraged!