Here's the second half of the mission. I hope you enjoy.

Stirring Emotions

Chapter 10

Sai could sense the oncoming threat. He scanned the area. He knew Michi, the two girls, and himself were invisible to the naked eye because of Michi's camouflage jutsu, but that didn't mean they couldn't be detected. Sai prepared himself.

"I sense a threat approaching. They must have gotten passed them," Sai informed Michi, monotone.

The two girls gasped. Nali huddling even closer to her sister, clutching the pendent tighter to her chest.

"Already?" Michi questioned shocked, his face grave. "What were they doing back there, somersaults," Michi muttered sarcastically as he glanced behind them.

Sai was questioning that as well. How did the enemy get pass Neji, Sakura, and Saryie so fast? He wondered if the enemy ninja were that skilled or was there a diversion. But whatever happened to them, he needed to focus on what he needed to do now.

Soon enough they saw the enemy approaching fast from the tree tops and Sai and Michi were ready for them.

"Fire style. Fire ball jutsu," the enemy with the sword called.

A gigantic fire ball approached the bird that Michi and Sai were on. Michi jumped from the bird first, holding the two girls at his sides as he descended to the ground. It broke his camouflage jutsu as they disembarked the bird. Sai descended after Michi, turning in mid leap to pull out his scroll and quickly scribble some lions.

"Super Beast Scroll."

The lions came alive from Sai's scroll and leapt after the enemy that was following right behind them to the ground. The lions delayed the enemy so that Michi and Sai could land safely.

The enemy ripped through the lions with good accuracy. The female having thrown shuriken and the ninja with sword swinging it widely at the inked lions and the last ninja cutting through the lions with a kunai.

As Sai landed, he reached for his blade at his back and turned around swiftly in time to block an attack from the sword wielder. The ninja with the sword, smirked at him, over confident.

"You're pretty good for how scrawny you look," the man mocked as he pushed his sword against Sai's blade harder.

The other two ninja were occupied with trying to find Michi who had already gone into camouflage mode with the two girls behind him by a tree. He also had his defensive reptilian armor up, covering himself and the girls.

"Where did they go?" the ninja with long hair asked, seemingly impatient.

The female once again closed her eyes to concentrate, focusing on trying to find the chakra networks of the three. She soon pointed at where the girls and Michi were at.

"They are right there," the female called as she threw a shuriken.

The shuriken deflected and bounced back due it hitting Michi's armor. Cautiously, the female approached Michi's barrier. She came up to it and tapped it, testing its strength. It felt solid like a rock.

Michi dispersed his camouflage jutsu, having been spotted and becoming visible to the enemy. For him to have his armor expanded and camouflage jutsu working at the same time, it took up too much of his chakra. There was no point to keeping up the camouflage jutsu and waste chakra, when Michi was sure that the enemy was now going to test the strength of his armor. He would need to save his chakra in order to keep his armor intact.

The female snickered and Sai took a look out of the corner of his eye, trying to calculate his next move. He was still engaged in holding the sword wielder back who cackled at Sai's seemingly helplessness. Sai kept a steady gaze back at his opponent.

"That's right chump, just keep looking at me," the sword wielder spoke as his teammates were busy studying Michi's armor.

"Looks like an Earth style jutsu," the female remarked at Michi's armor. "Cho."

The man with long hair named, Cho, responded, nodding. He came up to Michi's barrier as his hand began to surge. His chakra was turning into electricity in his hand. Michi cursed inwardly and braced himself. It just had to be his bad luck that the enemy had to have an electricity user that worked well against his Earth style jutsu.

"It's best to come out now, save us the trouble. We've come a long way and want back what the Yuan clan stole from us," the female spoke, dryly.

When they heard no response, Cho reached out his hand to attack Michi's barrier with a gust of electricity. Even with Michi bracing himself for the attack, it still took him a lot to hold the barrier up. It was weakening. The reptilian armor wouldn't hold for much longer as he tried to maintain an increased flow of chakra into the armor. The girls were holding each other, afraid, as they could hear and feel the electricity attacking the barrier. It made their hair stand on end in the dome. Nali didn't even look up, she had her face buried into her sister, Shui's, stomach.

Much to Michi's relief, as the armor was decaying, he heard the voice of Neji's as air rushed passed him.

"Air Palm."

A gust of chakra wind forced Cho and the female way from Michi as Neji and Saryie landed in front of Michi's decaying barrier. At the same time, the man with the sword backed away from Sai as Sakura's fist hit the spot where he stood.

"Took you long enough," Michi muttered, out of breath as his armor fully decayed.

"Don't worry, I'm here now. You can take a breather, looks like you need it," Saryie commented lightly, with a smirk.

"I wish, but maybe later I can," Michi muttered, tired.

Michi stood still protecting the two girls, a kunai out along with Saryie and Neji on either sides of them, watching their opponents who were gathering themselves up from Neji's attack.

"Whatever happens, keep them away from Michi at all cost," Neji ordered to Saryie, Sakura, and Sai, his byakugan narrowing in on Cho's form.

Sai and Sakura stood by each other, knowing that they were taking on the man with the sword who also wielded fire style jutsu.

Saryie was facing her opponent, locking eyes with the female. Saryie knew somewhat that this woman used a lot of weapons and appeared to be a sensory type ninja. Saryie knew she had to be careful. A weapons expert ninja could be just as dangerous as any other type of ninja, but Saryie had some experience fighting with weapon users such as Tenten and Azumi. Saryie got in her fighting stance, knowing she was mostly going to use taijutsu.

The female recovered from the initial attack, angry she didn't sense Neji, Saryie, and Sakura's approach. She saw her path to Michi blocked by Saryie as the byakugan user also blocked her teammate, Cho. She knew she had to finish off Saryie first in order to get to the heiresses.

"Woo finish with those two quickly, help Cho. I'll finish up this one soon," the female ordered, her mouth in a frown as she unlatched her chain from her body, it falling to the ground.

"No need to worry, Yuri," Woo, the sword wielder, retorted as he sized up Sakura and Sai, with a grin.

Soon everyone went into battle. Sai and Sakura worked together as they fought Woo, dodging his fire style jutsu and sword. Neji went after Cho using gentle fist, hoping to block Cho's chakra points, but Cho was excellent at evading. Neji also had to be careful with Cho's electrocuting touch.

Saryie went to attack Yuri, but Yuri kept Saryie at bay with many flying weapons. A barrage of kunai and shuriken thwarted Saryie's attempts to get close enough to comfortably clobber the enemy ninja.

Yuri snickered. "It doesn't matter how fast you are. You won't be able to evade my attacks for long."

Yuri did hand signs as her chain became alive. It spread tiny spikes amongst the length of the metal and then was after Saryie like a snake.

It followed after Saryie even as Saryie moved as fast a she could away from it, but it still came after her. Saryie threw shuriken at Yuri as she kept moving, to test the jutsu that Yuri had on the chain. The chain did not falter as Yuri blocked the weapons Saryie threw. Yuri threw more ninja stars as well. Saryie was able to avoid for a bit but had stopped moving just enough for the chain to catch up to her.

The chain had caught part of her shirt ripping it as she quickly moved away from it. Yuri laughed again as Saryie tried to analyze her options while constantly moving around the battlefield. She didn't know what the deal was with this spiked chain that was following her. Saryie could tell by the jutsu that Yuri was used to long distance fighting. Saryie knew she could beat her if she could get close enough.

"You're wasting time. Its best to give up now. My chain seeks out chakra. It won't stop until it wraps its way all around your body and kills you," Yuri taunted as she threw more weapons to trip up Saryie.

Saryie dodged with quick speed, her mind racing. Saryie began making her way closer to Yuri, a plan forming in her head. The chain followed her closely. Yuri tried to block Saryie's advance with more shuriken, but Saryie jumped up in the air avoiding the flying blades.

"Big mistake," Yuri remarked, smirking as the chain latched onto Saryie's arm

"Maybe for you," Saryie retorted.

The chain began wrapping up Saryie's arm, piercing her skin drawing blood. Saryie grabbed hold of the chain and pulled it towards her. It gave her enough momentum by sending her towards Yuri.

Yuri was shocked and too slow to react as Saryie landed a punch in Yuri's face. Saryie went after her not giving Yuri a chance to recover, dragging along the chain with her. Saryie soon wrapped the chain around Yuri's neck, slicing her neck and choking the air out of her.

Once Yuri was dead, the chain jutsu broke and it fell from Saryie's arm. Saryie's arm was bloody from the tiny spikes on the chain, but Saryie felt exhilarated at winning. Her attention soon snapped to her teammates, seeing that Michi and the girls were still safe.

"Saryie! We could use your water jutsu," Sakura called, her eyes trained on Woo.

Saryie ran over to Sai and Sakura, ready to help.

"Your arm," Sakura commented, stunted for a moment.

"It's fine, I'll be fine," Saryie stated, her eyes locked on her new opponent.

Sai's eyes raked over Saryie's form and over her arm injury, his face blank. Blood was dripping off of Saryie's arm, hitting the ground, but she paid no mind to it. His attention was drawn back to Woo when Woo began talking.

"Impressive, never seen someone defeat Yuri before, but then again no one was stupid enough to grab that chain," Woo taunted, seemly unaffected at Yuri's death.

"Sakura, Sai, get those two girls to safety. I can handle him," Saryie stated, determined, her eyes narrowed, not looking at them. Her eyes were only on Woo.

"Are you sure?" Sakura asked, unsure.

"Go. Our mission is to get them to safety," Saryie spoke as she reached into her pouch at her hip. "Besides I'm just another Leaf shinobi," Saryie stated, smirking.

Saryie grabbed two seemingly ordinary looking sticks out of her pack. They were light blue in color and only six inches long and an inch in diameter. The pair of sticks had a pair of small holes on the top of them.

Sakura and Sai hesitated for a moment unsure as Saryie called out to Woo.

"What do you people even want?" Saryie questioned, unfazed.

"Oh you mean besides vengeance? The Yuan clan has had this coming for a long time. Ever since they stole the Stone of Vigor. Now you look like a pretty smart girl, so I think you should back down and hand the two girls over. Otherwise you might get hurt," Woo commented, laughing

"We'll see who gets hurt," Saryie retorted, getting angry. "Both of you go," Saryie shouted at Sai and Sakura.

"Your funeral," Woo remarked, with a shrug.

"Water Style, Twin Water Blades."

Sai and Sakura didn't hesitate this time as they headed over to Michi.

Saryie had exerted chakra into her palms. The chakra charged her sticks and formed a blade of her chakra nature. It shaped water into a sharp blade that was continuously moving and flowing.

Woo smirked as he swung his sword proudly, unimpressed with Saryie's weapons. Saryie soon went after him, angered at him for underestimating her. They began a tangled battle of swords, neither of them handling a blow.

Sai quickly drew a bird, and performed hand signs bringing it to life when they reached Michi. Sai noticed too how Neji was still in heated battle with Cho. Sakura helped Michi get the two girl on to the bird as Sai's eyes went back to Saryie's battle. Something unnerved him when she said she was just another leaf shinobi. He knew those were his words he spoke to her.

Sakura tried to calm Nali, who was curled up in a ball, lightly crying, onto the bird as Michi helped Shui on to the bird. When both Sakura and Michi were aboard the bird they called for Sai's attention.

Woo in the midst of his fighting with Saryie, saw that her team was about escape. When Woo had the chance, he made a clone of himself before once again colliding with Saryie's water blades. Saryie, surprised, saw Woo's clone and knew what was about to happen and quickly tried to think on her feet.

"Fire Style, Fire Ball jutsu," Woo' clone called as he began to blow a fire ball from his mouth at the bird her team was trying to escape on.

Saryie immediately parted from her combat with Woo, leaving a water clone in her place that was created from the water in the air. With her taijutsu speed, she ran in front of the path of the fire ball as she performed hand signs.

"Water Style. Water Blast jutsu".

Saryie expelled the water from her mouth extinguishing the flames at the last second, but the fire ball was so close that a flame nicked her thigh. Saryie fell, finding it hard to stand with the burn on her leg and the lack of chakra in her body.

Sai, Sakura, and Michi had already disembarked into the sky with the two girls, but their eyes were averted to the ground. Upon seeing Woo slash through the water clone of Saryie and the real Saryie on the ground exhausted, Sai made a calculative decision.

Sai jumped from the bird he drew, pulling out his scroll and scribbling quickly.

"Super Beast Scroll."

Lions and others emerged from the scroll as they leapt after the real Woo. Woo's clone was making a quick attempt to attack Saryie while she was down. Sai landed in time, slicing through the clone of Woo.

Woo made another fire ball, destroying the lions. He smirked when he got a clear line of sight of Sai blocking Saryie. Woo went to charge, but realized he couldn't move his feet.

When Woo looked down, he noticed the drawing of snakes holding him in place. Woo was about to cut the snakes with his sword when two lions grabbed him arms with their teeth. Woo cried out in pain and within a flash Sai was there.

Sai ended him, quickly, before calling off his jutsu. When Sai turned back to Saryie, Neji was there. Neji had just finished off his opponent, Cho, as well and had came to see the damage done to Saryie.

"I'll be fine. I'm just tired," Saryie muttered to Neji as he looked at her leg wound.

"We'll let Sakura be the judge of that," Neji stated, calmly as he looked at Sai. "She can't stand. We'll need to fly to catch up with the others."

Sai nodded at the request drawing up a bird and bringing it to life. Neji picked Saryie up and placed her on the bird as they got on as well. They began flying after Sakura and Michi.

They found them soon and flew the rest of the way to the Land of Stones with Saryie resting on the way there. Neji perform remedial first aid as he bandaged Saryie's bleeding arm. Neji also made sure there were no more enemy ninja tailing them as the sun began to set.

The team had so many questions as to why the two girls were being targeted.

Done and done. Well this mission is almost wrapped up :D and Sai went to save Saryie. Ain't he sweet. Lul. Tune in next time to find out the full story of the mission.

Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto. I only own Saryie, Michi, and Azumi.