This chapter is cute don't worry. Well its cute to me. Hope you like. Also sorry in advance if this chapter has bad grammar or spelling mistakes. My editor quit on me. Anyway enjoy.

Stirring Emotions

Chapter 14

Saryie was happy to awake to the early morning sunshine from her window. She quickly got out of bed and got ready. She put on her usual outfit of black shorts and a blue shirt. She tied her hair up in a ponytail and put on her shoes. She was about to head out the door, grabbing an apple from her kitchen when she stopped at the sight of her hand.

Saryie placed the apple down and went to grab the white bandage role from on her dresser. She wrapped her scarred arm up from her hand to her elbow. When she was satisfied, she smirked. This would just be another addition to her wardrobe. She then continued her way out the door grabbing her apple and making her way to the training grounds.

She was on time, but this time it seemed, Michi was late. Azumi was leaning against the tree, a seemingly blank look on her face.

"You're going to have to go fetch Michi," Azumi mentioned, dryly.

"Ugh, he's not coming?" Saryie asked, annoyed.

"Not unless you go gather him. Yesterday when I told we had training, he said he would think about it and see how he feels tomorrow. I'm guessing he feels unmotivated today," Azumi explained, quietly as she pulled out a book to read.

Saryie sighed loudly, very annoyed as she left the training grounds and went straight to the Haruki compound that Michi's house was in.

When Saryie had approached the house, she could hear the commotion going on in the kitchen. Saryie knocked on the door, Miyu opened the door a few moments later and looked to be annoyed.

"Mom, it's just Michi's teammate!" Miyu commented, leaving the door wide open as she walked away.

Saryie entered as she heard Michi's mother yelling after Miyu. Saryie walked into the kitchen and was hit with the smell of food simmering on the stove. Saryie saw that Michi's mother was cleaning dishes in the sink and had her hands busy. Aoi was sitting at the table with a plate of food, eating happily with Michi's dad eating some grub as well.

"Saryie is here?!" Airi shouted as she ran into the room to hug Saryie.

Saryie hugged her back giving her a warm smile as Airi let go to grab a plate to serve herself.

"Airi I hoped you washed your hands after you got done catching the lizards outside," Michi's mom commented, concerned as she saw Airi began to serve herself.

"Oops I forgot," Airi said, absently as she left her dish by the pot to run to go wash her hands.

"Oh that child," Michi's mom muttered as her eyes glanced over at Saryie.

"Oh don't tell me, Saryie, Michi was supposed to meet you this morning?" Michi's mother asked, already half knowing the answer.

Saryie gave a meek grin. "Afraid so."

"Oh for the love of bacon!" Michi's mom cursed. "The lack of motivation that boy has, just astounds me," Michi's mother complained. "It must be one of those days."

"Yup, he told Azumi he might not feel up to training today," Saryie commented, offhandedly, smirking.

"That boy… MIYU! GO AWAKE UP YOUR BROTHER," Michi's mom shouted.

Miyu groaned from the room next door and shouted why she has to do everything around here.

"Just let him sleep! It's not like he's going to actually do anything productive once he's up," Miyu remarked, bitterly.

"Don't take that tone with me and do as I say. Miruko tell her," Michi's mom spoke directed at Michi's father.

"Listen to your mom, Miyu and go wake up your brother," Miruko responded, meekly.

"I can get him up!" Airi eagerly offered after reentering the room overhearing as she sped off without a reply.

"Miyu go help your sister get Michi up," Michi's mom commanded, firm.

Miyu scoffed as she followed after Airi down the hall out of the kitchen.

"I am so sorry about this, Saryie. It's always a little hectic in the mornings. I had no idea he was supposed to meet with you today. He can be so reluctant to do certain things. You know he gets this from his father," Michi's mom continued as she cleaned the dishes.

Saryie saw Miruko almost choke on his food.

"Come again, honey?" Miruko gave a bashful reply.

"You know exactly. Remember how I been asking you for three months now how I want new paint for the bedroom and you still haven't done it," Michi's mother commented, casually.

"That's a lot different than being reluctant to train. I never was late to training," Miruko calmly defended.

"Well he sure doesn't get it from me. When I grew up, we had no time to sit around and do nothing. It was work from dusk to dawn," Michi's mom spoke loudly.

Saryie felt inwardly amused as the banter between Michi's mom and dad continued as she waited for Michi. Michi soon came into the kitchen rubbing his eyes with Airi skipping happily in front of him and Miyu coming in solemnly after them.

"We rolled him out of bed!" Airi happily declared as she went back to her plate at the stove to serve herself.

"More like shoved," Miyu responded, she too grabbing breakfast.

"Why was it important for me to get up?" Michi spoke, sleepily as his eyes soon fell on Saryie. "Oh," Michi muttered.

"Oh?! Are you telling me you forgot!?" Saryie asked, incredulously.

"Yea," Michi hesitantly replied.

"He's lying," Miyu commented plainly as she sat down to eat.

"Not really... I was hoping it be optional if we trained today, I don't feel like it. Plus, I think it's important for you to rest your arm Saryie," Michi spoke, casually.

"It's all healed up, and I can prove it to you if you like," Saryie stated threateningly with a smirk.

"I think I'm good, but I'm glad you're feeling better. How about we celebrate by doing nothing," Michi stated turning away when Saryie went over grabbing Michi by his mesh shirt.

"We're leaving now. Let's go," Saryie demanded, starting to drag Michi away. "Thanks Ms. Haruki for getting Michi up. See you next time," Saryie said, happily.

"Wait, wait," Michi protested annoyed.

Saryie stopped for a moment, still with a hold on Michi's shirt.

"I gotta do my hair first," Michi joked and Saryie rolled her eyes as Michi lightly laughed.

Saryie started to drag him out of the house again, but he seriously protested this time, complaining he wanted his coat. Saryie almost had enough of this nonsense, if it weren't for Michi's mom throwing Michi's coat at him and waving a spoon in his face, they might have not ever left.

"So help me, if you do not go train this instant, I will make you eat a pig snout all this week, now go!" Michi's mother warned, angry.

Michi's face paled as he turned the opposite way, apologizing as he pushed Saryie to the exit. Michi's body relaxed as they exited the compound.

"Ugh you guys really couldn't give me one more day to relax," Michi whined.

"You been resting for four days now and I was the only one who was supposed to be resting! You were supposed to train on your own," Saryie commented, with the roll of her eyes.

"We both know that wouldn't happen," Michi claimed.

"It could, if someone tried to force feed you your least favorite foods," Saryie commented, eyes narrowed.

"Yup luckily for me, no one was around to do that until you showed up at my house, ruining my vacation," Michi droned.

"If you keep laying around, you're going to get all flabby," Saryie commented, bluntly.

"Kinda what happened to you over the last three days, huh?" Michi mentioned as he poked Saryie's side teasingly.

"Hey!" Saryie yelled as Michi laughed as ran ahead of her.

Saryie quickly followed him finding it easy to catch up to him. She punched him softly, as they made their way to the training grounds. It was obvious Azumi was annoyed with how long it took to fetch Michi, but immediately went to the task at hand.

They began practicing, trying to combine their jutsu somehow. They let their chakra flow into one another. Michi was the first to try to incorporate his jutsu by expanding his reptilian armor from his body. His armor didn't reach far and sometimes decayed as he tried to maintain a level of chakra flow into his armor. Azumi then tried to cast a genjutsu, testing her range. The genjutsu was simple enough, it was to appear as if they were invisible to any surrounding chakra networks. Saryie's jutsu wasn't completely necessary at this stage, but her main objective was so constantly maintained a flow of chakra into Michi's body so he wouldn't be trapped in Azumi's genjutsu so that way he could focus on his own.

They practiced almost until the evening. Michi wanting to quit the most when he was sure he was out of chakra. Azumi was running low on chakra too, because she kept trying to expand her genjutsu range over and over again. Their jutsu wasn't perfected yet. It was still going to take a lot more work, but it was enough for now to show Iroha tomorrow.

Michi was relieved when Azumi announced that training was done for the day. Saryie, on the other hand was disappointed. The training didn't take much out of her. To be honest, her part in the jutsu was pretty boring, but it was like Azumi had told her. She was the last defense. If someone were to break Azumi's genjutsu first and next tried to go after breaking Michi's armor it was up to Saryie to hopefully wipe away the enemy with water summoning jutsu.

However, for now; Saryie still had loads of energy to kill. When her teammates had left the training grounds, Saryie began working out. She had to stretch and test her leg out again slowly as well as her arm. She started by doing squats, then pushups and did some sprints. Then she worked on her endurance, punching and kicking a training log.

She trained for three hours by herself, working hard to get strong, once more. She was however surprised as a familiar voice caught her off guard.

"I thought you would be here," came Sai's cool tone as he approached her.

Saryie stopped what she was doing, and smiled lightly at him. "You guessed right," Saryie commented, cheerfully.

"Would you like a partner?" Sai offered, as he was in his ninja gear.

Saryie smirked. "I would love one."

They began sparring together. Lightly at first and then got more intense as Saryie's attacks kept being evaded easily by Sai, despite her speed she had on him. The two sparred for at least a good hour. Sai's evasion helped Saryie try to focus more on her attack strategy. She went to kick him and he caught her foot once again.

"I see your leg is doing better," Sai commented, straight faced, noticing all of Saryie's weight was on her leg that use to be injured.

Saryie smirked, thinking he was distracted and tried to land a punch with her bandaged fist.

Sai caught that attack too, to Saryie's dismay.

"It looks to be your arm is better too, yet you still have it wrapped up," Sai mentioned, observing.

Saryie backed away from him and he let her go.

"A lot of ninja wrap up their limbs," Saryie deflected.

Sai kept quiet as he analyzed her. It was true most ninja wrapped up their hands or feet in bandages, but Saryie only decided to keep the bandages on her left arm after it was injured. Saryie didn't have bandages on her left thigh, but Sai suppose she didn't need to, since her shorts covered the spot where her skin was burned. Sai did however note the bandages on her right leg at her ankle. She always had that ankle wrapped and he never questioned it before. Now he wondered why she wrapped up old injuries.

Saryie didn't give him much more time to contemplate as she charged him again. They sparred for a while as Saryie managed to keep a level head. She had almost landed a blow on Sai when her form of attack left an opening for Sai to hit her. He had pushed her just enough for her to lose her balance and make her fall back from the hit.

Saryie yelped not in pain, but in surprise as she hit the ground. She rubbed her sternum where Sai had pushed her with his palm. It wasn't the first time she landed on her butt with an opponent, it just usually happened with Lee or her sensei.

At that moment, Saryie's stomach began to rumble. Saryie laughed, her body at ease as she got up.

"Well it looks like a good time to call it quits. My belly is hungry. We been at it for a while anyway. Thanks for practicing with me. Would you like to come with me and get some food?" Saryie offered cheerfully.

"Sure," Sai easily agreed, his tone soft as he looked over Saryie's features.

They walked together and went to a sit-down restaurant. They ordered their food as Saryie made mild chit chat as they waited.

It wasn't until the food came and Saryie was eating that Sai asked an unexpected question.

"Is this a date?" Sai asked, monotone.

Saryie stuttered, almost choking. She was flabbergasted as her cheeks turned lightly pink in embarrassment.

"I had read in a book that when two people go out for an evening and share an activity together that it is considered a date," Sai continued, his eyes focused on Saryie.

Saryie finally recuperated and laughed. "No, this isn't a date. If it were Naruto here right now instead of me, would it still be considered a date?" Saryie retorted.

"I don't know. I suppose not," Sai mentioned, his eyes clouded in confusion.

"See, not a date," Saryie declared, feeling relief.

"Then what is a date?" Sai asked.

Saryie pursed her lips for a second as her eyes scanned Sai's face. "Well a date is when two people are interested in each other… romantically and they go share an activity together… and talk about themselves to see if they like each other or not," Saryie answered, composed.

Her definition left him pondering for a moment as he nibbled on his food.

"Why are you asking about dates anyway?" Saryie questioned, curious; finding it odd.

"Sakura had suggested I ask you out on a date. She is under the assumption that you like me," Sai stated, blandly.

Saryie's eyes widened but kept her mouth shut, making no comment about it.

"Should I take your silence as agreement?" Sai wondered, his eyes not wavering from Saryie's face.

Saryie kept a steady gaze.

"Were you going to?" Saryie asked.

"Was I going to what?"

"Ask me on a date," Saryie stated, trying hard not to show emotion.

"I had planned on it. Would you have accepted?" Sai questioned back.

Saryie leaned in across the table, looking Sai dead in the eye, her eyes slightly narrowed before answering.

"Yes," Saryie answered, slowly.

"Then would you like to go on a date with me tomorrow?" Sai asked, monotone.

"On one condition," Saryie claimed and had to smirk at Sai's confused face.

"These things have negotiations?" Sai asked, confused.

"Normally no," Saryie laughed lightly before she continued. "I don't want you to be fake with me," Saryie stated lightly, with a soft smile.

"Alright," Sai agreed easily as he too returned her smile with one of his.

After that was decided, they continued eating, making small chit chat. Saryie told Sai about her training tomorrow and that the date would have to happen tomorrow night. Sai agreed easily, not sure what kind of date he was going to take Saryie on yet. He might look in the books at the library once more or even try asking Sakura for help.

After all, it seemed Sakura was right about Saryie's interest in him. Sai would not have noticed otherwise. He did like Saryie's company, but the rest of what he was feeling was all new to him. Sai soon felt a little anxious about the date tomorrow. He wanted to make a good impression, even though he had no idea how a date is supposed to go.

Saryie helped distracted him from his thoughts as she talked about how she had to get Michi out of bed this morning to get him to train. Sai commented on how Michi sounded a lot like Shikamaru. Saryie agreed but said Michi was less of a genius and just really lazy as a shinobi.

The two finished their meal and as they were about to pay, Saryie teased Sai.

"Lesson number one, the men pay for the date," Saryie stated with a cheeky grin, laughing slightly as Sai's eyes slightly widened.

"Oh," Sai stated as he fished out more money to the waitress to pay for their meal.

"I thought you said this wasn't a date," Sai stated after the waitress left and they were in the process of leaving.

"It's not, but you might as well get accustomed to it," Saryie replied, giggly as they left the restaurant.

Sai watched Saryie amusedly as she laughed. Saryie grabbed his arm pulling him closer to her, shocking Sai.

"Thanks for the non-date. I'll see you tomorrow for the real one," Saryie spoke, playfully, smiling.

She soon let go of his hand and was off, fading into the distance as she made her way home. Sai was left in shock at the close contact. The feeling of warmth that had grabbed his hand was slowly fading and it made him wish she was back to hold his arm again. Sai wondered why he was feeling such things. Was this normal? He wasn't sure as he too headed home for the night.

Awe well, they have a date! :D yay! Even though Sai not sure how a date goes or what to do. He's still sorting things out. Saryie left early because she was too giddy for her own good. She didn't want to scare off Sai. The next chapter leads up to the date. Be sure to stick around for that.

Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto. I own Saryie, Michi, Azumi.

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