THE JIN DOWNTAKER 14/02/2010 07:58:00

Disclaimer: I own every one in this chapter that has been shown as a person. For example; De Sin, Xiao Yili, Xiao Kan, Xiao Yili's mother, Cao Shuan, Xiahou Yen, Xiao Yili's grandfather and Cao Shuan's friends.

A few names are mentioned in this chapter such as Cao Mao, Sima Yi, Sima Shi and Sima Zhao who are not mine. And also take note that Xiahou Yen is related to Cao Shuan. (Cao Shuan is Cao Cao's great-grandson, Xiahou Yen is Xiahou Dun's grandson and Cao Cao and Xiahou Dun are cousins.)

Author's Notes: This story is labelled an 'M' for extreme violence, sex and language. Also the main characters are Xiao Yili and De Sin. And the city they're in is called Weimou.

Chapter One. Girl.

His hand swiped against the face of his blade, wiping the blood of the large scimitar. He dipped it into the boiling water as the door creaked open. It was a tall, handsome, clean-shaved young man who had entered.

His dark brown hair swished around him. His hair was spiky and he had purple eyes with a yellow circle around the pupil of his left eye. He smiled. He was similar to the man who had walked in, except his eyes were brown and his hair was black.

The black-haired boy who had entered, stepped down a few steps. He smiled at him as he looked around the room at the boy who was cleaning the scimitar. His hands were fiercely scrubbing the blood-stained cloth down the side of the scimitar. His eyes converted to the walker-inner. The black-haired boy who had entered, looked at the boy scrubbing the scimitar. The boy that was cleaning the blade was called De Sin.

"Sin," the boy who walked in moaned. "Leave! And if I see you around these areas trying to steal bread from the bakery, I could force His Majesty to have you executed. Do I make myself clear?"

"Yes, sir," Sin said, standing up straight. "Sorry."

"That's Lord Xiahou Yen to you!" he shouted, "Get out! I don't ever want to see your face round here until you make a life for yourself. Do you hear me?"

"Yes, sir, Lord Xiahou Yen," Sin said quietly as he walked to the door and exited.

"Damn, nutcase," Xiahou Yen groaned, marching out of the room. "Always on your nerves when you DON'T need them!"

De Sin slammed the doors. He knew it would anger Xiahou Yen. He ran for it. There was a huge crowd to his left and dodgy streets on his right. If he went in the dodgy streets then he would never get caught. It's almost as simple as that. On the other hand, entering the crowd would hide him in, but the amount of times he ended up cleaning Xiahou Yen's scimitar or grooming his horses, he could tell that the general would end up getting pissed off in the end and catch him.

His heart beat aside. It was a better idea to travel through the dodgy streets. Step by step, he rushed to his right into the streets. The amount of corners it had, you could never find your way too and from school if it was on the other side. Xiahou Yen saw him turn the first street on the left. As he slammed himself forwards, he saw Sin's shadow. He rushed forwards, scimitar in robes. He pulled the scimitar from his robes and balanced it on the wind.

"Sin!" he shouted. "I've warned you!"

He followed the dark sillhoute craved along the dark corridor. He saw the sillhoute slide leftwards. He followed it until he blinked. Every five metres there was a corner to the left, right and forwards of him.

"Sin! Sin!" he screamed. "I'll be waiting at your bedside! Sleep with one eye open!"

"Can't do!" Sin shouted.

The voice echoed on every turn in the whole town. He wandered endlessly through the puzzle of streets before turning around and walking away. He looked at the light at the end.

Sin rushed forwards as he saw the light creep down the next corner. He turned around and ran left. He rushed into a grocery. He pulled himself into a halt. He took a few tiny steps and grabbed a large block of white bed. He took another grab and pulled himself a bottle of water. The ice froze his fingers, but he managed to grab it.

"Hey, kid," the shopkeeper said, effortlessly. "Who you buying that for?"

"My mother," he said, in a sad voice. "She is ill and I decided to get her some bread and something to drink."

The shopkeeper nodded as he painted the words 'Celery sticks and Large Rice' on a white strip of paper and handed it to a customer, along with two coins in change. Sin grabbed a Medium-Large packet made of thick layers of silk and cardboard and shoved it under his armpit.

"Can I have a basket, sir?" Sin asked the keeper, as he was handed a basket. "Thanks."

He placed the rice, the bread and the water into the basket. He walked down to the rear end of the shop and grabbed a white thin-papered bag and shoved three tiny fish in. He sealed the top of the paper and laid it into the basket. Slowly, he brought the basket onto the table. The keeper inspected the basket and then looked at the customer behind Sin. The customer had light brown hair, compared to the keeper's grey hair. The keeper re-inspected the basket again.

"Oh, sir, excuse me if I ask you a favour," Sin said, slyly. "Can you reach out and fetch me some Tall Leaf Herbs please?"

"Sure thing, boy," the keeper replied. "How is your mother anyways? Young child, how is your mother. Are you listening to me?"

As the old keeper span around and looked down at where Sin and the basket should've been, and then frowned. Sin had ran out of the grocery at full speed with the basket in his hands.

"What absurd rudeness!" he said angrilly. "What do you want?"

"Five chicken thighs and a double-jointed meat bun."

Sin rushed out at full speed. His legs were running faster yet it was being dragged behind by his body. He ran fast around the corners and then rushed down a thin ally. It had just a bench and a few bin bags left outside.

He sat down on the bench after a full halt. He laid the basket down on the bench. He ripped open the white bread, laying it on a plastic plate that he stole and stuffed in the basket. He laid the rice beside it, cutting two fishes and eating the fish in the bread. He took a large bite, filling his hunger. He then drank the water, to a quarter of the bottle. He saw three boys rush down the same path.

"Ai, mate," one of the boys shouted. "Where did you get those clothes from? They look absolutely retarded. But those boots are nice. I wonder if it'll fit a hedgehog in it, dork!"

Sin stood up and laid his sandwich down on the table. There was a ricy-fishy-watery mixture streaming down his bottom lip and chin. Sin stared at the boys angrilly. One of the boys moved towards him, and smashed his fist into Sin's stomach. He was grounded onto the floor. He slipped against the wall.

"Pass some food, titch!" the boy shouted, grinding him in his neck. "I'll kill you!"

"Get lost!" he shouted, pushing his fist away from his body and slamming into his assailant's face. "I am not afraid."

The other two boys grabbed the giant sandwich and the basket and ran around the corner, munching on it. The boy who attacked Sin was staring at his victim. He was shocked as his victim was too.

"Did you just hit me?" he shouted.

The assailant's foot shot forwards, smacking Sin in his jaw and knocking him onto the floor. The assailant crouched over Sin and began his punches. Sin's hands were under the assailant's knee, his feet were under his assailant's shin. Sin couldn't scream. If he did, Xiahou Yen could find him. Anyways the pain on his cheek and jaw where he was being battered shivered. He felt pain screwing his eyes around, as his ears were ripped apart. He felt his ears heat up as a fist smacked into his back, smashing it.

He needed to scream, but on the other hand, death by execution is worse than death by beating. No one had to look on in disgrace as he walks on the wooden platform. The chance of his assailant murdering him was low.

"Where's the food?" a man asked. "I don't know but..."

"They took it!" Sin shouted fearfully.

A woman walked down the path as the assailant grabbed his body and heaved it into the air. The assailant shoved open a bin bag and pushed Sin inside one of them. The assailant tied it up as the female figure turned around and left.

"Stay in there and don't move!"

Sin felt his air lacking. After five minutes of struggling, he finally tore a hole in the bags. As far as he knew, the assailant was gone. He felt his lip's bruise as he opened his mouth.

The girl who had went away returned. She never left. In fact, she hid and watched. She jogged back to Sin and held his hands, touching her nose with his. She looked at Sin and smiled. He pulled her towards him into a kiss, a rather long one. His lips warmed up, the bruise stopped hurting any further. She stared at him after release.

"Are you alright?" she asked, tightly holding his hands. "I'm Xiao Yili! Call me Yili! I'm fifteen. What is your name?"

"I'm Sin," he said quietly, his back aching, his lips opening from shame. "De Sin. Call me Sin, I suppose."

"Why are you here?" she said, quietly, mimicking the silence of his voice. "Why was Shuan beating you up?"

"Shuan?" he asked.

"Cao Shuan. He is the Emperor's nephew."

Sin sat up, his hand still connected to Yili's hands. Yili helped him stand up. Thank goodness the bag was full of paper and not banana skins. He would smell like bananas whilst walking down the streets with a pretty girl.

"Are you anyone?" he asked her, standing on his feet, limpingly.

"No," she laughed, "Just Shuan's ex-girlfriend, I guess."

"Oh," he groaned, walking slowly to the wall.

"Come and stay at mine," she offered, an order disguised as a rhetorical question. "I'll feed you. It'll be a right laugh."

He nodded, limping forwards. He realised that his hands were holding hers, and she realised it at the same time. They both moved their hands, but she eventually struck her's round his to help him walk.

Sin stared at her. Her face was a beautiful coloured pink. It was as if she was blushing, except her whole face went pink, not just her cheek and nose. Sin grabbed Yili and they limped towards a door.

She put a white paper against the door and wrote Sin's name on it. She then pushed the door open. She walked into the wooden house, and then touched the window frame. She pulled it, closing the windows.

"Don't be shy to do anything that you can think of," she laughed. "No matter, how much you want it or not. Speak quietly too, my mother is upstairs sleeping."

Sin stepped into a room where there was a bowl of fruit on the table and seven chairs. Three on one side, three on the other, and a chair at the head of the table, usually seated for the richest guests.

"Where's your father?" Sin asked her as they both sat down on a leather sofa padded with cotton inside it, allowing it to be comfortable.

"He died in battle when I was two," she whispered, sadly. "He was killed when Sima Shi raided Cao Mao's castle on his father's orders. His father was on his deathbed when he gave the command. I don't know which side my father died for, but every one involved then is a suspect, and I hate them for it!"

"My father died when I was two too," he said, surprisingly. "He was shot by an arrow in the back of his head and he tumbled off the top of the castle whilst Sima Shi was invading. He fought for Cao Mao but Cao Mao's allies are still targets. They were all traitors at the end of the war. My mother commited suicide as soon as she heard the news, trying to take me down too, but a soldier tried to rescue me and drowned with her. I was taken here by another soldier who witnessed it. He brought me up but he died two years ago in battle against Sima Zhao, the man who continue's Sima Shi's legacy."

"I don't want to talk about that," she said quietly. "Do you want any plasters? You can get infections that those dumb doctors chat about and you never get."

They both cracked up in laughter, rolling on the floor. They ended up falling asleep on the sofa. Two and a half hours later, they awoke to the smell of chicken being roasted on the fire.

Sin and Yili walked into the kitchen together to see a face that Sin saw no less than three hours before hand. It was the boy at the grocery behind him.

"Hey, you're the kid who nicked the bread and rice from the grocery," he said. "That was my Grandfather! He lets me have food for free. I just show him how much I taken and he sprinkles oil over my head."

"He's my friend," she lied, looking at the boy. "In fact, my boy friend. Please ask Grandfather to let him off this once."

The boy looked at Sin with an evil grin.

"Yili?" he asked, angrilly. "He is not your boyfriend."

"Please," she cried. "Please, Kan?"

He breathed out a large sigh. She jumped and then grabbed Sin, pulling him into a hug and wrapping her fingers round his back. He wrapped his fingers round her back as it reach round her. He picked her up as she wrapped her legs around his waist. He walked towards the living room and sat her down on the sofa, both of them giggling.

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The first chapter is over. I am on a writing spree. So far he is befriended Xiao Yili. His life is going quick. It is soon going to go quicker.