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Xiao Qiao turned on her other side for the millionth time that night. The events at the ball were replaying in her mind like a movie. She smiled as she thought of Zhou Yu and tried her hardest to suppress the giddiness welling in her body.

She felt like she wanted to just scream in delight and run around her chamber like a horse. But Taka was in the room next door and Xiao didn't want to wake the sleeping maid.

Xiao thought she heard the distant sound of yelling but quickly dismissed it. She turned over again and decided to get out of bed and take a walk out to the balcony.

As soon as she opened the door, she saw a lightening strike and tons of men on the hills above her. She let out a gasp.

"Robbers…" she breathed. Just then, a cannon flew straight towards the castle and hit the outer wing.

She screamed as the momentum of the cannon threw her back across her wooden floor.

"Lady Xiao, where are you?"" Taka asked as she ran to Xiao. "Thank goodness you're alright! The castle seems to be under attack!"

"I've got to find Da!" Xiao said as she ran to her bed and pulled out a box. She opened it and there was her True Grace waiting for the next time it would see battle.

"My lady, you can't!" Taka protested. "What if you get hurt?"

"What could a band of robbers do?" Xiao asked her in a disbelieving voice.

"Xiao please, I don't want you hurt!" Taka said. She loved Xiao like a daughter and wasn't about to let her do this.

"I have to go." Xiao said. She pulled a sword from one of her shelves and handed it to Taka. "Take this."

"Lady Xiao, I don't know how to fight."

"Yes you do! You took marshal arts when you were a kid! You taught me a lot."

The lightening struck again and Xiao persisted. "Take it."

"What do I do with it?"

"Hide in my closet and wait till I come and get you. Don't open the doors for anyone except me, Da, Zhou, Ce, or Hula okay?"

"Yes, my lady." Taka said. Once Xiao had her mind made up, there was no stopping her.

Xiao was almost out the door, when she heard Taka speak.

"Do be careful, Xiao." She said.

"Don't worry." Xiao said. "I'll be back." She promised her then opened the door and left the maid.

"Oh, powerful gods and goddesses," she began to pray. "Please keep her safe."

XXX

Xiao ran down the familiar corridor. Her only light was the occasional lightening strike and Xiao would jump and look out the window at the mass of men below. She already knew that most of Wu's generals were already down there taking on the impeding forces with skill and ease.

Xiao had been down this hallway many times, but for the first time, she was scared to the bone in it. She thought that there were enemies behind every corner. For the first time while she was here, Xiao felt alone; alone and helpless.

"OOF!" she said as she ran into a figure. She looked up to what she thought would be a murder, and looked straight up into Da Qiao's evergreen eyes.

"Xiao Qiao!" Da said as she embraced her sister. "I thought I'd never find you!"

"I thought that I'd die before you found me!" Xiao exclaimed.

"Quickly, there's not much time! We need to get down there and help Ce and Zhou Yu. " Da said.

"Why? Where are they?" Xiao asked hysterically.

"They're out there in the front line holding them back." Da said as they began to walk.

"Holding who?"

"A band of robbers, I believe."

"Why are they attacking us?"

"I really don't know. All I know is that we need to help our men." Da said with rare determination.

"Right, we can't let them have all the fun!" Xiao said as she put her fan in the air.

The girls climbed down the grand staircase and were about to go out the door when an ambush of robbers appeared.

"An ambush!" Da yelled to Xiao.

"What do we do?" Xiao asked.

"I'll get left, you get right?" Da asked as they put their back to one another.

"OK. On three." Xiao said. "One… two…" Before Xiao could say three, two figures appeared from out of the shadows and began to slay the robbers.

The girls stared in disbelief as the two figures quickly diminished them all.

"Are you hurt?" One of them asked Xiao. His hair was jet black and he had it shaved bare on the side, but he had about an inch on top. He held a silver spear with a wide point on the bottom.

"No, I'm alright." Xiao said quickly.

"Do you mind if we ask who you are?" Da asked.

"Oh! Sorry, my name is Zian and this is my brother, Gouzhi." said the man (apparently Zian) as he pointed to the man who asked Xiao if she was alright. Zian had blonde curly hair and he carried a gold spear with a narrow point at the end.

"It is nice to meet both of you. My name is Da Qiao and this is my sister, Xiao Qiao." Da said to them.

"Ahh, the Two Qiaos. That would explain your shining beauty that captivated both of us just a minute ago." Gouzhi said to them.

"Thank you." Xiao said and bowed her head. The thunder disrupted their train of thought and Xiao jumped.

"We must go. There are numerous people coming from the mountain top, and there are people outside who need our help." Zian said to Da.

"Ce and Yu should be out there, too." Xiao said.

"You mean Sun Ce and Zhou Yu?" Gouzhi asked. The Qiaos nodded. The guys broke up into chuckles and smiles.

"We came here to see them." Zian said to the confused Qiaos.

"We were childhood friends and we wanted to surprise them." Gouzhi said.

The thunder once again let its presence known and Da fretted. "We must go and help." She said to them.

"We will accompany you two." Gouzhi said. Xiao and Da nodded and went out into the pouring outside. They could hardly see more than five feet in front of them.

"We have to find Yu and Ce." Xiao told Da.

"Find them? We can hardly see each other!" Da said. Both girls screamed and ducked as a sword came straight towards them. Both of them quickly spun and swiped at their opponent, connecting with flesh. Da turned around just in time to see the body fall.

Da and Xiao held their own for about half an hour before they got pushed back-to-back.

"What do we do, Da?" Xiao asked. The soldiers were coming closer and the lack of distance made Xiao worry.

"We push them back!" Da answered.

"How?" Xiao asked. Was her sister out of her mind?

"Do you have your musou up?" Da asked her.

"Yeah!" said Xiao. She was finally getting what Da was thinking.

"Okay, on the count of three, let's let them rip!" Da shouted.

"Alright!" Xiao said as Da began to count.

"One… Two… THREE!" Da shouted.

"Here comes trouble!" Xiao said as she began to throw people in the air with her fans. Those people were soon caught on Da's fans as they went around and around in a circular pattern in the air. The people were thrown dead on the ground, and before Xiao could finish, the other party issued a retreat. The horn blew and Xiao looked at Da's direction. The rain was coming down in small sheets and soon began to stop.

The sun came out and Xiao smiled to her sister and hugged her.

"We did it!" Xiao said to Da as they released each other.

"Da! Xiao!" Ce yelled as he and Zhou Yu ran over to them. Xiao squealed and ran over to Zhou. He picked her up and spun her around then kissed her.

"You fought so well!" he exclaimed.

"You watched me?" she asked him.

"I couldn't take my eyes off of you." He answered. She giggled as he put her down.

"We met your friends." Da said as soon as she and Ce got over to the lovely couple.

"Friends?" Ce asked her.

"Yes, Lords Gouzhi and Zian." Xiao said to Yu who had his are around her waist, even though she was dripping wet.

"Where?!" Yu and Ce asked at the same time.

Before Xiao or Da could answer, Zian and Gouzhi came up right on queue. "Sun Ce! Zhou Yu!" called Zian.

"Zian!" Ce said as his childhood friend came over and shook Ce's hand. "How've you been?"

"Good, and Gouzhi is well too." Zian said as he addressed Gouzhi standing next to him.

"Nice to see that you and Zhou Yu are in perfect health, Ce" Gouzhi said as he extended his hand to Ce. Ce shook it and laughed. "We have to keep up with our girls, right Zhou Yu?" Ce asked as they turned to Yu.

"Right you are, Ce." Yu said.

"And speaking of girls," Ce began. "this is my girlfriend…"

"Da Qiao, and that one's Xiao." Gouzhi said, motioning towards the Qiaos.

"You've met?" Ce and Yu asked in unison again.

"Well, we sort of got caught in an ambush and they helped us." Xiao said to Ce and Yu.

"I thank the both of you." Yu said. The two guests bowed, "It was an honor." They said at the same time.

Xiao turned around as she heard footsteps. Sun Jian was approaching and he didn't notice Zian or Gouzhi. "Ce, Yu, I need you two to…" He stopped as he saw what had them in a huddle.

"Why, it can't be. Zian and Gouzhi, here? Well, it must've been years since I've seen you two." He said as he walked to the group. Da and Xiao bowed and moved to where the Lord could get to them. "I hope that you will be staying."

"That was our intention, but if we came at a bad time…" Gouzhi said before he was interrupted.

"No, no, no. You can stay, and this is a great time." Sun Jian said before a messenger came to him.

"My lord, the generals want to know what it is you want them to do." The messenger stated.

Sun Jian moved so that his yells wouldn't hurt the people next to him. "Men, we have a victory over an unsuspected attack! We came out on top, and we should all congratulate ourselves." He said before he threw his sword in the air. The men's shouts were rumored to be heard even in Wei.

"Ce, Yu. I want you two to make our guests to feel at home here, so take them out and enjoy yourselves, unless you need to rest." Sun Jian said and looked around at the faces.

"I don't need to." Xiao said even though she spent half of her night fighting and the other half thinking about Yu.

"We don't." Zian and Gouzhi said.

"I don't." Ce said. "What about you, Da?" he said to his girlfriend.

"I don't need to rest, but I need a change of clothes!" she said as she squeezed the water out of her skirt.

Yu chuckled as he saw how saggy Xiao's clothes were from the rain. "I say we let the girls change and then we do what?" Yu asked them.

"Well," Ce started. "Me and Da were going to go ridding, wanna come?" Ce asked them.

"Sure, sounds nice to get to take a tour of the place and get used to the surroundings once again." Gouzhi said.

"You OK with it Da?" Ce asked. He just nominated this even before asked her.

"Of course, I would love to know them better, and horse ridding sounds very good to me." She answered.

"Alright then. It's settled. We'll change, then come back and meet at the stables." Ce said. "Do you remember the stables?" he asked Zian and Gouzhi.

"Yes, it's by the first wing, isn't it?" Zian asked.

"Right, and do you have horses?" Yu asked.

"Yes, some staff people were supposed to put them in the stables." Gouzhi said and looked at Xiao again. For some reason, he just couldn't help but stare at her.

"Good. Then we should change." Ce said. He took Da's hand and started to walk then stopped. "Do you have clothes?"

In our carriage we did." Zian said.

"Good. The staff should have brought it up to some rooms; do you know where they're at?" Yu asked.

"Yes. We came in at least an hour after everyone was asleep and the maids showed us to some rooms, and I guessed they unpacked our stuff. We were woken up by the cannon." Zian answered.

"Right, is your castle going to be okay?" Gouzhi asked them.

"Yeah, it just hit the outer wing." Ce said. "We've had that thing empty for about ten years. It should be rebuilt within an hour." He said like it was nothing important.

"Um, I don't really mean to interrupt, but aren't we going?" Xiao asked them.

"Oh, right. I guess we'll see you in a few minutes." Yu said as he began to escort Xiao in.

XXX

Zian got dressed on silence.

"What's on your mind, bro?" Gouzhi asked. His brother usually had something to say.

"Did you see how pretty she was?" Zian asked.

"Who?"

"Lady Da Qiao. Even when she had her clothes wet, she was gorgeous."

"You better not say that in front of Ce." Gouzhi warned.

"Right, I'll tell Zhou Yu that you like Xiao Qiao as well." Zian teased.

"I don't like Xiao." Gouzhi said to protect his back.

"You don't? I saw you making goggle eyes at her." Zian said smiling.

"I was not."

"Yes you were."

"So what if I was?"

"You better not tell Zhou Yu that?" Zian said in a mocking tone.

"Ha. Ha. Very funny." Gouzhi said to his brother.

"Oh, Gou." Zian said in a girl's voice.

"You know that you do that a little too well!" Gou teased.

Zian threw his soaked shorts at his brother. "You would know!"

"Aw, we all know that you're gay, Zian." Gou said.

Zian was about to hit him when he spoke again, "You don't want to look bad for Lady Da, now do you, Zian?" Gou said knowing that it would stop his brother.

Zian stopped as if to second think. He signed a defeat and resumed to get ready.

"I won?" Gouzhi asked in an unbelieving tone. He was teasing of course.

"Yes, but if you don't get ready, I'll tell Yu and he'll bash your face in right in front of Xiao." Zian threatened.

Gouzhi got ready in not time.

XXX

Xiao was already ready, but she was waiting on Da. Da was always taking time on getting her looks down. Xiao had to go and tell Taka that everything was alright and that she could come out. Xiao giggled when she thought of Taka fighting with that sword.

She turned as she heard knocking and quickly went across the floor to open the door.

"Hey, I was coming to see if you were ready." Yu said as Xiao smiled.

"Why, is everyone ready to go?" she asked.

"No. I just wanted to see if you wanted to take a walk." Yu told her.

"Yeah, let me tell Da." She told him. She hurried to Da's privy chamber and knocked on the door. "Da, I'm going to go for a walk with Zhou. Will you be alright?" Xiao asked through the door.

"Yes, you two go and have fun." Da said.

"Okay." Xiao said and skipped to the door where Yu was waiting.

"Ready to go?" he asked.

"Yep! Let's go!" she said and closed the door behind her.

XXX

Da Qiao walked down the familiar corridors with the grace that she was brought up with. As she walked, she thought of what the palace looked like when Ce and Yu were kids. Were the colors any different? Were the corridors the same? These questions were running through her head as she got to her destination: the young lord's door.

Knock… knock. "Ce… Can I come in?" Da asked through the door.

"Sure! It's open!" She heard a distant voice say. She opened the door and walked through the open chamber to the privy.

"Am I interrupting anything?" Ca asked as she saw Ce come from the bathing room with only leggings on.

"Oh no, just had me my shirt on the dresser, will you?" he asked as he came towards her. She turned to the dresser and picked up the first shirt she saw.

"Is this it, my lord?" She asked him, but she gasped as she felt his arm wrap around her waist. She slowly put the shirt back on the dresser and put her arms on his. She closed her eyes as she felt kissed come up her neck. She let out a breath she had been holding and turned to face Ce. He smiled down at her and leaned down to kiss her, but reached behind her and grabbed the shirt.

"Yes, that one." He said before he released Da and put the shirt on. Instead of kissing her, he walked over to a rack and put his armor on.

"That's it?" Da asked him.

"Yeah, pretty much." He said teasingly.

Da felt mad that he got away with teasing her. "So, Ce, I see that you don't want me." She said as she got her lips about an inch from his. "So I'll leave." She said as she gave a little turn and went to the door. She stopped before opening and gave Ce a "come and get me" look and went out.

"Dang it, woman! I thought that I finally won!" He said.

"Well think again!" Da yelled and Ce heard a door shut.

He rushed out the door.

XXX

"So what did you want to talk about?" Xiao asked Yu as she walked backwards in front of him.

"Not talk, but show." He said.

"I don't understand." Xiao said with a cock of her head.

He leaned in close and whispered in her ear, "Follow me."

As she did what she was told, her curiosity raised more and more with each step.

"Almost there." Yu promised as they walked.

"Where are we going?" Xiao asked. Yu had her blindfolded, so she could not see. She could tell they were in the castle, but other than that, she was blank.

"It's a surprise." Yu said.

She felt the breeze from the outside and inhaled a familiar scent. But it couldn't be…

Yu took off Xiao's blindfold and Xiao went wild.

"It's just like my homeland!" Xiao exclaimed. Yu had created an exact replica of her gardens back in the south with even the exotic birds that flew around. The familiar scent came from the Papercuts flowers that Xiao loved the most.

"When?" Xiao managed to breathe.

"When you and Da were away, I got permission from Lord Sun Jian and Ce funded most of it due to the fact that he hasn't a thing to spend money on. With the exception of Da." Yu said. He was quite pleased of his work, and the look on Xiao's face made this worth while.

"It's so pretty, Yu!" Xiao said as hugged Yu. Yu smiled. She was so cute and innocent, how could anyone resist her?

"Know what I wanna do?" Xiao asked him with a teasing smile.

"What's that?" He asked with her still in his arms.

"Tag! You're it!" Xiao said running.

Yu laughed. This was going to be fun…

XXX

"We're supposed to meet them where?" Gouzhi asked as he and Zian walked down the hallway.

"The stables, but I looked out and no one was there so I guess we can explore." Zian said.

"Where do you think they are?" Gou asked as he looked at the familiar surroundings.

"Getting dressed I guess." Zian said.

"Or kissing." Gou replied only to be hit on the head by Zian.

"Get you're head out of the gutter!"

"I pray that you're right and I'm wrong for once." Gou said, but he notice that Zian wasn't listening and tugged on.

Let's just go to the stables." Zian said after a moment of silence.

XXX

"Oh Da…" Ce said as he looked around a corner. He heard a pitter patter of footsteps and turned around just in time to have Da jump on him.

"I got you!" She said as he held her.

"Or do I have you?" Ce said into her ear. Da's eyes widened and she began to giggle at the thought of her being caught by Ce. She wrapped her legs a little tighter around his waist to keep from falling off.

"You smell good, you know that?" Ce asked as he held his girl.

"So now I'm being sniffed?" Da asked and pulled to where her and Ce's faces were almost touching.

"No…" He said before stopping. She was so close to him… maybe if he moved a little closer…

Weather her or Ce made the first move, Da couldn't tell. Maybe they moved at the same time, but Da's and Ce's lips met and Da was sure this was a dream.

Ce placed Da on a nearby table and began to put one of his hands on the back of her neck and the other around her back.

Da's thoughts were entirely on him, but when she heard a horse nay, the guests came rushing into her mind.

"Um… Ce…" Da said in between kisses.

"Oh, Da, I'm so sorry. I don't know what came over me! I… I…" Ce said.

Da was beyond confused. "Why are you sorry?" She asked him.

"I shouldn't have done it." Ce said. Da could tell that he hated himself at the moment and jumped off the table.

She wrapped her arms around him, "You can kiss me anytime you want to." She said. She lightly kissed him then got to business. "We need to get to the guests." Da said.

"Oh, I almost forgot about them!" Ce said. "Let's go get Yu and Xiao." Ce said as he took Da's hand and went down the corridor.

XXX

Xiao Qiao looked over the bush for any site of Zhou Yu. She didn't see any and decided to climb the tree behind her. She got a little ways up before she heard a voice.

"Don't you know that you are not supposed to climb trees?" She turned around to see Zhou Yu. She smiled at him and jumped down.

"How'd you find me?" she asked. She thought that she had a good hiding place this time.

"I don't think that bushes have feet." He remarked smiling.

"I didn't have my feet under the bush!" Xiao commented.

"Then I suppose that it just grew them." Yu said as he neared Xiao.

"Oh, don't do it again! I almost wet my pants the last time you did it!" Xiao said smiling. He came closer causing her to step back.

"Oh no!" Xiao said as Zhou lunged for her. She turned to run away but wasn't fast enough as Zhou caught her. She felt his arms wrap around her waist and they proceeded to pull her back to him. She tried to strangle out of his grasp as he began to tickle her.

She busted out laughing and fell to her knees. She tried to craw away from him, but he would pull her back into a tickling frenzy.

Zhou Yu was so caught up with Xiao that he didn't even notice the time go by. He looked at the sky and signed.

"What?" Xiao asked.

"We need to get to the stables. They're probably looking for us right now!" Yu said. He helped Xiao up and escorted her out when they ran into Da and Ce.

"We were just looking for you!" Da said.

"Come on! Let's go! They're probably wondering where we are." Ce said as he took Da's hand again and they began to go outside.

"Aw, man!" Ce said.

"What?" Everyone asked him.

"I forgot my running boots!" Ce said.

"Well, we can't keep them waiting." Da said.

"OK, you and Xiao go to them and Ce and I will go get his boots." Zhou Yu told Xiao.

"Okay! See you!" Xiao said. She and Da rounded a corner and were out of site in no time.

XXX

"Where are they?" Gou asked Zian who sat quietly on a pail.

"They'll be here." Zian said with patience.

"How in the world can you be so patient?"

Before Zian could reply, Da and Xiao came around the corner giggling.

"I know!" Xiao said as Da whispered something in her ear.

The girls stopped in front of the two crushing guys and bowed.

"How did we get so lucky, Gou?" Zian asked his brother.

"What do you mean?" Gou asked. He knew what his bro was saying.

"How did we get so lucky as to be in the presence of the two Qiao Sisters themselves?" Zian asked.

The Qiaos giggles. "You're just lucky." They said in unison.

Zian and Gou put their hands on their hearts at the same time. "Lady Xiao," Gou began. "You stole my heart from the beginning."

Xiao blushed and smiled at the same time. "I'll try not to break it." She said causing everyone to laugh.

As the laughter subsided, Zian looked at Da. "I'm afraid that the lovely Lady Da has already broken my heart." He said. There was a momentarily silence as Da and Zian looked into each other's eyes.

Zian got on his knees before Da and took her hand and kissed it. "You look beautiful." He whispered to her.

Xiao saw Gou get up and pick a flower from a nearby bouquet and hand it to her. "It will never match your beauty though." He said. She smiled and blushed again.

"I think that we need to get our horses." Da said to ease the tension. She needed to ride and get some air.

XXX

"I found them!" Ce said to Yu who was in the other room looking for the boots.

"Great. Now we can go." Yu said.

Ce put his boots on in a hurry. "Okay, I'm ready." He said and they went out the door in a flash.

XXX

"I hope they're not having too much fun without us!" Ce said as they made their way to the stables.

"Well, if you wouldn't have forgotten your boots, we would've already been down there!" Yu said with a smile.

"Well I'm so…" Ce stopped and looked out the window. He got this really agitated look on his face.

"What?" Yu asked. He went to see what got his friend so mad. When he saw what it was, he just stopped.

Gou put a flower in Xiao's hair and Zian was kissing Da's hand.

Ce punched the side of the window and went down the stairs in a hurry. Yu didn't know what to do. His heart told him that it was nothing, but his mind wanted to beat the living heck out of the guy flirting with HIS Xiao! He listened to both by deciding to pummel him nicely.

He went down the stairs and caught up with Ce.

"Did you see that?" Ce said with anger. "He's flirting with MY Da Qiao and he's going to pay for it!" Ce said and flew out the door.

"What are you going to do?" Yu asked. He wanted to know if his sworn brother had the same idea that he had.

"Well, first, I'm going to beat him up. Then second, I'm castrating him!" Ce said as he got angrier with each stride.

Zhou Yu got to thinking and signed. "Ce, maybe they were just being nice."

Ce turned around and flashed an angry look at his sworn brother. "Nice?! He could've found other ways to be 'nice'!" Ce said.

"I'm just saying that we should wait about the whole killing thing."

Ce stopped and thought. "Okay, but if he does again, I'll make sure that no girl, not even the ugliest girl in the world, would be interested in him!" Ce said then resumed walking towards the stables.

And I'll be right behind you. Zhou Yu thought.

XXX

"Oh, Sun Ce, Zhou Yu, come on! We have your horses out." Zian said as he saw Ce and Yu come around the corner. Ce looked as he saw his horse standing beside Zian.

Zhou Yu and Ce looked at each other and Yu hatched an idea when he saw Da and Xiao come out with their horses.

"Xiao!" Yu yelled. "You and Da don't need your horses! You're ridding with me and Ce! It saves time!" He yelled.

Ce caught on to what Yu was doing and agreed. "Yeah!"

Da and Xiao looked at each other curiously but agreed.

XXX

"Where are we going, Zhou?" Xiao asked her boyfriend as they went off.

"I think that Zian and Gouzhi would like to see the village." Ce said.

"That would be nice." Da agreed.

"Okay!" Xiao said "Do you two like that idea?" She asked the guests.

"Sounds good to me." Gouzhi said then everyone looked at Zian

"Same here." He commented.

"To the village we go." Yu said.

XXX

"Oh, Da, look at these pretty jewels!" Xiao said as she looked at a station on pearls and diamonds. Zhou Yu was behind holding her hand, followed by Da and Ce then Gou and Zian.

"I know! They're so pretty." Da said as she admired the expensive things.

"Do you want one?" Zhou Yu asked Xiao.

"Oh no…" Xiao said until her eyes went to a necklace with pandas on it, then she went crazy. "Oh my goddess! It's so pretty! And it has a panda!" She said as she almost jumped into Zhou Yu's arms.

"Do you want that one?" Yu asked her. It was amusing to see her so amazed by something so little.

Before Xiao could say anything, Da jumped.

"Oh my! Look at these swans!" Da said as she picked up a necklace with two swans in the shape of a heart.

"Zhou Yu, I think we lost our girls to necklaces." Ce said causing everyone, including the clerk, to laugh.

"Do you girls want us to buy them for you?" Yu asked the Qiaos.

"Oh, no. I wouldn't wear it." Da said. "What about you, Xiao?"

"Well, it's pretty and all, but I wouldn't wear it either." The younger Qiao said.

"Okay, but are you sure?" Ce asked. He knew his Qiao would want it.

"Yes." Da said as she put the jewelry back on the station.

"Yeah, what would I wear it with anyway?" Xiao said as she grudgingly looked away from the cute pandas.

"Okay, if you're sure." Yu said. Xiao grabbed his hand and they went to the next station. At least, the couples did. Zian and Gou stayed back.

"How much for the necklaces?" Zian and Gou said at the same time.

The store clerk smiled at them knowingly. He told them the price and the guys paid him and hid the packages.

The two brothers hurriedly caught up with the couples who were at a clothing station. They caught up and noticed that the Qiaos were nowhere in sight.

"Where's the girls?" Gou asked the men.

Ce cocked a head to a section of the store blocked off by a curtain. "They're trying on some dresses they saw."

"Oh." Gou said and leaned against a pole. Zian was looking at the men's hunting boots and Ce and Yu were talking about something.

"I don't like the fact that he wanted to know where our girls were." Ce said.

"I'm sure that he was just curious." Yu said.

"Yeah, well he looks over that curtain, I'll kill him." Ce said.

Before Zhou Yu could respond, Xiao Qiao walked out wearing a short, tight, white mini skirt with a dancer top on to match it. She had on a pair of high heeled shoes to go with it that went all the way to her knees. Yu's jaw dropped.

"What?! You don't like it?!" Xiao said and started to back away.

"No! I mean… it's … you…" Yu couldn't think straight. For some reason, his eyes kept drifting to the very revealing top.

Yu turned when he heard Ce chuckle.

"You don't like it, do you?" Xiao asked.

"No… it's… very pretty." Yu said. Why couldn't he think straight?!

Just then, Da came out in the same clothes Xiao had, only they were a deep purple. Now Ce couldn't even breathe.

"Oh…my…god!" He said.

Da looked shocked. "It's that horrible?!"

"It's fantastic!" he said.

Yu finally pried his eyes away from his very attractive girl, when he noticed the looks that Gou and Zian had on their faces.

Yu put his arms around Xiao so that no one could see her. "Let me buy in for you." He whispered into her ear.

She giggled. "You like it, do you?"

"You look so amazing." He answered.

"It looks like something that I would have at a Fiesta." She said.

"Yes, but you could wear it anytime you want to." He said.

She continued to giggle. "Okay, I'll wear it just for you."

"I would have it no other way."

She smiled, then turned and went to change back.

Yu turned to Ce, and then he regretted doing that because he was kissing Da. Nothing serious. Yeah right!

Ce let Da go so that she could change back and walked over to Yu. "Man, I thought that I'd never let her go." Ce said as he shook his head.

"Zian was looking at her." Yu said.

"What?!" Ce said.

"Yeah, and Gou was looking at Xiao."

"Well, he's just glad that I didn't see it." Ce said.

"I kept my arms around Xiao so that Gou couldn't see anything." Yu said.

Ce laughed. "Trying to make him jealous?"

"No, succeeding."

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Xiao Qiao walked over to her mirror and began to take off her clothes. She had dismissed Taka and was planning on going to bed. She put her nightgown on and was about to wash her make up off when she heard knocking at her door.

She opened it up. "Yu, what are you doing here so late?"

"I just wanted to ask you something." Zhou Yu said.

"Well, come on in." Xiao motioned.

Yu sat down on a couch. "Xiao, Ce and I were walking to get to the stables this morning when we saw Gou and Zian sort of flirting with you."

"You don't think that I'm cheating on you, do you?" Xiao asked. Why would he think such a thing?

"No, no. It's not that! It's just that I wanted to know if you liked him." Yu asked her.

Xiao's mouth opened, "No! Never! I would NEVER do that to you!" Xiao exclaimed.

"I know, it's just…" Yu started before he was interrupted.

"Oh, I get it. You're jealous." Xiao said smiling.

"No! No way would I be…" He was interrupted again.

"My Zhou Yu is jealous."

"No!"

"Zhou Yu is jealous! Zhou Yu is jealous!" Xiao sang.

"So what if I am?!" Yu snapped.

Xiao smiled and at down beside him. "I won't fall for him, I want real men." She said.

Yu busted out laughing. "So I'm a real man?"

"I thought you were." She said.

Yu smiled. "If I'm man enough for you, then I'm man enough for me." He said as he pulled her close and planted a kiss on her rose petal lips.

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Did you enjoy it? I hope you did! Tell me all about it! And I'm sorry it took so long, I had the second chappy written, but I hated it so I had to redo it all over again! Anyway, PLEASE review!

Oh, and I usually have a good beginning, then I totally screw it up when I get to the second chappy. So, could you tell me if I totally screwed it up, or did I do well?