Eyes Set To Kill

All rights to Warriors games belong to Koei but the character Shishou and her guards and daughter belong to me and only me. Warning! More violence.

"Why don't you stay home this battle?"

"Why?"

"Well, let's see," She began as she crossed her arms over her chest. "You're never here and when you are, you never spend even a second of time with me unless you're horny." She spat.

He glared at her before grunting. "I do too spend time with you so don't you even say that! In fact, I spend so much time with you I never have time to see my old crew or sail! Hell, I can't even get on a ship I'm too busy with you!" He yelled, looking away angerly.

She stiffened and her crimson eyes began to water, the liquid falling from the corner of her eyes.

"I'm always saying you never spend enough time with me because everytime you leave, I'm afraid you may not come back. Or I might not because the blind usually die first on the battle field. But if that's the way you feel, allow me to act so you may have some time."

"I had no idea, I'm so sorry." He quickly said, reaching for her to find she was not there, but walking out the door leaving a trail of tears and blood from her eyes.

"Shishou!" He yelled as he ran after her, but all he could see is her figure running through the night into the black woods. Weaponless and almost blind. At the will of the dangers of the night.

Chapter 3: Lectures, Executions, And Battles

Day broke across the sky in pink, oranges, reds, and yellows. Shishou turned over and yawned. She sat up groggily.

Last night they had returned with the ex-village elder bound and tied to the back of Chiyori's horse. They got back to camp and tied the horses up. Shishou had carried Danchun, her new adopted daughter to her tent and placed her into her bed while the prisoner was tied to a large tree on the other side of camp. She had told her Father what happened and he looked at her proudly while telling a servant who had been brought along to fetch another bed for herself and take it to her tent.

Shishou looked at Danchun and smiled before getting out of bed and walking outside. She still wore the cloths from the night before and her hair had fallen out of her pony tail. She stretched and went to find something to eat.

She came across the soldiers in line getting plates of rice balls. She began to walk to the end.

"Milady." A soldier called to her. She looked back at him.

"Yes?" she asked. "You may get in front of me, Milady. I know you must be hungry after no dinner last night. And I know you have a child to feed." She smiled. "Thank you." She said as she got in front of him. She recognized him as one of the soldiers who had bound the ex-elder last night. She smiled again.

He was the third in line so it didn't take long to get her food. She got four rice balls each for her and Danchun on a plate. She walked back to the tent and smiled as she saw her daughter sit up. "Got you some food." She said with a smile. Danchun smiled back.

"What is it?" She asked. "Rice balls." She replied when she sat her mat, setting the plate of food on the ground between the mats. Danchun sat on her mat like her mother and reached for a rice ball, nibbling on the top. "This is good!" she exclaimed. Shishou nodded as she took a bite of her own. "Mmmm." She mused, taking another bite.

"We need to hurry up and pack, we leave today." Shishou said between bites. The two hurried through the rice balls and were licking their fingers when Jian came in.

"I heard I had a granddaughter. I feel old now." He said laughingly as he walked in and sat down in Shishou's place and she moved to sit by Danchun and wrapped her arm around the young girl's shoulders. "Yeah, well, you are getting old, Father."

"Now now, you brazen girl. I'm not that old." He defended himself. They both laughed and then Jian turned his attention to the younger girl.

"Hello, my dear. I am Sun Jian, but you may call my Grandfather Jian." He said with a smile. Danchun returned the smile shyly. "I am Danchun." She replied shyly. "Don't be scared child." Jian assured her with a warm smile. "Father, puh-lease! Of course she's going to be frightened." She said, lightly hitting him. He smiled. "Yes, of course. Well Danchun, it was nice meeting you but I must be going. Work to do." He said to excuse himself and stood. So did Shishou, following him outside.

"I'm sorry Shishou. I forgot her case."

"It's alright Father. I think she was more intimidated in the presence of a King to be scared of you because you're strange man."

"Hey!" Jian exclaimed and Shishou laughed before returning inside. "We need you some new cloths." Shishou clucked slightly. She dug in her chest and pulled out a black kimono for herself and a white thinner kimono for bathing. "C'mon." She said to Danchun as she walked outside.

"You are going to meet another member of my family, my little sister. She is only nine years older than you, but I have younger sisters at home." She explained as she stopped in front of a tent identical to her own on the outside. "Xiang, may we come in?!" Shishou called.

"Yes, yes, of course." A woman called from inside. Shishou ushered Danchun inside and followed her in. "Danchun, this is Sun Shang Xiang, my little sister. Xiang, this is your niece, Sun Danchun."

"Hello, Danchun. I'm Shang Xiang but you can call me Auntie Xiang." The brown haired teen told the younger girl. She looked at her sister. "I didn't think I'd be an aunt until Ce found a wife. Proves me wrong." Shishou and Xiang smiled.

"Xiang, do you have any cloths and maybe a bath robe Danchun here can borrow until we get home? We're gonna bathe before we leave." Xiang nodded. "Yes, of course. I bathed already, so she may use mine." Xiang said as she began to dig into a chest like Shishou's and pulled out a pair of red silk pants and a shirt of the same color and material. The shirt had short sleeves and a tree embroidered onto the back. She handed them and a white robe to Danchun.

"I don't think this'll fit but I hope they do." Xiang said to Shishou. She nodded. "Thank you, sister." She replied. "Thank you Auntie Xiang." Danchun muttered. "You are welcome."

They turned and returned to their own tent. Shishou grabbed her own cloths and a small knife and walked out with Danchun following her. They walked down into the forest where they came upon a rocky area. They soon walked to the edge of a natural hot spring in the forest.

Shishou stripped off her cloths and laid them on the rock besides the springs. She unwrapped the bandages over her torso before stepping in. Danchun followed her example and stepped in, sitting besides her elder.

After a few seconds of silence, Danchun finally spoke up.

"Mother, how did you get to be in this condition?" she asked. Shishou looked at her and then sighed, looking straight and closing her eyes. "I was in two fights. Each with a powerful warrior. The first one dealt the wound to my shoulder and the gash on my fore head. The second dealt the wound to my eye with a spear." She explained.

"I see…." Danchun trailed off. Shishou went under water and scrubbed her hair before coming back up. Her daughter followed her example soon after.

"Clean?" Shishou asked. Her daughter nodded and Shishou got out and wrapped herself in the white robe, but not before Danchun caught a glimpse of her body.

"You have so many scars." She stated. Shishou nodded. "I have been in battle since I was your age." Danchun looked at her wide eyed. Her expression then calmed. "Does that mean I will be trained and sent to battle?" She asked. Shishou shrugged. "Only if you want too. But if you want to fight, you'd have to wait until you are older." She said as Danchun got out and wrapped herself in her borrowed robe. Deciding she was dry enough, Shishou began to wrap her shoulder in bandages and then began to dress in her kimono. It was pure black with grey trim and white cherry blossom on it. It kept her shoulders bare and the sleeves stopped at her elbows. It went to her knees, where she put on the boots from the day before.

Danchun dressed in her cloths, the pants which were meant to end at her knees ended at her ankles and the sleeves of the shirt went to the middle of her lower arm and she put her own shoes on. They wrapped their robes and dirty clothes over their arms and walked back to camp. The tents were already taken down and Shishou sent Danchun to go with a soldier to Running Darkness while Shishou loaded her stuff. She put their clothes in her trunk and was loading it when Hina approached her.

Shishou looked at her and smiled. "Hello Hina." She breathed.

"Hello Milady Shishou. I heard you have adopted a daughter from that village." Shishou nodded. "You heard correct." She loaded the trunk and the two walked to the tree the horses were tied to. The nine other women had mounted their horses and Danchun was already on Running Darkness.

"You are a good person to do such a thing." Hina said as she mounted her horse. Shishou mounted Running Darkness and rode him back to camp.

"Kajin Maka, you are being executed for the charges of rape. May you find peace in the afterlife." The undertaker said the ex-elder. They stood on a platform, the older man's head already in place in the guillotine. Shishou stood in the back of the courtyard with Danchun and her other family at her sides. She watched without emotion as the guillotine blade came down on his neck, Danchun hiding her gaze into Shishou's hip as it did so.

Yesterday they had returned to Wu and he had been thrown in prison. She scheduled an immediate execution and made it public to whoever wanted to attend it. To her surprise, it was many people.

Shishou turned and walked away back into the castle, Danchun still holding onto her pants over her hip. They returned to their room and sat on the bed. Soon after, there was a knock on the door. Shishou stood and answered it. "Hello Gai." She said softly when she saw Huang Gai standing in the door way.

"Meeting now. Leave your little one." Shishou rolled her eyes. "Slow down Gai, you're talking to fast." The old man snorted and walked off.

"Geez, what's his problem?" Shishou asked herself as she walked back into the room. "I have to go. I'll be back in a bit. Do what you want." Shishou explained as she tied her sword to her belt. She stepped out of the room, closing the door behind her and walked down the narrow hallway to the ball room, then continued to walk until she came to two giant doors made of red wood and painted on in gold. She pushed them open with a great force and walked in before they swung closed. Every general was seated at the long table. She looked around and noticed Ling Tong waving at her and pointing to an empty seat besides him. She smiled and walked to him.

"Hey Shi." Ling Tong said with his usual smirk. "Hi Tong." She replied as she took a seat between him and his father.

"Hello Shishou. Good to see you are well." Ling Cao said with a cheerful smile. "Hello to you too, Ling Cao. It is wonderful to see you well and still smiling happily." She chimed with a genuine sweetness. "So, do you know what this is about?" Tong asked from besides her. She looked at him and shook her head. "I was hoping you knew." She admitted. "And I, you." Tong replied.

Everyone quieted down and Jian and Yuan Shao walked into the room. He sat at the end of the table looked at everyone and Shao remained standing.

"A group of men have rebelled against the Emperor. They call themselves the Yellow Turban and say they are doing the Heavens' Will."

"So, are you going to stop them with your army?" Cheng Pu called from down the table. People began to murmur their agrees and Shishou looked down at him. "We tried and failed." Yuan Shao said. All eyes were on him after he said that. "They are a force greater than we thought. Though they are imposters of the Will of the Heavens, their leaders possess magical powers. They have created rock slides with these powers, whirl winds, and much more!"

"The Emperor has ordered all kingdoms to come together as an allied force and stop these rebelling fools before they kill more people. They asked for six generals from every kingdom. Sun Jian, Quan, and Shang Xiang have already agreed to go. That's only three. Who will come forth and serve their kingdom and Emperor."

"Count me in." Ling Tong said as soon as he had finished speaking. "Ling Tong, which is four." He muttered.

"I, as well." Ling Cao said. "Five." Shao breathed.

"Six." Shishou breathed. Jian locked eyes with her and she nodded.

"Alright. We travel light. Bring a pair of clothes to change into back and forth and your weapons. That's all you need. Dismissed." Everyone stood and headed to the door. Jian walked behind Shishou and locked his hand around her fore arm. "Shishou, I need to speak to you." Shishou looked back and nodded, walking to the side with Jian.

"What do you think you are doing?" Jian asked when everyone had cleared out. "What?"

"You barely adopted a girl who has been a subject of rape for quiet a while and is terrified of men and you are badly injured, yet you volunteer to go to battle tomarrow. Do you have a death wish?"

"Of course not." She replied quickly. "I just want to be there for you all." Jian sighed and nodded. "Alright, go get ready." Shishou nodded and walked out of the room. She walked into her room and stared at the girl who was leaned over a book, straining her eyes against the words.

"Can't read?" Shishou asked. Danchun shook her head. "Danchun, I have to leave to another battle tomorrow. My maidens in armor will remain here to watch over you. Do not fret, child, nothing with happen." She said in a calm voice as she looked out the window into the night.

She grabbed a bag and stuffed a change of clothes and bandages into it. She filled it with small weapons and laid it against the wall by the door before untying her sword and laying it on top of it. She ushered her child into bed and blew out the lights before she laid down beneath the covers, sighing and yawning before closing her eyes.

"Mother?" Danchun asked. "Yes?" came a reply from the dark. "Why must you leave?" a sigh came. "Because I must fight for that of which I love and want. If I skip out on a fight now, I'll become lazy and go into battle less and less." She explained. "Now go to sleep Dan, we need rest."

"Alright." The younger girl replied to her already asleep mother.

Shishou rose at daybreak and got dressed silently. She looked at her sleeping child with a warm smile before grabbing her sword and bag and slipping silently out the door. She walked down the hall to see Tong walking her way.

"Hey, I was just about to come get you." He said with a shurg and a smile. He turned and walked back with her, matching her pace. "So, why so quiet?"

"No reason, just planning ahead. Tong, can I ask you something?" she looked over at him and he nodded. "'Course."

"Why did you volunteer?" Ling Tong sighed softly. "Because I knew you would. And I know you're like me."

"Hmm?" Shishou murmered questioningly. "Reckless." She sighed and rolled her eyes before looking forward. "Reckless." She repeated quietly.

"So the Yellow Turbans?" Tong asked, breaking the silence and her chain of thought. "Yeah, I guess." She breathed. He looked at her, his brown eyes showing more of his emotion than his face. She could tell he was worried from her. She was usually entergetic about a good fight. Now she seemed.........empty.

They had won the battle of the Yellow Turbans and returned home a month later. Her eye healed but a scar was left as a reminder of the wound. She began to train Danchun at request. Two years passed until Shishou and others of Wu were sent to fight in an allied force against Dong Zhou. Still angry about her eye, in the battle at Hu Lao Gate, she struck Li Jue down and got into a fierce battle with Lu Bu until he retreated.

Again, the emperor demanded the three kingdoms to join forces another two years later, this time against Yuan Shao, who had become to powerful. She fell ill after giving the jacket she wore to a young soldier. When she returned.

"C'mon, Dan, you've got to move faster!" Shishou called. She dodged the young girls attack. They stood in a forest clearing, training hard enough to cause both females to sweat.

Now twelve, the young girl was quiet skilled with a weapon but she had some faults. Her weapons of choice was an giant iron fan that was as tall as Danchun's feet to the bottom of her neck. It's frame was black steel and the inside was tan colored with a cherry tree painted on each side. She used her fan to block attacks and use wind element attacks or throwing the fan. She used twin ninjatos for close combat. They had pink hilts and sheaths, cherry blossom painted on the hilts and sheaths. There were no hand guards on the blads and the hilts were straight and made of bamboo.

Danchun attacked using her ninjatos. The girl struck at her mother's stomach with one, who grabbed her wrist and pushed her away. "Faster Dan!" She yelled, causing the girl to charge her again. Something happened, for the girl became faster and slashed at her mother's stomach again. This time, Shishou was to slow to do anything and the attack connected.

Shishou looked at her stomach, the shirt she wore torn open and the wound dribbling it. "Well done. Let's go eat." Shishou chimed with a smile as she walked to the edge of the clearing and sat down under a tree, pulling a sack that had been lying by the tree to her and pulling out two black bamboo lunch boxes. She set on besides her and opened the other, revealing rice, vegetables, and meat in three diffrent sections.

She grabbed chop sticks out of the same bag, putting one pair on top of the box and began eating while her daughter picked up the box and sat besides her.

"Mother, don't you think you should dress your wound?" She asked. Shishou snorted with a mouthful of food. "Nwope." She replied with her mouth still stuffed with food. Danchun sighed and opened her own box, eating the food inside it.

They ate slowly and threw the empty boxes inside the bag when two fimilar faces walked into the clearing on the opposite side and began to walk towards them.

"Uncle Ce! Ling Tong!" Danchun yelled as she jumped to her feet and bounded towards them. She still only reached to Ce and Tong's waists, so she threw her arms around her mother's best friend's waist and hugged him tightly.

"Hey, little vixen." Tong said laughingly before Danchun let go of him and hugged her uncle the same way. Ce put his hand on her head as she let go and looked back at her mother, who walked slowly to them with her bag thrown over her shoulder.

"Shishou." Ling Tong greeted her happily, hugging her tightly. When he released her, she looked at Ce and smiled. "Hello sister." Ce muttered. "Hello brother." She replied before the siblings embraced and Danchun moved closer to Ling Tong to give her mother room.

They let go and Shishou looked at them both. "Barely getting home?" She asked. Ling Tong nodded. "We got home and put our stuff up, then said hellos." He said with a grin. "Quan told us you guys were here." Ce finished.

"Well, it's good to see you're home in one peice." Shishou said with a soft smile. The two nodded in agree. "Uncle Ce, I got mom just now!" Danchun exclaimed happily. "Really?" He asked, looking at his neice who nodded.

"Guilty as charged." Shishou said, putting her arms to the side of her head to expose her belly to them. The three adults laughed. "Well, Shi, maybe Dan here is getting to be as good as you." Tong said with a grin. "Maybe as good as you, Tong, but she still has a way to go." Shishou replied laughingly.

"Let's get back, Dan, we need to bathe." Shishou said calmly. "Alright mom. Bet I can beat you in a race, Tong." She chirped. "You're on." Tong said before the two took off running. Shishou and Ce smiled at the two before walking after them.

"Father is going to attack Huang Zu in a month. Are you going to join us?" She nodded. "I missed the last one. I will not miss this one." She replied. "Very well. I'll tell Father when we get home." Shishou nodded as they broke away from the forest into the grassy fields of the kingdom of Wu.

They walked through the rows of shops and houses, the sun shining brightly above them and people offering them goods for cheap prices. They said hellos like people protectors should before walking up the steps to the largest building, Sun Ce, Sun Shishou, and Sun Danchun's home.

Whooooo! That was fun. Well, I'm at a good pace! Three chapters in two days. TWO DAYS! Maybe the next chapter will come tonight! :3 Who knows!? WAIT! I DO!

Chapter 4: Hell In The Form Of A Woman