A/N: I got the writting bug :D which means another chapter today ;) woo i am feeling jazzed, i just listened to mr brightside like 12 times and i'm in a boss mood, so lets make this a good one ;) xx

"You saw that?" she asked her holding her hands to her mouth, he could bearly hear her but he was not stupid he could guess what she had said.

he knodded, his eyes were heavy on her, almost like a wieght on her shoulders. Then it occured to her, That was 2 weeks ago. she felt terrible, he had been harbouring this pain and hate for 2 whole weeks now, without a single give, that this was how he truly felt. She wanted so badly to hold him in her arms and apoligise to him, but he would push her away right now and she realy did not want that, it would crush her if she thought that he hated her but she had to know and that meant asking him despite what his awnser might be.

"Xiao, is that all you can say to me!" he asked his voice slightly raised, even though Xiao could tell he was trying not too.

"What you saw and heard, I havent figured it out for myself yet, but I, I didn't mean what I said to him, it might have been me getting carried away or maybe even me just calming him, but I know that I didn't mean that because I would still feel the same now right? and I don't" she said removing her hand so that he could hear her quite clearly.

"Why should I believe that? I saw you lip locked and then holding him like if he let go you'd flaot away" he spat, more of his anger and emotion coming out, he hadn't intended to get so mad because after all Zhou Yu was her husband and he was only a friend or possibly lover, right now he wasn't sure that he wanted to be either.

"I was surprised , I thought he hated me because he barly pays any attention to me" she cried.

"You told me YOU loved me and that you felt trapped and hated the marriage! so why would you tell him you loved him !" he shouted back "YOU had me to your bed Xiao! The night before the battle! YOuU and I!" he said sounding frustrated and drained. Xiao knew he would be emotionally drained after carrying this round with him for 2 weeks, but she had to say her piece.

"And I do not regret that" she said looking him in his brown eyes, they looked tired but at the same time hurt and furious, right now he showed more emotion than she had ever seen out of him.

"Then why!" he called back at her, finally asking the question he had longed too.

"I thought I was going to die Ning okay, I woke up in the medic tent believing that there was maggorts im my arm eating away at my bones, It was only after Zhou yu walked in and hugged and kissed ME telling me he loved me that he then told me i had a fever and what i saw was only a nightmare! I was so relieved I would have said anything" she shouted her voice raised also, she didn't wan't to shout at him but he wasn't going to listen to her any otherway.

"do you love me Xiao?" he asked slowly finally dropping his voice. he staired at her, he wasn't playing this time he was serious and it was so forigne to him, that she felt disappointed in herself for making him this way.

"Yes, I do love you, I meant what i said to you Ning, so please don't hate me" she cried tears falling from her eye's.

"Then meet me tonight, in my room i'm in the west wing you'll know its my door when you see it " he said turning on his heels and leaving her. For a second Xiao stood alone

"the west wing?" she thought to herself "Only Wu generals are allowed to stay there" she said in barly a wisper, then it hit her. He was staying in wu, the second she realised it a smile crept up on her face as she bit her bottom lip, she was happy to think he was staying, she hadn't given thought to him leaving with the rest of the pirates but she still felt as good as she would have even if she thought he was leaving and he told her he wasn't.

"Who are you talking too?" Xiao's eldest sister had appeared aorund the courner, Xiao feared how long she had been there and what she could have heared. Da was a good sister to Xiao but she was very tradtional and believed that both Xiao and herself should dote upon there husbands as there mother did for there father.

"Myself" Xiao said quicky she wasn't lieing she had indeed been talking to herself.

"Oh" Da said with a slight smile looking off to the side, "I thought it might have been Lord Zhou Yu, My Lord Sun Ce Is looking for him and asked me to tell him, if i see him of coarse, that My Lord wants to speak to him over something, It's odd though no one has seen him today" Da said almost as though it was to herself. Xiao smiled slightly, her sister was too intelligent for her own good sometimes. she looked back to xiao like she had only just remembered she was there.

"Have you seen My Lore Zhou Yu today Xiao?" she finally asked her, Xiao had been waiting for her to ask, Da a habit of trying to figure things out for herself before she asked anyone.

"No Sis i haven't, he's probably in the libreary with Lu xun or at his desk working on something" Xiao awnsed, trying not to come across as though she realy didn't care, when she didn't, he was always disappering to worl in silence so she wasn't worried.

"Oh Yes he may be working with LORD lu xun" Da said as though she was trying to point out Xiao's informal way of addressing Lu Xun, Xiao didn't care much though. she didn't seem to get on with him, he was too quick to point out her mistakes and even quicker to correct them, he believed that she doesn't act like a proper lady of the Zhou family should and was constantly giving her etiquate lessons. so naturally she didn't care to much for him, another reason she refused to call him Lord was because he was only a few months older than she was and she higher up the soical chain than he was.

Later that night Xiao was finally able to slip away from her doteing maids, she had to go and find Gan Nings room, she already feared he may hate her and she didn't want to give him a valid reason too. grabbing the candle that she kept on her bedside table she headed out the door, it wasn't hard for her to sneek away considering Zhou yu wasn't in there apartment so she didn't have too use her finally crafted excuse to get away.

Quickly but queitly she made her way down the dark and cold corridor, in the night very few candels were lit, so the hallway was rather dark and glumy ."note to self" she thought "make Sun Ce light more candles because this is a step above creepy". she walked past many doors trying to guess which one was his, she had started to eliminate doors by knowing who's doors were already owned. she knew almost all the door's but walking into the wrong one could be risky. There were two doors left at the end of the hall so it was a 50% chance she would get it right and a 50% chance she would walk into someone who she didn't know's room and look like a total idiot.

"I told you, if anyone finds out about us we'll both be shamed" she heared from around the courner. she had learn't her lesson about easedropping but she reconised the voice as the same one from earlier and she was curious to know what they had been talking about . she leaned over cheacking for anything that she could knock over and be caught by but she was clear, pressing her back aginst the wall she listened carefully.

"I know but i am beyond the point of caring my love" the same voice who was scolding the other said in a sigh.

"I understand, I do but this has to be between us, just us" the first voice said again, this voice seemed to be the voice of reason, calm and collected. suddenly out of know were xiao rembered who the voice belonged too. looking around the courner she was right. It was her husbands but it was the other person he was talking too who shocked her. she stood in shock, her mouth open. Her husband was lip locked with another man and not just any man but the man she detested. Lu Xun.

she felt a hand cover her mouth and pull her into a room closing the door behind them. the person let go of her mouth. She would have screamed only it was her beloved Ning and he had his back flat to the door looking at her, he had seen to and he was just as shocked as she was. Xiao covered her mouth with her hand and they stared at each other in silence.

A/N: i hope you liked it, ZHOU YU FANS do not kill me please I had a good reason, i hope it shocked you I was always going to do this but i didn't want to use Sun Ce cause then Da would be screwed too and that wouldn't realy have any purpose to the story and any way it's been done so i tried something different. If you like lu xun don't flip cause i do actually like the character he is in my top 5 favorite characters... so what are Ning and Xiao going to do with this valubal piece of infomation? find out in the next chapter - Finally free x