Chappie 9!!! ^_^

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Little note like thing: Okay, this chapter starts in Liu Bei's room, where he and Sun Shang Xiang are talking.***

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"Liu Bei, what are you going to do with my brothers?" Sun Shang Xiang asked.

Liu Bei shook his head and sat down on his bed, "I cannot tell you."

"Why?" Sun Shang Xiang urged as she moved out of the wooden-chair that she was seated in and sat beside him on his bed.

Liu Bei sighed, "Because." he answered.

"Tell me." Sun Shang Xiang said as she pulled at the strand of hair that had escaped his bun.

"Ow! What's that for?" he quickly responded as he tucked it back in.

"For not telling me." she answered, smiling with pride.

Liu Bei laughed but then grew silent again.

"Tell me." she groaned.

"No, I cannot. I am sorry, but I will not tell you." he replied as he rose to leave, but something inside of him made him stay. He sat back down again.

"Are you going to hurt my brother's?" Sun Shang Xiang spoke breaking a momentary silence.

"No. I would never, ever harm anything that you hold dear." he responded.

Sun Shang Xiang was content with that answer, but wanted a little bit more out of him.

"Why?" she asked bluntly.

"Huh?" he grunted.

"Why wouldn't you hurt anything that I hold dear?" she questioned.

Liu Bei was startled, "Uh... um... because... uh..."

"Huh?" she said.

"Because." he responded.

"Because why?" she inquired.

Liu Bei broke out in a sweat. He had never confessed that he loved someone before, and he loved Sun Shang Xiang. That was why he wouldn't harm anything she held dear.

His visage was so blushed that he looked pink as he confessed, "Because I love you!"

"Really? You actually love me?" she questioned.

He just solemnly nodded.

She touched his hand with her fingertips, "I love you, too."

He looked at her, his chest-nut eyes aglow. "Really?"

She laughed. "Yes. I love you."

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"It's the song that never ends-"

"Shut up, Sun Quan!" Sun Ce yelled, shaking the cell.

"B, but it never ends..." he whimpered.

"Your life's gonna!" Sun Ce roared as he sat down on his mattress.

"Hide me!" Sun Quan shouted as he ran behind Zhou Yu.

"Quan, what are you-" Zhou Yu began, but was cut off.

Then a tall figure with a long beard entered the prison chamber.

"I am here on Lord Liu Bei's behalf." his voice boomed. "I have come to inform you, that Liu Bei is thinking about releasing the four of you."

"Really?!" Xiao Qiao chirped.

The man, Guan Yu, stared a her blankly, "Did I not just say that he was?"

"Oops. Sorry." she said.

"Whatever..." Guan Yu mumbled as he headed out the door.

As soon as he left, Sun Ce smiled, "I bet Sis helped us."

"Yup." Sun Quan replied.

Xiao Qiao and Zhou Yu looked at each other, excited.

"We might get out!" they said at the same time.

Sun Ce looked over at them, "Yeah, so when are you gettin' married?"

"As soon as possible." Zhou Yu replied.

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Liu Bei entered the prison chamber later that night and went over to them.

"I have to keep you here another week or two. I signed a contract with Cao Cao that I would hold you guys for certain amount of time. I cannot break that, or he will suspect that I took you all just to release you."

"Understood." Sun Ce chirped.

"So, what are you all planning to do when you get out?" Liu Bei asked.

Zhou Yu and Xiao Qiao immediately announced their intentions.

"Splendid! If you want, I can send for the proper people and you can marry here, well, not in here, but in another palace room! That way when you're released you can already be a married couple." Liu Bei informed.

"Yay!" Xiao Qiao shouted.

"We accept your offer, Thank you." Zhou Yu replied.

"What are you going to do?" Liu Bei asked Sun Quan.

"I have no idea...just enjoy home." Sun Quan said.

"Ha ha! That's good too. A very nice idea." Liu Bei laughed. "What about you, Sun Ce?"

Sun Ce thought for a moment. What would he do? His best buddy was going away and starting a family... what was left for him to do? Them some thing hit him, and his mind whirled back some time and these words popped into his head: "' What if something did happen to them?'"

Da Qiao! He then remembered Da Qiao! He then remembered the way he had put his arm around her shoulders to console her when she wept... Da Qiao...

"Uh, Ce?" Liu Bei asked, looking at him funny.

"Uh... I'll go home with my bro and sis and meet someone that I've been eager to be with..." Sun Ce replied softly.

Liu Bei frowned. "There is a small matter with that statement... Sun Shang Xiang, your 'sis', is staying with me..."

"What?!" Sun Ce cried. "With you?"

Liu Bei eyed Sun Ce, "What's wrong with that?"

"I... I... I just don't want my sister to be where I'm not!" Sun Ce shouted as he burst into tears.

"I want her to be with me! She's my sis! My little sis! I love her! I don't want to go! I need my sis! Please, don't do this to me!"

Before he knew it, Sun Shang Xiang was in there, hugging her big brother.

"Ssh... why are you crying? I'm the baby, not you." she teased to make him smile, but he didn't.

"Bro, I want to stay with Liu Bei. I'll be with you, just look inside your mind. Open it. I'm there. You can still see me, you can see me when I twirled that sword at your neck, you can see me as a toddler. You can see me." she soothed.

Liu Bei smiled as he watched. 'I guess Sun Ce loved his sister more than he showed. Man, he sure is saddened.' Liu Bei thought.

Sun Ce stopped crying, "Sorry sis... I guess I was acting like a baby."

Sun Shang Xiang laughed, "Everyone does sometimes."

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That was the 9th chappie ^_^ And I know what you're thinking, and it is NOT almost over. It has only hit like halfway. It's NOT almost over. Just lettin' ya know!

Hope ya like this chap! ^_^