A/N: Hello! And welcome to the sixth chapter of Hua Wan, Daughter of Pirates! Gah! I've been sooo exhausted from marching band I can't do a thing hardly. Oh well, serves me right joining a colt right? Lol

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Hua Wan, Daughter of Pirates

Chapter 6

"The Chapter of the Endless Fluff"

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((Diao Wan's POV))

"Gah! How long is that man going to take to decide to come to bed?!" I yelled in my head.

It was almost midnight and he still hadn't come in. I had been pouring over some maps and battle formation stuff by the light of a candle for a good three hours now. I sighed. This was going to be one long night if he was getting himself drunk. Lately, Xingba had picked up his old teenage habit of drinking. He wasn't a bad drunk normally if he was in a good mood before getting himself intoxicated, but if he had been mad . . . watch out. On those nights I tended to make him sleep on the couch, and if he refused to do so I went and slept on the couch. Oh well, it was easier to clean his regurgitated dinner off the sheets than the couch fabric anyway. I threw down my papers and jumped out of bed angrily. He was NOT staying up this late! I walked across the small room that adjoined the main master guest room and swung open the door. And standing right in the door frame was none other than Gan Ning.

"Where on Earth have you been?" I snapped, pulling him into the room.

"I'm sorry, got talking to Sun Quan," he mumbled as he rubbed his bloodshot eyes.

He was rather quiet and he immediately started to peel off his clothes to change. I noticed that his usual mischievousness was gone and that he was quite sullen, so I knew his apology was extremely sincere. I smiled sympathetically and gave him a hug. He stopped and leaned his head into mine. But after a moment he became fidgety.

"Wan, darling, as much as I enjoy your touch I'm kind of in the middle of trying to take off my pants," he said with his usual impish tone.

I laughed and let go of him. True to his word he had one pant leg off and had been trying to pull the other off completely by standing on one foot. He lost his balance and fell quite hard onto the floor.

"Ning! Are you alright?" I asked concerned.

"I don't know, can you kiss me and make it all better?" he asked with that cute devilish smile.

"Oh, you brown-nosing-pirate!" I said, hitting him playfully on his shoulder, but kissing him softly on the lips before helping him up

((Xiahou Dun's POV))

I walked down the hall after finishing . . . "my business" and I came across the young emperor Cao Pi. He looked very shaken and scared. Like he'd seen a battlefield just after dusk with the cries of the fatally wounded calling to him in hopes of a miracle. I walked over to him slowly, picking out my words carefully so not to scare or anger him.

"My Lord . . . are you alright?" I asked.

"AH! Oh, it's just you Xiahou Dun. My apologies . . . I have been disturbed by my wife's wise words," he said.

"Um . . . did she perhaps . . . 'send you to the doghouse'?" I asked without thinking.

"NO!" he shouted but then sighed and spoke again softly, "I had snapped at her and, Zhen Ji being Zhen Ji, she snapped back. And her words have haunted me."

"May I be so bold as to ask what is it she has said?" I asked.

He wrung his hands together thoughtfully. I had seen his father do this many a time when he was shaken such as this. He at first seemed to just ignore my question and I thought about taking a run for it and go to bed . . . and I regretted not taking the chance a second later.

"She said: 'Fine, but just like your father . . . your own arrogance will be your downfall.' What does this mean? Have I become him already? Or am I worse?" he asked.

"Perhaps this is a question for Sima Yi . . ." I offered.

He scowled suddenly, and I stepped back.

"If it was a question I meant for Sima Yi I would not have asked you. You are my key player in this charade of 'peace'."

"Charade?"

"Yes, a charade. I have been only pretending to make peace- Come we cannot talk here for the Shu-dogs' ears are everywhere."

I blinked at Cao Pi in a surprised confused stare . . . but I went along with him. Even though he did sound like some freak beaver out of the "Chronicles of Narnia" and was over exaggerating. I hate beavers. He entered his quarters and I followed him inside. He lit a candle in the room and turned back to me.

"I have only pretended to make peace, because I plan to set a trap. We will capture the main generals and execute them. Without these generals each country will surely fall," Cao Pi said with a tone of anticipation.

"My Lord, has not enough blood been shed? There is finally peace in this land! Are you not provoking war?" I asked.

"Xiahou Dun . . . this land . . . cannot be ruled by three countries . . . and I will see to it that Wei is the one who rules it. China will be ours, for China is ours. Remember that before you question me," he snapped.

Frankly, I was worried . . . and surprised. This was not good news.

"Sir, forgive me, but I must be on to bed. My wife is probably worried," I said, giving myself an excuse to get out of there.

"By all means," he said with a nod.

I walked out of the room, closing the door behind me. I walked down the hall biting the tip of my upper lip in frustration. "This is bad," I thought, "I disapprove of his plan . . . disapprove with it strongly . . . but if I defy my Lord I defy my country and to defy my country is certain death and I would never do what wasn't best for Wei. Sheesh, I really need to talk to my wife. When in doubt, ask Hui Ying." I came to my door and opened it, finding my wife just behind it. She didn't look to happy with me.

"WHERE WERE YOU?" she shrieked.

"Going to the bathroom," I said honestly.

"It doesn't take a man that long to go the bathroom," she said, and she was right.

"Well I ran into Cao Pi," I said honestly once again.

"Cow pee?" she asked confused.

"NO! CAO PI! LORD OF WEI! CAO PI!" I bellowed.

"WHY ARE YOU YELLING AT ME?" she cried.

"Because I'm a stupid man and I didn't mean to yell at you?" I offered.

She considered this excuse for a moment.

"Ok, fine," she said.

She walked back over to the bed and lied down. I came over and pulled the blanket up for her. She kissed my cheek and I smiled down at her. Walking to the other side of the bed, I kicked off my shoes and flopped into the bed next to her. She cuddled close to my side and was going to fall asleep before I opened my big mouth.

"Hui Ying . . . Cao Pi is planning to capture several generals from Wu and Shu and kill them to provoke war. He wants another war so he can win and make Wei the dominate kingdom. I would love for Wei to rule China . . . but I don't want any more blood to be shed. No more fighting. I wish for peace," I said.

"And if you say otherwise you end up called a traitor and killed am I correct?" she said.

"Yes," I answered.

"Then don't do what Cao Pi says. The troops love you more than Cao Pi anyway. And I know they are also sick of the fighting and yearn for peace as you do."

"What if you're wrong?"

"Then I'm wrong."

"But we would die."

"I'd rather have you die happy, than live old with shame."

"Would you die with me then?"

"With you? I'd have it no other way."

And that was that.

((Hua Wan's POV))

I lay in my bed sulking. I couldn't sleep. The horror of what I had done was too overwhelming. I watched jealously as Li Wu snored unconscious in the single bed across the room. I wanted to throw my shoe at him. So I did.

"WHAT DID YOU DO THAT FOR?" he yelled after the shoe came into contact with his cranium area.

"Because I'm mad at you, and I can't sleep," I said.

He threw off his covers frustrated and came to sit on the side of my bed. He gave me a glare only a younger brother could give. It was one of those: I'm-sorry-I-was-protecting-you-and-why-did-you wake-me-up-so-late looks.

"You weren't doing the right thing," I told him.

He gave me a slightly guilty look.

"That's right. Give me the puppy dog eyes. It's not going to work, moron," I said.

He just went back over to his bed and lay with his back away from me. I must have fallen asleep, because that's the last thing I remembered till early the next morning when I found him gone.

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Well that's that. I know lots of fluff and a big cliffhanger at the end . . . well not as big as I used to leave Hehe. Well, adios for now. Sorry it took so long to update, but you know me. I take a long time to do everything it seems. I might not continue . . . people seem to have lost interest seeing as I didn't get much reviews. I might start trying to revise, modernize, and fool around with Phoenix Swords and Ex-Pirates and relate it to the modern American teen and maybe get it published . . . its kind of a standing goal for me during my new high school career . . . if u got any ideas just tell me in the reviews.