Open Your Eyes
Chapter 4
Disclaimer - *Sighs* Characters such as Luo Luo, Sanzo, Dong Zhuo, *cough*LuBuandDiaoChan*cough* and Mei are not in my possession.
A/N - I'm so sorry for not updating sooner...again. School sucks, and I've found that whatever I make myself write while I have writers block sucks also. *Grr* I don't even have the time to be doing this now. It's 5:15 in the morning (though I'll probably update sometime after school) and I'm supposed to be getting my oral presentation on William of Normandy in order. Can you believe that I spent all day yesterday and half the day Saturday just drawing and coloring a section from the Bayeux tapestry. I mean I love to draw, but that's just pushing it. Man, last year might have been harder, but this year there is a whole lot more work. I've learned my lesson as an author, 'Actually finish the story before you start to put it up on the web.'
I wanted to add more to this since it's been so long since I updated and I thought that you all deserved more. But then I figured that it would probably take another week of not updating to do that, so I just posted what I had, which isn't very eventful. Please forgive this chapter, I'll make the next one better, I promise.
And thanks to all of you who stuck with me, I promise that I'll finish this story no matter what, it just might take some time. And I'll try to keep my BIO PAGE UPDATED (I put that in caps for those of you whom don't like to read my author notes) to inform you on how far I am with the next chapter.
Newayz...on with the story.
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As Lu Bu exited the room, he heard Luo Luo say that Dong Zhuo wanted her to report to some meeting or other right away. Then he heard the girl's footsteps as she ran towards him. 'Great' he thought, almost rolling his eyes. He really didn't want to be pestered right then, first, he had to go and get his thoughts in order.
"Lu Bu sir, wait!" Luo Luo called out as she approached him.
"What is it?" Lu Bu snapped as he came to a stop, yet not bothering to turn around.
"It's Dong Zhuo, he wants you at that meeting about Hu Lao Gate." Luo Luo explained, somewhat ticked with having to talk to his back, (A/N - Let's just say she's kind of new and lacks a bit of common sense, okay? Lol)
"Is this the same one Diao Chan is going to?" Lu Bu asked, still not facing her. He was wondering why Diao Chan would have to be there.
"Yes it is." Luo Luo perked up, "Dong Zhuo's finally letting her fight; can you believe it?" Luo Luo was so excited; she had been waiting for some action. Every other time that she had accompanied Diao Chan into battle, they had sat at the very back with Song Zhuo. And every time, Lu Bu and the others had beaten the opposing leader before the enemies made it back to where they were.
However, Lu Bu did not feel the same about this arrangement. As soon as his brain began register what Luo Luo had just said, he turned around to face her, with a look in his eyes that Luo Luo had never seen before.
"Dong Zhuo is sending Diao Chan into battle!?" he practically yelled, completely wiping the excited look off of Luo Luo's face.
"Well, why wouldn't he." Luo Luo said, a bit irritated, " She's very good in combat and can beat most of the guys here."
Lu Bu was furious. How dare someone of her rank talk to him like that...
"Oh...Sir Lu Bu!" a male voice called out from behind. It was Sanzo, he too had been sent to gather the people for Dong Zhuo.
When he reached Lu Bu he fell to his knees gasping for breath, apparently, he had been running. "You might of already heard sir, "Sanzo began, "but Dong Zhuo needs you to come to a meeting right away." How Sanzo prayed that Lu Bu hadn't been told yet, because he had quite a temper when having to listen to the same news twice.
When Lu Bu said nothing, Sanzo took it as a good sign and got up to leave before saying. "Oh, and have you seen Lady Diao Chan, she wasn't in her chambers and I need too...whoa"
The rage swirling inside Lu Bu had only begun to rise as he listened to the man talk of such petty things. But when the guy had mentioned Diao Chan's name, Lu Bu just snapped. He had grabbed the man's collar and was now holding him off of the ground. "Don't bother me with such trivial speech!" he yelled as he slung the poor guy aside, smack, into the wall. Then muttering under his breath as he walked away, "It's not like she needs to attend thins thing anyways."
After she saw Lu Bu's figure disappear around the corner Luo Luo rushed to Sanzo's side. "Sorry about that." Luo Luo said as she helped him to his feet.
"That's alright." Sanzo smiled weakly as he rubbed his aching head. "It's not like it was your fault or anything."
"Hea-heh, yea." Luo Luo let out a meek laugh, scratching that back of her head innocently (A/N - If only he knew.) "Here, you better get that head checked." Luo Luo said as she walked him to his room.
After making sure that the man was okay, while also enjoying his company and conversation, Luo Luo made her way down the hall to the stable. Yet, letting her guilty conscious (A/N - *Gasps* You mean she actually has one of those.) get the better of her, she turned around so that she was facing the direction of Sanzo's room. "Thanks." She whispered before taking off in the opposite direction.
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The meeting, if you could even call it that, had been very uneventful. Lu Bu had strolled in late, but by looking at how everyone else went unphased by it, she guessed that it was a common thing.
Diao Chan was now in the horse stable, preparing Divine for the upcoming battle. "They you go boy." She said as she finished brushing the sparkling mane and giving Devine an apple to munch on.
Letting her curiosity get the better of her, Mei spoke up, "Um, Diao Chan, may I ask you something?"
"Sure." Diao Chan smiled.
"Why do you refer to Divine as a male sometimes and not others?" Mei asked.
"Oh, that..." Diao Chan laughed. "Devine's really a female, but when I first received her I was still young. So, not yet able to decipher the difference between the two, I though that she was a he. As I grew older, I realized my mistake, yet I still slip sometimes out of habit and refer to her as a male."
"Oh." Mei said, a bit confused but understanding nonetheless. Then her attention was drawn ways from the horse she was grooming as she noticed Diao Chan look up to the Stable entrance.
"Hello there." Diao Chan smiled as she abandoned Devine's side to greet the warrior who had just stridden in.
"Lady Diao Chan, Lady Diao Chan!" Luo Luo's shrill voice rang out as she came running down the hallway towards the entrance to the stable. "Guess wha-whoa.oomph." In her haste to get to her lady, Diao Chan hadn't seen Lu Bu's towering figure until it was too late. By then, she was on the slippery straw floor, and only slid right into his side as she tried to stop.
"Geeze, you could at least watch where you're going." Mei muttered to the poor girl as she continued to work.
"I'm so sorry." Luo Luo said as she got up to give and little bow to apologize to the man for running head-on into him. "I didn't see..." she started to explain her self, but curiosity got the better of her as she saw a bag clutched in one of Lu Bu's hands. "Hey, what'cha got there?" She asked, somewhat forgetting whom it was she was speaking to; then leaned in to get a closer look at it.
"Nothing of you concern!" Lu Bu snapped as he snatched the abject away from her view. This girl was really beginning to bug him, yet he couldn't let himself lose his temper in front of Diao Chan, especially to one of her own bodyguards.
"But..."Luo Luo was about to protest, but the look he was giving her reminded her of their previous encounter, so she abandoned the attempt. "He- heh, I'll just be moving along then." Luo Luo smiled innocently as she walked past to him to help Mei.
"Did you come here for something?" Diao Chan's sweet voice rang out, bringing Lu Bu back to reality.
"I-I" Lu Bu started as he fingered the string on the bag he held, but he seemed to be at a loss for words.
"If you don't remember what you came here for, then why don't you come back when you do." Luo Luo chirped as she continued with her work.
Lu Bu felt the blood rising to his face for more than one reason, but mostly in anger. He clenched his fists as he tried to restrain himself. He didn't know how much more of this girl he could take. In fact, if it hadn't of been for Mei's next course of action, he might of lost to his anger.
*Whap*
"Ouch, what did you do that for!" whined Luo Luo as she rubbed her head where Mei had just hit her.
"Don't you have any common sense!?" Mei hissed warningly under her breath, while at the same time acting as if nothing had happened.
"Wha..." Luo Luo started, a bit confused, yet only to be interrupted by Mei.
"You're not even supposed to be listening to their conversation, much less butting in." Mei snapped as quietly as possible, yet she knew everyone could hear her.
Although some of his anger had subsided as he watched Luo Luo get beat upside the head, he still wasn't completely in control. His discomfort was building as he just stupidly stood there. Then making up his mind, he finally decided to speak. "Here?" he growled as he shoved the bag towards Diao Chan. "Now you can get rid of those stupid little sticks you call weapons." He grumbled as he turned and stormed out, mentally cursing his anger and the fact that he had not found Diao Chan alone.
"Thanks," he barely heard Diao Chan call out, but she said it still the same. Although he was still seething, he couldn't help but to smile as the wondrous sound of her appreciation replayed again and again in his head. ~*~
Review Responses
Tiger5913 - Yeah, they are the Kessen bodyguards, you and Teardrop are the only two that noticed that, though she didn't really say what group they were from, but yeah, you know. *grins* Great minds think alike, you're awfully close to my plot, and I mean really close, but not exactly.
General-Beatrix666 - I'm glad you like it ^_^, I just loved your review, as for your questions:
-I hope he will, but you'll just have to find out : P
-Maybe, I'm still considering that, but I think they've served their purpose for now, then again...
-As it's looking right now, Dong Zhuo has a pretty likely chance of finding out, I know, that's just horrible isn't it.
(wasn't that just so helpful...*cough*not*cough*
Black Phoenix - *beams* Another person who likes this fic, : ). There will be a duel, though I'm not quite sure that it will be those two that you mentioned dueling, though one of them might...
Gin Ryu-chan - I'm so glad that you like my story ^_^ . I thought that I had fixed that in chapter two, but it looks like I didn't, thanks for pointing that out. You see, I had put "one-shot, kind of" because I thought that this was only going to be a chapter or two, then I changed my mind, but I forgot to change the summary. Hehe, yeah, I can be quite forgetful at times.
Ms. Heartily - Yeah, it did take me a while to get the last chapter out didn't it. I'm so sorry about that. And this time it was much worse. You really think it's getting better *beams* wow, I'm so happy. : )
Kelsey - You mean it?! this is the best one you've read so far. Even better than 'Dreams Come True,' 'Agony,' and 'Stand By Me?' Those are the only other three that I have found so far. Still, I'm really glad that you like mine best *beams*.
Teardrop Crystal - I know, isn't Devine just the neatest, I think that I could of described her better, but what's done is done and there's no fixing it now. You and Tiger5913 were the only two to notice the bodyguard thing, yet you were the only one to notice Yang Hu, congrats, *throws confetti all over the unsuspecting TC*
Escad's girl - I've said it before and I'll say it again, you are so much like Teardrop, lol. Yay, at least somebody liked my title enough to point it out. : )
Metal Snake - You know what, he probably is. I wasn't really thinking when I typed that out in the first chapter. If I said it again, then it was because I wanted to remain constant, you know. Anyways, thanks for the insight, and for reviewing and reading my chapters, : ).
Goddess diao - Perfect, wow. ^_^ Thank you so much, I just loved your review.
Sapphire - Whoa, you really love it? *beams* Thanks for the e-mail, : ). They're my favorite fics too, *smiles* I really enjoyed reading your e-mail, and thanks for the website, it's really cool. ^_^
Carrie' Mac - I finally updated, I hope it's good enough. Thanks for telling me to get up and get a move on, it made my writers block go away, somewhat. Then it took me forever to actually find the time to type it up and stuff. ^_^;
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I think that's all of them, if not, then I'm really sorry. Thanks again for taking the time to review, I got more than usual this time, my last chapter must have been better then I thought. I hope this one is okay. Thanks for all of you who stuck with me through my extremely long wait, I really appreciate it. Anyways, as I said before, I'll try to keep my bio page updated for further information. And I'm so sorry for the sucky chapter, I promise that the next one will be better. In fact, there aren't too many more chapters's to go.
Lady Black Pearl
Disclaimer - *Sighs* Characters such as Luo Luo, Sanzo, Dong Zhuo, *cough*LuBuandDiaoChan*cough* and Mei are not in my possession.
A/N - I'm so sorry for not updating sooner...again. School sucks, and I've found that whatever I make myself write while I have writers block sucks also. *Grr* I don't even have the time to be doing this now. It's 5:15 in the morning (though I'll probably update sometime after school) and I'm supposed to be getting my oral presentation on William of Normandy in order. Can you believe that I spent all day yesterday and half the day Saturday just drawing and coloring a section from the Bayeux tapestry. I mean I love to draw, but that's just pushing it. Man, last year might have been harder, but this year there is a whole lot more work. I've learned my lesson as an author, 'Actually finish the story before you start to put it up on the web.'
I wanted to add more to this since it's been so long since I updated and I thought that you all deserved more. But then I figured that it would probably take another week of not updating to do that, so I just posted what I had, which isn't very eventful. Please forgive this chapter, I'll make the next one better, I promise.
And thanks to all of you who stuck with me, I promise that I'll finish this story no matter what, it just might take some time. And I'll try to keep my BIO PAGE UPDATED (I put that in caps for those of you whom don't like to read my author notes) to inform you on how far I am with the next chapter.
Newayz...on with the story.
~*~
As Lu Bu exited the room, he heard Luo Luo say that Dong Zhuo wanted her to report to some meeting or other right away. Then he heard the girl's footsteps as she ran towards him. 'Great' he thought, almost rolling his eyes. He really didn't want to be pestered right then, first, he had to go and get his thoughts in order.
"Lu Bu sir, wait!" Luo Luo called out as she approached him.
"What is it?" Lu Bu snapped as he came to a stop, yet not bothering to turn around.
"It's Dong Zhuo, he wants you at that meeting about Hu Lao Gate." Luo Luo explained, somewhat ticked with having to talk to his back, (A/N - Let's just say she's kind of new and lacks a bit of common sense, okay? Lol)
"Is this the same one Diao Chan is going to?" Lu Bu asked, still not facing her. He was wondering why Diao Chan would have to be there.
"Yes it is." Luo Luo perked up, "Dong Zhuo's finally letting her fight; can you believe it?" Luo Luo was so excited; she had been waiting for some action. Every other time that she had accompanied Diao Chan into battle, they had sat at the very back with Song Zhuo. And every time, Lu Bu and the others had beaten the opposing leader before the enemies made it back to where they were.
However, Lu Bu did not feel the same about this arrangement. As soon as his brain began register what Luo Luo had just said, he turned around to face her, with a look in his eyes that Luo Luo had never seen before.
"Dong Zhuo is sending Diao Chan into battle!?" he practically yelled, completely wiping the excited look off of Luo Luo's face.
"Well, why wouldn't he." Luo Luo said, a bit irritated, " She's very good in combat and can beat most of the guys here."
Lu Bu was furious. How dare someone of her rank talk to him like that...
"Oh...Sir Lu Bu!" a male voice called out from behind. It was Sanzo, he too had been sent to gather the people for Dong Zhuo.
When he reached Lu Bu he fell to his knees gasping for breath, apparently, he had been running. "You might of already heard sir, "Sanzo began, "but Dong Zhuo needs you to come to a meeting right away." How Sanzo prayed that Lu Bu hadn't been told yet, because he had quite a temper when having to listen to the same news twice.
When Lu Bu said nothing, Sanzo took it as a good sign and got up to leave before saying. "Oh, and have you seen Lady Diao Chan, she wasn't in her chambers and I need too...whoa"
The rage swirling inside Lu Bu had only begun to rise as he listened to the man talk of such petty things. But when the guy had mentioned Diao Chan's name, Lu Bu just snapped. He had grabbed the man's collar and was now holding him off of the ground. "Don't bother me with such trivial speech!" he yelled as he slung the poor guy aside, smack, into the wall. Then muttering under his breath as he walked away, "It's not like she needs to attend thins thing anyways."
After she saw Lu Bu's figure disappear around the corner Luo Luo rushed to Sanzo's side. "Sorry about that." Luo Luo said as she helped him to his feet.
"That's alright." Sanzo smiled weakly as he rubbed his aching head. "It's not like it was your fault or anything."
"Hea-heh, yea." Luo Luo let out a meek laugh, scratching that back of her head innocently (A/N - If only he knew.) "Here, you better get that head checked." Luo Luo said as she walked him to his room.
After making sure that the man was okay, while also enjoying his company and conversation, Luo Luo made her way down the hall to the stable. Yet, letting her guilty conscious (A/N - *Gasps* You mean she actually has one of those.) get the better of her, she turned around so that she was facing the direction of Sanzo's room. "Thanks." She whispered before taking off in the opposite direction.
~*~
The meeting, if you could even call it that, had been very uneventful. Lu Bu had strolled in late, but by looking at how everyone else went unphased by it, she guessed that it was a common thing.
Diao Chan was now in the horse stable, preparing Divine for the upcoming battle. "They you go boy." She said as she finished brushing the sparkling mane and giving Devine an apple to munch on.
Letting her curiosity get the better of her, Mei spoke up, "Um, Diao Chan, may I ask you something?"
"Sure." Diao Chan smiled.
"Why do you refer to Divine as a male sometimes and not others?" Mei asked.
"Oh, that..." Diao Chan laughed. "Devine's really a female, but when I first received her I was still young. So, not yet able to decipher the difference between the two, I though that she was a he. As I grew older, I realized my mistake, yet I still slip sometimes out of habit and refer to her as a male."
"Oh." Mei said, a bit confused but understanding nonetheless. Then her attention was drawn ways from the horse she was grooming as she noticed Diao Chan look up to the Stable entrance.
"Hello there." Diao Chan smiled as she abandoned Devine's side to greet the warrior who had just stridden in.
"Lady Diao Chan, Lady Diao Chan!" Luo Luo's shrill voice rang out as she came running down the hallway towards the entrance to the stable. "Guess wha-whoa.oomph." In her haste to get to her lady, Diao Chan hadn't seen Lu Bu's towering figure until it was too late. By then, she was on the slippery straw floor, and only slid right into his side as she tried to stop.
"Geeze, you could at least watch where you're going." Mei muttered to the poor girl as she continued to work.
"I'm so sorry." Luo Luo said as she got up to give and little bow to apologize to the man for running head-on into him. "I didn't see..." she started to explain her self, but curiosity got the better of her as she saw a bag clutched in one of Lu Bu's hands. "Hey, what'cha got there?" She asked, somewhat forgetting whom it was she was speaking to; then leaned in to get a closer look at it.
"Nothing of you concern!" Lu Bu snapped as he snatched the abject away from her view. This girl was really beginning to bug him, yet he couldn't let himself lose his temper in front of Diao Chan, especially to one of her own bodyguards.
"But..."Luo Luo was about to protest, but the look he was giving her reminded her of their previous encounter, so she abandoned the attempt. "He- heh, I'll just be moving along then." Luo Luo smiled innocently as she walked past to him to help Mei.
"Did you come here for something?" Diao Chan's sweet voice rang out, bringing Lu Bu back to reality.
"I-I" Lu Bu started as he fingered the string on the bag he held, but he seemed to be at a loss for words.
"If you don't remember what you came here for, then why don't you come back when you do." Luo Luo chirped as she continued with her work.
Lu Bu felt the blood rising to his face for more than one reason, but mostly in anger. He clenched his fists as he tried to restrain himself. He didn't know how much more of this girl he could take. In fact, if it hadn't of been for Mei's next course of action, he might of lost to his anger.
*Whap*
"Ouch, what did you do that for!" whined Luo Luo as she rubbed her head where Mei had just hit her.
"Don't you have any common sense!?" Mei hissed warningly under her breath, while at the same time acting as if nothing had happened.
"Wha..." Luo Luo started, a bit confused, yet only to be interrupted by Mei.
"You're not even supposed to be listening to their conversation, much less butting in." Mei snapped as quietly as possible, yet she knew everyone could hear her.
Although some of his anger had subsided as he watched Luo Luo get beat upside the head, he still wasn't completely in control. His discomfort was building as he just stupidly stood there. Then making up his mind, he finally decided to speak. "Here?" he growled as he shoved the bag towards Diao Chan. "Now you can get rid of those stupid little sticks you call weapons." He grumbled as he turned and stormed out, mentally cursing his anger and the fact that he had not found Diao Chan alone.
"Thanks," he barely heard Diao Chan call out, but she said it still the same. Although he was still seething, he couldn't help but to smile as the wondrous sound of her appreciation replayed again and again in his head. ~*~
Review Responses
Tiger5913 - Yeah, they are the Kessen bodyguards, you and Teardrop are the only two that noticed that, though she didn't really say what group they were from, but yeah, you know. *grins* Great minds think alike, you're awfully close to my plot, and I mean really close, but not exactly.
General-Beatrix666 - I'm glad you like it ^_^, I just loved your review, as for your questions:
-I hope he will, but you'll just have to find out : P
-Maybe, I'm still considering that, but I think they've served their purpose for now, then again...
-As it's looking right now, Dong Zhuo has a pretty likely chance of finding out, I know, that's just horrible isn't it.
(wasn't that just so helpful...*cough*not*cough*
Black Phoenix - *beams* Another person who likes this fic, : ). There will be a duel, though I'm not quite sure that it will be those two that you mentioned dueling, though one of them might...
Gin Ryu-chan - I'm so glad that you like my story ^_^ . I thought that I had fixed that in chapter two, but it looks like I didn't, thanks for pointing that out. You see, I had put "one-shot, kind of" because I thought that this was only going to be a chapter or two, then I changed my mind, but I forgot to change the summary. Hehe, yeah, I can be quite forgetful at times.
Ms. Heartily - Yeah, it did take me a while to get the last chapter out didn't it. I'm so sorry about that. And this time it was much worse. You really think it's getting better *beams* wow, I'm so happy. : )
Kelsey - You mean it?! this is the best one you've read so far. Even better than 'Dreams Come True,' 'Agony,' and 'Stand By Me?' Those are the only other three that I have found so far. Still, I'm really glad that you like mine best *beams*.
Teardrop Crystal - I know, isn't Devine just the neatest, I think that I could of described her better, but what's done is done and there's no fixing it now. You and Tiger5913 were the only two to notice the bodyguard thing, yet you were the only one to notice Yang Hu, congrats, *throws confetti all over the unsuspecting TC*
Escad's girl - I've said it before and I'll say it again, you are so much like Teardrop, lol. Yay, at least somebody liked my title enough to point it out. : )
Metal Snake - You know what, he probably is. I wasn't really thinking when I typed that out in the first chapter. If I said it again, then it was because I wanted to remain constant, you know. Anyways, thanks for the insight, and for reviewing and reading my chapters, : ).
Goddess diao - Perfect, wow. ^_^ Thank you so much, I just loved your review.
Sapphire - Whoa, you really love it? *beams* Thanks for the e-mail, : ). They're my favorite fics too, *smiles* I really enjoyed reading your e-mail, and thanks for the website, it's really cool. ^_^
Carrie' Mac - I finally updated, I hope it's good enough. Thanks for telling me to get up and get a move on, it made my writers block go away, somewhat. Then it took me forever to actually find the time to type it up and stuff. ^_^;
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I think that's all of them, if not, then I'm really sorry. Thanks again for taking the time to review, I got more than usual this time, my last chapter must have been better then I thought. I hope this one is okay. Thanks for all of you who stuck with me through my extremely long wait, I really appreciate it. Anyways, as I said before, I'll try to keep my bio page updated for further information. And I'm so sorry for the sucky chapter, I promise that the next one will be better. In fact, there aren't too many more chapters's to go.
Lady Black Pearl