Kiwi: Hello, my readers! I have finally managed to get this chapter done! And I guess I have to apologize as well, I was slacking off with some yaoi manga and my own manga, so, SORRY!

Inarshio: Hey, it's been a while! Kiwi was so tired nowadays from her lacrosse games, she really hopes you guys enjoy this chapter! So, ENJOY!

不要看我

! Don't Look at Me!

The pink-haired empress stood at the door frame that led to the luxurious bathroom of her once thought to be "faithful lover". She trembled with anger as she heard the sexual sounds of the man she had eloped with and the prisoner she had mistaken for dead intertwine in a private way. In a way the man had never had with her. Then, the three words that shook her world, took it by the ears, and turned it upside down. "I love you." Those husky words, coming from the man that she had been so faithful, loving, and giving to. All this time, she thought he had loved her, and yet, those three words, she never heard directed to her, were whispered in the ear of a stupid blonde guard that had been in an affair with her late husband? Unforgiveable. She will not tolerate this any longer.

JunTai roughly thrusted into LongHua one final time before coming in the hot, perky ass. LongHua yelled out, both in pleasure and pain.

"It hurts, you fucker!" He hissed.

"Well, so-rry." JunTai mocked childishly.

"Now let go of me...!" The blonde whined.

"No." JunTai held him closer, enjoying the feel of the blonde's slim body. Now LongHua was thoroughly cleaned and re-covered in his dirt.

"Let go, I ache all over because of you." LongHua weakly pushed at the porcelain chest that was his face was smothered into.

"I can't let go of you." JunTai replied blankly.

"Why not?" He pushed a little harder.

"Because," JunTai squeezed him in his grip. "Because, I love you." He murmured into the blonde's ear.

"Wh-wha-?" LongHua squeaked out before suddenly, the sound of a china bowl crashed into the rock they were hiding behind.

JunTai knew who it was immediately. He held LongHua tighter and tried making himself smaller behind the rock. MeiLin had found out about his new slave toy.

"JunTai, you manwhore!" MeiLin screamed angrily. JunTai winced. LongHua snickered.

"JunTai, you'd just been declared a manwhore by the empress of China!" He sneered quietly. JunTai shut him up with a glare.

"Come out here this instant before I call the guards!" She screeched at the top of her lungs when no one replied. Silence met her once again. Furious, she was about to jump into the oily tub when suddenly a stinging pain ran across her back and she felt warm liquid pouring down her legs. She looked behind her to see the beautiful, pale face of her fake lover just before she slipped into the deep abyss of dark unconsciousness. She thought it was over, but it was yet to be over.

She woke up chained in a prison cell. Outside, she could hear an angry mob trying to tear down the big wooden doors that led into the palace. "DOWN WITH THE TRAITOR EMPRESS!" She heard them yell. "REVENGE FOR EMPEROR JING!" They continued. Their voices became in a way silent, yet they echoed in her barren mind. Tears streaked down her face. It was over. She thought she could've gotten away with it. JunTai entered her cell and sat down in front of her on an over-turned barrel.

"So, have you realized the bad you have done?" He asked. MeiLin could hear the restraint in his voice. He didn't want to burst out. "If I were in charge of the guards, I would have had your head take off by now, but LongHua does not want that." He said, silently. "He wants to send you out to the farmlands where you came from, to work to the new emperor's expense."

MeiLin looked up at him. "Why are you not going as well?" She hissed angrily. "You deserve to return to the farmlands as well." JunTai angrily sighed and then stepped in front of her and then kicked her face. Her cheek cut and bleeding and badly bruised.

"Shut up. You had caused illegal seduction. You had influenced everything I did. Now I remember why I vowed to protect Jing when I was a child. I was his younger step-brother, damned because I was the result of one of the old empress's affairs. Jing was like a family I never had. He had raised me like a human. You, you treat me like a toy, taking whenever you like, and you call that love?" He spit at her.

MeiLin's eyes started watering up. "Shut up! Shut up! Shut up! SHUT UP!" She screamed as she covered her ears. She was too horrified to hear anymore.

JunTai smiled under the shadow covering his face. "What? Too ashamed to admit it? To scared to admit you've done the ultimate wrong?" He grabbed her neck and squeezed in his blinding fury, unable to realize what he really was doing.

MeiLin choked and pried at the pale fingers, gasping for air. He threw her on the ground, stomped on her stomach three times hard, and then kicked her in her face. Then, kicked her over and left her there, running out of the cell and the sleazy guard locked the cell door behind him.

JunTai fast-walked down the walkways, his heart pounding. Holy shit. He'd almost killed MeiLin when LongHua commanded him not to. He was in big trouble if LongHua saw MeiLin all knocked up. LongHua had somehow prestige the title of the "Empress" and JunTai as the Emperor because of the strange confusing issues that they tumbled into without realizing it.

If he wasn't quick to try and get LongHua to be jealous, maybe none of this would've happened, but he was born with a father that came from a family of killers. He did not want to be such a child, but his mother wanted to put his real father on the throne instead, and tried to kill Jing's father. While in the process of doing so, JunTai could not help but kill the Empress as well.

Nothing in his life seemed to happen right, but neither did anything in LongHua's life. This was one of the few things that he could connect himself to LongHua with. Their childhood loneliness, the abandonment they both experienced. Then pain and anguish of having no family and to be looked down upon and shunned at.

LongHua paced back in forth in the guard's headquarters, waiting for JunTai to come back. What had he done? He should've gone with him. That way, he would ensure that MeiLin would not be hurt. After all, she had been raised in a family of cold-blooded killers almost like JunTai was. She couldn't help being cold and selfish as she was. She was a sweet child, and LongHua had liked her when he'd been her neighbor as a young toddler.

MeiLin was quietly sobbing to herself. Why did she keep choosing the wrong choices all the time? It's all because of her stupid "parents." She knew what had happened. The two fake parents had come into her run-down farmer's shack and tried to steal everything. Her parents tried to stop them and got themselves killed while doing so. The thieves took her and sold her to a pair of murderers, who called themselves her new parents.

LongHua saw JunTai enter the room. He glanced at his boot and saw a smeared blood stain, which looked like it was hastily wiped at. He glared at JunTai. "I TOLD YOU-"

"SHUT UP!" JunTai yelled. "DO YOU NOT UNDERSTAND THE CIRCUMSTANCES WE ARE UNDER?"

"I DO!" LongHua yelled back, his voice won over JunTai's. "But I don't want her hurt, it's not her fault, or yours either." He said. "Right now, everybody is looking up to us to solve this problem, all this confusion." He looked JunTai straight in the eye.

JunTai was taken back by the azure eyes that blazed with confidence and pride. But, of course, this was why he loved the idiot so much. The determination this blonde held was limitless and he could do almost anything because of that determination. He sighed with a small smile. "I'm sorry, 'Empress' LongHua." He stifled a laugh that was about to pop out of his mouth and bowed, hiding his confusing expression.

"Shut up, just because I have a girly name doesn't mean I am one." He said, crossing his arms. "Now help me think, I don't have that much brain power." He said, rubbing his chin comically.

"Of course." He sat down comfortably and they started the brainstorm.

Hours passed, idea after another came by, coming and leaving as they wished. They tried to reason with each other, argued, laughed, sat through silent, thoughtful moments, and all this happened while they were together. A rare moment, but it was treasured by the atmosphere inside and outside.

"I've got it!" LongHua said.

"What?" JunTai sat up.

"We can form alliances with the country of Zhong. It is the most powerful, and I know Zhong's emperor. We are close friends. Not only that, Zhong is a neighboring country. It's huge." LongHua said. He tapped on "Zhong" on the map of China.

"That might work. Our country of Tang is too small, it could be easily taken over. And we do have strong ties with Zhong. They have offered a helping hand whenever we'll need it." JunTai said. "Wow, Long, you actually thought thoroughly for once."

"Excuse me?" LongHua said loudly. "I challenge that!" He said.

"But it's true!" JunTai stated innocently, "You always butt your head straight into things, people just don't expect you to mature much more."

"Shut up!" LongHua argued back, tackling JunTai. "You ass!" He hissed when JunTai grabbed him and pinned him under.

"....." Silence enwrapped itself as the sun's setting rays bathed the room in a soothing yellow-orange glow. The two of them looked into each other's eyes. The awkward silence then changed when JunTai got off and coughed. What had happened before was strange enough. LongHua got up and chuckled nervously.

"Maybe..." JunTai said quietly.

"A small..." LongHua continued just as quietly.

"Kiss..." Both whispered, glancing at each other awkwardly, then suddenly their lips clashed and LongHua found himself backed into a wall. JunTai stopped and then pulled himself off.

"Okay, let's continue planning this out." He said, pulling his hair out of his face.

"We've figured out how to solve the war declaration on us." LongHua said. "Now, we just need to solve the problem with MeiLin."

"I still think-"

"No, JunTai. We are not going to give her anything harsh. I know her well enough. I thought you did too." LongHua looked over his shoulder at the raven.

JunTai bit his bottom lip and tried to fend himself from the sudden attack. Yes, he did. Why is he not as forgiving? Because this was just how he was. But, this time, he opened himself to the idea, and embraced it fully. Only because he trusted LongHua and knew everything was going to be okay. "Okay, LongHua, we'll do it your way. But, if things go out of control, I take over, understand?" JunTai made a menacing look at LongHua.

LongHua gulped and nodded quickly, knowing that severe punishment could be given under these circumstances.

"JunTai, in one hour, you will go down to the dungeon and escort her up to the throne stage so that no one that might break in hurts her, understand? And change, we need to get dressed for the imperial ceremony."

"Yes, Empress LongHua." JunTai bowed once again and hurried out the door just as a candle holder flew past his head, missing by a mere nanometer.

"JUNTAI!" LongHua threatened at the retreating man. JunTai's quiet chuckling echoed down the stone halls of the underground headquarters.

Promptly one hour later...

LongHua stationed himself next the throne stage like he always did, as the head guard, as the general, as the diseased Emperor's right-hand man, and now as his best friend. He wore the finest of guard uniforms, gold trimmed and it fit his slim body perfectly.

JunTai came in and down the carpeted path towards the throne wearing his golden dragon robes. They trailed behind him. This was the diseased emperor's damned stepbrother for God's sake. But, he really did look like the rightful heir to the throne after Jing's reign over China. He looked stunningly beautiful.

MeiLin was all patched up, newly repaired. She wore her hair ornaments as she had when she still was a married Empress. Her phoenix robes were longer that JunTai's, the trailing end being carried by servants. Her jade eyes glittered with confidence behind her shambled appearance and her thin, now healthier lips, were painted a light pink. She emanated the most beautiful appearance among the women in the kingdom.

The three of them then met in front of the stairs to the throne. They all faced towards the door, and bowed to the Gods that were standing there, watching them recreate China's way of government. JunTai headed up first, and sat down on the throne of the Emperor. Everyone bowed down to the new Emperor, then rose as MeiLin, finally smiling a relieved smile and took LongHua's out-stretched hand in hers. She held it like she had when they were young, carefree children, and the both of them headed up the stairs. She sat down daintily. Her aura was finally a kind, gentle, understanding one again. LongHua stood in front of them, between the thrones, and knelt down on one knee, the guard's salute to one of higher status. Then, he stood up.

"Tonight," He started. "Is the night that everything will change." He continued. "The countries of China have declared war upon each other."

A loud murmur started up and roared in large waves down the rows of people that have come from the fields, city, and from other surrounding cities.

"SILENCE!" LongHua's patience wore thin again. The people giggled lightly.

"We have decided our plans in order to help ourselves within this war. We are creating an alliance with the country of Zhong." LongHua continued.

The people cheered, the deafening sound rippled through them and the message was passed on to the ones standing outside the gates, trying to see what they can. They knew how powerful and generous the leader of Zhong was. They knew that they were able to pull out of this war successfully.

"Zhong's emperor will be here within a day's time. Please prepare yourselves, the answer may not be 'yes'. Especially since this war is for control over all of China."

The crowd silenced. This was new news, the emperor of Zhong refusing to be kind and understanding?

"Also, because Zhong might have a new emperor by now." the crowd froze in shock. That was true, the possibility was all too high.

"That's enough horror, LongHua." JunTai snapped. LongHua gave a gesture of appreciation to the crowd for listening patiently, and then went down into his kneeling position once again, this time the knuckles of his right fist touching the ground. He froze still, almost like a statue. JunTai stood up in all his beautiful, masculine glory. Girls up front fainted. LongHua rolled his concealed eyes as he heard the thud of the girls falling and the silent squeals of all the women that could see JunTai. His mental jealousy roared in a cross fire and MeiLin giggled behind her pink, silk fan.

"What you heard LongHua speak of, is all true. We countries, as usual, are fighting for dominance, but, finally, this war will decide it all, and we must be very cautious as to our next actions." JunTai said to the hushed crowd, they always listened to JunTai the best, probably because they couldn't take their eyes off of him.

"Then, why are we uniting with Zhong if we do not know the consequences?" a villager yelled. The people around him shouted in agreement.

"Hush, dear!" His young wife slapped him for opposing her idol. LongHua trembled with laughter. A few light snickers escaped from him and MeiLin. Whenever JunTai spoke, it was a time to enjoy yourselves to the reactions by the commoners around.

"EMPEROR!" The little court man (from chapter 1!) scuttled into the palace through the back door. "EMPRESS!" He tripped over his robes again. The commoners snickered. "THE EMPEROR OF ZHONG IS HERE!" Everyone stopped laughing and it got seriously quiet. The shuffling of the court man was the only sound in the grand emperor's hall. Then, a pin dropped out of nowhere from the back of the court, where the great doors were that lead into the hall. Everyone turned around. A young man, about the age of the three most powerful leaders in Tang stood at the entrance, his hand still gracefully held up from dropping the jade pin.

The commoners gasped. Some got even deadlier quiet. LongHua looked up. He knew only one person that could make people as silent as he could. He stood up, and stepped forward as the imperial person stepped toward the center, the commoners parting for them. They met at the center. LongHua punched his fist into his flat palm, the respective greeting, and then kneeled down respectively.

"JingLong" Was all he breathed.

Said man smiled briskly and he looked down. "Please get up, LongHua." He kneeled down. The crowd gasped.

LongHua looked up at the man, his creamy complexion radiated, his pale eyes reflecting the kindness in LongHua's. They both grinned at each other, then both got up.

JunTai had gotten down from the throne stage and was smiling with the two men. MeiLin carefully made it down with the help of her two escorts, TenTen and TianFeng. The four of them gathered around and they carefully studied the other country's leader(s) as to see how much they had changed, then all started laughing warmly. TenTen and TianFeng joined in.

"Now, all we need is everyone else. I had managed to gather everyone." He swiftly threw his dark brown hair, his porcelain face gleaming in the ray of the rising sun shooting into the hall. Three more men gathered into the hall. One with crimson red triangles tattooed onto his cheeks like LongHua's vixen whiskers. He had naturally grown fangs, part of his signature grin. He had his hair cut short like a commoner, but a simple, thin ponytail trailed after his ruffled hair. Then, there was the man with a high pony tail. His bored expression did not do him wrong as to reflecting his current emotion. Boredom. Then there was the one with his black obsidian glasses, gleaming, his hair swept back into a thin ponytail at the top of his head. His cloak-like robes made him seem very suspicious. And finally, a ball-shaped man stepped in, his muddy red hair spiked out in every direction and flowed down his back. The man with the red triangles stepped forward with his huge, white dog, which is considered the god of animals, and both bowed respectfully and got back up.

"I am BaiLang. This is my dog HongLang. We are the Heavenly gaurds of the country of Zhong." He grinned as he got up. "It's been a while, everyone." Everyone nodded in agreement.

The bored man stepped up in the most bored manner any of the commoners had ever seen. The others had to smile at the genius, who was obviously taking his time. "I am TaiGuang." He bowed and straightened himself. "Self-renounced court minister, taking the position after my father. It really has been a while since we all have been together at once." He finally broke into a comfortable smile.

"And you haven't changed at all." TianHe retorted. Everyone laughed.

"I am BaoZi." The ball-man introduced himself. "I have big bones. I am the General of Zhong's army."

"You haven't lost that 'bone-marrow' at all, haven't you?" JunTai finally broke in with his first attempt at cracking a joke. Silence encased them. JunTai? Cracking a joke? Then, everyone did start laughing.

A few other people came forward and they all joined in a reunited circle, the twelve friends were together again.

Kiwi: Okay, I will now explain all the names and stuff:

JingLong - He is Neji, his name means Golden Dragon

TenTen - Yes, she is TenTen, the most obvious, I liked her name the way it was.

TianFeng - Temari, her name means Heavenly Wind

BaiLang and HongLang - Kiba is BaiLang, his name means White Wolf, and, if there is Kiba, there's Akamaru, so, I named him HongLang, which means Red Wolf.

TaiGuang - Is obviously Shikamaru, the one and only genius. His name means SunLight.

BaoZi - Is also obviously Chouji. His name means Fat One or any other formal fat nickname. XP

Inarshio: Please review!