((SXH: Hello, everyone. I'm sorry about stopping the kiss on the last chapter. Trust me when I say that it hurt me more than it did you. I have edited this chapter also, so I hope it sounds a lot better. Anyway, I won't ruin it for you, you'll just have to read it. I hope you all enjoy and please inform me of my spelling and grammar mistakes. Enjoy and Review!))

Disclaimer: I do not own Dynasty Warriors or its characters. I only own the story line and Little Ying.

Warning: Language and a little blood.

Enjoy!

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To Hell & Back Again

Chapter 3: Unfortunate Events

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Previously

"You saved me," he said. "Thank you." Lu Bu had barely heard him. Zhou Yu said it only as a whisper. He noticed how close their faces were, but couldn't bring himself to care. Something about those brown eyes made him throw his conscience off a mountain, and lean closer.

"You are very welcome..." whispered Lu Bu, not caring how close their faces where. The same had went for Lu Bu, if he had a conscience to begin with. He briefly wondered if the man's lips felt as soft as they looked. And those fiery depths only urged him on. Their lips were only centimeters away. So close... so very close...

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"What are you doing?" said an all too familiar voice from the door. The two jumped away, Zhou Yu almost busting his head on the wall in the process, and turned their eyes to the door. Zhou Yu was expecting to see a giant screeching bat, literally. Lu Bu rubbed the back of his head and stood up to his full height. When had he kneeled down?

"I thought we were going to kill him tomorrow night!" it yelled. Yu looked closer, eyes focusing on the, what he made out to be with his head now throbbing, person in the doorway. Diao Chan... This can't be good. He thought almost instantly.

Zhang Liao appeared, out of breath from running to stop the ragging warrior. He had realized all too late who exactly Lu Bu was going to kill. Now he stared at the scene, in utter shock and repulsion. He eyes shot to the bloody carcass of Dong Zhuo, to Lu Bu, who looked like he was just caught doing something he definitely was not supposed to do, and then to a very pissed looking Diao Chan. However, Zhou Yu noted, he never looked in his direction. The officer must not have seen him at all.

"Diao, we were, but..." Lu Bu didn't finish, trying to find the right word to calm his angry lover. Finding none at the time, he murmured a small, "Sorry." Daio seemed to go into a rage and rant at this. No one was expecting what came out of her mouth at that moment.

"Let me make a guess. You did this so you could have his stupid whore, did you not?!" Diao howled, tears rolling down her face. She didn't look pretty at all when she cried, with her face all scrunched up and a heavy frown making creases in all over her face. It was unattractive, in the nicest of words

"No, it is not what you-Diao!" By the time called after her, she was already gone. Lu Bu tried following her as best he could with his low speed.

Yu could tell the two were an item. After all, how could they be if Lu Bu didn't run after her? But he just couldn't shake the feeling that something was off when she ran away crying. They seemed real for a moment; but not when she turned to run away. He would know. The sight was all too familiar to him.

Zhou Yu turned his head to the open doors, then Dong Zhuo's body, then back to the doors. His mind trying to process the events that happened only moments ago. Not ten minutes ago, he was about to be raped; then, Dong Zhuo is killed. After that, he... Lu Bu… and… Zhou Yu nearly choked, and visibly shivered at the thought, not that he could even finish it. He nearly kissed Lu Bu, the man who everyone feared. Then they were caught by the man's lover. This was one situation Zhou Yu did not want to be in.

That was when he was brought out of his thoughts. Zhang Liao had started to speak.

"What am I going to do with those two?" Zhang Liao seemed to be talking to himself. The officer sighed and sat down on the floor. He still had no knowledge of Zhou Yu's presence.

"Those two must be a handful," Zhou Yu piped up, effectively making Zhang Liao jump in surprise and circumspect the room. The Liao's eyes landed on Dong Zhuo before spotting the man chained behind him. Yu could see Liao's eyes widen considerably. Liao blinked and rubbed his eyes a couple of times before he really looked at Zhou Yu.

"Lord, tell me I am dreaming," Liao said to himself. Zhou Yu stared at him for a moment, before laughing.

"What? It is not a nightmare, is it?" Zhou Yu teased. Liao's cheeks brightened a little.

"No. Of course not. It is just..." Liao bit his lip to stop himself from saying what he was really thinking.

"'Just' what?" Yu asked curiously, cocking his head to the side a little.

"Nothing. Do you need help getting up?" Liao inquired quickly. Yu nodded and watched Liao stand and move toward him. Zhang Liao took his smaller hand and pulled. He had expected him to be at least a little heavy, but he was wrong. Zhou Yu was feather light. The poor man was launched upward and was caught quickly by two strong arms. "I am very sorry! I did not know you were so light!" Zhang Liao panicked, continuing to ramble on and spewing apologies. Yu wondered why he was so flustered. After all he didn't know...

"It is all right," Yu said. "You did not know and I should have told you." Liao's face continued to sport a small blush. Yu smiled at the absurdity, not just of Liao, but of his entire situation.

"Oh. Um... Okay," Liao answered. They stood there for a minute or more in a small, comfortable silence, to Zhou Yu. To Zhang Liao, the silence was quite the opposite. It seemed to radiate off of him as well. Zhou Yu, too, became quite uncomfortable for some reason, almost to the point that he didn't have any courage to speak. Poor Zhang Liao jumped when Zhou Yu spoke again.

"Um, Lord Zhang Liao?" Yu queried uneasily.

"Yes?" Liao replied.

"Could you please let go of me?" Yu asked softly, squirming a little to get out of his grasp. Why is it that every person I meet feels some need to invade my personal space? Zhou Yu asked himself.

"Oh. Sorry!" Liao let go of him as quickly as possible, nearly shoving the smaller away. "I will take you back to my room, if you wish me to do so, since you have no room of your own," Liao held out his hand. Zhou YU was taken aback the offer, and the possible implied meaning. He could have slapped the man for it. But, when he thought about the other officers from the dinner the other night, and how they looked at him with such devilish smiles, he thought against it. Not taking Zhang Liao's hand, Yu stood before him with his perfect posture.

"Fine," Yu sighed. "However, do you mind unchaining me?" Zhou Yu held up his wrists and pointed to his neck and ankles. Zhang Liao examined them all greatly. He went over to Dong Zhuo's body and plucked a bunch of keys from it. When he came back to Zhou Yu, he tried every single key on each of the locks. The only one the keys unlocked was the collar.

"I am sorry, Zhou Yu. I do not know where the keys to the others are," Zhang Liao apologized. Zhou Yu shook his head.

"They may be in his throne room," Zhou Yu commented. "Or in his stomach... The man always laid his keys on the table when he ate..." They both shivered at the thought of retrieving the keys if they did indeed lie in the man's gut. Neither of them wanted to look and decided to leave the room. It was already filled with the man's putrid smell.

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The two men walked in silence along the extravagant halls. Zhang Liao, leading them down the many halls and corridors, looked a little nervous. Zhou Yu assumed it was about the fact that Diao Chan and Lu Bu were upset to the point that they should not be messed with. He wouldn't be surprised if Zhang Liao would force them both to hide at the site of them.

As soon as they turned down a hallway, they heard the screams of a child in pain. Yu winced as the sound and looked over to Liao. The man's face weighed heavily with woe. Another scream and Zhou Yu shivered with a cold feeling, like water, traveling down his spine. He had never heard such screams from children in his life.

"Where is that sound coming from?" Yu asked, a little afraid of the answer. Zhang Liao just looked forward. Pity weaved into his face. As they walked forward, the sound grew louder and louder.

"The sound is coming from the hospital wing that is just ahead of us," Liao replied. Yu looked forward with a saddened face. Well, at least I know that. I wonder who it is. As if reading his mind, Liao added, "The screams are coming from a poor little servant girl who was whipped earlier today. It sounds like she is getting her wounds cleaned up."

Yu stared to him with shock clearly written in his expression. Who in the right mind would whip a mere child? Yu's shock quickly turned to anger.Liao laughed a little; Yu glared at him for this. Why in the world is he laughing?

"Lu Bu was also angered. She was his favorite servant," Liao explained. "He looked just like him only the horrible truth is that the child's sire is Dong Zhuo." Liao turned his head to look at Yu. Yu could feel the man's eyes boring into his own. Feeling slightly embarrassed, Zhou Yu averted his eyes. "Now that I think about it... You two have the same eyes." Yu's eyes shot right back up to his at this comment.

"Who?" Yu asked, completely confused. If he was talking about Lu Bu, the man before him must be either blind to color or completely daft.

"You and the little girl," Liao clarified. Yu was about to protest to that when Liao continued. "I mean that if one did not know she was Dong Zhuo's child they would think she would be Lu Bu's and yours." Yu snapped his head forward and let his gaze fall to his feet, his hair hiding a blush. Wait why am I blushing? He is an enemy! And a man at that... Zhou Yu stopped and thought for a moment. That did not stop Dong Zhuo or any other man I have met.

They continued in silence until they came upon a hallway. This one forked. One way went to the concubine chambers, the right; the other went to the guest barracks, the left. Liao took a left, leaving a confused Yu to catch up with him.

"Sir Zhang Liao, you're going the wrong way," Yu said lightly.

"What do you mean?" Liao asked, not stopping for a single moment. Apparently he had left Zhang Liao's earlier words lost within the many halls long ago. Zhou Yu jogged for a little bit to catch up.

"The concubine chambers are in the other direction," Yu informed, falling into step with the man. Liao stopped and turned to him.

"Lord Zhou Yu, only in the eyes of Dong Zhuo were you one of the concubines. To me, you are a guest of high class," Zhang Liao explained. Yu looked at him in complete disbelief. One minute he was in complete Hell and not twenty minutes later he's being treated like a guest again. This place is so chaotic...

"What about the other girls? What is to become of them?" he asked, worry evident in his voice. They were nice people who were forced into it, just like I was. They were so scared of that pig that they some had actually believe they volunteered for it. They do not deserve to be handed to another like common evening women...

"They will also be set free. Lord Lu Bu does not concern himself with having women as his personal slaves," Liao explained. Yu hesitated at the answer, stopping his pace entirely. Liao followed suit, staring at the man. He wondered what went on it Yu's mind.

"No," Yu agreed and started walking again. Liao raised an eyebrow at this and continued after him. "They want to go back to being regular servants, and be with their children again." Now it was Liao's turn to be shocked, until he found his voice again.

"As you command, Lord Zhou Yu," Liao replied. It was an unnatural sight to see. An officer treating a former concubine as a master. It was strange and completely out of the ordinary, given any other circumstance.

The two walked farther and farther into the many halls of the castle. Yu stumbled a little every once in a while. He looked outside as they passed a window; it was pitch black. When did it get so late? Yu asked himself, rubbing his eyes. He didn't do well inside stone walls. He could never tell the time like this. One could also hear everything in the silence. A small pin falling onto the stone ground could possibly be heard all throughout the halls. That was not the case with this place for some reason.

It was amazing how silent the corridors were. One could be coming up the hallway and not hear the servants until they passed into the same hall. Zhou Yu was walking just a few steps ahead of Liao. Yu was so tired that he couldn't hear or see anything properly. That was until the two men came to a specific hall that held the two bickering lovers of the night.

Yu was wide awake now because of the shock from a large calloused hand slamming over his mouth, an arm snaking around his waist, and being dragged harshly backward. This reminded him of a horrible memory: the time he was captured by Dong Zhuo. He was pulled up against an armored chest and the two fell to the floor against the wall of the corridor they were just in.

"Are you insane?!" Zhang Liao whispered into his ear. Yu had forgotten that Liao was even there walking beside him. Yu nodded quickly and listened intently, not even bothering to move from his spot.

"Diao, listen to me! The servants-! Lu Bu attempted, but in vain.

"No! I do not want to hear it! Especially not from you, Lu Bu!" She hadn't said his name; she had bit it out with as much venom as possible. Not ten seconds later, there was a small clatter and then a crash. It sounded like glass breaking. By the sound of it, she threw a vase at him, and missed.

"Diao, the servants said that a Beauty-!" Lu Bu tried again but failed miserably as Diao Chan screeched again.

"The servants said what exactly?" Diao screamed. Yu was sure that everyone in the kingdom heard it. Even Lu Bu couldn't keep the grimace away at the pitch her voice achieved. "Did they say that a Beauty, even more beautiful than that hideous Diao Chan woman, was here? Did they tell you to go against Diao Chan and commence the plan without telling her? Did they tell you to butcher Dong Zhuo and look for his petty little whore? Did they say that Lu Bu should have him instead of Diao? Did they?!" By this time, her voice had turned hoarse. She sounded as though she had been crying even harder than before.

"I feel slightly insulted now," Zhou Yu whispered against Liao's unmoving hand.

"Rather insult than compliment in this case," Zhang Liao reminded. Zhou Yu gave him that point. The two continued to listen in, Yu moving Liao's hand away and shifted. He didn't notice the shiver that ran through Zhang Liao.

"No!" Lu Bu roared. Diao's sobs went silent. "The servants made me think it was you. They way they spoke made me believe it was you who Dong Zhuo conquered and defiled. I went into a rage because I thought it was you. I love you and only you! Do not ever think otherwise!" Yu sat there, he felt a small twinge in his chest. I should have at least known that he mistook me for someone else... He chanced a look around the corner, despite Zhang Liao trying to pull him back.

Diao was silent with her back to them. Lu Bu was embracing her. Yu hated most women so all he wanted to do was gag at the sight. He pulled out of Liao's grasp and turned to look at him.

"We need to get out of here," Yu whispered suddenly.

"But how? Lu Bu and Diao will see us," Liao protested, giving the other look that told him that he had gone mad.

"Trust me." Zhou you got up, his chains rattling a little. He helped Liao up right after he gained his balance. As soon as Liao was standing again, he was met with a hand shooting across his face. A stinging sensation spread across his cheek.

"What did you do that for?!" he whispered loudly. Zhou Yu huffed and glared at him.

"Do not ever touch my waist in that manner again," Yu ordered. He turned swiftly and looked around the corner. Lu Bu was still embracing Diao, who continued crying into his chest. Something in his head was screaming at him that something was off about her and the way she reacted to things, but he ignored it. He hoped that it wouldn't bite him later. Lu Bu opened his eyes and saw Yu's anxious look. Yu watched as Lu Bu motioned subtly for him to hurry past. Yu nodded his head understanding. He was thankful that Diao didn't notice the small interaction.

Liao rubbed his stinging cheek as he caught up to Zhou Yu. Yu could still hardly believe that little stab in the dark had actually worked. Lu Bu had let him pass without trouble. Yu guessed that it meant he would be in trouble later.

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They continued in silence, again. Sadly, the more Yu walked the more tired he got. He fought of the sleep and kept going. The weight of the chains made him slow down considerably but he was still ahead of Liao. All of a sudden there was a huge tug on his chains at his feet. Yu's feet had been pulled on at an odd angle and he had fallen. His head hit a hard wall, which he then bounced off of and his head hit the hard stone floor.

" Zhou Yu!" Liao yelled; it sounded like a whisper to him. All he knew was that he was in great pain. And it needed the pain to go away soon before he was unconscious. Darkness began to spread from the corner of his eye. There were very few cases on the battlefield that his had happened. He could count them on one hand, after all. And some of those times, Sun Ce had accidently hit him instead of the enemy.

He raised his head a little, fighting off the darkness harder than ever. He looked back to see a little whip around the middle of the chains. Zhou Yu's head was now splitting. He could actually feel a warm wet sensation on the side of his head. The spinning turned to throbbing; his vision darkened and blurred. Yu was surprised he was still awake, though he couldn't hear anything.

Yu looked up as best he could and the last thing he saw was Liao yelling at a person even worse than Dong Zhuo. It had been the very person crying into the chest of the most feared man in all of China. Yu's thoughts at the time were: Diao. How did I know? I was wrong earlier... I am in Hell. I just hope that I will not be stuck in it forever... That was the last thing he thought before his vision turned to black and unconsciousness overcame him.

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SXH: Wow. 0_o I think I did this chapter a little bad. I think everything went a little too fast...

Zhang Liao: I think it is fine.

SXH: STRANGER DANGER! *hides behind Lu Bu*

Zhang Liao: What?

Lu Bu: *glares at Liao* What did I say about being near her?

Zhang Liao: *sweats* I swear I didn't do anything!

Zhou Yu: Lu Bu, stop it. Liao, shut up.

Liao & Lu Bu: 0_0

SXH: Thank you! *hugs*

Zhou Yu: You're welcome. Personally, I found this really interesting. You should keep up the good work. Though, only make things faster during the really important scenes. *pats her head*

SXH: Thank you, Big Bwother! *runs off to play*

Liao & Lu Bu: Why did you lie to her?

Zhou Yu: I have my reasons... I am a horrible person, am I not?

Liao& Lu Bu: Yeah.

Everyone: Hope you enjoyed and please REVIEW!

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Lu Bu: Or I'll come after you.