"Wings of Fate"

Chapter One: The Legend Unfolds

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Friday, October 15, 2004

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Legend

"Talking"

Thinking

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Disclaimer: I do not own Fushigi Yuugi, but I do own Sakura, my character. Let me make something clear right now. This story has no relation to my other story with Sakura called Secrets. This is an AU (Alternate Universe) story, where Sakura is the same person with the past; only she doesn't dwell on it too much like in my other story. I do not own Kai, who belongs to Kalyn, a RP friend of mine. An RP is making up a story online through i/ms on aim when each person writes a paragraph of the story and it continues on. Kalyn and I wrote this story today, and half the credit of this story belongs to her too because it is her writing along with mine.

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Kai leaned against the side of a large building, the words 'Public Library' on it.

"Come on Sakura... Hurry up..." Her friend Sakura was supposed to meet her here at least 15 minutes ago. With a sigh she took another look around.

"Hurry up! Geez, those FY mangas aren't going to stay there forever..." Kai and Sakura were big anime fans, specifically on Fushigi Yugi.

Sakura was out of breath as she turned a corner and finally arrived at her destination. "Gomen nasi! I'm soo sorry I'm late!"

Kai rolled her eyes gently. "Okay then, let's go."

She turned, brushing her hair behind her. She had blonde hair that had been dyed purple, with blue streaks all through it. She always said that it reminded her of Nuriko and Chichiri. Kai also had the strangest eyes you'd ever seen. Fay eyes as they were called in some fantasy books: One a deep purple, the other an eerie emerald green. Once inside Kai headed immediately to the manga section, browsing through it.

"Nothing good... wait... Hello!" She grabbed a red book from the shelf.

"Hey! The Universe of the four gods!" She said jokingly, grinning lightly at Sakura.

She opened it to the first place.

"Whoa... Sakura... this IS the Four Gods book!" She grinned.

"Let's go." She flipped it to the next page. The book began to glow bright red, and the two of them were sucked in.

"What the-?" Sakura shielded her eyes in surprise as she saw a bright red light engulf both herself and Kai. Sakura felt herself entering a dream like state it seemed, as she the last thing she saw before she blacked out was a flaming red phoenix.

Kai was the first to awaken. She sat up, looking around.

"Are we in Konan...?" She muttered to herself, turning over to shake Sakura awake.

"Sakura! Come on, let's go find Hotohori quick!" Kai hadn't bothered to dust herself off. She wore blue jeans and a long sleeved shirt with the words: 'Don't piss me off, I'm running out of places to hide the bodies.'

"Konan...?" Sakura echoed as she got up, managing to straighten herself up. She dusted herself off. She was wearing blue jean Capri and a pink flowered blouse. Her hair was tied up in a tight bun, many strands loosely hanging out down to her waist.

Out of nowhere did three stocky built men appear in front of the two girls, knives in hand. Sakura knew what they were going to try to do. She knew how the story went.

"Oh god... Luckily, unlike Miaka-baka, I can fight back." Kai stood cracking her knuckles.

"You wanna fight little boys...? Go ahead... try me." Kai lunged, attacking the three men. After beating the hell out of them really fast, she grabbed Sakura and ran. "We gotta get to the palace!"

"They're following us!" Sakura shouted out, but ran as fast as she could. They were trailing behind them both, but soon after turning a certain path; the two girls were alone.

"Ok... good... now then... which way to the palace?" Kai looked around as she popped out of her hiding spot.

"How can we not see the... Oh! Found it!" Kai pointed to a large building, barely visible around a large wall.

"Ha! Let's go meet the incredibly sexy Emperor of Konan!" She laughed; starting off in the direction she hoped was to the palace.

Sakura flustered at the thought of meeting an anime bishouen, one she never thought could exist; much less ending up in the same book all the mikos were in. But this time, it seemed like Miaka and Yui weren't here. Kai and Sakura were the ones in here instead.

As Sakura followed Kai's lead, they reached the palace. A tall gate was before the entrance of the palace, as was two guards keeping a watchful eye for any suspicious strangers.

The guards automatically spotted them and stopped them from entering.

"What business do you two have here?" One of them said gruffly, staring down at Kai with a intimidate look.

"Excuse you?" Asked Kai in a dangerous voice.

"We are the Suzaku no Mikos...and you DARE try and stop us...?" Kai reached into her pocket, taking out a lighter.

"Want proof?" She flipped open the cap and flicked the lighter on, the flame springing to life. Am I gonna have to get physical?"

The guard was obviously a little surprised by the girl's nature and the strange object in her hand, and was about to back down but the second guard shot Kai an irritated look.

"Well obviously you don't know when to stop telling lies. The Suzaku no miko is a legend. And there is only one, not two mikos," The second guard scoffed. "I'm taking you both to see Saihitei immediately to teach you a lesson with your nonsense."

"Hotohori..." Sakura murmured under her breath. Saihitei was Hotohori's first name.

"What are we going to do?" Sakura whispered to Kai.

Kai growled as a guard grabbed her arm.

"Just go. We're going to see Hotohori right? He'll believe us..." To the guard she said.

"Saihitei the emperor? Right now? Fine! Go ahead! I'm not afraid of some prissy kid!" Kai paused, thinking that maybe she'd gone a little overboard.

The other guard held her at her arm tightly; she almost winced at the immense agony. He was practically crushing her bones. Sakura decided not to complain, and held in her pain. The guards led them in complete silence for a few minutes through a hall with barely any light in it.

Then, they reached a heavy looking door. It swung open fast; light erupting from the room, and the guards both threw Sakura and Kai onto their knees.

It took a couple of seconds just for Sakura to realize she was kneeling on a fine red carpet, and in a throne room no less!

"Oh my god ... " she said, and glanced up to meet the cold look on Emperor Saihitei's face.

"Who are these two?" He asked the guards.

"We don't know," the second answered in a flash. "They wouldn't leave, so we had to bring them here; feisty little things. You should take care of them."

"Leave us," he ordered.

The guards did as they were told. The heavy door swung closed sent a chill down Sakura's spine.

Kai jumped to her feet immediately.

"Nice place ya got here..." She commented, looking around in interest.

"Thought those stupid guards would never leave..." She rubbed her arm.

"Ya know, they need to cut down on the steroids, they nearly broke my arm!" She looked up at Hotohori with a smirk.

"What kind of mockery do you pose to cause such trouble?"

"None what so ever," Sakura spoke up carefully. "We are ... the mikos from another world. Uh ... at least I think so."

Kai nodded. "Yes your Highness. We are the Suzaku no mikos." Kai bowed with a slight grin.

"We'd be honored to be the miko." As an after thought she added,

"Or mikos." She smiled.

"That is, of course. If you'll let us."

Saihitei looked puzzled at the same time. "Mikos? There are two Suzaku no mikos? How is that possible?"

Kai paused,

"Well...I'm not sure. But there are! Sakura-chan is back-up Miko incase someone should happen to me." She looked at Sakura,

"You don't mind do you?"

"Mind what?" Sakura looked at Kai confusedly.

"If I'm first Miko and you're the back-up...weren't you paying attention?" Kai said, raising an eyebrow and smiling.

"Oh ... sorry," Sakura said sheepishly. "I guess I won't mind..."

Kai nodded and turned to Hotohori. "Then it's settled! Are we the mikos or not?"

Saihitei stood from his throne. Sakura watched in a bit of surprise at what he did next. He took off his crown from the top of his head, and down tumbled his long waves of hair. Sakura blushed. How did he manage to look so good like that? She averted her gaze a bit, but saw as he parted his hair at his neck. On his neck, was the symbol of star.

"It is a sealed deal," he said, finally smiling.

Kai grinned pumping her fist in the air.

"Yea! We got Hotohori!" She laughed.

"Introductions! I'm Kai, and this is my friend Sakura. Don't worry, we know who you are already...so no need to introduce yourself..." She walked over to him and stared him, almost defiantly into the eye. "I think this is the start of a beautiful friendship..."

He "If we're going to summon Suzaku... We have to find the other six seishi," Hotohori explained briefly.

"Tamahome, Nuriko, Chichiri, Tasuki, Mitsukake, and Chiriko." Kai said, nodding.

Sakura walked over to Kai. "How do you suppose we're going to find Tamahome? Miaka ran into him first in this book," she whispered softly.

"Don't worry! I'll...think of something..." Kai cleared her throat.

"Now then...Hotohori-sama...I'd like to take a bath and change please...if you don't mind..." Kai smiled. She had a little something planned for Nuriko.

"Hai ... of course. I'll have one of the maids escort both of you to your new rooms."

"Thank you..."

Hotohori summoned two maids, and they led both girls out of the throne room and to their rooms. His eye was on Kai, who had said she was the Suzaku no miko. He had waited forever to meet her, even though he didn't know what she was like. To him, she was exactly how he imagined her to be.

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Author's Note: I hope no one confused this with this being connected with my other story with Sakura in it, Secrets. This is different from that story, an alternate universe. It's a collaboration fic with Kalyn. RR if you like!