Part 1: Nanda! Goku's a girl? Prologue

500 years into the future

A man in a business suit rang the bell of a traditional Japanese home where a great karate master lived. Mr Kazuya was a famous director of an Anime company it was the same company his ancestor Kazuya Minekura had worked with. He was puzzled as to the reason why the karate master was interested in seeing him to discuss about a creation of his ancestor's.

The gate opened and a young lady in kimono stepped out. "Konichiwa," he greeted, bowing the same time as her, "I am Kuzaya, is Cho Kanan-sama expecting me?"

The lady, he noticed, was very pretty. She had pine green eyes and long brown hair braided back, "I am Cho Kanan," she answered in a pleasant voice.

"I understand you like the work of my ancestor, Kazuya Menikura, Saiyuki," said Kazuya.

"Mm..." Cho Kanan nodded. "Kazuya-san, I find you ancestor's tale very interesting," said Cho Kanan, as she led her guest to the tea room. As a descendant of Kazuya Menikura, he was given information of the story how it was formed and the original Journey to the West from China. "Yes," said Mr Kazuya as he sat down on a seat while she served tea, "my ancestor brought modernity to the story as to the reason why their personalities differed from those in the original story." He stopped as he glimpsed at a painting.

It was a traditional calligraphy painting with black ink drawn into a picture of a woman, likely in her early twenties, in a kimono. Several white lilies, symbolizing purity, adorned the background. She donned a coronet which he felt he had seen before but unsure where. One strange thing he found in the picture was... despite her feminine features there was an air of a warrior about her and her features were similar to those of Cho Kanan who sat across him. There seemed to be an enigma about her eyes, they held a hint of loneliness of a much older person rather than she looked.

"She was my ancestor," Cho Kanan. "There is something about her...," Kazuya murmured, "Who was she?"

"Her name was Son Gokirou," Kanan, taking a circular object out of the box she had brought in, "And this was her golden coronet." Kazuya looked intently at the coronet that was shaped and exactly like that of Son Goku's rather than Sun Wukong.

"So Saiyuki was a true story?" Kazuya asked. Well, he thought to himself, anything can happen...

"More or less," said Cho Kanan, "Would you like to hear what happened 'The hidden story'?"

"Yes," said Kazuya, "but why?"

"According to my grandfather," Cho Kanan explained, "it was to protect her, and everyone knew her better by her nickname, Son Goku."

"Son Goku was a girl?" Kazuya asked, surprised.

Cho Kanan smiled sheepishly, "Or so the story goes... It has been 500 years after all. There are not many records kept, only few." She frowned then, "What I am about to tell you in here is the same thing my ancestor told yours 500 years ago, and ought to remain within these walls, otherwise there will be complications."

"Wakatta," said Kazuya, "Your secret is safe with me."

Thus Cho Kanan began...

"Once upon a time... There lived a young man who loved his sister very much..." she paused then, "And you know full well who this man was." Kazuya nodded, he could not believe that these people really exist. Could Cho Hakkai really be a real person? Was Son Goku actually a girl?

"It would be about a month before a boy entered his life," Kanan told him then, "A boy whom along with to other friends watch grow into a man other the next three years... and until then he would not know that the boy was really a woman."

Author's Note: What do you think?