A/N: I don't own Fushigi Yuugi. There I said it. So don't sue me please. This was just a prologue plus chapter one to see if ppl would actually bother to read this story. Apparently people will read this story, so I decided to rewrite chapter one because it wasn't very good… here it is.

                                    To Save Them All

Prologue

She walked through the library in her hometown of Montreal, Quebec, looking for a decent book on ancient China for her history project. Suddenly her searching eyes came across an old looking book with what looked like fading Chinese written on its cover.

"S-Shi Jin Ten Ch-Chi Sh-Shu? Sho..." she murmured, reading the peeling gold lettering on the front of the book.

Gently she tucked the book under her arm and brought it to a table. Sitting down in one of the hard plastic library chairs, she opened the book and put her finger under the first character. As soon as she touched the pages of the book, a strange red light burst from it pages, temporarily blinding her. Shielding her eyes from the brightness, the girl gasped and stared as the strange red light the book was emitting glowed half-blue, half- light turquoise. She gasped as she felt herself propelled forward through what felt like a ten-foot chasm. But it wasn't a chasm; it was the portal to a new land with new adventures waiting for her. Only problem was that poor Kyari didn't know that…

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Kyari felt herself freefall through the "hole" and she splashed down abruptly in a river.

"Ah shit!" she cursed as she pulled herself out of the water.

 She tugged her light hazel hair out of its usual ponytail and wrung it out. She pulled it back and let it fall softly down her back

"And I had to be wearing my light blue top." she muttered, wringing that out too. "Alright. Now where the hell am I?" she asked no one at all.

"In Konan, no da." a somewhat-high-pitched voice said from her left.

"What the?!" she yelped, jumping back a step. "Oh. It's just a guy." Kyari said flatly.

"No, I'm Chichiri." the voice said, stepping out from behind a tree.

The "guy" had light azure colored hair with bangs about two inches long that stuck straight up. He had a gentle looking face and warm eyes. His smile seemed to be perpetual and in one hand he held a pole with some kind of ornament on it. Over his arms, a cloak was draped and a fishing hat hung down his back.

He looks like one of those priests from ancient China  Kyari thought to herself.

"Okayy… Chichiri it is then. I'm Kyari." the girl introduced herself.

"Are you new around here, no da?" Chichiri asked curiously. "I don't think I've seen you before, no da."

"You could say that…" Kyari answered "One question before you go on. What the hell is no da and why do you always say it?"

"Oh, I don't know, no da, I just do. It's kind of like saying…" he paused to think a second "Understand or something. I should introduce you to Tasuki. You're almost just like him."

"If you know where in the name of all fucking hell I am and how I can get home, I'll meet anyone. Even a king or something." the girl told him throwing her hands up in exasperation.

"Home? Where do you live? In Kuto, no da?"

"Actually I'm from Canada. That's far away from wherever the hell I am now." she said.

"Canada, no da?"

"Yeah. It's right above the U.S.A." Kyari said, giving Chichiri a funny look. "Don't you know your geography yet?"

"Very well, no da. I've never heard of 'Canada' before, though." he said amiably. "Did you happen to fall through a book, no da?"

Kyari nodded.

"Oh. You'd best come with me then, no da. We'll get you dried off and then you can see Hotohori, no da. He's the emperor."

"Sounds good" Kyari shrugged.

Chichiri grinned and took Kyari's hand. They were instantly transported to Konan palace.

"Holy shit! A cloak that teleports! Cool!" Kyari cried in amazement.

Chichiri chuckled. "Yup. The kasa does too, no da." he added, pointing over his shoulder at his straw fishing hat.

"So where to?" Kyari asked rocking back and forth on her heels, hands jammed into the pockets of her navy capris looking all around her at the palace. 

 " I have to check on Tasuki first, no da, but you're welcome to come along. Or else you can stay here and wait for Hotohori. Tell him Chichiri brought you, no da."

"Yeah. Um… I'll come with you." Kyari said, "What happened to this Tasuki guy anyways?" she asked as they walked.

"He fought in a great battle and was injured. Unfortunately Mitsukake couldn't heal him right away, no da, he had to help Chiriko and Miaka."

"Wow. He sounds like something else." Kyari said in awe "Was it bad?"

"Well, yes to us, no da, but not to Tasuki. He's very hard to keep down." Chichiri said matter-of-factly.

Kyari stared in amazement at the blue-haired monk.

"Well we should get going, no da." Chichiri said starting down the hall to Tasuki's room.

Kyari nodded and followed Chichiri down the hall.

A/N: There it is; redone chapter one! Hope you like it. Now off to rewrite ch 2 cause it's just as bad as ch one… later.

~Tenshi Kitsune~