KT: God am I in a serene state of mind now...(that could be because I'm listening to pretty piano music) (specifically Claire de Lune) (which I'm learning now, but it sounds WAY worse than this! This version is 567% beautified than my own! XD!) Anyways...I haven't been writing for a bit, because I've been working on my original series with a friend. We're figuring out a lot of details and stuff. It's fun, but time consuming. I've also been doing a lot of role-playing with friends! So it's all good. I'm having a sleepover with the same said friends tomorrow and I'm leaving on vacation on Saturday. I'm sure you'll all miss me, but what can I say? There's nothing I can do about it. *watches her reviewers and readers all look at her like 'why would we miss you'* Yeah, I figured you wouldn't miss me. I'll be back in two weeks, if you're interested. Enjoy the chapter, minna! - KT -

"Where are we?" Taiko looked around, not believing that he had actually been sent into some other world...and a book world, no less!

"Well isn't that cliché? We're in Konan, stupid!" Shelby shook her head and rolled her eyes at her brother. "You weren't listening at all when Tsuomo was talking, were you?"

"But...aren't we supposed to be in Kutou,?" Kyougen looked at Shelby, a bit confused.

"Well, originally, we were, but..." Shelby looked around and smiled at what she saw.

"But?" Kyougen interrupted her thought.

"BUT, we don't have any money from this world, so the past Suzaku seishi, Tamahome, wrote us a letter telling us to take his that he has stored in the Konan palace," Shelby smiled wider, and started walking in the direction of the city.

"But...why would he just give it to us?" Kyougen started walking after her, Taiko following both of them, making a train of people.

"Well, think about it! I mean he can't come back into the book, and there's no reason for him to not give it to us, so..."

"I'm getting the feeling that you're just going to take his money because you know it's there..." Taiko said.

"Yeah, actually. I wasn't able to get a hold of the old seishi so...I'm just taking his money," Shelby kept walking in the direction of the Konan palace.

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Shelby, Kyougen, and Taiko climbed over the west wall of the palace. Apparently, Kyougen and Shelby were infatuated with the anime Fushigi Yugi, and knew exactly where Tamahome's old room was. :: The only problem is getting into it... :: Kyougen slinked around the corner, and motioned for her fellow companions to follow.

"No guards are over by Tama's room!" Kyougen and Shelby smiled and hopped up and down.

"I can't believe I'm actually going to be in his room!" Shelby squealed.

"Enough of this, we have better things to do, you know..." Taiko stood there, tapping his foot. :: Enough silly antics, let's just get going before we get caught! ::

"Right. Shelby and I will go in, while you stand guard, ok?" Kyougen looked him over to make sure he was going to go along with the plan.

"Yeah," Taiko sighed. Shelby and Kyougen rushed into Tamahome's room, and Taiko stood outside, looking around to make sure no one was coming. :: What's taking so long? Don't they know where it is? :: At that moment, a little girl walked up to Taiko and stared at him.

:: Hi, who are you? :: The little girl sucked on her thumb.

"My name shouldn't concern you. I'm just a figment of your imagination. I'm your imaginary friend, and as such, I command that you leave and tell no one that I was here," Taiko looked down at the girl. :: Come on...just...leave! :: Taiko gave her a push in the other direction.

:: Bye Mister! Don't worry, I won't tell anyone that you were here, and I won't tell them that you were trying to steal Tama's money! ::

"Thanks," Taiko said to the girl, not realizing that she had talked to him telepathically. The girl nodded, walked off, and seconds later, a very regal figure walked up to Taiko from the other side.

"What are you doing here, foreigner?" The figure asked Taiko.

"Me? I...uhm..." Taiko looked in the direction that the little girl had left. And noticed her walking back towards him.

:: Kakeru-chan! :: The girl's face brightened, and she ran up to the man, now named Kakeru. She reached up her arms to him, wanting to be picked up, which the man did, obligingly.

"Hello, Nari-san, how are you this morning?" The man smiled at the child.

The girl hugged him around the neck and smiled, :: I am OK, how are you? Do you not have something to do? :: The girl pulled out of her hug and stared at him with her large round eyes.

"I was just on my way to a meeting, when I saw this man here, and was wondering what he was doing in our palace," Kakeru eyed Taiko again, noting his strange clothing, but smiled at the girl again.

:: Oh, you can see him? He's my imaginary friend! I have dreamed about him and the two girls in that room there for a while now! :: The girl smiled at Kakeru, and he raised his eyebrows.

"Are there more of them?" Kakeru looked around, and the girl hopped down from his arms. She opened the door for Kakeru, and he peered inside to see a very peculiar site. "Tamahome? THE WARRIOR TAMAHOME?!" Kakeru stared in disbelief. "Sukunai...do you see Tamahome?" Kakeru stared in disbelief as a giggle came from under the bed in the room.

Sukunai tilted her head to the side. She pointed to Tamahome, and then pointed under the bed.

Kakeru bent down to look under the bed, "There's a girl under the bed, but the one counting Tamahome's money is Tamahome himself! I don't know how...but I see him there!" Kakeru pointed at Tamahome again.

Sukunai waved her hands in his face, and hopped up and down, pointing. :: It's a girl! :: She shook her head rigorously. :: Girl, girl! ::

"How is Tamahome here though? I was told that he went to live in the old Priestess's world..." Kakeru looked puzzled. "Maybe it's a ghost..." Kakeru looked at Sukunai again. She was shaking her head again and pointing, frustrated that he couldn't see through Kyougen's disguise. All the sudden, a blue symbol appeared on her forehead, and Kyougen's disguise dropped in her shock, especially because when the symbol appeared, the whites of the girl's eyes turned blue, and she grew about two feet taller.

"See?" Sukunai pointed at Kyougen. "Girl!"

Kakeru had stopped looking at Tamahome, to stare at Sukunai. "What happened to you? You can talk?! And your eyes..." Kakeru stared at Sukunai, stood up, and stared some more. "I'd say you're four feet tall now..."

Sukunai nodded, "But more importantly, look!" Sukunai pointed to Kyougen again. "Not Tamahome, not," Sukunai shook her head.

Kakeru turned to look at Kyougen, "What are you all doing here?" Kakeru demanded from them.

"Well...who are you to ask?! The Emperor?!" Shelby rolled out from under the bed, stood up, and put her hands on her hips. Kakeru stood up to his full height, and put his hands on his hips too.

"No, but I am very close to the emperor and I'm sure he would like to know why you are here as well!" He peered closely at Shelby.

"Kakeru...they don't have any money. They came to take Tama's because he won't ever be coming back here, and they need it more than he does. Please don't punish them! They are the new Seiryuu seishi, and they need to be getting to Kutou!" Sukunai explained things to Kakeru, even without asking the people why they were there.

:: Have we met her before? :: Shelby tilted her head to the side and looked at the girl who was just revealed as another Seiryuu seishi.

"OK...I suppose it's OK if they need it that badly..." Kakeru still eyed Shelby, Kyougen, and Taiko suspiciously.

"We'll give you something in return, if you want," Kyougen offered.

"Like what?" Kakeru wondered what they have that he might want.

Kyougen thought for a moment, before turning to Shelby, who nodded 'yes' to whatever it was she was going to give away, "Like a cup of coffee!" Kyougen smiled at him.

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"Kyougen...that was really smart!" Shelby patted her on the back, a smile on her face.

"I thought so," Kyougen had a sheet tied around her neck, and Sukunai was reclining in the sheet, which hung in front of Kyougen.

:: Thank you! :: Sukunai smiled at her. :: My seishi name is Yunika. I can read other people's thoughts, and speak telepathically. Also, when my kanji glows, I take on a few dragon qualities. New ones are always showing up...you saw the whites of my eyes turn blue, right? ::

"Yeah..." Kyougen wasn't used to her telepathic talking. They had been told that only the other Seiryuu warriors could hear her talking telepathically, which explained why Kakeru couldn't hear her telling him that Tamahome was Kyougen.

:: I must warn you! In order for you and Taiko to be of this world and your own, you must eat food from your world, and ours. If you don't eat this world's food, then you will be returned to your own world, and if you don't eat food from your own world...you will become of this world and not be able to return to your own, ever again! :: Yunika's eyes went wide at this comment.

"How do you know all this?" Kyougen asked the question that Taiko was wondering as well.

:: Another Seiryuu seishi told me this in a dream. :: Yunika closed her eyes and tried going to sleep.

"You've been in contact with other seishi?!" Kyougen shook the sheet to get an answer out of Yunika.

:: Yes...now let me sleep! :: Yunika sighed and thought to herself :: Not a moment's peace and they have more questions. :: She cut off the telepathic link so she wouldn't hear their thoughts. :: Finally some peace and quiet... ::

What do you think? Is this a good place to stop? I hope so...I'm having a sleep over with my friends today!!! YEAH! ^^ I'm happy now! OK I have to get this message out to all of you. I think the old seishi are dead by now, but maybe not, who knows what I'll do with them. It's been 60 years in the real world, since Miaka and Yui went into the book, so that makes it the year 2052, so according to Watase, there is no set time difference in book world and real world, but when Oosugi Suzuno went into the book, that was 60 years real time, and 90 years book time, so I decided to do it that way, because that was a set time and I didn't want to make something up that could be potentially wrong... . (I'm so insecure...) So this is probably my last update until I come back from vacation. We're going to Branson, Missouri. Driving there, I think...so I'll see everyone when I come back! And I hope this is a good enough ending point...OH and Wanderlily...I am sorry for the monster of a review that I left you! I didn't mean for it to be that LONG! I'm scared of it every time I see it on the screen! . I also realize that a few of the things in this chapter weren't very original, and if my friend Ashley ever reads this story she'll shoot me because of what I did with Yunika (she's a lot like one of her characters in the sense that she's a little kid and doesn't talk, and the part about food from this world and the book world was inspired by Spirited Away, if you couldn't tell...). I've been doing a lot of research on FY before I started writing this. I've even begun to rewatch the series (for the third time in my life XD!) again. I have to thank my best friend Kiri-chan for letting me borrow her FY art book. The information in it is very helpful. Now I need someone to explain this to me, if anyone can. I realized this (for the first time OMG) while watching the series. There are constellations that the seishi go under, but I'm confused. Does that mean there's a constellation Tamahome? Or a Hotohori constellation? And their names...does Nuriko mean Willow, or does her symbol mean Willow and since she's the third seishi her constellation would be Nuriko? I got all confused and sat in bed a couple nights ago trying desperately to figure it out. Then there are the clues in the UotFG. Miaka says the words, "Monk and Mask," when reading clues to find Chichiri. Does that mean Chichiri means monk mask? Or are there just clues there that describe the seishi? And I can't go and look up the word myself because it's not in my Japanese dictionary, and I can't get on the internet right now...some one please explain this to me so I won't be wondering about it all on my trip! . Till my next update two weeks from now! - JA - KT