"hah… hah… hah…" Faylinn panted as she hunched over with her hands on her knees.
"Is that all you got?" Yusuke chastised from the other side of the ring.
She shook her head and waved her hand around her head uselessly. "I need… something… for my… hair…" Her hair was just past her chin now, and though it stayed tucked behind her ears for the most part, it came loose when she was running around their training ring. "I can't see you when we're fighting…"
Yuki came up and tugged on her pant leg. She leaned down and Yuki unclipped the thing in her hair.
"This is my favorite, mommy gave it to me." She reached up on her tiptoes and slid the small clip into Faylinn's bangs, pushing back far enough to get them out of her eyes, and closed the clip. "Don't loose it."
Faylinn touched the clip that held her hair out of her eyes; it had a bright pink rhinestone butterfly at the end of it, and smiled at Yuki. "I promise I won't." She patted the little girl's head and scooted her out of the way. "Now stay back or your mommy and daddy will be mad at me for letting you out here."
Turning back to Yusuke she picked up the dagger that was the length of her forearm and smirked. "Okay, let's go."
They charged around the ring at each other for hours. Faylinn grinned as she saw an opening and went to thrust her dagger at him but her hand froze, dropping the dagger. She winced as she tried to move her fingers. 'Come on!' She yelled at herself. 'Move!'
"Gotcha!!" Yusuke shouted as he threw a punch at her abdomen, she dodged, back flipping and trying to land on her feet, but failing when the tendons in her ankles also freeze; she lands hard on her butt.
"Time out." Kurama called from one side of the ring as he hopped up onto it. "Something's wrong." He knelt beside Faylinn staring at her right hand that was resting in her lap; the fingers that were curled into a half fist weren't moving.
"I can't move them." She hissed as she focused solely on her fingers as if willing them to move.
"What about your ankle?"
She growled angrily as she tried to move her left foot up and down. "Nothing."
Kurama sighed. "We might need to take you to a doctor to see why it's doing this.
Yusuke sneered. "She can't handle a little stiffness Kurama?"
Faylinn hissed at him. "I'll gut you."
Yusuke mocked scared. "Oh no… The paraplegic murderer is going to kill me."
Kuwabara was howling off in one corner until the dagger thunked into the tree next to him.
"I have another hand idiots!"
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"Well…" The doctor mused as he turned Faylinn's wrist over in his hands.
Faylinn huffed. "Well what?" She had been sitting on the exam table for over an hour as the doctor looked at the scars on her wrists, ankles, and neck. Kurama had suggested she wear the kimono Moon had let her borrow the first day; it hid her tail from sight.
"You're lucky you regained any movement in the parts of your body below the damages." He finally said. "But with how deep they are, I wouldn't be surprised if you ended up loosing the movement as well…"
Faylinn nearly leapt off the table. "What?!?"
The doctor pointed at the scar on her right hand. "Do you see how thick the scarring is on this one?" He turned her wrist over so her palm was facing up and traced two lines across the scar with the back of his pen. "Here and here are where your tendons are. The scars on your wrist here actually affect the movement of these tendons, it's what keeps you from moving your wrist back and forth." Carefully he ran his pen over the section between the two lines he showed her earlier. "In here and on top of your hand are the tendons that move each finger, they are also obstructed by the scar tissue."
"Isn't there someway to remove some of the scar tissue…?"
"Well…" The doctor turned her wrist over again as he mulled over the thought. "We could… But I'm worried about if it would cause more damage than what is already there since it's already so close to the tendons and nerves…"
"Then what am I supposed to do?"
"I'll give you a list of movement exercises that you should do every morning. I also recommend that you also keep them covered up to keep them from getting stiff."
Faylinn slumped on the table; there was no way to actually fix her problem. "Thanks doctor…" she murmured as she slid off the table to join Kurama outside in the waiting room. When he looked up hopefully she shook her head and kept walking out of the doctor's office, fighting to control the limp from her left ankle.
"There isn't anything they can do?" Kurama asked as he caught up with her.
"No…" She answered as he followed her until she finally had to stop.
"Come on…" He murmured as he lifted her up. "We'll go home and see what we can do."