"There might be a way to save Moon." Koenma stated as Yusuke, Kuwabara, Kurama, and Faylinn stood in his office.
"There is?" Yusuke asked, sounding skeptical.
"Yes. There's a gem called the Rose—"
"The Rosencratz Stone." Faylinn interrupted.
"You know it?" Koenma asked, the first time he actually acknowledged her being in the room.
"Yeah. It's a way to bring people back from the brink of death. It can either settle the turmoil inside the person's body or remove an incurable disease. The downside is that it only works once on a person then it becomes completely useless in saving that person's life ever again."
"How do you know some much about it?"
Faylinn bit her lip, she hadn't meant to start rambling away in the office of the man that let her be tortured. "My mother told me about it…" She began. "She had thought it might have saved her sister's life…"
"Well I'm sending you to find it, it might be our best bet."
Faylinn pushed off the wall and began walking out of the office.
"And where are you going?" Koenma asked.
"I'm leaving." She answered. "You're sending the spirit detectives after it, I'm not needed."
"Actually you are; though I, myself, don't even want to admit it."
"What? Why?"
"Because I need to split the team in two, and Hiei is refusing to leave Moon's side. Yusuke and Kuwabara will be going to The Castle in the North while Kurama and Faylinn will be taking Eastern Hedge Castle."
Faylinn's eyes nearly popped out of her head. "Oh why thank you." She sneered. "Since you couldn't finish killing me off yourself you're going to send me back home so that they can finish the job for you and you can just write it off as 'Death in the line of duty'."
"I have no idea what you're talking about." Koenma answered in a dull voice.
"Oh don't pull that shit with me." Faylinn stalked towards Koenma's desk. "You know as well as I do why I can't go back there which is exactly why you picked that place for me. I didn't know you could be so conniving Koenma. I don't know how you have these men fooled that you're 'protecting the people of the Ningenkai and the Makai' but you don't have me fooled." She hissed and turned on her heel, stalking out of the room.
"You will go unless you want to be thrown back into solitary confinement…" He said as she stormed from the room.
Back at the house there was a knock on the door of the room she was still borrowing.
"You know you can come in, this is your room." She answered.
"It's wrong to barge in on a woman." Kurama answered as he opened the door. "You're actually going…?"
"I know more about this stone than anyone else in your group, of course I'm going." She finished tying her boots and stood up; the outfit she was wearing looking similar to the shinobi shozoko many ninjas wore. Instead of the long sleeved top, she wore a tight tank top with arm gloves that stopped at her elbows and wrapped around her thumb. The pants were almost the same, a little tighter to her small frame, and tightened around her ankles so she could flat shoes instead of the tabi boots.
"A blue obi…?" He asked as she tied the navy blue sash around her waist.
"Moon had lent it to me…" She answered as she slid the small sheath for her dagger in between the folded layers of the obi then sheathed the dagger. Finally she wrapped a scarf around her neck.
"Get ready…" She said as she marched past Kurama. "We leave tonight."
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Night fell finding Faylinn at the top of a tree staring out across the forest that kept Moon's home safe.
"I don't like this…" She muttered to herself as she gripped the trunk of the tree and stood at the end of the top branch; the wind picked up, tossing her hair around her face. Her eyes scanned the tree line while the fur on her tail stood at attention. "Something's coming…" She leapt out of the tree landing on the ground on one knee and heading quickly back to the house.
"Is Yuki inside?" She asked the first person that she saw; sadly it was Botan.
Botan scoffed. "Why does it matter to you?"
Faylinn grabbed her by her shirt and pulled her in close. "It matters because it could be a life or death answer. Now tell me, is she or is she not inside?"
Botan struggled, her eyes going wide.
"Yes, she's inside." Someone answered from behind Botan.
Faylinn released the girl and turned to the person who had answered her, it was Yukina. "Good. Keep her there and locked the doors."
"Why? What's going on?"
"That's what I'd like to know…"
The wind picked up, whipping around the three girls standing in the yard, then it suddenly stopped.
"Get inside and stay there." Faylinn told the girls as she pulled her dagger from its sheath. 'I'm going to need more weapons…'
"Keh keh keh…" Someone cackled just out of sight.
"Show yourself!" She called. The wind blew past her and suddenly there was a demon holding a knife to her neck.
"Cocky little girl…" It chided.
"Annoying little demon." She retorted as she thrust her elbow into its abdomen and then up into its nose. When it's grip released she pulled away using quick acrobatic flips to give her distance and to turn her so she was facing the demon.
"Keh, keh, keh…" It laughed again. "You're quite fast… But I'm faster!" With that it disappeared.
Blood sprayed out of a fresh cut on Faylinn's upper arm; she winced.
'I can't seem him.' She said to herself as she turned in all directions. The wind blew all around her as she dodged. 'How am I going to hit back?' Then it struck her. 'Maybe if I can't see him I can hear him!' She stopped in mid motion and closed her eyes.
"To the left!!" She shouted as she thrust her weapon in the directions of the sound of feet. Warm liquid splattered onto her face and she knew she had hit him before she smelled the metallic sent of blood. A tumbling sound made her open her eyes; she had hit the demon in the side and propelled it off course.
"You Bitch!!" The demon cried as it stumbled to his feet.
'Now's my chance!' She dashed forward in full speed and sunk her dagger into his chest, ripping from his collarbone down through the ribs to his hip, cutting him in half; blood sprayed over the grass and Faylinn as the two pieces tore apart from each other and fell to the ground.
"Faylinn!!" Kurama called as Yukina finally let him out of the house. "Are you alright?"
"I'm fine." She answered wiping the blood off her face and shaking off onto the corpse. "We're going to need to burn this."
"You're hurt." He said as he came up to her.
She looked down at her arm and saw the gash looked more like her skin had been pulled apart instead of cut; she took a good look at the demon in front of her. "We need to go, now."
"What?"
"We're leaving now." She turned and headed into the woods.
"What about your wound?!? And the blood on you." Kurama called as he followed her.
"There's no time." She turned and looked at him then the corpse. "They know we're coming…"
