A/N: Yep it is really the last chapter of this story!!
I really hope everyone has enjoyed it to it's fullest and I look forward to any ideas as to what I should write next.
Also; Please look for more from The Mission; which I am co writing with Gene-Sama. She is A-mazing!
And also look for the wrap up on For Better or for Worse. I should be finishing that one up now soon.
Enjoy this last chapter of One Kistune too Many!
"Okay…" Faylinn murmured as she moved Kurama to the center of the room. "Let's hope this works…"
She knew she could make them into two separate people, what she didn't know was if she could make them two complete separate people; able to survive without the other, or if she could duplicate the demonic powers and keep them in Shuichi.
'What if I fail and they both die…?' She questioned as she sat the stone on the pedestal in front of her. 'You can do this. You already brought back two people from near death. You can separate two living people into two separate bodies.'
Faylinn sucked in a deep breath and put her hands out to the stone, closing her eyes.
Her voice came out in a murmur, too low for even the kitsune's ears to hear. She began creating the images of what she was willing the stone to do. She pictured both Shuichi and Yoko as two, whole, healthy beings in separate bodies. She pictured Shuichi with complete demonic powers, a perfect copy of Yoko's original abilities.
She kept going back over the images again and again as she willed the stone to do what she wanted.
The Stone began to glow, much slower than the first two times she used it, but it was glowing.
Faylinn saw the glow behind her closed eyelids and forced even more of her will power into the stone, hoping, praying, it would do exactly what she wanted it to do.
In a sudden burst the entire room became engulfed in it's unnatural glow.
'Please…' She prayed. 'Please work…'
Just as suddenly as it came, the glow faded.
Faylinn panted heavily as she opened her eyes slowly.
"Thank god…" She murmured as she saw the two men instead of one.
The thousand-year-old Fox demon stood tall and proud, while the red headed human seemed a little disoriented.
"How do you two feel?" Faylinn asked as her gaze went from one to the other.
"I feel fine." They said in near perfect unison.
Shuichi blinked. "I think it will be odd not having that voice in the back of my mind anymore, but I don't feel ill."
"I feel better than I have felt in the years I've been stuck in his body." Yoko answered.
"Do you both feel the energy of your powers?"
They both sat silently for a moment.
"Yes." They answered at the same time.
Faylinn giggled softly. "You're brain wave lengths still seemed to be partially connected. In time, that will fade as well and you two should be two whole people."
Yoko looked over the elf. "There was no reason to do that. It was a waste on energy."
Faylinn smiled, a smile that made Yoko painfully remember a woman long past. "Oh… There was a reason…"
The doors behind her flung open and in walked a very tall and regal woman with long midnight hair.
"Cytheria…?" Yoko breathed as he saw the woman walk in.
The woman smiled, just a slight up turning of her lips, but he knew that smile. "Hello Yoko…"
"But how…" He stopped and looked over at the elf still standing beside her stone. "Did you do this?"
She smiled nervously. "Well… You had told me that she wasn't actually dead when she was frozen and my mother had once told me that my aunt had left before she died to die alone. So…" She stopped and bit her lip. "I figured I would give it a try… Looks like it worked."
Faylinn smiled as Yoko and Cytheria finally could see each other face to face in several years.
A hand touched her shoulder and she turned around. "Ku…" She stopped, blushing slightly. "Shuichi. How is it to have your own body now?"
Shuichi laughed. "It's different. I never thought this would happen. I figured I would always be two minds in one body."
"Well now you have your own body. I think you could train your reiki energy as well and expand on your abilities, make them your own."
"Thanks I'll try that." He stopped for a moment as he looked over at Yoko and Cytheria. "What are you going to do with your new powers?"
"Well… I'm going to be working for Koenma. I'm the only one left that can use this stone, and I'm hoping there will be a use for it soon."
"Where will you be staying?"
"With them." She indicated the two before them. "I'll be taking up residence in my mother's room."
"But…" Shuichi started but Faylinn cut him off.
"That doesn't mean I'm leaving your life forever. It just means I'm not living in your room anymore." She smiled and leaned against him, brushing her lips softly against his. "Besides… I don't think I could leave your life now even if I wanted too."
Shuichi blushed slightly and smiled. "Well that's good."
Faylinn smiled again. "Tell Yuki to be a good girl. Maybe I'll bring her a present when I come back."
"I will."
Faylinn nodded and picked up the stone and began walking out.
"And Shuichi…" She turned to look at him.
"Yeah…?"
"I think I love you."
He blushed darker this time. "I think I love you too."
She smiled brightly, blushing at the same time and left.
'I don't know where this new life will lead me.' She thought. 'But at least I know I have someone who will always be with me…'
Faylinn looked to her new destiny as the stone's guardian and smiled, at least she could bring happiness to most people now.
Just like her mother always wanted.