Disclaimer: I do not own the FY characters, only Deirdre, Tamara, Alicia, Faye and Elena!

A/n: Oooh, I'm sorry it was so short! This one will be longer, I promise!

Chapter 7: Plea to the Goddess

Deirdre growled again. It was true! Women always seemed to be the bad people in fairy tales! Why? She didn't know, but stories flew through her mind that had these figments within them.

'Hansel and Gretel, The Little Mermaid for classics... Then, anime too! Pretear, Sailor Moon and even Fushigi Yugi...' Others were in there too, she was sure, but thinking about it only made her anger grow stronger.

"Deirdre?" Tamara cautiously called out to her, catching up with the worrying young woman. Deirdre nodded her head to show that she was listening, but said nothing.

"What are we going to do now?" Tamara asked, shivering in a personal cold and staring up at the sky when they stopped. Deirdre looked sideways at Tamara and their eyes suddenly met.

There was no laugh in Deirdre's eyes, no smile graced her features as she spoke now. They were solemn words and the blow would be painful no matter what.

"I don't know. We have no real purpose from what I can tell and no way to get home. Unless Miaka wished us home and... That won't happen." Deirdre furrowed her eyebrows, her hair blown softly by the wind. Tamara stared at her friend in silent awe.

It was then that memories of the past came back to Tamara. She saw Deirdre in her mind's eye, saw the hardships her friend had went through... It was also then that she remembered, never, not once had Deirdre openly cried.

"Deirdre! What were ya so hot about just a sec' ago?" Tasuki called out, laughing softly as he too caught with the young woman. Tamara smiled softly at him and then looked to Deirdre who was still caught up in her own thoughts. She nodded in greeting to the bandit and passed him, leaving to go speak with Nuriko. She no longer wanted to face the fears that were being shoved out into the open, at least, not for now.

"Deirdre? You okay there lil' girl?" He questioned again, his fangs peeking over his lip in concern as he patted her shoulder. She jumped and looked at him wildly, but almost immediately calmed down.

"I apologize Tasuki. Spacing out is all, I'll be fine." Her pale pink lips smiled fully and she continued on her way towards the garden. His golden eyes narrowed in slight suspicion as he watched her walk away. On an impulse, one which his women-hating instincts told him to avoid, made him follow.

Tasuki, like the bandit he was, slunk after her quietly, his feet making nearly no noise. Deirdre was once again too caught up in her memories to notice him. To caught up to feel his eyes, like a cats, peering into her being.

"As always, I somehow manage to screw everything up. I should have stayed home that day! I should have, I should have..." Deirdre murmured, crying softly, thinking no one was there to see her.

Tasuki felt as if he should comfort her, true he hated women, but-... He hated seeing them cry even more.

Deirdre sniffled a little and began to sing a song to herself. Tasuki leaned forward from his perch on a tree branch to hear the strange language she was singing in.

"I walk a lonely road, The only one that I have ever known. Don't know where it goes, but it's only me and I walk alone. I walk this empty street on the Boulevard of Broken Dreams. Where the city sleeps and I'm the only one and I walk alone. I walk alone, I walk alone. I walk alone, I walk a... My shadows the only one that walks beside me. My shallow hearts the only thing that's beating. Sometimes I wish that someone up there will find me 'til then I walk alone. I'm walking down the line that divides me somewhere in my mind. On the border line of the edge on where I walk alone. Read between the lines, what's fucked up and what's all right, check my vital signs-"She probably would have continued to sing, but Tasuki had grown so entranced with the song that he had fallen out of the tree. (a/n: That song she sings is copyrighted to Green Day, I don't own it!)

He blushed brightly and gaped. Deirdre looked at him in question but only smiled softly, it was a rather nice surprise to know someone was trying to find out what was wrong with her. Finally he stood up, brushing himself off and murmuring something under his breath.

"Tasuki, are you alright?" Deirdre tucked some hair behind her ear, furrowing her eyebrows in concern as she walked over to him slowly, like he was a wild animal.

"I'm sorry, I didn' mean ta, ta, listen in on ya when ya were singin' like that. I jus' wan'ed to find out wha' was wrong is all..." Deirdre smiled at the flustered bandit, helping him brush the dirt off of his face and shoulders.

"Wha' was it ya were singin'?" He questioned, seeming to get over his blushing and running a hand through his ear. Deirdre stretched her arms.

"The Boulevard of Broken Dreams, it's by... Musicians in our world called Green Day." She tried to explain and would have said more, but it would only confuse the bandit.

He nodded, acting like he understood, though he didn't exactly. The words were foreign to him, but he had understood one emotion form the song. Sorrow. It had been the way she sang it, her posture, her eyes...

"Well then, should we go back and get something to eat?" Deirdre questioned, smiling at him and already heading back up the steps to the dining room.

KUTOU

Faye sprung over the wall in a single leap. On her back was a twin set of swords, identical in every way, except one had the kanji for 'Flame' written on it and the other, kanji for 'Inferno'.

"Easy as pie." She laughed and slipped quickly past the guards and into the forest. She walked slowly, though she knew that one of the Seriyu warriors would be looking for her soon.

A rustle in the bushes near her made her stop, reaching for one of the swords but stopping when the person sprang out of the darkness.

"Alicia! What are you doing here?!" Faye muttered through clenched teeth. Alicia saw the red handled swords on her back and her eyes narrowed.

"What am I doing here? You're going to them! Good riddance if you want to take their side!" Alicia ran past her, her dark brown eyes even darker with evident anger.

Faye grit her teeth and considered going after the girl, but decided it would be unwise. It would be a few minutes more that she'd have a free run to get as far from Kutou as she could. In minutes, seconds maybe, Alicia would report to Nakago that Faye had gone. Faye knew it in her heart.

So she took off, her feet rose and fell in rhythmic pattern, her heart beating alone with it. How could she not have seen what Nakago, Yui and Elena were doing? Why was Elena a part of it?

Her eyes, that had been cold to Deirdre those days ago within the Kutou palace, grew warm and burned with new strength. They burned with the fire that once filled her every thought.

KONAN

Tamara and Nuriko watched the two walk by in silence and when they had finished passing, erupted into laughter. The cross dresser tried to stiffle his giggles, hugging his sides and then slapped Tamara on the back. The young woman suddenly went flying.

"Ah, Tamara! I'm so sorry, I don't know my own strength sometimes!" Nuriko ran over to Tamara and peeled her off the palace wall, giving the girl a sheepish smile.

Tamara sweat-dropped and shook her head, she was fine, but had a headache now that her cranium had connected with the wall. The two laughed again, though this time it was softly.

"So, what was that 'Green Day' Deirdre was talking about?" Nuriko asked, furrowing his eyebrows in confusion. Tamara bit her lip, trying to think of a way to explain it.

"A band, a group of musicians that play instruments. Deirdre is fond of that band in particular because of the song she was singing. It has a lot of meaning for her, in too many ways for me to name. It isn't exactly my place to tell either, so, I should keep quiet." Tamara shrugged and Nuriko nodded in reassurance.

The young woman and the cross dresser walked side by side to the dining room as well. Though the two acted as if everything was a bundle of laughs, it was more to hide their insecurities. What was happening around them Nuriko noticed. He understood the meaning of being the seishi he was and what he would do in the future. He was proud of it.

Tamara was still young, as Miaka was, and also much too innocent to see the meaning behind was went on around her. She knew that she had lost friends, for a reason unknown, and others just confusing. But she didn't understand sacrifice, not one that she could make, and not one that her friends would make.

A/n: Here's a longer one, though it won't be super long because I need to get off and call my boyfriend and annoy him, haha! Anyway, review responses!!!

Lady-Raini: A new reviewer!! As well as a fellow Wiccan, you guys seen to enjoy this story more than other religion reviewers. Thank you for reviewing, and I'll be very happy if you continue on! Here's the awaited chapter seven!

DOREMIdan: Sorry it was so short, I would have made it longer but I had been getting ready for a concert and time was short!! It has been a long time, my computer went down over the summer but I hope I will eventually finish this! Hope this is long enough for ya!

Oh, and the Green Day song that was in here; one of their new ones. It's MY song! Well, our song in a matter of speaking, but if you haven't heard it, you need to!!