Author: Woooo!!! Season 2! Decided to just keep chaptering instead of making it a whole new story, so you don't have to go searching all over for part 2. Hope you like it! :))))


Disclaimer: NONE of the Kamikaze Kaitou Jeanne or X-men Evolution characters belong to me. (sob)
Kaitou Marie, however, was someone I thought up so she is mine.

CH.7 Lady of the Brotherhood


Lance walked over to Marie and draped his arm around her.

"Well if it isn't Toady's little girlfriend. Why don't you try spending the night with a real mutant, baby."

Rogue started glaring. "Didn your mama teach you not to paw women?"

"You want to get your arm off of me or have me return it to you in pieces?", Marie growled.

Lance just leered and wrapped his other arm around her. He didn't see Todd's foot until it kicked him in the face and sent him through Darkholme's window.

"Anybody else want a boot to the head?! Fred? Pietro?" Todd snarled.

Fred backed away. "Uh, no that's ok, I got a girlfriend on the web. I'm fine."

Pietro was rolling on the floor laughing. "No, no, not enough challenge for me. It's more fun watching you beat up Lance."

Darkholme cleared her throat. "Now that we've all been introduced, I have more news. Our 'benefactor' has seen fit to give us a house to live in. Marie and I have already cleaned out your rooms at the apartment. Everything is deposited in the entryway of the new house. The address is 801 Shadow Grove. I suggest you all head home and start unpacking. And to make sure you all behave yourselves, Rogue and Marie and I will have rooms together on the east side of the house and you boys will have separate rooms on the west side."

Pietro was gone before she finished speaking. Fred walked downstairs to help Lance out of the bushes and tell him the news. Rogue ran out the door swearing and muttering about how everyone was going to die if they touched her stuff.
Todd and Marie began walking home.

They remained silent for awhile. Finally Todd coughed nd looked at Marie.

"Pretty cool you joined us. Looks like we'll be living together."

"Yep." Silence fell once more.

"So, did you help clean my room?", Todd asked.

"Yep."

"Uh, you know Marie, any uh, magazines you might have found while helping Darkholme clean, uh, I NEVER looked at them. I used them to patch holes in the wall."

Marie grinned. "Sure, those women are all fake looking anyway, 70% silicone."

"hehe, yeah, but the swimsuit issue was hot! I mean, I don't know what your talking about." Todd decided to shut up and look at the grass.

After climbing a steep hill, they reached the house.

"WOW! Now this is more like it! Finally we get our OWN mansion!", yelled Todd. "Awesome! You can see those X-jerks mansion from here." Todd looked past the trees and down the sloping hill at the X-men mansion a few miles off. "Perfect for spying."

"Glad you like it." said Marie, "Let's go inside. It's getting late and I have a ton of homework to do. You can continue your spying from the balcony."

They walked up to the front door. A note was taped to it.

'If this place gets trashed I will personally kill you all. AND STAY AWAY FROM MY FISH, TOLENSKY!' signed 'D'

Marie snickered, and Todd groaned. "There goes my brain food."
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Later that night Marie was sitting on her bed in her bath robe re-doing her algebra homework for the 3rd time and still getting different answers.

"aaaargh! I hate math! My brain is going to explode!" She tossed her book across the room, but misjudged her strength and it went flying out her open second story window.

"NO!", she screamed, and dove after it. She leaned out as far as she could and just barely caught it. "Man, that was too close!" Suddenly, she realized she was too far out on the window ledge and felt herself falling forward. "WAY TOO CLOSE!" she yelled. "CCRRRAAPPP!!"

She closed her eyes and hoped there weren't any rose bushes at the bottom. Then she felt her forward momentum cease as someone grabbed her robe belt.

"Need some help fairy-girl?", said a voice above her.

"Yeah, you could say that. Thanks Todd." Marie looked over her shoulder to see Todd clinging to the wall next to her window.

"Todd, were you watching me!" she yelled.

"Maybe.", he grinned.

"Pervert! Well, are you going to help me back in my room or what? The blood's starting to rush to my head here."

"Maybe.", he said, still grinning. "But I can't just not take advantage of this situation. I'll help you if my demands are met, if not then you can say 'hi' to the bushes."

"What exactly are these 'demands'? If they're anything nasty you can kiss your little frog butt goodbye because I'll kick it into next Tuesday."

"heh, let's just say I want an UNO rematch."

"Todd, I have so much homework to do, can't this wait till Friday night or something?"

Todd thought about it for a half-second. "mmm, no. Whoops!, I think my hand is slipping." He bounced her up and down by her belt, laughing.

Marie started shrieking, "Todd you dork! Don't you dare drop me! I swear I'll kick your ass if you drop me! You hear me! EEEEEK!"

"Better hurry and make up your mind! Me or the bushes! To hell with homework, crappie diem and all that. Don't worry, I got protection, you won't have any little tadpoles in nine months. But you might have a dirt sandwich in a minute if you don't make your decision soon."

Over Marie's yelling, banging could be heard on the door. It flew open, and an irate Darkholme stomped into the room, followed by an tired and angry Rogue in her P.J.s.

"What the HELL is going on in here! Tolensky put Marie back in this room this minute! I thought I told you the girl's wing was off limits. Come on!" She grabbed a handful of Todd's shirt and began dragging him out the door.

"Hey watch the threads! This is a new shirt! I just stole it yesterday!."

"Shut up!", Darkholme yelled. She turned at the doorway. "Rogue, clean out your room, you're moving in here with Marie to prevent any future 'incidents'."

"Aw, hell, I was sleeping before she started yellin bloody murder." She gave Todd a killing glare. "Why should I care if they want to bunk together? Can't Toad-boy just promise to keep his pants on till Friday, and let me keep my room?"

"Just do it!", and Darkholme dragged Todd off down the hall.

"Sorry, Rogue.", Marie apologized.
"Whatever. It ain't your fault that little slimeball has hormones thru tha roof. Just don't mess with me and I won't mess with you.", Rogue turned to Marie, "but you're helpin me move in here!"

"Alright."

Marie and Rogue walked next door to Rogue's room. "Hey you any good in Algebra?", Marie asked.

"Yeah, why?"

"Well...."

end Ch.7
Author: OK, done with Ch.7! Sorry it took so long but I got midterms, and projects, and programs....X_X brain hurts. I'll try to get Ch.8 done ASAP, but probably won't be done till sometime next weekend. (I hope). I got 3 midterms to take during 2 days so my brain will be mush for a little while next week.