Hello, my name is Akutenshi, The Dark Angel. I do not own X-Men: Evolution, although I was watching it this morning. Same thing applies for Digimon, but that was on yesterday.

Rating PG-13 Title: Illusions of Time Date: Sunday, August 4th 2002. 11:56 PM.

'Thoughts' "speaking" {Japanese} telepathy -Bamf- Kurt's teleportation ~Chapter 1~

Jean, Kurt, Rogue, would you please report to my office immediately. The professor called using his telepathic link. Jean, upon hearing the summons excused herself from a conversation with Scott and hurried to the Professor's office. Kurt -Bamfed- from the roof to the professors office, happily situating himself upside down in one of the large chairs around the room. Rogue cast aside her drawing pad. She was the last to arrive in the Professor's office with Jean sitting cross legged and Kurt in his former position. "Cerebro had defeated two new mutants just outside of Tokyo, Japan. Those two, a boy and a girl, have very unique powers. The girl can stop time and the boy can create illusions and solidify them. Each of them have only a frail thread of control and could hurt someone. I want you three to go and talk to them, if possible, bring them back with you. It not, try to show them at least minor control for they're powers." "Why am ah goin' Professor?" Rogue asked interested. She wasn't the people person, so she couldn't help comfort them; and she had far lass controlled then even they did; so she couldn't help with that aspect either. "While I have very little information regarding the children themselves," the Professor started, "the boy from what I gather, has an interesting past, and I believe you may be the only one who could get through to him." Out of nowhere Kurt disappeared and reappeared with black sunglasses. "Agent Elf iz ready to go!" He yelled. "I vant to drive!" The Professor interrupted Kurt's raving, "Logan will be supervising." "Aw man!" Kurt said sulking. He was looking foreword to playing some pranks, but with the Wolverine around, he might as well forget about it. "Professor, how long ah we gonna be there?" Rogue asked coldly. "About a month, start packing. Your plane leaves tomorrow morning." "Professor, since we're gonna be gone for so long, may we get some new... um... clothing?" "Yes you may. You can use the school credit card and then bring it with you to Japan using the accounts I have set up for each of you. You each have a weekly limit and you should be aware that if you over use your funds, the card cease to work." The Professor said handing them three credit cards. Blue for Kurt, green for Jean, and purple for Rogue. "Thank you Professor!" The chimed in unison.



At the Mall

"Come on Rogue. Why not?" Jean asked exasperated. "Ah'm not wearin' that!" The southern Goth declared. Kurt had gone off to get a new discman after he had accidently teleported too high and his discman wasn't as fall proof as he was. Jean was displaying the offending articles of clothing. They were light denim jeans, a pink peasant shirt and white gloves. "But it's so cute!" Jean argued. "Ah don' care. If ya' think it's so cute then ware it ya'self." Rogue restored glaring at the cheerleader. Jean had already accumulated a hoard of bags so large that Kurt had already made two trips back to the institute with them. "Oh, fine. But you haven't gotten anything yet!" Jean muttered. "That's caus' Ah'm already packed. And even if a weren' I wanna save ma money for Tokyo. We ah on a budget ya know." The goth explained. "Fine. But you have to get something!" Jean yelled stressfully. "Fine. Ah will. But don' keep buggin' me 'bout it."

The Institute

So Rogue, what DID you get?" Jean asked, looking at Rogue's large bags. Most of them where plain bags from various books stores around the mall. She pulled two large books the size of encyclopedias out of one of the bags. She handed one to Jean and the other to Kurt. "Instant Japanese! And German to Japanese. What's this all about?" "If we ah goin' to Japan, ya'll might wan' ta learn the language." "Um... thanks I guess. But where's yours?" Jean asked "Ah already know Japanese, mah cousin taught me as ah kid." "So what DID you get yourself?" Jean asked again. Rogue raised an eyebrow and dumped the other bags on her bed except for the Sharper Image bag. On her bed were about twenty or thirty Manga, all in Japanese, and about thirty anime DVDs. She dug into the Sharper Image bag and pulled out a portable DVD player. "Ah got mah self stuff for the plane rid." Kurt looked over the pile and picked up the first one to catch his eye. The manga had a pale green cover with a white spider web and a pale gothic girl in purple standing in front. "Vat iz dis?" Kurt questioned. "It's called Paradise Kiss an' it's 'bout an upper classman that falls in with a bunch of people from a very different end of the social chain." Jean grabbed the book from Kurt's hands, opened it and glared at the pictures inside. "How the hell do you read this mess?" She asked "Ah already said, I speak Japanese. Or hav' ya not paid attention to anything ah said?" Kurt was about something but paused in thought. "I juzt thought of zomething. Vhere are ve going to be staying?"He questioned his teammates. Jean blinked and then used her powers to ask the Professor the same question. I was not able to arrange for you to all stay at the same establishment. You will each be staying with different families around Tokyo and will go to school with they're children. "But Profezzure, vhat about me and Rouge?" Kurt, the Motimaya family have already had a child at the institute and have been informed of your arrival. Do to the nature of the family Rogue, will be staying with I am not worried. Eric is an old friend and although I am not aware of the standings on his personal views of the mutant community, I do not believe there will be any problems. Who will I be staying with Professor? Jean asked. The Takashi family has a boy in high school and another in middle school. The parents are divorced and you'll be staying with the father and the high schooler. Now I suggest you get some rest. You have an early flight. "'Night!" Kurt's voice echoed as he bamfed out of the room. "'Night ya'll" Rogue drawled as she walked to her room. "See you bright and early!" Jean called to the others.