Chapter Two

Lost Child's Home

The limousine of Charles Xavier pulled up to a large mansion on top a hillside of Bayville, some teenagers rush out from the front door to greet him and Logan home. Some of the kids drop what they were playing outside on the front lawn of the mansion and came to greet him as well.

Jean Grey, on Xavier's students with abilities very much similar to his own, jogged toward them waving. Her long straight silk red hair flowed behind her, her green eyes glistening with excitement.She hasn't seen her favorite teacher in quiet a while.

Katherine "Kitty" Pryde, with the mutant ability of phasing through solid matters, was following after Jean's example ran after her as well and waved frantically, her brown hair neatly put up in it's usual pony tail and allowing her bangs to hang in front of her glassy brown eyes.

Marie Darkhome, or Rogue, was not too far behind, walked casually with her usual gothic cloud swarming around her. She had the muant gift of absorbing memories through a person's very touch, as well as abilites of others too.

Logan opened up the back trunk and pulled out the Professor's wheel chair, he assembled it quickly, having done it many times before, and wheeled it over to the back seat door. The door clicked open when Logan opened it and helped Charles seat into the chair, soon as he was seated Charles held out his hand to have a smaller one be placed in it. A little girl stepped out, her small feet gingerly touching the ground beneath her, in her small hands a doll was struggling to breath in it's owner's arm. She looked up, her eyes piercing everything it laid upon. Her hood from her cloak dropped and allowed her disheveled hair to flow freely around her face like a frame to a picture, her bangs just barely covering her multicolored eyes.

"Jean, Rogue, Kitty. I'd you to be the first to meet Yoshiko Seika," Charles said as he led her out in front of him to show off, "She doesn't speak much I'm afraid, or English for that matter, she didn't speak all the way on the plane either. I'll give a better introduction tonight at dinner while the school is all here, Rogue, would you show her to her room and give her a tour of the Institute?"

"Hi Yoshiko, my name is Kitty!" Kitty gave a small wave to the little girl and smiled, "You'll love it here for sure!"

"Kitty you nerd, she doesn't understand you!" Rogue scoffed, "Besides, it'll probably be a while before she starts get'en friendly and all."

"Konban wa Yoshiko-chan," Jean said with a smile and slight bow, "Watashiwa Grey, Jean omea des."

"Konban wa, Jean-san" Yoshiko practically whispered, her voice was sweet and small just like any other shy child.

"Show off..." Rogue mumbled as she rolled her eyes.

"I'll check up on you three in a while, I have to go check up on Mr. McCoy and see how he's been holding up the fort," Charles said, he looked to Yoshiko and smiled, "Itte irassyai mase."

"Xavier-sensei, iya!" Yoshiko jumped to a start and clung to Charles' right arm, "Tonde mo nai!!"

"Nani?" He peered down at her, and then looked up at Logan and Jean, "She, I'm not sure..."

"Well, I'm not sure Professor, but Itte irassyai mase is the good-bye for leaving home," Jean said, she also starring at the little girl attached to Charles, "I think she's scared that your leaving... you should have said Sayoonara."

"Anata dotira mo?" Yoshiko cocked her head questionable at Jean.

"Oh, that explains it," Charles smiled, "Iya, sayoonara, gomen nasai Yoshiko-chan."

Reluctantly the little girl let go and stepped back, her eyes focused on the ground as if embarrassed, Charles looked back to everyone else and sighed.

"These are going to be the longest years of my life..."

Rogue showed Yoshiko to her room, and helped her settle in some of her stuff. After they had finished, the two along with Jean, Kurt, and Kitty, went about the school and showed her around.

Kurtis "Kurt" Wagner, a mutant with the ability of teleportation and limited invisability. He was a muant that was not only changed in the inside and mentaly but a mutant that had been changed physicaly as well. His skin was covered from head to toe in dark blue fur, he also had a prehensile tail, three fingers, two toes, and fantastic acrobatic abilities. If gone in public people would surely notice his tail, and other things as well, so the Professor made a holographic generator in the shape of a watch that Kurt could wear so when going into public he wouldn't be ridiculed. Most of the students at the Istitute were from all over the world, he specificaly was from Germany.

"This is the garden," Rogue said as she led the small party out to the back where some of the other students were playing, "Once again, like most of the places here at the Institute, your allowed to come here and go as you wish."

Jean, repeated everything what Rogue said into Japanese as Yoshiko gazed in awe at the vas back yard.

"Kiree!" Yoshiko squeaked as she ran over to the small water fall filled with fish gapping at the water with their mouths.

"What'd she say?" Kurt asked, he watched as Yoshiko pulled out some grass and dropped it into the water for the fish to try and eat, "I only know German and English, will she always talk in Japanese? Or is the Professor going to change that?"

"She said it's pretty," Jean said, "I'm sure he's going to try and teach her some English."

"How old is she?" Kitty giggled as Yoshiko almost fell over into the fish pond when she was looking over it, "She seems a bit young to have had her powers manifest already!"

"According to the Professor, no one knows her age," Jean said, she giggled as well.

"She looks about ten years, maybe even eleven years old," Rogue said, Yoshiko almost fell in again, and this time luck wasn't on her side, "Yoshiko!!"

Yoshiko fell right on in, head first, the water splurged up around drenching her along with it. A lily pad had landed on her head when the water had settled, Rogue was the first over to help her out.

"Are you all right?" Rogue said, strangely enough Yoshiko nodded even though it wasn't her tongue.

"Hai," Yoshiko giggled and picked herself out of the pond.

"Hai?" Rogue looked to Jean.

"Yes, hai (HA-EYE), means yes." Jean smiled, "Iya (EYE-YEA), means no, but I'm sure she knows what no means just by it's self."

"Come on kiddo," Kurt teleported somewhere leaving the smell of brimstone floating in the air, and came back with a fresh towel in his hands, "Let's dry you off."

"Ah! Dono!!" Yoshiko yelped and stumbled back into the pond falling over.

"Kurt! You scared her!" Kitty ran over into the water and helped her out, "Oh, Yoshiko! What are we ever going to do with you?"

"I'll go get her into some new clothes and then we can do the rest of the tour later," Jean helped Kitty and Yoshiko both out of the water and led her back to the mansion to change, "Yoshiko-chan, daizyoobu na. Gomen nasai."

"What a fantastic first impression," Kurt sighed, "She probably will be scared of me forever, she'll probably even run away when I take off the hologram..."

"It's okay Kurt," Rogue pat him on the back, "She'll get use to it, the professor will explain it to her and she'll forget all about it. She's just a kid."

"Yes, I guess so..."

After the great dinner introduction, and Yoshiko had had the grand tour of the school, she was free to wander about as she liked and become accustomed to the place. Her bed time was a strict nine'o-clock sharp, that meant she had to be in there and sleeping by then, not just starting to get ready.

She found herself wandering the halls at seven thirty at night, she herd some laughing come from a room so she decided to investigate. She popped her head into a door to find a large den with a sofa, a love seat, two recliners, and a long coffee table all elegantly arranged around by a warm fire place.

One of the three was Ororo Monroe, she had the ability to take control over the weather and certain elements. It just so happens that her Nephew - Evan Daneils- somehow inharited the mutant gene as well. His genes were altered so that he could shoot out and make spikes out of his body, the spikes were made out of bone marrow.

Scott Summers, one of Xavier's first students, had the ability of shooting out optic lasers (force beams) out of his eyes. His parents died in a plane crash when he was only ten and Charles Xavier adopted him and brought him to the Xavier Institute.

"Hey! Yoshiko!" Evan waved her over to take a seat next to him and his Aunt Ororo, "Come on in!"

She blinked and hesitated before she scuffled inside and sat on the floor, Ororo smiled and pointed at herself.

"Ororo," She put a hand on Evan's shoulder, "Evan," She pointed at Scott, "Scott."

She said their names nice and clear trying not to insult Yoshiko's intelligence.

"Watashi Yoshiko omea des." Yoshiko smiled.

"Well, she knows that much." Evan said, "Too bad she doesn't know English, I'd really like to hear what Japan is like."

"Pet-yy" Yoshiko forced out of her mouth nice and slowly.

"Petty?" Evan looked at her questionably.

"She probably meant pretty," Scott said, he kicked his feet up on the coffee table across from him, "That's pretty good for being here for a couple of hours."

"Prit-tea," Ororo said slowly, "Pretty."

"Pretty," Yoshiko said with a very thick accent, "Pretty Orera."

"Oh-roar-ra," Ororo corrected her, she smiled fondly, "And thank you!"

"Tem?" Yoshiko asked and pointed to the clock hanging on the wall across the room.

"Time?" Scott asked back, "It's eight."

"Eight!" Yoshiko giggled and got up, "Eight! Pretty!" She pointed at them as she rolled off their names, "Scotch! Even! Ororo!"

"Three out of five, not bad." Evan gave her a thumbs up, "Good!"

"Bai!!" Yoshiko gave a small wave as she ran out of the room.

"Bright kid," Scott said, "But, Scotch?"

Ororo and Evan picked up a pillow from the couch and threw it at him.

Yoshiko giggled and ran threw the halls, her short hair dancing behind her.

"Pretty eight!" Yoshiko giggled, "Pretty Ororo!"

Yoshiko ran right into Mr. McCoy, she fell onto her butt and laughed, she giggled and looked up. Sheer fear lit up in her eyes, her jaw hug a bit as she got up and stumbled back only to fall flat on her face.

Henry "Hank" McCoy was a mutant much like Kurt was, he was covered from head to toe in blue hair anf fur, some of his apearences were much similar to that of an apes. Like an ape, he had increased aerobic abilities.

"AKUMA!" She shrieked, she blocked her face and kept on pushing away with her feet trying to back away, "AKUMA!!"

"How'd you get in here?" Mr. McCoy walked over to her to pick her up but she screamed even louder, "Akuma? Japanese? You must be Yoshiko! Hello there! My name's--"

"Ehhh-ahhhhhhh!!!!" Yoshiko screamed, her eyes squinted shut in pain and fright.

Black lightning danced up around her small body, it blocked McCoy away from her as she screamed harder, the lightning sparked out fiercely and snapped at him whenever he tried to get closer. He snatched his hand away as the lightning darted at him.

"Yoshiko!" He tried to reach her again, "Clam down!! It's all right!!"

"Ahhh!!!" She screamed like there was no tomorrow.

"What going on!?!" Kitty ran out from a wall, "Mr. McCoy, what's happening!?"

Yoshiko, seeing a girl come out of a wall, she screamed even harder and the lightning grew darker, harder, and more violent with each passing moment.

"Kitty! Go get the Professor!" Jean ran from down the hall in her night gown, "Mr. McCoy! Don't touch her! It'll make it worse!"

"Aaaaahhhhhhh!!!!!" Yoshiko screamed, piercing souls like her eyes did.

"Jean! What's going on!?" Scott came running down the hall, he staid back when he almost got hit by one of Yoshiko's rapid lightning bolts.

Yoshiko! Professor Xavier was reaching threw to her mentally, Yoshiko! It's all right! Clam down, can you hear me? Clam down. Your going to hurt someone, please.

It didn't work, Yoshiko was still screaming and the lightning was still coming.

Yoshiko, listen to me! Calm down, no one is going to hurt you! He tried to reason with her since it was all he could do, Jean wrapped her mind around Yoshiko's energy keeping her inside a bubble and enforcing it from hitting the bystanders.

Professor! I can only hold it back for so long! Jean yelled to him mentally, She's so powerful for so young!

Do your best Jean, He said back to her, Yoshiko, calm down! I know you can hear me, please, your not going to get hurt! I'll protect you!

It stopped, all the lightning in the bubble around her just stopped. Her eyes closed, her chest heaving for air heavily, a few black sparks came from her hair -that for a strange reason wasn't standing on end. Slowly, Jean lowered Yoshiko to the ground and let the mental bubble subside.

"She's still conscious," Jean said as she rushed to her side, "She's just severally exhausted."

"What was that!?" Scott said jogging over to her side as well, "I mean, what caused that!?"

"She was running down the halls, she didn't see me and ran into me," Hank McCoy, a mutant like the rest only his DNA had been more evolved, he was an original teacher at Bayville High before his mutant abilities got out of hand, "When she finally noticed me she started to yell, akuma."

"Demon," Jean said before Scott or Kitty asked, "It's Japanese."

"Jean, can you take her up to her room? She'll need her sleep," Professor Xavier turned around in his wheel chair to face Mr. McCoy, "I'm terribly sorry Hank, I guess you weren't at dinner when I introduced her to everyone."

"I'll make sure I go to dinner more often now," Mr. McCoy chuckled, "It's nothing, are you going to have a talk with her?"

"Absolutely, but not tonight," Charles watched as Jean picked up Yoshiko and walked down the hall to her quarters, "That was probably more adventure then she'll need for a while..."

"I got your notice, I'll be teaching her English, PE, Science, and Geography, correct?" He asked as the two left the deserted hall to get to their own rooms.

"Yes, I'll be helping with her abilities and to control them-"

"-She seems like she has them under control! Those things shot out like vipers!"

"Yes, but she can't control them. They aim at anything that's disrupting her or a threat to her, other wise she has absolutely no control over them."

"What is her abilities based on?"

"Dark, Light, and Shadows. She also has the ability to shoot out white fire, black lightning, and transport herself threw shadows, similar to Kurt."

"Which explains her eyes and hair to some point."

"Yes, that too, and one other thing. No one knows her age, she has absolutely no clue of her life in the past. Dekua, says that Yoshiko appeared at the Temple one day lost and confused about three years ago last summer."

"...odd..."

"Quite..."