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Authors note: I'm really glad you guys like my story so much, and all the positive feedback I've been getting has really motivated me to get these chapters out daily. Oh, and I need your guys help. What is the name of the school that Kurt and the other X-men go to? I thought it was Bayville, but I'm not sure so I thought I would check with you first. Thanks. Well that's it for the authors note's. Enjoy the chapter.
Chapter five: Welcome to Mutant Manor
"You all set to go home tomorrow?"
Kurt looked down from his position in the branches of the God-tree to see Logan leaning against the trunk and looking back into the well lit kitchen were Mrs.Higurashi was administering an ice pack to Miroku's cheek where he sat at the kitchen table while Sango stood by glaring evilly in the monks direction. Shippo and Souta were munching on cookies and laughing at the whining priest.
"That's a crazy bunch you've made friends with elf."
Kurt grinned down at Logan. "Ja, vell I'm a little crazy myself so it all vorks out." Then his grin slipped and he turned his eye's back toward the roof.
Logan looked up at him. "What's up there that's got you so interested?"
Kurt sighed but didn't look away from the roof. "Kagome has been up zer for over an hour now."
Logan shrugged. "Maybe she's lookin' at the stars."
Kurt shook his head. "She is vorried, I know. About meeting ze ozers.
"Why don't you go up there then?" Logan asked gruffly.
"I do not wish to intrude."
Logan looked first to the elf in the tree, then to the roof, then up into the starry night sky.
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Kagome sighed softly as she looked up at the sky that was painted in stars. You couldn't see them as well here as you could in the past. That was one of her favorite things to do while she was there. She could remember when she had pointed out all of the constellations to Inuyasha and Shippo. She had been telling Shippo about wishing on stars when Inuyasha had interrupted, it had progressed into and astronomy lesson. When she had pointed out Sirius, the dog star, Inuyasha had declared that his wishing star and damn be to anyone else who tried to use it. He had this weird notion that if too many people wished on the same star, the star would run out of wishing power to soon.
Shippo had chosen the North star, since it was bigger and brighter and easier to find. Then the two had gotten into an argument over who's wishing star was better until Inuyasha bashed Shippo on the head and Kagome sat him.
She giggled quietly thinking back on it. She was sad that she had to leave Inuyasha, but he just couldn't come with them right now. Kaede would know when the time was right. She wasn't hurting so much anymore when she thought of him. It never would have worked between them anyway since no matter how different she was, in some small way she would always remind him of Kikyo. But that was alright, she would always love him as her very best friend, because that's what he was. Hopefully he'd see it too someday. What had her worried was this new school. It was a little intimidating going so far away from home, but that wasn't what had her sitting up on the roof at 9:00 at night.
'Will they like me?' She wondered. 'I've been abnormal since the day I turned fifteen, and that was two years before finding out I was even a mutant! Am I going to be an oddity even around other mutants?'
"No sense worrying bout' something that ain't even happened yet. And probably won't anyway."
Kagome turned to see Logan standing behind her.
She blinked at him. "How do you know what I'm worried about? Are you a telepath?"
He sat down next to her. "You wear your thoughts on your face. t's not hard to read."
"Oh." Kagome turned back to watching the stars.
"I wouldn't worry to much about meeting the others. You managed to make friends with the elf, plus you can stand to be around him when he's had to much sugar." Logan grunted. "They'll like you for that, and even if they didn't." Logan turned and looked at her. "They'd like you because the elf does. Where your goin' ain't a school, it's a home. And the people your meetin' ain't students, their a family. They look out for each other, and they'll look out for you, because you're an X-man now. You're a part of that family." Logan seemed to have realized that he'd spoken way more than he was used to so he shut up and rose from his seated position and turned to make his way off the roof.
"Mr. Logan?" Kagome called to him.
"Just Logan kid. And what?" he turned to see Kagome standing behind him.
"Thank you for talking to me. I feel much better about the whole thing now." She said gently. Then she wrapped her arms around his waist and hugged him.
Logan stiffened for a minute, then relaxed. After a second he cleared his throat.
"Well, we'd better get off the roof before the elf falls out of that tree of yours and breaks his neck from all his fidgeting."
Kagome released him, then looking back up at the stars she smiled.
"You comin' hime'?" (Princess)
"Hai!" She called as she raced to the end of the roof where Logan was waiting.
'Logan was right, I won't worry about it anymore.' Then she grinned. 'Now to go find a certain Mr. Wagner and learn if fuzzy, blue elves are ticklish."
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"Look, here they come!" Jean called.
All of the X-men were gathered in the hanger to meet the new students. They where also happy to be getting Kurt back. A lot of people had complained that he was too hyper sometimes but once he was gone for a while it became topeaceful. It drove them all nuts. So they were happy to be getting their chaos on two furry legs back.
The X-jet landed with a whoosh of displaced air, kicking up dust. Then the engines shut off and the hatch came down.
Kurt came down first with a pretty girl walking close by his side. Two people, a man and a woman, followed behind them. Logan came last, with a funny two-tailed cat perched on his head. He didn't look very enthused to have it there, but made no attempts to get it off.
The two groups looked at each other for a minute before Scott broke it.
"Hello, I'm Scott Summers. It's nice to meet you." He said, then he stuck out his hand for Miroku to shake. Miroku just looked at it in confusion.
"Er, yes it's very nice to meet you too Scott. I'm Kagome and this is Miroku and Sango." She grabbed his hand and shook it, showing Miroku what he was supposed to do. He nodded and then shook Scott's hand next. That seemed to brake the ice and soon introductions where being made all around.
Rogue hung back away from the crowd. She didn't like social gatherings much and tended to just stay in the background if she could. It was as she was studying the new group that she saw a pair of green eye's peeking out at her from behind Kurt's pant leg. She blinked and looked again. Yep a little spiky haired kid would look at her, then dart back behind Kurt. Curious she moved forward towards him.
"Hallo sis! Did you miss me?" Kurt asked cheerfully. Rogue just snorted.
"Who's tha't behind your leg?"
Kurt looked down. "It's just Shippo. Come out and say hello to mien sister Shippo."
Rogue watched as a little boy came out from behind Kurt, clutching his blue, spaded tail in his tiny hand. He blinked his large green eye's up at Rogue.
"Hello." Shippo said bashfully, then he blushed and darted back behind Kurt, who laughed and reached down to lift Shippo up into his arms giving Rogue her first good look at him.
Now if anything can be said for Rogue it's that she is a very practical and realistic person. She doesn't go in for that girly, girly stuff. Nope. No pink frilly clothes and fluffy bunnies for her. So her reaction was as much a surprise to her as it was to everyone else.
"Oh my god! He's so adorable! That big fluffy tail, and that baby face, those big green eye's! and these feet! There just the cutest thing. Yes you are. Your just the cutest little guy in the whole wide would. You little sweetie, you."
The complete silence in the hanger and the site of Kurt, bug-eyed and slack jawed in shock, jolted Rogue back into reality. She flushed, then crossed her arms and scowled.
"Well he is." She said in a monotone. Then turning, she left the hanger.
There was silence for a few minutes before the other girls turned to see what had gotten Rogue so worked up.
Kurt was almost killed in the ensuing stampede.
After rescuing Kurt and removing Shippo from the clutches of his admirers they made their way through the mansion to Professor Xavier's office.
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Professor X turned as the group came into his office, raising an eyebrow at the cat happily purring away on Logan's head.
Logan just glared at him.
Turning to the group of teens he decided to get things started. "you had a pleasant trip I hope."
"Oh yes, it was very nice. Thank you." Kagome replied bowing at the professor.
"Ja, it vas great! There vas only a leetle bit of turbulence ven Herr Logan argued vith Kirara on her choice of vresting place." Then leaning closer to the professor Kurt whispered. "Logan lost."
Professor Xavier smiled as Logan growled warningly at the blue teen.
"Well sit down and make yourselves comfortable and we'll get the boring stuff out of the way first." So saying he handed out folders to Sango, Miroku and Shippo.
"Inside are your new birth certificate's, I.D's, social security cards, and passports. I had to give each of you a last name as you had none. I hope what I chose will be alright with you."
Kagome opened up Shippo's folder and looked at his birth certificate and other records, then she saw one that had her head jerking up.
"You registered him as my son!" she asked astonished.
"Adopted son. When I read your memories I noticed that that was how you had always thought of him. According to them you rescued Shippo from certain death and have been raising him ever since. I just thought that you might like to have it official, at least in this country." He smiled at her excited face.
"Does that mean your really my momma now?" Shippo questioned.
Kagome nodded and hugged him, while crying softly in joy. "Yes Shippo that means that I'm really your mommy now."
Kurt smiled at seeing how happy the both of them were. Then he turned back to the Professor when he began to talk again.
"From now on you will be known as Miroku Kazanna, Sango Tyjiiya, and Shippo Higurashi."
All three nodded their expectance. Logan finally managed to pry Kirara off his head then left to fix his bike before the demon cat (literally) attached itself to his person again.
Professor Xavier smiled. "Very well then now I would love to hear more about your adventures."
They talked for a long time about their journey's in the past. And about many of the adventures they had had.
"I must say that it was incredibly hard to believe that you had all done these things." He said after a while.
Kurt jumped immediately to their defense. "It's True Herr Professor! I've seen it. I vent into the well. It's all real!"
Professor Xavier smiled gently at Kurt. "I never doubted their claims Kurt, I was just saying that it is a hard thing to believe."
All of them nodded in agreement. It was hard for them to believe sometimes, and they'd lived it!
"I can't guarantee that the others will believe, but I won't tell you to keep it from them. I will leave that up to you to decide."
"Professor. I also wanted to talk to you about my powers." Kagome said.
Professor Xavier turned to her. "Oh, have you been displaying your new ability's?"
She nodded and then told him about the two separate times it had happened.
"Hm. I'm not sure. Were you feeling any particularly strong emotions at the time that these instances occurred? Or did you do anything specific that could have caused them to appear?"
Kagome thought about it for a moment. "Well the first time was shock. The second time was definitely fear. And I don't remember doing anything specific that could have caused it to happen."
Professor Xavier nodded, then opened a drawer and pulled something out.
"Let's try something. Focus on this and try to think of something that frightens you. See if you can get it to work again."
He then laid a watch out on his desk.
Kagome focused on the watch, trying to think of things that scared her. She did this for several minutes and nothing happened.
"Stupid Power, why wont you work!" she cried angrily, thrusting her left hand out to grab the watch.
Everyone watched in shock as the hands on the watch started spinning rapidly. But that wasn't the only thing effected. A glass ornament, one that moved continuously on its own power slowly, was spinning so fast it was a blur. Professor Xavier noticed that the time on his computer was also excellerated.
Kagome panic'd.
'Oh god! Stop! Stop!' she cried mentally, dropping the watch. She reached down and picked it up with her right.
Everything slowed to a crawl.
'How do I make it stop?' She thought frantically.
'Kagome you must calm down. Think of your power as an open door. All you have to do is shut that door to make it stop.' Professor Xavier's voice echoed in her head.
She nodded and shut her eye's, imagining a big door. Slowly, she mentally shut the door. When she opened her eye's she saw that everything was working normally again.
She sighed in relief. "I'm really sorry about that. I don't even know what it was I did."
"It's quite all right. I will have to talk with Hank about this power of yours. I've never seen it before. Though I have an idea of what it could be."
A knock sounded on the door.
"Ah, that would be Kitty to show you to your rooms. Off you go, and I shall see you tomorrow. "
They all stood up and made their way towards the door. In the doorway Kagome turned back to the professor.
"What is it that you think my power is?"
Professor Xavier smiled at her.
"Chronomanipulation."
She blinked at him in confusion.
"The ability to manipulate the flow of time." He specified, delighting in the look of shock that came over her face.
"Oh, ok then. Good night." Then she hurriedly bowed and ran to catch up with the others.
Professor X smiled.
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Later that night in her new room she sat out on the railing of her balcony and thought about what the professor had said. Could she really control time? It didn't seem possible. But then again, neither does traveling five hundred years through a well and fighting demons. Thinking about it more she decided that anything was possible.
BAMF!
"What are you doing up Kurt? Shouldn't you be in bed?" She didn't turn from stargazing as Kurt came up beside her and joined her on the railing, perfectly balanced.
"Shouldn't you?"
She smiled at him. "I was just thinking, that's all."
He grinned. "You shouldn't do zat to often. It's not healthy."
She grinned back at him. "And you would know huh."
"Of course."
They continued looking at the stars for a few minutes in comfortable silence.
"you know. If you ever need anyzing or just vant to talk..I'll be zer."
Kagome turned to him, watching as he looked up at the night sky. Then she smiled.
"Thank you Kurt." She kissed him softly on the cheek. His fur was very soft against her lips.
Kurt lost his balance and fell into the bushes under her balcony.
"Kurt!' she cried, running and looking over the edge.
BAMF
"Can you do zat again, I kind of missed it last time."
She turned to see him grinning at her perched once again on the tips of his feet on the railing.
Smiling she headed to her balcony door. "Good night Kurt." She called back to him then she turned and winked before shutting the door.
Kurt stared at the door for a minute before teleporting to his room and letting out a whoop while doing complex acrobatics. All over the room. Even the ceiling. Before collapsing onto his bed. He fell asleep with a big smile on his face.
Because while Kagome may dig the fuzzy dude, the fuzzy dude dug Kagome to.
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Kagome batted at an annoyingly persistent itch on her face.
"Time to vake up." A voice whispered in her ear.
She scrunched up her face and buried it in her pillow.
"I don't think it's workin'" another voice said.
She cracked an eye open to see Kurt perched on her headboard and Shippo sitting on her other pillow. Kurt had a feather.
"I don't wanna wake up. Go way." She managed to slur out.
"But you'll miss breakfast." Kurt insisted.
"Oh well." She shrugged, snuggling back into her covers.
Kurt gasped in horror. "But you can't miss breakfast, It's the most important meal of the day!" Then he thought about it for a second. "Next to lunch and dinner of course."
Grumbling she oozed out of bed and manfully crawled across the floor to the bathroom still carrying her pillow.
"Don't forget to brush your teeth." Kurt supplied helpfully.
She chucked her pillow at his head. But missed as he disappeared in a blast of blue smoke then reappeared next to Shippo.
"Well she's up. Now what." Shippo asked.
Kurt grinned. "Now ve go and vake up mein sister."
"How?" Shippo questioned as Kurt guided him out the door with a hand on his head.
"Do you know how to vork ze cold tap on ze sink?"
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After breakfast, which was chaotic, it was decided that the new recruits would go through a few tests in the danger room to decide what their general fighting experience was. All except for Shippo who was to young.
Miroku went first. Standing calmly in the center of the room holding his staff.
"Ok, your goal is to get across the room to the finish line on the other side. There are traps and things that will try to stop you so just do your best. Don't worry about anything hurting you, it's just a simulation. " Scott's voice called through the speakers positioned on the walls.
Miroku nodded. Not understanding what a simu-whatever was. All he understood was that he needed to get across the room to the red line painted on the floor.
All of the other X-men where positioned up in the what they had dubbed the 'lookout tower'. They could see all of the action from up here. Hank, Professor X and Storm had even shown up to watch the new recruits.
Flying spiked balls made of steel, and laser carrying robots all started coming at Miroku. Who hadn't moved. He was calmly undoing the prayer beads wrapped around his left hand. His staff lay on the ground at his feet.
Up in the tower the other X-men were starting to worry. Wasn't he even going to try? Why did he put down his only weapon? Every one wondered what was going on except for Kagome, Sango, Shippo, Kurt and Professor X.
Back in the Danger room Miroku looked up at his assailants, then lifted his left hand, and opened it.
"Wind Tunnel!"
Everything in the room was sucked into the black hole in the middle of his hand.
When the last robot was pulled in Miroku closed his hand and calmly retied the beads. Then picking up his staff, he strolled unhurriedly to the finish line.
It took several minutes before the other X-men could get over their shock.
"What the heck was that!" Kitty cried, turning to Kurt for some type of explanation.
Kurt shrugged. "You heard him. It's his vind tunnel."
"Right then, Sango next." Scott pulled himself together with a little difficulty. 'Wasn't that guy supposed to be human?'
They all watched as Sango walked into the danger room with her little two-tailed kitty. They all watched as the kitty got much bigger. They all watched as Sango brutally destroyed the machines. They all watched Sango and her flying, fire-covered kitty land on the finish line. They all promised never to eat anything Kitty cooks for breakfast again, since it apparently brought about mass hallucinations.
"Kagome." Scott croaked. 'What the heck do they eat to get like this!'
Kagome walked hesitantly into the Danger room. She wasn't sure how good she would do, since she wasn't a fighter like Miroku and Sango. She was going to try her best though.
'Ok, here goes.'
Spiked metal balls came flying at her.
'Oh god! I've changed my mind, I can't do this!'
she dogged the first two balls, then turned to see one headed right for her head. Her eyes widened
'Holy shit!' she threw up her arms to shield her face.
When nothing happened she opened her eye's to see that everything had frozen again.
Blinking she shrugged and walked happily over to the other side, swerving around different obstacles. Once there she sat down cross legged and closed her eyes, seeing the door like Professor Xavier had taught her. She shut it.
Everyone up in the tower blinked. One minute it looked like the new girl was about to get creamed and the next she just disappears and reappears at the finish line sitting cross legged on the floor and looking for all the world like she was taking a nap.
"What just happened?" Scott asked.
"Is her power, like, super speed or something? Like Pietro's." Kitty questioned.
"We do not know what her powers are at this time, my theory is that Kagome can manipulate the flow of time. Although the specifics aren't known." Professor X stated.
"Fascinating. I would like to run some tests to study this power of hers if it's all right with her." Hank spoke, rubbing his chin and staring down at the girl.
"I will ask her." Professor Xavier assured.
"These are certainly some amazing individuals you've found Charles." Storm said, laying a hand on the Professors shoulder. He turned to her.
"Trust me Arora, they were already amazing before I even found out about them." He smiled a secret smile and turned to leave.
As everyone was filing out of the room to spend the rest of the day relaxing Evan leaned over and whispered to Kitty. "I'm glad their on our side." Kitty just nodded.
Kurt met Kagome as she was coming out of the danger room.
"Let's go do somezing. Only two veeks left of summer vacation!" he was bouncing on the tips of his feet.
"Like what?" Kagome asked as she tied her hair up in a pony tail.
Kurt grinned. "Ever had a Gut Bomb?"
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Authors Note: Alright that's that chapter. Hope you liked it. Review and let me know and I will try to get the next chapter out as soon as possible. Next time: School starts, Kagome meets the brotherhood, Miroku learns that Perverts always get what they deserve in the end, Rogue develops a sudden case of slippery hands and Mystique gets thwarted by a pint-sized, fox-tailed little mischief maker. Until next time. Later. Sayin_girl
