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Authors Notes: Thank you once again for your wonderful reviews! And I'd also like to thank you for not lynching me! Not much to say in this authors note, This chapter isn't as funny as some of the other ones because it was time to advance the plot. Only thing else to say is that the Sesshy-polls are still going! Currently, Storm is in the lead. Remember to get your vote in. Now, on with the story.
Chapter Twelve: Power Surge
Inuyasha shoved his books into his locker in a very bored fashion, crushing school papers in the back and smashing an old lunch that he'd forgotten about.
'School sucks.' He thought, slamming the locker door shut, then jogging to catch up with Miroku as he made his way to class.
A stray scent had him stopping dead in his tracks. Miroku looked back at him curiously. Inuyasha waved him on.
"Go ahead monk. If I'm not there when class starts then cover for me."
Miroku nodded and turned to continue on down the hallway.
Inuyasha watched him go for a minute then slipped into a niche in the wall, effectively hiding him for anyone not standing right next to him.
Groups of students went by on their way to class but they didn't concern him, the scent he'd picked up did. Once the hallway was clear, he carefully made his way silently down the hall. Peering around a corner he saw what he'd been looking for. A stray student standing at a locker.
Blue-boys locker.
And that certainly wasn't the annoying mutant teen.
Using all the stealth he possessed in his half-demon body he approached quietly until he stood directly behind the student. Placing a clawed hand on their shoulder and growling at the slight stiffening of the shoulder muscles.
"Looking for something in the fuzz-faces locker, mousey?" He growled at it from directly behind its ear.
The youth blinked, then smiled. "Oh, silly me. This isn't my locker, it's over there." Then turned and practically ran around the corner.
Inuyasha growled and gave chase. Coming around the corner, he found the hallway empty. This didn't bother him though since his attention wasn't on the hallway, but on the bird sitting in the window.
"If you think that shits gonna work on me then you would be very fucking mistaken." He snarled, baring fangs.
The bird squawked and took flight, only to be shot down as Inuyasha's claws raked its wing. It changed into a cat before hitting the ground, then took off like a shot. Inuyasha leaping out the window after it.
Kurt lolled his head over to gaze out the window. His brain felt like mush and he probably would have been dozing right now if Kagome didn't keep distracting him by playing with his tail. Of course, he enjoyed it, so he couldn't really complain.
He blinked as Inuyasha came tearing around the bend, running full out, on all fours, after a cat.
'I knew he acted like a dog a lot but that's just going a little too far.'
Before he could think about it some more though Inuyasha made another pass.
This time chasing a red dog.
'What the?'
Kurt watched in shock as Inuyasha came by again chasing a deer.
Then it was a fox.
Then he was jumping in a strange pattern, looking like he was trying to flatten something with his hands and missing. On closer inspection Kurt realized it was a frog.
The next time Inuyasha came by he was sniffing really close to the ground. He gave a cry of triumph and pounced, apparently missed, then gave chase, cursing magnificently.
Next on the list of bizarre things to see out a classroom window was a tiger.
At first Inuyasha was chasing it, then it tried to turn and attack him.
Inuyasha just raked his claws, leaving four long gouges in the ground a few inches from the tiger. Who snarled, turned tail and fled.
The last thing Kurt saw before falling out of his chair from overbalance, was Inuyasha chasing a spider monkey around the corner of the building.
Inuyasha finally caught the monkey and slammed it up against the wall, the shock causing it to loose its form and become a blue skinned, red haired mutant female.
"What the fuck were you doing snooping around the mansion?" He shook her hard, slamming her against the wall again.
Mystique glared at him. "Protecting my son."
Inuyasha glared right back. "And who, the fuck, is your son?"
She wouldn't answer until Inuyasha pressed his claws to her throat. "Kurt."
He snorted. "Figures. And what the hell does he need protection from?"
Mystique pushed against his chest but he wasn't fazed. "That.girl!"
Inuyasha raised an eyebrow. "Come again?"
"I am only protecting him from being hurt in the future! She will leave him. Brake his heart. I know she will! I am only preventing that from happening."
He snarled, realizing that she was talking about Kagome. "You won't touch her. You even think about harming her in any way and you'll deal with me."
Mystique grinned slowly. "Oh, I promise you that I won't hurt her."
Inuyasha didn't like the sound of her tone. Snorting, he shoved her against the wall one more time. "You've been warned."
Then he turned and left.
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Kurt, Kagome and Rogue walked back to the mansion after school. Inuyasha had a detention. Kurt's tail was wrapped around Kagome's waist again, but she didn't mind.
"Papa! Momma! Auntie!" A blur of dark hair barreled into Kurt's chest, knocking the wind out of him. Once he got it back he laughed.
"Ah, Shippo! Did you miss us?"
Shippo gave him a look as if to say, 'Duh!'
Rogue ruffled his hair. "Hiya kiddo."
"Auntie Rogue!" Shippo launched himself into her arms. She looked started for a minute then calmed down and smiled.
"Well isn't this sweet, sorry I have to.break it up!"
The ground shook violently, splitting the earth between Kagome and her three friends.
"Kagome!" Kurt yelled. Then turned his attention to Avalanche. With him were Toad and Blob.
'Where's Quicksilver?'
Before he had much of a chance to do anything or think about the missing brotherhood member a voice spoke up.
"Well done boys. Now Miss. Higurashi, I'd like to have a word with you."
Kagome narrowed her eyes at the man in the cape and helmet who came floating out of the sky. His outfit just screamed 'I'm an evil phsyco!'
She didn't pay much attention as he started preaching about mutant supremacy, honestly, she was just supremely bored.
"Well. What do you say my dear, will you join me?"
What was it that Inuyasha would say at a time like this? Oh that's right.
"Hell no. Go fuck yourself."
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Inuyasha sat in detention, bored out of his mind. He'd been antsy ever since talking to the weird chick this morning.
The sound of the door slamming open got his attention.
"Mr.Maximoff! I told you that you could not go in there!" The principal shouted after the white haired teen.
"Pietro?"
Pietro's head whipped in his direction. "Inuyasha! You gotta come quick! Their in trouble!"
"What the hell are you talking about?!"
Pietro shook his head, reaching over and grabbing Inuyasha's arm. "There's no time to explain! All I can tell you is that my dad is planning to kidnap Kagome!"
Inuyasha's eyes narrowed. "Oh no he fucking isn't! Lets go!"
They were gone in a flash.
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Well, the look of shock on the mans face was certainly priceless. Kagome smiled. Inuyasha would have been proud.
"Very well then." With a snap of his fingers, the brotherhood began attacking her friends.
She had started to raise her arms and shift when a light pole wrapped around her, pinning her arms to her sides.
Magneto lifted his hand causing her to lift off the ground and come toward him. He glanced at her necklace. "Oh, what's this? Precious to you is it? Well.." He ripped the chain off her neck. "I'll just hold onto it for you. We wouldn't want it to get..damaged."
Kagome snarled and thrashed. A cry drew her attention back to her friends.
The blob was holding Shippo up by the tail. Kurt kept trying to get to the kitsune baby but got blocked every time by Toad. Rogue was too busy fighting Avalanche.
Magneto smirked. "Kill the brat."
Kagome screamed as Blob nodded and raised his arm to smash Shippo into the pavement.
A flash of silver and red was all that was seen before Blob keeled over backwards.
Kagome sighed in relief, mentally cheering to see Inuyasha standing in the center of the carnage holding Shippo in his arms.
"Here, hold this." He shoved a crying Shippo into Kurt's arms. Kurt immediately started to sooth the frightened child.
Inuyasha glared up at Magneto. "Release hernow." His growl was very deep and very dangerous.
Magneto didn't seem fazed in the slightest. "Yes, I thought you'd show up. So I brought someone for you to play with, can't have you feeling left out after all, now can we." He gestured with a hand and they looked to see a man come out of the alley. He looked very much like a youkai.
"Sabertooth." Rogue growled from next to Inuyasha, taking off her gloves.
Inuyasha just scoffed. "Keh! I can take him." And with that he charged at the other male. Rogue went to help but was side tracked by Toad and Avalanche.
Pietro suddenly appeared, leaning against a wall. "Need some help?"
Inuyasha didn't turn from his own fight. "Sure. Could you kick one of those guys asses while I deal with this bastard."
"No problem." Pietro saluted. Then ran circles around Toad.
Magneto turned back to Kagome. "I ask you one last time. Will you join me?"
Kagome took a deep breath and then
She spit in his face.
Magneto wiped it off. "To bad really. Say good bye to your boyfriend."
He raised a hand and Kagome watched in horror as he lifted a truck, sending it hurtling at the elf's unprotected back.
"Kurt!!" She screamed.
Kurt turned to her, then looked behind him.
He didn't even have time to blink before the truck hit him and Shippo sending them both flying.
Without thinking Rogue jumped up and grabbed Shippo, realizing a second to late that she didn't have her gloves on. When she noticed that she wasn't draining him she was shocked, but she put it away to think about later, there were other things more important right at the minute.
Kurt was headed for a head on collision with a wall when he was suddenly grabbed. The man holding Kurt turned slowly. Shoulder length white hair and glowing gold eyes.
"Sesshomaru?!" Inuyasha sounded more confused than shocked. "What the hell are you doing here?!"
"Now is not the time little brother, we will talk later." Sesshomaru sounded as calm as always.
Magneto's attention was drawn away from the new arrival, to the half broken jewel in his hand. It was pulsing.
The others felt it too because all activity abruptly ceased.
The pulsing was becoming stronger.
Kagome's head was bowed. Bangs shielding her eyes from view. There was a pulse around her as well.
It matched the pulse of the jewel in his hand.
Suddenly the jewel jerked away from him and towards the girl. Magneto closed a fist around it and tried to prevent it from escaping.
Kagome's emotions where in turmoil. 'He hurt them. He hurt them. He hurt them.' Ran through her head over and over again, like a broken record.
The jewel gave one last, sharp, tug and broke free from Magneto's grasp.
And flew straight into the girls chest.
Kagome's back arched, her mouth opened
And she screamed.
The resulting shock wave knocked them off their feet.
Sesshomaru got up quickly, still cradling Kurt. "Rogue! Pietro! Quickly! Grab hold of Inuyasha!"
Rogue looked over at the strange man. "Do ah know you?"
"Now is not the time, just do it!" He yelled over the increasing winds.
Rogue nodded and grabbing Pietro, ran over to where Inuyasha stood covering his ears, trying to block out the terrible scream. She wrapped both arms around his waist, keeping the knocked-out Shippo pinned between them, Pietro grabbed Inuyasha's arm, just before another wave slammed into them.
Magneto had erected a magnetic shield, trying to protect himself from the waves of power that where coming faster and faster off the girl.
They all watched in shock as their surrounding began to change. The brotherhood members where becoming younger and younger with every pulse, soon they were babies.
The buildings were changing too. Everything seemed to be going backwards.
"What's going on? What's happenin' to everything? And Why isn't it affectin' us." Rogue yelled to Sesshomaru as he fought against the winds.
"With the Shikon Jewel buried in her chest Kagome's powers have became too strong! She can't control them! That's why everything in the area is regressing!"
"But why the fuck aren't we?!" Inuyasha hollered, never taking his eyes off the girl surrounded by violent, flashing winds, screaming as if her soul was being ripped apart.
"We are not effected because of the prayer beads! They are directly linked to her!"
"That explains me! But what about you?!"
Smirking, Sesshomaru brought his hand up and pulled a blue set of prayer beads out from under his shirt.
Had the situation not been so drastic Inuyasha would have been laughing his ass off.
The scream abruptly cut off.
They all jerked their heads around to Kagome.
The winds swirled so fast around her it was impossible to see her.
Then, suddenly, the winds ceased completely. And their was silence.
Kagome's eyes snapped open, glowing an eerie white-pink.
The sudden explosion of miko energy caught them all off guard. The metal light pole Magneto had used to contain her went spinning away, embedding itself into a wall.
A pillar of pink light shot straight into the sky. Then like water, it came rushing back down, slamming against the earth in a giant tsunami of pure power.
"Brace yourselves!" Sesshomaru called, securing Kurt and grabbing a hold of a light pole.
Inuyasha dug his claws into a nearby phone pole.
The power crashed into them, pure miko energy. Amazingly, none of the youkai were hurt by it, it was actually very soothing. The power continued to wash over them for a while before it seemed to recall itself. Rushing back over them, leaving time restored in its wake. Kurt woke as the last of the energy washed over him, leaving him completely restored.
"Vas going on? Ve'res..Kagome!!" He whipped around to see her floating in mid air. Kurt struggled to get out of Sesshomaru's arms and go to her, but Sesshomaru wouldn't let him. Instead placing him on his feet and keeping a hand on his shoulder.
The now restored brotherhood members watched in shock, along with everyone else, as the energy swirled around Kagome for a minute, then suddenly rushed into her chest, in the same place as the Shikon jewel had entered.
She lit up like a super nova, causing everyone to have to look away. When the light died down they turned back to see her slowly floating to the ground, hair waving gently around her head and her entire body radiating with a brilliant light.
Once her feet touched down the rest of her followed.
Magneto released his barrier, panting, then walked up to the girl, leaning over he noticed that the jewel was visible. It seemed to have fused with her chest.
*CRACK!!*
Magneto's head whipped to the side. He turned his head back slowly.
Mystique's son was standing between him and the girl, growling and snarling, tail lashing violently and gold eyes feral.
"Move boy." He said calmly.
Kurt just growled deeper, muscles tensed to spring and long fangs bared threateningly.
He started to move forward when another person joined the boy.
Rogue stood next to her 'brother', palms out toward Magneto. Shippo perched on her shoulder, glaring evilly at the man who'd tried to hurt his family. Sesshomaru walked over and stood at Kurt's other side, giving Magneto his cold stare.
"Well old man. Seems your out numbered." Inuyasha strode over and stood in front of Magneto, glaring and cracking his knuckles.
Sensing that he couldn't win at this time, Magneto lifted into the air. As he and the brotherhood departed he looked back to see his son, unmoved.
"Come Pietro."
Pietro looked at his father then at the others. Calmly he walked over and stood next to Inuyasha, then turned and looked at Magneto. "No father, I don't think I will."
Magneto was shocked. His son had never disobeyed him. Clenching his teeth he looked at Kurt and Inuyasha.
"This is not over. I will be back for that girl, enjoy your time with her while you can." Then he started to fly off.
"Father."
Magneto stopped. Thinking his son had come to his senses, he turned back to face him. "Yes, Pietro?"
Pietro smirked. "I've always wanted to say this, ahm..Go to hell, you psychotic, fucking, bastard! There, I feel better now. Have a lovely day father." Pietro waved cheerfully at the retreating form of Magneto.
The five stood in silence for a minute before Inuyasha laughed and slapped Pietro on the back. "Hell yeah!! That was fucking great!"
Shippo launched himself at Quicksilver, hugging him round the neck. Rogue reached over and messed up his hairforgetting that she didn't have gloves on. It was only for a second so it just stunned him.
'Ahgoddammnit!!" She cried in frustration, yanking her gloves back on.
"Ha! You sound good like that Roguey."
"I'llshowyouRoguey,youlittlepunk!" Then they both began zipping all over the place.
"Oh yeah, that reminds me." Inuyasha turned to Sesshomaru. "What the hell are you doing here, you bastard?!!"
Sesshomaru didn't turn to look at him. Inuyasha stomped up to him in a huff. "Hey! I'm fucking talking to.oh."
Inu trailed off at the site of Kurt carefully lifting Kagome into his arms.
He was cradling her to his chest and gazing down at her in worry. Using his tail to move the hair out of her face, he brought her up and kissed her softly on the lips. After pulling away he kept their foreheads together.
"Please be alright Liebling." He whispered. Then teleported to the Institute.
Sesshomaru sighed and turned to Inuyasha "We can talk later otouto. Now, there are other things that are more important.
Inuyasha nodded.
Together the four headed for the Institute. They had many questions that needed answers.
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Well there ya go. I Hope you liked it. The next chapter will explain things, so if your confused don't worry it won't be for long. Please review and let me know what ya thought! Next time: Things get explained, the much anticipated Inuyasha/Sesshomaru confrontation, and why the heck is Kurt wearing armor, Pietro in tights, and Inuyasha waving around a pirate cutlass? Find out next chapter! Later. Sayin_girl.
