Disclaimer: *Yawn* Oh, what? I have to say I don't own Inuyasha or X-men: Evolution? Feh! S'not like anybody reads this anyway. Blah, blah, blah.and so on and so on. Yeah.
Authors note: Thank you sssoooo much to all of my reviewer's.you make me smileJ Anyways, Kin-chan Pandun and NightScream: do you two want your pictures in color or just in pencil? Get back to me so that I can let my friend know. If you want color though it'll take her a little longer, just ta let ya know. Also, to any Boom Boom lovers out there.please don't hate me, but I needed to make her look like a bitch. Sorry. Right, I think that's about all that I had to say this time so..LET'S GO!
Chapter Twenty: New Powers or Not?
Inuyasha woke up in his bed. He had no idea how he'd gotten there since he could distinctly remember falling asleep down stairs but he wasn't particularly worried about the mechanics of it.
Sitting up and rubbing sleep from his eyes, he listened to the general sounds of chaos that was the normal, soothing hum of the institute in the mornings, coming from the hallway outside his room.
Crawling out of the nice, warm, bed he stumbled across his room and rummaged through his drawers, pulling on something that vaguely resembled appropriate clothing for this time period.
Raking his claws through his long, silver hair and pulling it back to tie it with the length of leather that Kagome had given to him when he first came here, he stumbled into his bathroom and started brushing his teeth. After spitting out the strong tasting tooth-shampoo that Kagome made him use, he glanced at himself in the bathrooms mirror.
'It's to early to be up just to go to that stupid school! Why do humans force their young to go to that prison?' Then he snorted mentally. 'Sadistic bastards.'
Yawning again, he opened his door and stepped out into the hall.
"Watch out!"
He blinked in mild shock as Kitty ran right through him, turning and looking at her as she stopped and blinked down at her, suddenly empty, hand.
She turned back to him. "Whoop! Sorry about that."
Then she fazed her hand into his chest and rummaged around for a second until she pulled out her hairbrush.
She smiled sweetly at him, then turned and continued on her way.
A large, blue hand patted him sympathetically on the shoulder. Inuyasha glanced behind himself and blinked at Hank.
"I know how you feel." The large doctor said calmly.
Inuyasha watched as the man ambled on down the hallway.
Shrugging, the young hanyou just shook his head. 'This place is a mad-house.'
Continuing on his way down the stairs, another yawn snuck up on him.
WHUMP!
THUD THUD THUD THUD THUD THUD THUD THUD
CRASH!!
"Ow.." Inuyasha groaned from his new position at the bottom of the stairs, opening his eyes and staring up at the ceiling.
"Got you too, huh?"
He turned his head to see that Scott was sprawled out next to him, then over to the ice-slicked stairs.
"Bobby." He snorted.
Scott nodded.
Inuyasha sighed, then flipped himself back onto his feet, reaching down and hauling Scott up.
"Thanks!" Scott dusted himself off, then went off to only Scott knows where. Most likely to find Jean.
Inuyasha walked into the hallway leading to the kitchen, dodging a group of Jamie's and lifting his right leg just in time before Rahne in lupine form could knock him over.
Kagome darted past him and bumped into a vase.
Without turning, she threw her hands back and the vase stopped it's descent. Water half spilled out and frozen in mid-air.
Inuyasha blinked. "I thought you could only control time if it was directly related to you?"
Kagome nodded. "Yeah, that's the way it was, but ever since the jewel got stuck in my chest I've been able to control either a large area or a singular object." She flicked her left hand and it was like she'd hit the rewind button on reality. The water flew back into the vase, and the vase righted itself, looking like it'd never been knocked over.
Kagome smirked at him and blew on her hands. "I can also shift more than one person now too! And my powers don't go all wonky anymore!"
Jubilee came in from the kitchen, munching on a pop-tart. Trademark yellow trench coat on and pink sunglasses pushed up into her short hair. "Hey, Kag. You got your History homework?" The asian girl looked sheepish. "I kinda forgot mine. So I was wondering if I could use yoursyou know, just for reference. Promise to get it back to you before fifth."
Kagome's face transformed into panic. "Oh No! I left it up in my room!" Then she raced up the stairs.
Inuyasha again shrugged it off and continued on his sacred quest for breakfast.
In the kitchen he tilted and ducked his head to avoid the plates that Jean was moving around with her telekinesis, and made a bee line for the pantry.
Inuyasha was so busy rummaging around in search of something loaded with sugar that he never noticed as Jean left the room, or that Kurt had come in. Pietro had zipped in and out so fast that Inuyasha could be forgiven for not noticing him.
Of course, the sound of groaning metal certainly got his attention.
He turned to see Kurt standing completely still with a stunned look plastered on his blue face, mouth hanging wide open.
Then down at the refrigerator door dangling from the mutant teens right hand.
'Huh, well you don't see that every day.' Inuyasha thought as he blinked in amusement. 'It's kinda weird that I'm so calm. No demon rage at all today. Wonder why?' Then he shrugged. 'Oh well, maybe my two sides are finally getting along.'
Before he or Kurt could say anything a scream from upstairs diverted their attention.
"YOU BITCH!!"
"Kagome!" Both boys said, Inuyasha dropped his doughnut and Kurt shoved the fridge door back on. Albeit a little lop-sided, but it stayed on at least.
Running up the stairs they skidded to a halt to find that Kagome had Boom Boom cornered in the upstairs hallway. Tabby had a few charges in her hands, but luckily hadn't thrown them.yet.
Kagome's growl was so loud that it reverberated through everyone on that floor .
Inuyasha clutched at Tetsusaiga, where it hung at his waist. He wasn't aloud to bring it to school, but he sometimes put it on out of habit, then had to leave it in the trunk of Scott's car.
"What's going on?" Kurt asked, looking at Kagome in worry.
Tabby looked up and smiled at him seductively. "Your girl here just couldn't handle the fact that someone else thought they might have a chance with you blue." She winked.
Kagome's growl got deeper.
Inuyasha frowned. Something wasn't right. "Kagome?"
The girl in question turned to face them slowly.
Inuyasha bit back a gasp.
Her eyes were slowly bleeding red.
"Oh fuck." He whispered.
Turning to look at Kurt, he made eye contact then glanced from Kagome, to his sword, then back to Kurt.
Kurt nodded his understanding.
Walking forward slowly he held up his hands and tried to speak in a soothing voice.
"I'm very sorry Tabby, but I love Kagome. I'm afraid that theirs no chance of you and me ever working."
Kagome's growl quieted, and the red started to retreat.
Tabby, however, didn't seem to have any self preservation instincts.
Walking up to Kurt, she smiled at him. "Ah, come on blue, gimme a chance." Then she winked. "Might be fun, and besides" and this was when she really screwed up. "What she don't know, won't hurt her." She whispered, then placed her hand on his chest as he tried to lean away.
A feral roar boomed through the hallway as Kagome leapt at Tabby.
Inuyasha tackled her to the ground, then flipped her over and shoved Tetsusaiga in her arms. Holding it there as she snarled and snapped and bit at him in anger.
Shippo came stumbling out of his bedroom and jumped up onto Kurt's shoulder. "What's wrong with momma?" He asked fearfully.
Kurt reached up and pulled the kit down into his arms, rubbing his back. "I don't know, but Inuyasha can fix it.I hope."
Miroku and Sango had seen the whole thing and were confused beyond measure.
The red started to recede from Kagome's normally blue eyes until she was left blinking up at Inuyasha in confusion. "What happened?"
Inuyasha leaned down and sniffed at her, then rubbed the side of her head with his shaggy white one. " You ok now?"
Kagome just blinked up at him and reached up to pet his ear. "Yes. What happened?"
He backed off of her then sat down cross-legged, looking assessingly in her direction. "What do you remember?"
Kagome sat up, still cradling Tetsusaiga, and tilted her head in thought. "I came up here to get my homework, I was trying to be quiet cuz' Shippo was sleeping. As I came out of my room, I ran into Boom Boom." Kagome's forehead wrinkled in puzzlement. "She said something, what was it Oh yeah! She said that she was going to 'Have a try at that blue hunk' I thought she was talking about Dr. McCoy at first, which was a little gross, but when she mentioned Kurt, I told her that he was my boyfriend and she gave me this nasty smile and said 'So, I should care why?' and I was so shocked that she was going to go after him even knowing that he was mine and.." She stared up at Inuyasha with large blue eyes. "Did you know that you really do see red when you reach a certain level of anger."
Inuyasha blinked as her ramblings ended rather abruptly. "Yeah, justtry to control your temper from now on." Then he smirked. "Your starting to act like me."
Kagome stuck her tongue out at him. "Kami forbid!"
Kurt smiled and walked over to them with Shippo.
And that was how their day started.
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At school, Kurt was being very careful opening his locker. Gingerly and delicately opening the door. Sighing in releif when he didn't crumple it or something.
"What'cha doin?"
"GAH!"
He jerked and ripped the locker door straight up, then turned and blinked at a stunned Amanda.
Looking down at the severed locker door in his hand he quickly put it behind his back and laughed nervously. "Zes, lockers. De never vork right and zeh break zo easily." He grinned in hopes that she'd buy that.
Amanda narrowed her eyes at him. 'His accent's thicker. He's hiding something.' "Uh huh."
He turned and shoved the locker back on, as lop-sided as the fridge had been that morning, then looked back at his friend. "So what can I do for you?"
Amanda jerked her attention away from his mangled locker. "Where's your better half?"
Kurt affected a mock hurt look. "You wound me! Better half indeed! Vhat makes you say that?"
Amanda laughed at his goofy antics. Then pointed a finger at him. "She's your better half because she's the woman of you two."
Kurt pouted. "I could be a woman if I wanted too."
Amanda's nose wrinkled up in disgust. "Eeewww! I so did not need that mental picture." She punched him on the shoulder, while he pretended that she'd broken his arm. "So where is she?"
Kurt stopped faking injury, and shrugged. "She's with Inuyasha."
Amanda stared hard at him. "And that doesn't bug you?"
Kurt turned and gave her a surprised look. "No. Why should it?"
Amanda made a hand gesture to show her confusion. "Didn't they, like-like each other once?
Kurt was still confused. "They've always liked each other, why wouldn't they. Their litter mates."
"Huh?" She blinked.
Kurt put one holo-disguised finger to his temple and tried to think of how best to translate that. "Umrelated. Like brother and sister."
"Since when!" Amanda cried in shocked confusion as she stopped and stared at her friends back.
Kurt turned and blinked at her. "I thought you knew. I could have sworn I told you." His eyes looked very confused.
Not wanting to develop any more of a headache then she already had, she decided to drop it as they came up to Inuyasha's locker.
Kagome waved at them, and gave Kurt a deep kiss as he walked up and pulled her into a hug.
Inuyasha snorted and watched them in amusement. Then he shoved Kurt in the back lightly. "Come on you two, you know the rules, no mating in the halls."
Kagome giggled at him. "It's, no making out in the halls Nii-chan."
"Keh! Same damn thing. Come on, lets go."
Amanda watched as the three walked off down the hallway, waving to Kurt and Kagome automatically as they turned and waved back at her.
"You see it too?"
She looked at Rogue as the girl came up to stand behind her. "Huh?" 'Man, I'm starting to sound like a broken record.'
"They've been actin' weird all day, and I plan to keep an eye on them. Find out what's goin' on."
Amanda nodded. "Good idea."
Most of the rest of the school day went by without mishap. That is to say, that, Kurt didn't rip off any more doors and Kagome didn't loose her temper.
Inuyasha, though, was another matter.
It had been quite a shock for both him an Jubilee when he'd suddenly appeared in the second story girl bathroom after sneezing in the hallway on his way to the downstairs men's bathroom.
Both decided never to speak of the incident ever again.
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Inuyasha sighed as he munched on some of Kurt's hidden candy stash after school. 'What a weird day.'
The door bell ringing several times caught his attention, but he was feeling much too lazy to make the effort it would take to get up and answer it. 'This house is full of people, someone else can get it.'
When the ringing didn't stop he growled in irritation and got up to stomp into the hall and answer the damn door. He stopped at the sound of Rogue's voice.
"What are you doin' here swamp-rat?"
Looks like she got sick of the door ringing too.
"Ah, I be de new recruit dat de professor be waitin' for."
Inuyasha poked his head around the kitchen door frame to see Rogue standing with the back door open and talking too a tall man with red hair, wearing a trench coat and shades.
Inuyasha snorted and went back into the kitchen to finish off his stolen chocolate.
"Why didn't you just come with the other recruits then?" He heard Rogue ask sharply, he smiled in amusement. She had such a temper.
"Well, dat was cuz dis Gambit was doin' de Professor a favor, d'accord."
Inuyasha's ears twitched so that he could listen to the conversation.
"What favor?" Rogue asked suspiciously/
"Dat be a secret, non?"
Inuyasha smirked at the sound of Rogue's human growl and decided to walk in and rescue her from her unwanted company.
"Now don't be made cherie, I jus' can't tell you."
Inuyasha walked in just in time to see the Cajun pick up Rogue's gloved hand and place a kiss on it.
His hair fluffed out like an angry cats. And a growl rumbled in his chest.
Rogue turned and blinked at Inuyasha, yanking her hand out of the other mans grasp.
The hanyou came up and stood behind Rogue, glaring at the guy standing in the doorway. "What are you doing?" He asked through gritted teeth.
The other man smiled and lifted his glasses, revealing a pair of red eyes surrounded by black.
Inuyasha narrowed his own gold eyes. 'Is he some kinda youkai?' He gave a small sniff and discovered that the man smelled just like all the other humans that lived at the mansion.
Gambit smiled charmingly at the angry dog-youkai. "I was jus' greetin my p'tite belle."
Inuyasha snarled. He had no idea what that meant, but he didn't like it!
Before he could disembowel the annoying male, Kouga's voice sounded from behind him.
"Inuyasha, I need you to find Kagome and Kurt. I think I've figured out what happened. Meet me down in Hank's triage."
Inuyasha nodded, and throwing one last venom filled look Gambit's way, he stomped off to do as the stupid wolf asked.
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Several minutes later, Kagome, Kurt, and Inuyasha were back in Hank's office. Looking at the wolf youkai curiously.
Kouga cleared his throat. "Right, well, we think the bond worked. Kagome's powers are being filtered through the two of you and are now more easy for her to control. As long as the bond is still in effect it will tamper her powers enough so that she doesn't go flinging random objects into the time stream!" He laughed as if such a thing would be a hilarious joke, while the three teens laughter was much weaker.
Shaking his head, Kouga continued. " It was the other bit that had us worried however, and after observing you and talking to the other student's I think I've figured out what happened." He pointed at Inuyasha. "When you bonded, your Dog classified Kagome as litter mate, you see her as your sister. And you see Kurt as her mate or at least future mate."
Inuyasha, Kagome and Kurt all nodded. Inuyasha shrugged. "We already knew that wolf."
Kouga looked him in the eye. "You and Kagome are not related. At least you weren't until yesterday." Kouga smirked. "In fact, you were in love with her and wanted her for your mate."
Inuyasha and Kagome turned and stared at each other. Kagome's nose wrinkled up in disgust and Inuyasha stuck his tongue out as if he'd tasted something bad.
"EEEEWWWWWW!!"
Kurt smiled at them both, their disgust at the thought was funny.
Kouga laughed. "You may not believe it but it's true. Kurt and Kagome may start reacting as a dog-demon would. The blood flowing through their systems, may cause them to act on instinct. Now about the miko bond."
Kagome and Inuyasha stopped making gagging noises and turned to pay attention to professor Ookami.
"I believe what happened is that there was a power exchange between you three."
Confused blinking.
Kouga sighed, then walked over and picked up a one-ton weight, setting it down on the floor with a thud.
He pointed at it. "Inuyasha, pick it up."
Inuyasha shrugged and did as he was asked with no problem.
Kouga nodded, then turned to Kurt. "Pick it up."
Kurt gulped nervously, but walked over and easily picked up the weight.
Kagome goggled at her boyfriend in shock.
"Just as I thought. Kurt, say Osuwari."
Kurt was beginning to think there was something wrong with Dr. Ookami, but shrugged and decided to humor him anyway.
"Osuwari."
THUD!
"GODAMMNIT!!"
Kouga bit back his laughter and turned as serious a look as he could manage on the group.
It didn't entirely work, since his lips still twitched at the corners.
"I believe that the miko bond, also bonded your abilities, Kurt got strength from Inuyasha and limited miko abilities from Kagome. Inuyasha can probably control his demon side better from Kagome's calm nature, and if Jubilee is to be believed he can also teleport." He raised an eyebrow at Inuyasha's suddenly flaming cheeks.
Kurt turned large gold eyes in the hanyou's direction. "You can?!"
Inuyasha sat up and crossed his arms. "Feh!"
Kagome giggled and that drew Kouga's attention to her. "Kagome here, not only has better control of her mutant abilities but now has some of Inuyasha's famous temper, and she also got Kurt's flare for acrobatics."
Kagome blushed. She didn't think anyone had seen her do those back hand springs down the hall.
"You three are balancing each other now. There may be more changes that we aren't aware of at this point but we should know it all in time." He smiled, then turned at serious look on Kagome. "Your going to have to be extra careful about that temper, because of Inuyasha's blood, you could go demon, and that would be a very bad thing indeed."
Inuyasha thought about giving her Tetsusaiga, but he knew because of the laws in this land that she wouldn't be able to carry it at all times.
Kouga grinned and pointed at Inuyasha and Kurt. "And you two are going to have to help each other understand how to control your new 'talents'." Then he winked. "Just so that we don't have any more ripped off fridge doors or boys randomly popping into girls bathrooms."
Both boys flushed bright red. Kurt was glad for the first time in his life that he was covered in blue fur, it hid blushes really well.
Inuyasha snorted and changed the subject. "So what are you still doing here wolf? Didn't you already do what you came here for?"
Kouga smirked at him. "I'm a professor here remember? Xavier hired me for a reason."
Kagome turned to look at her old friend. "And? What's that?"
Kouga walked around and sat in Hank's chair, putting his feet up on the desk. "I am here to tutor Shippo. I'll be teaching him how to read, write and do math and history. I'll also be teaching him how to control his Kitsune powers."
Kagome smiled widely and turned to Kurt. "Oh that'll be great! Shippo is always so bored when we go to school. Plus! He always did want to know more about how to control his illusions."
Kurt nodded and imagined how excited the child was going to be when they told him.
Kouga smiled at the young 'parents' enthusiasm.
"Keh!" Inuyasha crossed his arms, but watched his little pack talking about their pup out of the corner of his eye. And smiled.
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Authors note: Hope ya liked it. More things happen with the bond next chapter. plus- Sesshomaru! Yeah! What was Remy's 'favor' for the professor? And the Inuyasha-tachi experience their very first Halloween. Hehe. See ya next time! Later. Sayin_girl.
