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Authors note: I'm sorry it took so long, but here it is! Thank you all for voting, and since I still couldn't decide I came to the conclusion that I would just do both! And to Tammy( ) I'd like to say that I never mention anything in the story that I don't follow through with. Have patience its in the plans and I think you'll be surprised. (wink) So sit back, and enjoy the new chapter!

Chapter Twenty-Five: Normally Abnormal

Kagome sighed as she folded one of Jamie's shirts. She and Rouge had been assigned laundry duty. One of the less appealing duties handed out. It really was amazing how much dirty clothing the entire household could accumulate in only two days.

She was very glad that the craziness of the holidays was over with.

Although she had to snicker over the guys new-years-bash.

Not one of the boys more intelligent decisions. One of them, as yet to be determined by the girls, (Kagome had her own guess coughPietrocough) had decided that they where suffering from estrogen overdose and had declared a boys night out.

Although it had been funny to see them all come stumbling home, she had felt sorry for her poor fuzzy. His metabolism was so high that only a little bit would get him roaringly shit-faced. And he'd had more than just a little.

Inuyasha on the other hand was Kurt's opposite. His metabolism was so low that he could go several days without having to eat or sleep or drink.

That being said it must have taken an ungodly amount of liquor to get him sloshed.

Another thing she'd learned. Inuyasha talked when he got drunk. Alot!

In fact, she and Rouge had had a hard time getting him to shut up, and he only complied after he'd latched onto Rouge's waist and snuggled up to her, growling in a purring sort of way.

Then he'd passed out.

After they nursed the whinny boys the next day, things had returned to mostly normal.

Well, as normal as abnormal could get anyway.

In fact, things had been a little too normal.

She was waiting for the other shoe to drop any day now.

Her musing was cut short when she noticed that it had become strangely quite all of a sudden. She couldn't even hear the sound of Rouges grumbled cursing anymore.

Stretching out her senses, she searched for her gothic friend.

Only to feel an unknown presence coming fromup?

Kagome glanced up and blinked at the large glob of noxious green goo headed for her face.

'And this would be the other shoe.' Her last thought before darkness consumed her being. 'SometimesI really hate being right.'


Pietro gulped as he stood outside the gameroom.

He could hear Inuyasha and Kurt trying to rip eachother to shreds digitally. And laughing in a rather disturbing fashion the entire time.

He did not relish what he was about to do. Sometimes being a good guy and actually listening to ones conscience was damned annoying.

And damned dangerous.

What he was about to do could easily be likened to walking into a room full of explosives with a lit match.

Let's just hope they didn't take it out on the messenger.

He was too young and devastatingly attractive to die!

'Just go in there and tell them.' An amused mental voice sounded in his head.

'Shut up you sadistic old bastard! Two of your students have gone missing and all you can do is try to push me towards my possible, painful, death!! What good are you?!'

Professor Xavier's voice only got more amused. 'I'm sure it won't be as bad as all that Mr. Maximoff. And besides, if worse comes to worse, you could always out run them.'

'Oh, so not helpful' He hissed back before slamming up the mental walls he'd been taught since before he could speak and preparing to face his doom.

He tugged the wrinkles out of his shirt and ran a hand through his hair. If he was going to die the least he could do was make a handsome corpse.

'Now how to go about this?' his mused as he stepped cautiously into the room.

Of course, Inuyasha, being as highly tuned as he was, glanced up at him as he came though the door.

Resulting in his sudden on-screen death at the hands of his fuzzy rival.

With a snarled growl at the dancing elf he swung his penetrating glare onto Pietro.

"What the hell do you want!" He barked in irritation. He never did like to lose.

Poor Pietro just about pissed his pants! (Ha, try saying that five times fast.)

The glare had the effect of causing a short circuit somewhere between his brain and his mouth.

"MY DAD TOOK THE GIRLS!!"

And apparently his self-preservation instincts.

Everything became deathly silent.

Pietro took one look at the red that was slowly bleeding into Kurt's eyes and the growl that was quickly building in volume to rattle through his bones and decided that now would be a good time to go and get that milk Storm had asked him to retrieve earlier.

Canada had nice weather this time of year didn't it?


Kagome groaned as she came back into awareness. Hear head hurt so badly that she didn't dare open her eyes.

'Lets see. Can't move arms or legs. Currently strapped to something hard and about the same temperature as ice. Yep everything is in order. Now all I need is'

"Ah, your finally awake I see."

'And that would be the annoyingly smug evil guy, about to generously bestow upon me his most ingenious plan.'

"You my dear are going to help me. Aren't you?"

"Right, like I actually have any say in this. Can we hurry this up, my butt is going numb and my wrists hurt." She deadpanned.

"Sarcastic little brat aren't you?"

Kagome shrugged.

"No matter. You will help me whether you want to or not." She could hear the uncaring shrug in his voice.

Forcing her eyes open through sheer strength of will alone allowed her to see Magneto. Seated in a metal chair and looking quite proud of himself.

'That chair cannot be comfortable. Wonder if his butt is going numb too?' She mused while trying to work her hands free.

Magneto tisked and waved a finger at her. "Now, now. I know all about your power. I know that you control it through hand movements, so you see I really can't unbind you just yet."

She was getting tired of this. "What do you want?" she bit out through clenched teeth.

He seemed more amused than worried about her anger. "To help our kind. With your powers."

She started yanking on the bands of metal holding her in earnest now. "Like that's gonna happen."

His smile was not a nice smile. "Oh you will.unless of course you don't care what happens to your friend." A wave of his hand had the thing she was strapped to spinning around.

Rogue was hanging from a large magnet directly across from her.

'Oh no.' "What are you going to do." She asked. Trying to keep the fear out of her voice. Now wasn't the time. Inuyasha and Kurt would be showing up any minute now. She had to believe that.


"Ok, so now what?" Miroku inquired of the other members of the rescue party.

"First thing we need to do is scope out the situation." Scott murmured, almost to himself. He turned and looked at Inuyasha. "It's a good thing you caught him before he took off, otherwise we'd have never found out where his fathers hideout was. How did he know anyway?" He frowned suspiciously.

Kurt shrugged. "He said something about an anonymous call from someone named blue." He scratched his head. "I wonder who it was."

Scott turned to look back at the building. "But how do we get in? The place has to be crawling with alarms and traps."

"Keh." Inuyasha just waltz right on up to the large gate. Planting himself in front of it and crossing his arms.

"Well, well, well if it isn't the X-freaks."

He glanced up to see that most of the brotherhood was standing just on the other side of the gate.

Using his wonderful communications skills he politely inquired

"Oi, do you have my bitch?" Then as an after thought he jerked his thumb behind him at Kurt. "Oh, and his too."

His rather straightforward attitude seemed to throw them off for a moment before they shook it off.

The one known as Avalanche stepped forward. "Yeah, we've got them." He smirked. "What are you gonna do about it?"

Inuyasha smirked right back, bearing a healthy set of fangs. He cracked his knuckles.

The brotherhood didn't seem very impressed. Or concerned for that matter.

"Good luck getting through dog breath." Lance laughed. Crossing his arms to mimic the Inu-hanyou.

"What do you mean?" Scott demanded.

The other mutant shrugged. "Just like I said, good luck. Magneto has it charged to some specific magnetic frequency. The minute you try to get through it'll short your Mutant powers."

Inuyasha snorted and Miroku just shook his head. Both walked right through the gate.

Miroku looked at them in a pitying manner. "My dear sir, who ever said that we where Mutants?" Then a decidedly evil grin for a monk appeared on his face.

The brotherhood looked really nervous now. Then Lance shook it off and laughed. "Don't matter if you can get through" he pointed at the two mutants on the other side. "They can't."

Inuyasha scoffed. "Like I need their help to kick your ass."

But Lance wasn't paying attention to him, he was looking at Kurt.

"Hey fuzz butt, that's a nice piece of ass you've got for yourself. Kagome wasn't it?" He grinned in a lecherous manner. "Mind if I take her for a ride?"

Lance was never considered one of the brightest crayons in the box. He also wasn't very lucky. And the fact that a scream sounded from inside the mansion at that exact moment didn't help matters any.

Especially since it was definitely Kagome's scream.

Something inside Kurt seemed to snap and his world turned red so fast he thought he'd been run over by Inuyasha.

The next thing he knew he had Lance in a choke hold, snarling.

"Holy shit!" Lance wheezed.

"Don't you touch her! Don't you even think about it!" Kurt hissed.

Scott grabbed his shoulders and tried to yank him off of the other boy. "Kurt, come on man let go."

After a short struggle his anger seemed to cool a little and rational thought began to return. Kurt turned a confused look on his goggled friend. "How did you get through the gate?"

Scott pointed behind him to the destroyed gate. It looked like a train had barreled into it. Kurt's eyes widened in surprise. "How did zat happen?!"

"Who cares about the fucking gate! What the hell happened to me?!"

The mutant boys turned to see that the yelling had come form Inuyasha.

Orat least, they thought it was Inuyasha.

He still had the same ears as before, and hair.

Only now he had a lot more of it.

His body was now covered in silvery/white fur. His legs where bent as Kurt's used to be but with a more canine angle. His arms and hands appeared the same except for the black pads on his palms, and his face had altered to look more like a dog.

There was nothing wrong with his voice however, and he proceeded to prove it by displaying his impressive vocabulary.

Kurt blinked and stood up, or at leasthe tried to.

A weight on his back almost threw him over but something instinctively shot out from both of his shoulder blades to balance him, like the pole that the beginning tight rope walkers used.

He stiffened. "Vhat iz on mine back?" He accent had gotten worse in his growing fear and confusion.

Inuyasha stopped ranting long enough to turn and see what had the other two so fascinated.

His muzzle fell open in shock.

Kurt looked like a demon. A full demon.

Like most demons he looked mostly human, with a few rather notable differences.

His hair was the same blue/black that it had always been, and he had the fangs and claws just like any youkai would. There was a single dark blue stripe on each cheek right under his eyes, which by the way had changed to a startling silver color bordered in blue.

It wasn't any of these things that held the others attention though.

It was the massive set of black feathered wings that sprouted from his back.

At least his full height on each end, they where fully spread, to catch his balance.

Inuyasha summed things up in his usual manner. "What the fuck?"

A blinding flash of pink light drew them back to their original goal.

"Kagome!" Rogue!"

And both newly changed individuals darted into the building.


( A few minutes earlier)

With a negligent wave of his hand Magneto brought the magnet Kagome was strapped to and the one Rogue was on closer to him.

Rogue was just starting to stir as Magneto reached up and removed her gloves.

"What are you doing?" Kagome demanded.

He didn't answer, just tossed the gloves aside and stood between the two magnets. Another wave of his hand ripped the shackles holding Rogue's hands above her head forward.

Rogue gave Kagome a confused look and started to struggle.

Magneto paid no attention.

"What are you planning to do with us?!" Kagome demanded again.

He finally looked at them.

"I'm going to borrow your delightful ability's for a while." He returned.

"For what?" She tried to slip her hand out of the metal.

Magneto smiled. "I suppose you deserve to know that at least." Then he slowly directed Rogue's hands closer to Kagome's face.

Rogue choked in horror, struggling to pull her hands back.

Magneto continued without so much as a flinch. "I'm going to have Rogue here borrow your powers, and while they are channeling to her, I will use the magnetic energies between you to send us back into the past."

Kagome tried to send Rogue a comforting look while still glaring at Magneto. "Why would you want to go back to the past?"

He smiled pleasantly. "To make sure that I am in charge in the future. To ensure that mutants the world over are treated like the advanced species that we are."

Kagome gaped at him. "Your nuts!"

"Maybe, I guess we'll find out won't we."

Rouge was still fighting, her wrists starting to bleed from her efforts. "No!"

He grinned. "Yes." And forced Rogue to touch Kagome's face.

Some one screamed, Kagome wasn't sure if it was her or Rogue or both. It felt like that witch Urase all over again. Like her soul was being sucked out.

Then something changed, like a rubber band snapping. The energy changed.

"What's going on? This isn't right!" Magneto bellowed.

Kagome's eye's snapped open as the jewel in the center of her chest started pulsing. She distantly noted that Rouge's eyes where also open and completely pink.

Another pulse.

Guardian

'What?' Her mind was fuzzy.

"What is this?! This shouldn't be happening!!" Magneto continued to rant.

Then with a combined scream both girls disappeared as a pink and white light exploded out and rushed through the entire room.

The door burst open and a winged figure flew towards them.

'AnAngel?' Then all was black.


Kurt shifted on the chair that he'd placed next to Kagome's bed. It had to be turned around backward since he couldn't sit normally without his wings getting in the way.

They had barged into the room to find Kagome and Rogue lying amidst the rubble of some giant machine. Magneto was nowhere to be found.

Inuyasha was seated next to the other bed where Rogue was placed.

He'd snarled at Hank when he'd tried to take her out of the hanyou-turned-mutants arms.

Thinking about that reminded Kurt of what Kouga and Hank had said about their newest change.

("You switched blood"' The wolf youkai had said nonchalantly.

"What?" Inuyasha hollered.

"Look. When something stresses out one of you, the bond reacts in whatever way it perceives as the best course of action to keep everyone alive. When Kurt barreled into that gate, it knew it would hurt him, so the youkai blood awakened and called all the rest to help. Since Inuyasha had it all, it's like you switched. Kurt turned demon, and Inuyasha turned Mutant."

"Then why doesn't he have dog ears?" Inuyasha demanded.

Kouga sighed in a long-suffering manner. "Because the blood reacted as it would if he had been born a demon. Your not covered in blue fur are you?"

"No." Inuyasha scowled.

"So how do we switch back?" Kurt interrupted.

Kouga had just shrugged again. "Don't know. Guess you'll have to figure that out on your own."

"Some help you are, fucking wimpy-wolf!" Inuyasha snapped.

"I'd like to see you do better dog-shit! Ha! You really are a dog now huh?" The wolf had laughed.

Inuyasha just growled. While Kurt had tried to go through the door and almost clipped his wings.)

Sighing, Kurt turned his attention back to the present. Brushing back some of Kagome's hair he looked over at Inuyasha.

The dog-hanyou was tenderly licking at Rogue's wrists. When Hank had tried to stop him he'd growled at the older mutant and snapped at him. Then mumbled something about his saliva having healing properties.

"I think we need to try to turn back to normal." He said quietly.

Inuyasha just nodded, "How?"

The winged mutant-turned-demon tilted his head and thought, running his fingers absentmindedly though his girlfriends hair.

"Well, if intense emotions can trigger it, can't they change it back?" he guessed.

"Again, how." Inuyasha went back to healing Rogue's wrists.

"Well, I was mad so.try making me mad again."

Inuyasha snorted. "You're an idiot."

Kurt glared. "Don't you want to turn back?"

His friend cast a glare up at him. "Course I do! This shit itches!" he scratched at his leg in irritation.

Kurt sighed. "Fine, I give up."

With an annoyed sigh, Inuyasha placed Rogue's hand back on the bed and sat up straight. Then closed his eyes.

A few minutes later, a light appeared around them both and Kurt felt the weight on his back disappear and the familiar itch of fur all over his body. When the light died down he saw that Inuyasha had returned to normal too.

"How'd you do that?" He asked in shock.

Inuyasha smirked. "Keh, that was easy. I just called my blood back."

Then he said no more on the subject.


A few days later, the girls had regained consciousness.

Sitting up in bed, Kagome mused over what Hank and the professor had told them.

("As long as the jewel remains incomplete, your powers will be unstable." Hank had said gently.

Kagome sighed and looked at the white bed covers. Then up at the professor. "I thinkwe need to go back. To finish this." She had reached up and placed her fingers on the jewel. It felt warm.

Professor Xavier nodded. "I understand."

She smiled weakly at him, then felt a warm, fury hand envelope her own.

Kurt grinned at her, flashing his fangs that he knew she liked so much. "I'm going too.'

She shook her head "Kurt, it's to danger-" her protest was cut off by his lips.

When he pulled away, she blinked then opened her mouth to try again.

Again he kissed her until she thought she'd melt.

When her head stopped spinning long enough to think, she looked up at him. "Your going to keep doing that until I say yes aren't you?"

He grinned again and nodded.

"Don't think ya'll are goin' anywhere without me."

Inuyasha had smirked. "Keh! Like those weaklings could stop you even if they tried bitch."

Rogue smiled evilly at him and patted the foot of her bed "Why don't you come sit-'

SLAM!

"WHAT THE FUCK?!" Inuyasha bellowed from his place, face down on the floor.

Kagome turned shocked eyes to the adults in the room.

Hank had gone over and checked Rogue, but couldn't find anything different.

It was the professor that solved the mystery. "I believe that Rogue may have absorbed some of Kagome's special abilities during their ordeal."

Kagome and Rogue had grinned evilly at each other and then down at the suddenly still hanyou.

"Osuwari." "Sit."

SLAM! SLAM!

Kurt laughed his ass off. At least until Kagome had turned that disturbing smile on him. "Don't push it fuzzy, I can still make a collar for you."

He shut up.)

Smiling at her thoughts she looked up as the door slid open and the boys came walking in. K.J was balancing the breakfast that they'd cooked carefully in his hands while Shippo delicately brought in the drinks.

"Look mom! Me an Shippo made it all by ourselves!" He said, puffing out his chest.

"I can see that sweetie." She ruffled his hair as Shippo crawled up onto the bed next to her.

He grinned sheepishly and shuffled his feet. "Welldad might have helped a little."

"Did he now?" she looked up at Kurt who was grinning at her over his future son's head.

Looking over she saw that Inuyasha was gently waking up Rogue.

She smiled. Even if neither would admit it, she could tell that they liked each othera lot.

She went starry-eyed thinking about what a cute couple they'd make.

"KASCH JIRO WAGNER!!!"

Kagome jumped, spilling juice all over Kurt.

K.J stiffened. His tail standing straight out and his fur prickling out like a scared cat.

Stomping could be heard heading right for the medical room door.

The noise seemed to snap him out of his shock, and he turned and darted into Inuyasha hair.

The hanyou blinked then reached up and tried to get him out.

The door banged open, and a little girl stood in the doorway.

She was petite, with long red hair. Two white streaks in the front. Gold eyes, little claws, fangs and best of alltriangular fuzzy ears perched right on top of her head. Red ears, with little white tips.

She stomped right up to Inuyasha with a familiar scowl fixed on her face. It changed as she glanced up at the older hanyou who was giving her a curious look and sniffing.

She smiled in a very sweet manner. "Hello daddy, have you seen Kasch?"

Inuyasha blanched. 'D-d-daddy!'

She caught site of the black tail sticking out of his hair. "There you are!" she grabbed it and yanked K.J out.

He scrambled for a hold, grabbing Inuyasha's hair and clothes, then finally the floor.

"Wait! I want to say good-bye!"

The little girl snorted. "You'll see them again in a few years so stop bitching. Auntie had to send me here to get you, do you have any idea how much shit your in?"

K.J whipped around and glared at her. "Kara! Your not supposed to swear!"

The little girl winced and glanced up at the frozen hanyou. "I didn't mean to daddy, so don't punish me when I get back, k?"

Inuyasha just twitched.

K.J stood up and dusted off, yanking his tail out of Kara's hand with a scowl. Then looking over at his parents and Shippo. "I guess I gotta go."

Kagome grabbed Kurt and smiled through her tears.

K.J turned and grabbed Kara's hand. "She's right though."(For once) he mumbled only to have her smack him in the head. (Ow!) He rubbed at his head then turned back to the others. "I need to get back to my parents, I mean you, I mean" he looked confused.

Kagome smiled. "I know how you feel baby."

He grinned and shrugged it off like only children can, then waved. "I'll see you in a few years! And that thing that happens with the fire when I'm four isn't my fault!"

Kagome's eyes narrowed. "What fire thing?"

K.J pretended not to hear. "Bye! I love you!"

Kara waved. "Bye Mommy! Bye Daddy!"

"K.J what fire thing?!"

He and the little girl disappeared in a flash of light and sulphurous smoke.

Kurt looked over at Rogue and grinned. "Hey, was it just me or did that little girl look a lot like yo-"

Rogue growled at him. "It was just you."

Inuyasha twitched again.


Authors note: Hope you liked. The next chap will be the X-over. Let me know what you thought. Sorry if it sucked. I tried. K.J's name was chosen for it's meaning. Kasch is German, meaning 'like a blackbird' and Jiro was chosen because it means 'second male' since he's second after Shippo. Wagner is self-explanatory. Next chap should hopefully be out sooner. Later. Sayingirl.