"Talking in common language" ((Japanese or English, depending on where it is))

'Thinking'

"-Talking in uncommon language-" ((Japanese or English around people that don't know the language spoken))

"Makai"

Telekinesis ((Jean and Professor))

-Hiei's Telekinesis-

Kurama arguing with himself:

'Suuichi/Kurama'

'Youko'

Note: I do not write action scenes very well (if you haven't already noticed). Just work with me a little bit. At least I try.

Approximate power levels:

Yusuke: S plus

Kurama: A plus

Hiei: A plus

Yukina: B minus

Genkai: B minus (approximate power level at time of the Dark Tournament (?), and I don't think she got much stronger)

Gohan: S plus (without SS, because he doesn't transform in this battle

Trunks: S (without SS, because he doesn't transform in this battle)

Kagome: A (spiritual abilities. Otherwise, she is the physical strength of a regular human)

Inuyasha: A minus (with Tetsusaiga.)

Logan: B minus

Storm: C plus

Jean: B minus

Scott: C plus

Most other mutants: regular C and below.

Chapter 16: Battle and Secrets

The group arrived at the scene after changing, only to find a worn Storm try her hardest to push back the wind and rain. All of her efforts, though, were in vain, for the raging winds ran heedless on their path to the Institute. Nothing she did could stop them.

"This is no ordinary storm!" she explained, her eyes as white as her hair, which at the time stood straight up because of the winds surrounding her body.

Scott stood a few feet away, his hand to the side of his visor. He was ready for anything, or so he thought. Without warning, a low class demon jumped out of the shadows, its intended target being Storm. Scott shot at it just in time, but the power of the blast was not enough to deter the demon.

"Get out of the way!" Genkai yelled from her position. Obeying, Scott moved right before Genkai charged the demon. Instead of using any spirit energy, she simply used her martial arts to bring the demon to the ground, where it stayed.

"That was a scout," Genkai explained to the students—mutants, aliens, demons, and priestess alike. "Soon, they will send out the full scale attack. Do you see the lightning? It marks the center of the storm. When the lightning arrives, they should be here."

To Storm, who still was trying to push back the storm, she said, "I wouldn't keep doing that if I were you. You are only tiring yourself out for nothing. The storm is unnatural, and hence impossible to push back with the wind, rain, and lightning."

The rain steadily intensified, as did the stems of lightning and the sounds of thunder booming from the sky. All of the able-bodied X-men lined the front lawn of the Institute, as well as the students from Japan.

"I am SO ready to kick some real butt," Yusuke exclaimed before a flash of lightning set the surrounding forest on fire. The rain started to put it out, but the fire spread too quickly.

"Yukina, Iceman!" Kurama yelled, "Use your powers to stop the fire, so the forest doesn't burn to the ground!" He only yelled because of the increasing noise of the storm as it raged onward towards the school.

"Sure thing!" Iceman yelled. Kurama couldn't hear Yukina's quiet response, but he knew she complied from her actions.

Iceman extended his arm, letting the ice flow freely in the direction of the forest right on the edge of the lawn. Yukina just concentrated on the forest, allowing her powers to float into the flaming forest. Within thirty seconds, all of the tongues of fire were gone, and the duo allowed the rain to finish the job. Seconds later, the heat was all gone.

Truthfully, they had nothing against putting the fire out completely by themselves, but their help was needed elsewhere.

The next battle for the Institute had begun.

The first wave of demons and aliens appeared out of the smoldering forest. For the most part, they were unharmed by the fire, but a few of the lowest classes had a few burns.

Kurama silently accepted the job of protecting the students if necessary. Hiei, Gohan, Trunks, and Yusuke took the responsibility of jumping into the battle at the tree line. Genkai and Inuyasha fought alongside the mutants, while Kagome stood a distance off to shoot the demons with her arrows. Yukina was next to her, but instead acted as a sort of healing station and also for freezing a few of the enemies if at all possible.

The first wave was relatively simple to defeat, at least for those trained for battle against demons and aliens. The mutants had a few issues with actually killing the demons, but they knew that it had to be done to protect the Institute. Besides, it is harder to keep them alive with some of their powers.

The second wave (this group being of D class, the previous being of E class) also was relatively simple to get rid of. Sure the mutants were a little overwhelmed, but a few of attacks from Inuyasha's Wind Scar and some flicks of Kurama's Rose Whip killed most of the intruders.

Kurama fought off the demon that tried to get to Kitty, only to be confronted with the next wave of demons—this group C class. Needless to say, Kurama was certainly glad that Kitty could faze through stuff, lest Kitty have died right then and there. Even though C classes are weak to the Tantei, they are rather strong compared to a human.

At the tree line, Trunks and Gohan took care of the more powerful demons, while Yusuke took care of the irregular demons. Hiei went ahead alone into the forest to take care of a few demons before they could get at the tree line.

Mid-battle, Evan (otherwise known as Spike) was scratched up pretty badly by a humanoid alien. The blast from the alien's hand caught him off-guard, and he was unable to fend them off. Kurama lifted the bloody body up, and carried him off to Yukina, who immediately started to heal the fallen mutant.

The B class wave was very painful on the side of the mutants. Many of the demons were as powerful as Toguro, and considering that it took all of Yusuke's power to defeat that foe, well, it is obvious what happened in the battle.

Those of less than B class powers were sent back to wait until the rest of the group defeated the wave.

Then, everything stopped. The winds stopped their incessant blowing. The rain stopped falling. The clouds dissipated.

"It's too quiet," Inuyasha commented as he looked about. "That was way too easy."

"You're right, it was," came a voice from the forest. The crowd looked in the direction, and out of the woods walked a man, dressed in a business suit (1). "I have a few others who are willing to fight, but they would rather not take on a disorganized group such as yourselves. They prefer organization. So, in light of this, we have devised a plan. In one week, we shall hold another battle. It will be between my twenty A class and five S class allies. We shall hold the battle away from here—we shall tell you the location when we find it—and the winning side gets to live. The other side dies.

"I do not care if you fight one-on-one or not, but please, do not kill those outside of the battle, at least until a side is victorious. If you refuse to show up, then we will be forced to kill the weakest first, and slowly massacre you all until there is a definite winner."

With that, the mysterious man left back into the shadows, and the eerie silence left. A few birds began their songs as if nothing had happened in the first place. The wind returned to a regular breeze from the west. The only proof of what happened were the black mass of soot built up on the edge of the forest and the oddly shaped footsteps from the myriad creatures of all shapes and sizes that had invaded the school. A few ridges from where Inuyasha used his sword technique also silently spoke of what had occurred earlier that day.

Rogue got up to leave, saying something along the lines of "I need an aspirin". A few other mutants followed her.

"What do you make of it?" Yusuke asked the other Japanese students.

Before anyone could answer, Logan butted into the conversation, "I want to know what you guys know. There is no way that you could all fight those beings like that without training in that sort of warfare. Now, speak up, before I have the Professor expel you all."

"Shut up, ningen," Hiei said, knowing full well that Logan understood the Japanese word for human.

"Human? Are you saying that you aren't a human yourself?" Logan asked. "Answer me," he added when everyone's favorite fire demon answered with his trademark response, which he once again answered with to the second question.

"Hn."

"Please, tell us," Jean added, "We need to know who, or what, is on our sides."

Kurama thought to himself about whether to tell them or not. 'Should we tell them?' he asked Youko and Hiei.

'Of course we should, because these humans need to know who it is that they are dealing with.'

-Whatever you want to tell them is fine with me. I don't really care, because there is nothing they can do about it other than hurt themselves.-

"Fine, we shall tell you," Kurama said, "Our group, at least most of our group, is not entirely human. However, we would rather tell you all about it later, when we can address the entire school at once, for we do not like to repeat ourselves several times over."

"Are you sure this is a good idea?" Trunks asked, "I mean, you guys spent so much of your time trying to hide this, even to the point of teaching us different languages."

"I am positive," Kurama replied, Youko showing through a little bit, "They have the right to know who it is that they are dealing with. I would rather not deal with people who see me as an inferior."

"Woah," Yusuke said, "Calm down, won't you, Youko. And don't deny it."

"What?" Jean asked, thouroughly confused by it all.

"We will discuss Kurama's multiple personalities at a later date. Right now, I think that we should get a little break, and rest for a while," Yusuke said as he led the group off to their rooms, where they were planning on taking a little bit of a nap before confronting the rest of the mutants about their heritage.

END CHAPTER

(1) Why is it that bad guys seem to be businessmen? I wonder…

I should have made more, but oh well. My grandfather (as loving as he is) stole my jump drive, on which I write all of my stories until I get my own computer. So, I had to find the jump drive, only to add onto the story and put it back every time I heard someone coming down the stairs (because if he saw me with it, he would hide it somewhere else.

Well, I need to just post this thing before my grandfather comes in here and sees me on the computer…again….then I have to write on my other writing sites….

R&R!