Hey hey, I'm back with another chapter of Crimson Crystal. This chapter was mostly written by my friend 'cause it focuses on her characters the twins Miho and Mitsuko.

Many thanks to those of you that have favorited (or whatever you do on FF) the story it really means a lot to know people are enjoying it.

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Oh and if any one is wondering what Iru looks like here's a link to my DA account (erase the spaces) http: /iru23. deviantart. com/

Hurt

Chapter 3!

A few weeks had passed since Iru had stomped out of the mansion and in that time hardly anyone at the institute had seen Kurt seeing that he had lock himself up in his room only coming out to eat or to use the toilet and even then no one saw him, the only reason why they knew that he left his room was because of the strong smell of brimstone in the kitchen and bathroom.

Kitty was standing outside of Kurt's bedroom door doing her best to keep herself from just passing through the door, trying to reason with him.

"For Pete's sake Kurt how long are you gonna stay in there sulking? Kurt come on talk to me this ridicules you've been like this since you had that fight with that girl." Releasing a tired sigh Kitty continued. "I know that what she said was really nasty but it's been WEEKS get over it already." A minute or two of complete silence passed before she completely exploded and started shouting at the door. "FINE, IF THAT'S THE WAY YOUR GONNA BE THEN YOU CAN STAY IN THERE FOR THE REST OF YOU LIFE FOR ALL I CARE." Stomping of in anger Kitty left Kurt's door.

'Sorry Kathzhen, but for some reason I just can't let this go. Somehow I'm stuck between forgiving her or holding on to that anger towards her words.' Thought Kurt while lying on his bed. 'Wait a minute.' Sitting up he reaches foe the drawer of his nightstand. Picking up an item form the drawer he lies back down on his bed and looks at the item. 'I forgot to return the phone to her.'

"Iru is in general a very cheerful person but she can lose her temper very quickly. However she's not angry for long periods of time…normally. This is one of the few times she's angry for so long…but after what happened back then it's no surprise." "What did he mean by that? What happened?" Nightcrawler whispered to himself.

Elsewhere(on a roof)

"I may be completely nuts but I ain't stupid, I know when I'm not wanted somewhere so I'm doing all of us a favor and leaving before I do something I know I'll regret." "Who the hell asked ya? Ya blue furred freak." 'So much for not doing something I'll regret.' Iru thought as she sat down. 'Remember Iru think before you act other vice you might end up hurting not only other people but yourself as well.' "No kidding Ji-ji ."

"Who are you talking to…Iru."

"Go away Shadow I'm not in the mood."

"Ohh, touchy." Came a sarcastic reply. "What's wrong don't you wanna play."

"I told ya to go away." She growled while turning to look at him. "Why are ya even here?"

"Hey, can't a guy worry about his friend." Iru starts to chuckle while Shadow continues. "The air around you has been so thick for quite awhile now and I thought I should check on you." If he had anything else to say it was interrupted by Iru who suddenly started roaring in a void laughter.

"Ya, me, friends? Don't be ridiculous, ya were sent to frickin' KILL me. So if yer actually crazy enough to believe that I consider ya as my friend then ya've got another thing coming, 'buddy'." Iru spat in an angry manner.

"So I guess asking you to become my partner won't work?"

"Say what?"

"Man, is it your time of the month or something, one moment you look just about ready to rip my head of the next you look as confused as hell."

"Say the most random person I frickin' know about."

"Sooooo, what do you say?"

"Drop dead, asshole."

"I'll take that as a no."

"Yeah, you do that and I'll be going now." She growled as she turned to jump of the roof.

"You know...I don't think they're gonna accept you ." Shadow said with a smug grin.

"What are you talking about."

"The X-Men."

"The X-Men, that's the second time you've said that." She replied to him as she turned around to face him. "Who the hell are these X-Men?"

"You really are an idiot, you know that." He replied.

"You're starting to sound like my brother."

"I believe he was the reason you started fighting with one of the X-Men."

"One of the…." "That doesn't mean that he should stop caring." "You've got a horrible temper." "Your brother said that you have been acting like this for a while now, that something happened that has made you act like this." "You're unbelievable." Suddenly her eyes widened with shock.

"Yes, the one you fought with. He is an X-Man."

Without a word Iru jumped of the roof leaving Shadow behind with a creepy smirk on his face.

"ACHOOO!" A sneeze echoed through the halls of the Xavier Institute.

"That's the fourth time within a minute…..how much can one person sneeze?" Said a very irritated Bobby.

"Just be glad it's not you, I'd be going nuts if that were me." Said Jean while she shrugged to the thought of that being her sneezing up there.

Up in Miho and Mitsukos room Miho was trying to study for her English exam the next day but Mitsukos sneezes were not making it easy for her.

"I'm so tired of these sneezes!" Yelled Mitsuko as a coughing fit started instead of a sneeze she was waiting for.

"Look…I have to study for this English exam for tomorrow or Hank's gonna kill me so I'm gonna go to the library to study so you're on your own, sorry." Said Miho as she hurried out of the room before Mitsuko could protest.

Two hours later Miho made her way to her room again. When she remembered that she was late for a danger room session. With Logan. As Miho was running down to the danger room the professor used his telepathy to tell everyone that he had to leave for a few days with Hank and that Logan and Ororo were in charge while they were gone.

In the danger room.

"Every single one you are assigned to disable one machine within one minute without powers! And when you've finished you are to have close combat with the next person you see!" Logan called out to everyone in the danger room.

Logan had somehow managed to get Kurt out of his room to join the session but he was not at all happy about it.

"Logan, where is Miho?" asked Kitty as she looked around to see if she was there.

"Sorry I'm late!" yelled Miho as she ran into the Danger room.

"Well you're here now. Rouge fill her in and then get ready!" said Logan who was walking up to the controls.

"So ya have to disable a machine within one minute and then fight with the next person ya see." Rouge told Miho as they were walking up to two machines at the western wall of the Danger room.

"Ready!"

"Start!"

Miho jumped at the machine that had come to life and started to fiddle with the wires when the machine went to the left rather fast and she slipped. She hit the machine very hard with her side and felt a stinging pain where she had landed but jumped right back up and disabled the machine with no problem and the was ready to fight with whoever she saw next and that was Scott.

They started fighting and in about three minutes or so he hit her with his laser in her side where she had fallen on. She fell to the ground with a whine and she held her side with both her hands.

Scott immediately ran to her to see if she was alright when she tackled him down and burned a fraction of his sleeve and then whispered in his ear as she had a smirk on her face.

"You're dead Summers."

Scott scowled at her but then they started laughing as they got up but then the pain in Miho's side got worse and she grunted and grabbed her side.

"Hey, are you okay?" asked Scott who was a little bit worried about her at this point.

"I'm fine four –eyes." said Miho sarcastically as she winked at him and waited for Logan to tell them what to do next.

When the Danger room session was over Miho's side was only getting worse but she didn't pay any attention to it. She went to her room where Mitsuko was sleeping and she was snoring as loud as a snore could get.

Miho lay down on her bed and held her side.

"Damn, what the hell did I do to my side, this is killing me." She thought as she grabbed her side.

A knock was heard on the door. Miho got up and answered the door.

"Are you okay kid?" asked Logan who sounded a bit worried.

"Yeah. Why are you asking?"

"That was nasty fall you took, are you sure you're all right?"

"Yeah I'm fine nothing the matter here." Miho said with the widest smile she could manage.

"Well okay kid. Take it easy for a while though." Logan said still with that worried tone.

After Miho closed the door she fell to the ground with tears in her eyes as she held her side.

"I'm so sorry Logan for lying to you but I just don't want you to worry about me."

She pulled up her T-shirt to check out if this was just a bruise. The bruise she saw on her side was almost black but nothing looked to be broken.

"Just a bruise geez…my lucky day."

It was almost time for dinner but Miho just couldn't get out of her bed, it hurt too much. She just couldn't bear the pain.

Rouge who was Miho's best friend was a bit worried. Miho was always one of the first persons to the kitchen but she was nowhere to be seen. Rouge walked in the direction of the twins' room and knocked on the door. But no one answered the door.

"Miho? Ya coming to dinner?"

"Miho? Ya in there? Hello?"

But no one answered. Rouge opened the door and peeked in. She saw Mitsuko sleeping in her bad and Miho lying in her own bed. She was facing in the other direction.

"Miho? Ya okay?" Rouge was a bit worried at this point and walked up to her best friends' bed.

"I'm fine. Just leave me alone for awhile." Said Miho very weakly, almost whispering.

Rouge was now very worried. What had happened to her lively friend? She was never this down or this quiet for that matter. Something had obviously happened.

She sat down on her bed and forced Miho to look her in the eyes. She saw that Miho was crying. She had never seen her friend cry before.

"Miho? What happened?" Rouge was now holding her face with both her hands.

"It's nothing really." Miho said trying to smile and be the happy-go-lucky girl she was.

Miho was forced to tell and show Rouge her bruise.

"Miho ya have to tell Logan!"

"NO! I—I can't he'd kill me for lying to him."

"Well at least ya should call Hank and ask for advice or somthin'"

"Well…"

"Please? If not for ya self than for all of us."

"Okay, I'll call Hank tomorrow."

"Thanks. Ya gonna come to dinner?"

"No I can't."

"Want me to sneak some food to you later?"

"Yeah, thank you so much."

It's been three days since Miho got hurt and no one knew about it except Rouge.

Logan thought it was very weird that she had been so quiet for the last three days and he hadn't seen Miho since the last Danger room session. He thought it was a little to suspicious and marched up to the twins room and knocked on the door.

"Miho! I have to talk to you now!" Logan called.

At that same moment Kurt appeared next to him.

"What is going on Logan?"

"I wouldn't normally ask you this elf but…go in there and tell Miho that I need to talk to her now."

"But….."

"No buts just to it elf!" Logan said angrily.

BAMF

Kurt teleported into the room, which was black. He could barely see so he went turn on the lights.

CLICK

"Hey, what the…"

When the lights went on Kurt saw that Miho was in the middle of taking of her shirt, which lead to him catching a glance of the bruise on her side just before he was sent flying out of the room. And not through the door, but the wall.

Kurt had not been in the twins room for more than a minute when Logan just barely jumped out of the way as Kurt flew through the wall. He looked at Kurt and then into the twins room where Miho stood there with her hands curled up in fists and her hair was flaming. Mitsuko didn't even flinch, just kept on snoring.

Logan looked at Kurt and then at Miho and saw the bruise on her side. He felt worry boil up inside him as he started to ask her questions. "Miho. What in the world? What's going on? Where'd you get that bruise? What…" Before he could go on Miho interrupted him.

"Logan!" Logan shut up almost instantly. Sighing Miho continued. "Logan, I'm sorry but I didn't want you and the others to worry about me so I hid the fact that I hurt myself when I fell in the last Danger Room section."

"Didn't want anyone to worry? Staying inside your room for so long without a word. You honestly thought no one would worry."

"NO, but I thought it would feel better by now."

Breathing in and out Logan tries to calm himself down. "Have you spoken to Hank yet?"

"Yeah, he said that he would take a look at it when he got back."

"Alright fine. Just…just get some rest, ok?"

"Ok." Standing on her toes to look over his shoulder she added. "I think you'd better check if Kurt's ok though."

"Huh? Elf?" Looking over his own shoulder Logan remembered about the mutant that had been thrown out of the room.

"It's good to know that I'm not completely forgotten." Kurt said in a sarcastic tone while glaring at the two of them.

"Sorry about that Kurt. Force of habit, you know." Miho replied while Logan helped Kurt to get up.

"Yes I know."