Oni was walking down the hall when he heard Jean scream. He ran as fast as possible to Jean's room. "Jean are you alright?" Receiving no answer, he tried the door, but it was firmly locked and there wasn't enough time to pick it. He drew back his hand and threw it forward literally knocking the lock mechanism out of the door. He opened it to see an unconscious Jean, lying on the floor. He knew she was having problems but not this bad!
He saw her communicator on her belt and he picked it up. "This is Oni. Medical Emergency, please someone report to the med bay as soon as possible!" He dropped the radio hearing it squeak but didn't bother with it as he picked Jean from the floor and ran to the medical bay.
He set her down on a table and a concerned Scott and Xavier entered simultaneously. "What's wrong!" Scott said in a worried tone. he saw Oni set her on the table. "What happened! what did you do?"
Oni looked to him for a milli-second. "I got her here. I heard her scream and well long story short, I found her unconscious a bottle of opened heavy asprrin next to her. I don't know anything more than that."
Professor Xavier noded and moved to her. "She's the doctor, but you healed that child can you heal her?"
Oni nodded. "I can try but I have to find out what the problem is first." He moved his hand to her head and sensed only minimal chakra and other energy there. He moved his hand down to her neck and sensed it there a large bundle. "Something is stopping the normal flow of energy and other things from her mind and its building up an excess. I can try and put it back to normal but there will be pain, I can give her something to help. Somebody go get my bag in my room and be quick about it." He wondered how Jean felt about homeopathic medicine. He would soon find out as Scott tore from the room as fast as he could.
Jean moved slightly, letting out a shaky breath. She could hear everything, and feel everything. "Ughn..." Her fingers quivered and some of the things in the medical facility shot around the room, being thrown against the wall. The glass was breaking, spilling medicine everywhere on the floor. Her eyes tightened as she squirmed, as if fighting an invisible force. Her breathing was hard and rapid. Their thoughts, frantic and scared.. Happy and joyful, loving.. So many of them. The things around the room quickened at amazing speeds, flying against the wall.
Her eyes popped open. They were burning red, red as the blood that ran through her veins. Her body started to glow like fire and she screamed, closing her eyes.
In a few minutes, the squirming stopped... The things flying around the room, dropped to the floor and her body returned to the pale state it was once in.
Oni saw the light show and the moving objects. "The blockage is going critical if I don't do it now..." Scott rushed into the room and gave him the bag. He reached inside and pulled out a scroll. He opened it in a flash and let it wave around as he bit down on his thumb making blood pour from the wound.
Scott and Xavier looked at him concerned as he ran his bloodied thumb down the paper making a line straight through the words, then the scroll rolled up and was set upon her head with speed. He looked to the Professor and Scott. "I need you two to think of nothing or focus on Jean. All of your good will all of your happiness focus that upon Jean. It would help if the rest of the school could do the same." He turned back as Wolverine, Storm, and Rogue entered the room. Professor Xavier gave them the same instructions as Oni focused out all distractions and began.
He began the process; same as any jitsu but it went on abnormally long and with each hand form a word in japanese accompanied it. He finally was done he called out: "Seki Chiyu Nu Jutsu!" He raised one hand high 2 fingers extended as the scroll unrolled and went the entire length of her body. He brought his hand with force and put them to the center of Jean's forehead and soon both of their body's began to glow. His a strong green; hers varying colors in varying places, but almost no glow in her head. Suddenly she screamed out in pain as her body aligned and the glow returned to his head. The scroll disappeared and Oni said. "She'll be fine now, she just needs..rest.." He said as he collapsed to the floor.
Storm rushed over to catch Oni and let out a sigh of relief as she did so. "..What is happening here?" She asked, pulling him up as Rogue came over to help. They laid him on the bed beside Jean and looked to the Professor. Logan's eyes narrowed and he looked to Jean. He wiped the tears from her pale cheeks. "What the hell happened?" He asked, a bit of anger in his voice.
He looked around the medical facility and then back to Jean. "..What was wrong with her?" He asked. He walked over to Oni and looked at him. "..So, this is one of the new kids?" Storm and Rogue nodded as Storm pulled a cover over him. She put her hand to his forehead and frowned. "..I think the both of them will wake up soon.." She said, nodding over to Rogue.
Logan stepped towards the Professor. "Can you tell us what went on?" He asked, a bit impatient.
Professor Xavier had a rare problem: he didn't quite know what happened. "I'm not quite sure. He told us that he found her unconscious after hearing her scream. He found her next to a bottle of aspirin apparently. He rushed her here and after getting the supplies he needed preformed what you just saw. Now I know enough Japanese to know the nine things he said with the nine hand seal's is the nine critical points in a human body. The rest, well, your guess is as good as mine. I knew something was bothering her but nothing this bad. She cant be so independent all the time even though she wants to be. She always hides her pain for the betterment of us all. If Oni wouldn't have been here... I really don't know what I would have done."
Logan suddenly had an idea pop up into his head. "What if he did it? Created a problem only he could solve! He's the only one that knows about this chakra crap. He said it was a blockage of chakra what if he did this?" Logan's claws extended and pointed to Oni. "What if he did it?'
Storm stood in front of him. "He didn't do this!" She looked into his eyes, her own growing white. "Why would he do that to her? He has no reason to.. Why would he do this to her, and then heal her.. Which takes up almost all of his strength? ...Why?" She would stand in front of him until Logan backed away. She looked over to the Professor. "..Why don't you ask her, Professor? You're the only one here than can unlock her mind.." She said, still standing in front of Oni.
She looked back to Logan. "You don't even know who he is.. He's not that kind of person. If it wasn't for him, Lacey would be dead as well.." Her eyes hardened. "So can it."
Oni slowly came to seeing someone in front of him and a pissed off person in front of her. He sat up clutching is head in pain and swearing in Japanese. "So.. Ugh.. What I miss? Hey I don't know what happened but can someone tell him to put the shish-kabob forks away?"
Logan was tempted to punch him right then and there. "You just about killed jean!"
Oni looked shocked and said, "What? I know she screamed but I was about to give her something."
Professor Xavier rolled forward. "Ok calm down Logan. I'll find out right now what exactly happened. With your permission, I'd like to enter your mind and find out exactly what happened okay?"
Oni looked down for a moment, "So long as you stay out of my past; its fine." He sat down as Professor Xavier put his fingers to his temples and a moment later said. "Calm down, Logan. He did nothing but help her, with something so complicated that I have a hard time understanding it. But that's all he did."
Logan nodded and withdrew his claws. He walked over with Scott and stood an Jean's bedside.
Jean's face twisted in pain. She growled and slowly opened her eyes, seeing all of them surrounding her. She put her hand to her head and closed her eyes. Her head was still pounding. She pushed herself up and looked around her. She looked to Scott, to Logan, then to the Professor. She let out a small breath. She didn't know what to say to them.. She was so ashamed of herself. She lowered her head, laying it on her chest and put her hands to her cheeks. "..I'm sorry." She said, sobbing silently.
Oni stood up tired though he was. "I don't think there's any need to apologize. Patients don't apologize, that they don't. I know your head must hurt something awful along with the rest of your body but please bear with me."
As he spoke he dug through his bag and got out a small clay bowl and stone. "You had a blockage of pretty much everything from your neck up, this included chakra. Thus resulting in your headaches, your neck probably hurt too am I correct? Anyway what I did was I linked My chakra and yours together and then synched them up. You'll probably feel a bit odd for the next day or so, like your in someone else's body, but it should go away soon." He got out a number of ingredients and mixed and crushed them into the bowl. He filled it with water and mixed it. "Here drink this, it tastes horrible but you wont be in any pain anymore" He sat down and thought of anything else he needed to tell her and he spoke up. "You'll need to see me for a while to make sure there's no long term damage." That also would give him an opportunity to talk to her about what was bothering her.
Jean wiped her tears away from her face and took the bowl and put it to her lips. She closed her eyes and downed it. He was right, it did taste nasty. She coughed a bit after swallowing all of it and looked down. She couldn't look into their eyes yet. She was so stupid, thinking she could take care of all of this by herself. She put her hand to her head. The pain went away, but she felt a little dizzy. She tightened her eyes shut and took a breath. "...Thank you." She whispered, and looked over to Oni.
She couldn't even look into his eyes.. She didn't know what would happen if she told Scott before, and she was afraid of what would happen now. She was also afraid that it would happen again..
Oni smiled and said. "No need to be sorry or embarrassed. There's an old saying, when you cant run you walk; when you cant walk you crawl... and when you cant do that, you ask for someone to carry you, that you do... You just missed that last step.. We all do from time to time" As he said the last word he clutched his chest and coughed, his last cough coughed up blood. Everyone in the room moved to help him. "No, I'm fine. I just used far to much chakra and I'm not used to it, I'll be fine." He wiped his mouth. "Jean there is one thing, what Ijust did is no small thing you need to treat it as if you just received surgery. I want you to remain in here tonight and I won't hear any arguments on that, understand?"
She looked over to him and smiled weakly. "Alright," she laughed. She paused for a moment and looked at him. She was more worried about him, then herself. She nodded and looked up to Scott. She slowly pulled him closer to her and rested her head on his shoulder. "I'm sorry I didn't tell you.." She whispered in his ear softly. "..I was just scared." She let him go and looked over to the Professor. She looked into his eyes and looked away quickly.
She watched as Rogue and Storm left the medical lab, saying that they should leave to let her have her rest. She sighed heavily and kept her head down. She let go of Scott and looked back over to Oni. "Thank You, Oni. You saved me... For that, I'm very thankful."
Oni nodded and got up, but promptly sat back down. "Well, I should stay here as well, and make sure everything sticks." He smiled, but in reality he was so exhausted he couldn't make it to the bathroom, let alone his room. He laid back and watched until eventually everyone but Scott left. He tried not to pay attention and dosed off.
Scott smiled. "It's alright, Jean. You don't have to worry so much, that's what got you here in the first place. So don't worry were not mad, okay?" He hugged her before saying, "You probably should get some rest if what Oni said is true. Alright?" He kissed her before slowly walking out looking at Oni and thinking, 'so that's what kind of man you are... Thank you, Oni.'
She nodded, hugging him back tightly. "I love you," she whispered to him before he left. She looked over to Oni and gave a smile. She laid back down on her side, and blankly stared at nothing for a few moments. She was relieved that none of them were angry, or even disappointed. Because that was what hurt the most. She sighed and pulled the covers over her curled up body, laying her head down on the pillow.
Oni sat up and said in a low voice: "Jean, are you awake still?"
Jean sat up and nodded. Oni stood even though that was painful. "Jean, I wanted to talk to you privately because this might be somewhat embarrassing. A blockage like that doesn't appear without something majorly wrong going on. Tt can be mental of physical so I need to tell you that if something is bothering you, something big, you need to talk to somebody and soon, be it me, the professor, or Scott. It's your choice but you need to talk to someone soon or what I did will merely be a stop-cap measure, do you understand?"
She pushed herself up and looked over to him. She paused for a minute, and opened her eyes. "I'm going to tell you something, that.. not a lot of people know about me. Not even Scott knows, well... He knows some of it." She sighed. "When I was 8, one of my friends, Amanda, and I... We were so happy, and playful. But, one day when we were walking to school, Amanda was hit by a truck.. Right in front of me." She paused. "..That's when my powers awakened. Unfortunately, I heard all of her thoughts when she was hit.. and when she died. After that, I went into something called catatonia, which is something like coma.. I guess." She looked up. "Only the Professor brought me out of it." She paused. "Ever since my powers have grown stronger, and stronger... Do you remember when I told you, that all of us have some dark side to us?" She looked into his eyes. "..My dark side.. Is Phoenix." She pulled her knees closer to her chest. "I have fought that dark side inside of me for years. And every time I use my powers, it gets worse and worse. Sometimes, I'm alright.. Like, when I'm making you guys breakfast." She gave a small smile. "But, other times.." She shook her head. "Its just so powerful. I can hear almost what everyone is thinking and every time they think it, it feels like my mind is being bashed with an 800 pound rock."
"But, what really scares me about.. About Phoenix, is that.. sometimes I want her to take over.. I want her to win. And, sometimes I like it." She put her head down. "I'm afraid that if it does happen, you won't just need to do a healing. You'll need to get some coffins." She sighed. "That's what I'm afraid of.. And, that part.. Not even the Professor knows. I've been perfecting this mask for years.. and He can't see through it. You're the only person that could ever see through it. The only person, in this whole house of gifted, mutant students.. You were the only one."
Oni didn't say anything for a very, very long time and then nodded. "I see... That's why you have two Chakra's. I can perhaps help you, much as my master helped me, you see I am like you, in that I have another thing living within me. You saw it within my nightmares. That was the first time of its emergence. It is something evil: pure evil I am like you also I sometimes want to release it, or I did. Whenever I was scared, whenever I was near death. It came out and, did things horrible things to protect me, because if I died it died, but I think I can seal it: your Phoenix, just as my master sealed the beast so it could no longer escape." As he said this, he took off his robe like thing and partailly unbuttoned hid tight fitting uniform to reveal something on his neck it was three marks surrounded by a complex array of rings.
"I can perhaps do the same for you, it depends upon your will however it is a high level jutsu and uses a lot of chakra. So I cant do it for at least a week, and Jean, the reason I could see through your mask is because I most the time put up one of my own... and because of my past... Just as you said to me I say to you; I won't tell anyone, that I promise." He smiled slightly. "It is when we do not allow our weaknesses to stop us is when we become truly great, at least that's what I think."
Jean looked up to him with a slight smile. "Thank you, Oni. I.. I don't know what I would of done, if you weren't here." She said, her smile widening. "Really." She said, pushing herself from the desk and walking over to him. She looked into his eyes and hugged him tightly. She needed it this time. She felt so much better, getting everything off her chest. It was a wonderful feeling, knowing that there was someone there that she could talk to. "..Thank you." She repeated.