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A/N: This takes place after destroying Lothor and before DINO STORM.

CHAPTER ONE

Aching Hearts

Tori Hanson sighed as she watched her students finish their workout routine for the day. She enjoyed being a teacher at the Wind Ninja Academy along with Dustin, Shane, and Cam. She chuckled a little as she watched Marah try extra hard to keep up. Kapri had shown great promise in the Air territory. Marah however was torn between Water and Earth, so she had routine where she would take both classes until she found where she got comfortable.

Tori was depressed because it had been exactly four months since they had defeated Lothor and that meant exactly four months since Blake had left for Factory Blue. She was happy for him because he was doing what he wanted to do, but she really missed him. They all got letters and phone calls from him, and updates from Hunter whenever information was dropped. Last Tori had heard, dark and brooding Hunter had been dating Sensei Omano's granddaughter, who the wind rangers were anxious to meet.

"Sensei Hanson?" came a familiar voice. Tori snapped out of her trance and saw Marah had come up to see if she was all right.

"Class dismissed," Tori said, covering up her daydreaming. She bowed the class out and the students went on their way but Marah sat down next to her friend and teacher.

"Are you okay?" she asked. Tori sighed and smiled at the girl who was once her enemy.

"I don't know," she said before walking off, Marah looking after her with a look that said she wished she could help Tori.

"Hey babe," came a familiar voice. Marah looked up and smiled to see Dustin. He bent down and gave her a quick kiss before sitting down behind her. Kapri and Shane sat down next to the couple.

"Done for the day?" Kapri asked her sister.

"Yea," Marah said, somewhat sadly.

"What's wrong?" Shane asked.

"I'm worried about Tori. She dazed out of class again today," Marah explained. The yellow and red wind rangers glanced at each other and sighed.

"Let's see if we can do something about it," Dustin said.

"Where's Cam?" Shane asked.

"Where else?" Kapri and Marah asked. The guys chuckled, knowing that Cam was down working in Ninja Ops. Dustin kissed Marah again before following Shane down to Ninja Ops.

Over in England, Blake raced another practice lap at top speed. His fellow Factory Blue riders watched in awe as he raced his heart out with every turn. Roger Hannah sighed as he watched Blake ride. As happy as he was the Blake practiced on his own and got better all the time, he knew the reason Blake did it. A certain blonde in a picture Blake had beside his night stand was the reason. She and Blake's family were his inspiration to ride better and better, but he also rode a lot more than he should to get his mind off of how much he missed Tori.

"Hey guys, why don't you take a lesson from Blake and go practice on the other track!" Roger yelled to the other riders. The other guys, late teens to early twenties, sucked their teeth but went on their way as it was. Roger took one last look at Blake before taking out his cell phone and speed dialing his intended person.

"Hey Jerry, it's Roger. Do you think we can move some of the riders around? Make sure Bradley isn't scheduled for a little while....I'll tell you why when you've moved the schedule around so just do it," Roger ordered before ending the call.

Back at the Wind Academy, the guys had relayed their concerns to Cam and Sensei Watanabe.

"I mean, even if they're too chicken to admit how they feel about each other, at least seeing each other will help her," Shane said.

"Yea I've been thinking that for a while now, but what can we do about it?" Cam asked.

"You three and Hunter are her best friends, work something out. I will be okay with whatever you decide unless it involves human sacrifice," Sensei Watanabe replied before leaving the room, receiving off glances from the three boys.

"Dude, that was kind of creepy," Dustin said.

"That's dad for you, he's gotten a little relaxed, humorous, creepy, whatever you want to call it ever since we freed him and destroyed Lothor," Cam explained.

"Okay, back to the situation at hand, what are we going to do about Tori?" Shane asked.

"Maybe giving Hunter a call would help things," Cam suggested.

"I'm on it," Dustin said, running for the phone. The call went through to the Thunder Academy where Hunter was sitting in his head teacher's office. He was glancing through some papers and didn't even look up when the phone rang. He just reached over and put the receiver to his ear.

"Hello?" he asked. Dustin decided to have some fun and just belched loudly into the receiver. Hunter cringed a little at the volume of it but just switched the receiver to the other ear.

"What's up Dustin?" he immediately asked, receiving a chuckle at the other end.

"We've got a situation here," Dustin explained.

"Let me guess, Tori?" Hunter asked.

"How did you know?" Dustin asked.

"If she's anything like Blake, it was a given," Hunter said. He suddenly heard a struggle.

"Uh, hey man, it's Shane. Got any ideas of what to do with these two?" he asked.

"Send her on a trip to surprise him. I'll send you his schedule right now," Hunter said, taking out Blake's schedule from a file and putting it in the fax machine. Cam picked it up when it came to the Wind Academy.

"Got it man, thanks," Shane said.

"No problem, anything else?" Hunter asked. Shane handed the phone to Cam.

"Yea, are you really dating Leila?" Cam asked, knowing the Thunder Academy's granddaughter.

"Yes," Hunter said.

"Okay, that's all, thanks," Cam said.

"No problem, let me know how things turn out," Hunter said.

"Will do, bye," Cam said. They both hung up the phone and got back to business.

"Let's go book Tori a flight," Cam said. Meanwhile, back in London, Blake entered the group house and bounded up to his room. Upon entering, he was very weirded out to find his bags packed for him.

"Go see her," Roger said. Blake turned around to see his sponsor/coach in the doorway, holding out a plane ticket for him.

"What?" Blake asked.

"I've rearranged the schedule, you aren't doing any official racing for another three weeks. Go see her and decide if you really want to come back," Roger said, handing Blake the ticket and the picture of Tori off his nightstand. Blake broke out in a smile. He couldn't believe he was going to go see the woman he loved.

OKAY, WHAT DO YOU THINK? HOW IS THIS GOING TO GO? WILL THEY CROSS PATHS OR GET TO THEIR DESTINATIONS AND NOT FIND EACH OTHER? WHAT IS GOING ON?

Props to Tori Bradley for a great start to another GREAT story. READ FAMILY TIES!!!

A/N: I don't know if this'll be a short fanfic or not but I hope you enjoy none the less.