Thank you all who read and reviewed. Okay so here goes the new chapter. And I guess 1 more chapter left on this story, not more than that, but again I cannot guarantee because I don't have the story written complete. But don't worry because mine is the same case for each story.

I just write a chapter when I know how to proceed with the story...and simply write the chapter and post it. That's why my chapters are not actually proportional to each other in terms of words.

If you ever find that the link of the story is broken in between any chapters, feel free to message me and correct me. I will correct it because sometimes even I don't realize when the succeeding chapter is not synchronizing with the preceding one.

Okay...I think you are getting bored with my nonsense talking...hahaha...here is your chapter. Read and enjoy!

I don't own Power Rangers Samurai/ Super Samurai.

Chapter-4-THE SECRET REVEALED

It was the same traffic circle where four eyes met again. But this time none had the guts to say something. There was no "Are you the red ranger?"

Or

"You must be my peeps!"

This time , the air was still and what was loud and clear was just the beats of their fast pounding hearts. All they wanted was for a man clad in red to ride up on a white horse and say holding up a pentagonal zord," Yes! I am the red ranger".

But today this was beyond expectation.

Mike managed to move a step forward. Kevin and Mia too tried to move and before they knew they were all engulfed into a bear hug, unable to control the tears, both from happiness of seeing each other again and from the news that shook their lives to the core.

After their hearts were satiated from the hug, they moved back a little only to discover that Emily was not involved in the hug.

"Emy, come on...we missed you" said Kevin.

But she was lost in her own world, her world of determination and will to save Jayden. She was more furious than before because now they were officially in the Panorama city, the city that had the Shiba House in it, the city that had Jayden in it.

She had no strength to even acknowledge the company of her friends, all she wanted was Jayden to be safe and healthy again.

Before she knew she moved quickly towards the black samurai SUV and without uttering a single word simply sat down on of the seats looking out of the window and without even shredding a single tear.

"She is obviously affected the most"

"Of course Mia, we all know her very well, even her tears are failing to express what she is thinking right now."

"Come on Kev, let's hurry, we have a duty in hand and at any cost we could not fail it."

"Wow..Mike, happy to see you so determined!"

"Come on Mia, Jayden needs us."

With this said they all got settled at the back seat of the computer driven SUV while Emily was all by herself on the passenger seat.

Since it was an hour and a half's drive to the Shiba House, Mia decided to initiate a conversation so that no one suffers mentally in the prevailing silence.

"So Mike, you and...well...Emily...um..."

"Mia, it was over within a month we left together. We both realized that we were both more of siblings than anything else."

Mia and Kevin were shocked to say the least. They just glanced at Emily but realized she had already dozed off because of tiredness.

"And it has always been him, from the beginning it was him and it will forever be him. It's not her fault at all because she too realized it after we left, ours was just a small crush that is now long gone."

"So, she has liked Jayden all the time."

"No Kev, she has loved Jayden all this time."

All of them grew quiet and stared at Emily who was sleeping peacefully and realized how much Jayden's illness has affected her.

"So Mike what are you doing nowadays?"

"Oh nothing! I am taking a course in game programming and wish to make a career in that. You are preparing for the next Olympics, aren't you?"

"Yeah, but I don't know if I will be able to take part anymore",Kevin smiled.

Feeling the awkwardness grow, Mike changed the topic.

"Mia, more of cooking?"

"Um...yes and no...actually I just left my job at the daycare center and I just dropped the cooking academy."

"But why?"

"Mike...stop being an idiot! Jayden is family and with the job in hand it was not possible for me to leave."

Kevin and Mike smiled at Mia impressed by her motherly as well as sisterly attitude for Jayden.

After half and hour or so Emily's eyes shot open and 3 words escaped her mouth,"The Shiba House"

All three looked confused but soon realized that the car had stopped and when they looked outside they could clearly see that, yes ,they were outside The Shiba House itself.

Big smiles adorned their faces as they stepped out of the car. They were finally with their friend.

Emily too came out and now everyone can clearly see a single tear escape her eye and roll down her cheek as she smiled to herself.

Just as they were going to approach the house the gate opened and in came their golden friend catching his breath. His grin grew very wide seeing his friends after what feels like eternity.

"mis amigos!mi familia!Ven y abrázame"(A\N:THIS MEANS-"My friends! my family! come and hug me")

All came together and hugged each other. Everyone saying the same thing,"I missed you all".

Everyone except Emily. She was too silent the whole way, too lost to even hug her friends, too hurt to even maintain an eye contact.

"What's wrong with her? Hurt too much",asked Antonio pointing towards Emily who was lost in distinct thoughts.

Everyone just nodded in confirmation.

He went quietly from behind her and hugged her lovingly.

"It's alright Mi hermana! I am gonna kill that idiot if he even thinks of leaving us".

Emily just chuckled slightly before turning to her golden friend and hugging him back, this time crying her heart out.

The moment the black SUV entered the Shiba property, the monitors started beating rapidly showing the progress or a slight improvement in Jayden's health. Ji knew instantly that the team has arrived.

Lauren cried in happiness seeing her brother stir a little.

All of them entered the Shiba House with lots of worries and care on their faces. Ji came out of one of the rooms and smiled seeing his children enter the Shiba House.

They all beemed seeing Ji but they had no time to be wasted.

"Where's he?",shouted Mike.

"How's he?",cried Mia.

"Any improvements?",inquired Kevin.

"That idiot! That foolish person...!",shouted Antonio and Ji was showered with questions.

Ji was trying his hard to calm them down but in the meantime Emily started running inside as if she already knew where Jayden was.

Everyone turned around to see her so frantic to meet him and followed her.

She reached the door and opened it startling Lauren sitting inside. A loud breath escaped Emily's mouth as she saw the scenario in front of her. She fell on her knees and couldn't control herself from crying. Others reached the room the same time and all gasped in shock as Lauren came towards them. Even they couldn't control their tears.

Jayden was in the bed covered in all kinds of tubes imaginable. Blood, glucose all things entering his body. Several machines were hooked to his weak and fragile body. He was with an oxygen mask and looked very pale and nearly lifeless. His face had lost the charm it had once they were rangers. The determination and aggression he once carried as a leader was now gone.

But most importantly what was gone was his smile, the smile that can win a million hearts and the smile that was very genuine.

Ji asked everyone to move outside so that he can explain everything to them after convincing them that he was fine, at least for now.

Lauren too moved with them all allowing Jayden to rest there.

After everyone got settled, started the questioning again .

"What happened to him Ji? Please tell us now", said Mia.

"Of course Mia, Let me explain. It all started when you guys left after the final battle. Jayden was used to being alone before the arrival of you guys but as you came in his life the fire symbol in his blood, which is the strongest I should add, started bonding with the symbols of you all. Your friendship was the strongest among all the generations that had ever come in the history of Samurai Rangers. This strong bond allowed your symbol power to combine and bond as well. These symbol powers , if personified, can be explained as friends now. This was the reason you all feel so much attached to each other because it might not be a birth connection but it is indeed your blood connection."

"But how the hell is it related to Jyaden's illness?", asked Mike impatiently.

"It is related children. That's because when you left the bond became weak gradually. Although you all did care about each other a lot but the part of strong friendship, or in specific, the bond between the symbol powers weakened. Since you all had families with you who have handled the symbol powers before you, yours was able to adapt to the change and you suffered from less problems. But in Jayden's case the loneliness grew after you left. It created a void in him and the symbol power that is fire started growing impatient. Jayden was hesitant to contact you all because he didn't want to disturb any one of you and tolerated the symptoms as long as he can. But his health deteriorated and the fire symbol dominated his body that's why his body fell weak against the impatient symbol power. But when you guys entered this house, the warmth and care from your powers started radiating from you and his health showed tremendous improvement instantly. The bond again sort of rejuvenated and the fire symbol silenced itself."

"But why wasn't Lauren affected by it?", asked Antonio concerned for her.

"Good question, because even I thought about it and then I discovered that Jayden has much more fire symbol in him than Lauren which developed with time. Also Lauren was never so much bonded with anyone compared to what relation Jayden had with you all. Lauren returned to the same life she had been living for a long time therefor no major change was noticed. But Jayden's life completely flipped when he found his true friends in you and thus he was affected the most."

"Oh my god! I never imagined that to happen", said Mia.

"He should have called us but somewhere it is our fault too",said Kevin.

"So Samurai Forever isn't just a saying?",asked Mike.

"He meant it everytime he said",said Antonio.

"Of course guys, he loves you more than anything!", confirmed Lauren.

"He isn't going anywhere, I mean he isn't leaving us , right Ji?",Emily asked her first question after leaving the house.

At this moment a weak voice came from one of the rooms,"Ji! Gu-Guys? Ar-Are you all here?"

"Well I guess the answer to your question Emily is given. He is gonna live and now he isn't leaving anyone. Come on, time to meet him and rejuvenate the bond you all shared once", said Ji with a smile on his face.

With this everyone proceeded towards Jayden's room to finally meet him and join all the broken pieces again."

To be continued...

Huh! It was long...so finally the secret of the illness is revealed and friends are all together again.

In the next chapter I will show the interactions between all of them and will conclude this story maybe hinting a sequel...just maybe.

Stay tuned to know...but please review...good? bad? anything is accepted...

Thank you all for reading and see you all in the next chapter.