A/N: thank you to all me readers, special thanks to Specialk92 for allowing me to bounce ideas of him/her. You are amazing. As for how many chapters I have left, until I run out of ideas.

Disclaimer: I still own nothing

Hints (because Sky thinks they are the best thing ever) the girls get in some much needed girl talk.

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Chapter ten (Wow has there really been ten chapters)

Tommy moaned as he came awake to somebody, or something poking him, "Five more minutes Smitty," He muttered, rolling over to go back to sleep, only to discover that he was sleeping on a carpeted floor.

"Come on Handsome, get up." a voice hissed into his ear, Kim.

Tommy bolted straight up, where was he! And why was Kim with him, had Zack kidnapped them in their sleep and locked them in a closet together like he had teased last night or something.

"Relax; we must have fallen asleep talking last night while waiting for the storm to pass." Kim hissed into his ear, not wanting to wake their friends.

Tommy looked around; sure enough all of the others were sound asleep, sprawled out randomly in a circle around the flashlight, which someone had turned off sometime during the night. All of the others, including Tommy had somehow gained a pillow and blanket sometime during the night.

"Mama Scott struck again." He murmured into her ear, causing her to giggle slightly.

Zack stirred, somebody had giggled, he had heard it; he listened carefully to the low murmuring of voices. Who was up? Next to him he heard someone stir then settle back down again. Another ranger, hearing the same noise and determining that it wasn't abnormal enough to worry about, he figured. He sat up and glanced around, all but Hayley and Billy were stirring, slowly coming awake and trying to figure out where they were.

Zack smiled as he noticed something else, Tommy and Kim whispering together in a corner of the room. He slowly picked his way over to the two, "What's going on over here?" he asked.

Tommy thought fast, Zack was nearly as easily distracted as he was, "Pillow fight," he replied, "Kim was snoring so I hit her with a pillow. We had just called cease fire when you came over."

Kim shot Tommy a dirty look as Zack whined, "You had a pillow fight without me?"

"Grow up Zack," Kim ordered, whacking him with a pillow.

"Pillow Fight!" Zack announced to all the awakening rangers.

Hayley was woken once more from what must be part of the morning routine, a pillow fight. She watched as Billy somersault over her and steals the pillow she had grabbed when they had all just crashed after telling one story after another. He quickly throws it at Kim, who ducks causing him to hit Tommy in the back of the head instead.

"What caused it this time, yesterday it was Kat teasing Kim about always getting kidnapped?" She demanded dodging another pillow, this one thrown by Zack.

"Kim and Tommy woke up early to get some alone time together, only Zack nearly caught them, they started the pillow fight as a cover up. By the time this is over Zack would have forgotten all about catching them alone." Billy said in as soft of voice he could manage and still be heard over the noise.

"Those two better be careful, one of these times Zack's going to catch them. Kat already is getting suspicious."

After the pillow fight and cleaning up the mess that they had created during said fight, the girls decided to have a spa day while Jason and his friends prepare for his bachelor party that night.

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"They didn't have anything like this in Africa." Aisha said as she leaned back into the spa chair with a sigh.

Trini nodded, "So what's going on with Africa, Kim said you're moving back."

"Yeah, lots of suitors but no one who catches my attention. It is so old school over there. The girls work in the house and the men do the hunting and farming. The only reason they allowed me to work outside the home at all was the fact that I was the only one who knew how to help the animals. Once I got others trained, they expected me to settle down and get married.

"I'm just not ready for that, you know, I want to go to vet school and open my own clinic, and I couldn't do that there."

"What about Rocky?" Trini asked.

"I didn't even realized how much I missed him until I saw him again; we've known each other since we were six."

Just then a spa worker entered, and called out a friendly greeting, she had grown up with Kim and Trini but her parents had moved the family after the first attack. "Hi guys, having a spa day I see."

"Sarah," Trini exclaimed happily, "Yes we are, I'm getting married in four days."

Sarah nodded, she understood, "So who's the lucky guy?" she asked.

"Jason Scott." Trini replied amused by her enthusiasm, while they hadn't been enemies, they hadn't run in the same social circles.

Sarah looked over at Kim, "Isn't that your older brother?" she asked.

Kim laughed, it was such a common question that she hadn't heard in years, "Yes, he is."

"Is your cousin going to be in town for the wedding? You know the super smart one with blonde hair?"

"Billy? Yes he is." Kim replied, suddenly remembering how they knew Sarah in the first place, she had had a huge crush on Billy in junior high.

After Sarah had left Hayley stated, "I knew that Jason was your brother but I didn't know that Billy was your cousin." Hayley paused for a second, "I've been meaning to ask, but I didn't want to come off rude, but if you and Jason are siblings how come you have different last names and are only five months apart?"

Kim laughed, "We got tired of people thinking we were siblings so we started just saying that we were."

"It's actually a really cute story." Trini stated.

…Angel Grove the summer before they started Preschool…

Young three year old Kimberly Ann Hart merrily skipped out of her new house clutching a red Popsicle in her hand. She was about to eat it when she heard a strange noise coming from next door. She quickly crept up to the fence and peered through it. A little boy around her age was kicking a soccer ball around in the neighboring backyard.

Just then the little boy tripped over his shoelaces causing him to fall and skin his knee. "Mommy!" He cried out.

Little Kim fumbled to unlatch the gate between the two yards; at the same time a woman burst through the backdoor of the other house to see what was wrong. Kim walked over to the little boy just in time to hear the woman announce, "It's going to be okay Jason, let me just get the first aid kit."

As she stood up to go back inside, she saw the little girl standing there, uncertain if she was allowed to come in or not, she smiled, "Hello, I'm Mrs. Scott and this is my son Jason, who are you?"

"I'm Kimmy, Mommy, Daddy and Kenny and me just moved in next door." Kim stated proudly, she liked her new house and her new princess room.

Introductions done Mrs. Scott went inside to find the first aid kit. "Here," Kim said, breaking the red Popsicle that was in her hand in half and offered him one of the sticks, "You want one?"

Half an hour later Mrs. Hart came outside to find out where Kim had wondered off to. She had grown alarmed when she noticed that the gate was open but then relaxed when she found her precious daughter playing in the other yard with a little boy her age.

Just then someone appeared next to her, "You must be Kimmy's mother. I'm Janet Scott; your daughter sure seemed to have hit it off with my son Jason quite well. I was worried about him making friends in preschool, but it seems that I was worried about nothing."

The two little kids' friendship grew over the summer as they were constantly over at each other's houses. Mrs. and Mr. Hart both work so Mrs. Scott watched Kim a lot. During this time the Harts started to fight.

Kim was woken up by angry shouting. The little girl couldn't understand what was being said, but she could tell that her parents were mad at each other. There was a shout and the sound of something shattering as it was thrown against the wall. She quickly ran to her older brother Kenny's bedroom.

Kenny was wide awake too, and was in fact on his way to fetch her. He might have only been nine years old, but he knew that his baby sister shouldn't have to see their parents yell at each other. So each time their parents started to fight he would grab his sister and head over to the Scott's.

Mrs. Scott was about to go to bed when she heard pounding on the backdoor. She opened it to find Kenny and Kimmy Hart, both in their night clothes standing there.

"What's going on?" she asked, letting them in, noting that Kimmy was clutching her baby blanket in on hand and a stuff puppy in the other.

"Mom and Dad are fighting again, they woke us up." Kenny explained.

By the time school started, it was a common thing for Mrs. Scott to find the two Hart children on her back porch due to the fact that their parents were fighting.

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"No, Mommy, come back!" Jason cried out as his mother left the preschool after dropping him and Kim off. Kimmy grabbed him as he ran towards the door.

"She'll come back for us after school, just like she promised," she stated matter of factly, "Remember she promised to take us to the park after preschool." With that she dragged him over to where the easels where set up. "Come on we can paint Mama a surprise for when she comes to pick us up."

Mama was a nickname that Kimmy and Kenny had started to call Mrs. Scott awhile ago, mainly because Mrs. Scott was there for them when their own mother wasn't around. The two best friends both painted pictures of their families.

Kimmy looked around at all the other kids, they were all playing with their friends except for one. A little blonde boy wearing a blue t shirt and overalls was sitting in the reading nook, reading a book.

She skipped over to him, "Hi I'm Kimmy! What's your name?"

The little boy looked up, pushing his glasses up his nose, "Billy."

"Do you want to come play with me and Jason? We're building a castle out of blocks."

Billy glanced at his book, and then at the little boy playing at with the blocks, he was having a hard time keeping the tower from toppling over. He quickly walked over, "No. no, you're doing it all wrong, you have to build a strong foundation or the whole structure will crumble down." He instructed, showing them how to stack them like a pyramid to prevent them from falling down so easily.

"Were you really reading, or were you just looking at the pictures?" Kimmy asked.

"I was really reading," Billy explained proudly, "My mommy taught me how before she got sick and had to go to Heaven." Of course Jason demanded that he show him, he never heard of anyone their age being able to read. Soon Billy was reading Cinderella to his new friends.

The three friends had fun acting out the story with the costumes and Billy taught them how to make kites during arts and craft time. Before they knew it Mrs. Scott and Billy's grandmother were there to pick them up.

Kim ran up to Billy's grandmother, "Hi, I'm Kimmy; you must by Billy's grandma. Mama's taking Jason and Me to the park, would you and Billy like to come too?"

Mrs. Scott hurried over, "I hope Kimmy wasn't being too obnoxious, she can be overzealous sometimes."

"You're daughter is just fine, she was inviting my grandson to your excursion to the playground. If you don't mind, I wish to accept. I have had Billy in every play group I could find, but this is the first time he has ever made friends, and on the first day too."

…Angel Grove Day Spa, present…

"So that's why everyone thinks that you're Jason's little sister," Hayley surmised, "You did practically everything together."

"We eventually got tired of having to correct everybody; even our preschool teacher thought we were twins until Jason's birthday came along." Kim explained, "It was just easier to nod and go along with it then to correct it every single time it came up."

Trini smiled, "We met in Kindergarten, at my birthday party, remember, I was new in town and Bulk and Skull were bullying Kim."

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"Come on Mommy, come on." Five year old Kim Hart called out, dragging her mother next door to the Scott's.

Mama Scott was waiting for them at the door, a birthday present tucked firmly under her arm, she didn't trust Jason not to forget it, or accidently break it.

Mrs. Hart was slightly out of breath; she had recently gotten divorce and was trying to get use to the single mom thing, though the Scotts' helped a lot, "I've just been called into work; can you take Kim to the birthday party?"

"I was just about to come over and ask if you could take Jason, my sister just called and Mom's in the hospital."

It didn't take long for them to walk down the street to the Cranston's household, and arrange for Mrs. Cranston or Grandma Cranston as she preferred to be called, to take the kids to the birthday party.

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"Jason, Jason, come quick that Bulk and Skull are at it again." Billy called causing Jason, who was showing some of the other kids from their class some of his karate moves, to turn around and rush after his friend. Sure enough the two class bullies were taunting Kim, calling her a crybaby. The young girl was fighting back tears, but another girl, an Asian American that Jason remembered was the new kid in town and the birthday girl was already telling them off.

Seeing Jason approaching the two friends quickly fled, "Thanks," Kimmy said, swiping her eyes with the sleeve of her pink party dress, "Bulk and Skull are mean to everybody, but Jason, and that's only because their scared of him because he knows Karate."

"I know Kung Fu, my uncle Howard taught me." Little Trini stated.

It was after the birthday party when Grandma Cranston came to pick them up with an announcement that Kim and Jason were going to spend the night. Kim immediately started to jump up and down, "Can Trini sleep over too, please… Jason and Billy always sleep in Billy's room and I have to sleep in the guest room all by myself."

Grandma frowned, here Kim goes again; "I guess it is alright with me, as long as her parents say it's alright."

Just then Mrs. Kwan came over to thank them for coming and Kim piped up, "I'm sleeping over at Grandma's house, can Trini come too. Grandma has a box of old clothes that we can use to play dress up. I usually play by myself though because Billy and Jason would rather play with Billy's remote control cars."

Mrs. Kwan nodded her head, "If it's fine with your Grandmother, its fine with me.

…Present day Angel Grove…

Hayley laughed, "You just want to be everybody's friend don't you?"

Trini shook her head, "No, she wanted nothing to do with Zack, Jason had to befriend him."

…Angel Grove First Grade…

To say that Kim wasn't impressed was an understatement, she didn't know who goofed up, but somebody had to. There were three first grade classes. Trini and Billy both got placed in the advanced class, while Jason had been placed in another class, leaving her without her best friends. Her mom had told her that it would be good for her, that she would make lots of new friends. Then again her mom couldn't possibly know that she would be forced to sit by the loudest most obnoxious kid in the history of kids. Even Bulk and Skull, who were in the other class with Jason, weren't this annoying.

Zachary Taylor had got to be the most annoying boy in the first grade. Kim was certain of it. In fact she even said so to Jason during recess. Jason laughed and went over to where Zack was showing off his dance moves.

"Hey, you pretty good." Jason commented.

"Thanks, I like dancing," Zack announced, "and martial arts. One day I'm going to combine the two and become famous for creating a fight dance."

"Cool, I take Karate."

"That's totally awesome!"

Jason nodded towards his friends, "Do you want to play with us?"

Zack frowned, "I don't know, that girl in the pink dress doesn't seem to like me very much."

"Kim just doesn't know you, trust me she likes everyone, as long as they're nice to her."

…present day…

The friends laughed, as Trini asked, "Did you honestly thought he was more annoying than Bulk and Skull?"

"Yes, he was loud just because he could be, and he kept getting me in trouble because he wouldn't stop talking." Kim huffed, "But once we learned that he had ADHD, and he started on medications, we were able to handle him a little more."

"That's nice," Aisha stated, "I kind of wondered how you all know each other."

"That reminds me," Tanya asked, "How did you meet Rocky?"

Aisha blushed, "Rocky stole my pudding cup."

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A/N: done finish, now we know how the original five met. Next up Boys will be boys.