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Chapter Thirty-Seven: The Truth Revealed

A/N: hello my wonderful people! It's the moment you've all been waiting for! What's in that school? *Grins excitedly* I'm sure most of you have guessed already, but I think it's excited all the same! Please review!

"The difference between school and life? In school you're taught a lesson then given a test, in life you're given a test that teaches a lesson." -Tom Bodett

The next morning Ji called the rangers into the living room. He clenched his fingers behind his back. This should be interesting.

"What's up?" Jayden asked.

"I have something to discuss with you all."

"What is it?" Lauren asked. Ji had his, 'this is serious' face on.

Ji took a deep breath. "There is another, younger, member of the Shiba family."

"Excuse me?" Lauren asked. "I don't think I heard you right."

"Yeah," Jayden said, half suspiciously.

"Jayden and Lauren have younger sibling. A sister. She would be about sixteen or seventeen."

"A sister?" Mia asked.

"There's more of them?" Mike asked. Everyone was too shocked to smack him.

"Yes."

"Why are we just now learning this?" Lauren asked.

Ji sighed. "Well-"

"Wait how long have you known about this?" Antonio asked.

"A long time. Many years."

"Why?" Jayden asked. "Just why? How did we not know?"

"As you may, or may not know, Jayden and Lauren's mother walked out on their dad when they were very young. She said the samurai life was too much for her and she couldn't handle it anymore. "

Jayden's eyes widened. Lauren gasped. Antonio took Lauren's hand and squeezed it. This was apparently news to them.

"Years later there was a nighlock attack and by the time the samurai got there it was too late. Their mother was at the sight of the attack and was dying. But, before she died she told their father that he had another child. A girl. He asked where she was, but their mother didn't know. She'd given her up for adoption in order to protect her. After she died James was heart broken, but determined. He wanted to find this girl and bring her back, where she belonged. He assigned some people who are friends of the Shiba clan to track her down. Jayden and Lauren's mother had tried to protect this young girl. She'd left, because of her. Because she didn't want another one of her children pulled into the samurai world."

"That's not something she can just, decide!" Kevin said. "It happens if you're born into the family. Or not as the case may be."

"Thanks man," Antonio said.

"So why didn't he tell us?" Lauren asked.

"Because he didn't want it to be a distraction to you two."

"So why are we finding out now?" Jayden asked.

"I think she could be the reason the nighlocks want that school. People have been tracking her down, and have found her location is here in the city."

"What's her name?" Emily asked.

"We don't know. We don't even know what she looks like. The people trailing her have been following her paper trail, so to speak."

"So how are we supposed to identify her?" Jayden asked.

"Use your heads. You may have already met her and not even know it. She's most likely in the same grade as Mike, Emily, Antonio, and Jayden. Chances are very high she looks somewhat like Lauren and Jayden."

"Tiara," Jayden said.

"Who?"

"Tiara Sterling," Lauren said. "Her dad's a U.S. ambassador. She just moved back to the country from Japan."

"She does look like you guys," Kevin said. "Same brown hair as Jayden. Same blue eyes as Lauren."

"Same smile as Lauren," Antonio added.

"Her handwriting's the same as Dad's," Lauren said.

"It's Tiara," Jayden said. "She's not supposed to be Tiara Sterling."

"She's supposed to be Tiara Shiba," Mia said.

"This is an interesting turn of events," Mike said.

"How did the nighlocks find out about her?" Lauren asked.

"Unfortunately they got the information from a guardian at the Tengen Gate."

"They knew about this?!"

"Those guys know everything," Jayden muttered.

"Traitor," Kevin said.

"What now?" Lauren asked.

"We tell Tiara," Mike said. "I think this is information she'd want to know."

"Are you sure?" Jayden asked. "It's quiet a bombshell to drop on her."

"As much as I agree with Jayden, I'm afraid we have to tell her," Ji said. "For her protection, as well as others."

"There's one thing I still don't understand," Mike said. "Why are the nighlocks after her? She spent even know she's part of a samurai family."

"The nighlocks hate our family," Lauren said. "They just want to get her because they know she's related to us."

"That sucks."

"Yes. It does. But I suppose being despised by monsters is the price we pay for protecting the world."

-Samurai Ranger High-

"Hey little brother," Lauren said when she found Jayden sitting in the yard later that day. "What's up?"

"Just relishing the information that most of what I know about our family is a lie."

"Join the club," she said sitting next to him.

"I can't believe Mom left," Jayden said. "Dad always said she died."

"He wasn't lying. She did die."

"He forgot to mention she walked out on us."

"I know," Lauren said. "And we apparently have another sibling out there."

"I know." He sighed. "This is going to turn her whole world upside down, you know."

"I know," Lauren said nodding. "But we have to tell her."

"I like Tiara," Jayden said. "Guess this explains why I've felt protective of her."

"Instinctual," Lauren said. "I felt it too. Now I know why her face was so familiar when we first met her."

"Yeah."

"It'll be ok. Besides, maybe she'll be happy finding out she's a samurai. It'll make the fact she knows all these fighting techniques make more sense."

"Let's hope that's enough," Jayden said. "Tomorrow's certainly going to be an interesting day."