Part 4:

'He's really here!' Toru thought to himself.

The young man dashed out of his room, the noise of his footsteps hitting the ground booming throughout the house.

In the living room down below, Ayumi looked up as she saw Toru bolt down the stairs. "What's going on Toru?" She asked.

A giant grin filled his face. "Ootori's here!"

'Ootori?!' Ayumi thought.

He ran to the door, pulling the doorknob so fast the door slammed into the wall of the room. Toru didn't pay it any mind. The minute the door opened the teen practically leapt out, "OOTORI!" He shouted.

Back outside on the front lawn stood the two Ultra Brothers. As they saw the young man come out, Gen walked up towards him. Takeshi stayed where he was for a moment and just looked at the duo, a small smile was visible on his face. 'Sweet,' he noted.

As Takeshi began to walk up near the duo Gen and Toru stood, less than a feet apart, for the time in years. Gen peered down at the teen, placing his hand on top of Toru's then slowly moving it across towards his own body until it finally touched his chest, "At my collarbones, now, you've really grown a lot,"

"Yeah," Toru quickly replied, a smile filling his face and his eyes began to go out of focus as he could feel them start to water.

Toru took a deep breath, stopped the tears before they had a chance to escape his eyes, "Its good to see you again,"

Gen placed his hand on Toru's head again, shaking his hair as he replied, "You too Toru,"

"Ootori you're back!" Ayumi shouted as she walked out of the house onto the front lawn with the rest of them.

Gen nodded, "Yeah,"

"Who's your friend?" Ayumi asked pointing to Takeshi, walking up from behind.

Toru turned to the UGM member, "You're the guy from this morning! Are you okay?"

"I appreciate the concern," Takeshi began, leaning down a bit to get closer to Toru, "But I'm just fine," He answered with a large smile.

Gen peered into the house through the open door, "Where's Mrs. Miayama and Izumi?" He asked.

"Izumi's at work, and Mom's been having to work longer hours lately," Ayumi informed.

Gen slowly nodded his head, "Ah ok,"

"But who are you Mister?" Toru asked, looking at Takeshi.

Takeshi slightly bowed his head as he answered, "Yamato Takeshi, UGM, nice to meet you again, I apologize about this morning I was bit irritated after my fall, " the alien answered.

'Fall?' Gen thought to himself as he turned towards Takeshi.

Takeshi turned towards Gen for a small moment, locking eyes, 'I'll tell you in a moment,' 80 telepathically said.

Turning back towards the children Yamato explained, "We think there may be something that you can help us figure out Toru,"

Toru just looked at him for a moment, his brow tightened, "What's that?"

"We can explain in a moment, why don't we go inside and wait for Mrs. Miayama and Izumi," Gen suggested.

"Alright!" Toru answered with a smile, the giddiness evident in his voice as he began to dash back towards the door.

After Ayumi followed the boy back inside, Gen peered over at Takeshi, 'Explain when we get in,' He communicated to the other Ultra.

Takeshi nodded as the alien duo walked into the house.


'So you're saying the instant he made contact with you, suddenly you collapsed,' Leo told 80 telepathically.

'Yes, it was like nothing I've ever seen before,' 80 admitted.

Gen nodded his head ever so slightly, and let out a deep exhale.

He felt a slight nudge from his side, turning his head in the direction of the pain he saw Toru looking up at him with big wide eyes, there was a look of youth still present in his face, "Ootori are you okay? You keep zoning out?" He asked.

Before Ootori had a chance to reply, Toru leaned towards Gen, as he was about to whisper in his ear he looked over at Yamato to make sure he couldn't hear what Toru was about to say. "Is it something that Leo's doing?"

Gen let out a chuckle, and just looked at Toru for a moment.

Toru just looked back at Gen, awaiting a reply, "What?"

"Its nothing," 'Missed having you around Toru,' Leo thought to himself.

Looking over from the dining room, sitting at the Miayama's large table all of the places set with dishes and utensils awaiting Izumi and Mrs. Miayama, at Toru and Gen on the couch in the main room. The duo was sitting side by side, their thighs making contact on the couch. Toru was always peering up at Ootori with a large smile constantly filling his face. Gen was respond with his own smiles as they talked, but they would never last as long as Toru's, always quickly fading away. Looking at the two as they talked a grin of his own filled Takeshi's face. 'They must've become close during Leo's stay,' Takeshi thought to himself.

Images of the faces of the children in his class filled his mind: Professor, Raukgo, Fashion, Super, and many others of the various students he taught. 'I wonder if I'll leave the same impact on any of them,' Takeshi thought to himself.

His thoughts were interrupted by the sound of tires coming into the driveway from the front yard.

As the old car came in the driveway, Izumi and Mrs. Miayama looked next to them in their driveway spotting the UGM car. Izumi turned to her mother, "UGM?"

"The new attack team," Mrs. Miayama coldly replied as she stared at the car.

"Mom, why would attack team members be here?"

Mrs. Miayama bit her lip before replying, "I don't know... I doubt its something good though,"

She then opened the door of the car shifting her gaze towards the house in front of her, Izumi quickly following suit. As she approached the door to her house Mrs. Miayama shouted, "AYUMI! TORU!"

Inside the house all four of them stood up, "Ah she's back I'll go get it Ootori!" Toru exclaimed as he rushed over to get the door.

Ayumi moved over towards the door. However, not nearly with the same type of pep.

As Toru opened the door he was met with Mrs. Miayama and Izumi standing before him, with Ayumi slowly coming along behind him. Toru simply stared at them with a grin stretching his face as far as it could go. "Is everything alright Toru?" Mrs. Miayama asked the teen.

Rapidly, Toru nodded his head up and down with that grin never leaving his face. "...You're in a very good mood this evening," Izumia added.

Ayumi looked over to the two women, "He's been like this all afternoon,"

Looking up at the duo Toru stated, the enthusiasm palpable in his voice. "Its great! Ootori's back!"

Both Mrs. Miayama and Izumi had the same reaction. Their eyes widened, as they leaned their heads downward towards the teen, "...Ootori," They mumbled.

Walking up from behind the two children stood the man himself. A smile, not dissimilar to Toru's, filled his face as he approached the two, "Nice to see you again," he said with a bow.

They gave slight bows back. "Nice to see you again, Ootori," Mrs. Miayama replied.

"Not meaning to be rude but...what exactly are you doing here?" Izumi stammered.

"I was waiting for you two to come so I could explain it all, but first," Ootori started before turning back to the dining room, "Yamato!" He shouted.

The young man walked up next to Gen and turned towards the two women at the door, "Hello, I'm Yamato Takeshi with UGM. Nice to meet you," He said with a bow.

"While it is nice to meet you Mr. Yamato, would you care to let me towards my couch and explain it to us there?" Mrs. Miayama questioned.

With a laugh Yamato answered, "Of course! Of course!"

The group walked over to the main room, on the couch sat Yamato, Gen and Toru with Yamato leaving some space on the couch apart from the other two, and the women used chairs from their dining table to sit at other areas in the room. "So Ootori why are you here?" Toru asked.

Gen looked down at Toru, then peering up at the women before looked back down again, "Well Toru, you are,"

Toru tilted his head, "What do you mean,"

Takeshi leaned forward on the couch, turning towards Toru, "Well Toru, many of the monsters that UGM fights are different those that other attack teams in the past have fought, whereas in the past those creatures were mainly pre-existing entities, those that UGM fight are usually created through Minus energy," Takeshi began.

"Minus energy?" Izumi added.

"Its an energy derived from the negative emotions of humans, and if there are enough of those negative emotions or said emotions are strong enough they can form a being," Takeshi explained.

The smile on Toru's face faded away instantly, "Do you think... do you think I could've made a monster?"

"Maybe," Gen interrupted.

"Why do you think Toru did it, Ootori?" Mrs. Miayama commented.

"Well, this morning, Black Directive and SilverBloome appeared in a construction site in Tokyo,"

"What! But that's not possible y-... Leo killed them!" Toru snapped.

"We know Toru, but that's why we think you could be the cause," Yamato added.

"You see Toru, Yamato's hypothesis is that, since you have had a lot of...trauma caused by these aliens that the minus energy would form into the shape of those aliens," Ootori explained to him.

The room turned dead silent, no one dare make a sound. Toru just stared out into Gen's face for a moment. There was no joy on his face. A face of realization was present in its stead, his mouth stayed open and he blinked as he heard Gen's explanation before taking a breath and a gulp. He could feel his heart beating throughout all of his body. It was ever present. His hands were shaking just enough to notice. His breathing became a bit heavier, eventually he finally replied to Ootori. "Is that the only reason you came back?"

'Oh Toru,' Gen looked down at the boy, his brows moved closer together as Gen bit the inside of his lip, he never said anything back.

"It is huh?" Toru let out a sigh, "Don't know why I'm surprised," he commented.

"Toru!" Mrs. Miayama snapped, "Don't say such a rude thing to Ootori!"

Toru glanced back at Mrs. Miayama, "Yeah, sorry," he faintly replied.

"Toru," Gen started as he lowered his head getting closer to Toru, "This is really important, please!"

Toru's clenched his fist, 'Its always about a monster Ootori, but I guess that's your job,' He thought to himself.

The teen let go of the fist he was making, "Right...sorry about that, so what do I need to do to help?"

"Well, that can depend," Yamato began, "There have been a number of different situations we've dealt with, usually it involves trying to help the person get over the problems that caused the creatures,"

"What would that mean for Toru?" Izumi interjected.

"Well, that's hard to say," Yamato pondered, "Right now, we have no real proof that it was Toru, its just a hypothesis,"

Gen looked back to Yamato, "What exactly would prove it, Yamato?"

"Well, the recreated aliens appeared this morning, and this area did have a high amount of minus energy, but to really prove Toru was the cause he would have had to have some type of outburst of emotion that connected with these aliens,"

Izumi and Toru made eye-contact upon hearing 80's remarks. Gen and Takeshi peered at them as they did this, "I take it, that he did," Takeshi stated.

"Do you want to tell them or me?" Izumi asked Toru.

"I can do it...well, lately I've been having dreams..."

"Dreams of Black Directive and SilverBloome?" Gen asked.

Toru simply nodded his head, avoiding eye-contact with the ultras. "How long have these dreams been going on?" Takeshi questioned.

"Off and on for the last five years, been happening a lot more in the last couple months,"

Gen looked back to Takeshi, Takeshi started to nod his head, "That would do it, seems that minus energy could have been building through your dreams,"

Gen turned back to Toru with a smile, "I'm sure we'll figure it out!"

Toru gave a faint grin back before it quickly faded. "Cheer up," Gen said as he went to tap Toru on the shoulder.

Upon making contact with the shoulder Gen let out a scream, "AAAAAAAH!"

He fell onto the ground. "OOTORI!" Shouted all of the other occupants of the room.