I am so sorry my fellow readers. I'm so very busy with my life right now. I know it's not an excuse. So to make it up I will post another chapter after I finished this one. Enjoy!

Chapter 4

Narumi strolled happily on the road. She would sometimes stop for a while to catch her breath while admiring the scenery. She smiled when she saw the weather was perfect for her to harvest herbs that she's going to need for medical purpose.

"Miss Narumi!" she stopped when she heard a shout from behind. She smiled brightly when she saw three eight years old kids running towards her. She waited patiently for them to arrive.

"Daichi, Rina, Tomoe." She greeted the three panting children. "What are you doing here?"

"We want to play at Yuki's house. Where are you going, Miss Narumi?" Rina smiled with the cuteness of an eight years old.

"I'm going to the forest up ahead to harvest some herbs and pluck some flowers to plant at my garden." She answered patiently.

"When will your fiancée come here?" Tomoe asked innocently.

Narumi stiffened. She knew that they meant nothing with the question but it stirred some painful emotion with it. She pushed down the memories of the past and focused on the present.

"That's a secret. Run along now. You don't want to be late to Yuki's house."

"Right! Bye Miss Narumi. See you later!" Daichi waved at her and dashed forward. The two girls scrambled to follow their friend. Narumi chuckled softly.

She trudged slowly to her intended location. With no one's around, she played the memories in her mind. The memories that brought her joy and misery.

A 27 years old Narumi strolled happily besides her 29 years old boyfriend. They had been in a relationship for 4 years already. Her boyfriend had suggested for them to go to Paris to celebrate it. Currently, they were enjoying the nice view on top of Eiffel Tower.

"Raito, are you alright? You look nervous." Narumi pointed out.

"Nervous? Why would I?" Raito answered too quickly. His eyes darted around. "Look, it's almost sunset. Why don't we stand there?" Raito tugged Narumi's hand. She frowned but let it slide.

They walked hand in hand to the edge of the tower. Narumi gasped softly. She was speechless. The view was mesmerizing.

"Beautiful, isn't it?" He remarked. He glanced down when he heard nothing from her. He smiled tenderly when he saw she was too captivated to respond. He put his hand on her waist. Subconsciously, she laid her head on his shoulder. They enjoyed the rare moment of silenced before Raito remembered the reason they were here. He turned to face her and took her hands in his.

"Narumi, it's been 4 years already, right? How time flies," he began. Narumi nodded though he could saw her features had became a bit confused. "That day in the library, how should I knew that "excuse me, can you please pass that book to me" could lead us to a conversation about medicine and traditional herbs? You are a very persistent lady, never afraid to voice your opinion to me. That's one of the reason that I fall in love with you."

Raito knelt down on one knee. Narumi had widened her eyes. Her mind had already grasped what was this all about but her body was still in shocked. She couldn't believed that this all happening.

"Your smile can always brightened my day. I always anticipated your call. Your voice can soothe all my worry, all my sadness. There's no one else that I rather spend my entire lives with," he fumbled in his pocket. His hand stilled and he looked at her right on her eyes. "With that being said, will you do the honor and become my wife?" He presented her the most beautiful ring she ever laid her eyes on. She gasped. For a while, he only heard his pounding heartbeat reverberated on his ears.

"Yes! Yes!" she squealed happily. He grinned and twirled her around. They laughed together in joy.

Narumi snapped out of her memory. She smiled bitterly every time she played the memory on her mind. She shook her head. "Snapped out of it, Narumi. It won't bring him back." She sighed.

She would knelt down occasionally to pluck the herbs if she saw it had potential as ingredient to concoct medicine. She was too absorbed on her task that she almost stumbled when she tripped something. She managed to cover her mouth from crying out in fright when she saw a leg poking from outside the bush.

"Hello. Sir, are you alright?" Silence greeted her. She watched her surrounding warily before she made up her mind.

She walked hesitantly towards it. She parted the bush a bit to reveal a figure of a shoulder length black haired man laying on his stomach. He wore a black slack and white shirt layered with black coat that had a strange symbol at the back. She knelt down and put her shaking hand on his neck to search for a pulse.

"He got a pulse." She whispered to herself when she found one. It was weak but it's still there.

She put a hand on his shoulder to change his position and to made him laid on his back. She was very careful not to touch the bruised and bleeding spot in fear to injure him more. She watched worriedly when she saw blood still trickled down from somewhere on his head. She supported his head as not to jostle him. With great care that only possessed by a doctor, she heaved him. She gasped and almost let go of his head when she saw his face. Even though it's marred with bruised and even discolored a bit, there was no mistaking the figure that unconscious in front of her.

"Raito."

GUYS Headquarters

"They're here!" Mirai suddenly jerked on his seat. His face broke into a grin when he identified the source of unknown energy approaching. With vigor, he ran out of the headquarters with the others following closely behind. From a distance he saw four figures walking towards them. He stopped and saluted them when he came face in face with them.

"Sirs! Good to see you after all this time."

"Good to see you too, Mebius. I just hope we could have met you under better circumstances." Hayata shook his hand. He smiled when he saw a small crowd stood behind Mirai. "Don't you want to introduce us to your comrade?"

Mirai laughed sheepishly when he forgot to introduce each other. The Ultra Brothers smiled in amusement when they saw one of Mirai's comrades, (Teppei, they reminded in their minds) watched them with childlike wonder on his face. When it came to Captain Sakomizu turn, the four of them scrutinized him closely before nodded in recognition. No one saw the exchanged because it happened in a matter of few seconds only.

"Nii-san, I think it's better if we use our human name here. It will not attract attention." Goh interjected.

"Very well. All of you know me as Ultraman. But my human name is Shin Hayata. Please to meet you." Hayata introduced himself.

"I am Ultra Seven. You can call me Moroboshi Dan." Dan nodded at them.

"Ultraman Jack. My alter ego is Hideki Goh." Goh smiled.

"And I am Seiji Hokuto. Better known as Ultraman Ace."

"Welcome. Let's talk inside." Captain Sakomizu ushered them inside.

"Any news?" Dan asked them as soon as they came inside their command centre. Mirai sighed.

"No. No news whatsoever. What do you think happened?"

"We don't know. But I'm sure there is a sinister reason why the alien's here. Possibly the only one who knew his reason is Taro. That's why we need to find Taro."

"With the beating that he took. I'm afraid to think of his condition when we find him." Goh crossed his hands in front of his chest.

"Damn it. We are wasting time thinking about it here. We need to go out there and search him, not talking about it here." Hokuto vented his frustration at the lack of result. He was getting up halfway when hands latched on both of his arms. He turned to his left and right and saw Dan and Hayata gripped him tightly. Both of them had stern expression on their faces. Reluctantly, he sat down back.

"Sorry." He apologized grudgingly. "It's just frustrating, you know. Knowing my otouto is out there, injured and possibly dying but not knowing where he is to save him."

"Don't think we don't understand your feeling. He's our otouto too. Remember?"

Hokuto's face turned contrite when he heard Dan's words. He took a deep breath and uttered a soft apology but the others waved it away.

"Right now we need to make a plan. Do you have a map?" Captain Sakomizu snapped his attention towards Hayata when the man looked at him questioningly.

"Uhh yes. Here." Captain Sakomizu handed him a map of Japan. He blushed when he had been caught staring at the family drama that unfolded in front of him. He glanced towards his subordinates. They were also staring dumbfounded at the event that transpired. Only Mirai looked solemn, an unlikely expression that had never been wore by the young ultra.

Suddenly all the ultra in disguised in the room stiffened. They sat rigidly with unseeing eyes for a few seconds before they shook their heads. All of the human there watched anxiously. They were not sure whether that's a normal occurrence for the warriors. Mirai suddenly walked towards the main monitor and pushed some button.

"Something's happen?" Captain Sakomizu asked with a frown.

"Zoffy nii-san is calling." Hokuto answered without a glance. Simultaneously, the warriors stood in front of the monitor with hands clasped behind their back. Mirai stood behind them as they were his superiors. The feature of Zoffy suddenly appeared.

"I see that you have arrive." Zoffy nodded to show them his approval. They nodded back. "Any progress?"

"Nothing yet. We're still marking the possible area. We still have some forests and isolated residence to check it out." Hayata reported. Zoffy sighed.

"Very well. Keep me updated. Zoffy out."

The monitor turned blacked. They resumed their seats and watched each other.

"Let's continue. We have so much work to be done."

Land of Light

"Anything?" Zoffy whipped his head too fast that he almost gave himself whiplash. He exhaled the breath that he didn't noticed he'd held when he saw who was it.

"Ultra Father." He greeted. "Ultraman, Seven, Jack and Ace had arrived to the GUYS Headquarters. They're collaborating with the humans to search from the ground and air. Our forces here had search the nebula. They found traces of Taro energy signature alongside some ruined metal. We believed that it was from Taro's bracelet."

"Got anything from it?" a bit of desperation leaked from Ultra Father's voice. Zoffy took some time to formulate his answer.

"No. It was too mangled. I'm sorry." Zoffy spoke softly the last words. Ultra Father put his head on his hands. He knew he shouldn't acted like this but he couldn't cared less. This is his son, for crying out loud!

"Sir." He jerked back when Zoffy put his hand on his shoulder. "We will find him. I promise." He nodded wearily.