Jayden and Antonio had stopped by the dojo before Emily had to leave which gave Lauren a chance to talk to the two of them about Emily's request. They wanted to help their friend out as much as they could, and Emily had to admit, using her puppy eyes during the conversation was a big help to sealing the deal. The dojo was set to open soon, but Emily was already being paid for her efforts with Riley, and had earned herself forty bucks for the day.

When she got home, she took the money from her wallet. Half of her day's earnings would go to necessities such as groceries or paying the month's rent. The other half would be extra cash – emergency funds of possibly even a date night for herself and Mike.

This was how they decided to split it. Half of everything they earned went towards the necessities and the other half was for whatever they needed it for. Patrick and Christina, their landlords, were being very generous with the rent, and it was quite affordable now that Emily also had a job and a way to earn money. The yellow Ranger smiled as she looked down at the two twenty dollar bills.

"I've never been happier to see you," she stuck the emergency money in the emergency jar and then walked to the kitchen. As soon as she opened the cupboard to pull out the dog food, Storm was on her feet and waiting eagerly by her bowl.

"I've only been gone a few hours," Emily chuckled and stroked her dog's head as she poured the dog food. Just then, the door opened and Mike walked into the house, singing to himself. Emily and Storm both looked up with Emily trying to stifle a laugh. "I guess singing lullabies are out of the question."

"Emily? You're home?" Mike hung up his jacket and looked to his wife, "But I thought…"

"I just got home. I haven't been alone for more than five minutes, I promise."

"Good. I know it's a pain. If I could take your place, I would, you know that."

"It's fine. I get to spend the day with the others," Emily shrugged and pulled out the twenty dollars from her pocket, "Look what I made today. The other half is in the emergency jar."

"Forty? Nice. I guess that means you're working at the dojo. Jayden and Lauren are okay with you starting early, right?"

"I'll be taking the younger students," Emily nodded her head and gave Mike a big, happy smile. "I got Riley to sit down, meditate, and enjoy it. Jayden and Lauren are great with the older students but I don't think they know how to handle teaching kids yet."

"And you do?"

"I have talent. Besides, I have to know. I'll have two soon."

Mike smiled as he leaned forward and kissed Emily's stomach, "You two haven't been giving mommy a hard time, have you?"

"I am hungry," Emily nodded her head and smirked, "Can you get started on dinner while I take a quick shower?"

-Samurai-

Riley kicked her feet as she sat on the couch. After her lesson at the dojo, Lauren had taken her to Antonio and Jayden's house where she had nothing to do. They didn't have toys; there was nothing to watch on TV, and no baby or dog to play with. She had the toys and games in her bag, but none of them interested her at the time.

"I can put up flyers… Emily can help," Lauren said over in the kitchen and Riley turned around on the couch, leaning against the back to listen in on the grown-ups. "If we're just waiting for the final okay from the city, we might as well start advertising now! The more we promote the dojo, the more people will want to sign up, right?"

"That is how it works," Jayden nodded, "but I'd rather not jump the gun. It's not that I don't have faith, but what if, for some reason, we don't get approved and need to push the date back?"

"Why wouldn't we get approved?"

"Well…"

Riley rolled her eyes as some big words came out of her uncle's mouth. She didn't know what he was saying and if she was honest, she didn't care. She decided, instead, she would do some exploring. Her uncles had to have something interesting in the house for her to play with.

She lifted the couch cushion. In her old house, she would usually find something buried between the cushions. This house was clean, though. Riley dropped the cushion and had another look around. She decided it would be fun to play in the bedroom. At the very least, her uncles had to have a bed she could jump on. Without them noticing she went into their room, closed the door, and climbed on their bed. Just as she was about to push off for the first jump she stopped. She looked over to the dresser and saw what looked like the sword Troy had been using in his lesson at the dojo. Emily and Lauren hadn't let Riley play with a sword, stating even the pretend ones were too dangerous, but Riley disagreed. She had a toy sword she used to play pink Samurai Ranger, and it wasn't dangerous. It had destroyed a few vases and knocked over some of the things around the house, but no one had gotten hurt from it. Riley was a great Samurai.

There was only one problem. Riley was convinced she was much taller now that she was five, but she still couldn't reach the top of her uncles' tall dresser. She did know how to climb up. She opened the bottom drawer all the way, and then opened the one on top just a little less. She made a stairway from the drawers until she was high enough to reach the sword. She picked it up.

"Big girl sword," Riley smiled. She carefully pulled it off the dresser and carried it with her down the makeshift stairs. She then tried to lift it, deciding she would swing it around like the Samurai Rangers did. When she did that, she saw it started to come apart. "Uh oh…"

She set the sword down and decided to check it out. She pulled just a little bit on the piece that was coming off and noticed it came off rather easily. What was more intriguing was that there was something shiny underneath. Riley decided to take the broken piece off completely and her eyes widened.

"A real metal sword! Just like Samurai!" she lifted the sword up. Given how big the sword was compared to her tiny body, Riley had a hard time swinging it around. She tried her best not to hit the furniture, knowing her aunt and uncles would get very mad if she broke something.

Then she decided to play Samurai while jumping on the bed. It was a game she played when left in her room by herself for too long, and usually involved her pretending to cut down the evil teddy bears with her toy sword. She climbed on the bed and then pulled the sword up. She swung it once, lost balance, dropped the sword on the bed and fell on her butt on the pillows.

"Meanie," she stuck her tongue out at the sword before she went to pick it up again. She got back to her feet and this time kept a tight grip on the sword. She clumsily swung it around a few times before taking a misstep off the bed. She screamed as she took a fall and the sword went down with her.

-Samurai-

"What's wrong with flyers just announcing the dojo is opening soon?" Lauren decided to ask after ten minutes of back and forth with her brother. "At least that can spark interest in people, right? Then when we're sure of the date, we can start really promoting the dojo."

"Sounds like a fair compromise," Antonio nodded and turned to his fiancé, "C'mon, Jayden, we've got to get word of mouth going soon. A few flyers could really help."

"Alright, but you two can handle that. I don't really know where to begin with…" Jayden stopped and all three Samurai heard two screams from the bedroom. The first was a regular, scared herself Riley scream that ended in a thump, likely from her having fallen. The second was a piercing, pained scream that made Lauren's and the boys' blood ran cold.

"When did she get into the bedroom?" Antonio asked as all three of them raced over. Lauren opened the door and her eyes were instantly drawn to the blood on Riley's pants. Jayden was quick to notice the katana Antonio had bought him for Valentine's Day was on the floor and unsheathed. Riley had been playing with it.

"What the hell did you think you were doing?" Jayden shouted to Riley as he picked up the katana. He was worried for her and knew just how dangerous sword-play could be, especially for an unsupervised child.

Riley wasn't interested in the yelling, but Jayden's screaming at her only made her scream louder. Her leg hurt.

"Jay, not now," Antonio pulled his fiancé back while Lauren removed Riley's pants, hoping the blood made whatever injury Riley had sustained look worse than it was actually was. She found a cut, a deep cut, just above Riley's knee.

"It hurts!" Riley screamed and tried to cling desperately to her aunt.

"I know," Lauren nodded and took the little girl in her arms, "I know it hurts."

Antonio had gone to the bathroom to get a wet cloth. He placed it on Riley's leg to clean up the blood and hoped it might also help a little bit with the pain. Lauren pressed down on the cloth and walked with Riley to the door. Antonio already had his hands on the car keys.

Jayden placed the katana back on the dresser and raced after the trio. He grabbed Lauren's arm.

"Ji can fix this," he said. Lauren nodded her head. Taking Riley home would be easier than going to the doctor's or the hospital.