Thanks for the reviews as usual! I know I take longer than some of your likings sometimes to put up the new chapter but I have school work to do.

Any who, here's the new chapter! It has a couple line breaks that annoy me for some unknown reason but I hope you enjoy! :D

Emily hummed to herself as she walked around the clothes shop. She loved her new job. Now that she was working, she could start saving up money for college without her parents' or Mike's help. It gave her a feel of independence and pride in herself that she's been wanting ever since she took Serena's spot as the yellow samurai. Emily folded clothes that needed folding and hung up clothes that needing hanging. It wasn't a very difficult job, most of the time anyways.

She kneeled onto the ground to get a fallen hanger but she dropped it instantly. The hanger gave her a small cut on her finger. Instead of getting a band-aid, Emily got an idea. She hid behind a clothes rack and checked to see if anyone was watching her. Once she double checked no one was watching, Emily slowly and carefully, traced half of the healing symbol over her finger. The symbol glowed wildly as it cleaned up the blood coming from Emily's wound and brought her skin back together. Emily inspected her finger. It's like the hanger never touched it.

She bounced up and down and kissed her finger. She felt as powerful as Lauren did. A few weeks ago, Lauren used the symbol by herself and couldn't stop smiling. Now Emily knows why. It was an amazing feeling. But Emily's joyful moment came to a stop as shoppers began to stare at her.

"Oh, um, we have great prices today!" Emily scratched the back of her head. She showed them a pair of jeans. "Buy one, get one free!"

Jayden walked into the room he was sharing with Antonio while they stayed in Mexico. He opened up a small suitcase in the corner of the room and digged through his red clothing until he found a picture in a red frame. It's a picture of his parents, Josh and Vanessa Shiba, holding hands under a tree with white flowers. The picture was obviously taken about twenty-seven years ago. At the time, Vanessa was carrying Lauren and having a second child wasn't even thought of. Jayden grinned and tucked the picture back in his suitcase. He just needed to see the picture at least once today for the sake of his sanity.

Almost on cue, Antonio came in, eating cake with a silly smile on his face. The Garcia Family Reunion has been going on since nine in the morning and even though it's already past noon, the party was still at large. Everyone attending the reunion was either in the front yard, backyard, or somewhere in the house (it's a big house).

"Is everything okay amigo?" Antonio stuffed another slice of cake in his mouth.

"Yeah, sure, everything's cool." Jayden pointed to the bathroom door. "I had some business to take care of."

"Toni! Toni!" A little girl ran in and tugged on Antonio's shirt. "Jugar! Jugar!"

Antonio got to his knees so he could speak to her at eye level. He spoke to her in Spanish and the girl ran off giggling happily. Antonio chuckled. "I'll be downstairs."

"I wonder what Lauren is up to." Jayden thought out loud when the gold samurai left. "Oh well…" He stuck in hands in his pockets and left the room.

Lauren looked around the Shiba property. No one was insight. Ji went to pick up Catherine from the airport and Mia wasn't feeling well so she was inside the house taking a nap. Lauren had to admit, she felt a little guilty for leaving her sick sister by herself but there was something she had to do. Something she had to do for her blood related family. With a tight grip around two banquets of flowers, Lauren made her way into the forest. She stepped slowly on the dirt ground and stopped at a big tree with white flowers. The white flowers were falling elegantly like snow on top of two marble gravestones.

"Hi dad, it's already that time of year." Lauren placed the flowers on Josh Shiba's grave and did the same for Vanessa's grave. "Hey mom, Happy Mother's Day, I got you a rose, every Shiba's favorite flower."

"Jayden went to Mexico with his best friend for a big family reunion so it's just me this year." Lauren sighed and sat in the grass in front of the graves. "I'm starting to miss him and I wish he was here to spend this day with us but I let him go. He deserves it."

"…And five, six, seven, eight!" Mike watched his students dance to part of the new choreography he taught them. He's only been teaching them for two weeks but they caught on quickly. It made him proud. He gazed the room to make sure everyone was dancing on the same pace.

"You guys are doing great!" Mike told them once they stopped moving. He heard a squeak echo in the room. None of the students were allowed to have their sneakers on in the dance room. The forest samurai turned his head to see Evany taking her converse off her feet. Evany is the same shy girl he saw standing in the back of the room on his first day as a dance teacher. She has dark brown hair with brown eyes and tan skin.

"Sorry, I'm late." Evany whispered to Mike. "I didn't have a ride."

"It's cool." Mike said. "You only missed warm-ups and the beginning of a new choreography." Evany nodded and tried to walk away but Mike grabbed her arm. "I want to you to stand in the front today."

Evany gulped. She wasn't doing well in the class. She picked up the new dance moves slower than all the other teens. Even the younger people in the class were doing better than her. It's embarrassing. Evany pulled her pink hood over her head and walked to the spot in the room Mike assigned to her.

Mike smiled. He went back to the stereo and quickly reviewed the dance steps. When it looked like they got it, he turned on the music. After only fifteen seconds in the song, someone got hurt and that someone was Evany.

"Are you okay?" A tall guy offered her a hand but Evany refused to take it. "I guess not…"

"I'm fine!" Evany shouted. She quickly realized her mistake once everyone starting staring at her. She buried her head deeper in her hood. "Sorry…"

"No harm done, just don't raise your voice like that." Mike rested his hand on Evany's shoulder. "Let's try again. If you don't get the moves this time then I can teach it to you as many times as I need to, okay?"

"Okay…"

Cody looked around the Shiba property like Lauren did earlier that day. He tried knocking on the doors and calling phones but Lauren never came. He began to worry. Lauren's car was still in the parking lot next to Jayden's as the usual. He even tried to ask a few people at her law school if they've seen her but to add on to his disappointment, Lauren didn't attend class at all today. Cody paced the front yard of the Shiba house until he heard a faint cry coming from the side of the forest that Lauren made clear to him never to go to. Cody obeyed that rule… except this time. Cody is a good guy. He hated it when people were sad so he did what his heart told him to do.

He made his way into the forest and the cry grew louder. Then, he paused in his tracks. White flowers were falling on his shoes from a tall tree. It was almost magical to him. Right below the tree, he saw two graves and his girlfriend, crying into her knees.

"Am I interrupting something?" Cody kneeled next to Lauren. The red samurai looked up startled at first. When she recognized the face, she wiped her tears in her sweater and rested her head on his chest.

"Why are you here?" Lauren kept her eyes on her parents' graves. "I said you weren't allowed on this side of the forest, remember?"

"Yeah, so?" Cody shrugged. "I heard someone crying so I came to check it out."

"Do I really cry that loud?" Lauren gasped.

Cody chuckled slightly and kissed the top of her head. "Not really, my housemates say I have the hearing of a dog."

Lauren sighed and gestured to the graves. "Well, welcome to the Shiba graves, I guess. My mom and dad died on this day about thirty-four years ago."

"Wow, it's been awhile then, huh?"

"My childhood was ruined that day." Lauren sobbed. "I was seven and Jayden was three. The nighlok surrounded the Shiba house and burnt most of the forest. My mother died quickly about an hour after my dad in battle. Meanwhile, I was hidden in a closet in the house with Jayden. Once the word got out that the current leaders of the Shiba clan were dead, I had to escape the house and go into hiding in Japan."

"Japan?"

"My father knew he couldn't defeat the nighlok so he had a plan." Lauren explained to him. "Since I'm now the current leader of the Shiba clan, I had this… special power. But it's very hard to master so I needed somewhere to practice it without the risk of being killed."

"What about Jayden?"

"When the battle ended, Jayden was raised and trained by Ji and I was… just trained by various guardians and mentors. Jayden took my place as the red ranger until I mastered my special power. You know how long ago that was?"

"Three years ago?" His girlfriend nodded. "So that's why there were two red rangers."

"Yeah, if it wasn't for Jayden, I don't know what this world would come to. I don't want to know what this world would come to."

Cody gave her a little squeeze. "Well, that's in the past."

"It's still so hard to get over though. It had such a heavy impact on my life. Every year, on this day, since returning from Japan, I give my parents roses. We all love roses and not just because they're red."

"I think they get enough flowers from this tree."

"My parents love this tree. It was here before the battle and it's still here today. I don't know why the flowers grow and fall like that though. It's always been like that every season."

"Maybe someday a fairy will come out dressed in all white."

"I guess so." Lauren giggled and turned her head to Cody. The couple slowly, closed their eyes and pressed their lips together. Lauren and Cody have kissed before but never like this. When they parted, both of them were speechless.

"That… that was… nice."

"Yeah…" Lauren covered her blushing cheeks with her hands. "Thanks."

"For what?"

"For giving me my first kiss and you know…" Lauren pointed to the graves. "…staying here with me."

"Anytime… no problem." Cody looked at the graves. "Um, hey Mr. and Mrs. Shiba."

"Come on, I have a pregnant lady to take care of." Lauren laughed and stood up. Cody also got up and began to walk ahead of Lauren. "I think he's a keeper." Lauren whispered to the graves and jumped on Cody's back. Maybe she could be happy on May tenth…