Hm, I haven't mentioned the "black flower" in a while. It's mentioned a little in chapter 11 and chapter 17 (if any of you are wondering). I'll probably summarize it again in the next chapter. No, black flowers aren't real… I think… Anyways…

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After dinner, all of the samurais except Mia, Emily, and Mike decided to hang out in the living room. Another samurai that isn't there was Ji. Ji was outside getting some garden work down before the sun went down completely.

Antonio and Jayden were digging through shelves and drawers in the room for movies. They didn't have much to Antonio's disappointment. He thought the Shiba sibling would've at least bought a couple more movies after the nighloks were defeated three years ago. The siblings simply shrugged and told him they didn't find much entertainment in televisions.

Still weak, Lauren lied on the couch with her legs resting on Cody's lap. They spoke to each other and laughed. When their conversations went dead, one of them would bring up something random and another conversation would begin. Lauren really appreciated Cody's company. Since she currently couldn't walk, Cody would get her anything she needed that wasn't in her reach.

Kevin sat in a lazy boy couch, just got done feeding his daughter. He rocked the chair slowly while holding her in his arms, close to his warm chest. The newborn looked up at her father. Kevin was cuddling and cooing with her, trying to keep her content before she dozed off in another nap. Just because newborns can't hold a toy yet, didn't mean they don't get bored. Fortunately, Kevin's small actions kept her peaceful.

Catherine sat in another couch with her legs up, reading a magazine while she hummed to herself. She occasionally looked up and surveyed the room to make sure everyone was doing okay. Sometimes Catherine felt like a samurai mother and not just because Lauren called her mom. She met the rest of the current samurai group a couple months ago and they welcomed her in the family without hesitation. They cared about her and she cared for them.

"Lemonade for my damsel in distress?" Cody extended his arm to pick up a glass of lemonade on the small table next to him. He offered it to Lauren.

"Thanks… my knight in shining armor." Lauren accepted the drink with a giggle. She sipped some of it with a straw gave it back to Cody so he could place it on the table again. "You know what I want?"

"What?"

"A bath." Lauren told him. "I haven't showered all day. I feel gross."

Catherine looked up from her magazine and gave Lauren a smile. "You can shower in the morning darling. You're still wobbly on your feet and I don't want you to slip and hurt yourself in the tub."

"But mom…"

"But Lauren…"

"What if I got someone to bathe me?" Lauren pointed to her boyfriend. "Like him? Cody, will you bathe me?"

Cody's eyes widened. "Okay, first of all, your brother is all of a sudden giving me a death stare." Cody winced as Jayden watched him speak to his sister. "And second of all, you have fifty swords covering every inch of your house."

"So?"

"So? Your brother can easily pick up the sword in the corner of this room and decapitate me." Cody turned to Jayden, who nodded his head. "With that being said; I will not bathe you."

"Smart kid." Jayden chuckled. "And by the way, there are fifty-two swords in this house."

"Yeah…" Cody scratched his head awkwardly. His girlfriend is heavily protected. He glanced at the time on his phone and jumped out of the couch. He gave Lauren an apologetic look. "I have to go. I'm working a night shift at the restaurant tonight."

"Aww…" Lauren whined. She shared a goodbye kiss with Cody. "Thanks for staying with me. You're sweet."

"You're sweeter." Cody gave her another kiss on her hand before leaving the Shiba house.

"Great, now who's going to bathe me?" Lauren crossed her arms over her chest. "Mom, Jayden scared away my boyfriend."

"I'm sure he meant well." Catherine laughed softly. "If it satisfies you, I can give you a sponge bath."

Lauren stuck out her tongue in disgust. "I'd rather wait until tomorrow."

"Suit yourself." Catherine shrugged. She gazed around the room and saw Kevin getting up. "Is everything alright Kevin? Do you need help?"

The elder woman tried to stay out of the blue samurai's way when it came to raising his child but sometimes she couldn't help herself. Kevin is new to the whole "father thing". Mia actually has a lot of knowledge on babies because she worked at a daycare. But Mia still hasn't woken so if Kevin needed assistance on anything baby related, he went Catherine.

"I'm going to change her." Kevin said. Catherine nodded.

Kevin walked down the hall and rolled his eyes. Catherine and Ji have been following his every move all day like he's going to break his fragile child. He hopes tomorrow will be easier because he couldn't deal with their pressure right now.

When he got to his room, he gently placed his daughter on a small blanket on the bed and got out the things he'd need to change her diaper. Kevin grinned at his daughter while he changed her.

"You're so tiny." Kevin said, like the baby could understand him. "Can you believe you're almost a day old?" He chuckled slightly. "I can't."

Kevin threw the dirty diaper in a small trash can. He would take it outside later so it didn't make the room smell. The water samurai picked up his daughter and gave her another grin. Then he frowned.

"There's someone really special that I want you to meet. I don't know how Catherine will react so we're going to go down a different hallway."

Kevin walked down the hallway and into a room that hasn't been opened since morning. He sat in a chair next to a bed. The room was completely silent. A moment of déjà vu washed over Kevin. He was sitting next to Mia. Expectedly, Mia never reacted. She just lied there, untouched, unmoved.

"This is mommy." Kevin's voice cracked. He held back his tears. "She was so excited when she found out we were having a baby. She's always wanted a child of her own. She told me she couldn't wait to feed you, bathe you, cuddle with you, and sing to you… While you were still in her tummy, she sang to you. Mommy is a pretty singer."

He looked down in his arms. Kevin and Mia's daughter already dozed off in another sleep. She breathed softly into her father's chest. Kevin felt tears strolling down his cheeks. He was so focused on his wife; he didn't notice Catherine stepped in. She went to his room to see if he finished changing his baby but he wasn't there. Catherine knew he would come in this room at some point in the day.

"I miss you Mia… wake up soon." Kevin cried. "I don't want you to miss out on our beautiful daughter growing."

Catherine made her way to Kevin and rubbed his back. She didn't say a word. She just comforted him and gave him all the time he needed to let out his emotions.

Emily and Mike arrived at the Shiba house. Mike opened the truck to their car and handed Emily some of their camping supplies. Compared to Lauren, Emily felt like a million dollars. She had put a lot of effort into the healing symbol but apparently not as much as Lauren did.

"We're going camping. We're going camping." Emily sang playfully as she pulled a yellow bag over her shoulder.

"It's already getting dark." Mike handed her a flashlight. "We probably won't cover much ground. But hey, who doesn't love camping?"

"Mia doesn't. She loves traveling in planes though."

Mike laughed. "Of course, she's a typical wind samurai."

Emily laughed with her husband and walked with him toward the woods. Her laughed turned into a frown though as she came closer to Ji. Ji crossed his arms over his chest and shook his head at the two young samurai.

"I can explain…" Mike started.

"No need to." Ji said, cutting off Mike's sentence. "It's in the past now and both of you are safe. Just please call and us where you are the next time you decide to run off."

"Yes sir." Mike and Emily chorused.

"Where are you two going?" Ji gestured to the couple's camping gear. Emily and Mike looked at each other for answers to Ji's question. "Well? What did I just tell you two?"

"We're going to search for the black flower." Emily whispered. She stared at the ground, unsure of what else to say.

"The black flower is…"

"…possible to find." Mike finished his sentence. "It's not exactly impossible if a samurai from decades ago used it. It's probably still in the forest somewhere. The forest beyond the Shiba house isn't that big. I believe it's in there somewhere, right Emily?"

"I believe it's there too." Emily agreed with her husband. She thought he was crazy at first for attempting to find it last night but she changed her mind. Like Mike said, a samurai used the black flower decades ago. Meaning: it's possible to find.

"You young samurai are going to be the death of me." Ji sighed and shook his head. "Good luck on your search… and hurry." Ji gave the couple a serious, sad expression. "The symbol didn't work. I don't know how much longer Mia has."

Emily felt she had just been hit by a truck. She practiced day and night, with or without Lauren, trying to perfect the symbol. The healing symbol didn't work, all of her hard work for nothing. Emily felt her eyes water. She grabbed on to Mike's arm and pulled him to the forest. Just because a symbol, a spell, wasn't enough to save her sister, didn't mean she was going to give up. She got another chance to save her.

She's going to find the black flower.