Fifteen years ago, Hamato Yoshi couldn't be any happier man. He had a beautiful wife, Tang Shen, and a daughter, Miwa. Miwa was soon to be turn one, and she was most beautiful child Yoshi had ever seen. It had probably something to do with her mother. Their live was like from a fairytale. Yoshi worked in a dojo as a ninjitsu teacher, and Tang Shen stayed home keeping company to little Miwa. Everything was calm and peaceful, until that one day.

Oroku Saki was so jealous. His brother had everything. Wife, daughter and job. Tang Shen was supposed to be his, but Yoshi stole her from him. Miwa should be his as well. Saki was blinded by hatred. He rebuild the Footclan where he was adopted to. He wasn't really Hamato Yoshi's brother. He was a warrior of Footclan. He light a fire at Yoshi's house, burning it down completely. Little did he know, that Tang Shen burned down with the house. Yoshi survived - he was playing with Miwa outside, when he saw the smoke. And it was too late by then. Thang Shen was gone.

House burned down completely as well. Nothing was left. Absolutely nothing.

Moving to better place seemed like the best way to start. After Shen's funeral, Yoshi took Miwa with him, and the two flied all the way to New York. He had just enough money to buy a small apartment. Soon things turned to better direction, as Yoshi got a job - he was now a Japanese and history teacher at nearby high school. Slowly, things got better.

Years passed, and things were going great for the two. Miwa was really smart child, and she was great at school. She always wanted to make her father proud. She was so into studying, that she didn't have any friends. That didn't bother her, thought. Miwa loved to be left alone. When her father would ask her if she felt lonely, Miwa would shook her head, and smile brightly. Besides books and school, she loved to draw.

Soon became that day, when Miwa turned fifteen. And that's where the story begins.

"Dad, can you tell me about mom again?"

Miwa turned to face his father, who sighed. He had told her so much about Tang Shen these past years. Everything from how they met, to what was she like. He didn't even know what to tell anymore. Miwa knew it all. But he did not want to disappoint his daughter.

"Miwa, you know everything I know", Yoshi gave a small smile towards his daughter. Miwa however, didn't look happy.

"But you have to know something that you haven't told me already..", she looked at her father, who coudn't help but shake his head. Miwa was so stubborn at times, and even more if it had something to do with her mother. Yoshi had given her her mother's diary when she turned 14. She used to read it ever since. But because Tang Shen had wrote literally everything about her life down, it took a lot more time to read it all. A lot. In fact, Miwa still wasn't finished. Tang Shen's story was ten diaries total. First one told about her life when she was going primary school. Second one told about her time in middle school, and third one about high school. Fourth one was the time she moved to Japan from China. Number five was about her trying to get used to Japan. Book number five was where she met Oroku Saki, and became his girfriend. Next book toold about that time as well. Last books told how she became Yoshi's girlfriend instead, and how she finally got married. However, book number ten was missing. Yoshi knew that it existed. He had brought ten diaries from Japan when he moved away with Miwa. However, only nine were left.

The sound of Tv playing in the backgroung caught his attention. Miwa had turned it on moment before, and was now watching News. It was nothing special, like usually. However, something caught Yoshi's attention in it.

"A strange creature has been spotted on a rooftops near Central Park. It was moving f...", reporter spoke, and at the same time a picture was on the screen. It was zoomed in, and the figure was a bit unclear. However, there was something that made Yoshi to stare at the picture. He quickly took a picture from it with his phone, and started examining in.

Miwa looked at his father confused, but decided to stay quiet.

Yoshi smiled a bit to his daughter when he saw her interest. "I'm going to bed, meeting tomorrow. You should go to sleep soon too", he told her, and she just nodded quickly. Yoshi walked out of the living room, and quickly to his own bedroom. He hadn't lied. He would go to bed, but sleeping was another thing. There was something about that photo.

He opened his phone again, and his eyes caught a symbol from the figure. Even if the whole figure was in the shadows, it's arm was in small light. And you couldn't see it, unless that's what you were looking for. A symbol. From the Footclan. This was bad. The thing was, that he hand't told it to Miwa. Anything about how Oroku Saki re-build the Foot, and how he tried to get 'his' daughter back and raise her in the Footclan as a deadly soldier. Thought made Yoshi nauseous. He had brought Miwa here to be safe from Saki, and now he was after her again. Fifteen years had passed so quickly.

He wanted to protect Miwa, but he didn't know how.

When her father had gone to bed, Miwa turned off the television. She was interested about this creature. It was nine a 'clock. Tomorrow was school. She knew she should be asleep. She also knew, that she wanted to know what the creature was. It was clearly not a human. It's body was way bigger, although height was almost same. She wanted to know more. And, she was a kunoichi. She knew she could do this.

Miwa went to her room. It was small, but she couldn't wish anything better. There was everything she needed.

She took with her her tessen. Her father had given it to her when she managed to complete a kata perfectly. It was well deserved, and beautiful weapon. There was stored a lot of power into it. It was up to it' user, if the power was released or not. And Miwa had trained her whole life to master tessens. She was pretty good with them, no doubt.

Miwa opened a window of her room as quietly as she managed. She jumped out, and shut it the same way.

Luckily, they didn't live far away from Central Park. Miwa decided it would be easier to get there from on the rooftops; There woudn't be any distractions on the way.

It took good twenty minutes to reach the spot the photo was taken from. It was empty. What had she expected anyway. To find the creature right away. That's ridiculous.

She sat down, and sighed.

"What's up Rai?"

She hated that nickname, and knew immediately who was behind her. The guy who tried to get to her nerves all the time in class. The only one who ever had even spoke to her, tho she wished he didn't.

"Jones, what the heck are you doing in here?", Miwa growled, and turned around to see the raven haired boy behind her. The thing she didn't expect, was a mask on his face. "And what the heck is that supposed to be. You know you aren't scary right?" Miwa stood up, and faced him.

"I'm here with a friend I guess. He disappeared somewhere i guess", he looked even a bit nervous for few seconds, but then his face toughened again. "So what's a girl like you doing here alone?"He smirked, and Miwa looked at him disgusted.

"Doesn't belong to you. I go where I want to. I have my reasons", she muttered annoyed. Why couldn't he just leave her alone?

"Who was your father again?"

This question started the alarm in her head. Why did such thing interest Casey Jones?

"Why do you ask?"

"You'r last name is Hamato. Is he Hamato Yoshi?"

"What...?"

Four figures jumped out of the shadows. Each one was wearing black uniform, where was a red foot in a circle. I guess it was some kind of symbol. Each one had also different colored mask. Tallest one had dark purple, and smallest dark orange. Second smallest was wearing dark red mask, and the left one had dark blue mask. They weren't human. Their skin was green. What was wrong with these guys, and what did Casey had to do with it?

Blue one stepped closer to her, and studied her with his eyes. She looked back at him sharply, and noticed how other three were surrounding her.

"Could someone please tell me what is going on?" Her voice shook a bit. Not because id fear, but because of tension. Her eyes met Casey's and his look made her surprised.

"I'm sorry Miwa, but they made me to tell where you was. I didn't know, but they forced me to tell everything about you. I told you were really interested on mysteries, and Leonardo showed of to the camera soon after. He knew it would be bait to get you out of your hiding place..-", Casey explained, his voice was quiet and quilty. Never had Miwa heard anything like that from him, and it made her feel a bit nervous.

"But why are you even after me? Why you needed to find me?!" Miwa looked at the terrapins surrounding her. Their eyes were white and it seemed like no one of them was gonna speak. Until the blue one did.

"You are our master's daughter, and he wants to return you home. Permanently"

Then they attacked. Miwa had no chance against those four. She was soon pressed against the wall by the blue one, bleeding and bruised. And then the world went black

Yoshi's eyes opened, and he sat up, his breathing rapid. That nightmare, it had felt so real.

He ran to his daughter's room. It was dark inside her room, and he could see Miwa's peaceful seeping form. Yoshi sighed in relief, and closed the door of is daughter's room. He walked to the kitchen, and put the lights on. First they blinded him, but he got used to them quickly. He couldn't sleep, not anymore. Clock on the wall showed 4.30am. He decided to take a cup of tea, and relax until he would have to go.

He put a kettle on, and listened the sound of water in it. Why did he see that dream? What were those creatures. Were they just something that his imagination had created, or were they real? Chances were pretty low. Maybe he was jut really stressed about the symbol. That must be it.

He poured hot water to a cup, and put a tea bag into it.

Saki wouldn't leave them alone, no way. He thought that Miwa belonged to him. And Yoshi couldn't let his daughter to get hurt. Tomorrow Miwa's training would get harder. She can't leave the house, unless someone is with her. And she has to be home by 8pm. Or before dark comes. Ninjas uses shadows, and if there's none, there are no ninjas either.

This was the moment everything changed.

Leonardo yawned, and stood up stretching his arms. He put on an armor made just for him, and his dark blue mask.

Master Shredder wanted to talk to him. It was about something really important, because he had invited Leonardo's brothers to join. Usually only eldest was invited to listen the master.

When Leonardo walked to the throne room, all his brothers were there already.

Michelangelo ,the youngest. He was fastest of all of them, and had more stealth than anyone did. His baby brother was the one that hated the Shredder the most. The orange banded turtle would have wanted to live free from rules and punishments, but didn't also want to leave his brothers.

Donatello, second youngest. He had brain size of an football at least. The purple banded turtle had brains for all of them, and he spend all his time with the mad scientist; Baxter Stockman. It's not that he liked him, Donatello just wanted to make his own machines. He wanted to learn more, and only way for that was to learn from Baxter.

Raphael, second oldest. He carried red mask, and had temper that allowed him to. Raphael's anger was his weapon, but his weakness also. Master Shredder always tries to teach him to control it, but no progress so far. Other than that, Raphael was really protective brother.

Leonardo walked between his brothers and the Shredder. He kneeled down, and waited for his master to speak.

"Years ago, a dirty thief stole my wife, and before he killed her, he made a child using her. Now the poor child is somewhere, here in New York City. She doesn't know what kind of beast her so called father is. I want her here. Her name is Miwa. Hamato Miwa. You must bring her to me. Don't harm her. I don't care how you do it, but she needs to be here in a week, unharmed. Am I clear? If you can fulfill this first real mission of yours, you'll be full members of the Footclan. Remember, you never fit to anywhere else than here. Outside world would kill you, or sell to scientists"

Leonardo nodded, and exited the room behind his brothers. As soon as they could talk without the Shredder hearing, Leonardo spoke.

"Donatello, could you pleace locate her?"

"We aren't really gonna get her, are we..?" Michelangelo's voice was shaky.

"We are. It doesn't matter what she thinks. We belong here, and we need to earn our places. Donatello, you have ten hours to locate her, then we'll be leaving"