Hey everyone! I'm back with a new story! Well remember how everyone wanted a sequel to "You Have No Idea"? Well, here it is. I did have a sequel already written but I really didn't like it so I deleted it from my computer. In the end I decided to start from scratch and rewrite the sequel completely, I think I'll follow the same out line I originally planned, though I want to change a few small things in the plot.

Well, I hope you like this little preview. I'll be busy with a lot of work for the next few weeks so I hope this is enough to hold on to for now.

I don't own TMNT.

The Art of Brotherhood

Preview:

Raph ran a hand over his forehead, wiping away the sweat that trailed it's way down his face.

"Hey Raph," a voice said in the doorway.

The red masked turtle glanced up and forced a smile across his face, "Hey bro. You ok?"

The blue masked turtle in the doorway shrugged before stepping away and walking back through the main room of their lair. Raph took a deep breath before running after his older brother, "Leo wait."

The older turtle turned and set his eyes in curiosity at his red masked brother, "Yes?"

Raph narrowed his eyes, "Don't you dare lie to me."

"Raph, how do you think I'm doing?" Leo glared at Raph but thought better of the gesture and turned it to the floor, "It's only days until-"

"We'll find something Leo," Raph said supportively, "Don and April have been working non stop."

Leo curled his right hand into a fist at his side as his left hand rose and settled over his heart before curling into a fist as well. Raph frowned as sorrow filled him. He reached out and set a hand on Leo's shoulder, "You're going to be ok Leo. You'll be fine."

Leo bent his head forwards, shadows casting his face in darkness as he began to tremble, "Why couldn't I have just died in Central America! Or in Winter's tower! It would be better than this!"

Raph narrowed his eyes in a glare and forced Leo to look up at him, "Don't you dare talk like that bro. We'll find a way, I know we will."

The eldest turtle was still trembling and tears pricked the corners of his eyes but Raph wouldn't let him look away so he simply closed his eyes and tried to breathe deeply. Despite every exercise he had learned throughout the years to control his emotions they all seemed pointless now. He felt feeling leave his legs and his knees buckled sending the blue clad turtle to the ground, his younger brother following, pulling his older brother into a hug as his eyes found all the sorrow of the situation and let them bleed into his mind. Raph sighed and held his brother close as Leo cried into his shoulder.

"It's ok to be scared Leo, we all are," Raph whispered softly.

"Yeah, but none of you are dieing," Leo muttered.

The younger turtle sighed and looked up as his purple masked immediate younger brother walked into the room and out of his lab. Donatello had large circles under his eyes, showing he hadn't slept in days and his shaking form showed that he had only lasted this long because of large consumptions of caffeine. When Don's eyes fell upon his blue clad brother he gulped, he should've never told Leo that he was dieing. Should've never revealed to his family that an examination had revealed a damaged heart valve inside their blue masked older brother. The chemicals had already destroyed most of the heart valve and it was just barely allowing blood to pass through it. If Leo didn't receive a replacement within the next two weeks, his heart would fail. When the genius turtle had revealed it to Leo months ago, he knew exactly how long Leo had before his heart would just be too weak to support him. He knew his oldest brother had six months to live and now, those six months had become one week.

He had had to explain it in hinting terminology, he just didn't have the heart to come right out and say, "Well Leo, one of your heart valves is slowly deteriorating away and you've got six months until you're pretty much road kill. Oh and you can't be a ninja any longer."

"Yeah, that would've gone over well," Don thought sarcastically as he ducked into the kitchen and poured himself another cup of coffee, heavy on the caffeine.

He had to find an answer in time. One week, the genius turtle had one week. He glanced at the calendar where days were marked off, ok so he had stayed up the entire weekend, so he had five days. Five days. Five days until… He gulped at the thought and hurried back to his lab, getting on his computer to hack into private networks, hoping to find something, cursing when the pages took too long to load and turning occasionally to warm or cool chemicals he was working with. It wasn't as if one of them could donate a heart valve to their brother. Unlike humans there wasn't exactly a way to build an artificial heart valve for them nor was there a place to get a new one.

Five days…he hoped….he prayed.

So now you know how those chemicals affected Leo, but will Don find an answer? Will he find it in time? This story well…you'll be surprised by the ending. I promise you. Let's just say it won't end how my stories normally end. Actually I've never ended a story the way I'm going to end this one. Hmm…

Well, leave a review if you feel like it, or if you want to know what ultimately happens.

~Moonsetta