A/N: This is the sequel to 'In Another Life'. If you haven't read that then some parts maybe confusing, but all you really need is the prologue from that one to understand how everything is in this story.

I got the idea for this fic while listening to the song it's named after, You'll be in my heart, after watching an episode of the 2012 cartoon. Really I pictured them still as turtles cuddled in Raph's hammock with everyone against them being together, but as mutant turtles there's only a few people who even know them so I decided to make them human. Also, these are pretty short chapters, but I'm planning it to be nine chapters long hopefully.

Disclaimer: Nothing is mine, except the plot, I suppose it's safe to say that it's mine.

Chapter 1

Why Can't They Understand

"And don't let me catch you shooting spitballs in my class ever again, Michelangelo!"

"Yeah, yeah. Sure thing Mrs. Pencil. Won't happen again." A blond haired, blue-eyed teen waved dismissively at a strict middle aged woman as he exited the high school. "But I don't think students with spitballs are the ones you should be worrying about at this school," he added over his shoulder.

Mikey glanced at the time on his phone and picked up his pace. He was already late for training because of a two hour detention he received for shooting spitballs in class for the fourth time this week. It really wasn't his fault though, if Leonardo had just responded to him instead of ignoring him the whole class then he wouldn't of had to resort to spitballs to catch his attention.

Leo, Mikey let out a sigh as he cast his eyes downward at the side walk. His oldest brother had been ignoring him a lot in the past few weeks and Mikey knew very well why. Leonardo didn't approve of his new relationship with Raph. He and Raphael had gotten together towards the beginning of the summer and although Donatello fully supported them, Leo didn't.

The poor guy almost went into shock when he found out two weeks ago, right before their sophomore year of high school started. He had no problem with them being gay, in fact he said that he even had his suspicions about Mikey over the years, but apparently couldn't believe that two boys who had grown up as brothers could love one another in such a way. Now he never said he thought it was wrong or disgusting or anything like that, but the still got lectured for nearly an hour. He didn't seem to be alone either. That day he ran off to Spinter's like he normally did when he was angry or upset or confused in some way, and ever since that day the ninjutsu master has treated the two boys somewhat differently. Now of course he never spoke a word about it to either of them. Nor did he act negatively towards them or ignore their existence like their brother had been, but the way in which he behaved towards the two boys had changed that day, or maybe it was just in Michelangelo's head, wouldn't be the first time. Mikey seemed to think that Splinter was disappointed in them or disapproved or was against it in someway, and he couldn't help but feel saddened by that and wounder why he and his brother couldn't just seem to understand like Donnie did.

Donatello supported them from the start. He had known about their feeling for each other for years, before they even knew themselves, and was honestly surprised it had taken them this long to finally get together. Luckily, he isn't alone either. April says that, apparently, they're an adorable couple and, strange enough, finds their relationship kind of "hot". Teenage girls were so strange.

Donnie also seems fiercely determined to "keep his sweet little brother's innocence safe from the hooligan named Raphael." Whatever that's supposed to mean, but whenever he or Raph have any form of physical contact whatsoever for more than two seconds he appears out of nowhere and yanks Mikey away. Even when he is supposed to be on the other side of the city on a "date" with April and they're in the lest expected alley trying to hide from him, he still manages to show up to ruin the moment and steal his younger sibling away. Fortunately, April seems to have taken pity on them and has recently been distracting Donnie so they can be alone for a few moments at a time, if they're lucky.

Mikey came out of his daze to realize that sometime while he was in still lost in thought he had stopped walking, and now was just standing there, staring at a crack in the sidewalk. He let out a frustrated sigh and checked the time again before breaking into a sprint when he realized how late he was.

"They're gonna kill him," he mumbled under his breath as he took a shortcut through an alleyway.

Mikey was about halfway through the alley when four boys emerged from behind a couple of dumpsters, blocking his way. He recognized them, they all went to his school, but were a grade or so above him. They always tried to act tough, but everyone knew they were cowards who only picked on people they could beat, or thought they could anyways. "Well, well, well, what do we have here?" The tallest and first to appear said.

"Sorry, but I can't stay and chat right now, guys. Y'know, training and stuff." Mikey said and started to push through the teens. At the same time, two switched open a pair of pocketknives while the other two stepped in his way again. Mikey tried to suppress his laughter, "Oh no! Not pocketknives! Whatever shall I do!" He couldn't hold back any longer and burst into laughter as he tried to make his was through them again. Apparently they didn't know who they were dealing with.

The boy closest to him punched Michelangelo in the stomach. He clutched his gut and looked up and the one who struck him. "You're not going anywhere, fagot," said a rather chubby, grinning down at him evilly.

Mikey glared back at him for a moment, "What do you want?"

The first guy took a step closer to Mikey and spoke again, "We're gonna make it clear that your type isn't welcome at out school."

They couldn't possibly be serious. Did these people have nothing better to do than stalk a gay teenage boy and beat him up because of his sexuality? Really, he though people didn't care about this kind of stuff anymore. The majority of his class mates didn't mind that he was gay,just a few assholes made a couple of smart comments to him, but Raph shut them up quick enough. Mikey sighed and straighten himself up. "Come on, dudes. I'm already late," he said to the them, "Now get outta my way before I kick the crap out of you."

The teens chuckled lightly before one swung his fist and punched Mikey in the face. Mikey could taste a drop of blood in his mouth and brought his hand up to feel his busted lip. He looked from the blood on his finger to the guy that punched him, who was wearing a smug smile. "Alright, looks like we're gonna have to do this the hard way."

When Mikey finally arrived at his master's apartment, his brothers were already finishing up with their training session. Raphael, who was the first to notice his arrival, jogged over to him. "Hey, Mikey! Where have ya been? We were just 'bout to come lookin' for y-," he cut himself off and took a few steps closer to his brother, grabbing one of his upper arms and bringing it closer to examine the deep gash left there. "Who did this to you?" He growled out.

"Mikey, are you alright?" Donatello asked before Mikey could answer.

Michelangelo's reply was cut off again by Leo who finally noticed his brother's injuries, "What happened?"

Mikey looked at his concerned brothers and raised his hands to stop their questioning. He shook his head and laughed, though it was a bit forced. "I'm fine, I'm fine. You think this is bad? You should see the other guys. I only got a few bruises, but I totally rearranged those poor saps' faces!"

"A few bruises?" Donnie said, worried, "Mikey, you have a black eye, your left cheek is swollen, your lip is busted, you have a huge cut in your right arm, plus you seem to have a pretty bad limp, and those are only all the injuries I can see at first glance."

"Mikey, you need to lay down," Leonardo said in the same worried tone, "I'll go get Splinter." Leo walked out of the room as Raph and Donnie helped Mikey to a mat on the floor.

"Guys really, I'm okay." Mikey insisted. "Besides, look at the bright side; Leo just talked to me for the first time in over two weeks!" At this, Raph's face grew grimmer and he sent a glare in the direction their brother had just disappeared to.

Leonardo returned moments later with Splinter who hurried across the room to kneel beside Mikey. "Michelangelo, what happened to you?"

"A few students from our school cornered me in an alley while I was on my way here, but don't worry sensei, I did a lot more damage to them then they did to me." Mikey grinned and tried to sit up, but Splinter placed a hand on his shoulder to stop him.

"Lay back down, Michelangelo. Your wounds must be attended to."

Splinter spent the rest of the evening treating the youngest brother's injuries. None of them were too serious, the worst being a badly sprained ankle and the deep cut in his arm. Mikey took full advantage of being able to talk to Leo normally again while the older was still worried for his little brother. Raph spent the whole time trying to interrogate Mikey and get him to tell him who it was that attacked him so he could kick their asses. Donnie just studied their master's healing techniques the whole time.

It was becoming dark outside when the brothers finally started to head home, Splinter offered just to drive them due to Mikey's injuries, but they declined. Mikey preferred to rooftops to the streets any day. That is, until he realized he couldn't very well jump from one to the other with a sprained ankle.

Mikey stood at the ledge of the building where Splinter lived, in his stance, ready to jump.

On the building across from him his brothers were impatiently waiting for their little brother to leap over. They all new he could easily make it, even with a sprained ankle, it was only a four foot distance. You could almost step across it.

"Hurry up already, Mikey! We don't have all night y'know." Raphael complained.

"Shut up, Raph. I've got a sprained ankle! It's gonna hurt when I jump on it!"

Raph just rolled his eyes and Donnie said to him, "Why don't you go help him?"

"Why should I be the one to help him?!" The hothead looked to his genius brother, "Why don't you?"

"Simple," Donnie shrugged and continued in a mocking tone, "Cause I'm not his boyfriend, you are."

"Oh, shut up, would ya?" Raph said and turned his attention back to his youngest brother just in time to see him finally take the jump.

Mikey landed and immediately collapsed into his hands and knees. "Ow! Ow! Ow! Ow! Ow! Owww!" The blonde cried out and sat up into a fetal position, rocking back and forth while clutching his ankle and continuing to complain about the pain in his leg.

Raphael looked down at his brother/boyfriend and shook his head, "You're such a baby, Mikey."

Mikey looked up angerly and was about to protest when he felt Raph wrap one arm around his back and place the other under his knees and lift him into the air. Raph pulled Mikey against his chest and continued with his brothers onto the next rooftop. Mikey blushed snaked his arms around his brother's neck to hold himself up. He looked up at the larger teen's face to see that, although Raph's eyes were concentrated on what was ahead, he still mirrored Mikey's blush.

Mikey giggled to himself, causing Raph to glance down at him. "What are you laughin' at?"

"Oh nothing, Raphie," Mikey said in a teasing voice, "Just admiring your blushing face is all." At this Raph's face turned several shades darker and he glared down at his brother. Mikey couldn't help but burst out laughing at the look on his face.

"Ya won't be laughing when I drop you off a ten story building, will ya?"

Mikey stopped laughing long enough to reply, "Oh Raphie. I know you'd never to that to me! You love me too much!" Mikey winked at his brother.

"Won't I?" Suddenly Raph loosened his grip as then they sailed over a particularly long jump and Mikey though for a split second that Raph really was going to drop him. He clutched to his arms around his brother even tighter and buried his face into the crook of his neck. Then Raphael burst into laughter and Mikey glared at him, only causing his brother to laugh harder and his own face to turn much redder than Raph's ever was.

"Guys, quit fooling around!" Donnie called from ahead of them.

"Sorry, bro," Mikey said while looking around, "Hey, where'd Leo go?"

"He took off ahead when Raph decided to pick you up and carry you bridal style."

"Figures," Raph grumbled. "He's gonna have to get used to us sometime."

When they reached the orphanage Raph set Mikey down on the rooftop while Donnie started to descend the fire escape. Raph started following when Mikey caught his hand. Raph turned to his brother and was immediately met by the smaller teen's soft lips on his own. Then just a quickly, much too quickly, they were gone. Raph opened his eyes in confusion to see Mikey following Donnie down the fire escape and winking back at him. "Pay back, bro. For pretending like you were gonna drop me." Raphael growled playfully before chasing his little brother down the fire escape and into their room.

See, told you it was short chapters. Chapter two will hopefully be up in a few days. Please, please, please review! I loved every review I got for "In Another Life", they always make my day.