Splinter stood at the front of the crowd holding his newborn son Michelangelo in his arms as his five year old was at his side in tears. His wife had died giving birth to their second child, she had been told that she could never have children and gave birth to two miracle children. But it cost Tang Shen her life in the end. Standing there and looking down at the casket he could not believe that he had lost his best friend. they had been married for 8 years... they loved children and both came from homes where they were an only child they both dreamed of a large family. Only now Homato Yoshi knew this may never happen...

Months later...

Four year old Raphael was scared as he held his 1 year old brother close to him, it had been days since they had seen their parents and the young boy was scared. Not being old enough to understand what happened the two toddlers were now in the custody of New York City's Child Care Services. The woman behind the counter told him to be good and watch his brother while she made some phone calls.

The small boy looked around at the chars that surrounded him, there were a few books with pictures on them and a stack of small infant toys in a box near them.

Raphael looked down at his little brother and saw that he had gone to sleep in his arms, laying him carefully on the chair he got up and wandered around the office but did not let Donatello out of his sight.

Moments turned in to hours before a nice woman came into the office and told little Raphael.

"There is a couple that is willing to take you both in, but its temporary... she can only take in four year olds and she has no means of really caring for infants so your brother will be sent to a different home by the end of the week."

Raphael only understood the 'his brother to be taken away' part and said angrily.

"NO! DONNIE STAY WIT ME! I DON'T WANNA GO IF DONNIE CANT TOO!"

The sound of his big brother's shouts startled the one year old to wake up and begin crying.

The woman with long dark hair looked over at the receptionist and told her.

"Call some one else, if we separate them all hell is going to break loose."

When they could find no one else the two now orphans were sent to the home that would eventually separate them.

In another part of the city...

Homato Yoshi had heard about a fiery crash that ended a young couple's life, he read about it in the news paper. Now he read the evening edition and in the classified section had a please help us in big bold letters. On it was a photo of a four year old boy and his one year old brother. The article read:

Please help us.

We lost our parents just a week ago and now we are in foster care. We only have a matter of days before we are separated.

Yoshi's heart went out to these boys, he studied the photo of both children and looked over at his youngest cooing in his bouncy seat next to him on the floor.

He was torn, it has only been just a few months since his wife passed on.

Was he really ready to take on two more children?

A/N: This is my first human fic for the ninja turtles. Tell me how you like it so far. The add in the news paper really happened to a set of brothers in my home town when they were going to be separated after becoming orphans. In the end they got adopted.

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