Hey, go easy this is my first submission; I'm hoping it is ok

Hey, go easy this is my first submission; I'm hoping it is ok. It isn't finished yet, don't know what direction to take it in, I decided to stick with characters which were already established as they already have character developments and arcs going on in the movies, I tried to keep with the continuity but I haven't seen the movies since I was ...12? Maybe and I'm 21 now: P I have them on video but I just refreshed myself using YouTube to write this so it may get changed yet :P As a side note if you see any weirdly spelt words it's probably because you are American and I am English, but you know what they mean :P I'm trying to write as a 15 year old American Boy and I am a 21 year old English Woman so cut me some slack XD

Chapter 1 - The Adventure Begins

Colt breathed in, time to go to Grandpas cabin again, they met up with grandpa when he came to the burbs and took them out, they did that a lot, there was also the family BBQ's and worse the family parties, ugh his aunts sucked. But going to the Cabin was completely different and it made him tingle with excitement, it had completely changed his life, he was a ninja...or a ninja in training, he didn't know if his grandfather would ever tell him when a ninja stopped training, he was beginning to understand that maybe they never stopped learning.

Colt looked around his front lawn, Grandpa was stood next to his mom frowning, yeah his dad hadn't made it to see them off, but it was a regular routine, he wondered how his grandpa was always so appalled, his Dad was always busy, he was in the FBI, and he wouldn't talk about any of it, not because it was intensely secretive but because, his dad said working for the FBI killed his spirit, you don't always get to be a hero and you sometimes never catch the bad guys. Colt kissed his mother on the cheek and was immediately pulled into a full force hug, it was as if she would never see him again, he felt his air supply leaving him and pulled away from her "its only summer, oh ...and say bye to what's his name, oh yeah dad" he frowned and walked to the car, Jessica sighed and received a half hug from Mori. Colt jumped in the back of the car where Tum was playing game boy with a dingdong in his mouth, he hated sharing the back seat with him. Grandpa had apparently done a lot with the place, including getting one of his old friends to install an ultra cool tree house... fortress in the giant tree in the front of the house, apparently a rope ladder lead onto the roof and connected to the sky light by their loft room.

The ride there was the usual, the sun beating down strong Rocky and himself fighting over the radio, he wanted some guns and roses on which he had gotten into lately and Rocky wanted to listen to a band Miyo had sent them in the mail, He had never realised how much they had changed over the last year, they used to be so alike. Grandpa brought them to compromise by pulling up and taking out the music player and locking it in the glove compartment, he said if they couldn't decide like ninja and come to compromise to beat their boredom as a unit then the four strands of rope frayed and they basically would have nothing for the rest of the trip. Tum was asleep next to Colt with a stash of hobnobs under one of his arms and he was taking up most of the space, he couldn't believe how irritated he was getting, Rocky had his seat pulled right back too.

The brothers arrived at the cabin and jumped out running up to complex looking tree "awesome" they said in unison, Tum Tum immediately climbed up it to have a look around.

Rocky smiled at his grandpa "I'm just going to ring Lisa then I'll be right there" Grandpa grimaced, he felt he spent way too much time on the phone, Colt laughed "your whipped" just as he said that he felt his face grow red as a hand crept around his waist, he then found himself berating as he shouldn't have let his guard down, 'she's damned lucky I didn't sock her in jaw' he thought "hey handsome, what took you guys so long" it was Jo of course, only she would be so bold, they had been on and off since last summer, they kissed two summers ago and kept in contact, but somehow that ended up as dating, it one of their unspoken agreements, ever since they both started at different high schools it was harder and harder to keep in contact, with all the work they had to do. He could just see Rocky doing the whipped sign on his way into the house; he wanted to mouth "bite me" but figured that might come out all wrong with Jo and Grandpa stood in earshot. Colt turned to face her completely and smiled at her awkwardly, he had gotten the impression at first that she was a sweet gentle girl, and part of that was true, but he hadn't read in-between the lines, she was also fiercely fiery, headstrong and independent, he should have cottoned onto it when she suggested they all go... including her to bust her pop out of that recycling plant.

She was stunning, nothing at all like Rocky's Girlfriends, they were all straight edged and 90210, she hated pink, kinda wild like him, argumentative and challenging and she just got prettier and prettier, in a sexy wild way. She waved a hand in front of his face before kissing him on the cheek "well anyway, I just stopped by to say welcome back, I'm on my way to join the protest at the road down the way for the next 3 days, and it is the main road into the industrial estate". Colt raised an eyebrow; his girlfriend was huge on peaceful and not so peaceful protesting. "What is it" he tried to sound nice, but it didn't come out that way and he realised it when he said it and bit his tongue, sometimes he was so used to being in Sarcastic mode it just came out. She only said one word "Jack", Tum Tum fell from the tree above holding a rope and grabbed his duffle bag, Colt rolled his eyes, Jo was shocked for a minute but regained her composure and repeated herself "Jack Harding" Tum walked in-between them then "that creep who poisoned your people and your land, how did he not go to prison!!". Jo shrugged "he's at it again, this time with the towns water supply and it doesn't just affect the tribe it affects everyone, he owns the town, he thinks he can do what he wants, he paid a hefty fine, but he is untouchable, he isn't poisoning the town, but his rates are extortionate, some people can't even afford water!" She was going to jump into a political tirade, but stopped herself and smiled remembering that her boyfriend was here; too much too soon, her brother had always told her she was full on. She figured they could catch up a little later without Tum Tum around, she hugged Colt then and Colt could hear his brother gagging behind him and he made a mental note to give him a good dig later. He waved bye to Jo as she was running off, Colt lingered a bit too long on her retreating form, and he slapped his forehead willing himself out of the cloud of what was that feeling, lust? Guh "girls are bad, girls are bad". His grandpa laughed patting his shoulder "she is right, the town people come here with petition, they called a town meeting to try to solve the dispute tomorrow morning, I had no clue, and I have water well after all... Jowella filled me in, after ninja, we go". He said it with finality, no argument there.

Colt stood a bit dumbstruck, but at the look his grandpa was giving him he saluted and ran into the house.

Later on after dinner Tum Tum was helping His grandpa water the Bonsai Trees in the garden, and pruning with precision, he had started using a knife but had had a pair of pruning sheers put in front of him after that display of stupidity. A few yards away in the woods Rocky and Colt sat panting heavily opposite each other on the log they often practiced pole work on. They narrowed their eyes at each other.

Colt spat out a little bit of blood

"As soon as I get up I'm going to really make you wish you didn't do that, you totally almost knocked my tooth out"

Rocky smirked and felt a dribble of blood come out of his nose

"You're a dork when you make lame threats...what about my nose? You're getting almost as good as me..." Colt gave him a look and Rocky laughed "...ALMOST...it's a good challenge, but I don't think mum and dad would be happy that we are pummelling each other into pizza". He smirked, he did enjoy the fight.

Colt snorted "good thing we don't see them for 2 months then, they would freak out at the state of us, mummy would probably have precious Samuel wrapped up in bed" Rocky laughed it off, he had won so he could see the humour, he got up to shake hands. Colt reached up with a smile then retracted his hand at the last minute and sent his brother off the log into the water.

Rocky coughed and spluttered beneath "You'll pay for that, an honest ninja doesn't condone fighting dirty". Colt walked off laughing "A ninja uses everything around him to his advantage".

Rocky splashed water as he dredged himself out, "Yeah I know about Ninjas, but what about Brotherhood!" he shouted after his brother who was waving his hand in between fits of giggles.

The rest of the evening was pretty calm; the boys settled in and had to make dinner. Rocky sat in the kitchen reading his manga book, he was getting really good at Japanese now and he even wrote letters to Miyo in Japanese, with English subtitling, he had to start because apparently he called her mother a fish with blue shoes in one instance by accident.

Colt sat on the porch observing the night sky, he had a weird year, starting high school was a blast, he hated his last year of middle school, when Rocky had left , he had instantly insane amounts of popularity, he came out of his brothers shadow, he wasn't sure about the feeling though, it wasn't as if he was nice to anyone, but people with no minds of their own are glutton for punishment and keep coming back, he was more of a loner, he didn't get his attraction. All his friends where Rocky's friends and all the girls who followed Rocky now followed him, like he was Rocky mark 2? He was himself and he never let them forget it, he had heard of natural born leaders, his brother was one... but he was not one of them, he immediately got promoted to captains of the respective teams him and Rocky played for when Rocky left for High school and he didn't fully understand why, sure he was athletic but he wasn't a people person like his brother was, truth be told he would be happier in a band or simply just being part of a team. It was as if because he was a Douglas, or even just because he was Rocky's brother the mantle was passed down. He wanted his own damned mantle, Since he joined High School though, he had been put on the teams by default, difference was he was back in his brothers shadow again, he actually preferred it, people didn't come up for his opinion all the time, but he did still get annoying girls, no doubt turned down once by Rocky.

Colt stared ahead into the bushes; yep whilst he was deep in thought his little brother had been watching him, planning an attack. Colt smiled "come on Tum Tum, you should have struck whilst I had no IDEA, your way too slow". He heard an exasperated sigh as his little brother stomped out of the bushes with twigs in his hair "yeah well Rocky noticed me quicker!!" he stomped off pulling his tongue out at him. Colt growled "yeah good for him!" his brother could be better at him with everything, he didn't care, as long as it wasn't ninja!

Later in the middle of the night.

"What you DOING Rock?" Colt said as he sat up irritated, he kept getting a glint in his eye and it was hard to sleep anyway, it was his first night away. Rocky slid his glasses off his nose and squinted to look at Colt using only his pocket light "writing a letter to Miyo, why?" Colt rolled his eyes "it's the middle of the night", Colt could see Rocky shrug in the bad light "so, I can't sleep", Tum was snoring so Colt elbowed him onto his side and he snorted and stopped "is it a lurvee letter"? Colt said as he came closer wiggling his eyebrows. It was Rocky's turn to be irritated and yanked the letter out of reach "no! She's my pen pal; you know we write each other, save all those hefty phone calls. In her last letter she asked when we would all be going over to Japan again and how my drivers Ed were going..." Rocky suddenly wondered why he was explaining his actions in such detail, to his brother of all people, he decided to end it "...it's platonic". Colt smiled evilly not understanding the word "Your cheating on Lisa, that's so bad" Rocky slammed his letter to one side and stared at his brother before shaking his head "your insufferable, I can make this conversation very uncomfortable for you too you know" he wiggled his eyebrows in much the style his brother did earlier. Colt frowned he knew he would be bringing this around to Jo somehow, what Rocky didn't understand is that him and Jo hardly saw each other and when they did they mostly caught up by talking, he wasn't about to tell Rocky that though, so un-cool, he had once walked in on Rocky and Lisa back home a few months back, and he had every right, they had still shared a room at the time! He was truly shocked to find them looking very red and almost naked, he had tried to shrug it off but it did freak him out, he realised his naivety.

Colt drifted back to Jo he hadn't seen her in 4 months, she made a surprise visit to the city with her brother and she called him up to meet, they couldn't think of anything to do together without having to call it a date and decided to just hang out around the city, checking stuff out. She was getting really touchy feely though he had to admit, he figured guys where supposed to be the ones with one thing on there minds, but then he reasoned she was a 15 year old red-blooded female, and he didn't have rosy thoughts either, he couldn't believe how different he felt, he thought it was un-cool to hang with Tum anyway, but it was getting unbearable now he was in High school, he found it hard to be around his younger brother without him irritating him with immature comments which would have probably made him laugh months earlier. One noticeable change was his voice wasn't deeper but more gravely which Jo picked up on straight away which embarrassed him so much, worse that his mum did to and kept him off school thinking he had a throat infection. He was starting to resent Rocky's ability to adapt to change so quickly, his brother was his role model and nothing was more embarrassing than having to copy things that Rocky did. Who else could he get relationship advice from, mum and dad? They were complete squares.

The following day it was blazing hot and for once Colt wanted the banana coloured suit his brother was wearing, he tugged at his blue suit once again, it was way too hot and he was way too tired to be doing this. The tree house his grandfather had lovingly crafted for them with his friends was nothing like they imagined, an ultra cool ninja house to practice in, sure it was a traditional ninja house with passage ways and escape holes, ropes and pulleys, but it had some nasty surprises and after 7 hours he was more than sick of the wooden decor They had been staging attacks on grandpa all day long and it was getting close to 3pm and they hadn't won once. It was almost time to go meet up with Jo, great he was an absolute mess, he needed a shower, colt decided to sneak away first to beat his brothers to the bathroom.

Tum was already in there

"Damnit Tum, I need a shower!" Colt whined through the partition. Tum just giggled like a little girl "what so you don't smell for your girlfriend?" Colt breathed out dramatically "at least I have one". Tum Tum opened the door clad in only a towel "EW what would I want with a girlfriend, they distract a ninjas concentration". Colt gave him a sly grin "yeah yeah yeah, you well fancy that little tubby girl across the street!" Tum Tum looked practically mortified "AS IF SPAZ, NEVER, I don't ...like her, like her! She just gives me Jelly beans, she is a cool girl unlike the sort you like, who want to do nothing but KISS you and HUG you and LOVE you ...bleugh!" Colt slammed the door shut on his over-reactive brother doing gagging reflexes and looked at him self in the mirror, he was 15, getting taller, and he had a few spots - which secretly drove him insane, he always used Rocky's Clearasil but it never seemed to work. Colt looked over at the sink, hair gel, he weighed it up, it could be cool, and if he didn't use too much that anyone would notice, ESPECIALLY Rocky.

After his shower he was sat in his shared room on his futon, He found himself thinking back to November in the corridor at school, Emily and her stooges had flanked him and flatly asked him when he was going to get a girlfriend and how sad it was that he didn't have one, he figured it did look a bit strange, he never took any interest in girls, he had enough offers, after all he was on the baseball team, basketball team and he was into Martial arts that everyone knew about, he always turned girls down, He wasn't into all that holding hands nonsense everyone was into his age, he had a picture of Jo and him together which was a stretch for him, he wasn't soppy after all, they were just sitting outside the museum and he had, had to cut her brother out of the corner. He stupidly showed it to Emily when she began to pry into his unavailability for her friend Charlie... another pinkette girly girl, she had been trying to match them up for weeks. She had called him a liar and a sad loser, apparently as he and Jo just looked friendly in the picture, it was a fake apparently and she asked if he was into guys...GUYS, seriously! And for the first time, he had wanted a touchy feely hand holding girlfriend who lived closer if only to shut those harpies up, it wasn't that he didn't want a physical relationship, he just had no experience with it and besides his ninja training was way more important.

Apparently Jo had gone through the same thing, although Colt guessed the details where different, after all she was the granddaughter of the chieftain and the prettiest in the tribe, no that was an understatement, she had changed, she had lost the puppy fat on her face and she had filled out in all the right places, she was even starting to wear makeup and leave her long hair down, he had teased her about that. She mentioned that her grandfather wanted her to date outside of the tribe, obviously he hadn't said the word "date", and Colt laughed at that, it was for unity, but outside of her culture she wasn't sure of. That freaked him out, where her family against them? It didn't help his insecurity either, what if other guys where trying to convince her to dump him? He hadn't been a very good boyfriend, what if the guys she hung around with where better than him, hell that wasn't too hard; he didn't know what to do around girls, he could kick all his rivals asses, he smiled at this to himself, but then grimaced "note to self kicking entire male population of towns ass not an", he chuckled..