Author Notes:
This is my first time writing a fanfic for TMNT, so sorry if it's totally horrid.


"Donnie if you don't get that over-sized stick out of my face, I will snap it." Raphael was not in the mood for games.
All four of the ninja turtles had been in training since dawn when Master Splinter had woken them after he had had a bad feeling about what might happen in their next battle.
"Ok, ok, no need to get so touchy. I was just trying to run through the next training formation. Jeez." Donnie lowered his bō. "Master, don't you think we've trained enough for today? I mean, Raph's ready to rip my throat out, Mikey's got enough bruises to last a life time, Leo's not preforming everything to his standards anymore, and we all need a rest."
Splinter processed what Donnie had said.
"Donnie's right." Leo put his katanas down and came to stand beside his purple-clad brother. "We've been at it since early this morning, with a good night's rest we'll be in top shape for another session tomorrow."
"Speak for yourself." Raph snapped.
"Hey, I was just trying to be helpful." Donnie spoke coolly back.
"Well I don't need no one making excuses for me! I'm fine." Raph jabbed at Donnie with his sai, missing when it was blocked.
"If you were in top shape you wouldn't have missed such an easy move as that." Raph huffed and crossed his arms, glaring at his brother.
"I think it would do you all good to rest." Splinter broke in.
"Thank you Master." Leo thanked him before following his brothers into the other room to relax before they went to bed.

In the next room, Mikey flopped on the couch. "Thank goodness that's over. I don't think I could have survived any longer." He let out a long sigh and sank further into his spot.
"You and the rest of us." Leo sat to his left, resting his arm on the armrest.
Donnie was seated in a chair to their right. "Something must be eating at Master Splinter to have us training all day."
Raph leaned against the wall, arms crossed. "I say we could have gone for another hour or two if someone hadn't complained so much." He looked at Mikey who wasn't paying much attention. "If he'd been paying more attention, he wouldn't have gotten so many marks." Michelangelo sat up.
"Hey wait a minute! I can't help it I got paired up with Leo."
"What do you mean by that?" Leo waited for an answer.
"Well I'm just saying, you were all ready for practice today. You were ready to take on a whole crowd of ninjas!"
"Well what if one day we are surrounded with no escape but to fight?" Leo was standing before Mikey now.
"You could have toned it down a little, I'm your brother after all!"
"He's got a point there Leo." Donnie cut in. "You could have seriously injured him, then what would we do?"
"I don't know, ok?!" Leo was stressed and didn't need Donnie piling on the facts.
"It's not like you had to fight with him! You had Raph and we all know you can give it your all with him."
Donnie looked hurt.
"Donnie it's not like you could take me even if you did go all out." Raph said from where he was standing.
"I may not be a muscular as you but at least I have my intellect!" Donnie stood and faced Raph.
"Oh, what are you going to do? Throw those big words of those at me?" Raph chuckled.
"I don't need to take this from you!" Donnie stormed off to his lab.
"What's eating him?" Mikey asked from his seat.
"Were you not just listening?" Raph glared at him before heading to his room.
"With our luck, Donnie will be up late, which will cause us to do poorly in training tomorrow." Leo shook his head.
"Is that all you think about is training? It's always training this, training that." Mikey got up and walked to his room, needing something to take his mind off of today. Leo, being the last one in the room headed to his own room for the night.