Hello, this is my first TMNT Fanfiction. Now that I've only seen about halfway into the third season 2012 series. But I know that certain things happen. In this universe the Krangg are gone but Shredder still a thing . So I hope you like it, I tried. Also I'm sorry for any spelling or grammar errors you may see I'm trying.

Venus de Milo didn't think she did anything wrong to get here. She was a good girl, a good kunoichi, a good daughter, a good friend. She tried to be a good sister and a good leader, and for the most part, she was. But yet she was here, underneath a plane taking her away from Japan and to the US.

She felt like crying again, but she had run out of tears. Why was she doing this? Why was she still going? Why hadn't she just put a knife on her wrist and be done with it? Why was she going to New York City?

Because we always wanted to see it, a voice in her head told her. She then remembered that we was now just she. She hugged her knees tighter and hide her face in her knee pads. The 17-year-old mutant didn't know how her life changed so fast. One moment her life was perfect, the next all she had was pain.

She looked up to make sure her backpack was still there. In it was all of Venus' belongings. Everything she held near and dear to her heart. She grabbed the bag and hugged it too.

Hours passed and soon the plane landed. Venus was able to get out of there without being seen. She made it to the rooftops and she was able to see what seemed to be everything. The city was lite up, there were cars everywhere, and there was noise everywhere. It was everything she thought it would be. And for the first time in weeks, Venus smiled, just a little bit.

Her smile soon dies and the never-ending numbness began again. She made sure her backpack was on her back, her tessenes were at her side, and her katanas in their sheaths. Then she just mindlessly began walking.

She walked for two hours, jumped from roof, to roof. What was she going to do? Should she do it now? She had seen the city, now there was nothing left to do. Her bucket list was finished, might as well kick it. She pulled out a small knife from her belt. She looked at it for a minute. It had been a gift for her tenth birthday. It had the symbol of family on it.

Just as she was about to put it on her wrist, Venus heard something. She whipped her head around and looked for where it came from. By force of habit, Venus pulled her katanas out. She wanted to die, but she didn't want to be killed. It seemed stupid but still. Venus didn't have the power to fight. She hadn't eaten in days, and the last time she drank anything was yesterday. Her body was weak from lack of training. She made a small pirouette, she saw and heard nothing.

Then ninjas, dressed in black came out from the shadows. There was five of them. They had a symbol that looked like a foot and for some reason, it looked familiar. Venus grew scared, if she was in full health this would be no problem.

At first a minute of quiet. Then it began. She tried. Oh, how she tried. Before long she was on the ground. Venus had been lucky and was able to get two of them down. But the other three weren't backing down. She needed something. She needed magic. Venus reached into her pocket and pulled out the last Orb of Repleances she had. It was a hard magical item to come by, but when else was she going to use it? Venus took a breath, closed her eyes and threw it to the ground. The ninjas, whether they were down or not flew away.

Venus laid on the ground panting hard. She was tired, she was so tired. She had no energy. She knew that she was going to die now. That was okay, at least she'll be with them. Venus closed her eyes, whispered something to herself and collapsed.

XXX Leo's POV

Patrol started 10:00 tonight. We had split up, and I was with Donnie and Karai. We had been going for hours and at around 3:30 we decided to head back to the lair. Five minutes into the way home, Karai stopped.

"What is it?" I asked her.

"There's something over there," she said, pointing across the way. We made our way over to the roof she had pointed out. There was something there, although it was more of a someone, and boy was it shocking.

On the ground was a female mutant turtle. She had a sky blue mask on and the ends of it were braided to look like hair. On the upper part of her right arm, she had on three bands with three different symbols. One was yin-yan, another had a dragon making a circle around a cherry blossom, and the last had a lotus flower with a crescent moon. She had been in a fight and looked like she wasn't in good shape before that. She looked like a broken doll.

"Is she?" Karai began to say, "Is she dead?" Donnie bent down and checked her pulse. After a minute he shook his head.

"No, she's alive," he said. Me and Karai both let out a breath we didn't know we were holding. I bent down to look at her more closely and Karai when to the other end of the roof.

"What do you think happened to her?" I said. Don shook his head.

"I don't know, but it's clear she was in a fight."

"Yeah," Karai called from the other side of the roof. We turned to look at her. We saw that she was holding up two katanas, and I looked back at the girl to see not only did she have two empty sheaths, but at her side, she had two tessen as well.

"You think she's a kunoichi?" Donnie asked.

"Hm, I don't know. Maybe," Karai said in a sarcastic tone.

"Guys, not now," I said looking back to the girl. "Donnie?" I asked, "Is there something you can do for her?". Donnie looked at me and back down to the girl for a second.

"I can try," he said. Karai came over to us and looked down at the mutant who laid unconscious.

"You think she's safe?" she asked crossing her arms.

"I don't know," I said picking the girl up carefully and handing Donnie the backpack she had had, "But we'll see,"

XXX Venus' POV

I moaned in pain just a little. For a minute I couldn't remember who I was or where I was. I quickly remembered the first one but I didn't know the latter. Was I dead? No, I wouldn't be in pain if I was dead. Was I some sort of prisoner? No, I just realized I was in some sort of bed, that was rather comfortable. I don't think I'd be there if I was a prisoner. Was I at home in my room? No, both of those were gone and besides my bed was never as comfortable as this.

I sat up slowly, grabbing my head. A headache I had was massive. I rubbed my face and found that my mask was still on. I pulled it down so it hanged like a scarf around my neck. I opened my eyes to see I was in a concert room that had the bed I was on a night table next to it, and mirror next on the other wall.

I removed the blankets and saw that my body was covered in bandages were all of my injuries where. Most of my gear was taken off and put in a pile under the mirror, with my backpack and weapons.

I slowly got up and hobbled to the mirror and when I got there I put my arm against the wall to steady myself. I was still so weak. I looked at myself, I looked only a tiny bit better than when I last looked at myself. I looked down to see I still had my bands on. I took off the dragon one. The one for my mother. Then I took off the moon one. The one for my father. And I was about to take the last one off but I left it. I looked at the two bands on the ground. I let out a deep sigh and hung my head.

Then I heard a crash and my head whipped to the door. I then remembered that I had no idea where I was or who I was with. My breath speeds up and I froze. I heard voices and I could hear them say one thing very loudly.

"MIKEY!"

I had no idea who that was but I didn't want to find out. I pushed my mask back up on my face and just before I was going to start collecting my things a horrible thought came to my mind. I searched my neck frantically until my hand found my amulet. I let out a huge sigh of relief. I looked down at the dark blue sapphire that was cut in the shape of a teardrop. I had no idea what I would have done if I had lost it. Just as I was heading to my things the door opened and my heart felt like it stopped.

In the doorway was a human girl around my age, maybe a little bit older, with red hair and blue eyes. She smiled at me,

"Good, you're awake," she said. She stepped closer to me and I walked back away from her. But my feet weren't steady and I fell into the corner feeling dizzy.

"Are you okay?" she asked me. She tried to come closer and I pushed myself into the corner more, I felt like a caged animal.

"It's okay," the girl said, "I want to help you. Here let's get you back in bed," she said helping me stand and walked me over to the bed. I sat down but my mind told me to run. The red-haired girl walked back over to the door.

"Wait right here, I'll go get Donnie so he can make sure everything is fine," she said before leaving and closing the door behind her. I had no idea who 'Donnie' was but my pounding head told me to stop thinking and lay down. Once I did the world stopped spinning and I closed my eyes. My mind only said one thing. Who are these people and where am I? I sat up a bit in bed.

A few minutes passed and then the door open again and the red-haired girl came in with two other people and my eyes grew just a bit. The first was a mutant turtle just like me, with a purple mask on. And the second was a mutant rat, in a robe with a walking stick. I didn't know what to do. Other mutants? What was this?

"Hello," the rat said to me. I stayed quiet and he continued on, " I am Master Splinter. And this is my son Donatello," he said gesturing to the turtle. I had a feeling that he might be adopted, but what did I know? "And I believe you have already meet April," he said. So that's her name I thought. There was a quite in the room, they probably thought I was going to talk, but I didn't.

Finally, Donnie cleared his throat, "Well let's see how you're doing," he held up a bag that had medical tools. I didn't say a thing the whole time. When he asked me a question, which was always 'yes' and 'no', I only nodded.

"Okay, everything looks good," Donnie said, "It's important that you get rest, and you need to eat and drink, okay?" I looked at him for a minute and gave a small nod. These people seemed nice but I didn't care about my health much.

I slept a lot the next three days. I only left the room to use the bathroom. I found out that we were in the sewers. At first, I thought it was a little gross, but where else was a family of mutants supposed to live in New York?

I found out little things. Donnie had three brothers who were turtles like him, Leo, Raph, and Mikey. And they had a sister who looks to be human named Karai, but sometimes I heard her called Miwa. I learned the Master Splinter's sons were once normal turtles. I also found out I was with a family of ninjas. Oh, what a familiar setting.

Someone came to cheek on my every other hour. I think I was driving Donnie crazy because I only took a drink of water about once a day, and I still wouldn't eat anything. I hadn't said a word to any of them.

On the fourth night, I couldn't sleep anymore. I tossed and turned but my mind wouldn't shut down. I sat up in bed and let out a sigh. I put my mask on out of habit and picked up my knife for no reason, and walked out the door.

This was the first I ever really walked around what the turtles called 'the lair'. They have a large open area that was like a living room. I found the dojo. In it was a large tree. How in the hell did they get a tree down here? I walked into the dojo and sat in front of the tree. I looked up at the leaves in the darkness.

Why am I here? I asked myself. I reached out my hand and touched the trunk of the tree. I used to have a place like this. A place where I go and think. A place to meditate. Meditation, how long had it been since I did that? I use to meditate for three hours every day. Waking up at 3:00 am just to do so. But I no longer had the self-discipline to do so anymore. I let out a long weary sigh. I now took off my yin-yang armband and held it in my hands. I looked down at it like I was waiting for it to give me answer to all the question I had. I was always taught the there was balance in everything. What was the balance in my life? Well, I lost everything, but then these people took me in and are trying to get me back to health.

I closed my eye and threw my head back. Tears pricked my eye and they fell silently down my face. A shaky sob came from my mouth. I didn't want to do this anymore. I wanted it to stop. For the first time in my life, I wanted to give up. I looked at the knife I had brought and picked it up. I traced my wrist lightly with it and then shook my head. "I'm not going to kill myself in these people's home," I said to myself, before resting my forehead in my hand and my elbow on my knee.

"You seemed troubled child," a voice said. I jumped and my hand fell to heart as I looked to see who said that. I saw Master Splinter standing a few feet away from me. I wondered how long he had been standing there, I hoped it wasn't long. I don't think it was in my best interest for these people to know I was suicidal.

I looked at him for a moment and then looked away and closed my eye again, and hanged my head.

"Before I came here, I used to be Hamato Yoshi," he went on to say. I looked up at him as he walked to the other side of the dojo. It never occurred to me that the rat master was human before. He went on talking and I went on listening.

"I had a happy life. A wife whom I loved and a beautiful baby daughter," He then picked up a framed photo. I was a bit far to see it clearly but it looked to be a couple with a baby. "But it wasn't long before all of that was taken from me," his voice was filled with pain and sorrow. I felt empathy for the man. "I didn't think it would get better, but then I was given my sons. And was able to once again to have a family, and find who I was was," he said turning to look at me. I sighed and pulled my knees to my chest.

"I use to be Kazami Venus de Milo, but I think she's dead," I said. These were the first words I spoke to anyone here. "And now I don't know if I can be anyone but her," I say closing my eyes. "Perhaps not," he said I looked up to see he was now standing above me.

"Tell me, have you been trained in ninjutsu?" he asked. I sighed, "Yes, but I haven't practiced it or shinobi magic in ages," I said. Splinter raised an eyebrow. "It's nothing too great. Just a few magical items, some energy magic, and I can make water do whatever I want," I said. Splinter nodded and went on.

" I believe when you return to proper health that it would be in your best interest to stay here with us," I looked at him. Was he really going to let me stay here? "And I will have you resume training, so that you may join my children in their endeavors." I let his words float in the air for a minute. I then picked up my yin-yang armband again. A voice in my head said to take the chance.

" Okay," I said. He then offered me his hand and helped me up. "You must remember before any of that can happen you must take care of yourself," he said, "Which means, you need to eat," he said looking at me sternly, " And drink," I nodded.

"Hai, sensei," I said bowing my head. "Where the kitchen?" I asked to think I should probably begin taking care of myself now.

About fifteen minutes later I was sitting at a table eating some ramen. My stomach was happy I was no longer ignoring it. I had four bowls and when I was done I washed my dishes, put them back and headed to the room where I had been sleeping.

As I stared up at my ceiling, I began to wonder. Why did I say yes? Did it matter really? I rolled over on my side. Maybe it will be a good thing to train again, I kinda missed it, like a lot. Maybe being here would help chase away some of the darkness in me.