Brotherly Bonding on the Cusp of Adulthood
Summary: Four brothers on the cusp of their adult lives. How smooth will the transition from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle to Adult Mutant Ninja Turtle be?
Disclaimer: I don't own the Turtles or any characters you recognise. Eastman, Laird and Nickeloden etc own them. I'm doing this for fun and not making any money off it. Please don't sue me :)
A/N: These are 2K14 Turtles with other bits thrown in as the mood takes me. No Tcest. Turtles are 19 (Leo), 18 (Raph & Donnie), & 17 (Mikey) respectively.
Leo's POV
It started out a typical rainy early spring day. I'd gone for a run through the sewers before sitting down with a cup of tea to wait for my brothers to wake up. Spring was hard on us, our animal instincts made us more argumentative than usual.
April was banned from the Lair from the first day of spring until the first day of summer. Master Splinter had ordered this after Raph had almost split Mikey's head open fighting over who should walk her home. Her female pheromone scent seemed to make the worst come out in all of us.
Our frustrations at our permanent bachelor states was one of the reasons I'd taken to running ten miles through the sewers every morning before breakfast. It helped to ease the testosterone load, and left me calmer, more ready to deal with my brothers mood swings.
*CRASH!*
"Mikey I'm gonna kill ya!", roared Raph as Mikey suddenly came tearing out from the sleeping area waving a rubber spider on a stick.
"Hi Leo, bye Leo", squeaked Mikey as he ran past towards the exit, grabbing his rocket skateboard.
Seconds later Raph rumbling out like a freight train. "Wher'd numb nuts go?".
I just tried to smother a smirk, and suggested he wake up Donnie so we could begin training. Mikey would return when he got hungry.
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Raph's POV
'What a morning! I can't believe that little jerk! He's got it coming to him when he gets back!'.
I walked to Donnie's lab and waded though his junk until I got to where he was sleeping. He'd actually made it to the med cot this time, impressive. Most mornings I found my bro drooling over his keyboard, or trying to set himself on fire with his bunsen burner after he dozed off watching one of his experiments.
"Wake up Brainiac, time for training", I prodded him with his bo. I'd learnt as a kid not to use my hands after he flipped me into a pile of his mechanical junk. At least the bo I could let go of.
"Hmmmm..."
"Training bro, time to wake up!"
"Grrrrrrr..."
"If you don't hurry up Leo will start making toast!"
"Noooo!", screamed Donnie as he fell out of the scruffy hospital cot. It always amazed me how he could go from asleep to awake in less than three seconds if the toaster was threatened. Knowing he was now awake I left him to it and when to go warm up.
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Donnie's POV
"Wake up Brainiac, time for training", I felt a prodding that was 99.99999% likely to be my own bo from Raph.
"Hmmmm...", I mumbled as I tried to bat the bo away.
"Training bro, time to wake up!", Raph persisted.
"Grrrrrrr...", I let out a growl to let him know my feelings on the subject.
'With everything I do to make our lives easier and keep up safe, you would think I would be allowed to sleep when I want to, but no, I am still expected to get up with everyone else and further exaust myself before being asked to fix the...'
"If you don't hurry up Leo will start making toast!"
"Noooo!" I shouted as I leap up and grabbed my bo before flipping over Raph and grabbing my training gear. Raph left sniggering, I followed him less than two minutes later after a quick look at the direction of the Toaster. Leo is not allowed to make Toast ever! Mikey thinks his ability to break Toasters is a mutant super ability. I think its just the fact that he'd prefer to live in the ancient past. Technology + Leonardo = Broken Mess.
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Mikey's POV
'That prank was totally awesome...Raph must have jumped nearly four feet in the air...hehehehe...Looks like I'm going to have to make up my training later...' I mused as I trick skated along the sewer lines. 'I hope Raph doesn't blame Donnie for the robot spider I brought off the internet...'
I stopped at the storm drain near central park, and sat watching the humans for a bit. Its raining, but there's always nice legs walking past from my point of view. I still don't get why we have to keep so far away from humans. Its not like I'm gonna do the dirty with them, though I might be keen when I'm a couple of years older, then baby 'Cowabunga!' MC Mikey is in there.
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Leo's POV
Shortly after Raph left to get Donnie, I heard him scream "Noooo!". I sighed, just a typical morning. Raph no doubt reminded him of my breaking the toaster. I really wish he wouldn't do that.
Training finally got underway with just the three of us. Sensei decided after the Sacks incident that he would now take a annual three month retreat in spring so he didn't have to listen to us squabble and fight. That wasn't what he actually said of course, but he didn't really make that much effort to hide his real reasons either.
After training we ate breakfast. Toast for me. Protein shake for Raph and black coffee and poptarts for Donnie. Donnie always makes my toast first, which means I don't have sugary toast as he's stopped licking the poptarts and toasts them with the topping on, since no-one else will now eat them after his 'confession'.
During breakfast we got talking about our future. While protecting the city of New York will always be a priority to us. We all want more from life than just waiting for thugs and crime bosses to take down.
Donnie sketched out a possible plan for a new larger Lair with seperate apartments for each of us. It sounds promising, though I think making five-bedroom apartments for each of us might be wishful thinking.
Raph mentioned he was renting a topside lock up to build fancy furniture and selling them online. I was surprised at that. I always assumed that Raph spent his nights beating up purple dragons and muggers. It seems I underestimated my little brother. I always knew he liked woodwork, but I never realised he was actually making a living from it. Though it does explain why he could get new bike leathers for his Shell cycle.
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I kept fairly quiet. I'm nineteen years old and have no idea what I would do with myself if I wasn't a ninja.
To be leader and a master of ninjutsu was all Master Splinter trained me to be. Sure I'd painted a few Japanese style watercolours which sold online for enough cash to enable me to buy birthday presents etc, but I'd never really given any thought to supporting myself beyond that.
Even Mikey had managed to get a couple of jobs. He worked as 'Cowabunga Carl' the party turtle and he also did a gig for one of the local pizza restuarants as the 'Pepperoni Pete' mascot. The first job paid well but resulted in Mikey coming home bruised from sugar-crazed children. The second gave us a 30% off discount on Pizza purchases over $50. Since we usually order five pizzas at a time thats a great saving.
Donnie also had his job as a tech hotline operator. That s what pays our groceries and keeps Donnie in parts for his gadjets. He also invests part of his wages in the stockmarket and I suspect could probably buy his own house freehold by now.
Hearing the conversation made me feel terrible. I should have been the first to support my brothers, not living off my brother's earnings like a free-loading sponge. I decided before sensei comes back in the summer I'm going to find a job.
A/N: What job do you think Leo would be good at?