"I'm not a kid anymore! I'm so tired of you guys thinking I can't take care of myself! You had your little world of your own like whatever and I didn't disturb all of you! So stop! Don't interfere with my life! With my dreams! I'm going to leave; I'm not a Hamato anymore!"

"MIKEY!"

He opened his eyes soaked by his tears. Mikey groaned as he got up and rubbed his eyes. Bright rays of sunlight beamed through his windows. He stood up and gazed at his new home.

A home away from his original one.

It only took months to Mikey's special gift in cooking got discovered. Like in the movie Ratatouille, his life is somewhat like that as he is the head chef and April is the real owner.

Their human friends April and Casey are the only ones who knew his whereabouts. Even if Casey is Raph's best friend, it's completely secret that no one should leak. Thanks to the orange banded turtle, their restaurants are a success.

Saying that Mikey will never be a chef, from the mouths of his brothers, is the last straw. He goes topside secretly to watch dinner services of the restaurants he passed by. He only had observation in his baggage but he learned eventually.

It's been 10 years passed since he last saw them. The only family he's been now is April and Casey, the ones who owned four popular restaurants. They have to travel almost every day to maintain the business but they visited their mutant friends whenever they had time for vacation. The Hamato family is happy to know that the businesses are striving forward and expanding. Even they had their own share of the good life, they will still trade it for their baby brother to come back home. Even though the one who is providing them good life is the baby brother himself.

Mikey's all pride and joy in being a chef is the first restaurant called "Michelangelo". For some reason, he'd seen it coming, also at the same time, isn't. It made him surprised as he is only the head chef there before. He talked it out to the couple of why it was named after him; they simply said his brothers suggested it.

"They thought that it should be Michelangelo so their brother knew that he is needed there and be curious enough to see it. That's what they said." April explained.

"Mikey, your brothers missed you. You already achieved enough… No, much more than that. I think you already proved it."

"No, Casey. I can't go back and be a chicken for not taking the word that I will make myself exiled from the clan." Mikey stood up. "But… It's not a bad idea."

Apparently, the restaurant had the luck by Mikey's cooking. It reached 5 stars status as the other restaurants are still in 3. Before, he had to work like a dog but it got lessen that he only goes in meetings, demonstrations, special events and the like. He didn't feel famous as he is on disguise; he felt he never got enough credit.

With a hoodie on, he readies his skateboard to go to work.

As he arrived, he noticed a lot of busy personnel prettifying the whole restaurant. He proceeded at the back door to the executive kitchen, the place where only four people can go in: Him, Casey, April and rarely, Murakami-san, as he is working now as the head chef in the Leonardo restaurant.

He rubbed his eyes in bewilderment in seeing Casey and April cooking.

"Guys… What gives? What's the occasion?" he asked,

"Oh man, the first time he had forgotten it."

"Forgot it? Forgot what?"

"Happy Mutation Day!"

Mikey's blue eyes are shimmering and widened. He groaned afterwards, he freaking forgot the most special day in his whole life.

"Why are you cooking?"

The couple looked at each other, as if they are conversing telepathically.

"Well, we have guests."

"Wow! Celebrities? Wait, is it Jackie Chan?! He is so going to love the dumplings I created for the Donatello resto!"

"No, Mikey. A lot more exclusive."

"That's why the whole restaurant is reserved for only three guests."

Wow, those guests are very, very VIP. Imagine the Michelangelo, a 5 star Italian restaurant is being closed and reserved for only THREE people. One of them must be the President.

"They must be so special."

"Yes, they are."

"Mikey, the guests are your brothers."

Welcome to the Prove It, Chef Mikey series! This was inspired from the "Wanting to be Wanted" fanfic by Turtle Babe, as it convinced me to do this because of a scene in the fanfic that he wanted to be treated as an equal or else he will leave the clan.