Anna's Problem
Disclaimer: I don't own any of the rights to TMNT. I also borrowed the characters from kIrEigIrL and "A New Generation" story.
Chapter # 1: Chaos
"Tyler! Give that back!" Anastasia yelled as she sprinted into the dojo after her younger cousin. "Don't you dare!"
Anastasia, or Anna as she was commonly called for short, stopped short. She knew that they weren't allowed to race around in the dojo carelessly. It was almost time for their afternoon practice, meaning that her father, Leonardo, was most likely already there watching them. Anna knew that at the moment she wasn't displaying the behavior and actions that a good leader should. Sensei would be disappointed in her, but she had to get that paper back before anyone found out that she had failed her test. She'd get it for sure this time.
Hamato Anastasia, at the age of 16, was the daughter and eldest child of Leonardo and Sapphire. She had just begun her first school year away from home at the Winter Academy for Girls due to a rather unsightly quarrel she had had a few months back with her cousin, Falcon.
Falcon was her Uncle Raphael and her Aunt Andrea's middle child. He was 11 years old, and unlike the rest of his siblings who had hair and eyes in different shades of brown that resembled their mother, Falcon had reddish brown eyes, dark auburn hair, and a fiery temper that matched his father's. Anna had once overheard her Uncle Mikey make a comment that Falcon's reddish colored features and temper went together like milk and cookies, and you couldn't break apart a set. He had then received a cuff to the head from Raphael.
Going away to school hadn't necessarily been a punishment for Anna, but more of a way to relieve the tension that was becoming more and more common amongst her and Raphael's children. Why couldn't Tyler and Falcon be little sweet Angels that their little sister Joy?
Anna's other uncle, Donatello, or Uncle Don as all his nieces and nephews called him, had once told her how Leonardo was sent away for after he had struck his master out of anguish during training practice. Anna had thought that odd and unfitting of how she perceived her father, yet she hadn't gone so far as to injure anyone even with all the chaos that went on. Or had she?
It was Thanksgiving break, and Anna was home to celebrate the holiday with her very large, and some what eccentric, family; but was finding herself wishing she could go back to school even though it meant facing the little incident that had happened. Anna was also a little worried about her parents receiving a phone call from the school. She had hoped to keep it a secret.
Currently, Anna was chasing around her cousin Tyler who was also her Uncle Raphael's son. He was thirteen, not quite as bad tempered as his younger brother, Falcon, and almost as skilled a ninja as she was.
"Tyler!"
"Here it is, Anna!" Tyler yelled at the top of his lungs taunting her. "Come and get it!
Leo and Raph looked up from the far corner where they were both carefully polishing their weapons after a light sparing match. It was time for their afternoon practice, and hopefully it would go better than their morning practice had; what with Tyler's newly found attitude problem and the twin's discovery of pranks.
Oh, the twins. At the age of 6 those two identical, red headed terrors came up with all kinds of stuff that would put their father, Michelangelo, to shame.
"Silence in the dojo," Leo commanded.
Anna stopped at once upon hearing her father's orders, but Tyler had other ideas of his own. He raced for the door only to be caught by Raphael who held him by the shoulders tightly.
"You will obey your Sensei. Do you understand me?" Raph growled at his son.
Tyler gulped, and then nodded.
"Good. Now let's see what this is that you have of Anna's," he growled at his son.
He took the folded piece of paper from Tyler and handed to Leo. Anna lower her head and eyes in shame.
