(Presant)

"Raph! Raphie help!" Leo cried, reaching a tiny hand out to his struggling big brother.

"LEO!" Raph punched a punk, rounding a kick on another one. The second he saw a path to his baby brother, who was now being carried away over a mans shoulder he sprinted towards him, "Hold on bro!" he shouted.

Leo struggled in the man's hold, "Let me go! Help!"

He was suddenly slammed down on the hood of a black truck, multiple pairs of hands tying and gagging him before shoving him inside of a brown sack.

"Get away from him!" Raph growled, punching the punk that slung the bag containing the squirming little turtle over his shoulder.

The sack fell, a tiny muffled yelp coming from it. Just as Raph was about to help Leo out of it a bunch of punks pulled him back.

"No! Leo!" Raph thrashed and punched at everyone and everything in sight. But the one person that he really wanted to hit was the one carrying his frightened baby brother away.

"You can't do this! He's just a kid! He's just a freaking KID!" were Raph's last words before he was knocked out...

(3 months ago)

"No Raph. Splinter said that we can't go out." Leo said firmly, standing between his hot headed brother and the lair door.

"I don't care! Now move!" Raph snapped, shoving his brother back. Leo stumbled but never moved away from the door.

Raph growled, reaching for his sai, "Either you move or I make you." he warned, his voice dangerously low.

"No."

"Fine!" Raph lashed out at his brother who blocked the attack with his katanas.

"RAPH! Stop this! I don't want to see you hurt!" Leo grunted, barely dodging his raging brother's blows.

Raph swiped his sai at Leo's cheek, making a small cut, "Oh, so now I'm so bad that I won't be able to beat you? God, you ar so stuck up!"

"That's not what I meant. The PDs and the Foot have teamed up and are looking for us Raph. That means that they're all over New York just waiting for us to come out! I don't want you out there Raph, and niether does Master Splinter!" Leo said, sheathing his katanas while dodging his still attacking brother.

"How many times do I have ta say it? I don't care!" Raph screamed, slashing Leo's arm, only deaper.

"Why is it you can have it easy and I can't Leo? WHY?"

Leo cradled his arm, looking Raph straight in the eye, "You think I have it easy? I have to train more than any of you, I have more chores, more responsibilities, and more headaches than you could ever imagine! I have to listen to Mikey whine and complain about not being able to use the tv or some invention that Donny made whenever he wants, I have to hear Donny go on about how you and or Mikey broke his inventions, I have to listen to Splinter repremand me every time I don't do some thing right or couldn't prevent some thing bad from happening to our family even if it was completely out of my control, and I have to deal with you and your temper tantrums!" Leo yelled, his voice getting louder as he continued, "Every time you get angry I end up getting multiple wounds while you leave the lair with barely any, then I have to comfort Don and Mikey because they hate seeing their big brothers fight and it hurts them when we do, and finally, I get called into Master Splinter's room to be yelled at because I could't stop you from leaving! You have no idea what it's like to be the oldest AND the leader of three disobediant little brothers that think it's funny to make me feel like some moster when all I want to do is protect you guys!" Leo was panting now, a lump forming in his throat.

Raph staired at Leo, shocked, "Leo..."

Leo shook his head and, completely forgetting why he hadn't wanted to let Raph out in the first place, ran out of the lair, ignoring his brother's please for him to come back.

"Leo, wait!" Raph ran after his brother on the rooftops of Manhattan.

"Leave me alone!" Leo yelled.

All of a sudden Foot ninjas and Purple Dragons were surrounding them from all around.

"Remember, master wants the blue one." one of the foot ninja said.

Growling, Raph jumped in front of his brother, "Over my dead body!" he snapped, drawing his sais.

Leo took out his katanas as well, preparing to attack when a chain was wrapped around him from behind.

He was yanked away from his fighting brother and into a group of Elites.

'NO! The Foot and PDs were just a distraction.' Leo berrated himself for not being aware of their presence.

The Elite with the kadaj sword (double bladed katana) took a chemical tube full of a strange light blue liquid out of his belt and uncorked it.

Leo struggled all the harder as his jaw was forced open and the blue substance was dumped down his throat.

"Complements of Baxtor Stockman." said the one with the tanto blade.

Leo choked and coughed, trying not to swallow but failing.

The blue liquid was finally gone and Leo was gasping for breath, "W-what was that." he demanded, still writhing in the chains.

"You'll see in just a few more seconds freak."

As if on cue, Leo started to feel sick and dizzy and everything started to go black. This continued for a few more minutes, all the while Leo could hear his brother calling for him and the Elite muttering something that sounded like 'it's working'.

Leo didn't notice that the chains around him were loosening but the Elite weren't untying him. Finally, the sick and dizzy feeling went away and every thing became clear again.

"What did you do ta him!" Raph yelled, kicking away the Elite surrounding his brother.

The Elite disappeared in a puff of smoke, along with the PDs and Foot ninjas. Now that they were alone on the roof Raph could free his brother without the worry of being attacked.

Leo looked up at Raph when he heard his hot headed brother gasp, "What is it? What did they do?" he rasped.

Now it was Leo's turn to gasp. Something was wrong with his voice. It sounded so... so young.

Raph pointed to the puddle next to Leo and said turtle raised an eye ridge, looking at the puddle.

He nearly screamed. Instead of seeing a teenage mutant ninja turtle, Leo saw a tiny five to six year old turtle with wide sapphire eyes framed by a blue mask that covered the top of his head.

"Oh shell." Leo and Raph moaned.