Splinter walked around the sewers for something to feed his children. They were all five years old and thought that they were ready to scavenge just like him so he took them with him and was teaching them how. He had told his children to stay together while they scavenged and to stay within eyesight. So he was surprised when they came running back to him screaming about a monster. "Quiet, do you want the humans to hear you down here?"

"But but…", Michelangelo started, looking at him with his big teary blue eyes.

"There is a monster down there.", Donatello finished looking over where they came from to see if it had followed them.

"Yea it was pale with three scars down it's face.", Leonardo stated.

"I bet you were seeing things."

"No we didn't we all saw it!", Donatello said, with a pout on his face. He had always hated being called a liar more than his brothers.

"Ok I will go check it out to see if it went away. You just stay here.", Splinter said. His precious children nodded as he walked over to the source of their fear, as he got closer he some scrapping across the floor. "Is someone out there?" There was a sobbing whimper and the sound of small foot steps running away before there was a pained yelp. "You can come out I wont hurt you.", Splinter said, walking forward.

"No go away, leave me alone.", the voice sounded young, a little too young to down in the sewer in fact.

"Did you fall down young one, I can help you find a way out.", Splinter offered, wincing when he heard a hiss from the young one.

"No go away. I don't want to go up so leave me alone."

Splinter inched a little closer to the voice and looked into the shadows. From what he could make out it was a human boy no older than 12 or 14 years old and he did indeed have a three claw scratch mark on right side of his face over his left eye. It looked healed enough so Splinter didn't feel the need to worry about it. The child's clothes looked to be just rags and he looked a little to pale to be healthy. "Child where are your parents?"

The thin child's bottom lip quivered, "I don't know if I have parents. I don't know."

"Well how about this can you tell me your name?", Splinter said inching forward a little more. He could now see that the child had a badly twisted ankle. He would have to look at that when he could get closer frightened child.

"Master Splinter? Is it safe?", Leonardo asked, as he and his siblings inched forward.

Splinter could see that the movement of his children made the other child move backwards again, "Stay back my children you are scaring him." The turtles looked at each other and backed away.

"They are ok child, they are just children like you.", Splinter said, again inching forward. When he was finally close enough he stopped and looked at the lost child. "So how about that name of yours?"

"I think its….Shusomething. Hisa…Hisagi. Hisagi Shuhei.", the child stumbled out.

"That is a very nice name, you must be visiting New York with your family from Japan.", the moment that he said that the child held his head and started shaking.

"No, no family. Pain all I remember is pain.", tears started to fall down his face. "People afraid of me…an…and I don't know why. I don't want it! I DON'T WANT IT! MAKE IT GO AWAY!"

"Calm down child, everything will be ok.", Splinter said taking the human child into his arms. 'This child has some bad amnesia.'

"Please don't make me I don….don's wa….want to. Every time…all I see is people…not looking at me…..me in the eye. And every…every time…time I do think about it…I just want to hurt them…even kill them and…..I don't know why."

When they child finished he looked up at Splinter and when he looked at him in the eyes he was shocked. He was glad that he taught himself control over his emotions, 'This child's eyes were not red earlier, I think they were grey.' He rubbed the child's back as he watched in fascination as the red eyes turned back to grey.

"Please don't make me go back…I don't want to fell that way.", the child sobbed into his shirt. "I don't want to remember."

"Well then there is only one thing to do then.", the child looked up scared. "How would you like to live with me and my sons? You will be safe and I can teach you a great many things. But you will have to pardon their reactions to your eyes if you get angry ok."

"Will they hate me?"

"No, they are simply five year old boys who are not used to eyes changing color. Eventually they will get used to them, just like I did.", Splinter explained, with a smile on his face. The child fell into his arms sobbing. Splinter picked him up and walked over to his children. Kneeling down he looked at them as they back away slightly, "Come meet your new brother."

"Brother?", asked Michelangelo. "He isn't our brother."

Tears gathered into the human child's eyes. Leonardo walked up and looked at the human boy as he tried to hide in their master's shirt. Smiling Leo said, "Hi, my name is Leo."

"His…Hisagi Shuhei.", was the child's meek reply.

"Hisagi…I like it."

"Actually Leonardo that is his last name, his first name is Shuhei.", Splinter corrected. "In the Japanese culture they say their last names first."

Leo gave a big smile to his other brothers, "Our new brother's name is Shuhei."