I got the idea for this story because I wanted to write a multi chaptered Turtle Tots story. Three chapters, nice and quick. Enjoy

(11:45 PM)

The chaotic life of the Hamato family wasn't always the daily routine for them. Back in the old days, Master Splinter didn't have to worry about Oroku Saki trying to destroy his new family, and he'd found a place safe from the strange machines trying to kill him and dissect his innocent little boys, the most he had to worry about was the typical troubles of being a single father. The only difference is that he had to hide them from the outside world at all cost. When the Turtles were five years old, that wasn't much of a problem as they were rather content with staying in the lair, at least for their younger years.

One night in the turtles' bedroom, eleven forty five at night to be precise, all the boys were sleeping peacefully in cots separated by the four corners of one room. Because of scarce resources, Splinter only managed to find one new blanket for each of them last week, and each one matching their masks' colors. Also it was nearing the late November season so temperatures were beginning to drop lower and lower by the week, and there was only so much Master Splinter could do for his poor cold blooded children. So on this night in question, all the Turtles were sleeping soundly except for the eldest of the little turtles, Leonardo, who was just returning from a trip to the bathroom. The blue eyed toddler slipped his way into the bedroom by the guide of Mikey's nightlight sitting by the door. Once he entered back into the room, he suddenly noticed that the room was a little colder than usual due to the weather change. While rubbing his arms, the eldest turtle looked to his right to see a sleeping Donatello who's curled himself into a tight ball. From what Leo knew, his intelligent little brother was usually colder than the rest of the boys due to being naturally thinner. Leonardo felt his brotherly instinct kick in, as Master Splinter has been teaching all of the boys, particularly the oldest turtle, the value of each other; "You are not just a team, you are brothers. A band of brothers must do anything and everything for each other, no matter the size of your actions."

With that in mind, the blue masked turtle felt the need to do something for his second youngestbrother. Thus, he stepped over to his cot, picked up his light blue fleece blanket and placed it over Donnie's sleeping, shivering body. After a moment, Donnie felt the extra warmth upon himself and unconsciously grew a tiny smile of comfort and pulled the second fleece blanket closer to his neck. Feeling that he did his assignment as the oldest brother, Leonardo returned to his cot and prepared to return to his own dreamland. Which was easier said than done. For three whole hours, Leo tried but failed to fall asleep due to the cold autumn temperatures plaguing his room. The only thing he had to search for warmth was his yellow teddy bear and his Darkwing Duck pillow. As the following three hours went on, he was feeling quite miserable and uncomfortable, and wondered if he was ever going to fall back to sleep. At one point, he was tempted to sneak back over there and take back his blanket. However, when he sat up and glared at Donatello, he couldn't help but notice how content and relaxed he was compared to before. Leo sighed and decided he'll have to go back to sleep without the warmth of a nice, fluffy, cozy blanket over his tiny turtle body. He didn't have a choose, as he suddenly remembered that they're going to wake them up bright and early tomorrow for a special meditation session. Hopefully when he woke up, the Dojo's sunlight would provide him with some glorious warmth or just a little relief. The blue eyed toddler would

have to wait until morning because he finally managed to fall asleep after three painful hours of shivering.

(THE NEXT MORNING)

As for the rest of the turtles, the three younger brothers woke up right on schedule; they all sat up in their beds and yawned aloud. Where Raphael and Donatello were struggling to shake the sand out of their eyes, little Mikey was already bouncing where he was sitting and was anxious to get his brothers moving this morning, no matter how annoyed he made them. With a happy yet devious grin he jumped off his cot and pounced towards Raph, whose cot was diagonally across from his,with a pillow "RISE AND SHINE, RAPHIE!" he exclaimed as he slapped his hot headed brother across the chest with said pillow and rushed towards the bedroom door, "Betca can't get me! Ha ha ha!"

Due to that blow, the green eyed toddler shook off his exhaustion and focused his frustration on his brother "Mikey!" he growled in anger as he zoomed past a somewhat chipper Donatello, pulling both the blankets off of his cot, and chased after his freckled baby brother in a blazing hot fury. Meanwhile, the brown eyed little egg head was feeling the best he's felt in a very long time. He usually felt colder at night and he'd stay up late thinking about random nerdy things, but last night, he felt so much warmer and comfortable that he didn't want to question it, he felt incredibly positive this morning. In fact, Donnie was in such a great mood that he didn't notice Leo's blue fleece blanket hidden under his own purple one. Humming his favorite song, Donnie happily walked out of the room on his way to the Dojo, unknowingly leaving poor Leo alone.

A few minutes passed since Donatello left the room and it's taken Leo this long to gather enough energy to open his burning eyes. Between the lack of sleep and intense fever, the oldest reptile was feeling rather loopy and he could barely hear what was going on around him. Then, he heard mumbling coming from the cot at the head corner of his own, across from the door. Leo could just process the voice to confirm that it belonged to his closest brother in age, Raphael who returned to retrieve his red mask that he forgot to put on because he was chasing his hyper little brother

"stupid Mikey, making me forget my mask. When I get my hands on him." the grouchy hot head mumbled aloud, until he suddenly remembered he wasn't alone; his one and only older brother had yet to make a sound. Raph was confused by this because Leonardo was usually the first one in the dojo by now, or he'd at least try get there before Raphael. Something was off about this, but the green eyed toddler wasn't too concerned at first as he just thought his older brother was merely being lazy for some reason. "Hey, Leo. You coming?" he asked from his side of the room. Then, with a mere moaning sound, Leo sat up from his cot and rubbed his eyes as he stood on his two wobbling feet.

Upon not getting a verbal response, the confused hothead requested his attention once again. "Uh, Leo? Did you hear me? You look kinda dizzy."

With his head nodding in exhaustion and his head wobbling like a bobble head, Leo turned his direction towards a mystified Raphael and spoke in a very slurred expression "Who are you lookin' at?" he exclaimed, pointing a droopy finger at his brother, much to the latter's bewilderment.

"Um... you. We're the only two in here-"

"I didn't take your bazooka, Raphie. Why'd ya a-assume its me?" Leo questioned as he struggled to stand in his place, despite his effort to stand straight.

This morphed Raphie's emotions from frustration to concerned perplexity. This behavior might not be out of left field for Mikey, and Donnie usually spoke in big gibberish words. Leo may've talked the most, much to Raph's dismay, but they could always understand Leonardo the best. "...Are you feeling okay, bro?" he asked curiously

Leo shrugged his shoulders and slowly took exaggerated steps towards Raphael "If anyone took your bazooka, keep your eyes out for the Jellybean Mafia, those guys can be really shady." he chuckled as he tripped as he hot headed brother stopped midway to the brother to giggle and lean on the wall.

Now little Raph was very uncomfortable, he suddenly saw how pale Leo's face was and how red his eyes were, they were almost glowing. Upon seeing the eldest brother's behavior, he took a few frightened steps backwards, "L-Leo... you're scaring me." he stuttered as his disturbing brother came closer to him

Suddenly, Leo stood in place and had a quick coughing fit, "Ya think you're scared, Buddy? I'm in a ...LOT of pain... right now." he announced as he passed out and thankfully hit the floor by his arm. His only sign of reaction was that he groaned in pain as he mumbled more gibberish to himself on the floor

"LEO!" Raph gasped in terror as he rushed and slid on his knees to help Leo up to his feet and wrapped his brother's arm around his neck, "Come on, Buddy, we're gonna go see Sensei." he grunted as he limped towards the door with the ill child still laughing to himself from the fever dream he was trapped in.

"Whoo! Hey, Raphie, do you think Sensei will share the grapes growing from his antlers?"

(TO BE CONTINUED)

OKAY! so I had to cut this a bit short, but you'll see what happens in the next chapter, and yes, I wrote Leo to be a bit loopy from the exhaust and the fever he's caught. This was just the set up chapter, so hope you enjoyed, leave a review and fav if you want more.

(I DO NOT OWN TMNT)