Leonardo's Children

Disclaimer: I do not own anything.

Author's note: Warning! There is some spanking in this chapter and story. It is not, however, very graphic nor a spanking fic. There is chart of the turtle's family at the end. Please feel free to leave a review or any comments. Enjoy!

Chapter # 1: Turtle in Trouble

"Again," Leo, now Sensei, commanded his students as they all trained in the dojo that afternoon.

Leonardo had even requested that the turtle's wives start attending sessions sense they were so adamant on getting jobs, at least until they improved to the next level.

Leo's wife, Michelle, was currently enrolled as a substitute teacher in the New York School District where Emily worked as a Librarian for one of the elementary schools. She also assisted Donatello with teaching all the children on the days that she was not called to sub.

Michelangelo's wife's name was Faye, and she had started working a few weeks ago at Macey's department stores. One night, when Faye was coming home from work, a couple of guys from the purple dragon's gang had tried to jump her. Raphael had happened to be out on one of his temperamental cool off runs, and had heard her scream for help. He had intercepted the attack, and now Mickey shadowed her to and from work.

After that incident, Raphael was not very excited about the idea of Rebecca getting a job. He even made the unnecessary comment that no one would hire her with such a bitchy temper. Raph slept alone that night, and as did his youngest brother, Raph shadowed his wife to and from the Plaza Hotel where she worked as a maid.

Today was to be the women's very first training session. None of them had ever seen the turtles and kids practice their ninja skills before. They were all both mystified and taken aback. Leo was strict and firm, but not without caring. Don and Mikey worked with the women while Raph helped, and assisted Leo at the same time.

Alex was sparing with her cousins, Dalton and Dakota, while Leo taught correct form and skill to the younger ones.

Dakota's sai suddenly sailed through the air, but Leo caught it before it could make a target. "Thirty flips now, Dakota," Leonardo ordered.

"Thirty!" Dakota exclaimed. "But I-"

If you're going to argue with me," which was something the boy often did, "we can make it forty," Leo stated. Dakota nodded. He went into the far corner of the room to perform the flips. That's when an idea struck his mind. Not thinking anyone was watching him, Dakota pretended to perform thirty flips by simply jumping up into the air.

But some one was watching, more than one some one. "Dakota," Denver, his younger brother tried to whisper, "You'd better do flips for real before Sensei catches you."

"So what," Dakota retorted angrily. He was at a much higher rank then his baby brother, and didn't feel like Denver was in any position to tell him what to do.

"So, now you will do thirty real flips plus ten more, and that better be the end of that." The two boys turned around to see their father, Raphael, looking at them, his face firm and his arms crossed over his chest.

Denver stuttered for an explanation, but Raph shook his head and pointed his arm back towards Leo. Denver trotted back to where all the younger kids were standing silently in front of their master. "Next time, you will join Dakota in doing flips," Leo warned.

"Yes Sensei," Denver replied as he looked down at his feet.

Then, Leonardo began asking the kids questions about ninjutsu. "Franklin, what is a ninja?"

"A mind, body, and spirit," Franklin answered.

"Good," Leo said. "Logan? What does ninja mean?"

"Um… I think it's an agent," Logan replied. Leo nodded. He continued asking all the kids questions until he got down to Nathan.

"Nathan, how do we say ninja in Japanese?" Nathan didn't answer. Leo asked his son the same question again, but still didn't receive an answer, as Nathan was too busy watching everyone else in the dojo.

"Nathan!" Leo said calmly.

There was no response.

"Nathan!" Leo said again a little more harshly.

Jillian pulled at Nathan's arm. "Nathan, Sensei is talking to you. "Nathan!" Jillian tugged at the other toddler again.

"Stop it" Nathan snapped. He threw a punch at Jillian, hitting her in her left eye.

"Ouch!" cried Jillian. Tears began to form in her eyes.

"Come here, Nathan."

Nathan turned and looked up into his father's stern face. He then realized what he had done, and what his father was about to do.

"No," Nathan said in a small voice. "I'll be good."

"Now," Leo said firmly.

Trying to stiffen his sobs, Nathan walked towards his father.

When he was within reach, Leo grasped him by the shoulders, turned his around, and gave his bottom three hard swats.

Nathan began to wail. "Ouch! That hurt, Daddy!"

"Leonardo!" Michelle scolded from across the dojo. She had never believed in spanking children, but Leo was not going to be cut down in his own dojo, especially as sensei.

"Mommy" cried Nathan, and tried to run over to her.

Leo stopped him. "Get back in line." Nathan winced and tried to go around his father, but Leo intercepted again. "You will do as you are told," Leonardo said to his son.

The practice room had gone quiet. No one moved or made a sound.

Raph knew that this was killing Leo. His eldest brother hardly ever spanked his children, but Nathan was too young to be able to do flips or carry weapons of his own that he father could take away as a form punishment.

Besides, the child had been having trouble all day. Nathan had thrown his Cheerios at breakfast, knocked over Logan's milk at lunch out of spite, and torn up Alex's posters instead of taking his nap. Unfortunately, Jillian had helped with that last one, so their mother's had decided that neither one of the children would be having ice-cream that night.

"Man, Sensei really worked us hard today," Dalton said as he walked with his two younger brothers and cousins from the dojo after Leonardo had dismissed them from afternoon practice.

"Yeah," Dakota agreed. "I've never done so many flips in my life."

"You shouldn't have been disrespectful to our Sensei, nor defiant when Don was teaching this morning, Alex, short for Alexandra, began to lecture like the leader the she was being brought up to be. "You're old enough to know better."

"Next time you might even get your weapons taken away," reminded Dalton, who had been punished in such a manner only a week before.

All of the turtles' children knew that getting in trouble in class with Donatello, meant Leonardo made them pay for it in the dojo. Ten flips was the standard punishment for misbehavior, with more added if necessary, but when Sensei took their weapons away, they knew they were in deep.

Leo had taken away Dalton's sai last week for lying about not doing his homework, ditching practice, and sneaking out of the sewers late at night, which of course he did not have permission to do. He had just gotten his weapons back, but was still in quite a bit of hot water with his father, Raphael, who had promised he would take a belt to him if he ever got in that much trouble with Leo and Don again.

They all walked into the kitchen where Franklin and Jane sat down at the table to begin the homework their father had given them for that evening. Alex, Jillian, and Nathan soon joined them after getting some snacks and drinks from the refrigerator.

"I love Capri-son!" Jillian, Michelangelo and Faye's youngest child squealed. At just age two, she seemed to always have something to be excited about. She had apparently forgotten about Nathan hitting her earlier.

"I want some too," Nathan, pouted.

Jillian's two twin brothers, Logan and Anderson, Andy for short, had each grabbed a snack and drink for themselves before heading off into the sewers on their scooters, neither of them paying a bit of attention to their little sister who waved to them as they went out.

Raph's three boys sat down on the couch and flipped on the TV. There really wasn't much on at that time of the day. Dalton turned it off. "What should we do?" he asked.

"How about you get started on some of that homework Don assigned you that you've been lying about before I tan your hide," a gruff voice said from behind them.

"Y-yes sir," the three boys all responded without looking up at Raphael. Their father had made his point pretty clear.

They had veggie pizza for dinner that night. Each was made to his or her own taste. Like her father, Alex didn't like spinach. Raph and his boys shared distaste for radishes. Both Mike and Don thought water chestnuts were gross, but their children seemed to love them, or at least to really like playing with them.

The four turtles were conversatting in Japanese about a letter that had come from the Ninja Tribunal, where both Master Splinter and the Ancient One both currently held a position.

"I really wish you four would stop that!" Raph's wife, Rebecca exclaimed as he anger flared up. "Not everyone understands you. The whole world doesn't speak Japanese, you know."

Leo glanced at Raph. With a father who had a temper like a tornado and a mother who was like a raging volcano, it was no wonder that their three boys, Dalton, Dakota, and Denver, were so out of control much of the time.

Alex spoke up. "They're talking about a letter that came from Grandpa in Japan," she said. While not completely fluent, Alex understood and communicated in a good amount of the Japanese language.

"Oh they are, are they," chided Faye.

"The Ninja Tribunal has asked that we come to Japan," Leonardo said. "They are desperately seeking our help. It's an emergency. We leave in the morning, all of us, for Japan."

"What!" was the almost unanimous response.

That night after dinner, everybody got to work packing things that they needed to go to Japan.

"We'll pack the food and drinks in the morning, but everything else needs to be ready by morning," Leo told them.

"I can't forget Mr. Cuddles," said Jillian, clutching her stuffed bunny. "I'd cry without him."

"Then let's make sure me don't forget him," Donatello tried to hold back a laugh as he helped his daughter, Jane gather up her things.

"I don't want to leave Humphrey behind either," Jane told Jillian. Humphrey was, Jane's toy camel, was her favorite thing in the world. Humphrey could always make her happy, even when Leo made her do flips.

Franklin, Don and his wife Emily's other child, followed behind them with a puzzling look upon his face. They had never been permitted to skip ninja practice or classes unless someone was really badly sick. He wondered what was this really al about.

"Is this a test, Sensei," Franklin asked the back of Leonardo's head.

Leo turned around. "Why do you think this is a test, Franklin?" he asked.

"Because you told us that we were leaving tomorrow morning, so we won't have any ninja practice and classes with Daddy," Franklin simply stated.

"We'll still have practice," Leo told him gently. "We'll still have classes too. They'll just be a little different."

"Oh," was all that Franklin managed to say as he pondered the thought of what his master had said.

That night, Leo made his usual rounds to make sure that all the children were asleep. He could here Raph snoring, and wondered how Rebecca ever managed to get any sleep. Leo knew Raph was exhausted. He was going through a rough time with the three boys he had, and Rebecca didn't seem to be very supportive when it came to disciplining her children. Together, the three of the amounted to loads of trouble, but if it was one thing they did do, it was sleep.

Leo nodded a good night to Don as he passed by his lab. He noticed that Franklin was sleeping on a pallet near his father's work station.

"He wanted to please you so much by being ready for tomorrow that I think he worried himself to sleep," Don whispered. Leo smiled as he moved on. He knew Franklin was going to be just like Donatello when he grew up.

Jillian was snuggled up with Mr. Cuddles. Her brothers sound asleep for once in their bunk beds.

Last of all, Leo came to check on his own two children. He could her voices coming from their rooms before he even walked down the hall. Stepping back into the shadows, Leo crept close. He waited patiently as he watched and listened.

"He was just trying to teach you to behave, Nathan. Daddy loves us very much," Leo heard Alex saying. He felt his heart stop. Now he understood how Master Splinter had felt when he had spanked them. He moved closer so he could see in his daughter's room.

Alex was wiping away her little brother's tears. "You're so tired, Nathan," Alex soothed. "I can tell. I don't won't you to be tired for our trip tomorrow. I think you'll like Japan."

Leonardo cleared his throat. "Nathan," he said" it's time for you to be in bed. I think you're keeping your sister up." Nathan looked up at his father, but didn't move from Alex's arms. "Come on son," Leo said. "It's past your bed time. I'll read you a story," Leo said as his son jumped off the bed and trotted beside his father to his room.

"I want to read "Walther the Farting Dog," said Nathan.

"Alright," Leo told him. Leo could just kill Mikey for getting such a book for his son. Actually, it had first belonged to Dalton, and then passed down to each of the younger boys.

When Leonardo had finished the book, he kissed Nathan good night, turned off the light, and was about to walk out the door when he heard his son's voice.

"Daddy?" Nathan asked. "Are you still mad at me?" Again Leo felt his heart stop.

"No, son. We all have bad days. You just need to remember to behave yourself." Leo said softly.

"Daddy?" Nathan asked again. "Were you ever in trouble like me?"

Leo sat back down on the bed. "Yes, I was," he told his son. "I was in big trouble with my father, my master."

"Oh," said Nathan. "Did your daddy spank you like you spanked me?"

"Yes, he did," Leo replied with a smile. It was a lesson that he would never forget.

"Daddy? I'm sorry I was bad today."

"I'm sorry I had to spank you today," Leo said.

His eye lids were getting heavier and heavier. Without knowing what he was doing Leo laid down on the bed next to his son. Nathan continued to ask more questions, and Leo continued to answer them for another hour until the two fell asleep together. Neither one stirred until it was time to get up to go to Japan the next morning.

The Turtle Family Tree

Leonardo (now Sensei) & Michelle/ Kari (substitute teacher/ ninja)

Carson (16)

Alexandra (Alex) (14)

Nathan (3)

Raphael (assistant master) & Rebecca (do not call Becky) (hotel maid)

Dalton (13)

Dakota (12)

Denver (8)

Donatello (teacher)) & Emily (school Librarian)

Franklin (9)

Jane (6)

Michelangelo (cook) & Faye (sales person)

twins

Anderson (Andy) (5)

Logan (5)

Jillian (2)