Hayy world of TMNT! and welcome to my first story for this category.

This story is dedicated to my cousin who begged me to write a TMNT story as he is obsessed (seriously) and I kinda had this little idea for a story anyways so... well here it is.

I hope you like this story and please review! It would be very much appreciated.

I don't own TMNT but I do own the plot and any OC's I may or may not add :)

Leonardo crouched inside the tree, waiting. The sound of rain crashing through the canopy of leaves and branches filled his ears and the half-crecent moon was hidden behind the blanket of grey clouds. He was alone. Normally, Leonardo is only alone when he does his morning training on the rooftops of New York city and when he reads the occasional book while his brothers are at arcade, but this wasn't either of those times. He was here to spy on the foot.

Leonardo had seen members of the foot crawling around the city a lot lately. Usually during the morning as he trained. Yet they never attacked him. They only stared at him blankly for a while. Sometimes, Leonardo would un-sheath his two loyal ninjaken swords when there was a group of them, but then they would just ran away cowardly. It made little sense to Leo and so, he decided to follow one of them back to their hideout to find out what they were up to.

If his master, Master Splinter, knew what he was up to. He would have demanded he take his brothers for backup or not to go at all, before stating it was for his safety. But Splinter didn't know anything on what his student was doing. Leonardo knew it was for the best. It was better not to worry his elderly father when he already had enough on his mind with his younger brothers; Raphael, Donatello and Michelangelo.

The reason Leonardo didn't bring any of his brothers along, was for a different reason from why he didn't tell his Splinter what he was doing. For Raphael, it was his temper and impatience which was normally his and the group's downfall and could get them detected. Donatello, although he is a great fighter, was too much of a tech guy to ever be one for stealth. While he held too much responsibility to protect Michelangelo to bring him into such a dangerous situation, with him being the youngest of the group.

Leo peered through the branches again and waited for a member of the foot to pass by. He had followed one of them around the city but had somehow managed to lose him. That is when Leo had seen the tree planted into the cement and had decided to wait for the next member of the foot there.

He didn't know how long he had been there though. It had definitely been around two hours at the least. However, Leonardo didn't really seem to notice how slow the hours had dragged on. If he had brought Raph with him, he would surely be complaining. Leonardo took comfort from the thought. He did feel a little guilty for not letting his brothers or his sensei know where he was going. What if they realised he was missing? He really didn't want anyone to worry. That, and he didn't want his brothers to search for him when he had enough to focus on.

Another hour slowly passed and Leonardo's willpower was beginning to weaken. Maybe the foot just weren't prowling the city tonight or they knew he was following them and had called off any meeting or gathering they had arranged. It did seem highly likely, since he hadn't seen any foot ninjas for all these hours when they normally went as far as to watch him in plain sight.

Leo was considering going back to the sewer when he heard fast-approaching footsteps. They sounded like heavy boots to the blue-clad turtle so he hovered his eye over the hole in the leaves he had created during the long wait and waited for the owner of the footsteps to pass by. After a few moments, two figures walked past.

To the normal eye, the two figures looked as if they were in ninja costumes on their way to a fancy-dress party; but to the sword wielder, he knew that they weren't just some innocent citizens. They were members of the foot!

The two ninjas were totally unaware of Leonardo's presence so they continued down the quiet street, continuing their conversation. Leonardo leaned closer to the leaves and he tried to pick up pieces of what they were saying.

"I don't think he's here, Bruss." The one furthest away said, looking over at his accomplice. "He must have gone back!"

Bruss stopped and turned to face the ninja. "If we go back with nothing, the boss will kill us! You know what he's like. Besides, Daniel said that he was planning to follow us. He could just be hiding someplace."

Leonardo felt himself stiffen when he realised they were talking about him. How could he be so stupid as to think that they didn't want him to follow them? Leonardo knew it had been strange the way they had just kept watching him during his training. Yet he was so stupid, he didn't even think that is what they wanted. Him to get curious and follow them and now he was stuck in a potential trap.

Leonardo felt bitterly disappointed with himself for not seeing this coming. Imagine if he had brought his brothers or his sensei with him! That would have made the matter a lot worse. He wouldn't be able to live with himself if one of his brothers got hurt. He still felt a little guilty about the blowing-up-of-the-spaceship-to-destroy-Shredder thing, even though he had learnt to except that was all he could have done.

Leonardo was so busy with his thoughts that he didn't hear the shuffle in the branches behind him. If only he had!

"Ahhh Leonardo! You should know it's rude to eavesdrop!"

Leonardo froze at the voice, but before he could do anything. He felt a stong contact on that back of his head...and then...darkness.