Hey, everyone. All right, in this chapter I felt like exploring the turtles family life. There's a lot of fluff in this chapter so be prepared.


Chapter 2- Family Times


Master Splinter sat on a chair in the kitchen. The baby, who had come to be known as Mikey thanks to his brothers, was in his arms yawning as he heard the warm sensei hum a Japanese lullaby. Splinter looked down at the baby and smiled. He would have never thought that eleven years after he had found his other three sons he would be taking care of another baby. He didn't mind at all. Mikey had quickly stolen everyone's hearts, which was helpful.

Michelangelo was proving to be quite a handful. At first Master Splinter had thought that taking care of the new baby would be easy, but unfortunately he was wrong. Little Mikey had turned out to be incredibly hyper-active. He thought he would have been prepared for it having experienced Raphael's stubbornness and Donatello's curiosity (Leonardo always did what he was told), but even they got tired and went to sleep easily. Not Mikey though, he had more energy than the three of them combined.

The good thing about all of this is that this time he had more than enough help. At first he had been afraid that his sons would not really accept the baby, but he quickly found out that his fears were unfounded. All three boys had instantly loved the baby. They made up any excuse to be with him. Sometimes they even wanted to put off training to take care of the baby. Master Splinter would not have that of course. Even if it was harder to train them while taking care of the baby, they were still going to train.

He had been most surprised at the way they acted around the baby. He had always watched as they would never show affection even though they all knew they cared for each other. But with Mikey… they acted playful, loving, caring, and almost everything they normally avoided. Even Raphael acted like that and that was saying something. He asked Leonardo one day why that was the case.

A silent agreement, he had said as if it was the most normal thing on earth, and before Master Splinter could ask again Leonardo was already paying full attention to Mikey. Splinter smiled. Baby Michelangelo was lucky to have such big brothers.

The wise rat got up from his chair. He walked to his room still humming the lullaby. As he entered, he looked around the place; the room had changed a lot. It was no longer the dark room that seemed to be filled with secrecy, now the room had little baby toys that he had brought Mikey. It was well lit so the baby could see all around him. Mikey snuggled closer to his carrier, a little content smile on his face. Splinter looked at him lovingly. He went to the little crib he had found and placed Mikey there gently. The baby frowned a bit at being separated from the warmth the giant rat gave. Splinter quickly covered him with warm soft blankets and the little turtle was once again sleeping contently. Master Splinter smiled again, even if only a month had passed since he had found Mikey, he already loved him as much as his other three sons, and he was sure that they loved Mikey like a little brother. He wondered how things would change with him around.


Leonardo was still training in his katas. Normally when he did this he would be concentrating fully on becoming better and perfecting it, but he was actually thinking about the events that took place the night before. Donatello was still working on the little robot and there hadn't been any attacks lately. He wondered if it was all part of some plan or if it was just a coincidence, but then again, coincidence was very rare in their family life. He kept thinking about all of this. His body now very tense and his mind disturbed, fortunately, it wasn't long before he was put to a stop.

"Leeeeoooo!" Came the little voice of Michelangelo. Leo relaxed his body and looked towards the door. Before he knew it, his little brother had already tackled him with his signature hug. Leo couldn't help but laugh with him. He didn't even notice the tension being chased away by little Mikey's presence.

"What is it Mikey?" he said smiling at his little brother.

"Leo, look!" Mikey squeaked holding up his newly colored paper "I finish this dwawing an' I didn't go over the lines!"

Leonardo couldn't help to smile at how cute his little brother sounded; he then took the drawing and looked at it, "Wow, this is great Mikey! You're definitely the artist of the family" He said proudly and Mikey beamed at his big brother.

"You training again?" Mikey asked as he noticed his brother sweating a bit

"Yeah, I am" Leo answered. "Can I train wit you?" The little turtle asked, blue eyes looking expectantly at the blue masked ninja. "Sure!" Leo said before putting Mikey down.

"Ok, try to copy me, all right?" Mikey nodded. Leo made a basic fighting stance that Master Splinter had taught them a long time ago when they were little turtles. The little one tried to copy it the best way he could and looked at his big brother for approval. Leonardo corrected him on some things and then showed him another stance.

Leo loved practicing with his little brother. Mikey had barely had his first sparing lesson and they had all been as excited as the little guy. At the end of the session everyone agreed that Mikey had a lot of potential as a ninja, he seemed to be a natural. After that Mikey had been asking Leo to practice with him so he could be "as good as my big brother" Leo was happy to accept. It was just nice spending time with Mikey. It made him forget for a second all the worries that he always had in his mind. They practiced for a while. Leo would make a stance and Mikey would copied it. Leo then did another beginner's stance and then suddenly heard Mikey giggling.

Leo looked at his little brother, "What's so funny?" he asked curiously

"You" Mikey giggled "You look like you wanna go to the bathroom" he giggled even more A/N- I don't know Martial arts so I have no idea if there's a stance like that

"What?" Leo asked confused. He looked at the way he was standing and then suddenly laughed himself, "You're right, it does look like that"

"Ha, ha, you're an ol' man!" Mikey said in a teasing sing-song voice

"Oh, yeah? Well I'm not the only one since you're going to have to do it too" Leo said triumphantly. Mikey's grin quickly disappeared.

"Nuh-uh!" Mikey said crossing his arms

"Yah-ha!" Leo said in the same voice

"Nuh-uh!"

"Yah-ha"

"Nuh-uh!"

"Yah-ha!" And Leo poked Mikey on the side

"Nuh-uh" Mikey said giggling

"Yeah-ha!" And he tickled Mikey even more. The little turtle was squealing, giggling, and laughing so much he could not answer back. Leo tickled him for a bit more before finally letting him go.

"Told you so" Leo said with a fake smug look. Mikey just giggled even more.

Both didn't notice their sensei standing in the door way watching and smiling at them. The humanoid rat shook his head. His oldest son was always thinking too much in training and his little sibling was just the remedy. No one else could make the Leonardo aka Fearless Leader act so childish as Mikey could. His enemies would probably think he had gone crazy if they saw him acting like that. But it didn't matter with the little one. With Mikey, Leonardo's problems faded away.


Donatello was still working on the little spider looking machine that he had brought back to the lair. He still hadn't figured out what it was or what it did. He felt a bit frustrated by it. Sure, he loved a challenged, but even he had his limits. Don sighed leaning more to his chair; it had definitely been a long day.

He watched the clock on his desk. It was kind of late already; the others were probably already going to sleep. Don heard some footsteps coming from his door. He smiled, he knew who it was. Turning around he saw his favorite little brother, "Hey, Mikey"

"Hiya, Donnie!" Mikey said as he went to hug the purple masked ninja, "You 'member what day's today, right?" He said looking up with his bright blue eyes.

"Of course I remember" Don said picking him up, completely forgetting the spider robot. How could he not remember today was his day for reading Mikey a story? It was kind of hard to forget. He and his brothers had fought about who would read to Mikey at nights. They would always end up in some sort of fight and Master Splinter would end up being the one to read to the little one. Finally they had settled for each one getting a turn starting from Splinter to Leo to Raph to Donatello. Today was his day.

Once he reached Mikey's room, Don let his little brother down so he could pick a book. Mikey wasted no time and hurriedly went to pick up his favorite book for the night. He liked when Donnie read to him, his big brother had such a gentle voice Mikey would feel instantly relaxed by it. The smallest of the four picked up the book and jumped to his bed bouncing on it a few times. Donatello just shook his head smiling. He walked over to Mikey's bed and settled him down then he sat on the edge of the bed giving Mikey enough room to be comfortable. Mikey then snuggled closer to his brother.

"So I guess we're continuing the story?" Don said opening the book to the last chapter they had read

"Yep. I think that it wus when Doryk was crossing the river to get to Vo… vol-ku… vol…" "Volkkron?" Donnie helped "Yeah, that!" Mikey said excited

"All right, ready?" Mikey nodded, Donnie smiled and began reading "Doryk looked up at the sky, it was dark and gloomy; he knew what that meant. It meant that the Shape shifters and Wizards had decided to cast their spells…"

Donatello kept on reading for about fifteen minutes; he could feel Mikey nodding already, trying without hope to stay awake. He looked down; the little turtle was already on the verge of dreamland. Don decided this was a good time to finish up for tonight. "… And so, running as fast as they could, Doryk, Berillin, and Hemis made their way to the castle only to find at its gates someone they didn't expect. All right" Don said closing the book, "that's it for tonight."

"Nnnoo, jus a bit mmore" Mikey slurred sleepy.

"Don't worry Mikey, we'll continue next time" Don whispered gently as he got up trying not to move Mikey too much. He put the book back where it was and turned off the light leaving only the night light on. Walking once more toward Mikey, he tucked him in and gave him a kiss on his head.

"Good night Mikey" he said gently

"Night Donnie" Mikey whispered already too tired to talk normally. Don stroke his little brother's head for a little while contemplating him for a moment. It was calming to see him like this. Then again, Mikey had that effect.

Don got up and walked toward the door. With one last glance toward his little brother, he stepped out and headed toward his own room. Sleep was sounding really good right now. He could work on the little robot the next morning. Yawning, he made his way to his bed. He was out before he even knew it.


Raphael was laying on his bed, sleep taking over him. He was tired, no wait, scratch that, he was dead tired. He had gone out that night to vent out some of his extra energy in the streets. Casey, of course, had gone with him. At first they had only come across some wannabe-gangster kids who really had no idea what they were doing. It had been kind of boring; he had only jumped down from the building and taking one look at him they had all run screaming out of there.

Fortunately, some Purple dragons were also in the neighborhood and were more willing to put up more of a fight. Unfortunately, they had been a lot. Raph and Casey had ended up fighting more they would admit they had wanted to. At the end though, they were finally able to beat them. They had both decided to call it a night and each headed to their home.

Sweet sleep was taking over him and Raphael was more than happy to welcome it. Just as he was about to go off to a happy place he felt something disturbing his sleep. He couldn't tell what it was, but he wanted it to go away. Again, something touched his arm, sleep was now leaving him. The something that was chasing it away suddenly touched him again. He was about to briskly brush it off when heard a little voice…

"Raphie?"

Recognizing the voice, Raph was instantly awake. He opened his eyes and looked to his side. Mikey was standing there. His adorable blue eyes seemed to shine in the darkness, but they held a somehow negative feeling to them. Raph looked at his arm and saw that the something that was touching him was Mikey's little hand. He looked back to his smallest brother.

"What is it Mikey? Somethin' wrong?" Asked Raph

Mikey looked down suddenly finding his feet very interesting. Raphael smiled, he knew what that meant. "Anothe' nightmare, huh?" He asked although he already knew the answer. Mikey nodded shyly, "C-can I sleep here wit you? I promise I won't bother" He said while still looking at his feet.

Raphael smiled again, "'course Mikey, ya know ya can always come 'ere" he said already making space for him. Mikey looked up with a smile on his face. He ran to the bed and made himself comfortable next to his big brother. Raphael put his arms around his little brother as if he was holding a teddy bear. Mikey was happy to comply by snuggling closer and relaxed as he heard Raph's heart beat.

Raph knew that every time that Mikey had a nightmare he always came to him. It had been a spoken rule that he was the one that protected the little guy from monsters or anything else that scared him and it was the reason he now had a bed instead of his hammock. He didn't mind, actually, he felt privileged by it. Mikey had that. He could make feel like the most important person in the world just by looking at you. He looked down at his little brother. Yep, it was a privilege.

"Night Raphie" Mikey said in his little voice

"Night Little Buddy" Raph said in a voice gentler than you could imagine him having. He started drifting off to dreamland again. This time he wasn't thinking of the bad guys and the evils of the world, instead he was thinking of how the world couldn't be any more perfect than it was at that moment.


Somewhere in a dark room, sitting down in front of a monitor, was a man who was chuckling to himself. "Enjoy the little moments you have" he said. His voice cold yet with a hint of amusement, "remember them because you won't have them for very long"

He watched the computer monitor; in it, two humanoid turtles sleeping soundly.


Told you there was a lot of fluff. Anyways you better enjoy it while you can because as you can see it's not going to last.

If you've read my other story then you know that I have a thing for one on one moments. They're just nice.

All right, if you've read all the way then I suggest you review. If not, a black hole summoned by wizards at my command will suck you into an empty oblivion. No, seriously