Splinter came into the room. He looked around the room he could see Donatello awake sitting on the couch, and Leo and Raph standing across from this. One one son was missing. "Where is Michelangelo?" Splinter asked.

"He ran off," Leo said, "I was just on my way out to find him." Splinter nodded and gestured his hand for him to go.

Raph groaned, "he kept saying he is fine," he said sighing.

"Now that he knows Donatello is better he can focus on his own health. Your brother puts others before himself, I knew I would not get him to focus on how own problems until Donatello was awake and better," Splinter told his two middle sons.

When Leo walked out of the lair he closed his eyes, just to see what it was like. Mikey must be so scared. Leo nearly jumped out of his shell when he felt a sewer rat run across his foot. He was blinded by Karai, but this was different. He climbed the ladder, he has a gut feeling Mikey went topside, despite the fact he knew the sewer well enough to walk blind.

"Mikey?" Leo called out getting hit in the face with light rain. Leo looked around the alley, he saw a figure huddle in a corner. "Mikey," he repeated as he reached his hand out.

"Leo?" Mikey asked reaching out his own hand. Leo grabbed his brother's hand. Mikey pulled his brother down. Leo sat next to his brother. "It's dark like night...I-I don't like the dark…I keep closing my eyes and opening them, but nothing changes."

Leo wrapped his around around his brother, "everything will be okay, you have four other senses. I know you, you can handle it."

"It's my fault Mikey is blind," Donnie said.

"How could you have stopped it brainiac? It could have been the both of you and then what would we have done?"

Donnie sighed, "I will make sure Mikey sees again," Donnie said in confidence.

"I do not doubt your skills Donatello, but I would refrain from making a promise like that to your brother. He is in very emotional state right now. Tell him you will do what you can, nothing is ever certain," Splinter looked at his son.

"Hai sensei," he said half heartedly.

"Michelangelo will need help. Remember weather or not your brother sees again he is still your brother and I expect you to treat him the same, it will help him," Splinter said, "and I will help him adjust to using his other senses."

"Sensei, this still wear off or Donnie could fix him. Why are you talking like it permeant?" Raph asked.

"Prepare for the worst, expect for the best," Splinter replied.

"Leo, what if I never see again?" Mikey asked.

"Then we will help you. You can still hear, feel, and smell, you need all that to be a ninja. Just think we spend all our time in the shadows, in the dark,"

"But we need to see out enemy."

"Not really, you can hear and feel them. You can hear their footsteps, feel the wind as their weapons moves through the air, smell them as the move by you." Leo smiled even though he knew it brother could not see it, "I will help you train."

"Thanks Leo," Mikey said, "is it still night?" Mikey asked.

"You tell me. Do you feel the sun's warmth on your skin? Or the cool air of the night?"

"It's been raining, how would I feel the sun?" Mikey asked looking to the sky.

"Then listen, do you hear more traffic? The birds that fly?"

Mikey smiled, "I hear a bird...and I feel the sun." he let out a small laugh, "we-we should get down into the sewers huh?"

"Yeah, but we don't have to go back to the lair if you don't want to," Leo said and he watched Mikey climb down the ladder. "We can go for a walk around the sewers." When Leo got down he saw Mikey was sitting with his arms wrapped around his knees.

"It's like a never ending night," Mikey said shakily before he started to cry again. Leo sat down next to his brother. Mikey laid his head on his brother's shoulder, "Leo, I don't know if I can do this. I'm still scared of the dark...I always sleep with a night light...and a night light can't help this."

Leo did not know what to say, so he just sat there with his brother until Mikey fell asleep. Leo picked up his brother and carried him to their home. "He fell asleep," Leo said meeting the concerned gazes from his family. He brought his brother to his room. The floor of Mikey's room was covered in papers, action figures, and other items.

Leo walked around Mikey's room and picked up the items on the floor so he would trip over them when he woke up.

"How was he when you found him?" Donnie asked.

Leo sighed, "he was crying. I think he is scared more than anything. He still wants to be a ninja." Leo looked at the worried expression on Donnie's face. "Don't worry, we will help him," Leo said, speaking as a brother, as a leader.

"I will wonder if things would have been different if I was not poisoned," Donnie said looking at his sleeping brother.

"Don't worry about that, you need some sleep too, you can figure out things on a good sleep."

Mikey woke up, he gasped. Then he realized, he was blind. Mikey swung his feet over the side of his bed. He walked across his room, when he reached his door he could hear footsteps followed by the sound of something dragging, "sensei?" Mikey said tentatively reaching out a hand.

"Yes Michelangelo," Splinter said holding out his arm for Mikey to hold on to.

"Sensei, I still want to be a ninja," Mikey said, "don't make me stop."

Splinter looked down at his son, "I will not stop you, I will help you use your other senses."

"It's an endless night, and all I want is my night light," Mikey said.

Splinter sadly looked down at his son.

Mikey stood next to Donnie, at the end of the line of his brother during their training session. Splinter explained every move of the new kata so Mikey could complete it.

Once their kata was complete they knelt down in front of Splinter, "today we will help Michelangelo. I would like him to know your footsteps so that he will not injure any of you in a fight." Mikey walked to the middle of the room. "you three are not to land and hard attacks, but I would like you to attack, so that Michelangelo can defend."

"Hai sensei," the three eldest turtles called out.

"Michelangelo, as soon as you can identify your brother, call his name."

"Hai sensei," Mikey responded.

All his brothers walked softly, as they were all taught long ago, Mikey listened. He heard a great swinging motion, it was Donnie's bō staff. "Donnie," Mikey said, taking one nunchaku and wrapping it around the staff and pulled it from his brother's hands. Next, Mikey heard the sound of unsheathing, "Leo," Mikey called out easily. He listened as he heard the katana sliced the air. Mikey clumsily dodged the attack, he grunted in frustration. Mikey got up and waited for the next attack, he knew it would be Raph. Still frustrated from his clumsy defense against Leo, he did not know Raph had attacked until Raph lightly tapped Mikey's cheek with his sai. "I can't do this!" Mikey yelled. "How can I be a blind ninja?"

"Michelangelo, you are doing well. It is only your first session blind. You have been blind for less than twenty-four hours. It will take time."

"Raph would have killed me."

"You must not dwell on failure, you have to compose yourself after each attack, focus yourself. That does not just go for Michelangelo."

"Can I go?" Mikey asked.

"Yes, you may." Splinter said.

Mikey laid down on his carapace in his bed. Donnie followed his brother. "Donnie?" Mikey asked, he could tell it was Donnie by the way be walked.

"Yeah it's me."

"Make the night go away," he cried, "turn the night light on." Donnie watched as his brother searched for his eyes.

"I will do what-"

"I'm still scared of the dark, like when we were kids."

Donnie looked at his brother, he glad he could not see him cry. Donnie pulled his brother into a hug. "I will help you," Donnie said.