First bad word, and First Sibling Rivalry
A/N: I am glad that so many people like this story! I would first like to thank mistystar123 for contributing to this story and giving me good ideas. The first part of the chapter was 2 of mistystar123's ideas the second part was my own. If any one else has a great idea for a first let me know!
Disclaimer: I do not own the turtles nor do I own the next karate kid!
A/N2: I fixed some errors I found.
First Sparring match...
The turtles were now 5 years old, they were learning fast in their ninja training but non as fast as Leonardo, Raphael noticed all too well that his brother got a lot more praise then he or the other two did. They had been training for two years now, and Leonardo could learn a kata very quickly, Raphael would always come in second and the other two struggled.
Today Splinter decided to pair them off and have them spar for the first time, he told them "Raphael, you and Leonardo stand over here facing each other, Donatello and Michelangelo stand beside me."
Looking confused Raphael and Leonardo did as they were told, their younger brothers stood next to Splinter.
"OK my sons, today your going to do what's called sparring, its like fighting but you don't use your full strength."
The two boys faced each other and bowed before getting into a fighting stance, Splinter gave the word and the two began. Raphael made a fast work of causing his younger brother to hit the mat, Leonardo used his fall to his advantage and kicked Raph's leg causing him to fall as well.
Jumping up Raphael and Leonardo faced each other again, the two seemed to do better sparring then they did doing a kata. After nearly 5 minutes of knocking the other down Splinter told them to stop, they looked at him out of breath and sweating heavily. "very good my sons, you both did very well for your first time, now remember you can not hit each other outside of the dojo, during a sparring session is the only time your allowed to fight like this; understood."
Both boys bowed and said respectively at the same time "yes Sensei." he had Donatello and Michelangelo stand before him and he told them "same rules apply my sons."
He gave the word and they began, with out thinking Donatello managed to get his younger brother knocked down in a matter of seconds, Mikey tried to copy what his older brother had done and tried to kick Donnie's legs to make him fall. But Donatello didn't fall he looked down at his brother and said "is that the best you got Mike?" frowning Mikey jumped up and the two began to punch and hit each other.
"STOP!" Splinter yelled from the side lines, "now you are just fighting, sparring is much different my sons, the point of this is to knock your opponent down and keep them there. Now try again." the two bowed and faced each other, and again Donatello had his little brother on the ground, but Michelangelo once again started a fight between them. "boys, that is enough, alright Raphael pair up with Michelangelo, Donatello come by me."
Raphael looked at his youngest brother and said "OK Mikey, remember don't start hitting me when I knock you down, you have to focus and try to knock me down. That is the point of this OK?"
Mikey nodded and like he said he would Raphael knocked him down, but this time was different Michelangelo swung his leg out hard and kicked the back of Raphael's leg effectively knocking him down. When both boys got back on their feet Raphael ran at him and Michelangelo did his first official flip in the air over his bigger brother and landed behind him and kicked his shell this caused Raphael to loose his balance and fall.
Splinter was surprised and then looked down at Donatello, and said "my son, I think we will do this pairing off from now on." Donatello didn't say a word as he watched his brothers, after nearly 10 minutes this time Splinter told them to stop; then he said "i want to see Leonardo and Donatello pair off then we are done for today."
Donatello and Leonardo faced each other and bowed, getting into a fighting stance Leonardo tried the same method as before to knock Donnie down the way he did Raph but to no avail, frowning Donatello kicked Leonardo's legs right out from under him. Donatello proved to be a challenge for his older brother, though he couldn't grasp kata's very quickly Donatello's style seemed to be his own Splinter made a mental note of this for the future. After nearly 10 minutes the two were at a draw, Splinter stopped them and said "OK you all did extremely well you may go play for a while. Donatello I wish to speak with you."
Donnie stood before his father as his brothers left the room, "am I in trouble?"
Splinter smiled at him and said "no my son, where did you learn those moves today? Those are far more advanced then what I have taught you this far?"
Donnie looked down at the ground and then said "from a book..." he said it so softly that Splinter just about didn't hear him, "from what book my son? Can you show me?"
Donnie looked up at his father and then left the dojo for the bookshelf in the living room, getting the stool he used to stand on he reached his book 'The next Karate Kid' taking it under his arm he ran back to the dojo and showed his father. Splinter didn't recognize it at all "where did you find this my son?"
"the last time I went up top with you, I found it, I learned to read it and read how that boy fought. He's a lot like me in some ways..."
"how so my son?"
Donnie took his book back and held it close to his plastron and said softly "cause he is misunderstood... he is smart but people don't notice it and bully him."
Splinter frowned and asked "do your brother's bully you my son?" looking down again he just said softly "just Raph... he calls me a smart... well he calls me bad names."
Splinter could fill in the blank as to what Raphael had called him and he said "my son, the word your brother used even though its meaning may be unclear to you and the word its self is unnecessary he is telling you that your smart. Although he could leave out the other word that goes along with it. He knows you are, he just has a different way of telling you, can you show me some of what you learned in this book?"
Donatello stood some distance from his father on the practice mat and showed his father what he had learned. Splinter was quite impressed and told him "my son what your demonstrating is similar to jujitsu but its not the same its called Karate, this skill you possess will be no doubt useful in the future. I will try and find out more about this art and we will do private sessions so you can practice."
Donnie smiled up at his father and said "so I will be like a secret weapon?"
"in some ways yes my son you will be, now go play with your brothers." Donnie ran off and Splinter shook his head he knew his sons were going to be a handful, but he was glad to see that one of his youngest sons knew a slightly altered version of what he was trying to teach them.
First Sibling Rivalry...
Raphael and Leonardo were arguing again from what Splinter could tell, he couldn't understand what they were fighting about he got up from his position on his meditation mat and walked out to the main room. "what is going on here?" Raphael and Leonardo were standing dangerously close and it looked as though fists were just about to be thrown "he thinks he is better then me!"
Raphael said first, Leo jumped in "i did not! Not once did I say that Raph!"
"that's enough boys, you are brothers you should not be fighting each other."
Leonardo turned back to his brother and said "you should know Raph that I am not better then you, we all started learning at the same time!"
"what ever! You practice by your self all the time! I hardly see you anymore!"
"boys! That is enough!" he could sense that another fight was about to break out, he looked over at the other two turtles who were on the couch Donatello was reading his book or trying to and Michelangelo was huddled next to him, turning back to his sons he said "Leonardo go to the dojo Raphael go to your room, there will be no more fighting between you two for the rest of the night."
They parted but not before Raphael punched his younger brother in the arm "ow! Raph! Why did you do that!"
Splinter looked down at his sons and said "Raphael, get to your room now! I will deal with you in a moment!"
Raphael stomped off to his room while Leonardo went to the dojo, "my son, why were you fighting with him again?" Leonardo looked down and said "i don't know, he started it... we were sparring and..."
"in the living room? Leonardo the living room is no place for such activity! You know this." with his head lowered he said "i know I am sorry..."
"as punishment do fifteen flips, I am going to have a word with your brother and I will be back."
Leonardo nodded and began to do his flips, Splinter went down the hall to Raphael and Leonardo's room stepping inside he found Raphael sitting on his bed fuming mad. "what has gotten into you lately Raphael?"
"your always praising him! He never gets into trouble! Why is it always me! What am I the bad child! Why does he get all the attention and all the praise when me, Donnie and Mikey do the best we can!"
"Raphael you all are doing well, but it is your temper that gets you into trouble my son. Shouting at your brother and shouting at me will get you no where BUT trouble. And your brother is in trouble my son, he told me the two of you were sparring outside the dojo, I told you that was not allowed."
Raphael looked down at his blanket and said "so what I have to stay in here the rest of the night?"
"do you feel this is the best punishment for disobeying a direct rule?"
"better then doing flips..."
"alright then, you are to stay in your room for the rest of the evening I will have your supper brought to you. And you are not to read your comic book while in here, you are to think about what you have done."
Frowning he looked at the comic that was beside him, picking it up he handed it to his father "this is Mikey's any way can you give it back to him since I cant read it?"
Splinter took the book and said to him "very well my son, now you know I love you right?"
Raphael looked up at him, "yea I guess..."
Splinter sat down next to him and put an arm around him "son, you may get into a lot of trouble but just remember I love you no matter what you do. The only one that can stay out of trouble is you, if something is bothering you then talk to me. I am always here my son, you can talk to me about anything, I just want you to know this. I have sensed for a little while now that you have built up anger, would you like to talk about that?"
Looking down he said "no, not right now..."
"very well then, when you are ready to talk I am here to listen." giving his son a kiss on his head he left the room, he hoped that his sons would grow out of this faze.
First Nightmare...
Michelangelo, tossed and turned in his bed below his older brother Donatello. His brother could hear the distress coming from below him and leaned over the rail of his bed and looked down at his brother sleeping. Suddenly Mikey shouts "NO! RAPH! LEO! NO! STOP!" Donnie jumped off the bed and shook his brother awake.
"Mikey, come on wake up! Whats wrong?"
Mikey woke up with a start and saw his older brother standing over him, "are we home?"
Donnie frowned at the question just as Splinter came in along with the remaining two turtles, "my son what has happened?"
"i had a bad dream..."
"what was it about Mikey?"
Raph sat next to his shaking brother, Michelangelo took hold of his oldest brother and held on.
Leo spoke up "apparently it was about you, from his reaction."
Donnie looked at him and told him "i think it was about all of us."
Splinter looked down at his second to youngest and asked "how do you know this?"
"cause he yelled out our names... he told Raph and Leo to stop. So I don't know what it was about but it sure scared him."
Raphael could feel his brother tremble in his arms, he looked down at him and said "what was it about bro?"
Mikey sniffed and looked up at him and said softly "it was about us, but we were a lot older, we were fighting these guys... they wore black... we were fighting them and... then."
Leo stepped closer "then what?"
"then they... they... shot at us... Raph saved Leo... but Raph had blood all over him when he hit the ground... Leo charged ahead and tried to protect Donnie... but some girl... she... she hit him with a sward in his chest. Then... then Donnie... he... he..."
Mikey couldn't finish he dissolved into tears, Splinter wondered why his 5 year old son was having dreams like this, did he see something on TV that caused this? Splinter picked his son up and held him, Mikey wrapped his arms around the old rats neck and sobbed into his shoulder.
Every one was silent, all that could be heard was Michelangelo's sobbing, Splinter looked down at his remaining sons and told them "go back to bed boys, I will take Michelangelo with me, Donatello will you be alright?"
Donnie nodded and said "i will be fine."
Splinter left the room with the still distraught Michelangelo, going to his own room Splinter laid Michelangelo down on his bed and laid down next to him.
"Michelangelo did you watch something on Television that could have triggered this dream?" shaking his head he said "no... I promise."
"did your brothers tell you a scary story?"
"no... they didn't."
"then what triggered it my son?"
"I don't know..."
Splinter stood and went and got two candles that he knew would help his son relax and sleep; he lit a Jasmine candle as well as a Lavender candle. After several moments Michelangelo fell into a deep sleep, Splinter laid down next to him and thought about his son's dream.
He hoped it wasn't a glimpse into their future, it could have been with as vivid as it was. But he hoped not, he stayed next to his sleeping son for the rest of the night, by morning there had been no other dreams. Days and weeks went by and there were no other dreams like the first one so Splinter chalked it up to his son having a wild imagination... but little did he know what would happen ten years in their future that was similar but not quite the same as Michelangelo's dream...
A/N: here's chapter 4 guys, and thanks again to mistystar123! This was fun to write.
About Michelangelo's dream I was thinking of that episode in TMNT 2003 series where it was the final battle with Shredder and Kari stabs Leo with the katana. Obviously in the episode the turtles live, but in Mikey's nightmare they had died.
On a side note: Chapter 5 will not be a continuance of Mikey's dream, nor will any future chapters. I may have to raise the rating for the next chapter though... has slight bad language in it. Nothing too sever but we all know how Raphael is...