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"Okay my children, good work today. We will finish with sparring." The Sensei said to his students. He watched as his sons all glanced towards Michaela.

She noticed, "What?" She asked. "My shoulder is fine. The doctor said it's almost completely healed." Michaela turned to look at her father. "I don't see any reason I shouldn't spar today, Sensei."

He eyed her for a moment, and then gave her a swift nod. "Alright. . ." He cast his amber-red eyes on all is students. "The first match will be Michaela against Raphael."

Michaela gave Sensei a wry smile. Out of all her brothers, she had the best record against Raph. The middle brother had the most power, but the least amount of self-control. All she usually had to do was dodge is attacks until she found an opening. It was obvious that Sensei was going easy on her.

While Donne and Leo moved to the side of the mat, Michaela and Raph took positions on opposite sides. "Rei . . ." Sensei said, and then Kayla and Raph bowed to each other. "Kawate . . ." He spoke again as the two siblings took fighting stances. Finally, after a couple of seconds, the Sensei bellowed, "Hajime!"

Instantly Raph charged at his sister. But as he threw a punch, she dodged it by ducking under it. A split second later, he swiped his leg at her legs in an attempt to throw her off balance. Almost at the same time, she placed her hands on his shoulders and did a front flip over him and then did a hand spring. As she went to do another one however, she felt a sharp pain in her shoulder and tumbled to the other side of the mat instead

"Not how I planned it, but that will work." She said to herself as she faced Raph again. She was surprised as he was almost to her. She barely had enough time to put up her arms to block before he started throwing punches. After a couple of seconds, he swiped at her legs again. This time he connected with hers, sending her crashing to the floor on her bad shoulder.

"Yame!" Sensei said instantly as he rushed to her with Leo and Donnie close behind. "Michaela, are you alright?"

Kayla opened her eyes to see her father standing over her. She blinked a couple of times, and then groaned. "That hurt," she said stating the obvious. As she leaned up into a sitting position, Kayla hissed at the pain in her shoulder.

"Let me look it." Donnie, their resident medic in training, said gently pushing past his father. "I don't think the cut opened again. . ." He said as he pressed his fingers to the wound. She hissed again, "Sorry . . . it probably got bruised when you hit the floor." He glanced up at Raph, then back at his sister.

"What?" Raph asked narrowing his green eyes.

"I didn't say anything," Donnie said quickly.

"If you've got something to say to me, say it." The middle brother said, his voice getting louder

"Yame!" Sensei said again. "Raphael to your room please, we will talk about this later." They all watched as Raph walked out of the room with a huff.

After a moment, Donnie turned back to Kayla. "The cut didn't open at all, but you'll probably have a nasty bruise in the morning." He said with confidence. "We'll just wrap up your shoulder." He smiled, "as long as you don't use it for a few more days you'll be fine."

He had his punk rock music so loud; Raph almost didn't hear the knock at the door. He turned the music down and glanced at the door. "Yea?"

"Raph, it's me." Kayla's soft voice said on the other side of the door. "Can we talk?"

As he opened the door, she gave a small smile. "Thanks."

He kept his head down as she entered the middle brother's room. "What's up?" he asked, still not looking at her.

"I hurt my shoulder when I started the second handspring, not when you knocked me to the mat, that's why I rolled instead." She gave a deep sigh. "I was going to add a half twist to the second one like I usually do." When he said nothing, she continued

"I convinced father not to give you the 'you need to be more careful' lecture." She said quietly.. "I told him that it was my fault. . . I probably shouldn't have been sparring anyway."

"Thanks," was his one word response.

"Well at least I got you to say something to me," she said. Then Kayla reached up and placed her hand underneath his chin and forced his eyes to look at her. "Now look at me and listen. . . I know what you're thinking, and this is not like that when I was ten." She could see Raph flashing back to one of the first times they sparred together.

As Sensei watched Raph and Kayla walked to opposite sides of the sparring mat, Leo gave him a questioning look. "Sensei, are you sure?"

Donnie was worried as well. "Raph will just overpower her, won't he?"

The man smiled at his sons. "There is more to battle then just power, my sons." He looked back at the others as they took their places. "Rei . . . Kawate . . . Hajime!"

As Sensei gave the command, Raph launched towards Kayla and began to attack. But to his surprise, he couldn't land anything. Kayla was moving too fast. As he swept his leg at her feet, she jumped and placed her hands on his shoulders. Then she launched herself over him and did two handsprings, adding a twist to the second one to where she was facing him when she was finished.

"Wow." Leo and Donnie said from the edge of the mat.

"Michaela informed me that she wishes to include gymnastics into her fighting style." Sensei said as a smile spread across his face.

Meanwhile, Michaela smiled and made a 'bring it on' motion with her hand. Raphs green eyes narrowed and he began to grit his teeth in anger. Then, he charged at her again and began to attack. And again, she was dodging everything he attempted to throw at her. After not landing anything for a couple of minutes, Michaela stuck her tongue out at him. "Can't catch me!" she said laughing. Unfortunately, her laughter sent him into a rage.

The next thing he remembered, Sensei was kneeling on the floor next to Michaela holding her. His brothers were yelling at him, and Michaela was crying hard as she held her broken arm.

"This was not you losing your temper." She said bringing him back to the present. "This was me trying to do something and failing miserably."

Raph nodded "okay." But as his protective big brother instincts kicked in, he narrowed his green eyes. "But when I started attacking again, you weren't as fast as you usually are. . . Are you okay?"

Kayla let out a deep sigh. "I'm fine, just a little tired." As if on cue, she yawned. "See?" she said with a smile as she finished. Her smile faded as Raph, who was not amused, merely raised an eyebrow. "I swear Raphie," she said using the nickname she had given him when she was three, "I'm fine."

He gave a small smile at that. She only called him 'Raphie' when she felt he was being overprotective or annoying, and it always got a raise out of him. He knew she was using it as a diversion, and Raph wanted to push her and make her tell him what was going on. But he also knew that when she wanted to keep something to herself, she could be more stubborn then him. "Are you sure?"

She nodded, and then reached up and wrapped her arm around his neck. "I love you, Raph." She whispered in his ear.

Raph planed an arm around her waist, and then kissed her on the top of her head, just like all her brothers did. "Love you too sis."

Translations:

Rei-Bow to each other

Kawate-Take your stance

Hajime- Begin

Yame- Stop

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