Once the lesson was over, Leo had told the man everything the family did in the afternoon routine. Somewhere along the lines, Mikey had started to call him Splinter when he used the word instead of sensei and the nickname had soon started like wide fire.
Bath.
Reading
TV time.
And then dinner.
It seemed easy enough and Splinter had taken the new challenge with pride, but once he set the water up and had turned around to get the towels – with Leo in the tube, his eyes widen with panic as the turtle had mange to sink to the bottom. Quickly scooping him up into his arms, his eyes narrowed as Leo giggles in his arms, Don had wanted to go next and once again Splinter had found himself holding a towel, but the turtle was already drying himself - he stares in disbelief.
"Thanks Splinter," Donnie said, passing the towel to the man and walking off into the hallway.
Mikey had come running into the room, holding a rubber ducky in his hand. His eyes started to cry at the lack of bubbles and Yoshi had soon found himself pouring more bubbles in.
At one point Yoshi had lost track of Mikey underneath all the bubbles and had soon began to panic, but his mind was soon at ease as Mikey pops out wearing a bubble hat onto of his head.
Next was Raph and the young hot head turtle was not happy, first Splinter had asked the red wearing turtle to take of his mother army dog tags before taking a bath and that did not go down well at all.
Raph had mange to lock himself in his mother room and refused to leave, it's only when, Splinter had admitted defeat Raph had removed himself from the room. However getting the turtle into the bathtub was a whole different ball game – Splinter had found himself dealing with a screaming turtle in his arms, splashing the water everywhere, with so much anger and haters.
Raph had mange to pull the plug, draining the water out and in the end Yoshi had admit defeat and Raph had won the battle.
Next was reading time and Splinter had hoped that this task would be a lot easily to handle, however once again he was proven wrong. Leo was the only one that was willing to work with him, Donnie was telling him about everything that was logical and what wasn't. Mikey had refused to listen – if Raph had refused to be in the very same room.
Yoshi had to admit, he thought looking after one child was hard enough – during the time he spent with his family, while he was once able to. However looking after four boys, he had developed a very high respect for Alica.
Not to mention watching TV wasn't easy, it was Leo turned to pick and he wanted to watch Space Heroes, but his brother's wanted to do their own thing and of courses Leo wasn't happy, unless he had someone was with him. So Splinter had found himself watching the cartoon with the young turtle, as the others did god knows what.
When Alica had come back, she found all the turtles in the living room. Leo, Raph and Donnie all leaning on one another and sleeping peacefully, she giggles as Mikey was found drawing with a maker on a sleeping Yoshi face. Her eyes looked down to the two pizza boxes in her hands.
"Boys, I'm home."
"Mummy," Mikey yells and the other's wake up. "Did ya get pizza, did ya mum. Ha, ha?" he said, jumping up and down as she walked to the kitchen.
"Yes I did, but nobody eating until Yoshi cleans the wonderful art of his face." Mikey giggles as Yoshi wakes up.
"Thank you Alica," he said.
"Don't worry, because no one will be eating until the guess comes back."
"Ah," the boys said, sadden by the idea.
Dunning dinner Leo and Don had told their mother everything that happened, from all the mess to Yoshi new nickname and Alica thanked the man – knowing that he would be glad to come back again.
Later on that night Alica had woken up from another nightmare, checking on her sons she decide to leave for a quick night walk – despite the rain. It wasn't long before the walk had turned into a run and morning had soon set, when she got home. It was only when she had got back home had the affect really kicked in, unable to do anything she had found herself sleeping and this was how Leo had found his mother.
After a couple of times of trying to wake her up, tears started to show in his blue eyes and he had soon went to get his brothers.
"Mum, wake up," Mikey said, but they all winched as she started to cough.
"Hey guys," she choked. "Sorry about that, breakfast be soon. Just give me a couple more minutes."
"But mum, you never sleep in," Leo said.
"I know, I'm sorry, but mummy be their soon. Kay?"
"Kay." Leo said in defeat, he and his brothers walked out into the living room with sad expression
"Is mummy going to die?" Mikey asked, once Raph turned the TV on.
"Stop being a baby Mikey, mum can't die."
"Actually Raph it's quite possible she is older than us," Donnie said, but froze as his brother glared at him.
"Don't worry guys, mum said she, be up soon and all we have to do is wait." Leo adds.
True to her words, the woman was up and had started to make breakfast, however the boys can't help and notice how tired their mother looked and the fact that she looked as if she was ready to faint at any moment. It's only when breakfast was ready, the turtles knew something was wrong at the sound of their mother coughing.
"Hey guys, I'm going back to bed. If you need anything just wake me up. Okay?" she asked and the turtles nods, caution eyes watching Alica leave the room.
Breakfast went slow, as nobody talk not even Mikey could think of anything to say and as much as the boys wanted to help their mother, noun of them could reach the sink. Losing the battle they had left their dirty plates on the table – thinking it was better to leave a small mess and not make more trouble.
It's Donnie who checks in on his mother, finding a first aid kick and a medical book he goes to his mother room. Sitting beside her and reading through the pages, he would turn to look every time she would cough and place a hand on her forehead, that's when everything turned to drama.
"Guys, mummy going to die!" he finds himself screaming in the hallway and his brother's eyes widen with fear.
"Die," they exclaimed and Donnie started to cry.
"Yeah die!"
"But die means, you don't come back," Leo said.
"As in ever, ever, forever?" Mikey asked and Leo nods.
The sound of cries would have been enough to burst your ear drums as Mikey started to cry, taking of his orange mask and holding onto it for comfort.
"Na ah," Raph said. "You're a liar," he points at Donnie.
"No I'm not. I'm telling the truth, mummy really sick and her forehead is too hot."
"Shut up, don't lie."
"Don't swear Raph," Donnie counters back.
"She isn't going to die, liar."
"That's so mean," Mikey mufflers."
"I'm not lying Raph, if we don't get help. She might not make it."
"Then get help," the hot head yells.
"We can't Raph, you know mum's rules."
"Forget the rules Leo, I'm going."
"Raphie," Mikey calls and the three watches as Raph slam the door.
The three don't question it and none of them are gaming enough to chase after their brother, but instead they each went back to their mother rooms.
Kirby and April O'Neil had both walked into Alica apartment, April happily jumping up and down and already running of to find the others.
"Alica, hope you don't mind me dropping by."
He blinks, as the door didn't close the whole way a man was stopping it.
"Sorry, but who are you."
"I am Yoshi Hamato and you must be Kirby O'Neil."
"Yes, yes I am. So you're the teacher, hope the boys aren't making too much mess for you?"
"No not at all, they can be a trouble, but they bring a lot of joy to my life."
"Yeah, they can do that to you."
"Uncle Kirby!"
"Dad!"
Both men turned to the noise, coming from April and Leo before they went to follow the sound.
"Daddy, daddy aunty Alica is going to die," April said, running up to her father in panic.
"What?!" both men said.
"April dear, what's wrong?" her father asked and April wiped away the tears.
"Donny said, she's going to die. Is that true dad?"
Kirby picks up the daughter and both men run towards her room, it's there they see three worried turtles around their mother who was coughing violently. Kirby rushes to her side and checking over her, before sighing in relief.
"Is she going to go away forever?" Mikey asked.
"No Michelangelo, she's only sick. Don't worry, she well make it through."
"Really?" the youngest asked with hope in his eyes and Kirby nods.
"Yes child. Could you get an ice pack?" He asked Yoshi.
"Yes, I will get it now," he walks out of the room.
"One, two three … hold on where's Raphael?" Kirby asked.
"He went to get help," Donnie said sadly.
"W-what?" Alica said in between coughed.
She had been trying to sleep, but she wasn't able to with three turtles waking her up and asking if she was alive, every ten seconds.
"W-why didn't … y-you tell m-me?"
She slowly starts to stand despite everyone protested.
"Alica you need to rest, don't worry I will look for him."
"You know h-he doesn't li-listen to you."
Once she stands onto the ground, her legs soon gave up dropping onto her knees and coughing up violently.
"Mummy," the boys said simultaneously, running over to their fallen mother.
"Please Alica, you need to reset." Kirby begged and Yoshi walks into the room.
"Maybe I can help," he said and watches as Kirby pulls Alica back to her bed.
"He doesn't … listen to –"he words died out as she started to wheezed.
"Find him and I will look after her."
Yoshi nods and hands over the ice bag, he walks out of the room and walks out of Alica apartment.
"Raphael, you better be, fine. For your mother shake and for your own."
Looks like little Raph is trying to be a hero. Let's hope he didn't get into any trouble, he guys so I'm having a lot of fun writing this. Don't get me wrong, I'm having a lot fun with all my stories, but this brings out so much joy and I hope you guys love reading this, just as much as I enjoy writing it. Thank you all to who have reviewed, faved and follow.
Skye7Diamond: Raph isn't making things easy for Splinter, not at all. Thank you for your review.
Guest: The one thing I can tell you is yep, I'm planning on that idea. Thank you for your review.
PopcornWolf10: Maybe not, he is going to make things difficult though. Thank you for your review.
Tmntblueleader: Glad you're loving the idea, also I know I didn't mention it in the story, but I did mention in a note, but for now Splinter is human and thank you for your review.
Also guys, I've been getting a lot of message asking me if Splinter and Alica are going to get together. First off, isn't reading this story to find out the whole reason why your reading this in general? That's all I have to say, if I say to much I'm going to give it away.
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