Splinter and the turtles were in the dojo room. April was baby-sitting Raph's kids and Mikey's daughter (Mona Lisa and Serena were at work) while they were in their martial arts lesson. "Today's lesson will be all about traditional Japanese Kusarifundo strikes and capturing." Splinter explained. "I want you to team up in groups of two for this exercise, Leo, you'll be with Mikey, and Donnie, you'll be with Raph. I'll be watching your punches and foot work this time so be sure to work on those two things especially.

The turtles stood on the mat, facing each other.

"Hajime!" Splinter called out.

Leo and Mikey started to throw their punches and kicks on each other, as did Donnie and Raph.

"I am so winning!" Mikey stated confidently as he performed a roundhouse kick on Leo.

Leo decided to distract Mikey. "Ooh! Mikey look over there, there's a large delicious looking pineapple pizza!

"Ooh! yay!" Mikey bought it, and he turned to look. Leo brought him down in a tight hold around his neck. "Gotcha."

"Aww man!" Mikey complained.

Leo smirked.

"I'm going to outsmart you Raph!" Donnie said with a determined grin as he aimed to perform a side thrust kick on Raph.

Raph shook his head. "I can get my revenge.." he paused for dramatic effect.

"By doing this!" Raph flipped Donnie over. Mikey leaned in. "You just got flipped bro!"

Donnie sat up. "Yeah, I noticed. Thanks for pointing it out even more."

Mikey beamed. "No problemo."

"Good," Splinter announced after a little while. "Ok, your homework is to write an essay on the history and customs of kusarifundo."

Leo, Raph, Donnie, and Mikey groaned.

Raph went into check on Ariana. April was playing with her, showing how to stack colored blocks.

Ariana cooed and toddler talked, and April smiled, "Your daddy's back Ariana."

"Thanks so much for watching her April." Raph thanked.

"Anytime Raph! She's getting so smart. I enjoyed showing her her colors." April said.

Ariana reached her arms up for Raph to hold her. Raph bent down and grabbed his daughter. Her legs dangled on his side. "Well let's take you back home to your mommy Ariana. Your mom should be home from work soon, and I'll check on you again in a little while." Raph said to his daughter.

"What are you going to do in the meantime?" April asked.

"Oh Sensei wants us to write an essay on kusarifundo. Seems boring but since it's in the lesson I guess I'll go with it." Raph replied.

April nodded. "I see, well good luck Raph!"

"Thanks!" Raph replied.

Raph dropped Ariana off at his apartment.

meanwhile...

Mikey went up to Donnie in his lab, doing a playful happy dance. He held up a piece of lined notebook paper with another piece of typed paper over it.

Mikey held the paper up in front of his face. "Guess who finished their assignment early?" he said, giving a wide toothy grin.

"How could you have finished it that fast? The study of traditional Japanese customs takes a lot of careful thought and planning." Donnie reasoned.

"Maybe for you, but when you're as ahead of the class as I am, these things become second rate." Mikey handed his finished paper over to his brother.

Donnie noticed the copyright date in the corner! Mikey had copied from an online article.

"Mikey, this isn't your original work! You just copied everything down from a website!" Donnie crumpled up the paper, and threw it on the ground in disgust.

Mikey picked up the piece of paper and did his best to smooth out the wrinkles. "If I scratch out the copyright and the name of the site, Sensei won't know the difference! Chill out dude. I've got this."

Donnie continued to glare at Mikey for being so ignorant. "If you want to cheat in Sensei's class, then by all means, go ahead and do it. I thought we raised you better than that though." Donnie stood up and walked past Mikey without another word. He slammed the door, leaving Mikey to squint his eyes in annoyance.

"I don't see why Donnie is making such a big deal over this." Mikey told himself out-loud. "He's just mad because I was the first one to finish it." Mikey went into his room. He opened a bag of Gummi pizzas and began to stress eat.

Leo knocked on Mikey's door, and opened it. "Mikey! Sensei wants to ask how your research is coming along."

Mikey forced a smile, but it seemed more nervous this time. "Um it's going great! ha ha."

Leo could read Mikey's nonverbals. "Mikey, is something wrong?" Leo asked.

"No. I finished my paper early. What could be wrong?" Mikey said, he tried his best to continue his fake smile.

Leo played along. "Ok, I'm glad that it's going great. I'll tell Sensei right now." Leo started to get out of Mikey's room, but Mikey stopped him. "Um no, no! Don't tell him yet."

"Why not?" Leo asked suspiciously.

Mikey could feel beads of sweat forming on his forehead. "There are still, um, a few minor adjustments I need to make." he covered up.

Leo nodded a little, but he still knew something was up. "Well ok then. Be sure to get those done. Remember that Sensei is going to grade us on our originality, our hard work, and our attention to detail."

"Yeah, I know" Mikey replied.

Mikey eyed a bottle of white out on his dresser. He opened the lid and brushed a milky white liquid over the copyright.

"I hope no one else is going to notice now." Mikey thought.

Mikey blew on the wet area so it could dry, and then he leaned over to take a nap.