Disclaimer: I don't own any of the rights to TMNT. I also borrowed the characters from kIrEigIrL and "A New Generation" story. Mr. Collins, Carol, Bonnie, Laura, and Karen are mine.

Chapter # 9: Leo's Worry

Leo paced in the dojo. It had been entirely too long since Mike's last call. Leo was overwhelmed with worry after what his younger brother had told him about what he had managed to find out.

Was Anna alright? Had Mike managed to get her to talk to him? Should he have sent her back to school after all? Was this plan a good one?

From a safe distance Raph watched his brother, leader, and best friend. Well there really wasn't such a thing as a safe distance from Fearless. Leo had been more stressed out lately than usual. He knew that Don was really starting to take notice. They both wondered about how his body was taking the strain.

He and Raph had been fighting constantly. In a 'like father like son' way both Falcon and Tyler had started getting into more trouble than the twins. The two hot tempered brothers had become disruptive and disrespectful. As a consequence the boys received a punishment of extra chores for three months as well as a sentence of sixty flips each.

When Raph had tried to talk to Leo to get the leader to reduce their punishment, Raph had suddenly found himself across the room flat on his shell. After witnessing the raging raw power of their sensei, Falcon and Tyler had seized to be a problem.

Anna paced back in forth in her room. Mikey couldn't help thinking how much she was like Leo. He's probably doing the same thing back in the lair, he thought.

All the other girls had gone to a sleepover in another one of the dorm buildings, but Anna had declined saying that she had a bad cold.

"Ok," she finally said. "I'm ready to call Daddy, and tell him what's going on."

Mikey smiled at his eldest niece. Leo was doing a great job with her, and Anna was going to make a great leader some day.

"There's one condition," Anna said bringing Mikey out of his pleasant thoughts.

"I won't dress up as a school girl, and fall out of dorm windows any more," he said. "I promise."

"Anna smiled. "That wasn't it."

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