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Leo and the rabbit stared each other down. "Um?" Leo finally muttered.

"Ninja! You have let my friend be captured by the Mogura!" the rabbit yelled at him, charging.

"Wait, what?" Leo asked, although he took his swords out.

"Die, ninja!" the rabbit yelled, charging at Leo. The turtle put his swords out in defense, a scowl on his face.

"I tried to save her!" he yelled as he ducked out of the way of the smaller sword at his neck.

Noriyuki ran over, defending the turtle, who gasped in surprise. "The ninja saved me!" he yelled at the rabbit.

The white-furred animal hummed, looking over the scowling turtle. "Very well."

Leo's face slowly lost its scowl. "Huh?" he asked dumbly.

The blue-clad rabbit put his hand out. "My name is Miyamoto Usagi. I apologize deeply for my rash actions and ask our forgiveness."

Leo glanced at the young lord, who nodded. The ninja sighed and took Usagi's hand. "My name is Leonardo. And there is nothing to apologize for. I failed at protecting her."

The rhino came up to them and stuck his hand out. "Hello, ninja! I am Gennosuke!" he exclaimed.

Leo smiled a fake but real-looking smile and shook the rhino's hand. "Hello, Gennosuke," he greeted.

Gennosuke went to grab his horse and Noriyuki. Usagi bowed to the young lord. "Lord Noriyuki, I am glad you are safe."

Noriyuki looked up at the mutant. "Yes, thanks to the kame."

Leo smiled gently before turning to Usagi. "So, um, what just happened?" he asked hesitantly, still not completely trusting these peop - beings.

Gennosuke spit on the ground behind Leo, causing the kame to flinch in disgust. "Ninja treachery, he explained. "No offense."

Leo officially decided he did not like Gennosuke.

"Leonardo-sama, Lord Noriyuki has been targeted for assassination by a rival; Lord Hebi. Hebi has decreed that whichever ninja clan can eliminate Lord Noriyuki will win his favor. The attacks have been relentless," Usagi said, bending down and sniffing some of the dirt where the hole Tomoe Ame disappeared into was. "only Tomoe Ame's skill and honor have saved her Lord from the ninja. Tomoe Ame's sacrifice will not be in vain. Gen and I will escort Lord Noriyuki to the capital city of Oedo. The Shogun is expecting him, and Hebi will not dare continue his attacks under the Shogun's watchful eye."

Usagi grabbed Noriyuki by the shoulders and started walking with him. "And on the way, Leonardo, maybe you could tell us how you came to be here. I doubt you are from this world if you did not have any of that information, hm?" he asked.

Leo huffed and followed them.

Leo and Usagi rode through the desert on one horse, as Gennosuke and Noriyuki were on the horse behind them.

"...Then I woke up in that valley," Leo finished his explanation. "Next thing I knew, I was fighting alongside Tomoe Ame against those Mogura ninja."

"The Ultimate Ninja and Draco!" Usagi exclaimed, quite unable to believe it.

"Do you know them?" Leo asked. "They used to be my teacher...s? The Daimyo sent them - him? - through a portal somewhere, but they ended up in medieval times and stole this thing called the Time Scepter that can, like, control the entire multiverse or something; I wasn't really listening when that Renet chick ran into us. Wait, they're more than one being?"

Usagi smiled at the kame's rambling. "Before they were combined, there was the Ultimate Ninja, the Daimyo's son, and Draco, who was a treacherous dragon that tried to kill Master Splinter at the Battle Nexus. They fell into a portal they themselves created and were apparently combined into what you called your teachers. I was hoping I'd seen the last of them."

"I have to find Master Splinter," Leo said out of nowhere. "And my brothers."

"Do you speak of Raphael-san, Michelangelo-san, and Donatello-san?" Usagi inquired with true curiosity.

"Yes! Do you know them?" Leo asked.

"I met them briefly at the Battle Nexus because I saved your master many years ago form Draco."

"Really?" Leo asked, a small untraceable smile creeping on his face. He then shook his head, getting back to the matter at hand. "Anyway, I also have to fin the Daimyo. Ultimate Draco wants revenge on all of us. Wait... the Daimyo! Hold on! Usagi, the Daimyo's war staff, from what Master Splinter told me, has the power to send me home! If I can make it to the Battle Nexus, the Daimyo can open a doorway to my world! But... I don't know how to do the symbols to there from what Splinter taught me; he only had the chance to teach me the chant."

"I know the ritual. I will help you in any way I can if we are to succeed at delivering Noriyuki," Usagi offered, looking backwards at Leo serenely.

Leo's eyes widened. "Th - Thank you, Usagi-sama," he stammered as they rode towards a mountain.

Tomoe Ame was thrown into a room by Mogura.

"The Geishu Lord should be on his knees before me, not thisss... girl," a voice hissed from the shadows.

A cat ninja walked over. "My Lord, we had Noriyuki, but there was... interference," he explained apologetically.

"Ussssagi..." the voice hissed slowly.

"Show yourself, Hebi!" Tomoe Ame demanded.

The figure that had spoken started slithering around in its circle, coming out of the shadows to reveal a 20-foot snake with piercing yellow, slitted eyes. "Tomoe Ame, you will be very usssseful to me," Hebi said, slithering towards her. He wrapped around her tightly, causing her to grunt. "Oh, yes, I know of you, and that you are dear to your Lord Noriyuki. Your pressssencccce will deliver Noriyuki right to me, along with Miyamoto Usssagi," he explained as she leaned away from his face as far as she could.

"Chizu!" Hebi commanded.

A cat ninja stepped out of the shadows. "My lord," she said, bowing quickly.

"Your Neko Clan will deliver to Miyamoto Usagi for me! And if this ninja from the kame clan interferes, eliminate him," Hebi instructed, narrowing his eyes.

Leo looked down at the waterfall that led to a big river at last 20 yards below him. Usagi, Noriyuki and Gen all stood further away from the edge. "This is the way to Edo?" Leo finally asked, disbelieving.

"It's a shortcut!" Gen defended.

Leo groaned to himself. This guy was an idiot! "Your shortcuts will be the end of us, Gennosuke!" he exclaimed, turning to the rhino heatedly.

"Do you have a problem, ninja?" Gen asked, unfazed by the glare he was receiving.

Usagi sighed. "Leonardo-san is right. Let us go back the way we came," he said, not noticing their stalkers on the rocks above, and running at them now about 20 feet away.

Leo noticed them first, turning backwards. Usagi followed his lead, and they both took out their swords and put them in a defensive position. They could see about nine on one side, and seven on their other, and there were two more in their sight (not the previously mentioned ones) on a big, pointed rock.

"It's an ambush! We're trapped!" Leo exclaimed.

Usagi growled at the approaching warriors and charged at them, both swords out as he blocked a sword and kicked two ninja out of the way. He defeated all of the ninja who came his way, and Leonardo and Gennosuke very quickly joining the fight. Noriyuki screamed and ran away fro the fight.

As Gennosuke clashed swords with the ninjas, he asked anyone, "Who's big idea was this, anyway?!"

"Yours! You and your shortcut!" Usagi yelled from beside him.

Leo stayed near the young Lord to protect him. Noriyuki was against a rock. The ninja Leo was dueling with got ready to stab Leo's head in, but Leo grabbed the sword with practiced precision, stopping its descent. "Leonardo-san" Noriyuki exclaimed as it quickly turned into a battle of strength. Leo glanced at the young Lord, who was being approached by two ninja.

"Hold... on!" Leo grunted as he kicked the ninja away. He ran to the panda and kicked the two ninja away.

From on top of the rock they were near, Chizu turned to her company. "Order the ninja on the pack to pull back, and the archers to move forward," she ordered on of the ninjas, walking away.

As Usagi and Gennosuke sen their opponents away, a horn sounded. They looked around confusedly as the ninja responded to the horn by retreating.

"What is this?" Usagi asked.

"Heh! Cowards!" Gennosuke laughed.

"I don't like this, guys," Leonardo said from a few yards behind them "Something's up," he explained as he stood in front of Noriyuki defensively.

The ninja that had accompanied Chizu signaled the archers miraculously next to them. They pulled back their arrows to the unsuspecting warriors.

Leo looked up.

"No!" he whispered.

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