Karai looked at the image that her minion Hun had sent to her personal cell and for a moment tried to make sense of what she was seeing. Yes, it was an image of one of her enemies walking with a lovely brunette. But she couldn't tell exactly which turtle it was.

His head was down, and his face was more than partially covered by his hat. After all she didn't hold a personal grudge against all of the turtles. She held a personal grudge against just one turtle.

Leonardo.

The general.

The heir to the Hamoto clan.

The son of a bitch responsible for killing her father and single handedly nearly destroying her father's empire. He was the one that she wanted to take revenge upon and kill. Still, it was a rather nice picture. She could tell just from looking at it that whichever turtle was walking with the woman, obviously cared deeply for her.

It was noticable in the protective/possessive way his arm rested around her slender shoulders. She could even see it in the slash of straight white teeth in the image's smile. Yes this was a rather nice picture. And she planned to put it to good use the next time she wanted to destroy the turtles.

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The walk to April's apartment took an hour and a half on foot. An hour in a half of non stop conversation with Tempest that Leo would always treasure deep down in his heart. He knew that it was silly to feel as he did so soon when he knew so little about her, but he felt as if he'd found a kindred spirit in her.

Someone who understood him as no other- not even his family or friends could.

And while they talked he learned various things about her. Like how her parents had had to give her up to an uncle that had fought in a war and come back suffering from post traumatic stress disorder, and delusions that someone somewhere was after him. She told him about the camping trips where her uncle had taught her how to rough it.

She told him about how as she gotten older, her uncle had uprooted them and moved them multiple times and taught her how to disappear without a trace. She told him about his birthday gift to her when she turned eighteen. Before he had been killed and how she had come to New York to start over just one more time.

In truth Leo felt saddened by the fact that she had had to sacrifice so much growing up. Perhaps that was why he felt they were kindred spirits. She had sacrificed safety and security. Friends and bonds.

While he had sacrificed blood, flesh and bone. His own and his brother's and fathers.

He gave her shoulder a slight squeeze, trying to be comforting without overstepping his bounds. The last thing he needed was to make her scared of his presence since it would be a permanent fixture in her life from now on. Who knew, if he went slow and wooed her the right way- maybe she'd let him move in with her and eventually sire some little humanoid's on her.

Leo flushed under his coat and nearly tripped over his own feet and almost fell on top of Tempest. He was so damn startled by the thoughts in his own mind it was just downright scary.

He caught himself and looked at her as she gave him a worried look and muttered a soft apology for nearly falling on her and managed to straighten his spine and looked ahead again.

They were just a few buildings from April's place when he felt his skin tingled like it usually did when there were eyes on him. Anxiously he scanned the street and pulled Tempest closer to him, hoping that he could better of protection to her if someone attacked them.

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April hadn't left her apartment as Mikey had advised her too. Don had told her to instead stay put so that they could come and collect Leo on their own since he would undoubtedly know something was up if she simply disappeared.

So she had gone about her usual morning routine, woke up, showered, dressed, ate, then had sat down to patiently wait for her extended family to arrive.

She had sat still for so long that she had dozed off while waiting and when she opened her eyes again Splinter, Raph, Mikey and Don were all in the apartment. Splinter and Mikey took up positions that looked vaguely like attack positions near the door, out of the way. While Raph and Don took up their places on either side of her living room window and were looking out when she heard Don swear and nearly died of shock on the spot.

"D-Don?"

Splinter and Mikey left their posts over by the door and all but ran across the room to the window as Raph let out a mean sounding growl as Splinter and the others caught sight of Leo walking on the side walk with a young woman pulled so close to his body that they could have been one being if not for the height and body type differences.

"Donatello?" Splinter said his son's name as he looked away from the sight. Don looked a little pale as he muttered another, much more tame oath followed by the words.

"We're too late."