The turtles are four years old and haven't recieved their weapons yet.

Disclaimer : I don't own the tots.

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Child's Play

Mikey was lying plastron down on the floor as he went through the pages of his comicbook for the seventeenth time that day.

He had nothing fun to do and was Totally, Completely, Highly, Super Mega Bored. He sighed, dramatically flipping over so he laid on his shell instead.

The young turtle moved his gaze around the room for something - anything - that might be interesting when his eyes caught sight of a blue coloured cloth with its corner hanging out of a wooden chest. That suddenly gave him an idea and he flipped up, running out to look for his best friend and invite him to play.

Mikey found the person he was looking for sitting on a bed in his own room and he walked towards him to stand beside the turtle.

"Hey Donnie?"

"Hmm?" Donnie hummed distractedly as he shuffled through the pages of a book he was reading, his tongue sticking out and reddish brown eyes completely engrossed in the text.

"Can you play Dragon Knight with me?"

'Dragon Knight' was a roleplay game Leo had made up a week ago and Mikey loved it. This was the first game that came to his mind whenever he wanted to play.

"Sorry, Mikey. I want to read this new book Sensei found yesterday when he went scavenging." Donnie held up the thick, gray colored book with the words 'Principles and Uses of Kinetics' typed on its cover in a bold font.

"Why don't you go ask Leo? He loves playing with you."

The orange-masked turtle perked up once again and went out in search of Leonardo.

After looking around for a couple of minutes, he found his eldest brother in the dojo, standing by a weapon's rack. The blue-masked tot was about to grab something from the rack when Michelangelo bounded next to him.

"Hey Leo!"

"Hi Mikey!" Leo ruffled Mikey's head with a smile, drawing out a giggle from the freckled turtle. "What's up?"

"Will you come and play Dragon Knight with me?"

"I-uh..."

Leo started hesitantly, not wanting to upset his baby brother but having no other choice. He sighed with dismay, his smile dropping as he lowered his head.

"I'm sorry, Mikey. I would really love to play with you but father just asked me to practice with a boken."

Mikey's shoulders slumped and he turned his back to the eldest, dragging his feet out of the dojo with heavy steps and a sad whimper.

Leonardo's face fell as he watched his little brother leave, his thoughts filling up with guilt for making Mikey sad. But Leo really did have to train with a boken and he turned to pick up the wooden weapon from the rack, pushing back his guilt and promising himself to make it up to Mikey by giving him his favourite sword.

Mikey sat down in front of the steps of the pit... all alone... with no one to play with. He sniffed as tears gathered up in his baby blue eyes and he wiped them away with the back of his hand.

"Mikey?"

He heard Raph's concerned voice and felt him sit beside him, their shoulders touching before the hothead wrapped his arm around the sea green turtle in a side hug.

"Are you okay? Why are you crying?"

Mikey sniffed once more while rubbing his teary eyes and leaned into Raph's side.

"No one wants to play with me. Donnie is busy with his boring book a-and... Leo is busy with his boring... training and none of them agreed to play Dragon Knight with me."

"I will play with you." Raph said softly as he pulled away Mikey's chubby hands from his eyes and wiped his baby brother's tears.

"Really?"

"Really." He said in a determined voice and stood up, holding out a hand towards the orange-masked turtle.

Said turtle gave him a cute, beaming smile as he grabbed the hand and was pulled to his feet by his green-eyed brother.

Mikey didn't give Raph a chance to say a single word as he threw himself at him, enveloping his brother in a hug.

"I love you, Raphie."

Raph stood frozen for a moment with his eyes blown wide before he slowly wrapped his arms around the smaller turtle, hugging him back and nuzzling the top of his head.

"Love ya too, lil' brother."

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Epilogue:

A giggle rang throughout the lair, followed by loud stomping noises and horse sounds.

One little turtle was carrying a plastic sword in one hand and a cardboard shield in the other as he wore a blue cape.

The other little turtle was on his hands and knees, with the first one sitting on his back. He crawled around as he pretended to be a horse and gave ride to the younger turtle.

"Onward my noble steed!" Mikey cried out, pointing the toy sword at an imaginary foe as he sat on Raph's shell who kept grinning from ear to ear.

"We must defeat the evil dragon and save the princess!"

Standing atop the Tv and watching the battle from a high vantage point, Spike tilted his head, which had a shiny red ribbon wrapped around it and the ends tied up in an elegant bow.

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A/n: Hope you enjoyed. Please leave a review! You guys have no idea how much they motivate me.

And Slash still remembers the faithful day when he was called Princess Spike.