A/n

Hey guys! I'm so sorry this took so long, I'm back on track now hopefully. I think life is done kicking me in the face temporarily. Though if i hadn't waited so long I wouldn't of gotten so many ideas! You'll get more apologies as the chapters go one,I write because I love it and for the people who want to know what happens

Let the adventure continue!

Sharp Like Light

For as long as he could remember, Mikey had dreams.

Since he was a little thing bouncing on his fathers knee or riding around on Leo and Usagi's back. HE used to think they were the same kind of dreams all the other children in Edo had. The same visions, the same nightmares, sometimes they were terrifying to the point where he could only seek out the arms of his brothers or his parents to sob away the fears and terrors. But eventually the shock of fear would give way to wonderment. And the next day he would sit with his friends, he had no short number of them, and they'd share the dreams and adventures of the day before. His friends dreamed of their teeth falling out, or falling, or had nightmares of Komori ninja. Filling the ring of children with laughter and jokes. Most of them coming from Mikey.

Then came his turn to share

The laughing would stop, and the stares would start. To be honest, Mikey didn't notice at first, as he talked about orange creatures with horns taller then even Raphie fighting eachother to the death. Then there was that one dream about a half snake creature with snakes for hands ,he blamed that one on eating too many dangoes the night before. The more he shared to his friends the more he noticed a change in the village. Parents that normally loved him would stare at him a second longer, they never forbade their children from playing with him. But the stares followed, at first he liked the attention but it took a worried question from Leo, concerned about the stares himself, that he realized his dreams were a problem. It was after that he decided to keep his dreams to himself, if his friends asked he made up funny dreams like theirs. Ones that made the stares go away and the laughter he so loved.

But the dreams kept coming

And the older he got, the weirder the dreams got.

Fat Sai and Iboinoshishi wearing strange clothing that barely fit. He had another dream like that, except the Iboinoshishi in that dream had a strange purple haircut that was very tall and thin. And somehow he seemed able to throw it?

Even though Mikey was already bald, he was sure he wouldn't want hair that looked like that.

For those all those years and all those dreams, no matter how many times they came, they were predictable. Nothing could surprise him.

Except for this one

At first there had been nothing.

Not exactly nothing, but there was no color, only black. At FIRST he thought it was nothing till he had reached forward. Something flexible pushed under his fingers, like cheap cloth. Except this was tougher. He reached up his other hand , tapping the surface with a frown on his face

What was this?

He moved his head forward, sticking out his tongue. It was how he tested everything he didn't know, the lick tes-

Huh?

Mikey wasn't sure if it had really been there. Beyond the inky black weird wall. He squinted, forgoing his lick test a bit longer ot press his face against the substance. Trying to see past the black. Blue? Leo? Mikey drew his head back and rubbed his eyes. It was blue alright re was something else, he pressed his hands and face back into the inky black. It was his size, what ever it was, and the blue thing wrapped around his neck...with purple around his eyes-

Donnie

Little Big Brother

His heart began to race in his chest , at first not sure if this was a dream out of simple longing, wanting so see his brother again but int that moment he didn't care. Mikey's' fingers dug into the strange substance, "DONNIE?! Donnie is that you?!" he shouted, "It's me, Mikey! Your Big Little brother! Can you hear me!?" though at this rate he wasn't sure the 'awake' world couldn't hear him," Please! Please come home! We miss you! Raphie wont eat, Usagi's sad and Leo's gone to get help! B-but everything will be OK again if you just come home! Everyone will be happy and we can all be a big family again!" his fingers dug into the material, struggling to get his nails into it and tear it down. Over and over again til his heart began to slow, adrenaline from his body. Till he was left standing there panting tiredly,

If he could cry he could. He did enough of it at home, enough that Arata said he was becoming dehydrated and worry his family. But at this point he didn't care, he knew the tears would come again when he woke up. Especially after a dream like this.

This one would never end.

When he'd wake up the tears would come again, tears for how far Donnie was, that Leo wasn't there, crying for his adoptive mother and dad to get home. He reached forward again , as though a string was attached to his wrist , his finger touching the impenetrable 'bubble-"

All at once a tear shot down the material flooding everything around Mikey with a bright light, shooting around him. Something sharp shot passed his cheek. Reflexes sent his arms around his face to protect himself. But that left his ribs open. Though they didn't pierce his skin, they stung with the consistency of storm of angry hornets. Mikey was too scared to go forward.

He was also too scared to go back.

Even though he couldn't not cry, the sadness was still there, biting at his heart like a ravenous Akai. Replacing his hope with disappear and sending a tremble to his lips. His legs no longer could take the weight of his body no more. Though he wasn't even sure if there was a ground, he was sure he fell on something the pain in his chest made him beg for the release of tears as he gripped the sides of his head. The knees to his face hands plugging the side of his head. The overwhelming pounding of sounds and voices mixing and twisting around eachother like angry hornets. Though they didn't have external ears , Mikey wasn't exactly sure what external meant' the noise was being drilled into the sides of his head. The voices

He wanted his parents

He wanted his Grandpa

He wanted Leo

He wanted Usagi

He wanted Mikio

He wanted Raph

But most of all...

He wanted the brother he was still getting to know...who didn't make him feel like a dumb kind but rather important. The one brother who made him feel even a little bit tall and whose words made him feel taller still

His Little Big brother

He wanted...

"DONNIE!" he screamed louder then the painful buzzing, threatening to tear his mind apart-

Then silence

The stinging light stopped,. Between his fingers he saw the brightness fade away, slowly fading into other colors. Mikey raised his head away from his hands timidly to feel a gasp stick to the sides of his throat.

The dark bubble was replaced by a world of water. He wasn't' even sure it was water except it looked like the time he had opened his eyes underwater. Nothing was focused or plain, mixing colors but smothered by water. It seemed to go on forever except for something strange

Floating windows

He didn't' know how else to describe them. They weren't stuck on anything, moving around one another as though they were dancing. But there NOISES coming from them. Voices? He couldn't be sure-

"Are you alright Michelangelo?"

A loud yelp escaped his lips, jumping so high into the air his legs flew out in front for him and he landed heavily on his tail. His hands going back around his head as he ducked his chin down before slowly turned around to peer behind him.

He definitely wasn't alone

Behind him knelt a tall kitsune, his fur lacked the bright orange that Mikey normally saw in kitsune's, his fur reminded of the time he had washed Leo's special white hakama's with his orange yukata and Raph's black happi. The kitsune's orange fur was dulled by speckles of white and black, he wasn't even sure he had any orange fur if not for the spot on his throat. His long black hair reached his shoulders and his bangs were pulled back into a pony tail away from his face to show dark brown eyes. His jawline was streaked white and his body was wrapped in black, black hakama's and a untucked black kimono robe, he could just see white wrapping around his ribs and black clothe wrapped around his forearms up and disappearing into his sleeves, His kimono top was secured on the chest with a single wide button. There seemed to be some sort of beaded string wrapped around his forearms and a black sash wrapped diagonally over his chest. He was almost bony, like Donnie, but his smile was kind. Mikey wiped his face on his bare arm to try and get some snot off his beak before looking to the strange kitsune again, " Are you a Inari Kitsune? Are you gonna steal from me? C-cause I don't got nothing."

The fox's eyes seem to smile, a soft chuckle escaping his lips as he leaned on his tall staff . Smiling at him, " No No Michelangelo, I'm not nearly that special, I guess Inari has no use for me." he moved down onto his knees, lowering his staff so it lay beside him before he is hand went up. Mikey flinched way before realizing the fox was just holding his hand out palm out . His thumb and pinky touching the other at the palm of his hand The warm energy that had filled the air seemed to be coming from it, "Not that I don't know a few tricks," he smiled weakly , '"Being on the Astral Plane can be rather hard."

"A-Astral Plane? Wh-what's that? Wh-why is it so cold? Wh-what about those voices? Whats in those windows?"

The fox's smile grew a bit more, "You're so much like Donna-chan. Always asking more questions then you're lungs can take. I can't answer your questions now, it is time for your body to wake soon But next you lay your head and think of this place, I will answer your questions." the fox looked up to the strange land around then, "I do not think I can help Donna-chan without your help."

"A-are you going to help? Are you here to help find Donnie?" that dint' make sense, what did his dreams have to do with his brother? He had heard Donnie and Splinter mention the Astral plane a few times but-Hey! He felt his body began to fade, his hands were even see through!, "How do you know Donnie? Wh-what's your name?"

The fox paused before smiling again, "Answers will come with time. But for now know that I am here to help, to help the one we both call brother." his smile began to fade, as Mikey went with it. One last thought reached him before it was gone again

"You may call me Sasuke."

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Usagi couldn't sleep

Hadn't slept in weeks, no matter how tired his body was, his mind was still racing. Anytime he tried to sleep his thoughts went back to Donatello and Leonardo.

It probably explained his stomach issues of late

He fingered the white bandages around his head lightly before glancing back to where Mikey lay under a thick blanket, snoring in the gentle manner that children did. Raphael was sleeping in Kaede and Dorinbo's house. Probably out of guilt for the wound around Usagis' head.

Raphael was infuriating.

But he had saved Usagi

After cracking his skull open

Raphael was giving him more then enough space, after finally leaving that horrid cave with him bleeding. Hung over his shoulder till Raph had gotten him to Arata.

It evened out somehow.

A weak mumbling reached his ears. Usagi looked back over from his spot at the wall before crawling over to where Mikey slept. shushing him lightly, "Return to your dreams Orenji-chan." he said gently running a hand over his scalp, "Hopefully tomorrow will come with a bright sun and news of our brothers..." he made sure the blanket was secure over his shoulders before returning to his spot on the wall, glancing back to his brother for a moment

If he didn't know better

He'd say Mikey was smiling in his sleep

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a/n

Sorry it was so short, hopefully the next one will be longer, who am I kidding? What I have planned is going ot take a while. Seeesh, I'm sorry again for the delay. But I thank you all from the bottom of my heart for sticking around, if you're there. If you are thank you so much. Aslo, anyone recognize this new guy? If you guessed " is this another Usagi character Charmy kidnapped?" the answer is YES! Thopugh in the comics he's much older and doesn't look much like this. But I rearranged him to fit this story better, and he's going to play a important part in future events.

Translations/Knowledge pit

Doragans: Dragons

Sai: Rhinos

Iboinoshishi : Warthogs

Sanpu :scatter

Kitsune: fox

Orenji-Chan: Orange (When Usagi calls him this, it means Little Orange, because when he first met Mikey he was wrapped up in Orange and sweet like one.)

When Mikey asked if Sasuke was going to steal from him or worked for Inari, he was uder the impression that Sasuke was a shapeshifter, and there are two types of Kitsune in Feudal Japan Folkore, the Zeno foxes (the ones that work for the Kami Inari) and the mischievous ones that steal. I have a big story with this,but once again that's to come. And it will.