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(Leo's POV)

I just walked up from the dojo and I was about to walk to Karai and I's room when I got to Kaya's room.

I opened her door slightly and smiled when I looked into the dark room that was dimly lit by the nightlight in the corner when I saw my daughter fast asleep. I smiled again as I slowly and quietly shut the door.

I know she's only going on a year and a half, but I'm really curious to see what she's going to be like when she gets older.

I know both of my kids look like me, that's kind of expected after Donnie's explanation he gave to us, but… alright, let's be honest here; my children in particular have a very interesting background compared to my brothers' kids. Not that they aren't interesting people, but the lineage that my children have is almost unbelievable and almost sounds made up.

Not only are my children apart of my initially complicated existence with me originally being a mutant, but they also have their mother's history apart of them as well.

Although Karai and I aren't entirely too similar in the way we act like we always have been, but we do have a commonality with complicated pasts.

Karai came from a long bloodline of ninjas and ever since I found out that Lotus Blossum was her mother… I know I promised to never talk to Karai about her past ever again when she asked me to before we got married and I completely respect it, but that doesn't mean I don't get curious and think about it sometimes.

When I look at my son, I just don't know how to describe who he is. He does have a little of me and Karai in his personality, but at times I wondered if he had any of his grandmother in him or if my daughter will?

I've only heard what Splinter and Karai told me about her, but I've just really wondered about who she really was after Karai gave me her account of her side of the story about her parents.

I don't know?

I just always questioned if Lotus was as bad as people said she was, especially when Karai told me a certain part of her story.

When Shredder's attention was slowly drifting away from Lotus and over to Tang Shen, Karai told me that her mother planned on killing her out of blind jealousy just to get Oroku Saki back. Yet at the last minute, she stopped herself when she realized that Tang Shen was not at fault for Oroku Saki's attention getting away from her and left Tang Shen alone, seeing attacking her as almost dishonorable.

Sometimes I wondered if that master thief and kunoichi assassin image that Karai's mother forged for herself was really what she actually was, or if she was just really deceiving herself.

Kind of like when I asked Karai that first night I met her if she was really as bad as she pretended to be.

I know Karai would not want me or anyone to say this, but I think Karai is a lot more like her mother than her father if I were to guess.

In my time of knowing her, and even though for the majority of the beginning she swore loyalty to her father and his clan, but even when she followed her father's instruction, she never just blindly followed him like some robot. Karai was a person that followed her own rules as well as her father's when she was a teenager, and even as a grown adult when she came back; after all she involved herself with me, which is something her father would have never allowed or even the time when she proposed a temporary alliance with myself and my brothers to help us stop the Kraang many years ago.

As much as I know Karai is ashamed of her past of practically being controlled by her father and dealing with the abandonment of her mother, but I'm not. If it weren't for the past, as horrible and tragic as it was, I may have never met Karai, I wouldn't have become human, we wouldn't have been able to be married or have either of our children.

I know I will probably never know for sure the answers to my questions, but I will always wonder about it.

The rest of the apartment was dark and Kaito was still hanging out on the roof before patrol, so I was assuming Karai was in our room.

I smiled to myself as I opened our bedroom door and stepped inside, but I immediately quirked up an eyebrow as I looked around and noticed something peculiar, no Karai. I scanned my eyes across the room and quirked up an eyebrow, wondering where she was. I looked at the empty and still made bed, the corner where we usually meditate together… she was nowhere.

I was about to walk into the bathroom off our bedroom to see if she was there, when he heard silent footfall right behind me as an arm wrapped around my neck from behind.

Her lips were at my ear as she inquired, slightly playfully, "Looking for something, Leonardo?" She chuckled to herself and I smiled slightly to myself as I let out a nervous laugh as I hinted, deciding to play along, "Actually, I was looking for my wife."

I turned around to face her and she had that signature grin on her face that I've remembered since I first met her.

"Well congratulations... you found her." She said and we both laughed a little to ourselves as we both leaned in a little bit and shared a short but tender kiss between us.

Karai still maintained that grin as she smoothed her hands down to my chest before readjusting them around my neck. "So, what's on the agenda? Got any plans?" She inquires, slightly sly.

I smiled and shrugged as I replied, "Well, Kaito is hanging out on the roof and I saw you already put down Kaya for tonight… I'd say that frees us up for now to relax a little."

Karai smiled at me as she shut our door and said, "Relaxing does sound nice... but personally, I'm ready for bed."

She walked coyly away from me as she laid down on her side of the bed and looked toward me with that grin as she leaned up slightly and said, "What do you say, Leo?" She added a subtle wink to the end of her sentence and I smiled as I made my way over to her, knowing completely what she was getting at.

I crawled over my side of the bed to get to her and I smiled at her as she grinned back at me and wrapped her arms around my neck and laughed a little to herself as I leaned down to kiss her while simultaneously turning off the lamp on the end table.

(Molly's POV)

Kaito and I were meeting up with Zach on our usual rooftop.

Now that everything is resolved between Zach and I and Kaito realized it at work that Zach and I were cool again, so Zach asked if he could join us on our patrol. He was saying that he could possibly join us and help us out, and Kaito and I said yes.

Who knows? An extra set of eyes might be good, also I wouldn't fight being able to hang out with Zach more often.

I scaled up to the top of Anderson Apartments and peered over the edge to see Kaito and Zach already there, just talking leisurely to each other. Then they both looked in my direction as I climbed up on the roof.

Zach smiled at me and said, "Hey." I smiled back as I walked closer.

"Sorry I'm a little later than usual. My mom had one final request of me before I had to go. Did I miss anything?" I ask.

"No, actually we were waiting to get started. Zach said he has some intel." Kaito explains as he looked toward Zach. I almost didn't notice but Zach was holding something, it looked like a manila file folder and he put it down on the A/C unit so Kaito and I could see it.

"Okay guys, in the past couple weeks… well, remember how all three of us cornered Hun from the Asian gang and were able to get him arrested?" Zach asked, looking like he was alluding to something that Kaito and I actually both knew already.

After Hun got arrested, we heard he was sentenced to eight years in prison. But here's the thing, it wasn't even a month later that we noticed Hun was back.

"Well, yeah, we know he was arrested but how did he get out? What could he have possibly been doing to get released? Falsely being on good behavior by doing community service and acting like some saint to fool the warden?" I reply back, still having no idea how Hun could have possibly gotten out of prison so early.

Zach looked at Kaito and I before replying, "Well, that's the thing… I think I do. I was like you guys when I heard that Hun was released from prison. At first I had no idea, but… after some research and making some anonymous calls, I found out that Hun was released from prison on bail." Kaito and I both gave Zach beyond confused looks about what he just told us.

"But how? I mean, let's face it, Hun is the brains of his gang's operations and the rest of his gang is well… not. I'd more easily believe that they broke him out rather than any of them having the mental, much less financial, capacity to come up with the money to pay Hun out." Kaito says, in the same case of disbelief.

But I completely agreed with everything Kaito just said.

Sure this is the strongest the Asian gang has ever been, but that was only because Hun made them that way. Hun is the main brain of the operation. Like I said, as much as I don't like Hun, I will admit this about him… he's pretty smart and he knows how to fight so I try to never underestimate him.

"And… that's another thing. It wasn't his gang and trust me, I was just as confused as you guys… until this." Zach hinted until he pulled out a picture from his pocket.

Kaito and I looked at the picture, confused about the situation, until my face continued to contort in confusion when I saw the picture in front of me. It was Hun… in a suit? A rather expensive looking suit at that walking into the front door of a building. Then just when I thought I couldn't get anymore confused, I saw the sign on the building that I vaguely recognized.

Tony's Italian Bistro, aka the Italian mafia's not so secret hide out in Little Italy.

"What the heck? What would Hun be doing in Little Italy? And why is he walking into the mob's old hide out? I thought they practically dropped off the face of the map when Don Vizioso died." I said out loud, still beyond confused.

"Oh no, and trust me guys, that's just what they, or he, wanted everyone to think." Zach said as he finally opened up the file folder to reveal a bunch of pictures of guys dressed in suits, trench coats, sunglasses, and fedoras… typical Italian gang attire.

"The Italians never left and over the last five years of not hearing anything about them, they're now almost the best they've been since the 1920's. They've just been keeping to themselves and working within Little Italy… until just recently. I had to stop them a couple times already when I noticed them pushing into the edge of Brooklyn and attempting to start some of their business outside their own territory." Zach explains.

I saw Kaito still processing everything as he looked over the pictures and I took the opportunity to speak for both of us. "But how? Who's doing this? Who's he?" I ask, remembering when he said he earlier.

That was when Zach turned over the page, revealing a picture of this guy in his forties with jet black hair, a mustache, had these narrowed and beady dark eyes, and wearing an expensive pinstripe suit.

Oh yeah, that guy totally doesn't look evil at all. I mean that with every bit of sarcasm I have in me and that's saying something.

That was when Zach pointed to the picture of the guy and elaborated, "This is the new mob leader. Terrance Turtelli, aka Don Turtelli."

I gave him a surprised look. "Wait, Turtelli as in Tony "the tickler" Turtelli?" I say, thinking that name sounded really familiar. Zach nodded and said, "Yup. Actually I just found out that he's actually one of Tony Turtelli's great-great grandsons."

"Wait, back up. Who's Tony "the tickler" Turtelli?" Kaito asks, looking completely in the dark. But that's understandable. It's mainly just New York natives who know about Tony Turtelli. Turtelli may have been notorious but he isn't as much of a household name in the mobster world as let's say Al Capone or John Dillinger to name some of the major ones.

"He was a notorious hitman and master thief for the Italian mafia back in the 1930's." I explain, just giving Kaito the gist. "Yeah, he was best known for taking out his hits by stabbing them repeatedly in the stomach and that's why he was called the tickler. But nowadays his 5th great-grandson Terrance Turtelli is the leader of the mafia now." Zach further explains.

"But why? What happened to the Viziosos? I thought they lead the mob." I say, thinking I knew my New York City criminal history fairly well.

"They were, but not now. I was doing some digging around and I found out that the old don who died about 5 years ago, Richard Vizioso, never had a family of his own so when he died he just handed control of the mafia to his sister's son, Terrance Turtelli. Apparently she was married to Tony Turtelli IV... so now the Turtelli family has control but even they've been apart of the mob since the beginning." Zach says, looking at the other pictures of Don Turtelli.

"So what's this guy's story? What makes him worse than any of his predecessors?" Kaito asks.

"Okay, when the last don died five years back and even before he died. I mean, Molly, you even probably know that Little Italy was kind of a dive back then. Don Vizioso was even letting their hideout turn into a pit." Zach says and looks at me and I nodded in agreement as I looked toward Kaito and added, "That's true."

"But… then that's when Don Turtelli stepped in. His family is practically made of money in their part of New York. So when he took over, he spared no expense. He renovated the bistro that doubles as their hideout along with the entire Little Italy district in New York. I barely even recognize it anymore because it looks the nicest that it's probably looked ever. But, that's all an illusion that everyone who lives there is under. Don Turtelli is a master of manipulation and he knows just how to do it to anyone. By day Don Turtelli presents himself as local, overly-generous philanthropist with his whole act of donating to charities and shaking hands and kissing babies routine that he does and also running the family bistro, but it's a different story at night. Don Turtelli uses that as a perfect cover to mask all the shady stuff he does at night and he knows exactly what he's doing. Paying off cops, giving hush money to witnesses… you name it, he does it and just completely gets away with it. Also, because of that, to me, makes me think that Don Turtelli helped pay Hun's bail. For what reason… I still have no idea. But as bad as he is, he's not even the half of it." Zach alludes and I was really confused and was about to ask something when he flipped the page again.

It revealed more pictures, including one head shot of this guy in all the other pictures on the page. He looked to be about 20 years old if I were to guess, wearing a dark grey suit with a black trench coat over it with slicked back dark brown hair and this birthmark that looked like a sideways 'P' under his right eye and had these piercing grey eyes that looked like they could cut through steel.

"Exhibit A, Joseph Turtelli, or Joey is what he's usually called, is Don Turtelli's right hand man and son. He's 20 years old, but he's dangerous. From the times I ran into him, I think I was able to figure him out. Joey likes to use the power of threat, intimidation, and fear. He has a full arsenal of weapons and isn't afraid to shoot and is a decent shot. I even had to dodge a couple bullets from him." Zach admits and rubs the back of his neck.

Kaito and I continued to look over the pictures and processed everything Zach told us.

"How did you find out about all this?" I ask, completely surprised by how much Zach seemed to know. Zach looked up and smiled a little in my direction as he replied, "You'd be surprised what you can learn from the library and city online archives."

I gave him a slight smiled back until I looked toward Kaito when I heard him ask, "So, is this guy the one we really need to watch out for?"

Then a whole different look crossed Zach's face as he bit his lip and said, "Yeah… Joey's also just part of it. If you ask me, the one that you need to watch out for as much if not more than Joey is his older sister, Teresa Turtelli." He flipped the page to this girl, Teresa Turtelli, with long wavy dark brown hair and grey eyes.

But unlike her brother who looked serious in all his pictures, she was smiling or at the very least smirking in all of her pictures. That look on her face was practically ozzing vanity. She looks like a person who'd be a complete narcissist due to just the way she looks. I quirked up an eyebrow in curiosity as I asked, "So, what's gangster barbie doll's deal?" Zach laughed slightly at what I called her, but it seemed fitting to me.

"Well Teresa Turtelli, from what I've seen, is extremely complicated but she operates kind of like her father. She's also the first women to ever be in the mob. But… actually, she's not really even like her father. From what I've seen Teresa has a major skill of many that her father likes to take advantage of when he sends her out on business, and that's her manipulative nature… mainly with men. When I watched them go to a guarded location of another person's hideout or location they wanted to check out. Teresa was always sent out first. You know how it goes, real life or in movies, those places always put some big, strong, stupid scuzzbucket guy to guard and Teresa would just walk right up to him and flirt with him to act as a decoy, well until she'd just shoot him and have her brother and some other guys take care of the rest. She's only 23 but she's college educated, manipulative, dangerous, and extremely unpredictable. If you ask me, the Turtellis are the most powerful criminal dynasty in the city right now. They're rich, powerful, dangerous, and kind of crazy in their own ways and I know they had to have something to do with the fact that Hun is out of jail and I want to find out why?" Zach explains, looking like he was determined to know.

I glanced over to Kaito and he nodded at me and I nodded back.

We wanted to know too, but at the same time we now realized we do have a new enemy that is not going to be all too easily taken care of. I mean let's see: we have a rich, manipulative legacy mob leader, his trigger happy son, and his unpredictable femme fatale daughter.

Oh yeah, needless to say we have our work cut out for us.

Looks like Zach's joined the team and supplied some more background details about the Turtelli family. Hope you guys enjoyed Leo's monologue and the Leorai moment. Thanks for reading and have a lovely day.

Stay Classy!

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