Warning : This chapter probably sucks, I'll try to take a better look at it in few days so be aware it might get some changes.

It took Karai a while to get out of her room. She still couldn't figure out what had happened between her and Leo. Or maybe she just didn't want to accept what it was?

Either way she promised herself not to let anything like this happen ever again.

Sewers were quieter than usual. Actually, they were quiet. She knew she'd brought the silence upon the place and it made her stomach squeeze. She could only hope for Donatello to be alright.

Before she entered the dojo she'd heard her father's voice. "I cannot believe you let this happen, Leonardo. As a leader, you should have trust and control over your team. I'm profoundly dissapoin-"

"Really?" Karai walked in, earning surprised looks from both Leo and Splinter. "I fucked up and he gets the lecture?!" She inquired in disbelief, her hand pointing at blue-masked terrapin.

"Miwa, please wait outside. I'll call for you." Yoshi dismissed smoothly her question, but she felt the tension hidden behind his words.

"I'd rather hear what you have to say." She insisted.

"Very well, then." He answered coldly. "Leonardo, leave us." He didn't even turn to his eldest as he spoke.

"But-" Leo's eyes flew from sensei to Karai.

"It's alright, Leo." She reassured him. Unwillingly he stood up and left, his mind corrupted with dark thoughts.

Only when he was gone they could speak. The tension was thick and Karai almost tasted it in the air she breathed in. Short, brief second had passed before she spoke up again.

"Why-" but he did not let her finish.

"I don't like that tone, Miwa." Miwa… No, she was not Miwa. No matter how much she wanted to be. That's what her father deserved after years of pain and misery in hiding. But she couldn't… "We are not Foot Clan. Here we are family. Each of us cares for everyone else. Leonardo-"

"Had nothing to do with my self-willed mission!" Splinter felt he struck a nerve. It almost made him smile.

"He's the leader. He's supposed to guide you-"

"He's not my leader."

"Yes, he is. He's the leader of all of you, my child. He needs to foresee your movements-"

"How is he supposed to foresee them if even you can't?" When words had got out of her mouth she automatically regretted them.

She was prepared for the hit. But it never came.

"Miwa?" Only when she heard… her name, Karai opened her eyes slowly. She realized how guarded she was. She realized it was Splinter she was talking to, not Shredder. "My child." He wrapped his arms around her.

Splinter knew, or at least he thought he knew, what his daughter has been through as a child. She never got the love she needed; she never got the understanding she needed.

"This is not how this family works. We don't hit each other, we don't shout at each other, we don't put each other at risk." He explained. "But we take the blame together, we hurt together and we fight together." He let go of her and faced her. "And it's time you get used to it."

"I didn't mean for Donnie to…" To almost die. She finished in her head and somehow she knew that so did Yoshi.

"I know." He smiled sadly. "But he is strong. And with our help he will recover in a blink of an eye." He tried to comfort his beloved daughter.