Chapter 2

Later that night

The Hamato clan now consisting of the turtles, Sierra, Melanie, Vanessa, Paige, Mason and Erica were all moving along the rooftops heading toward the destination they heard about on the news. They needed to see if they could figure out what was happening and they also had to try and find RJ.

"Do you have any idea where RJ might be?" Paige asked.

"Either he's taking out some purple dragons somewhere or he's at the crime scene." Raph responded. Sure enough as soon as they got to the apartment complex where the murder took place they saw a young red haired turtle just hanging out.

"Well that was easy enough." Don said when they spotted RJ sitting on the edge of a building looking down at the blinking red and blue lights.

"Had a feeling we'd find you here, hon." Melanie approached her son.

"Oh yeah, how'd you know?" RJ responded in a gruff voice that could rival his father's.

"Because you always seem to find trouble." Raph said,

"I wonder where I got that from?" RJ asked with a sarcastic smile. Raph glared at him. "And besides, it's not like I was going to get involved." he continued to stare until he saw a familiar face among the officers. "Hey, isn't that Michael?"

"Yeah, sit tight. I'll be right back." Mikey volunteered.

"I'll go with you." Vanessa offered.

Mikey and Vanessa kept to the shadows as they made their way to the alley below and waited for the right opportunity. Once they saw Michael walk by the alley Mikey whistled, signaling him. Michael turned his head toward the alley, before looking to the other officers making sure they weren't paying attention. Once it was clear he walked into the alley. "Hey guys," Michael greeted. "What's up?

"What's going on, Mike?" Vanessa asked. "What do you know?" Michael had been promoted to detective a few years ago so if anyone would know anything about the current situation it would be him.

Michael chuckled "Now you know I can't discuss that with you guys." he responded jokingly.

"Come on, Mike." Mikey said. "It's not like you haven't done this before."

"Okay, okay. I had a look around the place. No fingerprints, no weapon left behind, not even a blood trail."

"So he cleaned up after himself?"

"Yes and pretty thoroughly, too ." Mike continued. "And another thing, inside there were no signs of a struggle. Which probably meant that the victim let the killer in, most likely without knowing."

"Just like the others." Mikey finished.

"Now, there's a scary thought." Vanessa shivered.

"Yeah, so for right now we're just going to check the lobby surveillance video and see what we can get the landlord to tell us." Mike explained. "We'll also hopefully find something during the autopsy."

"Hey, Mike." a voice called suddenly. "Where are you?"

Michael turned toward the voice. "Crap, that's my partner."

"We'll see what we can do on our end. Keep us updated." Vanessa said quickly.

"Of course, Nessa. Now get out of here."

"Mike?" the voice was louder.

"I'm right here." he said while walking out of the alley.

"What were you doing?" his partner, Henry, asked. Henry raised a dark eyebrow at him.

"Just checking around the perimeter, maybe the killer left something behind."

Henry stroked his graying beard in thought. "Did you find anything?"

"Nah, let's just head back to the station with what we have."

Michael walked by him towards his car and Henry followed suit.

Back up on the rooftop Vanessa and Mikey met up with everyone else. "Well, what've you got?" Sierra asked.

"They haven't figured out much." Mikey said.

"Whoever it is, is way too thorough." Vanessa finished.

"So, what now?" RJ asked.


Back at the lair

"When are you ever going to come down here to visit me?" Kylie whined to her friend over the phone.

"Girl please, you know my dad isn't letting me out of the house while there's a serial killer on the loose." Amber responded. Kylie could hear her shuffling around her room, most likely getting ready for school in the morning. "And there's no way I'm going out there at night. That would be stupid. I'm tough, but I don't think I'm tough enough if I happen to run into this person."

"But I get so bored." Kylie whined some more. She grabbed a blanket and walked to her room. "I didn't say you had to come down here at night, just in general because I feel like I haven't seen you in forever."

"Then come up here. You lazy ninja."

"Hey! I'm not lazy." Kylie exclaimed before walking into her room where Skylar and Mya were laying on her bed, sleeping soundly. She covered them up and walked back out.

"Please everyone knows that out of every member of your family you are the laziest."

Kylie thought about this for a while "Okay yeah, you might be right." after leaving the door open a crack she headed back down to the lower levels of the lair.

"Might be?" Amber asked sarcastically.

"Okay, you made your point." Kylie said only slightly annoyed. She headed for the couch with a heavy sigh "I'll come to you. I'll even bring Dani." she sat down next to Xavier who was already flipping through all the channels on their many TVs.

"Yay! Anyway how's RJ?" Amber asked suddenly.

"He's fine, I guess. Why?" she responded with another question.

"No reason. Just curious."

"Ew! Gross!"

"What?" Amber said startled.

"Do you like him?" Xavier stopped channel surfing and looked to his older cousin.

"What? No I don't." Amber nearly yelled.

"Oh my God, you so do."

"Shut up! I don't."

"Then why didn't you ask how anyone else was doing? Why just RJ?" Kylie asked. The truth was Kylie knew that Amber had the biggest crush on her older brother. It was painfully obvious how much she liked him. Whenever she came to the lair she would always find a reason to talk to him or just be around him. At first it was weird to watch her best friend swoon over her brother, but after a while she got over it. In all honesty, compared to the other guys that she dated, RJ, admittedly wasn't all that bad. She also happened to know that Raphie had a thing for her, but that didn't stop Kylie from having a little fun.

"I don't know. Why are you hounding me?" Amber asked defensively.

Kylie snickered "Cause it's fun." she mumbled.

"What was that?"

"Nothing. Gotta go. Bye!" with that she hung up. Just then Danielle and Takashi walked out of the dojo and joined them. "Hey guys."

"Hey." Danielle greeted as she let her brown hair fall down past her shoulders.

"Are you actually watching this?" Takashi spoke up when he noticed that the channel Xavier stopped on was some history channel.

"No, because I found the conversation that Kylie was having way more interesting." Xavier admitted. "Who likes RJ?

Danielle and Takashi both looked to Kylie. "Oh, Amber does."

"Oh, that's it?" Xavier shrugged. "I thought it was someone else."

"Who else do I talk to, X?" Kylie asked.

"Good point."

"Wait. Hold on. What?" Takashi asked. "Amber actually likes RJ?"

The other teens in the room looked at him. "Yeah, it's kind of obvious." Danielle said.

"I thought you knew." Xavier said confused.

"No, no I didn't."

Danielle giggled "You gotta start paying more attention to things like that. You're a teenager, there's more to life then just training, little brother." she gave him an affectionate pat on the head before standing up. "Well, I'm gonna take a shower."

"I think I'm gonna turn in early tonight. You got Sky and Mya, right?" Xavier asked.

"Yeah, I got them."

"Alright, goodnight." he stood up and headed for his room.

"Night." Kylie replied simply.

"Goodnight." Takashi said with a slightly grouchy tone.

Kylie looked over to him and noticed he was slouching in his seat "Hey, T." his brown eyes immediately looked to Kylie. "You know, it's not that big of deal that you didn't know about that."

"Yeah, I know." Takashi sighed and stood up. "Goodnight."

"Night." Kylie smiled slightly and shook her head.


I feel like there's quite a bit to process, but like I said earlier. Bear with me.

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