The TMNT and tmnt-related characters are all property of Peter Laird, Kevin Eastman, and Mirage Studios. I do not claim to own them and am only writing a fanfic containing their characters. Any additional characters are completely original and my own creations.

Please review and give me your comments on the new chapter and thanks for reading. Reunion

"Well I'm not evil and I'm tryin to sleep."

"Mikey, it's one o' clock in the afternoon."

"I know, so keep it down will ya."

Raph stopped hitting the punching bag, but had nothing to do now. Leonardo was reading a book and Donatello was tinkering around with something. He saw Mikey snoring away and that gave him the idea to borrow his board. Raph reached under Mikey's bed to grab the board and left for the tunnels.

"All right class has ended," John said.

John bowed and the kids in the room did the same. They were all leaving; all of them were dressed in karate uniforms. This was because after he and the turtles broke up the Black Lotus, he went back to the dojo where he trained as a kid and got it opened up again. The dojo had been abandoned for three years before he took over because the Foot had killed his sensei. He had been killed because Shredder saw him as a problem for recruiting. After sending his brother to L.A. to live with their aunt, John pooled money from the community to open up a place where the youth could escape from gangs and learn to protect themselves. At that moment John realized there was a student there, waiting to be acknowledged.

"Sorry I didn't see you there, is there something you need to ask me Michael?"

"I need help sensei."

"What's wrong?"

"These guys at school are trying to get me to join the Lotus; what should I do?"

"Just try to avoid them, I'll take care of the problem for you, don't worry."

"What are you going to do? Whatever you do please do not mention me to those bullies!"

"Micheal, I promise I will not do anything to endanger you."

"Thank you for helping me, sensei."

After that Micheal rushed out of the dojo, leaving John alone. John didn't feel right about planning to fight Micheal's tormenters; after all he was supposed to be advocating violence as a last resort. But whoever these bullies were it was not likely that they would listen to reason and they had to be stopped somehow. He just hoped he would be doing the right thing and not setting a bad example.

John changed back into his normal clothes and tidied up the dojo a little before finally grabbing his stuff and locking up. He walked out and saw that the sun had already set, making it fairly dark by now. He slung his duffel bag over his shoulder and headed into an alley a few blocks from the dojo. After he was sure he would not be seen John lifted a manhole cover and climbed down into the sewers. John wasn't exactly sure where he was going since this was his first time going to the lair, but he hoped he could find it because he had to speak to the turtles.

After only walking a few paces John heard weird a scraping noise and another he wasn't sure of. John followed the noise and saw a turtle riding a skateboard and grinding against the cement walking path. The lights were low so John had to get closer to see that the turtle was wearing a red bandana.