A/N Thanks for all the wonderful reviews guys! I love you all! This chapter is being posted in celebration of me completing the Shakespeare unit in English class!

Disclaimer: Technically, according to works cited, nothing we know is ours. We learned it all from somewhere right? Well apparently it needs to be given credit in a little thing called a bibliography. None the less the turtles are not mine and I'm not making any money.

Pacphys: Personally I loved that story. It's the only version of Call of the Wild that I like, and Raph really is a bad patient. Reverse psychology works rather well on him. If you tell him to stay in bed he gets out and if you tell him to get out he complains. The idea of the Life game came to me when I was out hunting with my dad. I had really bad writer's block and he kinda got mad at me when I started giggling because I thought up the idea of that life game. (When we hunt we're dead silent the WHOLE day … a very hard thing for me to do) Thanks for reviewing!

ShikamaruChick: Well about a year ago I went through a faze where I had all these morbid dreams. (Let's just say aliens hanging people on meat hooks behind my house) I thought it would be the perfect thing for Raph to go through cuz it scared the crap outta me! You know how you feel really weird after waking up from a nightmare and you don't feel great the rest of the day? Well poor Raphy… I guess I thought he didn't have enough problems. Thanks for reviewing!

BubblyShell22: I hope to learn Braille this summer. There' s a nice school for the blind down in Pittsburgh that I keep on hearing about too… which I hope to visit this summer. I was just wondering… does either your friend or your boyfriend have a guide dog? Sorry I'm being nosey but I love the pups.

Ah yes I felt that Mike wasn't really doing a lot to help but I knew he should so I had him busy in his room making the game. He's such a good little brother. Thanks for reviewing!

Chibi Rose Angel: The first time I saw I didn't like it but I watched the extras and I looked at it again and I thought 'you know what? That's really cool!' so now It's one of my favorites. You gotta love Mikey. He's a great little brother. I think he kinda knew how useless Raph was feeling. Thanks for reviewing!

Lunar Ninja" Aw thank you! I try hard to write all the guys in character but I think I love Raph the best. (With Mike and Don as very close seconds… in fact I'm not really sure who I love the most) I thought the Risk game fit Leo rather well. My sister's and I used to play it. Lol my older sister always won… now she's going on to become a cop… go figure! Really? There's no 'M' in Utrom? Hmm… thanks for telling me that! I never would have known! Yeah I don't like using a ton of curse words and more than two in a chapter is too much for me. I think it takes away from the story. That whole scene was written for Leo. Thanks for reviewing!

Leo concentrated on the imaginary enemy before him. He moved through his kata quickly, putting power behind his punches and kicks, yet he couldn't seem to move fast enough. Beside him he knew his brothers were having the same problems. Mentally he reminded himself of what Master Splinter had said. They were doing this exercise to build up speed. Doing katas underwater would slow them down, so when they were out of water they would fight faster.

Leo sped his pace up when he realized he was running out of air. He hastily bowed to his fake opponent and kicked off the bottom of the river.

He came to the surface with a loud 'pwah ' as he greedily gulped in more fresh air than his lungs could handle. Mikey was already up there sitting with Master Splinter and Don was just finishing up behind him.

Leo gave Mikey a look and scratched his head as he swam over to the edge.

"How'd you get done so fast Mike?"

Mikey grinned

"I worked with the current. Splinter never said we couldn't."

Leo grouched that he did double the work but Splinter interrupted them.

"Now my sons. You shall spar one on one under the water hand to hand. Donatello and Michaelangelo shall go first. Since Raphael is not here you will each get a break when Leonardo will sub in."

Raph's voice came from behind them.

"Who says Raph's not here?"

Still in the river Don all but screamed as he slapped the water.

"I give up! Raph your hopeless!"

Raph showed no reaction to Don's outburst. He had climbed down the stairs and was heading towards the bridge. It was quite clear his mood was sour.

"Relax Don. See? One crutch. I'm not using this arm."

"You can't tell me you didn't use your arm coming down here on those fire escape stairs and I highly doubt you just jumped! That's it! No more pain killers!"

"Fine then let me suffer." Raph answered nonchalantly.

By this time Raph had made it to the middle of the bridge and plopped himself down. He felt for one of the bars running from banister to walkway and leaned his shell against it.

"Raph I swear the next time I see you up you're gonna regret it! You're gonna wish you…"

Splinter's walking stick came flying through the air and delivered a whack to Don's carapace. Don let out a yelp of surprise. He bobbed slightly in the water.

"Donatello back to practice. You and Michaelangelo will spar underwater now!"

Don rubbed his shoulder where he had been hit. He bowed his head to his Master as he was not able to bow completely, still being in the water. He let out all his air so he could sink and dove under the water while Mike cannon balled in right behind him, effectively soaking the once dry Master Splinter.

Leo watched as the two green blobs below bounced back and forth. He took the break time he had to take off his bandanna and ring it out. For some reason he had forgotten to take it off when Splinter sent them into the water and there was nothing worse than the feel of wet fabric against his skin. He watched as the blobs danced closer and closer to the surface of the water, quickly turning into the silhouettes of two turtles. Their heads broke the surface with loud 'pwah's' and gasp for air. From the corner of his eye Leo noticed Raph jump slightly, but tried to cover his surprise by shifting his weight where he sat and coughing softly.

Don swam over to the side and climbed out as he told Master Splinter the details of their underwater spar. Meanwhile Leo jumped in so he could get adjusted to the cool water again.

Mike held up his hand just as Leo was ready to dive under. He floated on his back, still breathing heavily.

"Give me a sec dude. It's harder than it looks. "

Leo nodded in understanding while he treaded water.

"Who was in the lead?" He asked as Mikey tried to slow his breath.

Don answered from the edge where he had sat down and was dangling his feet in the water.

"Mikey was, but not by much. It's cuz he's a dead weight in the water. You can kick him till your foot falls off and he wouldn't move, sinks right to the bottom and stays there!"

Mikey sat up in the water and sunk immediately, but started treading water before his head could go under.

"It's no my fault Donny boy, but that's what happens when you're made of pure muscle, you tend to sink."

"No, it's cuz you can use your air bladder better."

Mikey's grin grew wider at the thought of being the best in yet another thing. His grin faded slightly and a frown covered his face.

"What's an air bladder?"

Don sighed. Mikey could be so dumb sometimes.

"Aquatic animals have a pouch that sits on top of their stomach that's full of air. When they want to sink it contracts and air is squeezed out. When they want to float it fills again. It's why we can float so easy. It's also how fish and other animals can deal with the pressure of the water. The deeper you go into the ocean the more prominent it is. If you were to bring a fish that lives at the bottom of the ocean up to the top they wouldn't live because their air bladders aren't used to shrinking that much and the lack of pressure up here would…"

Leo sighed. Don had lost him after he started talking about pressure.

"Alright Don. I think Mikey understands."

Mikey opened his mouth and held up a finger to say he was lost too but Leo stopped him.

"Let's go spar Mike."

He dove under the surface, dragging Mikey with him by the wrist.

This area of the river was fairly deep and they went down about fifteen feet before they reached the bottom. He turned to face Mikey who was situated about four feet from him and they bowed to each other simultaneously. Mike didn't waste any time in attacking as they could only stay underwater for about eight minutes before their human attributes demanded air. He tried a reverse punch quickly followed by a roundhouse kick of which Leo both blocked. He delivered his own onslaught of punches and kicks.

Mikey was doing good against him and Leo could just see he was searching for an opening. Leo feinted a sidekick and concentrated on floating a bit. Mike fell for the feint just as Leo floated to about head height and delivered a full forced kick to his upper plastron. Mike stumbled back in slow motion from the pressure of the water.

Normally Mike would just get back up and the fight would continue, but this was an underwater spar and if given the chance it could go on until both of them ran out of air, so the boys would pretend they were out of water and any strike that would floor the other they would consider that the winning hit.

Mike swam back closer to Leo and once again they shared the customary bow and raced each other to the surface. Almost before his head broke the surface Mike was blabbing away. He swam to shore as he complained, his voice slightly muffled by the rushing water.

"Sensei, Leo cheated!"

"I did not!" He nearly shouted indignantly.

But Mikey continued to blab.

"He used the water to cheat Sensei! Make 'im do flips!"

By this time Mike had made it over to the side and was hauling himself up onto the bank. Leo was close behind him but was taking his time. He didn't want his rebuttal to be drowned out by the rushing current.

"Master Splinter I used the water to stay at about head height and kick him in the chest as he was blocking a feint. I was using my surroundings like you taught us. Sides Mike you used the current to get done with your katas faster. It I was cheating then you were too."

Splinter sighed. His sons seemed to just be in a quarrling mood this morning. He put a paw to his left temple and rubbed it in small circles. If there was one thing he couldn't stand it was his sons bickering.

"Michaelangelo, Leonardo is right. A ninja it to use their environment to the best of their ability. You should have been prepared. Leonardo, Donatello, continue with your sparring for another one half hour before cooling down. I shall be in my room."

His sons always managed to work out their problems amongst themselves but Splinter learned long ago that he didn't enjoy being around them from the time the problem started to the time it ended. Today his sons could quarrel amongst themselves while he stayed in his room.

Back in the living room Mikey had already gotten board. Don and Leo had went under to spar only minutes before but to Mike is seemed like much longer than that. He glanced over to the bridge to see that Raph had nodded off. Mike grinned and flicked some water at him. Raph jerked awake and shook the water off his face.

"Whah?" His voice was still a little husky with fatigue.

"Wake up Raphael. You slept yesterday away. Aren't you kinda all slept out?"

"Bug off Mike. I ain't in the mood."

Raph tiredly rubbed at the back of his neck. He had only gotten about two hours worth of sleep after his nightmare and even that had been fitful. A yawn escaped his lips.

"Last night was bad wasn't it?" Mikey asked, all kidding aside.

"Yeah it was." He stated simple. Mike nodded and turned his attention back to the water. "You got your feet set on fire."

"Ow" Mikey scrunched his face up at the imagined pain. Raph continued as if he never heard him.

"Leo was getting the crap beat out of him by the Shredder, and Don got beheaded."

Mikey's eyes grew and he put a hand to his neck and was about to say something when Raph spoke up again. "and I couldn't do anything about it. I was getting burned too but it wasn't as bad as you guys. I could see it happening but I couldn't stop it."

Mike held up his right hand in a cub scout honor sign.

"I promise not to go near any open flames for awhile."

Raph chuckled softly but quickly grew serious again.

"It was a nightmare though. Everyone was getting hurt except for me. The worse forms of mental and physical torture all rolled into one." Raph sighed and seemed to snap out of his trance. "Anyway I couldn't get back to sleep last night, ended up reading the rest of the night. My fingers feel like they're permanently bent."

"So, Mike asked slowly. "I take it you're gettin the hang of reading Braille?"

Again Raph chuckled. "I read all night and I made it one page. I don't even remember what the heck I read. It'll keep me busy for awhile though. There's three hundred some pages."

Leo and Don came flying up from underwater, both panting for all they were worth.

"You're turn Mike." Leo called as he swam toward shore.

Leo watched Raph as Raph watched TV. Now would be the best time to do this. Raph had calmed down some what and the initial shock of him being blind was over. It he put it off, a time like this might not come again, so Leo slowly approached the couch where Raph sat with his leg propped up on the coffee table. Leo slipped into the chair caddy corner from Raph and leaned forward slightly, resting his elbows on his knees.

"Why'd you go and do it when you knew full well that you could just speed up the time you had left to be among the seeing?"

Raph's head jerked in his direction, a clear sign that Raph didn't know he was there but it wasn't as bad as him jumping. Raph's anger at the sudden realization that he was being lectured quickly covered any surprise.

"I'm not in the mood Leo." He ground out. He was starting to sound like a broken record, having told Mike the very same thing only that morning but he really wasn't in the mood to be teased or lectured or to talk at all for that matter.

"You could have asked for help Raph."

"Oh yeah like you would say yes to helping me corner a doctor and getting him to operate on my eyes."

"You know he got injured in the fight, by one of your sherkins. You injured an innocent. Is that what you wanted Raph, to injure an innocent?"

"You know full well that wasn't what I wanted Leo!" Raph nearly shouted back at his brother. "If he got in the way there was nothing I could have done about it!"

"You could have planned it Raph. If you would have let us in on the deal we could have come up with a better plan and things might have turned out alright!"

"Should have Could have Would have. It's all over and done with and I'm paying the price, so just drop it Leo!"

"But why did you do it?"

This question seemed to calm Raph down a bit but it was still quite evident in his voice when he spoke that he was still stressed and angry.

"You would have done the same thing in my place Leo."

Leo paused and straightened up somewhat. Would he have done the same thing? If he was panicked and scared about losing his vision would he corner an eye doctor in a dark alley? No, he decided. He would have done it slightly different.

"I wouldn't have waited for him to get jumped just to have a reasonable explanation to show myself." He shot back rather hotly. Raph had done many things wrong that night and letting Kevin get jumped was one of them.

"Yeah and like sneaking into his office after hours and scaring him half to death by telling him a great big green monster was stalking him would have been a whole lot better."

"You didn't plan Raph. You thought of one option and you took it without thinking of the consequences.

"Plan plan plan. That's you answer to everything isn't it Leo? You know what I'm done with this!"

Raph got up and grabbed for his crutches but knocked them to the floor. He growled as he bent to get them. He quickly found both and hopped off leaving Leo with his mouth open.

Leo's eyes grew as he noticed Raph was heading straight for Mikey's skateboard. "Raph watch out!"

But it was too late. Both crutches landed on the skateboard and Raph shifted his weight. The board slipped from under him and he fell to the floor, catching himself on his injured arm.

"Ahh!" He yelled as he quickly brought his arm up to his chest and his shell hit the floor with a clack. Leo rushed over to him, all hard feelings of the fight forgotten.

"Raph! You alright?"

Leo tried to help him up but Raph ripped his arm from Leo's grip and struggled to stand up on his own.

"'m fine." He grumbled. Apparently he hadn't forgotten their exchange of words so readily. He grabbed his crutches again and kicked Mike's board across the floor as he headed off to his room.

Leo sighed and flopped back on the couch as soon as Raph was out of sight.

"Ok now what did that solve idiot?" He mumbled to himself.

Leo turned as a new voice answered him.

"Solve what?"

Kevin entered the Lair as Leo gave him a quizzical look.

"Don left the door open. I called and said I was coming down." He jerked a thumb back over his shoulder towards the door. "How's Raphael?"

Leo sighed. "Pissed, you just missed a fun little fight, of which at the end he tried to leave and fell unceremoniously on his shell."

"Fight about what?" Kevin asked as Leo scooted over to make room for him on the couch.

"bout how he approached you."

"You mean in a dark alley surrounded by thugs in a hopeless situation of which he got me out of?"

Leo sighed.

"I've been thinking about it and it seems kind of odd that Raph would be there when you, an eye doctor, got attacked so soon after he found out he was going blind.

"What are you saying?"

Leo heaved himself up off the couch and strolled over to where Mike's skateboard had landed. He picked it up and inspected it for damage.

"I think he set it up. Why would so many thugs be there to mug one person?"

Kevin shrugged.

"I don't blame him."

Leo cocked his head to the side. Now that was something he wasn't expecting.

"You don't?"

"Well not really. I mean if you were in his position wouldn't you do the same thing?"

Leo smiled.

"Raph asked me the same thing. Truth be told I don't know. I know there were other ways for him to go about doing it and I understand why he chose the one he chose. It's Raph for goodness sakes. He'd do anything for a fight, but for the life of my I can't figure out why he had to be so dumb about it. I mean he surrounded himself with over twenty thugs then expected to take them all down and come out unscathed easy as pie, not to mention risking your life."

"Maybe he had to do it. No other way seemed right for him and that DID seem like his only solution. It may not have been the best one as the time but it felt right for him, like the only choice he could actually possibly pull off. If you're fighting there isn't exactly a whole lot of room to talk. It takes out the embarrassing introduction and explanations."

Leo gave him a hard look again and shook his head.

"Did you minor in psychology?"

"I took a few classes, read a few book. I'm not a Freud but I can hold my own in the psychology department."

Don waltzed into the living room headed towards the kitchen when he noticed Kevin sitting on the couch.

"Oh hey Kev. You ready to work on that rain water thing? Let me just go and get my stuff, be back in a sec."

"Rain water thing?" Leo questioned as Don flew out of the room.

"Yeah" Kevin nodded. "Don was telling me how you guys were having a problem with the rain water coming in here and I was going to show him what we did back in Michigan to keep the rain water from getting into our basement every spring."

Don came running back with his duffel big slung over his shoulder.

"Alright, let's get going."

Kevin got up from the couch and followed Don out with a wave in Leo's direction.

Don and Kevin strolled down the sewers with Don leading the way slightly. Finally Kevin broke the silence.

"So I hear Raph took a spill."

"Is that what that big crash was? Shell, knowing him he probably popped a few stitches. I was going to let him start using the crutches after another day or two but with the way he's going that arm is never going to heal right. Only this morning he climbed down the fire escape by himself."

Kevin chuckled.

"He sounds like quite the free spirit."

"He sounds more like quite the idiot to me. To get him to sit for more than a few hours when his injured you have to either strap him down or knock him out but when he's in perfectly good health he's like a humanoid log, couldn't get him to go anywhere or do anything if his life depended on it. It's a nightmare being his doctor."

Don slowed to a halt and pointed a storm drain out to Kevin.

"I think most of the water is coming from this one here and probably a few above it."

"Ok so now we have to find what route the water is taking and find the easiest way to change it's route. Water take's the easiest path to follow."

"Right," Don nodded. "You can still see where the water went the last time it rained." Don pointed to the squiggly grooves in the soot along the floor where the water had carried the loose garbage away.

"This is going to be simple." Kevin state as they walked along the water trail. "A few hours tops."

Don only nodded.

Kevin sighed as he threw his house keys on the side table next to the door. The project had definitely taken longer than him and Don had suspected. Don had invited him back for a very late dinner but Kevin politely declined. He had work in the morning and he needed to get a hot shower before he headed off to bed. He stunk! All day and partly into the night the two of them had worked. They had been so wrapped up in their work that they hadn't even noticed that it had passed midnight until Leo came out searching for Don. The project was only half done but it was coming along well.

Now Kevin dragged his feet tiredly as he removed his light jacket and hit the play button on his answering machine. A mechanical voice announced the date and the time of the call before there was a beep and a cheery lady's voice broke in.

"Hey Kevvy! It's your oh so sexy girl friend!" She chirped. "I was wondering if you were still coming home this weekend or not but I guess your not in so give me a call when you get this message. Love you! Bye!"

"Dude you never told us you had a girlfriend!"

The smile Kevin had on his face dissipated and he dropped the phone he had just picked up, jumping and turning in the same instant, he looked like a startled deer in the headlights. He noticed quickly after his near heart attack that the house invader was not in fact a robber or murderer but rather one of his new turtle friends. He clutched both hands to his chest and let out a breath.

"You scared me Mike. I thought you were… hey!" A questioning look crossed Kevin's face. "How's you get in here? It's the third floor."

Mike in turn tried out the couch, acting out his nonchalant self.

"I'm a ninja dude how else would I get in here?"

Silence accompanied Kevin's questioning look.

"Fire escapes, windows, and decorative ledges."

More silence from Kevin.

"So," Mike changed the subject. "You never told us you had a girlfriend."

"I don't." Kevin answered.

"Then who was that on the phone?" He pointed towards the answering machine.

"Oh that was my sister. She's a teaser. I'm supposed to go home this weekend I haven't seen them since Christmas and I'm way over due for a trip back up there… so." Kevin paused.

"What exactly ARE you doing here at one thirty in the morning?"

"I wanted to ask you something about Raph."

Kevin could have figured that much. The only two in the family not to have talked to him about Raph today were Raph himself and Splinter.

"I was wondering what else we could do for him."

At this rate Kevin was never going to get to bed.

"Well," He started as he wondered around his apartment doing the little things he should have done when he got home from work.

"There's always a seeing eye dog. I grew up across the street from the American Guide Dog Association. That's where my sister met her best friend, Anna. I'm sure she still has some connection there. The organization wouldn't be too happy about giving up a trained dog to an untrained owner but I'm sure with the right story we could pull it off."

"Really?" Mike's face brightened up. "You mean we could get a dog for Raph and things would be back to normal?"

"Well not all better. This are never going to be the same for your family ever again." Kevin picked up his basket of dirty laundry and placed it by the door, ready to be taken out and washed the next day. "But it would give him some independence back. I'm not giving you my guarantee. The dogs are hard to get under normal circumstances and we need to go against a lot of their polices to get one."

"Hey dude if there's a will there's a way! So," he asked again, changing the subject. "Do you plan on taking any of your friends home with you? Some green mutant ones maybe?"

"Mike, can we talk about this some other day? I have to get a shower and I have four hours until I have to be up for work."

"Oh yeah! Sure thing dude. Thanks for the idea. Don't worry I'll let myself out."

"Hey Mike," Kevin called as the turtle headed towards the window. He turned around.

"Yeah?"

"If you're really worried about Raph come by tomorrow sometime after six and I'll show you some things that will make it easier for him."

Mike grinned and nodded his head.

"Yeah. Alright. Thanks! I'll see you tomorrow Kev."

A/N/ I apologize for the lateness of this chapter guys, but I blame Shakespeare. When I wasn't at track practice I was working on my Shakespeare homework. Thanks for reading guys!