A/N: I've decided to do this to thank everyone who reviewed so far in each of my chapters. So here's the SHOUT OUTS! And just to tell you, I might not do this with every chapter, k? Ok!

Yuna Yuri: I'm glad you like my story and can't wait for the next chapter!

Ted: You like my story? Cool! And I wouldn't want to be in Akio's shoes either if Leo or Raph got a hold of him.

Pi90katana: I can't believe you like this story! I've read your stories as an Anonymous person and getting a review from you is like an honor! Also, when you said that when I describe the guys by saying " claded" instead of "clad", I'm going to try and use "clad" and see how it works out. Plus, I really am thankful for you telling me. Really, I'm grateful kind of. And yeah I guess it is a surprise that Raph was the only one who didn't give up on his bro and also be mad at Don for saying that Leo was "dead". Later in the story or in this chapter, I'll explain more about why Leo's family and friends thought of him being dead.

Lady-of-the-Rings: You love my story? You think I'm a awesome writer? Yahoo! You want me to update soon? Well, I'll try, but sometimes I get caught up with reading and playing video games that I forget to write, but I'll try to write more if I can.

Linz1224: I'm glad you like my plot and think I have a good writing start! It really made my day. I'm surprised that you agreed with me that after awhile, sometimes romance stories get boring to read. Also, I'm glad you like my writing and want me to update soon. But I looked at your profile and you're on FF for only reading. I was like "What! No stories! That can't be!" Well, kind of like that. I believe you should at least write one story or poem. And if you inform me that you have a story or poem put up, I'll review it as fast as I can, k? Okay! If not then, at least keep reading my story! Lol!

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Thank you all for reveiwing me! I didn't know if this was a good story to put up as my first, but you guys have proven me wrong! So on with the story! Also, this story's timeline takes place in the newest show, just to tell you guys, k? Okay!

Disclaimer: I do not own the TMNT. I own only the people I made up.

Chapter Three: Family Matters, Part Two

Leo had told his family everything that he had told Raph last night after being informed that he had slept for only one night, not many nights (while also being being told the names of who they were). They were all sitting at the table, taking in every word that the eldest turtle had told them.

" So...what you're saying is that you ran out of that place when the choice came up?" Mikey asked while scartching his head a little.

" Well...I've always had a choice to run. I just never chosen it...Until now," Leo answered him while sitting across from Mikey and Master Splinter, Donnie sitting on the right of Leo.

" What do ya mean you always had a choice to run, but never chosen it?" Raphael asked while repeating what the blue-clad turtle had just said. Leo turned his eyes to stare in his brother's amber eyes before speaking.

" I've never chosen to run because of the consequences."

'"Which are...?"

The blue-clad turtle averted his eyes to the table, staring at it before he spoke. "... I'd rather not say."

Everyone arched an eyebrow at this response, not knowing what to say or think of this answer. Donnie could tell that his brother was starting to get a little uncomfortable of the situation so the purple-clad turtle decided to change the subject.

" Um...Leo, " Don started before Leo turned to his way. " Since you told us how you escaped from the facility...would you now want to ask your questions to us?"

" Finally!" Leo thought before he started to think which question he should ask first.

" Hmm...well, I would like to know how we all became...mutants."

All three of his brothers seemed to gap at this, Master Splinter only eyed him. "Hold up," Mikey began . " Your telling us that you don't remember how you were mutated? Now that has to be impossible! It's as if you don't remember anything except being in the facility!"

"...You're right."

" Wha? I was just kidding around with the last part-"

" No, you weren't. I could tell by the expression in your eyes that you weren't. And...you are right. That is all I remember. Being in the facilty with the peole there telling me what is the truth and what is not, but now...I don't know what to believe."

" What did the people tell ya in the facility?" Raph asked while his curiousity seemed to seep in his words. Leo let out a sigh before his eyes met with Raphael's.

"...They told me that I was made from their scientists there as a assassin. Made to kill and hurt anyone that I was told to punish with the fighting style of ninjitsu. They told me that Akio was my...'Master' and I was to do whatever he said."

"That was on the first day that I had been in the facility, being told of that information. A few days later, I was soon informed what I was going to be called as, or in other words, what my name was going to be which was 'Leonardo'."

" Wait just a minute!" Mikey spoke out, making everyone look at him. " So from the very beginning you were told that you had no family?" The orange-clad turtle asked the same question as he did minutes ago after his brother wasn't going to killing him.

" Well...not really. I was never told that I had no family nor did I bring up the subject of 'family' because I never thought it was important. It was only after a little assignment I was told to do was when I asked Akio where my family was. The man told me I had none. "

There was no bitterness in his words, but a small hint of sadness could be indicated in his voice, something that Splinter didn't miss at all before he spoke up.

" Leonardo, do you believe in what they say back then now is true?"

There was a pause. Then, " I believe I know now that my name is Leonardo."

His three brothers gave a small smile at this. Except, Raph's smile was more of a smirk. Even Master Splinter gave a small smile while having a soft look to his eyes. Leo didn't mean to make it sound like a joke because it was the truth; he finally now knew that what he had been called for so long is actually his real name. Just by asking these people, he knew they were somehow telling the truth.

Yet, he didn't know why he could trust these people, telling them things about him that he never spoke to anyone about and believing them that he was really their brother or son. The blue-clad turtle wanted some prove and now that he was just starting to get a little bit comfortable with them, he wanted to ask them about it.

" Can I ask you something?" Leo asked to the old rat. Splinter nodded with his smile still on his lips. " Can I...see a picture?"

" Of what, my son?"

" Of me being with...you guys. I just...need some prove that you really are my family."

This seemed to get rid of his brothers' smiles, but not his Sensei's. The grey, old rat only kept his small smile before standing up and motioning his hand to tell his four sons to follow him. They all stood up, and followed their Master as they walked behind him.

They all arrived in Splinter's room, who had headed to a very large old, tacky cover book in the bookcase he had. His paw reached out and took the book before he walked to his eldest son, handing him the book

Leo hesitated before taking the worn-out book that was handed to him. He looked down at it, tracing his three fingers on the tacky, brown leather cover gently before making his eyes to look back up to his three brothers and father before looking back down to the book.

The blue-clad turtle slowly opened up the book to the first page, its paper being a dark yellow with a hint of brown to it as the other pages in the book were the exact same, but it wasn't the pages that seemed to be older than twenty years got his attention. It was what was on the page that caught his attention by surprise.

There were pictures on it, three to be exact. All showing four little turtles looking no older than two or three. The pictures were in color so he could tell which turtle was who. In the first picture, he saw Raphael and Michaelangelo sitting on the floor across from each other, the orange-clad turtle sucking his thumb while the other seemed to be clapping his hands in excitement. Behind them, he saw Donatello crawling on fours, having a goofy smile on as he seemed to be inspecting the floor. Then, he spotted it, the one thing he had been looking for.

He saw a little turtle that looked like the exact others, except with a blue bandana and the cloth on his wrists and ankles that had the same color. The little turtle, looking no older than two, was sitting on the ground, his back to the little Donatello, reaching for something in the air it looked like. Leo knew this turtle without having to look twice at it. The little turtle was him, having a smile on his face with his hazel, brown eyes having a look of happiness and curiosity in them.

Leo lifted his head up to look at everyone that was staring back at him and did something that he hadn't done in so long. He smiled, a small smile, but nevertheless a smile that wasn't missed by any of his family members. " You all are truly...my family. The one thing that I was told that never existed."

Leo handed the old, photograph book to Splinter, but his father waved his hand, telling him 'no' with it before speaking. " Leonardo, I want you to hold unto that book that I have kept for sixteen years and look through the pictures. You just might like what you see."

"...Thank you."

The blue-clad turtle looked over to his brothers, watching them as they stared back at him with kind eyes and warm smiles. He gave them a smirk before speaking again. " Master Splinter?"

" Yes?"

" May I retire...to my room? I feel a little exhausted after the...'little' events that happened today.

" Certainly, my son."

Leo nodded before turning around, opening the door behind him with the book still in his hands and headed towards the stairs. His three brothers and father followed behind him before stopping in the middle of the room while watching him walk up the stairs. There was a shut of a door on the second floor a moment later.

" I can't believe it," Mike started. " I can't believe Leo is alive."

" And all this time we thought he had been...dead, " Don said.

Raphael began to remember their shocked faces when they saw their brother last night. It was as if they saw a ghost or something, not wanting to believe what they saw. Then there was his Sensei. Raph can still picture the look of happiness on the old rat's face. Yet, it changed into a strict face afterwards, Master Splinter's questions coming out of his mouh to know what happened was soon followed.

Raph was glad, though, that it wasn't as stressful as he thought it would be last night. The only thing that was stressful was Mikey's questions that he asked the red-clad turtle every three seconds. He sighed as he thought of this before hearing his the orange-clad turtle say something.

" Sensei? How come Leo doesn't remember us and only remembers that facililty place?"

It was the question that they all wanted to know from the beginning while already knowing the answer.

" I believe your brother doesn't remember us or his past, Michaelangelo, because it has been...erased from his mind when he was at the facility.The only thing he does remember is fighting in the style of ninjitsu...and nothing more."

It was the answer that they all dreaded for, especially for Raph. The red-clad turtle didn't want to believe that his brother, the leader out of the four of them, had lost all his childhood and adolescent memories.

" That's impossible! How can he lose all his memories? How could he forget about his brothers and sensei?" After Raphael had thought that, something in his mind brought back a fragment in his mind that came to the surface suddenly. It was a short memory about Raph telling Leo his name:

" I am telling you the truth! Don't you remember me Leo? It's me, Raphael, your hot-head brother."

"...Raphael?"

The sword drew back slowly from Raph's neck. " Your name...it seems familiar somehow."

The memory hit Raph with some hope before he spoke up. " I don't think they erased his memories, Sensei."

This seemed to confuse his family as they all turned to his direction with some curiosity mixed on their faces. " What do you mean, my son? " Splinter asked as he stood there with his walking stick in his hand, the bottom of the wooden cane touching the ground.

" Well...when I told him my name, he told me it sounded "familiar" to him."

" So... Leo like has amnesia or something?" Mikey asked to Raph, but instead got an answer from Donnie.

" If that's the case, then there is a possible chance that Leo can remember the memories he has lost over the past year."

" But Bro, why would the people in the facilty give Leo amnesia instead of totally erasing his memory?"

Donnie looked over to his baby brother. " I don't think they gave him amnesia purposely, " he said.

" So what are you thinking then, Don?" Raph asked before the purple-clad turtle looked over his way.

" I'm thinking that the scientists in the facility didn't want Leo to have amnesia; it was an accident that they gave it to him. They just didn't know they made a mistake in the process of deleting his memories."

A/N: I am FINALLY done with this chapter! Forgive me that it took so long, but I was so busy and had writers block in this chapter. I don't know if this chapter was good, but it just explained a lot of things. In the up coming chapters in the future, the action will finally kick in and I hope that makes you guys be happy.

But now for the question that you all might be wondering. Is Donatello's theory of Leo having amnesia is an accident? Or is it something else? If you guys ask me that, I'll explain it in like...I think in chapter five I will? Or maybe chapters later than that. I don't know, but we WILL know. I promise you all that.

Well, I guess that's it. But remember, if you guys have any questions or requests for me, just tell me, k? Ok! See ya!

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