They formed a search party sending ninjas out across the city in search of their master, they wouldn't find him here though, Miharu would avoid this possibility until all others were exhausted, he knew this, and he was counting on it.
The Foot had been easy enough to find, they weren't used to have other ninja around in such numbers it made them sloppy , but that was something he could fix.
Yun had arrived unknowingly just a spare few minutes after Teeg and his newest Fumeiyo had successfully completed their plot to turn Karai against him.
He slipped quietly through the warehouse seeking out her room, he noted her complete lack of protection and mused to himself about how his own clan would have found an intruder almost instantly.
He reached out mentally and felt his way through the dark halls until his minds eye settled on his daughter. He had decided to let some things slip, he would call her Karai if that is what she wanted and he would teach these unworthy Americans the perfection of the true ninja if she so decided. He had chosen her the last link to a happy life he had once knew over everything he had worked the rest of his life to build.
He slipped quietly into her room noting how she lay naked under the blankets looking rumpled, the air smelled of sweat perhaps this was not the best time. He slipped back out quietly feeling it would be better to reconcile with her in a less embarrassing situation.
He slipped from the warehouse and into the shadows of a distant alley to meditate not knowing that this would be the last day both of them would be on this earth.
After a long succession of searches Miharu ordered a halt, she knew where Yun had gone and it hurt like no wound ever had. He had gone to Karai, the daughter that he had lost or at least that is what he believed.
That left her with a great weight on her shoulders, she was now Master of this clan and by Yun's own final orders she was alone. She slipped back to her room to think things over, she missed Leonardo even though he had only been gone a short time. She didn't know where to find him now or if he would even want her to.
She was alone now and the war was coming, much sooner than any of them really knew.
Leo had told them after he left Miha , they had been shocked and Raph had sputtered something about a friend but they had all left quietly anyway. They had made it to April's apartment unseen and had spent the day avoiding the subject of the clan that had called them friend and then kicked him to the curb.
By the time the skyline above them had begun to turn a deep navy blue Leo had run over every minute he had ever spent with Miha at least three times. He went over them hoping an answer would come to ease the pain he felt but there was nothing, only fleeting moments of an almost love that made him want to run back to her.
He couldn't do that could he? Go back even though she had told him to leave, refuse to leave her alone in this …… tell her that he loved her. He closed his eyes on that last part , he did love her, deeply. And with that he rose from his mediation and crept silently across the darkened living room in search of a pen and paper, the others had all gone to bed early weary of the day and all the things that had happened.
He found what he was looking for in the junk drawer of Aprils kitchen and began to hastily pen a note to his Sensei and his brothers explaining where he had gone. He signed it quickly and looked up from his work jumping in shock to see someone standing just a foot from him looking disapproving, it was Raph.
"An jus were do you think your goin' ?" He questioned arms crossed a sour look on his face.
"Miharu needs me" He responded in a whisper trying not to wake the others.
"So you thought ya'd just run back over there alone without tellin' anyone" Raph lectured, this was so unlike him Leo wondered briefly what he was up to.
"Pretty much" He answered raising an eye ridge as if to say who are you and what have you done with my angry screaming brother.
"Well your not" Raph said bluntly " Cause I'm comin' with ya"
That had not been what Leo had expected at all, his brother didn't have a stake in this and it was totally unlike Raph to stick his neck out for no reason.
"Why?" He asked plainly stunned.
"I got friends there to ya know" Raph said in the same gruff tone he always used when admitting anything of an emotional nature, he had always hidden behind that.
It hit Leo suddenly , a memory from this morning. When he had gone to find his brothers that morning he had found Raph eating breakfast with a girl, they had looked….. friendly.
A smile slowly spread across his face, it was the first time in what felt like forever that he and Raph had come to rest on the same page so to speak.
He turned and quickly scribbled three more words on his note and just like that they were gone off into the night to face a war that wasn't theirs.
In the morning they would find Leo's note.
Guys,
Please don't worry about me, I've gone back to see Miha.
I love her and if she is going to fight I cannot let her do it
alone.
Please forgive me for leaving you behind.
Leonardo
And then a quick addition scrawled at the bottom.
Raph came too.