This is it! The FINAL chapter. Hope you've all enjoyed reading this as much as i enjoyed writing it! Please let me know what you thought of it all!

1Master Splinter had told him once that life could change in the blink of an eye, that night a war ended in a flash of light. Without the combined strength of his warriors Teeg was defeat able, exactly how remained a closely guarded secret, and only one person knew and she was not telling.

Leo had returned home to recover and now found himself feeling disconnected. He paced the sewer tunnels, with the fighting over and their enemies defeated the clan had begun talks, the tallying the loses and wins, the deciding of there path.

He let out a loud sigh and kicked a small rock down the dank path in front of him, it was like trying to predicted what would happen on survivor, he knew too few of them to guess alliances and allegiance. Truly who would lead them and where they would go was beyond him. It frustrated him that even after all he had been through with the clan they still considered him an outsider, unworthy to share their secrets with but this much he knew.

They had lost their leader, Yun was gone and Leo knew Miharu was next in line, the clan talked and debated and tossed ideas around but they all added up to the same thing, there was nothing left for the clan in America.

Almost all the Fumeiyo had been destroyed, the shape shifter had escaped. Yumi blamed herself for that. She had left the body before making sure she had finished him, when she had gone to retrieve the body there had been nothing left but a bloodstain.

Leo didn't need to be in the loop to guess where the injured shape shifter would go, and he knew from the whispers he had heard before his departure that for them the battle wouldn't be over until the last traces of Teeg's evil where whipped from the face of the earth.

And that meant...

He couldn't bring himself to rest on what that meant it was too hard to painful and there was nothing he could do to stop it , nothing he could do or say would influence the out comes here, all he could do was wait.

"DAMN IT" He yelled to the darkened tunnels.

"Ya shouldn't scream to yourself like that" The familiar voice of his brother sounded from behind him.

"People'la think you've got anger issues"

"Funny Raph" Leo replied without turning "Like all this waiting isn't driving you nuts too"

"Of course it is" Raph chuckled walking up to him and leaning against the wall " But people already think I got anger issues"

"Know Raph" Leo smirked, despite his frosty tone he was glad for the distraction "People know you have anger issues".

The walked together for an hour or so and talked, talked like that hadn't done in years, they talked about fighting and food and video game, they talked about their brothers and life without the foot, they talked about anything but women they stood to lose until Raph asked from out of the blue

"Do you think they'll leave Leo?"

Leo sighed " No Raph I don't think they'll leave" He said heavily and sighed " I know they will".

Leo lay in bed that night wondering if she was waiting for him. He had expected her to come but she hadn't, he wondered if she was awake and waiting for him. Once or twice he went to her, but each time the memory of his conversation with Raph firmly planted his shoulders to the mattress.

"What makes ya so sure?" Raph had asked.

"She has responsibilities" He had told him.

"So?" Raph had interjected

"They need a leader Raph, she can't just turn her back on her clan and stay here with me" Leo had barked back feeling his temper rise.

"You know what your problem is Leo?" Raph had snarled at the tone.

"No Raph I don't , please tell me oh wise one" He'd sneered back in his snidest tone/

"You're a pussy! That right Leo a pussy, if you had any balls at all you'd be over there right now ..." Raph had ranted but Leo had yelled over him.

"You wouldn't know the first thing about it, responsibility , obligations, you run away from everything so you never have any hard decisions to make"

They screamed and fought and stormed off to the rooms, Leo didn't know what it was about Raph words that had bothered him so much but the longer he lay alone in bed staring into the dark the more he began to believe that the pain in the worlds had been there truth.

He tossed the covers back and slowly made his way out of the lair and over the silent city. He took extra care to be perfectly silent passing Raphael's room, there was no way he would give his brother the satisfaction of knowing he had gotten to him.

He took the long way to where the clan stayed hoping the extra half hour would some how give him some perspective. When the building finally came into sight he thought he had organized all his thoughts and decided he knew what he would say and how he would react to her answer that he was as prepared for what awaited him as he could be.

He was wrong, this he hadn't prepared for this, the building was empty. Not a trace of life anywhere, not a single scrap of evidence that anyone had even been here. She had left, and she hadn't even said good bye.

He didn't remember walking home, it was all a cold numb blur. He'd been prepared to cast aside his stubborn beliefs on what a leader must do, he had been ready to ask, no beg her to stay and she had left without saying goodbye.

He stumbled coldly through the dark kitchen and found a light coming from the livingroom, he peered into the room, a single candle flickered on the coffee table and next to it a small folded piece of paper. He walked slowly over to it and picked up the slip of paper.

LEO

Was all that was written on the outside but it was enough for him to tell who'd wrote it, Raph. He closed his fist around the note tightly and blew out the candle. He padded off down the hall to his room, now was not the time to see what cruel words Raph had scrawled to him.

He pushed the door open and nearly jumped with surprise, he hadn't noticed that the light was on. There she sat in the middle of the bed cross legged examining a book, she looked up when he entered but said nothing.

"Miha?" He was barely sure he spoke, this was something he had not expected " Your clan..." He began.

"Has already left" She replied turning her gaze back to her book.

"Without you?" He stammered flabbergasted.

"Without me" She confirmed."And they are Yumi's clan now Leonardo"

"But , you, I, They" He stammered unable to voice any of the dozens of questions currently whirling through his mind.

"They have gone back to Japan with Yumi" She said looking away from the book again " and your brother... I thought you already knew that" She finished with a slight gesture to the note in his hand.

For the first time since he had opened the door Leo let his jaw drop in all the time he had spent fuming over the thing Raphael had said and the way it had affected him he had never really stopped to think that he said might have had a similar effect on Raph.

"Are you going to stand there all night?" Miha asked attempting to hide a smile behind her book.

Leo shook his head and pulled the door closed behind him. He stood for a moment letting the days events wash over him before slowly unfolding the note, Raph had scribed down a final bit of arrogance.

Leo,

This doesn't mean you were right.

P.S. And your still a pussy.