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Karai opened her eyes, yawning as she put her elbows at her side, boosting herself up. Sitting up to fast, the blood rushed in her head, sending an a chiming pain to her skull. She immediately reached a hand up to her forehead, rubbing her temples as to ease to pain.
Beside her, Leonardo woke up, his blue eyes fluttering open. He smiled when he saw Karai, and extended an arm, patting her back gently. "Morning, Sunshine."
Karai turned her head to look down at her fiancé, stroking her back as he smiles up at her. "You look like an idiot when you smile at me like that." She whispers delicately, a teasing smirk playing on her own lips.
"Ya but I'm your idiot." Karai lays back down, snuggling up to her lover, letting him wrap his arms around her as she rests her head against his chest.
"To my dismay, what you say is true, Turtle-boy." Karai closes hers eyes as she takes a long, deep breath, inhaling and savoring Leonardo's natural scent. She's never liked it when he wears cologne, Karai would rather smell Leo's natural musk.
The fingers on Leonardo's left hand brush through Karai's hair, which has been styled completely different. It's shoulder length, for one. And she has side bangs on the right side, her hair always bumping upward. The blonde has been moved from the back to her tips, black fading into blonde for an ombré affect. Personally, Leo prefers the new hair style better, especially when Karai curls it.
"I like it when you give me nicknames." Leonardo murmurs before pressing a kiss to the crown of Karai's head.
"Really? I hate it when you give me nicknames." Karai pulls away, locking eyes with Leonardo.
"When have I ever given you a nickname?"
Karai takes her hands and cups Leonardo's head between them. Her right hand lays between Leo and the pillow, and her left hand sits on top of his cheek, her thumb rubbing small circles on his chin. "You just called me sunshine, you call me sweetheart all the time, baby girl. The only one I actually like is babe. Oh, and you call me princess."
Leonardo's grin widens. "But you are my princess." The hand that was in her hair drifts down to her neck, whilst the other stays at her waist.
Karai gives Leo her infamous bitch-please face as she says, "I'm a fucking queen."
Her fiancé chuckles. "Yes, you are a queen. Queen Karai."
"I like the sound of that, has a nice ring to it." Karai says positively.
"Mhmm. So..you wanna throw on our bathing suits and head down to the pool?" Leonardo suggests, sitting up.
Karai sprawls out on the bed when Leo stands up and walks over to the dresser, opening the top drawer. "I guess, but I want something to eat first. I'll eat it outside, though."
Leonardo nods, pulling out a pair of bathing suits for the each of them, tossing Karai's to her.
The couple change quickly and walk down to the kitchen hand-in-hand.
Mona and Raph aren't anywhere to be seen, but there is a box of donuts on the counter, four already missing.
Karai's east widen at the treat, she's always been a sucker for sugar.
As his lover chooses two donuts from the remaining six, Leonardo glances at the clock and gasps at the time. "It's already 11:30?"
With a donut already in her mouth, Karai responds. "Apparently. Come on, let's go outside."
In the pool, Mona lays on a raft, her pink and black sunglasses covering her eyes. Raphael swims through the water, his dark brown hair glistening as the sun shines down on it. When he sees his brother and soon-to-be-sister-in-law, he stops swimming to acknowledge the couple.
"Hey, look, it's beauty and the beast."
Karai smirks at Raphael. "Now that is a nickname I could get used to."
Leonardo rolls his eyes, stopping and folding his arms across his chest. "Seriously, Raph? I just woke up, I am not in the mood for this." He follows Karai into the pool, who immediately clings onto him, wrapping her arms around his neck and her legs around his middle. Leonardo accepts the embrace of sorts, gripping his fiancé's feet as to hold her closer to him.
"Ya, you guys are pillow huggers. We woke up like—an hour ago."
"Why didn't you wake us up?" Karai asks with a frown. She rests her head on Leonardo's shoulder as she hugs him, staring at Raphael.
"Do ya honestly think I wanna wake Leo up? The dude is a monster when he's woken up too early." Raphael points a hand in Leonardo's direction in gesture.
"You're not mean when I wake you up." Karai says to Leonardo.
"I know, but that's because I love you."
"You don't love me?" Raphael asks with a pouty lip, mocking his big brother.
Leonardo sends a glare in Raphael's direction, completely done with his brother. "No, Raph, I hate your guts." He says sarcastically.
Mona sits up, sliding off of her raft and into the water. "Can you guys just shut up and stop arguing for like five minutes?"
"Yes, please, like seriously guys." Karai says in agreement as she departs from Leonardo, swimming over to Mona.
The Hamato twins exchange narrowed eyes before muttering a response. "Ya, fine." "Ah, whateva."
"Good, now, I have a question for everyone." All eyes fall on Mona, urging her to continue. "What are you three going to college for? We're going into our last year of high school, we seriously need to start thinking about this."
Leonardo exchanges a look with Karai, and she nods, knowing what was going through his head. He was wondering if she was even going to finish high school, and she wanted to. She didn't like the thought of being alone in the penthouse all day while everyone was working and at school. "I've been considering being a detective, it's always been a dream of mine." Karai admits with a shrug.
"I think I want to be an author." Leo confirms.
"Lawyer." Raphael states, plain and simple. Karai grins at him, thinking back to the conversation the two had a few weeks ago, when she told him that he should be that. Raphael catches her gaze, and winks at her kindly before looking back over at his girlfriend.
"Interesting. I want to be a teacher, like work at a community college or somethin'."
Raphael raises an eyebrow as he reaches behind him for a squirt gun laying beside the pool. He fills it up, and aims it at Mona. "A teacher? You've spent thirteen years in school and you want to be a teacher?" Raphael sprays, slacking his girlfriends hair and sunglasses. "I've only been in school for one year and I'm already done with it."
Mona's jaw drops as he glares at her boyfriend. "Did you seriously just spray me with a squirt gun?" Raphael smirks. "Yup."
With a menacing expression playing on her face, Mona reaches for her own gun, and sprays Raphael in the face. "How do ya like that?"
In an instant, the whole house is at war, four teens spraying each other like their lives depend on it. Screaming, yelling, laughing, dunking; they're having the times of their lives.
At the next house over, Michelangelo sits on the stairs leading into the pool, a glum expression resting on his freckled face.
Upon coming to North Carolina, Donatello and Michelangelo mutated themselves into humans. Donnie looks much like Raphael, his hair just a tad bit lighter and his eyes still maroon. Other than that, the two are practically identical.
Mikey, on the other hand, was much like Leo, looking completely different from the rest. His blonde hair and pale skin, freckled face and baby blue eyes. He looked younger than the rest of the Hamato brothers, but then again, hadn't he always?
Everyone else staying in the house with Michelangelo is relaxing outside. April and Kala are sitting on lawn chairs sunbathing, and Donatello sits in an inflatable pool chair, his laptop on his lap as he types quickly. Jake sits next to Claire and Yoshi at a table, the engaged couple planning wedding details for Wednesday.
Michelangelo was bored as he sat in the water, disappointed that no one wanted to play with him in the pool, but instead relax. Mikey could hear the screams of joy coming from the other house, and decided to take a look to see what was going on over there.
The youngest Hamato child walked over to the second house, opening the gate and closing it behind him. A grin was instantly hooked onto his lips as he saw the squirt gun war taking place.
Wanting in on the fun, Michelangelo ran and jumped into the pool, shouting a word he'd learned from a friend. "COWABUNGA!" He screamed as he did a cannonball into the pool.
Raphael smirked at his baby brother, rubbing his hand on Mikey's head when he surfaced. "You're on mine and Karai's team, squirt the hell outta this gun." Raphael handed his brother a gun and Mikey joined the battle instantaneously.
This went on for a while before Donatello yelled over the fences for his brothers and their girlfriends to quiet down; which gave Raphael an idea.
"We should go ambush them." He whispered to the group, a devilish smirk on his lips.
Michelangelo's eyes widened, he was very found of the idea. "Ya, totally!"
Leonardo launched into a plan, giving everyone roles to play. "Mona, Karai, you two go after the girls. Mikey, Raph, and I will go after Donnie, our father, and Jake. Show no mercy, those who don't partake in the fun are nothing short of evil."
Everyone wore menacing smirks, all ready to take their plan into action.
Across the fence, Donatello typed away, sipping an iced tea while he's worked. Kala and April talked, dipping their feet in the water. Everything was calm one minute, but the next, everything was complete chaos.
Michelangelo and his two eldest brothers leaped the fence, shouting battle cries. All three aimed and fired at Donatello, who, startled, flipped over, his laptop falling into the water with him, his iced tea polluting the water.
Mona and Karai took a different approach, coming in through the gate. They sprayed Kala and April, who shrieked a response as the icy water chilled their flesh.
While Kala and April joined in on the battle, Donatello was beyond furious. "Raph, Leo, Mikey, can I talk to in the house for a second?" He hissed through gritted teeth after collecting his belongings from the chlorinated water.
The other three brothers exchanged looks of uncertainty, but followed their brother into the house anyway.
Yoshi, sensing tension between the quadruplets, tagged along as well, keeping a bit of a distance between himself and his sons.
Once in the house, Donatello exploded immediately. "What the shell were you guys thinking?! I was working, on my laptop, IN THE POOL!"
Mikey laughed. "I know, that was a pretty dumb idea if ya ask me." Raphael nudged the youngest playfully.
"No, actually, I was just fine until you three came along! Ug, you ruin everything!"
"Donatello, calm down, you're brothers do not ruin everything. Yes, they made a mistake, but you should not be so harsh on them. We are on vacation, spirits should be lifted. Work should not be of a concern." Yoshi stepped into the house, his voice causing his sons to all calm themselves and be quiet.
"Well that's easy for you to say, you're not leading a group of scientists through a life saving experiment." Donatello stated with a frown.
"Indeed, I am not, but this is a time for relaxation and fun. Try to enjoy this vacation, do not make this into a work trip." Yoshi then exited the house, walking back down to his fiancé.
Donnie stood in silence, staring at his brothers with an apologetic gleam in his eyes. "I'm sorry, I shouldn't be so hard on you three. You just wanna have fun, I shouldn't ruin that for you all."
"Nah, it's okay bro, we did just break your laptop pretty much so I guess ya have the rights to be mad." Michelangelo said, dismissing the apology as unneeded.
"Thanks, Mikey."
The four brothers went back down to the pool together, joking around, all smiles and laughs. They would enjoy they're happiness while it lasted, because it would come to an end soon enough. Danger is near, all hell will break loose soon enough.