A/N: Here is the third in the series and again thank you J Smith18 for the idea! :)
To clear up any confusion I am using Non mutant Xever from the 2012 series and Karai from the 2003 series. Since I am using my 'Stolen Child' turtle tots this is in the 2003 TMNT time line. This is close to the time line of my story 'Stolen Child' but I think I made a few mistakes on the time frame between Trixie's rescue and Jack. I will write a separate story concerning Jack and how he came to be but it will be a separate one shot away from 'Firsts, and One Shots'.
Leonardo was out on patrol with his brothers when they saw the Purple Dragons harassing some one in the ally below.
Going into battle Leonardo didn't see the gun come out and a shot was fired, he looked over and saw Mikey had been shot in the leg.
He kicked the gun out of the thugs hand and raced to his youngest brother.
"Mikey! Hey buddy just stay back OK, you will be OK."
Mikey looked up at his brother and told him.
"I am fine Leo, come on let me fight."
Leonardo turned to his two younger brothers who were finishing off the street gang and said.
"Take Mikey back to the lair, I will finish these guys off."
With a nod from the other two they got their fallen brother and headed back to the sewers.
Xever came from around the corner (Non mutant Xever).
The gang leader told him in his thick accent.
"So, you dare to fight us eh? Well lets see how you do by your self then!"
The fight continued for several moments before the police sirens could be heard.
"We will continue this later, you stupid turtle!"
Leonardo raced after Xever even though the fight was over and hid in an ally as the police cruiser raced by.
Leonardo noticed there was no manhole in this ally so he went to the roof tops to search for another one.
After several minutes he heard a sound coming from an ally some where below him. He looked over the edge of the building and saw that there was something bundled in the dumpster
Jumping down to the street below he found the bundle wiggling and crying.
Picking it up he pulled back the blanket and saw it was a mutant turtle.
Frowning Leonardo asked.
"Where did you come from?"
Suddenly a figure came to land near him and said.
"She is mine Leonardo, if my father were to see her, he would kill her."
He was startled when he realized that it was Karai (2003 Karai).
Leonardo and Karai had broken up some months ago, he asked her.
"But? How I mean? Your human and I am a turtle?"
Karai stood before him still in a cloak and told him.
"I know Leonardo, but some how it was possible. I have been lying to my father for months as to why I was too sick to fight you and your brothers. I gave birth to her only hours ago."
Leonardo asked.
"Did you name her?"
Karai shook her head and said.
"No, but I paid those Purple Dragons to lure you this way so you could get your daughter."
"Do the Dragon's know about her?"
"No. Take care of our daughter Leonardo, if you must tell your father then you must. But I can not join the side of good. I will leave your family alone once Shredder is destroyed, but I can not slay him my self. There is know honor in that."
Leonardo held his new born daughter and said to Karai.
"I will care for her Karai, you don't have to worry about that."
Karai was gone faster then she had appeared leaving Leonardo in the ally with the new born baby. Leonardo headed home with his new child.
He temporarily forgot about Mikey being injured, he could have asked Karai if that was part of her plan. But he was going to choose to not bring THAT up in the conversation.
He got to the lair and found his youngest brother sitting with his leg propped up, twisting around Michelangelo asked.
"Leo tell me that is not a baby? Don't we have enough children around here as it is?"
Leonardo walked over and told him.
"Is that the pain talking?"
14 year old Deangelo and his 14 year old cousin Trixie came running in with 10 year old Jack at their heals.
"Uncle Leo? What is that?"
Trixie was trying to stand on tip toes to see what he was holding.
Raphael entered the room and asked.
"Leo? What the hell? Where did the kid come from?"
Leonardo looked down at the now silent baby in his arms, he told Raphael.
"Would you get Splinter and Donnie, we need to have a family meeting."
Raph looked sourly at him but did as requested.
Leonardo looked at his nephews and niece and said.
"Would you three go sit with Mikey, this is going to be a long talk."
Leonardo went to the kitchen and found an old baby bottle in the back of the cabinet and cleaned it out while holding the baby.
He filled it with some water and diluted some milk that was in the fridge, he would have to ask April to get some formula.
He carried his daughter out to the living room where every one stared in shock at the baby in Leonardo's arms.
Splinter frowned and asked.
"Where did this child come from?"
Leonardo sat in a chair in front of his family, he told his family.
"You all remember when I was dating Karai? Well... um... we sort of... had a night together several months back..."
Jack asked his uncle.
"What do you mean by a moment?"
Donatello cleared his throat and said.
"I will explain that to you when your older young man. Leo so your saying this little baby is your daughter? Did you not know Karai was pregnant?"
Leonardo looked down ashamed and said.
"No, she never told any one. She gave birth some hours ago, and staged that attack. I don't think she had any idea that a gun would be used. But either way she staged it so she could have me lead to the baby in the ally. She didnt want to abandon our daughter, she saved her life. If Shredder found out about the baby he would kill her."
Trixie perked up and said.
"Her? Its a girl? YES! I am not the only girl any more!"
That got a chuckle out of the adults in the room.
Raphael looked at his brother and asked.
"How ya know she didn't plant the baby to have you followed? You two broke up on pretty bad terms Leo, this could be a trap."
Leonardo told him.
"I don't think so Raph, she told me she wants to leave us alone, she wants Shredder gone as much as we do. She was scared that Shredder would find out about her being pregnant and kill her or the baby or both. So she paid for the PD's to attack us and to lure me to where the baby was. She clearly couldn't attack us her self, seeing as she gave birth earlier today."
Donatello ran a scanner over the baby and said.
"Raph, you will be happy to know, there is no tracking device on her, she is clear."
Splinter looked at his new granddaughter and said to Leonardo.
"So what are you going to name her?"
Leonardo told his father.
"I thought about that on my way back home, I think I will call her Aiko, it means love, affection and child."
Mikey smiled at his oldest brother and told him.
"Cool name, can I hold her?"
Careful of his little brother's leg he handed the baby over to Mikey and watched the look in his eyes change at holding a baby girl.
"She reminds me of Deangelo when he was a baby, only maybe smaller."
Raphael held her next and felt his heart clench looking down at the new born, knowing the last new born baby he held had been Jack, but he also still remembered 14 years ago when he delivered his nephew...
Shaking away that memory he handed the baby over to Donatello, he told the baby.
"Hey little Aiko, I'm your uncle Donnie. That was your uncle Raph that had you a second ago, and Mikey before him. This is your grandfather."
He handed Aiko over to Splinter who looked down at his new grandchild, he was still upset about Leonardo's actions on how the child was created but that would wait till later. Now was not the time.
Trixie looked over at her grandfather and asked.
"Granddad, can I hold her?"
Splinter handed the child over to Trixie who's face lit up at the sight of the little bundle.
"Hey Aiko, I am your cousin Trixie. Us girls gotta stick together alright? Like the boys do. They can be so mean some times."
Deangelo playfully but carefully shoved her and said.
"Yea right Trix, here let me hold her."
She handed the baby over to Deangelo who looked down at the baby and said.
"Hey little one, I'm Deangelo, don't worry, I wont let any one pick on ya. Your gonna be well protected and loved."
Jack asked.
"Daddy, where do babies come from?"
All four adult turtles looked at each other before Donatello told him.
"Well... I will explain when your older, but turtles hatch from eggs."
Deangelo put the baby in Jack's arms and said.
"Hush and hold the baby."
Jack looked down at the little one in his arms, he could see how cute she was and saw how blue her eyes were. They looked like his uncle Leo's eyes.
"Uncle Leo, where is she going to sleep?"
Leonardo told him.
"Well like all of you started out, she will share my room until she is old enough to sleep through the night then she will move into your all's room. We will find a bunk bed so that it wont be so crowded."
Splinter knew this new baby would be a blessing to the family.
That night Leonardo sat with his daughter in the old rocking chair that had rocked 7 now 8 baby turtles to sleep.
He looked down at her and smiled as she sucked on her bottle, they had gotten a hold of April who brought down some formula and diapers for the new baby. She also offered a new crib, but Leo declined and said she could use Jack's old one.
Leonardo's little girl looked up at him in wonder as he looked at her, he felt attached to her already.
He had held his nephews when they would fuss in the night and helped his brothers care for the babies, he even helped Raphael when his daughter arrived 3 years after her birth and she would have night terrors. But this felt different, this was his child.
For as much as he loved his nephews and niece he knew that the love for his daughter was going to be different. He didn't care if she ever lead her own team, chances were Deangelo would be the leader since he was the oldest of the four little turtles.
He didn't notice that he had company, looking up he saw Raphael standing there watching him.
"What?"
Raphael stepped into the room and told him.
"Feels pretty cool don't it? Holdin your own child. Its how I eventually felt when I held Trixie for the first time, or at least when she learned to trust me."
Leonardo looked up at his hot headed brother and told him.
"Yea, it is cool... when we went out on patrol tonight I had no idea my life would change... hey, how is Mikey? With everything that happened I forgot about him getting shot! I am the worst big brother ever..."
Raphael chuckled and sat down on Leonardo's bed.
"Ya ain't the worst, sides you saw him sittin on the couch, it was more of a graze, it cut his leg but he will live. Don wanted him to stay off his leg fo a couple days so that the wound would heal. You kinda had a lot on your mind when ya ran inta Karai and found her."
Pointing to the baby Raph continued.
"I am a little shocked that you of all people would go off and sleep wit some one, get em knocked up and then be raising the kid with out the mother."
Leonardo looked down at his sleeping child then back up to Raphael.
"You have been a father for 11 years now, how the shell are you an expert?"
Raph shrugged and said.
"Guess it comes with helping out with Deangelo, we all helped out wit him really, but there were nights Mike wouldn't hear him cry so I would go in an get him. I learned a lot in a short amount of time. Sides Don let me use his computer to research how to take care of a kid wit PTSD. THAT is how I know so much. I learned a lot."
"Does she still have nightmares?"
"Nah, not so much any more, she comes in and talks to me if she has trouble sleeping but other then that she hasn't told me of any."
The brothers were silent and Leo chuckled and said.
"You know what's so funny?"
Raph shook his head and Leo told him.
"We are the oldest and we both fathered girls, and the other two boys."
Raph chuckled and told him.
"Yea, I can see where that would be funny, never thought I would be a father to a girl. But then again I never thought I would be a father at all really. If it wasn't for Bishop, Trixie and Deangelo would not be here."
Leonardo nodded and said.
"True, although what surprises me is how much Mikey grew up once he became a father, he is almost a different turtle now."
Raph chuckled and said.
"Yea, but he still pulls his pranks every now and then."
Aiko made little squeaking noised from the confines of the blanket she was wrapped in.
Raphael leaned up and looked at the small little turtle.
"She is kinda cute, wonder if she will be like her father?"
Leonardo shrugged and said.
"She could be, but we can hope she isn't like her mother."
Raphael told him.
"We will raise her right, and that is a promise. She will know what REAL honor means."
Raphael took the empty bottle from his older brother as Leonardo stood and put Aiko in the crib.
"You know, this bed was used for us, for Deangelo, Jack and now Aiko."
Raphael was standing at the door way and told him.
"Yea, it has had a lot of use, wonder how many more times it's gonna get used?"
Leonardo looked at his sleeping child and said.
"Who knows."
Raphael and Leonardo stood at the child's side for a short time longer before Raphael went back to his room and Leonardo went to bed him self.
Laying there he couldn't help but picture how his life was about to change, he looked over at the calender and saw that it was March 4. Grinning he realized that his daughter's birth was just days before Deangelo's birthday.
Closing his eyes he thought back to how much their lives had changed in 15 years, how he gained a nephew nearly 15 years ago, a niece 12 years ago along with another nephew around the same time.
He fell asleep with a smile on his face, the family was complete...
A/N: Deangelo and Trixie come from my story 'Stolen Child' some of the references made were from that story too. Hope you all enjoyed this, I had a lot of fun writing it.
