Okay, so here's the second chapter. It's not as long, but it's still pretty lengthy.

Enjoy!

Disclaimer: The TMNT are not mine

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Master Splinter smiled as he awoke, already hearing his youngest sons stirring. Michelangelo was the first one up, no surprise; at least it was later than usual, probably from staying awake for half the night. He listened as he heard the youngest turtle make his way to Donatello's room, who was already up. As soon as the two of them got together, Master Splinter heard them trod to Raphael's room, where they unceremoniously dumped him from his hammock, where he was sound asleep.

"Hey!" Raph yelled from the floor.

"Merry Christmas, Raphie!" Mikey exclaimed.

"Come on. Raph!" Don joined. "You can't be grumpy on Christmas!"

"Every year we go through this…" Raph muttered, pulling himself up from the floor. He stretched and yawned, then looked at his younger brothers.

"Well, what're we waiting for?" Mikey asked, looking between his brothers. "Let's go wake Leo up!"

The three turtles smiled. They loved waking Leo up. It was the one time a year that they could get him back for waking them up every morning for practice. And they hadn't been able to do it for the past two years. It was major payback time.

Raph led the way to Leo's room where he paused outside. He concentrated carefully, listening. After a small moment, he nodded. Leo really was still sleeping and not just meditating or pretending. Raph was always able to tell when he was meditating, which would take the fun away from Mikey and Don, or when he was humoring them and just pretending to sleep, which always irritated Raph. Not only because he didn't get the opportunity to get back at his brother, but also because then Leo was doing yet another thing for them, when he didn't like it all, but still did it.

His nod lead the other two turtles using all their ninja stealth to sneak into the elder's room. Leo was a notorious light sleeper, and any little thing was bound to awaken him. So, the three of them sneaked up to the bed, looked t each other and smiled evilly. Raph held a hand up, and nodded, then slowly counted down on his fingers. When his hand was a fist, they all took in a deep breath, crouched, lifted the mattress up and tipped it over, sending their brother to the floor with a loud, surprised yelp.

"Wake up, Leo!" they shouted as loud as they could, letting the now bare mattress fall to the ground at their feet.

Leo, now on the floor, glared up at them, rubbing his head where he had hit it against the floor.

"Real nice, guys," he grumbled. "I thought that you had outgrown that tradition…"

"Are you kidding?!" Mikey cried, throwing his hands in the air for extra exaggeration. "That's two years worth it, bro!"

Leo continued to glare at them. Raph laughed at the sight of him, sitting on the floor, looking exactly… well, not Leo-ish at all. He held out a hand, which Leo gratefully took, and pulled him up from the floor. Mikey and Don had already left the room in excitement, heading to their father's room to see if they could begin the tradition of opening presents. Leo and Raph headed after them, a bit more slowly.

"You okay?" Raph asked, noticing how Leo was still rubbing his head where he had hit it.

"Yeah," Leo said, dropping his hand. "I've had worse. Just still kinda surprised I guess."

Raph smiled. "Bet you missed that while you were away on training."

"Oh, yeah," Leo replied sarcastically. "Both holidays I was crying because I wasn't rudely awoken by my annoying little brothers."

"Hey!" Raph cried, taking a playful swing at Leo, who easily dodged it. "Get back here so I can wail on ya!"

Leo ran forward to the tree, where the rest of their family was waiting, and looked back over his shoulder at Raph. He stuck his tongue out and plopped down in his chair, next to the tree.

Raph shook his head and sat on the couch next to Don. Mikey was on the floor right besides the tree, and was basically a ball of barely repressed energy. Master Splinter sat on the floor, in the lotus position, besides him.

"Can I pass out the presents now, Sensei?" he asked.

Master Splinter smiled, then nodded. With an excited cry, Mikey dove under the tree and grabbed a few presents. He gave one to Master Splinter, one to Don, and then the last one in his hands he set beside him. Then he dove again, this time, giving one each to Leo and Raph, then another one to Master Splinter.

After a few minutes, each of them had a small pile of gifts next to them.

"Me first, me first!" Mikey asked, greedily looking at the pile in front of him.

"Let Master Splinter go first," Don said.

Mikey's smiled dropped and he looked sadly at Don, then to Master Splinter. Raph and Leo exchanged a look and smiled.

Master Splinter reached down and picked up a small, square package wrapped in orange paper. There was way too much tape, and the seams didn't match… at all.

"This one's from me!" Mikey exclaimed, looking a bit more cheery, but still had a pouty look on his face.

Master Splinter smiled and carefully removed the paper. There was a small picture frame inside that had a picture of their entire family, taken not to long ago. It was wooden, and carefully put together. On the bottom of the frame were a bunch of Japanese letters that said "Together Forever; Family"

"Michelangelo, this is beautiful," Master Splinter said, looking at his youngest. Mikey smiled.

Splinter put the frame on his lap and reached for Donatello's gift, which was very neatly and precisely wrapped in festive paper. Inside the neatly wrapped box, however, was a brush, with a very long handle on the end. The handle was even adjustable, and could reach as far as three feet.

"I heard you say how you couldn't get to the fur on your back when you bathed," Don said after his father graciously thanked him. "So I made it adjustable."

Don smiled as Master Splinter once again thanked him.

Then the old rat moved on to the next gift, this one wrapped in newspaper. It wasn't precise, like the previous, but there was still an adequate amount of tape on it. It was a little sloppy, but it still beat Mikey's wrapping job.

Underneath all the wrapping paper was a brand new candle. It was very large, and it was white, with a very long wick.

" 'Cause I know how short a time it takes you to go through meditation candles," Raph said.

"This is just what I needed, Raphael," Master Splinter said. "Thank you."

He turned to the last package on the ground next to him. It was wrapped neatly, precisely, and could give Don's a run for his money. The paper was a simple brown color, with yellow-ish twine acting like ribbon around it. It was a very large, long rectangle shape.

When Master Splinter opened it, his face stayed the same. He withdrew the object from the box.

It was brand new walking stick, made of very smooth wood. One could see every little grain in it, and it was a rick brown color. It was shined, and even had a grip on the bottom to prevent it from sliding while in use. It was perfectly strait.

"It's from a one-hundred- thirty year old oak tree," Leo said as everyone stared at it. "They found the wood at the bottom of a lake in Central America."

"Thank you, Leonardo…" Master Splinter said. He smiled and took his old walking stick, which was on his lap, and replaced it with the new one, putting the old one on the floor next to him. He looked up, watching his sons.

"Stop looking like that, Mikey!" Raph cried. "Ya can go next, so long as ya stop looking at me like that!"

Mikey's face erupted into a smile and he attacked his presents.

Mikey got a new game system from Don, a new game from Raph, and comics from Leo. Don got new tools from Raph, a new Chemistry set from Mikey, and books from Leo. Raph received parts for his bike from Don, a new punching bag from Mikey, and… a candy cane from Leo. Attached was a note that said, "Meet me later for you're real gift." Raph had looked at his elder brother for more information, but Leo had just smiled. Leo had gotten new incense from Mikey, Don had gotten him plants for his room, "too remind you of the jungle," and Raph had given him a card. Inside he had written "The real gift comes later." Master Splinter had gotten them each new weapons. They were similar in style to their old ones, except these had gold welded in them. Leo's katana blades were outlined in it, and Raph's sais had spirals in the prongs. Mikey and Don's, because they were wood, had the gold imbedded in the handles.

More "thank you's" were said as everyone admired their gifts. Then, Mikey headed off to the kitchen to begin preparing dinner for them and their friends in a few hours, Master Splinter and Don began to set the long, wooden table in the middle of the lair, and Raph and Leo began to clean up the paper in the living room.

"Hey, Leo?" Raph asked as he shoved a handful of wrapping paper in the giant black trash bag that Leo was holding open.

"Yeah?"

"When we're done, will you… come to my room so I can give you you're present?"

Leo smiled. "Yeah. I'll give you yours then too."

The two of them finished quickly and took out the trash together, then hurried up to the red-banded turtle's room, where they shut and locked the door. The two turned to each other, hands behind their backs.

"Merry Christmas," they said at the same time, then both revealed their gifts to the other. The two looked at them, then at each other, and burst out laughing.

"Wow…" Raph breathed.

"What're the odds?" Leo laughed.

Each was holding out a small square contained filled with water. In the water was a Japanese Fighting Fish. The one Leo was giving Raph was red, and the one Raph was giving Leo was blue. Leo held his out.

"Merry Christmas, bro," he said.

"Merry Christmas, Leo," Raph chuckled, and the two traded fish.

"Raph! Leo! I need your help down here!" Mikey yelled up at them.

The two exchanged another smile, put their fish in their new homes, and headed downstairs to help with the preparations.

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I didn't know what Leo and Raph should get each other, so I decided to get them the same thing. And then I had no clue as what that would be.

My friend and I actually did that to our beta fish. Mine's the blue one named Lil Wayne. He was inspiration for the gift as I was staring at him while writing this. He's a total spaz and made me laugh when he freaked out about me feeding him. And so, he became part of a story :)