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Dark orbs watched the two enter the building.

The room was pitch black, only a multiply split computer screen showed any light. The rays traced strong cheekbones, a fair complexion. A small smirk appeared on his face, this was good. Already she was back, she had accepted his offer; but what choice had she had? The helmet on his desk reflected a small amount of light, a silver shimmer on the wall.

The battle was over, she would join him or one would fall.

If it came to that, it would be her body to hit the ground.

Fear.

The word is simple enough, four letters that consist of two consonants and two vowels. Without knowing the meaning, it is just four letters arranged to spell one simplistic word. But the second you learn the definition of fear, the arranged sounds will never mean the same thing ever again. There are many ways of looking at fear, diverse ways of explaining it. Some may say that it is being afraid of something, but many find that a too watered down version. Fear, as they might explain, is something that stands in your way. It prevents you from achieving your final goal, either that or drive you to the end of your sanity.

Darkness.

The two words go hand in hand; many fear the dark and it's that simple. For others, the two relate because to essentially "win", to make a dream a reality, you have to face the darkness. It is always said that there is a light at the end of the tunnel, fighting off fear and overcoming the black abyss wanting to consume you.

Honor.

Defending one's honor or another's required someone to face the fears that haunted them, the darkness that lurked.

Loyalty.

Respecting someone enough, having that bond to risk something…anything to protect and heal. Trusting someone to know what the right thing to do was.

Pain.

Blood from an injury can make or break you, for most it urges on.

Love.

Knowing the emotion felt for another, making sure that the person is always there for the people who need the soul to survive.

The four words were simple, but together they banded together to help one defend and defeat the fear. She filled her head wit reasons for why she was doing this. Honor was for her, she owed the Elite member. On multiple occasions he had defended or saved her life, it was crucial that she did the same. The yellow bandanna felt loyalty for Karai; after all they trusted the other with their life. Just another reason that she was staring up at the newly finished tower that she had once destroyed. She was risking pain, but the reward was love. He had brothers, she would not cause them pain nor would she deny them love.

She took a breath, before stepping inside.

Even in her human skin, she casually but carefully checked her surroundings. The female beside her silently chuckled, which she responded with an eye roll. No matter what her companion thought, it was better to be safe than sorry. That lesson she had been forced to learn the hard way. Going up multiple levels in the new building, eventually they reached the destination where she knew the injured man was.

Passing the numerous foot ninja littering the halls, she was so glad that her mate wasn't here. Another whistle, the feeling of many eyes on her ass… It was good that none of her family was here. She could imagine it now…Leo, Raph, and Tori would be growling furiously and very close to killing someone. The brains would be torturing and the youngest…she didn't even want to think about that.

"Men" Her escort scoffed, before sending them a dirty look

That shut them up, nothing like a death glare from your boss's daughter.

No other words were exchanged, although she snorted a noise of amusement at the comment. With a somewhat wide smile, she was led to a door that she knew to be a private medical room. Opening it without hesitation, Karai greeted the three conscious males. Most ignored her…it was not the case here.

"Who's the chick?"

They all looked alike, except for slight details that few noticed. All four, including the one in the bed, sported dark hair and eyes with very similar tans. Could have been mistaken for quads, but she knew the difference.

She narrowed her blue eyes on the speaker, analyzing the tone. The person stood tall, ready for a fight like she was a threat. She deciding against laughing at the stance, now wasn't the time. The sentence was spoken in cold anger, he was frustrated. She would be if she was in his shoes, so there was no blaming than the other two, but not as big as the brother in the bed. Survey says…

"Moto!" Her fellow female snapped, catching on to the unfriendly tone

…it's Hasumoto. Ding Ding Ding! Another point to the turtle!

While the Shedder's child and the second oldest engaged in a glaring match that he would lose, the other two decided to approach her.

"Hi, I'm Sora" Cocky attitude, slightly slicked back hair, yep it was the sky boy.

"Jasmine" The dark haired turtle replied, ignoring his pitiful attempt to impress her. To accompany the word, she gave a look that sweetly said Back off, I am taken.

He got it quickly and switched gears to a more "lets be friends" mode.

"Why are you here?" A slightly higher voice asked, she turned to greet the shortest and her opinion cutest of the four. And she wasn't talking cute like boyfriend cute, but more like Mikey in a dress cute.

Instead of responding, she moved to block a strike aimed at Kenji's head from the conscious eldest, who promptly glared at her. Yanking his arm out of her soft but firm grip, he proceeded to ask "Why the hell did you do that?"

Smartass, she thought, reminded her of Raph "Just because you were rude doesn't mean that he can't have his question answered" his expression when blank, obviously he hadn't been challenged for dominance in quite a while.

A giggle covered by a cough was heard, Jasmine turned to the youngest. "I am here to discuss new training tactics for the Foot" giving away the actual plan wasn't a good idea because there wasn't an actual plan at the moment.

"That's cool"

"Nice"

The younger two were buying it, hook, line and sinker, just like Alice and Mikey would. Sweet smiles and innocent souls.

"New training?"

With a bull shit look, there was no way that Moto was. While it was good that he was wiser, at the moment she wished he was less suspicions.

"Yes, I believe that we need new tactics" Karai supported her answer, but why wouldn't she have?

"Like what?" The still standing tall elder growled, she was definitely a threat in his book at the moment

"Like stealth, you three make enough noise to wake the dead" The human female shot back. She mentally smiled, because if she was training them…which she wasn't, but if she had it would have been on stealth. After all it was one of her best subjects when she had been training with the tribunal.

"We do not" Sora grumbled

"Do they really?" She knew they were loud, but obviously it was an exaggeration, humoring the other female was just part of the act.

"NO!" The twins protested, the third rolling his eyes

"Then go prove me wrong" Karai teased

"But…" All eyes went to the bed's occupant

"I'll watch him, go train" It wasn't said like an order, but it was. It said to go unwind and forget about the situation for just a moment. It would also give her time. The three tensed, but in the end it wasn't their choice.

"Now" The dark haired human hissed

They bowed "Yes mistress" the sentence was echoed by their voices. With that they exited, but not before she received one last glare from the eldest. It occurred to her while he faced vanished that she was a threat because he was afraid. It seemed plausible enough, one of his brothers was lying in a hospital bed and a stranger was looking at him. The glares helped show his fear through anger, through suspicion.

Then they were alone, only three remained.

A moment passed in silence, to assure that the departed would not come back in. Then she decided that it was safe, crossing to loosely squeeze his hand.

"What triggered it?" Jasmine asked, looking to the charts. It told her what she already knew, he was unconscious. The symptoms included him screaming in pain with a very high fever. Breathing deeply, she turned back for an answer.

"My father beat him for not…" She cut the other female off

"Not bringing me in" She finished grimly, it was her fault. It might have been more beneficial for them to have fought on the rooftop.

Karai nodded "I was informed soon afterwards and I summoned them"

"Did the screaming start when they arrived?"

There was no answer; she took it as a yes. She knew that day that this was going to happen, but did he listen to her? No, she should have stopped him.

"Why would they have caused it?" The awake human asked as she felt his forehead, hot as an open flame.

"I assume they have kept the bond hidden?" The turtle said, moving to feel his pulse. It was fast, his body was a war zone.

"Yes, we thought it would be best that way" The sentence was whispered, assuring her that the decision to do so had been a hard one.

The yellow bandanna nodded, she understood the pain "Did they revel themselves to be his brothers?"

"But why would that have…he was unconscious, oh god…" Karai's eyes widened, she understood the mistake "…his subconscious heard it"

"Their words triggered memories, which the chemical reacted to" Jasmine explained

"And here we are" The other female mumbled, it was her fault. He would have been awake by now, but she had to call them. It had been an honest gesture, one that might kill him.

"And here we are" The blue eyed turtle echoed, before placing both hands on either side of his head.

Multiple mistakes had led to the moment; maybe her choice to be here would fix it.

Trust.

What a word, the feeling behind it didn't come easy to him. It took time to build with it with him, to establish trust. It had to be proven that anything he needed, it would be done to the person's best ability.

The word was one reason why he was here.

"She is fucking crazy…" For the millionth time in the time they had been here, Victoria repeated the phrase while pacing before turning back to the tower.

"We have been telling her that forever, did she ever listen? No" The grey bandanna muttered

"Great my sister as officially lost it" Mikey sighed; they had considered the few reasons for going into the cursed place. They had come up with only one, which was that you would be rescuing a family member. That did not apply to the situation, they were all safe. Well seven of them were safe anyway.

"Any movement?" He looked to Donatello, who had his goggle covered eyes on the towering metal structure.

"Foot ninja training, foot ninja eating, and foot ninja…" The sentence was cut off

He growled, showing that he was in no way amused.

"Grumpy" Alice slightly smirked, he glared

"She's still in the room with two others, which I assume is Karai and the injured ninja" The purple bandanna replied, focusing on the slightly cooler shape. It was easy to pick out Jasmine; her temperature was cooler than the humans. He found it strange that the person she was near, the one lying down (He assumed that this was the injured man Karai had mentioned), had a much brighter reading than the normal person in the room.

"Tell me…" Leonardo began

"…if I see anything, yes I know" Don said

The blue bandanna muttered something that no one could hear, before turning his gaze back to the building.

"What the hell was she thinking anyway?" Raph summed up the question that they all wanted to know the answer to. She had strode from the restaurant before they could do anything to stop her. A moment later their food had arrived…

He looked at the omelet in front of him, doing nothing as the others were. Wanting to follow her, the blob of egg and various other ingredients was a road block. He decided to take a Raphael perspective on solving it, getting a firm grip on the plate. What he had learned from growing up with his little brother was that Raph didn't overcome obstacles…he decimated them to the ground.

Tipping the end to his mouth, the slightly greased meal slid right into his mouth. Quickly chewing and swallowing, he looked over to the others.

They stared, in complete and utter shock.

"What?" He raised an eye ridge

He knew that his reputation had just taken a hit in the manners department but he really didn't care. The worry he felt was overpowering any other reaction, other than he needed to get out of here now.

"Nothing" Raph shrugged before inhaling his food, although a small smile was seen on the red banded turtle's face.

The others did the same, but he knew exactly what his hotheaded little brother was thinking. He could just imagine…"Well look here, fearless ain't perfect anymore" …yep, he wasn't going to hear the end of it for a long time.

But he really didn't care.

"If we knew, we wouldn't be here" Tori shot back, her irritation showing through

They figured that the only way they would go in would be forced kicking and screaming. Jasmine on the other hand had gone on her own free will, so there was something going on. But what? What was so important that she had gone into the war zone?

He sighed, they all wanted to know.

Trust, he trusted her.

He remembered the word that the evil female had stressed to the point that only a blind person would have missed the hint.

"…the problem seems to be a chemical attacking his brain and I believe Jasmine can solve it"

Chemical.

What chemical? What did she mean by that? Karai had told her something that they weren't suppose to hear, a secret code between the two. Did the injured ninja actually exist? Or was that just a cover for something bigger? So many questions, none of the answered and he had to wait.

Another thing was that his love had responded almost imminently, like she knew exactly what Karai was talking about. No more information had been required or needed.

"Where is he?"

Silently grumbling to himself, he looked to the building. Something was going on, the answers being explained right now and where was he? He was waiting, helpless at the moment to do anything.

He hated waiting.

It was so irritating, not doing anything at all. It was fine if he chose to do nothing, but being forced to stand here was not sitting well.

Her judgment had led her in there; question was if she was going to get out….

Despite what he wanted to do, which required them to possibly ambush the building, he had to stand by, they all had too.

Trust her, but be ready for anything.

…and if she was going to tell them what was going on.

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So…

Will Mr. Elite get better?

Me: I hope so!

Tori: Dumbass

Me: What?

Raph: You are the author, you know what is going to happen!

Me…oh right

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