*Reads over death threats.*

Wow. O_O I think I should continue.

*Is writing this currently hiding inside hidden compartment in ceiling.* I'm currently hiding from an enraged Raph and Leo. ^_^

Now to the chapter while I quietly listen to the crashing furniture and cursing below me.

"WHERE IS SHE?"

"WHEN I GET MY HANDS ON THAT LITTLE-"

"Wait Raph, I think I hear her. Above us!"

X_X O_O

Please enjoy this chapter while I locate a new hiding spot. VERY QUICKLY!

I don't own TMNT but if I keep making them angry I think they'll try to claim me as an in condition punching bag.

With his swords out of reach and no time, Leo prepared to be hit with the swords and the double bladed gauntlet, he just didn't have time to block.

Ah…that's it! ^_^

Readers: WHAT! -_- O_O

Kidding. -_-'

The three turtles watched helplessly as the silver blade descended on their teacher. Then, one of them knew something. Leo didn't have time to block, but he did have time to catch.

"SENSEI! HEADS UP!"

Leo turned his head at the sight of two flying blades as they embedded themselves within the rooftop between him and Karai. He gritted his teeth and shot forward, grabbing the two red cloth covered blades up and lashing out at Karai as she jumped backwards from the shock at the sight of the swords. The three swords and gauntlet all met each other in a standstill before a chain shot out from Karai's belt, knocking Leo back again. Karai grabbed the chain and it acted like a snake, flying out and coiling around the swords, yanking them from Leo's hands like the previous ones. Leo growled and dodged Karai's next sword attack. He aimed for her head and landed a swift side punch across the woman's eyes, of course, even blinded momentarily, Karai could still fight and her anger only grew when her double bladed gauntlet clattered to the rooftop below. The proof of this was a triple hard kick to Leo's head before the blue clad turtle flew backwards, barely catching himself as he perched precariously on the edge of the rooftop.

"You are finished Leonardo!" Karai yelled as she ran forward.

Fortunately, this had bought the heroes enough time. A red blur appeared between the charging woman and the blue masked turtle. An orange blur and a purple blur followed 1/10 of a second later. Karai suddenly stopped when pain shot through her rib cage, she heard her rib bones knocking against one another and then her own loss of breath. She glanced down. The same two bladed gauntlet that had been raised against the turtles throughout the years was now protruding from her rib cage. She glanced up as she dropped her sword and helplessly stared at the three enraged faces glaring at her. The blows came all at once, the bo staff was swept against her left side, the ribs breaking and cracking. Two hits from flying nunchucks sent her skull backwards, a large amount of blood dripping from a cut across her forehead and into her eyes. Then, there was a slice of thin air as two blades raced down her arms, her hands falling open as she let out a medium toned yell.

Karai glared up at the three turtles, revenge burning in both her and their eyes. Her gaze swept around the rooftops and then, she smiled.

"We will meet again turtles!" she shouted before racing across the remainder of the rooftop and jumping into the shadows.

Don growled, ready to give chase, but a dark green hand on his shoulder stopped him.

He glanced up into a face with his same blue eyes.

"Leave it alone Donny, we'll get her another day."

Heaving an irritated sigh, Don and Raph turned to face their older brother who was taking the swords Mikey had scooped up from before. Retrieving his own swords, the red banded turtle turned with a resigned look to his teacher. Leo had a glare in place, a disappointed emotion pooling in his eyes, his hands on his hips and his mouth was turned into an angry scowl.

Uh-oh, that meant punishments AND lectures.

"Not only did you three reveal yourselves' surviving existence to the leader of the Foot clan but you also put all of our lives in danger! You lied to me, you disobeyed my strictest direct order and forced me to fight an unnecessary and dangerous battle that nearly cost us our lives!"

The three turtles winced from the harsh voice as they sat before their sensei, gasping for breath after the harsh training session they had been put through. Furthermore punishments varied for each one them, Don was banned from his lab for one month, Mikey would be banished to the library except for meal times, patrols and training sessions for the next week, since banning him to his room where all his toys, comics and some video games were really wouldn't accomplish anything. Lastly, Raph's punishment hadn't been said aloud but Leo said there would be one.

As they sat side by side through the lecture Don crossed his arms and glared to his left where his red banded brother was sitting, "Sensei's probably just letting him off easy as always," he thought bitterly.

Of course, this was not true, as Raph much later discovered. After a 45 minute and 23 second long lecture, Don and Mikey were released into the kitchen to start a late dinner. When the door closed Raph looked curiously up at his older brother, who was glaring down at him.

The blue banded turtle himself had to admit though, that the lecture he had given had felt kind of, good. For those yelling moments, a certain power filled him, he almost felt like he was 16 again, but then when he did yell at the red clad turtle, Raphael only glanced shamefully towards the ground, he didn't yell and he didn't fight back like he used to. That's when the truth would return and the eldest found himself wanting to punch himself in the gut for being such an idiot. He couldn't lecture this way, he was lecturing the way he always had, the voice came from the turtle inside who expected a sarcastic remark to be thrown back at him or a very elaborated but irritating idea or point of view.

Of course, that was when they were just brothers and equal teammates. Leo mentally smacked himself, he had to remember that he was the teacher now, Raph wasn't just his brother and teammate, he was his student now as well. He couldn't remember a time that Raph had talked back to their father and sensei so it was a pretty good bet that Raph would never talk back to him like he used to. He held too much respect for his teacher.

Taking a page from his father's teachings, he came to a decision.

"Alright, Raphael," he said slowly and stoutly.

The red banded turtle, who was still kneeling, closed his eyes, prepared for a -Punch? -Lecture? He didn't know, that was what made it all bad, he never knew what his sensei was thinking.

"Your punishment will come into effect after dinner."

Raph looked up, surprised, "What?"

Leo narrowed his eyes as he looked down at his younger brother, "You won't escape punishment Raphael, but for now it must wait until after dinner, because I believe that dinner is ready."

Leo walked towards the door, stopping to turn and hold out a hand to Raph. The red banded turtle, still quite shocked from the previous declaration, reached up to take the offered hand. Then, as soon as they made contact Leo dropped his hand before narrowing his eyes at his immediate younger brother again.

"Learn to stand on your own Raphael."

With that, Leo exited the room, leaving Raph in complete and murderous silence.

Dinner was quiet, Leonardo not looking at any of them until the meal was finished. When he rose and Mikey turned to collect the dishes, since it was his night to complete that said chore, Leo reached out and stopped the youngest from picking the plates up.

"Forget the dishes Michelangelo, head to the library."

Mikey's shoulders slumped and je made his way to the most boring room in the lair.

"AFTER you put your game guy back in your room."

"Come on sensei!" he protested.

"NO VIDEO GAMES MICHELANGELO!"

Mikey almost pouted when a harsher glare from Leo sent him flying across their home, quickly depositing the game system in his room. He grabbed some comics and turned to exit his room-

"NO COMICS EITHER!" Leo shouted from the kitchen.

Mikey dropped them. HOW DID LEO DO THAT?

"YOU BETTER BE IN THE LIBRARY IN 30 SECONDS!"

Rushed, Mikey scooped up a few action figures. Leo hadn't said anything about them, right?

"MICHELANGELO!"

Mikey ran so fast his feet probably only hit the floor twice before he was in the defining quiet of the library. Leo knew how to teach Mikey with his childlike mind, make him sit still and be quiet with no visual or physical entertainment. That was of course, why he had chosen the library.

Back in the kitchen, Leo looked to Don, "Donatello, you'll take over Mikey's chores. In fact, you'll be taking over all of your brothers' chores."

"Uh, but…WHY?" the purple clad turtle asked, completely distraught at the news.

"With your lab off limits, you'll have plenty of free time. Mikey will be confined to the library, so move one of the cots in there. As for Raphael-"

Donny gritted his teeth and slammed his plate down on the table, "You're not punishing Raph! He's your favorite isn't he! You never punish him! He gets everything Mikey and I don't! You personally train him! You never punish him! He gets all your attention! You love him more don't you! He's your favorite!"

Don ended his yelling match by shoving the table, causing it to fly into Leo's leg, a large bruise sprouting on his thigh.

"DONATELLO THAT IS ENOUGH!" Leo yelled, silencing the entire room.

The eldest pointed to the doorway, "My room, NOW."

Don glared and stomped off.

A/N: Aw! We have a little Raph junior.

Don: I WILL KILL YOU! GET BACK HERE!

*Runs from sledgehammer wielding turtle.*

Leo took a deep breath and bent forward to grasp the table in front of him before he felt Raph walk up beside him. The screeching of something against the stone floor made him look back to see Raph was pulling around a chair for him.

"Here, have a seat sensei." Raph ordered caringly.

"Thank you," Leo said as he slumped down in the painted wooden chair.

Raph took a seat next to him, "Sensei?"

"Hmm?" Leo asked, still trying to work out all the complicated thoughts in his head.

"You said I used to be like that. In all those stories you told us."

Leo, despite all the chaos that had just occurred, reached out to rub the top of his brother's head affectionately with his a happy smile, "Yes you were quite the hothead."

Leo then took a deep breath, "Alright, I need to talk with Donatello. So your punishment starts right now, first of all clean off this table, do the dishes, clean the countertops, sweep the floor then mop it."

Raph inwardly sighed, those were most of the chores for the kitchen, only missing the garbage, which had already been taken out earlier, and spraying the walls, which was with a solution Don had invented to keep insects away as well as stopping the growth of moss.

When Leo finally entered his room, which was the second largest one in their home since his younger brothers had practically threatened with a firing squad to get him to stay in there, he saw that his purple clad brother was not sitting and sulking on the floor or in the wooden chair by the bookshelf, he wasn't fiddling with an electronic gadget he had snuck in, he wasn't reading one of the many books, his anger wasn't making him trash the room and he wasn't glaring defiantly up at his teacher. No, none of them. When the eldest's eyes fell on the form of his younger brother, his eyes softened and his prepared scowl fell into a pity-filled frown.

Then, he smiled as he tilted his head to the side. His genius, angry purple clad little brother was curled up in Leo's bed, sound asleep, with his mask stained around his eyes from what the blue masked turtle guessed to be tears. He sighed and shook his head. He was slowly using his ability to control his emotions. He didn't want to be mean and cruel to his little brothers, but he was more than their big brother that would cut them slack and take partial punishments from Splinter because he thought it was too harsh. Well, that Leo was gone and Splinter was gone.

Resigned that it could wait until tomorrow and that maybe he could reconstruct the punishments to be better suited to all of them, Leo turned towards a pile of stacked blankets near the door and picked up two of them before crossing the room and wrapping them around his little brother.

Donny didn't stir as Leo moved around the room and scooped up a picture frame. With a last smile at his sleeping brother, the blue clad turtle slipped out of the room and returned to the kitchen, where surprisingly, Raph was not.

"Where is that old hothead?" Leo wondered as he made his way into the main room. Distant cries from the library and soft comforting words following them assured the eldest that Mikey was being hit with the full impact of what had just transpired and a certain red banded ninja that used to be so hotheaded was now acting the role of big brother to the youngest.

With that, Leo silently slunk towards the doorway to the library and glanced around the corner discretely. Mikey was sitting on the floor, his shell against the wall as he sniffed. Had the punishment really upset him that much?

"Shh, Mikey it's ok. It'll be ok."

Leo then noticed that his immediate younger brother was by Mikey's side, placing a comforting arm around the youngest turtle's shoulders.

"They were fighting," Mikey breathed.

"Well, Donny was angry."

"But-"

"But what?"

"I-I had a dream the other night Raphie, another memory."

Raph's eyes widened and he reached out to turn Mikey towards him, "What was it?"

"Our father."

"You saw him?"

Mikey nodded, "But-"

"But what?"

"He, he sent Aniki away."

Raph then pulled Mikey towards him, when Mikey started using such affectionate terms for them, it meant he was really worried.

"Niisan?"

Yep, Mikey was definitely upset. With more than one term in Japanese meaning brother Mikey had divided them up between his three older brothers, of course these were never really heard until something happened, either something meaningful or something tragic.

Niisan, was the term he used for Raph, Aniki was of course, still Leo's and Oniisan was reserved for Donny.

"They were fighting," Mikey repeated, "Are they going to go away?"

Raph was speechless, he wasn't sure what to say to that. If it had happened before…

His thoughts were cut off when he heard Mikey murmur, "Aniki, Oniisan."

Raph snapped back into action, "Don't worry Mikey, neither one of them is going anywhere."

"Promise?"

"Promise."

With that they hugged, then quickly split up when a cough had their gazes flying towards the doorway, where their sensei stood.

"Uh, hi Aniki," Mikey said and quickly hid the action figures he had snuck in behind his back, although he was sure that Leo had noticed them.

Leo did notice them and also mentally kicked his own shell for his actions. Now he had made two brothers cry, what kind of a teacher was he? A moment later, he answered his own question.

A strict one.

"Ok," he thought, "Time to fix this."

He crossed the room and looked pointedly at Raph, who had scrambled to his feet a second before.

"Raphael wait for me in the dojo."

Raph nodded and bowed but he threw a last good-luck look at his youngest brother.

"Michelangelo," Leo began but was cut off.

"I know," Mikey said, drawing out the action figures and placing them at Leo's feet.

The eldest shook his head and knelt down in front of his baby brother before sweeping the action figures aside and staring strait back at the youngest turtle, who glanced back with a mix of hurt, fear and confusion.

"I'm sorry Michelangelo," Leo said.

"What?" Mikey asked, his confusion covering the hurt and fear in his eyes.

Leo sighed, "I'm sorry. I kind of went overboard with that punishment. How about just no video games for a-"

"Month?"

Leo smiled, "Just a week, minus the weekend."

"Really?"

Leo nodded with a smile. Mikey practically bounced onto his feet and embraced his eldest brother, pulling them both up.

"Domo Aniki," Mikey whispered.

Leo smiled and returned the soft embrace, "Now I do believe that you said something about a movie night. It'll have to be just us but-"

"That'll be great! I'll make popcorn!"

With that Mikey scooped up his action figures and ran out of the room. Leo wasn't sure to mentally punch himself again for letting Mikey off so easy or for making him cry in the first place. He HAD to work on this punishment thing. He then went to the dojo, where Raph was leaning against the wall polishing his swords and fingering the loose red wrappings around the handles.

"What happened?' Raph asked when he noticed his older brother standing in the room.

"Mikey's banned from his video games for a week. Like you're banned from leaving the lair for the next two weeks."

"What? Why two?"

"Knowing you, this lesson will take two weeks to sink in."

"I ain't that slow."

Leo laughed, "With life lessons yes, you usually are."

Raph pouted.

"Don't play a Mikey on me," Leo warned.

Raph huffed, "Why does it always with the knuckle head?"

"Because he's the baby of the family," Leo said, crossing the room and placing the picture frame he had gotten out of his room on a shelf.

Raph glanced at it. He recognized, his brothers, their human friends, their father but there was one-

"Hey sensei?"

"Hm?"

"Who's that on the far right?"

"That's the Ancient One."

"Who?"

"He was sensei of Master Yoshi. I've trained under him in the past."

"He must be good," Raph said with a smirk.

"You have no idea," Leo said while shaking his head, "Come on, me and Mikey are watching a movie, want to join us?"

Raph sheathed his swords, "Sure. Sounds like fun. What about Donny?"

"He's sleeping."

Raph's gaze fell to the bruise on Leo's leg, "You ok, you know, after that hit?"

Leo smirked and drew up his rare powers of sarcasm, "Sure, I'm always attacked by tables."

Raph let out a small laugh before the two started moving towards the door.

"Where are your sais?" Leo asked suddenly.

Raph pointed to the weapon cabinet across the dojo, "They feel kind of familiar, but I'm more honored to use the swords."

Leo smiled, that kind of respect they showed him was alien to him, he had gotten respect before, but not as much as he did now. So he wasn't going to complain.

20 minutes later, while Leo, Raph and Mikey were watching the movie the youngest had picked out, the door to Leo's room opened and a confused and hurt Donatello stumbled out into the main room.

"Hey Oniisan come watch the movie with us!" Mikey yelled.

Donny looked at Mikey, then at Leo and then at Raph when his look turned into a glare.

"Donatello?" Leo asked, climbing to his feet and walking over to his purple clad brother.

"What?' he asked a little harshly, trying to turn his head away.

"I'm sorry, that punishment was extreme, I guess I'm just reeling over all that's happening right now. It's very stressful but I'm sorry, I'm cutting down the punishment, it's just for a week and your chores aren't changing."

"Really?" Donny said in disbelief.

Leo smiled and nodded. Don laughed and outright hugged his eldest brother.

"And Don," Leo whispered as he saw Mikey and Raph turn their attention back to the movie, "I'm sorry if I don't give you much attention since you're the middle child. I apologize if I over look you a lot, I don't mean to, but I know it happens."

"It's ok Aniki," Donny whispered, slightly tucking his head under Leo's, a habit from when he was four that he had never really gotten rid of.

"BOOM!" Mikey shouted, making the others jump in surprise.

"Mikey! You dolt!" Raph yelled, slapping Mikey on the back of the head.

"What! That was a cool explosion?"

Leo and Don laughed as they joined their brothers on the couch.

"Hey sensei?" Mikey asked halfway through the movie.

"Yes Mikey?"

Mikey smiled at his sensei's rare use of his nickname, "After all that's happened, especially since the Foot's apparently back, could we maybe, if it's a good idea, go to the Farmhouse in Northampton?"

Leo seemed shocked for a moment before an easy smile spread across his face, "That's sounds like a great idea, for one, I NEED to get away from the city and a little vacation in the country seems to be an ideal distraction."

Unbeknownst to the turtles, especially to the youngest, the most adventurous and terrifying battle of their lives and the final leg of their journey was about to begin.

Okay, only one chapter left! SO REVIEW REVIEW REVIEW!

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I'll try to post the final chapter this upcoming weekend, if there's no big project I have to finish for school.

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~Moonsetta