Note: The background music for the first part is Higurashi No Naku Koro Ni OST Shizuka Na Asa. For the second part, it's Higurashi No Naku Koro NI OST Oyashiro-Sama. For the third, it's Higurashi No Naku Koro Ni OST Yasuragi.

Chapter 18
Negotiation

"I'm scared to see the truth..."

The next morning, Leonardo woke up, full of glee. The sun was shining and nothing would ever ruin them. Butterflies made their way to the lair and surrounded the blue-clad turtle. Leo giggled as the butterflies tickled him.

"Morning, bro!"

Leo looked at Raph on his door. A smile was on him. It's a perfect day with no problems and no insecurities. So maybe that's the reason why they smiled.

"Breakfast is ready. But I can't believe you woke up the same time we did. Usually, you're up early."

Leo sighed.

"It's just a perfect day with no mistakes, Raph."

Raph chuckled. "Well come on, fearless. Donnie, Sensei and Lucy are waiting for us."

Leo nodded. "Tell them I'll be there in a minute."He stretched his arms and yawned. Raph did the same thing. Together, they both yawned. Then, they laughed.

"Alright, Leo. I'll go tell them. See ya!"

"See ya, Raph!"

When Raph walked out, Leo decided to fix his bed. He removed the blanket and the pillow and threw them to the floor. Next, he fixed the best sheets, no lump on each of them. Then, he picked up the blanket and spread it around. Next, he put the pillow above the blanket.

At last, it was done.

But before he left, he spotted his family photo.

His glance was at his father.

Splinter. His surrogate father. Though not related by blood, they are related by bonds. Leo felt Splinter as his real father. They are like father and son after all. They are both disciplined and are true ninjas. Leo loved those moments he spent with his father. As for Splinter, he felt a sense of pride in him. Splinter felt that Leo is his pride and is worthy enough to defeat the Shredder.

Raphael. Born as twins but is older by five minutes. Thought always arguing, they still care deeply about each other. Leo knew that he had to protect Raph because of his stubbornness. If not, Raph would be too rough and would come home with bruises and scars. For Raphael, he needs support from his older brother. All he has is his older brother. He couldn't live a world without him. The two are like Jack and Jill, always supporting each other. If one falls down, so would the other. Nothing can break their bond.

Donatello. His second younger brother. The two formed a very close bond. Not much is to say but they are very closer like Leo and Raph are. Donatello knew he could rely on his big brother. Without him, he has nowhere to go. Leo knew that Donnie is their glue. Without him, all hope would go lost. The two rely on each other when needed.

The last one was unfamiliar to him. Then again, it felt like déjà vu. The last one was the smallest of all. He had baby blue eyes, orange mask and freckles. Leo couldn't make it out. "Who's he?"He asked himself. Under the person, a name was written in beautiful calligraphy.

Michelangelo.

"Michelangelo? That sounds familiar..."

"Leo!"

Leo snapped out of trance. The smallest memory popped. Then, it was gone like dust going away.

"I-I'm coming!"

He put the picture frame down, ran down to the dining room and started eating.

In an unfamiliar place...

Leo groggily opened his eyes, feeling pain. His body tensed when he looked at his surroundings.

It was dark. It was an uncertain place. He felt some more pain. He felt like he was alone.

"Urgh...what's hurting?"

Turning to his left palm, he found a scar. Blood surrounded it. Leo gasped, looking at the horrifying view.

"B-blood?"

"LEO!"

Leo turned around to see the red-clad turtle. Leo gasped and ran to him.

"Raph! Are you okay?!"

Raph got up weakly. Leo supported him and led him back to where Leo woke up.

"I-I'm okay. W-where are we?"

"I don't know. Stay for me, Raph."

Raph smiled weakly. "A-alright, nii-san."

Leo smiled.

Soon, a loud chuckle escaped. Leo and Raph covered their ears...wait, they don't have any. But still.

"Welcome. I see Michelangelo actually has a family."

Leo growled. "How do you know our baby brother?!"

Then came a cackle. "I am Jewis! I am an old friend of this Michelangelo. He was my companion when your brother got lost when you were 7!"

Leo and Raph gasped. "Y-You?!"

"Eventually, he betrayed me! He never came back to our shelter ever again!"

"That's because our father found him!"

"Then why didn't he inform me!"

"Because we are told to stay in the shadows!"

Jewis growled. Raph sneered. "Now answer our question, Mr. Temper-head! Where the hell are we?!"

Jewis cackled. "You are cursed. In order to take my revenge, the cat implanted small bugs on all of you for you to forget about your brother. You did shout at him, right?"

Leo fell to his knees and cried, mumbling, "M-Mikey...my baby brother...why him...?"

Raph helped his brother up. "Jewis, where's Donnie and Sensei?!"

"Your other brother and father? Well, you will find them...on one condition."

"Give me that deal!"

"You are trapped in a labyrinth. To get back to the real world, you must accept the fact that you are trapped and are pieces. If not, you will die in vain and your little brother will never be saved!"

Raph turned to Leo. "Leo, are you okay with it?"

"T-That's okay, Raph. We have to do this for our little bro."

Raph nodded. "Alright, Jewis! We accept!"

A portal was opened.

"By the third round, you will find one of your family members."

Leo stood up. "Come on, Raph. Let's go in."

Raph nodded. Helping his brother, they all went inside the first portal: the Hamato Mansion.

At night, it was peaceful. The moon would be the sun and the stars would twinkle instead of the clouds. Night is really peaceful, isn't it?

While Mashimi slept, Mikey looked at the stars, twinkling at the sky. He sipped his orange juice using a straw and continued to watch the stars.

Mikey smiled. Even though he's experiencing a lot of pain, he would always count on the stars to guide him back to where he really belongs.

"Perfect..."

A tear slipped out. Then, it hit him.

If I write a letter to them...will they remember me?

Grabbing a piece of paper, he wrote with a pencil,

My family,

Do you not miss me? Are you not looking for me? I'm scared. Right now, I am locked in my surrogate uncle's room and he treats me badly. Uncle Mashimi is a bad, bad person. He treats me like a pig and he always abuses me. I don't want to call for help. I need you for help. I hope this message will come to you one day. It is night time and I'm watching the stars, writing this letter to you. If you're reading this, I'm probably gone in this world. I don't know who'll save me. I'm scared to accept the fact that you hate me. But to you who reads this, please save me.

That is my only wish.

Michelangelo

Grabbing an envelope, he put the letter in and sealed the envelope. He licked his fingers and put it out the window.

There's a strong sense of wind.

He put out the letter and the wind took it away.

"Please...save me..."

How long...can you fight?

How long...can you hope?

How long...can you believe?

How long...can you cry?

How long...can you live?

How long...will you be scared?

I'm sorry for this world.

REPLACED, Massacre Arc

Chapter 19: The Head Of The Family

Can you believe?

Game Tips

That letter is one of the most important keys of breaking fate. If it fell into the wrong hands, he would definitely die in vain...

...not sure who'll get it? Well, let's see about that.

The pieces will be together if this falls into the right hands. All will be solved from Mikey running away when he was 7 until now that the pieces are lost.

Where do you think are the pieces...?

Still not sure? Humans...

Imagine this: Mashimi's house is at Sean Bell Way in Queens, New York. Roosevelt High is just around the corner at Manhattan. During the day, the letter will land. At night, some of the lockers are usually opened and are closed before the school will open.

The question is: what do you think is the locker where the letter will land? There are 4985 lockers in there. They are not arranged orderly. In this school, they are arranged by last names. If, for example, lockers 456 and 457 are Gordon and Harley and Hanson comes, Hanson's locker will be 457 and Harley will be 458. Everyone after Hanson's locker will move. Among the 4985 lockers, 500 are vacant. Orley moved to Locker 2589 and all had to move to another locker recently. O'Neil is fifty numbers away from her. But then again, Abias moved to Locker 1 and everyone was forced to move lockers. Ten students: Ebon, Fabilon, Gervine, Houtson, Ienai, Jassime, Kogon, Leron, Marion and Nickels moved to various placed and everyone had to move ten lockers away from their locker when Orley moved. Then again, fifty students came in after the ten moved. Five were from the letter A, Ten from C, Twenty from S, Seven from B and Eight from E. What do you think is April's new locker number?

*cackle* *Cackle* *giggle*

SNEAK PEEK

TRAUMATIZED (sequel to Replaced)

Chapter: Ohagi

"Sir, what are you doing?"

Master Splinter looked at his wondering son. Recently, Splinter decided to introduce them to and Japanese dessert. It was sweet and delicious. Now, his wondering son was there, looking at the ingredients.

"I will make Ohagi. Would you like to help me?"

Mikey smiled. "Yes, sir."

Splinter smiled. It has been nine years ever since they did something together. Now was the chance.

"First, we need to put the glutinous rice and the Japanese rice together in a bowl. Michelangelo, will you kindly bring me the rice bowl?"

"Yes sir!"

Mikey eagerly looked for the rice bowl. He checked the third top shelf and found one.

"Is this the one, sir?"

Splinter got it from him.

"Yes, my son."He put both rice in the bowl and washed it with cold water. Michelangelo jumped down and watched the sensei wash the rice with cold water.

"Next, we need to put it in a colander for 30 minutes. Michelangelo, will you kindly fetch me the colander. It's on the table."

"Yes, sir."

Mikey got the colander and gave it to Splinter. Then, Splinter put the rice in the colander. He set it aside and sighed.

"Alright, Michelangelo. We'll get back to work at two."

Mikey nodded.

Both of them just sat at the couch with nothing to do. Mikey just stared at the television with nothing to do.

But Splinter looked at Michelangelo. Seeing him painfully reminded him of his daughter, Miwa.

In fact, they had the same eyes. Both them have those kind of eyes. Some of Michelangelo's actions reminded him of Miwa. So after those nine years, he tried to stay away from him so he could avoid the pain. But by avoiding him, he got the wrong path. Look at what happened now. His son ran away and now got traumatized because of Lucy, Jewis and his brother. He swore full vengeance on them…especially on his brother.

When it was two, they both stood up and headed towards the kitchen.

"Now, we need to put the rice in the cooker. Will you do the honors?"

"Yes, sir."

Then, Michelangelo put the rice from the colander to the rice cooker using a spatula. Carefully, he placed them all in the bowl. Then, he tossed both the colander and spatula onto the sink. Splinter plugged the cooker on and set it to Cook mode.

"Now what?"

"Now we need to add more ingredients. We'll put the ingredients for the toppings on separate bowls. We need three bowls."

"I'll do it, sir!"

Then, Michelangelo reached for the top shelf to get seven bowls. But he placed each bowl on the table near the sink. When he came down, Mikey started putting the walnuts, black sesame seeds and the kinako in separate bowls while Splinter put the anko and grounded sugar in separate bowls.

"For now, we'll mix the walnuts, sesame seeds and kinako with sugar. For the walnuts, we need two tablespoons of sugar. Michelangelo, I need a tablespoon."

"Yes, sir!"

Then, Mikey got the spoon. Splinter got it and added two tablespoons of sugar onto the walnuts. "Then, we need one and a half tablespoons of sugar for the sesame seeds. It is your turn."

"Yes, sir."

Then, Michelangelo put one tablespoon of sugar onto the black sesame seeds. Then, he got a teaspoon and added one teaspoon onto the black sesame seeds.

"Last thing we need is two tablespoons of sugar for the kinako."

This time, each put one tablespoon onto the kinako or soy bean powder.

Once the rice was cooked, Splinter put it to Steam mode.

"We'll let it steam for fifteen minutes. Meanwhile, we need to get the martar and pestle ready. I thinl Donatello has one of those. Will you kindly fetch one for me?"

Mikey nodded. "Yes, sir."

Then, he made his way to the lab.

"Donnie…?"

Donnie looked at Mikey at the door.

"Hey, Mike! What's up?"

Mikey rubbed his foot on the floor behind the other foot. "Sir needs a mortar and-"

"Mortar and pestle? Alright! Wait here."

Donnie stood up and went to the nearby cabinet. Bending down, he opened the cabinet and scanned for the mortar and pestle.

After a few minutes, Donnie handed it over to Mikey. "The mortar and pestle are inside this bag. Be careful on the way."

"Thanks, Donnie."

With that, Mikey left.

"Sir, I got it!"

Mikey handed the bag to Splinter. Splinter put out the mortar and pestle and placed them on the table.

"Now that the rice is steamed, we need to pound it until it's sticky."

Together, they put the rice in the pestle and pounded it with the mortar. They both pounded it at the same time.

After some time, the rice became sticky.

"Now for the final steps. We need to wet our hands first."

Then, both father and son wet their hands with water for two minutes. Once they were done, they went back to the table.

Splinter demonstrated the steps. First, he took the rice, made it into an oval ball and then coated it with the toppings. Once it was done, he placed it on a plate.

"Your turn. Since this makes thirty-two, I'll do fifteen more while you start doing sixteen. Can you do it?"

Mikey eagerly nodded and started one. He made the rice into an oval and coated it with different toppings.

Once it was done, both placed the two plates on the dining table.

"Michelangelo, will you call your brothers?"

"Yes sir!"

Mikey ran like a car to Donnie's.

"Donnie! Sensei said its snack time! We made something special!"

Donnie got alarmed from his laptop.

"Alright, Mikey. I'll be there."

Once Donnie went to the dining room, Mikey rushed to the dojo.

"Leo! Snack is ready!"

Leo looked at Mikey and smiled. He put his katana blades back to its place and smiled.

"Alright, Mike. Did get Donnie out of the lab?"

"Yes, Leo."

"Good. But you need to get Raph. He's in his room. Remember to knock first or you'll be flipped."

"Yes Leo."

"Alright. See ya, Mike!"

When Leo left, Mikey rushed to Raph's room.

Mikey knocked on Raph's room.

"Come in!"

Mikey slid the door open and went inside.

"Hey Raph."

Raph smiled and sighed. "Alright, Mikey. What do you want?"

"We made snack!"

Raph chuckled. "Alright, chucklehead. Let's go together. I think you called Leo and Donnie."

Mikey nodded. Raph stood up. "I'll bring Spike along."He brought Spike to his shoulder. Mikey jumped up and down as they left the room.

Soon, both went to the dining room.

"This is good, sensei! You and Mikey did a good job!"

Donnie Leo got their fifth ohagi by the time Raph, Spike and Mikey came in.

"Hey, Mikey! These are great!"Donnie said, getting another bite of the botamochi.

Raph and Mikey sat down.

"Well, Mike, taste."Raph said, getting a bite of the ohagi.

Mikey bit the ohagi. Soon enough, he finished the ohagi in ten seconds and got another one.

The rest smiled and enjoyed the ohagi.

"Sir…"

Splinter looked at the orange-clad turtle's smiling face. Splinter stood up and blew his meditation candles.

"Yes, Michelangelo?"

"Thanks, sir."

Splinter smiled.

"You're welcome, Michelangelo. But do not call me 'sir'. Call me 'father'."

Yey! We finally reached a nice ending for both stories. :3 And I rose back from the dead. Lol…!

So I want to thank you guys for the nice and warming reviews. You really made my day colorful just by reviewing. And today, I sit on my chair, typing this story while eating cookies.

And for the ohagi, I got that idea when I read my manga: Higurashi No Naku Koro Ni Abducted By Demons 2. This got me the ohagi idea. So, ohagi is a Japanese recipe. If you taste it, it's really delicious. But watch out (WARNING: MIGHT LOSE YOUR APPETITE): if you eat ohagi, check if there's a sewing needle. I got a bit paranoid because of Keiichi finding a needle in it. The cause of this is Rena. (While eating Ohagi E, Keiichi found blood inside him and got a sewing needle. When he thought Mion and Rena were going to kill him, he started throwing the ohagi on the kitchen wall.). End up like that and you'll start killing your friends…joke! But that's just a warning.

So, review! Luv to hear from you!

P.S. S***, this took me eleven pages?! Wow…!