A/N: *hanging from a shelf* Uh, Stephanie, can you help me here?

Stephanie: *looks up at me* Still didn't find them?

Just get me down.

Stephanie: You got up there. You can get down.

I'm scared of heights!

Stephanie: *looks at you guys* Think she's competent enough to own a whole franchise?

Donnie smiled to himself as he completed a new project. There was always a sense of satisfaction when he completed something. Whenever he completed something, it felt like it became a part of him.

…if that was the case, then the toaster was well on its way to becoming his twin.

Oh well. It wasn't anyone's fault it broke every time Leo touched it.

Don shook the thought out of his mind before getting up to go find his brothers. He couldn't wait to show this to them!

…Now where were they? They weren't in the living room…maybe the bedrooms? He hadn't heard any yelling in a while, so it would make sense for Raph to not be in the same room as Leo or Mikey. That or Splinter was in the same room as them and Raph didn't want to get in trouble for fighting with his brothers. Again.

Hm…maybe they were in the dojo then? Ugh…why were his brothers so unpredictable? Just when he thought he understood how they worked, they would do something like this where he had no clue where they were or what they were doing.

Well, the dojo was as good a place to start as any.

Donnie took a deep breath before walking over to their practice room. He didn't know why, but he had a bad feeling about what they were doing. He couldn't figure out why it was there, but it was.

He attempted to shake it out, but as he reached out to open the door (that's strange, wasn't it normally open?), the voice of his oldest brother stopped him.

"Guys, you're overreacting. I don't see why this is a problem."

'Well that answers the question of where they are…what could they be talking about though? Hm…' Don thought to himself in a whir of thoughts. With that in mind, the genius of the family got as close as he could to the door without anyone knowing he was there (harder than it seemed in a family of ninjas) and attempted to listen in to the conversation so that he could find out what was going on.

"You're kidding, right?" Pause. "He's gotta be kidding."

So that meant Raph was in there as well, and possibly Mikey or Splinter judging by Raph's comment.

"Stop it, Raph. Mikey doesn't see the problem."

"Actually, Leo…"

Yep, it was Mikey in there with them.

"See?!"

"…I don't really agree with either of you."

"Huh?"

"What?"

Donnie rolled his eyes to himself. Someday their older brothers would understand that Mikey wasn't as stupid as they thought and wasn't just a blind follower when it came to serious things.

"I mean, I see where Leo's coming from, but it has caused some difficulties…But it's not like-"

"He's messed up, Mikey! Why can't you two see that?!"

Oh boy…were they talking about him?

"That's not true, Raph! He's just a little different. Besides, it's not like he can help it. It's just who he is."

"Of course, that's just like you to act as if you know more than you think about us."

"I never do that. Donnie just happened to tell me about what's going on and didn't want me to tell you guys."

Yep. They were talking about him.

Without wanting to hear another word, Don turned and started walking off. Of course, that had to be the moment Mikey chose to walk out of the room so that he wouldn't get caught up in another fight between Raph and Leo.

"Donnie? Are you alright?" The brown-eyed turtle turned to look at his younger brother for a fraction of a second, but it was long enough for Mikey to see the pain in those chocolate orbs.

'He didn't hear what we were talking about, did he?' the youngest of the group thought to himself, but he knew the answer to that question already.

"I'm gonna go step out for a bit. I'll be back in time for patrol."

Mikey tried to stop his brother, but Leo had noticed what was going on outside the dojo and grabbed the baby of the family to stop him.

"Leo?"

"Leave him, Mikey. I'll talk to him later, and maybe then he'd be willing to let you guys know what's going on." Mikey gave a small nod and pulled his shoulder out of Leo's grip so that he could go to sit down on the couch and watch TV.

Leo sighed to himself and leaned against the wall as he closed his eyes in thought. He'd been keeping this a secret from the others for a while now, and perhaps that may not work anymore.

A/N: *holding an ice pack* Hey, guys, sorry about that. I kinda accidentally lost most (translation: all) of my stories, so I was looking...And yeah...So, um, odds are I may post at like, 11 at night tomorrow...^^'

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