Laughter, loud music and the blending of margaritas announced itself from Willow and now Riley's apartment.

The four young woman sat in the kitchen, an empty pizza box with a half empty pizza box laying on top. Willow snorted back in laughter as Riley explained a story about her and Keith, she insisted on telling as pay back from the early gang bang she got about Billy from all the girls.

Billy was sweet to her, and made her laugh. He wasn't the cleanest of people sure, but everyone has their faults. She really liked him and it's not as if her heart was falling. She wasn't the type to fall, not like her other friends did. She kept walls surrounding her, courtesy of her mother and abandonment issues she developed at a young age.

"So she calls me right, freaking out, saying she's going to ring him up by his balls when he got home because the dumb bitch he was fuckin' left her double D sized bra in his sofa!" Riley said as Willow shook her head laughing a little as Isabella was cracking up and Felicia pouring more strawberry flavored tequila in their glasses. "So ok, kicker! He comes back, all oh hi baby love you miss you…" She said making kissy noises as Willow covered her face with a laugh shoving her blonde friend. "And she's wasted. I mean trraassseeddd, ok? And goes off about how the bra could fit watermelons and its bigger than her head, she couldn't even fit two of hers in one cup…Right? And Keith's all, it's not mine! Must be his roommates. Will, buys it. She calls me back an hours later saying she was stupid, and he would never cheat on her. The kid could have got away with murder, bloody hands and everything and Will would have been all 'ok' and believe him." Riley finished throwing her arms in the air as Willow shrugged.

"Well, we all have to admit at least he was good at putting on a show." Felicia said sitting at the kitchen table.

"Fucker should work for David Blain." Riley said rolling her eyes as Willow chuckled.

"I was in love and all blinded and shit." She shrugged. "I didn't know any better."

"You were so blinded you didn't even listen to us." Isabella said as Felicia nodded her head vigorously.

"I know, but now I have something better and you all have to agree that its true." Willow said taking a bite of pizza and eyeing each one of her friends. They all smiled and nodded.

"He is sweet." Izzy shrugged.

"And loyal." Felicia added.

"Muscles aren't bad to look at either." Riley chuckled as Willow felt her face heat up.

"He's just…" She sighed happily as all her friends 'aw'ed in unison. Willow shook her head in a laugh.

"So what about marriage?" Felicia asked sipping her heavy liquored drink.

"Well…" Willow sighed jumping up on the counter and sipping her Margarita. "I kinda jumped on him with the idea out of know where. I think I scared him a little." She chuckled. "I do want to, but now thinking about it and letting everything settle, maybe we're not ready?"

"It's been five years, not ready for what?" Izzy said in a shrug as Felicia and Riley nodded.

"I don't know…"

"What's the real reasoning here?" Izzy asked arching a brow as Willow looked up at her.

"What do you mean?"

"Is it really you're not ready or because you want all those things, what did you call them? 'Materialistic' things, and you know with Leo you can't get them."

"I don't know." Willow groaned. "They're not worth losing him. And we can get married without that crap. It's like Sex and the City when Carrie wanted to marry Big and he asked her to turn around to see her face and she was all done up and looked like a porcelain doll and he freaked because that wasn't her. She let the material things run away with her instead of just a small courthouse wedding." She shrugged drinking her drink as all her friends looked at her with arched brows.

"Ok sweetie…" Izzy started. "That was a movie. This is your actual life, with Leo. Do you want to marry him?" She asked as Willow nodded her head slowly. "Do you love him?" She nodded her head again. "Then you're fine. If it's not feeling right, right now, then it will soon enough.

"Maybe it could be because of the fact that he seemed taken aback from it?" Felicia added.

"Exactly." Izzy said clapping her heads. "See my dear, no worries." She smiled rubbing Boba's head as she perched it on Izzy's knee. "Hello my girl." She said in a baby voice. "How are those beautiful teeth doing?" She asked picking up Boba's chop and checking her teeth. "Oh they're just beautiful yes they are." She said rubbing the dogs head as her tail wagged.

"That's gross, wash your hands." Riley said sipping her drink as Izzy rolled her eyes.

"Dogs mouths are the cleanest mouths." Izzy defended as Felicia nodded her head.

"True." She said pointing towards Izzy as Willow rolled her eyes.

"Ok, how come Boba always steals my spotlight?" She asked as the dog looked up at her, sitting and wagging her tail. "You're a attention grabbing whore, yes you are!" Willow said in a happy baby tone as Boba wagged her tail faster.

Four shadows moved across the roof tops of the City, quickly and unseen listening intently over the roaring of cars, pounding of music and honking of horns for the one inconspicuous scream of help.

Stopping at an edge of a line of roof tops, Leonardo looked along the Sky line feeling a small smile crawl onto his face. Michelangelo wasn't far behind as he heard his litter brother's slowing foot steps behind him, then the orange tails of his mask wisp beside him from the wind. Raphael was next with Donatello leaping forward using the leverage of his bo staff to force himself ahead. Raph smirked a little nudging his smarty brother's head as he walked up beside Leo, crossing his arms and staring out at the lights ahead.

"Something seem off to you guys?" Leo asked furrowing his brow as Mikey shrugged.

"Nah, just slow." He said as Raph and Don looked at one another with more shrugs.

"Yeah bro, why what's up?"

"Could be just me?" He sighed as Donnie arched a brow.

"What's going on Leo?" He asked as he turned to sit on the ledge looking towards his eldest brother. Leo sighed again, leaning down and bracing his arms against the cold concrete ledge.

"Willow asked about marriage." He sighed.

"Whoa bro, really?" Mikey asked with a growing smile as Leo nodded his head.

"Congratulations." Donnie said with a smile now too as Raph just grunted in response, moving to the other side of the roof top. "Did you two like set a date?"

"No, we barely even talked about it. She kinda just jumped on me about it. I got a little, I don't know unnerved…"

"Yeah, God help 'im if a woman he loves wants to be wit 'em." Raph said over his shoulder as Leo straightened himself out and looked over his shoulder.

"It's more complicated than that Raph." Leo said in defense as Raph rolled his eyes.

"You love 'er?"

"Of course I do." Leo said crossing his arms and Raph faced the eldest.

"Then there ain't a problem, you're jus' too stupid to realize what you got." He said narrowing his eyes.

"I'm sorry that what happened with you and Mere…" Donnie stood up quickly and stood between the eldest.

"Oh, hey, did you guys hear that?" He asked as Mikey sat up furrowed his brow.

"No bro, what?" He asked as Donnie glared at him.

"I don't need your pity." Raph said stepping towards Leo and Donnie. Donnie looked over his shoulder at Leo as his eyes were narrowed solely on Raph.

"I don't pity you Raph." Leo said as Raph shoved him back harshly. Leonardo got back to his feet as Raphael sung at him. Ducking from the near blow Leonardo grabbed Raph around the waist and tackled him to the ground.

"Guys c'mon we don't…" Mikey said as he sighed looking back towards the roof tops ahead. He furrowed his brow nudging Donnie's arm as the smarty brother looked up. "That can't be what I think it is dude, can it?" He asked as Donnie squinted a little furrowing his brow.

"I-I'm not sure Mikey." He said as he turned back towards his fighting brothers. "Hey!" He yelled as Leonardo and Raphael moved away from one another, breathing heavily before turning towards their younger brothers.

"What?" They both yelled in unison as Mikey pointed to a neighboring roof top.

"Saw something." He said as Leonardo furrowed his brow moving towards the ledge.

"What?'

"Something moved over there." Donnie said placing a hand on his bo staff and sliding it slowly from his shell.

"That doesn't mean nothin'." Raph scoffed as they all turned around quickly hearing feet land from a long jump ahead of them in the shadows.

"I don't see how you can deal with it really." Felicia said as all the girls moved to the living room. Willow sat on the couch, a pillow on her lap as Felicia laid back next to her. Izzy sat in a old Victorian chair that Willow's grandmother gave her when she first moved in a kept as Riley laid on her back tossing a ball for Boba, the dog running into the hallway and totting back, her tail wagging.

"With what?" Willow asked watching the moving that played on her TV of a happy couple walking in Central Park. She sighed to herself perching her elbow on the arm of the couch and resting her head in her palm.

"The whole defending the night thing." Felicia clarified, watching the movie as well, before turning towards her best friend.

"It's very Bruce Wayne." Riley said from the floor as Izzy chuckled.

"Except they're not known by anyone, ever and their work pretty much goes unnoticed. Their good deeds and credit fall into the hands of the dumbass cops in this city." Willow said slightly angered as she rolled her eyes at the couple on her TV giggling and kissing and clicked to another channel.

"And Leo doesn't look like Christian Bale." Izzy laughed.

"Good thing." Willow said.

"What do you think he'd look like as a human?" Felicia asked as Willow furrowed her brow turning towards her.

"I don't know, I never thought of it." She shrugged.

"He'd be so jacked!" Riley said as Willow smirked.

"He's already jacked."

"Yeah but, like really cut abs ya know. And that little indent thingy guys get on their lower stomach." She said sitting up and motioning towards her stomach showing where it would be. The girls laughed as Izzy nodded her head.

"That's true, he'd be very attractive."

"Having a nice body doesn't make you attractive." Willow said arching a brow.

"Yeah, it only adds to the extra stuff Leo already has going for 'im." Felicia said. "I mean you guys can't tell me you don't think they're slightly attractive?" She said as Willow's eyes widened, Riley and Izzy both shrugging sheepishly.

"Who? Which one?" Willow asked turning her full attention towards her slightly drunk best friend. Felicia giggled and sat up.

"Well…Donnie's really smart and he gets this adorable look on his face when he's thinking." She shrugged as Riley sat up quickly, placing a hand to her head to steady the spinning feeling.

"You like Donnie? Are you serious?" She asked as Izzy sat forward, all the attention on Felicia.

"Well, not just Donnie. I mean he's really sweet and kind of innocent but…"

"Raph!" Willow said pointing to her dark haired friend as Felicia's face turned completely red.

"No, I don't know? I mean, he's all mad and like passionate about stuff…" She shrugged. "He has that intense look to 'im and, I don't know, this is silly." She said shaking her head and putting a pillow on her lap and hugging it to her body slightly embarrassed.

"No, no, no it's not!" Willow said trying to egg her friend on. "C' mon, Raph is pretty intense. When I first met him I felt the same. I even used to have sex dreams 'bout 'im. None of you better ever, ever tell Leo that!" She said pointing to her friends as they all nodded their heads.

"I had one too." Izzy spoke up as all the girl's heads whipped around towards her.

"What?!" They all exclaimed as her face now grew red.

"Donnie was in a lab coat." She shrugged as Riley burst out in laughter. "Shut up." Izzy said chucking a pillow at her blonde friend.

"Raph was fixing my truck." Felicia shrugged.

"Oh jesus, you're all crazy." Riley laughed as three more pillow were thrown at her.

"Is that what you think?" Willow asked slightly pissed. "I'm crazy for loving a guy who treats me really good. The best I've ever been treated ever in any relationship? The guy I'm going to marry, I'm crazy for loving him?" Riley sighed shaking her head.

"That's not what I meant. They're good guys, I love 'em all. It's just…"

"You start to see past it." Willow said sitting back on the couch, her arms still crossed.

"I can see how you can." Riley shrugged. "I just haven't gotten that close to them yet I guess?"

"I haven't either." Izzy spoke up. "Oh God…" She said putting a hand to her head. "I had a sex dream 'bout a turtle." Riley snorted back in laughed as Felicia slowly joined in. Willow looked towards her red headed friend trying to suppress a laugh as all the girls were soon laughing.

"It can't be her can it?" Mikey asked softly, leaning in towards his eldest brother. His chucks tight in his grasp at ready as his brothers all had their weapons exposed looking at the figures ahead of them.

"I can't tell yet." Leonardo said turning towards his brother with a glare. "Stay focused Mike." He said in a harsh whisper as the figures ahead of them started to slowly walk forward.

The brothers all stepped back, gripping their weapons tightly in front of them at ready, waiting for the threat to show themselves.

"It's been many years, turtles." Karai said as she stood with five Foot Ninja coming out of the shadows behind her. All the brothers bent their knees as they watched the older woman before them stand steady, and unmoving as the wind blew her jet black hair wildly beside her.

"Karai." Leonardo growled as she looked towards the blue clad turtle with a small smile.

"Leonardo, you look well." She said taking a step forward as the brothers took one back. She smirked darkly at their hast step back, stopping and placing her arms tightly at her sides.

"What are you doing here Karai?" Leonardo asked darkly as she turned back towards the eldest.

"Business." She said simply.

"Where's daddy dearest?" Mikey asked as her face dropped slowly.

"My father is dead." She said raising her head slowly and keeping her gaze steadily on Leonardo's. He furrowed his brow slowly as his brother's all looked amongst one another.

"Another trick Karai?" Leo asked as she shook her head.

"Sadly. No." She said taking in a slow breath.

"Someone took down the Shredder? I don't believe it." Donnie said as Karai chuckled sadistically.

"Please Donatello, you believe my father would be taken down by anything other than the laws of fate? He died because of health reasons, in his sleep last year." She said trying to keep her voice straight as Leo shook his head.

"He's been in hiding for years now, and he only died last year? That doesn't make any sense." Leonardo said as Karai arched a brow slightly.

"I do not ask for you to believe me Leonardo."

"What business are you doing?" Donnie said as she smiled at the purple clad turtle.

"I am to take over the empire my father had built and keep it running, better than my father had." She said sure of herself as the brothers looked to one another confused before turning back towards the Japanese woman.

"What does this have to do with us?" Leonardo asked.

"My Father is dead." She said darkly as the turtles all glared back. "He had a vendetta to be settled with your turtles that in those years of preparing and waiting his life was taken…"

"You're starting something your Father himself couldn't finish Karai. Are you sure you want to stand up to that kind of challenge?" Leonardo asked, his voice strong as it was carried over the wind blowing heavily over the roof tops on his Fall evening.

Karai nearly let her lips turn upward into a sick smile as she reached behind her slowly slipping a blade from it's hold on her back, all the Foot behind her following suit.

"Your words mock me, and my Father." She growled. "You shall no longer have these wicked words leave your wretched tongue, turtle! You shall all perish on the tip of my Father's blade and he will be avenged!" She cried before charging towards Leonardo as he swiftly pulled out his katana, stopping her blade with his.

The bottle of Tequila gone as the girls all laughed at Wayne and Garth as they rocked out to Bohemian Rhapsody. Willow stood up and rocked out with an air guitar as Izzy leaned back in her chair, her head hanging over the arm as she laughed at her friend.

"So you think you can stone me and spit in my eye?" She squealed the words of Freddy Mercury as Riley stood up doing air drums.

"So you think you can love me and leave me to die?" Riley sang back just as badly as Felicia and Izzy both started head banging jumping up with their friends and dancing around Willow's living room.

The laughing and song died away as the girls fell back into their seats, still giggling softly as Willow sighed looking towards her fire escape. Furrowing her brow she got up quickly feeling her body sober up a bit.

"Oh my God!" She exclaimed hurrying to the window as she opened it and helped Donatello in through the window. The girls all looked up as Izzy's eyes widened and she got up quickly from her seat, stumbling a bit as she helped Willow with Donnie.

"Oh my, what happened?" She asked as Riley and Felicia got from their seats and helped the other brothers.

"Foot." Donnie said in pained words as his arm was bleeding slightly. Mikey walked in next limping a bit as Felicia let his arm hook around her shoulder, pulling him to sit on the couch. Raph was next as Riley went to help but he held up a bloody hand refusing it and stepping in himself, placing his hand back over his gushing wound.

"I'm going to start some coffee." Riley said with slightly slurred words as Willow nodded her head having Leonardo come in through the window. He wasn't as badly beaten as his brothers. A few bruises on his shoulders and a slight cut on his bicep but nothing more.

"The Foot are back?" She asked with wide eyes as he looked at her and closed her window locking it and pulling the blinds.

"This was a warning." He said mostly to his brothers as they all looked up nodding their heads slowly. "We'll be better prepared now that we know what's going on."

"Do we?" Mikey asked as Leonardo sighed placing a hand over his forehead.

"We know they're back, that's enough Michelangelo!" Leonardo snapped as Mikey sighed putting his head down.

"They're faster." Donnie said from the kitchen as Izzy helped wrap his arm to stop the blood. Izzy looked up at his face worried and over her shoulder at Willow as she sighed running a hand through her hair.

"As they should be, Karai is leading them." Leonardo said darkly as he sat in the nearest seat, being a windowsill. Willow kept by his side rubbing his arm softly in calming manner. He grabbed her hand to stop her and just held it in his own.

"Karai?" Willow repeated as Leonardo nodded his head slowly.

"Who's Karai?" Izzy asked as Willow nodded her head.

"Yeah? Who… She's a Ninja?" She asked as Leonardo nodded his head again, glaring at the floor ahead of him.

"You never told her 'bout Karai?" Raphael chuckled as Willow furrowed her brow turning towards the red clad turtle. She sighed watching blood seep from his fingers as she walked into the kitchen and taking some things from the medicine kit Izzy had taken out and walking back towards the second eldest. He moved back from her as she grabbed his arm harshly and sat him down.

"I'll use force tough guy, now stay." She said as he sighed and removed his bloody hand. She wiped an alcohol soaked cloth over the wound as he hissed slightly.

"Jesus, what the fuck are ya using, a brillo pad?" He asked as she glared at him wiping harder. "I can't believe you never told her." Raph said with a slight smirk as Willow turned her head towards Leonardo.

"It never came up." He shrugged as Raph let out a puff of air.

"Please. You're still livin' in that mistake." He scoffed as Leo narrowed his eyes slightly.

"There wasn't anything to be a mistake."

"Who is Karai?!" Willow asked slightly more irritated as she crossed her arms facing Leonardo. He sighed running a hand over his face.

"Alright. She was…"

"Fearless' ex." Raph chuckled as Leo rolled his eyes.

"What? How come I never…You never mentioned…I thought that…" Willow stopped and looked down, her brow furrowing deeply before turning back towards Leo. "Did you plan on tellin' me this?"

"There is nothing to tell." He shrugged before sitting up from the windowsill. "She was an enemy that I mistook for an ally that is all."

"And this ally, did we have a thing for miss ally." She asked arching an eye brow as Leo shook his head with another long, over drawn sigh.

"No. It was mistaken by a select few…" He said raising his eyes in a glare to meet his red clad brother as Raph smirked. "However, no I did not."

"Bullshit. You had it so bad for her you couldn't even lead us in missions sometimes." He said crossing his arms as Mikey chuckled.

"Yeah bro…You were pretty hung up." He said from the couch as he hissed slightly from him pushing his shoulder back in its socket.

"I was not. I was just young and foolish. She had a deceiving character about her and made me believe that she was to be trusted, we all know she was not and I know that…"

"Yeah, now." Willow said looking at him as Donnie shrugged.

"Living in this denial isn't a good way of moving on from it Leo." He said as Leo rolled his eyes walking into the kitchen.

"I am not in denial, nor was I ever romantically involved with Karai or had said romantic feelings for Karai."

"Ya know, when you talk all smart like that you're hiding your real feelings just to allure us in your pretty dialect that you might be hiding something." Willow said watching him walk into her kitchen. He stopped and looked over his shoulder.

"Why would I lie to you?"

"Maybe because you didn't even know to begin with I mean you barely knew you were in love with me until I had to spell it out for you." She said with a shrug. "Was she a ninja?" She asked looking back towards the brothers as they all nodded.

"Yeah, deadly and very good. Almost as good as Leo." Donnie said as Izzy made a face in a grimace.

"Wow…" Felicia said chewing on her cheek nervously.

"Yeah, she wasn't bad to look at either." Mikey smirked as Willow picked her head up looking towards the couch where the beaten youngest brother sat.

"Like, real pretty?" She asked softly as Mikey looked over the back of the couch towards the worried brunette and smiled.

"Not nearly as pretty as you babe. I mean, no one has an ass like yours." He winked as everyone groaned and Raph got from the chair and smacked him upside the head. "Ow, dude! Broken!" He said motioning towards his shoulder.

"Too bad ya mouth isn't." Raph grunted, sitting on the chair next to the couch.

"Thank you." Leo called from the kitchen as Willow rolled her eyes. She looked at Izzy and Donnie as they both nodded. Izzy took Donnie by his arm, helping him up from his chair smiling meekly as he returned it, following her tiredly to the couch.

Willow sighed as she looked at Leonardo, leaning heavily on the sink. She walked over to him jumping up onto the counter next to the sink and looked over at him.

"I didn't love her." He said softly as she nodded her head. "She was just, she was something I've never seen before and her skill was amazing. It nearly matched mine like Donnie said but graceful and beautiful could better describe the difference between us. She was something I lusted after, not truly wanting but was always curious about." He said keeping his eyes on his hands gripping onto the rim of the sink.

"Did you two ever…"

"Yes."

"Oh…" Willow said chewing on her bottom lip as Leo slowly leaned his weight from his arms and raised his eyes to meet Willow's face. He looked over his shoulder to see if any of his brother's were lingering in the doorway and saw no one. He couldn't live with them knowing this secret he's kept down for years. With a sigh he picked Willow's head to look at him.

"It was a after a battle, she was captured by Bishop and his men and I had do something. The guys thought it best to leave her, but I just…" He sighed again. "I couldn't. So anyways, after all that we went home and I decided to go out for a patrol, clear my head. I didn't realize I was looking for her until I made my way to the Foot headquarters." He said slightly lowering his voice so the others couldn't hear in the next room. "I sat on the neighboring roof top for an hour before I heard her behind me. We didn't say anything, she just kind of came at me."

Leonardo narrowed his eyes on her dark ones, as her jet black hair blowing along with her blood red bandanna. He placed his hand at the hilt of his katana sliding it slowly from the hold as she growled running at him. He was about to strike as she pushed the blade aside with her palm, wrapping her arms around his strong shoulders and bringing her lips tightly to his. Pulling away, confused and bewildered Leonardo took a quick step back. She brought one forward, grabbing his hands and placing them at her waist. Sliding the bandanna from her hair she reached at the hem of her shirt, pulling it over her head. Leonardo's eyes wondered over her milky smooth skin before meeting her eyes covered in lust as he felt his knees almost buckle. Without another thought he grabbed her by the back of the thighs, hoisting her body up on his and slammed her back hard against a heating duct.

"Before I knew it, we were…She threatened to slit my throat if I spoke I word to anyone and was gone." He sighed. "I never meant to lie to you." Willow smirked a little tilting her head to catch his gaze as he brought his eyes slowly to hers.

"Tiger, we weren't together yet. I mean that was how long ago? Keith and I had sex so many times I can't even…"

"Alright, alright." Leo said waving his hand and putting his head back down. Willow chuckled softly kissing him on top of the head and lifting it back up.

"I mean it's…Well I don't want to say weird, but yeah I guess weird works. It's weird that you had this, thing. I wanted to know everything about you and that included almost love affairs."

"It was far from that. One night stand is probably a better phrase." He said rolling his eyes up to her as she smirked a little.

"Alright, but still. I mean…You believed her to be pretty and apparently you are into Asian chicks and I mean I don't blame you, they're hot." She shrugged as Leo hung his head a little with a groan. "What, they are!" She said in a chuckle as he took his hands and grabbed her around the waist pulling her against him. She yelped with surprise as he pushed his lips to hers.

"I want you." He said softly as he rested his forehead on hers. She smiled kissing him back.

"I want you too but I mean its fine to have a fetish." She shrugged. "It's the same thing when you like um…ya know, tie me up sometimes." She said with a smirk as he smiled back.

"I think my only fetish is you."

"That's adorable and all Tiger, but highly irrelevant. You don't think if I wore like a black tight dress with those chopstick thingies in my hair, in a tight bun, with cherry blossoms on it I'd be sexy? Or, if I was in one of those long silky robes…"

"A kimono." He said pressing his face into the nape of her neck as she smiled, sighing softly to the feeling of his beak nuzzle her skin.

"Yeah that, with nothing else underneath and…" He pushed his lips back to hers, fiercer this time, having her head roll in a kiss with his as she clasped her hands around the back of his neck.

"Alright so when are your friends leaving?" He asked in a pant as she giggled.

"They're drunk and your brothers are wounded." She said as he sighed. "Don't use sex as an excuse to ignore the big issue here."

"But, it's such a good excuse." He said arching an eye ridge as she rolled her eyes with a smile. Kissing his lips again, she jumped from the counter rubbing his arms.

"I love you Tiger." She said softly as he kissed her again.

"Love you."

"C'mon, let's get some blankets and pillows for the living room pow wow we will be holding for these free loaders." She said in a chuckle as he smiled and followed her into her hallway closet.