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Song for this Fic: Iris as performed by the GooGooDolls

Leo and his brothers are 32 years old. Tony is 37.

**Warning** This fic contains something that may be disturbing to some. Please if you choose to read do not flame this fic but rather comment concerning the quality of the writing.**

Chapter 20: In Which We Sing

Uen's POV

I'm trembling at the table across from Karai I'm wearing a simple black dress with red trim.

She is dressed in a slim fitting uniform of the Foot with her Tanto resting beside her plate.

I know she wants to kill me or pull me to her side and I am shaking with the terror of it.

I can't fight her, I could try I guess, but I'd never win.

"I am sorry Uen that Chapman took you," Karai starts sweetly, "I do hope that the lies he told you can be forgiven and you come to understand the truth."

"The truth?" I hear myself whisper fearfully.

"Yes," Karai replies, "The truth is that Chapman stole you my dear. Your mother wanted to help Bishop and when Chapman couldn't convince her to leave he took you. I cannot imagine the lies he told you about me and the others."

"I-" my reply is cut off when one of Karai's men slips in and leans over to whisper in her ear.

My father? I wonder.

I hope he's ok, I hope Kyogen hasn't hurt him.

"Bring them in," Karai orders, "and bring the queer."

I flinch at her harsh tone towards Tony.

I glance down while she is distracted and spot the knife set out for our food. After flicking my gaze up to make sure she doesn't see I snatch the knife and fold it into the skirt of my dress to hide it.

The door opens and I whimper when I see Leonardo forced inside and down to his knees with his hands bound behind his back.

Kyogen stands over him, gripping our father's sheathed blades in a fist.

Oh no, please no…Kyogen…don't…

Then his gaze flicks over to me for a brief moment and he gives the slightest of nods.

My eyes widen slightly before I look away heart pounding in my chest.

Then Tony is brought in and forced to his knees with a blade at his throat, he's covered in bruises and blood and horribly pale.

Leo grits his teeth and his eyes blaze like fire.

"Karai," he grates out.

Karai turns to look at him, finger inspecting the edge of her blade, before she frowns down at him.

Her green eyes look cruel and I hold back a whimper of fear.

"Hello Leonardo," she states stiffly.

"Why all of this?" Leo grunts, "We had a truce…we resolved all of this."

Karai's eyes narrow in anger.

"Do you remember that you killed my father?" She grates out, "Do you think that I would forget that?"

My father frowns before replying.

"We agreed that it was the best course of action Karai. He had to be stopped," Leo states.

"Even so, there was an unfulfilled part of the truce Leonardo," she replies before turning to look at Tony with a smirk, touching the tip of her blade to his chest.

The ninja holding the blade to Tony's throat twitches slightly, causing a trickle of blood to roll down Tony's throat.

My father looks lost.

"Everything was fulfilled in the truce…I don't understand-" Leo growls, "Karai what are you talking about?"

Karai looks over her shoulder at him.

"Splinter stated that there would be a marital alliance two years after the truce of both Jonin of the clans. What a pity that I learned that the Jonin of the Hamato clan was a queer and already engaged in a relationship with another man," Karai sneers, "Which dissolves the truce, therefore allowing me to take my revenge for my father's death."

My father's eyes widen in shock.

"Karai…that truce was set before I left for Peru…before my father ever knew about me," he grates out, "I was never told about that part of the truce. I never agreed to it."

Karai frowns.

"Regardless of your agreement or acknowledgement of it, you signed the forms," Karai rebukes, "You are responsible for this."

She cocks her head at Tony and smirks.

"Too bad he'll have to die, I'm almost prone to keep him as a pet," she laughs coldly.

Tony squirms slightly, chest heaving a little.

"Karai…don't do this," Leo pleads softly, "You know that your father needed to die and you know that I knew nothing of the agreement. Why wait all this time?"

"Many reasons, but mostly to watch you squirm when you realized that being what you are cost you what you loved," Karai replied, "After tonight Leonardo, your…pet…your brothers, and their families will all die. And it will be your fault."

"Karai, I never agreed to that deal, it wasn't my deal," Leo states, "You can't hold that against me…Karai we can start a new truce!"

"The new deal is that you get to fight a duel to the death," Karai answers, "If you win we allow you to leave for now, but the war shall be renewed, there is no truce. If you lose, I will kill every member of your family in front of you until only you are left and then I shall kill you."

"Kick her ass Leo," Tony grates out.

Karai laughs mockingly.

"I'm afraid you will not be fighting me Leonardo…Kyogen kill him," Karai orders.

"No!" I gasp out desperately.

Kyogen stiffens, eyes widening, then he frowns and squeezes his eyes shut.

"No," he whispers.

Karai jerks as if slapped.

"Kyogen!" she hisses, "I gave you an order!"

"I won't do it," Kyogen says a little louder, "I'm better…better than you."

With that he steps back from our father with a shake of his head.

Karai snarls angrily and then turns to look at Tony.

"Kill him," she orders.

"NO!" Leo screams, launching himself forward as he cuts the ropes around his wrists with a hidden blade.

Everything moves in slow motion Karai turns and swings her blade towards my father's neck as he dives for Tony.

The ninja holding Tony hostage jerks his blade and blood splatters the floor.

Kyogen lurches forward, leaping over our father and lashing out at Karai.

Then I realize I'm screaming just as my father catches Tony's crumpling body and Kyogen blocks Karai's attack on our father.

"Tony!" I hear my father shriek, "NO!"

The man is limp in my father's arms and I see the tears through the rage filled gaze.

Kyogen and Karai are fighting, twisting and screaming at each other, desperately trying to subdue the other.

My gaze jerks back to my father in a brief shocked look.

"KARAI!" he roars.

He is terrifying and suddenly I become aware of why he has his nickname—"The Blue Demon"—gone is the calm, collected warrior and replacing him is something that scares me to the core.

His golden-brown eyes are blazing gold, fists clenched, and covered in Tony's blood, he no longer looks friendly.

He moves like lightening as he attacks, throwing a fist just as he reaches Karai, knocking her off balance.

I don't even remember moving, but I'm pressing my hands frantically to Tony's gaping wound and crying.

He's not breathing.

Oh please don't let this be happening…please.

I am pushed aside as Kyogen drops down beside me and quickly starts CPR after binding up Tony's upper chest and neck.

"Live Dammit!" I hear him choke out desperately, "Please."

I turn and see my father and Karai still fighting, none of her warriors daring to get between them.

"I can fight," I hear myself whisper weakly, "I can help."

I don't remember moving but suddenly I'm holding one of Kyogen's blades and Karai's head is rolling as her body crumples to the floor.

My father is staring at me in shock, frozen in midswing.

"Uen?" he whispers.

It's the last thing I remember before fainting.

So much blood…

A/N: O.O! Please review folks! One more chappie left!