Disclaimer: Not mine, someone else's.

Title: TMNT: Mafioso.

Rating: T

Pairings: April/Casey…. Cuz they're already together, reviewers can suggest a few other ones.

Genre: Crime/Family…. It can be considered a little bit humor too

Summary: Splinters dead, Michaelangelo is the new leader of the Dragon-Foot clan, Leonardo is a bartender, Raphael is a loan-shark and Donatello's gone rogue turtle. Anything else? Oh, well Casey and April own a nightclub if it means anything….

The Ancient One hummed a tune to himself as he carried through the woods – it was currently dusk and the creatures of the day were down to a quiet sigh as they fell asleep and the creatures of the night were beginning to stir.

He continued to trudge through the woods, slowly and calmly, and soon he saw a farmhouse and barn coming into view – a smile curled on the Ancient Ones aged face as he neared the Jones' farmhouse. Though, he did not go directly to the farmhouse – he instead went several kilometers away to a certain area behind the barn in the woods. There was a meadow, and square in the center was a gravestone looming out of the soil.

Ancient One rested a lotus flower and a small cluster of cherry blossoms on the grave. "Rest well, my friend." Ancient One said and he read the grave, giving Splinters name and date of his death, along with a single message.

True Father, True sensei, True Ninja: To the end, he was with us.

Then, Ancient One noticed something he had not noticed before; there was Splinter's walking stick staked into the ground next to the gravestone, and four strips of cloth were tied onto it. In this order from top to bottom it was orange, red, blue and purple. Ancient One instantly knew that there were the turtles masks.

"What is the meaning of that?" Ancient One wondered to himself; the turtles never took off their masks, not even while they were asleep, Ancient One knew this from experience with Leonardo having trained under him for a period of time.

Ancient One plucked the masks gingerly from the stick and stored them under his robe; he realized that something had happened after Splinters death.

"Hi El!" Cody said cutely as El came into the Jones' apartment through the window. Leo looked at El from the chair he was sitting on the couch with Shadow sitting on her lap, he nodded because he never talked.

"Hey kid." El said and messed up Cody's thick mop of red hair – Cody inherited the majority of his looks from April and held an almost dead-on resemblance the Cody Jones of the year 2105, if fact, the only thing that convinced El that it wasn't future Cody, was that this Cody had blue eyes like Casey, instead of green ones.

"What are you covered in?" Shadow asked as she looked away from the cartoon she was watching "And why do you smell bad?" She asked in a nasal voice since she was plugging her nose. Leo gave her a disapproving look for being rude but said nothing like always. Shadow resembled Casey a little but her looks were a bit off from both of her parents; her hair was dark brown and her eyes were dark green.

El plopped on the couch next to Leo and narrowed his eyes "Mikey dug anotha' pit trap." He spat out with venom "And ya know what was at da bottom of da pit? Used cat litta' an' rottin' fish! My sense 'a smell is gonna be out fo'a week, and dat ain't all; once I climbed out, a group 'a his Dragon-Foot ninja attacked me! They a lot harda' to beat since Mike started trainin' them…."

"El?" Cody asked as he played with a toy train "Why is Mikey evil?"

"Mike ain't evil." El flatly announced "Mike is crazy…. I'm not even gonna hold back; Mike off his rocka' and clear outta his mind. But he ain't evil, Mikey could never be really evil."

"He used to be really nice when I was little." Shadow reminded; Shadow was seven years old and Cody was six, Shadow had been three at the time before Mikey went off the deep end. She still remembered a tiny bit, but Cody was too young at the time to really remember. "Why is he crazy now?"

Surprisingly, Leo was the one who answered "Because of me." He admitted in his scratchy voice.

"What?" Shadow blinked "What happened?"

"It's a long story….." El said, and he and Leo started it.

"Hey, Doc." Renet poked at Doc's side as he tinkered with a damaged device Mikey had given to him from the Dragon-Foot lab.

"What it is, Ren?" He asked, somewhat annoyed.

"What happened to you, and your like, bro's anyways? You guys were like, so close and all, but now you're all separated and stuff. Why is that?"

A pain sharp as a needle shot through Doc's heart "You don't know?" He inquired in a strained voice, like he had to force the words out.

"Nope, enlighten me."

Doc swallowed; a woman once said that shame was heavier than a hundred bags of salt, the same applied for nostalgia. Doc began the story.

"Yo, nutcase. Wake up." Angel shook Mikes shoulder – he had, again, fallen asleep in the middle of writing a report. Stealing the Dragon-Foot clan from Oroku Saki also meant he had stolen his corporations, and having no experience in business he used Doctor Chaplin as the CEO while he studied Business…. Meaning he had to go to online college and study to get a degree.

"Wha…?" Mike wiped the dried drool from the corner of his mouth "Angel, what do you want? I'm trying to finish my report…" He said with a yawn, pretending he had not just been asleep.

"Since you're not doing your report, why don't you tell me why your families all messed up now; telling your ninja-punks to torment your brothers for the hell of it is an obvious sign of having some kind of grudge. I know it had something to do with Splinter dying but-" Angel had been dying of curiosity ever since she found out what Mikey had become three years ago.

"Stop now." Mike interrupted; behind his full-face ninja mask, Angel could sense him frowning sadly, she had gotten some kind of empathy from being around him so much. "Heres how the story goes…."

(Story, script form since all of them are telling it.)

Raphael: When Master Splinter died, we were twenty-two years old.

Leonardo: Splinter was old, we knew it was only a matter of time – he passed peacefully in his sleep….

Donatello: We thought we were ready for it…

Michaelangelo: But we realized we weren't when it was too late.

Leonardo: And we all went to extremes of our personalities; all I ever did was train, even more so than before just to cope.

Raphael: I left the lair mo' and mo', until it was rare dat I was home at all. And when I was home I would be beatin' the shit outta one of my bro's fo' stupid reasons, mostly Mikey or Leo.

Donatello: I studied and experimented relentlessly, striving to do the impossible and find a cure for death. It was fruitless but it was the only thing I could think of.

Michaelangelo: I became more irresponsible; I stopped training, I didn't do chores, I really did nothing but fuck around and mess with my brothers, I thought that a cheap laugh would help with my grief.

Raphael: Things really fell apart when we were attacked by the Foot one day; our team dynamic was so fucked up. But then Mike made some mistake, Leo ended up gettin' cut up because of it.

Leonardo: I just snapped….. I couldn't take his childish behavior anymore…

Donatello: When we got home, Leo…. He…. He beat Mikey up, really, really bad, almost killed him. I was too mad at Mikey to do anything about it.

Raphael: I didn't do anything, I wasn't home.

Leonardo: I crossed the line; Mikey was a bloody pulp, he refused to fight me back; I yelled, cursed, ranted and raved at him for about an hour before I told him that as leader, I decreed he was no longer part of the family. I had exiled him.

Michaelangelo: Beaten, heartbroken and disowned, I just ran off. I was useless to the family, a useless ninja and a useless brother. I figured that since I was too bad at being good, I should just be evil instead. I joined the Foot clan for a while, and got tired of listening to the Shredder; first, I got Saki while he was out of his metal suit, and then I used him as a hostage to Karai. When those two were in cells and chains, the Foot clan was mine…

Raphael: When we found out Mike had went crazy and took ova' the Foot clan and swore us to be his enemies, I realized we weren't a family anymore. I left the lair one night and neva' came back.

Leonardo: When it dawned on me that I made a huge mistake and dove Mikey too far, I felt horrible…. I believed I didn't deserve to be a ninja anymore, so I stopped being one and left.

Donatello: I was left behind in the lair; I wanted my brothers together, I wanted us as a family anymore. I couldn't be with just one of them, I could never pick sides. So I'm with all of them no matter what they do. I stopped trying to find the impossible cure for death, and lost interest in science.

All: That's how we got where we are now, four years later.

…Sorry, couldn't resist the whole script thing; I had drama as an elective for a semester, it happens. Next chapter, they are kidnapped!... In a way, no not really. The turtles are twenty-six years old in this story. Did anyone realize that none of them were wearing their ninja masks? Props to those who did.

Anything else I failed to mention? Well, I never did get the whole 'Hamato' as a last name thing, the turtles last names are Splinterson in this story, Splinters last name was Hamato but it was never mentioned that theirs was. In fact, while they were in the future Mikey got a letter adressed to 'Michaelangelo Splinterson' Do you need more indication?

Sorry if the story seems short and rushed or whatever, but I'm not into serious details... Who the hell uses serious details when recalling a story to someone outloud anyways? I don't. Do you?

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