Alright, so I did a bit of editing in the previous chapters and I think everything is to my liking.

Here's the next chapter.

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Chapter 10

After Leo had brought Raph to the lair safely, got him and everyone else changed into the spare clothes that they kept in the lair in case of emergency and once the kids were in bed. Leo gathered all the adults in the living area to explain the current situation. "What!?" Mikey exclaimed when Leo had told them that Raph's kids may be alive and wanted to meet. "Are you insane?"

Leo chuckled in spite of himself. "I might be, but you can't deny that it's possible."

"Yeah, I can, actually. We saw the bodies, don't you remember?"

"Of course I remember, but those bodies were charred beyond recognition. It could've been anybody." Leo said with hope in his voice.

"So, let's just say for arguments sake that you do meet up with this guy claiming to be Jonah, " Stephanie started also finding this whole thing hard to believe. "and it turns out that it's not him. You could be walking into a trap."

Leo rubbed the back of his head. "I know, I know. I have to try, though."

"Leo..." Don finally spoke. "I don't know. I don't like this."

"This seems too risky." Jenna stated.

"And way too good to be true." Mikey crossed his arms over his chest.

Leo walked over to his youngest brother, placed both hands on his shoulders and locked eyes with him. "Please Mikey, if there's a chance that we could get the old Raph back, why shouldn't we take it?"

"Because Raph wouldn't want want any of us to risk our lives on a chance."

Leo couldn't help, but admit that Mikey was kind of right. Raph wouldn't want anyone risking their lives for him. He was always so protective even more so than Leo, sometimes. But he had to try, he had to know if this was really happening, if Jonah and Aiden were really alive. He dropped his hands to his sides and said "I understand your concern, but I'm going up there in the morning. I have to know."

Mikey shook his head and sighed. "Fine, but you're not going alone."

"We're going with you as back up." Don finished.

Leo smiled at his two brothers. "Thanks guys, but..." he paused as he thought. "Maybe one of you should stay behind and watch Raph, in case he tries to run off again." Leo turned his gaze to Don.

Don knew that he meant him. "Alright, fine I'll stay behind. Just be careful, okay."

"We will, Don. Don't worry." there was a bit of silence following the conversation until Leo spoke up again. "Look, it's been a rough day. I think we all need to just get to bed and rest up for tomorrow."

Mikey finally uncrossed his arms and headed to his room with a huff. Leilani followed close behind. The others did the same, silently heading toward their temporary rooms. Leilani followed Mike into their room and shut the door as he plopped down on the bed with his head in his hands. "Mikey..." she said softly. "Are you okay?"

He looked up from the floor. "Yeah."

"Babe, what's wrong?"

"This whole thing is wrong. I don't believe this is real."

Leilani sat beside him on the bed. "I know it's hard to believe, but what if it is true? What if they are alive?"

"I don't know, it just doesn't seem possible."

She propped herself up on her knees and wrapped her arms around him in a gentle embrace. "What happened to the old Mikey? He was always so positive and hopeful. He believed that anything could happen."

"Yeah, and then he died when his brother gave up on life."

"Well, maybe, just for one day, you should bring him back." Mikey turned to look her in the eye. "I'm not saying let your guard down completely. I'm just saying to have an open mind."

Mikey sighed. "Alright, fine. I'll try."

Leilani kissed the top of his head. "Now come on, let's try to get some sleep, okay."

Mikey silently climbed into bed with her, trying to keep all negative thoughts out of his mind.

Don shut the door behind him and leaned up against it. "Come on Donnie." Stephanie coaxed her husband to the bed.

Don started to make his way over when there was a knock at the door. He opened it see his eldest son standing there. "Warren? What's wrong?"

"Is it true?" he asked simply. "Are they alive?"

"You were listening? You should be asleep." Stephanie scolded.

Warren shrugged, nervously. "I wasn't really tired so I got curious and listened in. Sorry."

"It's fine, don't worry about it." Don said.

Warren's green gaze locked onto his father's hazel eyes, almost pleading. "So, is it true?"

"Well, we don't know. That's what your uncles are going to figure out tomorrow morning, but until then I'm gonna need you to help me out." he didn't want his son to dwell on the possibility too long so he had to get his mind off it.

"With what?"

Stephanie stood and walked over to them. "While your father and I are taking care of your Uncle Raph, I need you to help out with keeping your cousins occupied. We may be down here a while."

Warren knew what they were trying to do. He gave them a small smile. "Alright, you can count on me."

"Good, now get to bed." Stephanie ordered.

"Okay ma, goodnight."

"Goodnight." they replied in unison.

Leo and Jenna lay down together in bed. Jenna snuggled up against her husband's chest in an effort to transfer any sort of comfort to him. Leo wrapped an arm around her shoulders and sighed. Jenna looked up at him. "What's on your mind?"

"Just starting to think that this is not a good idea."

"Oh, it totally isn't." she answered honestly and laughed a bit when he groaned. "But you can't doubt yourself now. If you believe that they are alive then I support you all the way. Trust your gut, it's usually not wrong."

Leo chuckled. "Thanks for the vote of confidence."

Jenna giggled. "No problem."

Jonah made his way into the main room of Foot headquarters where Karai and Aiden were waiting. Jonah stood in front of Karai and bowed at the waist. "You wanted to see me, Mistress Karai?"

"Yes," Karai started, standing. "I heard that you managed to find one of them. Raphael, was it?"

Jonah straightened. "Yes, Mistress." Jonah replied with little hesitation while glancing to his twin brother. Aiden didn't look back, probably because he was the one that told her.'I can't believe him. Bastard.' He thought. His own brother actually went and told Karai what happened. 'Whatever, I'll deal with him later.' "However, there were some complications that I had to deal with."

"Oh, and what would that be, because I was told that he's not in a very healthy state, physically and mentally. It should have been easy for you to take him down."

"And I was going to, but..."

"But what?" she interrupted. "Because I was also told that you let him get away." Karai glared at the teenager in hopes to make him falter, to make him show any sort of sign that he was lying, but he didn't.

"I did no such thing." Jonah said, keeping his voice calm while keeping his golden gaze locked with her icy blues. "One of his brothers, Leonardo, showed up before I could strike him down. I can tell you that physically he is still tough. Being that there was a huge gap in experience, I decided not to fully engage or else I'm sure he would have killed me."

"Oh really?" she turned an accusatory glare toward Aiden. Jonah looked toward him as well and noticed his whole body stiffen, he had to keep himself from giving him a smug smile.

"Yes, Mistress."

She slowly walked up to Aiden. "His story is much different than what you told me." she stated.

"My apologies, Mistress." Aiden stated, nervously.

"Don't be too hard on him. He wasn't there when it happened. I sent him away to hopefully find another member of the Hamato clan. I thought that, being the oldest, I deserved to have the honor of destroying the man that I once called my father." Jonah explained and Karai gave them both a quick once over, eyeing them suspiciously. She nodded her head. Letting them know that for now they weren't in any trouble... for now. "Very well, you may leave."

The teens bowed and left, heading toward their own room for the night. Once they were inside Aiden immediately turned to his brother. "That was a great lie you told her. I gotta say I didn't think you'd be able to come up with something on the spot like that."

Jonah rolled his eyes. 'This wouldn't have happened if you hadn't told her anything.' he thought. "Who said it was a lie?" Jonah locked eyes with his brother. "I didn't lie. Uncle Leo did show up and he would've taken my head off."

"What stopped him?" Aiden asked.

"I told him who I was."

"That's it?"

"That barely worked. He didn't seem to recognize me and he was in a bit of denial."

Aiden chuckled, but it sounded just plain evil. It was enough to send a chill down Jonah's spine. "Maybe we really are dead to them. If only they bothered to look for us."

"His sons died years we have you to thank for that." Leo's words echoed in Jonah's head. "Just stop, you're not fooling anyone. I saw the bodies."

So maybe there was some truth to what he was saying, but Jonah didn't think it was like that exactly. He still believed that there was something more. He looked back to his brother and for him it was like looking in a mirror, everything looked about the same except for the sadistic smile that now took place on Aiden's face. Jonah shook his head. "I'm going to bed."

"So early?"

"Yeah, I've got somewhere to be tomorrow."

"Where?" Aiden asked curiously.

"Don't worry about it." Jonah sighed. 'I really shouldn't have said anything. Oh well, can't take it back now.'

"You're not going to tell anyone that you're going?"

"No, there's no need. Are you going to tell on me again?" Jonah accused.

Aiden thought about it, then shook his head. "I don't think we need to do that."

Jonah gave a smug smirk. "You're just scared that if you do then I'll get you into trouble. Then I'll have to bail you out, like I did just now."

Aiden shrugged. "Whatever, do what you want."

Jonah eyed him suspiciously. "Alright, goodnight."

Aiden stayed silent as he sat down on his bed. Jonah sighed and did the same on the other bed across the room.

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Alright, we'll get to see what happens when they meet up in the next chapter.