(This is the next day after she met Amanda)

Laila grumbled when she got out of her bed at 3:00 in the morning. Hearing no other footsteps, she got up, grabbing the blades she got from her father during their last match a few days back. She paused momentarily, holding one blade up and gazing at it in the light. It showed her reflection gleaming off the metal, the tip of the blade a different color(red at day, blue at night).

After putting the daggers in her belt, she left her room and jumped downstairs, quietly landing in the living room. Still confirming that no one else but her was up, she went into the dojo. It was quiet, too quiet since the lair is never this quiet.

Mentally shrugging, she pulled out her blades and starting doing katas, attacking the training dummies. She stopped when she noticed they were falling apart and when she noticed she wasn't the only one there.

Laila put away her blades and faced the door.

"I wasn't expecting you to be up so early, Raph. Last time I checked, you hated getting up early."

"Yeah yeah, laugh it up." Laila just turned around and kept doing katas, not saying a word to her brother. "Besides, I could say the same 'bout you."

"If you really want to know, I woke up too early, couldn't go back to sleep."

"Bullshit, Laila. What's really buggin' you?"

"Nothing Raph. Just go back to bed." Raph just walked in so he was a few inches from Laila.

"I was until I heard u down here!"

"It's not my fault you're a light sleeper."

"Laila, somethin's buggin' ya, what is it?"

"Nothing raphael. Now get off my case." She tried to get him to back off but he pinned her down on the dojo floor, his sais on both sides of Laila's head.

"Talk." Laila gritted her teeth, trying to remain emotionless in her eyes, but that wall was breaking. She growled and punched him in the face, making him stumble back as she left the lair. "I am so dead." Raph mumbled before grabbing his sais and heading topside after her.

(With Laila)

Laila panted as she got on the warehouse roof. That little stunt bought her some time but she wasn't sure how much. Feeling a

sudden gust blow by her she turned around and saw nothing except her best human friend besides April.

"Hey case."

"Hey." He walked over by the turtle as they gazed the ground for any sign of the foot.

"So why are you out here?"

"..."

"Ya haven't told 'em yet?"

"Casey, I've known you and Kira a lot longer than them, I trust you guys more."

"You can't hide it forever."

"When did you become a psychologist?"

"Hey! I can be smart when it's necessary." Laila laughed and shook her head with a smile on her face.

"Sure..." Casey only punched her in the arm as a response.

"Laila, seriously, you gotta tell them." Laila growled and stood up, glaring sharply at Casey.

"Yeah, cause it's so easy to say you're the daughter of your current family's worst enemy. That seems like a great idea."

"You scared it would happen twice?" Laila paused before turning her back to him, showing the scar on her back that her dad gave her.

"Yeah.."

"Well, you gonna let one little fear get to ya?" She turned her head to him, confused.

"I've seen you fight the shredder, risk your life for you brothers, take down hundreds of foot ninjas all without a second thought or a concern for your safety. Shell, I've seen you get in front of a moving truck without being afraid. The Laila I know is not a coward."

"Wow, you can be smart when you want to."

"See, I told you." She turned completely and smiled at him.

"Arigato, Casey."

"Anytime, Laila. What good is a friend who isn't there for the other?" She nodded, walked past Casey, fist bumping him along the way, and jumped off the roof.