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The meaning of family	By : selfless1978 Category: +S through Z > Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Views: 4215 -:- Recommendations : 2 -:- Currently Reading : 0
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Dennis and Amy were playing a board game with Master Splinter when Leo walked into the lair followed closely by the others.
"We are back, Sensei." He said walking towards his master.
The children looked up. "Mommy!" they ran to give her a hug. She knelt down and took them into her arms and returned their hug.
"Where did you go, Mommy?" Amy asked.
"I went to go see, Daddy."
"Oh, well I'm glad I didn't go." Dennis said. "I don't like Daddy. He's mean. I wish we had a new one."
Vicky pulled Dennis into a hug. "I know, sweetie." Leo's heart went out to the boy. The things the poor child had to go through from a man who should love and cherish him.
"Mommy come into the dojo! I wanna show you what Masta Splinty showed us!" Amy grabbed her mother's arm and led her into the dojo. Dennis, follwing them, chimed in "Yeah! It was soooo Cool!"
Leo could have sworn he saw a small smile on his master's furred face as he watched them go into the dojo. Then he turned his attention to the brothers. "Is anyone hurt?"
"Us not really, them a lot." Raph answered.
"It could have been worse. We got lucky." Donnie said.
"How so, my son?"
Leo took a deep breath. "Shredder was there." He told Splinter.
"Yeah and Fearless here decided he wanted a personal sparring session with him." Raph said.
Surprise and alarm was in Splinter's eyes as he looked at Leo. Usually when they took on Shredder the outcome was a lot of cuts and bruises, sometimes even worse. Even after all these years they couldn't handle him as a group and Leo had no idea how he managed to take him on one on one for as long as he did. Splinter was the only one of them that could take Shredder on like that. Then he saw something else in his master's eyes, as if he had come to a realisation. "Come with me, Leonardo."
"Yes, Sensei." Leo followed his master into his bedroom.
"Leo is in trooouble" (smack) "OW!" Leo smiled. Some things never change.
He entered Splinter's room and his master closed the door behind him. "Sit, my son." Leo sat crosslegged on the floor and Splinter took a seat on the floor across from him. "Tell me, Leonardo, why did you decide to face Shredder alone?"
Leo thought back to that moment. He and his brothers were hidden on the balcony of the second story trying to figure out the best way to proceed from there. The appearence of Shredder had thrown them all off guard. Though their master has taught them everything they knew they just couldn't seem to take him on. He was at a level they couldn't reach. When he had seen Shredder's hand on Vicky's arm something fired up in Leo. 'I can do this.' He stood up, to the surprise of his brothers, with a throwing star in hand. He threw it at the arm that Nicholas held the knife with. Not even looking to see if he hit his mark, and ignoring his brother's shocked cries, he leapt off the balcony and crashed into Shredder. He quickly rolled to his feet and turned to face the leader of the Foot. Somehow matching him strike for strike. Then he heard Raph call out the all clear and he lost his momentum and Shredder had gotten a kick in that sent him flying towards the door. Leo didn't push his luck and he turned and fled.
"I don't know, Sensei. I just felt I could. And for a little while I did."
Splinter looked at him a long moment. "I have taught you everything I could. You and your brothers are exceptionally skilled and have improved greatly over the years. However, there is skill I cannot teach. A level of fighting only a very few can obtain. I believe, my son, that you may be coming close to unlocking this for yourself"
Leo looked at his master. "Why have you never told us of this?"
"Because it is so rare to achive. I did not want you to doubt the skills you do posess."
"So what happens now, Master?"
"I honestly do not know. This is something you must find for yourself because in each individual it is a different lock." his master placed a hand on his shoulder "It is up to you to find the key."
Leo nodded his eyes lost in thought.

Vicky sat in the kitchen with and ice pack on her face. The spot where Nicholas punched her on the cheek had started to swell up and hurt. Dennis was watching cartoons with Mikey and Amy was in the lab with Donnie, apparently pestering him to make her something. Leo was still talking to Splinter so she had the room to herself to think. God she had been so stupid...again. What on earth had she been thinking to try that stunt? And the very thing happened she had been trying to prevent. She had put Leo in danger.
"Want to talk about it?" came a voice from behind her.
She looked up and Raph came from behind her, walked around the table and sat across from her. She sighed. "I really screwed up, didn't I?"
"No worse than I have a time or twenty. You just let your emotions do the thinking for you is all." Raph grinned at her "Trust me...I'm an expert on that. I can't tell you how many times Leo had to pull my ass out of the fire."
She smiled. "He is useful to have around, isn't he?"
"Most of the time." He smiled back at her.
She looked down to the table. "I feel so stupid." she whispered "I could have gotten you all hurt, or worse."
"Hey. You were confused. You had to take in a lot information last night...among other things."
She caught his meaning and began to blush. "Do you guys know everything?"
He acted like he didn't notice her red face. "Well you are living with five ninjas. It's hard to keep anything secret here for long." He grinned "Seriously now, no one could expect you to make any rational choices in that state of mind. We don't blame you. We care for you, and those two little tykes of yours, and we will be there if you need us. Just next time talk to us first, OK? That disappearing act you pulled this morning almost gave Leo a heart attack." he chuckled.
She giggled. "I'll have to make that up to him."
"Might want to talk to Donnie about a better bedroom door first..."
Vicky blushed again.
Raph reached out and placed a hand on top of hers. "It took me awhile to get used to the idea of you guys being here but you make my brother happy. That is all I need to know to welcome you into the family. From here on out I will think of you as a sister. If you need anything you just let me know."
"Well spoken, my son." Splinter said as he entered the kitchen. Leo followed close behind and sat down at the table next to her. "I have misjudged you. Maybe you do know how to show compassion."
Raph blushed a bit."Yeah, well don't tell the others...I have a reputation to maintain."
The kitchen filled with the sound of laughter.

Leo was looking for Dennis. It was time to start getting ready for bed and he had promised the boy a bedtime story. Leo chuckled at that thought, before they came here he never thought of things like that before. His life had changed so much the last few weeks but he was glad for this kind of change. He found the boy on the dojo, trying apparently to spin kick the punching bag.
"What are you doing, Dennis?"
"I'm trying to learn how to do that flying kick thingie you did. Please, Leo. Show me one more time. Please."
Leo sighed. "Ok. Here watch me first. Back up though, I don't want to hit you by mistake." Dennis scooted back out of reach. Leo looked at the bag and took a deep breath. Then suddenly he leapt up into the air in a spin and his leg reached out. He hit the bag with his foot and the bag flew backwards with the momentum of the impact. He completed the spin and landed with his body close to the floor, one leg bent , one leg streached out and resting on his finger tips and the bag swung back over him. He then reached up to stop the wildly swinging bag.
"Whoa! That is soooo Cool!" Dennis exclaimed as Leo stood up. "I wanna try again!"
Leo watched as the little boy moved up to the bag. Dennis frowned then hopped up into the air swinging his leg out, completely missing the bag and fell to the mat on the floor. Leo chuckled a little as the boy got up. "Dang it!" he muttered then squared off with the bag again.
"Hang on," Leo said to the boy "you want to square yourself up like this." he then positioned the boy. "When you leap into the air you want to use both feet to push off. When you are in the air you start to bring your upper body around. That turn will give you the momentum you need. Try doing that for a bit first. Then we will work the kick in."
"Like this?" Then the boy jumped in the air, spun and landed promptly on his bottom.
Leo laughed. "Not quite."
He worked with the boy for a bit longer. By the time Leo called a halt, the boy was growing tired, they had worked a small kick in. Dennis caught on surprisingly quickly.
"Dennis!" Vicky called "It's time to take a bath and get ready for bed."
"Coming, Mommy!" Dennis replied, then he turned and gave Leo a hug. "Thank you, Leo. I wish I had a daddy like you. You are so cool!" then he rushed out of the room. Leo couldn't help but smile after the boy then he walked out of the dojo. He didn't get far when Amy found him, her hair still damp from her bath and in her pajamas. She was holding a book. "I want you to read me a story, please." she told him.
"Don't you think we should wait for your brother?"
"No, I want you to read a story just for me."
Leo laughed and picked her up and carried her to bed. After she got all settled down he sat on the floor to read her the story. He was just about finished when Dennis, by now also finished with his bath and in pajamas, came in. "Hey what about me? I wanted a story too!."
Leo looked at him "Well get into bed and I'll read another one."
Dennis hopped into bed, squirmed around a bit and then settled down. Leo began to read again, the same story of course because Dennis had wanted that one too. When he finished he stood up to leave the room. "One more story!" they chimed together.
Vicky, who was leaning onto the door frame listing, cut in "I think you guys have pestered him enough for one night. It's bedtime now. Tell Leo thank you and goodnight."
"Thank you." they said together. Amy held out her arms to him "I want a huggy."
Smiling Leo leaned over and gave her a hug. "Good night you two. We'll play some more tomorrow."
"Gnight, Leo." "Nighty night, Leo."
He placed the book on the nightstand and then moved out of the way so Vicky could tell them her goodnights. He walked back to his room, noteing in annoyance the new soundproof door, and went in and sat on the bed. He opened his nightstand drawer and pulled out his cleaning kit then began to wipe down his katanas. He was tired, it had been a very busy day.
He knew she was there before she even knocked on his door frame. He looked up from what he was doing, "You look tired." he told her.
"I am. Its been a long day." she replied moving into the room and sitting on the bed next to him.
"And a long night before that..." Leo looked at her. Anger flashed across his mind when he saw the bruise forming on her cheek. "You OK?"
She took a deep breath and looked at him. "Leo, I just wanted to say I'm so sorry for what I did."
Leo carefully sheathed his katanas and unhooked his harness. Then he put it aside. He reached for her and pulled her close. "Don't worry about it anymore." He whispered into her ear. "We made it back fine. There isn't any more need to bring it up again." He softly kissed her unhurt cheek.
"Leo what are we going to do?"
"I don't know yet. We will figure something out. But until we do please, for my sanity, don't run off like that again. I've grown to fond of you to lose you now."
She looked up at him and smiled. "I promise. I'll just run off with Raph instead."
Leo groaned. "That's even worse.... Do you have any idea how much trouble he can get into?"
"Apparently a lot, from the stories I hear."
Mikey popped his head around the door frame. "Hey you guys gonna do anything tonight? I want to see if this new door Donnie and I made works better than the old one."
He was answered with a pillow thrown into his face and the sound of Vicky's laughter.
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