HELLO READERS!!!!!!

Im back baby!!! Omg it's been a while, well almost a year now... anyway I'm back and ready to continue this story. I'm trying a new way of writing more in paragraphs then dialogue. Please let me know what u prefer in the comments it would really help me out!

Again sorry for the wait, hope this chapter makes up for it! :)

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Karai's POV

We finally arrived at the farmhouse. It's a really nice place. Open land and forest all around no wonder the guys come here, there's no one for miles. As we drove closer, we saw someone just sitting on what seemed to be a tree stump. "Is that Raph?" I say curiously, why is he sitting outside in the cold. Last I remember Raph hates getting sick and avoids going outside during winter unless he's mad at Leo. "Uh? Most likely, Donnie doesn't let Mickey touch the axe, the last thing we need is to bury someone else." He says with a sad look, and pain in his eyes. I feel bad for Leo he was really close to Splinter, it hit him really hard when he passed away. "Is he okay?" I ask looking back at the figure sitting on the stump. "I don't know? He's been acting weird lately. I'll go check on him, you can go inside if you want and get settled in. Mickey's gonna be happy to see you". He says with a smile. I smile back and say "Ok."

We exit the car and Leo grabs my luggage from the trunk. He gives me my stuff and starts walking towards Raph. I head for the house. I knock on the door and it opened instantly. It opened so fast it startled me!

When the door opened someone jumped me! I had to assume it was him... Who else! "Hello, Mickey." Gosh, he's taller than the last time I saw him. I hug him back. "It's been so long! I'm so happy to see you!" He says hugging me tighter. Jesus, he's strong! "Me too Mickey... Um, Mickey, I need to breathe." I say patting his shell, "Oh, sorry sis." He lets me go, I can finally breathe. "No problem, you've gotten really strong since the last time I, wait... Did you call me sis?" Since when does he call me that? "Yeah!... Is... Is that ok?" He says as his smile disappears. "Oh of course it is!"

Mickey's smile grew bright again and helps me with luggage. He's grown so much since I left. He seems more mature. I look back to see Leo talking to Raph.

Leo's POV

As I was walking up to Raph I see him rubbing his foot. "Raph?" I shouldn't have snuck upon him. "Ahhhh! Don't fucking scare me like that, Jesus Leo!" He hates when I do that but the worst part is that I don't even do it on purpose."Sorry!"  There was a moment of silence, "Raph? You ok?" I'm actually starting to worry about him, he hasn't eaten much lately and it's starting to show. Even Mickey noticed!

"Yeah I'm fine, why do you ask?" He says looking down at his feet. He doesn't even look at me when we talk, what's going on with him? "You're sitting outside, in the cold, on the tree stump..." I say looking at him then the farmhouse. "Yeah so?" He says, looking back up at me like I'm bothering him. Why do you always have to push me away? "I just wanted to make sure you everything was ok." He puts his foot back in his boot and gets up to face me and I smile at him. "Everything is just peachy!" He crosses his arms and looks to the side. Is he... Is he blushing? I shrug it off and tell myself it must be the cold.

"I can finish the logs if you want?" He looks at me and sighs in defeat. "You're not gonna let it go are ya?" I look at him and smile. "Fine! I'll g back to the house." He says as he raises his hands in defeat and starts to walk away. "You should get your foot checked, make sure nothing's broken!" I tell him as I grab the axe and one of the logs. "Yeah yeah." I hear him say in the distance.

As I was cutting the logs I saw a white-tailed buck in the distance. It was staring at me. I ignored it and continued cutting. After about 10 more minutes I was finally done and picked them up. I turned around to head for the house but froze in place. It was right in front of me. The damn thing scared me, it's so close. It must weigh at least 100 kilos and is almost my height if you count the antlers. It was staring right at me. We stared at each other for about a minute and then it turned around and headed for the forest. But it stopped in its tracks and looks at me and then the forest. Does it want me to follow him?

I put down the logs in the basket in front of the stairs to the house and follow the buck into the forest.

I wonder what it wants?

Karai's POV

I walk in and see April watching the news. "...a mysterious animal-like figure has been roaming around New York City. There have been reports of it being seen near Roosevelt High School..." On the TV it shows a picture of the Roosevelt High School rooftop at night and a dark figure moving around. It almost looks like a lizard which at this point could be real... or not! "Hey, April, Karai's here!" Mickey says bringing my stuff upstairs. She turns around to look at me and smiles "Karai?" She comes up to me and gives me a hug."Hey, April, long time no see!" I hug her back. "How are you?" Wow, she hasn't changed. "Good, how are things?"  She looks at me with a big smile. "Doing great! Come on I'll show you to your room." I followed April upstairs and she shows me to my room where Mickey already dropped my things.

"Hope the room is this okay?" She shows me a small room with a single bed, a dresser, and a nightstand. It was perfect."It's very nice thank you, April." I smile at her and she hugs me... again. Don't get me wrong I don't mind the hugs, I enjoy them actually. "I really missed you. The guys did too!" She says in a slightly sad tone. "I missed you guys too!" I say as I feel tears of joy coming down my cheeks. I'm so happy to see them, I shouldn't have left in the first place, I missed them so much. "Alright I'll let you settle in but after we have to catch up, ok?" She says as she pulls back from the hug and smiles at me. I wipe my tears and nod.

As April leaves the room I smile and closed the door behind her. I started unpacking and placing my things.

Raph's POV

I got into the house and took off my clothes. Ow! Damn my foot hurts. I'll just grab some ice, should be fine right? Yeah, it'll be fine. I went to the kitchen and open the freezer and saw ice cream kitty. Uh, didn't think Mickey would bring her. "Hey there..." As I grab an ice pack I scratch her behind the ear and she starts to purr. She's so cute... Don't tell Mickey I said that! I grab the ice pack and head for the living room. I sit on the couch beside Mickey, he looks at me and smiles. He then looks back at the TV. I put the ice pack on my foot, it's already starting to bruise. Damn it hurts.

Mickey looks at me again and down at my foot. "What happened to your foot?". I look at him with a blank face and tell him that I drop a log on it. Surprisingly he didn't laugh at me "Are you ok? Did you go see Donnie?" He asked me worried. I told him "I'm fine" and we watched the TV.

10 minutes later...

Leo should be done with the logs soon, I was almost done with them so there shouldn't be much. I hear a loud noise like something was drop by the door. Probably Leo dropping the logs. He didn't come in so I assumed he went to see Don. I keep thinking of those weird feelings I get around him. Maybe I'm sick? Cause I don't know what else could be wrong with me. Plus I'm not gay... I'm not! I like girls, not guys! Plus how could I like Leo he's my brothers there's nothing nice about him. He's bossy, he always tells me what to do, he always yells at me and the worst is when he studies me with his big sky blue eyes, his nice smile and don't get me started on those muscles...

I'm... I'm gay for Leo...

What the fuck?!

Karai's POV

When I was done I went downstairs to see April, she was in the kitchen making cookies. She saw me and smiled. She gave me a tour of the house and the barn. This place is beautiful. "So.... how's it going with the Foot?" She asks me curiously. "Really good, we've helped a lot of charities and made lots of donations in the past few months. I'm really proud of my clan."

I smile at her and she smiles back. She tells me about what's been happening with the boys and how things have been in New York, the Krang, the Purple Dragons and all that. It's nice to hear that things have been going well for them.

Back in Japan, things are going well, great ever since... "Helloooo!? Earth to Karai!", she says, waving a hand in front of my face. I blink a few times and finally come back to my senses."Uh? What?", she looks at me with a smile and giggles a little, "You were daydreaming". "Sorry about that, the flight really got the best of me," I say rubbing my eyes a little. I was as stiff as could be, after all, it is a 14-hour flight plus, I was stuck beside a baby the whole time and that baby would not sleep for the life of me!

"Come on you must be hungry I think there's leftover pizza in the fridge. You might want to ask Mickey before you take it. God knows what he'll do if he found out someone ate it." She says with a smile. "I'll just blame it on Raph, there always entertaining!". We laughed and headed for the farmhouse. As we entered the house I saw Mickey and Raph watching TV. Raph doesn't seem to notice that I'm here, not that it matters. But something seems off about him he looks down. Wonder whats a matter with him?

"Hey, didn' think you were comin'." He says still looking at the TV. I leaned down behind the couch and hugged him by his neck, he hated it as I heard him make a low growl."Hey, you'd think I'd miss this? Plus I wanted to see you!" I say as I pull him in a tighter embrace. I actually missed him, even if he's a brute.

I hear April say in the back "Raph... Be nice!" She says in a slightly stern tone. I just hear him growl again. He's funny when he's mad. And easy to mess with. "Anyways, you two be nice, I'm gonna go get Donnie." April puts on her boots and leaves to get Don. Mickey finally notices that I'm here and starts asking me a bunch of questions, but then I noticed I haven't seen Leo since I got here. Where is he?

After a few minutes, April came in with Donnie. "Wheres Leo?" I ask Don. "I thought he was with you guys?!" he said to me confused. "Has anyone seen Leo since we got back?" April asks us. We all look at each other, worried. We start looking for him everywhere, bathroom, bedrooms, kitchen, living room, barn, everywhere. We all meet up in the living room. "Anyone find him?" Raph asks getting really worried. "Ok, so who's the last one who saw him?" Donnie asks trying to keep everyone calm.

Narrator's POV

Raphael said he saw him, the last place was when he replaced him for cutting the logs. They all got dressed and went outside to look for tracks they were calling out his name and looking for footprints. But it was snowing so much that the footprints disappeared long ago. Donatello tried Leonardo's T-Phone but no answer. He then tried to track him there was a signal West of the farmhouse near the mountain. They followed the signal for about 5 minutes but they started to worry when they noticed the signal hasn't moved. They started to run and to them, it seemed like forever.

As they were getting closer there were drops of blood in the snow and as they kept going there was more. They were more than worried now they were panicking. They finally arrived at where the signal was. But the sight before them was like a war zone. Blood was everywhere in the snow and on the trees. There were broken branches everywhere and trees taken down from the roots it looked like chaos. You could see bears prints in the snow.

They found him...

Laying in the snow...

Motionless...