Raph woke up and found him self in his own room and felt something wet on his forehead being removed and placed back, his cracked his eyes open a bit and found Mikey sitting on the edge of the bed with a bowl of cold water beside him and a small pile of comics which seemed to be about 3-4 piled on each other. Mikey was looking though one so Raph mentally changed that to 5 comics, until he wondered why he was back in the lair when he had passed out after seeing Leo.

"If LH has drugged me I'll flay him alive and then make a purse from him"

The mumble was enough for Mikey to hear him and looked at his older brother "That's what he thought too when we came to get you and he looked like he wanted to take the next ship to Scandinavian! Hahaha...He even said that the weather should be nice and warm until Donnie broke his dream and told him that it was winter there now and 6 hours between here and there but I don't think he listened" Mikey chuckled and put down his comic "Back to you...How do you feel besides the drugs wearing off?"

"Scared...What day is it and who are in the lair?" Raph said and held his breath.

"Well...Let's start with the people in the lair... *nod from Raph*...Okay, it's: April, Casey, LH, Splinter, you, me and Donnie. And I think Damio and his son has arrived, Usagi and to our horror Gen...Which reminds me I have to lock away my comics...Anyway um...Angel, Casey's mom...And...I have no idea of who else, Donnie has the list of the arrivals"

Raph sat up and tried the get the sleep out of his eyes "Geez, I'm turning older! not getting married for shell sake" He mumbled and Mikey exploded in laughter just when Donnie came in "I fricking hope not, but it's pretty much Splinter who is behind the invites and I'm just making sure everything is done...you're the last thing on the list"

The older turtle was still getting the sleep out of his eyes and held out a hand, Donnie gave him the guest list and left the room. Raph was slightly surprised when he saw the list:

~Guest List~

April and Angel

Casey and Mrs. Jones

Usagi, Gen, Leatherhead

Damio and (what the heck the son's name is T.T)

Silver Sentry plus The Hamato Family

Secret Guest

"What the heck is he planning?" Mikey asked and snatched the list looking at the last one "'Secret Guest'? Can Dad get any more mysterious?! I'm still trying to figure out how he can see, hear and know everything through these thick walls!"

"I heard that Michelangelo!"

" *Mikey point his thumb at the door* See what I mean?!"

Raph sighed and rested his forehead in his hands and tried to calm his breathing "Raph?" "I don't think I can meet them right now..." Mikey nodded and got up to tell Donnie who got back again, after having a quiet talk Donnie nodded and went to tell Splinter and ordered Mikey to remain with Raph. This day wasn't going to start as well as they had hoped.

~Downstairs~

Donnie managed to find Splinter among their friends and told him about Raph's behaviour "...I don't think the drugs has yet worn off so maybe we should give him another hour?" "Yes...After all, it was Leatherhead who gave him the shot" Splinter chuckled and got everyone's attention.

"I must tell you that if Raphael is late then the blame goes on Leatherhead"

Casey choke on his soda and brust out laughing "Oh what did you do this time big guy? Knocked him unconscious?" Leatherhead smiled but soon it faded "He did get a VERY bad heart attack when I told him what we found and I believe it was to much for him as he was already in such a horrible state" "I'm not really surprised, cause I would have died in a second" Donnie declared and bowed his head. They had all heard of the second tumour appearance and were glad that it was now gone, just as April was going to say something Mikey came down with a blind folded, duck taped Raph and the guests struggled to not lose control at the sight.

"Raph the more you struggle the higher chance you have of falling down the stairs and then the drugs won't be the problem waking up from! It will be your ego trying to wake up from the impact" Mikey grunted and managed to get his brother down safely "And the reason you did that is..." "I swear he a crossing between a mule and a turtle! Coz he's shell not wise as a Owl...Maybe you are"

"What?!"

"MMMMHHH...MHHHH -KEY!"

Splinter shaken his head while some guest finally brust in laughing while Donnie and Mikey tried to free Raph and turned his mask "Happy birthday hothead!" They shouted when Raph was able to see again and forgot (for the moment) to be mad at Mikey "I'll smack you later" He whispered and Mikey's grin turned into a grimace but the rest of the day went on quite fine and then Raph was buried under his gifts which Donnie and Mikey had put in a net, hoisted it up and then pulled the rope so that it made a direct hit. The guests and Raph were laughing but Splinter had a short talk with 2 blushing turtles who were trying to hide the rope behind their shells.

Raph had opened his last gift when he remembered something "Hey Sensei? The list said something about a secret?" Splinter had a poker face when he said 'That is my gift later' so the subject was dropped, by around 21 everyone was starting to leave and Splinter decided that they would skip the morning training to clean up the mess but still have a evening session before he called Raph to him "It is time for my gift to you" They went to Splinter's room and sat down cross legged "Leonardo gave me this after the Shredder had tried to eliminate him and tossed him through the windows back at April's place, do you remember?" Raph nodded and Splinter kept going.

"Your brother knew that you had got some bad enemies and knew that they would be after him the most so he made this and had me giving it to you when the time seemed right" Splinter opened the wooden box and picked up a medallion and a thick note book that said 'Read if you ever need a helping heart' in Leo's handwrite "Yes, this medallion is the same one Leonardo was given when he became leader and this note book holds advices and guidance if you ever needed it. There are some pages that hold plans for certain mission or battle and you are not sure what to do...It is very detailed if I admit it myself" Splinter handed both items to Raph who took them with shaking hands.

One thing was eating his heart alive "you...You once warned me that...We would on become leader, if one of us died in battle..." Raph said and felt an ice cold hand grab his already shattered heart and Splinter nodded "Is...Did Leo...Die while I was..."

"Your brother's last gift to you is in his room, he wanted to give it to you in person but..."Splinter sighed when Raph took off towards the bed room, but soon a smile crept over his face *So this is what you were up to my son? You and I will have a much SERIOUS talk later...And perhaps a talk with my cane*

Donnie and Mikey watched a tear eyed Raph run out of Splinter's room and up to the second floor and feared the worst, that Leo might have died when he was under Leatherhead's care "We'll be okay Mikey...If we stick together..." Donnie hugged his little brother and held him tight as Mikey cried.

On the second floor Raph was leaning against the door to Leo's room and cried, his heart was nothing to aches now and his mind was screaming at him. His big brother was truly gone now...He had no one left...Sure he had his family but he and Leo had been so close to each other and now his chest was in war with himself, he felt like he wanted to take his Sai and stab it deeply in his chest but he wouldn't until he knew what Leo gift was.

He opened the door and smelled the fresh smell of candles being lit and he wasn't to wrong, the candles were lit and there was a warped gift on the desk near the door. Raph closed the door behind him and sat down, Leo had somehow gotten a Japanese table that was lowered so you would have to sit on a pillow and do the desk job. Raph opened the gift and his breath was taken in a instance, the box held sketches and paintings of their happier days and also the bad but it was done in such an amazing way that Raph didn't care about it. While he was looking through it he found a folded paper and it appeared to be another drawing with Leo and himself laughing, Leo was hugging Raph from behind and Raph himself was laughing at the sudden act that the play station controller he held fell out of his hands and he had one hand on Leo's forearms.

The drawing had some words written on it:

If you ever think that you are alone, you look inside you self and you will find that I am always with you

Take care of our family until your time has come, I'll be waiting for you little brother

Raph felt the tears fall again and this time he tried to dry them but it didn't do much good.

"I told you I wouldn't give up"

The voice came from the bed which was deeper in the room and Raph turned his head towards it he found Leo laying on top of the bed with a book laying on his bandaged plastorn and smiled at him before struggling to sit up but the action it self was useless as Raph flew on him with such force that he fell back wards again and buried his face in Leo's warm neck, Leo held Raph tight and managed to sit up before rocking back and forth trying to calm down his brother.

"It okay Raph, I'm here...I'm here, I'm not going anywhere" He whispered and stroke the back of Raph's head and placed a light kiss on his temple hoping it would calm down the younger "You know...I woke up the second after Leatherhead gave you that sleeping drug...It was hysterical"

~Flashback

Leo opened his eyes just in time to see Raph go limp because of the drugs "He's going to murder you when he finally wake up you know" LH turned around and for Leo finally awake from the long coma "I think he wil kill you first then he moves over to me, you have caused him most worry and he could barley take much. I only put him ´to sleep because he just had a heart attack"

"Do I look that hideous? Or do I look like some kind of turtle Frankenstein?"

"Both"

"Figures...so do you know why it took so long for me to wake up?" "You had a second tumour that was hidden from out sight and it was slowly maikng you sicker until we could remove it, the one we found before was just a decoy for the real one to full grow and kill you"

The bed ridden turtle nodded and laid his head back on the pillow "I'm gonna take a power nap"

"You do that, I'll inform Splinter only that you are awake"

~Fashback ends~

Raph was still hugging Leo while he listened to Leo "...When I woke up again, it was March the 19th...As in 'I woke up again this morning', then we went here during the morning hours and found Splinter waiting for us. They prepared the party and I got some rest in here, LH came with food and a slice of the cake before Splinter's time to give you his gifts closed in and I finished the last drawings. And then you found me" Leo finished and placed his cheek on top of Raph's head and felt Raph's hand moving around the area where his heart was beating without the aid of a heart monitor.

"I thought you left..."

"But I came back...That's what matters right?

"Ya...I love you Aniki"

"Love you too Otōto"

I was close to mix:

Onēsan= big sister

Aniki= big brother

Otōto= little brother

Imōto= little sister