Chapter 37:Family Secrets
The next morning
Leah was spinning around humming to herself, she walked into the kitchen as Leo, Donnie, and Aubrey were eating breakfast.
"Good morning..?" Donnie said, looking at Leah in confusion.
"Well, that's new, something good happened last night Leah?"
"Nothing New, dad!" Leah smiled and hugged him which was weird for her, she grabbed a banana and skipped out of the kitchen, past Coral.
"So.. we're just gonna pretend she's fine?" Donnie asked the two as he finished his toast.
"Maybe? Should I question it?"
Coral giggled and that got his attention.
"And you're giggling at.. 7 am, why?"
"Isn't it obvious, Leonardo? Leah has a little school girl crush" Coral smiled and made tea. After this statement, Leo started to choke on his breakfast.
"She what?!"
"It's normal, you acted the same when you met her mother" Leo started to grumble, realizing she has a point and doesn't want to admit it.
"How about we talk about this later, the girls have school" Donnie said, getting up to start washing the dishes.
The girls were walking to school with their dad's and they noticed that Leah dolled herself, she straightened her hair, put on light make-up, and dressed up in her best shirt and jeans.
"Ooh!! You look pretty Lele!!"
"Thank you!" Leah smiled, and continued humming a love song.
"Are you... humming a love song?" Ray looked at her like she was possessed.
"What? No! No way!"
Leah walked away from them, leaving the three girls behind with their fathers.
"S-She's been like that all morning" Aubrey spoke softly but loud enough to hear.
"All morning? What did she do? Fall in love with some guy at school?" Ray grumbled sarcastically.
"That would be so cute!! Leah is in love!! She's totally not the type of girl to like someone!" Sera said.
Aubrey and Sera continued talking about it then it hit Ray on why she's acting like that... Andrew.
"Oh hell no." Ray said, just quiet enough so that it was only her that heard it.
"Did you say something Ray?"
"Nope, but.. If the princess is in love with someone, who do you dorks think it would be?"
The thought of some random boy dating Leah made Leo's blood boil, no guy is or will ever be worthy of his daughter.
"Sera!! Wait up!" They heard a tiny voice shout, snapping Leo away from his thoughts of murdering anyone who'd hurt his daughter.
"Akemi, I'm not walking with them!"
"Well you said if the blue haired you know what isn't walking with them, we can walk with them! Clearly, I don't see her so you're walking with us!"
Light grumbled and started walking with them, "So... Where's little blue jay?"
"Up ahead, beware your eyes, she's acting and dressing weirdly"
Light looked up and she jumped back in shock, "Is she possessed?"
"Unfortunately not."
"She looks happy!"
"Because Lele's in love!! Lele's in love!!" Sera grinned and started chanting "Lele's in love!"
"Is she high?"
"Definitely not"
The girls were in school and Leo decided visiting a certain news reporter would help him figure out how to handle this, he climbed onto the balcony of her penthouse apartment and knocked on the window.
"April? April!" Leo said and started shouting her name, getting progressively louder and louder. She did finally come to the window, half asleep and holding a cup of coffee.
"Leo?" She yawned and opened the window, letting him in. "You have 1 minute to explain why you're banging on my window at almost 9am."
"Leah met a boy!" Suddenly deja vu occurred and she grabbed him and pulled him inside.
"Tell me everything!"
"I don't know who he is, she's been acting weird and Coral is on some crazy assumption that she's in love with this guy, it's crazy, right?!" He started laughing in denial.
"Um.. I may have to side with Coral on this one, well.. tell me how she's been acting then I'll tell you."
"Well, humming and spinning, she did her hair, and she put on some nice clothes"
"Yeah, she has a crush, do you know.. any guys that she might have any eyes on?"
"There is one guy, she talked about"
"Who is it?"
"Some guy named, Remus"
"Okay.. do you know what he's like.. at all?"
"She only says that he's smart, funny, pretty sarcastic, stubborn, and overall a good person"
"Alright, anything else?"
"That's it!" Leo sat down on the couch and noticed a guy's jacket, "Company last night?" April blushed and looked away from him.
"Maybe just dinner.. and a movie.. and a little gift before he left, okay! Back to you and Leah's love problems!"
Leo chuckled then thought about it more, "She can't grow up... Not this fast"
"Look.. if you really want to face your doubts about him.. Let her invite him over, that way, you'll get to meet him, get to know him better and maybe like the guy she'll possible start dating"
"Fine, so... tell me more about this guy," Leo smirked.
"Why are you so curious about my love life!"
"Because I'm in my thirties, with a teenage daughter"
"And?"
"I watch way to many Japanese dramas, so tell me"
"Well.. he's very sweet, kind, he likes pets, which is great because I was thinking about getting one at some point! And.. what are you doing?"
Leo was typing all that information into his phone, "Finding this guy's location"
"Why?"
"Because Mikey is gonna wanna plan a wedding"
"Wha.. Leo!!" April said and started to blush madly.
Leo laughed as she slapped him with a pillow.
As Leo continued to bug April about her love life, the other's continued to bug Leah about hers
"Girls, please! Relax" Leah smiled nervously.
"No way! Just tell us who it is!"
"Nope, because there is no one!"
"Yeah right! Who is it?"
"Can't I dress up just for fun?"
"Maybe, but you were humming a love song, so who is it?"
"No one!"
"Yeah right!"
"Hey Sera, isn't that the guy I saw sitting with Lele yesterday?" Akemi said and pointed at Remus, who was sitting by a tree and reading.
"Yeah! Do you two wanna meet him!"
"Let him be!" Leah said.
"Nah, you're so insistent on letting him stay where he is, so let me see this dork," Light said, avoiding a different choice of words.
"Yay!!"
"Hey chump!!"
Remus looked up and looked at them, "Hmm?"
"Come here! We want you to meet some people!!"
"Um.. alright..?" Remus walked over to them, not interested in anything they wanna show him.
"Hi Mussy!!"
Aubrey shrunk her head into her sweater and waved gently.
"Hey chump"
Leah looked up at him, "Hey Remus"
"Hey girls, so.. Who" he started then noticed Akemi and Light sitting with them. "Hi"
Light gave him a finger gun and huffed, not interested.
"Hi! My name is Akemi!"
Remus waved at them and sat down across from Leah and reopened his book.
"What's that your reading?"
"Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban"
"Book nerd" Ray coughed.
"I know, what else isn't obvious"
"Ray, be nice" Leah said, she turned towards him and smiled.
"Do you wanna come with me to get some cookies and other snacks?" He randomly blurted out.
Leah thought about it, "Sure! I'm getting hungry anyways"
"Yay" he smiled and got up.
Leah got up and started walking, she smiled as he was talking to her. The others watched this happen and some had grins on their faces and others just "didn't care".
A couple hours passed and Leo was cleaning up Leah's room and he found Andrew's dagger on her nightstand.
"What the.. What's this?" he said to himself and picked up the dagger. "Who the hell is Andrew?"
He heard his brothers entering the lair so he quickly hid the dagger in his coat.
"Oi! Anybody here?!"
Leo ran out of the room and walked over to them, "Hey guys, I was cleaning up a little bit."
"Oh, alright, who's up for some video games! Or a video game tournament!"
"I'm good, I'm just gonna meditate for a little bit" Leo said, he walked into the dojo and sat in front of the mantel.
"Aww! Who's going first!"
Raph put his hands on and sat down on the couch. As Leo started to meditate, he was interrupted by a phone call from his lovely daughter.
"The cheese phone?" He picked it up and answered, "Mushi-Mushi"
"Hi dad"
"Hey Leah, is something wrong?"
"No! I was.. we're hoping if we can invite Remus over to study!"
Leo thought about it for a moment then realized this was a perfect opportunity to meet Remus and to ask her about Andrew.
"Well.. yeah, sure" he started and he could hear the sounds of happiness coming from the other end of the phone. "But"
"Yes!! Thank you dad! See you soon!" She hung up on him.
"But.. Light, Akemi and their parents are coming over.. damn it"
Leo sighed and walked out of the dojo, "Guys!!"
"Damn it!! You made me lose!"
"Haha! I win, sucker!!"
"Enough! The girls have a friend coming over"
"Ooh, new friend!"
"Raph, be nice to him"
"So it's a boy they're having over, hmm."
"None of them have a crush on him.. I think"
"But Leah might be debatable"
"Don't remind me"
"Can we show off our m-!"
"Absolutely not!"
Leah was helping Remus get down into the sewer, she was even carrying him bridal style.
"So.. all of you live down here?"
"Well, I do and so does Aubrey, Ray and Sera live on the surface"
"Ooh"
Leah smiled and put him down on his feet.
"So, does the smell bother you?"
"No, not really"
Leah playfully rolled her eyes and gestured that he follow her. He did and started looking around. She finally turned around and saw a small box in his hands.
"What's that?" She asked, he smiled and gave it to her.
"It's for you, I figured you don't like to be girly so I wanted to get you something to show your feminine side"
Leah opened it and it was a hair clip, a water lily with tassels hanging on it.
"Do you.. like it?"
Leah smiled, "I love it, thank you" she hugged him, in front of the lair, in front of the turtles. He hugged back and didn't notice them.. Until...
"Am I interrupting something?" Leo stood behind Leah, with a terrifying look on his face.
Leah gasped and turned around quickly, "Dad!"
Remus jumped back in shock, "THAT'S YOUR DAD?!"
"Um.. yeah"
Remus got quiet for a moment.. disturbingly quiet. His silence started to scare the others.
"Girls... show him" Ray and Aubrey looked at each other then took off their disguises to show their mutation. Sera then took off her disguise, showing her mutation and all of them just stared at him. Waiting for him to speak or do something.
After looking at all of them in shock for a few minutes and.. a smile grew on his face.
".. we aren't the only ones?"
"What do you mean?"
"What are you talking about?"
"You said, we aren't the only ones"
"I.. well.." Remus thought for a second but smiled and took off his disguise, showing them his mutation.
Sera, Ray, and Aubrey gasped and smiled, they ran towards him amazed while Leah stayed behind.
"I.. definitely wasn't expecting that one" Raph muttered to himself.
Remus walked up to her, waiting to see her mutation.
"Leah?"
"I don't have one, my mother was human and my dad is a mutant, I look more like my mother"
"Oh" he stayed quiet for a moment but the smile never left his face.
Leah giggled a little bit and she playfully punched his shoulder.
"Hey!"
"You're a dork, go sit down!" Leah pushed him playfully.
"I'm going! I'm going!" He snickered and walked over to the other couch and sat down.
"So, Remus.. What kind of mutation do you have?" Donnie asked, attempting to make some conversation with him.
"It's a mix of two actually!" He starts and points to his wings. "The wings I inherited from my mom and everything else.. I don't know who I get it from" he sighs and shrugs his shoulders.
"Don't you have a dad?"
".. mine either died, didn't want sh** to do with me and mom or something."
"Aww.. that's sad!!" Mikey and Sera said and hugged him.
"Ack!"
Leah giggled and put her arm on his shoulder.
"You get used to it," She smiled.
"I'll take your word for it"
Leo watched the two of them interact, it was more platonic than romantic.
He sighed in relief, thinking that April and Coral could be incorrect about this whole crush nonsense.
Meanwhile Aubrey heard Donnie get a phone call from someone who he was not happy to hear from.
"I'm telling you I won't give them back! The rings represent our love for each other so don't call again!" Donnie hung up and growled as he threw the phone into the wall.
"Papa, are... you alright?" Aubrey slowly walked over to him, trying to calm him down.
"No Aubrey, I'm not!"
Aubrey flinched in fear then Donnie realized how much of a psychopath he was acting. He slowly started to calm down and sighed quietly.
"I'm sorry Aubrey.. it's just these people, they won't stop calling and won't leave me alone.."
"Mama's family?" Aubrey looked up at him, waiting for an answer.
"No.. not them.."
"Then who? Her sister usually wants the rings back"
".. yeah, it was her.. I keep telling her she isn't getting them back. I know they were siblings but I swear she needs to lay the f**k off my case"
"How about we go to the surface? To the cafe?" Aubrey smiled softly.
"Oh.. yeah, I could use a cafe visit.. and more coffee"
Aubrey smiled and walked away as Donnie fixed his necklace with the engagement rings on the chain. He sighed and followed after her.
"Hey, we're going to the cafe, do y'all want anything?"
"Can you get me a green tea, Sera a unicorn Frappuccino, Ray a red bull, and Remus just wants a caramel Frappuccino" Leah said, she smiled.
"Ray, aren't you too young to be drinking?"
"It's an energy drink, I'm not like my dad who has a water bottle filled with vodka" Ray smirked.
"Oi!! Call me out like that again and no more red bulls for a month!"
"Okay fine!!" Ray crossed her arms and snarled.
"Don't get too full, we're inviting Light, Akemi and their parents over for dinner"
"Yay!! I get to do her nails!"
"What?!" Leah stood up, "But dad-"
"I tried to tell you when you invited Remus, you will sit and have a nice dinner with them"
"But me and Light hate each other!"
"You will survive and not kill her."
"Light, what are you gonna do when we go see my crazy brothers and you're cousins?"
Light grumbled and put on her best non-threatening smile.
"Make nice and have a nice cup of tea."
"Good"
Solaris patted his daughter's shoulder, to reassure her that everything will be alright.
"Don't worry Light! We're gonna be fine and this will be fun!"
"You're too optimistic"
"You're too pessimistic!"
"Girls, enough" Shinigami said and patted Akemi's head.
"Yes mama!"
"Good, now lets go" Karai said and all of them started walking to the lair.
When they finally got there, they were having small conversations amongst themselves until they looked up and saw everyone else. But when Karai looked up.. lets just say she almost had a mini panic attack.
"Aunt Rai-Rai, are you okay?" Sera asked, worried for her aunt.
".. huh? What did you say?"
"Y-Y-You nearly had a panic attack" Aubrey spoke softly.
"Oh.. I'm okay.. I just need to have a quick conversation with your fathers in private, now please." Karai spoke and gestured to her brothers to get their a$$es in the kitchen.
The children and others were outside in the living room talking, when Aubrey looked up and had a surprise look on her face.
"Something wrong Aubrey?"
"Aunt Sundrop" Aubrey stood up as a woman walked into the lair.
The woman was a fox mutant, much like Aubrey's mother, her hair was light blonde and yellow streaks, light brown fur, brown eyes, and twin tails.
"Oh my darling niece" Sundrop hugged her, "Mmm.. You have your father's eyes" She had a tone of disapproval.
"Oh"
"Donatello, come here... now!" Coral said, not trying to draw attention from the mutant.
"I'm in the middle of a conversation, can it wait?" he shouted from the kitchen.
"Of course, He wouldn't want to visit his sister-in-law."
"Sister-in-law?"
Donnie heard the mutant's voice and his face turned white as a ghost.
"Let me guess, you don't wanna see her, do you?" Karai asked, holding a cup of tea.
"But I have too" He inhaled deeply and walked out of the kitchen.
"Hamato." Sundrop smiled, it was the most fake smile they have ever seen.
"Sundrop."
"I see you're still wearing that tiresome lab coat, my... you think the smartest man in the world could dress a little bit more... proper."
"Look, why are you here? I know you didn't come for a social visit."
"I want the rings back, the rings of true love have always been in the Kitsune Family, not. The Hamatos." Sundrop said.
".. Not happening, I need to finish a more important conversation than deal with you not getting what you want. If you still want to stay, talk to the kids until I'm done." He said and walked back into the kitchen.
Sundrop followed after him, "Shadina wouldn't want you to hold on, also that lovely charm around Aubrey's neck..."
"Sundrop, either go bond with your niece or leave. I need to talk to my siblings. Just my siblings."
"I could relate to that, if I hadn't lost my only sister. Our brother's are disappointed in you, and you were doing so well to impress us.'
"OKAY!! Lady, he's asking very nicely for you to either go bond with your niece or get the hell out, alright? You can do one or the other because there isn't a third option for you to keep harassing him and self control is holding me back from choking the living hell outta you!" Karai shouted as her arms started to turn into snake ones. "Plus.. I could eat you alive."
"Aww, a simple snake mutation... adorable" Karai started to reach for a knife. A rather sharp and big knife.
"No!! No!! There won't be any murders tonight!!" Leo said and started to drag Sundrop over to the children. "Kids, you wanna talk to the lady for a minute, we never got a chance to talk." Leo said and walked back into the kitchen.
Sundrop looked at them and sat down.
"Now I know why you're so familiar.." Remus said to nobody in particular and continued reading.
"Remus?"
"Huh?"
"Is that your name?" Sundrop asked.
"Yeah.. why?"
"You look just like your father"
".. what?" Remus said, dropping his book in shock. He's never heard anything about his father in years unless he or his mother referred to him as a sperm donor.
"You didn't know?"
".. what are you talking about? You knew him?"
Meanwhile with the Hamato siblings
"Snakey, do you wanna explain why you almost had a panic attack in front of the lair?"
"Listen, I know it sounds crazy... but Remus looks like... father"
"Are you sure?"
"Yes!"
"Karai.. The five of us are the only kids he ever had or adopted. There's little to no chance he could've hid another child or a lover from us."
"Maybe, but look at him! Tell me he doesn't look a little bit like him"
"We looked when he first showed us his mutation.. I even looked at an old picture and he's.. too much like him."
"Dad?" Leah walked over to them.
"Hmm?"
"Can we have dinner now?"
"Yeah, sure"
"Okay!!" Leah smiled and walked away.
"You know.. It would be nice if dad did have someone he loved and if Remus was our brother"
".. yeah, it would be"
Aubrey was looking at her heart charm necklace that was around her neck, she didn't even notice that Remus sat next to her.
"Hey"
"Ep!" Aubrey fell backwards, covering her face.
"Sorry!"
"I-It's alright"
"That's a nice necklace"
"Thank you" Aubrey stood up and sat back down, "Papa gave it to me, he said it represents my parents love for each to have me"
"Oh.. that's nice"
"You know, I'm not typically that confident around boys but you make me feel comfortable"
"Really?"
"Yeah, I feel safe around you" Aubrey smiled and rested her head on his shoulder. He smiled and played with her hair a bit.
Sundrop was watching them then Donnie stood next to her.
"You want the rings so badly that I'm probably never gonna get back from you.. Huh?"
"You think I won't give them back? When you told me what happened to her... I figured when you left with Aubrey, you left any memory of her"
".. oh"
"I cared for her, but I've learned to move on for our family's sake just please... Don't let Aubrey suffer"
"I won't.. what were you talking to the kids about, anyway?"
"The witch's coven that Shadina hated, powerful spells, and... how Remus looks like his father" She smiled and walked away.
"Well.. at least it isn't just us who think that"
"Yo!! Don-Pedia!" The lair was filled with an immature hockey player's voice.
"Oh joy, what is it Jones?"
"Well, I brought the good stuff! Candy and Soda for the kids, wine and beer for the dads!" Casey smiled, while Donnie looked at him in disgust.
Aubrey isn't allowed to have sugar and Donnie doesn't drink.
"Bring it into the kitchen, we have guests"
"Got it! Also Aubrey looks a little to comfortable to the newbie over there"
"Huh?"
Casey pointed at Remus and Aubrey, reading on the couch.
"They look fine, am I missing it?" He saw Remus playing with her hair and Aubrey wagging her tails.
"Never mind." he said and started to get angry.
Aubrey smiled, "Keep reading, this is the best part!"
"Don't spoil it then!" he snickered and kept reading.
"Don't read so slow then!" Aubrey giggled.
"I'm not!"
"Yes you are!"
"No I'm not!"
"Hey nerds!" Ray yelled.
"What!" They shouted back.
"Get over here! Time to eat!"
"Coming!"
Aubrey smiled and sat down on the table. He followed after her and sat in between her and Leah.
"Are you sure you can stay this late?"
"Mmm hmm, I called her before we came down here anyway and she said as long as I'm home before I get accused of being a criminal, I'm okay"
Aubrey giggled and smiled as she ate her food. Everyone else was eating and having their own mini conversations. Until this happens:
"Light, can I teach you how to roller skate? It'll be fun!" Akemi asked her in Japanese.
"No, roller skating ain't my thing" Light answered back in Japanese.
"How do you know? You never tried and I wanna do something fun with you that isn't involving torture!"
"It's to girly for my taste"
"Roller skating isn't girly! It's fun!"
"Whatever you say"
"Have either of you ever heard of roller derby?" Remus asked them in perfect Japanese.
Light looked at him and smiled, "No, I haven't heard of it"
"It's like roller skating but you get to hurt people! Just don't hurt them enough to send them to a hospital."
Light smiled at the idea, "I might try that"
Karai and Solaris watched them, Karai had a small smile on her face.. Solaris didn't.
Solaris watched his daughter mingled and sighed in relief.
"What was that for?" she asked him.
"I'm just tired, Love" He smiled.
"I thought you were scared someone was trying to ask them on a date" she snickered and kept eating.
"Light would kill them before they even got the chance" He smiled.
"True, um.. since tomorrow's a weekend.. you wanna try and do something later that day?"
"Of course," He smiled.
"Yay"
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