Turtles Forever

Reflections

The turtles are blindfolded by the side of their masks, while Yuuki had a normal blindfold, holding bamboo sticks as part of their training. Everyone came to Casey's farmhouse for a break from everything. However, Splinter wanted to use their time to train and not relax.

"Master Splinter," Donnie speaks "When you said that we we're coming up here for a little rest and recuperation, I though maybe you meant rest and recuperation."

"Ah, Donatello, there is nothing more restful for a ninja than rigorous training." Splinter explains. "It brings focus and-" He hears game noises from behind him and turns to see Mikey with his eyes glued to the screen of the videogame he was playing, with his mask off. Splinter smacks it out of the turtle's hands.

Mikey kneels down to pick it up "Gamedude! Speak to me Gamedude!"

Splinter drags him back to the others by his mask. Casey and April were relaxing in the shade by the trees watching. Venus sat with her legs crossed reading a book while Mona leaned over her shoulder reading along with her as Venus helped her.

"Now, defend yourselves." Splinter said.

"Uh, sensei, we got zero visibility here." Raph pointed out. Splinter flips over them and charges at Leo, who defends himself. Raph blocks his staff as do Donnie and Mikey. Then Yuuki blocks it as well.

"Not bad, huh, sensei?" Mikey asked.

"Not bad at all." Splinter kneels on one knee "We are finished for the day." Everyone except Leo puts their bamboo sticks down. Splinter trips them, causing them to fall into each other like dominoes and landed on the ground in a pile, but Leo jumps over them at the last second.

"Master Splinter, you said that we were finished." Donnie said.

"A true ninja should never believe everything he hears." Splinter bows to the blue mask turtle and he bows back "Well done, Leonardo."

"There goes Leo making us look bad again." Donnie retorts as he stands up.

"Yeah, Leo doesn't always get it right." Raph murmurs as he stands, straightening his mask back into place.

"What was that, Raphael?" Splinter calls out.

"Uh, nothing, sensei." Raph answers, nervously walking past him. Leo helped Yuuki as he helped pull her up off of the ground.

"Come, let us sit and talk." Splinter said as they approached April who was reading and Casey, who was lying in his lounge chair. Venus was meditating on the blanket while Mona silently played and picked with the dandelions as they sat on the blanket that was laid out.

"No big deal, really, but I was thinking about the first time we met the Shredder and how he almost had Leonardo here going over to the dark side." Raph said, waving his fingers.

"He did what now?" Venus questions, intrigued.

Leo groans and places an hand on is forehead "Oh, here we go again. You know, I still feel like an idiot about that whole thing." He explains.

"And I don't blame ya. The Shredder almost had you believing that he was a good guy, remember?" Raph asked.

"The Shredder invited you and Yuuki to a little party, and like suckers, you went...alone."