I have been secretly writing about a certain couple A LOT lately, so this is me giving myself a break.

And I know I said that the writing where I add the girls into the end of the movie would be the last I post about rottmnt, and I am so sorry, but I haven't been as active recently, so very post on here counts!

Enjoy this probably ten minute read!

(Edit: uh, *seventeen* minute read, my bad guys)

(Edit 2: I LITERALLY PUT A FEW WORDS, WHY'D IT GO UP TO EIGHTEEN?!)

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Kaede stepped off the building and easily landed on the next. Leo followed suit.

"How did you learn to be so graceful like that?" He asked.

She shrugged. "Past stuff I'd rather not talk about."

Leo suddenly smirked. "Race to the docks?"

She narrowed her eyes competitively. "You are so on!"

They ran across the rooftops with ease, wind rushing past their faces. Sometimes she was in front, other times it was him. When they reached the docks, though, Kaede was victorious.

"Ha! Take that, Lee!" she exclaimed.

She felt unnerved by his silence and spun around. He was there, arms forced behind his back and a hand over his mouth, accompanied also by a very furious expression. Before she could so much as gasp, she felt hands tug on her arms and instinctively kicked out. Whoever was behind her yelped and stumbled backward.

"What's going on here?" she demanded. "Who are you all?"

"We..." the one restraining Leo started. "Work for the King, who you and your comrades betrayed."

Kaede widened her eyes. "You can't be serious..."

"Unfortunately for you, I am Lady Kaede. He sent us to come get you." they continued.

"What does he want me for?" she asked.

"He wants you back on his side." they replied. "Though, I still don't see why. You clearly chose where your loyalties lie."

Kaede bared her teeth. "Tell him to fuck off. Him doing what he did to the turtles _crossed a line_."

"I'm afraid I can't do that." they said, shrugging. "It'd be better for everyone if you went willingly."

"Never." she snapped.

Who she had kicked away had gotten back up and forced her to her knees now. She glared up at the Tanuki holding Leo. They laughed and let him go, pushing him from the container.

"Woah!" he managed to land on his feet. "Okay, maybe _not_ do that next time, please."

Kaede pushed against the Tanuki behind her to stand, but a much firmer and familiar set of hands pressed her into the concrete.

"How nice to see you again, Kaede~" the owner of the hands whispered.

Now she remembered. "_You_." she growled.

"Now, don't be like that." he leaned down to get close to her face. "You know you still love me."

"I most do certainly do not." she turned her head away from his. "I thought I told you that when we broke up."

Leo stared, dumbfounded. "Broke up?! When were you going to tell me about this?"

Kaede craned her neck up as much as she could to meet his gaze. "Honestly, never. My past with the Tanuki King is something I would haved liked to forget about, but clearly that didn't last beyond four months."

"You _wanted_ to forget about me?" her ex sounded hurt.

"Yes, _Ray_. I wanted to fucking forget about you." she spat his name distastefully like it was poison.

Ray looked hurt now too. Pathetic. The King would have killed him for that look and they both knew it, which is probably why it vanished a second later.

"Whatever. Let's just get this whole excursion over with." Ray snapped his fingers.

The two other Tanuki joined him and that cursed white portal opened. Kaede struggled uselessly against every hand holding her back. Leo jumped around the portal, shook from his shock, but Ray merely hit him away.

"Leo!" Kaede shouted. "Tell them I'm-!"

The portal closed before she could finish. Leo had to go home and break the news. Fortunately, her sisters knew.

"She told me to tell you-"

"That she's in the lion's den." They finished. "Fantastic."

"How are we going to rescue her?" Leo asked.

"We don't." Tomio fished a cup from a cabinet. "We have to wait for her to rescue herself."

"What do you mean?" Leo demanded. "I'm not just going to sit around and _wait_ for her to be killed."

"Trust us, Leo. It's best not to make any moves to get her out." Ko explained. "The King will know, and he will kill each and every one of us." She paused. "And Kaede too if he hasn't already."

"Besides, Kaede is the most capable out of all of us." Saki added, glancing quickly at Tomio and Ko, who each nodded back. "She was raised and trained by the King, after all."

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Kaede felt stuck. Trapped. Her mind was hazy and her limbs felt like lead. Thoughts darted around her brain like teasing mosquitoes. Where was she? She couldn't remember.

"Oh good, you're awake." someone said.

Through her blurry vision, she barely made out a hand reaching down, going for something on her neck. In a flash of panic and animalistic fear, she lashed out and sent the hand (and the person) reeling backwards.

"Hey, calm down, I'm just here to help." they whispered.

The only word Kaede registered was 'help'. She immediately relaxed, only to tense up again when her only coherent thought since she'd woken up entered her brain: _You're not supposed to be here_.

She growled at the hand. Her previously clouded vision started to clear, along with her head. The Tanuki before her just blinked and stared.

"Who are you?" she demanded. "And where's the King so I can ripe his fucking heart out?"

"Okay, Lady Kaede, let's just calm down." they laughed nervously and pushed their glasses back up their nose. "I was merely instructed to tend to any..._injuries_ you may have."

"So you're a doctor then, huh?" Kaede started reaching for her sword.

This is when she became aware of the heavy cuffs holding her arms back. And another pair biting her ankles. Clearly the King knew what he was doing.

"I am truly sorry we had to do that, but it was on his Majesty's direct orders." the doctor apologized.

"Yeah, sure you're sorry." Kaede glanced around the room. "Pretty small for such a distinguished doctor as yourself."

They shrugged. "The King doesn't like to 'waste his money'. Although I have told him that sparing money for a place to heal the injured isn't a waste..."

"Well obviously he doesn't know a good healer when he sees one. Perhaps if you let me go, I could help you knock some sense into him?" Kaede offered.

"Yes! Er, I mean no..." they trailed off. "Getting the King to realize his mistake is nice, but I'd rather not face his anger if it doesn't work..."

Kaede stared a hole into the floor below her. Of course her plan to escape didn't work. Of course the doctor didn't want to face the King's fury.

"But I could help you to get out of here another way!" they suddenly exclaimed.

"Wait, for real?" Kaede eyed them suspiciously.

They nodded enthusiastically. "I know this place like the back of my hand. I can pretend to be taking you elsewhere for treatment, then we can sneak to the secret vent behind the King's throne!"

Kaede raised a brow. "_Behind_ the King's throne? That sounds like a trap, no thanks."

"I'm serious!" they persisted. "I want to help you, and nobody else knows about that vent but me!"

"How is it possible only _you_ know about it?" Kaede asked accusingly.

"Your comrades told me about it." The doctor smiled.

"You mean Saki, Ko and Tomio? How would they have known about it?" Kaede shifted. Did she really want to know?

"It was when we were all younger." They explained. "Your comrades came to me and showed me the vent they had found, which lead to behind the King's throne. I thought they would have told you, but maybe they forgot."

Kaede sighed. "Of course they kept that from me. Whatever, let's just get this over with."

"You trust me?" they asked cautiously, with a little too much excitement.

"Yeah, I guess I do. But try any funny business, and I will not hesitate to kill you." She warned.

They hurried over and began unlocking the cuffs."We gotta hurry. The guards will be here to check on you any second now."

The second Kaede's wrists and ankles were free, she was sprinting out of the room.

"Wait! They'll catch you if you're too far ahead of me!" The doctor shouted.

But Kaede ignored her. She knew exactly where the throne room was, and she was getting out of here. She skidded around a corne, shifted into an ant and ducked behind the huge golden throne quickly before shifting back.

"Where'd you go?!" the doctor sprinted into the room, panicking and out of breath.

"Where'd who go?" one of the guards on either side of the throne asked.

The doctor was quiet for a second, probably thinking something over. "Oh, uh, hello guards! I was just looking for my...needle! Yes, my needle because Lady Kaede is just being so uncooperative that I need to put her to sleep to do _anything_."

Kaede dragged a hand down her face. They were terrible at lying. She focused on the vent and started unscrewing the sides with a finger. Eventually, the entrance fell away and she reached her hands out to catch it, but it clattered to the ground loudly. She held her breath and rushed to squeeze herself into the small vent space. She hadn't heard the guards leave, but judging by the fact that she didn't have a hand on her tail pulling her back, they were definitely gone.

She proceeded slowly, only hurrying to get past places with too many Tanuki. Her efforts weren't in vain, fortunately, and she finally reached the exit. She pushed against the door and when the screws came loose, tumbled out onto the other side.

"How nice of you to join us, Lady Kaede." Ray greeted in a midly chilling tone.

Kaede panicked and stumbled to her feet. She scrambled for the doors. Two guards slipped in front of them, making her skid to a stop. She glanced behind her at Ray as if he'd help. The armored Tanuki forced her arms behind her down to her knees.

"Take her to join us." Ray commanded.

And they did. Kaede folded her ears back instinctively and growled when they pushed her into the chair.

"The King and I were just talking about the ball coming up." Ray explained. "And how since I took your place after you left, I would be the guest of honor at this years."

She sat up straight, widened her eyes and flicked her ears back up. She faced the King.

"_He_ replaced me?" She asked incredulously. "But shouldn't Tanya have? She was second in line."

"Well, Tanya wasn't ready, so Ray was the next best option." the King filled her in.

Kaede went silent after that.

Ray shared a look with the King before reaching out and taking her hand. "Will you come with me to the ball?"

She flattened her ears again and pulled her hand away. "Not a chance."

"I was afraid you'd say that." Ray sighed. "The King had a plan if you did."

The King snapped. The guards yanked Kaede from the chair and dragged her away.

"You'll never get away with this!" she shouted furiously.

"Oh, dear sister." the King laughed.

Kaede stopped struggling.

"I already have."

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Two weeks. It had been two weeks since Leo had watched Kaede get pulled away into that portal. Her sisters had told her to wait, but even they were getting worried now.

"Boys." Tomio whispered.

Leo, Raph, Mikey and Donnie turned to her from their places around the kitchen table.

"We...have something to tell you." She continued. "Something we'd rather keep in the dark, but might be useful knowledge for the current situation."

Saki and Ko shuffled nervously into the kitchen beside Tomio, avoiding all their stares.

"First of all, we're-"

"We're not really sisters!" Ko burst out. "Sorry, I got too nervous." she added at Tomio's glare.

"Yes, we aren't really sisters. It's just what we-"

"WHAT?!" the four brothers broke from their confused stupor.

The sisters _girls_ went silent with shame. They all stayed like that for a few minutes before Tomio continued explaining.

"The King is...Kaede's brother. He had to raise her after their parents died, and since he's a little over sixteen years older than she is. Saki's family actually took them in when her mom found them. Then, nearly exactly two years later, Saki's dad found Ko and I and they took us in too.

"When the King was twenty, he participated in a competition to find who the next King would be, since the last had passed without an heir. Obviously, he won, and claimed his throne, taking his little sister to the castle with him to raise completely.

"We didn't know what had become of Kaede until six years later, when we were ten, and an invitation was sent out to join the new Royal training program. Which we did. We were so excited to see Kaede again, naturally."

"Wait wait wait." Leo interrupted. "I'm didn't hear anything past the 'we're not really sisters' part."

Raph hit the back of Leo's head. "Focus, Leo. This is serious stuff."

"What, you guys were actually listening?" Leo turned to them.

"Yes...Nardo, we were, now shut up and pay attention. Like Raph said, this is _serious_." Donnie added.

Tomio cleared her throat. "You know, maybe this isn't the best time to be telling you this. We should've waited until Kaede was back."

"No, no. You're going to finish your story, and then we're getting Kaede back." Leo said.

"_Leo_." Raph warned.

"What now? You said to pay attention and that's what I'm going to do!"

"You don't talk to Tomio that way." Raph growled.

Leo narrowed his eyes. "Right. Because she's so precious to you. Well guess what Raph? Kaede's precious to me, and we really need to get on with this whole confession so we can save her!"

"It's not a confession."

"Then what is it? A story? A tale from their past they never told us about?"

Raph sighed. "We can't keep arguing like this, Leo."

"Pff, yeah, coming from you we definitely shouldn't." Leo retorted.

"I'm serious! We'll never rescue her if we do!"

"Like you would care about Kaede." Leo snorted. "You only care for Tomio. I'm outta here."

He stormed out of the kitchen past the girls who had been watching, made a portal and vanished.

"I'll go after him." Tomio said. "It's my fault, anyway."

"But sis, he could-" Ko stopped herself and flinched at the name. "He could kill you Tom."

"I know." Tomio whispered. "But I started this." she looked up at Raph. "I'm sorry."

She turned and raced away after Leo, not giving anyone the chance to stop her again, and leaped into the still-open portal. It snapped shut behind her.

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Kaede paced the cold stone floor of the cell and shivered.

"Your sisters will come for you." She said to herself. "You'll be free from this before you know it."

But they hadn't. It had been two weeks and they _hadn't_. Now she was losing herself, she was losing herself, _she was losing herself_. The click of the lock made her jump and freeze. Ray stepped into the cell after the heavy door swung open. He looked pleased with himself.

"Well, you've been in here for a few days." he started, walking closer. "Have you made up your mind?"

Kaede blinked in confusion. Made up her mind about what? She couldn't remember. She had assumed she had forgotten before because of a drug, but now she knew it was because she had been locked away for so long.

"S-sorry." she murmured. "Made up my m-mind about w-what?"

His growing smile instantly vanished. "I'm going to take that as you need more time in here. Be sure to have your answer by-"

Something in her mind snapped right there. She fell to her knees and sobbed. She had to get out of here, she _needed_ to.

"Please, I'll say yes to whatever you wanted, just get me out of here!" she begged.

Ray's smile returned, showing too many teeth. "I didn't think you'd break so easily to it, my dear." he crouched down to her level and lifted her head. "Very well, you will join me for the ball and never have to see this place again."

Kaede blinked and wiped her tears away. In that moment, Leo slipped from her mind. Ray gently pulled her close into a hug then away again for a kiss. Her tail softly swished against the ground happily. She was finally getting out of here. And she realized how much she missed kissing him, even if he was her ex.

"Shall we?" Ray asked, pulling away.

"Please!" Kaede exclaimed.

He took her hand and guided her from the cell. She was so excited she could've sprinted the rest of the way, but Ray's warm hand kept her grounded.

"We'll need to get you prepared." he told her. "And the King has offered us the best of the best to do so."

"He did?" Kaede asked.

"Why yes! I am his second-in-command now after all!" Ray exclaimed.

He took her to three different pure white rooms that day (afternoon?). Before she knew it, she was in the most beautiful blue dress she had ever seen.

"Blue..." her eyes widened as she looked in the mirror. "Leo...was going to come save me..."

"What was that, dear?" Ray came up behind her, placing his hands on her bare shoulders.

"N-nothing." she stammered. "I was just misremembering something is all."

"That's good." he said. "Because for a second I thought I heard you say someone was coming to save you." his grip tightened.

"Nope!" she shouted a little too quickly.

He smiled and guided her into a almost blindingly light blue room. The King was waiting for them.

"Ah, there you two are!" he greeted. "My you have really outdone yourself with dressing up my little sis, haven't you Ray?"

Kaede flinched and looked away. He hadn't called her that in years. (Or maybe it was a few days?).

"She did end up agreeing, so I thought I would reward her a bit." Ray shrugged.

"Yes, well, anyways," The King continued. "The ball is to start soon, so you might want to get going."

Ray nodded respectfully and pushed her away. They made it to the ballroom and searched for their seats and Tanuki to talk to.

"Lady Kaede!" a couple exclaimed. "It's been so long! Where'd you disappear off to for four months?"

Kaede smiled at them and opened her mouth to answer, but Ray cut her off.

"All that matters is that she's home and back with me." He kissed her to prove the point.

She swished her tail happily and watched the couple leave nervously out of the corner of her eye.

"Let's...find our seats." He whispered.

"Let's." She agreed.

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(And extra note to A.J. Kit if you're reading this: if you don't agree, please say so!)