"Alright break it up before i do" Leo said to Raph and Karai in frustration as he walked into the living room to see Raph stumbling around the pit with Karai on his back reaching over his shoulder's trying to grab the remote from his hands.

This had become a pretty regular occurrence in the lair, to the point where Mikey just sat on the floor laughing, Donnie waited somewhere else until somebody won the battle for the remote and Leo was sure that after a few more days he'd just let them work it out themselves.

"Get your hands off of my eyes!" Raph demanded when his vision turned to black

"Give me the remote!" Karai bargained now gripping her brother's face in order to stay on as he tried to shake her off of him.

Leo shook his head in a mixture of frustration and amusement, he was getting pretty tired of this happening every time the five of them decided to watch a movie but at the same time if someone had told him a year ago that Karai would be tackling Raph for a TV remote, he would've asked if they were sure it wasn't a bomb detonation remote. But with both of them clearly ignoring him Leo hopped down into the pit and struggled to get in front of Raph, who despite Karai blinding him, appeared to be winning since Karai now needed both her hands to hold on.

"Enough" Leo said, putting his hands on Raph's shoulders to signal him to stop walking around.

Understanding that she had lost Karai reluctantly climbed off of Raph and went to take her seat on the couch, still irritated that Raph had won.

"Is it safe to come in?" Donnie called from the kitchen where he had gone to make the popcorn ten minutes ago.

"Yup and we're watching The Matrix!" Mikey cheered as Donnie came in and took his seat

"We've seen that movie a hundred times" Karai complained

Raph, who was sitting on the floor next to Mikey turned around to face his sister

"You can pick the movie when you pry the remote from my cold, dead hands" he said to her and she only rolled her eyes.

Ten o'clock and the movie was about half over. Leo glanced around to see who was still awake, for a few years now ten o'clock had been sort of an unofficial bedtime, as in it was the earliest anyone ever went to bed. So after Karai moved in, since she didn't have a bedroom and they were still working on building one, she had been sleeping on the couch and, in Leo's mind at least, starting at ten the couch was her space and he tried to keep the guys from falling asleep there.

Glancing out of the corner of his eye Leo noted that Karai, who was sitting next to him, was still awake and seemed to be paying close attention to the movie

So much for being sick of this movie the leader thought to himself as he turned his head to glance at Donnie sitting at the foot of the couch, he seemed to still be paying attention to the movie.

Down on the floor were Raph and Mikey, Mikey's head was bobbing up and down as he fought to keep himself awake while Raph's soft snoring could be heard over the sound of the movie.

We let him pick the movie and he's the first one asleep Leo mused to himself.

After about twenty more minutes Donnie began to nod off and decided to head off to bed and was fallowed by Mikey who was almost completely asleep by that point. As they left Leo glanced at Karai to see if she was still awake, she was but he could tell she was getting tired. She had lay down on her side and curled into a ball so once Donnie was gone Leo took the space at the foot of the couch. Taking the hint Karai stretched out her legs enough to be comfortable but said nothing to Leo.

When the movie came to an end Leo and Karai were the only two still awake and with the remote now in his possession Leo stood up to stretch before tossing it to Karai.

"Ow!" She exclaimed, Leo hadn't realized that she was half asleep and therefor not paying attention. The remote bounced against her head as it landed

"Sorry i thought you were awake" Leo apologized as Karai rubbed her head

"Am now" she said to him annoyed

"Sorry" he said again

"It's fine" Karai said back, taking her hand off her head and rolling over to pull her blanket out from in between the cushions.

"I'm going to bed" Leo said with a yawn

"Ok, goodnight" Karai said to him while she finished spreading the old fleece blanket over herself.

"How are we going to get Raph up?" Leo questioned knowing that Raph had been asleep on the floor for well over an hour and was the heaviest sleeper of them all.

Propping herself up on her elbow Karai looked over the edge of the couch at the sleeping turtle

"Just leave him, he'll wake up eventually" She said laying back down

"You don't mind the snoring?" Leo questioned, he didn't have a problem with leaving Raph on the living room floor but he figured Karai was already stuck on the couch for two weeks now with at least one more to go, he really hated to subject her to a snoring roommate.

But she just gave a shrug "He's not that bad, if he gets too loud I'll wake him up" she said and Leo nodded

"Ok, goodnight" he said stepping over Raph's sleeping body and heading for his room.

"Night" Karai called back before settling into sleep.

When Raph opened his eyes the living room was pitch black and he was still laying on the floor. Sitting up and turning around he saw Karai laying on the couch with her back turned to him. He pulled out his T-phone to check the time, 1:37 it read.

He sat there in the dark for a few minutes, too awake to fall back asleep but too tired to get up and go to his room.

"Karai? Are you awake?" He whispered after a minute or two

"Hmm hmm" he got in muffled response

"Are you awake or are you just murmuring?" He asked her skeptically.

"No I'm awake" she answered before rolling over to face him

"What's up?" She asked, her eyes open but still heavy with sleep, as if the sound of him sitting up had been what woke her.

Raph hesitated for a moment, his mouth opened but no words came at first.

"What was it like? Growing up with Shredder for a father?" He finally asked.

Karai blinked a few times at his question as if to wake herself up before answering. She sat up and crossed her legs, now fully awake.

"Not what you would expect" she finally answered, staring down into her lap. The room was dark but when she looked up she could still see Raph's face, he was patiently waiting for her to continue.

"Shredder was always obsessed with his vendetta but he really did seem to care about me. Whenever i was sick he would cancel training for the day, postpone it until i was better. He taught me everything i know about ninjitsu and sometimes when i did something stupid attempting to make him happy, he would actually smile" she explained, the idea of Shredder smiling was almost as strange to her as it was to Raph. But she had a few faint memories, such as her five year old self making her so called 'father' a horribly drawn birthday card.

"Shredder smiling?" Raph commented to which Karai gave a small laugh

"About once every couple years" she joked before getting back to what she was saying

"Of course he was never exactly father of the year, i used to be terrified of doing anything he might not approve of because if i got caught…" she trailed off and shuttered

"What?" Raph questioned suddenly concerned, which Karai caught onto

"You wouldn't think that yelling was worse than a physical beating and maybe it wasn't but when it comes from Shredder, it feels worse." She explained as all of the horrible nights came back to her.

"I knew Shredder loved me, but if i disobeyed him he would yell and scream. I would beg for forgiveness and he would call me weak. I remember one night when i was eight, i can't even remember what i did anymore, but he sent me to bed early, crying. I had a clock in my room so i kept watching it, i cried for my mother for six straight hours and Shredder didn't even acknowledge me" she explained.

Raph looked at her in sorrow, he didn't like that she had grown up with such monster for a father but what he really hated, was that she wasn't supposed to. She was Splinter's daughter, she was Miwa. She was supposed to be raised by her parents in Japan and have a normal life. Instead she had been kidnapped and raised by a monster, her mother was dead, her father is a rat and she has four turtles for adopted brothers, not to mention they live in a sewer.

"I'm sorry Karai" Raph finally muttered. Karai only looked at him quizzically, it wasn't like Raph to apologize.

"For what? I told you it wasn't that bad and besides you weren't even born yet, or hatched i guess, it's not your fault" she told him, sort of feeling embarrassed that it had momentarily slipped her mind that her brother's had hatched from eggs.

Raph shrugged

"Maybe not but none of this was supposed to happen, you should've had a normal life" Raph said but much to his surprise, despite the darkness of the room, he saw Karai frown.

"All those times Shredder made me cry, every time he called me weak, every time i failed, i had one thing to hold on to. I had once been told that everything that happens, it happens for a reason. I hate what happened just as much as you do, probably more, but if it hadn't then nobody would be fighting the Kraang. Worse things could've happened" Karai said, Raph looked at her in surprise

"So you forgive Shredder?" He asked in surprise, he couldn't believe that she was so calm about this considering every time someone so much as mentioned Shredder's name she would scowl.

Karai narrowed her eyes and shook her head "I'll never forgive him, but i can at least look for a bright side to what he did" she responded

"That's a pretty dark bright side" Raph muttered still loud enough to be heard and Karai actually giggled

"Hey, for somebody who grew up as a lonely, only child, four brothers his a brighter side than you would think" she said causing Raph to grin.

Brothers.

Karai had been living here for about two weeks now and as far as Raph knew this was the first time she had out loud called the turtles her brothers.

"Your sister basically coming back from the dead isn't so bad either" Raph commented which made Karai smile.

For another minute the two sat there in a happy sort of silence. Raph remembered the nights from his childhood, every once in a while he or one of his brothers would upset themselves by wishing that Tang Shen and Miwa were still here.

Karai lay back down, the memories of lonely days and nights from her own childhood suddenly made better by the knowledge that things were different now, that she wasn't alone.

Raph went back to laying on the floor "sorry i was such a jerk when we first met, and talked Leo into betraying you at the docks" he apologized but Karai only chuckled

"After everything i did i'd say we're even" she said which was really her way of apologizing

"Alright Miwa, we're even" Raph agreed. He had called her by her birth name to see what she would say, so far only Splinter had been calling her Miwa.

But she said nothing, not another word was spoken between the two that night. Karai was the first to drift back into sleep while Raph lay there on the floor, a smile on his face because after all these years, the boys most impossible childhood wish had been granted, their sister had come home.