Karai's breath caught in her throat when her hand wrapped tightly around the railing to the fire-escape. For a moment she just dangled frozen, as if she were unsure as to if she was truly still alive or not.

After a moment it processed and she let out the air in her lungs and pulled herself onto the small steel balcony. She hadn't fallen far and could still hear the battle on the roof above, and took a moment of debate on whether or not to return to it. She knew she should, they were closer than ever to finishing off Hamato Yoshi and the turtles. Earlier this morning she would've thrown herself right back into the line of fire if it meant she could watch that wretched rat pay for what he did to her mother, for what he did to her. But now she was having doubts. Earlier Leo had said that her real name was Miwa, had the earthquake not hit just then and buried him in rubble she would've asked what the heck he was talking about. At first she thought maybe he was crazy but then, just two hours later, he had tried telling her that Splinter was her true father. She didn't believe him then and she wouldn't believe him now if it hadn't been for her earlier conversation with Splinter, the way he spoke of her mother. She could hear it in his voice that he had loved her mother, and although that lined up with what Shredder had told her, what Splinter did when blacking out did not. He was shot with a poison dart, by those working for a man who wants him dead. He knew he may never wake up from the sleep which he fell into, so why would he choose his last words to be a simple name, "Miwa", as he reached out desperately to his teenage should've been assassin, if it was a lie?

Deciding that maybe she should rejoin the battle, rejoin and see if Leo could give her any answers, Karai stood on the railing of the fire-escape. Her position was hidden by the supports of a billboard on the roof, she could see everyone but not everyone could see her. She saw Tiger Claw about to finish Splinter. She knew she should let him, she knew this was her father's mission in life, to see Master Splinter as nothing more than a dead body. But now she had her doubts, and she couldn't let an innocent man die. Making up her mind quickly before she could talk herself out of it she picked up a small rock from the gravel of the roof and chucked it hard at Tiger Claw, effectively hitting him in the side of the head.

"AH! Who dares!?" The mutant demanded as he looked to the side, Karai couldn't help but smirk just a tiny bit, she had been wanting to do that since meeting Tiger Claw just hours earlier.

She saw that Leo was the one to take advantage of her distraction, not surprising, and delivered a flying kick right to his nose, again Karai had no complaints about that. Tiger Claw fell over the side of the roof and Karai could only be grateful that it wasn't the same side she was watching from. She watched as Leo hurried to his sensei's side and look around for the source of the flying rock, Karai knew it would be smarter if she hid herself but instead she remained in sight, but after Leo turned his attention back to Splinter she couldn't be sure if he had seen her.

The sun came up not long after the battle, Shredder's henchmen had all begun their walk home with their tales between their legs right after Tiger Claw was swallowed. But Karai instead moved her hiding spot to the backside of the billboard, she was not yet ready to face the Shredder.

The turtles, human friends, and Splinter, were doing nothing more than congratulating each other on the night, and Karai was about to leave when she heard Raphael.

"But what about Karai?" He asked and she found herself halting her departure, instead she remained where she was and held her breath.

"I still can't believe that evil witch is your daughter. Um sorry to be so honest" Karai frowned at April O'Neil's comment but at the same time she understood it, after everything she's done she is a witch.

"Perhaps one day she will believe the truth, but that his her decision" Karai couldn't believe what she was hearing.

They were telling the truth, they didn't know she was listening and yet they still continued with their story. Now she had to go, she couldn't take any more of this, she couldn't listen to any more! Quickly she leapt off the building and made her way back to Shredder's hideout.

"Karai, where have you been?" Shredder demanded coldly when she entered his thrown room, she bowed her head and almost wished that she hadn't thrown that rock, dealing with Shredder in a good mood was hard enough but in a bad mood she liked to avoid him at all possible costs.

"Your little henchmen didn't tell you?" She asked in an irritated voice "I was knocked off of a rooftop during the fight, just woke up in a dumpster" she lied, Shredder eyed her skeptically

"The mission was a failure" he informed her, she narrowed her eyes and although Shredder most likely was assuming it was because she was angry Hamato Yoshi still lives Karai knew the real reason, any decent father would've been concerned to hear what she had just told him.

As the day went on things only grew worse, first off Shredder was extra harsh in training and second Karai got her ass handed to her by Xever.

"Someone is off her game today" the fish teased the girl who he had just slammed down onto her back.

Karai sat up with little more than a grunt and a hand to her spinning head, which had also bounced forcefully against the hardwood floor of the dojo.

"I think I got a concussion from falling off the roof" she lied as she stood to face the fish-man for a third time, and was beat about four more times after that.

After a quick supper of fried noodles, since she was really in no mood to cook anything complicated or that took longer than fifteen minutes, and even that pushed her patience, Karai went to her room. She knew it was still early, earlier than she normally went to bed, but she didn't care, she just wanted this day to be over. She couldn't stop thinking about what she had been told, what she was starting to believe more and more as the hours passed. Sitting down on her bed she sighed and took out the torn picture of her mother

"Wonder why he ripped it" she sarcastically muttered to herself, that thought had crossed her mind before but she never focused on it, she couldn't bring herself to.

Putting the picture back in her pocket Karai narrowed her eyes, she wasn't too sure what to believe but she was sure of one thing, she had to get out of here.

Standing up she walked across the room and dug her civilian clothes out of her laundry basket, quickly changing into them. She sighed when she realized that her suitcase was the only form of luggage case she had, she owned no backpack or purse, nothing she could casually carry around with her.

"Oh well" she said to herself as she transferred the torn picture of her mother from her black leggings into her jeans pocket.

She then dropped the leggings to the floor and grabbed her Juji-ken sword, forcing it to fit inside of the zip up pocket in her jacket. She also secured her wallet inside of the pocket, though it only contained her drivers license and a total of fifty-two dollars and some-odd cents. She thought about taking her make-up but decided that was to much too carry, besides it's not like she would see anyone she knows.

With one last glance around the mostly bare bedroom Karai made sure she wasn't forgetting anything, and she wasn't. She didn't bother leaving a note for Shredder, instead she just opened her window and after one final look back she left.