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Two Years, Two Keys by Purpleandbluelove24
Fandoms: Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Cartoon 2018), Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - All Media Types
15 Oct 2025
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Two years after the near Krang invasion and the eve of their 19th birthday, Donnie notices that Leo is not himself, becoming quieter and more distant. With some gentle coaxing, Leo finally breaks down, confessing that he has felt trapped and tired, the trauma from his near-sacrifice and the invasion not leaving him even after two years. Donnie decides to do something about and surprises Leo with an apartment that the two of them can share together
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A series of stories of Leo and Donnie sharing an apartment in the Hidden City together, full of laughs, tears, and healing that can only be shared between two twins
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- Part 31 of I love the disaster twins
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Mutant Messages by FadedLilly06
Fandoms: Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Cartoon 2018), Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - All Media Types
09 Oct 2025
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10/2/25 undergoing skin update
Mad Dogz
Sherlock_Corn🌽:
Alright, team. New group chat. 🎉
Because SOMEONE (glares at Mikey and Leo virtually) kept clogging up the old one with GIF wars. 🙄Neon_Leon💅:
Uh, excuse me, April.
First off, they were strategic morale-boosting visual aids.
Second, my reaction time on that "dog with sunglasses" meme was legendary, tyvm.A chat fic with Leosagi, Timtello, Shellshocked, Aprinita, Rasey, and Raphmona. Filled with fluff and shenanigans with the occasional angst and drama.
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Shadows of the Hamato by Magisav
Fandoms: Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Cartoon 2018)
05 Oct 2025
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A year after the Kraang invasion, Leo still struggles with his failures and the weight of leadership. Determined to grow stronger, he makes the painful decision to leave for Japan, training to become the leader his family deserves. But after a year, a deep unease stirs within him through his ninpo. He returns home—only to find the lair in ruins, his family gone, and the Foot Clan's insignia flying over what was once their home. Believing them dead, Leo wages a ruthless one-man war against the Foot, hunting them relentlessly.
But his family is alive—held captive by Shen, the new, ruthless leader of the Foot. A cunning and powerful mystic, Shen seeks to steal the Hamato Clan’s ninpo, intending to ascend beyond mortality and reshape the world in her image. With the Foot under her control and power within reach, she will stop at nothing to claim what she believes is hers.
Unaware of the full extent of her plans, Leo has one goal: to destroy the Foot and make their leader pay.
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Greetings from Another Dimension by Neon_Leon_yippe
Fandoms: Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Cartoon 2018)
04 Oct 2025
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Even months after Leo’s out of the prison dimension, Prime still haunts him. The time dilation, the inability to not die- wow. Leo was over 50 now, wasn’t he?
All that time in the prison dimension wasn’t spent getting beat though, no.
Leo just wanted a family. A real one. Sometimes, it feels like Prime is.
Maybe... if he can just find the key, then he’ll finally be happy.
(Idk working on it)- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 12
- Chapters:
- 1/?
- Kudos:
- 1
- Hits:
- 33
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The lights in your eyes fade and life flashes by by NerdyBoiYeet
Fandoms: Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Cartoon 2018)
30 Sep 2025
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Leo is ready to be done. To end it all.
The tensions in his family are at an all time high, everything ruined by his father declaring him leader.
With everyone turning their backs on him, and telling him to leave. So he's going to give them what they want.
He's going to set everything right and do it.
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Runaway bad guy, this is your retribution by Leo_Angst
Fandoms: Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Cartoon 2018), Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (IDW Comics), Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - All Media Types
14 Sep 2025
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He thought he could handle it. Thought he could push through his problems with a smile in place.
But he can't. He's not strong enough for it.
He's defiantly not strong enough to keep seeing the look of hurt on his family's faces. A look he, himself put there with just his mare existence. He should leave, it'll be easier for everyone involved.
He's easily replaceable anyway.
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Leo runs away when his problems get too much for him.
Story about recovery and trying to see the light when you're at rock bottom
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Just a tool (On-going) by Anonymous_2012
Fandoms: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (TV 2012)
07 Sep 2025
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After the return of Splinter's biological daughter Karai Leo's whole life suddenly shifted. He watches as his title, respect,praise,role, and most importantly, family are handed to karai.What he worked endlessly for since the day he could walk is handed to his big sister for no effort at all. As leo is no longer splinter's favourite all fatherly affection that splinter gave him is stripped and he finds an excuse to take away Leo's role as leader and tries to give it to karai, who refuses it because she wants take over the foot clan. Splinter gives the leader role to raph without second thought, basically throwing leo away like trash.
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Don't Threaten Me With a Good Time by LitaLollipop
Fandoms: Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Cartoon 2018)
01 Sep 2025
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It hasn't been long since the Kraang and everybody's wounds is still very open and inflammed.
Raph has a small chance of getting permanently blind in one eye, Donnie hasn't really been talking, Mikey's hands are shaking and Leo's got a terrible looking crack on his shell, hasn't been walking right and developed an alcohol addiction to cope with... well, everything. Oh, and he's clearly got PTSD.
Leo is terrible at communicating, but it gets so much worse after he refuses to admit he's got a drinking problem.
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Traffic Lights by Gibblegoobler
Fandoms: Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Cartoon 2018)
18 Aug 2025
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With the portal closed, he thought it was finally over... until Mikey did the impossible. Time to take things into his own hands.
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“So what is wrong with you?”
“What do you mean? I'm fine.”
“No, like- Since there's something wrong with everyone, this sorta stuff might as well be genetic. Maybe there's a name for what you have too.”
“It's called being normal, Mikey.”—
Donnie invents a machine that detects and indicates emotion. It doesn't work on him, but it works fine on everyone else and he won't turn it off until he finds out why. -
Underneath it all by obviouslystupidandlame
Fandoms: Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Cartoon 2018), Samurai Rabbit: The Usagi Chronicles (Cartoon)
29 Jul 2025
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Long walks late at night are Leo's only escape from his family's smothering in the aftermath of the Kraang.
Usagi can't seem to stop messing up and disapointing his loved ones so he begins spending his nights trying to better himself no matter what it takes.
They help each other see the light in the darkness.
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The Bright Place by FannonCannons
Fandoms: Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Cartoon 2018)
26 Jul 2025
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Post-prison dimension, Leo’s a bit.. different.. and he doesn’t have his memories. Leo’s hungry and tired of living behind a glass wall, escaping to the surface and finding himself in a whole new world
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An Empty Bliss Beyond This World [DISCONTINUED] by BugTheWildflower
Fandoms: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - All Media Types, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (TV 2012)
22 Jul 2025
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Shedder and his Foot ninja nearly killed Leonardo. They left him battered and scarred physically, mentally, and emotionally. His brothers try their best to raise his spirits and help him recover while they are at the farmhouse. They quickly come to the startling realization that Leo has not been okay for a long time, and the invasion only made him worse. They may have saved their brother from the brink of death, but can they help him want to live?
I suck at summaries lol. This is set after the Season 2 finale and during Season 3, but I am not going into all the storylines they had during that time. I am an independent gal who wishes to give my boy in blue trauma and a realistic response.
(The title is the name of the Caretaker's studio album 'An Empty Bliss Beyond This World')
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the Mark of Failure. by Kalopsian_turtlez
Fandoms: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - All Media Types, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (TV 2003)
16 Jul 2025
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Leonardo starts to reflect on her scars and what they mean to her. She doesn’t see them as mere wounds, nor as a story of her survival.
All she can see is Failure.
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- Part 46 of One-shots
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 595
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Kudos:
- 6
- Hits:
- 100
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The Journal of Hamato Leonardo (3) by Slady
Fandoms: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - All Media Types, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (TV 2012)
15 Jul 2025
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2012 “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles”
Daily updates for each episode of Season Three from the perspective of the turtle team leader Leonardo.
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- Part 3 of 2012 The Journal of Hamato Leonardo
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Fame and Glory by ArtsReckoning
Fandoms: Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Cartoon 2018), Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - All Media Types
14 Jul 2025
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A mysterious producer has offered Leo a chance of a lifetime to become a star in the Hidden City. With the promise of unchallenged fame and money for his family, he decides to take it.
His brothers are just worried that it might be a much more sinister offer than it first seems to be.
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I'm Not Crazy, You're Crazy [REMAKE] by ZHtheIII
Fandoms: Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Cartoon 2018), Samurai Rabbit: The Usagi Chronicles (Cartoon)
10 Jul 2025
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[Restarting this fic because I know I can do better and I improved the plot and some scenes a lot]
Leonardo does not belong here, does he look crazy? All he did was take an entire bottle of aspirin and *not* jump off of a five-story building, not a big deal at all. He's not crazy so why should he be put in a psychiatric unit?
While Leo comes to terms with his mental health and recovery inside a psychiatric unit, he meets five special people he'll never forget, and learns about other's mental struggles as well as his own.
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Leonardo Hamato was *not* crazy. He wasn’t supposed to be here. Did he *look* like a crazy person? All he did was down a bottle of aspirin and then chicken out from jumping off a five-story building. He wished he had just taken the leap, but noooooo he had to call his Uncle Hueso because he had second thoughts. Well, now he was having third thoughts, and those thoughts were telling him he should’ve jumped.
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The Warmth in Silence by Purpleandbluelove24
Fandoms: Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Cartoon 2018)
07 Jul 2025
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A short one-shot where Donnie comforts a sad and depressed Leo one night
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- Part 26 of I love the disaster twins
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Finally Free by Hamilhorse
Fandoms: Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Cartoon 2018)
28 Jun 2025
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Splinter dies one night, and Mikey begins to realize that his father wasn't the person he thought he was from his brother's stories.
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((I DO NOT OWN TMNT 2003))
Leonardo is struggling, he is messing up, making so many mistakes. All these thoughts rushing in his head causing a relapse, he cuts himself again after being clean for months. His brothers are so worried for their big brother, and they know they have to act fast, and really put in the effort to get Leo clean once and for all.
I'm bad at summaries okay don't eat me..
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putting lots of warnings. If you're still actively struggling consider not reading and maybe saving it for later <3