"Leave, the both of you. I wish to never see either of you here again."
Anocari clung to me and cried as Master Splinter pointed his finger at the door to the lair, which was opened already. His face was more serious than when he got a vision from his father, Hamato Yoshi, and his eyes looked straight into mine. Leo, Raph, and Mikey stood behind him, unable to even glance at either of us.
"Go! Leave this home now!"
A loud sob escaped Anocari's mouth as I picked her up because she was paralyzed from shock and confusion. I turned my back to my family and walked slowly out of the door as the tears I had been holding back finally spilled from the corners of my eyes. We were banned from our own home, hated by my brothers and father. The rest of the girls had no clue about the events that had taken place in the past 24 hours, therefore they did not know about our exile.
The door shut with a loud thud as I walked away with Anocari in my arms, not daring to look back. I chose the first manhole I could find and placed Anocari on my back to proceed up the tiny ladder. This was it, we were leaving for good, forced to start over a whole new life. My home for 25 years wasn't my home anymore.
Anocari tightened her grip around my neck as I snuck us through dark alleyways, trying to spot her spaceship, ". . .W-what are we going to do, Donny?. . . We can't go back to Orithion. . . I-I'll be killed. . ."
I was quiet for a moment. She was right, we practically had no where to go. The girls would eventually find out about what we had done and they would only push us away as well, ". . .I don't know, love . . . I really don't know. . ."
Finally, I spotted the building her ship was stationed on and I quickly maneuvered my way across the street and up the building.
She stared into my eyes as I set her down in front of the ship as pain coursed through her veins like blood, ". . . This wasn't our fault. . . How could they treat us like this. . .? We had no control! Why wouldn't they listen!"
I hushed her and wrapped my arms tightly around her as she began to cry once more. I didn't know what I was supposed to say. I couldn't say that everything was going to be okay because it wasn't. I knew that everything from here was going to hurt us for a long time. After all, we had no money, no place to live, no anything. All we had was what we could fit in Anocari's suitcase and my duffel bag. That, and we had each other. . .
I lifted her head to mine and kissed her softly on the lips. In return, she wouldn't let me pull away. She kept her lips locked to mine for as long as she possibly could, letting her sorrow flow into me.
When we finally parted she kept her face close to mine, her nose touching the top of my mouth. I felt her cool breath on my face as she whispered delicately, ". . . Let's go far away from here. . . somewhere where no one will know us. . . somewhere we can start a new life. . ." she paused, "Anywhere other than here. . ."
I sighed silently as I walked her over to the passenger door to place her in her seat. I held her hand as she stared at me with pure fear in her eyes, ". . .Okay, love. . .we'll leave this place. . . forever."
I closed the door and walked over to the other side of the ship and climbed in next to her. As I started the engine I thought to myself once more, "What's going to happen to us?"
I turned my head to look at her as she shifted in her seat to face me, "Donny?" she whispered quietly.
"Yes, love?"
"I love you."
