Love is Complicated by RomaMarufixx

Part One

One-sided Mikey/Don, one-sided Don/April, slight April/Casey

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The Hamato household was currently going through many problems, although you wouldn't have guessed it, the outwards appearance was the norm, but beneath the surface there was trouble. Donnie was trying to deal with new feelings he was having towards a new friend that they had made, Miss April O'Neil, she was their only human friend and he didn't want to ruin things by making a romantic advance too soon or do it in the wrong way.

Mikey was also struggling to deal with his new feelings, although these were not towards April. Since Donnie had developed a crush on April and had described to Mikey what he was feeling, it didn't take long before he realised he too had those feelings. But he was having a hard time coming to terms with it since the person he was attracted to was his brother, Donatello, and that was all kinds of wrong.

He'd been attracted to his brother for years, thinking back to how he used to feel towards Donnie and it was the same as he was feeling now, although not as strong, he could see through the years how he felt about Donnie, how he had wrote about him in his journals which were half full of what he did in his days and his artwork.

The journals were a great and helpful thing for Mikey, they helped him track his life and he first noticed these feelings towards Donnie when he was just thirteen years old, he had been in love with his brother for almost three years without actually knowing he was in love with him.

He decided that he was going to take action now, since he had wasted enough of his time by not knowing what he feeling was actually called or meant. He needed to make sure that Donnie knew how he felt and so that he didn't lose out on a chance, since Donnie seemed to be leaning towards telling April how he felt about her.

Mikey was feeling very conflicted though. Donnie deserved to be happy and should be able to take a chance with April, to tell her how he felt about her and to see if she had any of the same feelings or if she was willing to give Donnie a chance and see if she developed any feeling towards him. Although Mikey thought that would be very unfair, it would be very one sided, although that might be what it would be like for Donnie if he and Mikey were to do the same thing.

Mikey wanted Donnie for himself, but didn't want to force how he felt on Donnie or even confess it to him, the best idea he could come up with was to slowly make the genius fall in love with him.

It started off with Mikey making sure that Donnie went to sleep at a good hour instead of the early hours he had been going to bed before, bringing his meals to him and eating them with him to make sure that he would eat the meal and didn't miss any.

He had become more affectionate, giving Donnie hugs, sleeping in bed with him as a way to make sure that he did sleep and even tried flirting with him on occasion, but didn't get any response, which after a month, started to make him feel like he was never going to drop a big enough hint to Donnie without actually going up to him and confessing how he felt.

Unknowing to him, Donnie was aware of what Mikey was doing and did get the not so subtle flirting, although he felt a bit honoured and could understand why Mikey had turned to him for a romantic relationship, he wasn't interested, it wouldn't be a serious relationship, it was an act of desperation, what he and April could have would be real though.

Donnie didn't know just how to turn Mikey down, so he decided to just let Mikey continue on the way it was, if it made him happy and it wasn't making Donnie feel uncomfortable or hurting him, then why should he stop it?

During this time of Mikey flirting with him and trying to get his attention, it made him realise that he had wasted time that he could have spent telling April how he felt towards her. It had been a month, he needed to act on his feelings, now.

So he did.

Having spent the whole day in the garage he decided that a shower was in order before he went over to April's. He changed into some new gear, throwing his oil covered gear and mask into a basket to take down to be washed whenever he remembered to do it or if Leo took it down for him like what happened usually.

He hadn't called or texted or let April know in anyway that he was coming over to see her, he wanted it to be a surprise, although he turned out to be the one receiving the surprise. When he jumped down, silently, next to her window where he would normally knock to let her know he was here, he saw that she already had company, and that of Casey Jones.

They were embracing and kissing on the sofa, their hands wandering everywhere and Donatello quickly turned away and made his way onto the rooftop before sitting down on the cold stone. His heart felt like it had been burnt with acid. He should have known that April would go for another human, one that he and his brothers had introduced her to.

Donnie knew that he would never be able to have a relationship with April, she had Casey, he didn't know how long it would last or if they were even serious but that wasn't Donnie's business to stick his nose in. If April was happy then who was he to make her miserable?

When he got home he found Mikey waiting for him, flashing him a smile as he walked through the entrance of the lair.

"Hey Donnie, where've you been?"

"Just to the junkyard, I was trying to look for some new parts that I needed but no luck." Donnie said, quickly thinking up a lie, even though he didn't know why he need to lie, Mikey knew how he felt about April but Donnie knew that if he told Mikey what he had seen and what he was feeling, he would begin to increase in his...flirting with him and he wasn't ready for that, not know, he didn't want anything to do with romance at the moment.

"You should have told me you were going, I could have come with you to help!" Mikey said with a wide grin and Donnie forced a smile in return.

"I will remember that next time, sorry Mikey." Donnie replied and quickly made his way to his room to avoid his younger brother speaking to him any further. He knew that he wouldn't be able to avoid Mikey forever but for now he could try, just try and avoid him.