Here it is, my second chapter! Wa-hooo! I hope you all like it. Please review! I know what I want to happen, but I'm open to suggestions! Enjoy!

CHAPTER 2

Karai held up a clenched fist to signal to the Foot Bots behind her to stop. She could see something glinting on a rooftop a couple of blocks away. This wouldn't have been unusual except for one thing. It was glinting green.

'Perhaps it's one of the missing mutagen containers.' She thought. She gave the signal for her robots to follow at a distance and began leaping above alleys and streets. As she got closer, she realized her mistake. It wasn't a mutagen; it was a mutant. A mutant turtle, to be precise, lying on its side.

She was wary as she approached, but the turtle didn't stir. There was no mask, yet she could see it was one of Splinter's deciphals, she just didn't know which one. He appeared to be unconscious and she reached his side, she saw why.

The turtle was severely bruised, had many, MANY scrapes and cuts, and a gaping, huge wound on his right shoulder that was oozing a river of blood. He was bleeding everywhere, in fact, and with a sickening lurch in her stomach, Karai realized that that had been what was gleaming. His greenish blood.

She rolled the turtle onto his back, er, shell, and study his face. It took a minute ('No chip in the shell, no freckles, no missing tooth...'), but she realized it was Leo lying broken and injured in front of her.

She let at a gasp at the realization. Somehow it being Leo affected her more than if it were one of his brothers. She stared in fansinated horror at the brown and black bruise on his cheek and the blood trickling out of the corner of his mouth.

She shook herself. Staring would accomplish nothing.

What should she do?

This was the perfect opportunity to finish him, to exact her revenge on Hamato Yoshi and pay him back for betraying her trust. But looking at Leo's battered form, she couldn't bring herself to draw her sword.

"Crud." She hissed. The only opportunity to attack Leo and definitely win she's ever had, and she didn't have the guts to do it.

'No. I'm too honorable to attack when he can't defend himself.' She corrected herself, a little shocked she was thinking like that.

Okay, door #2. Do nothing. Let his brothers find him and take care of it. Karai pursed her lips. That could take hours and at the rate Leo was losing blood, he could be dead in two.

'And I'm just sitting here letting him bleed out.' She scolded.

She scooted down and unraveled the dojo wraps on his feet. Finding them surprisingly free of dirt and only a little bloodstained (compared to the wraps on his arms), she used one of them to wipe away as mush blood as possible and the other to bandage his shoulder.

'Okay, now what?' She thought. The bandage was only a quick, temporary fix; already blood was seeping through. Again, she thought of just doing nothing, but, AGAIN, she came to the conclusion that Leo needed serious medical attention NOW and had no time to waste waiting for his brothers. So that just left door #3.

"Foot bots. Gently pick up this turtle and follow me back to the dojo. Be extremely careful. He's injured and I don't want anymore damage done."

As one of her robots bent down to pick Leo up, she almost changed her mind. But then she looked at his face. He looked so different without his mask. Vulnerable. Helpless. And with the scared, hurt expression and tears staining his face, he looked almost like a child, and Karai felt in her heart that she couldn't leave him to almost certainly die.

She once again cursed for being so darn soft, but lead the way back.

Yeah, it's Karai. I know, I'm a secret hopeless romantic. I'm thinking this will be kinda like Beauty and the Beast in a way. The question is, whose the beast? :-) Please review in the transdimmensional portal below and give me something to think about during my boring school day.

-Katana