Second chapter already :) cookie anyone?
I don't own TMNT or the song
What We Don't Know- Linkin Park
I can't see yet I can feel the vibrations take form into shapes behind my eye lids. They're perfectly clear; the weapons, the men, the movements, the heartbeats, they're all so clear! I swing my only katana to the left, cutting one and sending him flying it seems. They come all at once like the dishonorable men they are. I would have expected them to; they are after all the Foot. One by one I cut down the ones who dare to come near me. I don't let one sneak by. I won't let them get near my poor baby bother! From my feet I can feel his shallow breathing the strongest but, it's getting harder for him to breathe. The snow's beginning freeze the remainder of his body heat. I can feel my backbone beginning to waver under the cold as well. This…this would have never happened if I only listened! If I did listened to Raph and not have gotten into a fight with him then he wouldn't have run off. It always scares me whenever he'd run off but this time I pushed it aside that fear and let him go. I didn't give into my fears! The Foot keep coming one after the other as one falls…and I'm afraid that I can't hold them off any longer. If only things would just stop so that I can think; please someone stop all of this! I can't think. But that won't happen; even when I ask with mercy, even with a please, no one would listen. I didn't expect someone to listen! I continue to slice their flesh but of course blindly. I can taste the blood from my eyes; cold and bitter, just like me. Again, over and over they continue to attack and I'm so tired now, my muscles ache and my head too. I don't feel a Foot jump near my limbs and cut the arteries in them. I fall, unable to even kneel, to meet the snow on the asphalt. I wheeze pathetically as they move in. I crawl over to Mikey and place myself on top of him, as if that would protect him. If only it would. It's my fault that we waste our last moments here; I let Raph get himself killed, I charged forth the Foot headquarters without a plan. I was so furious, grief-stricken, and vengeful and I allowed everyone else to fall apart and die. They had their minds on me, me. I never thought that this would be it; I never thought that I'd let everyone down like this myself included but I guess I have right now. I've made all of us look like fools, cowards running away from our demise. I taste the salt from my tears, they're angry and sad. I hate myself, I, Hamoto Leonardo. Heh, I don't even deserve to bear the name Hamoto. Someone's shadow over looms us, making the world just a bit colder than it already is. He'll swing down his sword, claim my life and next he'll claim Mikey's. I'm so sorry, Mikey. I'm so sorry, Raph. I'm sorry everyone. You don't have to forgive me…you don't.
I wake with a start. The candles are nearly burnt out around the tatami. I'm still in one piece and as I look around, my family is still in one piece as well, still there. I lick my lips to taste my salty tears. I…I won't fail anyone; I won't let ourselves to fall apart or have doubt take us in. I'm against what the universe throws at me but when it does I'll swear to find us the answers and path we need. I'll make that much clear.