I noticed that DragonMasterOf10 had started writing a story by the name of "Chances" that touched on the areas of Leo being emotionally abused by his younger brothers while fighting for his own life in the process. While his brothers and father live perfectly normal lives Leo has to do everything and continue to train harder than anyone else has to. When the two children of Death come to take Leo to the afterlife they decide to give the Hamato family three chances to threat Leo better or they risk losing him forever. With permission and help to write a version of the story "Chances" with some changes towards the relationship of each brother and the two children threatening to take Leo away from them. Thanks DragonMasterOf10! Please go read DragonMasterOf10 work its great.
This is an AU story. I respect the whole 2003 series TMNT cast and just retelling it with some a twist to the friendship between the brothers.
I own nothing.
Chapter One:
Raph, Don, and Mikey were walking out the movie theater on their way to get Splinter on go home for the night. They were still laughing and talking about the movie as they made their way to the fire escape to April's window.
"Dude I did not see the maid killing everyone because she finally saw how everyone was using her." Mikey said
"No way it was so obvious after it see the Master of the house using her as his sex toy after his wife became pregnant and dumping her when she got pregnant." Don said rolling his eyes.
"So how do ya think our maid did in the lair?" Raph said trying to hold in his laughter.
"Raph, that's not funny Leo isn't the maid." Donnie said trying to keep his laughter in as they started climbing the ladder.
"Yeah, Leo isn't the maid." Mikey grinning "He's more the nanny than anything."
Donnie couldn't keep it in any longer and soon found himself laughing as he tapped the window to April's apartment. April greeted them at the window and they began to talk about the movie with her. Splinter walked over to the window and began to step though with the help of his sons. Saying their goodbyes to April; Raph, Don, Mikey and Splinter made their way to home.
Everyone made their way to the "surprisingly" clean living room flopping onto the couches Raph went to turn on the television.
He started changing the channels when the television suddenly turned off.
"What the hell?" Raph said. "Don I thought you fixed that?" glaring at Don as he handed the remote to him.
Don shrugged his shoulders and went over to the television to see what the problem was. Soon the screen started to grow brighter and brighter; illuminating the whole lair with its glow. The temperature in the lair started to drop as lights all around started to flicker on and off. Suddenly a beam shot out from the screen into the lair, the light was so intense everyone had to cover their eyes until it finally died out relieving the two twin children in the middle of the living room.
The boy had short black hair parting to the right side of his face; his sickly grey face was less protamine than his bright red eyes stare back at everyone, he wore all-black clothing that clung to his body with a spider web design on the left side of his shirt. The girl was almost the same; her long black hair went past her shoulders and was parted to the right side of her face, her eyes were a little darker than her brothers', her black dress was lose against her body with a spider web design on the right side of her dress.
"….Okay…who the hell are you two?" Raph asked rubbing his eyes.
"We have come to warn you about what is about to happen." The boy said.
"About what?" Mikey asked peering over the couch.
The girl scowled at everyone as she gave everyone in the room a death glare.
"You four are one of the most despicable creatures we have ever come across in all the universes! Do you know what crimes all of you have committed over the years?" she yelled as she stepped closer to everyone.
"Peace sister we must explain." The boy whispered placing his hand on her shoulder; he never took his eyes off everyone in the room. The girl still glaring at everyone calm down a bit.
Splinter stood up and walked over to his son asking, "Please tell us who you are and why have you not only trespassed in our home but coming to warn us about something."
"My name is Kage and this is my twin sister Kei." He said.
"What have you come to warn us about?" Done ask still confused about why these kids were here.
Kage smiled and pointed at Leo's room. "Like I said before, we have come to warn you about the one called Leonardo Hamato."
Kei darted from her brothers and stood in front of the turtles and rat, "if you do not treat Leonardo with love and care like he should have had long ago than we will be forced to take him away."
Raph's blood started boiling after hearing this; his hovered over handles of his sais. "Take him? What do you mean take him, our leader not your!" he demanded.
Kei walked over to Raph; growling as she came face to face with him, "Leader! He's your brother first not your "leader" and second, you want to know so badly than find." She snapped her fingers and soon a portal appeared behind everyone.
"Kei…" Kage went over to his sister as they stood to each side of the portal, everyone turned to watch and listen to them as the portal continued to swirl in a circular motion; still cloudy to everyone.
Kage began to shake his head and continued, "You have nothing cruel to Leonardo while he has done nothing but be a kind and caring older brother to you all for all these years. While you three," Kage pointed at the three turtles with an accusing looking "have had nothing but carefree lives while Leonardo was forced to grow up at an early age and get all the extra chores, training, and responsibility that continue to weigh heavily on his shoulders."
Kei began to get angrier and angrier growling as she said "Now all you three slackers do nothing but add nothing but more stress and chores onto his already breaking spirit. Do you not notice or even care that he has been ill and tired for a long time? And as for you," Kei pointed at Splinter "Forcing your own son to seclude himself from his own family! Making him grow up at the early age of 8 and making him feel like he is a failure while it is you who failed him as both a sensei and father!"
Raph, Don, and Mikey took out their weapons and got into their defensive positions. "Don't ya dare talk ta Master Splinter like dat!" Raph spat out.
Kage sighed and placed his arms out towards the turtles and rat. Their weapons not only disappeared but soon they found their selves restrained against an invisible force as they began to get into kneeling position staring back at the portal and twins.
"I apologize for my sister; she has a short temper to things like these." Kage sighed
Splinter nodded fully understanding the reason and started to ask "Continue, please."
"These bracelets," Kage gestured to the ones around both his and his sister's wrist, "Are your last and final chances for your brother's life. Each one of you have one more chance to make things right with your brother. But you must do it without making him aware of our existence as we continue to watch over you. And if one of you does anything to hurt or make your brother wish he was dead once again, one of the chances will be gone and you will be one step closer to losing him. And do you know what happens if you lose all your chances? Kage asked raising an eyebrow waiting for answer
"We will take him to our father; Death."
Everyone's eyes started bulging when they heard that, "Death? You mean you're…you're…"Don couldn't finish his sentence he tried to think of a logical explanation to everything that was happening.
"Yes, We are the children of Death; we were created out of both shadows and lost souls of dead children who were killed before their time because of the abusive situations they were in. He can only take the souls of those who have already moved on, not the ones that haven't but want to, so he created us to take care of the situation so the soul could finally pass on to the other side."
"And how do we know yer telling the truth? How do we know ya ain't lookin' for some innocent soul ta feed on?" Raph growled trying to get up.
"Watch and we will show you." Kage said. The twins began to chant in an ancient language and soon the portal became clear revealing Leo lying in bed with all his gear still on him; the blanket half on him half on the floor. Everyone was dragged closer to see what Leo truly looked like; he was extremely pale and his breathing was coming out short and slow.
"This is your brother right now in his room." Kage said giving everyone a dead glare as his hands started to ball into a fist.
"Brother? Funny, I thought that he was their maid. Or was it their nanny? After all one of them just admitted that they see him more as a leader than a brother" Kei snickered mockingly as she stared down everyone.
Raph, Mikey, and Don looked down in shame.
"There is more to see, and we think you should see it; after all you all caused this." Kei chuckled, looking back to her twin brother then back at the ring.
Leo started to compulsive once again and sprung out of bed; he took the trash bin into his hands and started to throwing up into it. The only thing that gave that this was really happening was the echoing sound of Leo throwing up amplifying into the lair for all to hear.
Raph flinched. He knew he heard someone throwing up for a few days but did nothing about it.
It continued for a few minutes and once Leo was leaning over the trash can continuing to grasp for air he reached over and untied his sweat drenched mask.
Everyone grasped against the sight of the dark circles under Leo's eyes. It looked he has slept in months and looked more like corpse due to his unhealthily skinniness and his complexion was worse than at the beginning of the show. They watched as Leo finally made his way back onto his bed and curled up under the covers; shaking like crazy and going into a coughing fit for the fourth time that night.
The portal disappears and the twins smirked at the turtle family, "Remember. You each have one chance left and you better not waste it." without another word the twins disappeared and all the lights and temperature went to normal, the restraints on everyone disappears and their weapons returned to the turtles.
The second everything went back to normal Don sprinted up the stairs and stealthily entered Leo's room. Leo was panting heavily and was still in a cold sweat.
Quietly cursing, Don sprinted downstairs and began to bark orders at his brothers, "Mikey get a bucket of cold water and towels, and Raph get a thermometer and some extra blankets and keep an eye on Leo for me." He said running into his lab. Crashing sounds came from the lab as Don started looking for medicine for Leo.
Raph ran and got the thermometer and extra blankets; heading up to Leo's room where he found his shivering and cough because the blankets have fallen onto the ground. Raph put the thermometer down on the nightstand and the blankets near the bed; kneeling down to his brother side.
Leo groaned and cracking his eyes a bit, "Raph?" he rasped
Raph smiled and picking up the blanket and pulled it over his brother, "I'm right here bro. Don went ta find some meds fer ya and Mike'll be in any minute now." He assured him.
Nodding, Leo curled up under the blankets. Raph grabbed the thermometer and tipped his brother's head up, "Need ta take yer temp bro."
Leo opened his mouth wide enough for Raph to stick the thermometer in. Few seconds later the device beeped and Raph took the thermometer out; sighing at the high temperature.
Mikey came in with a bucket and face cloth. He sat down next to Raph and dunked the cloth in the cold water, "Here bro this should help a little." He said placing the wet cloth on Leo's forehead.
Leo started to cough into his hand again; he leaned over to the trash can, once again throwing up everything. Raph and Mikey helped support Leo so he wouldn't fall off the bed and helped him back into the bed after he was down; still grasping for air.
Grabbing an extra towel Mikey gave the towel to Raph and squeezed out the excess water; lightly removed the vomit off Leo's face.
Leo smiled a little and closed his eyes; trying to fall asleep.
"No Leo, ya have ta stay awake, Don still needs ta give ya yer medicine." Raph said softly, lightly shaking Leo's shoulder.
"Don't worry I'm right here bro. And I got the medicine finally." Don said running in with two syringes and bottles of medicine. Raph and Mikey moved out of the way as Donnie kneeled over and injected medicine into Leo's neck. Leo closed his eyes again and finally started to feel like he was going to fall into a peaceful sleep.
"Okay Leo, get some sleep. I'll check up on you in the morning." Don whispered, shooing everyone out of the room.
Nodding, Leo pulled the blankets closer around himself and smiled. Huh, they do care after all.
A.N:
I thank DragonMasterOf10 for not only the help but the ideas in this chapter. I changed parts of it to fit me but made sure to stay close to home with the idea of the kids, what is happening to Leo, and the guys now that they found out what truly is happening to Leo. I may do an alternative ending also but I want to see how it goes.
Kage: Shadow
Kei: Rapture
Just meanings to the names, they do mean other things esp. Kei but I wanted choose these meanings because they are darker and remind you about Death and darkness.