Buried alive.
Chpt. 2 :a few hours earlier...
Raph groaned as he woke up, his eyes glazed to the clock, 5 am. He tried several seconds to go back to sleep, but the more he tried the more awake he felt, he hated days like this. Groaning he tightened his head band around his head, walking out of his room, pausing at the kitchen door as he heard Leonardo's hushed voice. He laughed, he knew he was weird, but talking to himself? He was not going to let him up on this one. But as he listened more closely he realized he was talking to someone, but who? No one but him got up this early.
"-I know, I know, I'll be there in a second," there was a pause making Raph curriose to where his usually perfect brother might even consider going without Splinter's OK.
He heard him snicker softly,''I know, I'm leaving now, Karai."
His eyes instantly shot down into slits at that, what was his brother doing with Karai? Their eyes caught each other, Leonardo's face turning to surprise.
"I didn't expect to see you up so early," he replied playfully, his brother rolling his eyes watching him closely as his elder brother's feet strided toward the front door,"I'll be back in alittle while."
"Where are you off to in such a hurry then?" he questioned he had never seen his brother have nervousness glittering in his eyes,"Karai can wait can't she?"
"Raph-"
"Leo, don't even start with me about that alliance bullshit, look at her track record every time you get close to her she betrays you, your always telling me to think before I act, why don't you give it a try?" he growled, he had to say, it did feel kinda good being the one telling his brother he was an idiot and not the other way around.
"She's changed, Raph!" he snarled turning his head away slightly,"You don't even know her..."
Something inside Raph snapped to that line,"I don't know her? I don't know her? I think your the one who doesn't know her!"
Leo eyes glared to him commanding him to not go any farther, but Raph felt it was an invitation to simply prove his point.
"Have you forgetten who gave you that scar?" his fingers ran across the faded wound across his elder brother's side. Within seconds easily there worst fight broke out, there voices steadily rising with each sentence dished out. Their family soon became the audience as the first fists striked. Raph crashed against the coffee table as Leo's foot smashed into his chest. Soon enough Leo found himself on the ground Raph pinning him down both breathing harshly glaring at each other.
"Enough!" their sensei snapped bringing both brothers back to their senses,"Leonardo! Rapheal!"
Without even looking to each other they both got up shaking with anger going off in different directions, Leo out the front door, Raph to the dojo. Mike had never seen them act like this before, sure they fought but it was strange it was like they changed places and seemed more so when he heard Raph groan under his breath.
"He is sooo stuborn!"
...
Same day, 7: 20 am.
Worry misplaced anger now, his brother had been gone two hours without even trying to call and apologize like usual when they fought. He walked through the alley way with graffiti lining the walls, he was in foot territory now, but didn't care. A part of him just wanted to pound a foot soldiers head in, another wanted to find his brother. He didn't even bother to tell anyone else that Leo was going around Karai again, it wouldn't do anything but worry them. He felt the presence of a shadow lurking behind him and couldn't help but smile. His sais were tightly clinched between his fingers, he made the first strike back kicking him in the chest. He heard the ninja slam upon the ground before he had the chance to sit up, his foot was slammed onto his chest. For a brief second he contemplated killing him, but knew it would solve nothing so instead knocked him out quickly then turned away wondering if he should knock upon Karai's door, but something stopped him.
"Karai...Karai...it's not funny anymore...Karai..." Raph stopped turing to the foot communicator, tilting his head his brother had never sounded desperate before, he moved slowly back to the foot soldier kneeling down and unstrapping the device, he was nearly deafened as the voice began to scream.
"Karai...answer me! Karai! Karai!" then everything went silent making Raph nervous as his finger slightly shaking as he pressed down upon the device.
"Leonardo?" he calmly asked the black box keeping away the feeling this was all a trap, he didn't know what to think at the moment though.
"Raph, Raph, where are you?" a panicked voice acclaimed,"Are you OK?"
"I'm fine, fearless, what about you? Why is your voice coming from a foot transmitter?" he was growing suspicious of all this, first his brother runs away to see Karai, now it so happens that when he begins to worry he hears his voice from a foot transmitter?
"I'm fine, for a little while at least," he replied far more calmly then he had been, replacing suspicion with worry once more.
"What's that s'posed to mean?" he snapped at his brother,"Where are you?"
"I don't know."
"What do ya mean, ya don't know?" he acclaimed his voice agitated but had an edge of worry in it as well.
"I don't know, Raph, I don't know."
"Stop telling me that! Tell me what you see and we'll go from there," he said slowly.
There was a long pause making Raph worry slightly hoping the line didn't cut out he thought of saying his name once more, but then he answered,"I'm between two walls of satin and surrounded by a wall of dirt other then that I don't know, Raph, I don't know."
It took only a second for him to understand what his brother meant making his blood boil and he to fight to keep from yelling, "That bitch buried you?"
"I don't know, I think," his words were rushed stubling over themselves as he spoke,"Please, don't do anything rash...if it makes you feel better I still might have an hour or so left of air."
"Might? You don't know?" he growled pinching the bridge between his nose and clinching his eyes shut to keep his nerves from bubbling over, he expected this explanation from Mike, not Leo,"What do you remember?"
His voice was soft as he spoke forcing his brother to shove the box closer to his ear,"Waking up in a hole, a rose and a blade tightly grasped between my fingers..."
"Nothing else?"
"Nothing, besides her informing me of my funeral through this box and next your voice coming from it..." Leo dared not tell his brother of his panic attack.
"Ok, Ok, don't panic on me alright? I'll figure something out..."
...
Leo took another deep breath, not completely sure that he liked the idea of his brothers finding him alone in a casket on the edge of sanity and insanity. He heard his heart growing faster in passe, his hands still dripping blood forth. If he fell asleep would he wake? Were the walls moving? A shadow moved, was that just him? Was he even at risk of becoming a maggot's feast?
He groaned trying not to even think about it, but how did he not know Karai hadn't left flesh eating bugs in here and he hadn't noticed? He shook the thought from his head, he needed to get a grip of himself. He sighed, he knew Raph would look, but he felt he wouldn't be found. His mind once more fell to the blade, it would be quick compared to suffocating and his sanity would be left in tact...
"No, no, I'm not going to die...I'm not going to die..." he told himself firmly, taking in slow breaths.
Tbc...