The first chapter is here, and it's earlier than I expected. Thank you to all who reviewed, favorite, and followed! It is greatly appreciated and makes me want to write more. The first few chapters are going to be pretty short, but they will get longer as the story progresses, I promise. Anyway, I hope you enjoy the first chapter!
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The faint ticking of a wall clock awakened an incredibly tired Leonardo. He grumbled as he pushed himself up and yawned. His eyes wandered around his dark room before settling on the clock hanging along the wall. Squinting his eyes to see it better, he read 5:46.
Time to get up. The teen thought.
Slowly Leonardo got out of bed and stretched to tell his body to wake up. He lazily picked out some clothes before heading to the bathroom to shower and dress.
After a refreshing and awakening rinse, Leonardo sauntered down the steps to the kitchen. He calmly grabbed his regular cereal and poured some milk onto it. As he started eating, an all too familiar gruff voice sounded from the front door.
Must be another phone call. Leonardo thought to himself as he started to eat. It's a wonder he even answers it at all.
"Leonardo. We must speak." The snarl broke through the teen's thoughts. He looked up at his menacing father, who had suddenly appeared before him, but hey. He was a ninja. "It is a matter of business."
Of course it is. You would never talk to me about going to Disneyland. Leonardo growled to himself.
But of course disrespecting his father wasn't something Leonardo liked to do often so he instead answered politely. "Yes father?"
Oroku Saki narrowed his golden eyes as if trying to see if his son was being polite or sarcastic. "Because of problems my impudent employees couldn't handle, and it will give me a better chance at enlarging the business, we are moving to New York."
Leonardo almost spit out his mouth full of cereal and milk. New York? Why New York of all places? It was practically across the country, and surely there were no mansions in the city. If it was the city, but guessing since his father constantly moved to large cities, it probably was.
"New York City? Isn't that a bit sudden?" Leonardo asked, trying to keep his temper in check. He did that a lot. It was said bottling anger was wrong, but if he let it out, trouble would definitely come. So he kept his emotions unreadable.
Saki frowned. "Actually, I had been planning to move to New York for awhile now, but this made us have to leave sooner."
Leonardo grit his teeth. Of course I wasn't consulted about moving. No, don't bother asking me about moving to one of the largest cities across the country when school has already started. I honestly wouldn't care. He thought bitterly, trying not to glare at his father.
Instead of saying what he wanted to say, he simply asked. "And when had you wanted to move to New York?" It took lots of self-control to keep the annoyance out of his voice.
"I've been thinking about it for a few months now, and I planned on us moving in about three. Fortunately, this will help greatly for me to improve the Oroku Industries. You should be grateful to me for making your future better than any others. You will rule over the company one day, and this move will help us."
Suppressing a sigh, Leonardo questioned. "So, when are we leaving?"
"Tomorrow."
Flying alone with your dad in his private Jet to New York City probably sounds like the coolest thing ever to any young boy. But when your dad has been the only reason you have no friends, it's hell.
Leonardo tried to ignore the growls and snarls of his father talking on his phone to some client of worker or whatever, but his headphones and calming music just couldn't block the noise. His eyebrows furrowed and he glanced out the window. Swiftly he turned back to facing the seat in front of him as a familiar dread spread through him. Heights were definitely Leonardo's weakness. It reminded him of a night long ago…
A young eight-year-old Leonardo cowered behind his father. His sobs rushed through the pounding rain.
"Dad please! I-It's too scary out here!" He cried. Oroku Saki wouldn't have any of it. A snarl rested on his face.
"You will stay out here until your stupid fear of storms is gone! I don't care if you're scared, you will destroy this weakness!" The man snapped at his son. And with that, he quickly left the roof by leaping off it of it, it seemed, of his three story mansion, leaving his crying son to sleep on the roof during a storm.
Leonardo's howls rang through the air until they were silenced by a loud bang of thunder, making the boy yelp in fear. His cries faded into whimpers as the storm carried on. Only the flashes of lightning allowed him to see through the pitch black.
Slowly he began to crawl across the roof to where he saw his father drop. As Leonardo peered over the edge, lightning suddenly struck a nearby tree. The deafening sound made him shoot into the air, and he slipped off the edge faster than he could shout out in terror.
Leonardo screamed before he managed to grip the gutter. He let out a cry at the sudden pull from quickly grabbing something and the rest of his body pulling him down. Slowly, he turned his head to look at the ground. Instantly, his stomach crawled up to his throat and he squeezed his eyes shut. If he let go, he would die.
Leonardo stayed that way throughout the night, until early morning before dawn, his father pulled him up. From that day forward, he was never afraid of storms again. However, he gained another fear. One that had a better chance of taking his life.
Leonardo brooded in his seat from not being able to move and forced to listen to his father grumble and occasionally shout to people on the phone. The long trip also gave him plenty of time to figure out dozens of ways something could go wrong, and everyone on the plane would plummet to their deaths. It was probably the most pleasant thing any child could ask for.
The sound of the pilot announcing to his two passengers that it was time to put their seatbelts on to land, sounded like angels singing to Leonardo. He quickly obeyed and heaved a large sigh. Out of the corner of his eye, he could see his father also obey. Oroku Saki though, was still on a phone and grumbling to someone now.
Leonardo rolled his eyes, and risked another glance out the window to see a large city with towering skyscrapers in the distance. A groan escaped him.
Hello New York City.
I've decided on using some flashbacks in each chapter so you can see why Leonardo is so different than what he is supposed to be. Feel free to review to tell me your thoughts on it.