Chapter 3! Yay! This one is longer than the others and has been my favorite one to write so far. Thanks to DarkSecrets3 and Raph Is Mine for reviewing, I love hearing your thoughts. Now please enjoy the theirs installment of Unmasked!

CHAPTER 3

For what felt like an eternity, Leo faded in and out of consciousness. He felt cold, hard hands on his shell and the wind whipping around his face. He heard the sound of rushing water, then the gentle touch of warm hands, then a cool, wet washcloth on his forehead and cheeks, his arms and plastron. He heard the whisper of a voice and the soft pitter-patter of feet. He smelled sweet exotic flowers, and felt the sensation of water trickling on his lips and down his throat. Then he blacked out completely.

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Leo opened his eyes and returned to the land of the conscious, but almost immediately wished he hadn't and shut them again. He had never been hit by a truck before, but he imagined this is what it felt like. He ached all over and his shoulder felt like it was on fire, a fierce, almost numbing, burning pain.

For a moment, he couldn't remember what had happened, but then it all came rushing back in a flurry of painful memories. He shifted a little, wincing and moaning a bit as a wave of pain washed over him. But that shift told him something very important. He was lying on soft cloths, cotton and silk he guessed. The last thing he remembered, he had been lying on a cold rooftop. He had been found. But by who?

He forced his eyes open once more, this time looking at his surroundings. He was lying on a bed in a corner of the room, on top of black and red covers, propped up into a sitting position on the pillows. A table with various medical supplies lying on them and a chair was on the other side of the small room. There were two doors, a hallway and a bathroom Leo guessed, and a set of double doors he inferred was a closet.

He craned his neck and looked at himself. He cringed. His belt, pads, and sheathes were gone and he was covered with bruises and bandages. His shoulder was wrapped so tightly, it could have been in a cast. He brought his (relatively) uninjured arm up and ever so lightly brushed his wound. A fire flared into an inferno that flew up and down his arm, and he quickly jerked it away. As he did, he caught a whiff of herbs, Japanese healing herbs that his Sensi used whenever the turtles got seriously injured. His confusion and interest was growing. Who on earth knew that they would work AND had them just lying around?

His Sensi. This made him start to worry. How long had he been out? His family must be worried sick. He remembered pressing the panic button on his T-phone, but he also remembered Slash kicking it away. All his phone would lead them to was the rooftop and maybe his swords. Not helpful. He needed to find them, or a way to contact them. But he couldn't do that when he was stuck on a bed alone.

He didn't even know what time it was, or what day. His wounds had been serious. He could have been out for a week, and he wouldn't be able to tell.

For the first time since waking up, he felt impatient and angry, and, well, like Raph. He wanted answers and he wanted them now. But instead he was left here with nothing. Leo quickly got a hold of himself. He should be grateful to whoever had found him. They had obviously treated his wounds and saved his life instead of running off screaming or finishing him. He couldn't expect them to stay at his side the entire time just so they could answer the mutants questions. He owed his savior nothing but gratitude. He just wished they would show up soon.

Almost as if whoever it was had heard his thoughts, the door slowly started to creak open. Leo felt excitement bubble in his chest. Finally he would meet his rescuer. The door moved away, and the last person on earth he would have ever expected walked in.

"Good, you're awake." Said Karai.

"Karai!" Leo gasped in a hoarse voice and tried to scurry out of bed. He failed, partly because the pain in his shoulder made it impossible to move even a foot, and partly because Karai quickly crossed the room and gently, but firmly, pushed him back down.

"Sit still, you idiot! You're going to pull your stitches out!" She growled at him. Leo squirmed under her hands for a few more seconds, then gave up, accepting he wouldn't be getting up anytime soon. He laid back in the pillows, exhausted.

"Stitches?" He panted, catching his breath.

"Yeah, 'bout 30 of them in your shoulder. Whatever you ran into really did a number on you." Karai slowly lifted her hands off Leo's plastron, and seeing that he wasn't going to try to get up again, walked over to the table with the medical supplies.

"Stupid mace." Leo muttered. Karai gave a small smile Leo couldn't see.

"So... Where am I?" Leo asked a little louder.

Karai thought, then smirked as she sorted through the bottles and boxes. "My home away from my home away from home."

Leo rolled his eyes. "Thanks for that extremely clear explanation." He said sarcastically. Then his mind made a connection. Home. Bed. His cheeks went red. "Th-th-this is ya-ya-ya-YOUR room?" He stuttered.

Karai turned around, her arms full of bottles, and grinned evilly at the look on Leo's face. He was blushing so hard!

"No, it's Bradford's." She answered sarcastically as she dumped her supplies on the floor by the bed and grabbed the chair from the other side of the room. Leo's glare told her he did not appreciate the joke.

Karai sat down in the chair and placed a couple of bottles and a tool of bandages in her lap. "I need to reapply these salves to your shoulder, unless you want an infection. So try not to move around." She tenderly slide out the end of the bandage and began to unravel it.

Leo tried to keep a brave face, but flashes of the pain slipped through his facade. Just the act of brushing his wound sent flames of pain through his body. This. This was torture. He grimaced as Karai slide off the bandage, exposing raw-red flesh. But Karai smiled. No sign of infection yet.

Karai handed Leo a thick ball of gauze. "Bite down on this." Leo obliged.

She unscrewed the top off the jar and scooped up a sizable amount of goo. She gently dabbed the gunk on his wound. Leo's muscles tensed up and the sound of his muffled wailing blasted from behind the gauze. He pulled away his arm instinctively, but Karai grabbed it and held it in place.

"Keep it still, I'm trying to help." She said. Tears threatening to spill over, Leo clenched his eyes shut and nodded.

Karai continued to apply the salve, and several others, to his wound. Leo moaned through the entire process, even screaming when Karai rubbed a particularly sore spot, but held still, even as she wrapped new bandages around his shoulder.

"There, done." She mercifully finished her task. Leo spit the gauze out of his mouth.

"Thank goodness for that." He sighed with relief and yawned as he shifted into a more comfortable position in the bed. He was so tired. Being unconscious was apperantly not the same thing as sleeping, something he hadn't done much of in the past few days.

Karai stood up and started for the door. "I'll leave you to get some rest."

"What?!" Leo lifted his head up in shock. "I can't stay here, Karai. I need to get back home. I mean I appreciate you treating my wounds and saving my life, but my brothers - "

"Can survive without you for 2 weeks." Karai cut off bluntly.

"2 weeks?! There is no way I am staying here for weeks."

"You don't have a choice. Your shoulder and your sprained ankle need time to heal. You cannot be up and about."

Leo was growing desperate. "Then let me call my brothers. They can take me home in our van. I won't have to walk an inch."

"What part about a secret Foot clan hideout do you not understand? Face it Leo. You're going to have to stay here until your ankle and shoulder have healed, and that will take at least 2 weeks, possibly more. Now rest. I will see you later." She turned once again to leave.

"Wait! Two questions." Leo called.

"What are they?"

"How long have I been out?"

"I found you around 11:00 pm. It is now noon. Second question?"

Leo looked at her with pleading eyes. "Can you at least let my brothers know I am alive?"

Karai stared at him with cold eyes. "No. They will ask how I know and try to break in to 'save' you, or attack to make me give you up. I can not allow that to happen, or the other Foot might find out." She saw the utterly devastated, grief-filled look on Leo's face, and her eyes softened and she relented. "I will try. But I cannot promise anything."

And with that, she finally took her leave, abandoning Leo to fall asleep, crying softly.

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