Hi turtles-fans :) well, first, thanks so much for your reviews – I really appreciate them and was so happy to read your positive statements – thanks for them! Second, I tried as fast as I could to update the story, so I hope that you'll like this chapter too. The story is developing in a direction I didn't expect, but I think it's pretty cool so far. So, don't forget to review, and I'll hurry up with another chapter.

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"Leo! Leo, don't you dare to do that to me! How should I explain this to Splinter?" Raph said desperately to his brother.

"Y-you don't have t-to. 's my fault a-anyway."

Surprised, because Raph didn't expect to hear his brother's voice again soon, he looked down. He saw Leo had opened his eyes again, but not in whole. Also, his voice sounded much worse; it was so hoarse and quiet that he nearly hadn't heard his big brother.

"No… no Leo, it's all my fault. I didn't mean what I said, really…" Raph tried to explain.

Leo coughed again. "R-raph, it hurts…." Leo whispered again

Raph nodded. Leo looked worse than before, too. His green skin was not as green as it should be, as if he was already dead. Then, Raph felt some liquid running down his fingers as he wanted to comfort his brother… hell, why hadn't he remarked the blood before? There was so much, and he had to find out where it was coming from to examine the wound, as long as Donnie wasn't here!

"Bro, where's the blood coming from?" Raph asked, getting panicked. He couldn't see the wound. Leo was lying half on his side, he only saw some cuts there, not bigger wounds.

"S-some foot stapped me," Leo coughed again, and also closed his eyes again. "M-sorry, you were r-right."

"No! No, Leo, come on… You can't do this, Donnie and Mikey are on their way!"

Raph observed Leo's body again and suddenly remarked that the blood pool came from the side on which his brother was lying.

"Leo, I know that hurts, but I've got to turn you around, o-okay" Raph's voice was shaking now too, has he didn't wait for an answer and turned Leo's body very carefully.

What he saw made his own blood run cold; there was a huge knife wound at his stomach area. He closed his eyes – how was Donnie going to repair this?

Flashback

"Raph, open the door… we've got to talk!" Donnie shouted.

"Yeah please, Raphie!" Mike shouted too and knocked at Raph's room door. Suddenly, it was roughly opened by their brother, who looked rather angry.

"What?!" He asked roughly. It wasn't like that he was furious to his brothers or… Leo. It was more that he was angry to himself.

"You know 'what'!" Donatello replied drily. He knew the drill already; He became a master of ignoring Raph's emotional swings by observing his brother's arguments.

"I ain't going to apologize."

"That's not what I wanted to say." Donnie sighed. "You two are getting on Mikey's and my nerves. And you know, what you earlier said to Leo was a big thing, even for you. But that's something you have to make up with your brother yourself. I'm not planning to negotiate".

"So why are you here, Donnie?" Raph said with his loud voice.

"Dude, calm down." Mikey went on. "We don't want to quarrel. It's just…" He sadly looked down.

"Spit it out, Mikey!"

"I hate it when you and Leo are like that. And you know how Leo is – he just wants to protect us."

"I don't need…"

"Now will you let me finish?" Mikey asked, now with a louder voice, too. Raph looked up, surprised. It wasn't often that Mikey spoke like that. "Sure, you are strong and so on, but Leo is our big bro. And if you like it or not, he's also our leader. He hasn't voted himself to a leader, as Master Splinter told us."

"I know that too." Raph said. This conversation wasn't leading to anywhere and he was about to shut the door again.

"If that's all you wanted to say, then leave me alone."

"No, Raph! Wait!" Donnie said, as he remembered Leo storming out of the dojo.

"We wanted to ask if you want to go with us and search Leo. He's gone upstairs just as you said… you know what", he continued comfortingly.

"Well, good to see that he's allowed to break his own rules" he murmured sarcastically.

"We're worried" Mikey said quietly, to calm Raph down. "He left in a rather strange mood; and if something happens…"

"Yeah yeah, let's go and find Fearless." Raphael said annoyingly, convinced by Mikey's worried voice.

End of flashback.

"Raph, you've got to let go of him."

"Come on, bro…"

It was as he was in trance. After he discovered the wound on Leo's side, he put a fabric on it to stop the blood loss. However, he knew that it wasn't going to help much.

Suddenly, Raph heard the voice of Donnie. However, he didn't want to leave Leo; it was his fault that his big brother was lying there and he wasn't going to make the same mistake again.

"Damn it, Donnie… Where does the blood come from?" Mikey asked.

"Stab wound…." Raph finally murmured.

"Raph's in shock. Mikey, take care of him. I'll have a look on Leo.

Mikey nodded. They just had arrived on the scene. As Raph had phoned them that he had found Leo in a bad shape, he didn't want to believe it. However, reality was coming back too soon. Sadly.

"Come on, Raph. Leo's going better soon. Donnie can fix everything, remember?"

Raph looked at his brother again, but then Mikey forced him to look in his face.

"I'm not sure this time, Mikey."

Next thing he knew sitting in the shell racer, Leo and Donnie in the back, Mikey was driving and Raph was sitting next to his baby brother.

"Mikey, hurry up! We've got to bring Leo home soon!" They heard Donnie calling from behind. "He'd lost a lot of blood, I'm not sure if I've enough blood savings left in the dojo."

Raph closed his eyes. This whole day was a nightmare. Leo was dying and also thinks that he hated him. How was this going to end?

Finished :) well, at least this chapter… Don't worry, of course there willl come more soon. Did you like it? Don't forget to leave a review

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Cupcake01