Happy ending! Syke! We aren't done yet.
And to the reviewer who really needs her parents to let her have an account: Roxygirl!
~ I know I don't have to, but I didn't know what I was going to do. So I seized the moment. ... Yeah, Raph is the rebel we all know him to be, secretly. I'm not thinking about Mikey right now because, well, he won't be in the beginning of the story. He's the last brother, he gets the last tsuma. And the school year promises the sequel. Unless of course all the fan fictions I'm working on get finished in the next weeks. Yeah, unlikely.
"Jika!" Meiki squeals, holding both of her friends hands in glee. She had returned to her room and was ready to give Jika the good news.
"Hai, Okusama?" Meiki giggles.
"That's just it! You don't have to call me that anymore! Well, in a casual environment. But this is casual.. Say my name." Meiki practically dances in her spot. Jika smiles.
"Meiki," she pronounces. Meiki giggles.
"Jika," they both sit criss cross on the bed, "I've always wanted a sister. But since I don't," she pauses, "I'd be honored if it was you."
"Meiki.. did you have to ask?" Jika teases.
"Shimai (sisters)?" Jika nods.
"Shimai." They giggle and hug like only sisters do.
"Leo!" Both girls go to the window. Raphael is at the main patio, sais out. "You know what day it is!?" He yells to the sky, "Come out and face me, Fearless!" Meiki runs out the door.
"No Meiki, you might make it worse," Jika calls down the hallway. But Meiki still goes down, tugging her rappu around her. The wind had picked up, making the air cooler and fanning the torches.
"'Swift like Wind', and yet late to defeat!" Raphael taunts. Meiki stays next to the pillar closest to the Blue Doorway. Leonardo appears behind his brother near the edge of the platform.
"'Fierce like fire', But can you control it?" He says calmly. The Red Kame turns to the Blue. The torches seem to leap. Leonardo can see the flames in his brother's eyes; green and angry.
"Baka!" Raphael spits, "Did you not bother to remember!?"
"I did not forget the day," Leonardo says. Raphael strings out all his fury in a range of Japanese words. But Leonardo stands his ground, as he learned to do when his brother got angry over nothing important. "If you have nothing more to say, Meiki is expecting me." He walks past his enraged brother.
"Draw your katanas, Leo," Raphael warns without turning. Leonardo keeps walking. "I said," he runs at the calm Kame and makes a cut on his cheek. Leonardo looks back and wipes the blood from the wound. He finishes the journey to the Blue Doorway. "Baka! Coward! You think you can keep her!? You don't think I'll be waiting!? She isn't yours Leo! I'm the stronger one!"
Leonardo gently holds Meiki's arm and they walk up to the study. "Jika, bring a bowl of water and cloth," Meiki directs as Leonardo lays down.
"Hai, Okusama," Jika replies, reverting back to formalities. Meiki goes to Leonardo and fingers his wound. He smiles at her concern.
"It does not hurt, Hikari," he assures. But when Jika comes back with the bowl, Meiki insists on cleaning it. "..Arigato."
"Why?" She asks, dipping the cloth in the water.
"For being there. If you hadn't, I wouldn't have been able to stay calm." Meiki scoffs.
"I did nothing," she dismisses.
"You did everything. You were the water that washed the taunts over me." She blushes.
"May I have another lesson, Leonardo." He smiles and nods. She gets up and takes down a book. She reads to him, where he helps her along the way with harder words. "Meiki," Leonardo says after a few chapters, "For your safety, I want you to stay inside while I am gone."
"You are still going, Leonardo?"
"Would you like me to stay?" Meiki thinks of the children. They will be so happy.
"You won't be gone long, will you?"
"Swift like the Wind, remember? I'll be there and back as fast as time will allow." Meiki leans against her Kame.
"Would your brother hurt me?" She asks, her cheek on his plastron armor.
"You… will be safe up here. Servants and my father are the only ones allowed up here. He can't hurt you if he can't get to you." Meiki nods. "You can go to the lounge. Being inside shouldn't be a burden."
"Hai, Leonardo." He lifts her chin.
"Hikari," He puts his hand on the back of her neck and she just melts in his arms. He closes his mouth over hers, not willing to wait anymore. Meiki lays her hands on his chest and kisses him back. The window seems to open on its own and the curtains flurry up, just like Meiki's heart in her chest.
"Watashi no Kame," she says back. Leonardo smiles.
"I wouldn't have it any other way," he comments, gently kissing her again.
Raph doesn't seem to want to give up.