TMNT: Cherry Blossoms of life
Warning Contains some turtlecest and subject matter that is not suitable for all audiences. Be warned, I'm perverted so this story will get pretty detailed, don't troll me in the comments. Thank you and enjoy at your own risk.
Ch.21~ Moving On
I had been banned from upstairs and Casey and Mikey gladly volunenteered to stay down there with me; they may not want to see it but I do just to know it went okay. Pacing right infront of the stairwell I let myself think that it was all okay and that I was being a worry wart. Mikey stopped trying to tell me not to pace after realising I wasn't going to respond or do as he said; he simply stared at me as I paced.
"Raph stop pacin' you're makin' me dizzy!" Casey whined, I stopped and let myself collaspe onto the floor untterly exhausted.
"About time you got tired," Mikey sighed, he picked me up and sat back onto the couch holding me in an easy way for me to fall asleep. "Don't worry so much it's all gonna be okay little dude, now it's midnight and time for Raphie-boy to go to sleep."
"No. I was asleep when father died, if I go to sleep maybe Donny and the baby will die. I've seen many people I cared about die; I will not sleep when someone else I love could be dying!" I hissed, sitting up I went back over to the stairs and sat down on the bottom step.
"Raph please stop doing this, I know you feel your stuck in a dark time remembering that horrible year. You aren't just hurting yourself, your hurting the people who care about you; would like to see me in the state you are in? Don will be okay, I swear to you that no one will die for a while; stop giving into your despair because there is hope." Mikey replied.
"Listen to Mikey Raph, he does have a point." Casey stated.
"You think I don't realise this, I wish I could stop but I can't; and it's not like this is te first time I hurt you guys. I've always done this, why should this time be any different." I wailed, laying my head on my lap I sobbed. I punched my fist onto the step repeatedly as I sobbed and screamed in sad torment...
I don't want to lose my brother, not someone else; I think I would lose everything else that I had if that happened. Even though my fist hurt, my eyes stung and I felt like I could die I can't leave. Mikey was right I needed to have some hope, and until I heard otherwise I would cling the the small white string in this dark room until the dark fades or takes over.
I felt a set of smaller arms pick me up and toss me into the air, through my teary eyes I saw April was the one tossing me into the air. She had a big bright smile on her face as she began to spin me around. Was the baby born, did it all go okay, I felt a smile grown on my face and I began to giggle in excitment.
"Don had a baby girl!" she screamed, I rubbed away my remaining tears as I smiled from ear to ear.
"See I told you there was nothing to worry about Raph," Mikey stated, I wrapped my arms around Aprils neck and rubbed my cheek against hers.
April set me down and kneeled down in front of me; "Why don't you go up Raph, I'm sure Don and Leo will be glad to see you." she whispered, nodding I gave her childish peck on the cheek before slowly climbing up the stairs.
Don sat in bed, Leo sat beside him and held him close, in Don's arms was a bundle which I guessed was my new baby 'sister'. I stared at them akwardly, this was their family moment why should I be up here turning to leave I felt their gaze turn onto me and I froze. This wasn't my place, I was an uncle not a sibling to the baby; I wasn't a part of their new family.
"Don't walk away Raph, come here and see the baby." Leo called, I felt tears well up in my eyes, I whiped them onto my forearm.
"No this is your guys moment, after all you are a family now." I replied, I turned back and smiled weakly with tears still in my eyes. Why was I crying, they were still my family, I was just not part of their new family.
"Raph me and Leo swore to look after you now since father died, you are part of our new family. I know it's wierd but for now you aren't our brother anymore... you are our son." Don stated.
The tears began to run down my cheeks again, I ran over into Leo's leg and buried my face in his jeans sobbing. Picking me up in his strong arms I rubbed away my tears and looked at my new baby sister; she was beautiful. I felt sad that there attached to her small wrist was the bracelet that we all had been forced to wear but I knew she had to wear it. I reached out to touch her my eyes looking at Don for approval nodding at me I moved my hand out and stroked her chuby cheek and pulled my hand back.
"I think I know what her name will be Leo." Don stated, "Thalia, Thalia Shen Hamato."
"I love it, what do you think Raph?" Leo asked.
"Her nickname will be Thal." I stated, Leo and Don both chuckled knowing that I liked the name.
"Looks like I have myself a niece and a nephew now, Raphie-boy and Thal-chan." Mikey added, he stood at the second top step his trademark smile planted on his face.
(about five years later)
I held Thalia's hand as I walked with her to our fist day of school of the year, well she was only a kindergardener but it was still kinda like school. Daddy stood behind us as we walked hand in hand, Thalia sung happily as we walked down the old country road into town. Her small hello kitty bag bounced off her back as she walked and she had her hair tied in a faishon that reminded of something from one of Mikey's anime's.
"Big brother is school fun?" she asked sweetly.
"Yeah, well until you're in my grade, all we do is work, but you'll have fun you get to color all day play and sing songs and be read books." I answered, she looked up at me and smiled.
"I'm glad I brought kitty with me then." she stated.
I chuckled, she loved that cat it was pretty much just a cute chibi cat head with a tail and ears poking out of it's round body. She pulled on my hand as she began to run with me down the road, she giggled as we ran. Stopping I offered her a ride up on my shoulders, she hopped on ad we walked again, her hands on my head as she leaned forward to gaze at things from her new height.
This was the life; I smiled a lot more and I've gained more friends, they stopped avoiding me because of my old depressed nature. At school I worked hard and had fun with my friends when I get home I play with Thalia and Daddy makes supper and we help sometimes. Then Papa comes home over the weekends; Bishop gave us enough money to buy the house we live in now and be able to build a new home back in New York so Papa stays in New York during the week to overseeing the building and work as a police officer.
Sometimes he can't come home over the weekend because he is working but he usually does and me and Thalia play with him and he'll tell us stories and sing songs to us old fables or japanese folk songs. My favourite song he sings is the old song Four Seasons; it is such a simple song but I love the way Papa sings it.
Arriving at the kindergarden I set Thalia down, giving me a big hug and running into Daddy to give him a big hug she ran towards the door. Stopping at the door she turned and waved at us before running into the building, we finished our walk toward the elementary school, reaching the school yard I gave Dad a quick hug before running to find my friends, stopping a few feet away I gave him another wave and ran off.
Jake and Tim waved at me from their spot on top of the monkey bars, I pulled myself up neck to them and we greeted with high fives.
"Isn't your little sis starting kindergarden this year?" Jake asked, I nodded.
"Yep, I warned her about grade five, it was so boring last year I hope this year is exciting." I replied, Tim and Jake laughed.
"Chad said that it only get more boring as you go up, well until you get to choose classes in high school." Tim said.
"Unfortunately I'll be livin' in New York city again by the time we get of elementarty school let alone middle school or high school." I sighed.
"You're here now and let's make the best of it, I say we go investigate that old haunted building!" Jake bellowed, me and Tim nodded in agreement.
"I'll have my parents but it should be okay with them, hopefully they won't make me take Thal with us..." I stated.
"If they do convince her to stay home, tell her it's scary and full of monsters." Tim replied.
"You forget my sister may be a bit girl but she likes monster and ghosts..." I explained.
"Your sisters wierd." Tim whined.
"I know." I muttered.
(Thalia's POV)
I showed some of the other girls in my class kitty, they all thought he was cute besides this stuck-up girl who said she looked stupid. If she thought she looked so stupid why would she stare at her like she wanted her; tossing kitty in the air I watched as teacher tried to teach us how a caterpillar turns into a butterfly but I already know this.
"Now class does anyone know what this process is called." Ms. Macdonald asked.
"Metamorphosis." I answered, holding kitty into my chest.
"Very good Thalia did your brother or parents teach you that." Ms. MacDonald replied.
"No, I read it in a book." I stated.
"Well isn't that nice your family reads you books."
"They used to, but I read that one myself."
"You can read."
"Yeah, is that wierd."
Ms. MacDonald let the other kids go play and took me out of the class room to the book room picking up a random book she handed it to me. Sitting over in the story time area she motioned me to read the book. It was such a sort book, but if this is what she thinks I can read then okay... I guess.
"The tale of the frog in the scorpion. Once there was a frog and the scorpion; the scorpion asked the frog to carry him across the river. The frog agreed as long as the scorpion promised not to sting him; and the scorpion promised he wouldn't. Halfway across the river the frog felt a pain in his back; the scorpion had stung him. He asked the scorpion why he had stung him and that now they were both going to die. The scorpion replied that it was his nature." I read, I think Papa read this story to me a long time ago.
"You read that perfectly, when did you learn to read." she asked.
"Daddy and Raphie taught me." I answered.
"Do you know math; what is two plus two?" she said.
"Four, and two times two is four too." I replied.
"I think I might recommend that you be push up to grade one or two at least."
"But I wanna be kindergarden, I like it here."
"Don't you feel held back."
"No, I like it, we can play and be read stories and color and sing the alphabet, it's fun."
"I think I'm going to talk to your father about this wehn he comes to get you at noon."
"Okay, can we go back to class now?"
"Sure."
(Don's POV)
I carried Thalia back to the house, her teacher told me she thought my little girl should be put into a higher grade. For me I think Thalia will do better if she gets to be in grade with people her age and size. Singing in my arms my little Thalia was smiling; it's hard to believe that six years ago I would have never dreamed I could have a child. Thalia's arrival proved some of my assumed common knowledge wrong, well I never dremt I could live like a human either.
"Daddy Papa's comming home this weekend right?" she asked, I smiled; Leo was coming home this weekend.
"Yes, I'm sure you and Raph will be happy to see him and so will I." I answered, she smiled big and nuzzled her small cheek against mine.
(Leo's POV)
Finally I was home for the weekend, pulling into the lane, I saw Raphael, Thalia and waiting on the step for me. The kids rushed at me and hugged me tightly; scooping them both up I went over to Don and kissed him sweetly on the lips. Mikey waved at me his laptop on his lap; most likely he was finishing his article for the magazine he worked for.
"How was your week Papa? How many bad guys did ya put in jail?" Raph questioned, I chuckled.
"My week was good and I did put a few bad guys in jail but it was mostly fires or car crashes this week." I answered.
"Papa I made my teacher freak out; she was so surprised that I can read and do math." Thalia informed.
"Well you are your Daddy's daughter, you definetly get your intelligence from him." I replied.
"Hey Papa can you tell us some stories later?" Raph asked.
"Of course, now what stories should I tell; a few fables or maybe a couple of legends or make up one." I stated.
"Make up one." Thalia cheered.
"Yeah make one up, that way it'll be new." Raph added.
"How about I tell you story of how the four seasons came to be." I said.
"First we eat supper." Don stated.
(Raph's POV)
"Come on Papa tell us the story!" I pleaded.
"Yeah Papa!" Thalia added.
"Okay, a long time there were four brothers; there was the eldest brother named Winter, his yougher brother Spring was second eldest, then there was Summer and Fall. Spring thought that he should be the eldest because new life is born in spring and lead his brothers Summer and Fall to revolt against their big brother Winter. Outraged by his brothers actions he made it winter for centuries his siblings all died in the long winter; sadly the eldest called his brothers souls from the other side and they joined together and became know as the four seasons. During the winter it is said you can hear the eldest brother crying, when Spring arrives you can hear Spring arguing with Winter; summer is when you hear the four brothers sing together, and when fall hits you can hear the three yougher brother fall asleep. That is why Winter is crying because he doesn't get to play or sing with his yougher brothers. The End." Papa said.
"Poor Winter-san, he must be so lonely..." Thalia stated.
"It's his own fault he makes it winter." I replied.
"But his brothers couldn't live without him, the seasons flow together and can never be disrupted." Papa explained.
"When winter comes I'll build him tons of snowmen so he can have someone to play with during the winter when his brothers are asleep! You'll help me right oniisan." Thalia exclaimed.
"Sure, Winter-san won't be lonely if we build him tons of snowmen friends!" I agreed.
Papa patted our heads softly; "I'm sure Winter-san would love that, you can sing with him too I think he'll love the song four seasons. Winter, Spring, Summer and Fall; Winter, Spring, Summer and Fall; Four seasons, four loves; Four seasons, four loves~." Papa sung, I smiled I think this is my new favourite story.
Authors Note: I made up that story of the seasons a while ago when I was watching Avatar when Iroh sang it. If it is similar to something else that is pure chance cuz I really just heard the song and thought up the story when I was bored. Or I may have read a story like that and forgot, but for now I will go with I wrote it. I always I knew I wanted Leo to say this since I came up with it, it seems like a story he may have made up or heard from Splinter-sama. Well hope you like my little story. Raph from now on will be refering to Leo as Papa and Donny as Daddy so be careful with that. They reference to Thalia's hair being tied up like something from an anime I mean she had Haruhi's hairstyle from Haruhi Suzamiya. Thalia's kitty teddy is a reference to the Lucky Star cat, also I will now be including a chapter theme from now on cuz I can. Listen to the song if you want to me I think it should suit the chapters content listen to it after this time but I think it would nice for you to listen to the song as you read the chapter so scroll down and check out the song I have shown below, it could be in any laguage so beware.
Chapter Theme Song: I'm Alive! by Becca