Leo had rushed out to his car, not giving anything a second thought. He hadn't attached his seat belt, and he hadn't told his father where he was going. At that moment, he hadn't cared if he told his father where he was going. He was sure if Father asked where he was that Mikey would tell him where he was.

Leo knew he was speeding over the speed limit, but he wasn't paying attention. The only thing on his mind was getting to Karai not too late. He gripped his steering wheel so tightly that his knuckles turned white. His eyes were scrunched in anger and determination, and his teeth were clenched tightly. He would not be too late! He couldn't chance it!

The normal five minute drive nearly only took Leo two minutes to get there. He immediately exited his car, shotgun in hand. He hadn't bothered to knock before using his stealth to enter quietly.

Good thing Father taught us ninjutsu, Leo thought to himself.

"What did I tell you about telling people what I do?!" Leo could hear Karai's father bellow.

"I couldn't hide the bruises! I'm sorry! Please, don't shoot me!" Karai cried. She sounded pained. Leo growled to himself quietly. He made his way up the stairs, and found Karai's room. The room was painted a dark black color, with a few pictures hung on the walls. All of which contained her mother. Except for one. It was a painting Karai had painted. Cherry Blossoms with a Japanese backround. The date in the corner read 2012. It was made back when she still lived in Japan, which made sense.

Her bedsheets were zebra striped. A few of the white stripes on the zebra stripes were stained in red. This made Leo growl internally as he watched the scene in front of him, not wanting to use the gun,
unless her dad made a move to use his own.

"Father, please!" Karai cried in fear. Blood dribbled down from her forehead and down her forehead. Leo could see a whip in the corner of the room, along with a blowtorch. Several new bruises lined Karai's frame.

"You disobeyed me, Karai!" He yelled, grabbing the whip.

"It won't happen again!" Karai yelled, backing away from her father, only to back into a wall.

"It won't when I'm finished with you!" He yelled as he went to bring the whip down on her. Leo's eyes widened as he shot forward and grabbed Karai's father's hand. Her father's eyes shot wide open, and he whirled around, the whip accidentally hitting Leo near his eye. Leo growled. He looked at the physical features of this man. He was about the same height as Leo, a bit skinnier, and not nearly as muscular.

Leo went for it.

He gripped both of Karai's father's wrists in his hands and backed him up to the wall, the gun wraped around his neck with a sash. As Karai's father growled at Leo, Leo could smell the faintly familiar scent of alchol on his breath. Leo's parents hadn't really drunk much as he was growing up, having the occasional champaigne at a wedding or maybe one beer every few months.

"What do you think you are doing to your daughter?" Leo growled at the man.

The man growled back. "She disobeyed me!"

"How so?"

His glossy, drunk eyes were hard and narrowed. "Give me one good reason I should tell you!"

Leo growled. He slammed the man's fists back into the wall, sending his head back into the wall, enough for his head to bounce. "One," Leo kicked the man's legs, making the man fall to his knees, showing how Leo is stronger than the man, "Two," Leo showed the man his gun, "Three."

The man growled. "I told her not to tell anyone about what happens at our house!"

Leo growled and punched the man in the jaw. "Now you listen here, pal, and you listen good. I'm stronger than you, I'm a lot younger than you, determined, and I am sober. Right now, if you were to fight me, you'd be the one on the floor near death, and I'd be the one who walks away. You will never hurt Karai ever again, for as long as you live!" Leo takes the end of his gun without the end that shoots bullets, and hits the man in the head with it hard enough to knock him out.

Leo let his grip go when he felt the man go limp, and he directed his gaze back over to the frightened Karai. "Karai, are you ok? He didn't hurt you too bad, did he?" Karai shook and trembled, and Leo went to envelop her in his arms. He kissed her head. "What did he do?"

Karai hid her face in his chest. "He...He raped me, Leonardo."

Leo's eyes widened as he tightened his grip on Karai. "He what?"

Karai sobbed gently into Leo's chest. "He raped me. Just before I t-t-texted you. I-I got away from him and...h-h-hid."

Leo began to take out his phone. "Did he use protection?"

Karai shook her head. "N-N-No."

Leo sighed as he dialed 9-1-1. "Don't worry. I'm calling the police. He's going to jail." He listened into the speaker of the phone as a feminine voice came over the line.

"You have reached 9-1-1, what is your emergency?"

Leo sighed as he held Karai tight. "My girlfriend was just raped by her father, and he has been abusing her. We need the police and ambulance down here. Our address is 214 Pinewood Elm."

"She was raped?"

Leo nodded. "Yes. Is help on the way?"

"Yes, help is on the way, but keep me on the phone. Where is her father?"

Leo looked back over to the limp man on the floor. "I hit him on the head and made him pass out."

"What is his name?"

Leo didn't know. Leo looked to the very shaken up Karai. "Karai, what's your father's name?"

She sniffed lightly. "Oroku Saki."

Leo nodded. "His name is Oroku Saki."

"Ok. The police said that they're there. You can hang up now."

Leo nodded and did just that. Four police officers filled the room. Two took care of Oroku Saki and the other checked on Leo and Karai.

"Are you two ok?" One said.

Leo looked up into their eyes, blood still running near his eye. "I'm fine, but Karai needs to be taken to the hospital. She was raped and beaten."

The police officers nodded. "We know that, but we'd still like you both to go to the hospital, if that is ok with you."

Leo nodded as he tucked Karai's head under his chin. "Yeah, that's ok with me." Leo watched as two paramedics carried Saki away. He stood and carried Karai bridal style in his arms. He walked her down stairs carefully and took her outside. Outside, two ambulances could be seen along with two police cars.
Leo sat himself and Karai in the back of the ambulance excluding her father. Karai leaned into Leo's side,
and gripped his shirt tightly, afraid to let go.

Leo took out his phone and called home. He silently prayed that his father wasn't the one to answer.

Funny how that never works!

"Leonardo, where are you, my son?!"

Leo sighed. "Father, I-"

"Do you realize how irresponsible it was for you to sneak out like this?! You ought to be ashamed of yourself."

"Father, please-"

"You are setting a bad example for your brothers! Do you realize-"

"Father," Leo said a bit more harshly, "Karai was in danger. Her father raped her and almost killed her tonight. At the moment, I had been a bit more concerned about getting to her than telling you guys where I was. And to be fair, Mikey knew where I was."

Leo could hear his father sigh. "Where are you, my son?"

Leo sighed. "Karai and I are in an ambulance on the way to the hospital. I'm fine, but they wanted to check on me as well, just for precaution."

"We'll meet you there."

Leo nodded. "Ok."

Leo could hear his father sigh again. "I love you, so much, Leonardo."

Leo smiled slightly and shook his head. "I love you, too, Father." And with that, Leo hung up his phone and went back to holding Karai. A police officer and a paramedic came into the back of Leo and Karai's ambulance and began asking questions.

"Are you ok, miss?" The paramedic asked.

Karai looked up at him from Leo's chest. Her forehead was still bleeding, and bruises alined her frame. She looked into the paramedic's eyes. "Y-Yeah. I'm f-fine."

He nodded. "Ok. When you get to the hospital some doctors are going to give you some birth control pills to help ensure that you don't get pregnant. For now, we need to get your bleeding to stop, ok?"

Karai sniffed gently and nodded. "Yeah. Ok."

The paramedic sat down and found some wrapping bandages and the police officer sat next to him as the ambulance began to move. The paramedic began to wrap the bandages around Karai's forehead. "When you get to the hospital the doctors will clean your cut and stitch you up."

Karai nodded. The police officer looked to her. "How old is your father?"

"48." Karai answered as she snuggled back into Leo's side. Leo threw his arm over her and kissed her head.

"And you both are from Japan, am I correct?" The police officer asked.

Karai nodded. "Correct."

"How old are you both?"

Karai rested her head against Leo's shoulder. "I'm seventeen."

Leo looked to the cop. "I'm eighteen."

The police officer nodded as he scribbled in a note pad. "May I ask for your names?"

Karai looked out the window of the back doors of the ambulance. "Oroku Karai. In Japan, we put our last names first, so in America, I am Karai Oroku."

The police officer nodded and then looked to Leo. Leo smiled. "Leonardo Hamato."

The officer nodded. "And your father's name, Oroku Saki, was it?"

Karai nodded.

"He'll be going to the hospital and get checked out. Once he's cleared he'll be taken to jail. He'll be put on trial, and if proven guilty, he could get sentenced to prison for life."

Karai gulped. This is exactly what she hadn't wanted to happen. She still remembered the good times she had had with her father. When her mother was alive her father hadn't been like this. He was a good man. But the love of a woman tore him apart in the end.

Leo felt her stiffen and offered what little comfort he could. "Don't be scared, Karai. We'll figure something out."

Karai sighed as she stayed in Leo's arms. "Yeah, I guess we will." The ambulance pulled up into the hospital parking lot and Karai and Leo were taken back into the emergency room, though Leo hadn't been hurt dangerously. Karai was being taken back to get her cut cleaned and stitched. Her cut was pretty big,
and hadn't been clotting so easily. Leo was a little scared about it. She had been losing blood fast.

Leo went back into a room where it separated into another room with a curtain. A doctor neared him with a needle and stitches. The doctor weaved the needle through Leo's skin near his eye and stitched up the gash. It hurt, but Leo didn't dare to utter a sound. When he was done being stitched up he was sent out to the waiting room, where he awaited news on Karai and for his family to arrive. He was leaving too soon.

But he was doubting if he should.

Mikey was still having trouble walking. He still had his small breathing mishaps throughout some nights.
And now Karai's dad going to jail. He sighed and held his head in his hands. This was too much.

"Leo!" He heard a cry. He looked up to see Mikey wheeling his wheelchair as quick as he could to his brother. Once Mikey reached Leo, he threw his arms around his waist. "Leo, I was so scared! I thought you were going to get shot!"

Leo smiled sadly at his baby brother. He placed a hand on Mikey's curly blonde hair. "Sh, Mike, I'm ok. Don't be afraid. I'm safe," Leo looked back to where Mikey had came from to find Raph, Donnie, and his father nearing him as well. Leo sighed as he hugged Mikey to his chest. "I'm sorry, Father," Leo looked back to Karai's room, "but Karai needed me."

Yoshi sighed, and placed a hand on Leo's shoulder. "Do not apologize, Leonardo. You had a good excuse,
and Michelangelo did know where you were," Yoshi looked over to where Leo had looked. "How is the girl?"

Leo sighed. "Her father raped her. She had a nasty cut on her forehead. I had got there in time before he had the chance to kill her, but not before too much damage could be done."

Raph placed a comforting hand on Leo's shoulder. "You did good, Fearless."

Donnie nodded. "Yeah. What's important is that she didn't get killed, and you made sure of that."

Leo sighed. "Yeah, I guess so."

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