Chapter 7

Leo's POV

There was intense silence in the room. I was lost in thoughts, but I still could feel the turtles' stares on me. 'Am I really doing this? Disobeying Karai, and sparing their pathetic lives? I don't even remember them. Why? If they were important why would I forget, and those memories with the Foot... They seem so real. Or did I just made them up? No! Nonsense. I grew up with the Foot. I remember me and Karai when we were little. I couldn't have imagined that. It's impossible. Am I going crazy...?'

"Thank you..." Someone croaked. I looked up to my supposed-to-be brothers. Raphael cleared his throat, the other two staring at him. "Thanks..." He said in a more steady voice, "For, uh... Karai." He glanced down for a brief moment before looking back at me.

"Luck." I said firmly, straightening my posture, "If she looked through it, I would be punished and you would be doomed." Their bodies tensed as much as their sore muscles let them. "I just have a few questions." I eyed them before asking.

"How was I- were we made?" I asked.

"It was-" Donatello cleared his throat, "There's a substance called Mutagen. We fell into it when we were little pet turtles." He explained shortly.

"For how long are we this way?" I asked looking at hands, but my expression didn't change.

"Almost 20 years." Replied the purple masked turtle, again. I hummed in response.

"Who raised you?" They all were silent until the little orange one spoke up.

"Master Splinter." Michelangelo said in a sad voice. My eyes softened. 'I know that name from somewhere. Maybe Karai told me about it? Yeah... That has to be it...'

"Splinter raised us all, Leo. Even you." Don added.

"Can't be." I said sharply, that he flinched at the tone, "I grew up in here," I motioned my hands around me, meaning the whole Foot base, "I remember it clearly."

"What!" Raphael shouted.

"HUSH!" Nymeria silenced him from her spot, "If you value this time with Leonardo, be quiet or they'll come." I nodded at her in agreement and looked at the red masked turtle.

"You don't mean it, Leo, do ya?" He continued quietly, "You were with us. All those years. You were our leader." The determination in his voice was raising with every sentence, "What do you mean you 'remember' how you grew up with the Foot clan when you were with us."

"I wasn't with you." I hissed at him, getting slightly ticked off by his stubbornness, "I remember my birthday. There was Karai, Nym, Saki, and a cake. It was the first day my father let me go to the city." I ended with a huff. They just stared. It's like I've told them that Santa Claus isn't real. All of them tried to find words, but they were just opening and closing their mouths as fish. Then Donatello locked his eyes on Nymeria, who was shifting on the table uncomfortably.

"Um... Nymeria, was it?" She gave her attention to the heigh turtle, and nodded hesitantly, "I don't know if you have any siblings... but I need you to tell him. He'll believe only you. Please." She locked her eyes with him for a long time with unreadable expression.

"Uh," I glanced back and forth between the two, "Do you even know that I'm here? I can hear you. What are you supposed to tell me?" I asked as I stepped into her view. She blinked and looked into my eyes. There was something I couldn't point out. An emotion I've never seen in her eyes. Then all of that got covered by anger. She frowned and hopped off the table.

"It's nothing. The idiot is bluffing." She glared at all of them, "I said they are your brothers, Leonardo, but they abbandoned you. Such brothers they are." She scoffed, "Do not believe them." She took my face into her palms so I was looking straight into her blue eyes, "You can trust only me." She said just above a whisper. "Now, go to the dojo." she smirked, "You need to train more. I'll be there in a minute."

I was really confused from all this. But I slowly pulled away from Nymeria and walked to the door turning around for the last time, before heading off.

No one's POV

"WHAT THE SHELL WAS THAT!" Raph finally found his words, "Why are you playing with him like a puppet!"

"What have I done? Oh, no no no." Nymeria chuckled lowly, "I have done nothing than just said a few words. You're the one that left him on the rooftop to fight alone." She took a knife on a table as she walked towards them. She stood next to Raphael and whispered in his ear, "You're the one that ran like a dog with his tail between his legs." She was right, but he would never admit it. He saw a smirk plastered on her face as she pulled away and walked over to Donatello.

"Leave them be!" Raph yelled at her trying to get out of the chains.

"Now, you," She ignored the red-clad turtle, "I won't tell Leonardo anything that would make him leave."

"If you'd really care about him, you would have tell him." Donnie answered with the same amount of venom in voice. Nymeria just glared at him harder, but then scoffed.

"I can always torture this little one if you test my patience." She threatened with the knife pointing at Mikey. Don and Raph went as far as their chains let them, glaring at the blonde woman. "Anyway," She sighted and put the knife back on the table, "I have a training to do now, so have a nice day, boys." And with that she left.

A/N

STORY NOTES

I'm still not sure with the relation ship that Nymeria and Leo have, I said that they will have a sister-brother relationship, but MAYBE I want more? Idk. Would you like them to be a ship or just "siblings"?

~Ani Rejl