Disclaimer: Be it resolved that we the penniless believe that we own nothing in this chapter or any others and should not be indited. (We are now onto debates in English. One week and I'm already sick of it.)
A/N So I guess you guys are getting an early chapter! I have a busy week and I didn't think I'd have a chance to update between now and Saturday so you guys are getting this one today. Some of you had questions about what Leo and Don were fighting about in the last chapter. This chapter will explain it more but if you still don't understand I'll have a note at the end of the chapter explaining it..
ShikamaruChick- What are they going to do to Raph? Kill him. Oh wait I didn't say that! Well they'll try at least cuz that's what you hire mercenaries for right? Thanks for the review!
Isis-Lament- Oh complements being thrown right and left! Thank you! (runs around and gathers up all the complements) That scene with Cobart was the first scene I wrote with him. It was intended as a filler but developed into something more. As for the remote control scene, I thought Raph needed to let off a little steam. What till you see this chapter! Thanks for the review!
pacphys- Mike has this thing about him that he'll do the exact opposite of what you want him to, even if it means waiting… then he'll make you pay for having him wait. Broody you mean? I have a knack for the odd names. He was originally Dr. Folgers or something but it got change to Broody. Cobart was originally Cobalt but I changed that too. I'll explain at the end of the chapter what Leo and Don were fighting about. Ah yes Dr. Daddy Don. I was in one of those zippy hyper moods when I wrote that. I'm not sure if I told you before but I got the cool devil-may-care attitude of Cobart's from the book the Bourne Identity. There's a baddie in there that is just pure evil! Thanks for the review!
Chibi Rose Angel- (does a little dance and hugs Chibi Rose) Dude1 You just solved my writer's block! Thank you thank you thank you! Oh your wish shall be granted! Yippie! Writer's block solved! Hehe thank ya for the review and the complements.
Lunar-ninja- Your broadsword? Oh dear! But Cobart has a military M-16 sniper rifle. As you will see later on Cobart comes well armored. I also added a scene later on down the road with Cobart to make you hate him a little less… then you'll go back to hating him just as much in a space of about a chapter. Thanks for the review!
LenniluvsBrian- Yes Raph was doing a bit of day dreaming. He figures that it won't make a difference though if he's mediating for four hours a day. Thanks bunches for the review!
Raph headed towards the telltale sounds of Mikey's high pitched giggling.
"What chya watching?" He asked as he entered the living room.
"Lion King." He answered back trough a mouthful of popcorn.
Raph searched for the couch but before he made it there his shin bumped hard into the coffee table.
Raph hadn't thought that he missed the couch but apparently he had. He backed up and felt around with one of his crutches until he found a seat.
"Let's hop our way over to the birdy boiler."
"Oh no! Not the birdy boiler!"
Raph laughed with Mike as he imagined Zazu go shooting off into the hills. He had seen the movie enough times as a child to know which scene was which just by listening.
Mike continued to giggle with the hyenas.
"You know Mike I think you act quite a bit like that one hyena, the stupid one. Aw what's his name? Ed! You act a lot like Ed."
Mikey frowned. "Really?" I think I act more like Simba!" He puffed out his plastron and made a pitiful attempt at a lion's roar.
"You would Mike."
"You know I think Mufasa is a little like Splinter."
"Nah," Raph answered back. "Leo makes a much better Mufasa. Splinter's that crazy monkey. The nutty one, Rafiki."
"Master Splinter's off the wall sometimes, but come on! Rafiki?"
"Hey! The baboon knows ninjitsu!"
Master Splinter wondered out of his room to investigate the fuss.
"What is going on?" He asked.
Mikey pointed two fingers at Raph.
"Raph's calling you a baboon!"
"Did not!" Raph shouted.
"Did to!" Mikey giggled. "You said 'the baboon knows ninjitsu.'"
"Why you," Raph picked up one of his crutches and swung in the general direction of where Mikey's voice was coming. The first shot was a complete miss but the second caught him right in the plastron.
He was aiming for another blow when Don came up and grabbed both crutches.
"Hey!" Raph shouted indignantly to the unseen thief. "Give those back. I'm a cripple. I need um."
"Not anymore you don't." Don called as he made his way back to his lab to put the crutches back in the cupboard. "I saw you walking on it yesterday. Sides a week of not using it, it should be fairly well healed by now."
"Still Don how do you expect me to get around?"
Don came back with one of his old boes in his hand.
"Here," he handed it to Raph. "I rewrapped the middle with red. Later when you get up off your lazy tail. I'll show you how to use it.
"Cool. Thanks Don." Raph immediately continued with his Mikey beating.
"Ow!" Mike dropped his bowl of popcorn and swatted back at the offending bo.
Splinter shook his head and retreated back to his room.
'Kids.'
Meanwhile Leo emerged from his own room upstairs.
"Hey guys. What's up?"
"Daddy Don took away my crutches." Raph grumbled as he put his new bo on the floor next to his chair.
Leo cocked an eyebrow at Don, completely missed by Raph. Don shrugged in return.
"Raph and I are deciding whose who in the Lion King. You're Mufasa!" He said, doing an impression of the hyena trying to sound scary.
"Who are you?" Leo asked as he took a seat on the couch.
"Simba."
"Ed." Raph retorted.
Just then Rafiki, the baboon, went into a nutty craze and fought a whole hyena pack single handedly.
"Splinter is Rafiki."
On the TV screen Rafiki punched a hyena about to jump him from behind in the face without even turning around.
"You know, I kind of recall Sensei doing that move at one time or another." Leo chuckled.
"So who are Raph and I?" Don asked.
"Well," Mikey thought about it. "Raph is definitely Kovu."
"Ko who?" Raph scratched his head.
"Kovo, he's in the second movie."
"Mike, I never saw the second movie. Be time it came out I was like eight and well into playing with GI Joes."
Mikey's eyes grew big.
"You didn't see it? After this one's over you gotta see it."
He went off somewhere to search for the tape as the end of the movie played out.
"Should I really stay or should I run away?" Raph asked.
"Stay." Don answered. "It's actually pretty good."
"It's cute really. Mikey and Raph getting in touch with their inner children."
"On no Leo. This isn't as bad as this morning. I found Mikey watching his sing along with Barney tapes."
"Yeah and after that he watched Aladdin, Snow White, and then Bambi. The worst thought HAD to be when he pulled out the Carebears. Remind me to fine those tapes one of thes days and burn them."
"How'd you know they were Carebears?"
Don gave Leo a hard glare for treading on soft ground but the question really didn't sink in for Raph.
"Those high pitched voices of 'I think you need a friend'?"
Raph made his voice go high in an imitation of the cuddly bears which seemed to save Leo from more death glares from Don.
"Hey! The Carebears weren't that bad!"
Raph rolled his eyes.
"This coming from 'My Pretty Pony boy?" Leo laughed.
"Yeah Don do you still have those little ponies around somewhere?"
"No." Don grumped. "You destroyed them remember? You just kind of took markers and colored them all camo."
"Did you really expect pink and purple ponies to blend in with the surrounding woods? They needed to be stealthy or else they would have gotten my GI Joes killed."
Mikey came racing back down the stairs with a classic Disney tape case in his hand.
"Found it!"
He popped the finished tape out of the VCR and stuck the new one in.
"You guys are gonna love this!"
He fast forwarded through the previews, and hummed along with the opening song only to be elbowed in the side by Leo.
Raph started to snicker at the part where Kovu became an outcast. He could practically feel his brothers stares directed at him.
"What?" He exclaimed. "It's funny!"
"Raph how can becoming a reject be remotely funny?"
"Don you gotta remember, all I can hear is that music. For all I know they could be killing him and I'd be missing it."
"They can't kill him. It's a G-rated movie." Leo stated.
"Can too. They killed Barney when his show went off the air."
"Mikey they didn't kill him, they threw his butt in jail for drugs."
"Barney was a druggie?"
"You bet," Don continued. "Gave reptiles a bad rap."
Mikey whined. "Guys! You just trashed the image of my favorite childhood character in a matter of seconds."
"The dinosaur wasn't on drugs Mike, it was the guy that played him."
"Still, It's not right!"
"Sure it's not right. It's why they threw his butt in jail!"
"So," Leo diverted their attention to a different subject. "Who is Don in this movie."
"Leo," Mike turned his head towards his brother. "There's no techno geeks in the Lion King." He stated matter of factly.
"There has to be someone."
"I think he acts like Simba." Leo got to his feet and headed towards the kitchen for a drink.
"But I'm Simba!" Mikey protested.
Raph picked up his new bo and gave Mike another whack.
"Nah, your Ed."
"Ed's a bad guy though."
"Then how about Timone?"
Mikey was silent as he considered Don's suggestion.
"Timone's cool."
He turned his attention back to the TV to see the big fight scene.
"Hey Leo! Get back in here! It's the big fight scene."
Ten minutes later the credits started to play.
"Isn't it great?"
"It's alright." Leo commented.
"Raph heaved himself up from his chair. "I'd take blood and gore movies over that any day though." He stood there for a second before sitting back in his chair again. "I can't go anywhere." He muttered. "Don took my crutches."
Don uttered one word that seemed to give Raphael mobility again.
"Bo."
Raph got up again using his bo as a cane. Every few steps he'd stop and sweep in front of him to keep from falling over anything. Don made a move to follow him but Leo stopped him. He pulled him aside.
"Are you sure he's ready for this Don? It's been what, a week?"
"Well he was walking a bit without his crutches yesterday and he has to learn to use it sooner or later."
"If he figures out you all but handed him a white cane he's going to flip a lid."
"Well whether he likes it or not he's going to need it. Right now he just thinks it's a cane to help him walk with his bummed leg."
Leo gave Don a hard stare meaning that Raph wasn't that dumb.
"Trust me Leo. He's already using it to keep him from bumping into things. If I give him a few pointers along the way it will work. He'll use it less as a walking stick as his limp dissipates and more as a white cane. When he figures it out hopefully he'll realize just how much he really needs it."
Leo just rolled his eyes and smiled a stressed out smile.
"This better work Don, and if it doesn't get ready to run and hide because Raph will be after you."
Don smiled back and gave Leo a pat on the shell. "If this doesn't work there won't be many places to hide from Raph."
Mikey came racing into Raph's room.
"I've got it! I've got it!" he yelled as he pranced about waving a piece of paper. Raph jumped a bit on his bed, where he was trying to learn his Braille again, at the sound of his door banging open.
"Got what?" he asked as he sat up.
"I think I just created out theme song!"
"You still goin on about that?" He laughed.
Mike shield his paper protectively as if Raph's words were going to hurt it.
"Well if that's the way you feel then I'll just leave and you won't get to hear it!"
"Alright alright" Raph tried to calm him. "Let's hear it." He sat back, shell against the wall.
Mike unfolded the paper ad cleared his throat.
"Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Hero's in a half shell!
Turtle power!"
He was forced to stop by Raph's uproarious laughter.
"What's hero's in a half shell even supposed to mean?" Raph asked between guffaws.
"It's talking about our shells."
"Mike, our shells are already half, he explained. If we really had half shells we would look awful weird."
"That's it!" Mikey stood and made for the door. "You don't get to hear any more!"
"Aw come on Mike! It's not like I've got anyone else to read it to."
Mike glanced over his shoulder to find a cruel smirk on Raph's face but decided to show him the rest anyway.
"Raphael is cool but rude
Michealangelo's the party dude!"
He started into the chorus again and Raph tried hard to keep his laughter down.
"And when the evil Shredder attacks!
The turtles, fight back!"
"So remind me again Mike, who would want to listen to this?"
"Only every child in the world with an imagination." He answered.
"Yeah," Raph nodded, "sure."
Mikey put his hands where his hips should be and scowled.
"I'm going to go create my action figure!"
He left the room with Raph's laughter closely following him. Mikey wondered towards Leo's room to find him putting on his topside cloths.
"Where ya goin bro?" He asked as he poked his head around the half closed door.
"Topside to call on a favor. It shouldn't take long." He pulled an old dirty hoodie over his shell. "I'll be home before dark."
He grabbed his sunglasses and moved past Mike and out the door.
Raph sat up and searched for his bo as Don called that lunch was ready. His hand groped slowly along the floor where he thought he had laid it but his hand didn't touch anything resembling a bo. He growled softly as he continued to search, under the bed and farther away, yet it still managed to allude him. Finally he slid off his bed and onto his knees, much to the protest of most of his wounds. Don chose that moment to enter his room.
"Hey bro what's takin you so long?"
Raph made a move to sit back on his heals but quickly decided not to when a sharp pain ran up his injured leg.
"Can't find my bo."
Don moved farther into the room and quickly found the item. He handed it to Raph who snatched it from him. He pulled himself off the floor with the help of the staff and made his way out of his room.
"You know Raph," Don started as Raph swept carelessly in front of him with his bo. "If you sweep a little more past your shoulders you won't run into anything."
Raph continued the same way as before.
"Raph, the website says,"
Raph stopped short and Don's blood ran cold.
"Now it's official." He growled. "I really am a cripple."
"Raph your not a…"
But Raph continued to rant.
"Yes I am Don! If the Lair got attacked right now I wouldn't be able to do shit to help! I would sit there and twiddle my thumbs and listen to you all get killed."
Don stayed silent, but Raph continued as if he had asked a question.
"It's what the bo is for isn't it? So I don't run into things. I can't even go topside anymore Don! If someone saw me I wouldn't even know! I get to go feeling and tapping my way around like a blind person!"
Mike chose that very moment to enter the room. Failing to see the sense the tense situation he decided to speak his mind.
"You are a blind person Raph."
He let out another aggravated growl and limped towards the door.
"Raph wait!" Don called as Raph stomped away.
Raph whirled around, his face taking on a shade of red from his anger.
"I'm not waiting! I'm leaving and no one had better follow me!"
He turned and stalked out the door leaving Don and Mike dumbfounded.
Don slumped to the floor, head in hands.
"I blew it. I rushed it and I blew it, again."
"Aw Donny it's just Raph being Raph. He'll be back. Don't worry." He gave Don a pat on the shell. "Come eat."
"Hey guys I'm home!" Leo called as he entered the Lair.
Don met him at the door a worried expression quite evident on his face.
"Sorry I took so long. I forgot that kids go to school." He began to take off his topside cloths when he noticed Don's worry. "What's wrong?"
Raph found out that I was trying to teach him how to use a white cane a little sooner than I expected. He flipped out and stormed off."
How long ago?" Now Leo was rushing to get his topside cloths off. He switched his katana sheaths from his belt where they rested against his thighs to his back again.
"A little over two hours."
"What? Why didn't you go after him?" his voice was becoming stressed and reprimanding.
Don shrugged.
"I didn't think he'd get lost in the sewers, and… he told me not to." Leo rolled his eyes. "Leo he was really mad. Considering everything that has happened to him lately I didn't think getting into a fist fight with him would be such a good idea. I only really started to worry a little while ago."
"Go get Mike. I'm going to go search for him." He grabbed his mask from his belt and retied it around his face. "Oh Raph, for your sake I hope you didn't get lost." He whispered to himself on the way out of the Lair.
"He's not anywhere!" Mikey exclaimed.
He had just come in from another search empty handed. It was getting to be nightfall and Raph was no where to be found. The three of them had searched for hours. Even Master Splinter had joined with the hunt only to return fruitless.
"I tried his shell cell. It led me straight to his room." Don held up Raph's shell cell.
Mikey slipped into the kitchen and filled a glass of water. He drank from it greedily before giving his report.
"I checked all the tunnels leading east about ten minutes up the farthest one. He wasn't in any of them."
Don sighed.
"I really hope he didn't go topside."
"Do not fear Donatello." Splinter sat meditating in his chair. "I do not feel him topside. His spirit is calm."
This didn't ease Don's worries any.
"Great now I'm gonna worry that he's dead!"
Splinter chuckled softly.
"He is alright though I dearly wish to find him. Go now. It is your turn."
"Leo's still out searching the west tunnels." Mikey told Don as he prepared to leave.
"I'll pick up where you left off then." He checked his watch. "I'll check in three hours tops."
Leo wondered down tunnel after tunnel. He felt like he should be going faster than a walk but he didn't want to miss anything that might be in the side tunnels. He thought about calling for Raph but didn't for fear of being heard topside.
Raph was such a hothead. He should have known he would get lost. Leo would never forgive himself if Raph was lying hurt somewhere because he wasn't there to follow him when he stormed off.
He had been out for close to three hours and still nothing. Once again he found his mind wondering the different ways Raph could be hurt. He ducked his head and closed his eyes, trying to force the ideas away. When he looked up again the first thing he noticed was a foreign object at the end of the tunnel. As he walked closer it quickly became apparent that the object was Raph. He sped up to him and called his name softly."
"Raphael!"
Raph jerked his head up but put it back on his knees as soon as he recognized the voice.
"Great I get to get fetched home by Splinter Jr." It was obvious he was still angry but had mellowed out some in the last few hours.
"Mind telling me why you stormed off like that?"
"I donno Leo, I thought sitting in the scumy dirty sewers would be awful relaxing."
Leo helped Raph to his feet, noting that the wound on his leg had reopened and was seeping blood again.
"Well," he started but Raph interrupted him.
"Don't say anything Leo, just shut up and help me home."
Leo nodded silently and put a hand on his brothers shoulder to help guide him home. He felt a pang in his heart for his sibling, going through so much hurt. They were both dead silent the whole way home. The only sound made was the scrapping sound of Raph's bo as it made it's way along the floor and his slightly labored breathing he tried hard to mask.
As they entered the Lair, Mikey was first at their side. His worried expression changed to one of relief upon seeing Raph at Leo's side. Raph obviously didn't share the feeling though. He shook Mikey off when he tried to hug him and headed straight for him room. The hurt expression quickly returned to Mike's face.
"Go get Don, tell him Raph's leg needs stitched up again."
Mikey nodded and headed for Don's room.
"Hey Donny?" He knocked softly on the door and cracked it open before remembering that Don was still out searching. Pulling his shell cell from his belt he quickly dialed Don's number.
"Hey Don, we found Raph, but he needs his stitches redone."
"Why can't one of you guys do it? I'm like an hour from home."
"Well Raph's on the war path and judging by body language I don't think he'll let any of us near him. You're like our peacemaker!"
He could hear Don sigh and his feet slapping the ground softly , a clear sign he was now running.
"Alright let's see if I can turn an hour walk into a twenty minute run."
"Thanks Don I appreciate it."
He shut down his shell cell and went to find Leo. He found him pacing silently in front of Raph's door, putting his ear to the door every so often to check up on his brother. He looked to Mike who mouthed the words 'on his way twenty minutes." Leo nodded and continued his pacing.
In his room Raph screwed his eyes shut and opened them again. Still nothing.
How could he be so dumb? He got lost in the sewers, his home. His leg throbbed and he could feel blood trickling slowly down his calf but it didn't matter, nothing mattered. Throwing the stick Don had given him across the room he felt slightly satisfied when it crashed into something. He tripped and bumped his way over to his old worn out punching bag. Master Splinter had given it to him when they found a new one for the dojo. He had said all the slashes in it were from him so it was his.
Now Raph attacked it with a vengeance. His injured arm was the first to make contact and he felt it, but it didn't matter anymore. The rage built up inside him with every strike. With a yell he reached for his sais to pierce the bag but found the slots in his belt empty.
They were somewhere in his room . He hadn't picked them up since he got hurt. He was a cripple. Why would he need them? The absence of his weapons only caused him to work harder at getting the sand out of the bag with his bear knuckles. Nothing mattered anymore.
On the other side of the door Leo cringed. He paused in his pacing and thought about going in to try and calm Raph down but decided against it. Going in would just make him even more mad. A physical fight with Raph wouldn't be a good idea right now.
Don appeared beside him, a little out of breath with a first aid kit in his hand.
"Give me a second." He whispered as he leaned against the doorframe, trying to catch his breath. After a moment he grabbed hold of the door knob and slipped into Raph's room. He found Raph punching his bag rhythmically, something he shouldn't really be doing for at least two more weeks with his wounded arm.
"You popped some of your stitches." His voice was soft non intrusive, a voice used on a frightened stray puppy.
"So,"
"They need restitched."
"Tough."
"You're getting your floor all bloody." He tried again.
"Doesn't matter." Raph continued to pound on the bag.
"Raphael!" The door slammed open. Leo stood in it's place. With the authority dripping from him he could have very well passed for Master Splinter. "Let Don fix you up or we're all going to hold you down until you cool it."
Raph laid off his punching bag and glared in the direction of his door. He was almost right on, slightly to the left. He flexed his wounded arm.
Leo noticed and nodded to Don who approached Raph.
"Sit," Leo ordered.
He could hear Raph grinding his teeth from where he stood but his brother relented and sat on his dirty blood covered floor.
Don grabbed hold of Raph's arm first and began working on it. He heard Raph suck in a sharp breath of air when he tried to clean it out with peroxide but other than that and the grinding of his teeth he stayed completely silent.
Leo winced every time he watched Don's needle puncture Raph's skin but Raph never made a noise. Finally after it was clear that Raph wasn't going to flip again he left to go talk to Master Splinter.
Before he could even knock on the door Splinter called upon him to enter. Leo slid the door open and found his Sensei kneeling on a cushion taking his evening tea rather late at night. He beckoned Leo, who kneeled down opposite his father.
"What troubles you my son?"
Leo let out a dry laugh.
"You sound like some sort of god when you say that."
Splinter cocked an eye brow and Leo quickly ducked his head, realizing exactly what he had just said.
"Is this about Raphael?"
Leo nodded.
"He can't even start a fight with me anymore."
Splinter only nodded his head slowly while Leo continued to yammer.
"I mean he can, he was, just not physically. I think he's afraid that if he tries to hit me and misses that he'll make a fool of himself. So now he's hurting himself instead.
Splinter's jaw clenched. His expression was stone but slight body language were all signs of what he was feeling.
"When I found him he had popped a lot of the stitches in his leg. When he got to his room he continued to pop stitches in his arm by going at it with his punching bag before he was ready. At this rate he'll never get better Master Splinter."
"Give him time Leonardo. Raphael has been wounded deeply and only time and love can heal that wound. Do you wish to meditate with me on this matter?"
Leo rose from his kneel with a shake of his head.
"No thanks Sensei. I think I'm going to go workout instead."
"Very well. Do not worry too much Leonardo. He will be just fine."
Leo nodded and bowed deeply before leaving his Sensei's quarters. He headed straight for the dojo and the mook yan jong. Over the past week he had worked almost every day with it. He wasn't getting any better though . Every time he would go to strike for a split second all he would feel was air before he either moved his hand up and striked a passing spoke or an on coming spoke cracked him in the hand. By now the time he spent with the wooden dummy was mostly for working out his frustration. It didn't help much though. His failure only caused him to become more angry and work even harder if that was at all possible. By the time he was done he didn't have the energy to be mad anymore.
Yet once again he found himself in front of that stupid dummy, adjusting his mask into a blindfold.
He started out as always with a few slower kicks and punches to get the wheels turning before he tried some easier blocks. He suddenly felt his attitude bolster and he tried to kick at one of the hand spokes. He quickly paid for it when the up coming spoke cracked against the arch of his foot. He cursed as held his foot but continued his onslaught. As long as he continued to strike instead of block he managed to keep him appendages from being hit, but that wasn't the proper use of this piece of equipment so as soon as the stinging in his foot died away he tried another strike.
Crack!
Leo bit his lip and messaged his arm.
"Uh Leo?" Leo turned and removed his blindfold to find Mikey wondering into the dojo. "What exactly are you doing?"
"I'm… nothing."
Mike joined him next to the mook yan jong.
"It's just…" He tried to explain again. "Nothing"
"It's about Raph."
Leo looked up at his younger brother from where he had slumped onto the floor.
"You're working out with a blindfold on right after having a fight with Raph. Come on bro, even I'm not that dumb."
"I've been workin with this all week Mike and I still can't block it the way I should.
Mike helped Leo to his feet and led him over to the weapons cabinet.
"I never liked that thing anyway." He threw Leo a Bo staff and pulled one out for himself. "En guarde!" Mike called as he got down into a defensive stance. Leo grinned and turned his mask around."
"I get it."
"What good is fighting blind if your opponent can't rattle you around in your shell a bit?"
Mike shared the customary bow with his brother before leaping at him with a cry. His downward strike was blocked by Leo's bo."
"I can sense you!" Leo called out happily his mood changed completely.
"See why the wooden dummy sucks shell? And it never laughs at your jokes either."
Mike leapt at his brother again.
By the time they were done they had turned the lights out in the dojo. Mikey was also wearing a blindfold, and they were stalking each other like leopards on a hunt.
"So," Leo asked as he turned on the lights and Mike threw him his bo staff to put in the cupboard. "Why the extra help?"
"What? I can't help my big brother out in a time of need?"
Leo cocked an eyebrow and gave an all knowing yeah-right-maybe-in-the-next-millennium grin.
"Alright, so I went to see Kevin a few days ago. He gave me some tips to help Raph out. He showed me this catalog with this Braille watch in it. I told him to order it for me. It's sixty, I have twenty, thirty with the ten that you gave me."
Leo sighed. Mike was always spending money he didn't have but never forty bucks worth.
"And you want me to…"
"Help me earn the rest of the money."
"How?"
"Well we could always slip into a side show at a circus and earn a few hours wage."
"Mikey." Leo warned.
"Or help me hit Don up for cash."
"He told you the other night that he didn't have any."
"Oh but with his brain and my creativity we could make a fortune!"
"And once again you need me for…?"
"Back up when he tells me no."
"Mike he's not going to tell you no."
"You just watch."
Mike and Leo strolled out of the dojo together. Mike did a quick once over of the Lair and found Don just coming out of Raph's room. He bounded up the stairs and dragged Don into his bedroom, closing the door almost before Leo had the chance to slip in.
"You want to what?" Don all but screamed when Mikey explained his plan Mikey's reply was a grin and a shrug of his shoulders.
"Dare I remind you what happened the last time, no the last TWO times you touched my stuff? Do the words Battle Shell wrecking the Lair and computer biting the dust ring any bells?"
Aw come on you know those were both accidents!"
"Doesn't matter!"
"Donatello," Leo cut in. "Could you just do it for Raph?"
Don sighed and rubbed at his eyes.
"Three things. I'll make them and give them to April to sell at ten bucks each. Then nothing else after that alright?"
"Great! Thanks bro!" Mike opened the door to his room and headed for Don's but Don grabbed him by the shell and held him back.
"Oh no! I'll work on them and have them done by tomorrow, but you're not setting foot in my room!"
Even a pouty puppy face wasn't enough to get Donny to change his mind, so Mike resorted to retiring to his own room. Leo went his own way shaking his head. They could be so childish sometimes.
A/N- Ok Leo and Don were fighting about something called a white cane. Blind people use it to get around independently. It's normally made of aluminum and is what four and a half, five feet long? Don't hold me to that BubblyShell22. Blind people tap it from side to side a bit past their shoulders on each side to keep from walking into things. That's why it's made of aluminum, so it's lighter. They normally fold up and can be discreetly hidden away in a purse or back pocket. Raph is going to have to use one of Don's old bo's though. I've tried it before and a Bo is a bit long and heavy for the purpose but it gets the job done. Plus it can double as a weapon! Thank you all for reading and please please please review!