The World Is Black
Genre: General/Suspense
Rating: T
A/N: Thanks for the reviews. It really made my day and also if anyone wants me to read and review their story, just tell me and I'll do just that as fast as I can, k? Okay! Also if there is any questions you guys have for my story, I'll explain to you in the next chapter, k? Okay! Now read this chapter.
Disclaimer: I do not own the TMNT. I own only the people I made up.
Chapter Two: Family Matters, Part One
Silence was all that could be heard on the other line from Donnie as Raph waited for his brother to say something. He looked over his wounded brother, seeing him become pale slightly.
"...What did you say?"
" I said Leo's hurt."
" Your joking, right? This is one of your mean jokes to make me help search for him when we all know he is DEAD!"
"He's not dead, Don! He's here in my arms with blood coming out of him like there's no tomorrow!"
Raph could hear Mikey's voice in the background asking about what was happening.
" You've lost your mind, Raph. You have actually gone insane!"
" I have NOT gone insane and I can prove it if you get your ass over here! NOW!"
A sigh was heard from Donnie before he began to speak again in a more calm and patient voice.
" Okay Raph...tell us where you are and Mikey and I will come get you."
" I'm at the harbor in the abandoned building. You guys can get in by the only open window on the left side."
" We'll be there in a little bit and I'll check over what injury you have."
" But Don, I'm not hurt! It's-"
A dial tone was heard on the other end, making Raph start to get upset with his teeth gritted before turning back to his brother. The red-clad turtle felt the seeping of blood on his legs as it started to make a small crimson puddle.
"Shit," he said outloud. "I have to stop this bleeding before it gets even worse."
Raphael looked around with his eyes frantically before spotting the worn-out blanket with the brown duffle bag on it. He stood up, picking Leo up as well before placing him away from the red puddle.
Raph grabbed the blanket with the duffle bag tumbling off before returning to Leo's side, knelling again. He pressed the blanket on there hard so no more of the crimson liquid could fall out. In just an instant the blanket had began to turn red, causing the red-clad turtle to press harder on the open wound.
While he was doing this, Raph couldn't believe he had found his brother; his long lost brother or... more like his brother found him. Except it was only in an accident that Leo had found him, making Raphael wonder about what would have happened if Leo hadn't have found him. Would Akio have actually killed him? The red-clad turtle shuddered at this before focusing back on his brother.
" How didn't I see him hurt?" he thought. " How come he didn't mention it?" Raphael thought for a moment and remembered how stubborn Leo was to admit how hurt he was back then. Apparently, he still is before remembering Leonardo had been sticking to the shadows in the room since Raph had got here; a way to hide from anyone's prying eyes.
" Clever," Raph thought as he kept his hands pressed on the blanket to stop the bleeding. He turned his head to his side to see a a small puddle of red water, knowing all to well that the water had no food coloring in it.
" Where the hell is Donnie?" Raph asked the air it looked like as he started to become impatient...as usual. He didn't know if the bleeding had stopped or not, but decided to not take a chance to find out.
" How did he lose so much blood?" thought Raph. " Thet gash couldn't have lost that much blood by just standing around in here. Unless...he was hurt before we came here, but the only person that Leo had mentioned was me and..."
"Akio..." he breathed out while thinking how stupid he was to not know that in the first place. " No wonder he lost a lot of blood! He was frikk'in runnin' away from that asshole with me while having a damn slash to his side! That must have caused him to lose the amount of blood that he needed to actually stay awake."
" If I ever see that Akio guy again I'll...I'll beat the shit out of that bastard for hurting my brother!"
Just after he said that, two very familiar shapes and faces came through the window that was still open. It was his two brothers, Donatello and Michaelangelo.
" Ok Raph, we're here. Now tell me where you're hurt and-" Don froze in mid-sentence as his eyes stared wide at the person on floor; the same person being his brother. A gasp was heard from Mikey.
Don seemed to not believe what he was seeing while Mikey only looked to Raph to Leo the whole time before the orange-clad turtle slowly said the one word that Don and him were afraid to say.
" ...Leo?"
Raph watched as his brothers seemed shocked before clearing his throat to get their attention. "Um...guys? I need your help with him. He's hurt and seemed to lose more blood than I think he had."
Don was the first to recover from the shock as Mikey could only gap. "We...we should take him home as soon as possible because...I didn't bring my first aid kit with me and if I knew that this was going to happen..." the purple-clad turtle trailed off with his words, almost not out of the shock from everything that just happened not to long ago.
" Is there a manhole near by?" Raphael asked to try and move things along while starting to become more concern with his oldest brother who seemed to have some coloring lost from his green skin.
"...Yeah. Just two buildings down from here you'll find one in the alley," It was Michaelangelo who had spoken while keeping his eyes the whole time on his brother.
Raph stood up while having his brother over his shoulder, the blanket falling off the still body. He knew that he had to take the risk of not keeping the wound covered for the time being, but he had to hurry back to the Lair with his brothers before it was to late.
The red-clad turtle pushed those thoughts away; not wanting to believe at what he just had thought. He started heading towards the open window that let everyone in before Donatello stopped him with his words.
"What are you doing?"
"Going to take Leo to the Lair."
"You can't go that way."
"And why not?" Raph asked with a hint of being annoyed from Don telling him not to go out of the window.
"Because...you might drop him."
" I ain't gonna drop him, Don."
" But there is always a good chance you might!"
His brother showed a very determined look as he said that to Raph. The red-clad turtle wanted to get out of here and fast, but he knew that Don was right. There was a good chance he might drop Leo in the process of climbing down the building, even if his brothers helped him, they could always have a chance of having Leo slip from their grasp which wouldn't be a pretty picture to see afterwards.
"Fine. How do you suppose we get outta here, then?"
" With the door," Don answered as he pointed towards the door.
" Now how come I didn't think of that?" Raph thought to himself. "Ok, then lead the way genius," he suggested with the slight of sarcasm in it. Donnie was about to say something as he glared at his hot-headed brother before turning his eyes to Leonardo. His eyes turned to a more concerned look before signaling to Michaelangelo that he needed help to break the door down that was boarded up.
Raph walked over to the brown duffle bag and grabbed the strap of it with one hand. He decided to bring it along since it was Leo's and maybe there was something in it, but by how heavy it was, it seemed it was very light with nothing in it at all. Except, it wasn't as light as it should be if it was suppose to be empty.
It only took Donnie and Mikey a second to break down the door before they all ran through the broken, abandoned building; watching their steps to not fall from rotton wood that was under their feet. The smell was very dense in the building, unlike the freshness they smelled earlier from the room they were just in. They jumped over steps from the stairs with missing railing most of the time as they went to a lower level quickly until they were finally out of the building.
The coolness of the air met them againas they ran to the manhole Mikey had told them as fast as they could while making sure to keep to the shadows. They came to it shortly before Donnie opened it up to let everyone get in and closed it behind him.
None of them had said a word to each other the whole time as they ran down the sewers to their home. Raphael could feel a certain kind of liquid sliding down his plastron and back, knowing that it wasn't his sweat or water at all. His breathing was becoming heavy with the non-stop of running, but he didn't dare to stop and rest. No, he would not take the chance of resting for himself while risking the life of his brother.
They all made it to the Lair finally and immediately rushed Leo to Donnie's lab.
"Quickly! Put him on the table!" Donnie told them as he took out some gauze, a needle, black thread, and a small bottle with an empty shot. Raph and Mikey laid Leonardo on the table, seeing how pale their brother had gotten from how much of his blood he had lost, making them both become more worried about the situation; Michaelangelo showing more of the emotion than Raphael apparently.
"Stand back," Don instructed before he made his way to Leo where the wound was. "Mikey, go get me hot water and a towel. Now!" Don ordered. The youngest of the four turtles did not hesitate as he ran to the kitchen.
The purple-clad turtle took the shot and the bottle before sticking the needle of the shot in the bottle on the top to take some of the substance out.
"What is that?" Raph asked as he saw Donnie pull out the shot before releasing some of the liquid inside to get rid of air bubbles.
"Penicillin. It's an antibiotic that is suppose to get rid of any bacterial infections he might have," Don answered as he had a cotton ball to wipe the area where he was going to put the needle in before he actually diid make the needle go in the skin, pushing all the substance out of the shot and into the body before pulling it out, taking another cotton ball to wipe away any blood that might have seeped through the little hole.
" You think he has an infection?" Raph asked while Donnie had the thread through the little hole of the needle as Mikey came in with hot water in a bowl and a towel.
"I got what you asked for."
" Thanks Mikey," Donnie said before taking the towel and bowl of hot water from his little brother before placing them next to him. He took the towel and dipped it into the hot water before taking it out to clean the open wound on Leo.
"Answer my question, Don!" Raph said as he was becoming impatient now while his hand was gripping the strap of the brown duffle bag much tighter.
"What question?" Michealangelo asked as he turned to both of his brothers. "What question?"
" Raph asked if Leo has an infection," the purple-clad turtle answered.
" An infection? Leo has an infection?" Mikey asked confused while at the same time worried.
"Well...that depends on how long the wound has been open. He might not even have it, but...I rather give him the penicillin just in case."
"Penicillin!" Mikey asked with a worried tone.
"Don't worry Mikey. It's just an antibiotic that gets rid of bacterial infections. I don't think it'll hurt him if he doesn't have an infection. I think..."
" You think? YOU THINK! What if this fuck'in thing makes him WORSE Don!" Everyone stopped at what they were doing and stared at Raphael from the outburst he gave before Donnie gave him a stern look as he spoke to him.
"Look Raph. We're all worried about him. Don't act like you're the only one who is."
" Oh now you're worried about Leo? You didn't before until you had to see him with your two fuck'in EYEBALLS!"
" Getting angry isn't going to help anything Raph and you know I would never give Leo anything that might endanger his life unless I had no choice. So why don't you just drop it and let me finish this."
With that said, the purple-clad turtle finished cleaning up the wound before taking the needle after he tied the thread through the hole of the tiny needle and began to stitch up the wound.
Raphael was left with no words to say back to his brother as he watched the stitching of the wound while at the corner of his eyes he saw Mikey having to turn away from the stitching. Just then, the door to the lab opened up to reveal a rather tired, old rat that seemed to be upset with something. That something was the three turtles that turned to his way, except for Don; he only glanced for just a moment before he returned to stitching the open wound.
" My sons," the old rat began with the rings around his eyes, indicating that he hadn't had enough sleep, " why are you not in your beds? It is well pass midnight and you know you three are suppose to wake up early tomorrow for your training in the morning."
" Sensei, if we woke you up, we're really sorry," Raph told the old rat.
" Yeah Master Splinter. We're sorry for waking you up so late err...early," Mikey told with a nervous chuckle. Their Sensei eyed them carefully before wondering what Donnie was doing behind his two sons.
" Donatello, what are you doing at this hour with your two brothers-" His words stopped after he stepped around Raphael to see what he was doing and found his eldest son on a medical table.
"...Leonardo...can it truly be you?" he whispered before he stepped forward to his wounded son. His paw reached out to touch his eldest son's hand and felt it being slightly warm. There was a flash of happiness in his eyes as a small smile reached his lips, something that was rarely shown from the last few months Leo had been missing.
Master Splinter took his paw away after a few moments, the same with his smile and happiness in his eyes as he saw the wound that Donnie was stitching up before he turned around to meet the eyes of Michealangelo and Raphael.
" What happened?" He asked with a stern and worried tone in his voice, even when his eyes showed how tired he was, the old rat still knew when to get answers when he wanted, too.
"Tell me what has happened to Leonardo."
SLASH! Another painful scream was heard, echoing all around the room, his scream. He felt pain everywhere on his bloody, broken body with blood seeping out of him freely. SLASH! SLASH! SLASH! He screamed at every painful strike the whip had given him while feeling his hot tears trying their hardest to escape from his eyes.
There was a cruel laugh heard over his screams; a laugh that made him stop screaming and only take in painful gasps. "What's a matter? Can't take it anymore?" asked the person who had just laughed. It was a man looking to be in his twenties with messy black hair and slightly slanted blue eyes.
SLASH! SLASH! His painful screams seemed to be so loud that you would have thought you would have heard it anywhere. SLASH! SLASH! SLASH! This time he couldn't hold in his tears and allowed them to travel freely from his eyes before they mingled with his red blood.
" Your weak!" exclaimed the man as he whiped him again. " You've always (SLASH!) been (SLASH! ) WEAK! (SLASH!)" The person strapped to the table screamed and kept on screaming as his eyes began to become blurry with his tears covering his vision. He began to plea for his life for the man to stop, but he only found more painful whips that were harder then the last one.
" Your (SLASH!) weak (SLASH!) Leonardo!"
He shot straight up, sitting up as he felt cold sweat on his body while shaking a little. " It was just a dream..." Leo told himself before he controlled his shaking and looked around where he was and found himself in a room that he wasn't in before and in a bed.
The bed he was in had blue blankets that was on his legs and white sheets and a white puffy pillow. It felt very cozy and comfortable for him after sleeping on the floor for so long. There was a night stand next to his bed with a clock reading 10:23 A.M. His eyes searched some more and found a bookcase on the wall to his left and a closet on his right.
For a moment, he thought he was still dreaming, but he began to blink and every time he did, everything was still the same as he saw it. " If this isn't a dream...then where am I?" Leo thought to himself before he spotted his twin katanas in the corner of the room. The sheaths with straps on them right next to them. He seemed to be relieve before he threw the blankets off of him and got out of bed with his feet touching a wooden floor. He must have got out of bed to soon because the next thing he knew, his left side began to hurt, making him hiss a little.
Leo looked at his left side and saw a white cloth that had been wrapped around his entire waist. " I should have been more careful with Akio," the blue-clad turtle told himself. He remembered how he got it; remembering how that little dagger ripped through his flesh so easily as he kicked the human away from him. Except, he knew that Akio would have hurt him when he did that. The man was very smart at almost anything and knew that Leo wouldn't have been able to guard his left side and decided to take the chance.
Leo knew that if he was more careful with the man then he wouldn't have this wound and lost the amount of blood he needed to not pass out, but he had to escape. Leo didn't want Akio's men to come up and capture the other turtle and himself so he ran with a wound that was spilling out his own blood as he did so, knowing to well that he was endangered from the start with no medical equipment at all.
He was going to go to a drug store while running away, but remembered about the other turtle so he had to go to where he was staying. " Now that I think about it...that turtle was why in the first I got hurt. His name was...Raphael, but he also mentioned others names." Leo thought. " They sounded so familiar and so did the other turtle's name, but...where have I heard them? I don't ever remember hearing or saying the names or...do I?"
There was some noises nearby outside his closed door. He went over to his katanas and put on the straps before taking his katanas and placing them in their sheaths. He crept towards the door, taking one of his hands to turn the doorknob and peeked outside. He saw no one outside, but still heard noises. Leo quietly stepped out while observing his surrounding.
He knew he was on the second floor because if he walked a few feet forward, he would be able to see what was below him. Plus, there was stairs leading to the first floor. Leo began to walk towards the stairs while being cautious at the same time. When he came to them, he looked around and saw no one in sight before descending them.
He was trying to not make any sound while trying not to hurt his patched up wound. Leo came downstairs and continued to look for the noises. The noises seemed to coming from a room nearby so he began to walk carefully towards it.
He peeked in and saw that it was a very large room that was quite bright. There was also two figures in there fighting each other; one that Leo reconized. The blue-clad turtle saw Raphael use his sais against another turtle that had a purple bandana on as the other and himself had, but with a different color. The purple-clad turtle, he saw, was using a bo staff against the other turtle.
Leo watched in amazement and curiosity at the two fighting each other, but noticed how they never hurt the other. He saw how Raphael brought his sai up to his opponent's neck, but stopped himself from slicing the sensetive flesh. The same happened with the other turtle. He could have easily bashed the other's head, but stopped himself from doing so.
This seemed to confuse Leo because he never did this with his opponent. It was quite strange for him, but to those two, it looked like they have been doing it forever. His ears picked up movement behind him and quickly took out one of his katanas and pointed it towards a rather surprised Michealangelo.
" Hey! That thing is sharp, you know!" exclaimed Mikey as he eyed both the katana and his brother. The tip of the blade came closer to his neck while Leo gave him a dangerous look. The orange-clad turtle gulped at this while trying to talk to his brother to put the weapon down.
" Can't we like talk this over with some pizza, Bro?" Mikey asked nervously. Leo arched one of his eyebrows.
" 'Bro'?" Leo asked, repeating the word that Mikey had just said while keeping the weapon still in place to the orange-clad turtle's throat.
" Um...yeah. You know, 'bro'? A short way to say 'brother'?"
Leo started to contemplate over this before speaking.
" Why do you call me 'brother' or 'bro'? I'm not even your sibling so you better drop this act you're playing at and tell me who you are and who are you working for," threatened Leo as his blade's tip came closer to Mikey's throat.
" Leo! It's me! Mikey! Michaelangelo! Hello, don't you remember!"
There was something in Leo's mind that clicked to the name, but he couldn't put his finger on it. He didn't put down his weapon like he did with Raphael, but made it stay with a very serious look on his face. Then, out of no where, the two turtles heard a voice coming from the room behind Leo.
" Mikey, is that you? Who are you talking to out there?" Leonardo didn't reconized the voice, but at the same time he did. Except, he knew the voice must've came from the purple-clad turtle because he didn't reconize it as the red-clad turtle.
Footsteps were heard coming towards the two, making Leo start to panic in his mind a little, but tried his best to stay calm. He quickly took out his other katana just before Donnie and Raph walked out to only find their baby brother with their big brother's sword to his neck.
Donnie soon met the same fate by being the same distant to Leo as Mikey was. " One word and I'll kill you before you can even take another breath," Leo threatened with a dangerous tone. Donnie seemed to be paralysis as he stood there, scared to do anything that his brother might do to him.
Leo had turned his glaring eyes to Raph who had just been gaping at the whole thing. "Leo," Raph started, " put your weapons down and let's just talk about this. I know you must be wondering-" He didn't get to finish his sentence as he was interrupted.
" Wondering? Oh I'm wondering alright. About where the hell I am!"
" And I'll tell you if you only let me explain-"
" EXPLAIN! Explain what! Explain to me how I got here and who are these people and who the hell are YOU! I would really like to know because I am not taking in any of that shit about you three being my brothers!"
" But it's the truth, Leo! Why don't you believe me that you are our brother and stop being a stubborn asshole like you always are!"
Leo seemed pissed at this and Raph soon regretted it because the next thing he knew, he was on his back with Leo sitting on top of him with his twin katanas crossed with each other to make it look like scissors to cut Raph's head off.
" You wanna run that by me again?" asked Leo in a threatening tone again. Raphael gulped, but then saw something flash in his brother's eyes; pain. Leo was in pain and the red-clad turtle knew he had caused it.
" Leo, I forgot. I'm so sorry. I forgot that you're hurt and all," Raph told his brother. Leonardo stared at him not in a glaring way, but a surprised way almost. The blue-clad turtle didn't realize that the other turtle knew he was pain. Yes, he knew that when he jumped at the red-clad turtle it would hurt his wound, but didn't know the other would know.
The blue-clad turtle decided to get off of Raph and put his weapons back on his shell before watching the other stand up. Leo decided that now was the time to ask where he was and everything else he wanted to know since he met Raph.
" Since I didn't kill you, " Leo stated before continuing, " I would like to know where I am."
" The Lair."
All four of the turtles turned to where they heard the voice and found Master Splinter staring at them with his walking stick. For some reason, Leo didn't pull out his weapons. He didn't know if it was the feeling of knowing that this old rat wasn't going to harm him or the fact that this person seemed to be quite familiar to him.
Splinter began to walk to his four sons and stopped in front of his eldest. The two stared each other in the eyes; Splinter with warm, gentle eyes and Leo with curious, cautious eyes.
The old rat made his paw reach towards his son's face, but only found Leo's eyes turn fearful as he stepped back from the paw. Splinter returned his paw to his side and looked at his son in a confused way.
" Why do you move away from me, Leonardo?"
The blue-clad turtle was beginning to get more fear. He didn't know what the old rat was about to do and began to remember the torment he had in the facility. Leo wanted to run out of there from the eyes that were all staring at him as he tried not to show how scared he felt, but seemed to be failing as he took another step back to show that he was. " He's going to hurt me! I'm going to be punished for probably doing something I wasn't suppose to do!" thought the blue-clad turtle.
" Are you afraid of me, Leonardo?" asked Master Splinter with the three other turtles watching their brother take another step back. Their Sensei took a step forward towards Leo, but the blue-clad turtle took another step back.
"Stay away!" Leo told him in a tone that hinted some fear in it. This surprised everyone because it was very rare to hear their brother say that, especially to their Sensei. Master Splinter didn't take another step forward, but instead stood where he was while talking to his son in a calm voice.
" Leonardo, you know I wouldn't ever harm you in anyway."
" How can I truly believe that?"
" Because, Leonardo, you are my son."
Leo stared at him in confusion. " 'Son'? But...that's impossible! We are not the same species."
" We might not be, but I have risen you for as long as I can remember since you were a baby turtle."
The blue-clad turtle seemed to become curious about this. " You...raised me?" Splinter nodded with a gentle smile. " So...would that make you...my father?"
"Yes," Splinter answered before stepping towards his son. Leo didn't move this time, but hesitated when the old rat's paw touched his face. It felt warm on his cheek and furry at the same time.
It was very foreign to him and wished that he could move away from it, but at the same time he didn't want to move away from it because it showed how gentle this old rat really was. The blue-clad turtle became confused about why this old rat, who supposely is his 'father', was showing him a loving affection. Leo wasn't use to this kindness or caring way that Master Splinter was showing.
The paw was removed finally and brought back to Splinter's side. " You seem confused, Leonardo."
" Well...that's because...I don't know what to believe."
" And what is it that you don't know what to believe."
" Well, this!" Leo exclaimed. " I was told that I had no family and-"
" What do you mean you were told you had no family?" Mikey spoke out. Raph, who had not said a comment at all, was starting to realize how Leo was told to believe he had no family.
"Akio."
Everyone stared at Raph in confusion. "Akio?" Donnie said. " Why does that name seem familiar?"
" It might seem familiar to you because Akio is one of the most richest men alive. He also is a parter with this one guy name Oroku Saki here in New York, but what I've heard, that Saki guy has been hiding low for awhile for some reason."
Everyone stared wide-eyed at Leo who had told them this certain kind of information. "Oroku Saki?" Raph said in shock. " That Akio guy is a partner with the Shredder!"
"Shredder?" Leo asked in confusion.
" Yeah, you remember, right Leo?" the blue-clad turtle tilted his head after Raph had said that. " You don't remember the Shredder?" Raph asked in a surprise tone. Leo was about to say something to him, but was interrupted by Master Splinter.
" Raphael, there is a reason why your brother Leonardo does not remember his past. I believe we should all sit down and talk about this situation we have. That way, maybe we can answer some questions we have been wondering for quite a long time."
A/N: Okay, I'm done with chapter two! Now on to write chapter three! Now, if anyone is reading this and hasn't reviewed then can you please review. I really want to know if my writing is still good and if this is a good story to keep on writing. Well, anyways, thanks for reading!
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