Chapter 2: Karai tells all (part 1)

With Karai and Angel

Opening the doors, Karai wasn't fazed by the twin katana on either side of her neck in a crisscross style, nor did she show the heartache on her face when she saw the narrow white tinted eye holes staring back at her. Concealing a pair of familiar brown chocolate eyes that was showing pain and hate in them.

"Kon'nichiwa, watashi no sonkei subei yujin." She said, speaking her words in Japanese, calmly. (AN: Hello, my honorable friend)

Understanding what she just said, Leo pressed his blades against her neck until he broke a little of the skin on either side of her neck, making lines of blood trail on the edge of his sword, while he was glaring into Karai's emotionless face. "I'm not your friend!" He shouted in her face, pressing more of his katanas against her neck and he probably would of test himself more if Angel didn't make her presence known.

"Leo, please move back from my Onee."

Not removing his twin katana from against Karai's neck, Leo stared at the new looking Angel in confusion. Angel was standing on Karai's right side, with some kind of weapon that looked to Leo like two sharp Karmas attached to one long chain at each end of the Karmas' handles. Angel was holding both the wooden handles to the Karmas, with her holding one high over her head in her right hand and the other Karmas' handle in her left hand in front of her chest.

"Did you just call this monster..." He took a second to glare at Karai before looking back to Angel. "Your big sister?" He hissed out, as he was back to glaring at Karai.

"Yes, I called her my big sister for that is what she is." Angel's golden brown eyes narrowed dangerously at Leo. "And she is not a MONSTER!" Angel moved closer with her weapon towards Leo. "Now release my big sister! Don't make me ask again!"

Seeing how Angel was holding this unknown weapon of hers and the pose she was in, told Leo that Angel will fight him if she has to, to save Karai. Knowing this and seeing how he could easily disarm Angel with the pose she was holding. Leonardo regretfully drawled back his twin katana from Karai, but his glaring didn't leave his eyes. Angel seeing what Leo did for her, bowed towards him as Karai still holding her emotionless expression passed by Leonardo. Which once she did, she spoke up to Angel.

"Imoto."

Both Angel and Leo turned to her as she spoke. "I believe it is time for you to go get some rest. For you have a busy day tomorrow with your training, for I noticed you still need work on your pose. Cause I can tell you," She brought her eyes to Leo. "if Leonardo wanted too, he could have had you disarmed without breaking a sweat. In the morning I will show what I mean." Karai moved her eyes from Leo to Angel as she smiled at her.

"But besides your pose, everything else is very good." Saying that Karai continued on into her office. Angel bowed once again at Leo and then at Karai's distance back.

"Oyasumi, ane Karai," Angel said, overlooking the frown Leo was wearing. (AN: Goodnight, big sister Karai)

"Anata mo, Imoto," Karai respond back still moving further into the room to reach her desk in her office. (AN: You too, little sister)

"Goodnight, Leo." Not waiting for her friend's response, Angel left while closing the massive doors behind her.

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Inside Karai's office

As Karai stopped at a rosewood carved big sea turtle coat hanger stand, to hang up her coat. She felted Leo's presence coming close with the intention to kill. Which had her jumping out of the way in time, as Leo's double katanas had slashed the floor where she had been standing a second ago. Not taking any more chances with Leo. Karai flipped backward repeatedly to avoid Leo's deadly slashing at her. She kept this up until her foot was in the air, kicking Leo's chin, giving him an uppercut, before pushing herself into the air more and with a high somersault in midair, landed gracefully on her desk in a half-crouched position without disturbing any of her accessories on her desk.

Being half in a crouched position with the lower part of her right leg half under her with the knee sticking out and her left leg stretched out on the desk. Leo couldn't help but notice that with her left leg stuck out, the front long skirt part of her dress was hanging over the desk, giving him a good view of her left leg up to her thigh, where he saw a black thigh strap holding what looked like two wooden short sticks attached to the thigh strap. He forces himself to move his attention from her revealing erotic pose to her still unreadable face. However, when his eyes came to her serious green eyes, something dawn on him as he whipped his head around to the black dragon painted on the entry doors and stared into the same serious green eyes that he was looking into just a second before.

Wait! He cried out to himself, as he turned back from the dragon painting to Karai or more like her powerful green eyes. That's why that dragon's eyes looked familiar to me... He was narrowing his brows in thought. Their just like Karai's? - However, before he could go deep into this new information or confusion, Karai began to speak.

"Hamato Leonardo." Karai's eyes stared deep into his soul, but he ignores it and didn't let it faze him. "If you want to duel me. Know I won't hold back as I have done in the past."

"What in the shell do you mean, 'you had held back in the past'?" He questioned, then gripped the handles of his swords, as Karai pulled out the two small wooden sticks at her left thigh strap.

"I'm talking about how I've been holding back in all our past fights, since the first time I met you and your brothers." Karai, holding the two small wooden sticks in either of her hand, flicked her hands which as she did, it revealed to Leo that the two wooden sticks in her hands were actually fighting fans with a black background and a green turtle on each fan.

"But if I have to fight you, to get you to listen to me-"

"Forget it, Karai." Leo interrupted, for he had decided after seeing Angel and her new self, that he was ending everything tonight.

He chose when he went to attack Karai, that he didn't want answers anymore. But her blood on his blades once again, and this time he will not draw back from killing her, for he was dead set on taking her life. Cause he knew once his brother Mikey gets wind of Angel joining the Foot, he'll be heartbroken. So Leo vows to himself right there that he won't leave there without Angel with him. And whatever Karai has on her. He will make sure Karai frees her from her grip. For he knows there's no way Angel would have willing join his, his brothers, their father, Casey and April's worst enemy. "Though my intention was to come here to find out what has been going on with the Foot vanishing from the streets and what you are planning." He raised both his katana in two line positions, he was getting into his fighting stance.

"But seeing how you got something on Angel for her to be acting like you and she are sisters and having her kept away from us for 3 months!" He gripped his teeth, glaring deadly daggers towards Karai.

"Mikey has been worry sick about her when Casey came to us to tell us that not only was there no trace of Angel at her home, but her grandmother was gone too!" Leo paused as he shut his eyes in anger at this devil. "Yet, I am overjoyed to find that she's not dead but alive." He reopened his eyes, with a growl in his throat. "But I'm pissed to discover that you have blackmail Angel and have forced her into joining the Foot! -"

"I'm not blackmailing Angel!" Karai screamed, not able to take any more of Leo accusing her of harming her little sister, for Angel, has become Karai's whole world. "I would never force my little sister to anything she doesn't want too. I have adopted Angel after Amy; Angel's grandmother asked me to on her death bed, as she was slowly dying from the after affected by her stroke. But although Amy was asking as a last wish. I wouldn't agree without Angel's say in it. Even though I had taken Angel in at the time, while Amy was in the Foot's private hospital and Hun's was looking for Angel. I wasn't going to force Angel to let me adopt her. It was her choice and her choice alone. When Angel agreed for me to adopt her. I did after we had Amy buried near Ryan like she wanted to be. And instead of becoming a mother and daughter relationship. We created a sister relationship."

Leo thought his eyes were playing tricks on him because he wouldn't believe that Karai's eyes were tearing up. So he brushes off believing that Karai was actually telling the truth. She doesn't know what the truth means and she never did. With that thought, Leo rolled his eyes at her, showing that he didn't believe her story. However, Karai had already known that Leo didn't believe a word she said through the whole time she was speaking, and that's what brought her to open her mouth to confirm this.

"You don't believe anything I just said do you?"

"Nope." Karai sighed to this straight and unsurprising respond.

"Very well," Karai held her fighting fans in an attacking position, glaring at the mutant turtle facing her.

"but before we start, I got to warn you." She didn't move her sight from his. "You will not win against me-"

"I beg to differ, Karai. You see, you're outmatched. Because I have double katanas and you have fighting fans-"

"Silly Leonardo." She held her fans at the ready. "I would have expected you have learned that it's not the weapon but the warrior's skills you should worry about. For you see, these fighting weapons fans are no normal fighting fans-" Not giving Leo time to sink in what she said at her last words, Karai began the duel as she lunged off the desk at him.

And as Karai had hope, Leo didn't catch her last words, therefore he was smirking as she came heading towards him. For he still believed that Karai's fighting fans had no chance against his twin katana. But after a while during the duel, Leo was discovering that Karai was really good with those fighting fans, also the fighting fans seem to be made out some unknown unbreakable armor, and by the time he realized that she was winning and he was losing. He was sweating bullets while Karai had not broken a sweat yet, and the only thing that proves she was fighting was that her formal French twist in her hair was undone to let her rich black locks fall pass her back. And even though some of her strains were blocking her face, she still was in balance and kicking his shell. By the time she did break a sweat on her forehead, she had already disarmed him, by first, with her right fan in hand, slapping his left katana out of his grasp, where it landed on the floor out of his reach, and using her left fan she had his right katana join his first one on the floor also. And with a low sweep to his legs, she had him lying on his shell, with her, in the blink of an eye, saddling his waist with both her fans at his Adam apple. Now disarmed and at her mercy, Leo thought Karai was going to end his life right there.

But instead, Karai removed her fans from his neck and begun leaning her face down to his. And though Leo tried not to, he found his eyes were locked with hers. As he couldn't take his attention from her lovely face, he began to remember the last time he was in this same position with Karai and how that one ended.

It had been a couple of years back when he, his brothers and Hun tried to rescue Karai from Bishop; who somehow was able to make Karai his prisoner. He didn't think about it at the time when Karai had been thrown at him, making them both lose their balance and meet the floor of the train they were on. And out of reflects he had put a secure arm around her waist as they both at the same time rolled out of the way when Bishop had thrown a dagger at them. But because they rolled at the same time and his arm was still holding her, they ended up hitting the other end of the wall in the room inside the train. Then they both realized as their rolling came to a stop, he was under her once again. And though they could have jumped up and gone back to the fight, they didn't. For Karai wouldn't move off him and nor would he remove his arm from her waist. He doesn't really know who took the bold move first, all he knew was one second his eyes were locked with hers and the next they were kissing. And he didn't want to think that if not for hearing Mikey hitting the wall nearby, he and Karai wouldn't have broken their lip-lock. Though they did, and they were both back to fighting Bishop. However, he thought nobody had seen them kissing. Therefore, that's why he got surprised when Don brought it to his attention, that night after him and his brothers got back to the lair (with the train to boot). That he saw him and Karai kissed on the train. But he had told Don to keep this to himself. Which his brother did after telling him that he was in love with April. Knowing this Leo had admitted to his brother that he himself was in love with Karai, that's why he kissed her. However, after his and his brother's unwilling separated journey in time to different worlds and times. Don pulled him to the side later and warned him to watch out for Karai, by telling about his trip to the dark future, where it was Karai that killed him and Raph. But at that time Leo told Don, 'that Karai would never do that because she is our friend. And that future will never be.' However, Don was right, Karai was a backstabber and then became the new Shredder.

Therefore, he forces anything and everything he ever felt for Karai down inside him, though it wasn't easy to forget his affection for the first person he ever felt romantic feelings for. But he did do it with his brothers' help.

Though once again he was feeling his romantic feelings for her, coming to the surface. Which had him forcing it back down as he reminded himself of all the things she had did and put his family through... I won't fall again!

Karai was just an inch from kissing Leo when she heard a growl come from his lips, then that's when she noticed his earlier angry eyes were back. Which made her let out a deep sigh.

"You underestimated me, Leonardo."

Not moving her eyes from his glaring ones, she placed her fighting fans back at their hiding place attach to the strap on her thigh under her dress, before bringing a hand to his face, starting to caress it. And as she did, he was looking and acting like a rattlesnake ready to strike her. Therefore, Karai raised up, folding her arms as she went back to talking.

"I'm sure Master Splinter has told you before. That a true master of ninjutsu can make anything into a deadly weapon." Karai with her eyes closed in though didn't see Leo let out a gasp of shock, before his reaction change to fury at what she just said. "Though he used a wooden cane against you. I decide to use my defense weapons from-"

Taking all this in, Leo instantly sat up, causing to knock Karai on her back, with him pinning her down under him not soon after, with his deadly eyes, glaring down at her, while scowling.

"How are you able to know about that event or what my father had said?"

"What?" Was all Karai said, before Leo, with quick ninja skills, pulled back out her lite fans from under her dress, and then had them both pressing against her neck, making her cuts, that he made, reopen to start to bleed again, but more than his swords could. "Master Splinter told...me of that event as he was training me through the meditate sessions I have had with him these past 6 months. " Please Master Splinter! Stop him before it's too late- The Foot's leader, couldn't finish her plead to her new master, as the Turtle that had her heart was really trying to kill her and there was nothing she could do to stop him… Cause his face told her he was already becoming consumed in anger.

"Stop lying!" shouted Leo. "My father would never train the likes of you!" He pressed the fans deeper into her skin, making it harder for her to think or breathe, as her pleading tears looked up to him. But Leo's hate for her was becoming too strong that he himself wasn't able to focus right with what he was doing. All he was seeing was what she had done to his family...and him most of all. "No more lies!" He blinked his eyes as they were becoming wet. He was crying and he didn't know why. "Why would I ever cry for a heartless person like you!"

Feeling she had no choice, Karai to the top of her lungs scream out. "MASTER SPLINTER!" Hearing her called out to his father had, whatever line Leo was holding onto from ending everything, to break. With blinding fury, Leo raised his hands and begun to bring down the fans to cut Karai's neck, ending her life. Not even Karai's tears trailing down her face was reaching him. His hate for her was just too strong to break now.

"THIS ENDS NOW!" It almost felt like slow motion to Karai as she couldn't do anything but watch as Leo's hands with her fighting fans were coming down to kill her. However, before he dealt the last blow to Karai. Leo was stopped,

"MY SON STOP!"

By the sound of Master Splinter's voice ringing through his head, making him pause in his actions, before drawing back from Karai and dropping her fan weapons in the process. Seeing this, Karai with haste, rose to her feet and ran to her desk to press a hidden button under it, that once she pushed the button, a wide wall opened up into her secret living quarters. Holding a hand against her bleeding neck, Karai rushed into the opened wall, so she could get her neck wound treated before she will die of bleeding to death or choking on her own blood.

The whole time this was going on, Leo was pulled into his mind by his father, with his body getting into a meditate position all by itself.

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Within Leo's Mindscape

Leonardo opened his eyes to find himself in his mind, in a meditating position. His mind was like being in the sky, for all around you was blue skies and fluffy clouds. When his eyes focus on the surroundings of his mind, he saw Master Splinter standing in front of him in a lotus position also. But though he was in a meditated state, Master Splinter's eyes were not closed, in fact, he was looking at Leo.

"My son, I'm glad I was able to reach you before you could taint your heart." Splinter bowed his head to his eldest son before continuing on. "Cause young Karai has been doing nothing but telling you the truth. For tonight she has been allowed to tell all, and she chose to tell you, out of your brothers. She had been forbidden by her masters, to reveal her true purpose towards you and your brothers." He raised his head to look at Leo. "Especially you, my son, for it was you who she had, many times went over all her masters' heads, for."

"Master Splinter..." Leo gazed down at his hands, they were green skin hands and not the bloody hands they were a moment ago. "Karai said, that you had been training her these last 6 months."

"I have my son, but before you asked why. I must ask you a question."

"Sure, father. What is it?"

"When you were ready to take young Karai's life. Why did you cry, my son? Was it out of pity? Was it out of hate for your first true kill? Or was it something completely different altogether." Leo not able to answer, hung his head in shame as he thought this over for a while before responding.

"I guess I was crying because I was killing someone who's more like me, in mind, then even my own brothers and..." He rubbed his bald green head, for a few seconds before speaking again. "Although I was letting my anger and hate control me, I really didn't want to kill her. But when she called to you, I felt that she was trying to trick me. Now she's..." And though he was fighting them, his tears still left his eyes. As soon as his teardrops fell from his face, he felt his father's arms hugging him.

"My son, she is still alive." Leo lifts his head up to look at his father with wide eyes, which Splinter only smiled while wiping his son's eyes. "I wish I could tell you why I took young Karai as my student. But then I would be telling her whole story to you. And that is not my place to do so, for it is hers and hers alone, to tell." Splinter kissed Leo's forehead.

"But what she tells you tonight is all the truth. And you also have to understand that things that happen to us all. Happen cause of destiny and not by accident." Splinter began to fade away from Leo's mind space. "I will be here when you need me, but tonight you must choose your fate, without me and your brothers choosing it for you." With that statement, Splinter was gone, and once he left, Leonardo felted himself coming back to reality.

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To Be Continued