"Oh right." I clear my throat. "Well I get angry when, when. . . Um I don't know." I shrug "I can't really pinpoint it to one thing. I guess it depends on the moment." I say.
"Hmm." Sensei closes his eyes for a moment. "You know what I think? I think you have anger built up inside of you, that you keep adding too, so when even the smallest thing irritates you, you take your anger out on that thing." he says
"What?" Mikey tilts his head. Sensei stands and leaves the room. He returns with a small bottle of soda. He kneels back down and setts the bottle of bubble liquid on the floor.
"This is Raphael." he says pointing to it. "He looks all tough on the outside." he flicks it and a few bubbles detach from the sides and float to the top. "All the soda inside of him is his anger. And when things bother him in just the slightest. . ." Sensei picks it up and shakes it then hands it to Mikey and nods.
Mikey shakes it like crazy and hands it to Donnie. Donnie wiggles it around a little and gives it to Leo. he spins it in his hands a little then hands it to me. I look up at Sensei and send a silent message. Now what?
"Open it Raphael." he says. I shrug and twist the bottle cap and it begins to fizz and hiss at me. I raise an eyebrow but Sensei nods for me to continue. I twist it a little more and white foam spills out from underneath the cap. "More." he says quickly and I take off the lid. Soda sprays out and rains down over everyone except me since I pointed it away from me as I opened it.
"Uh, sorry?" I say
"Do not be sorry Raphael." Sensei wipes the soda off his face. "We angered you, and when you could not take any more, it came out all at once." he takes the almost empty bottle from my hands. "Now how to we fix this problem?"
"Put all the soda back in the bottle." Mikey says we all look at him with a weird look and he averts his eyes.
"Open it slowly, slower or um I actually don't know." Donnie says
"Well that's a first." I roll my eyes and he shoots me a glare. Sanesi shakes his head.
"No, you do not open it slower," he pulls out a second bottle. "But you must accept your feelings." he opens it and takes a sip. We pass it around again and when it gets to me I hesitate. "Go on, accept your feelings Raphael." I look at the bottle and glare at it.
"No this is stupid." I shove it back into Leo's hands and get up. I stop into the other room. I don't have to do anything this old man says. He's not my dad. I don't have a dad. I sit down with my back to the wall and look at the ceiling.
"My son, are you ok?" I look over at Sensei and scowl at him, what does he want?
"Oh, I'm fine." I roll my eyes and look away.
"I have your brothers practicing what we learned last time, but with three one of them doesn't have a partner. Would you like to come back in and join us?" I let out a sigh.
"Yeah, why not." I climb to my feet and we go back in. Mikey and Donnie are at each other's throats and Leo kneels on the floor waiting for me. As I walk up to him he smiles up at me.
"How do expect to get better than me if you don't practice?" he asks as I kneel a yard away from him
"Ha ha, very funny." I say before Sensei starts the battle. We both jump to our feet and run at each other. I throw a punch at his face but he blocks it, he tries to trip me but I dodge it. It goes on like this for a while. Just dodging and blocking. Until, Sensei calls us to stop.
I place my hands on my knees and try to catch my breath and Leo does the same.
"That was very good my son's. But next time, I want one of you to win." Leo and I look at each other. He smiles. I'm totally going to win next time.
