Chapter 4: Hothead gone AWOL

Donatello: I guess I was the first one to wake up that morning since, nothing was on fire from Mikey again, I also didn't hear Leo training in the dojo, or Raph cursing at the failing TV signal. It was a Saturday which meant I had plenty of free time in my lab, but remembering what had happened with Raph yesterday, I decided that for breakfast I would make his favorite ramen and serve it to him in bed.

Once, I got there though he wasn't there. My eyes quickly darted around the room and I noticed that he had struggled out of bed, from the sheets being twisted and turned, and his gear wasn't there. Oh no.

"Leo! Raph's not in his room or the bathroom." I said knocking on his room. He opened the door.

"C'mon, let's see if he's anywhere in the house." he suggested. I nodded.

"Raph! Raph! You here?" I called all throughout the house but, there was nothing. Me and Leo met up in the kitchen.

"What if he went outside?" Leo asked, eyes filled with worry.

"His gear wasn't in his room…" my eyes widened in realization.

"Well, we've got to find him!'' shouted Leo, losing his composure for a second.

"Should we take Mikey with us?" I asked Leo. He shook his head and so did I both of us silently agreeing that out of the four of us, Mikey was the second most traumatized from yesterday, we didn't want to scar him even more.

Leo left Master Splinter a note and we both made our way out of our home. It was going to be challenging to not be seen by anyone in the day but, our damaged brother was out there somewhere…

Raphael: I was resting on a TV satellite on the roof of an apartment building. I was thinking about the album, my anxiety attack, my nightmare, and my family. I wondered if anybody I was gone yet, hell considering that they all stayed up watching Space heroes all night, I wouldn't be surprised if they hadn't woken up yet.

I was actually kind of nervous being outside so early, we've always tried to keep our existence a secret for the best. The motivation that kept me from going home was all that had happened yesterday and my confused feelings towards my family, especially towards Master Splinter.

Bored, I looked at my reflection in an old mirror that was cracked and rusted from the edges that I had found abandoned on the roof. From the looks of it, it probably had been up ther for years. I looked at my green eyes with the old mirror. They seemed…seemed…so unnatural and weird. I hated them. I've always playfully teased my brothers that I was the best looking of all of them, but I knew it wasn't true. I was shorter than Leo and Donnie, and I was one of the darkest out of all of them. Other than the whole mutated turtle thing, I felt and looked like some sort of hideous misfit. Why couldn't I have been born with blue eyes like Leo and Mikey or some normal looking brown eyes like Donnie?

My thoughts were disturbed when, I heard the noise of some garbage cans toppling over on the neighbor's building roof. I looked over my shoulder and saw Donnie and Leo. I jumped off the roof and began to ride and hide from my own brothers…