This is the extreme conflict between him and Splinter and Raph is blaming Splinter for giving Leo all the attention. And you will not believe what Raph does next.

Chapter 2: Confessions and Tensions

Splinter was standing there, waiting for an answer coming out from Raph, knowing that this was going to be a brutal confession. Raph breathed deeply and asked, "Why do you like Leo better than me?"

Splinter didn't know how to respond and then he explained, "I always treat him the same way I treat you and your brothers."

"You just love to hog all of his attention, don't you?"

"What does that supposed to mean?"

"Everything was fine until Leo came back from that stupid training location YOU sent him to!"

"Listen, Raphael--"

"No, YOU listen! All you do is focus on Leo! Everything is always about Leo! Leo, Leo, Leo!! And what do I get, nothing! Not even one ounce of freakin' attention! I can see that he's your favorite son."

"That is not true."

"How would you know?! How the freakin' heck would you know about it?! You don't even understand me! What about my needs?! Leo's taking all this bullcrap out on me! And you know what, I am not showing any signs of guilt or remorse at all. In fact, I don't even care anymore and I really don't even care about Leo at all!"

Splinter was kinda dumbfounded and also a little confused on what Raph is saying, but that 'remorse' or 'guilt' thing stopped him on its tracks. Then, Splinter asked, "What are you trying to say, Raphael?"

Raph sighed heavily and told him, "Well, there are two things I wanted to tell you."

"Go on."

"You know that Nightwatcher that everyone's talking about on the news and whatnot?"

Then, it struck Splinter like a ton of bricks and he turned to Raph in an uncertain way and asked, "You know about the Nightwatcher?"

Raph nodded his head and explained, "I am the Nightwatcher."

Splinter gasped in shock and couldn't believe that Raph would go against his back to fight crime solo all night long and got noticed for it. At that point, he was in complete disbelief and shock that Raph was the Nightwatcher. He didn't even know that until he saw the now messed-up Nightwatcher's outfit that's laying on the floor.

He turned to Raph and asked, "How is that even possible?"

"Do you even know what it's like seeing all these people everyday; abducted, murdered, robbed and the whole enchilada? I cannot just take that standing down and let them get away with bloody murder. Then, Leo comes out and tells me that it's a matter of the 'police'. Well, you know what? Screw the police! The Nightwatcher knows how to do the job and leave them quivering in fear for me. I was sick of disaster coming towards us and since no one wants to do anything about it, I was the last one standing there to eliminate any wrongdoing, on my own, by myself, just me and nobody else!"

"I do understand that some people can't do anything about and people are in peril everyday and you have a point there, but you cannot do this alone. That's why you have your brothers to help you with."

"Well, for once it can be just me, Mikey and Donny and I can shove Leo off to the side."

"What would make you think that you could do that to Leonardo?"

Raph sighed heavily and said, "Well, that's kinda the second thing I wanted to tell you."

"Continue."

"Leo found out who I was and he starts lecturing me about crap and I was entirely fed up with what he said and we started fighting on the roof somewhere and something snapped inside of me and I broke his two swords and then, after that, I...."

He paused himself, because he didn't know how Splinter could react to it, and then, with so much anger and resentment directed towards both him and Leo, he just decided to just let it out and explain it to him. He turned to Splinter, looking delicately furious and screamed,

"I KILLED HIM!!!!"

Splinter was completely devastated by what Raph said that he actually killed his brother, and Splinter's own flesh and blood, the one that tries to keep it together. Raph explained, "That's why I threw the Nightwatcher outfit, because half of it was Leo's blood that I stabbed so many times."

"Why would you do that to your own brother?!" Splinter asked.

"Because of YOU! You treat him better than me and you give him all the attention he needed and I've got nothing. I know that he's the better son and I'm the opposite. You love him more."

Splinter became shocked at what Raph said and said, "I do not love him more than you. Don't you know that I treat you and your brothers exactly the same? Why would you do something to him?"

"BECAUSE I HATE HIM, ALL RIGHT?!!!! I don't even want him around in my life anymore! And you know what, I'm glad that I killed him and with him out of the way, it'll just be me, you, Donny and Mikey minus Leo. I never cared about him and I never will."

"Raphael, I am extremely disappointed that you even think of something like this to your brother! Just because Leo gets all the attention doesn't mean you would do something this foolish!"

"You focusing on Leo, that's foolish!"

"Do not speak to your master like that!"

"SHUT UP!! Just shut up! I am fed up with all this bullcrap you're feeding me! And if you want me to quit being the Nightwatcher, then you got your wish! I threw the stupid thing anyway and broke it against the wall!"

"Watch who you're talking to!"

Then, something snapped inside Raph again and he decided he wasn't having none of it. All the attention that's been focused on Leohas reached his breaking point and he screamed loudly and growled at Master Splinter and then, he grabbed him by the chest and threw him against the wall and fell down on the floor.

He groaned softly and then Raph quickly grabbed his robe, looking increasingly furious at Master Splinter. He panted furiously as he held out his fist and gritted his teeth and told him, "I cannot take any more of this! This is all you've ever done, focusing on Leo! I HATE HIM!!! I HATE HIM, I HATE HIM, I HATE HIM!!!!!"

"Think about what you're doing. So much anger in your heart. What would happen if your brothers saw this, you killing your own master?"

Raph panted furiously and broke out his sai directly to Master Splinter's throat, planning on stabbing it, and then, he looked into Splinter's brown eyes and realized that what he's doing would be the same thing he's doing to Leo and obviously killed him. Then, his anger died down slowly as he looked at what he's doing to his own master. Then, he sets him down to the floor and backed away really slowly.

Then, he looked at his hands and grew terribly shocked and confounded about even thinking about killing his master and looked at Splinter and snaps himself out of it and then, runs out of his room and went back to his room, with the door locked and kneels down on the floor to take a hard look at himself.

Then, he looks in the mirror again and realizes that because of being the Nightwatcher, with all this power, anger, making everyone squirm in fear, it all consumed him too much and transformed himself into this power-hungry, violent person that has been constantly fueled up so much anger, bitterness, resentment and jealousy towards Leo, because he thinks Splinter favors Leo and gets all the attention, which brought a lot of negativity towards him.

And he sees himself as the violent Nightwatcher, wanting most of the wrongdoers squirm in fear and the police out of the way and he completely sees himself as a stand-alone turtle. Then, he reminisces these painful moments of him in the roof, killing Leo. And the fact that he would do it to his own brother was just troublesome for him and almost doing it to Splinter adds it all up.

A few tears were streaming down his face and he has reached his breaking point that all those anger of killing Leo turned into regrets and he knelt himself down to the floor, head lowered down and tears releasing through his face. Then, he whispered, "I'm sorry, Leo. I'm so sorry. And I'm really sorry I hurt you....brother. And I'm also more sorry that I did this to you....father."

Was that fierce? I know it's short, but it gets better in the next chapter! See ya!