The other turtles, along with Gen and Splinter, busted into the house and heard silent sobbing, as in 'I don't want you to hear me' silent sobbing. They followed the sobbing to the kitchen, where they saw a tear-eyed Raph, sitting in the middle of the room and rocking in fetal position.
"My son, Are you alright?" Splinter asked running to Raph, even though he knew that question was kind of stupid.
Raph had never cried this hard before, so how Casey was killed must've been too brutal. Raph shook his head slowly and pointed at the dining. Everyone looked and was shocked at the sight.
"What…happened?" Don asked slowly as he walked to the door.
"I don't know what happened!" Raph yelled. "He was like dis when I found'em!"
Leo looked around.
"Raph, did you see anyone else here?" He said.
"No, I was lookin' everywhere, whoeva did it left already." Raph said.
"And you didn't go after him?" Mikey said. "That's not like ya, Raph."
"Well, I'm sorry!" Raph yelled sarcastically. "How would ya feel if you saw more blood shed than in the battle we eva had with da Shredda?"
Mikey stepped back a little.
"Ok, you have a pointed." He admitted.
Hearing knocking at the door, Splinter went to worn them off, knowing that company is not needed right now. Trying to inspect the blood and body parts, Don walked to Leo when he remembered something.
"Leo, Where's Usagi?" He asked.
Leo sighed frustrated.
"I lost him." He said to Don. "But it was weird how. I was tailing him, and I swear, my eyes were on Usagi. And just when I cornering him, it was just some old man."
"What?" Don said.
Leo was the best out of all of the turtles when it came to most of their ninja skills, especially keeping their eyes on a target. This wasn't Leo being clumsy, this was something different.
Don was about to say something about this until they heard,
"What is going on here?"
The turtle looked to see Usagi standing there with HipHop still in his arms and Splinter next to him.
"Usagi, how'd you get in?" Leo asked.
Usagi walked to him and said, "Your master let me in. Now, what happened?"
"Casey was killed." Mikey said with his head hanging a little.
"They tore'em apart like he was pape'." Raph said getting angry now.
"Oh my goodness…" Usagi said when they showed him. "Who would do this?"
Leo raised a brow at how fake Usagi sounded.
"It could have been anyone who had it out for us." He said, pushing away his thought for later.
"Well, they could have come after you this time." Usagi pointed out. "They all ready showed how hard they would be to challenge after Miss O'Neil's death, so this made no sense."
Raph walked got up and walked to Usagi.
"Wher' wer' you when dis happened, rabbit?" He said gritting his teeth a little.
"Raph, don't hit him!" Leo said holding Raph back.
"I was looking for anyone who was strange, like I had said." Usagi said. "Like the Shredder's foot soldiers, or these purple dragons you talked about."
Raph growled. But if he tried to get Usagi; Leo would tell him to be patient still, so he didn't bother doing anything, already having that command mentally.
"Ok, what did you find?" Leo asked.
"I saw a few people with purple dragon marks, but they showed no sign of murder on them." Usagi said. "After that, I came up empty."
"Ok, good to hear that…" Leo said quieting and skeptically.
Usagi noticed and almost instantly, knew what was going on.
"Leonardo-san, do you think that I did this?" Usagi asked.
Leo quickly shook his head.
"Of course not, Usagi." He said. "I tell you the truth, we did at first, but you are our friend and you should be protected from who's ever doing this, not suspected."
Usagi exhaled the breath he inhaled.
"That is good." He said, draping HipHop over his shoulder and hugged Leo. "I am glad to be your friend."
Leo found this confusing, but slowly wrapped his arms round the strange-acting rabbit.
"And you are my friend, you and your brothers, mine alone."
Leo pulled away from Usagi.
"What?" He asked.
Usagi raised a brow at Leo.
"What is wrong, Leonardo?" He asked.
"N-Nothing, I thought I heard something." Leo said shaking a little.
"I think it is time for Gennosuke and Usagi to go home, where it is safer." Splinter said.
"I have a better idea; we could go to the Daimyo's world and stay there." Usagi suggested. "He is one of the most powerful beings in all the universes, and this assassin could be anyone, and possibly not human, I do not want my friend in our world in any danger. It is better safe than sorry."
Splinter nodded, thinking this makes sense.
"Ok," He said. "We shall go immediately."
With, Splinter, Usagi, and Gen walked out of the room.
"We all know dat what he said was bullshit, right?" Raph asked.
"No Raph," Leo said. "We still have no evidence to accuse anyone. So, we have to-"
"Uh, Leo?" Mikey asked. "Did Usagi touch any of Casey's blood?"
"No, why?" Leo asked back.
Mikey slid his finger down Leo's shell mid-way and showed it to the turtles. There was blood on his finger.
"Because there are handprints made of blood on your shell." Mikey said.
They all just stared, wide-eyed.
"You were sayin', Leo?" Raph asked.
Leo growled deeply.
"Mikey, call the police back here," Leo said. "We need to follow them before it's too late."
With that, they ran after the other trio to catch up with them.
