Concealed

Chpt. 7

A/N: Ok, I'm back in school now so it might take longer for me to update but I will. Just give me time. But just as a treat, here are two chapters for the price of one. Enjoy.

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"Where have you-" Don began as Raph walked through the door but stopped to the tired stare his brother shot him. He looked worriedly at him as he walked up the stairs slamming the door to his room.

He flopped onto the hamick his eyes fluttering shut, I guess a part of me is filled with curiosity to what we are , the boy's words flowed through his head like smoke consuming his thoughts.

"What the hell is that supposed to mean?" he groaned after awhile turning over to his side slowly falling asleep,"We're nothing alike..."

Little did he know.

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Laying awake in his bed, he watched the shadows flutter into formless shapes the moon hidden behind clouds draping him farther in darkness. His father wasn't going to be happy in the morning when he found his prey was gone, but right now he didn't care. it wasn't his job to watch him one of the many nameless minions would be blamed.

"The idiot better not show his face again, my curiosity won't be his savior next time he gets caught," he grumbled falling asleep.

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"Raph, wake up!" Raph groaned pulling the covers over his head farther. His brothers could really drive him crazy if they wanted to,"Raph! Raph! Uhhh! You are so-I can't even find a word! Listen I don't care where you where all day yesterday! Ok? I understand you were probably with Casey, but I found something that maybe you should see!"

His eyes snapped open to that, he was out for a whole day in a prison cell without even noticing? That explained the bags under the boys eyes, he was most likely up an entire night debating about the matter of letting him go. He groaned thinking about him again, what the hell was with this kid? One minute he wanted to watch him die the next he wanted nothing more then to help him out, and people said he had emotional problems!

"Raph!" Don called again, making him groan in annoyance opening the door to find his younger brother looking just as bad as he felt.

"What is it?" he groaned his eyes blinking rapidly as a picture was thrust into his face. He would usually have snarled, cursed even and tore the picture in half but what he saw only made him dumb struck to the letters on the building.

"TCRI?'' he whispered his brother nodding beside him to his brother's confusion,"Isn't that-?"

"That's right," Don said nodding a smile etched across his face,"It's the letters from the canister of ooze."

"How-"

"On my way home from April's last night I spotted the building I had to do a double take the second I saw it," he said taking the picture back,"I was pretty happy that I had a camera on me, I knew this was big the second I saw it."

Raph scoffed rolling his eyes to his younger brother,"Oh yeah, you can go to April's whenever you want but every one gets all pissy when I go to Casey's."

Don sighed shaking his head,"That's because Casey and you tend to cause problems! Like you probably were yesterday!"

Raph groaned, if he told the truth that would not only worry Don and it might give Splinter a heart attack. So he just let his brother win this round.

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Tick. Tock. Tick. Tock. One. Two. Three. Four. The striking seconds of the giant clock on an office building behind him were the only things that filled his mind as he sat outside the building, his breathing level but his heart was pounding. His head tilted in complete confusion as he saw some one enter the illuminated room, his head was shaking disbelief to what he saw. Some lunatic was bashing anything around him, waving about a toaster. It didn't take long for the foot soldier to know he wasn't the only one planning on braking into the TCRI building this night, someone else awaited him as well. He groaned, he wasn't in the mood for any change of plans.

Too bad for him that was all this night held for him.

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Keeping to the shadows, Leonardo slid through the hall his eyes scanning every which way. Every so often, after seconds of waiting for the close to be clear, he would slide in a stolen ID into the lock system of a room and snap pictures of every thing inside. It was easier then he would have expected sneaking in this place, all he had to do was go through an air vent on the roof while every one was preoccupied.

He sighed wondering if any one was here, he had heard a few in the break room he passed by but they may have had to go down into the loby to work as back up to the imbecile breaking things. His mind was searching for the answer of who else would possible want to sneak into this building. Are they trying to steal technology as I am?he pondered, not quite knowing why his father wanted their technology desighns but no where close to questioning. He never questioned the rivalry between the 'guardians' as his father called them and the foot, so why question this?

He needed to find their main computer, the one that held all the secrets they couldn't hack, but where would they hide it? The top levels was his only guess, the security center which they easily hacked was down stairs, so the important things should be higher in the levels.

At the sound of foot steps and the shouting of,"There is an intruder in the perimeters!"

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Raph snarled wanting to straggle his brothers for getting him into this mess. This whole night had been not walk in the park far from it, with the help of April and Casey they were able to get past the security traps but they had lost contact with their human friends quite some time ago. If worry for their friends was bad enough, it was stacked ontop of fear for their lives. In one room they had seen people peal off their skin and pink squids crawl out.

Of course curiose Don had to make it none the easier on them, Mike and Raph were ready to leave after trying to be killed (or so he assumed with them shooting lasers off at them) and narrowly escaping them rushing into a room full of strange technology.

Don had to be the techno nerd he was and have to try to break through the security code of it (his reason of course being to find the source of why the ooze was made and why they were created, which at the time the brothers couldn't argue about). Of course setting off more alarms and again narrowly allowing them to escape.

They had been hiding out in this pitch black room for quite some time now, when Raph's heart lurched as the doors slid open but instead of being bombarded with lasers like expected, a shadowed figure soon joined them in the darkened room. He felt Mike hold his breath beside him and Don groan lightly on the other side both sensing the new presence.

"Who is there?" the new comer said to them,"Why have you broken in here?"

He would know that arrogant voice anywhere, it was the voice that had been floating around in his mind all day. It could only be Leonardo Saki.

"Leonardo..." Raph snarled.

"Ahh..if it isn't the foolish baboon..." the voice smirked bringing giggles out of Mike.

"He's got you right baboon..." he laughed getting a harsh smack from Don, who couldn't believe he had the time to laugh at a time like this!

"Honestly baboon, you need to learn common sense!" the boy growled,"Your going to end back up in my father's grasp if you don't learn to stay out of the foot's business..."

"What is he talking about?" Don snapped ignoring the pressence of the foot soldier glaring through the darkness at his brother.

Before he got a chance to answer the sound of a sai smacking into a draw sword filled the room. Followed by more clanks, followed by harsh growls from Raph that Don knew well he was frustrated. The doors soon opened once more illuminating the room with light, Don blocked his eyes slightly but once they opened once more he was filled with a sense of awe. A huge bit of machinery filled the room but even Don had no clue to what it was. His brother was in the center of it, he had tackled the boy to the ground somehow his sais inches away from his neck.

"Get away from that!" one of the guards acclaimed neither warrior paying much attention to them. Seeing the laser guns, Mike backed away a little crashing into a control pad behind him accidentally. A bright light soon filled the room, the guards yelling something from behind Don, Mike biting his lip pressing in another button trying to stop the machine.

It all happened in a split second, as soon as the light faded, Leonardo and Rapheal were gone.

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I hope that was good enough. I don't really like this chapter, but I've already edited three times, this is as good as it got without it being too long or too boring. But I digress, I like the next chapter better.