Under the stars, beneath the moonlight basking below the brightness of the New York City sky, they lay on top of a thick wool blanket. They hold hands, warming their skin from the brisk midnight air of December. She shifts to lie on her side and brings over her arm to wrap around his torso. She buries her face on his chest, breathing in the leather aroma from his clothing. They rest as they watch the limited stars in the sky. They know that tonight is the last time they can be together. Their clan would never accept their new found relationship, for they are to be enemies—nothing more, nothing less.

"Aren't you cold?" He shakes his head while trying to embrace this last moment with her.

"Are you?" The blue masked ninja glances at her, wishing to give her a kiss on the lips, but he is not sure how she would react to that. She murmurs quietly.

"Not when you're here to warm me up." He blushes and turns his head for her to not take notice.

With both hands, he hoists her up to rest on top of him. She squeaks and playfully slaps him on his shoulder. He softly laughs and tightens his hug. Leonardo notices how she shivers from the coldness and he removes his right hand to reach for the extra blankets they brought. He covers her up before he caresses her cool cheek. She closes her eyes and welcomes the roughness of his palm.

"I don't want you to freeze," Leonardo whispers as he now rubs her lower back. She raises her head and smirks at him while moving closer to his face. He refuses to moan out from the pressure of her movements that she makes. She lifts from her forearms and stares down at him. Karai brings a hand to caress the side of his face, feeling his tough skin beneath her icy fingertips.

"My warrior." He likes it when she calls him that, along with her thick accent. They both want this, they both want to stay like this, yet they cannot. Their faces start to lean towards each other's. Her dark orbs gaze at his azure stare. She softly blinks as she gets nearer, his breath on her face as her nails lightly cling to his shoulders. His eyes close when they are millimeters apart and he tilts to the side. Her smooth lips connect toward his wide ones, initiating their first real kiss. His heart beats rapidly and brings his hands to clutch her upper back. Her hands grasp behind his neck, trying to bring him closer. Their kiss is chaste, as most first kisses are, yet they still feel that spark between them.

They slowly pull apart after their tenacious, sweet peck as they feels tiny snowflakes fall onto them. Both open their eyes to glance up at the tumbling icy snowfall. Leonardo's hands lifts to cup some of the snowflakes into his palm. She giggles at him and does the same.

Leonardo glances at her and feels his face burn from their kiss, as Karai looks down and smiles. She never would have thought that she would have her first kiss with a mutant, but she is glad that it happened. He always imagined how his lip contact with another would be like, but he never expected it to happen to him. He lifts his head up and smiles at her. She finally grew the courage to take a glimpse at him and quietly says, "Aishiteru."

He feels his heart stop along with the traffic noise that has been erupting from below the abandoned building. Tonight is the first and last kiss they will share beneath the night sky, and tomorrow they will go back to being adversaries. He carefully brushes her snow filled hair from her messy bun and runs his fingertips to feel her shaven patch on the back of her head as he content-fully sighs before he voices, "Aishiteruyo." The snowflakes now heavily cascade from the sky as they lean in to experience their first kiss underneath the first snowfall of the year.


Inspired by the song, 'Snowflake,' sung by Gummy