Chap 5 is up! Aww, Leo is the perfect big brother!
Noooope, I don't own them *sobs* DAMN YOU NICK! DAMN YOU, DAMN YOU, DAMN YOUUUU! *stabs Nick's logo*
It was 23:45 pm when Don and Raph returned home; Leo was sat in the couch reading a book, trying to stay awake until his brothers appeared.
"Hi Leo, night Leo" Don yawned as he entered into the lair and made his way to his room immediately.
"Night Don"
"Hey Leo, whatcha doin' up? It's late" Raph said taking a seat beside Leo.
"Well, I woke up a few minutes ago and you weren't here so I was…"
"Don't tell me ya were 'worried', do you?" Raph said sarcastically
"I, eh…" Leo said nervously.
"Just as I thought" Raph sighed.
"Mikey told me what happened in the rooftop" Leo said changing the topic.
"Y-yeah… about that, where's he? I gotta talk to him"
"He's sleeping now, I promised him I was gonna talk to you about that so you could forgive him. He was kinda afraid, you know"
"But there's nothing to forgive! He was right, I was wrong. Well, that sounded weird" Raph said smirking.
"Hehe… well, just one thing: why you didn't want to tell me, Raph? About… well, you know…"
"Er… I thought it was… kinda childish, ya know? We're old enough to deal with that kind of things" Raph said crossing his arms.
"But it's not bad to have a little help sometimes"
"Yeah, whatever ya say bro. Well, I'm goin' to bed… and you should do tha same. That wound of yers ain't gonna heal if ya don't rest" Raph said as he stood up and made his way upstairs.
"And you say I worry too much" Leo chuckled.
"Hey, Don told me yer wound got opened again this afternoon. That's enough reason to be worried! Ya weren't trainin', were you?"
"Of course not!" Leo said angrily.
"Relax bro! It was just a question" Raph said and went upstairs.
"Hey, Raph. You sure everything's ok?"
"I told ya, Fearless. Everything's just fine, now go to yer bed"
"Ok, night Raph"
"Yeah, yeah. Whatevah"
Finally, the lair got quiet. Everybody seemed to have a good sleep, everybody but one.
Certain hotheaded turtle was finding hard to sleep. He had lied, again. Not everything was 'fine' as he said; Raph was worried about his blue masked brother; he had been hurt because of him, Leo took the blade for Raph, he almost died because of Raph, the first person Leo asked for when he got up was Raph. He remembered the night when they almost lost their leader, their friend, their brother.
It was raining. They were on patrol when The Foot intercepted them. Though they were out of number, the guys defeated them all… except for the last one in the shadows waiting for a moment of distraction. When that moment came, the ninja charged into attack; the blade on Raph's direction. Only Leo took notice of that.
The leader pushed his brother away from the ninja's sword; the blade slashed Leo's subclavian vein a little and a big part of his chest. Raph plugged the sai deeply in the ninja's stomach in revenge; killing was kinda normal for the red masked ninja.
The image of his unconscious brother in the wet ground was haunting him; he remembered taking his brother's hand as a lifeline all the way home, he remembered how scared he was when Leo stopped breathing for a moment, he also remembered when Don told him his blue masked brother needed blood immediately.
He didn't hesitate and gave him all the blood Leo needed, he could have given him all his blood just to keep him alive. His family needed a leader, they needed Leonardo. With all those thoughts in his mind, Raph fell asleep in the floor.
Leo was making his way to his room but he needed to check if his brothers were sleeping for real; he knew Don liked to work very late and Mikey liked to read all his comic books collection before going to sleep. He passed through his brothers' rooms and confirmed they were already deep asleep.
When he went to his red masked brother's room, he discovered him sleeping in the floor. At first he thought Raph had fell out the hammock but he was snoring loudly so that proved his theory wrong.
With great effort he lifted Raph and put him back to his resting place; the blue masked turtle covered him with a sheet. Raph unconsciously curled up into a ball and grabbed the blanket tightly.
"Heh, just like he was a toddler" Leo though as he rubbed his brother's head softly. When he was about to leave, he heard Raph mumbling something.
"D-don't… hurt him… n-no… no, l-let him…" Raph's face had a terrified grimace.
Leo activated his big brother mode and went immediately beside his brother. Raph moaned in fear and twitched his head, sweat on his forehead which Leo whipped it away.
"Ssh…I'm ok, Raph. Everything's ok" Leo whispered. Once he felt his brother calming a little he stroke his head one more time before placing a soft kiss on his brother's forehead, with this Leo left the room.
In his slumber, Raph felt the familiar warmth again and woke up immediately. Only darkness greeted him; he rubbed his eyes and went back to sleep again.