A/N: Alright! So, slight smut out of the way, time for a little angst :3 I'm eventually going to have some harder smut in here soon, just working out how I'm going to do it. Anyway, Read and review!
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Previously: "Leo, it was your turn to choose the movie. But since you were up there bumpin' uglies with Miss Hottie there, Mikey got to choose," Raph snorted as Mikey eagerly popped in his DVD. Both knew that he was kidding, Raphael had no idea what they were doing, but that didn't stop them from blushing. "Now, we gotta watch Godzilla for the millionth time,"
The family watched the movie all the while suffering through Michelangelo reciting every single line. Shiho would rather lose her virginity again than listen to him giggle nonstop.
In the darkness of his new office, he stared out the window with his finger holding down a few blinds. His thick brows knit together in frustration that he had yet to receive and answers or leads to the subject's whereabouts. She was a fox hybrid, how could she just vanish without the public noticing her? With a wild growl, he slammed his fist against the wood of his desk.
"Maggie! In here!" He barked, his door cracking open slightly as his daughter entered silently. "Where is she?"
"Hehe, I found her Daddy. She's been living in the stinky sewer for the last 8 months. Can you believe that?!" Giggling, the sly girl wiggled where she stood in her excitement. "Oh, and Daddy that isn't the best part,"
"What is it then?" Turning towards the bubbly girl, his brow arched as his fingers drummed on his desk impatiently.
"She's dating one of those turtles, she lives with them all! Isn't that great? You get to destroy Shiho and those freaks that ruined you," Blue eyes glittered and glowed in the darkness of the office, she was able to clearly see the grin that came across his sharp features.
"That is great news. Excellent work, Magdalena. I want you to bring her to me; we'll use her as bait to get those insufferable creatures in our sights,"
"Ohhh Daddy, maybe we should let Shiho kill the turtles. Bring out the Madness and watch her slaughter them all, including her precious boyfriend. She'll suffer so much for what she did, Daddy," Marcus chuckled darkly as the idea sounded appetizing to his interest.
"Go, Magdalena. Bring your sister to me and be rewarded upon your return," The blonde fox giggled in delight and scrambled out of the office to make preparations for bringing the oldest fox to Marcus. Once the door was shut, he laughed once again and returned to cast his gaze out his window. "What will you do, Shiho? When the Madness is overpowering you and destroying your precious turtle…you will be mine again,"
"So uh…where are we going again?" The turtles all piled into April's van while Casey sat behind the wheel. Shiho had to lay down with her head on Leo's thigh, overcome with motion sickness. They had left early this morning before the sun had even peaked over the horizon of Manhattan. The drive was long and mind-numbingly boring for most of them, Mikey in particular who spent a majority of the drive flicking Raphael in the arm.
"To Casey's cabin in the mountains for some down time away from the city. How you holding up?" Sliding his fingers through her long hair, the fox groaned and kept her eyes shut and gripped Leo's leg as yet another wave of nausea overcame her. She was both sick and exhausted. She'd been up with Leo late last night after the others had all gone to April's to help set up her new TV and entertainment center. Since their first attempt at intimacy had miserably failed, they made many more unsuccessful tries to finish after that first night. Last night, however, was the first time they both climaxed and nearly hit the roof. Leo had never even masturbated to know what release felt like, so when it happened, he saw stars.
"Lousy. Are we there yet?"
"Hey! That's my line!" Mikey giggled and slapped her thigh. Angry, the fox whipped her arm out and clawed at the air across from her to hit Mikey but missed. Leonardo looked less than pleased with his baby brother for pestering his vixen when she had the potential to blow chunks everywhere.
"Knock it off, Michelangelo. She's sick, give her a break,"
"Interesting that your equilibrium is so unstable in the motion of a vehicle. Yet, your balance on wires and high rises is outstanding. Still so much about you that I have to learn, Shiho," The fox sighed heavily, trying to relieve the pressure on her stomach and crawled further into Leo's lap. Thinking about more of Donnie's experiments made her head swim. Her turtle traveled his hand up and down the side of her body to soothe and relax her, his tenderness was enough to make her swoon.
Around Shiho's neck glinted a shard of metal. During one of their spars a few days ago, Raph and Leo clashed weapons harder than they had before and one of his katana shattered into tiny pieces. Leo took it upon himself to fix a delicate chain through a shard and gave it to her to keep after obtaining a new sword. To his amazement, she'd been overjoyed and hasn't taken it off since. Anything Leo gave her she deemed precious.
The first thing Shiho did when they finally arrived was sprint out of the van and into the woods to empty the contents of her uneasy stomach. Leo helped unpack a few things and strapped his two katanas onto his back before looking for the sick fox. Raphael stormed away into the house with his duffel back thrown over his shoulder. He'd been in a bad mood since the drive up here started and it was getting worse.
"You alright, Shiho?" He found her lazily sprawled over a large, round boulder. Leo knelt down beside his vixen and brushed the hair out of her face. He was satisfied when he noticed a small smile on her dark lips.
"I'm fine, Babe…car rides just aren't my thing,"
"I'll say, come on Pukey," The nickname was something he'd regret saying later, but for now, he was being chivalrous and carrying her back to the house where she crawled away to the darkest room she could find for a nap. The sun was still a little low in the sky as the morning pressed on, the brothers all went off to do their own things. Raphael went into the barn to take a few shots at the punching bag, Donnie stayed on the porch with his notes and some books, and Mikey took off exploring in the woods again. It seems he hadn't learned his lesson from their first visit when that monster hunter tried to catch him.
"Leo, you haven't left her all day. She'll be okay, she'd just a little sick. Come on, go eat something," April urged as she poked her head in through a crack in the bedroom door. Shiho was dead asleep from the stroking of Leo's fingers on her temples and cheeks. "Leo, I'm sure she doesn't want you sitting up here without eating anything,"
"I know, I just feel bad," With tenderness, the turtle kissed the slumbering hybrid on the forehead before making an exit and leaving the door open a crack in case she called. April had to admit, Leo's never-ending dedication made her jealous; Casey had his moments but was never half as attentive as Leo was with Shiho.
"Ah, come eat, my son. I have prepared some sushi for lunch," Sitting on his knees beside his father, Leo bowed his head in gratitude before reaching forward and picking up a roll between some chopsticks and popping it in his mouth. "How is Shiho?"
"Sleeping. She'll be fine when she wakes up, just miserable for the time being," Splinter poured two cups of tea and sat back onto his haunches. Leo continued to eat, he'd actually been hungry since last night but just had forgotten to eat. Being preoccupied with the fox had him distracted. "The sushi tastes great, Father,"
"Thank you, Leonardo. I have to say, I am most proud of you in the care you take for your ailing beloved. She has become quite the important figure to you over the last few weeks,"
"Yes. She really has," The front door opened as Raphael stomped inside and dropped down across from Splinter and Leonardo to help himself to some lunch. He'd been working out in the barn since they arrived that morning and was starving.
"What's everyone talking about?"
"Good to see you, Raphael. I was just discussing with Leonardo about the care he has taken in Shiho's motion sickness spell," Raph's features were crossed with agitation when he heard it. Leo had been spending more time with the fox lately than him or his brothers. Raph didn't want to admit it, but he was jealous of Shiho's sudden influence on their leader.
"Been hanging out with her a lot lately, haven't ya Leo?"
"Let it go, Raph. I'm not getting into this again with you. Thanks for the lunch, Master Splinter. I'm full now," Leo rose to his feet and left out the front door and disappeared out of sight. The sai wielding ninja heard Casey sigh from across the room and stand.
"Raph, what's the matter with you? You've been climbin' all over Leo the last few days,"
"Nothing, Casey. I just think he's got his head in the clouds with that girl and he's losing focus on being a leader. If you ask me, dames only give you trouble," He flinched the moment the words left his mouth, already he could feel the nasty glare coming from April. Upstairs, they heard Shiho stumbling around and slam the bathroom door to hurl her guts up once again. April clutched her throat in sympathy for the poor thing, she had to be sick of this nausea by now. They all probably should have listened to her when she said she could go on foot.
"I'm gonna go hold her hair back. You need to lighten up, Raphael. That 'dame', as you so eloquently put it, has been nothing but nice to all of us including you when you're rude to her day in and day out. If you haven't noticed, Leo has been more relaxed and less uptight since they got together. Either you need to sort out whatever problem you have with her or keep your mouth shut," Casey whistled as April marched up the stairs. He went into the kitchen for a moment and returned with a bag of ice.
"Here's some ice for that major burn you just received,"
"...Shut up, Jones,"
"Hey Leo? Come over here, I need to talk to you if you've got a minute," Leo had been on the porch swing, rocking back and forth with his foot to clear his head. Raphael was getting to him again. He instead tried to think about Shiho and last night, damn she looked so hot when she came. Watching her gasp and writhe under his shell really made all the other tries worth that moment. But his focus was broken by Donatello with a notebook in his hand.
"What is it, Don? I've got a lot on my mind right now," Nervously, the ninja fiddled with his journal full of notes and eased down next to Leo. He opened the book and flipped through a few pages until he landed on a print out of some data.
"This is kinda important. You remember when I took a blood sample from Shiho?"
"Yeah, we wanted to find out what was used to mutate her. Did you find anything?" Gulping, Donnie nodded.
"Unfortunately, I did. In her blood cells, I found traces of some strange mutagen, but I thought I had seen it before. So, I took some of mine and compared the slides and well…look," On the page there were two pictures of mutated blood cells one labeled "Donnie" and the other "Shiho".
"They…they look the same, what does that mean?"
"It means that whatever that wacko used to mutate Shiho, it came from the TCRI location that our ooze came from. This Madness that she falls into? It wasn't something that just developed, he made her that way by fusing her DNA with a chemical that is either very similar to the ooze or it's the same thing," Leo was at a loss for words. He couldn't imagine why Shiho wouldn't mention something like that.
"So, she lied? About the Madness?"
"More or less. Because this mutation isn't very old. She's only had it for a few years, the Madness didn't start when she was 5 like she said it did, it started much later," The ninja had to stand and lean against the wall of the house as he let this information sink in. He couldn't make heads or tails of what it meant just yet, but he'd find out soon. He refused to accept that Shiho would lie about something as important as being purposely mutated by that TCRI ooze.
"I gotta take a walk.." He mumbled before leaping off the porch and vanishing into the woods without a sound. The idea of Shiho lying to him about anything made his stomach churn and his heart twist into knots. For now, he'd wait and see if she would come to him, he wasn't going to make a mess of a situation that he didn't have all the information for. Or at least, he'd try to.
"Where's Leo?" Shiho thumped down the stairs with significantly less grace than usual, she really was feeling like crap. She certainly looked it. The sun had long since set and it was dark outside, the moonlight illuminating the tops of the trees and casting a pale glow through the windows. The vixen froze when she caught a glare from Raphael. "What?"
"Forget it…You wouldn't understand," The hell was his problem? Raphael left in the same manner his brother had and went straight into the shadow of the woods. Shiho had had enough of him acting like an asshole when she'd done nothing wrong. She was leaving just as Donnie was coming in. He attempted to stop her but she was hot on Raph's tail and chasing after him. He'd tell her later then.
Raphael ran without taking any notice of his surroundings, he'd find his way back no problem. It was getting away from Shiho that was his main focus. It wasn't that he didn't like her, he just didn't like that she was replacing Leo's need for his brothers. Raph had been angry for a long time; he took his frustration out on the trees he darted past by slicing the trunks with his sai weapons. Jumping up into the trees, the turtle sprung from branch to branch and came back down to the ground with a roll.
"Raphael! Stop!" Called a voice behind him, a voice he really didn't want to hear. But he stopped when he came to a clearing in the woods and huffed for breath. Judging by the way she stumbled forward and gasped for breath, she was running with everything she had to catch up to him.
"What do you want?" He asked coldly, staring her down and sizing her up.
"I wanna know what the hell your problem with me is. Don't think I haven't noticed the stares you give me when I'm with Leo," He stood in silence for a few moments before sending his fist into the trunk of an innocent tree with a growl of frustration. He hated that he was so easy to succumb to his anger like this, it made him feel rotten.
"It's just, he's never around anymore! He's always running off with you and ditching us at home while you two go around the city like a bunch of lovesick bunnies," Sputtering, Shiho gave him an incredulous look and a disbelieving chuckle.
"That's what this is about? You think I'm taking Leo away from you?" Raphael didn't answer. "Listen to me Raphael, I'm not trying to take him from you guys. How can I make you understand that he and I aren't just friends anymore or even best friends?"
"You think I don't know that? I see what's going on, you got him in the hot pants with your good looks and skills. I bet that's all you guys do when you're alone. Make out and screw like rabbits," His sentence ended with a sharp slap in the face from her palm. Shiho was red in the cheeks and panting heavily.
"How dare you, Raphael. That is not what's happening between us, don't you get it? I love Leonardo," Raph had suspected that her feelings for his brother might have been strong, but he never imagined it escalated that far. "We love each other, Raph. But that doesn't mean that he has stopped loving you. You guys are all he talks about,"
"So, let me get this straight. When you and him run off to do whatever, he talks about us?" The ninja rubbed his cheek where her hand had collided with his skin, she'd left a handprint that stung like a bitch.
"Yes! He goes on and on with stories and how proud he is of all of you, how much he loves you. He's your brother, Raphael. That's something I can't take away, nor do I want to. But dammit, you can't treat me like some tart," Raphael directed his attention to the ground in shame and sat on one of the nearby boulders. His elbows on his knees and his hands clasped together, he started to come to grips with the change in reality.
"I'm in love with Leo, and he loves me, but that doesn't change how he feels about you all. You guys are his family," Shiho knelt between Raphael's knees to make him look at her. "No one can take that away, understand?"
"I guess so…you really love him huh?" With a bashful smile, Shiho nodded.
"Very much, now can you stop being such a grump and lighten up like the rest of your brothers? I want you guys to have fun up here, not brood around," Raph laughed out loud at that one, he had to admit, his attitude had been nasty and made him quite unapproachable.
"Yeah, c'mere, Fuzzball," Raph captured the vixen in his arms for a tight embrace. Bringing her own arms up and around, Shiho pressed a long kiss to his cheek and just let the tension release. The ninja stared at the ground with his chin on her shoulder as he swallowed his pride and accepted he'd been wrong. The hold he had on her fragile frame tightened as he squeezed her close. It felt nice, holding her, he could see why Leo was always wrapping his arms around the supple curves she had.
"What's going on?" The reconciling pair jumped apart when Leo's voice broke the silence. His eyes were on Raphael, and they looked downright livid. The look made Shiho tremble as he slowly approached his brother and shoved him hard on the chest. "I said; what is going…ON?!"
"Leo, don't!" She shouted and attempted to grab his arm but he shrugged her hand off his bicep with a sneer. "Leo? What…what's the matter?"
"I saw what was going on, you leaving me for him? Is that what's happening here? You get what you want out of me and move on to the next turtle?" Raphael climbed to his feet and brushed himself off. His hands were held up in front of him in a defense and tried to speak.
"Leo, no. It's not like that! I was just-"
"Taking my girl away from me. When you know damn well how I feel about her, I come out here and see you with your arms around her!" Leo growled and unsheathed his swords and jumped at Raphael with a roar. The brother quickly pulled out his sai and collided with the swords just before they nailed him in the face. The hothead grunted and shoved Leo off him with a kick. Horrified, Shiho made a dash around the fighting brothers, looking for an opening to pry them apart. "You were always jealous of me for what I have with her!"
"Leo! Stop it! It isn't what you think, just listen to me!" Shiho dove between her turtles and shoved them roughly apart and making them stumble for a footing. Leo's hands clenched his swords tightly as his teeth grit together in a scowl. He looked at her neck to see the sword shard glinting in the pale moonlight, it only made him angrier to see the gift he'd made and given to her. He couldn't stand how betrayed he felt.
"Why should I listen to you? You've been lying to me all along haven't you? Donnie found what was in your DNA and what mutated your mind. You didn't develop the Madness when you were 5, Marcus gave it to you," Her arms dropped to her sides like Raph, tall ears pulled back in fear. Leo was glaring at her in a way that made her heart almost stop; he never looked at her that way.
"Leo, you don't understand. I was trying to protect you, all of you. I love you, Leonardo-"
"Shut-it, I don't want to hear it because I don't believe you." Even Raphael knew those words hit the fox through the heart like a dagger; he saw it in the way she took an uneasy step backwards. "And I don't love you,"
"What?!" In unison, Raphael and Shiho shouted. Slowly, the fox approached the ninja with her arm outstretched for his hand. "Leo, please. Don't do this; you have to believe me when I say I'm protecting you. I always have been. Leo…"
The ninja couldn't look at her and turned his head to the side to look at the dirt. Through glowing, violet hues, tears rolled down her lovely cheeks as she stopped advancing the sword holder. She couldn't see it but there was moisture in his eyes as well. Shooting a glare at Raphael, Shiho stomped her foot.
"I hope you're happy, Raphael. You got what you wanted all along, now I'm out of the picture," Leo glanced up when he heard the sobs in her voice. Raphael didn't want her around? Instantly he began to realize he had come in on their conversation at the wrong time and mistook what was happening. But, he didn't have the chance to apologize when all three of them heard a giggle from the trees. Shiho froze, she knew that laugh anywhere.
"Leo…Raphael…run. It's Magdalena. She found me," The soft thud of feet hitting the dirt shot their attention to the left and out of the shadows came the blonde fox, the spitting image of Shiho.
"Hahaha, hello, Big Sister. You're looking well after your harrowing escape from the lab. Daddy sent me to bring you home. Oh! Is this him? The one you've been absolutely crazy for? Oh my, he is positively hideous!" Piercing blue eyes glowed in the moonlight as the blonde got right in Leonardo's face and mocked his appearance. Behind her, Shiho clenched her hands into fists and cracked her knuckles in the process. "Oh look, she's mad. Hehehe, is it playtime Big Sister?"
"Shiho get down!"
"Raph no! She'll kill you, don't move. She's mine," A clicking of her tag and a wagging of her finger back and forth, Magdalena danced her fingers down Leonardo's neck and over his biceps. He cringed at her touch and jumped back swiftly. "Magdalena…get your hands off him. Leonardo, get out of here, now!"
"I'm not leaving you, Shiho," For a moment, Shiho lowered her claws as the giant crack in her heart began to mend. Had he been faking it? Her glory was short lived when she had to duck from flying claws as Magdalena swung around to scratch her clone. The brothers regrouped as the fight between the two foxes began.
"I'm not going back!" Shiho's claws clasped with Magdalena's and snapped her jaws in her face, desperately trying to get her neck. With a kick to her feet, Magdalena knocked Shiho backwards but didn't react quickly enough when she landed on her hands and was kicked in the chest by bother of her feet.
The blonde suddenly let out a blood-curdling snarl and launched at Shiho and forced her to the ground, growling, snapping, and clawing feverishly until Shiho bashed her forehead against the clone fox and scurried away to run to Leo. "Come on! We gotta get out of here!"
Shiho reached for his hand but fell short when a dart pierced her shoulder blade. Leo tried to catch her but Magdalena was too fast and snatched Shiho out of reach just as she collapsed. Giggling like a maniacal child, the blonde minx blew them both a kiss. "Leo..run!"
Shiho managed the last two words before losing to the sedative that she'd been shot with. Magdalena sprinted away and neck breaking speed before Leo could take a single step. His hand was still outstretched as he stood in stunned silence, Raphael beside him was unable to wrap his brain around what just happened. Shiho was gone, this time by no will of her own. She was taken.
"Shiho! NO!" With his hands covering his face, Leo fell to his knees in disbelief. He said he didn't love her, he'd said it with such a chill in his voice that it made him sick to his stomach. His Shiho was stolen away and he was powerless to stop it, the clone had overpowered Shiho so quickly, he couldn't imagine what she'd do to him or Raphael. He was hysterical; he slammed his swords into the ground and let out a gut-wretching scream that brought birds out of their nests in a panic.
"Leo! Get it together! We need to get back before that blonde bitch gets too far, Donnie still has that tracker in her right?" Raph had him by the shoulders and shook him to bring him back to focus.
"I said I didn't love her, Raph. It wasn't true, and now I'll never see her again! God dammit!" Leo was silenced by a sucker punch to the mouth. Raph shook his hand out and snorted.
"Now is not the time, Leo. Come on!" Retrieving his katanas from the dirt, Leo started to run back to the house with Raph right behind him. His lungs burned and his legs ached but he wasn't going to stop. He'd never stop until he had that blonde fox by the throat. No one took Shiho away and lived.
A/N: Dun dun duuuunnnnn! Oh snap, Magdalena done snatched up Shiho like she was nothin! So, I was watching the 2007 TMNT movie earlier, and could NOT stop swooning over that version of Leonardo, the fuck is wrong with me!?