Ch 5 A Promise
A/N
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Leo POV
I find an abandoned building two hours away from home. I enter a destroyed room through a broken window. There is dirt and dust covering the floor along with parts of the ceiling. I hope the floor will hold me. I lay down under the window, out of view from the humans, to get some sleep before I have to leave again tonight.
" Leonardo" The voices says. Really, again?
" What do you want now?" I ask, slightly annoyed.
" I'm just here to make sure you do what I asked" The voice says.
" Of course I would. I would do anything for my family" i say.
" I don't doubt that, and someday that will be your downfall. And I fear that day is close." The voice says.
" I will see my family again" I say.
" I do not think so" The voice said. The white landscape faded to a roof, the rooftop of Minnie's Pet shop. Ok, what's so bad about this. Then I see it, a hundred foot bots on the roof. Then I see Tiger Claw, Fishface, Rocksteady and Bebop.
" I'm walking into a trap" I breath, and I know there are traps as well. I don't even know if this was it. Even with my brothers this would be hard. I know I'm walking into a trap, and I have to.
" Yes, you are. Leonardo, you will not see your family again" The voice says without emotion.
What if, no! I will see my brothers again. I will find a way. Then it hits me, what if they follow me into this trap or what if I'm bait for another trap? I can't let my brothers follow me. I need to make sure they don't follow me. They only want me.
" I'm going to tell them not to follow me" I say. I may fall, but I will make sure my brothers don't fall with me.
" No" The voice said " You will not talk to them, or the deal is off!"
" Then tell me whats going on so we can help!"
" No! You will not speak to them!" The voice shouts before I wake up.
I wake up for the first time to light pouring into the room from the sun. I try to get a little more sleep but I can't. I know that once it's dark I have to go home and make sure my brothers don't follow me.
I watch my first sunset before I go leave a message I wrote on my mask with a discarded sharpie I found. I head to our favorite pizza place where I know Mikey has already looked for me. I know they will go there again soon, so I decide to leave my message there.
I unsheathe my Katana and look at the blade. Then I tie my bandana to it and leave it on the roof.
As I head towards Minnie's Pet Shop I am careful not to run into my brothers. About a mile away from the pizza place I hear my brother's voice.
" Leo!" I hear Raph scream, trying to find me. I duck into the shadows to make sure they don't see me. " Leo! Where are you!"
" Raphie, we should just get some pizza and put it out for him. Leo loves pizza, that's how we can find him" Mikey says.
" That's not going to work" Raph says rolling his eyes.
" We'll shouting isn't going to help much either" Donnie said. " He's either hurt and can't contact us, doesn't want us to find him, captured by Shredder or," Donnie stopped. Dead.
I hear silence fall upon my brothers. I know what they are thinking. Well, what Donnie and Raph are thinking. I want to jump out of the shadows and tell them everything is ok and there isn't any danger.
" Leo wouldn't leave us" Mikey said.
" But he did" Raph says angrily with a hint of something else in his voice that I hardly ever hear in my brother's voice, fear. They do not know what happened. I almost step out of the shadows to end their fear and worry again, but I have to protect them. When I am sure they are long gone, I begin to head to the outskirts of New York.
As I leap from building to building I remember a promise I made, and a promise I will keep.
Flashback to 8 years ago
" Mikey look at me, I can jump higher!" I challenged my little brother.
" No way!" Mikey challenged me. Master Splinter had set up an obstacle course to help improve our agility. We started training before I could remember, but currently we learned discipline and basic defensive skills with a little weapon training if we behaved.
I set up the boxes to jump over. I jump as high as I can. When it was Mikey's turn, he did a backflip over it.
" Mikey was higher" Donnie said.
" Booyakasha!" Mikey said.
" What is that even supposed to mean?" Raph asked rolling his eyes.
" I dunno, but it's fun to yell!" Mikey said before screaming at the top of his lungs "Booyakasha!"
" Mikelangelo, quiet down" Master Splinter told Mikey scolding him. Mikey was immediately silent.
" Can we go play in the sewers?" I asked Master Splinter hopefully.
" You may go play in the tunnel right outside the sewer, no further so I can hear you call if anything happens" Master Splinter said.
" Hai, Sensei" We said hugging our father before racing to the tunnel.
" Wanna play wall ball?" Mikey asked picking up an old tennis ball.
" No" Raph said looking down toward the end of the tunnel.
" I don't like where this is going" Donnie said knowing that Raph was up to no good.
" Come on Don, let's explore, Master Splinter will never know" Raph said.
" We're not allowed to" I reminded Raph.
" Master Splinter will never know" Raph said.
" I'll tell him" I said, I didn't want any of us getting in trouble. I didn't know what was outside of this tunnel, Master Splinter told us that it was dangerous.
" You're a little tattle turtle" Raph said.
" Am not!" I said defending myself.
" You're the little perfect daddy's boy" Raph said. No, I was not, and I was going to show him. I took off running and at the end of the tunnel I didn't stop. I turned right and then left and waited for Raph to catch up. Mikey came right after Raph, but Donnie came a minute later.
" I didn't know you had it in you" Raph said smiling mischievously with approval.
The tunnel we were in was a little different the ceiling seemed to be much higher, about 50 feet. Raph started to climb up the wall using the holes where the bricks used to be as foot and hand holds.
" Raph, the wall isn't sturdy, it could crumble." Donnie said worriedly.
" Yeah, get down from there Raph" I said.
" Come on let's have some fun, Splinter never lets us climb the walls" Raph says.
"Raph, stop" I tell him " I really will go tell Master Splinter."
" And rat all of us out, No you won't" Raph said. He's right, I would get in trouble. I did not want to get in trouble. Anyway, what could go wrong?
Raph was about 20 feet high when a brick came loose and he fell.
" AHHH!" Raph screamed as he fell.
" Raph!" My brothers and I screamed rushing to his side. He sat up and winced. I noticed that there was a crack in his shell.
" Raph" I say in shock staring at the crack.
" What" Raph asks. He looks at us, and I know Mikey and Donnie also see the crack because they are staring at it too. Raph looks down and he gasps in surprise.
" Oh, Shell!" Raph says " We are in so much trouble!" We all nodded. After a minute we got up and I helped Raph get to his feet.
" There is no way Master Splinter won't know" Donnie says worriedly.
" We may as well just tell him" I say quietly. Raph could have gotten seriously hurt, and it would have been all my fault. I let him get to me and I went where we were told not to. I watched Raph do something I knew was dangerous and didn't stop him because I didn't want to get in trouble. I'm a horrible older brother. I should be protecting them, not endangering them.
We walked slowly into the dojo where Master Splinter was meditating and kneel in front of him. He opened his eyes and when his eyes land on Raph he gasps.
" What happened" Master Splinter asked is shock. We all stare at the floor, and Raph tells Master Spliter what happened.
Master Splinter begins to lecture us but I don't hear a word of it. I don't know how long has passed before Master raises my head to look at me.
" Leonardo?" Master Splinter asked full of concern. It was then that I noticed that all of my brothers had already left.
Master Splinter's paw wiped my cheek, and I noticed that it was wet. " Leonardo, what is wrong?" Master Splinter asked again, but I didn't answer. I bit my lip.
" It's ok, Leonardo, you make mistakes and you learn from them" Master Splinter said, but I shook my head.
" No!" I shouted, startling Master Splinter " It's my fault! You tell me not to let Raph get to me, but I did. You told me not to go out of that tunnel, but I did. When I knew it was wrong and dangerous, I left and my brothers followed me! Then when Raph started to climb the wall I knew it was dangerous because the wall was unsturdy, I let him. All because I didn't want to get into trouble. If Raph was higher he could have really gotten hurt because of me." I say with tears filling my eyes.
" Leo, you made a lot of mistakes, that is true" Master Splinter told me.
" I did and I hurt my brother!" I said sadly.
" Leo, you did not hurt your brother, he made his decision to climb the wall and he fell, you did not do that" Master Splinter told me.
" But I let him! I'm a horrible brother" I cried.
" No, you care far too much for your brothers to be anything but a great brother"
" Really" I asked, sniffling.
" Yes, and I know that you will not do that again" Master Splinter said.
" Yes, Father, I will not do that again. I promise I will always protect my brothers" I said sincerely.
" I know my son" Master Splinter said hugging me. After a few minutes I let go of my father.
" You have done well, my son. You have learned from your mistakes, but now you must be punished. You and your brothers are to stay in your rooms for the rest of the day and no dessert for a week." Master Splinter says.
I smiled and gave Master Splinter a hug before going to my room. I promised I that I would protect my brothers, and I would.
End of flashback
I feel tears fall against my cheeks for the first time in years.
" Goodbye, my brothers, sisters and father, I love you and I promise I will always protect you" I whisper.
A/N So you know why Leo Left, but who is the voice? Any guesses? Please review!
