Lost
Epilogue - Good bye.
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Raph stepped into their master's room for the first time since he died. All was quiet, he knew that since everyone was out, but him. It was ironic in a way, but he understood, Leo went to Karai's funeral for final good byes and his brothers went to make sure he didn't fall apart doing so and for once he didn't think it was wise to do something.
As he stared around the room with everything just the way their sensei left it, maybe only a little dirtier, he knew why he stayed behind, he had his own good byes to be made. Softly he blew the dust off the candles and flicked each of them to life with a lighter, just as they were everyday when his sensei was alive. Then softly he bowed to the candles muttering something incoherently under his breath. As he turned to leave in the corner of his eye he saw his sensei's closet was slightly open. Softly he slid it all the way open to reveal a single box, with the words 'My life' written in his father's neat hand writing. Over whelmed in curiosity he opened up the box only to be held in confusion's grip.
Inside was the broken canister that had contained the ooze, that was the only thing Raph could link to being his personal life. As he dug through the box, he found many drawings that him and his brothers had made when they were little, tons of pictures he never knew were taken, many of them being ones with him and Leo fighting and even one where the two of them were snuggled together in a bed clinging to a teddy bear Raph remembered them fighting wars over. He even found that tattered bear in the box, there was also countless parts from Don's failed inventions and tons of pictures Mike had drawn over the years of his super heroes. Leo's broken sword when he fought the shredder and his elite that fatefull night and tons of newspaper clippings of goons he himself he had single handily gotten rid of. Even tickets to fighting tournaments he had entered that he didn't think any one knew he was in and to Raph's dismay of being reminded of it, was a picture of Mike after he won Battle Nexus. He even found all the runaway letters he always made when he was little, but never went through with and to his surprise, Leo had even written one saying he was going to join the circus because he wasn't good enough to be leader.
At last he found something in his sensei's hand writting, but all it said was, It doesn't matter how much I did in life, my sons were trully my life and reason for living so long.
Raph couldn't hold the tears any longer, he burst out crying and mumbled through the tears,"I love you too, I'm sorry I never said it before you died..."
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Leo shut his eyes as they lowered her into the ground, it just didn't seem right. What if she came back, like she always did? A single tear fell from his eye as he tried to get ahold of his emotions, it wasn't right to cry in her presence, he had to be strong when he was near her. Softly he sat down his legs close to him, his eyes flicking shut each time they threw dirt into the hole they had lowered her into.
"It's alright," Don whispered softly putting his arms around his older brother,"It's alright to cry you know."
"I loved her Donnie, I loved her," her whispered hiccuping back the barrage of tears,"Out of everything, I love her, we were even planning on getting married."
"Is that what you guys were talking about while you were with Hun?" Mike asked softly sitting down by his brothers.
Leo simply nodded and scrunched his eyes shut as another pile of dirt hit the casket,"I can't watch this any longer..."
"We can go-" Don began to be interupted by Leo's shaking head.
"I need to know she's dead and buried to go on with my life," he whispered hoarsely whipping away tears that wouldn't stop falling, Don clinging to him tighter now getting the feeling of how wrong Karai being buried was.
As the last pile of dirt covered the hole, Leo's head was buried in his knees and he was shaking, Don all the while rubbing his shell, Mike was staring at something his eyes growing wider.
"Donnie, look at the guy putting the rose next to the gravestone," Don's eyes turned the direction Mike's shaking finger was going to, a man in a blue business suit was bent over nonchalantly setting a rose by the head stone, just by his slicked back short hair Don got the sense of familiarity, but as the man turned around once more, Don got the deep sense he knew him.
"Oroku Saki," Leo whispered his eyes upon the man as well.
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My name is Leonardo. My brothers and I are the teenage mutant ninja turtles. No matter how much any of us forget, we'll always be brothers if we like it or not, and our fight with the shredder never seems to end. Even if we wish it to.
The end.
A/N: The end always has to come. But it is so sad, oh well on to my next story. lol. Review and happy days to you my loyal fans!
