Brothers

Chapter 1

Leo heard the door to the lair slide open. "Raph, where are you going?"

Raphael jumped around, he obviously thought that Fearless Leader had fallen asleep while meditating. When his eyes zeroed in on Leo they immediately narrowed. "What's it to you Leo?" he snarled.

"I don't want you going out tonight Raph it's not safe especially since bishop seems to be up to something" Leo retorted

Raph scoffed "just cause bishop is up to something doesn't mean we should stay underground. If anything we should go up more to see what he is up to. But nooo you want us to stay down here like a coward. Maybe you ant as fearless as we thought, Leo"

The blue banded turtle mentally took a step back. Every time they called him fearless the comment stung, because in reality he was afraid. afraid that he might fail, that he wouldn't be able to protect his brothers every time they got into a fight, or whenever Donnie was working on his inventions, or whenever Mikey went out boarding in the sewers, or in cases like now whenever Raph went topside to patrol the city on his own. They could get hurt, and he wouldn't even know about them getting hurt, or he wouldn't know what to do once he found them and they needed medical help. His eyes fell on Ralph looking almost eager for a chance to fight with him.

I can't do this he thought, not today. For the past 2 weeks he had had uneasy feeling and couldn't sleep very well and tonight it was so bad that he couldn't even try to sleep, he tried meditating, relaxing tea, even a warm shower but nothing was working. He was tired and did not feel up to arguing with Raph

"Raph" he said tiredly "I don't want to argue with you but-"

"Yea coulda fooled me if you don't want to argue den don't stop me from going out" Raph shot back at Leo

Leo got up from his position on the floor and walked towards him.

"Master splinter said...."

"I know what he said Leo, you tell me every time I try to go out. Well ya aint stopped me before, and ya ant stopping me now."

Raph's eyes narrowed as Leo stepped in front of him blocking the exit "Raphael if you know what Master said why do you insist on going out? it's dangerous, not only that, but it is going to snow tonight why would you even want to go out hunting down punks "-Leo put his hands in the air and did the finger quotations- "as you so eloquently call It"

"Crime doesn't stop because things are bad Leo and unlike some, I go out and do somting about it!"

Raph's voice echoed thru the lair waking a slumbering turtle "not again" he moaned. I totally need Donny to sound proof my room. Mikey thought to himself, thinking back a couple years ago when Donatello had soundproofed his lab, mostly to get some peace and quiet when he worked on delicate projects. But Mikey had seen him disappear into the lab and turn the system on when Leo and Raph got into a shouting match. He knew that their arguments bothered the peaceful turtle more than he let on in fact Mikey would usually just turn on music it bothered him just as bad. Master splinter would be dealing with it, but he had left to go and visit some friends from the battle nexus.

I guess its up to me he thought as he knew Don probably fell asleep in the lab again. As he went to lift his blankets up he was half tempted to stay in bed and let his oldest bros fight it out, but he knew that this fight would probably turn extremely physical. it had been building up for days and Mikey knew both Leo and Raph were high-strung, earlier when he had walked by his hot headed bro earlier that evening you could feel the tension radiating off of him, and he knew Leo hadn't gotten a good night sleep in days. Leo's room was next to his and Mikey could hear him tossing and turning. It had been going on for days now. Something was up, even Mikey could feel it in the air, but he was a glass half full kinda guy whatever was going to happen will happen and they will get through it like they always did no reason to worry about it.