Bloody Brothers

◇□ Chapter Four □◇

"Again." Bruce ordered, as he stood in full getup watching as the boys trained. Renegade exhaustedly put his fist back up as they returned to their positions. Sweat was pouring off the both of them. It was only 7 AM and they had been at it for hours, they had gotten carried away with the pranks, and ended up completely trashing the batcave, and this was their punishment. Since the cave was currently covered in paint and smashed eggs, they were training at Mount Justice, the other cave. A few members of the team came exploring out of their rooms, all stretching from their slumber. Wally yawned, his arms reaching for the sky.

"What are they doing..... this early in the morning?" He yawned as they started to gather around.

"I don't know, they woke me up hours ago though." Artemis sneered crossing her arms.

Renegade slammed Red Hood on to the ground over his shoulder. Batman sighed. "You leave your left open every time." He complained.

"We've been doing this for hours!" He groaned, as Renegade released his arm, resting his hands on his knees as he breathed.

"And you will do it for hours more until you beat your brother!" Batman declared, Renegade straightened up, in somewhat fear. Had that seriously been the whole point of this? Was he just trying to get Jason to beat me? Why? We are pretty evenly matched, it's just Jason would get lazy and give up or ease back. Wait, a second does he do that on purpose?! Does he feel bad for me?! Oh, I'm going to show him... they continued to circle around each other, their expressions had both changed. Jason was determined, while Dick was furious. "Again!"

Renegade went first quickly jabbing him, ducking his punches and sweeping at them legs. Red Hood fell, with a heavy grunt, he jumped back up dodging Gade's kicks. Red Hood ducked sending a hard punch to the ribs, he heard a confirming crack. Renegade stumbled backwards, hissing in pain. He glared back up at him, that was something Jason hadn't seen in his eyes for a very long time. (Insert video) He kicked first, ducking Hoods punch using the force of his punch to jump up on to his shoulders swinging himself around and Hood to the ground squeezing his legs tighter. Red Hood pinched his legs wiggling out of the hold. He crouched down tackling Gade, they rolled around on the floor, Hood pulled Gade's hair, Gade bit Hood, they went at it like this for a solid two minutes. Batman shook his head, sighing as the others just watched.

"That's enough. I said that's enough!" He stepped up onto the platform pulling them apart. "Why do you two always have to turn so violent?"

"We're your sons." Red Hood remarked, Bruce glared at him. The others started to frantically look at one another, being trained by Ra Al Ghoul is one thing, being Batman's apprentices is one thing, being the actual sons of Batman is one thing, but being all three is a completely different thing.

"Go get something to eat, school starts in an hour." He growled as he headed for the zeta tubes. Red Hood rolled his eyes, he turned to see Gade stomping off to the kitchen, he followed in behind him. The team was already gathered inside.

"Hey what's your-" Red Hood began to ask putting his hand on Gades shoudler, but he whipped around slapping his hand away.

"Is it true?" Sure Dick never said a word but it was easy to tell he was angry.

"What are you talking about?" Jason asked. The team watched them both.

"Do you let me win on purpose? Because you pity me?" Jason stared at him not sure of what to say, the team hadn't known what Dick had said but they assumed it was something a shock to Jason.

"Gade, it's not like that-"

"Kill the shit act, Jason! Why do you feel the need? Why is it so important to you that I win? It's not like it's doing anything, I'm not improving if you're letting me win!"