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Brilliant mind

wow, over 500 views on this story! that's crazy, thanks a lot everyone! sorry I haven't updated much recently, sometimes my mind goes completely blank and I have no idea what to write >:(

have some Donatello fluff/angst uwu

Sometimes Donatello wished his brothers appreciated him more. Everything he did, he did for the family and for their safety, but all his brothers seemed to care about were stupid video games he had to fix constantly.

It was becoming a chore, at first he helped his brothers (mostly Mikey) with their games, because he knows how much it means to them. But it has come to the point where it's almost every damn day, and Donatello wasn't lying when he said he was tired of it.

His anger was bubbling up inside him more and more, until one day, he finally snapped.

It had been a pretty normal day for the turtles and their sensei, they had started the morning with their training as usual, and since it was a Saturday they got to quit early and had the rest of the day off. 

Leonardo stayed a bit longer to perfect his meditation with sensei, Raphael was doing pushups, Michelangelo was dancing to some hip hop hits and Donatello was, as per usual, in his lab. 

He had already messed up a bit during practice, which had gotten him a scolding from their master, and he got teased by his brothers. This resulted in him being annoyed and so he went to his lab to be able to relax a bit. 

The relaxation didn't las long though, as soon as 5 minutes later Michelangelo came in with a CD player and a puppy dog look in his eyes. 

Donatello knew what was coming, but he still waited for Mikey to speak up first, so he simply raised a brow at his little brother.

"Uhm.. Donnie?" he asked uncertainly before continuing, "the cd broke, it definitely wasn't my fault I swear, but I need you to fix it!" he said now with a charming smile on his face, his eyes practically begging for the older turtle to oblige. 

Donatello sighed, he should have known better than to let Mikey speak first, he always had a hard time resisting his baby brother's wishes.

After thinking for a short while and exhaling loudly countless times, he looked Mikey straight in the eyes and with a serious tone said; "alright, but this is the last time this week, Mikey. I've fixed this cd enough times for you!"

But the look on Michelangelo's face showed that he was hiding something, which made Donatello intrigued yet scared to find out what it was. 

"Well..." Mikey started, and Donatello could already feel his irritation starting to bubble up again, "actually, heh, Leo broke the toaster again and it's like.. totally burnt." Michelangelo tried to lighten up the mood by giving his brother a huge smile, but it didn't seem to help.

"Is there anything else I need to know, that I need to fix, because you three idiots couldn't take care of your things properly?" Donatello snapped.

It took a while for Michelangelo to answer, because the tension in the air was definitively much thicker than it was minutes ago.

"...Raph broke the practice dummy" he blurted out quickly, before slowly backing towards the exit.

That was the last drop. Donatello threw the cd that Mikey had handed over earlier to the ground, resulting in it smashing to pieces, before he stormed out of the lab and into the living room area. 

Michelangelo spared the smashed cd a sad glance before following his furious brother.

Ou tin the living room was Raph, now reading a comic book, and Leo watching some tv show that surprisingly wasn't space heroes. They stopped paying attention to their earlier activities though when they heard stomping come towards them and they were met with the most murderous of stares. 

"uh.. hello to you to." Leo mumbled, not quite catching on to what had happened in the lab earlier. 

That comment added more fuel to the fire though and Donatello finally lost it.

"I've had enough of this!" he roared, and he could see the surprised looks on his brothers faces. "I do everything around here! I fix everything because YOU three couldn't keep your clumsy hands from breaking everything you touch! Now I have to do things for you, on my spare time, and I get nothing in return." his usually olive-green face was beginning to get redder by each second, and it seemed like he still had much to say.

"Hey, calm down bro, quit yelling" Raph hissed, but he shut up when Donatello turned to look at him.

"NO! I'm not going to take orders from you anymore, I'm my own person and I have the right to do whatever I want on my free time!" his angry state of mind seemed to have calmed down quite a bit already, and his eyes were instead filled with wet tears threatening to fall any second.

"I just feel like you guys don't even care about me anymore, I'm not even a person you want to be with, I'm just a nerd who fixes everything around the house. I never even hear you guys say thank you after I fix the same goddamned toaster every week, and let me tell you, that takes time!" tears were now falling from his eyes. "I know I'm not good at ninjutsu like you three are, but I'm really trying, and when I'm finally doing something I'm good at you guys never appreciate it. it breaks my heart to think that my brothers never appreciate what I do for them."

The three other turtle in the room shared glances before they all stood up and gave Donnie a huge group hug that lasted for minutes. 

"Dude.. we appreciate EVERYTHING you do, we just thought you knew that already so we don't tell you that often.." even Michelangelo saw that his brother was hurting, and being the family guy that he is, he tried to do anything to make his brother feel better.

Leo was next to speak up, and he held a hand on Donnie's shoulder. 

"Donnie, you know we always appreciate what you do and we all respect you. We always ask you to fix out stuff because we know how amazing you are at it, and it would never be done if it was one of us three doing it. We cherish everything you do for us, really." Leo gave him a reassuring smile, causing Donnie to give him a small smile back. 

"Yeah, Leo's right. " Raph's gruff voice remarked. "We didn't know you were feeling bad about it, bro, if we'd known we would have been better at praising you for your work. It's really nice, D." it was a bit of a shock coming from Raphael, but that only made the words more meaningful to Donatello.

He ad finally stopped crying and he even had a call smile planted on his lips. "Hey.. thanks guys. I'm sorry I snapped at you." Donnie's voice trembled a bit as he spoke, but he seemed a lot happier and more confident already. 

Mikey shook his head and gave Donatello a big hug once again while chiming "no need to be sorry bro! it just shows how badass you can be sometimes" 

Raph rolled his eyes at that but Leo chuckled, finding it cute.

As Donatello went to his lab later that night, he looked to the ground and saw the broken cd. 

He smiled to himself, 'well, I better get started, I can't have my dear brothers waiting any longer' he thought and he get off to work. 

ahhh sorry, the end was a bit rushed! I hope it's still okay.

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