IS IT LOVE? (Completed)

"Is it love?" Chapter 15

"Yes, Sensei?"

The blue masked turtle said with a flat and low tone, turning to his master.
Splinter was worried, he could feel a pretty dark aura around his oldest son, he was used to connect him with a warm and intense blue, that brings you to feel calm and safe. But now that blue was cold and dull, he wasn't feeling safety or calm at all.

He feels emptiness.

"My son.." he said with a deep concerned frown "I can feel that something is wrong, might you tell me what is happened?"

"Nothing happened, Sensei."

"Do not lie to me Leonardo. What did bring you and your younger brother to argue?"

"He was just being stubborn as always. Don't worry about it Sensei"
he forced a smile, and as he did so, Splinter could feel his aura become even darker.

"[Sigh] Alright, let me know when Raphael come back"
Splinter said, going back to his room, but he isn't going to give up, maybe Leonardo won't take it out, but he has other three sons to talk with. Something was happening to his family, something different and bad, and he won't let things unsorted.

As Splinter left the dojo, Leo scoffed: "if he come back. At this point I hope he won't."
But when he said it, he felt a weird feeling on his heart, feeling that disappeared with the same velocity it came with.
He was trying to convince himself to hate Raphael, he thought that maybe, if he hated him, it will hurt less.
But in deep, he knows he can't do that, how could he even not to be worried? But he tries not to think about it, so he just heads his room.

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Lunch time passed, the afternoon as well, and now it was dinner time, his red-brown eyes look around at the table, everyone was silent, and nobody was talking about the fact that Raph's chair was empty.
"He still didn't come back" he thought, and a feeling of concern starts to come in his head, but it disappeared quickly, or at least he shouted it down quickly.
"Who cares after all?"

While Donatello was trying to convince himself that he wasn't worried, Michelangelo knows it perfectly, he was worried for all of his brothers since when he saw Leo and Raph in that room..

But his concern changed through the passing of time.

At first, he was worried that his family would've splited up, Donnie and himself from one side, and Raph and Leo in the other, that's cause he actually thought that they would've continued their relationship.

But as he learned that they actually broke up, or at least he guessed it, since the way they were acting, he got even more worried; if he feared that his family would've shattered into two parts, now he feared that it would into four parts.

But now, his concern was at the max.

Because he realised that his family is already shattered.
He heard the fight between Raph and Leo in the dojo, he knows what happened with both of them.

They were broken.

Leonardo was sympathetic, unselfish, good-hearted, his eyes were kind and tender, and at the same time courageous and brave.
Now in his eyes there's nothing of it.
There's litterelly nothing.

And what about Raph? Mikey doesn't even know, he didn't even look at Raph once, he couldn't.
He couldn't bear the watch that fake smile that Raph was keeping during those days, he knows his hothead brother wanted things to be normal, he knows that Raphael never really accepted the breaking up, he knows that his brother kept to hope and hope.
At least till this morning.

So he is scared. He is scared to see how also his second older brother was broken.

And what about Donnie instead? Oh, Donatello, he can be so smart but also so dumb sometimes.
Mikey was upset for the relationship that his brothers was having, but then he thought: "Is it worth to be upset?"
No. That was the answer.
After all that's love! "Or at least was love.." and love is never wrong, no matter how weird it can be. That love made his older brothers get along so much, the team has never been so perfect! But now everything is going downhill...
Who is to blame though?

Donnie is to blame, he reacted in the worst way ever.

Himself is to blame, even if didn't act as bad as Don, he gave no reassurance.

Leo is to blame, he just ascaped from his "problems", he didn't believe in the strength of their relationship.

And Raph?..Poor Raph, he is the main victim..he did nothing bad, but he is the one who is suffering more.

"So unfair..he must hate us now.."
This thought narrows his chest.
"What if he won't come back anymore?"
"No.. Chompy is in his room, he would never leave h-"

"Mikey?"

Baby blue eyes looks stunned the red-brown one.

"Uh?"

Donnie frowned slightly, looking at his younger brother:

"Are you okay Mike? You have been starring at nothing for long.."
concern was in his voice.
Leo was looking at them with the corner of the eye.

"Did I? Oh uh..no I am okay Don! Just..[sigh] I am..worried for Raph, he still didn't come back and-"

"Don't worry Mikey" the expression of Donnie hardens as he heard the name of the red masked brother.
"He will come back when he want to, and if he doesn't..then.."

"Then what? You don't care?" The youngest said with a darker tone, giving a slight glare to Donatello.

"It's not that I don't care, but if he wants to go away, then maybe it's the best thing for-"
He got interrupted by the slamming of Michelangelo's hands on the table.

"Bullshit! This is not the best thing for anyone!! How can you be so heartless?! Both of you!" He glanced also Leonardo.
"Raph is out there probably crying! Alone! And you say this is the best?! You suck, you just suck!" He goes away quickly, heading the exit of the lair.

"Where are you going Michelangelo?" The human rat asked, as he saw his son about to go out.

"I go to look for my brother." He said angryly, going out of the lair.