The day had arrived for April to leave her home city along with her aunt. The bright sky shined down to the citizens bringing another beautiful day. Her aunt was already prepared for such a fun time. April was a bit nervous of the fact of leaving the turtles and Casey alone for a while. She might as well be bored throughout her trip.
The turtles had to say goodbye yesterday for they could not be seen in the daylight. Casey, on the other hand, was able to say it as the taxi awaited for her. The guy kept honking for her to hurry up and Casey had to tell the guy to back off.
As the two humans were sharing their goodbyes, the turtles had other things set out for them in the dojo. It was another day of training along with their master Splinter watching them to see how they improved. They had to do individual battles towards one another. They're still learning how to fight as a team, but even learning as a individual could help in any matter. It was Leo versus Mikey, and Raph versus Donnie. They pulled their weapons into their arms, waiting for their sensei to respond. Feeling the tension of waiting sweated through their hands as they held their weapons, and already were they taking a small step back to get fast when they attack.
"Hajime!"
The came their training.
Leo ran towards Mikey with his katana blades, yelling for his support, but missed as his youngest jumped to the left. Swinging his nunchucks, Mikey kept jumping, avoiding Leo's attacks. Finally, he got close enough to the blue clad turtle, and began to hit the plastron and his arms. Leo winced at each hit, but manage to escape from anymore.
Mikey smirk grew as he kept swinging. "Come on bro!" He said with fierce in his eyes as Leo stared deeply at them. "I'm like a ghost! You gotta try and catch me! I'm too fast for you! I can-"
But then his luck of beating his oldest ran out. He was thrown into the air by being hit by the katana and fell forward hitting his forehead. Leo smiled down towards the youngest and said, "You might not wanna talk to much next time Mikey."
As their training was completed, Donnie and Raph still had their's to finished. As both of them swung their weapons, they awaited for one to attack. Impatient, Raph ran first towards the purple clad turtle, and jumped very high in the air with his sais being raised. His shouting grew so loud, everyone's ears ached. Donnie moved to the left before his brother could arch him, and then used his Bo-staff to reach under Raph's feet. Then he put force into his staff causing Raph to fall forward to the floor. Luckily he didn't let his face become injured. He used both of his arms to lift back onto his face before hitting the floor, and swung his sais once again. He then growled running towards Donnie again and raised his foot in the air to try and kick him. In time Donnie, made him miss by jumping backwards and landed on his feet.
He let his gap teeth reveal as he smiled. "Oh come on Raph." He said sarcastically towards the tempered brother of his. "You can do better than that."
"Let's see about that!" Again, the red turtle ran again towards his target.
Getting prepared, Donnie held his staff again, ready to take down his brother. But as he looked towards Raph, he saw something. He saw those emerald green eyes become small and brown, and then his brother's skin becomeight instead of green. Then he grew black hair along with a black bandana above his eyes instead of around. He saw more of an open gap when he saw that mouth open to speak.
"Bring it on baby gap!" Sounded the voice of Casey Jones.
Donnie's heart raced, which got his blood to boiled inside of him. He then image April behind watching with a smile. He grew hypnotized by those brown eyes he was imaging. Before he knew it, he was taken down by Raphael.
He felt his arm become pulled back feeling the aching in his arm. He was thrown towards the floor of the dojo, smudging his face against with the strength from Raph's hand. Then he felt the his shell grow heavy weight when Raph sat upon him pulling his arm more back. Donnie felt the heavy weight reach more into his body, and felt the pain grow worse from his arm. "Ow!"
"Hey check it out!" Mikey pointed as he and Leo walked closer to their wrestle. "Donnie is playing 'stretchy turtle'! He's always been good with that."
"Ya me!" Splinter spoke as he walked towards the two remaining turtles. As he noticed Raph didn't let go and only continued to grin at his victory, the rat let out a groan, and pulled his finger underneath the chin of the turtle.
Suddenly, the red clad turtle felt a wince of pain from the skinny finger of his master. Immediately, he let loose of the people clad turtle and fell forward as Splinter let go. Donnie gasped letting out his relief by a sigh and let his arm flop to the floor. "Oh thank goodness." He sighed.
Letting go of his chin, Splinter looked upon his purple clad son, noticing the disappointment in his eyes. Raph rubber his neck from the aching his master and looked at him confused. "What gives sensei?"
"He said stop Raphael." Leo said as he crossed his arms together.
"But what happen to, 'don't let you enemy win'?"
"Very true Raphael." Splinter said. "But even if the ninja has won the competition, the best solution if they show mercy, is to give mercy."
"Hey, not my fault Donnie isn't in the game clearly."
Donnie felt himself shot with defeat, and looked to his knee with shame. He mostly felt embarrassed. "I'm sorry guys." He said. "Raph's right. I wasn't really focus."
"And what causes this Donatello?" Splinter asked looking down towards him.
"Oh dude," said Mikey. "Probably because he didn't get an ice cream sandwich, and its been killing him! We need to get more later."
Everyone stared at the younger turtle, doubting his theory about his brother was true. Donnie shook his head, and spoke, "It's nothing guys."
"It's about her, April." Raph said as he stood next to his oldest brother. "The fact she's leaving."
Splinter looked towards Donnie, expecting him to answer instead. Unfortunately the turtle did not speak and only looked down fm towards the floor. The rat saw that look and knew the problem. So then he turned to his other children who remained standing and said, "That is all for today my sons. I must speak with Donatello alone."
Then the leader nodded his head, and stepped out of the dojo along with his two other brothers behind him. Donnie kept hearing Mikey mumble about him needing an ice cream sandwich. It gave him a small chuckle from how goofy Mikey always is. Then he looked up towards the rat master as he reached down his hand. As he took the hand and stood up, he faced his master a bit nervous to tell the truth. "Thanks sensei." He said.
As Splinter gave a nod, he asked, "My son, is it true about your focus being onto April and not into your training? Or is it perhaps, something else bothering you?"
Donnie normally didn't talk to anyone much about this. He already knew the possibilities when it came to his brothers. Mikey would be a goof, and make silly jokes sounding more like a kid each time he would talk. Which also include him eating pizza. Leo would try to sound like his cartoon hero with a silly example or try to get Donnie back into being what he is, probably not focusing on his brother's feelings. Raph would probably laugh or tell him to relax by letting it go. Not only that, he might not get it through his head. After all, he did assume he was more upset about April being absent for a month.
But for Splinter..... He had no clue what will happen.
But if he did know one thing about Splinter, the rat would at least try and help him see his point. He is known to be wise after all.
He sighed as he looked back at the floor where he landed. "I'm not completely upset April is gone sensei." He answered looking back towards the rat. "I'm more just aggravated."
"By whom?" Splinter asked with his arms being held together as he listened carefully to him.
"By Jones. I don't know why sensei, but even when he's not here, or not flirting with April, I just get so.... So...."
"Peeved?"
Donnie looked towards the rat a little lost by his word. "I'm sorry, peeved?"
"That's what Michelangelo calls it when he's frustrated, which seems what you are feeling."
Somehow that just shocked Donnie. Either because his master said something not so big, or the fact it was from Mikey he said it. But he didn't let it bother him. "Well.... Yeah,basically."
Then a hand was placed onto the turtle's shoulder giving him a gentle nudge. "My son, you cannot let Jones cloud you mind with hatred and anger. You must try and get along as April wants. After all, if this continues, if you don't let out what you feel soon, danger is afoot."
As always, Splinter was right. Perhaps Donnie needed to try and let go of Casey. After all, this is what April wants. But them something caught him. "Wait, what do you mean by, 'if you don't let out what you feel'?"
Unbelievably, the rat grew a smile from his whiskers and said, "That is for to discover on your own, my son."
Sometimes Donnie wondered if by Splinter's words usually mean he was getting more and more older to where he wouldn't make sense. But at the same time, it would always come to him by what he meant. Still, it kinda gave Donnie a worry strike in his stomach.
Suddenly, the sound of footsteps from Leo came into the dojo as he peek his head out. The two spotted him as he held his phone looking to them. "Hey, we got a problem." He said. "Casey said Kraang droids are afoot."
"Of course it would be him." Donnie shook his head from the annoyance of Casey's name.
As a goodbye was set towards the two, they left the dojo with Splinter watching them leave. As they were gone, the rat looked towards the tree as it lit up from the beauty of light. "Perhaps, I am wrong, but perhaps, it takes time." He told himself.
As he felt tired, he then entered back into the bed he laid, awaited to hear his sons adventure.

To be continued...

A/N: Oye, hopefully I didn't misspelled anything lol I hope you guys enjoyed the chapter. I might not be around much because of what's happening. But I would to thank those taking the time to read this. I didn't think it would happen so fast. Have a nice day