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Midnight Run Part 5

I am going to finish this, I swear I will I just struggled with focusing on writing for a bit but I'm getting close to the end. This part is a bit bigger than the others but I think it's one of my favorites so far. Also I am not a doctor but I looked up as much medical knowledge as I could for this, even if it is just a really high fever.

Yuichi and Leo head back to the lair and talk more as they walk through the sewers.

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Part 4

~~Forty-Five Minutes Earlier~~

“Then there was the time Raph got lost in the sewers and went kinda crazy. He caught some villains and was roasting them over a fire when we found him.”

“Are you serious?” Yuichi asked softly, eyes wide.

“Yeah, Donnie and Mikey will back me up on that,” Leo chuckled, then he frowned looking at his lap. Yuichi frowned at the change.

“What’s wrong?”

“They’re all going to be upset when they wake up and see I’m gone. I wasn’t even supposed to be out by myself. I just needed to get some fresh air and stretch my legs,” Leo mumbled, loosely crossing his arms. “I know they’re worried about me but I’m fine, well I was fine. They’re gonna be so mad.” Yuichi slowly nodded, then he perked up as he got an idea.

“What if we got you back before they wake up?” Leo quickly looked up at him.

"What do you mean? Don't we have to wait for Miyamoto-san?"

"You said you have a medical station at home. Do you have medication for fevers there?" Leo blinked then slowly nodded.

"Yeah, Dad and April refilled it last week."

"So we can go there and get you the medicine you need. Your brothers won't have to worry, besides Jiji needed those herbs anyways. Jij said I just had to keep an eye on you, not that we had to stay here." Leo thought about it then slowly nodded.

"Alright, let's do it." Yuichi smiled then stood up and helped Leo to his feet. The ointment on his shell was dry so Leo pulled his hoodie back on as Yuichi grabbed some paper and a pen. He quickly wrote a note for his grandfather and left it on the living room coffee table, just in case he came back before Yuichi did.

"Ok, let's head to the same exit we came through. Can you tell me how to get to your home from there?" Yuichi asked as they left the house.

"Yeah, totally. I know exactly where the closest manhole cover is and how to get to the lair from there." Yuichi nodded and they started heading towards the exit. Leo did his best to walk straight, and it was honestly better than how he was doing before. Leo almost didn’t need the help, key word almost. They got to the exit and to the manhole cover with almost no problems. Then came the challenge of getting into the sewers. Leo knelt down to lift the cover but Yuichi quickly shooed him away as he grabbed it himself.

“I can get it,” Yuichi smiled confidently.

“Ok then,” Leo chuckled softly. Yuichi grabbed the edge of the manhole cover and grunted as he tried to pull it up.

‘This is heavier than it looks!’ Yuichi thought in shock. Leo snickered softly as Yuichi slowly lifted the lid and slid it away from the hole. Yuichi out of breath as he finally got the lid out of the way and Leo just smiled softly at him.

“You ok?” He asked quietly.

“Yeah, totally fine,” Yuichi mumbled, only slightly out of breath. Leo smirked softly and Yuichi motioned towards the ladder. “Why don’t you go down first?”

“Alright,” Leo hummed as he slowly lowered himself into the hole and started the climb down. Yuichi watched him a bit nervously but relaxed when Leo made it fully down the ladder. Yuichi quickly went next, doing his best to slide the manhole cover back into place before quickly going down the ladder. He reached the ground and turned back to Leo. Leo was looking around and leaning into the wall.

“So where do we go now?”

“Uh this way,” Leo mumbled as he took a shaky step forwards. Yuichi frowned and quickly moved to Leo’s side.

“Are you alright?” Yuichi asked quietly.

“Huh, yeah,” Leo nodded. “I’m fine, come on.” Leo started walking and Yuichi quickly followed, staying close to Leo’s side. “So you know a lot about me, what about you?”

“Me?” Yuichi asked softly. “I mean there isn’t much to talk about with me.”

“Really? I’m sure you have something you want to talk about,” Leo smiled warmly. Yuichi felt his face warm at the sight of that smile. Leo had shared most of his life already, surely Yuichi could think of something to share back.

“I-” Yuichi sighed softly. “For most of my life, I’ve lived with my grandfather. We used to live in Japan and after an… an incident in our village we moved to New York, to the Hidden City. I went to a school in the Hidden City and tried making some friends but it was hard when I was still learning to speak English.” Yuichi glanced at Leo and Leo was looking back at him. Yuichi quickly looked away as he continued.

“Things got better as I got older and I made a few friends. There’s Gen, he’s like an older brother to me and kinda acts like it too. Then there’s Kitsune, she’s chaos if chaos was a person. Her dream is to pull off the biggest heist in the world, not because she needs the money but just because she wants to. I did have another friend, at least I thought he was my friend at first. I don’t know how I didn’t see what he was doing, always making things a competition, comparing us to each other, showing off in front of others at my expense. I thought it was just how friends were, but that was also before I met Gen and Kitsune. They showed me that real friends don’t do that. That you don’t try to impress people at the expense of someone else.”

“He sounds like an asshole,” Leo mumbled.

“He was,” Yuichi nodded. “But I try not to think about him too much. I don’t need people like that in my life.” Leo hummed softly and Yuichi looked over as Leo bumped into his shoulder. Leo was looking at the walls and his cheeks were turning a dark red. Yuichi frowned, then reached over and pressed the back of his hand to Leo’s cheek. Leo jolted but Yuichi kept his hand against Leo’s cheek.

“Your fever is rising,” He mumbled.

“Really? Thought a heat wave was coming through here,” Leo chuckled, swaying slightly. Yuichi frowned then moved closer to Leo, pulling one of Leo’s arms around his shoulders.

“How far are we from your home?” He asked quietly. Leo blinked then looked around.

“Uh a few blocks, I think- Oh wait, there’s one of Mikey’s tags.” Yuichi looked where Leo was pointing and saw a bright orange M decorating one of the sewers’ walls. “That way.” Yuichi walked with Leo, keeping Leo’s arm around his shoulders as they went.

“Michaelangelo, he is your younger brother?” Yuichi asked softly.

“Yeah, he is,” Leo hummed, smiling softly. “My baby brother, even if he’s a only a year younger than me. We got up to so much trouble when we were little.”

“From what you’ve told me about your family so far, I’ll believe it,” Yuichi chuckled softly.

“I mean there was the one time Mikey, April, and I broke into the Stock and Shop after hours to go ghost hunting,” Leo smiled softly. “Turned out the ghost was a robot made by the kid of the people who run the store and the whole thing was for online views.” Yuichi just looked at Leo with wide eyes.

“It was a robot?” He repeated quietly.

“Yep,” Leo hummed. “Proved to Mikey that ghosts weren’t real. Though Gram-Gram became a ghost and possessed April, so I guess they are real.” Yuichi didn’t know what to say.

“Are you serious?” He asked quietly. Leo nodded.

“Yeah, April can tell you.”

“What even is your life?” Yuichi mumbled softly.

“I don’t even know,” Leo smirked. “But it’s not boring.”

“That’s one way to put it.” They kept walking, finding more of Michaelangelo’s art decorating the sewer walls. Leo started to ramble on about something but Yuichi was more focused on how Leo’s weight was pressing into him more and how Leo’s words were clashing together and becoming harder to understand. As they turned a corner Leo’s head fell over onto Yuichi’s shoulder and Yuichi froze. Leo’s fever was spiking dangerously higher.

“Leo,” Yuichi whispered, interrupting Leo’s explanation about something (Yuichi heard the word time travel but couldn’t really make out what the main focus was). “How close are we to your home now?” Leo squinted as he looked around. He clumsily pointed forwards down the tunnel.

“Next turn, under the waterfall.” Yuichi nodded and tried to increase their pace. Leo needed some medicine, or at the least ice water.

“Man it’s cold,” Leo mumbled. “I hate the cold.”

“Well you are cold blooded,” Yuichi sighed.

“Am not.”

“Yes you are. You’re a turtle.”

“Half turtle,” Leo corrected. “My other half is human.” Yuichi was speechless for a moment.

“What are you talking about? Yokai aren’t half human.”

“I’m not a yokai. I’m a mutant.”

“A mutant?” Yuichi asked, confused. “What does that mean?” Leo sighed then started to explain.

“Well you were born the way you are, you’ve always been you. That’s how it is for every yokai, you’re born the way you are. Mutants are created by mixing two creatures together when one of them comes in contact with an ooze that a crazy yokai scientist made. Usually the last thing that a mutant touches is what they are mutated with. For me and my brothers that was our dad who at that time was a human.” Yuichi slowly nodded as they rounded the last turn, then frowned.

“Wait, at the time? Is he not a human anymore?”

“No, he’s a mutant too.”

“I have so many questions,” Yuichi mumbled.

“You should ask Donnie,” Leo yawned softly. “I’m bouta pass out.”

“No you are not,” Yuichi snapped, keeping his voice soft. “You are not allowed to pass out until your fever is down to a safer level.”

“I gotta fever?” Leo asked quietly. “Oh, that’s why I’m cold.” Yuichi resisted the urge to hit his head against a wall. “Hey, the lights are on.” Then Leo’s face fell. “Oh no, the lights are on.” Yuichi looked in front of them and was in awe of what was before them.

It was an abandoned subway station but the walls were painted with colorful art and twinkling Christmas lights were strung over the ceiling lighting up the room. There was mismatched furniture around the room, and Yuichi could see a kitchen, arcade room, and a living room from where they were now. There were some old train cars on the abandoned tracks that were renovated into different rooms. The whole space felt lived in and alive, despite it being an abandoned station.

Leo took a step, pulling away from Yuichi then started to sway. Yuichi darted forwards as Leo fell to the floor.

“Leo!” Yuichi knelt down by him but Leo was just looking around confused.

“Guys?” Leo called out. “Raph? Mikey? Donnie? Dad? Hello?” Leo’s voice just echoed back to them. Leo’s face fell and Yuichi felt his heart squeeze at the sadness in Leo’s eyes. “They’re not here?” Yuichi gently grabbed Leo’s arm.

“I’m sure they’ll be back,” Yuichi smiled softly. “For now let’s get you off the floor and get you cooled down.” Leo slowly nodded.

“Yeah, okay.” Yuichi pulled Leo’s arm over his shoulder and carefully helped him stand up.

“Okay, where is the medical station?” Yuichi asked softly.

“Over there,” Leo mumbled, pointing at one of the train cars. Yuichi nodded as he started to pull Leo over to it. They made it to the middle of the room before Leo’s knees gave out and they fell to the floor.

“Leo!”

“I-I can’t-” Leo was gasping for air as he held himself up on shaky arms. “I can’t make it.”

“Then I’ll carry you.”

“N-No Sagi-” Leo coughed then he covered his mouth as he started to heave.

‘Oh no.’ Yuichi scrambled to his feet and quickly looked for some sort of container. He ran for the kitchen and quickly grabbed a large metal bowl from the counter. He made it back to Leo and shoved the bowl under his face just as Leo vomited. Yuichi slowly rubbed Leo’s shell as he coughed and spat into the bowl.

“Get it all out,” Yuichi murmured, trying not to look at it. Leo coughed then gagged again before more vomit filled the bowl. Leo whined and Yuichi quickly wrapped an arm around Leo’s chest before he could face plant into the vomit bowl. Yuichi pushed the bowl away with his foot as Leo pressed his face into Yuichi’s shoulder. He pressed his cheek against Leo’s head and winced at how hot Leo felt. Leo mumbled something into Yuichi’s shoulder and Yuichi frowned.

“I didn’t hear that, can you repeat it?” Yuichi asked softly. Leo groaned then lifted his head up a bit.

“Want Dad,” Leo sniffled. “Or Raphie.” Leo’s eyes were watering and Yuichi felt himself panic.

‘He’s gonna cry, I can’t handle a cute boy crying on me! What do I do!?’ Then Yuichi heard a soft whirring sound, like a small fan. He quickly turned towards the noise and stared at a small purple drone hovering just above one of the train cars. Its eyes (those were its eyes right?) were looking right at the two boys on the floor and Yuichi got the feeling it seemed worried about something. Yuichi carefully pulled Leo closer to him as he kept his eyes on the drone.

“Leo,” He whispered. “There’s a drone on top of one of the train cars.”

“Drone?” Leo mumbled looking around. “Where?”

“Over there,” Yuichi pointed. Leo squinted a bit as he looked then he perked up.

“Shelldon!” Leo called out cheerfully. He tried sitting up and almost immediately tilted to the side as his face turned a pale shade of green. Yuichi squeaked as he grabbed Leo, yanking him back towards him. This just caused Leo to fall into Yuichi knocking them both on the floor. Leo landed onto top of Yuichi, his head slamming into Yuichi’s chest. Yuichi wheezed as the air was knocked out of his lungs and Leo groaned.

‘This boy is gonna kill me,’ Yuichi thought as he tried to catch his breath. His ears perked as he heard the whirring of the drone come closer and he opened his eyes to see it hovering a foot away from the two of them. A purple beam came from its eyes and Yuichi watched as they scanned over Leo’s body.

“Donnie’s not gonna like this,” The drone mumbled.

“You can talk!?” Yuichi shouted, eyes wide.

“What? You can talk too?” The drone mocked. Yuichi felt his eye twitch but before he could say anything Leo mumbled something. He quickly looked at Leo and ignored the drone (for now), sitting up as much as he could with Leo still half on top of him (Yuichi was NOT blushing because of their positions, his face was red for a totally different reason!!). Yuichi carefully moved Leo’s head to the side so his face wasn’t pressed into Yuichi’s chest.

“What was that Leo?” Yuichi asked quietly.

“Loud,” Leo whined as he grabbed onto Yuichi’s shirt. Leo’s eyes were squeezed closed and Yuichi could feel Leo’s shivering.

“Sorry, we’ll be quieter,” Yuichi apologized. Leo hummed then slowly opened his eyes and looked at the drone.

“Donnie?” Leo mumbled, looking at the drone hopefully.

‘I thought Donatello was his twin brother?’ Yuichi thought confused.

“Donnie and everyone went out looking for you,” The drone explained quietly.

‘Oh, I’m stupid.’ Of course the drone wasn’t Donatello! Wait, didn’t Leo call it something before he knocked them both over?

“Want them back,” Leo sniffled, gripping the back of Yuichi’s shirt with one hand. Yuichi tried to remain calm and gently put a hand on Leo’s shell, rubbing circles on the hard surface with his palm.

“I messaged Donnie and told him you were here,” The drone sighed softly. “He opened the message so I’m sure he’s on the way back with everyone.” Leo nodded, rubbing his face against Yuichi’s stomach. Yuichi felt flutters in his stomach and he did his best to ignore them. Instead he pressed the back of his hand to Leo’s forehead. Leo’s skin was sticky with sweat, (which doesn’t make sense, how can turtle’s sweat?). Leo sighed shakily and chirped as he closed his eyes. Yuichi wished he could have recorded that sound.

‘No stop, focus.’ Yuichi looked at the drone.

“His fever is getting worse, can you get some ice packs or something to cool him down?” Yuichi asked quietly, almost pleading with the drone. It looked at him then at Leo before looking back at Yuichi.

“Yeah, sure,” The drone sighed before flying off. It wasn’t long before it came back with a box of ice packs. Yuichi sighed in relief then grabbed one. He looked at the instructions on the pack, snapping it and shaking it up to activate it, before pressing it to the back of Leo’s neck. Leo whined and pressed himself against Yuichi’s chest, wrapping his arms around Yuichi’s waist and hugging him like a child hugging a stuffed toy.

“C-Cold,” Leo shivered. Yuichi quickly cracked another ice pack, pressing it into Leo’s side.

“I know, I know,” Yuichi murmured, using his free hand to rub circles into Leo’s shell. “But we need to get this fever down.” Leo grumbled as he tried to burrow his face into Yuichi’s chest. Yuichi let him, just as long as he wasn’t trying to remove the ice packs it would be fine (at least until Yuichi bursted into flames it would be fine). Yuichi pressed another pack to Leo’s other side when he heard an engine. The drone quickly flew off and Yuichi wanted to follow after it, but he couldn’t for two reasons. One, he didn’t want to leave Leo alone. Two, he physically couldn’t get up with Leo clinging to him like this. He was sure the drone would tell him if there was something to worry about.

‘At least I hope it would.’ The engine got louder before it quickly stopped. Yuichi jumped as something heavy and metal crashed a distance away then there were a lot of different voices yelling.

“Leo!”

“Sensei!”

“Leonardo Blue Hamato, you have some explaining to do!” Yuichi sighed then looked down at Leo. Leo was still shivering and his eyes were closed.

“Leo?” Yuichi patted Leo’s shell but Leo didn’t respond. “No no no, Leonardo you better not have passed out on me.” Footsteps were racing closer to where they were but Yuichi didn’t dare look away from Leo.

“You jerk, wake up,” Yuichi hissed. “Your family is here, wake up.”

“Who are you!?” Yuichi looked up and felt the blood drain from his face. A huge spiky turtle with a red bandana around his head was just staring at him.

‘Oh, this is how I die.’ More people came into the room and Yuichi gripped the back of Leo’s hoodie. ‘Ok, calm down. This is Leo’s family. I’m sure if I explain-’

“Get your paws off my twin,” A turtle with a metal shell and purple colored bandana hissed at Yuichi. The turtle pulled out a bo staff and purple light covered the staff. He looked prepared to charge at Yuichi. In a panic Yuichi grabbed one of Leo’s swords from the sheath Yuichi still had on his back and pointed it at the turtle. He wrapped his other arm around Leo’s shell, pulling him closer, as he pulled his knees closer to his body, his legs pressing into the sides of Leo’s shell. The turtle in purple hissed at Yuichi, the sound low and dangerous making Yuichi want to get as far away as he could. Yuichi squashed that thought as he glared back at the turtle.

‘Don’t back down, show no fear.’ Jiji’s lessons ran through his mind and he slowly took in a deep breath. ‘Calm your mind. Panic will get you nowhere.’ The red turtle put a hand on the purple one’s shoulder as a smaller orange banded turtle walked to the front of the group.

“Okay! Everyone calm down!” Yuichi quickly glanced around the group. There were three turtles, two humans, and a rat. None of them looked even closely related, aside from maybe the turtles but they were all different kinds of turtles. The purple one at least looked close to Leo’s size, but his skin was a darker green and he had purple rectangles on his arms and legs.

“Leo?” The red turtle asked quietly. Leo didn’t respond.

“What did you do to him?” The purple one hissed.

“Donnie,” The red one snapped.

“Nothing!” Yuichi snapped, then he lowered the sword. He set it on the ground as he adjusted the ice pack that was on Leo’s neck. “I mean I did cover him in ice packs but that was to try and lower his fever-”

“Fever!?” The red shouted in panic. The drone quickly flew into the room.

“He was running at thirty nine point seven celsius or one O’three point five fahrenheit, when he arrived,” The drone explained. The red turtle quickly walked over and Yuichi tried not to flinch as he pressed a large hand to Leo’s head.

‘Holy shit, he could crush my head with one hand if he wanted to!’’ Leo groaned then gripped Yuichi’s shirt as he chirped questioningly. The red turtle looked at everyone else.

“Casey, get the med bay ready for him. April, get some ice from the kitchen. Mikey, get some cold water and towels. Pops, can you try and call Draxum?” The human girl, April Yuichi assumed, quickly went to the kitchen while the rat went to the living room to call whoever Draxum was. The human boy, Casey, rushed off to one of the train cars and Yuichi looked at it for a moment as it lit up. Then the red turtle carefully moved a hand under Leo and tried lifting him up.

“Come on little brother,” He cooed softly. Leo chirped (it almost sounded a bit panicked) then tightened his grip on Yuichi. Yuichi squeaked as he started to be lifted up with Leo. The turtle that was wearing orange looked at them for a second before rushing off. The purple one walked over to Yuichi and started to push down on Yuichi’s shoulders.

“Come on Leo, let him go,” He mumbled. It took a minute before they got Leo pulled off of Yuichi. The red turtle shifted Leo so he was cradled against the larger turtle. Leo whined and chirped unhappily as he shivered.

“It’s ok Leo, Raph’s got you.” Yuichi just looked at Leo. Against the larger turtle Leo looked so small.

“Ok, get him to the med bay,” The purple turtle ordered as he pushed some goggles in front of his eyes. “His fever is starting to spike and I really don’t want to have to resort to putting him in an ice bath.” The red turtle, Raph Yuichi was guessing, nodded and quickly walked off with the purple turtle. Yuichi just sat there on the floor as Leo was carried off.

‘He’s gonna be ok,’ Yuichi thought, trying to calm himself down. ‘He’s with his family and they know what to do.’ The orange turtle came back into the room and he looked at Yuichi.

“Are you okay?” He asked softly as he shifted the bowl of water he was carrying on top of a few towels in his arms. Yuichi quickly nodded, then pushed himself to his feet. He picked up Leo’s katana and put it back into the sheath before taking the sheath off.

“Yeah, um these are his,” Yuichi muttered, as he set the sheathed blades on a nearby table. He nodded.

“Okay, thank you for taking care of Leo, he’s strong so he’s gonna be okay.” He smiled brightly. Yuichi nodded and smiled back at the turtle.

“Of course.” Yuichi swallowed then took a breath. “I’ll head home now. You all are busy with this whole situation.” Yuichi didn’t wait for a response before he ran out of the old train station and back into the sewers. He followed the path back to the manhole that they had climbed down just over half an hour ago. The cover was a pain to move but Yuichi managed it. He didn’t stop running until he was through the portal and was back in the Hidden City. Yuichi sighed as he walked back home.

He was tired, both physically and mentally. He had no idea how his night ended up like this but he was glad he had met Leo.

‘Even though I’ll probably never see him again.’ Yuichi tried not to think about it as he stuck his hands into his pockets. He froze as he felt something in his pocket. Paper? He quickly pulled it out and looked at the paper. It was the size of a post-it note and a light blue color. Yuichi flipped the paper over and a small laugh bursted out of him. Written on the back in messy big numbers was a phone number and under that was a quickly written note.

Thank you, call/text me :P

Yuichi just smiled and pressed the note to his chest. He was definitely going to text Leo, maybe in the morning though.

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