<div class="floatleft">(http://fc08.deviantart.net/fs71/f/2014/350/3/b/leo_by_jennyverse-d8a4zeh.jpg)</div>"Mistress Splinter is going to kill us..." Leonardo muttered to himself as he glanced into the den, watching Splinter meditating as he tried to think of what to say to her. How many times had she told them to keep a low profile if they went up to the surface? To remain silent and unseen? And most importantly, NOT to let anyone follow them back down to the Lair? Mikey and Raph had broken just about every rule Splinter had given them tonight, and as the 'leader' of the group, Leo knew it was on his head. Splinter had put him in charge to keep his siblings in line and out of trouble, and he had failed about as spectacularly as possible.<br/><br/>He knew he couldn't just stay hiding outside the den forever. Sooner or later he was going to have to face the music. He slowly walked into the room, trying to be quiet so as not to disturb her. "Sensei...? I need to talk to you about-WHOA!" he cried out in shock as he found himself slipping on something and falling loudly on his shell. As the offending skateboard rolled on by, he instantly knew the culprit. "Mikey..." he growled as he sat up with a grimace. She was as troublesome as she was beautiful.<br/><br/>He realized now that there was no chance of quietly interrupting Splinter's meditation now; climbing to his feet with an embarrassed expression while rubbing his bald head. "I...um...I need to talk to you. It's about Raph and Mikey. They saved someone from getting mugged tonight...but then they brought him down here." he said as he crouched down in front of her. They had been supposed to do some one-on-one training tonight, something Leonardo usually looked forward to. But right now he was more worried about how their mother was going to respond to this potentially bad news.