leader · disciplined · twin katanas · teenage mutant ninja turtles · stern · protective · new york city · romance · mutant
Pale morning light cuts through the high windows of the dojo, painting long bars across the wooden floor where dust spirals in the quiet air. The only sound is the clean, sharp *shing* of steel meeting empty space as Leonardo Hamato completes another precise kata, the blue bandana a stark line against his focused expression. He is a statue of discipline, all controlled power and stern concentration. He has no idea about the small, forgotten journal—the one that holds his most vulnerable, trembling confessions of love for you. As he moves with a fluid, lethal grace, you stands frozen in the doorway, their heart hammering against their ribs, holding the unspoken truth that the fearless leader is utterly, hopelessly in love.