To my readers do not have fear, just my inspiration left me for awhile, hope to regain some back.

Burden

Disclaimer: Not mine.

Warning: AU, not beta, angst…

Summary: Hiding in the shadows, Mikey heard his brothers' true thoughts.

As the battle was over, which seemed to Mikey never ending, all of them sighed in relief.

Mikey, was covered with bruises, and he let Don to take care of him, never saying anything, as he noticed the way his brother keeps like a hawk, watching him.

Raph though had to know why Mikey acts this way all the time; it was starting to piss him off.

"Why are you acting like this Mikey?" Raph asked, glaring at his brother.

"Raphael!" a voice halts Raph doing something that he might regret on, as his fist closed, and he was ready to hit his brother for his foolish act.

"Now it is not the time, my sons," Splinter told to his son, motions his face toward his little son, he said, "Rest, my son."

Once they left him in the darkness, closing the door after, Mikey sobbed quietly, not knowing what he did wrong as it seemed that his brothers might not love him as he thoughts so.

Then with slow pace, he left the room, wanted to know why they left him, and they even closed the door, they didn't did it before.

Something was up.

He hidden in the shadows, and heard them.

"Master Splinter, how could we win a battle when Mikey acted like this?" Leonardo asked, while Don and Raph nodded in agreement.

The rat sighed as he asked his sons, "What did he done now?"

"Not using his weapons to fight, barely fighting at all, like everything that you been teaching us for long, seemed nothing to him." Don explained.

"What do you want me to do my sons?" Splinter asked them.

"Might not let him following us outside until he well trained, or at least focused himself of fight instead of eating Pizza." Leo replied.

Raph sighed, "Master, he just not good at anything but his childish acts, and I didn't see him act seriously, not even one time."

The blue masked turtle nodded as he heard his brother talk.

While in the shadows, Mikey asked himself, of why his brothers were so mean, and yet his daddy, master seemed careless, and not stopped them.

He could felt how the air in his lungs vanished leave him with nothing clear to breath, like a knife stabbed at his back, believing that his family loved him dearly.

Now he believed that it was all lie, and he thought that he becomes a burden to a family that didn't love him, not even when he tried to act like a hero.