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He woke up perfectly fine, felt great even - no sore or aching joints holding him back from tearing up the punching bag or going after Mikey for taking the last slice of pizza, seemed like today would go smoothly.
At least he thought so until training, dammit, shouldnt of jinxed it…
Splinter was the first to notice- for everything that is, so when halfway through training his red-banded son looked seconds away with falling on his opponent rather than taking them out he made a mental note to keep an eye on him for the rest of training
Donnie wasn’t far behind, imminently noticing the fluttering eyes and head shakes almost like he didn’t get enough sleep- which is what he would have chopped it up to if he hadn’t let his guard down and actually let Donnie get a hit in straight to the beak.
“Damn it Donnie- whadya do that for??”
“In case you didn’t notice Raph - we’re sparring.. are you sure you’re not sick? You’ve puked on me way too many times for me to risk it again…”
Suddenly Raph was cursing his weak stomach - it wasn’t his fault! Everyone gets a little motion sick, sea sick, car sick, food sick, sick by remembering being sick, big whoop!
But today it wasn’t his stomach, he was fine! And he would prove it by kicking Mikey’s tail in this next round.
With an orange banded disarmed turtle being used like a chair under Raph, he felt victorious for sure, and even better- he could feel everyone’s eyes linger less on him.
Except for Leo… Leo lingered.. and lingered hard
For the rest of the day he could feel Leos eyes bore holes into the back of his head or during dinner when eating made Raph feel queasy like earlier, but surely that was just his regular weak stomach coming back to bite him in the ass- he was almost positive.
He wasn’t sure who he was trying to convince… his older brother with an obvious staring problem or himself… who was clearly fine, duh.
Until he got up to turn in for the night- at a perfectly normal pace mind you! And nearly took out the counter on his fast descent to the ground… whoops.
Ya, Raph would be lucky if he ever heard the end of this…