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I don't know what leakage means, but the best way to diminish unwanted decay with drums is to use various damping methods at the recording stage. Stick a pillow in your kick drum, put damping rings on your snare and toms, or at least put something weighty but unobtrusive on them that won't bounce around when you hit the drum. Mind where you put these dampers, though, because their position on the drum head will alter the character of the resulting sound.
Hitting your drums in the center kills off a lot of harmonics and generally gets a much shorter sound, too. You can use this method, but again be mindful, because you get a lot more character in the low end than in the high end..
As far as cymbals go, I don't know how much you can do but get cymbals that have the kind of decay you want.
A noise gate can help in the post-recording phase, as long as you get your attacks and decays right on you gater. Drum decay is somwhat unstable, so it can accidentally set off a gate before starting it again, so you want to make sure you get that right.
One thing I do with a lot of my samples is a fool around with the amp envelope to shorten sounds, this can be very helpful.
Don't use compression. Compression actually tends to deemphasize the differences between max volume and decay, because it reduces peaks but leaves the rest of the sound as it is. One you bring the gain back up, your peaks go right back where they were, but your decays are louder. As I understand, this is the opposite of your intended effect.
Hope this helps.
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