tw: swearing, blood?
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even if months before you have had a moment where you looked at april with a different light, things between the two of you didn't change.
a lot of time had passed from the day you rescued her and you had probably started to stop doubting about her innocence.
but with the comments, hard glares and other little things she had started to do to set you off you couldn't help but still found her quite annoying.
you both tried to hide it the most when you were with the boys, but the moment you found yourself alone with one another it was over.
still when she suggested to take your friends out for something more than just patrolling you had to agree.
those guys deserved a break and to see the city with a different light.
that's why you ended up walking near the girl with four mutant turtles, they needed to hide in the shadow but it was taking you at least double the time to arrive to the place.
"you guys want to speed it up a little?" she asked as she thought all of the reptilians where behind her.
"are you saying turtles are slow?" asked donnie from a corner in front of you.
"that's a hurtful stereotype." said mickey with a sad tone.
"yeah, kinda racist." you fake pouted.
she rolled her eyes at you before leo explained the reason behind their behaviour.
"trust us, april. we are better off keeping a low profile. we find people treat us better when they don't know we exist." your expression fell as you were reminded of the way people would act about them, not understanding why human had this fear for the unknown.
"sorry, i'm just so excited to get you out of the sewer for a change." she responded not addressing the whole meaning of leo's phrase.
"what are you talking about? we go out all the time." answered raph really confused.
"yeah, but tonight you're going to do something besides hitting people." you nodded in agreement, before looking in his direction.
he made a face of disappointed as he probably wanted to blow off some steam.
"don't worry. you're going to love this noodle place i found."
"and you're sure we'll be welcome?" questioned donnie.
"oh, yeah. mr. murakami doesn't care what you look like. in fact, he won't even know what you look like-" you watched as she continued to talk not getting to the point.
"he's blind" you interrupted and you watched as the boys expressions changed from confused to understanding.
"awesome!"
mickey made a pained sound as he was hit behind his head by raphael making him correct his mistake.
"i mean, for us obviously."
nobody said anything else as april turned around walking away, you all started to followed her staying a little behind.
"so, [name], you saw this place?" asked leo still doubting a little.
"yeah" you responded simply still looking in front of you, your hands were in your pocket and you walked slowly to not leave the boys behind.
"is he really blind?"
"yes mickey" you chuckled turning your head in his direction, you put your right arms around his neck bringing him near you.
"and ya're sure we are not gonna get any problems?" ralph cocked an eyebrow at you.
"yep" you replayed dragging the last letter, you repeated the movement on him, putting your left arm around him a bringing him close crushing the both of them against you.
after that nothing more was said as you continued your walk.
you arrived in front of the resteràunt but you stopped in your tracks as you watched the silhouette of some men fighting.
you heard april make a worried sound as donnie asked for some information about those people.
"the purple dragons. they think they own the streets around here." responded the redhead.
you looked at the boys before voicing your thoughts "want to show them the truth?"
leo looked around for a second before making you hide behind a corner ready to go inside,he had jestured to april to wait outside and that was what she was doing, or at least for now.
"so much for not hitting people tonight." groaned leo.
you shrugged moving your eyes on raph noticing how he looked really happy.
leo made a sign with his hand that probably meant 'let's go' and you all ran inside ready to kick their butt.
"booyakasha!" screamed mickey before you all fall in position taking a look at your surrandings.
there were three man with body full of tatoos, they all looked kinda alike.
"all right, let him go. you don't want any trouble." started leo with his leader's voice.
"we, on the other hand, do." continued raph, excitements filling his body at the thought of beating those people.
"whoa, those guys were serious. they really are giant turtles."
"i'm sorry, why everybody always forget about me?" you asked exasperated.
"i don't know but, you've heard of us? dudes, we're famous." happily said mickey turning in your direction.
"that's bad." reminded him donnie while you rolled your eyes.
"oh. right."
"whatever you are, this neighborhood is ours. so why don't you slither back to the ocean you came from?" one of the men replied wanting nothing to do with all of you.
"actually, we're freshwater turtles-" started donatello.
"yeah man, do your research!" you interrupted with a little smirk.
"-i suspect that we're derived from the diamondback terrapin but it's possible we're a common box-" you all looked at him with confusion as you thought he would've stopped after your interruption.
"get 'em!" screamed the one on top of the table and the others obligated running in your direction.
the fight was real easy and as the man you were fighting was kicked by donnie and mickey you let yourself look to raph.
you didn't know way but the way he kicked those criminals with nonchalant was really satisfying for your eyes making you follow his every move.
the only thing dragging you back to reality was seeing april getting almost hurt, you quickly took a knife throwing it against the plate making it shatter before coming near her.
she gave you a thanking glance before resuming her rescue.
you watched all the boys fight and you noticed how they were a lot more skilled than the other three.
you watched as leo let the leader go, a glimpse of doubt crossed his face and you smiled at him to let him know that it was okey, that he had did the right thing.
"come on. let's go." said the 'boos' getting the other two out "this ain't over, greeny."
"'greeny'? really? i wonder how many brain cells he put to work on that."
"i don't donnie, guess all" you smirked making mickey give you an high three.
"you just let him go? what the heck was that?" screamed raphael.
you put your hand to your face pinching your nose as you could only imagine how all this thing could escalate.
"they weren't exactly a threat. they'd had enough." replied leonardo already done with ralph.
"dude! they were beating up a blind guy. there's no 'enough'. now they'll think we're wimps and we don't have the guts to finish the job." continued raph.
you had to admit it was a good point, you knew leo had a lot on his shoulder and letting those guys go had probably been a thought choice for him but it was true that what they were doing was really bad.
"wow that was great, you guys." complimented april as she came back in.
"thanks, april. did you see when I caught the one guy and flipped him onto the counter? did it look cool? i bet it looked cool." started to rumble donatello as he tried to sound smooth.
"the coolest." replied april trying to sound convincing.
"you didn't see it, did you?"
"no, I did not."
"don't worry donnie, it was indeed really cool" you talked from behind her giving him a
wink.
"my friends, i'm indebted to you. please, allow me to make you a meal. free of charge." said the chef and you could heard the sincerity in his voice.
you smiled as you put your elbows on raph shoulder tilting your body in his direction, using him to help you stand.
"i think we can allow that." he replied.
"what is your favorite dish?" asked murakami.
"oh that's an easy one" you chuckled.
"pizza!" the boys all screamed together bringing a smile to your face, you didn't notice raph's eyes linger on you for a little, but his brothers did.
you move to sit down and you waited for murakami to cook you a meal, you watched as he did crazy tricks with the food leaving you speachless.
"oh, murakami-san, that was awesome!" complimented donatello.
"you're like a ninja but for food, like the game!" screamed mickey before turning towards you and putting his hands on your shoulder to shake you "[name], [name], what's the game called?"
"uh, fruit ninja?" you asked not really sure of why he was getting so worked up.
"yeah! he's like food ninja"
as you finished your little chat with mickey the chef put a plate down on the table in front each one of you and you took a good look at it noticing the perfection of every piece.
"pizza gyoza." called it murakami.
"pizza gyoza?" asked april a little confused.
you rolled your eyes at her judging, she didn't even taste it and was already thinking that it was bad.
you all took a bite and you fall in love, it felt amazing, it was like when you tasted pizza for the first time but ten times better.
you all complimented the chef thanking him for his kind gesture before you were interrupted by the red head.
"this is really good too, you know."
"did we ask?" you murmured looking down pretending to play with your food.
"uh, murakami-san, do the purple dragons come around a lot?" suddenly asked leo stopping april before she could say some comments towards you.
he sighed before responding "yes. they demand protection money but i refuse to pay. they will surely return." he admitted and you turned your head to your left to look at leo's face.
"well, they wouldn't if somebody hadn't wimped out." commented raphael, you tilted your body to look behind leo's head and you gave him a hard glare to make him shut up.
raphael pretended like he didn't notice but you knew he did, as you put your body back in the right position you watched as mickey's hand came into view only to steal the last piece of foods from leo's plate.
mickey eat it making you roll your eyes as leo looked at him angry, you took your sticks and moved the last pieces of pizza gyoza on the leader's plate making him eat in silence.
-☆彡
to say the tension in the lair was thick was an understatement, raph couldn't help but remind leo of his act of weakness anytime he could making the leader doubt of his choices.
one time leonardo was kicking the punch bag, you set with your back against donnie's legs watching the tv, and mickey was on the sofa in front of you.
it had been some hours of just these, no thoughts in your head as you concentrated on the screen in front of you, the only other sounds being leo's fist connecting with the bag.
it had felt nice, having these little moments of comfort always brought you some stability and happiness.
while you were so focused you didn't heard raph's coming into the room, you realised only when he opened his mouth to tease his brother, again.
"whoa, whoa, leo. i think he's had enough. you better let him go."
you sighed tilting your head behind looking up towards donatello, he looked right back at you with the same exhausted expression not wanting to hear all of that for the tenth time.
"i get it. you're making fun of me for not mercilessly pummeling a helpless man."
"yes, i am. you showed weakness. those guys only understand one language."
"chinese?" asked mickey bringing a smile to your face, in the corner of your eyes you saw raph go in front of him and you tried to not put yourself into the conversation.
"no. fists." he responded.
"what about feet?" sincerely questioned michelangelo.
"they understand feet." you coughed trying to hide a laugh at raph's defeated expression.
"that would make them bilingual." added donnie making you point him with a finger to agree with him while still keeping your eyes on the show.
"the point is we can't go soft on them!" tried to explain raphael as his brother pushed his button.
"to show mercy is not soft. it is a sign of true strength." interrupted master splinter.
"but, sensei, they're criminals. this is war." raphael said, trying to make him see his point.
"a daimyo of the sixteen century once said 'in times of peace, never forget the possibility of war. in times of war, never forget compassion.'"
"i'm guessing that guy lost a lot of wars." talked back raph.
your sensei brought his stick near his face making the terrapin gasps at the sudden movement.
"you see? mercy." he replied and you could swear that you had heard a smirk before he did the same movement this time hitting the green skin.
"okay, look. compassion is great. but the purple dragons are not going to leave murakami alone." replied raphael holding his shoulder, you started to sit up brushing yourself of any dirt before you walked in front of master splinter.
"so we'll track down the dragons and make sure they got the message. and if they didn't, we'll send them one. special delivery." replied leonardo making you smile at his leadership.
"was that meant to sound tough or stupid?-" as always your hand made contact with the back of his head making him do an exaggerated pained sound.
"how are we gonna track someone down when we can't talk to anybody?" asked donatello from him sitting spot.
you looked to the leader and as you made eye contact an idea came to your mind, you knew he had gotten the same thoughts when he smirked at you making you frown back.
"don't worry, [name] has it covered." replied leo while you rolled your eyes.
a text was enough and moments after you were walking down the street, wearing a cap and sunglasses to hide your face.
and as you walked near april you couldn't help but re-think all the times you had judged the avengers' for dressing the same way as you when running away from the police.
you had always thought that they looked stupid and that two items were 't gonna make them hide that much, but now as you wearing them you realised that you felt a lot more safe than you thought.
you were lost in your thoughts, the red head not saying a word , until she put an arm in front of you to stop you from going any further.
"we're here." she said pointing towards a man cleaning the street.
as you approached him you took out your glasses hanging them to the collar of your hoodie.
april did the first move tapping the man on the shoulder to make him turn around and focus on the both of you.
"we're looking for the purple dragons." she said trying to looking smooth as she frenetically looked around.
"i don't know what you're talking about." he responded looking scared, you could both look through his lie and you looked at him with blank look.
"don't worry, we can protect you. we're undercovers cops." continued april as you kept your mouth shut.
"you look like you're sixteen" he murumured back making you roll your eyes.
"we know." you talked back as it was obvious.
"we're really good at this." chuckled the other girl, sending you an hard glance.
"let me see a badge." he said still doubting of your true identity.
you watched as april started to look a little anxious and you quickly talked for her trying to save both your covers.
"are you crazy? we can't carry a badge. that would blow our cover." you said always with the same nonchalant tone.
"i suppose that makes sense." he replied scratching his head, you both realised that he had fallen for it and you looked at each other with a smirk.
"so?" asked april prompting him to say something.
you listened to all he had to say after he begged you to protect him from the group, you felt bad for the man but you made a mental note to ask for the boys to keep an eye on him.
after the chat you hided in a dark alley and you took out your t-phone to text the others, you told them the address before calling april's name and going back home.
-☆彡
you were listening to donatello as he explained to you their little encounter with the purple dragons and mickey's 'ex best friend' bradford.
"-at the end leo made us run back home since we preferred to stay alive and, here we are."
you set on the couch with mickey's head on your legs as you looked at him trowing his head behind in exhaustion.
"man, could that fight have been any more embarrassing?" rhetorically asked raphael as he punched the poor punching bag.
"sure. we could have been hit in the face with pies."
ralph growled at him and you rolled your eyes, the terrapin was to busy punching the bag to realise the way you were petting his brother's head.
but now that he was looking at the both of you, growling at his brother's bad joke, a part of his mind noticed how he felt a weird, bad feeling in his stomach, did he wanted to be at his brother's place?
thankfully leo talked back making raph mentally thank him for his leader's side and their need to stand up for their self.
"it's called fighting smart, raph. the purple dragons have bradford and xever on their side now. last time, we barely beat those guys."
"yeah, because they're willing to fight to the finish. the only way to beat them is to be just as ruthless as they are." raphael said back, walking in his brother's face.
"raphael, this xever can cross lines that you won't. this may make him dangerous, but it does not make him strong." added his opinion mister splinter making the room fell quiet.
"but xever wins fights. isn't that what matters? and he never shows anyone 'mercy'." he responded looking away from leo.
lately that day you found yourself exchanging some words with your leader, you had see his face as he made the choice to let the man go and you could only imagine how much he was rethinking that moment in his mind.
you arrived in front of his room, and you quietly knocked on the door, loud enough for only the two of you to hear.
you heard him say that the door was open , a thing that you already knew, and you walked inside finding him set down on the floor cleaning his katana.
you closed the door behind you without turning around before slowly walking near him.
"can i?" you asked still not sure if he really wanted you there right now.
he nodded, giving you only a glance, you sent him a smile before getting your spot near him.
"how's my leader doing?" you questioned trying to not make it sound too deep.
"could do better" he quickly responded, this time keeping his eyes on the weapon in his hands.
"i'm pretty sure that he's doing his best" you said back still with a small smile slightly tilting your head.
he sighed closing his eyes before throwing his head behind (a thing that you noticed all the brothers , and you, did a lot).
"what are you doing here?" he murmured opening his eyes to tilt his head towards you.
"checking up on my big brother." you talked, your smiled fading away as you noticed the seriousness of the conversation.
"that's the big brother's job, to check on the others and-" started to explain leonardo still not understanding why you were there with him and not playing with michelangelo in the other room.
"-bottle up his thoughts and feelings untill he feels like trowing up?" you sassed looking at him right in the eyes.
he didn't responded looking right back at you whitout saying anything, you knew him like you knew all of his brothers and you understood him like them, sometimes even more.
"look leo, i don't know what's going on in that leader's brain of yours but i can tell it's not good" you watched as he opened his mouth to say something before you stopped him continuing your talk "i know that you have a lot of pressure on you and that you are a crazy over thinker but i also know that you have a family that loves you so, so much; even if sometimes it doesn't seems like it."
he smiled at you, you watched him back and in his mind everything became right, you had always been there for them ever since he could remember.
when you were five and mickey scraped his knee for the first time falling of his skate, and you took care of him for the whole day; at six when you took the blame for the broken sai when everyone knew it had been raph's in a moment of anger, at eight when donnie made you stay awake the whole night just because of one of mickey's silly little question.
you were there even when donnie asked to use you as a tester for his new experiment which caused you to burn some ends of your hairs (nobody ever knew how it happened and you both refused to tell them); you were the first to listen to leo's rambling about space heroes; and the first to (fake) try mickey's way of cooking.
you were the one to found spike and give it to raphael as you thought that he would need someone else to be there to listen to him; when mickey wanted to learn how to braid hairs and you stayed stiff for hours trying to explain it to him ,and failing; when donnie's tooth fall, leaving the gap that was now still visible; and even when leo broke his first katana and felt like a failure and needed someone to reassure him.
you had always helped the guys stop every argument and you had always been ready to listen to all of their crap about every single little thing.
he hugged you with all his force making you fall a bit for the impact, you hugged him back his head down on your shoulder.
you heard him take a little breath to regain a feeling of reality before he murmured a little 'thank you' on your shoulder, you smiled at his softness reminding yourself that you were all still teenagers and not some crazy superheroes.
"you know i'll always be there for all of you." you replayed before he broke the embrace to look you right in the eyes.
"not just about this, about everything" and your eyes started to water, you didn't thought anyone had noticed your little things but in reality everyone did, and hearing him say those words to you made you feel a lot more understood.
you hugged him again and you both closed your eyes finding some peace in that moment.
sadly everything was stopped by the sound of the t-pod, making you both take them out.
it was two simple texts from april.
'sos'
and an address who you knew belonged to mr. murakamis' restaurant.
-☆彡
you arrived at the place as soon as you could the boys right behind you. using the roof you couldn't help but send some glances to the stars always finding beauty in them.
"april, what's wrong?" asked leo, and only in that moment you noticed you had arrived.
you jumped down from the roof sending a nod towards the red head.
"it's murakami." she said before making you all enter the restaurant. "someone took him and left this."
she pointed a note on the wall, a knife holding it still.
"sweet! free knife." happily chanted mickey not realising the truth.
"the note, dummy." scolded him donnie as you tried to hide a chuckle, from behind him you put your head on mickey's shoulder watching donnie read the misterious note. "'no more running. if you want the old man, meet us on the roof of the fortune cookie factory.'"
"well, what are we waiting for? let's bust in there and save murakami." you had always admired raphael want to save everyone but you noticed how sometimes it blinded his judgment.
"not so fast. think, raphael." tried to warn him leonardo.
"there's two words that don't usually go together." commented donnie making you hit his head from behind, he turned around putting a hand on it before murmuring an exaggerated 'aw' in your direction.
you brought your focus an leo after you sticked out your tongue to donatello, listening to his words.
"this is obviously a trap."
you nodded at his words walking near him.
"well, what choice do we have?" angrily asked raphael not understanding what his brother wanted to do.
"maybe we do need to think more like xever." leonardo commented making you look at him confused, leo couldn't be really suggesting what you were thinking? it wasn't in his character to do something like these.
you and donnie talked at the same time.
"wait,what are you saying-"
"but, master splinter said-"
"i know. but xever crossed the line dragging murakami into this. he's got to learn that we can cross the line too. no more 'mr. nice turtle.'" leonardo interrupted the both of you and even if in that moment, he was holding on a hard exterior you knew that inside it was the opposite.
"yes! i never liked mr. nice turtle." said ralph making you sending an other glare in his direction to which he replied with a sincerely confused one.
"let's do this i guess" you talked, hoping to do it as fast as possible to have some time to bring back some sense into those turtles' brains.
that's why moments after you found yourself sitting on top of a roof, feet hanging on the side, waiting for bradford's arrival; you were counting the stars to help you distract yourself from everything that was gonna happen.
the feeling in your guts was telling you that this plan wouldn't go exactly as leo planned and you were just hoping for a positive ending.
you hadn't say a words since the restaurant only giving some smiles to donnie and mickey to let them know it wasn't them that you were mad at.
you kept your gaze up not addressing the terrapins behind you even in the slightest, they were being so, dumb.
why couldn't they listen to your sensi you didn't know but you knew that you needed to make them think about all of this as soon as you could.
as soon as you thought that you found a presence sit right near you in the same position, you knew who it was whiteout even tilting your head.
"come on, say it." the voice said, you kept your mouth shut moving your eyes from one star to another.
"[name] i know ya want to say it so just do it." he hunted just wanting you to address his presence, he hated this feeling; you were making him feel like a ghost, and he just wanted you to turn around and look him right in the eyes.
"oh my god will ya stop with the silent treatment? just fucking talk to me!" he said from your side, and that outburst was the trigger.
"no raph, i won't! you're a fucking baby, you know what i'm going to say, but you still want to hear it coming from me. but you know what?" you talked right back before getting up not feeling comfortable anymore on the cold surface.
"i'm going to make you happy" you sassed as he got up too just to get in each others faces, he towered over you but it wasn't something that you were afraid of and you ignored it as you continued your talk..
"i don't know what the fuck is going on with you but i don't need you to rub all of this shit on leo, he was doing a good fucking job as leader but you're making him do a bad. choice."
you stopped, bringing a finger on his plastron before getting even more near his face.
"and you. fucking. know it."
your finger hit him at every word and he felt like it was a knife hitting his heart; you were right, on everything.
he knew leo shouldn't do all of these and he knew that he also didn't want to really do it.
he also knew what you were gonna say to him so why did he pressured you so much on saying it? and why was it hurting that much to hear the truth come from you?
he knew you had read him in a second, thanks to his eyes but he couldn't let the facade fall so he grunted in your face, angrily moving your hand away form near him before glaring at you and turning around.
but just before doing the last movement he did a step back looking at you right in the eyes.
"you never take sides with us, uh?" he said , making you remember the conversation of months prior.
your eyes hardened and you pretended that that phrase didn't do nothing to you, but you both know it did.
he walked away leaving you alone under the stars, you moved your eyes up but this time it wasn't comfort that you found, only nothing.
because for the first time the stars didn't felt like an amazing thing that you wanted to know everything about, but just some stupid lights that didn't affect anything that was happening to you.
-☆彡
the brothers hadn't hear the conversation between you and the hothead, but they could feel the tension between you two.
and it wasn't a good one, as mickey said.
leo knew your talk was supposed to bring some sense into his brain and not do this but how could they win if their opponent was ten steps ahead?
he brought all of your focus on him bringing you at the end of the roof to talk to you about what was about to happen.
"okay, he's strong, so speed and stealth are essential. okay, everybody know the plan? mikey?"
"yes"
"are you sure?"
"yes."
"tell me what it is."
"um maybe we should go over it one more time?"
you smiled before walking towards him to explain the plan to him, again.
moments after bradford was making his way out of the door, raph distracted him as you all jumped down and after some fights he was thrown and captured in a bin.
"gentlemen, welcome to the other side of the line." he said smirking, you rolled your eyes just wanting to punch the grin of his face.
"now i'm definitely going to need a tat." commented mickey only to be hit by raphael, you hit him back making him turn towards you with confusion but you didn't address him.
he turned towards mickey again only to found him sticking out his tongue.
raphael and mickey took the bin on their shoulder only to make it fall.
"sorry." excused himself michelangelo not realising who he was apologising too.
"don't apologize to him." talked raph.
"i mean, sorry i didn't drop you harder!" sassed mickey making his brother smirk proudly at him.
and even if you were mad at him with all your guts you couldn't help but smile a little at the two brothers, and the way raph loved all of them so much.
"there you go!" said raph bringing his eyes on you and he could swear that he had seen a small smirk on your face.
you brought brad off with you at the meeting point with xever.
as you arrived you hides behind a corner donnie pointing up towards one of the roofs.
"you guys. look."
you found yourself watch mr. murakamison hang with a cord, a single cut and he would fall.
your brain began to put together thousand of different outcomes and you breathed in and out to calm yourself before following the terrapins up.
"we're here, xever. now let the noodle man go." warned them leo.
"sorry, there's been a change of plans." said xever not wanting to loose a single battle against all of you.
"actually, there's been another change of plans." sassed leonardo making you open the bin to let xever see his friend.
"i love it when a change of plans comes together." commented donatello thinking they had won.
"you let our friend go and we'll let your friend go." added leonardo.
in donnie's mind everything was done and now they could go easily back home and relax, while he daydreamed about a certain redhea-
xever's laugh interrupted his thoughts and you felt the feeling in you stomach stop knowing that this was the point we're leo's plan would fail.
"he's not my friend."
"we're not kidding. okay, s-stop or we'll toss him." he tried to sound convincing but it didn't work, everyone knew they would had never do anything like that.
"go ahead. it'll save me the trouble." but sever would, that's why he started to cut murakamison's cord making your stomach drop.
"uh, raph?" asked leo, and only then you realised that it was your raphael that was holding bradford up the roof on the street.
"aw, shit" he murmured as he made eye contact with you, you already knew he would've never do something like this but he still made you get mad.
he brought the man back up not wanting to risk others lifes.
"tat's what i thought. attack!"ordered xever making the ninjas run towards you.
the fight started pretty well and it was enough to distract raphael from everything else but when he looked around him after kicking one of theirs butt he found himself petrified.
there was you, at the center of the roof angrily kicking everyone.
he had to admit you were looking really good not letting anyone come too near you without being throw away.
he knew that he was probably the cause for all that angers but he couldn't stop himself from admiring you- uh your fighting skills.
still nonjas kept coming from every angle and soon you found yourself get cornered near the brothers.
"all right. let's settle the score, pond scum." said bradford.
"we're the ones who didn't want to throw you off the roof." tried to remember him donnie hoping that it would've been enough to end this.
you fought and fought but they were a lot more then you and as you were distracted by donnie and mickey getting hit a kick in your stomach made you lend near them.
you watched as raph was kicked down and you and leo both screamed his name at the same time.
sadly littler later leonardo was kicked down too, you watched him try to get up but he was too tired.
you felt a hand on yours and you looked at raphael's one touching your skin.
you felt him squeeze your hand and you squeezed it back, you were blocking out the voices of bradford and sever and you tried to concentrate on what was happening, you were disarmed and badly hit but you had to get up.
leo's katana fell in front of you and you gave it a glance only to found yourself reflected on it.
your face made an angry expression and you started to get up, you took your knife looking around only to find your sword on the other side of the roof.
"now, if you'll excuse me, it's time to cut these turtles into little pieces." commented clever only to turn around and find all of your up ready to fight.
"i don't think so." commented leo , you all hit the ninjas more near you kicking them away.
leo made water fall from the cisterne making everyone get dragged away by it, you quickly jumped catching your sword before it could get lost forever.
you turn around only to find mickey copy your movements to save the chef.
"i got him!" you heard him say and you breath a sigh of relief as you looked at him crushed between his other three brothers.
you helped them up using all your force and only then you brought your eyes down feeling your legs hurt even more.
you caught a glimpse of red and you quickly looked back up trying to not alarm anyone.
you don't know how you walked to the restaurant whiteout giving away that you were feeling a lot of pain but you were grateful for it.
murakami gave the plate to you but you almost threw it on raph as you were afraid that a little more weight on you would've made you fall.
"accept this token of my gratitude. pizza gyoza."he said.
"awesome. thanks, murakami-san." thanked him donatello eyeing the plate with heart eyes.
"you're welcome, turtle-san." he replied making you all tilt your upper body down only to realise his words.
the turtle's body stiffened and they stopped in their tracks to look at him.
"wait, how did you-" started to talk donatello only to be interrupted by him.
"i do have other senses. touch, smell." he answered making you all turn to mickey, you had to admit that they all smelled a lot ( especially after a fight) but now you were so used to it that you almost didn't felt it anymore.
"you don't think we're weird and scary?" questioned leo making you put an hand on his shoulder.
find people that wouldn't hate them was hard those days and you were feeling so happy that they finally found some other human that accepted them.
"you saved my life. who am i to complain?"
mickey hugged him and you felt your heart in your throat as you looked at the scene, you loved those boys so much and they had always deserved the world.
you didn't realise but you put your head down on raph's shoulder making his body tense at the sudden contact.
this quick movement made you stiff up again not daring to look at him.
he still owned you some apologies.
-☆彡
when you arrived back you had little time for yourself, you ran to the shower ready to scrap all the dirt away.
you let your head rest against the wall as you let the water fall down on your body.
the blood on your legs coloured the floor of the shower, you watched as the injury became more evident.
washing yourself would've been easy if it wasn't for the pain of cleaning the cut to prevent it from getting infected.
you knew you would've to ask donnie for bandage after but you didn't want to alarm them after finally getting some time to relax.
that's why you put your music high enough to cover your groan of pain, you used the last bandage on your little aid kit under your bed to stop the blood.
you rolled it around your legs doing the knot over your cut just as donatello told all of you other times.
you dressed with comfy and baggy clothes to stay comfortable and hide the injured leg.
just as you were using a towel to finish drying your hair you heard a knock on your door.
"it's open" you screamed over the music before quickly walking towards it to lower the volume.
you turned around before stopping in your tracks.
rapheal coughed trying to fill the awkward silence and for a second you look at each other without saying anything.
you didn't know what to think, a part of you wanted him here so he could apologise to you but the other part was afraid that you needed some more time alone.
still he was here now, and you couldn't do a lot about it.
in the meanwhile raph was petrified, even if he repeated the words in his head he was afraid of saying something wrong.
he had made you quite angry but he just hoped that you would forgive him, even if not now.
he took a deep breath, before oping his mouth to start say something.
"i'm sorry for-"
"i'm sorry that-"
you talked at the same times, you stopped to look at each other; while you fidget with the end of your shirt he did the same with his finger.
"uh- you go first?" he asked with a nervous chuckle not sure of what to say.
you nodded.
"i'm sorry that i screamed at you, i was angry but that didn't give me the right to talk to you like that" as you talked you knew he wanted to say something but the waited for you to finish before giving you his side of the talk.
"you don't have to be sorry, i quite literally asked for it" he replied, his hand on his back in an awkward gesture "i'm the one that should be- no, is sorry, i don't know what came over me but i didn't want to do anything bad i swear."
"i know raphie, i know" you responded, the use of the 'secret' nickname brought a smirk to his face.
"so you forgive me?" he asked still not sure of what was happening.
"only if you forgive me too" you responded making a step near him.
he did the same, bringing you in the same position of the fight, only this time both your voice was just above a whisper.
"i do" he said.
"good, cause i do too." you smiled.
you hugged each other, that had been your first big fight in years; and you didn't know what you would've done if it caused to make things wrong between you two.
as you hugged you remembered other events of the day and, not moving your face from his neck, you talked.
"you and blue?"
"all good, he just finished chasing me around the lair" he laughed, his breath on your neck making your skin freeze.
you hummed in appreciation, knowing that you had to talk again with the leader too.
but for now you were good like that, hugging your best friend, both not realising that you were swinging with the music.
but maybe that was the point, being so in sync that you weren't realising it.
or maybe you were just two obvious soul that had meet each other, again.
*･゜ﾟ･*:.｡..｡.:*･''･*:.｡. .｡.:*･゜ﾟ･*
a/n:
7239 words!!
what's with me and thinking the longest chapters are the shortest.
still i finally updated, i know, shocking.
the next chapter is coming sooner don't worry.
next chapter is gonna be the first step for a big change eheheheh.
also i did a tiktok account were i post some edits about this story, if you want to check it out it's '.callmesa_'
thanks for your time like always <33
-sa :)