CH:25 New Roommate

Once Leonardo and I get into the sewers I couldn't keep quiet anymore, "So what was with that chick?"

Leo turns his head and looks at me with his electric blue eyes that are tainted with redness while continuing to keep walking. "Her name is Karai, and she is a very talented Kunoichi ninja", he says surprisingly defensive.

I squint my eyes at him and point out, "She is in the FOOT CLAN and resorts to underhanded trickery!" At this we both stop and my anger gets the best of me. I point my finger at him poking him in the chest, "Maybe if you weren't making googly eyes at her the whole time, you might have actually got the upper hand in that fight!" With that said, I stormed off into the tunnels before he could respond. Leaving Leo behind, standing with a look mixed between surprise and confusion as he is still trying to rub the blinding powder out of his eyes.

I ran back as fast as I could to get away from him. 'I just need some distance', I kept thinking to myself and before I knew it I was standing in front of the entry tunnel to our home.

When I got back in the lair, Mikey was the only turtle home and he is already in the kitchen. Out of curiosity I went to go see what he was up to. When I entered the kitchen I saw a stack of cooking books, bags of ingredients and Mikey, all sitting on the counter. With a straw in his mouth he is drinking something creamy with a cook book in his hand.

"Hey Mike! Found anything good?" I couldn't help but ask as I eye up this mess.

"Shell yeah I did!!" He exclaims excitedly while he puts down the book, jumps off the counter and walks up to me, "You gotta try this! It's called a milkshake!"

I take the drink from his hand and sniff it first. 'It smells like strawberries...' I pull my mask down so my mouth is exposed and suck on the straw. Mikey is looking at me with sheer excitement on his face. The moment the thick drink touches my tongue it's like my taste buds start dancing. "Shit! This is better then sensei's tea!"

"I know right! It's freaking delicious!" He says as he extends his hand to take the drink back.

I ignore his hand and turn to walk away, "Yup, way to delicious to share."

"Hey! That was mine first!" Mikey pouts as I start to chuckle.

My chuckle turns a bit maniacal as I look over my shoulder and say, "But you can always make more. Maybe the next one will be better." With that, I was out of the kitchen.

I head strait to Leo's room to change out of my ninja outfit and to take my bags out of his room. For some reason it just doesn't feel right staying in there anymore.

I decided to change my outfit up a bit and grabbed one of my extra long sleeve black shirts, and with my claws, I tear the torso in half making it into a crop top. Then I took the sleeves and held them horizontally, putting little scratches all the way down the outside of the sleeve. I put my improvised top on and my white skin shows through a bunch of little torn slits on the arms when I'm wearing it. Next I start digging through my bags, 'Oh I know it's in here somewhere... There they are!' I pull out a pair of tight jeans that are an even darker green than my ninja mask and jump into them. I start doing some stretches and lunges as a I think, 'Wow! These are really stretchy!' But in the end I still have to put on a belt to go over my tail to keep them up and topping the outfit off with my signature black combat boots of course. Keeping the ninja eye mask on but letting my hair free fall, I put my green eye mask on top, keeping my hair from falling all over.

I throw all my stuff back into the bags and with a huff I pull all 5 bags through the doorway out of Leo's room. All bags in one hand and my drink in the other, just to run into Raphael.

"Sorry, Raph. I-I didn't see you there." I stammered out, kind of embarrassed.

"All good. I was looking for Leo, you seen him?" but before I could even answer he looks down at my bags and asks, "Moving out?" As he fails to hide a smile.

I glare back at Leo's room, "Yeah, I'm not feeling very... welcome... I can just crash on the couch." I end with a shrug, trying to not make a big deal out of it.

Raph takes my bags in one smooth movement and says, "No worries, you can crash on my bunk."

I cheer up a bit, "Really? You don't mind?"

"Not one bit, I know how you like your privacy." With a wink he starts walking towards his room.

I giggle a bit as I follow him. When we entered his room he walks over to a mostly bare counter and set my bags down. I look around and notice the bed and a smile grows across my face, "Thank the stars, it's not a hammock!"

He chuckles as he turns towards me, "Yeah, I'm a bit to heavy for those, they always break on me." He scratches the back of his head a bit embarrassed, "So Donny helped me build this bunk instead. Its pretty comfortable and spacious. Even for a big guy like me." He finishes, flashing me a smerk.

I giggle a bit and play with a strand of hair as I look around. On the other side of the room there is a shelf that has a pillow with a cute little tortoise sitting on it, looking at me. "Who is this little guy?" I ask as I walk up to him.

Raphs voice turns surprisingly soft as he says, "That's Spike. I found him in the gutter when I was a kid and I have been taking care of him since." He comes over and grabs a leaf of lettuce from a container and holds it in front of Spike to take a few bites.

My heart warms at his compassion. I look at him with sparkling eyes, "Wow Raph, I didn't know you could be so caring."

He chuckles a bit and looks down at me. When we make eye contact I realize just how close we were standing. A devilish smirk spreads across his rigid features. "Yeah? Well you better not tell anyone or I might have to punish you." His eyes fill with desire and his hand slides around my wast, pulling me into him. Making me gasp at the sudden contact of his hand on the bare skin of my lower torso below my crop top, and slightly throwing me off balance form shock. As I fall into his chest my hands land on his shoulders, and I end up pressing my milkshake up against his skin making him jump a bit from the cold.

An evil giggle slips between my lips, "Sorry Raph" but I did not seem very sincere as I couldn't stop smiling and giggling. I took a sip of my drink to try to shut myself up, moaning a bit at the sweet flavor.

Raph gives me a funny look as his other arm wraps around my waist. But that hand lands a bit low on my hip, beside my tail. With his fingers grazing my cheek and his thumb hooking in my belt. As I'm totally wrapped in his embrace he asks, "So what exactly are you drinking?"

I look up at his big pools of liquid gold for eyes and reply, "Mikey made it. It's called a milkshake and it's fucking delicious! Here, try some!"

With that I hold it up so the straw is at his mouth. He take a long sip as his eyes get wider and wider. I literally have to take it away from him as he is drinking all my goodness. 'Damn it! I knew this was to delicious to share.' I complained to myself as I notice that there's only a quarter left.

I pout at my almost empty drink making Raph chuckle. "You're right, that was really good. Almost as good as pizza." Making my eyes roll. "I'm sure Mikey will make more in the future, no need to get so sad." Raph points out.

I heave a sigh, still looking at my drink as I mumble, "But it was so good.." Then I quickly sucked up the rest before Raph steals more.

He just chuckles at my antics and squeezes me a bit tighter. Without even realizing it I have grown quite comfortable in his embrace.

Just as I'm starting to really relax a thought hits me. I look up at his shinning golden eyes and ask, "Hey, you said that you were looking for Leo?"

His eyes start to darken as he remembers what he was doing before I distracted him. "Yeah, me and Casey found something and I wanted to bring it up to Leo. Do you know where he is?"

"Last I saw him he was still in the tunnels." I point out as I start to feel bad that I left him. Just then we heard the entry door slide open. "Maybe that's him." I point out as I tried to wriggle free from Raphs arms.

He just chuckles and holds me tighter, "Oh? You think that you can get away that easily?"

I stop struggling and think for a moment. I look up at him and with a warm expression on my face, I slowly stand on my tippy toes and lift my chin. As I get closer to him, shock starts to spread across his face. Once I am so close that we can feel each other's breath, his eyes start to close as he begins to lean in. Just then I use the tip of my tail and tickle the underside of his arm, close to his shell.

He yelps in alarm and jumps back, completely shocked by the turn of events. With a very evil cackle I yell, "FREEDOOOM!" and run out of his room, leaving Raph just shaking his head as he walks out following behind.

I jump down from the platform and almost run into Leo. "Oh hey, what took you so long." I ask as I was expecting him to get back a lot sooner.

He gives me a bit of an annoyed look and says, "I had a hard time making it through the tunnels with my eyesight still hindered."

I sheepishly scratched the base of one of my horns, "Ah, sorry about that. I don't know what came over me."

Then Raph walks up joining us, " Hey bro, me and Casey found... Hey are you alright?" He ends up asking as he notices Leo's eyes are burning red and shoots of sideways glance in my direction.

"I'm fine, I just got hit with blinding powder." Leo trys to brush off the matter.

Just then the elevator door opens and April and Donny come hobbling in. I look over my shoulder in their direction to see April struggling to carry Donny into the lair. With one of his arms over her shoulder, he is putting almost all of his weight on her. Donnie was covered in bruises and scratches and couldn't stop moaning and groaning in pain. I immediately rush over and grab his other arm throwing it over my shoulders to take some weight off of April and help Donny to the couch.

Mikey comes out of the kitchen confused by the weird sounds Donny is making and when he sees Don, he runs over.

Raph walks up and asks April, "Whoa, what happened?"

April looks at him with concern for Don in her eyes as she says, "Donny got beat up by a lab monkey."

The other Turtles and I all make eye contact before Leo helps Donny into a laying position on the couch. He looks up at April, "Would you mind grabbing an ice pack?" Without a word she turns around and heads to the kitchen. Leo looks down at Donny and asks, "Are you hurt? Will you be okay?"

With his eyes still closed from pain he says "Yeah, yeah, I'll be fine... it's just my internal organs... And my pride."

As a bit of relief passes over Leo's face he says, "Well, in that case..." and we all burst out laughing at Donny, making his face turn dark from embarrassment.

As Raph is wiping a tear form his eye he asks, "You got beaten up by a monkey? In front of your girlfriend?!" Making all of our laughter increase again.

Donny starts to get defensive as he snaps back, "She is NOT my girlfriend! And that monkey was a vicious mutant!"

Leo answers back, "Yeah, I'm sure he went bananas." Again making all of our laughter double.

While dieing from laughter I speak up, "No, no, no! He went ape!" We all burst out even harder as Mikey doubles over, holding his sides in his fit of laughter.

Donny just looks at us as he lost the will to rebut. Just then April walks back in and we all stop laughing.

Before she walks up to us Leo clears his throat and mumbles out, "No more monkey puns."

April lifts Donny's head and sits down resting it back down on her lap as she puts the ice pack on his forehead, making Donny smile. She gives all of us a glare and asks, "Are you laughing at him because he's hurt?" With a very accusing tone.

Mikey sits up and answer, "No, we were laughing at him 'cause he was hurt by a MONKEY!" Making me and the three Turtles burst out laughing once more.

April snaps back at us, "Really?! If you guys aren't going to be helpful then you should just leave Donny to rest."

We all stop laughing and make eye contact before we disperse giving them some space. After this long day of twists and turns I decided to go bed, getting an odd look from Leo as I head towards Raph's room.

Once I get into the room, the first thing I did was change into literally just a giant t-shirt that falls down to my knees to sleep in. I walk up to Spike and give him a leaf of lettuce before I climb up onto the bunk that was a few feet off the ground. The moment I'm in the bed, I noticed that there's a giant divot in the centre and with a chuckle I climb into the shell-dent. I curl up into a fetal position wrapping my tail around my body for extra warmth. I rest my head on the edge of the dent, kind of like a pillow and I drift off to sleep with the smell of Raphael deep in my nose and a smile on my face.

Little to my knowledge though, about an hour after I fell asleep, the door creaked open and a large Turtle snuck into the room.