"-You must never tell anybody about our exsistence down here." Splinter warns. You nod. "Even if I did tell someone, and I wouldn't, nobody would believe me." "But some people would and those are the people we avoid." Leo says. Splinter sighs. "Follow me and take a seat, while we figure some things out." You follow the large mammal over to the torn up couch and plop yourself down. Splinter hobbles back over to the boys. A new pair of footsteps that sounded more like heels, pops into the scene. "Who is this?!" She turns to you and you turn around immediately shutting up. You both just stare at each other. "Erm... hi." You break the silence awkwardly. "Hi? Master Splinter, who is this??" The woman asks. "This is y/n. I found her-" 

 "Then attacked me," You cut him off. Splinter looks at you. "It was self defense for my family." "Mmmhhmmm." Raphael chuckles at your butting in. She looks at your face then gasps. "Oh my god, what happened?!" "As I was saying, she was found down here,"

"Unwillingly." He looks at you quite annoyed. "Unwillingly, wounded and hurt badly." "Why were you forced down here, if you don't mind me asking." You sigh. "Well, they were all asking so might as well." Everybody shuffled over to where you were and stood waiting for you to begin.

"I was walking home from school and normally I pass through an alleyway on my way there, but this time the 'people' who harass me were waiting there. Next thing you know somebody grabs my arm and pulls me into the alley. You could only imagine what happened next. That was when Splinter found me / attacked me all scrapped, bleeding broken and bruised." The woman looks at you with sympathy. "I'm so sorry." You smile at her. "It's fine, wasn't your fault." You chuckle half heartedly. 

"You need to boost up your fighting skills." Michelangelo jumps in. "Yeah I guess I do." 

Leo smirks. "Maybe one of us can help you." "What do you mean?" 

"We are masters of ninjitsu!" Mikey says over excitedly. Donnie elbows him in the stomach. "We aren't masters, we just practice it... a lot." You giggle at Mikey who was still hunched over. "Yeah, and we know who'd be perfect for it." Leo smirks. Everyone around was very confused. "I say Raph does it. He hasn't said anything yet." You turn to look at him. He clearly wasn't having it. "Why do I have to do it?!" He shouts. Leo shrugs. "You need to.....work on..your people skills. Yeah, people skills." He scoffs. "The only people we see are April and Casey- Oh wait." He stops and rolls his eyes. "Fine." 

He just starts walking off towards the 'dojo'. You stay there with a confused face. "What just happened?" Mikey and Donnie shrug.  "I guess he was the chosen one." Mikey snickers. You roll your eyes and follow after the large hot headed turtle. You follow him in and slide the door close behind you. "So...what do they want us to do?" "They want me to help you get stronger and stand up to those people you were talking about." He sighs. "They all realize I won't be strong enough to fend for myself, ever." You doubt. Raph turns around and looks at you. "You know what? Hell no, Those people are low life, good for nothing, sons of bitches. Picking on someone, really?! How old are they? 3?!" 

You let out a small giggle at his rant. "What's so funny?" "Your standing up for someone you just met, and your apparently very passionate about it." He doesn't say anything. "Honestly if you don't want to help me you don't have to." He stays quiet. "Nobodies that cold-hearted." You smile then grip your head where the cut was.

You wince. He looks at you for a second before slowly coming near you. "Did it re open?" You carefully nod. Blood trickles down your forehead and off the crease of your eyebrow. Unsure, he lifts his hand onto your head and moves your hair so he could see it. "Me seeing it would require you to move your hand off it." You quickly shoot your hands down to your sides. "There we go." Before he would touch your head, he looks down at you un-surely. "It's ok if I touch your head right?" You giggle. "Yeah, its fine." He places one of his large hands on your forehead and pulls your hair back. You wince and he stops. "Sorry?" You wave your hand around. "No, I'm just being a wimp, continue." He puts his hand back on your hairline and pulls back only to be met with blood the feeling of blood. He looks at the cut and makes a small face. 

"It's bad but nothing to worry about." You nod slowly. Raph lifts his hand off your head and lets your hair fall back into place. Some blood does trickle back down your forehead but you wipe it off, only leaving some red residue. 

He turns around and throws you something. "It won't be much but at leas tit will stop the bleeding." You look down at it. It was a rag. It looked like it hadn't been used all too much, but it did have some specs of dirt. "Thanks Raphael." "Raph. Just Raph. You saying Raphael sounds way too damn formal." You smile. "I'm Y/n." "So she has a name." You roll your eyes. "So you have a sense of sarcasm." He chuckles. "Your not half bad." You raise an eyebrow. "What did you think I was?" "N-nothing." You squint your eyes. "You stuttered." "So??" You grin evilly. "Nothing." He groans. "Okay never mind about that," He pauses. "Why are those people so cruel?" You shrug. "They've been there ever since 9th grade. They've followed me, torchured me, beat me...I-it's not that fun to talk about." He frowns. "That's...horrible." You both stand there in a silence. Raph thinks for a second before getting an idea. 

"I think I can help you with your situation." "How?" He smirks. 

/The next day/

The guys had brought you back to your apartment making sure to help you with your wounds. Now school had just gotten out and dear whatever lord were you nervous.

You walk down the sidewalk with your backpack in hand. Your mind was a mess at the moment, scrambled with millions of scenarios that could happen right now. And not a single one was good. Trembling, you fiddle with the hem of your shirt. You could hear the footsteps come up behind you and you wince knowing what was going to happen. Somebody up behind you grabs your shirt shoving you into the alley.

In your head you knew the plan but you couldn't help but be scared for what was to come. 

In the distance the guys had been hiding out near a vent on the top of a roof peeking down at you and mimicking your wince when you get shoved. Raph jumps up to his feet ready to spill blood, you could see it in his eyes. Leo drags him down. "Raph, wait. You now the plan, now stick to it." He slumps down. The people surround you on the brick wall of the apartment building. "Look who decided to come out of hiding sewer monkey." You look down at your feet as they insult you. "Come on bitch say something." ".....you." She cups her ear. "What I couldn't hear you." She taunts. "Fuck you." You spit. 

She gasps. "You littl-" A fist came flying to your face and you toppled to the ground, just as you hit the concrete, with a little blood spilt, a loud thump came from the darkness. All of their heads snap towards the sound. "You fucker." Someone hissed from the abyss. 

Raph comes out menacing. You smile from the concrete. The group just stood there awestruck at the mutant teen. You slowly lift up your throbbing head to look at him. All you could see was how angry he was with these people, he was fuming. Who knew someone would care so much about someone else. "Wanna call me a bitch too?" You smile at him weakly, you could see a small smile from him. "Only say the word Y/n and their asses are grass." You wait a second to sit up and look at them in pain. They look at you like they were to a mentally insane person. "Please...Help..." You whisper, luckily, he hears you. Before long the group had run off terrified, some even had some stains on their pants near their crotches. They peed I'm guessing. You stumble getting up and grip onto the wall as a clutch. Raph sees this as he turns around and runs over to help you out.

"Did they do anything else to you??" You shake your head. You groan. "Nothing other then a bad sucker punch." 

He sighs in relief. "Thank god." You smile mischievously. "I forgot," He looks down at you. "Forgot what?" "Payment." He lifts an 'eyebrow'. "Payment?" You nod. "Yeah, payment-" You cut yourself off. "Never mind, I have an idea..." Before he could say anything, you muster up your strength to stand on your toes to peck his cheek. You look back at him. He had an awestruck look on his face. "Yeah Raph!!" You hear Mikey shout from the roofs. You giggle and lean back onto the wall as Raph runs up after him. You smile. "Thanks for protecting me..." 

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