I have another request idea with the Navi reader!!
Where they teach the turtles Navi language, having more patience than Netyiri with Jake.. then finally taught them/said to them "Oel ngati kameie."- "I see you." 🥹
Then small angst how reader is used to the wars and always throwing themselves to danger for the turtles- just absolutely freaking them out and worrying them..
TMNT x Na'vi Reader
Notes: I made this one with TMNT 2012 in mind, but you can consider any other tmnt as well, i wrote most of this late at night very tired, so please excuse me if anything is misspelled or missing.
Sumary: The turtles arrived Pandora temporarily until their spaceship were fixed, and with the permission of the Tsarik they were allowed to learn the ways of the Omaticaya, the task were given to you.
The turtles were confused when the arrived at Pandora. Gladly their oxigen helmet were intact, when a Avatar found them they finally understood something.
The person were human but in Na'vi body led them to were the humans in pandora were, once they spoke for a while, it was odd the Hamato Brothers situation, but was needed to speak up with the Clan leaders.
A single step and they almost were attacked, once the one in charge to bringing they to the Omaticaya location explained, the Tsarik came to listen, understanding they were from past and they wanted just help to return home nothing less, with the Great mother message the Tsarik made the decision.
The Tsarik allowed all of them to be under the clan's protection, the Great mother knew they were young turtles weren't a threat, until they were able to go home.
You were designed to the task to teach them, meanwhile the humans and Donatello one of the Brothers work to fix the Spaceship. You were one of few the Na'vis who understood English thanks for Dr. Grace's school sometime ago.
Gladly their training went more smoothly than expected to be, Leonardo the eldest explained they did something slightly similar before but at their homeplanet as their father recomended. So didn't took long the brothers learned the Omaticaya way.
You warned they about the Sky people and how they should avoid being seen by them. It wasn't so different from when they were at New york, the difficult part was indeed the bonds and animals at Pandora's forest.
Since they didn't had a kuru, the bonds were impossible at least from way they work between Na'vis and the living beings, so they need an ride from other Na'vis when needed.
The brothers stay on Omaticaya went better to better, their help on hunting & strategies against the Sky people increased the clan trust at them.
And somehow feelings started blooming, it wasn't clear who did first or when did started, but was a sensation that caught both of you of guard. And thanks to the Na'vi culture learning, the courting were one of few things they did need advice from Omaticaya elders.
Leonardo⚔️ -
Living at forest weren't an new thing for Leo & his brothers, but once their Oxigen need from masks were resolved, they were ready to learn. Walk among the Omaticaya were the closest thing the turtles had to feel more as another young teenagers.
Leonardo liked the atmosfere, still had things that weren't clear to him from Pandora & everything else. And you were a very patient teacher, even tho you weren't much older than them, Raphael's temperament, Donnie's curiosity towards the new surroundings, Mikey's overenergetic self and Leo's stubborness sometimes weren’t easy to deal everytime.
His brothers and him were getting better on the clan, and thanks to you they also enjoy much with other Na'vis who weren't warriors yet when have free time.
And before you both know it you got closer. Leo got it first his feelings towards you, but he only would think that he needed to learn the way of Na'vi courting, because you couldnt understand if he did knew so little from earth.
Leo expected to do such thing with Master Splinter's advices and guide, but the elders of the clan were more than welcome to help him, one of few times that Leo felt like any other teenager would pass, so he kept learning until he was 100% sure of not misunderstand anything and avoid being rude.
But clearly on right moment his nervousism took a better of him, the poor boy was trying to regain his composure and speak up, but he ended mixing up things he wanted to say towards you.
Your reaction was a short laugh, not at mocking way but as thinking adorable the situation, you understood what Leo meant and said "I see you", once he come down a bit. He was a bit embarassed to mess up a bit the confession but gladly didn't matter, Leo imagined how his father would think, he would definetly happy for his eldest son and wish for the best.
And his brothers definetly teased him endlessly after, but were happy for him as well.
Raphael 🏍-
Raphael would feel a bit bothered on his first days on Pandora more towards the worry both in return to his time & if April, Casey, Master Splinter & the others were okay and safe.
The clan were more and more welcoming towards the Hamato brothers as the time passes, Raphael would feel less tense daily and start enjoying. You were assisting their learning as you can, you don't judge Raph's intense self and even help him by listen him and a lot of other things that Raph apreciate deeply.
When he started feeling different towards after another hunting and patrol, Raphael were deep in thought and was understanding slowly how really this feeling were. Raphael decided to confess to you with things he remembered as courting gift to be more direct than his words could be at the moment.
Leo noticed Raphael's behavior and watched carefully at first. Respecting his brother privacy and did not comment with Donnie & Mikey until Raphael was preparing to confess, giving support.
Donatello 🧪-
Arriving in another alien planet was already extraordinary, add the fact was in the future. Donnie's mind was already working nonstop to help fix their Spaceship, Pandora's beauty did gave an good impression, forgetting the almost suddenly attack when him and his brothers went out from the ship.
Once they got the Tsarik permission to stay and you were designed to help them on both adapting in Omaticaya and how they avoid the Sky people attacks and fightback. You weren't that much older than them so maybe that also helped on their training
Entering a world which Donnie & his siblings and was cool with it, allowed to live and learn with the natives were an nice feeling in the end of day, so fall for the one with open arms to their culture and everything else was a battle that Donatello lost himself.
Was a quick conclusion on what the purple turtle had to do. Even tho he was the one who most absorved the knowledge, Donatello still needed external feedbacks both from his brothers and from elder couples on Omaticaya, he understood that he might never reach the level of connection as is with a kuru bond, but that didn't make the less genuine and pure as he could.
So when he heard "I see you", he almost thought he heard wrong but right after you confirmed that you accepted his courtship, his brothers more than anything happy for his success.
Micheangelo 🛹-
From their arrival at Pandora to their allowed stay on Omaticaya, Mikey clearly was amazed with all, still doing some his usual things here and there, but still has effort from his part, and when you entered the picture he admit that he had a lil crush from you, but ignored cause to new training and adapt process.
Mikey's feelings growing clearly were making a lil of a problem to him learn, he didn't even know he was doing that intentionally or not. But gladly you were a bit more patient to him, when Mikey got better he was more aware to the costumes of the clan & stories as well.
He knew about his feelings towards you weren’t platonic and already passed the crush phase, he spoke with warriors already mated a little a bit more older than him in one of the patrols he was allowed by the clan leaders to go, his patrol group pals open his eyes about it, but recomended to search better advices from elders navi couples due to more experience.
An old granny Na'vi told stories about her late husband acts to court her and how her son also courted his wife, the advices gave Micheangelo an solid base on what he could do. He planned carefully along some weeks, and there was how his brothers found out about it, offering support and not tell anyone about it.
Once the confession day arrived, he was restless since the day before, to the point he visited where the spaceship from where he was sleeping at Omaticaya territory to put his mind at ease to return and sleep and when the moment arrived he put the gift in front of him before he confessed. He was a little nervous and stepping on eggs to not accidentaly mess up with all.
You eased his worries with a single phrase "I see you", the sound of your laugh was warm to his heart, once you had the court gift on your hands you right away wore it. It was beautiful and represented your personality very well.
Who knew that an sudden new person who almost was killed by your own clan was going to be the one who got your heart without you noticing till was infront of you .
request: Having a rough time right now, alot of confuse things
I've done my usual routine when im at this stage, but I guess I want a little extra ya know lol-
Just need some comfort is all, though this request is different/is not related from what im feeling right now- I think it'll be a fun thing to see how the turtles are with an S/O who has something to Raph's "Worry Smell" (?) | forgot what its called lol- but yeah! I thought it would be a fun thing to know (totally not talking because thats how I am too HAHA) take your time, friend! Lord bless ya~
🝮 rise!boys w/ fear-stink g/n HCs
rise!boys x fear-stink!g/n
author’s note: this was an actually funny ass idea.
word count: 1.6k
°❀⋆.ೃ࿔*:･ Leo ❤︎༻°₊ ｡
ఌ He does appreciate the ability to basically read your mind through smell alone. Whether you’re good at hiding your feelings or not, he can tell easily if you’re scared.
ఌ Funnily enough, you also gave off telltale smells for each emotion. Leo couldn’t tell them apart initially and just assumed you were in a constant state of fear-stink.
ఌ He likes the smell you give off when you’re especially over-the-moon happy. Leo describes it as similar to a lemony-floral scent.
ఌ Angry? It’s a bit of a thick, stale smell. It reminded Leo of what a gym smelled like in a good day.
Unfortunately, he would often stoke the fire by not being able to keep his mouth shut.
“ Leo, I’m serious.” You glared.
“ Yeah, I can smell. ” He cracked a grin at the little joke he slipped in.
“ …. “ Your eye twitched.
Leo took it as a sign to run, but interpreted that too late, “ WAIT—“
You had already lunged to pounce him, laying all your weight on his chest after you both tumbled to the ground.
He could easily move you off, but every good boyfriend knows better than to continue poking the bear. So, he remained splayed on the ground as you laid with your back against his chest, staring up at the ceiling as you listed off all the reasons his current antics were driving you mad.
ఌ You know Leo, he’s poking fun. Just because you’re his partner doesn’t mean you’re exempt from all teasing.
“ Raph, c’mon big buddy, there’s nothing to be scared of. ” Leo jests, leaning forward onto the hilt of his ōdachi. He did not miss the seconds-long side glance you gave him, and slowly started to put the pieces together before Raph could even protest.
“ Ah, ” He responded, chuckling low as he twirled his ōdachi into fight mode, “ someone’s scared, aren’tcha? ”
“ Shut up! Don’t mention it, come on, let’s go! ” You barked back, embarrassed as you stormed further into the hideout.
“ Whaaaat! Don’t be that way, hey, Y/N! Hey! ” Leo trailed after you laughing all the way.
Raph followed with his tail tucked, giving a quick sniff… just in case.
°❀⋆.ೃ࿔*:･ Mikey ❤︎༻°₊ ｡
ఌ He finds it cool! On Raph, it’s embarrassing. Annoying. Stinky.
But on you? Delightful! Human scents were lighter than mutant smells, though.
ఌ Your fear smell is more pleasant than Raph’s—it had a creamy tropical smell, pungently banana-esque.
While that was refreshing, Mikey had began to be conditioned into a fight-or-flight mode whenever he smelled bananas out of worry for you.
ఌ He didn’t always focus so much on smell during battles, but since the boys always ended up fighting in heavily civilian sections of the cities—back alleys, parks, you name it!—Mikey inadvertently started becoming smellularly-efficient in battle.
“ Wait! ” Mikey stiffened in his crawling positions, glancing towards his brothers ahead of him in the vents, “ I smell Y/N.. ”
“ No way, Mikey, you’re being—oh wait, you’re right. ” Raph perked up as he caught it to.
“ Great, this investigation is now a rescue mission. ” Donnie groaned, though he was already on top of zeroing in your location to see if it was a hoax or not.
Mikey had already backed up a bit in the vents, crouching in front of one of the grates. He wrapped the chains of his kusari-fundo around his fist quickly and slammed it through, demolishing the bars enough to jump through it.
“ … There’s no way he just did that.. ” Leo stared at the hole his brother made, sighing as an alarm sounded in the distance. “ It’s like no one values stealth missions anymore! ”
ఌ Mikey loves your affectionate smell the most. It was a sort of warm smell like when you sunbathe or sun-dry clothes. He loved it most when his arms were wrapped around your waist, his head pressed against your tummy.
You would sit criss-cross-applesauce in bed, doing whatever class assignments you had left. Previously, your laptop just sat in your lap, and you held a poor posture knocking out nightly work. Now, you had an elevated desk because your lap was taken by the pretty boy lying stretched out across your bed. His arms belt around your waist, his plastron flat against your lap, and his squishy little face pressed into your stomach.
He’s lucky he’s cute.
While working, your free hand would rest on his head, thumb stroking gently between his skin and the orange bandana.
°❀⋆.ೃ࿔*:･ Donnie ❤︎༻°₊ ｡
ఌ He was already well aware of humans and their stink. Raph’s fear-stink was primarily the fault of their human DNA overly-compensating for their anatomical differences.
See, humans are unaware of it, but part of their ability to discern emotion in fellow humans is supported through olfactory processes. If the nose is hindered, then so is the ability to accurately perceive emotion.
In other words, people can smell vaguely smell how others feel, and that can in turn affect their own emotion.
So, from a scientific perspective, he is aware of your smell far before you are. Donnie just didn’t mind it.
ఌ It was a godsend that your fear stink—as well as all the other stinks—were a lot subtler than big ol Raph’s. He had no reason to tease you since it wasn’t at bothersome. Unlike his brothers, he wasn’t going to poke fun or anything at behaviors out of your control! He’s so much more benevolent, of course.
“ You’re going to attract every mutant villain in the vicinity to our exact location with your fear-stink. ” Donnie side-eye’d you as he peeked around the corner. His face didn’t show it, but he was grinning on the inside.
You, however, stared at him with big, blown eyes, “ No way? ” You whispered to him, hands reaching out to grip his arm, “ Donnie, Donnie, take that back. Is that true? You’re gonna jinx us! ” You glanced behind you, hoping not to see any of the pursuers.
The coast was clear, but your nerves were shot. You turned back to Donnie and whimpered pathetically. Scared.
It felt like an arrow pierced straight through his heart! Yeah, he couldn’t tease you, at least not for your fear-stink. He’d have to leave that for one of the other smells.
“ Kidding, of course. ” His hand pulled yours. As you let yourself get tugged, his hand then moved to lay flat on your back, and he hugged you to his side, “ I won’t let you get hurt. Hold on to me. ” Donnie refused eye contact out of fear his embarrassing blush would break the suaveness he tried to feign.
ఌ Donnie reserved teasing for only your joyous-smell. It smelled delightful, like benzaldehyde mixed with a bit of zingerone. Whenever that sweet n’spicy scent wafted in, he would slowdown on whatever project he was working in to watch as you burst into his lab with a bright grin.
“ Someone smells happy.”
“ DONNIE, I— Whuh—“ You skidded to a stop, sniffing your pits for less than a second, “ H-HEY! ”
°❀⋆.ೃ࿔*:･ Raphael ❤︎༻°₊ ｡
ఌ Whether expected or not, he’s the most gentle on the topic of your smell habits. He’s particularly happy to not be the only one with emotion-related funk.
It’s like one of those things that’s like, “ yay, we’re both weird! ”
ఌ He takes great care in getting to know what your smells indicate so he can better help you before you’re even aware you’re feeling something.
Anxious about an upcoming test? He recognizes that anticipatorily-nervous smell, don’t worry, he’s already contacted Donnie—the best tutor, obviously!
Ready about a new movie coming out? Aye, aye, Captain, he’s already enthusiastic about asking you what’s got you smelling so excited.
ఌ His fear-stink crops up so often that the boys have pretty much started ignoring it. Even he ignores it—though, that part’s a piece of cake considering how easy it is to be nose blind to your own funk.
Your fear smell, however, is much rarer of an occurrence. If he smells it, it instantly sets him on edge, and Raph could detect it for a decent distance, too!
Like a weird little shark..
His first time smelling it produced a reaction similar to a human going into full-on momma mode.
“ Alright Donnie, we need to coordinate this perfectly! ” Raph barked orders to his brother as they booked it down the back alleys of New York.
“ Raphael, please, all I know is perfect coordination. ” Donnie responded as he tapped away on his wristlet. He trailed close behind his brother using the spider-arms protruding from his shell to careen down corners as quickly as Raph did. “ Leo and Mikey are in position, and our target is—“
Raphael kept running, wanting to turn and see why his brother stopped speaking, but refusing to stop. “ Donnie, what? ” He called out.
Donnie picked up speed, launching himself mid-air to swap shells to his jet-pack one. The spider-arms shell flew off in the distance—assumedly to home. “ We need to hurry. ”
“ Wh— “ Raph’s eyes dilated the instant he caught the whiff of a rare smell—it was a smell somewhere between old bread and sharp cinnamon candy.
You were near, and you were afraid. His fists were instantly coated in red mystic magic, dragging his body faster than he thought he could realistically move. As he turned the corner, coming upon their target—a dog of sorts, mutated by mutagen in a way they hadn’t seen before— Raphael’s gaze settled on your shrunken form.
You were knocked down on your tuchus, crawling slowly away from the mutant canine. “ H-Heyyy, doggie… ”
Leo and Mikey stood on the other side, hands out stretched trying to call its attention.
As your gaze shifted to Raph, the pleading look in your eyes, he blanked on what came next. All that mattered was getting rid of what caused you to give off such a smell.
ఌ Raph reassures you that no one can smell your emotion-stink! Well, no one other than him, Mikey, Leo, Donnie, and probably Splinter.. … And maybe the other mutants, but he hasn’t asked them, so probably not them either?
Turtles of a shell get stuck together - Female Reader Edition
CHAPTER EIGHT - THANK YOU PARTY - PART 3: OUR WILDEST DREAMS
Pronouns: she/her
General warnings: Turtles and reader are insecure. Reader is italian, autistic and a traumatized teenager. Written to be as inclusive as possible so no skin or hair descriptions, reader don't blush and there are 3 versions of this fic for 3 different type of pronouns.
Words: 3.839
Chapter 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 - 6 - 7
Leo was about to answer back at is red brother when Michelangelo interrupted them with his excitement
“Wait wait wait guys. Is that what I think it is?” he asked pointing at your chest
All their eyes, suddenly staring at you to study who knew what, made you nervous.
“Oh sure it is” grinned Raphael and even Leonardo had a Cheshire's cat sly smile as he looked at Donatello
“I think we need a revaluation on who’s her favorite”
“Just because she has a blue turtle on her neck doesn’t mean you stole my spot, Leo”
'Oh'
“That’s my question then.” Michelangelo got your attention “Are you wearing it on purpose?”
You looked away not bearing their looks, knowing you were busted
“Maybe?”
“Ah! I knew it!” cheered Mikey
“But I didn't even remember I had it! I just found it in my jewelry box some days ago and I… I just missed you all so I started wearing it around… I'm sorry” your voice went lower and lower till it was barely a whisper
You couldn’t look at them.
You couldn't bare seeing the disgust on their face at how too much you were.
But an “Aww” was the only warning you got before Mikey tackled you in a hug like a true Tigger
“Who’s adorable now?” Donatello was grinning looking at the scene
'He will never let it die will he?'
Meanwhile Raphael got Mikey off you “You are gonna hug her to dead, numb nuts”
“It would be an honorable death though" you said with a shy smile once you were completely free
“Can I see it?” asked Leo as you were comfy again
“Sure”
You were about to get it off so he could see it better, but the blue turtle was already picking it from your neck.
It was a bit embarrassing, but the guys seemed to have no problem with your personal space.
“What is made of?” he asked curious
“Stone. Lapis lazuli I think, but I always get confused. Must had been a gift from somewhere when I was a kid. I love this kind of stones and collect them since forever. When I was very little there was a jeweler and this house-shop where they gave me one every time I went with my parents because they knew I loved them.” you started rambling “The house-shop was the most colorful house I ever saw, with graffiti and drawings and a huge mosaic…”
“Seem like a lovely place” smiled Leonardo kindly reassuring
“A mosaic! That’s an idea! We should totally make one in the lair guys!”
Mikey was so overjoyed with his new project, that he started talking a mile a minute about what to do and how, but your English was getting worse the more you were tired so...
“I think we lost Y/n” grabbed his attention Donatello
“Mikey talk slower” followed Leonardo making his little brother smile sheepishly “Sorry”
“It’s ok, I'm the one who's sorry. A mosaic in your home sound lovely”
"Right?!"
Leonardo smiled as he left your personal space releasing the necklace “I like it. It looks good on you.”
You smiled back happily “Thanks”
“Yeah, turtles suit her” Michelangelo wiggled his eyebrow teasingly before being hit by Raphael with a pillow “Hey? What was that for?”
“Quit making her uncomfortable."
“He is not wrong though” Donatello said fixing is glasses while dodging Raphael's shove
"Guys play nice" called out Leo with a hand on your shoulder, trying to get you out of your embarrassment again "How many questions left Donnie?”
“6 and it’s her turn”
You went easy this time “Michelangelo, what’s your favorite video game?”
“Easy, Guitar hero. I can beat anyone in it”
“Oh wow”
“Yeah, impressive right? Especially if you count I have only 3 finger." he wiggled his hand making you chuckle "I’m just next level, I have beat every record in it.”
“That was last time." said Raphael gloating "You need to beat my new record on ‘Fury of the storm’”
“WHAT?! WHEN?! HOW?!”
They started bickering and, as they got up to wrestle, you watched resting your head on your crossed legs in front of your chest and yawned.
“Tired?” asked Leonardo with a gentle smile
“Probably just bored by the petty argumentation” went Donnie
You recoiled afraid of had given the wrong impression “No, No! It’s not boring!”
“It’s ok if you are, I am” smirked Donatello teasing his brothers
You looked down, your voice barely audible “But I'm not… sorry”
“You do that a lot” Raphael gave you his attention, Mikey's head still in his arms in a death grip
“Do" you coughed to get your voice up "Do what?”
“Apologize.”
“I have manners?” you asked confused
“You apologize too much” deadpanned him rolling his eyes
“Oh, right." you said remembering "There is no need to apologize because it' not important. And we just met so there is no need to care about it”
You weren’t pissed or bitter about it, you were just stating a fact
The turtles were looking at you but you couldn't read the expression they were making, till Raphael released his brother and broke the silence
“Who told you that bullshit?”
“Raph!”
“You got to admit Leo that it is bullshit" defended him Donatello looking at his leader as Michelangelo was nodding
"Who told you that is an idiot, Angel Puff. If Raph asked you it's not because we don't care but because…"
You watched the orange brother searching for words that clearly his big red brother had
"There is my question: Why you keep acting like you killed someone?!”
You were wordless
“I… I don’t know. I’m sorry. I need to apologize even if I know it's too much and the more I apologize the less it mean. I always had been like this. I-I’m sorry, I will do better.”
Leo's hand was back on your shoulder “You don’t need to stop apologizing.”
“You need to say it? Go on Angel Puff. We don't mind"
"We will have your back every time, princess.”
“But you are not a waste of space, or a burden, or too much, or whatever bullshit you are thinking!" scolded you Raphael "Mikey, add self esteem in that list of yours."
“Gotcha”
You took a deep breath to calm down, not knowing how you weren't crying, but your voice was still trembling a little when you said "Ok. Thank you. I'm sorry"
"It's ok Y/n" reasured you Leo
Your eyes still were more wet than usual and you had to took another trembling deep breath before asking next question
“Donatello, you really can talk italian?”
“In this case we use speak not talk, and can go first, 'Can you really speak italian?'”
“Oh, thanks”
“Non c’è di che, lo faccio volentieri. Se nessuno ti dice cosa sbagli, come fai a imparare? E si so parlare italiano, tra le altre lingue.” he winked(You're welcome, It's a pleasure. If nobody tell you what you did wrong, how can you learn? And yes I can speak Italian, among other languages)
“WOW! You are good!”
“Genius, remember? How was my accent?”
“American. But not so bad” you grinned teasing him “Who’s turn?”
“I’m out of bullets”
“Me too”
It seemed strange that Raphael and Michelangelo knew right away but Leonardo and Donatello said nothing.
“Donnie, Leo it’s your turn” nudged him Raphael
“I know” answered more serious the purple brother like he had millions thoughts in his head
"You can go first Donatello" assured him Leo before Michelangelo nudged him
“So, what’s your question brah?”
“Can I touch you?”
“What?!” "Donatello!" His brothers were outraged at his request
“Not like that!" he defended himself exasperated "It’s for study not something inappropriate! Having different anatomies, curiosity is only natural! Bone structure... muscular system…”
“I know you mean good Donnie but…” started Leonardo
“It sound creepy” went on Raphael
“You can’t ask people things like that!” concluded Michelangelo
“It’s ok” You interrupted shocking them, Donatello first of all
“What?”
“You can study me.”
“You sure?”
“Yes, I trust you”
And you mean it. It was crazy. Oh, so crazy.
You wouldn’t had trusted anyone in the world if they asked that.
But Donatello wasn't anyone.
And you didn’t know why, if it was because he and his brothers made everything in their power to make you feel accepted and comfortable no matter how big and boisterous they were, or if it was for the crazy multiple nearly death experiences in a day, they saved you from. But you trusted them with your life.
So yes he could study you. Just as he was so kind to answer all your questions about their biology, why shouldn't he be curious about you?
“You trust people too quickly” deadpanned Raphael
“No, I trust you not everyone.”
It was like jump off a cliff in the dark. But if they were the one who asked, why not?
'We will have your back every time, princess’
'We will protect you'
'You don't need to worry about a thing, I will personally chase away your fears'
'You are not a waste of space'
Donatello sat down in front of you with a surgical glaze distracting you from the reassuring echoes of their words, while his brothers made holes on you both with their glare
“Any other part you are uncomfortable being touched outside the obvious?” the purple brother asked
“Stomach”
“Got it. Tell me any moment if you are uncomfortable and I will stop”
If any of you were nervous before, it quickly went away at how Donatello's fingers studied you.
You felt like at a medical examination, there were no lingering or uncomfortable touches and the only sentiment in display other than respect was curiosity. You sighed, relaxing as you kind of understood that scene where Tarzan meet Jane for the first time.
He traced your bones, looked at your skin texture, touched your muscles, felt your head, your face, your eyes, the cartilage of your nose and ears and how your heart beat through your rib cage he didn't have.
At the moment he ended up studying your mouth like only your dentists ever did, but way less frightening. At least this time you weren’t trembling and crying so much that the dentist was about to cry too.
“You had braces” it wasn’t a question.
With years of training at the dentist, you managed to mumble your confusion with no problem.
“You know metal, applied over your teeth to straight them”
You looked at the others hoping to understand what he was talking about, and only when Michelangelo started to mimic you got it, as Donatello released your mouth but not your face to keep studying.
“Oh, l’apparecchio! Yes! How did you know?”
“The scars inside your cheeks and you miss 4 molars. I read it's practice removing them to make space for the teeth so they adjust better ”
“You talk like Sherlock brah”
“Sherlock? Like Sherlock Holmes?” you asked at Michelangelo
“Don’t tell me you didn’t see the bbc serie!”
“No, but I saw Nero Wolfe. The Italian one with Buazzelli…”
“You make me see it, I make you see Cumberbatch. You will love him”
“Deal, but I don’t know if there are english subtitles. And it's in black and white”
“Don’t worry about that. Donatello can find a solution, I'm sure it's great!”
You had no idea how Michelangelo was gonna enjoy but if he wanted to see it you had no intention to stop him.
Donatello in the mean time had ended up studying the bones on your back and had started on your leg.
The more he studied the more he looked like he was meditating for how much he was focused, and his state of mind seemed to be contagious as it bought you the peace only sleepiness could.
“Only two questions left. You can ask as I keep going, if you don’t mind” he said apparently not so detached from the outside world like he seemed, or maybe noticing how relaxed you body was in his hands
“Ok”
"Only Raphael left" helped you keep the count Leonardo
You looked straight into Raph's eyes drowsily “Why are you an angel?”
You felt Donatello's hands falter while he was testing your knee movement.
Raphael's eyes went wide for just a second as his heart skipped a beat.
Leonardo and Michelangelo too were speechless.
“What?” he managed to say breathless
“Leonardo da Vinci. Michelangelo Buonarroti, Donatello." you started listing "They are all Italian artists, why you have an angel instead?”
Raphael looked at you at lost
“His name is an italian renaissance artist like ours”
You cocked your head to the side at Donnie.
It wasn’t like you knew every single Italian artist but how could he be so famous here in the US and you never heard of him?
“But in Italy I believe you call him Raffaello Sanzio” he explained releasing your leg and ending his study on humans too.
“Oh, I know Raffaello!”
Your parents had a little tapestry in their room with one of his painting, that your grandpa had found at the marked.
“Hey, Y/n." called you out Leonardo "Since is my turn to ask, why you never say Raphael’s name?”
You just wished the ground would shallow you right then and there.
You just couldn’t say that!
But Donatello could “She stumble on the ph sound. And the th and the gh, and words with lots of consonants, and some vowels sounds. Am I wrong?”
Your head went side to side in a silent embarassed no.
“For the others we might have to work on them later" went back to teacher mode Donatello "but for the ph think of it as an effe. Try Rafael.”
“Rafael”
“Ok, but the E is more like an I in Italian. Try after me, Raphael”
“Rafail”
“Again. Raphael”
You tried another 5 times without getting it right as the rest of the turtles watched their red brother becoming uneasy before snapping.
“Just call me Raffaello!”
The name sounded strange in his mouth. Too strange.
“But that’s not your name.”
You hated when people got yours wrong. Not that you didn’t answer, but it wasn’t yours and it was only right to call people by their right name.
“Raphael, Rafael, Raffaello. I don’t care” He seemed to really mean it and you found yourself trying to call him.
“Raffaello”
He grunted in acknowledge.
It still felt wrong.
“Maybe Raf is better?” you tried to compromise
“Do what you want” he grunted again
All of you kept chatting for some time more before your eyes became too heavy and Leonardo, observant like he was, was the first to notice
“Maybe we should go and let you sleep”
You quietly moaned in disapproval “I can stay.”
“You are dead on your feet, Angel Puff”
“I am not”
The four brothers chuckled at your whims.
“Come on, we will help you clean up and take you home”
Without a word they started to follow their leader, gathering up everything and you found yourself in Donatello’s arms once again.
“Come on princess, time to bed”
“I can walk. We have the same age, not a kid. ”
“But this is more fun” he gave you a teasing smirk without correcting your sentence, as they started descend the fire escape, not even asking where your apartment was. Knowing Donatello it was no wonder.
“I like your glasses." you said tiredly to him studying his face "Tortoise suit you”
Donatello chuckled “Yeah, I thought so too”
“My grandpa would love the pun, we have the same sense of humor. In italian I’m more funny, you know? I hate english, it make me dumber.”
“You are not dumb. Your english is pretty good for someone who lived here for only 6 months.”
"I can't count, I can't read, I can't speak, I can't write... I feel 5 years old"
“You will get better" "We will help you” tried to reassure you Donatello and Leonardo
"What do you mean funnier?" Michelangelo was pretty shocked "You want us dead or something?"
“We arrived.” interrupted his drama, Raphael “You should close the window when you aren’t home, little possum”
‘new fear unlocked’
“I thought I did. Won’t happen again.”
The four brothers got inside your living room and Donatello let you down.
“Where we can put them?” asked Michelangelo showing your picnic stuff
“On the floor right there is fine, don’t worry. I will put them away”
As you danced around the apartment to put everything back in their right place, you were surprised to see the guys stick around to study your apartment. Well more like your Uncles’ apartment.
But what surprised you more was Raphael's sudden question.
“Why you never told anyone about us?”
"Raphael" scolded him Leonardo but you answered anyway
“Because you asked me not to?” you asked confused not even turning around as you were fixing the pillows back on the sofa
“That easy?”
“Well yeah. That’s usually how it work, no? I kind of guessed it was important.”
"Why did you helped us?" he kept going
“Raphael” tried to stop him again Leonardo but his brother seemed like a river in flood that couldn’t be stopped. Not now.
“Why you didn't run away? Why do you care? Why doing all of this?” he pointed at the picnic stuff you still needed to put away.
“Because I just couldn't leave you like that? I know I was basically useless the entire time but you needed help, I couldn’t just do nothing. And then today you said I wasn't completely useless and that I had helped you and that we were friends and I was really happy. So what was a thank you cakes became a thank you party, and probably I got over the top. Sorry, I creeped you out. When I like someone I really become insufferable…”
“You are not obnoxious”
“And you didn't crept us out. That’s not what Raph meant with his questions” tried Donatello to help his big brother while correcting you, but he too was at loss of words
And in their family, when even the genius was at loss, it was usually Michelangelo who would find the missing key
“You are just too good to be true, Angel Puff” he said shyly confusing you
“What? I’m not the one who saved all New York just on adrenaline and pure of will.”
“Technically the mutagen in our blood give us a faster recovery and…”
“And you didn’t sleep the day before wannabe Iron man and his army of vampires attacked your home and sucked out more blood that a normal human could had survive without nearly going in cardiac arrest" your interruption shut up Donnie so you kept going on your rant "you got teased more time that I can count, Raf’s shell cracked so bad it nearly broke his spine too. You skied down a mountain, saved 3 humans while you were at it and then fought an evil Iron Man in full armor after all that.”
You took a breath to somehow calm down but you weren't nearly done “And now this incredible four heroes want to be friends with someone like me. And it's not a joke or out of pity? How am i too good to be true, if i feel like I'm in a dream I could kill if someone woke me up from?”
“Not if I got them first" Raphael said "because there is no way someone doesn’t freak out as soon as they see us and instead find us cool or handsome or adorable and threat us like we are normal, if not in a very wild dream.”
“Not my fault if humans are assholes.” you pouted
“Or maybe you are just special” smiled kindly Leonardo
“Yeah," you rolled your eyes "specially boring”
“Stop belittling you, Angel Puff" said Michelangelo more serious
"I don't know what that mean"
"That you are special whether you want to or not" You were pretty sure Donatello translation was more liberal than literal
"We are grateful we met you and you want to stick with us.” went on Leonardo
You sighed at their words “I just really can’t believe you want me in your lives”
“Well, you better start because we have no intention whatsoever to let you go, Angel Puff” puffed his chest Michelangelo with a Peter Pan's attitude
"Whatever you are scared about yourself, little possum, it won't scare us away”
“We told you you are stuck with us, princess” grinned Donatello
“Is that a threat?”
“Maybe” answered Leonardo with a smirk
You heard the sound of the keys turning and started panicking, but turning around to look at your guests, it was like they didn’t even existed and you were talking to hallucinations.
The door opened showing your uncles as Nana, their dog, came running to the sofa to greet you.
‘They are early’ you noted glad you finished cleaning just in time as you awkwardly went to kiss their cheeks while they were babbling about their work trip.
It was always a strange feeling when they were back, you were happy to see them but no matter how many months you lived there or the fact that they legally became your guardians, you still felt like a guest in their home. And the fact that they were around April’s age didn’t help.
For the whole hour you had felt on edge, checking awkwardly all over the apartment to find the turtles before Nana or your uncles could; but there was no trace of them and only once they settled to sleep, you went in your room.
They weren't there either but on your desk one trace had remained. A little box with a bow.
Inside, a smartphone, or a Tarta-phone as Donatello called it in the note “Welcome to the new decade” it said
The turtle shell like case settled comfy in your hand, not too big and not too small, and turning it on there were already some messages.
“Sorry we didn’t say goodbye. Thank you for the good time” from Leonardo
“Hey I just met you ♪♫~ And this is crazy ♬⋆.˚ But here's my number, so call me maybe ♬ ♪ ٩(ˊᗜˋ*)و Want to come over tomorrow? We have a lot of work to do, Angel Puff ᕙ( •̀ ᗜ •́ )ᕗ” from Michelangelo
“Hope you like your new T-phone. Left a comprehensive guide with it but I will be here for any questions.” from Donatello
“Thank you. Good night” from Raphael
You smiled answered to everyone ending with a little “Thank you for everything. Good night and sweet dreams” before going to your window to look at the night view.
Between the sound of the restless New York you heard voices, but you didn't know if they were real or just was your tired mind playing tricks.
“Guys, I think we hit jackpot”
“Shut up Mikey!”
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Chapter Notes: I can't believe i finished this mammoth chapter (╥ ᴗ ╥) . I know they were different from when i started but still hope it was of your taste. The turtles and reader won't be always be so insecure but will still have some problems for a little bit. still i love fluff so there is not a chapter without and soon reader and Raph will fall in love and notice it. can't wait for that chapter! anyway, thank you for your time, hope you had a good time and good timezone to you |˶˙ᵕ˙ )ﾉﾞ♡⸜(˃ ᵕ ˂ )⸝
credits: gifs made by me, fic wrote always by me without ai, dividers from this blog and this one
Turtles of a shell get stuck together - Female Reader Edition
CHAPTER SEVEN - THANK YOU PARTY - PART 2: KAWAII EFFECT
Pronouns: she/her
General warnings: reader is italian, autistic and a traumatized teenager. Written to be as inclusive as possible so no skin or hair descriptions, reader don't blush and there are 3 versions of this fic for 3 different type of pronouns
Chapter warnings: emotional talks, Reader and the turtles are insecure. Don't imitate what reader did to Vern. Teasing Turtles, reader get manhandled a lot. Reader's got 99 fears but the guys ain't one of them; living in the US is, especially after Shredder.
"Who’s turn?” you asked once the brothers had calmed down.
“Mine” Leonardo said stealing Raphael's thunder “Why you don’t like Vern?”
“Not like he make it hard to do” Raphael rolled his eyes
“Oh? Spill the tea” Michelangelo excited, got himself comfier with his plastron on a pillow on the floor
“What’s wrong with the tea?” you asked worried
“He mean tell us more." helped Donatello sipping his "He's like an old lady waiting for gossip”
“Hey!”
It surprised you that it was Raphael who started to tell the story "On the van he asked April what did she got into for even the Mafia to be involved"
“He didn’t” gasped Michelangelo
“He did” confirmed Raphael
"Yeah, right after assuming I was an illegal immigrant.” you rebutted “April had asked where I was from and I don’t know why I told them I was from Italy, I knew it would had ended bad! Because of course not happy he would had automatically assumed or joked that I'm a mafioso!"
Ralph patted your shoulder "It's ok little possum, I think he learned his lesson" he said before giving a low chuckle “I can still hear the honk when he crushed his face against the wheel”
“Wait what?” asked Michelangelo regaining from his stupor
"Yeah, Y/n double kicked his seat pretty hard" smirked Raphael
Donatello nearly chocked in his tea "While he was driving?!?"
"I checked, there were the red lights! And he didn't broke his nose" you defended yourself
Leonardo had no words, his eyes like saucers “I just meant what happened on the mountain! You can't go around kicking people, especially when driving. Someone could had got hurt!”
“He was being an asshole to you after you saved our lives and he dare to do so after nearly getting April killed!”
“What?!” they exclaimed, Raphael joining his brothers' shock this time
“April was filming the fight out of the window and Vern was too busy checking her ass to watch where the truck was sliding, so he hit a huge rock that sent her flying out of the window and caused the avalanche.”
“WHAT?!” they exclaimed again
“We managed to help her inside again just moments before you arrived…”
Leo had his face in his hand while his brothers were in no better state
Sobered up from your anger you looked at the floor ashamed
“I’m sorry. I shouldn’t had kicked Vern's seat even if it was red or asked April to look outside at what was happening. I should had known better. I should had insisted with her to get inside. I should had hold her legs tighter, I should…”
Leo’s hand on your shoulder made you stop rambling “What happened on the mountain it's not your fault”
“Based on the data, it’s highly improbable you could had stopped any of that," resonated Donatello "you did your best.”
"But we still need to work on that anger" smiled at you Leo
“I feel less bad about destroying his car” commented Michelangelo opening his mouth for the first time in a while and gaining his brothers glares that Mikey shrugged away unapologetic “What? He nearly killed everyone for ogling our sister’s ass in the middle of a fight!”
“He also got shot for April in that scientist lab" You tried to defend the man "so I guess his brain is not always connected with his ass…”
“But still pretty often” teased Raphael
“I’m not gonna fake I like him”
And you still didn’t like April either, but you weren’t going to talk bad about their sister. No matter how stupid her decisions or her work ethic were in this adventure.
"Well you don't have to" reassured you Raphael
Still you felt awful about the last question and were starting to overthink when you tried to stop it by changing the subject
“It’s my turn right?”
“Yup” Donnie popped that p
You looked up at Raphael, too afraid to call his name out loud, but thankfully he got the input “Got something for me little possum?”
“What superpower would you like to have? I mean, you all already are like the cool ninja version of the Avengers. You have an integrated bulletproof shield and you are super strong. You can lift how much? more than 300 kg with one hand?”
“Make it 400” Went Donatello with a smug grin
“WHAT?!” your face amused the three brothers and Donnie flexed more with nonchalance
“With one hand we can lift around 350 but Raphael can arrive at 400”
“Woooh” you couldn’t help but wonder at them “Forget my question. You already are super heroes with super powers”
“You realized now?” asked Michelangelo with a smug smile
“Nope, but thinking about it more make my question dumb”
“It’s not dumb” comforted you Leonardo
“Yeah, I call dibs on teleportation!” raised his hand Michelangelo with Donatello right after “I would prefer a dimensional storage”
“I personally always wanted to fly” Leonardo followed
“She asked me thought.” Raphael seemed slightly pissed that they stole his question but went on anyway “Metal manipulation is pretty cool or any element manipulation”
“Raph is a big fan of avatar” explained Donatello
“I saw some episodes, they are cool”
“You didn’t see it all?!” gasped the orange turtle at you
“Add it to the list Mikey” prompted Raphael like it was a life or death situation
Michelangelo clicked his tongue shaking his head while mimicking to take note on an imaginary list “Much to learn you still have, my young padawan”
“Ok next question.” Donatello took everyone attention from your crimes “What you thought of us the first time we met?”
The question released a strange energy between the guys
“Four giant flipper balls on adrenaline landed on my roof as I'm doing my homework, talking about people facing reality or making an abstract philosophical puzzle or something” you recounted
“Facing reality? Philosophical puzzles?” Michelangelo was so confused “What were we talking about, dudes?!”
“I think she mean concrete. Like in cement” Donnie said patting the roof “One of the ninja hit concrete with his face in the fighting.”
You looked at Donatello finally connecting the clues “Oooooh, that’s why the sipping cup. You broke his” you tapped your face not remembering the word
“Jaw” helped again the Purple brother "I think you confused it with jigsaw puzzles"
Listening to Donatello's slow pronounce of the two words, really made you wonder how did you mixed them. But it was refreshing having someone who didn’t get pissed, or called you stupid, for getting something wrong and instead helped you.
You then forgot the shame and strange energy around you as you got excited remembering something, starting to hit the roof under you with your hand like an excited bunny with his paw “Oh Oh and April’s timing!”
You deepened your voice for your imitation “ ‘Like Shadows in the night completely unseen’ and BAM flash. That timing was priceless” you said relaxing your voice between the laugh
“Yeah yeah, we were there.” Raphael said grumpy “Thanks for reminding me”
"There is still Leonardo's footprint" you said chuckling while pointing at the parapet
Michelangelo laughed at the sight "look like a giant ass sat on it, brah!"
"Right?!" you laughed more with the others
It was only once you sobered up that you went back to your answer “But overall I just thought you were funny and…." you grabbed the pocket size dictionary in your bag, the one you thought to pick 3 times already before grunting in annoyance
"Can I help?" asked kindly Donatello
"I can't find a good translation of simpatici"
"Nice?"
"Doesn't deliver much…"
"There is also pleasant, likable, enjoyable, fun, polite…" kept listing Donatello but you still weren't satisfied
"Boh, maybe enjoyable, nice and fun are the most close to what i mean…"
"We will take them" grinned Michelangelo
"Also over-dramatic is a good adjective. And I would had bet you were 20 years old or something"
Michelangelo gasped in shock "Are you calling us old?!"
"You are not old at 20!" you pouted making the turtles chuckle
"He's just pulling your leg Y/n" tried Leonardo but you just stuck your tongue at the turtles who just laughed more
"What’s your favorite cake?” You asked at point-black at Donatello who nearly chocked in his laugh, not expecting a question so soon
“Tiramisu. Definitely.”
"Well, glad I decided to make it then" You smiled but Raphael didn't bought your distraction and instead got the discussion right back where it started
"I think Donnie wanted to ask if you weren’t scared of us”
You took a moment to think about the question “Well you are very big, very energetic and I couldn’t understand anything of what you were saying at first... And definitively I didn’t want to drink my meals but… I don't know you didn't look dangerous. You seemed more nice and funny if anything. Honestly I was more scared about what you could do with my phone...”
“Doesn’t it bother you what we are?”
“Should it?”
“Can't you see that we are huge mutant ninja turtles!?”
"Raphael" tried to stop him Leonardo but got ignored by both of you
“I would say I see perfectly well, thanks. When I went to the oculist, he said I was free to go”
"ophthalmologist" corrected you Donatello somehow getting what you were talking about but Raphael totally ignored him to keep charging like a focused bull
“Then why doesn’t it bother you?!”
“I don’t know! Is it wrong that I just like you? I think you are cool, I like your energy, I like your personalities and I don’t care what you look like! I mean I do but…” you groaned in frustration “I...”
You were about to cry, your limited dictionary was frustrating you again and again and again.
Not that you would had answers in Italian either.
Yes, they weren’t humans. They were 4 huge anthropomorphic turtles. But you had no idea of why you didn’t had a problem with it! Maybe it was because you saw their energy before their faces? But even from your position you could still see that they were huge and with a silhouette not exactly common, but honestly their presence made you feel safe since the beginning. Outside of the phone and the kidnapping part, you were pretty nervous then, but even then they had been incredibly caring.
They were brave and funny and cute and patient and badass and beautiful/handsome, whatever stupid word English liked to used and accepted in this case for belli. Leonardo’s voice was so sweet he could attract bees and melt rocks, Raphael had a heart as big as he was strong, Michelangelo’s smile could light up the entire room and his energy chase away the clouds like Chanticleer while Donnie was so damn smart and utterly adorable; that you could watch them for hours and not get tired.
Honestly why should it been a problem?! Ok they were green huge turtles but lets be honest, they had better personalities than 90% of the people you knew and guys in the gym would literally kill to be as strong as them, or have their muscles. Not to say they didn’t even had to exercise to have turtle shell abs.
That made the guys chuckle.
“Did I say it aloud?”
“Yup” Michelangelo popped the p with a cheesy awkward grin.
You were so embarrassed. But when you took courage to look at them and apparently you weren’t the only one, because they could barely look at you too.
“You are really something else” said Raphael defeated
“I’m not adorable by the way” Donnie seemed pouting as he fixed his glasses on hissnout
“You should say that to your face” You slammed your hands on your mouth wide-eyed.
You soooo didn’t mean to say that.
But his brothers snorted.
“What about me?” asked Michelangelo battling his eyes while he was on his plastron, slowly kicking his legs behind his shell “Am I not adorable?”
You chuckled at his antics “A lot. If your skin was more squishy your face would had the perfect cheecks to pinch. But all of you can be adorable to be honest. Like when you are happy when you parkour on the roofs or when you surfs along the sewers. And when you were under adrenaline, running to check on Raf quacking like little ducklings. I mean I was hella worried about your health but you were also totally adorable. That remind me, Leonardo did you clean the dojo at the end?”
“In a way…” answered Leonardo
“We had to clean and fix our new house.” You were thankful Donatello didn’t seem so upset as before
"Wow, must had took you a while" You watched as Michelangelo squat before his purple brother deep in thought
“What?” Donatello asked suspicious but the orange turtle ignored him with his chin in his hand deep in thought before bright up
“Y/n, I know what you mean!”
You looked at the others but none of you had a clue on what was going on
"About what?" you asked but got picked up like a cat to be placed in front of Donatello
"Sit here”
“What are you doing Mikey?” asked Leonardo as you and Donnie were too puzzled, and honestly a bit nervous too, to ask
“Do you trust me?” Michelangelo asked
Donatello glared at his brother “Based on my data I can’t trust your ideas”
“Just do it ok? Y/n look closely into his eyes.”
“Ok”
His eyes were Gold? Green? A bit of both? They had an unnatural color. So vivid. Radioactive was the closest adjective you could think of.
Then they disappeared.
“Hey! Give them back!” Donatello was squinting his eyes searching and trying to get them back from Mikey that had stole his glasses.
“In a minute, brah. Stand still and look at Y/n”
“A word, you know I can’t see anything without” Still Donatello faced you once again and you studied him.
He was soooo different without his glasses.
“See the difference?”
You nodded
“It’s the manga effect. His glasses make his eyes bigger making him cuter. Like puppies or babies!”
“Oooh” you now got it
“Ok, experiment ended." exclaimed exasperated Donnie "Give me back my glasses now”
“I get what you mean Michelangelo, but I fear it’s not just the glasses." you said watching the tech turtle putting them back "If even Raf who’s the biggest, strongest and, without offence, look like the less… how can I say affabile?” you whispered the last part thinking in frustration but Donnie came to your aid.
“affable”
“Oh, that was easy. As I was saying if even Raf can be adorable, I doubt any of you can not. With or without glasses Donatello remain the badass and adorable Donatello.”
The purple turtle stood up with a murderous glaze “I will show you who’s adorable”
You barely saw him move. You didn’t even notice how you ended up on the floor with the giant turtle over you. But you could feel his surgical precision hitting all your weak spots and the laughter at the tickling were immediate.
“No no no stop please” You plead but he didn’t lose his hold on you no matter how your body was struggling under him
“You relent?”
“I don’t even know what that mean” you said between the laugh
It would had been such a badass sentence if it wasn’t so true and Donatello knew it.
“Surrender, give up, quit, arrenditi. Admit you are wrong”
“About what?”
“I’m not adorable”
“I can’t lie. It’s not my fault, please stop”
“Call for mercy”
“Who’s Mercy?”
That made Michelangelo laugh too and the sound made you lose focus on Donatello
“Michelangelo help” you called between the laughs
“On it!” He said sobering up and in a moment you found yourself in his arms and away from Donatello's teasing fingers.
No questions, no teasing, no price. You asked for help and he arrived.
Took you a moment to gain conscious of that and to finally breath to calm down.
“Your knight in shining shell arrived, Angel Puff.”
“You were supposed to be my brother!” gasped Donatello betrayed
“I will always come to the aid of the needy and oppressed” teased back Mikey
Donatello tried to come after you but Michelangelo ran away and when Donnie nearly got you, he throw you at Leonardo in what soon became a game of ‘Keep Y/n away from Donnie”.
As you passed to each brother's arms like a ball, it felt a game they did often. But you doubted they ever tossed a human around like that, and for you it was the most exhilarating and terrifying thrust game you ever did.
Soon the reason why it even started was forgotten and you found yourself throw into Raphael's waiting arms and you hold on his neck dizzy, breaking the spell.
“You ok?” asked the red brother looking down at you
You only nodded and that seemed to only worry them more as they flocked around you.
“Sorry we got carried away”
“Are you hurt?”
“Did I ever tell you, you all are really strong?” you managed to say
“Once or twice” Raphael grinned “Feel like you can stand?”
You nodded and he gently let you down while still hovering his hand near your back just in case.
“Did we hurt you?” asked Michelangelo worried
“No, I’m ok. I just need a moment to recover.”
Leo got your arm to guide you at your spot to sit down, as Donatello filled your mug with water that you gladly accepted.
“I’m really sorry for our… intensity.” Leonardo apologized
“It’s ok. I had fun. We just need to get used to each other” You smiled trying to be reassuring but the boys didn’t look like were ok as they sat down.
Their energy seemed tuned down like they were scared to make you run.
“What’s the hashi?” you asked trying to change the mood
“What?” asked Raphael
“It’s my turn to ask. Before you said you go to the hashi. So that’s my question for everyone. If I can ask…”
“Sure you can, it’s not a secret” reassured Leonardo “Hashi is… how can I put it…”
“Exercise” “Punishment” answered together Michelangelo and Raphael making your eyes go wide
“What?!”
Like always it was Donatello that made it more clear for you “It's a room where Master Splinter send us in punishment, to do special exercise.”
“It’s a punishment because they are really hard” went on Michelangelo
“But help our weakness.” Defended Leonardo
“We can spend hours there” Shrugged Raphael
“Like when we met you and April." told you Michelangelo "We got in trouble for getting out against Master Splinter's orders and we spent 11 hours in the Hashi”
“Could had been more but Master Splinter bought Mikey with a pizza to confess” Raphael took a dig at his little brother
"It was a 99 cheese pizza, brah! It was calling me!"
There were so many information that you had no idea where to start to answer or react “11 hours?! Damn, that’s a lot! What kind of exercise? Wait you saved everyone without sleeping for 2 days?!”
They looked at each other before Leonardo broke the silence
"That would be correct." he said with a sheepish smile "Still we are ninja and our body is enhanced, not sleeping for some days it's not so bad or uncommon… and about the exercises we make in the Hashi, they are made to test our balance mostly but also our resistance”
“I would say” you stared at them with an objection on how it still seemed unhealthy, on the tip of your tongue.
But Michelangelo distracted you from any other thoughts you could have about it, with his teasing smile
“Sooooo, if you are not scared of 4 incredibly awesome handsome ninja, what are you scared of?”
At that you gave a little self deprecating smile, embarrassed “Literally everything? And honestly it only became worse since I came here, the US freaks me out. I hate big open spaces and here I am, in a country were everything is so big you could spent days without meeting another town and it's surrounded by the ocean. I'm scared to get lost and here everything feel like I'm in a dedalus even if everything is build so perfectly geometrical to freak me out for how unnatural it feel. I'm scared of human-made platforms and too high constructions that doesn't feel stable, like some stairs or skyscrapers, and New York is literally the city of stairs and skyscrapers. I’m scared of guns and here anyone could had one. Before I was just scared to fail school but now I'm scared to go and get shoot. I’m scared of the police and not understand the instructions. And I can't watch the news or even media with police or fireman if they are Americans or i get more paranoic!”
“Paranoid” corrected you the purple brother slowing your ranting
“Anyway the only news I get are literally what I hear at school..."
"Here is not so bad once you get used to it" tried to comfort you Donatello backed up by Michelangelo
"Maybe it's a bit more dangerous than where you lived before, Angel Puff, but it's not so bad like in movies or police tv serie make it looks like. They just exaggerate"
"A bit more dangerous?! We didn't have an evil iron man and his men in black where I lived!”
“Shredder and his ninja are an isolated case, shouldn’t be counted”
“NINJA?! Those were Ninja?!" you couldn't believe your ears "They had guns and bazookas! Those were soldiers not ninja!”
“Right?!” exclaimed Leonardo surprising everyone at his outburst. “I mean, yeah, they are no ninja.”
"Well this ninjas here" said Michelangelo pointing at himself and his brothers "are the strongest in town. So you don't need to worry about a thing. I will personally chase away your fears with my radiant smile and strong arms"
He ended flexing his arms and you could had died for the embarrassment at his antics.
"Wish I didn't had said that"
"Too late!" grinned back Michelangelo
"Come on Mikey, give her a break" said Leonardo "Still Y/n, Michelangelo is right we will protect you"
"Hey Leo, what about we give Y/n a tour of New York? It might help her adjust at the new place" proposed Donatello
"Oh that would be great! We will give you the VIP experience Angel Puff! You are gonna love it, that's nothing better than New York at night!"
"It seem like a good plan. Who better than her favorite superhero ninjas to show her New York's treasures?" Leonardo teasingly gave you a warm side hug, trying to make you smile
‘We are ninja’ the love in that simple sentence you heard the first time you met them was still indelible in your mind.
“Leonardo, what’s your favorite thing of being a ninja?” you asked forgetting completely what you were even talking about and Leo answered was just as spontaneous “Everything.”
“Neither of you answered tough”
“I could try?" you answered uncertain you will ever feel less afraid of your new place "But don't worry Donatello, I get what he mean” More than get it you got the vibes and it was enough.
It wasn’t a clear answer if you wanted to know what being a ninja entailed but the way his eyes shined and the tone when he said it, made you wish one day someone could love you the same way he loved being a ninja.
Leo gave a last gentle squeeze to your shoulder before letting you go from his hug with a tender smile
“Our great leader can be so cheesy” teased Raphael breaking the moment
“Hey!”
You wasted no time to come at the big blue leader defense “Can you blame him? Being a ninja is cool.”
“Exactly!”
“Yeah yeah, point taken" Raphael rolled his eyes in amusement "but you are still such a nerd about it”
Chapter 8
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Chapter Notes: The Kawaii effect of big eyes in manga is still a mistery to me, i don't know if it's real or a urban legend that shojo manga make big eyes for that. About Vern, i'm sorry i made him worse than the original. I actually used some things i heard toward me or around me at people who didn't look or sound italian. Reader has an anger problem with Vern, usually is pretty good at control emotions
credits: gifs made by me, fic wrote always by me without ai, dividers from this blog and this one
Turtles of a shell get stuck together - Female Reader Edition
CHAPTER SIX - THANK YOU PARTY - PART 1: TURTLES CAN PURR?
Pronouns: she/her
General warnings: reader is italian, autistic and a traumatized teenager. Written to be as inclusive as possible so no skin or hair descriptions, reader don't blush and there are 3 versions of this fic for 3 different type of pronouns
This is the first part of a mammoth chapter that was 9k when i started and became around 15k as i finished editing. so i had to divide it in 3 but i still considerate them as one
Chapter warnings: reader is very insecure, memories and mentions of bullism, more on the light side than the heavy side but not pleasant either. headcanons everywhere, uncomfortable questions, Donatello waited all his life for someone to ask about their biology, nothing explicit tough. Reader don't like sweets or tea, sorry but it's my hook to keep this chapter going. I will pass you a piece of cake and a mug of tea under the counter. And have a favourite color for the sake of comedy and an headcanon that i have of the turtles. More than likely they won't be mentioned again after this chapter, hold on. Turtles talk of humans beings as part of the animal kingdom like our scientific classification do, but our order is never mentioned.
1 hour seemed so long.
And what could you even do once on the roof?
That's why you decided you had enough time to set up a little picnic, as a thank you.
It would the perfect opportunity to give them the thank-you cakes you made. A Tiramisu and a Torta Paradiso that you had felt stupid making, not even knowing if they liked them or if you would ever see them again.
Now you were glad you baked them anyway.
You gathered some blankets, pillows and a basket full of goods before going on the roof, in a game of balance you skillfully won, to set up your surprise.
It took you more than expected between finding the perfect spot, fixing the pillows to be comfy, put on the fairy lights, prepare the food and drinks on the blankets.
You didn't went over board but you wanted it to be perfect. That's why you were checking for the 1000th time when you heard voices behind you.
“Wooh”
“Is that for us?” you heard an excited Michelangelo
“Yes! It’s a thank-you-for-saving-everyone party.” you presented the blankets with a confidence that clearly wasn’t yours as you started fidgeting seconds later “Sorry, probably it was a bad idea”
“You kidding?" his question was your only warning before you found yourself in Michelangelo’s strong arms for a bone crushing hug "This is awesome!”
“Mikey, you are gonna kill her!” Leo tried to stop his brother but you just hugged the orange turtle back
“It’s ok, I can handle it”
And you mean it. Strong hugs were your favorite. They felt like home.
“Is that Tiramisu?!” asked excited Donatello
“Where?!” Michelangelo in his excitement lost his hold on you and Leonardo had to steady you, to not let you fall
“Watch out!” he scolded his brother making his smile apologetic
“Ops, sorry Y/n”
“It’s ok.”
The hug hadn’t dissolved all your anxiety though and you started fidgeting again
“I hope you like it. I made the Tiramisu yesterday and the Paradise Cake today, so they should be good”
“You are telling me this poor thing was waiting for us for an entire day?!” "There is another?!" “You made it?”
Between Michelangelo and Donatello's excitement and Leonardo's attention, you felt so embarrassed you just nodded
“Aw, I knew we should had come sooner. Don’t worry, Mikey is not gonna let you wait anymore” Michelangelo coed at the desserts
“Can we eat it?” asked Donatello
You usually would had joked saying something like 'no you can’t, it’s just for watching' but Anxious-You just nodded again.
The turtles settled down on the blankets working to accommodate their pillows for the perfect seat; but in all the excitement only one had not moved or spoke a single words since he arrived.
Raphael was standing there looking at the improvised picnic with an unreadable expression.
“You ok?” you asked shyly
“You made all this just for us?” he asked not looking at you and you hummed in confirmation
“And you prepared the desserts before knowing we would come”
You hummed again looking down
“Did you waited for us to come all week?” he asked finally looking at you, staring at your bare soul with his unreadable expression
“Sorry, we just met and… I-I should had toned down. It’s to-totally creepy…" stupid nerves made you stutter.
“It’s not” he stopped you “Sorry we made you wait” he said taking seat with his brothers
“It-It’s ok! You had to rest, your father had to heal and your home got destroyed! And you didn’t have to come. It-It was me that was dumb”
“You are not dumb or creepy” went Donatello
“Yeah, that’s actually so sweet that I feel already full” comforted you Michelangelo
“I will take your portion of Tiramisu then” Donatello moved to get the plate Michelangelo's served himself but the orange turtle slapped his hands away with a strange hissing like sound that made his brother laugh.
“Let’s eat, before something bad happen to it” invited you Leonardo, making you sit next to him
“You can have mine Donatello” you said
“Really?!” Donatello was ecstatic but Raphael had still that unreadable expression on him
“You won’t eat it?” he asked
“I don’t like sweets." you explained with a shrug "I just like baking them”
His still strange look made you realize what could be the problem “It’s not poisoned, I swear! Unless you are allergic at some ingredients. There is coffee, plain cookies, cocoa, sugar, eggs and mascarpone in the Tiramisu and in the Paradise Cake there is butter, potato starch, eggs, wheat flour and… that thing that make it grow…"
"yeast" you looked at Donatello confused so he supplied a "lievito"
"yes that!" you exclaimed before looking down embarrassed at your own outburst, before barely whispering your last reassuring you could thought of "And there are no worms.”
Then before anyone could ask another thought hit you like a train “Shit are you vegan? I didn’t thought of it, I’m so sorry”
“What are you talking about?” Raphael asked interrupting your rant but was interrupted himself by a moan
“Dudes, you have to try this.” Michelangelo said with his cheeks full like a chipmunk as Donatello followed his example “You don’t have to ask me twice”
Leonardo looked amused by his brothers before putting the fork in his mouth and his eyes widened “Y/n, this is delicious.”
“Yeah I don’t know what you were worried about” went Michelangelo finally with a free mouth
Raphael was the last one to dig in “This is better than a restaurant one”
“I doubt it”
“Well it is better”
“Maybe because made with love” Michelangelo comment embarrassed you.
Not that he was wrong but it was too direct.
“And free” he concluded making you chuckle
“I’m just happy you like it”
“Like it?" asked Donatello dead serious "You are my best friend now”
"Absolutely, and this cake too is not called Paradise for nothing" agreed Michelangelo already tasting the second
You kind of wished the floor would shallow you whole by how much you were embarrassed.
“Give her a break” helped you Leonardo making his two brothers took pity on you and focused on eating.
You looked happily at guys enjoying your desserts, feeling like your efforts payed off.
“So tell us something about you” asked suddenly Leonardo making you confused
“I thought Donatello made a research on me”
“I did." defended his honor the purple brother "But there is only so much that internet can tell”
Leonardo encouragingly smiled at you “We just want to know you”
“I fear there is no much more. I’m boring”
“Oh, come on. You don’t want us to make questions, do you?” threaten Raphael like it was something horrible
“It’s ok for me”
“Wait really?” Raphael really seemed like he wasn't expecting you would actually agree
You just shrugged "Yeah, it's easier."
You could tell Michelangelo was full on board because there was a new light in his eyes “We can play 20 questions!”
“That seem for the best," Donatello fixed his glasses "she must have a lot of questions for us too”
“We are in 5 so 100 questions?” you asked perplexed
“160 actually, but that would take forever” answered Donatello “It's more practical if we have 5 each”
“Then I could make 4 each and 4 for all?” you proposed making them smile
“Seem like a plan” agreed Leonardo
Michelangelo was about to say something but Leonardo interrupted him “Y/n, you can go first”
Michelangelo whined a little at that.
'Maybe he wanted to go first?'
You took a bit to think of what to ask before settling on “What’s your favorite animal?”
“Who you are asking?” Leo amused was looking at his brothers with mischief
“all?”
They looked at each other before answering in chorus “Testudines”
That made you laugh “Ok, I should totally had expected that."
"Aww, don't worry Angel puff. Humans are cool too" winked Michelangelo making you chuckle
"And to say that I wanted to ask you what was your favorite color but thought it was too easy”
“What’s your favorite color?” asked Donnie picking up the interests of his brothers and you went without a doubt
“Rainbow”
“Hey, no fair!” groaned Michelangelo
“Yeah, that’s cheating little possum!” followed in his complain, Raphael
“But I love all the colors!”
“No way you don’t have a favorite” argued Michelangelo
“Well if I have to choose Liliac and Aquamarine then”
“Yes!" shoot up Donnie with a little dance "I win!”
Donnie extended his long lean arm to give you a three that you clapped amused as everyone else groaned
“That’s not a win, she said liliac not purple”
“Liliac is a purple, Raphael”
"Then Aquamarine is a blue" countered Leonardo
"technically is more a green than blue" defended his position again Donatello
Michelangelo crossed his arms “She said she love all the colors, you made her choose”
"No you did. And now that I won, you suddenly like her old one more" he taunted
You grow anxious at their arguing “I really like all colors. And I think yours really suit you” you tried to fix what you provoked but Raphael put a hand on your head
“It’s ok, little possum”
“Yeah we banter a lot but it’s all good” assured you Leonardo
“Still appreciate you having good taste”
“Donnie” everyone groaned at him while he looked like a satisfied cat, making you chuckle
“So what’s your next question Y/n?” regained control of the game Leonardo
“Me! Me! Do me!” called out Michelangelo
You studied him for a bit before choosing a good question
“What are those?” you pointed at his weapons hoping it wasn’t rude.
“Oh this?” He grabbed them to show you better with a huge smirk “This, my friend, are the best weapons ever created”
All his brothers had various levels of disagreement at the statement but he kept going his presentation ignoring them “the nunchuks!”
The conversation went easy after that. He and his brothers showed and explained you everything about their weapons like a proud mama showing her newborn cubs, and so burning 4 of your 19 questions you had left.
So your next question wrote itself in your mind. Did they knew how to use each other weapons? The answer was yes.
They on the other hand asked you easy questions. What was your favorite book, favorite movie, favorite game, favorite pizza…
You found out they were crazy about pizza, like CRAZY about it. Michelangelo even told you they eat a 99 formaggi pizza.
That seemed a waste of cheese honestly. With so many how could the pizza enhance the taste of the cheese? Won’t just be cheesy and that’s it? Just get a big bite of emmental, cheddar, gorgonzola and grana together and get over with it.
What surprised you was his next question as he asked if you could list 99 cheese and to everyone amazement, yourself included, you could. Taking account of the many variations it wasn’t so hard like you thought; but it took a bit, especially since Michelangelo asked you about them too, like what was taleggio. Which wasn't so easy to explain if you never tasted it, so you just tried for a bit before settling for 'it's like the Charmeleon between the Stracchino and Gorgonzola'. All that cheese talk made you nostalgic.
You then asked about Donnie’s high tech glasses, found out Michelangelo made comics, Leonardo liked to read and then you were curious about Raphael scar ideogram on his shoulder. Apparently yes it was made exactly like you thought it was and Donatello was still traumatized, as he was the one who had to put the stitches before Master Splinter found out.
Michelangelo was more traumatized finding out you didn’t watch anime or played video games outside of Pokemon and pledged to be your sensei for the low price to read the only manga you ever read and owed, Genkaku Picasso.
When he found out you didn’t watched Start Wars either it was the last drop, and he nearly fainted at the amount of work he had to do, but his brothers assured you his antics just meant he was very excited.
First homework from Michelangelo sensei: answer a test so he could know where to start.
At least you weren’t so bad with superhero movies but they put a Marvel and Dc movies marathon on the training list anyway.
When Donnie asked curious how was Italy you were in the middle of your game, sleepy and fully cozied with each other company.
You didn’t had so much fun in a long time. Maybe that’s why a question you were holding back for the entire week came out without embarrassment.
“Of much of a turtle are you?”
They looked at each other confused before Leonardo broke the silence “What do you mean?”
“First time we met, Donatello said you are technically turtles, but you look pretty human-like. Antropo, antrofo”
“Anthropomorphic” helped you the purple brother
“Yes that. You have arms, legs and teeth like humans. You have nostrils but not a nose or ears, not that it stop you from hear, or wear glasses, so I guess your ears are still internal even if I’m not sure what that mean. You can fight in the snow but you are not so warm at the touch, so you are not warm blooded either…”
“You seem to have studied a lot in this week” Raphael teased with a small smirk followed by Michelangelo
“You really missed us, Angel puff, didn't ya?”
“After some days I started to think I dreamed all of it, even if I replayed everything over and over in my mind. At some point I started thinking and when I do, I get questions and I tried to find answers on my own but I still don’t understand." You bowed your head looking at your thermos. "Sorry I sound creepy again.”
Actually the thermos where the perfect distraction, even if you wanted to kick yourself for forgetting until then “Is the cold bothering you? I took only this blankets because I read that to turtles it should be more problematic than helpful, so I made tea instead.”
“I would love some” Leo seemed excited at your proposal and you took out your precious collections of mugs from the basket.
“I will make a new question." you went on, pouring the tea to everyone "Sorry, it was a weird one”
“It was not” Raphael caught your eyes as you gave him the mug
“It’s only natural wanting to know” confirmed Donatello “It would be stranger if you didn’t”
“Donnie, you do the honors?” asked Leonardo
“Of course” he said like there were no doubts to begin with on who was the better suited for the mission, as he fixed his glasses and straighten his back.
He seemed ready for a university lesson he waited all his life for, if Mikey didn't had interrupted him as soon as he opened his mouth “Damn this tea is good!”
Leonardo was nodding along with enthusiasm “Best tea I ever tried. Sensei would love it”
“What is it?” asked Raphael looking at his mug like he never saw tea before
“It’s called Little prince, its a green tea with pieces of apple and other fruits I can’t remember. It was my mother favorite…”
“Well, it’s delicious” complimented Donnie trying his tea before starting his lesson.
Even if you are sleepy Donatello’s passionate lecture about their biology was easy to follow, and his brothers were kind enough to never interrupt. Even if they seemed a bit bored but endured it with the help of the desserts, tea and the faces you made at every new information.
He told you about their lugs, bone structure and circulatory system. Apparently they were neither cold or warm blooded but something called mesotherms, a sort of middle ground that you didn't understand if in nature existed to some extend or they were the first to have it since dinosaurs. They had no ribs but apparently Raphael's had been this close to die as Shredder nearly cracked the spine under his shell really bad. To not talk about the other turtles blood loss and nearly cardiac arrest, they now knew how much blood they needed to lose to die. An experiment no one of you wanted to repeat. He explained what having internal ears meant and, between their mutation and them being turtles, it appeared they had enhanced senses too. Meaning they could hear lower frequencies than humans, smell more and their eyes could see more in the dark and underwater. And they never got sick. Which was something you would sign for, other than being really strong and bulletproof that wouldn't be so bad either.
“Before you ask we do not carry Salmonella." Went on Donatello having covered pretty much everything else "Our body seem to not only protect us from bacteria but make us perfectly fine to touch. Even our mouths are more cleaner than humans ones.”
Michelangelo seemed to bite his tongue to not say something as he looked away with fake innocence.
“I hoped so." you chuckled embarrassed ignoring "You seemed too easygoing and touchy for giant bio hazards”
The question really had crossed your mind but had no idea how to ask without sounding rude.
“Also we do have a tail and…” He went on, making Michelangelo choke in his cup
“And that’s everything there is to know about us” concluded the lesson Raphael with his purple brother in a death grip with his hand on Donatello's mouth, before you could even notice he got all the way there.
Donatello with his glasses all crooked, patted his brother’s bicep to make him release him but the red one wasn't relenting.
"Raphael is right. I think the biology lesson can end for today, Donnie." said Leonardo with a pointed look
Donnie was the released but you could see he wasn't happy with the treatment, whispering something to himself
You had no clue what had happened.
Having a tail didn't seem embarrassing, you knew turtles had one.
Still you tried to easy the atmosphere changing subject.
“You know, humans have a tail too.” That really got their attention “Well sorta”
“Oh, you mean the coccyx!” Donnie helped you out again regaining some of his enthusiasm and you just nodded with a little smile at his change of behavior
“What do you mean sorta?” asked Leonardo as Raphael was back in his place next to you
“It’s a bone at the end of the vertebral column, also called tail bone as it’s the remnant of a vestigial tail and, before you ask, vestigial means a remnant of a part that got lost in evolution. Can I have more tea, please?”
You were looking at Donatello amazed but snapped out of it to get the thermos “sure”.
Not that you had doubts, but Donatello was really really smart. And the way he explained was so enjoyable also because his eyes sparkled as he spoke. You always loved when someone talked about something they liked.
As you refill Donnie’s mug you were now glad you had made 2 big thermos of it
“Did you take some? It might end soon” asked Leonardo
“Oh, don’t worry about me. It's funny making tea but I actually don’t like the taste of it”
“You like to bake but don’t eat cakes, you like making tea but don’t like drinking it." the red turtle seemed amused by your answer "Anything else you like to do for others that you hate for yourself?”
"Is that your question?" you reminded him of your game
"What if it was?"
It took you a bit to find an answer to his riddle.
“Massages” you ended up saying “Head ones especially. I’m good at making them but I don’t like them on myself”
“Dibs!"
You looked at Michelangelo perplexed “What?”
“Hit me with it” went on but you still were confused, your eyes went for a second to the thermos at his strange request
"I don't want to hit you"
“He want a head massage” translated Donatello
“Oh” that was… new. “Are you sure?”
Echoes of bad memories emerged from a dark corner of your mind. The venom in their voices. The laughter. The disgust on their face.
“If it’s not a problem” interrupted your focus Leo, talking for his brother
“It’s not.” you shocked your head to sent the echoes away before looking at Michelangelo “If you are ok with me”
“Sure!” his energy didn’t seem as boisterous as 3 sec ago tough “What me to come over there?”
“No, stay comfortable." you said getting up to stand behind him "I would had needed to get up anyway, you are too tall”
That made the guys chuckle but it wasn't your fault if they were big between their shells and height.
You studied his back. His shell made it a little difficult to be as near as you were used to, but it wasn’t as big as you feared either, so it wasn’t much of a problem reaching his head. There was another obstacle tough.
You hummed in thinking and Michelangelo looked up to check.
“Oh, here” he said reading your mind and went to get off his mask
You panicked as your hands went on his to stop him “You don’t have to! I can work around it, I didn’t want to make you uncomfortable!”
“Chill Angel Puff. I want the full treatment.” he looked in your eyes as you still weren’t releasing his hands.
It would had take him nothing to kept what he was doing ignoring your hands but your eyes were still panicking. “It’s no prob Angel Puff, really”
His eyes were so reassuring, and his brothers made nothing to stop him or to show that they were angry at you for asking.
You already saw him without a mask the first time you met them though. It really was ok? Were you the only one who was making a big deal of it?
“You sure? You are really ok with this?” 'with me?' You didn’t dare complete the sentence
“Hella sure." Michelangelo smile went bigger switching on the drama "Just don’t faint, I’m too handsome to handle without sunglasses”
That made escape a little snort from you at his antics “I will do my best. Still wish I had those sunglasses. Don’t want to go blind from overexposure to pure awesomeness, you know?”
Mikey grinned at you and you were pretty proud and impressed of the fancy words. Probably you watched Kung fu panda more times than you thought.
“Gotcha” Raphael throw something at you and your instincts made you catch it.
In your hands were now a pair of sunglasses. Raphael’s pair of sunglasses.
You dramatically bowed your head at him before putting them on with a smile “Ready”
Michelangelo wasted no more time to pull off his mask.
It still felt strange, like you were watching something secret and intimate.
Then he looked up at you, and his dazzling smile could melt everything, even some of yours insecurities.
You took off the glasses to rub your eyes.
“Are you sure your glasses work?" you asked Raphael "He is still too bright even with them on. I'm seeing dots!"
The guys chucked at your antics and watching all of them smiling and so comfortable in the warm lights of the roof, warmed your heart.
Honestly between the four turtles, Michelangelo could light up a room with his smile but his brothers' smiles were no joke either.
“I told you Angel Puff!" said Michelangelo smirking getting your attention back "Ready when you are”
Your hands hovered above his head as the voices came back
“Anch’io voglio un massaggio!” ‘I want a massage too!' the classmate in front of you whined to her friends watching as the girl at your side was giving a back massage at their friend in front of her
“Puoi chiedere a Y/n” ‘You can ask Y/n’ she sneered
The girl before you looked at you from over her shoulder in disgust “Non voglio le sue mani addosso” ‘I don’t want her hands on me”
And honestly you were just as against it, 'Perchè mai dovrei volerle fare un massaggio?' ‘Why the hell should I want to give her one?” you remembered thinking
Still it was too late, it was illogic for you to even care but her disgust had stuck up on you like a leech. You had hoped you were forgetting by now but now the echoes were back even stronger.
At least she now was without a name or a face.
You felt a shell falling against you. Just a touch, light as a feather, but strong enough to bring you back to the present.
Right, she was miles away from you, still in Italy, while here on this New York's roof there was Michelangelo and his brothers.
He wasted no time, or thoughts, to hug you and Raphael literally let you use his lap as a seat and play with his hands the whole ride tonight. Leonardo didn’t hesitate to hold you close to save you, April and Vern from that Cliff while Donatello literally picked you off your feet for the best water ride of your life.
And before that you could still feel Michelangelo's hand rubbing your back as you were trembling with that bag on your head, or Raphael's hand under yours as he helped you down the roof that first night.
They didn’t hesitate to touch you, save you, help you or calm your fears even since the first time they met you.
This was different. THEY were different.
Right?
You lowered your hands and started to work
"Tell me if you are uncomfortable, I will stop”
Michelangelo’s head lasted 30 seconds before it became putty in your hands and his neck gave up making it fall to his chest plastron.
“Hold up, please” you gently took his head back in position "Relax but not too much"
“Sorry.”
After that he was still relaxed but managed to hold still enough that you could work.
His skull wasn’t so different from a human’s one but his skin was strange at the touch. It was smooth and hard as leather and your fingers could trace the lines of his scales (because yes, turtles had epidermal scales). But where you were expecting his muscles to be more… rigid, like trying to mold a rock, you found out they were surprisingly malleable. Still you could feel that his head was harder than yours as human skin was more squishy.
Probably if you said it out loud it didn’t made sense.
But what surprised you more was that you could feel a deep rumbling under your fingers, that only got stronger as you massaged the two skull bumps at the nape with the heel of your hand.
The chuckles of his brothers distracted you from your thoughts.
“That good?” you could feel the tease in Donatello’s voice but Michelangelo paid that no mind.
“Brah, you have no idea” he moaned not even opening his eyes to answer, making Leonardo chuckle even more.
“Keep pampering us like this and you will be stuck with us forever, little possum” Raphael warned
"What does pampering mean?" you asked confused looking directly at Donatello who seemed shy all of sudden
"Viziare" he provided looking at his tea
You thought back at what Raphael
'Promise?' was your first traitorous thought
“You make it sound like it’s a bad thing." you meekly teased instead "You really need to work on your threats if you want to scare someone. Tone alone is not enough, Batman”
That made Donatello laugh. A beautiful full laugh complete with snort.
“I only saw Batman once!” Ralph defended himself before throwing a paper-napkin-ball at his laughing brother but that just made him laugh harder.
The scene made you give a little snort too before you chastised yourself. You were a little worried it was too much, but judging Raphael’s barely-there-smile he wasn’t angry at you.
“I have a question” called out Michelangelo making you look at him
“Will have to wait. It’s Y/n’s turn” answered Leonardo
Your hands were getting tired after what it felt like 10 minutes of massaging, so you stopped “How was it?”
Michelangelo finally opened his eyes cheerfully “Amazing. Thanks, Angel Puff”
“You’re welcome” you brightened
“That’s not a question” complained Donatello as you went back to sit
You took a bit to think what question ask to Michelangelo
“Don’t you feel naked without your mask?”
The question escaped on his own and you regretted it as soon as you heard it, but apparently you were the only one who was making a big deal of it like always.
“Nope, not at all.” Michelangelo said with the same carefree attitude of Timon and Pumbaa, as he put his mask back on before giving you all his attention "Now it’s my turn”
That tone promised troubles. And your guts weren’t wrong.
“Are you single?”
“Mikey!” all his brothers scolded him
“What? It’s a legit question!”
You still looked at him strange answering without hesitation either “Of course not”
It was like a punch in the guts, your bitter smile trying to hold the fort and not crack.
“What?!”
'Why is Michelangelo so shocked?' you asked yourself confused
Though you didn’t elaborate and turned to Leonardo instead “What’s your favorite book?”
If you had blinked you would had missed Leo’s surprise at the sudden attention, but he didn’t need to think too much about the answer “Any adventure book really. But my favorite…”
“Journey to the Center of the Earth” all his brothers ended for him with a groan
“Don’t let him start on that book” Donatello rolled his eyes to the dark sky above you
“I’m not so bad!” went on defensive Leonardo
Raphael pointed his finger at the blue leader “At six years old you got us lost in the sewers for an expedition to the center of earth!”
“I got you back home too!”
“After two days!” complained Michelangelo
“You got us in the hashi for the first time” kept going Raphael teasing
“And you all the times after!” rebutted Leonardo
An “oh” escaped your mouth making Donatello look at you curious between his brothers' banter
“What?”
“No, nothing. I just found a question for later."
Chapter 7
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chapter notes: why it took me so long from chapter 4 to publish the new one and now we got 3 of them (9 technically for all versions, 18 for 2 platforms)? because this chapter was really really important to me and i felt that it made no sense the 5 without the 6, who at the time was 9k. then i realized i could kill someone on tumbrl if they had to read a 9k chapter so i divided it in two, but after i edited it became a mammoth chapter around 15k. and i edited them like 3 times. that's why it took me so long. anyway i'm sorry this chapter is kind of heavy, i wanted this fic to be a comfort fluffy fic after the movie but the Turtles became something more for me and so it became a hurt/comfort/fluffy fic. Reader and the Turtles are gonna be more secure around each other soon but it won't be a quick burn
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Turtles of a shell get stuck together - Female Reader Edition
CHAPTER FIVE - SO HAPPY TOGETHER or LIKE LUKE AND LEIA
Pronouns: she/her
General warnings: reader is italian, autistic and a traumatized teenager. Written to be as inclusive as possible so no skin or hair descriptions, reader don't blush and there are 3 versions of this fic for 3 different type of pronouns
Words: 2.833
Chapter 1 - Chapter 2 - Chapter 3 - Chapter 4
A week passed. A long, sad week.
You should had been happy to go back to your old boring normality, but reality was… that your normality wasn’t boring. It was sad.
Your uncles were often out of town for this or that event. Your uncle was a pretty good chef and traveled everywhere he was called in the States with his wife and dog, while you had a school you couldn't miss. This time they had been away for 2 weeks, so they didn’t even noticed you disappeared for a whole day. They wanted to give you space and don't hover, so they called the day after and it was like nothing had happened.
Didn't even notice you being all over the news with April and Vernon.
Not that the news showed your face or your name, but if they were your parents after hearing what happened in New York, they wouldn't had been so calm.
But they weren’t there, that was the whole point.
At least your grandparents had worried a bit all the way from Italy, but you couldn't tell them what happened for so many reasons. So, being at home right on time to not even skip a call, you didn't rise a suspect and the call went something like: 'No, non ti preoccupare, Nonna, non è successo vicino a casa. New York è molto grande, non mi sono manco accorta'. (No, don't worry, Grandma, it didn't happen near home. New York is very big, I didn't even noticed.)
Nothing changed in school either. Nobody recognized you and the hours passed there just became more tedious from not having news from the turtles or April. Just Vern was still everywhere as a matter of fact, along with the arrest of Shredder and Shacks.
You still were glad nobody else found out about the little family.
And a little hurt the turtles disappeared.
But honestly why they should had told you something? They didn’t own you anything. It’s not like you were friends or something.
You shouldn’t even had been there. You were just a random stranger that happened to be on the same roof they landed on and met April.
Probably in their eyes you were just another human, just one between millions that lived in New York and they already had forgot about you.
Really, it was no big deal. You just hoped both the guys and Mister Splinter were safe and sound.
But then
Why you waited hopeful on the roof every evening? Why you woke up thinking about them, waited excited for the sun to set to get on the roof, and then went to sleep with your heart crushed when no one appeared?
Today you were on the roof again with your loyal book you had barely read in a week. Your eyes always reading the same sentence over and over again, or reading a whole paragraph before having to restart it, because your mind was spacing out through the sewers. It was the tenth time today so you decided to close your book before wetting it with the tears you felt coming.
You were tired to wait for something that won't happen, tired to hope for nothing, tired of feeling so hollow…
Your sudden phone's ringtone made you jump.
It took you a moment to even remember it was the sound of your phone.
Nobody called you there, especially at that time.
The number was unknown so you were about to not answer at all, but something made you push that green button.
“Pronto?”
“Hello, Princess!”
You were shocked
“Hi”
"It's me! Turtle, four eyes…"
"Yes, I-I know"
You recognized right away it was Purple
"Good, so glad you remember me. Make things easier…”
“What's happening?” you couldn’t help but interrupt him “Is your father ok? Are you all all-right?”
He was about to answer when someone else did
“We are in danger, Y/n." said someone in hurry "Meet us in 5 minutes in front of your house or somebody is gonna die”
The communication went off abruptly but not before the turtle that you were speaking to, let out a painful sound.
You couldn’t ran fast enough to get down on the street but once there you were not even sure of what you were waiting for.
Till you saw a strange green vehicle with solar panels and a tv antenna on the top; the shell pattern on it made little doubts on who it belonged to.
You stepped near the street, checking nobody was around to see them, but had barely any time before a hand grabbed you and you ended up trapped in the car, more specifically on Red’s laps.
“Guys! What’s happening? Who’s dying?”
“Us.” said Orange dramatically “To see you”
“What?” you were left confused
“He’s a numb nuts that’s what” said Red hitting Orange on the shoulder, who gave the same painful sound you heard on the phone.
“So, no one is in danger?”
“No, sorry to make you worry Y/n” said Blue smiling apologetically while looking back at you from the front seat
“Is Mister Splinter all right?" You kept asking "You?”
“We are all back in perfect condition," went Purple who started to drive away "thanks for your concerns”
“Sensei send his greetings” smiled Blue
Raphael hold in front of you the vial you left with Mister Splinter "and this"
“Thanks” you said grabbing it relieved.
You really had missed it this week
“I’m happy to see you are all fine. But why are you here?”
“We had some unfinished business” started Blue
Purple locked eyes with you from the rear-view mirror “We wanted to thank you”
You tilted your head at him “For what? I should be the one to thank you. You are the ones who saved everyone. I did nothing”
“You haven’t told anyone about us”
“You stole from Shredder two times”
"I borrowed his knives" you defended yourself "I returned all of them at the end. And the Mutagen wasn't his to keep"
But they went on, not giving up
"If you didn't, it would had shattered with Shredder"
"We saved our father with the mutagen you took"
"And got a faster recovery"
“You came to save us no matter how dangerous it was"
"or that we were just strangers”
“You worried about us”
"And believed in us"
Watching with great interest the fluffy green seat full of buttons in front of you, you wondered if they did it often, talking over each other in a strange harmony that completed each other.
“You call that nothing?” asked Red finally with a small smile that made you look away again embarrassed
“You are the best friend a turtle could ask for” concluded Orange
That made you look up at him
“We are friends?”
If you were emotional before you could had started crying at any moment
“Well of course” he said boisterous before studying you and becoming shy “I mean… if you want to”
You were surprised to see what seemed vulnerability on their face.
“I would love to… if you are ok with me…”
“Who wouldn’t love to have a cute little possum as a pet?” Red gave you a little shove
“Raphael!” Blue and Orange exclaimed
“Technically humans and opossums, while both Mammalians, have different orders. Not to say opossums are in the Marsupialia infraclass while…” tried to correct Purple but was interrupted by an exasperated Blue
“That’s not the point Donnie!”
“Yeah man," went on Orange looking at Red "it’s not cool calling our new friend a pet!”
They kept bickering like that for a bit before you started to laugh making them stop.
“I only have one condition” you said finally drying your tears and making Blue narrow his eyes at you “such as?”
“Can we start all over again?” you asked a bit shy twisting your fingers
That confused the turtles
“Sorry Angel-puff but I’m so not gonna fight an evil mecha on a falling tower anytime soon” said Orange serious
“No! I mean...” you tried to find the words to not offend the friends you just found “We never introduced properly and… I’m bad with names. Really really bad, so…”
“Wait.” Purple nearly stopped the car in the middle of the traffic “You nearly died with us and you don’t know our names?”
You fixed the cuffs of your sleeves ashamed “I’m sorry”
But instead of getting angry they just started to laugh.
“It’s ok" ended up Blue "The whole day was a lot to take in and we never really introduced ourselves, did we? Mickey?”
“On it” Orange switched on the drama posing like he had a mic in his hand “At the wheel, the driver in purple, the genial, the inimitable, Donatello! On his left our navigator, our beacon in the dark,"
"beacon to our eggs" you joked making Blue grin between Red and Donatello's chuckles
"I present you our fearless leader in blue, Leonardo!" went on Orange not missing the beat, but not forgetting to wink at you either, before changing his tone from wrestling host to commercial break's v.a. "Your comfy seat is provided by Raphael, a guy though like a mountain but melt like a snowman"
Raphael complained to his brother but Orange was fast to dodge his fist this time, switching back his tone to wrestling host "And last, but not least, in orange, the one brother who won the genetic lottery in every field, Michelangelo. A.K.A. me” He said pointing at himself with both hands as his last presentation made everyone of his brothers complain.
You smiled basking in the light that was their warm energy “Pleasure to meet you all”
The travel was so nice between the chats and studying the vehicle, and they had been so kind to keep repeating their names over and over again without loosing patience.
“We are nearly there” said Donatello and Michelangelo lighted up like a Christmas tree.
You were now somewhere you didn't recognize, but probably under a bridge.
“Where are we?” you asked
“We told you, we have unfinished business.” Raphael's tone wasn’t harsh despite his words
'Ok but where?'
“Next stop of our tour is April” explained further Michelangelo excited
'Still doesn't explain where…' not that would had changed something without a New York's map under your nose
“Sorry, we didn’t ask before. Hope you won’t get in trouble with you uncles” said Leonardo but you waved off
“It’s ok, they are out of town. Won’t even notice.”
“Here they are” said Donnie honking to grap their attention.
They had one of those weird honks you only ever heard in Hollywood movies.
Feeling like you were intruding once again in their reunion with the woman, you tried to make yourself invisible even if on Raphael's legs, there weren't places for you to hide.
Raphael looked at you adjusting your position but didn’t comment, still somehow his presence around you felt more sheltering.
Michelangelo made some mixing like sounds while opening his door to stand half in half out of the car “DJ Mikey in the house!” as Donatello was waving half out of the window.
Leonardo decided instead to just keep cool leaning with his arm on the window while Raphael just looked from between the seats.
“What are you guys doing here?” you heard April ask
“We figured we owed you a thanks for keeping our secret.”
'You forgot to add this time, Leonardo'
April appeared in your sight as she went to look inside the vehicle at the last turtle. He seemed nearly shy
“You had a lot to gain from telling people about us, but you had our backs.”
“Yeah, 'cause that's what family's for, Raph.”
Raphael chuckled before looking away embarrassed
“Hey Y/n, you here too?” She looked at you amused
“Yeah, apparently they took a liking at kidnapping people.”
"Seem more like you got a liking at getting kidnapped by us" sassed Donatello
“So you guys are driving now?” you heard Vern ask concerned
“Yeah, man. I pimped this bad boy out. Got a 42-inch plasma with the NBA package, shave ice machine, 7.1 digital surround sound.” Donatello was so excited that you and Raphael had to dodge his hand as he was counting. He reminded you of Milo Thatch from Atlantis.
You didn't understand half of what he said, had no clue what basket had to do with his vehicle, but one thing came loud and clear to your ears
'Did he said shave ice machine?!'
"You forgot the disco ball" you teased instead looking at the ball on the roof "And the green fairy lights and the fluffy walls everywhere…"
“Check the bass, bra.” Michelangelo pushed one of the many buttons the vehicle had, and a strange sound came out from the roof, then an explosion made you hide further against Raphael with your arms protecting your head.
“Mikey!” scolded Raphael as everyone else had no words for what happened.
“My bad." Whatever happened had dried all the boisterous energy from Michelangelo "I'm still… figuring out the buttons.”
Looking out you grimaced seeing that a car was on fire.
“That was my new Fenwick Express!" Chocked out Vern "I just... I just got that.”
"Ouch" you grimaced once more
Leonardo was the first to realize the situation “We better get out of here."
"Want a ride home?” he asked at the two adults
But April looked between Vern and the turtles, still shocked as she started patting Vern's good shoulder
“You know what? I think we're gonna take the subway. We're going to take the subway.”
“You sure?" asked Michelangelo "I got a real nice song that's all cued up. It's special, girl.”
“No, don't.” Raphael in his calm plead seemed desperate
“For us.” ignored him his brother
But apparently Raphael wasn't the only one to worry because Leonardo and Donatello tried to stop him too
“Come on, Mikey.” “No, no, no, Mikey, you promised.”
“It's happening.” Michelangelo ignored their loud complains once again, to start singing off key to April
Still no matter how much his brothers protested, the woman was smiling at the serenade
“Imagine me and you I do, I think about you day and night, it's only right, to think about…”
Raphael got you back on his laps and harshly pulled Michelangelo inside the car while Leonardo closed the door and Donatello started driving away
“I'm making really good headway!”
“Shut up, Mikey!” the boys said together
But Michelangelo made a break for it to the back doors making Raphael turn his seat 180° (thing you didn't know his seat could do) to grab him just as quick, making you following his example and grabbing Michelangelo too by instinct.
“I can't see me loving nobody but you for all my life” Michelangelo kept singing off key “When you're with me, baby the skies 'll be blue for all my life!”
At his antics and the situation, you started laughing so hard that it make you lose your hold on the orange turtle, as Raphael managed to pull his brother inside again.
Your laughter made the others chuckle too before they started complaining again, Donatello first
“You promised Mikey!”
“It’s cringe flirting with our sister” went Raphael
“Since when she’s our sister?” complained Michelangelo and you couldn’t help to butt in
“I think I saw Mister Splinter signing the adoption papers as soon as she stepped back in your life”
“That would be pretty accurate” chuckled Leonardo but Michelangelo seemed heartbroken
“Aw man"
You placed your hand on his "If it's of any consolation I think she liked the song"
“Really?” he brightened
“Yeah, her smile seemed really sweet”
Michelangelo loudly crowed making everyone cringe
“Mikey!”
“So, what’s the plan now?” you asked to the guys chuckling at the scene
“Well our tour is finished..." started Leo before being interrupted by Donatello
"We should get the Turtle Van out of the road”
“Thanks Mikey” went sarcastically Raphael
“I said I'm sorry!”
Crestfallen, your eyes went down on the fluffy green floor at the news.
You logically knew that it was late but… you weren’t ready to say goodbye.
Leonardo looked at you from the rear-view mirror for a moment
“Y/n" he called to make you look at him, interrupting his bickering brothers "how about we leave you home, go park and meet you on your roof in an hour?”
“Sure!" you answered bright without even thinking before the stunned looks of his brothers, who looked at their leader like he had grown a second head.
Mikey was about to ask something when Raphael shoved his arm starting a silent staring discussion who eventually ended with an agreement to not say anything.
Once in front of your condo, you skipped all the way to the door and gave one last wave, while they stayed till they were sure you where inside before driving away.
Chapter 6
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authors note: the first movie is done! ༘⋆-ˋˏ ヽ( ^ᴗ^)ノ ·˚ ༘⋆ˎˊ˗ we are officially leaving the canon ground for the next chapter to know the turtles and have some fun before diving in the second. Originally I had planned to post this chapter together with the next. But next chapter was 9k words, that became 12k as i edited, so i divided it in 3 parts and the editing became soooo long and i had nightmares thinking to post 24 chapter in one day (3 version x 4 chapters in 2 platforms), so had to compromise. The other chapter is nearly done so i should publish the 3 parts this week. Hope you will like having a relaxing, fun, emotional pic nic with the guys. See you soon!
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Loves wrestling with you. he’s always gentle, but he might toss you around just a little bit to ruffle your feathers
He’s a big gift giver. he wants to see how happy you are after he gives you smth. he’ll hand you a bag full of crazy expensive stuff and when you thank him he’ll always say smth like ‘yeah it was no biggie don’t sweat it’
Will give you a super inspiring pep talk just to ask your parents if you can hang out with him after school
Loves to playfully insult you with stuff like ‘hey dumbass check this out!’ or ‘you can be such a smartass sometimes, y’know that?’
Always shares his food with you. to him, that’s sacred. he never shares with his brothers, only you
Will literally beat anyone up for you. just say the word and they’ll be on the way to the hospital
Memorizes your schedule at school so he can ‘accidentally’ bump into you during passing period
Absolutely loves spoiling you. between the mutant battle arena and how loved he is for saving new york, he’s actually hella rich. and he’s willing to spend it all on you
He feels safe enough to be vulnerable around you. he doesn’t have to hide, he can just be himself
If you ever help him with his homework, he’ll be forever in your debt
I'm watching tmnt (as i do every night) and everytime raphael is on screen i feel an urgent need to jump through the screen, wash him off and just go all night, so i thought i'd write another fanfic 🧐 hope you enjoy!
Warnings : i'm a bicep lover to the MAX, so you will genuinely catch me lacking and focusing on raphaels big meaty sweaty muscles 🤤 | no use of Y/N here, vouyerism (i think) Raph calls reader Babygirl, P in V, no protection (always use protection lads, lassies and anything in between) i think thats all 🧐 nobody actually reads this right? Hopefully you dont notice any that i've missed...
"Anything you want"
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You'd been missing him too much.
Every thought you had was about Raphael, it was consuming you, you couldn't help but grimace at your own thoughts, thinking how your best friend would probably find you deeply weird for imagining him as something more than just a friend.
Shaking out of your thoughts, you enter the lair, your eyes landing on Donatello and April on the couch discussing a matter out of earshot.
"Hey, You!"
April turns to looking at you, donnie turning with a wave.
"Couldn't stay away from the best mutants you know, huh?"
Donnie smiled, standing up and walking over with april,
"What? You guys are like my least favorite mutants"
You reply sarcastically.
"Oof, i'm sure you're used to that by now, Donnie"
April pats his arm as he scoffs, turning back to you.
"Raphs in his room, by the way"
Your eyes widen a bit, why would be assume you're looking for raph? Were you obvious?
"What makes you think i'm looking for raph?"
April chimes in,
"You're always looking for raph"
You roll your eyes, walking past them to the couch
"Maybe i'm just here to hangout today"
April and donnie exchange a glance before hising their snickering, walking off to his lab. You turn on the tv, putting on some saved film called 'space heroes' and leaned back on the couch, resting a head on your hand.
"And who said you could watch my space heroes?"
Leo appears, sitting on the couch beside you.
"I did"
You retort, cringing at the fact you didn't just apologise instead.
"Well, i hope u don't mind that i'm watching with you. I've seen this episode a bunch, so i'll give you spoilers"
You breath out a laugh.
"Gee, Thanks"
You're both into the film, not actually talking, that was until Mikey came in.
"Hey, guys! What are you watching?"
Leo turns to look up at him,
"Space heroes"
Mikey shrugs,
"Lamo! Hey, i thought you'd be with Raph by now?"
Again? Why is everyone assuming you're with raph? You can't be obvious, if his brothers found out, they'd tell him for sure.
"Why are you all assuming i'm with Raph? It's not like we're dating or anything, i'm here to hangout with you all, not just him!"
you say with an attitude, hoping to squash any thought of you and raph.
"Uhh, well i was talking to leo, him and raph had an argument earlier, and they were supposed to be talking it out..."
You turn red, glancing between the two.
"Awkward..."
Mikey chimes out, causing leo to send him a glare.
"Don't worry, we know you and raph don't hangout constantly, just almost constant"
Leo subtly jokes, hoping to ease the awkwardness.
"Yeah, sorry"
You reply, falling deeper into the couch.
"It's fine, and Raph and i sorted it out, he's working out in his room, it didn't take long to-"
You tune out leo, pretending to focus on the tv when in reality you were still thinking of Raph, with how much everyone else brought him up, he just came back to your thoughts, his big muscles and pretty eyes, you remember the time he first took his mask off infront of you to get a rock out that was bugging him, and he looked absolutely handsome.
"Alright, lets go!"
You chimed back into the conversation, looking between them.
"Huh?"
You ask,
"We're getting some Pizza, Brah! We'll be back in uno momento!"
You watch them both leave, turning back to the film.
"When the hell did you get here?"
It's him, you'd recognise that intoxicating voice anywhere. You turn your hair to where Raphael was emerging from and shrug,
"Got here a while ago, where have you been?"
Raph crossed his arms,
"Where do you think i coulda been, numb-nuts?"
You roll your eyes.
"Wanna join?"
Raph sits beside you, both arms resting on the back of the couch, it was a normal way to sit on the couch, but you couldn't help but think of the fact that his arm was right behind you, all big and muscular, it could almost make you drool.
While the film continued to play, you found yourself scooting just a bit closer to Raph, but of course, you can't have just one embarrassing occurrence happen in one day.
"What'dya think you're doing?"
You raise a brow, trying to act casual,
"Getting comfortable, that a problem with you big guy?"
He was used to your normal teasing and use of little petnames like that, but that was delivered with a certain charm he couldn't quite place.
"Doesn't bother me."
His voice was so much more softer when he wasn't trying to be intimidating, yet it was still gruff, it was soothing.
"Hey, lemme ask ya something.."
You turned to look up at raph,
"Yeah, what is it?"
He tenses a bit, avoiding eye contact,
"Why didn't you come into my room when you first got here? Did i do something?"
You straighten up, clearing your throat,
"Well i was actually planning on it, but i first saw donnie and april, and they both just assumed i was going straight to your room, and i thought maybe we just hangout too much."
Raph shook his head in disbelief,
"We don't hangout too much, don't be stupid"
You felt his arm move back a smidge, feeling like maybe you made him angry.
"Well yeah, thats not what i meant-"
"That's what you said"
"Yeah but i didn't mean it in that way"
"Uh huh."
You scoff, turning away.
"If you aren't going to listen then i'm not going to bother talking to you."
You hear raph sigh, then feel a large hand pull you back, hard. You slam onto his side, and his arm wraps around you.
"If you aren't gonna talk to me at least do me the favour of keepin' me warm."
You go red, you've never been this close to Raph and he's never initiated this level of contact with you before.
You both continue the film, and you felt yourself resting more and more into Raph as his arm deepened around your waist, squeezing your hip softly. You make a little nervous sound, and you feel him do it again.
"Quit that"
You say, you don't want him to stop, why did you say that?
"Whatever you want, little miss sunshine"
You scoff, you were about to retort when you hear Mikey and Leo come in.
"Pizza!- woaah, are we interupting lovebirds?"
You and raph move away from eachother, a wave of disagreement between you both.
"Yeah we believe you"
Donnie chimed in, coming out of his lab with April.
"What kind of pizza did you guys get?"
April asks, everyone gathering at the couch.
"Cheese from little tony's, only the best"
Leo replied, oening the box. Mikey took a big whiff, sighing dramatically.
"Thats the stuff!"
You take a slice, turning back to the film.
"Hey raph, you getting in on this?"
Raph just shakes his head, not removing his eyes from the movie playing.
"Suit yourself! More for me, Brah!"
Mikey digs in.
After everything settled, the end of the movie credits role, it was only you and raph once again, everyone returning to their regular routines.
You get up, planning to leave, that was until you felt yourself pulled back down, back against the couch. You look up and see raph staring down at you.
"I'm sick of you pretending like you don't catch on. You know i like you, what? Am i too freakish for you? Too mutant?"
You couldn't form a coherent sentance, like you? Like you??? When the hell did that happen??
You were finally able to gather your thoughts,
"You aren't too mutantish or freakish for me Raph, don't be stupid...i-...i just didn't think you liked me back, i guess i was so focused on my own thoughts that i really didn't notice you liked me"
You felt yourself getting flustered, Raph was just staring down at you.
"Let me kiss you?"
Phrased like a command, but delivered as a desperate question. You nodded, feeling more and more nervous as his lips reached yours.
Your arms caress his face, leg trying to wrap around his large frame as his hands move down, squeezing your hips and groaning into the kiss. He trails his kisses down your face, reaching your neck and leaving hickeys wherever he moved.
"Been dreamin' of this...want you so bad babygirl..."
You shudder, his breath on your neck feeling so warm and calming.
"Can't wait, hon. Need you now..."
His hands trail down, playing with the hem of your pants.
"Can i?"
"Mhm.."
He pulled your pants down antagonisingly slow, savouring ever moment. Raph had never done this before, and neither had you, so you both didn't know how this worked or what to do, but that wouldn't stop Raphael.
He pulled down your panties, getting a strong, sweet smelling scent.
"Smell so good, baby...wanna get a taste but i need you too bad...you'll let me taste you after, right? Say it."
You let out a small whimper, nodding your head.
"Anything you want, Raph..."
Raph smirks, angling his tail so it was right against your wet cunt.
"I'm a little different then human guys, you'll feel it all at once, that okay?"
You nod, wrapping your arms around his neck. You close your eyes, feeling a large sensation pushing itself into you, fast.
Raph covers your mouth with his lips, a dominatingly soft kiss blooming between you both as you begin to feel him thrusting in and out. You felt like you wanted to scream, it was so painful but so pleasuring.
Raph was grunting and groaning, squeezing any part of your body he could, thrusting and hitting spots you never knew existed.
"Fuck babygirl...is this what it feels like? I'm never leaving from this pretty pussy, she likes me too much, ain't that right?"
You whimper out a moan, too blissed out to actually render what he was saying.
You felt your bladder tensing, almost like you had to pee. You grasp onto raph tighter, arching your back as he continues his rough thrusts into you.
"Baby...i think i'm...oh crap..."
Raphs seed shot right into you, and as soon as it did you felt yourself finishing as well. He felt so warm inside of you, it made you feel kinda tired.
You're both breathing heavily, foreheads resting against eachother.
"Didn't know humans could do that, promise you'll do it again, though?"
You look up curiously, to find raph's plastron covered in a liquid, you had heard of squirting before, but you never thought you'd actually do it.
"God...i'm sorry Raph, i didn't know i could do that..."
Raph chuckles, pulling you up with him and pulling your pants back up, letting you rest on him for a moment.
"Don't say sorry, i didn't mind it."
He picks you up and carries you to his room, closing his door and placing you gently on the bed.
He crawled in beside you, pulling the blanket over you both and pulling you against him.
"When you get your energy back, we're doing that again, right?"
