You Get Used To It

Sorry I know this is the longest author's note in the history of the world but whatever. Chapters will start out short and start picking up length.

Disclaimer: I do not own the characters, they are the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and I have just modified them. I do however own the idea and the story so please be respectful to this. Thank you.

Author's Note: THE TURTLES ARE HUMAN. More or less, there are just two gangs going after one another with twists here and there. I've just taken the bits of personality that I plan to focus .. Some Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (TMNT) characters are not used in my story. I will try to follow the personality as closely as possible... My major resource for character development is NinjaTurtles.com under profiles. Check it out for character personalities.

Enjoy, Krissy

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Just so you know who is who from the cartoon.

Master Splinter- Mr. Splinter

Leonardo- Leo

Donatello- Don

Raphael- Raph

Michelangelo- Mikey (Mikey is a girl)

All staying the same:

April O'Neil

Casey Jones

The Shredder

Rock Steady

Krang

Bebop

Wingnut

Screwloose

Slash

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'Who has karate in gym class?' grumbled Don on his first day at a new school. He had just left gym class where his new gym teacher, Mr. Splinter, practiced karate with his students and was now shuffling down the hallway to his locker. He opened his locker and pulled out a couple dollars to get a bottle of water out of the vending machines, he was dripping sweat and needed to cool off. As he strode down the hallway back to the cafeteria for lunch, he was unaware of the eyes on him.

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"Mikey, that's him, I know it," Leo declared astonished watching his peer pull a water bottle out of the vending machine and sit dawn at an empty table. Mikey did not move from her position with her head in her folded arms as she sipped through the straw of her juice box.

"Mikey, go talk to him," Raph pulled away her apple juice.

"Hey!" she lightly protested the theft. "Why don't you go?"

"Mikey! You know you have to do this for us," Leo reasoned.

"He doesn't know who I am," she retorted.

"Just go! If you don't do this, you know what will happen to him," Raph piped up.

Mikey mumbled under her breath as she pushed the chair out to talk to the stranger who she knew so much about, knowing deep down that in a way it was for his own good. His name was Donatello; he was 15; 6 feet tall; 160 pounds; dark brown eyes and hair. She knew that he was very prone to math and science and liked to invent things. She knew he was not a fighter, but liked to talk things out. She knew that he was very reserved and preoccupied with his own thoughts most of the time. He grew up in the city next to theirs but moved when his father had died over the summer. She and the other Turtles had been tracking him for a long time, knowing that one day they would need him and he would need them, too. The Foot Clan had an interest in him.

Leo had made the importance of this conversation very clear to her in the past. She knew what she was supposed to do. The question was could she do this to him? That which was done to her.

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Don lifted his dark brown eyes to meet the blue eyes of the girl slumped in the seat across from him. He looked her over she was clad in a pair of jeans and black sneakers, a black Ninja Turtles shirt. On her arms was a pair of tube socks with finger and thumbholes with two orange stripes at the top. She was sitting down, but he could tell she was short around 5'4" he assumed and very slim. Her light brown hair was up in a messy bun. He smiled to himself, as he looked her over.

"Hi, my name is Mikey," her lips curved into a gracious smile.

"Hi," he said timidly. She outstretched her hand then to shake his. He took it and shook it, but never let his eyes leave hers.

"Well, what's your name?" she coaxed.

"Don," he said simply.

"Well, Don, come meet my friends," she stood up and lead him over to the table where the Turtles sat. When she stood, he realized she was shorter than he had first assumed. Her thin frame stood at 5 feet 2 inches tall and appeared to weigh no more than 110 pounds.

She introduced Don to everyone at the table: Raph, Leo, Casey, and April. April hardly heard her own name and said hello back being that she was occupied with her latest article for the school newspaper. In contrast, all of the boys at the table easily fell into conversation about themselves getting to know each other until the bell rang for fifth period. Everyone said goodbye before going off to his or her next class.

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Leo pulled Mikey aside before she could leave and sat her down in a chair. "Mikey, Thank you for talking to him, I know it was hard."

She threw on her dazzling smile and replied, "Not a problem! Anything for you guys!"

'Damn it!' he thought. He hated it when she put up those walls. He knew what she was feeling, and she was not happy. He could tell it killed her to drag someone into the Turtles. It wasn't a safe group to be involved with.

"What are you doing tonight?" Leo asked.

She smiled again, "Making dinner for all my boys!"

"Okay, wait at your locker, I'll drive you home with me."

She smiled brightly and nodded. They both went on their separate ways to go to class. Her- in her mock happiness. Him- in his worried state for her.

Mikey did as told and waited at her locker after school for her ride with Leo. She was packing her book bag with her homework when Leo arrived with Don. She looked over her shoulder at them. "Where's everyone else?" she asked.

"They're going to do some business," she sighed at this, "they'll be back in time for dinner. She muttered something that seemed to them as her saying that she was 'so glad' but they were not sure. She pulled her backpack out of her locker and let Leo drive them back to their house.