Ch1 Love for a thought

A/N I'm sorry if the beginning is weird mushy and gushy, but please bear with me. This is my first Splinter love story, I hope this turns out good. I do not own tmnt okay? Master Splinter may be a little ooc here.

Splinter sat in his room mediating quietly. Dozens of candles were lit in every corner giving the place a warm peaceful atmosphere. He had been meditating for an hour or so upon this special day, this day of course meant a lot for his Master Yoshi and he wanted to at least give a commemoration.

Today was Master Yoshi's wedding anniversary, a picture of Yoshi was placed upon a table with a candle and incense lit. Sadly, there was no picture of his wife Tang Shen, but a locket she left behind for him. He clasped the locket tightly within his hand, as if wanting to feel the spirit of their love that rested within it, this was a cherished treasure to him.

Opening his eyes, he held the locket before him observing its heart shaped texture. He coiled the chain into his finger tenderly. It was a symbol of love.

The lock that kept it closed has never been opened before, many times he tried to, but if he were to open it, the sacred value of whatever it contained would've been lost. So he left it like that.

Sighing, he placed the locket onto the table with the picture.

'I wonder if I would be able to find a decent partner out there for me." He told himself. Maybe there was a pretty rat with gray fur and blue eyes, but how many mutant rats were out there in New York?

Realizing his silly thoughts, he shook them away chuckling to himself, he was far too old for a relationship, and he had four sons to keep him company. There's Leonardo, Michelangelo, Raphael, and Donatello, and he has two friends, Casey and April.

*CRASH!*

"Mimi! Roca! Watch out!" Leo yelled outside.

Of course, there was Mimi le Mime and Roca the Turtle. He had plenty of people in his life to love him. As long as he had them, he was one happy rat bachelor. He laughed slightly as he went out to watch his stories.

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Mimi was in her mime outfit as always, she was miming the 'walking on a windy day' stunt. She made it look as if she really was caught in a wind storm. Just as she began 'walking down the stairs' act at the back of the couch, she heard the t.v. click on to the soap opera channel. The opening theme of Wish I could Love You started, her face popped up from behind and peered at the new episode and at Splinter who was dazedly watching the cheesy film.

Cynthia and Raoul were business rivals competing for the most sales in the neighborhood. Cynthia pursued an engaged man that she had been in love with for a very long time. Due to her obsessive antics in the neighborhood, Raoul tried many ways to stop her, as time went by, he soon realized how much in love he is with her.

"Raoul!" Cynthia shouted at a tall brunette man, her face twisted up in anger.

"You are the most loathsome man I've ever met!" *SLAP!*

Splinter grimaced from the slap and held his breath waiting for the next scene. Mimi sat on the couch and copied his expression, yet she saw something odd about him, a rather lonely look. Her eyes turned to the screen copying Splinter's gaze at the couple, but turned real as she saw them.

The scene shifted to a misty moonlight background.

"Cynthia, there's been something I wanted to tell you for a long time… I love you." The two kissed with passion as Splinter and Mimi both sighed from the romance. She never thought she could actually get affected by this stuff, she hates everything mushy, but this strange scenery impacted her like no other.

Splinter soon left reality and drifted off into another world, which was the most unusual thing for him to do, since he was the most focused and his mind was less likely to wander.

He found himself under a row of cherry blossom tress, the sun shining bright, and a rat with gray fur and blue eyes waiting for him at the end, they rushed towards each other with arms wide open. When they met, their lips connected and the shower of blossom petals added to the magical moment.

Mimi was no longer on the couch; instead she was in a long boat on a sparkly lake. On the water's surface was the moon's reflection, decorating it like a blanket of beauty. Someone was rowing it, she blinked as the person turned around, and it was none other than her big crush, Casey Jones. He sat down in front of the little mime and slowly bent towards her. Inches by inches his lips were getting closer.

"Guys…." A far away voice called, it sounded familiar.

Back in the real world, Leo and Mikey looked at weird pair puckering their lips at nothing. Leo waved at them.

"Hello! Guys! Master Splinter? Mimi?"

Mikey snickered and decided to try out something stupid to Mimi for a change. He went in front of the puckering kid and put out his lips at her.

"Master Splinter! Hello!" Leo shook him waking up from his day in la-la land.

"Master Splinter?? Are you okay?"

Splinter jumped from the couch blushing, "Um…Leonardo! I was um… watching my story and got in the moment."

"Master, you're staring out at an empty screen." He pointed at the blank t.v. The remote was under Mimi's leg, which must have switched it off.

*KRA-POW!!!*

Leo flinched from the sound and saw Mikey fly back six feet. Mimi held out a fist and gagged; she screamed out silently and flailed her fists in anger. Her face heated up so much it nearly burned off her white make-up. She ran out of the room crying and red all over, her first kiss was with a reptilian mutant.

"Geez Mikey, you really made her cry." Leo said. Mikey just groaned back, "Like I did anything that bad to her….Did I?"

"She ran out and broke into tears, her first kiss was you. What do you think?"

Mikey just blushed guiltily.

"Master Splinter, you've been acting weird lately. Is something…" he turned to him, but he was gone.

The door slammed, the rat had retreated back into his room without one word. Mikey got up rubbing his sore face.

"What is up with those two? It's like they were kissing their imaginary lovers. That was so unlike him."

Leo rubbed his chin thinking, "Lover eh? you think maybe he's finally giving some thought to find someone just for him?"

"Rats want love too y'know, but honestly Splinter is the only mutant rat around, so finding someone like him is a scale of one to none."

Just then, Roca the little turtle came in interrupting their musings, "Peep! Peep peep!"

Two of them saw Roca crawling over frantically; it raised its little arm at them. It peeped continuously.

"Peep! Peep" Hey guys, I just saw an intruder!

"What was that Roca?" Mikey asked the thing. He seems to understand Roca's language.

"Peep, peep, peep, peep." The person was really furry, I saw the thing take our food!

"What? Mimi's in trouble?" Okay, Mikey didn't understand him at all.

"Peep! Peep! No! Not Mimi!

"Wait, you're hungry? There's a fire? You want boxers to chew on?"

"PEEP! PEEP! PEEP! PEEEP!!!" I don't chew boxers! You sleepwalked and chewed seven boxers that night!

"C'mon Mikey, whatever it is he's saying must be about Mimi." Leo said and left Roca peeping like crazy.

Past the doorway to the sewer, a stranger in a black cloak peeked from the shadows at the two turtles leaving into the shed, before bounding away with a small sack of goods.

A/N This story may not be the best I wrote so far. I'm trying my best to make it good on the process. BTW Mimi doesn't know that April and Casey are a couple, I'm not making a bad pairing or anything, but it's just a childish crush she developed and will grow out of someday.