The White Ninja

Chapter 3: Homeless But Still Loved

Karalynn's Point of View:

I was surprised when the boys had been able to take the Battle Shell out in broad daylight and no one knew the difference. Casey Jones, or the hockey masked man was trailing behind us on his motorcycle, now that I could let him be within a few miles distance from me without blowing up from that time when we first met him a week ago. I was still lightly angry at him, because of that; he wouldn't come near the guys unless I was a long distance away from them, which wasn't very often unless the boys went out after I had gone to bed after the hard work I normally do to keep our home clean.

Which the boys don't seam to get that! Do they know how hard it is to keep that place clean? I clean all the boys' rooms; I clean the living room, dinning room, dojo, and Daddy's room. I cook all the meals and do any laundry along with my own. I clean the bathrooms. I clean Donny's lab and keep the video games and DVDs Mikey has in neat stacks when they get scattered all over the floor! I pick up all the weights that Raph and Leo just leave lying around in the training room! The worst job out of all of them is Mikey's room, it's a nightmare! Those boys are going to help me one day in cleaning and I hope it's soon.

The reason that we were out in the middle of the day in the Battle Shell with Casey on our asses was that April wanted us to help her set up her store. I was going because I was really intrigued to see what she actually had for some things, and April wanted me to make sure I didn't let the boys break anything, like the fine china.

Donny pulled the Battle Shell around April's new shop called the Second Time Around, and Casey parked next to us in-between the buildings that hid my brothers and the Battle Shell from the view of stupid, ungrateful humans. Unlike Casey and April, who actually liked us and don't have a fit about my brothers' being what they are. Well... April did when we first met her, but that was understandable. She warmed up to them in under a hour without me having to intervene, plus it's still a little hard for me to face some humans without hurting them because of what happened to my Mama and Papa when I was six.

We all got out of the Battle Shell and Casey got off his bike before we walked up to the back door of April's shop. Mikey rang the door bell and we only had to wait a few seconds before April opened the door to let us in.

"Hi April!" Mikey said as he walked first into the store. "Green brothers and sister, movers and shelpers repotting for duty!"

"Hey guys." She sighed, I could obviously tell she was tired from all the work she had been doing. "Thanks for coming. I need all the help I can get." She turned to Mikey. "Mike you can start by moving those big heavy boxes."

"Just let me put on my hernia trust." Mikey said, putting his hands on his hips as he walked into the shop.

"Right over there wise guy." April waved her hand at him. "Plus I've got a heater that won't heat!" Donny then walked in behind her with a bag slung over his shoulder and pipes and tools in his hand.

"Hence these." Donny said, showing them to her before he passed on by her. Raph and Leo then walked up to get their job next.

"You two, that whole wall of antiques needs moving, carefully." She said pointing passed her to the back of her store.

"Hey, I'm a ninja not a-" Raph was cut off when Leo pushed him toward their job.

"Your wish is our command." Leo said nicely to her before moving Raph off to do what they had to. I walked up next and smiled.

"Hi April. What do you want me to do?" She handed me the duster she had in her hands.

"You can dust all those old clocks on the wall of the store." She then lowered her head as in for me to hear something the guys weren't supposed to hear. "And make sure your brothers don't break anything, if they need help, help them, drop the dusting, I rather them be in one piece."

"Got it April." I walked passed her and started my dusting, while keeping my eyes on the boys I know as my brothers. Casey then walked in after me and April looked up at him surprised.

"You're… not a turtle." April stuttered as she looked at him.

"Uh… defiantly not." He replied. I giggled and snuck over to my orange bandanna wearing brother. I pulled the back of his bandanna slowly as to not startle him and he leaned into to hear what I had to say.

"Looks like cupid came a little early this year." I whispered. Mikey snickered and nodded before going back to work and passing the word onto the others.

"Hope you don't mind, we brought along a friend." Leo said, bringing himself into their stuttered conversation. April raised her hand to shake his, but Casey just waved at her.

"Yo, uh… Casey, Casey Jones." He introduced himself before walking passed her into the store. "Hey, nice junk." She followed after him while Leo rubbed the back of his head in confusion.

"It was my Dad's, the shop I mean. I'm re-opening it, uh, for now." They turned to face each other again in the middle of the store. "Until I figure out what to do with myself. My last job ended kind of weirdly." I look of realization hit Casey's face, but I knew he didn't understand a word of it.

"Oh, I get it. While you're waiting for a real job to come along, you're just hiding out your Pop's junk shop. It's cool." Oh he chose just the right words to hit both me and April hard, even though I wasn't in the conversation. I loved these antiques, they were cute, beautiful and well crafted, and to call them junk was like telling Casey he had no skill.

"It's... an antique shop, and I'm not hiding from anything!" She snapped at him.

"Hey, whatever babe." He said turning on his heel and walking toward Raph.

"Babe?" April questioned, I saw her temper rising. I rolled my eyes and walked over next to her.

"It's sad isn't it?" I told her, she looked over at me. "People have no respect for others now days or for anything but themselves and what they think. I personally love these antiques; Casey just doesn't know how to appreciate the past." April snored.

"Amen to that K-lynn." She high-fived my hand when I let it fall out of my crossed arms in front of us. I turned to see where the bone head had moved off to and I saw him trying to help my red bandanna wearing brother move a shelf full of beautiful black glazed china. I rushed right over.

"Okay boys, set that thing down now!" I snapped at them. The two of them set down the cabinet and I caught the single pitcher that was about to fall out. I let out a sigh when it was safely in my hands.

"Why'd ya stop us K-lynn?" Raph asked.
"Yeah we were doing just fine." Casey said arrogantly.

"Yeah, if you mean you two were about to drop the entire cabinet, then yes, you were doing a fine job." I snapped at the two hot-heads. "April, Leo, come over here." My brother and the red-haired friend came over and I handed them some of the China inside the cabinet. "It's better to be safe then sorry here. We'll take out the china and place it on the counter, then move the shelf and put the china back in. More work, yes, but it keeps the chances of us breaking the china down." I handed them more china while Raph and Casey waited for us to be done so they could move the cabinet safely to where it had to go. When I told them two of them they could finally move it, they easily lifted it without the weight of the china and set it down where it was supposed to go. "Now go help with boxes you two." I ordered Raph and Casey. "Leo, April and I will put the china back in the cabinet."

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"I'm a litter nervous about these robberies." April was telling us. She had asked the five of us to come over again, obviously ignoring Casey. She was nervous because of the latest thieving operations around town. "The jewelry store that was robbed is right on my block, so that's why I asked you here for a sleepover tonight."

"Don't worry April," my red bandanna wearing brother said. "We got ya covered."

"I feel so much better knowing you guys are here." She smiled at the five of us. I saw Mikey grin and Raph moved toward the window, opening it and motioning to something, or someone. I looked through the window next to his and saw Casey Jones on the opposite roof top, his golf club raised in the air. I rolled my eyes and moved toward the kitchen to make myself a cup of French Vanilla Hot Coco, hopefully the sugar would keep me up during the night.

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It had been a few hours since April has gone to bed and the guys had fallen asleep in front of the TV with two open pizza boxes on the floor and cans of soda with other wrappers from snacks the guys had. I managed to hold off on the greasy food, no surprise there, and had only my two cups of French Vanilla Hot Coco and some Mint Juleps. I was wide awake and not ready to go to sleep any time soon, since I didn't have to work much today, all the chores were already done and I didn't have to cook since April was having us over, but I did make Daddy something small since I didn't want him to go hungry.

It was getting bored though, and I knew that if those robbers came, the boys could handle themselves, but by the slight chance they would need me, I wrote them a note and stuck it in the most obvious place for the guys to see it, on the TV screen. If they don't see it I will kill them. I had on my shell cell and my sword, and I was ready to see some excitement in the city.

I opened the window and slipped outside, my green spaghetti strap shirt loosely moved around on my chest, but stuck in its place and my indigo jean shorts were tightly held together at my lower abdomen. I never really had on shoes, ever, except in the winter when it got really cold, then I had on knee length socks and thick fluffy black boots. I jumped from the window onto April's roof and then started to move along the roof tops of New York City.

The weather was nice and the sky was clear, if I couldn't find a fight, I could always climb a tree in Central Park and watch the stars, Donny did tell me there was supposed to be a meteor shower tonight. I also had a few hundred on me incase I was going to get anything this late a night. Though it was quite impossible for that, but it doesn't hurt anyway.

I was running along the roof tops when I heard the sounds of bodies clashing into trash cans and concrete streets filled my ears. Action time. I looked around for the source of the fight and saw it was in the ally way below me, two kids around my age, a boy and a girl, surrounded by purple dragons. I rolled my eyes at the thugs who were just about to get pummeled when I stopped short and saw the two in the center fight back against the thugs. The girl had this awesome right hook that she swung at a few purple dragons, knocking them out cold and the guy easily could use either hand or foot to take down his enemies. It was just then though that the girl was knocked to the ground and screamed in pain. The boy was overwhelmed and couldn't get to her. More purple dragons just kept coming. I jumped down from my seat in the shadows of the buildings and gave a shattering right hook to the guy about to give a deathly blow to the girl's skull with a pipe. Time seamed to stop when I had done that.

"You boys wanna play?" I taunted them. "Come and get some then." The purple dragons left the two alone and came at me, trying to surround me in a small circle to keep me from escaping. I laughed and jumped to place my hands on the ground and spun around, my legs kicking them in the face, arms, legs, and another place that I don't have to mention. Most of the dragons were out then and I knocked the last few out while still on my hands. I gracefully spun again when they were all out and pushed off the ground and landed on my feet, spinning slowly 'til I came to a stop, facing the two. I smiled at them.

"You two okay?" I asked them. The boy slowly nodded his head before helping his friend to her feet. She flinched in pain as he tried to get her to stand and I walked closer. The boy's eyes threatened me not to come any closer in a glare, which stopped me in my step. "I'm not going to hurt you; I was only going to see what's wrong with her leg." I saw the girl pull the boy down so she could whisper to him, and he nodded to her words, then he stepped back a short distance and let me pass.

"If you hurt her, I'll snap your neck." He threatened me. I giggled and he looked at me strangely.

"I'll hold you to that, but I'm not going to intentionally hurt her." I walked overt to the girl again and start to press certain parts of her leg that Donny had showed me a few times incase he wasn't there and I had to be the nurse. The girl hissed lightly in pain. "It looks like your ankle is just sprained; you need to keep off your foot for at least the night." I helped her to her feet and had her lean on me. "I'll help you two get home." It was at my then said words that the two of them let their heads fall. A thick silence filled the alley way.

"We don't have a home." The girl said quietly to me, her voice was slightly higher pitched then a normal girl's. "We both don't have any parents, and we ran away from the orphanage when we were nine and ten, nearly six years ago."

"Victoria! Don't tell her that!" The boy hissed, his voice was more middle ranged for a guy, not high but not low, they both had the American accent like anyone in New York City would.

"I never thought I'd meet people like me." I sighed as I looked at them; they both gave me strange looks. "I'm not exactly in any different position then you two are. My parents were killed when I was six and I was taken in by- well I can't exactly tell you what they are, but I'll leave it this way, their not human." Their mouths fell agape at my words. I shrugged. "So I disappeared ten years ago, according to the U.S.A government."

"You're not that different from us, are you?" The girl, Victoria asked me. I shook my head.

"I'd take you home with me and let you stay there, but I have to trust you two first and my family would have to trust you after that, so until then, I'll find you guys a place to stay until you two could move in with my family. I hate to see anyone in the same position as me end up starving on the streets." I moved Victoria onto my back and carried her piggy-back down the road with the boy on my heels. It was still too dark to see what they looked like.

"Where exactly do you plan on taking us?" The boy asked me.

"Some place close to my home, where I can quickly get to you and I can get to the apartment you'll be staying at so I can pay the bills and help you get set up. Then when I think I trust you enough, I'll put to the test with my brothers and my father."

"Are they dangerous?" Victoria asked me.

"Not really, they're actually really funny." I laughed softly. "If I trust you, they wouldn't hurt you, even if they wanted to, but I doubt they would."

"Why do you practically trust us already?" I stopped and faced the boy. The dark didn't allow me to see his face or any of him, other then his eyes, his chocolate brown eyes; they were so bright in this dark area and they demanded that his question should be answered.

"I don't know how to answer you on that. I always had a hard time talking to any human, because humans were the ones who killed my parents." I paused. "But there was some feeling about you two that my heart leapt at, that I knew that I didn't have to worry about you two, fear you, like I normally would. And you two just don't look like the bad sort or evil. Evil looks… very different from the two of you." It got quiet after that between the three of us.

I soon came up to the block that was almost directly above the lair and set the girl down with her friend. When they saw I was going to head into the building alone, the boy stopped me.

"What are you doing?" He asked me.

"I'm getting you guys a place to stay, if you come with me, they might not sell, and there are a lot of fights that go on in the basement on Saturday's, which happens to be today. And I don't want you two getting hurt so stay out here while I get you two an apartment, once all the finances are dealt with, I'll bring you guys in and get you settled and then we'll discuss other things." The two of them didn't ague anymore and I moved to head inside. I stopped right outside the door and slapped my head. "I almost forgot!" I ran back to them and handed my sword to them along with my pair of heat sensing goggles that Donny gave me. "The goggles are heat seeking, you can use them to see where I am in the building or to see where others are around you, and my sword you can use because I can't take it in the building with me or else I can't get the room." I then turned on my heel and left them at the front of the building.

It looked pretty run down on the outside, but the inside would fool you, big time. It looked like a modern day lobby, cream and tan colors mixed on the walls. Behind the oak desk was a large muscular man, his feet propped up on his desk and his head deep into a magazine. I rang the bell in front of him and he glared at me. "What?" He growled.

"I need an apartment for some friends of mine, up to date on appliances and furniture, working plumbing and electricity, the whole nine yards." I told him with a blank expressional face.

"Not unless you got a whole bunch of money for it." He then turned back to his magazine. I rolled my eyes and pulled it out of his hands. He growled and stood up in my face.

"You wouldn't want to turn away a customer who has cash on hand to pay you here and now, would you?" I asked him, showing the money in my hands, only about a hundred dollars worth. His anger faded.

"How much are you willing to pay?"

"A couple hundred for the apartment, electricity, water, and heat each mouth. I can give it to you right now," he reached for the money; I pulled it out of his reach. "After I see the room." He growled and pulled out a set of keys and led me up the stairs to the third floor. He took the keys and opened the door.

The room seamed fairly nice, white walls surrounded me, but they weren't as bright with it being night. A small kitchen was off to the side with new appliances, same with the washing and drying machine. Furniture in the living room was good, new cream leather seats and a brown leather couch. A small TV was over in the corner and there were two bedrooms. Each was the same size and looked to be up to date. I tested out everything, and it all seamed to be working fine.

"I'll take it." I told him. He smiled and nodded, bringing me down to the lobby just to see two drunken guys duke it out in the lobby. The lobby man walked over and knocked the two of them out and handed me three sets of keys and I handed him the money. "Also," I said before I left the counter. "I don't want to hear any complaints from my friends, or else."

I then walked away without another word to the two outside that were still waiting for me. The two of them rose when I came out and I took back my stuff from them and I led them up to their room. The looked around surprisingly at the apartment that I had picked out for them.

"This is too much; you don't have to spend that much on us." The boy told me. I grinned wildly.

"This is nothing, wait until tomorrow you two, when I bring you guys in some food and clothes, then you're really going to start thinking that's a lot. How about we start out now with some introductions now? So we can get to know each other a little better before you two hit the hay and I'll head back home for a little while."

"Okay, but how do we introduce ourselves?" The girl asked me as she sat on the kitchen counter and her friend stood against it next to her. "What do we say?"

"Whatever you want to say, that you want to be known now." I answered her honestly, sitting down at the table.

"How about you go first so we can see how it's done?" The boy told me. I shrugged.

"Sure, I'm Karalynn Black-White Hamato. I'm fifteen years old and my parents were murdered when I was six years old, they hid me behind a fake stone in the sewers before my adoptive family found me. I love to cook, grow plants, draw, kick purple dragon ass, read, and spend time with each of my brothers. I have my adoptive father who I call Daddy and my four brothers; Leo, Raph, Donny and Mikey." The girl's jaw dropped at my confession.

"That was a big introduction." She stuttered. "I've heard of people growing up with one or two brothers, but four? Girl, you're lucky you're alive."

"Oh trust me, I know, it also doesn't help that my brothers are everywhere on the attitude scale." I rolled my eyes as I thought of my crazy brothers. "So who wants to go next?"

"I'll go." Victoria said. "My name's Victoria Holland. I'm fifteen and I don't really know about my back story because I never met my parents. I don't know how they were killed or how they disappeared. What I do know is that I was raised in an orphanage until I was nine, and then Damien came along. We escaped together from up in Maine, and the past six years we spent traveling all over the New England states until we made our way down to New York so we could start over. I love raising animals and I wish that someday I could learn how to take care of them when they get hurt and know how to treat a person when their not well or injured, so human and animal biology and medicine."

"That's cool that you want to do that Victoria." I complimented her.

"Thank you Karalynn, you can call me Tori too if you don't want to call me Victoria."

"And you can call me K-lynn." The two of us both grinned and I was happy to see that I was warming up to her, her friend, as I turned to him, we might need just a little more time. "You're up buddy."

He didn't say anything as he looked toward Victoria. She nodded to him and he sighed. "Fine, I'm Damien Oliver. Fifteen and I don't want to talk about what happened before I met Victoria. I like sports."

"You could have said a little bit more Damien." Victoria said to him, disappointment in her voice.

"No it's alright." I told her, waving it off with my hand. "He has the right to keep to himself what he wants until he's ready, I'm still a somewhat stranger to you two and trust has to be given before earned and that might take a while. I'm sure there are secrets you kept Tori and I'm hiding a few myself. Don't worry, when he wants to talk about stuff, he will, when he's ready." I saw the boy slightly smile at this; I guess he liked that in me. While I bet that traveling with Tori he had to open up to her, and I bet that was the type of person she was, wanted to be in on everything, so he wasn't given any privacy with her. "Can I ask though, are you two friends or more?"

"We're best friends, almost brother and sister." Tori replied quickly. "Nothing more then that, I can't see him as anything more then a brother anyway."

"Thanks for clearing that up, I was still just a little confused on that factor."

"How about you tell us a bit about your family, mainly your brothers." Damien questioned.

"Oh my God, where do I begin?" I asked myself as I rocked forward in my chair, causing some of my hair to fall in my face. "I guess I can start off with oldest to youngest. Leo is the oldest; he's basically the leader of us all. He's really calm most of them time but he can be extremely stubborn at times. Raph is the second oldest, he's a hot-head and has a short fuse, but he's still a good loyal brother. Donny is the middle child of the five of us, he's, I guess this is the only way to describe him, a techno geek, loves to fiddle with stuff and build. Mikey is the youngest of the four of them, he loves to joke around and pull of pranks, play video games and eat. And then there's me, the youngest of the Hamato family."

"What about you're Dad?" Tori asked.

"My Dad is even calmer then Leo is, I rarely see him show other emotions, he taught us all how to fight." Tori then short up her hand. "Yeah Tori?"

"What was the name of the fighting style you used when you saved us? Was that the fighting style your father taught you?"

"Yeah, it's called ninjutsu, the martial art, strategy, and tactics of unconventional warfare and guerrilla warfare, or at least that's what Daddy's told us throughout the years. I guess that's the best way for me to describe it to you."

"That's cool." Tori said. It was then though that I heard my shell cell ring and I held up my finger to the two in front of me to take the call.

"Hello?" I answered.

"Where the hell are you Karalynn?" I heard Leo call from over the cell. I rolled my eyes. It was a rare treat to hear him swear, since Daddy was always correcting us not to.

"Calm down Leo." I was going to say more, but my brother cut me off.

"Not until you come back to April's right now. We have no idea where you are or why you left; you didn't leave a note-" I cut him off by closing my shell cell. Man I wish he would take a chill pill. I saw Tori laugh; placing her hand over her mouth to keep it muffled and turned it into giggles.

"Oh yea, he's calm alright." Damien snickered. I groaned, and then my cell went off again.

"Did you just hang up on me Karalynn?" He asked angrily over the line.

"I don't know Leo; did it sound anything like this?" I hung up on him again and the two people across the room from me burst out laughing. I'm glad they found it funny; I would too if I wasn't the one being yelled at. My cell rang one more time and I angrily picked it up while my audience went quiet in front of me. "If you yell at me again Leonardo, I swear I'll-"

"K-lynn, it's me, Mikey!" I let out a long sigh of relief when it was my youngest older brother who had called rather then my oldest.

"Mikey, you don't know how happy I am to hear you instead of Leo."

"We got worried K-lynn, where'd ya go?" My face was filled with annoyance.

"Didn't you guys find my note on the TV?" It was quiet on the other end.

"Hold that thought K-lynn." I heard movement on the other side of the phone and I think I was handed off to one of my other brothers.

"K-lynn?" I heard my hot-headed brother call.

"Raph, hey. What's going on over there?"

"Mikey's looking for that note ya supposedly left us." He replied. "All we saw was that you weren't here, we got worried, didn't even think about looking for any note." I smacked my head.

"I can't believe this! I leave the fucken note in the most obvious place and you guys still can't find it! I placed it on the damn TV for crying out loud, how much harder could it be to find that when it's blocking you from watching your damn programs!" I ran a hand through my hair.

"Hey, calm down K-lynn." I heard Donny say as he took the cell from our brother. "Mikey found the note, and we had no chance to look for one since the robbers came. It turned out to be some guy and a robot that was made of nano-bots that thought the man was his father. But that's all over now and I think everything is cool. You want us to come get you?"

"No Donny, I'll meet you guys at home, I'm closer to home then you are. I'll see you guys soon." I hung up on them and put away my phone and sighed.

"Guess its time for you to go, huh?" Tori said. I sighed.

"Yeah, but I'll see you guys in the morning." I walked over and handed them their sets of keys. "So you guys can get back into the apartment if you leave. I'll bring by breakfast and other stuff in the morning. Enjoy your night!" I opened the window and jumped out that way, Tori and Damien both rushed after to me to see that I was no where to be seen around them. I had jumped into the shadows of the ground floor and went down the man hole. The closest one to our home. When I got to our hidden wall, I pulled on the pipe above and typed in the code Donny had programmed and I was let back inside. Home was just how I left it, clean. I saw my father in front of the TV watching his soap opera.

"Hi Daddy." I called to him.

"Ah, my daughter, you have returned. Where are your brothers?" He said, removing himself from the TV as the commercials came on.

"They're on their way as we speak. We split up our different ways. They stayed at April's and I looked around town. The stars were beautiful tonight, as well as the meteor shower too."

"I bet they were my daughter, rest now, it is late." I nodded and walked by him up to my room, I'm betting I missed out on a huge fight with my brothers tonight, but that's fine, I got to make some friends my own age who understand what I've been through. It was a happy thought for me as I lay down on my bed and the sugar crash finally hit me and I feel asleep.

Witch's Note:

So we meet two new characters in this chapter, Victoria (Tori) and Damien. You'll be seeing a lot more with these two as the series goes by!

Question of the Chapter: From what you saw, what do you think Tori and Damien are like, what are your thoughts about them? Do you like them?

My Answer to the Question: I like them, I mean; I wouldn't have put them in if I didn't.

"Yes, you finally wrote about us!" Tori yelled from behind me. It gave me a heart attack as she had snuck up on me again.

"Tori don't do that! Its hard enough when Raph and Mikey are breathing down my neck for the next chapters to be up, and now your going to join them?"

"Welcome to the club girly." Raph said. Mikey put his arm around Tori's shoulders and she grinned.

"Karalynn! Damien! Get Raph, Mikey and Tori out of here or I can't write the next chapter!" K-lynn and Damien quickly came in and kicked them all out. "Thanks you guys!"

"No problem, just give us a holler if they come back, we want our writer to get down our story." K-lynn grinned. "I can't wait until you bring the girls into the story." Damien rushed to cover her mouth with his hand.

"K-lynn, no one knows about the girls yet!"

"That's twice in two chapters K-lynn!" I shouted.

"I'm sorry Halloween; I just wanted to read about them already! I miss them!" She said sadly.

"Don't worry K-lynn; they'll be on in a few chapters, you just got to have a little more patience." She nodded to me and Damien led her out.

Again K-lynn has been getting ahead of the story, she's just so eager. All questions will be answered one day, but for now, just wait until the next chapter comes. From~ Halloween Witch

Remember to Review Please! No date to record for this chapter but do review how many times Mikey got hit, or if he did at all.

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