Well, it took me awhile but I'd finally made it to my destination. That old abandoned billboard displaying a model that was probably attractive 20 years earlier. Either way, I was the perfect place for me and Kyle to hang out and do whatever it is we do. I just hoped she wouldn't blow a fuse considering how late I was When I got there however, I didn't exactly run into a happy face. I got to the billboard and found a not very pleased Kyle waiting for me. She glared at me with her arms crossed and was tapping her foot.

"Uh…Hi?" I said chuckling nervously.

"You're late." She said in a monotone voice.

I shank and rubbed the back of my neck nervously. "Yeah, sorry about that." I apologized.

"Let me refrase this." She walked up to me and looked me right in the eye. "Why were you late?"

I was silent and unable to move for a while with her glaring at me with those daggers she called eyes. I swallowed and finally spoke.

"Well...ya see...what happened was..."

~flash back~

"C'mon, Sensei, please?" I begged following after Splinter as he walked though the lair.

"I've told you already, You may not go to the surface by yourself, Raphael." Splinter said sternly.

"Why not?! I can handle myself!" I protested.

Splinter stopped and turned around to face me, a glare plastered on his face as he look down at me. I cowered slightly.

"I believe I made myself clear that none of you were not allowed to go up to the city by yourselves, and I'm not about to make an exception for you. While I gave you permission to wander the sewers, The city is a completely different matter"

"I know, Sensei, but-"

He leaned in so that his muzzle was only inches from my face before I could finish. "And from what Leonardo told me, you stayed out rather late last night, by yourself."

I darted my eyes away from Sensei's death glare and tried to think of an acusse. If I didn't get permission soon I'd be late…or even more late. I took a deep breath and forced myself to look back up at him.

"Look, Sensei, I'm sorry. The truth is I was heading home because I didn't feel good and something came up on the way…" I paused and looked back up at Splinter. His glare had softened but only slightly, and even then it still gave me the chills. "I didn't mean to stay out as long as I did. I just lost track of time. But I promise I won't do it again! Name a time and that's when I'll be back, I promise." Man, I'd never talked like that before…

Splinter looked away from me and thought it over, stroking his beard as he did. Why? I don't know. As he continued to think, I looked up at the clock. 12:10 Oh, man, Sensei, hurry up… Finally he gave me a defeated sigh.

"Very well… Come back before sun down and no later." He gave me a stern look. "Or there will be consequences."

"H-hai Sensei…" I stammered in both shock and fear.

Splinter gave a small nod and turned to walk away. I stood still for a moment and then turned to leave the lair. I made each foot step as quiet as possible trying not to be noticed by any of my family.

"Hey, Raph! Where ya goin'?"

I flinched. Aw man, Mikey. I was so close too! I'm the worst ninja ever!

"Out." I answered bluntly.

"By yourself?" He asked.

"Yup, Splinter gave me permission."

"What?! Aw, man no fair!" Mikey exclaimed.

"Relax, Mikey, I've just got stuff I have to do."

"But still! That aint right!"

"What if next time we get pizza, you can have some of mine?" I offered.

His pout turned into a smile as he shooed me out of the lair. "See ya later!"

I rolled my eyes. Little brothers are easy to manipulate.

~end flash back~

"...and that's what happened..." I said finally finishing my story.

She raised an eyebrow "So let me get this straight." She started. "After all that lecturing he gave you, your father let his teenage son, who isnt human, up to the surface,where there are millions of humans I might add, by himself?"

I nodded to confirm her summary of the story I had just told. She was silent for a moment trying to process the information given to her. She finally groaned and grabbed both sides of her head.

"UGH! Your lack of logic hurts my brain!" She whined.

I smiled and shrugged. "I really get it either..."

"Maybe he just couldn't resist your adorable face." She said sounding defeated.

"Adorable?" I repeated.

"Yup," She reached over and grabbed my cheek giving it a good squeeze. "Like a little puppy dog." She teased.

I narrowed my eyes and swatted away her hand. "Oh, let me show you how adorable I can be."

Her eyes widened and she turned to run but I grabbed her before she could.

"The tickle ninja strikes again!"

I grabbed her and held her upside down as she squirmed desperate to get free. I kept one arm around her and use my free one to tickle her rib cage. She began laughing an squirming even. I was smiling the entire time.

"No! Ha-ha-ha! Stop!" She squealed.

"Really? Cause you look like you're having a fun time!"

She wanted to protest more but by this point she was laughing far to hard.

"Still think I'm adorable?" I said with an evil grin.

"Alright, you're despicable! Now put me down!" She shouted.

"That's better."

I put her down and she bended over herself to catch her breath.

"I hate you so much right now…" She gasped.

"Sure you do." I sat down on the ledge attached to the billboard and Kyle soon joined me.

"How long you got out?" She asked leaning back on her hands.

"Till sun down."

"Cool!" She cheered. "There's loads of stuff we can do with that time!"

"Like?"

"Like…um." She frowned and scratched her head. "Ugh! Way to kill the mood!"

"Sorry, its kinda my job."

"Well then you're fired!" She said crossing her arms and sticking her tounge out at me.

I just smiled and rolled my eyes. She scooted closer to me and ave me a different but recognizable pair of puppy dog eyes. I raised an eyebrow and leaned away but she only moved closer.

"Jeez, what do you want?!" I said shoving her away.

She continued to smile. "Y'know, we could probably hang out longer at your pla-"

"I'm not taking you the lair!" I said before I could finish.

She groaned. "Why not?!" She whined.

"Cause I said no." I said ever so smugly.

"meanie…." She mumbled.

I chuckled. 'Maybe bringing her to the lair isn't that bad of an idea.' I thought. I didn't want to end up like Leo when first met Karai. Then again, Kyle wasn't evil…as far as I knew.

"Uh, Raph? You're spacin' out there, dude." Kyle said waving her hand in front of my face.

I blinking out of my daze and came back to reality. "Sorry."

"Its fine, but I wanna ask a favor of you."

I looked over to her to see another set of puppy dog eyes looking at me and I sighed.

"I already told you you're not going to the lair."

"No, not that, I'm talking about something else." She answered quickly.

"Then what?"

She looked and away from me and twidled her thumbs. "Well…you're a ninja…" She started.

"Wow, you're a genius." I joked.

"Shut up and let me finish!" She snapped.

I held up and hands in defence as she continued. "And from what little I know about ninjas, they're good fighters. Now I'll admit the internet has all of knowledge, but not to much about ninja techniques."

"I'm not teaching you ninjitsu." I replied.

"UGH! C'mon, man!" She begged grabbing on to my arm. "You're killing me here!"

"Quit being so dramatic." I said trying to shake her off.

"But why not?!" She whined grabbing on tighter.

"One, I'm still learning, two you can't handle it, and three, you're extremely annoying right now!"

"PLEASE! I'll be your best friend!"

"No."

"PLEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE- "

I groaned and gave her one last good shake to try and get her off but I must have pushed harder than I thought because ledge we were sitting on started to shift and creak, and this only made Kyle grab on tighter. We sat as quietly and as still as we were trying not to do any more damage than we had done.

"I think you broke it." Kyle whispered.

"Shut up!" I snapped. "Lets just get off this thing before-"

As if on cue, there was a loud snap as on side of the ledge gave out, and whats worse it was the side we were sitting on. Kyle screamed and grabbed onto me for dear life. We began to fall while I was still trying to process what was going on. Before we could plumit to the hard contrete and acted fast and grabbed the edge of the ledge with both hands. Kyle clinged onto my shell and was in the process of having a panic attack.

"DO SOMETHING!" She shouted shutting her eyes tight.

"I'm working on it!" I shouted back.

"Well work faster!"

Another snap blasted our ears and we were suddenly flung to the other side of the roof top. Thankfully the billboard wasn't very high up but we still hit the ground pretty hard. I clenched my teeth as me and Kyle tumbled over each other. I opened my eyes and saw the edge of th eroof coming closer with each second I rolled, I had to think, and I had to think quick if I didn't want to end up like those idiots on T.V. I managed to stop myself from rolling but Kyle wasn't as fortunate. She couldn't stop herself in time and flew over the edge. I shot up as soon as it happen and reached out to grab her ankle before she could fall. When I had a hold of her, her back slammed on the side of the building, the sound making me wince. She made the mistake of looking down and began to panic again.

"PULLMEUPPULLMEUP!"

"Okay, okay, hold on!" I said trying to sound as calm as I could. I shifted myself to lean over the edge while still keeping a hold on Kyle ankle, which isn't as simple as you might think. I reached over the side and extended my arm. "Grab on!"

Without any hesitation she grabbed my hand and pulled her back up on the roof. Before I had the chance to catch my breath Kyle tackled me with a firm grasp on my mid section. She was shaking violently with fear even though far from any danger…anymore at least.

"Hey, calm down, we're fine." I said trying to reassure her.

"I'm not taking any chances." Her voice shook as she spoke. "That's what I getting for trusting advertisements."

I smiled. Even after a near death experience, she was still cracking jokes.

"Well this day's off to a great start."

"At least it wasn't boring" Kyle pointed out.

I smiled and shrugged. "Good point.."

We sat like that for a while and with time Kyle's grip on me loosened as she began to calm down. She sifted her self to look up atme while also keeping her grip.

"Still think I don't need ninja lessons, Mr. Know-it-all?" She said matter of factly.

I looked back down at her as she smirked up at me. I hated to admit it, but she had a bit of a point. If I hadn't reacted as soon as I did, Kyle would have fallen off the roof, and I didn't even wanna think of what would happen after that. Thinking it over one last time, I finally sighed.

"Alright, alright, fine..." I said defeated. "I guess it wouldn't hurt to-"

"YES!" Kyle exclaimed. She didn't need to hear the rest to know that she was getting her wish. She squeezed me hard again causing me to fall over on my shell.

"Okay, okay! That's enough." I tried pushing her off but she wouldn't budge. "That enough of the hu-"

"Aw, that's adorable!"

I sat up and snapped my head over in the direction of the voice. I almost immediately recognized it and prayed my prediction wasn't right. My efforts proved worthless as I saw my younger brother Mikey standing at the far side of the roof with a stupid grin on his face.

"Raphael, you dog!" He teased. "I never knew you had a thing for the ladies!"

I growled and looked over to Kyle. She was gawking at Mikey with wide eyes. A smile spread across her face and she quickly pushed me away to race to Mikey.

"No way!"

"What th-" I wooped as I fell over.

Kyle was soon face to face with Mikey. The two just stared at each other for the longest time, looking at each other's every last detail.

Kyle tilted her head to one side, Mikey tilted his head to one side.

Kyle tilted her head to the other side, Mikey tilted his head to the other side.

Kyle moved her head straight, Mikey moved his head straight.

Kyle raised her hand, Mikey raised his hand.

Kyle poked Mikey's nose, Mikey poked Kyle's nose.

Kyle bursted into wild laughter, Mikey bursted into wild laughter, I groaned in annoyance.

"Dude! This is freaking awesome!" Kyle exclaimed. "Wait don't tell me!" She pointed to fingers to each side of her head. "You're...Mikey, right?"

Mikey's eyes widened. "Dude, are you phychic?"

"Maybe..." Kyle answered with a grin.

"Oh please, you're not phychic!" I stepped in.

"As far as you know!" Kyle protested.

I slammed my hand over her mouth and turned to my brother. "Mikey, what are you doing here?!"

Well, I didn't think it was fair that you got to leave by yourself, so I followed you to see what you were doing."

"Well now you know, so go home!" I snapped.

"Wait, who's the chick, and why are you hanging out with her and hugging on her?" Mikey asked pointing to Kyle.

"No one, and I wasn't-"

"Hey!" Kyle shouted pulled my hand off her mouth. "I have a name you know!" She glared up at me.

I looked down at her, then to Mikey, then back to Kyle. I took a deep breath and stpped to the side, there was no point in hiding it now...

"Mikey..." I gestured to Mikey then to Kyle. "Kyle...Kyle." I gestured to Mikey. "...Mikey."

"Kyle?" Mikey repeated. "Isn't that a guys name?"

Kyle took a step toward Mikey and got extremely close to his face. "How do you know I'm not a boy?" SHe retorted.

Mikey opened his mouth to speak but couldn't think of anything to say. I pulled Kyle away from Mikey's face.

"Don't confuse the boy, Kyle..." I mumbled.

"Why not? It's fun!" Kyle said with a smile spread from ear to ear.

I rolled my eyes and turned back to Mikey who was still trying to think of a response to Kyle's chalange. "Mikey, listen." I grabbed Mikey's shoulders to make sure he was listening. "You can't tell anyone about this."

Mikey raised an eye ridge and tilted his head. "Why?"

"Just promise you wont tell!" I said giving Mikey a small shake.

"Or I will find you, and lay my vengeance upon thee!" Kyle said leaning over my shoulder and pointing at Mikey

I rolled my eyes and shoved her away looking back to Mikey. "Mikey, don't tell anyone."

"What in it for me?" Mikey asked.

I sighed. I saw this coming. "You can have...all of my Pizza next time..." I grumbled.

"Hmm, tempting, but I'm not sure it will be enough, I have a rather big mouth." Mikey said smugly with a smirk plastered on his mouth.

"How about I let you live to see your next birthday?" I offered returning a smirk.

Mikey's eye's widened and he back away. "Eh...sounds fair enough..Gee look at the time, I'd better get home!"

"Later, Mikey!" Kyle said waving frantically.

"See ya." Mikey waved back. "Don't worry, your secret's safe with me!"

"It better be..." I mumbled as I watched Mikey disappear down the fire escape.

"Your brother's fun."

I turned around saw Kyle smiling up at me. I rolled my eyes.

"You don't have to live with him..."