Leo vs. Raph
"Hold it, and move not an inch!" I froze, tensing up every muscle in my body. "Now breathe in, stop your breathing for three seconds, and release all the air you have trapped in your lungs." I did so in a calm state of focus. "Very good my daughter, now do this nineteen more times and you may take a break. Also, do not forget to hold your position." Master Splinter instructed walking over to the tree in the middle of the dojo to go back to meditating. He had been helping Leo to train me for about a week now. Leo had told Master Splinter that I should start with easy stuff like yoga before I start trying to train in ninjitsu. I kept begging him to let me just skip ahead, but Leo then told me that patience is key. I eventually gave up asking him because he was obviously getting tired of me asking and said that if I didn't want to train his way, he didn't have to train me at all. He then even went so far as to say that I was welcome to train with Raph, but that he didn't think that he had neither the skill nor the patience to train anybody. Plus that Mikey and Donnie were both too busy training Jordyn and Kailea to try and teach me. Reluctantly I just continued to train with Leo; however, I think that, if given the chance, Raph could turn out to be a good teacher if he wanted to be. He is, after all, the strongest physically of the turtles. After I had finished my breathing and muscle exorcises, I went into the kitchen and grabbed a bottle of water from the fridge. I took a seat at the table and lied my head down on the table. After a minute or two I heard footsteps, and living with the turtles as long as I have, you start recognizing people by the sound of those footsteps. "Oh, hey Raph," I said keeping my head to the table still facing away from where he was. "How'd you know it was me?" he asked sounding a bit surprised. I turned my face towards him and said with a slight smirk, "I know everything." He grunted and said in a snarky tone, "Ha ha, yeah sure and I'm secretly Bigfoot." I sat up all the way and retorted, "That would explain the smell." He then said obviously irritated, "Nice one, but if I told you that you were right then we'd both be wrong." I then remembered how easily Raph got angry and decided to play it dangerous and mess with him by getting off the chair and walking closer to him saying, "Does your face hurt, because it's killing me!" "Oh yeah, how long did it take you to come up with that one?" He snapped getting up in my face. Oh, this was going to be fun! I responded with, "Not very long because after all my brain isn't like yours; so small that if it were made of chocolate it wouldn't fill an m&m!" He was obviously having a hard time trying to come up with some good witty comebacks because he had the pitiful retort of, "I don't even remember the reason why I wasted part of my life to talk to you!" I had him now! "Then why are you still doing it?" I asked, finally ending the sad excuse of a comeback war. He stared angrily at my face until he finally turned away red faced. "You know, red really goes well with green because now you look like a Christmas tree" I laughed. "But no seriously why'd you come to talk to me?" I asked crossing my arms and shifting my weight to the side trying to act as tough as he was. He finally got over his temper tantrum and said while trying to avoid eye contact, "Oh yeah, I was just wondering how your training with Leo was going…" I shifted my weight to the other side and said, "Oh, well um okay I guess. I mean it's only been a week and I'm still going through with his 'yoga before ninjitsu' idea, but he says that I learn faster than he expected." He leaned against a wall almost falling to the floor laughing with a hint of irritation, "Yoga?! He's teaching you yoga?! How's that supposed to protect you from the Kraang or foot? What 'ya gonna just kill 'em through a killer game of Twister? Ha! I'd let Mikey punch me in the face for that!" I put the still unopened bottle of water back in the fridge and told him, "Well, Leo said that it will help with my flexibility so it'll be easier on me whenever I do learn ninjitsu. He also told me that patience is key." He stopped leaning on the wall and nearly shouted, "Ha! I could be a way better teacher than that knucklehead!" I calmly told him, "That's funny; because Leo also told me that you wouldn't have the patience, nor the skill to train me." Now he was angry. He glared at me and said with a fire in his eye, "He did, did he? Well, Leo's about to get a very special visit from my friends: Mr. and Mrs. Fist." With that he stormed out looking like he was about to explode. Master Splinter came into the kitchen not much later after Raph left and asked while preparing some tea for himself, "What has happened my child, you seem to have a saddened and lost aura about you?" I looked at him briefly and then down at the table I was currently sitting at. "Well, as you know, Leo's been training me for the past week with the help of you, but when I had continuously asked him to train me in the art of ninjitsu he told me that If I didn't want to learn his way then he didn't have to teach me at all. After that he told me that if I did stop training with him then I wouldn't have anyone to teach me since Donnie and Mikey are busy with Kailea and Jordyn. He then said that Raph also wouldn't be able to teach me because of his lack of patience and skill. But the main thing is that after this morning's lesson, I went to the kitchen to get some water, but after a while Raph came in and we got into a comeback war and he lost. After he cooled down he asked me how my training was going and I told him about how I was doing yoga and he started bad-mouthing how Leo was teaching me and said he'd make a way better teacher. I then made the mistake of telling him what Leo told me, you know, about he doesn't think he has the patience or skill to teach me? He's now looking for Leo so he can punch the crud out of him and I don't. Know. What. To. Do!" At this point I felt like crying, but in a way it made me feel better just being able talk to someone. "I see…" he sighed clearly trying to absorb the situation and act upon it logically. "Well my child, you evidently cannot choose to side with both at them as this will cause more mayhem and difficulties later." He explained stroking his beard. "I may, however, have a solution to this problem. Go and get both boys and tell them to meet me here." I nodded, gave him a hug and said, "Thank you Sensei!" With that I walked off in search of the brothers.
Author's Note: Yay, cliff hanger! Don't hate me if you don't like them! I would also like to inform you guys that I had originally wrote this fan fiction while I was in middle school and never finished it. I really liked it and didn't want to stop it so I decided that I would post it on and was just going to continue it through making it up as I go along after running out of stuff I'd already written. Well, I'm now running out of material that I'd previously written and once it's all gone It will take a lot longer to update since I wont be just copying anymore. I only have about a chapter and a half left so I'm just being kind and giving you an early warning, the posting time might slow down considerably but THE STORY MUST GO ON! I am now, more than ever before, completely grateful towards reviewers that have any constructive criticism or ideas they want to share with me to make my story EVEN BETTER! So I thank thee readers for reviewing and I hope you continue to read my story! HUGS FOR ALL! ^-^