His True Love
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Author's Note: I decided to go with someone other then Raph or Don for this chapter hope you enjoy. Thanks for all the reviews so far.
Chapter Eight – Math & Fireworks
RAMIELA:
I sort of enjoyed my break from Uncle Donatello teaching me school work cause he were so busy doing all kinds of other stuff.
Uncle Donatello had to be the most borin' teacher of all. I mean I had Sensei as a teacher and he kept things fun, and Uncle Raphael was always major fun even when he were teaching me things.
Then there was Karena far as I was concerned she ought to be my teacher all the time but she wanted to spend time with Aiden and Kali and she said Uncle Donatello knew a lot more about the subjects he taught me then she did. I liked Karena way better then Uncle Donatello he got so boring at times.
Uncle Donatello was now telling me what page of math I was supposed to be doing I opened my book looked at all the questions on the page and groaned this was not going be fun, but maybe I could make it fun.
" Do you have any questions before you get started Ramiela?"
He really ought to know better by now course I had questions, I had tons of them and if I did this right he just might forget about math. " Yes Uncle Donatello. How much wood could a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood? Or how about half a bee philosophically has to half not be so can a bee be said to be an entire bee when half a bee is not a bee due to some ancient injury?" I rattled both of these off quickly I knew them well.
" Those are not math questions" Uncle Donatello insisted sharply.
" What do you mean? Sure they are Uncle Donatello figuring out the wood a woodchuck could chuck could be worked into some sort of math problem I'm sure. And half a bee well a half of anything is part of math ain't it?" I disputed his statement. I figured that was a pretty good argument on my part.
Uncle Donatello didn't seem to buy into it though. He rolled his eyes and sort of glowered at me " I meant questions on this assignment Ramiela" he said in a real irritated kind of way.
" Well you didn't specify THAT!" I declared quickly, " You really ought to you know?"
I liked the word specify. It meant the person had to make himself clear to ya so there was no room for argument.
" You gots to be specific" I insisted.
" Sometimes Ramiela you take things far to literally" Uncle Donatello said with a bit of a sigh and a shake of his head.
" Course I can read Uncle Donatello. I like reading I don't think you can take it too far though."
Uncle Doantello chuckled a bit " No Ramiela you have the words mixed up a bit. You are thinking of literate the ability to read or write. Literal is taking things word for word. Dealing with the facts and no exaggeration." He explained.
" Eggs what?" I snapped. Wondering how did we get onto eggs? Oh well if it kept me from math I wasn't going complain about it.
" Exaggeration is making things up." He said simply.
" Like lying it's not nice to lie." I said I didn't like people lying to me and I didn't like telling lies either. Lies were bad things that could hurt.
" Something like that but it's more adding things to it making it better then what it is."
I could tell Uncle Donatello was starting to get a bit annoyed it was in his tone and I knew this part of the game was coming to an end but I was going have to member those big words. I liked words!
" Now enough is enough do you have any questions concerning the problems on the page you are supposed to be doing?" Uncle Donatello said a bit testily.
" Yeah can you explain it to me again I don't know if I really understands what I have to do here" I replied as innocently as I could.
Uncle Donatello looked like he might be ready to get right mad, he was irritated as could be and tryin to be so patient it was almost funny! I sure loved messin with him!
He kneeled down and explained the problems to me " Now do you think you understand it and can do this work?"
" I guess," I agreed with a groan knowing there wasn't much else I could do " Cept I don't know whys I gots to do math anyway. I'm going be a kunoichi I'm not going need no math."
" You're not going to need math," Uncle Donatello corrected.
Every once in a while he felt he just had to tell me the way he thought I should be saying things. Just cause he talked like that didn't mean I wanted to.
" That is what I said," I declared rolling my eyes a bit.
" No you said you're not going need no math. That happens to be a double negative, in English the double negative cancels each other out or, as we say in math, two negatives make a positive" Uncle Donatello smiled at me in a gleeful kind of way, " In other words you told me you need math."
" No way. Uh-uh" I shook my head furiously from side to side " I hates math and I dont's need it."
He gave me a pointed stare " Math and Science are closely linked Ramiela you will need to know both to make smoke bombs, ninja potions and powders and all kinds of other things that we use."
He glared a bit " Enough fooling around now Ramiela get to work or you will have extra homework tonight."
He turned around and I made a face at his back.
" Ramiela do you want me to talk to your father again!" he snapped at me.
I scowled the one threat I knew he'd make good on and I knew daddy wouldn't be happy with me either. I didn't quite know how he could see me when his back was to me but Uncle Donatello was good at things like that. He often caught me doing things I weren't supposed to be doing.
I sighed wearily and started working on the questions. I really did hate math. Math to me was a lot like my Uncle Donatello boring, and no fun whatsoever. All math was, was silly numbers you had to put together or take away from and just when you thought you had the adding and subtracting thing licked then you got fractions or some other silly thing to figure out.
I had lots of fun with reading and writing, languages was a lot of fun too. In history there was all kinds of battles and things to learn about and in Science you got to learn about nature and do neat spareiments.
About the only fun I ever had in math was every once in awhile Uncle Donatello would give me a surprise quiz and he'd give me a whole bunch of problems to solve. He'd sit there and rattle off things like 23-12, or what have you and I'd have to write the answer down ninja quick cause he'd be on to the next question. No waiting, no repeating questions either I got it or I didn't. I thought that was always kind of fun cause it was a bit of a challenge for me. I only wished we'd do it more often, maybe then math might be fun.
I wasn't really thinking about the problems too much I knew Jessie would be coming to play with me tomorrow and the thought of seeing Jessie was far more interesting then working out silly math problems.
However my dad came in and that was enough to git me to bow my head and really start working on the problems at hand I knew if dad wasn't happy with me he wouldn't let me see Jessie.
Dad and Uncle Donatello talked quietly while I worked on my schoolwork I heard dad suddenly laugh a bit and I looked up just a little.
" You got a girlfriend now Donny?" Dad teased then he glanced my way and I quickly got back to work.
Uncle Donatello had a girlfriend? I found that so hard to believe.
" All right Don, no problem thanks for the heads up. You know though that Leo isn't going to be too happy. I don't plan on telling your secret but…" Dad paused and sort of rubbed one hand on where his chin ought to be if he had one that is. Then he arched his eye ridges and gave a grin " I do plan on enjoying the fireworks later on." He concluded.
Now if it was one thing Uncle Donatello could do other then computers and fix things it was make the bestest fireworks around. In fact my Uncle Donatello's fireworks were probably the greatest thing that he could do!
Every year we'd go out to the farm around the Fourth of July and Uncle Donatello would bring all the fireworks he'd been working on and they were a delight to behold. I'd seen fireworks in other places but none quite equaled my Uncle Donatello's ninja fireworks. They were real magic or they seemed like it to me at any rate.
He must really like this girl if he was gonna show her his extra special fireworks.
Now this sounded way more interestin' then math.
I waited until dad left just sort of answering the questions slowly until he did so. Soon as I figured dad was out of ear shot I put down my pencil and looked up at my Uncle.
" You really have a girlfriend?"
" Yes her name is Jennifer I'm bringing her down to meet the family after we are finished with school for today. I figured she could join us for dinner."
" You gonna ask her to marry ya?" I asked quickly.
" We haven't gotten to that point yet Ramiela now get back to your work."
" Have you kissed her yet? You must love her if ya kissed her." I insisted.
Uncle Donatello just looked up and glowered at me real hard but I refused to look away.
" That isn't any of your business. You will get to meet Jen later I promise you and I hope you will remember your manners."
I giggled a little yeah, right!
" Return to your work NOW!" Uncle Donatello demanded.
I bet he did want to marry her.
" Does Sensei know about her?" I had to ask him.
Sensei knew most EVERYTHING!
" Not yet. He will know soon enough so don't you bother telling him. Splinter does know and he wants to meet Jen."
I sat back in my chair tossing my pencil in the air and catching it again. Wouldn't you just know it here I figured I would have some good blackmail stuff on him and now I had to forget it.
I knew that even Sensei listened to the Master and no one ever told the Master "NO" either, not unless they wanted a feel of his walking stick that is, so of course if Splinter knew and he wanted to see Jennifer then Uncle Donatello had to do it and Sensei had to allow it too.
Oh well at least I had the fireworks to look forward to.
" When we going have the fireworks Uncle Donatello?" I asked excitedly.
He gave me a blank look like he didn't know what I was talking about, and they call him the genius of the family!
" Daddy said there would be fireworks later" I stated.
He chuckled a bit at my words and shook his head " No Ramiela these aren't the sort of fireworks you are thinking of. Your dad meant something else when he said that" he explained. He then scowled at me " Have you finished your problems yet?"
" Just about" I replied " ten more to go."
I wondered silently what type of fireworks dad had meant if not the ones we had on the Fourth.
" You have about five minutes left on your math time. Tell you what you finish all ten of those questions and get them all correct and I will let you off early today with no math homework to boot."
I grinned.
Now he was talking. I was all for that.
Course I was real keen now to meet this Jennifer too because Uncle Donatello wasn't one to let me off early or let me get away without homework. I bent to the task at hand determined to earn that reward.
TBC