A/N- I had this chapter written out before Chapter 2 so I wanted to already post it. Just think of it as a gift for not updating in a while :) Thank you to all my reviewers/followers for this story. I really do appreciate it

Disclaimer: I do not own TMNT. I do however own this story and my original character. I'm just borrowing the characters to make a plot of my own :)

Chapter 3: Helping Out a Brother in Need

Leolani walked down the dark and cold alley-way. It was a shortcut to get to her apartment. Her apartment was just a couple of blocks away, so she figured nothing will happen to her. The New York wind chilled her skin, making her zip up her coat all the way to her neck. She put her hands in her pockets and started to walk faster. The sooner I get home, the better, Leolani thought to herself.

Leolani kept on walking, until she heard a noise from behind her. She stopped dead in her tracks and turned around slightly. Nobody appeared to be behind her. She continued walking again when she heard footsteps coming closer to her. She didn't turn around, but instead, she started to run. Leolani was scared half to death when a cold, rough hand grabbed her by the wrist. She yelled when the figure pulled her with so much force; she landed on the wet, cold, cement. Leolani staggered upon her feet, trying to get away from whatever grabbed her. She was about to run when the unknown figure grabbed her by her arm and slammed her against the brick wall of an apartment building.

Leolani screamed, but the figure covered her mouth with his hand. She could finally see the figure's face. It was a man, about in his twenties, dark brown hair, looked like he'd been drinking. When he pushed the hair out of Leolani's face, she cringed. He smelt like alcohol and his hands were ice cold.

"Shh" The figure whispered, trying to calm Leolani down. "You don't want someone hearing you, do you? What's a pretty girl like you walking around late at night in the city of New York anyway hmm?" He pushed Leolani's hair out of her face and gently stroked her cheek.

Leolani shook back and forth, trying to get away, but the man was pinning her to the wall with so much force, it was impossible for her to get away. She gave an evil glare and kicked him in the shin. The man let out a painful yelp and instantly he got angry.

He tightened his grip on Leolani's arm and held a pocket knife up to her throat. "You listen here girly, you better be nice to me or I'll slice your neck so fast, you won't even have time to respond, understand?"

Leolani was shaking all over, not from her being cold, but from the fact that she could actually die tonight. She was afraid in so many ways; she didn't know what to do, for once, Leolani didn't have a plan.

"What do you want from me?" Leolani barely got the words out of her mouth, before she started sobbing uncontrollably.

The man had an evil smirk on his face. "I think you know what I want." With that said, the man started making his way down Leolani's pants. Her eyes widen in horror.

"NO! Let me go!" Leolani screamed for her life. She kept on fighting and struggling. If she was going to die, she was going to go down fighting.

The man slapped her across the face. "Shut up!" He snapped. Leolani winced from the pain. She can already feel a bruise forming, but she kept on yelling. The man held his blade closer to her throat. Leolani knew that this was going to be the end for her. She closed her eyes and silently said goodbye to her family and friends, when something unexpectedly happened. She felt relieved when she couldn't feel the man's weight on her body. She opened her eyes and barely caught a glimpse of the man being tossed to the other side of the alley. She saw the man laying down and quickly getting to his feet. Leolani looked around, trying to find out whom or what was responsible for that.

She was motionless. Time seemed like it stopped for her. She didn't know who she was more afraid of, the man who was trying to rape and kill her, or the thing that was hiding in the shadows.

"Show yourself!" The man cried out. He stepped closer into the shadows and all you could make out was the sounds of someone getting the snot kicked out of them. A few punches and kicks later, the man came flying out of the shadows, holding his arm and limping away. "You're not worth it." The man huffed, while pointing a finger at Leolani, and limped into the night.

Leolani looked towards the shadows, trying to see if she could spot anybody. She concentrated into the darkness, and to her surprise, she could make out an outline of someone. The only traits Leolani could make out was the figure's body. The figure was tall, very big, but in a good way. She figured the person standing in the shadows worked out compared to how big the body was. She couldn't see anything else besides that. Leolani thought by now that if this person was going to hurt her, they would have already done it by now.

She shook her head, trying to come back to reality. She stepped closer into the shadow and she saw instantly that the figure stepped away from her. She scrunched her eyebrows together. "Hello?" Leolani called out. If somebody would have seen her at that very minute, calling out to the shadows, they would have thought that she lost it, but she knew she wasn't crazy.

I can't let her see me, Leonardo thought to himself as the raven haired girl took a step closer to him. He saw what happened from the rooftops and instantly came down to save the girl, but he didn't know that it would be so hard to leave. Something about this girl, that Leonardo couldn't put a finger on, but something about her wanted him to stay and talk to her. He knew talking to strangers were forbidden, HE even made that very clear to his brothers, but he was going back on his word for this one girl.

He was admiring her from afar. Her jet black hair almost blended into the darkness of the alley. Her skin looked creamy, shining off the streetlamp from the other end of the alley. He couldn't tell, but he knew her eyes weren't a dull color, her eyes were the brightest element on her face. Her eyebrows are scrunched together, making a weird, but yet, adorable face. She's so beautiful Leonardo thought. He shook his head. What the shell am I thinking?

As Leonardo was thinking of the girl in front of him, he was completely oblivious to what she was saying. Fortunately, he snapped out of his train of thought.

"Hello?" Leolani said the third time that night. The figure was still there, but he wasn't responding to her, and that bothered her. "Are you going to answer me or not?" She huffed as she crossed her arms. Leonardo remained silent.

She sighed deeply. "Can I just see what you look like? I want to know who you are so I can thank you properly...for saving me."

Still no answer

"If you're not going to come out of the dark," she took a big step towards him "then I'll join you."

Leonardo quickly side-stepped away from her and hid further into the shadows. He must warn her that she doesn't want to do that. "You don't want to do that." A deep voice came from the shadows.

Leolani jumped slightly, obviously startled from the voice. Why? She questioned his response. "Why?" The same question escaped her mouth.

There was a long silence, but finally someone spoke. "Because you wouldn't like what you see." Leolani was about to ask what did that mean, but she saw the figure climb up the fire escapes and flee to the rooftops. The voice sounded sad from the statement they made, which made Leolani feel bad. She didn't care what they looked like; they must be a nice person for saving her anyway right?

Leolani sighed "Might as well take their advice and start going home."

**TMNT**

Leonardo wasn't too far from where Leolani was. Actually, he had a good sight of her, making sure she won't get into any more trouble. He didn't know why, but he just couldn't let her out of his sight. There was something different about this girl and he didn't like that.

"Why?" He questioned himself out loud. "Why is she so different?"

"Why is who different?" A voice said from behind Leonardo.

Leonardo instantly grabbed his katanas and turned around swiftly, pointing them to where the voice came from. "Woah, woah, woah," Michelangelo said while having his hands up defensively. "It's just me bro. Please don't kill me because I asked another question."

Leonardo rolled his eyes and put his katanas away. "Well, now you know to not sneak up behind me."

It was Michelangelo's turn to roll his eyes. "Okay Raphael, whatever you say. That's the same thing Raphl tells me, but I'm still here aren't I?"

Not for long if you keep bugging him. Leonardo smiled at his own thought. "Did you make sure the other two girls made it home safely?"

Michelangelo sighed. It was always business with his oldest brother. "Yes Master. I made sure they made it home safely."

Leonardo knew that Michelangelo was being very sarcastic, not one of his traits though. Usually it would be Raphael who made those kinds of sarcastic remarks. Leonardo decided to shrug it off anyway. "Good, now I want you to make sure that the other one gets home."

Michelangelo raised an eye ridge. "The one with the black hair?"

"Yes" Leonardo said simply.

"The one YOU were supposed to keep an eye on?" Michelangelo continued.

"Yes" Leonardo said without skipping a beat.

"The one that almost got raped and you saved her? Then you were looking at her all weird and then you came up here and asked yourself why she is so different. Now, you can't take her home because you're afraid of why she is different and probably afraid you will fall in love with her." Michelangelo explained very fast, smiling at his older brother.

"Yes." Leonardo responded, but caught himself. "Wait, hold on. What?"

Michelangelo's grin grew bigger. "Don't underestimate me big brother. I know things, and I know you." He pointed a finger at Leonardo. "You love that girl."

Leonardo was getting irritated by his brother's assumptions. "You are being ridiculous. I don't even know that girl. How am I in love with her?"

Michelangelo shook his finger back and forth. "Love works in mysterious ways."

Leonardo palmed his forehead. "Okay look, just make sure that girl gets home safely and I'm going to patrol the rest of the neighborhood."

Michelangelo knew that his brother wasn't going to discuss the issue any further. "Whatever, just think about what I said. Don't try to deny your feelings."

Leonardo shook his head from side to side and fled from the rooftops. Mikey definitely needs to stop reading his stupid comic books.

Michelangelo ended up finding the black headed girl walking along the sidewalk. He came to notice that she didn't live far from where his older brother saved her. He saw her go into a big apartment building complex, at least twenty stories high. The black headed girl entered the complex and shut the door behind her. The orange masked turtle frowned. He had this feeling, call him crazy, but he had this feeling like he needed to get to know this girl better, for the sake of his older brother of course.

"Leo is going to kill me, but might as well make it worth it." The amusing turtle grinned and hopped off rooftop after rooftop, until finally hopping onto one of the fire escapes.

He didn't want to be a peeping tom, but that was the only way he could find out where the black headed girl lived. He didn't know what else to call her, so he referred to her as that. He looked through almost every window, trying to find a clue to where the girl lived. He started from the bottom stories, no sign of her. He climbed up more of the fire escapes, until he reached the fifteenth floor, still no sign of her. He kept climbing. "I swear she went into this building. She couldn't have gotten far." Just as the words escaped the masked turtle's mouth, a lit up window caught his attention.

He was on the fire escape, peeking through the lit up window. He saw a small framed figure, there back facing the window. Instantly Michelangelo knew it was a girl, since she had black long hair. She was hanging up her coat behind the door where she entered from. She locked the said door and headed straight to another room in the apartment. She turned the corner and went into a room that Michelangelo really couldn't see. Using his ninja skills he opened the door swiftly, yet quietly, and stepped into the apartment.

Michelangelo knew that he was committing suicide right now. He also knew that if any of his brothers found out, including Master Splinter, he would be a goner, except, he knew that Master Splinter would make him do one million backflips before murdering him. Michelangelo cringed at the thought and shook the thoughts away. Focus Mikey focus. He chanted in his head.

He heard a voice that made him turn into stone. He listened carefully, making sure he didn't move in the process. The voice didn't sound like it was coming near him, in fact, it sounded faint. He crept closer to where the voice was coming from, which led him to where the black haired girl went. He listened instinctively, coming to the conclusion that the black haired girl was the owner of the voice.

"Let's see here. I have so much to do it isn't even funny." The voice said unhappily. If Michelangelo loved one thing, it was eavesdropping on conversations. "I need to make sure I have everything ready for school tomorrow which I have already completed, so I can check that off my list." List? Michelangelo questioned. The only person that I know that has a To Do List is Leo. Donnie has one, but he usually doesn't follow it very well. The black haired girl continued. "I need to Skype my parents tomorrow before they have a mental breakdown, which I'll do after I look up a number for self-defensive classes. I do not want another incident like that happen to me again."

Michelangelo knew what incident she was talking about, he was there, watching Leo fight off the bad guy. Michelangelo was on the sidelines, ready to jump in any given time. His thoughts faded when the girl spoke up again. "Oh Leolani, how do I do it?" Leolani? Michelangelo asked himself. That sounds awful a lot like Leonardo. Hmm coincidence, I think not! I need to tell Leo before I forget.

Before Mikey had time to flee, a hand was placed firmly by the mouth. Mikey tied to get away from the strangers grasp, but it was hopeless. The stranger took his hand away from the orange masked turtle's mouth and turned him around. It turned out that Leonardo was the stranger. Mikey was about to say something, but Leonardo held a finger up to his mouth, telling him to keep quiet.

Leonardo didn't look too happy when he found Michelangelo, and Michelangelo knew that. He knew that Leonardo was going to give him an earful and probably give out one of his boring, yawn-fest speeches.

They quickly escaped Leolani's apartment and fled to the rooftops very far away from the apartment building. Leonardo finally came to a stop, while Michelangelo followed suit. The orange-masked turtled didn't want to look at his oldest brother, but he had no choice. He peeked at the blue-masked turtled and in that very moment, he regretted his decision.

"Look" Michelangelo bashfully said, "I can explain everything."

The blue eyed turtle crossed his arms and raised an eye ridge. He had to remember that a good leader should always listen to what somebody has to say, even if it is your goofy brother. Leonardo sighed and loosened up a bit. "Okay, I'm listening."

Michelangelo started to panic and the words came rushing out of his mouth. "Okay, look, it started like this. I needed to find out where that girl lived because I know that you are meant to be with her."

Screw listening to him, I've had enough. "Mikey are you completely out of your mind!? You could have gotten caught, or worse! You could have gotten hurt or something! I can't believe you didn't follow orders like I told you to!" Leonardo screamed at the top of his lungs. He was furious.

Michelangelo cringed at his words. He knew that he did a bad thing, but only out of context. He wanted to help his brother. "You don't understand Leo….that girl…..you and her have so much in common." He huffed.

Leonardo flung his arms up in the air. "And how would you know that?" He pointed a finger at his little brother. "You don't even know her!" He accused.

Michelangelo hardly ever gotten mad at Leo, but tonight wasn't one of those nights. "Neither do you!" Michelangelo argued. "And I know enough, like her name is….her name is….." He trailed off, trying to remember what the black headed girl's name was.

Leonardo snorted "Exactly, that proves my point. Listen Mikey, that girl and me, we have nothing in common. I don't know her, she doesn't know me. I don't love her or like her or whatever forms of synonyms for "liking" you want to use." He paused for a second then continued, his voice changed into a softer, sadden one. "And even if I did like her, she wouldn't return the affection. We're mutant turtles Mikey and the human race would never accept us for who we are; only a handful of people would."

Usually Michelangelo would zone out when Leonardo gave him one of his speeches, but this time he didn't. He knew that it would be very rare for humans to "see" them like that. I mean hell, Donatello was still trying to get April to notice him. That counts for something right? Couldn't that mean there is a little hope in this world?

"I guess you're right." Michelangelo admitted. "I'm just….I'm just worried about you Leo. Don't you want to have somebody to spend the rest of your life with?"

For once, Leonardo didn't want to answer that question. He simply ignored his youngest brother's question. He put a hand on his brother's shoulder. "Come on, we don't want the rest of the family worrying about us."

Michelangelo smiled and let the subject rest, but Leonardo knew that Michelangelo wouldn't let the subject rest for long.

A/N- Please excuse any grammar mistakes. Also, feedback is always welcome :)