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Y/N pov.
You walked into the training room with Splinter, only to find that everyone had left. You looked at each other in confusion. "Where did everyone go?" you questioned. "Perhaps they have gone to the kitchen." Splinter suggested. You shrugged as you both made your way to the kitchen.
Nobody's pov.
After a few minutes, everybody decided to go to the kitchen.
"She is hot though," commented Casey "Just sayin'."
"Ew! Dude! She's our cousin!" replied Mikey. "Adoptive cousin." added Raph under his breath.
Casey stared at him for a few seconds before finally voicing his question with a giant grin on his face. "Why would you insist that she's your 'adoptive' cousin unless..." he let everyone else finish the sentence.
Everybody stared at each other for a few seconds, before Mikey looked around mischievously. "Raph's got a crush! Raph's got a crush!" he chanted, running around the kitchen before being tackled to the ground by a now fuming Raph. Everybody laughed at the sight of Raph's face being as red as his mask until someone spoke.
"Ooo! Raph's got a crush?" you asked, doing all you could not to giggle. "Do tell." Everybody turned to Raph as he jumped up before hastily responding "I do not have a crush!"
Everybody burst into laughter, except Master Splinter, Y/N and of course Raphael.
You shrugged before walking over to the fridge, and with a hidden smile pulling out a bowl of lettuce.
You then walked past everyone without a word, leaving them all staring at the door.
They all looked at each other confused, before shrugging it off and getting back to their daily lives.
Y/N pov.
You walked towards the fridge before opening it and seeing a bowl of lettuce, you looked at it with a smile before picking it up and walking out without speaking a word, ignoring the confused stares of the people in the room.
You walked towards the rooms and, before entering the doorway, looked around to make sure nobody saw you.
You walked into the room that you knew to be home to Raphael and his pet turtle, Spike. You looked around for Spike before spotting him on Raphaels desk. You knelt down and looked him in the eyes.
"Hi there, Spike." he looked at you almost quizzically. "You probably don't know me, I'm new. My name's Y/N." he looked at you in greeting.
"I just stumbled in a few hours ago and saw you, so I decided to come and say hi." you looked at him happily. He lifted his head in response.
"You're a really good listener." he seemed to smile.
"I brought a bowl of lettuce for you, I noted that you liked them." you motioned towards the bowl of lettuce. He looked at it.
You picked up a leaf and placed it in front of him, before he started eating it.
You smiled.
"Did you know that Raph has a crush?" you asked in a whisper. He blinked.
You giggled. "Of course you did, your his best friend after all." you paused. "I wonder who it is." you looked up in thought.
"There are probably a lot of people that I don't know about yet," you gasped "Maybe it's April!" you said excitedly, before looking at him. "No?" you paused in thought, "Is it a mutant?" he gave you an 'of course not' look. "Hm, I wonder who it is."
You looked down at Spike as he continued to eat his leaf.
"It must be nice to be a turtle." you said dreamily "but I guess it has its downsides, like not being able to talk. Even if you where mutated, you wouldn't be able to meet new people." You looked down as Spike took another bite of his lettuce leaf.
You smiled again. "You're adorable, you know that?" he looked up at you.
You heard Raphs voice drifting in from the kitchen. "I'm gonna go check on Spike."
You stood up, picked up the bowl and petted Spike goodbye before running to the TV room and plopping on the couch with a 'thud'.
You heard Raph walk out of the kitchen and towards his room. You let out a sigh of relief, if he saw you, who knows what would have happened. You let out a giggle at the thought.
"What are you giggling about?" you bolted up straight as you turned your head towards Raph.
"Um...well..." you stuttered, earning a smirk from the hot-head. You frowned. 'Wait. Why am I the one being questioned?' you thought as you made eye contact with him. "I think the better question is why where you listening?" you said with a smirk.
He immediately lost his smirk "Oh, well, I..." he stuttered before clearing his throat. "I wanted to introduce you to Spike." he said gesturing to his room.
"Oh, I don't know. I'm pretty engrossed in this programme." you said smiling. He glanced up at the TV screen. "Really? You're engrossed in a show about the history of moss?" he barely held back a laugh.
"Yes, I find the growth and gathering of moss to be very...interesting." you said, barely supressing a laugh yourself.
"Really?" he said in a surprised tone "Then how exactly does it form?" he asked with a raised eyebrow.
"It is formed when, um, moisture from the air is, um, combined with, um, plant growth?" you said, fiddling with your hair.
"Was that a question?" he smirked,
"Of course not!" you said with mock offence. "...Was I right?" you asked sheepishly.
You both burst out laughing.
After the laughing ceased, you got up and walked past him, before turning around and looking at him expectantly. "What?" he questioned.
"Didn't you want me to see Spike?" you asked with a raised eyebrow.
He looked at you with realization and followed you into the room to fetch Spike.
You spotted Spike immediately, he was exactly where you left him on Raphs desk.
Raph walked towards him and beckoned you forward. As you walked towards them, Raph spoke. "This is Spike, Spike this is Y/N. She's part of our family."
You smiled at Spike. "Hello Spike." He started slowly walking towards you.
Raph looked at you oddly. "He only does that with people he likes, but, he only met you now..."
"Oy, I suppose the secret's spilled, now isn't it Spike?" you said petting is cute little head.
"Secret? What secret?" Raph looked absolutely confused.
"What do you think Spike? Should I tell him?" you asked, gesturing to Raph.
You took a lettuce leaf out of the bowl and set it down in front of him. "Nibble in your leaf for yes." Spike looked up at you, then at Raph.
"I'll take that as a no," you said with a mischievous smirk. "Sorry Raph. Spike doesn't want me to tell you." you said with a shrug.
"Wait, what? Spikes my best friend. Of course he wants you to tell me." he said angrily "He just didn't understand what you where asking."
You could see that he was desperate to find out, and just then, you had an idea. You looked up at him. "Ok. I'll tell you," you said slowly. His eyes lite up, just like a kid on Christmas. "If," you added "you tell me a secret." you smiled innocently.
"What!?" he exclaimed. "What secret?"
You grinned down at Spike. "Who do you have a crush on?"
His face turned Redder than his mask. "I know it's super forward, but it's killing me! You could even ask Spike." You said, your curiosity getting the better of you.
His face turned even redder than before. You looked up at him, than down at Spike, then back at him. "What's wrong? Is the great Raphael tongue tied?" you asked with a smirk.
"Me? Tongue-tied?" He laughed "I was just temporarily stunned."
"Hm, ok. So, who is it?" you asked enthusiastically " Is it April? oh! Or is it a mutant?" he was about to speak when you gasped "Is it someone that I haven't met yet? oh, I can't take the suspense, just tell me already!" you said happily.
"Well...it's not April...and she's not a mutant..." he said awkwardly scratching the back of his head.
"Then is it someone I haven't met yet?" you asked curiously.
"No actually..."
You looked at him confused "But then who is it?"
He took a deep breath. "It's you, Y/N."
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