"You do know that's vandalizin', right?"

I looked up from my previous work to stare back at those glow-in-the-dark green eyes.

"And do i looked like i'd give a damn about it?" I shot back at him, feeling victorious for the come back which left Raph dumbfounded.

Score 1 for me.

"Okay kid, you won this time." He said before jumping down beside me.

"Yeah, i know i'm awesome." I winked, grinning at him while spinning the spray-can ,-the neon turquoise one, in my hands.

Raph was quiet for a moment, staring at the art work-, wait, let me rephrase that, the work of art,-yeah that sounded better, i've been working on this night.

It consisted a turquoise bird, spreading it's wings with small black buildings behind it, as if it was flying far far away from the city. The background was navy dark blue with black outlines. There's also a white crescent moon and tiny paint splatters which represent stars.

"You.. did this..? Yourself..?"

I looked at my red clad brother who stared at me with 'unbelieveable' written all over his face.

"Uhh.. yeaahh.. Is that a problem?" I shrugged nonchalantly. It's not that big deal to make this kind off grafittis in one night once you get used to it. And being a ninja also has it's perks.

He almost fainted.

Keyword : almost

Eheh. Whoops.

Raph fangirls, don't kill me.

I could hear Raph inhaled and exhaled,

"Woah.." he breathed.

"Woah?" I asked in surprised.

"Amazing. Really."

I blinked.

Hold up, did Raph just-?

Holy sweet mother of Gallifrey..

"Okay. Who are you and what did you do to hot head?"

Raph groaned and shook his head.

"I take it back. I take it all back."

"Awww maann." I pouted, moving my lower lips forward 3 inches.

When Raph doesn't seemed affected,-killjoy, i faced my work again, before shaking the can and started spraying again.

And i'm zoning out.

Why does this blue part now seemed so out? And maybe i can add some yellow for light effects, but that'll take more times and could've possibly destroy the hardwork i've done.. and the black, i need more shades. And some green? Possibly? But the-

"What are you even thinkin'?"

I gritted my teeth when i almost sprayed the supposedly white part. Almost. That was a super close call.

"Trying to block your stupid voice out from my ears." I muttered before fixing the mistake i made thanks to the giant bozo.

I felt Raph stared at me for moment, and i relaxed as soon as i felt his gaze left me.

I continued to focused on my work, not too long before something clicked in my mind as i realised something.

Silence.

Wait a minute where did he-?

"GWAA-Mph!!" I muffled-screamed when i felt large hand covered my mouth, the other one dragged me back.

My instincts kicked in.

I elbowed anyone's stomach who's holding me making it, -that sounded wierd oh well, loosened it's hold a little due to the pain i'm causing. Wasting no time, i grabbed it's arm and flipped it over.

Wait a minute, isn't that-?

"Ra-hot head?!!" I said in bewilderment, also scolding myself for almost slipping up his name. Ao,-me, and him never introduced eachother.

Okay, i did, but still. I don't think he bothered remembering me.

Harsh huh?

"Shh!" He whispered none-too-quietly before practiccly stuffing both of us behind a dumpster.

Whaaa-???

"What are-"

"Ssshh!"

"Wha-"

"Ssssh!"

"Ho-"

"SSSSHHH!!"

With annoyance bubbling inside me, i elbowed his stomach again, on the same spot.

"Ow! Hey!"

"What the heck is going on, idiot?!" I whisper-yelled.

He didn't say a word.

Instead, he turned my face towards the street just infront of the alleyway, where i could see the familiar pairs of red eyes and sky blue eyes.

I was hoping for the Foot or Kraang or maybe Triceratons, but this?

This.

Is.

Crazy.

I.

Am.

So.

Screwed.

Did Mikey and Donnie finds out Raph's gone? Or worse, i'm gone??

Or both? Could be both. But why they would look for us is beyond my understatement.

And then i realised i was Ao.

Ao. The 14 years old turtle. The black eyed turtle who loves vandalizing and just being free. And aren't supposed to know about the Hamato Clan, the Foot, The Kraang, or any of those crap.

"Okay.. who are they?"

"My brothers.."

I pretend i was shocked.

"You have brothers??!" I whisper-yelled, just so it'll fit with my supposedly 'shocked' image.

He shushed me again, which is not surprising.

"Yeah, i do. I'll tell you later but right now, be quiet!!" I feel the irony, since i was usually the one who said that to him.

So that's how we ended practiccly stuffed behind a dumpster in an alleyway, so quiet you can almost hear our heartbeats (almost, so don't get your hopes to high fellow fujoshi) for the past 20 minutes. I think.

I feel.

Really.

Awkward.

And fyi, i can't sense my brothers because i was waaay too deep in my thoughts to realised it. Not the perks of being Ao but deal with it.

"I can't let my brothers find out i'm here, especially my big brother."

Hey, that's me!

"How many brothers do you even have?" I muttered, putting on fake confusion to lace my words.

"3. No questions now."

I looked at the pairs of eyes again,-which seemed to be bickering about something, and wondered why Don and Mike haven't go away yet.

Realisation dawned upon me.

"Do you, by any chance, have any electronics or phones with you?"

He gave me a look.

"Well i do have a phone. Why?"

"Moron, they can tracked you down duh!"

Raph seemed to have a realisation dawned upon him, because as soon as he heard that, he quickly took out his t-phone.

"Aw shoot, what should i do now?"

I felt a really big urge to facepalm, and so i did.

"Here." I snatched his t-phone and quickly opened the back-case and took out the tracker bug before throwing it away, landed right on top of a stray cat.

As soon as the cat walks away, i saw the pairs stopped bickering and started to go away, following the cat without even realising.

"Done."

He stared at me, dumbfounded.

"What?"

"How did you-?"

"When you happenly lived in the streets, you gotta learn fast." I grinned before standing up, stretching my stiff limbs.

A nice 20 minutes was wasted just because a moron forgot about a tracker, nice..

"Anyways, you better have a good explanation about that, hot head." I crossed my arms while sending him a look.

"Alright alright, just, not in here.."

"Why?"

"... things could happened."

I rolled my eyes.

That's true though, but still.

After few minutes debating whether to bring him there or not, or to someplace else, i finally pushed all my thoughts away.

"Alright then. Come along three toes." I said as i started to walk away, grinning at the new nickname i came up with.

"Haven't you possibly consider that you also have three toes?"

"Yeah yeah, whatever."

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"This.. is.. AWESOME." Raph's yell echoed across the place.

"Awesome is kind of an exaggeration." I grinned to myself as i take another look of my place.

My secret place.

Yes! Like batman!

It was just an old subway station opening, which i redecorated and also cleaned. There's a simple desk with splattered with paints in the corner, completed with a small black office chair. Beside it was a chest filled with all of my art supplies.

A simple green bean bag in the side of the room with patterned carpet underneath it. beside it was a wooden bookcase filled with, well, books and some trinkets i found, such as origamis, dried very 'rare' plants i found in the city (surprising right?), some snowglobes, and a miniature of an old fashioned airplane.

In the middle was a tall ladder that reached the sewer lid on the ceiling, which i made with some hardwork. It was a 'secret' passage right to an alleyway of a very tall building, so i can easily go stargazing.

All of the walls was covered in grafittis, random drawing and doodles, paint splatters, and paintings of cars, cats, random dogs, birds, buildings, you name it.

"So this is your secret hideout huh?" My red clad brother grinned while looking at his surroundings.

"Yep. Welcome to my world." I laughed.

"I can't even imagined how on earth you could make this.. place.."

"I got some intel." I winked before dragging his arm.

"This is the best part." I chuckled at his dumbfounded expression as i dragged him to a wall.

"Wha-?"

Not letting him finished, i quickly 'pulled off' the supposedly 'wall', which is actually a fabric with similiar colors to it's surroundings, revealing a small passageway with hanging paper folded crane origamis.

Pushing the hanging origamis aside, i pulled Raph towards a small bright room with a real pond in the middle, with some real life kois and white lotus in the middle. The walls are just the same, covered with paintings and grafittis.

"Oh.. wow.." Raph walked towards the pond, looking fondly at the swimming fishes.

"Alright. Prepare to be amazed." I 'warned' him before turning the light off.

It was dark for a second, but as soon as i blinked, i was greeted with colorful hue.

"Holy chalupa. Holy sweet chalupa."

I laughed at Raph's amazed expression.

The grafittis and paintings on the walls are glowing and glittering the dark, giving the room a colorful glow.

The dominant color is blue, followed by soft green, black and lastly some white, red and turquoise.

"Like it?"

"Are you kidding me? I LOVE IT!! This is so awesome! I mean, how did you even do that??"

I laughed again.

"Glow in the dark paints. Rare to get but my favorite." I smiled.

We were both quiet for a moment, untill i touched his shoulder and pointed the ceiling.

"Look up." And he did it.

And he jaw dropped.

I don't blame him. I painted the ceiling with deep navy blue and black hues, and there are small glittering things that i organized to looked just like the stars constelations.

"How did you do that?!! That is definitely not paints!"

"I can't tell!"

"Why not!"

"It's my secret!" I laughed again, losing counts of how many times i laughed because of dear red clad brother.

And that's how i ended spending the night with Raph. Staring at the ceilings, at those fake glittering stars that i can't saw in real life, for the city is just too bright to let me see.

I'm getting poetic. I'm blaming Raph.

I don't even bother to pretend curious about my brothers' life, that could wait. This is a lot better.

And i don't even bother to check my t-phone what time it was.

Which i know i would regret soon.

Note : The subway in previous chapter is a different subway from the one in this chapter. Get'cha what I meant?

And whoop. Secret Hideout.