Raphael stirred around a bit and slowly opened his eyes. "Ow." he complained, he had a massive headache after collapsing headfirst into the ground earlier. Raph observed the room that he was in. He was in a small room with brick walls, there was a large home-made couch with a patchwork blanket on it, there were a few posters around the room some of animal rights with barbque pictures on them, some of even cartoon of turtles and above him was a wooden shelf with blood red candles sitting on top. Raph looked down of where he was, he was lying on a blue futon with a large white blanket. It was very dark in the room except for a little crack of light that was coming in from the seems to be right on que because just as Raph looked at the door it swung open. In came a shadowy figure, the figure walked over to Raph and kneeled next to him. Raph peered up at the figure. Though he was still only half concious, he could see that this figure had light brown eyes. Though they were only eyes, there was something about them that Raph liked. The figure had placed a yellow sponge inside a bowl of water and placed it on Raphs forhead.

"Are you feeling any better, you've been unconcious for about four hours now." the figure said. Raph had figured out by now that the figure was a woman from her voice, the woman with a very pleasant voice. Raph looked up at the woman again and smiled. The woman giggled, she put the sponge back in the bowl and put it on the ground, then she reached up and lit the candles with a match. Raphs mouth dropped (well went sideways as he was lying on the ground) the woman had long black hair with her fringe dyed red, her fringe framed her green face, yes a green face. This woman that had been taking care of Raph was a girl turtle.

"Ugh, you....you're, you're a..." Raph stuttered to the girl turtle. She smiled at him, then lifted up his head and placed it in her lap. She started to stroke his cheek. When she stopped she picked up the sponge and water again and put it back on his forhead.

"Yes guy, i'm a girl turtle." she said starting to stroke his face again. "Sew me." she giggled. Again Raph kept thinking to himself that her voice was so pleasant. He started to take in every detail of what she looked like, she had dark green skin, though it was lighter then his own, her shell was a sort of sea green. Then he starred back up at her light brown eyes again. He didn't know why or how, but those eyes of hers made him feel happier then usual.

Raph smiled "I'm Raphael."

"Heck of a name." she said sarcastically.

"You can just call me Raph if you want." he said trying to hide his face from hers.

She smiled at him again, "Okay....Raph, i'm Ruby."

"Ruby?....." he asked.

"The person who named us was a retirred mineralogist if you have to know."

"Us?..........." again as if on que, Ruby and Raph heard a bang at the door, in fell

three other figures inside the room. These three were all girl turtles aswell, much to Raphs surprise. The first one to stand up and straighten herself out, had a light, lime green skin and tea brown hair tyed up in a bun with chopsticks sticking out of it.

"You little eavesdroppers." Ruby sighed, "Raph these are my sisters, that's Sapphire...." Ruby said pointing to the girl with the chopsticks in her hair, right now she had her arms crossed staring Raph down like he was being judged for a competition. "That's Amethyst...." Ruby said pointing to another one. This girl turtle had light yellowish-green skin with long snowy, white hair that was done up in a pony tail. "And that's our familys little annoyance." Ruby said pointing to the last girl.

"It's Topaz to you." she said, Topaz had light sea green skin with long, sandy blonde hair that was mostly hidden under a orange and white hat.

The other three girl turtles walked over and kneeled down next to Raph and Ruby.

Though Amethyst and Topaz had expressions on their faces which conveyed that they were curious about Raph, Raph wasn't so sure that Sapphire was so thrilled, he didn't blame her. If Ruby hadn't of saved his life and Raph and his brothers met the girls, Raph would probably been suspicious as to how they only just met girl turtles. That was probably what Sapphire was feeling right at that moment, how come all of a sudden there is a male turtle? Wait till she finds out that there is more then just him.

"We didn't think you were going to make it through the night." exclaimed Amethyst, she pulled back the covers from Raphs stomach and observed the large bruise on his plastron, "You ain't going anywhere with that." she said, "Saph, he'll have to stay here for a while till it heels." she explained to her sister. All of a sudden Topaz started to giggle, "What's so funny Toto?" asked Amethyst.

"Well...." started Topaz, "Ruby said this guys name was Raph, and Sapphires nickname is Saph, get it Saph and Raph." explained Topaz while using her hands to gesture her thoughts.

"Look, there is no point of him staying here, we can hardly feed ourselves let alone another mouth again let alone a male." growled Sapphire.

The other three females glared at Sapphire, "We can't just send him off Saph, he is injured." said Amethyst.

"And he saved my life." Ruby pointed out. Sapphire starred at each one of her sisters before storming out of the room in a huff. "I'll take that as a yes." jestered Ruby, "Wiether she likes it or not."

For the next three days the three caring girl turtles, looked after Raph. In return, Raph promised to drop off a basket of food every week to make up for what rations he ate. Every now and again Ruby and Raph would have small chats about eachothers families, what they did to pass the time and basically about their lives but for some reason, neither of them ever talked about themselves. Both of them felt like they would brag if they talked about themselves. Whenever Ruby was talking to Raph he would get this feeling inside of him, he didn't know what it was, it was a happy feeling, yet he had never felt it before. It was whenever she looked straight in his eyes that he'd get this feeling, it was warm and Raph liked it. Amethyst took one last look at Raphs bruise and found that it was almost gone. She explained to Raph that he could leave whenever he was ready. Raph knew he had to leave, his brothers and Master Splinter were probably worried sick about him. The female turtles were sad that he had to leave as he was the most excitement that they had had in years.

Raph took one last look at the girls. At Topaz, at Amethyt, at Sapphire and at Ruby. Raph could see Ruby had a tear in her eye as he walked out the door. As he just started to walk away, he felt a tap at his shoulder, he turned to find Sapphire, "What did I do now?" he asked.

"You saved my sister, thankyou." whispered Sapphire trying not to show her face to Raph.

"It only took you four days Saph." muttered Raph trying to make a small gest with Sapphire.

"I'm sorry Raphael, it's just ever since.......we came to New York, i've been really, whats the word......cautious in who we associate with, incase they try to hurt my sisters." answered Sapphire.

"Hey, you've got nothing to be cautious about with me and my bros, we'll probably be the ones protecting you's........see'ya." as Raph went to walk away again, Saph stopped him.

"Wait Raph, I know I don't deserve it but there is one favour you have to do."

Sapphire asked.

"What's that?" asked Raphael

"You can't tell anybody about us, or where we live." she finished.

"Not even my brothers, how am I going to explain where i've been?"

"Tell them you've been out on a motorbike trip, with your human friend Casey."

"My bikes back at the lair, they won't believe that!"

"They won't believe you've been with four female turtles either."

"Touche."