Ch5 Her side of the Story

The muffled screams just went on as Mimi tugged the pail and Mikey pulled at Yumiko.

"Okay one, two, three, pull!"

They grunted as the rat thrashed and the pail was still jammed on tightly.

"Okay this is so not working." Mikey panted.

Raph scoffed from the couch watching them make one unsuccessful effort, "Could you let that thing stay on her head? That way I don't have to get sick by looking at her."

"AAAAARGH!" Yumiko fumbled blindly for an object, her fingers felt a broomstick and quickly snatched it up, and she screamed running straight for Raph's direction.

"AAAAAAAAAAAH!" she raged a war cry in a seriously blind fury with a broom raised over her head.

"Oh crap!" Raph sprang from the couch and darted to the safety of the other side. "AAAAAUGH!" she shouted in rage detecting his every movement, like a missile she raced at him at full speed.

Roca peeped excitedly from the sideline, Run Forrest! Run! She's gonna murder your ass!

Mimi scampered quickly to stop only her speed wasn't matched well enough to catch the angry rat.

Raph ran fast, but Yumiko was faster. Rats can't really see that well so they depend on their smell, since Raph reeked of sweat, this made him an easy target.

Five deadly claws lashed out, Raph ducked in time just to see small splinters of wood fly and the post turn into shredded cheese.

"I'm so screwed!" just before he could take another step a can of Rockstar rolled by, his foot landed on the piece of tin throwing him off.

*SMACK!* He fell face first onto the cold floor, before he could get up he saw his doom towering above him with all ten sharpened blade-like claws (forget the broom she abandoned it). Think of it like Freddy Krueger with a bucket for a head.

"Oh hell! This is getting good!" Mikey said popping a handful of popcorn in his mouth.

You're not gonna do anything! Mimi signed at him, she rolled her eyes and picked up a bat. Guess I gotta do everything.

She crept up to Yumiko's back and raised the weapon to hit her, but….

*BAM!*

There was a loud thud as Yumiko fell down, Splinter stood besides the body with his new staff he slammed into her stomach.

Raph heaved a sigh of relief, "Woo! I thought I was gonna die there for a sec."

Mimi waved at Splinter who shrugged, "What? I've wanted to do that."

He sternly loomed over the twitching rat slapping the staff on to his palm, "A win is a win, leave my son alone."

The only response was a groan.

*Two hrs later*

"Í certainly would not have it!" Yumiko screeched, now fully recovered, fully irritable, and somewhat still neurotic. She sat on the couch holding Mimi possessively close to her the girl who could barely breathe, she squirmed only to be pinned against her even harder.

"I certainly would not have her live with you!"

Donny groaned, "A win is a win!" he repeated exasperated.

"Liar! I wasn't beat yet! I could still fight!"

"Not when you're KO'd by a piece of unmoving wood." Leo commented.

"You were out, you were unable to fight, I won. That is that." Splinter concluded. Though that was not enough to convince her to get the hell out, Yumiko was still adamant.

"At least you owe us an explanation on how you are Mimi's master." Raph said recalling back their questions about her.

At an instant, Yumiko dropped the topic about Mimi and let out a sigh, it'd be best to tell them the whole story. It was unwise to come out of nowhere declaring to be the long lost adoptive mother of their friend without knowing anything.

"Well I suppose I could tell you. Life was lonely and harsh after being mutating and escaping a wretched laboratory. The only one who ever took care of me was an old man name Wang Wei, a kung fu master who ran an old abandoned dojo."

"He was the only one who took me in without any thought of fear. He was very kind and taught me things to get by. He taught me martial arts and music. For the first time in my life I actually had a friend."

"But because he was old and ill he was not meant to live too long." She closed her eyes and sighed.

"He then died on New Year's Eve. Before you know it, I was alone again. I could not live within the dojo after it was planned to be torn down and I was later forced to live in the sewers. Alone." She clenched her fists saying the word tensely.

"After a few years I decided to take in two orphans, one of them being a boy and a girl, Ren and Zena. I taught them how to live as thieves and to steal for a living. For once I actually thought I had a family, until a distant relative of Ren caught him stealing from a store and shipped him off to China to live with his other relatives the day after. I never saw him again. I can't believe one of my children was gone."

Mimi then popped her little hand in the air and signed, that's when you met me!

Don gave her a small flick on the head to keep her actions still for the meantime.

"Then Mimi came into my life." She said wither eyes glittering dreamily. "I found her being chased by Purple Dragons and rescued her in time. It was just us girls then, teaching her the art of thievery and ninjutsu!"

"Ninjutsu!" the turtles leapt off their feet and gaped at Mimi who whistled innocently, well they kinda had a feeling she had some training. After all she couldn't have learned how to do things only a ninja knew just by miming them.

"Thievery?" Splinter asked scowling disapprovingly, the thought of her making robberies just wasn't right.

The mime girl just shrugged and pointed at Yumiko, she made me do it.

Yumiko then continued, "But the day that I thought I lost my children was during a storm. We climbed aboard a cruise ship, everything seemed alright until a typhoon happened. The ship was destroyed and we were on a small lifeboat hanging on for dear life, but the sea was merciless and it took my girls away from me." She sniffed back a tear.

The gang was dead silent with pity, Mikey tried not to cry from her awful story. Raph was unmoved towards to the lady thief, she still intended to keep his friend. Splinter on the other hand was not lenient on her either.

"But my Mimi is alive!" Yumiko beamed happily, "I have one of my children back and I can make up for lost times!" she took hold of her and smothered the girl with a huge hug, suffocating and struggling for oxygen as Yumiko mindlessly asphyxiated her with an affectionate method.

Hey, yeah you remember Zena? She moved back to her home planet. Shouldn't you be glad that she's alive too? Hey I'm trying to say something here! Stop hugging me!

"What do you say Mimi, would you reconsider staying with me?"

Mimi then broke out of the hold and rapidly signed to her with angry hands, NO! I stay here with the ninja turtles and that is that!

A/N Give it up Yumiko! Sheesh!

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