I laid on my shell and stared blankly at the ceiling. It was early morning and I couldn't sleep, one because I knew training was going to start in about an hour, but also because my thoughts were clouded by a certain girl I had met in to long before. It had been 3 days sense my encounter with Kyle, and even though she was out of sight, she still remained implanted in my mind. I didn't get it! She was the kind of person I would normally despise. An annoying wise cracker who never shuts up, and a girl no less, I should hate this chick. Yet for some reason she continued to make her way back into my thoughts. Maybe it was the fact she got away from the Purple Dragons without me having to come in and save her like I had to do for most people. Or maybe that she was able to make me laugh unlike others that have tried.

I shook my head trying to rid my thoughts of Kyle. Training was going to start soon and I didn't need this distraction slowing me down. I sighed and placed my arms behind my head. My mind was quiet for awhile and I was slowly beginning to fall back to sleep. Just as I was falling asleep, my thoughts were brought back Kyle. God dammit. I began to wonder if I'd ever see her again, or even if she'd want to see me. Would she even remember me? I mean I know it would be hard to forget a giant mutant turtle, but stranger things have happened. My eyes finally closed and I allowed myself to relax and clear my head. Probably the longest moment of peace for me in a while, but like a lot of good things, it didn't last long. For along a few seconds later, my alarm went off. I had forgotten I'd accually had an alarm. Donnie had put one in each of our rooms as far away from our beds as possible so we had to get up to turn them off. I groaned and threw my pillow over my head turning the blaring into a muffled buzz. It wasn't great but it was better.

"Oh big brother~!"

I grumbled something undeceive and turned to my side.

"C'mon, dude, Splinter says we gotta get up." The buzzing stopped so I assumed that Mikey turned the alarm off. He began to shake my shoulder. "Wakey Wakey, eggs and bacey!"

"No…" I moaned.

"Yes!" Mikey shouted as he grabbed my feet and began to pull. "Get up! Urf! Man, you gotta loose some wait, bro!"

Mikey continued to pull while I stayed planted in place.

"Grr! A little help here?!"

"I gotcha!" I recognized Donnie's voice.

The pulling became more forceful and I assumed Donnie was now helping Mikey pull me out of bed. They managed to move me alittle, but I still remained in bed.

"Urf! Curse you, Donnie's lack of muscles!"

"Hey!"

I smiled and did my best to ignore them as they continued to pull, not that is was that hard.

"Oh, for the love of…" I heard Leo grumble as he joined Mikey and Donnie.

I held tightly to the mattress determined not to get up. My brothers strained as they continued to pull. After while I felt my fingures beginning to slip as I held on for dear life.

"Ugh! C'mon, Raph! You're wasting everyone's time! Just get up so we can get training over with!"

With that, they all gave one last giant tug and I lost me grip on my bed. I was propelled from the mattress onto my brothers. We all tumbled out the door and into the next room.

"Dude… let's do that again!" Mikey exclaimed as he started to laugh.

"No, c'mon, we'd better get to training before Splinter blows a fuse" Leo groaned sitting up from the floor."

"Whatever you say, chief…" I grumbled getting to my feet.

Leo glared at me. "And if he does blow a fuse, you're taking the blame." He said to me as he helped Donnie and Mikey off the floor."

"I got it, I got it…" I waved him off as I made my way to the Dojo. Man, this Kyle chick was turning out to be more trouble than she was worth.

~/\~

I stood in my fighting stance trying to catch my breath. Thank goodness training was almost over. It was Mikey vs. Leo and me vs. Donnie while April was training smiple kata's with Splinter. I wasn't exactly at the top of my game at the moment. Even while I was fighting, that frigging girl wouldn't leave my head alone.

"Raph? It's your turn…"

Donnie's voice brought me out of my thought and I quickly shook away my thoughts of Kyle.

"Sorry…" I mumbled.

I charged for Donnie who quickly dodged and attempted to throw a punch at me. I ducked down and swept his leg making him fall. He quickly got back up and began to charge at me. He tried to punch me, but I grabbed his fist, the thing happened with the second punch. He tried to free his hands but I kept my grip. While he tried to get free, I thought back to 3 nights ago. About our first encounter, and how unreal it seemed.

'Dude! Your skin feels so weird!'

'Ah, so you're ticklish then, huh?'

'Cross my heart and hope to fly, stick a cupcake in my eye!'

The air got knocked out of me in the middle of my reminiscing. From what I could gather, Donnie had kicked me in the gut to get me to let go. I fell on shell and grabbed my stomach. I groaned and shut me eyes.

"Sorry, Raph… but you were squishing my hands…" Donnie said meekly.

I opened my eyes to see Donnie standing over me with his hand extended to me. I hesitated before taking his hand. He lifted me off the ground and onto my feet.

"You okay, Raph?" Donnie asked.

"Peachy…" I mumbled stretching out my back.

"That is enough for today." Splinter said heading out of the Dojo. "You have all done well today."

He left the dojo and went to the living room. I sighed and followed Splinters lead. My brothers and April weren't far behind.

"What do we do now?" Mikey asked. "There's nothing to do down here."

"There is if you have an attention span…" Donnie replied.

"My point exactly!"

"Calm down, we can go topside later tonight for a patrol." Said Leo.

My eyes widened. This was my chance, I could find Kyle and finally get her out of my head.

"Sweet!" Mikey cheered.

"Yeah, great." Donnie mumbled sitting down on the couch.

"Aw, c'mon, Donnie! It'll be fun!" April said as a response to Donnie's lack of enthusiasm.

"I'm afraid you won't be joining them, Miss O'Neil." Said Splinter.

"What?! Why not?!" April protested. "I know how to take care of myself.

"Against a simple school bully, maybe, but if you were to come across The Krangg or the foot, you wouldn't be able to defend yourself for very long."

"But-"

"No."

April pouted and sat down next to Donnie who chuckled at her antics. I sat down too and buried my face into one of my older comic books attempting to avoid everyone in the room. I wasn't in the mood for conversation with anyone, so I did my best to pass the time until it was time to head topside.

~/\~

Me and my brothers jumped from roof top to roof top, like a ninja do. These patrols were always so boring but I wasn't really focusing on that, I was looking for Kyle. Sounds creepy, I know, but this was the only way I knew how to get her out of my head. I lagged behind my brothers making sure I could notice her if I did see her.

"Raph! Keep up!" Leo shouted back to me.

"I'm coming, I'm coming…"

I started to slow down and get farther and farther bhind my brothers keeping my eyes open for Kyle.

"Alright guys, let take a quick breather." Leo said sliding to a halt.

Mikey, Donnie and I stopped to and we bumbed around one of the roof tops for a while, as if waiting for something to happen. Donnie pulled out his old telescope and began looking over the city. I leaned against one of the water towers and did something similar.

"Leo! This is boring!" Mikey whined.

"Normally I wouldn't agree, but there's nothing interesting going on in case you haven't noticed." Donnie agreed.

I nodded in agreement but remained silent.

"Well this isn't suppose to be fun, guys." Leo said sternly.

"Yeah, but that doesn't mean it can't be!" Mikey suggested.

"Yes it does Mikey!" Leo snapped. "Now c'mon, lets keep moving.

We groaned but followed Leo anyway.

'What's his beef?' I thought.

Once we began running again, I started to purposely lag behind my brothers again. Leo must have noticed because he stopped running and came back to me the lecture.

I and held up and held up and hands in defense. "Calm down dude. Why don't just head home and you guys just keep doing what you're doing?"

Leo raised an eye brow. In hindsight, I probably brought that up to quickly.

"You wanna head home?" He questioned. "A couple days ago you were complaining that home was too boring."

I shrugged. "People changed."

"Yeah, but not you! You're far too stubborn."

"Look, calm down, it's no big deal!"

"Hey! What's going on?" Donnie shouted to us.

"Be there in a sec." Leo said still looking at me.

"See ya at home, chief." I gave him a small salute and made my "get away" despite Leo yelling after me.

Now it was time to do what I came up here for in the first place. Finding that girl and ridding her of my thoughts. I jumped down into an ally and looked out into the street, oddly thought, it seemed void of life. Strange, normally New York streets are super busy. (Logic? What's that?) Well at least this way, it was easier for me to get around without getting noticed. I walked out into the streets looking around for any signs of life, surprisingly I saw none.

I began walking around aimlessly in search of Kyle. The entire time I was questioning why. The reason sounded good in my head but in reality, it seemed strange for someone like me.

"Hey! You!"

I jumped at the voice. I turned and saw a police officer standing not to far away from me. Well that didn't take long…

"What are you doing out here by yourself." He demanded.

He stepped closer and saw I wasn't exactly normal. He reached for him gun and pointed it to me. Well, that escalated quickly…

"Alrigtht, buddy, what are you suppose to be? And what do you need that mask for?"

'Is this guy serious?' I thought. 'He sees a gaint turtle and automaticly think im a thief because I have a mask?'

"Look, bud, I don't want any touble-"

"There you are!"

The cop and I both turned towards the voice. I saw a girl running to us. Wait… that wasn't just any girl…THAT WAS KYLE!

She ran up to me and consumed me into a giant hug. "I've been looking all over for you!" She shouted.

"Wha-" She cut me off.

"Just go with it." She whispered

"You know this guy?" The cop asked.

Kyle jumped down and faced the cop. "Sure do! He's my brother!"

I raised and eye ridge. Um, not happening.

"Brother?" The cop looked over both of us. "You two really don't look anything a like."

"Huh? Oh, that?" She pointed at me. "Pfft! It's just a costume! There's a convention coming up soon and this dufus thought it would be a good idea to wander around and breaking his costume."

My eyes narrowed but she just nudged me in the gut.

"You sure? That thing looks really real." The cop said sounding skeptical.

"I should hope so!" She said putting her hands to her hips. "I made it for him! You dare question my costume making abilities?" She pointed an accusing finger at the cop.

"Uh, no…I…" The cop stammered only to be cut off by Kyle.

"Then be gone! C'mon, bro. We're going home!"

"Uh…sure." I said as Kyle led me away leaving the cop dumbfounded.

Once we were far enough we stopped. She turned to look at me and I did the same. She had big brown eyes, just like Donnie's. We stared at each other for the longest time, but then we both bursted into laughter. We dropped to the ground and began laughing to the point where it hurt to breath. We knew that if we got any louder we would cause a disturbance but at the moment we were having too much fun.

"BWAH-HA-HA…You… you called me your brother!" I gasped in between laughs

"AH-HA! AS IF!" She laughed.

"Shut up!" I said playfully.

After a good ten minutes of gut retching laughter, we finally began to calm down. Just as stopped laughing I was knocked over by a giant amount of force. Which I quickly found out to be Kyle giving me the biggest hug she possibly could. I'll admit, I blushed a little.

"Dude! I missed you!" She exclaimed squeezing me tighter.

"Alright, alright, that's a little too hard there…" I said smiling at her craziness.

"No! You can't ever leave again!" She shouted making her grip even tighter.

"Okay, that's enough." I said pulling her off.

She looked up at me and gave me the goofiest smile ever. I chuckled.

"What?"

"Don't play dumb! You were looking for me!" She said smugly.

"What?!" I shouted. "Was not!"

"Yeah! You were looking for me! You missed me too!"

"Did not!"

"Did too!"

"Did not!"

"Did not!"

"Did too-wait…"

She fell backwards and began laughing again. I narrowed my eyes but continued to smile.

"Hahaha… Oh man… now I'm hungry!" She shouted suddenly! "You like Pizza?"

I smiled. "You have no idea…"