A/N: I seem to keep writing on these chapters and not paying attention to chapter length lol. I don't want people to read and read forever, but this one is not only funny but interesting too. I might have three more chapters coming depending on how much information I can squeeze into the next one.
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Chapter 10
I punched the long bag rather fiercely, shifting my feet around it. I hadn't noticed Raphael standing near the cubicle's or even in the room.
I was so frustrated and angry I had tears rolling down my cheeks, with every punch I felt like my fists were breaking.
I didn't care, my knuckles were bleeding through the tape, I hadn't even paid attention.
I turned and kicked the bag shaking it on the chain. I punched it again and it shook. Raph looked to the chain and the ceiling.
"Hey," he said loudly he came over to the stereo system and turned it off.
I looked to him and turned around again and kicked the bag so hard the chain cracked from the ceiling. Raph grabbed me by the arm and pulled me away from the bag.
"What the hell is wrong with you?" he said angrily.
"Why don't you leave, I'm not hurting anyone," I told him looking at my fists. I went to the bench and sat down.
"What is wrong with you?" he said to me as he forcefully pulled the white tape off my hands.
I didn't say anything to him.
Raph shifted around the room and grabbed a cloth; he poured some liquid on it, and pressed my hands into the cloth. I flinched a little.
"Alex you shouldn't do things like this," he said calmly.
"I'm frustrated okay," I said not looking at him. I looked at my staff instead.
"Why because you think you're cursed?" he said wrapping my hands with bandages.
"Because I didn't ask for this Raphael, I didn't want to fight again, now I'm being forced too or else I lose my life," I said to him.
"I should've let the spirit take my life," I quietly said. He heard me and turned my face to him.
"Shut up!" he said angrily. He tied the bandages and stood up to his feet.
He hovered around the punching bag fixing the chain.
I looked at him and then to my hands.
I stood up and reached for my staff.
"I don't want to go back," I told him, tapping my staff on the floor.
"I don't want to talk to anyone tonight…. I don't want any lectures," I said to him twirling my staff around with one hand.
"Well you can't sleep here, the office doesn't have a bed," he said to me.
"I'm going to my apartment," I said and pulled my staff to my back.
He came around me and to the door before I could leave.
"I'll take you," he said crossing his arms.
"I can walk," I challenged him.
"It's dark outside," he said again.
"I can walk," I said and pushed past him to the door.
He grabbed me by the arm and swung me around, facing him.
"Stop, just stop…" he said. I turned my face away from him, and touched a hand to my face drying my eyes.
"That's enough Alex," He said to me pulling him to him. This was the first time ever since I've known Raphael that I seen this side of him before. He was caring; he showed that he cared about someone other then himself. I couldn't help myself, I covered my face with my hands and cried.
I didn't say anything future to him as he drifted his bike through traffic. The night had gotten colder, I rubbed my arms trying to keep warm.
"Should've brought a jacket," he said to me as the bike slowed and pulled in to the lot of the apartment.
"You should go home," I said to him getting off the bike.
"Nope," he said kicking the kick stand to the bike.
"I don't want you hanging around…." I half shouted to him.
"Don't care," he said walking up the stairs of the apartment. I sighed deeply and followed behind him.
Raphael didn't say anything future to me as we walked up the stairs to the fifth floor. I rubbed my arms again and pulled out my cell phone from my jean pocket.
I turned it off so that Donatello wouldn't call me, or try to track me.
Raph unlocked the door to my apartment and waited for me as I lagged behind.
I looked at him and opened the door.
I stood at the door and turned to him.
"Go," I said to him and crossed my arms.
"Shut up already," he said and pushed open the door.
I grunted and turned around; I went to the kitchen and opened the fridge. Raphael closed the door behind him and went over to the couch and sat down.
"Great," I mumbled to myself.
I pulled out the milk carton and smelled it to make sure it wasn't soiled. It wasn't.
I threw my cell phone against the counter and opened the carton. I took a sip from it, and shifted to the couch on the opposite side of Raph. He clicked on the TV.
I rested my head against the arm rest of the couch and looked at the TV. I put the carton on the floor, I was so tired and sore, my knuckles still hurt, but I figured they had healed by now. I looked at my hands and the bandages.
"Raph," I said to him. He looked at me then back at the TV.
"Sorry about the bag," I said again.
"It's replaceable," he said and stopped flicking through the channels.
"Hm," I said again and felt my eyelids become heavy.
"Don't lecture her Leo, she was just frustrated last night," Raph whispered to his brother. I could hear their voices.
"I won't lecture her, I would've done the same thing," Leo said, I heard him shuffling around in my kitchen.
"It's almost dawn," Raph said.
"Should we wake her?" he asked again looking to me.
"Yeah, the girls are probably at the pier by now," Leo said to him.
"Don't you two ever stop talking," I said and pulled the blankets off of me.
"God you two are like little mice chattering," I said to them rubbing my head.
"Riiight, well its almost dawn," Leo reminded me.
"Oh my god," I said and jumped to my feet. I patted myself down feeling for my cell phone.
Leo held it in his fingers and shook it at me.
"Calm down, you're not late yet," he said. I grabbed the phone from him and jumped over the couch to my bedroom.
I quickly dressed in my ninja outfit, and went to the bathroom to freshen up. I pulled my hair in my hands and came back into the kitchen.
"Where is it, where is it?" I mumbled through the elastic I had in my mouth.
"Uh where's what?" Leo said shifting around me. I hovered in the kitchen searching my fridge and the cupboards.
I wrapped my hair quickly.
"What are you looking for?" Raph asked leaning over my counter.
"Ah, found it." I said and pulled the black pouch from under the sink.
Leo and Raph looked to eachother.
"Should we even ask?" Leo said.
"Its ninja stars idiot, I had no room for them anywhere," I said to him tying the bag to my belt.
"So under the kitchens sink," Leo said trying not to laugh.
I turned around and patted myself down again, talking to myself.
They both laughed.
"Shut it!" I said to them and grabbed my staff.
"Seriously," I said looking at their motorbikes.
"What?" Raph said revving his engine.
"Do you want to get to the pier or not?" Leo said turning his bike on.
"Fine," I said and climbed up behind Leo.
"Not riding with me? Okay…" Raph said and shifted out in front of us.
"He's scary on that bike," I said to Leo.
"Mikey and Donnie meeting us there?" I half shouted to Leo as we swerved through traffic.
"Yup, and Splinter as well…." He said as he stopped at the lights.
"I'm a little nervous; I mean this is Splinter's job to teach you guys…. I kind of wanted him to train the girls," I said to Leo.
"Alex, you're perfectly capable of training as well," he said.
"Yeah, but Splinter will be judging me and watching… I'll feel so nervous," I said again.
"Hahaha, well don't think of it like that, just think of it as he's your assistant for the day," Leo said trying to comfort me.
"Easy for you to say, you're not being judged," I said to him.
"I was Alex, when sensei chose me to be the leader I was a wreck, so nervous…. Scared, and mostly, I didn't want my brothers to look at me differently, or judge me." He said.
I nodded agreeing.
"My point exactly," I said to him. They both shifted on to a long stretch of road that led to the old abandoned pier.
They both parked next to the truck. I took in a deep breath and jumped off the bike.
I opened the gate and walked down the cliff towards the pier.
"Hey," I said to everyone gathered there. The sun was just peeking its light over the horizon.
"Alex doll, what's up?" Mikey said walking around me. He high fives me,
"Don't kiss up Mikey," I said to him and smiled.
"Just to let you know, I'm not soft like Splinter…." I teased. Splinter looked to me and laughed. He pulled himself up on to a crate and sat there watching me.
"Okay," I said and threw my staff to the ground.
"No weapons for today," I said to everyone.
"Oh, uh…" Yuri was a little curious as to why.
"Because ninja's don't train with weapons until they understand their skill first," I said to them.
"Huh!" Leo said he pulled his katana's from his shell and threw them to the ground.
Donnie did the same, Raph followed and Mikey threw his nunchucks down.
"Interesting…." I heard Splinter say.
I looked to him then back to the guys.
"Relax Alex," Splinter said again.
"Okay, so today I'm mostly going to build your endurance, speed and strength." I mostly addressed the girls with this. I walked around them as I said this.
"Any questions?" I asked.
"Not, really…" Aki hesitated and looked to Nina.
Leo looked to Raph.
"Uh…" Mikey put his hand up. I shook my head and smiled.
"Yeah Mikey?" I said to him.
"We are pretty fast already girl," he chuckled.
"No actually you're not," I said to them.
"The pier extends three miles," I said pointing my finger down the pier.
I pulled my phone out of my pocket and opened the timer.
"GO!" I said to them.
"Wait, what?" Mari said. Her sisters ran down the pier and she followed. The guys did the same.
"Hmmm," Splinter said and nodded his head. I came over towards him.
"Sorry if I decided to skip weapon training," I said to him.
"No, no I'm actually interested in what you're doing…." He said. He ran his hand through his goatee.
"COME ON, YOU GUYS THAT WAS FIVE MINUTES," I shouted to them. They reached the end of the pier and turned around running back.
"GUYS REALLY," I shouted to them as they ran back to where I was.
"This is what I mean by endurance and speed," I said to them.
"Five minutes is pathetic," I said waving my phone showing them.
"Girl you need to lighten up, we usually don't need to run," Mikey questioned taking a deep breath.
"You're tired already, and yes Mikey endurance helps you not only build up speed, but it helps you with everything else, your hand to hand combat speed, your skills…." I said to them.
"Let's go," I said and ran in front of them.
"Keep up!" I said to them.
Yuri looked to her sisters.
"She's like a drill sergeant," Mari said and followed behind me.
I turned around and ran backwards looking at them. I extended the range down past the pier and then back up the pier to Splinter again.
"Good," I said and turned around again.
"Go again," I said to them.
"Really," Mikey whined.
"Go again," I said and ran past them. I heard the girls whine and follow behind, the guys did too.
We did this for about twenty minutes, as I ran back towards Splinter everyone was already exhausted.
"Uh man," Mikey said and fell down to the ground catching his breath.
"Really," Nina and Aki both said also catching their breaths.
I crossed my arms and looked to them.
"Catch your breaths then we are moving on to some combat movements," I said to them.
After a few moments everyone positioned themselves in lines behind me and Splinter.
It was a thai chi lesson, well almost like it, I mostly taught them hand movements and how to position themselves in combat. Splinter was mostly guiding me, I wasn't very good at thai chi lessons but hey…. They don't call him sensei for nothing.
It was mid afternoon by the time we finished. Tomorrow I was going to create an obstacle course for them, I knew of a great place to do that, an old grungy side of town with an empty military base. It had bars, ropes, and even a climbing wall. It was the way I was trained, so I wanted them to get the feel of true strength.
"Good job today guys," I said to everyone as I kicked my staff off the ground, and grabbed it.
"Sore," Mikey said as he reached for his nunchucks. I chuckled and pressed my hands to his shoulders.
"Come on you," I said to him pushing him to the truck.
"Didn't think Alex was like a drill sergeant," Raph said rotating his arms. He pulled his sai's to his belt.
"She's kind of scary, really don't want to know what she has planned for tomorrow," Yuri said placing a hand to her sisters shoulder.
"Haha, it's okay, I don't mind this…. All in time," Aki said.
I looked at the truck as everyone piled in.
"How come no one ever lets me drive the truck, or the bikes?" I questioned as I opened the front door for splinter.
"Not a chance," Donnie said as he twirled the keys in his hands and opened the driver's side door.
"Great that means tomorrow I'll just be harder on all of you," I said and smiled. I jumped into the back seat next to Nina and Aki and closed the door.
"Oh man," everyone complained.
"Should've let her drive Donnie," Mikey said and hit his brother on the arm.
"I don't think so," he said adjusting his mirrors. Raph and Leo drove their bikes ahead of us.
"Hhahahah," Splinter laughed opening the window.
"So ladies," Mikey said with a smile.
"How about we head over to the mall and get ourselves some pizza, maybe some slurpies," Mikey chimed cheerfully.
"Really?" I said to him crossing my arms.
"Awe come on babe, why not?" he said hugging me. He started to make kissy faces at me.
"MIKEY…." I shouted at him pulling him away.
"You're just horrible," I said to him.
"Hahahha, so Donnie? Pizza, food…. Hungry," he said to his brother.
"That is a good idea, I am rather hungry," Nina said tapping her stomach.
"One question… what is a slurpie?" Aki asked. We all looked to her.
"We are so getting slurpies," Donnie said rolling down his window. He told Raph and Leo that they were heading to the mall.
"Huh," I said to myself as my phone rang in my pocket. I pulled it out and looked at the caller ID. I didn't recognize the number. I answered it.
"Hello?" I said.
Mikey looked to me then back to the road.
"Alex Tomaki," the voice said. It was a muffled women's voice. She might've been speaking over a voice modifier.
"Who's this?" I asked. Mikey looked to me and leaned in trying to listen.
"I see you…." the voice said. I pulled the voice from my ear and looked out the windows around me.
"Something wrong?" Donnie asked looking through his mirror at me.
I shook my head to him.
"I know everything…." The voice said again.
"Who is this?" I half shouted at the person.
Donnie looked over to me and pulled over a block away from the mall.
"Miss Alex?" Yuri said to me leaning in towards me.
I held my hand up to them.
"I know where you are….. if I were you, I'd be careful…" the voice said, then the line clicked.
I looked to Donnie, my heart skipped a breath. I've never been threatened before.
"Alex?" Splinter said leaning in towards me.
"It's nothing…. Prank caller," I said quickly and shoved my phone back in to my pocket. I opened the door and got out.
"Is she okay?" Mari leaned in and asked.
"Don't know," Mikey said and followed out of the truck behind me.
"I so want pepperoni," I said as I walked over to Leo and Raph. I bumped into Leo playfully pushing him. He pushed me back and I bumped into Raph.
"Heck no, 12 cheese girl, you haven't had a pizza until you've had 12 cheese," Raph said twirling his keys. I rubbed my arm, forgot they had hard shells.
"Is there even 12 types of cheese in this world?" I questioned.
"Girl, yes there are more than 12 types of pizza in the world…. Provolone," Mikey started to name a few. I rolled my eyes and walked through the mall doors.
That's when I heard some news reporters covering something at the mall.
"Hey, guys its April." I said to everyone. I tapped Mikey's arm shutting him up.
"Wonder what she's covering," Leo said.
April noticed us and smiled, we tried not to distract her so I made a hand gesture that we were going over to the restaurant.
I slide in to the booth and Mikey slide in next to me, and Aki and Nina next to him.
I looked at him.
"What?" he said.
"What's with you today?" I asked him. He was acting more childish then usual and even hitting on me more then he usually does. I don't mind his antics or his sweet talk sometimes, but today it seemed a little more then usual.
"Nothing's up, why?" he asked and smiled awkwardly.
"Uh huh," I said to myself.
Leo picked up the menu.
Yuri leaned in towards him and I could see his cheeks blush. I pressed my lips together so I wouldn't laugh at them.
Raph tapped his hand on the table.
"What…." I said to him stopping him from tapping.
"What is with you guys today? Your all so, giddy or… just….." I thought of a word to use.
"Just what?" Donnie said pulling up his glasses as he read the menu.
"Weird, all of you are weird today." I said to them.
They all looked to eachother then back to me and said nothing.
"So…." Mikey said breaking the tension.
"So what?" I said to him as the waitress came around and took our order. Leo and Donnie ordered for us and also order some drinks. The waitress seemed a little scared of the guys especially Splinter, she stood about a foot away from the table. She also somewhat stuttered when she spoke.
I looked at her as she took our order.
"Hey," I said to her before she turned.
"Don't worry they don't bite," I said to her. I noticed she relaxed a little before heading to the counter.
"Isn't it like a health code…." Yuri was about to say something she looked to Splinter then to me.
"What?" I asked her taking a sip of the cola I had in front of me.
"Well there's a rat here, isn't that a health code…." She said as a joke.
I spit out my cola and covered my mouth laughing.
Everyone looked at her then, after a minute everyone burst into laughter.
"Hahhaha, nice one," Splinter said finding that rather amusing.
"So," Mikey said again leaning in towards me. I looked at him and pushed him away.
"What Mikey?" I said to him.
"You and Vern huh….." he said quickly.
I swallowed my cola and coughed.
"What the hell…" I said to him quickly and put my hand over his mouth.
"It's not like we didn't know Alex," Raph said with a chuckle.
"So when is it? The date…" Donnie said pulling up his glasses.
"Oh my god, I am not talking to you guys about this," I said to them waving my hands in the air.
"It's tomorrow night," Vern said coming towards the table. April smiled and waved to us.
"Thanks a lot Vern," I said to him. We all shifted around the booth so April and Vern could sit.
April squeezed in between me and Mikey. As the pizza came around April and Vern told us about two news coverage's they were covering for the day.
"Yeah so it's weird, apparently two shops three blocks from here were robbed at the same time without anyone noticing anything, no fingerprints, no alarms, nothing… in broad day light," Vern said.
"We didn't even know of this," Donnie said to him.
"No one did, not even the police department, Casey didn't get there until one hour after the crimes were committed," April said as well. I looked to her and Vern as they explained.
"Any leads, or any idea's of who it might be?" I asked.
"No, but Chief Vincent and Casey found this at one of the shops," Vern pulled out a tattered piece of leather with a Japanese symbol on it and passed it over to me.
"Casey wanted me to show you it," he said. I took it from him. Mikey and Leo leaned in towards me.
I looked at it and my heart skipped a beat.
"Do you know what this is?" I said to them. They all looked to me.
"Shinto warriors, people from the temple where I was trained, shadow warriors uses leather wrappings on their weapons coated with poison," I said throwing the piece to the table, I patted my belt down and opened one of the pouches and pulled out the purple poison I used for shadow fighting.
"They would coat the leather with this," I said.
"Isn't that the powder you use for shadow fighting?" Donnie asked.
"Did anyone touch this piece of leather?" I asked looking at April and Vern.
"No, Casey picked it up with some tweezers and put it in that bag," Vern said to me.
"Did you touch it?" I said to him.
"No, I didn't why…." He asked.
"Because this piece of leather will kill anyone who touches it instantly," I said. They all looked to eachother and then back to the bag with the piece of leather in it.
"So, why was it at the crime scene." Yuri asked looking at the bag.
"I don't know, once the warriors from Shinto temple were granted immunity we were all dismissed to live our lives, under one condition…. To never use these leather pieces for any reason, except…." I said taking the bag from Yuri. I looked at it and examined it.
"Except what?" Leo said.
"Except against our enemies or anyone who threatens our lives," I said to them. I pushed the bag in to my pouch.
"Alex," Splinter said to me he extended his hand out towards me.
I sighed deeply and handed him the purple powder and the bag.
"I'll dispose of them," he said ensuring I don't do it myself.
"They have to be burned," I told him.
"April, ask Casey to call me or message me please, I have to let him know about these leather pieces," I said to her. She pulled out her cell phone and texted him immediately.
"Slurpies," a waitress said bringing around our colored drinks.
"Oh yeah," Mikey said tapping the table.
"They're colored," Mari said swirling the straw in the cup.
"Do it, take a sip," I told her swirling my stray.
"Do it," Raph said as we tapped our hands on the table.
The girls took a sip and looked at eachother.
"Well," Mikey chimed.
"AWESOME," they all shouted and high fived eachother.
"SO COOL," Aki and Nina both said and took another sip.
"Hahha, better then awesome these are like magic drinks," I said to them looking at my cup.
"So I was thinking…." I mumbled eating a slice of pizza.
"I think it would be fair for me to train the girls myself….. and you four," I waved my finger to the guys.
"Should train with Splinter," I said to them.
Splinter ran his hand through his goatee thinking.
"Hmmm, that would be a fair advantage," he said.
"I'll have them kicking your asses in one week," I said to Leo.
"What you challenging us or something?" he answered throwing a piece of pepperoni at me.
"Jerk," I threw it back.
"Yes it's a challenge, they'll take you on blind folded," I said to Leo.
"Uh Miss Alex," Yuri said placing her hands to my arm.
"I don't think that's a good idea, would we even be at their level in one week?" she said to me looking at them.
"You will be with me training you," I said to her. Mari tapped a hand to her mouth and tried to comprehend everything.
"Alex," Splinter said.
"You are on my dear, one week," he said to me. I smiled and nodded.
"Sounds great," I said.
"Woah, wait hang on a minute, how is this fair?" Mikey said waving his hands in the air.
"We already have skills dummy, so it wouldn't be fair to them if Alex trains us," Raph said to him throwing a slice of pizza at him.
"Ooooh," Mikey said eating the slice Raph threw at him.
I looked at April and we both laughed.
"So where are you two going out tomorrow?" April asked picking at her pizza. I nearly choked on my piece and looked at her.
"What? I'm curious," she said.
I looked to Vern.
"Don't know yet," he said.
"And I wouldn't tell any of you either way," I said pointing my straw at the guys.
I took a half sip of my slurpie and put my finger over the straw. I pulled it out of my cup and put it in Mikey's letting my pink drip in to his blue drink.
"Hey," he said noticing a pink line in his cup.
"I hate the pink flavour," he said tapping his cup trying to make it disappear.
"Hahhaha," I laughed.
April laughed at Mikey as he tried to figure out how to get the pink line out of his cup.
"I can sip it out for you?" she said tapping her straw.
"No, you two are evil…. I don't want your colors in my cup," He said pulling his cup to one side.
Everyone laughed.
"Oh come on," I said loudly across the table.
"No seriously," Leo said using the back of a napkin, he drew out four lines.
"There is no way you, Leonardo that the number 42 can't be divided 8 times," I told him.
"It can… seriously Donnie and I were figuring this out, we solved it last night," he said putting down numbers.
April leaned in and looked at the math.
Donnie leaned over and also looked at the napkin.
"I don't understand this," Nina said trying to figure out why we were discussing math.
"Oh, the other night I was trying to figure out 42 divided by 8 to see if it actually fits anywhere, or if the equation can be rounded to a whole number, what I got was 5.25 I told her." She thought about it for a moment.
"Isn't that the answer though 5.25?" she asked also figuring out the math.
"Actually no, it can be rounded to a whole number," Donnie said. He tapped on the paper as him and Leo showed us the equation.
I picked up the napkin and looked it over. Nina and Aki leaned in towards me. April pulled out her phone trying to figure out the math.
"I hate the both of you, your both idiots," I said looking to him and Donnie.
They both high fived eachother.
Raph took the napkin from me and looked at it.
"She's right you're both idiots," he said throwing the napkin at Donnie.
"Good thing you didn't bet on it," April said.
I clenched my teeth together and reached into my pouch for money.
"You bet on it," She laughed and shook her head.
I handed both Leo and Donnie twenty each.
"Woooahhhhh," Mikey said extending his words.
"Shut up," I said to him.
The waitress hovered around our table taking the empty cups and plates and pizza pans.
"So Alex," April nudged me.
"Yeah?" I said to her slurping the last bit of pink slurpie from my cup.
"What are you going to wear for tomorrow night?" she said. I looked at her.
"No, hell no…" I said to her. I knew what she was getting at.
"Come on Alex, I've seen your closet, you have no dresses or skirts or anything fun…." She said.
"Yeah because I hate dresses and skirts, and anything fun…" I said to her.
She smiled and looked at me.
"No, we are not shopping…." I said to her.
She grabbed my arm and we slide out of the booth.
"Hey wait I want to come," Nina said sliding out of the booth as well.
"Me too," Yuri said, Mari and Aki came along with us as well.
"I hate shopping," I whined.
Vern shook his head as we passed him.
"Oooo," Mikey said making kissy noises.
"Hey, enough of that…" Vern said to him.
"So, what were you thinking of wearing for tomorrow night?" April asked pulling me by the arm.
"Clothes April, clothes, you know my black tight dress pants and a blouse," I said to her sarcastically.
"Uh no," she said we walked past a jewelry store and a few shops, over to a clothing shop.
I looked at the sign and pointed at it, "no…. we are so not doing this," I said to her.
Yuri and Mari smiled and pushed me in to the store.
I pulled my staff around my back to the holster. A lady looked at us as we walked through the store.
"Weapons aren't allowed in this store," she said and looked to me.
"Oh hi, see she's a ninja, she's with the turtles," April said to the lady as she looked through some clothes.
"Uh huh," the lady said. Then I saw her disappear towards the counter.
"Hehhe," I laughed and looked at the rack April was looking at.
"No way in hell am I wearing a dress that short," I said to her as she held up a checkered colored dress.
"This is so gorgeous and you have the legs for it," she said pushing it against me. I rolled my eyes and went to the change room.
I tossed my staff to Aki, she grabbed it and sat down in a chair.
"So, how do you girls like New York so far?" April asked them.
"It is a very big city, we usually lived on the coast and travelled from villages to villages in Japan," Yuri said as she sat down next to Aki.
"I'm sure you'll get used to it," April said to them again. I heard them talking through the door.
"April this dress is bloody short, like hell am I showing off this much….. " I said to her as I opened the door.
"Leg," I said noticing ninja's in the store. They had everyone tied up including the store owner and the clerk.
I looked to Aki, my staff had rolled on the floor near the change room doors.
"Alex," April whispered to me. I looked at three ninja's who where hovered near the jewelry counter. I shifted my feet carefully towards my staff.
"Hey," one of the ninja's said and turned to me.
I stopped in my spot and raised my hands.
"You missed one," the ninja said to the other two.
"Yeah yeah I'll get her," one of them said she had a female voice. She came towards me and pulled a rope from her waist.
I quickly shifted to my staff and kicked it up in to the air.
"You idiots, that wasn't a stick it's a weapon," she said to the other two men with her. She held the rope in her hands and twirled it.
"I thought we got ride of all ninja's," I said to her.
"Well guess we missed some," I said twirling my staff around.
The store clerk looked to me and to her manager.
"Hey, listen we'll give you what you want if you don't harm any of us," the manager said to me and the ninja's.
"What?" I said to him.
The female ninja turned around and looked at him.
"We just want all your jewelry," she said. She then came towards me.
"I'll take yours too," as she was about to reach for my necklaces I grabbed her hand.
"I don't think so," I kneed her in the stomach knocking her to the ground.
The other two ran to her. I came around them and twirled my staff.
"Look here's the deal, whatever you stole from this store, leave it here, and I'll go easy on you," I said to them.
The female ninja grunted and jumped to her feet.
"You will regret this," she said to me.
She ran at me and swung her staff over her head.
Before she could bring it down I swung my staff just like she did and held it up in front of me as a shield, she smashed her staff against mine making them both vibrate.
"What the hell…" I said looking at my staff.
"No one knows that skill, unless…. Wait," I said realizing she must've been the one who dropped the leather piece of cloth, she must be a Shinto ninja warrior like me.
"You're a Shinto shadow fighter," I said to her. She quickly turned around and swung her staff behind her back and struck me with the tip of it.
"Aaah," I said and jumped away from her.
April shifted her hands around tapping on her watch sending an SOS to the guys.
I kicked my staff into my hands and held it up right.
"Your skill," one of the boys said.
"You're a Shinto warrior as well," he said circling me. The other boy did as well.
That's when the female extended her hand outwardly and dropped the bag of jewels she stole to the ground.
"Look, like I said you don't want to test me," I said to her. She ran at me and jumped to the air. I looked up to her and held my staff over my head.
"YOU ARE PLAYING DIRTY, " I shouted at her as her staff clashed with mine. I quickly wrapped my white ribbon around her staff and pulled it from her hands to the ground.
"A Shinto warrior never ever allows their staff to take the spirit of another warrior's staff," I said to her. Her movement was in attempt to destroy my staff and take its powers.
I placed a foot to her staff so she wouldn't touch it.
"What do you know about shadow fighting," she said looking to her staff.
"Miss Alex," Yuri shouted at me noticing her staff shake.
"Alex," she said turning to me.
"The staff is coated with poison it's glowing," Yuri said again.
"I know Yuri, that's why my staff is wrapped around it," I said to her. I kicked her staff up to the air and grabbed it, I snapped the tip of it releasing all the poison onto the white ribbon of my staff.
"You should be ashamed of your training," I said to the female ninja. I took her staff and swung it around knocking her on her knees.
I threw her staff to one side.
"ALEX," I heard the guys shout.
"Stay back," I said to them.
I held my staff up to her face.
"Take your boys, and leave, you are not a Shinto shadow fighter, they do not disrespect their weapons," I said to her.
She looked to me and then to the boys. They helped her up and reached for her staff.
"You haven't seen the last of me," she said taking her staff. All three threw down a smoke bomb and disappeared.
I covered my mouth and coughed.
"Are you okay?" Leo said grabbing me by the arm.
"Yeah, I think I know who robbed those stores," I said to them. The guys untied everyone as the police came.
"Casey," April said to him as he came through the store with six men.
"What happened?" he said looking to me and Leo.
"Your jewelry store thieves are ninja's," I said to him. He put his gun away and looked to April then the girls.
"Everyone okay?" he asked as the officers searched the area and questioned people.
"Ninja's," I said again.
"I saw that, but who are they?" Leo asked again.
"Shinto temple warriors, just as I figured, they have the same training and skills I have, that's why her staff was coated with poison," I said to Leo. He looked over my staff.
"…. You took her poison," he asked.
Donnie came to me, but just as he was reaching for my staff a zap of energy repealed him.
"Woah," he said.
"No one touch my staff, I have to purify it," I said to them holding it by the white ribbon.
"Well we have some sort of lead," Casey said.
"I'll check the security camera's," he said tapping my arm.
"Woah girl, they didn't even leave a trace," Mikey said as he and Raph leaned down to the ground looking for any form of foot print or even a trace of them.
"They wouldn't because they're trained not to leave a trace," I said to them.
"By the way, don't like the dress," Vern said looking to April.
"Jee thanks, so much for trying to make her hot," she said crossing her arms.
That evening I went to the dojo and brought some purified holy water with me, just regular water that I threw some salt and other ingredients in it that purified it. I sat down on the ground and placed my staff to the ground in front of me.
"Another Shinto ninja, how is this even possible," I said to myself as I poured the water over my staff.
"All trainees's where dismissed," I said to myself again.
"Maybe the ones who were dismissed chose to disobey the rules of the monks," Splinter said coming around me.
He startled me, I hadn't even notice him come in to the dojo.
He sat down in front of me.
"Splinter," I said to him. I ran my hands down the staff making sure the water coated it.
"Did you recognize them?" he asked me watching what I was doing.
"No, I don't know who they were," I said to him.
"Was the female the one who called you?" he asked. I looked at him surprised.
"You heard my phone call," I said to him.
"I hear everything," he said running a hand through his beard.
"I don't know, her voice sounded different, but she seemed surprised when Yuri said my name," I said to him.
"She threatened you Alex, the phone call… she knew everything about you she said," Splinter mentioned the conversation from this morning.
"I don't think it's the same person, maybe the person who called me was their leader," I said to him.
"Splinter, please don't say anything about this to the guys," I said to him.
He nodded and touched a hand to my staff.
I passed it over to him.
"It took the poison and absorbed it, I have never seen a weapon do that before," He said.
"It's safe to use now, so don't worry it won't poison me or anyone," I said to him.
"Alex, your skills… you've learned the art of healing, creating medicinal treatment, and even creating poisons and cures for them," Splinter said to me passing my staff back to me.
"Yes, the students at the temples where trained to learn everything," I said to him.
"Do not worry about your brothers, they will not know of this, but Alex… investigate, if these are former students and have skills like you, they could be very dangerous," he said to me. He shifted to his feet.
"I'll figure this out Splinter," I said to him. He reached a hand to me and helped me up.
"But, I would like Leonardo to learn your treatments," he said to me.
"You mean my medicinal treatments and cures?" I asked him.
"Yes, please teach him, I feel it is necessary they learn this," he said to me again. I half bowed down to him and nodded.
That evening I spent it mostly watching movies with Mikey. Raph, Leo and Donnie had taken the girls out food shopping, and Splinter hovered in his room playing music and reading.
"So doll face," Mikey said twirling a gummy worm in his hand.
"Mikey," I said to him.
"What do you think of Aki?" he said.
I looked at him surprised he said that.
"What?" I asked him.
"I think she's so cool…. She loves to surf, she said in Japan she did a lot of that, and the girl can skateboard," he said making a skateboard motion with his hands.
I looked to him and smiled.
"So you like her?" I asked him stretching the gummy worm in my mouth.
"Doll… I think she's a major babe," he said. I lifted an eyebrow surprised he said that.
"Uh huh," I said.
"Like she's totally rad that the other day she asked if we went to basketball games, she said that she and her sisters used to hide in the top bleachers of stadiums and watch games," he said to me again chugging down a cola.
"Basketball huh," I said looking at him.
"Yeah, hey next week there's a game, we should all go," he said.
"Uh huh," I said still surprised he actually liked a girl that wasn't me or April.
I smiled at Mikey and hugged him.
"Hey," He said and smiled.
"You are so adorable," I told him and pecked his head.
"Awe…. Thanks," he blushed a little.
"You know Mikey, if you like Aki….. as much as you say you do, you should tell her," I said to him patting his head.
"I think I'd be too embarrassed too, I'd be shy," He said and rubbed his head.
"Practice on me, pretend I'm Aki…." I said turning to face him.
He looked at me and smiled.
"Uhhh okay, let's see," He said and turned towards me.
"Just be yourself and be honest," I told him.
I touched his hands and he took in a deep breath.
"Okay, so Aki…. Hi," he said to me.
I tried not to laugh.
"So girl, just wanted to say…. Well I think you're really totally rad, and well…. I like you, a lot," he started to say.
"What the…. Heck is going on?" Raph said slowly.
We both looked over to them. We hadn't even noticed them come in. They stood staring at us bewildered.
"It's not what you think Raphael, grow up…." I said to him shifting off the couch.
Mikey grinned and waved.
Mikey flicked off the TV and came to Raph helping him with the bags.
"Don't look at me like that, it's not what you think," I said to Leo and Donnie who were giving me a very awkward look.
"Talk to Mikey," I said to them.
"Uh huh," Donnie said and went over to the fridge.
"Hehehhe," I heard the girls laughing.
I shook my head and looked over to Splinter, he shifted from his room to the dojo. I saw the door close behind him.
"Miss Alex," Yuri said near me. She startled me.
"Gosh, you startled me," I said to her. She smiled and held her hand out to me.
She had a white cloth in her hand.
"What's this?" I said to her.
She opened the cloth and wrapped in a plastic bag was another small turtle charm.
"A turtle charm," I said smiling. I took it from her hand and looked at it.
"Leonardo noticed it at the shop, I picked it up for you… and no I didn't steal it," she said with a smile.
"Why did you pick it up for me?" I said to her opening the chain around my neck.
"You have been so kind to me and my sisters, you're giving up your time to train us, and you even offered your apartment to us as a home, this is our gratitude," she said to me. I slide the little turtle charm on to the chain. It almost matched the other one but it didn't have a coloured gem in it.
"Yuri, it's my pleasure to help you… there is no need for gratitude, I would've done it for my brothers and anyone as well, but thank you," I said placing a hand over hers.
Mari came towards her sister.
"The turtle looks good on the chain, it matches the other one," she said smiling.
"Really thank you," I said to them.
"Hey I have an idea," I said to her and Mari.
"Aki , Nina…" they both handed their bags over to Leo and Don and came over to me.
"How about I take the four of you out on a night in the town," I said to them.
"Uh, but Miss Alex you don't have a car," Aki reminded me.
"Oh…. Right," I said to her thinking.
"No, but we have one…" Donnie said and threw the truck keys at me. I caught them.
"Seriously, your letting me drives the truck," I said to him.
"Yeah, why not… don't see any harm in that, oh just don't use any of the red buttons, those are weapons," he said.
I smiled and twirled the keys in my hands.
We all piled in to the truck, I reached for the seat belt and looked around.
"Hmm," I said looking for the key hole. Nina smiled and tapped the key hole.
"Oh, hahaha I knew that," I said to her. I put the key in and turned it.
"This is so cool…. I never get to drive this beast," I said touching the steering wheel.