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Chapter 2: Where's Spike?

(Y/N's POV)
"Alright, (Y/N), are you ready to try some meditating?" Splinter spoke, sitting down in the middle of the dojo. I nodded, taking a seat beside him, and rested my hands on my knees, trying to match his position. "You are going to want to clear your mind, and find peace in the silence. Do not let anything cloud your mind while you find your inner peace. Now, take a deep breath, and clear your mind." I nodded, and took a deep breath.
The last few weeks, whenever the guys would go out on their night patrol, Splinter would take me into the dojo and train me in different ways. At first it was basic martial arts. Then he taught me about stealth, but now we are meditating because earlier, I might have blown my top on Raph.
"You are tense." Splinter looked towards me. "Would you like to tell me why you and my son can not be in the same room with someone losing their temper?" I gripped my knees, sighing. "I tried being his friend, but he would never take me seriously, and always glare or be mean." I looked up at Splinter, who was facing forward, with his eyes closed. "Raphael has always had problems controlling his anger. I've tried many ways to help him control his temper, but he has made little improvement." He sighed, and opened his eyes, looking towards me. "(Y/N), I think that you might be able to help my son."
I snorted, laughing. "How can I help someone who hates me?" I gave Splinter a curious glance. "He does not hate you. He just gets confused when he experiences new feelings." Splinter arose from his spot. "Could you feed Spike? Raphael asked me to before he left, but I need to get something done first." I nodded, and stood up. "Thank you." I bowed, and left the dojo.
"You hungry Spike?" I smiled to the little turtle who was laying on the table in the kitchen. I pulled out a head of lettuce, and took a seat in front of Spike. "Want some lettuce?" He slowly got closer to me, and took a bite from the lettuce leaf I held out to him. "Such a sweetie."

(Raph's POV)

"I can't believe how easy that was!" Leo grinned, crossing his arms across his chest. "Did you see the way my nun chucks of fury ripped that kraang apart!" Mikey laughed, swinging his nun chucks in a circle. I grinned, patting my left sai. "I think they learned their lesson on messing with us!" I laughed. "Man I sure could go for some pizza!" Mikey ran ahead of us, entering the lair and jumping onto the couch. Donnie, Leo and I entered into the lair as well, and all separated. Leo took over the t.v. to watch his dumb cartoon, and Donnie went to his room. I headed towards the kitchen, but stopped beside the door when I heard (Y/N)'s voice.
"Well that's that last piece Spike! Oh come on don't give me that face, you ate like 5 pieces!" She paused for a second, and laughed. I don't know why, but when (Y/N) laughed, my chest tightened a bit.
"Spike, how were you able to get him to be so...calm with you? How is he able to tick me off so easily, but all I wanna do is figure out how to...I don't know...just be able to get to know him?" I heard her huff. "He's so infuriating! How dare he consume my thoughts!" (Y/N) huffed out.
Was she...speaking about me? My cheeks grew hotter, for some reason. My stomach felt like cannon balls were going off inside of it. I shook my head, ignoring these weird feelings and headed back towards my bedroom. "Raphael?" I was about at my door, when I turned to see (Y/N) was heading towards me, holding Spike. He was cuddled into the crook of her arm, and looked to be asleep. I smirked a bit at the site, but quickly stopped before I looked weird.
"Splinter asked me to feed Spike for you, because he was busy with something." She smiled at me, her (e/c) eyes shinning a bit. "He's like a bottomless pit! I was surprised how much he could eat." She walked to me, and went to hand Spike to me, but he didn't really like that idea.
"Come on Spike, time to go to Raph." She tried pulling him from the crook of her arm, but he protested by cuddling into her more. "I think he likes you." I grinned, rubbing the top of Spike's head. "He's stubborn when he's tired." I went to grab him, but he refused more. "He's so cute. Does he have a bed or something I can try to set him in?" She giggled, staring down at Spike. "Ah, uh, yeah. Follow me."
Every part of me felt extremely uncomfortable with inviting a girl into my room. In fact, I never even knew I would meet another girl other than April. What were the odds we would mutate a girl one night, and she would end up living with us? I mean yeah, she's kind of irritating, annoying, moody, cute. Wait, Raphael Hamato, you did NOT just think that about her.
I led her into my room, and pointed out a little bed that Spike usually sleeps in. She bent down beside the bed, and gently placed Spike onto the bed with very little movement. When she was able to fully get him off of her arm, and onto the bed, she turned to face me, and smiled. "There, tucked in tight."
I don't know if she could feel the tenseness in the air too, but I felt like I was suffocating. "Raph?" "Hm?" I shook my head, and looked at her to see she was closer to my face, an eyebrow raised in confusion. "You feeling okay? You seem kind of out of it." She placed the back of her hand against my forehead, which felt really cool against my skin. "I-I feel fine!" I grabbed her wrist, pulling it down off of my forehead. Okay, now let go of her wrist. .......
Let go of her wrist. Her eyes were slightly widened, staring up at me.
LET. GO. OF. HER. WRIST. My body isn't letting go of her. Her wrist was enveloped inside my palm, it was so small. "R-Raphael?" "Gah!" I let go, stepping back from her, tripping over my own feet, and falling backwards onto my own bed. "Are you okay?" (Y/N) quickly grabbed my hand, and pulled me back up to my feet. I nodded, rubbing the top of my head. "Yeah, just tripped over my own feet is all."
"You didn't hit your head or anything, did you?" I shook my head. "No, I'm fine." She nodded, giving a sigh of relief. "Alright, good. Jeez, you worried me there for a second!" I grinned, laughing a bit.

~~~~~~~~~~~~************~~~~~~~~~~~~The next night~~~~~~~~~~~~************~~~~~~~~~~~~

(Y/N)'s POV

"Spike?!" Raph yelled out, searching the dojo. The other turtles were searching through their rooms while I looked around the main room. "Spike!" I called out, looking under the couch, when Donnie ran in with a panicked look. "Guys!" Raph ran out, worry completely enveloped on his face. "Did you find him?!" Donnie shook his head, frowning. "No, but I think I might know what happened to him...."
"Donnie..." Raph clenched his fists, as Donnie sighed. "There's...there's a chance...that Spike knocked over my mutagen tube that was on my desk, and when I walked in, it was knocked over, and...there seemed to be tiny foot prints in i-" He was cut off by Raph yelling at him. "Raph!" I grabbed his arm, as he said some words that I personally do not want to repeat.

After about an hour of freaking out, Raph had walked out of the lair to walk off his steam. Leo, Mikey, Donnie and I had been sitting together in the living room, but I decided to go check on Raph. They agreed, and now here I am, walking the tunnels with no clue where he could be.
"Raphael?" I called out, feeling along the walls. I turned a corner, and saw a figure sitting against a wall. It was Raph.
He had his knees pulled up, his arms resting on them and his head laid against his arms. "Raphael?" I slowly approached him, and he shook his head. "He's gone. I can't believe he's gone..." I knelled down beside him, and he shifted his head so that he was looking at me out of one eye, which was bloodshot. I frowned, and wrapped one of my arms across his, and the other around the beck of his shell. He seemed taken aback at first, but then he uncurled from his ball shaped form, turned to face me, and laid his head onto my shoulder.
"I'm so sorry, Raph." I tightened my arms a bit, which were now around his shoulders. He shook his head. We sat there like that for a while. I know we don't get along much, but I also know that he needs someone to help him through this. "(Y/N)?"
"Yeah?"
"Why...did you come after me?"
"Because I figured you would need a friend." His head shot up as he stared at me a bit shocked. "I didn't think you liked me." I rolled my (e/c) eyes, giving him a smile. "You can be rather...hot headed, but that doesn't mean that when you're hurting I can't be here for you." I felt his body tense up, as he laid his head back on my shoulder.
I felt like he was about to say something, because I felt his jaw tense up on my shoulder, but I gasped, when I felt hot breath against my face. I looked up to see a large green face, who was growling at me. "R-RAPH-" I tried to hold onto him, but I was yanked up by two large hands that had grabbed a hold of my arm, pulling me away from Raph. Raph spun around, his eyes wide as I was dragged into the shadows of the sewers. "RAPHAEL!"
"(Y/N)!!!"