"Goodnight (Y/N)!" They call back. You couldn't help but smile at the sentence. Over the next week or so you keep meeting Raph, a few of his brothers tagging along here and there. You had gotten closer to all of them over that time. Some of them more than others. Eventually your parents started to get curious. You just told them that they were friends that you could only see as night around that particular time because they have a special martial arts practice get together every night that is very secretive and no one could come in and know about but you told them because you knew that they would keep a secret as trivial as that. It's not like you left them completely in the dark though, in fact, you described each of the turtles to your parents, giving them each a detailed description of their personalities since that's all they really needed to know. You told how Leonardo was casually called Leo was like the cool, level headed, dubbed anime loving ring leader of the group and used twin ninjatos, how Michelangelo aka Mikey was the pizza loving party goer who loved cracking jokes as he twirled his nunchucks. How Donatello who's nicknamed Donnie was the shy, tech savvy genius that wielded the simple but powerful Bo, and the one and only Raphael better known as Raph, the Sai wielding hot head with a temper who actually has an amazing soft side to him when you see it. Being the good, honest, trustworthy child you were, they believed you whole heartedly. It was then that you noticed that they were named after different artists from Italy which your parents had picked up on right away. You found that that was pretty cool. You just kept meeting and meeting until one night you decided to make it there a little early to get the drop on em, as you make it to your usual meeting spot you hear foot steps and movement which was fairly odd, you started bringing your weapons with you to train with the turtles since they were able to spar with you and show you some new moves which lent even more validity to your statement to your parents. You take out your staff and have it at the ready. You kick into stealth mode and peak around a corner to see a group of....ninjas...not like the turtles, there had to have been about seven of them. they wore all black and had really weird eyes and if you didn't know any better, you could've sworn they had four arms. Then you remembered, the guys had said something involving foot bots, they started off as actual people but eventually Shredder, the leader of the foot clan had them replaced with robots. They all dart their heads toward you and you ended up having no choice but to fight, you started off and it was actually fairly difficult, it eventually resorted to you taking out your tanto (another weapon you were trained in) and slicing and dicing till there were none left. By the time you were finished with the last ninja that you realized by now were robots and their limbs were scattered across the ground, right when you put away your tanto you hear footsteps on the roof and the turtles come into view, you look up at them as they survey the scene.

"Mind explaining what happened here?" Leo asks making his way down next to you.

"Foot bots...here....had to...get rid of them..." You say panting slightly. They look around and nod.

"Why would foot bots be out here? Were we really that obvious?" Donnie asks.

"I don't know, let's bring her to the lair to be safe." Raph says, the others look at him.

"You sure about that Raph? Your girlfriend can handle herself you know." Mikey says with that grin again. Raph walks up and slaps him upside the head.

"I don't know Raph. She did just beat seven of them on her own." Leo inquires. Raph grunts.

"She did, but who's to say they won't bring more next time? Wether you like it or not she's gonna stay with us."

"What exactly makes it your desicion?" Leo asks expectantly.

"She's a friend, she's in danger, I intend to keep her out. Simple as that." You look at him.

"Raph, Mikey's right. I'm a big girl."

"I know but I just...I don't want you to get hurt." You walk up to him and give him a reassuring smile.

"Don't worry, I'll be fine. I promise." Reluctantly he nods.

"Well...okay...but if you need anything or if anything happens you'd better call us alright?" He demands more than asks, you couldn't help but chuckle at his demeanor.

"I will Raph, I promise." After that the turtles took you up to the roof and sparred and talked a little. But eventually you all headed back home. Each time you met it only strengthened your bond with them, they were everything you wanted in a group of friends and you met nightly so what more could you ask for? As good of a kid as you are you don't nessecarily have any friends, or at least, human friends. Your always too busy in non normal teen stuff. Including eventually heading patrol with theme very night, you really got to see how they actually fought and their personalities when they fought. Raph definitely was one of the more brutal ones, always going for the head and usually succeeding, he was merciless the others didn't mess around in that sense either but by now you could definitely figure out that he was the real muscle of the group, you liked that about him. Everything was normal for the next few weeks until one day it was just Raph that showed up.

"Hey Raph, what's going on?" You ask, he smirks at you.

"Come on, I think it's about time you saw where we live." Your eyes light up and you smile, you follow him down into the sewers and through the system to find an old abandoned subway station only the lights were on. "Come on, we're here." He says heading into the station, you follow to see a relatively well furnished group of rooms, there was a TV, couple couches, gaming consoles, a pinball machine and pizza boxes everywhere. You smile big and cross your arms, it was actually fairly like your room, only messier.

"Feels like home already." You say as you plop on the couch, Raph follows and sits next to you turning on the gaming system smoking all the while.

"You play?"

"Yeah."

"What type of games?"

"(F/G) mostly." (That means favorite game lol)

"Huh well lucky for you I've got it right here." He smiles and pulls out the game, you two pop it in and start playing until you get a little burning question so to speak.

"Where are your brothers?"

"Still out on patrol, I faked out being sick so I could get you over here."

"Raph you didn't have to do that." You say slightly embarrassed.

"I wanted to, as much as I love bashing bots all night I'd rather hang with you." He says with a warm smile, you couldn't help but blush.

"T-thanks Raph..." You say shyly.

"Anytime." The two of you continue playing until eventually the others get home, when they see you there at first they were surprised but Donnie and Mikey didn't mind too much, Leo on the other hand...

"Ahem, what is she doing here?" Leo asks startling you into loosing the game, Raph grunts and looks at his blue masked brother.

"What's it look like?"

"Raph, I thought we agreed not to show her the lair."

"Dude she's hung out with us every night for a like two months now, she's cool." Mikey says in your defense.

"As weird as it is to say it...Mikey's right, she has been around us for a while and no one else has come to mob us." Donnie says.

"It's just...I...ugh."

"That's what I thought, now if you'll excuse me (y/n) and I have virtual butt to kick." Raph says as he resets the game.

"Not until you explain yourself Raphael." A new voice interjects, Master splinter had been in his room meditating all day and only just came out. The turtles straighten up and Raph gets a little nervous.

"I was, um..."

"What part of secret lair don't you understand?" Splinter asks somewhat angrily. Raph looks down.

"I'm sorry sensei I-"

"Tried to stop me!" You interjected quickly. The others look at you strangely and you give Raph a wink. "He tried to make me leave on his way here but I followed him anyway. I'm sorry Master Splinter." You bow out of respect. "If you want me to leave I will, I won't tell anyone promise." You say quickly, Splinter looks at you and strokes his beard. (Or goatee I don't know XD)

"As much as I want to believe you I am no fool, My sons could have very easily made you leave." You look down. "However," you perk your head up again. "You do not seem to mean any harm, I can also tell that Raphael takes great pleasure in having you here. Given the fact that you have known of us these past months I will allow this." You smile and bow again.

"Thank you master splinter." He smiles back.