I've had this idea for a while now AND I'M FINALLY WRITING IT!

Disclaimer: I do not own TMNT characters nor anything else. If I did, Casey wouldn't be with April.

Character Profiles (just so you don't get confused)

Raphael 'Raph' Hamato-

Age: 16

Raphael is the most aggressive out of all four brothers. Despite his hot tempered personality, he is kind hearted and feels a soft spot for people in need. However he holds an animosity towards the police, believing that they were not doing enough and would take the law in into his own hands to help others even at the cost of compromising his family's presence in the city.

April O'Neil

Age: 15

Most people think April is a regular 16-year-old. Her best friends are the mysterious four Hamato brothers. She loves to hang out, play video games and eat pizza with them. April knows slight martial arts and hates school. She is an outcast and considers the Hamato brothers the only people who care about her.

Donatello 'Don' 'Donnie' Hamato-

Age: 15

Donatello has been one the world's most lovable tech-geeks. No one knows the exact age he found out he was a natural technician, but he did. When the other brothers would practice their ninja skills during free time, little Donny would be tinkering with some kind of mechanical device.

Leonardo 'Leo' Hamato-

Age: 17

Leonardo is the most collected of the four. Leonardo is fairly modest and sensitive, rarely issuing direct commands and seemingly much more relaxed around his brothers thinking of himself as more of an equal than a leader. Despite his calm nature he is often at odds with his more hot-headed brother, Raphael.

Michelangelo 'Mikey' Hamato-

Age: 14

Michelangelo is consistently portrayed as the most light-hearted and friendly of the four brothers.. Upbeat and good-natured, 'Mikey' prefers to spend his time enjoying his life, but Mikey can be serious if the situation calls for it.

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~O'Neil Apartment, New York City~

April O'Neil picked up her brown messenger bag and rolled her eyes as her dad called after her. "Have a great day, April," he muttered. He didn't even look up from the book he was reading.

She waved him away and slammed the door to their apartment behind her. April wasn't really a perfect high school girl. She did get good grades, and was respectful to her teachers, but April didn't have friends. She didn't care about anyone at her school, and nobody cared for her.

So all she did in her free time was read. She liked cheesy romance novels best.

She pushed her red hair out of her eyes and trudged through puddles of water from the rain they'd received last night. New York was a dark city, and April couldn't say that she wasn't ever not scared to walk to school. She shrugged the matter off and tried to forget about it, unaware of what was below her.

~Sewer, New York City~

"Uhh, like ow, dude!" Michelangelo muttered as he rubbed his head.

"C'mon Mikey. Get up," Leonardo instructed. Mikey followed Leo's directions and stood. He continued to rub his head as he walked over to his brothers.

Donatello flashed Mikey a grin and Raphael rolled his eyes.

"Good job, my sons." Mr. Hamato-also known as 'Master Splinter' to the boys-walked into the training room, a look of approval on his face.

The boys immediately bowed to their father. "Thank you, Master Splinter"

Master Splinter nodded, "Raphael, Donatello, dismissed. Leonardo, Michelangelo, hit the showers." The brothers filed out of the room and went in different directions.

Raphael Hamato had choppy black hair that spiked up in a few places on the top of his head. Two small strands of hair fell out of place and onto his forehead. Two deep brown eyes were complimented with a shard of red, which was barely visible. Raph was the tallest of the four.

He wore a bland white t-shirt and a leather (black) collared jacket. This outfit was continued with dark blue, slightly ripped jeans and crimson red Vans. This wasn't what he wore to train, but what Mikey called their 'civvies'.

"I'm going upground, be back in whatever." Raph grunted as he walked toward the sewer's tunnel.

Donatello nodded and gave him a thumbs up. Donnie was the 'nerd' of the group. He had brown hair, quite similar to Andrew Garfield, but Donatello's hair was flat and messy. His brown eyes were protected by thin black glasses, which he only wore when he wasn't training.

The teenage genius had on a purple V-neck sweater and light blue jeans. He pulled on black TOMS and almost fell off balance as Mikey came running through the room towards Raph, pushing past Donnie.

"Did you say you were going into the city?" Mikey eagerly asked, practically jumping up and down.

Raphael groaned and nodded, "Yes, I am." Mikey began to say something but Raph cut him off. "No, you cannot come." Michelangelo grinned and started ask a question but Raphael cut him off again. "Maybe I'll pick up a pizza along the way."

And with that Raph was gone.

~Tanning Beaufield High School, New York~

April picked her head up from the desk. Had the bell really just rang? It wasn't her imagination?

"I expect a full report in my hands my Monday! Have a nice weekend!" her teacher smiled.

The teenager jumped from her seat, organized her messenger bag and ran as fast as she could, out. The first thing she did on her way home was put her earphones in and soon Florence + The Machine soothed her mind.

It was because of her headphones, that she hear the people following her.

~Streets, New York City~

Raphael groaned as he remembered Mikey's need for pizza. He turned around and began walking toward the direction of the nearest place that sold the pie.

Maybe it was fate that he had remembered at the exact moment he did. The Pizzeria was a few shops past an alley. One of those stereotypical dark alleys. Where you totally didn't expect something to happen.

Raph was about to enter the restaurant but stopped when he heard it.

A scream.

~Alleyway, New York City~

April was caught off guard. One minute she was jamming out to music, the next there was a hand over her mouth. So she did the most reasonable thing.

She bit the hand and slammed her foot onto his.

The hand withdrew and April took the opportunity to scream. She spun around to see who her attacker was, but he was hidden by the shadows.

She quickly decided that the only option she had was running, so April took off in the opposite direction of the man.

But all of the sudden another figure came into the picture. What looked to be a boy was flipping over April and running over to the man who had muffled her. April stopped running and pressed herself to the wall, trying to watch and hide at the same time.

The new figure punched what turned out to be a thug.

And then kicked him.

And punched him a few more times.

And repeat.

The thug finally howled in pain and ran away as fast as possible.

"That ought to teach him a lesson," the figure had a deep voice, but sounded like he was in his teens. "You okay, lady? You can make it to wherever you're headed to without being jumped?"

April cocked her head to the side at the word 'lady'. She wasn't a 'lady'. "Um, yeah. Thanks, I'm fine."

"Good," the voice grunted. "Now if you excuse me, I have a pizza to pick up."

And he disappeared.

~Sewer, New York City~

"Bro! What took so long? My stomach is growling so loud if sounds like a whale!" Mikey took the four pizza boxes from Raphael.

Raph sat down and rubbed his temple. "Had to save some girl from a thug in an alley, sorry your pizza was more important then that."

Mikey's expression softened and he shrugged innocently. Leo and Donnie came into the room with a chorus of 'Pizza!' chiming from them.

They all sat down to watch TV, and Raph told the others about the events that had occurred.

"Sounds like Raph has a girlfriend!" Mikey teased and Raphael glared daggers at him.

Donatello laughed, "Yeah Raph! When you going to ask her out?"

Raphael raised one of his Sai. "She ain't my girlfriend! Heck, I don't even know her name!"

Mikey didn't listen though, he plunged straight into a medley of every cheesy Disney love song he knew.

So pretty much all of them.

Michelangelo looked younger then he really was. He had wavy blonde hair that fell right above his shoulders. His eyes were big and innocently blue. In fact, he himself just had 'innocent' written all over his features.

Mikey wore a Star Wars: IV shirt, jeans, and orange All-Star Converse.

Raph finally threw a Sai a few inches away from where Mikey was singing. Mikey stopped and looked at the weapon and then to Raph.

"Hey, what's the big idea? And oh, you missed."

"You better hope I missed." Raphael not-so-silently muttered as he trudged to his room.

"What's his problem?" Mikey grumbled after sticking his tongue out toward his ninja brother.

Donatello looked up from the book (obviously a science textbook) and shrugged. Michelangelo began ranting about how unappreciated he is and how everyone should respect him more.

Donnie didn't even look up from the book as Mikey asked his opinion on the matter, he just inserted "Uhuh" at random moments.

"Are you even listening, Donnie?" Mikey frowned.

Donatello pointed to his book. "Science."

Mikey groaned, "Remind me, how we're related?"

~O'Neil Apartment, New York City~

April flung herself onto her bed. That had seriously just happened. She smiled to herself, maybe it wasn't all-bad.

She had a hero now.

The girl was pretty sure that her 'hero' had been masked, but she wanted to know why. Who was he? Where'd he come from? Why didn't he show himself?

But those were questions for another day, because right now all she could picture was her life as one of romance novels. The kind where the main character falls in love with a superhero and he saves her from utter doom.

Yep, her life was on the right track.

'But I will never EVER be one of those stupid flimsy damsels in distress who can't even save herself. I'll only let myself be saved a few times and that's It.' she swore to herself.

But enough of that. Time to enter reality.

Sadly.

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So does everyone see how this is going to play out? Yesh? Awesome. So Leo will be introduced soon, as well Casey. MWAHAHAHH.

ASDFGHJKL I HATE WRITERS BLOCK!

Oh! and a few other things, while you're here.

1.'Everything is Wonderful' WILL BE GOING OFF HIATUS SOON.

2. I will try to update this story ON A SCHEDULE. Probably meaning once each week or more. Cool? Cool.

So thanks so much for reading! Please review and whatnot.

Yes, the pairing is Rapril. Because it's an OTP for me. AND IM THE AUTHOR. HAH.

Okay bye loves~