#mikey is black and Japanese

[boobilby]

Tmnt and some human designs for mm/tot + 2012 (all wip designs)

[shironezuninja]

The F/X channel is glitching. Can’t watch TASM & TASM 2 now. And the 4.8 NY earthquake was nothing to me when I was on the go yesterday.

[airosuiren]

The Family They Never Deserved

Bat Family x Neglected Reader x Tokyo Revengers.

A/N: OMG thank you all for the AMAZINGGG response to part 1!!! I’m obsessed with this story and I hope you love this confrontation as much as I do!!! The Bat Fam is about to learn you DON’T mess with Kanto Manji’s precious strategist!!! Enjoyyy!!!

Part 1

Bruce Wayne had prepared for many things when planning Wayne Enterprises’ Tokyo expansion. He’d prepared for cultural differences, language barriers, complicated business negotiations, and even the possibility of corporate espionage.

What he hadn’t prepared for was the ghost of his past walking into his hotel suite like she owned the place.

You stood in the doorway, dressed in black from head to toe - sleek pants, fitted jacket, and boots that added inches to your height. Your hair was shorter than he remembered, styled in a way that emphasized your sharp cheekbones. A silver moon pendant gleamed at your throat.

But it was your eyes that shocked him most. The uncertain, hurt girl was gone. In her place stood a woman with eyes as cold and unyielding as the Gotham winter.

Behind you, like shadows, stood five Japanese men - all radiating the unmistakable aura of predators.

“Hello, Bruce,” you said, your voice calm. “It’s been three years, four months, and seventeen days. But who’s counting?”

Bruce recovered quickly, his face shifting to the practiced neutrality of Batman. “I had heard you were still in Tokyo.”

Your laugh was sharp enough to cut. “Is that all you heard? Not that I’ve built a life? Not that I never received so much as a birthday card? Just that I remained where you abandoned me?”

The tallest of the men behind you shifted slightly. Bruce’s trained eye immediately identified him as the most dangerous of the group.

“[Y/N],” Bruce began, “I think we should talk privately.”

“No,” said the tall man, his Japanese accent thick but his English clear. “Anything you say to her, you say to all of us.”

“And you are?” Bruce’s voice held a warning.

“Sano Manjiro,” the man replied with a smile that didn’t reach his eyes. “Mikey to my friends. [Y/N]'s fiancé.”

Bruce couldn’t quite hide his shock.

“Yes,” you confirmed, holding up your left hand where a black diamond glittered. “We’re getting married next month. You wouldn’t have been invited, but since you’re here… consider this your notification.”

A door opened behind Bruce, and the rest of the family spilled into the room - Dick, Jason, Tim, Damian, and Lila, all dressed for the evening’s corporate dinner.

Lila froze first, her eyes widening as she took in your transformed appearance. “[Y/N]?”

“The prodigal sister returns,” Jason muttered.

“Actually,” you corrected coolly, “the exiled sister never left. You just finally noticed I existed.”

The tension in the room could have been cut with a knife. Your gang brothers had fanned out slightly, taking strategic positions that Bruce - with his Batman training - immediately recognized as defensive formations.

“These are your… friends?” Dick asked, eyeing the tattooed, hard-faced men with obvious concern.

“Family,” you corrected. “My real one.”

You made no move to introduce them individually. They weren’t here for pleasantries.

“What do you want, [Y/N]?” Bruce asked directly.

“Want?” You raised an eyebrow. “I want nothing from you, Bruce. I’m here to make something perfectly clear: Tokyo is my home now. Kanto Manji is my family. And if your ‘business expansion’ is really about trying to drag me back to Gotham, you’re wasting your time.”

Tim stepped forward, always the diplomatic one. “We just want to talk, [Y/N]. It’s been years. We’ve been worried.”

The laugh that escaped you made several of them flinch. “Worried? WORRIED? Three years of silence isn’t worry, Tim. It’s abandonment.”

“You hurt me!” Lila suddenly burst out. “You attacked me and then ran away to become some… some gang member’s whore!”

The temperature in the room seemed to drop by twenty degrees. Before anyone could react, Mikey had moved directly in front of Lila, looming over her with those empty, terrifying eyes.

“Say that again,” he said softly, deadly. “Please.”

Bruce moved lightning-fast, positioning himself between Mikey and Lila. “Back away from my daughter.”

“Back away from MY fiancée,” Mikey countered, not budging an inch.

You placed a hand on Mikey’s arm. “It’s okay, love. Lila’s lies don’t matter anymore.”

“Lies?” Lila sputtered. “You gave me this scar!” She pointed dramatically to a faint mark on her cheekbone.

“Interesting,” you said coldly. “Because Takemichi here has been filming this entire conversation.” You nodded to one of your gang brothers, who held up a phone. “And I’m sure facial recognition software could analyze whether that scar matches the injury you claimed I gave you three years ago. Technology is amazing, isn’t it?”

Lila paled visibly.

“You always were a terrible liar, Lila,” you continued. “Too dramatic. Too many flourishes. A good lie is simple and consistent. Something I learned planning operations for Kanto Manji.”

“Operations?” Dick echoed, his face darkening. “What exactly do you do for this gang, [Y/N]?”

“I’m their strategist,” you said simply. “Their ghost. The one who sees possibilities others miss.”

“She’s brilliant,” Takemichi added, his serious eyes fixed on the Bat Family. “The best mind in Tokyo’s underground.”

Bruce’s expression had grown increasingly grim. “You’re involved in criminal activities.”

“Rich coming from Batman,” you replied casually.

The shock that rippled through the room was palpable. Your gang brothers didn’t react - they already knew. You had told Mikey everything long ago.

“How long have you known?” Bruce asked, his voice dropping to Batman’s register.

“I grew up in that house, Bruce. I wasn’t blind. Just invisible.”

A long silence followed, broken only when Jason unexpectedly laughed.

“Holy shit,” he said, shaking his head. “She’s got you there, old man.”

“This isn’t why we came to Tokyo,” Dick interrupted, shooting Jason a warning glance. “Bruce, tell her.”

Bruce straightened slightly. “Wayne Enterprises’ expansion is legitimate. But yes, I had hoped to… reconnect.”

“Reconnect,” you repeated flatly. “After throwing me away on the word of your precious Lila. After three years of silence. After replacing me so thoroughly that my room was converted to storage within months of my departure.” At their surprised looks, you added, “Alfred kept me informed. He, at least, remembered I existed.”

“Is that why we’re really here?” Damian asked suddenly, his sharp eyes fixed on Lila. “Because Father wished to retrieve you? That’s not what you told us, Lila.”

All eyes turned to your twin, who shifted uncomfortably.

“I… I just thought it would be good for the family image if [Y/N] came back,” she stammered. “For publicity.”

“Publicity,” you echoed. “Always the favorite. Always the priority.”

“That’s not true,” Bruce began.

“It is,” said a new voice from the doorway.

Alfred stood there, aged but dignified as ever. You hadn’t seen him in person in three years, though his occasional texts had been lifelines.

“Master Bruce,” Alfred continued, “I have served the Wayne family loyally for decades. But in this matter, I cannot remain silent. Miss [Y/N] was systematically overlooked in favor of Miss Lila from the moment they entered Wayne Manor.”

Bruce looked genuinely stunned. “Alfred…”

“And when Miss Lila made her accusation,” Alfred pressed on, “not one of you questioned it, despite Miss [Y/N]'s impeccable character. Not one of you demanded evidence beyond a conveniently placed hairbrush and a bruise that could have come from anywhere.”

“I didn’t think…” Bruce began.

“No, you didn’t,” Alfred agreed sadly. “None of you did.”

Lila’s composure finally cracked entirely. “Fine! I hit myself, okay? I was sick of [Y/N] always moping around, making everyone feel guilty just because she wasn’t as good as me!”

The confession hung in the air like a bomb.

“I knew it,” Jason muttered.

“You… knew?” Tim asked, looking at Jason with shock.

Jason shrugged. “I suspected. But by the time I put it together, [Y/N] was gone.”

You felt nothing but a cold satisfaction as you watched your so-called family process this revelation. No hurt. No vindication. Just the confirmation that you had been right to build a new life.

“It doesn’t matter anymore,” you said finally. “I didn’t come here for apologies or explanations. I came to make something clear: I’m not coming back to Gotham. Not now. Not ever.”

“But you’re a Wayne,” Bruce insisted, though with less conviction.

“No,” you said firmly. “Soon I’ll be a Sano. And I’ve been Kanto Manji’s Ghost far longer than I was ever your daughter.”

Mikey’s arm slid around your waist possessively. “We’re done here. [Y/N] has said what she came to say.”

“Wait,” Dick stepped forward. “Just… wait. We made mistakes. Terrible ones. But we’re still family.”

“Family doesn’t exile their child on an accusation,” Mikey said coldly. “Family doesn’t forget for three years. Family protects their own.” He gestured to his gang brothers. “Like we protect [Y/N].”

As if to emphasize his point, all five men moved slightly closer to you, a human barrier between you and the Waynes.

“You’ve built quite a protective circle,” Bruce observed, his detective’s mind clearly reassessing the situation.

“They love me,” you said simply. “They see me. When I speak, they listen. When I hurt, they notice. It’s amazing how easy loyalty is to earn when you actually treat people like they matter.”

The barb hit home. You could see it in their faces.

“One dinner,” Bruce tried. “Just… give us one dinner. To talk. To try to understand.”

You glanced at Mikey, who gave an imperceptible nod. “One dinner,” you agreed. “Tomorrow night. At Kanto Manji headquarters.”

“A gang headquarters?” Tim asked nervously.

“My home,” you corrected. “Take it or leave it.”

“We’ll be there,” Bruce decided, ignoring Tim’s concerned look.

“Seven o’clock,” you said, turning to leave. “Oh, and Lila?” You paused at the door. “Don’t bother coming. This dinner is for family members who might actually have regrets.”

The next evening, the Bat Family (minus Lila, who had been confined to the hotel after her confession) arrived at Kanto Manji headquarters with obvious trepidation.

What they found wasn’t the den of criminals they’d imagined, but a surprisingly stylish space with modern furniture, excellent security, and the unmistakable feel of a home.

Dinner was a traditional Japanese feast, prepared by Mitsuya who had discovered a talent for cooking. The conversation was stilted at first, with your Kanto family watching the Waynes like hawks, ready to throw them out at the first wrong word.

Gradually, as sake flowed and the story of your three years in Tokyo unfolded, a strange sort of understanding began to emerge.

“So you’re essentially their strategist,” Tim summarized after you explained your role. “Planning legitimate business expansions and… other operations.”

“Exactly,” you nodded. “Not unlike what you do for Batman.”

The parallels weren’t lost on anyone at the table.

“And you,” Bruce addressed Mikey directly, “are the leader.”

Mikey’s empty smile was answer enough. “I found something special when I found [Y/N]. Something you threw away.”

As the night progressed, it became increasingly clear to the Waynes exactly what they had lost. Not just a daughter and sister, but a brilliant tactical mind, a fierce fighter, and a loyal heart.

“I wish…” Bruce began during a quiet moment. “I wish we could start over.”

You shook your head. “We can’t. Too much has happened. But perhaps we can acknowledge the truth: You have your family in Gotham. I have mine in Tokyo. We lead separate lives now.”

“And if we want to be part of your life going forward?” Dick asked.

“Then you accept me as I am,” you said firmly. “Kanto Manji’s strategist. Mikey’s fiancée. Tokyo’s Ghost. No judgments. No attempts to ‘save’ me or bring me back to Gotham.”

“And if we can’t accept those terms?” Bruce asked, Batman peeking through.

Takemichi answered for you. “Then this is goodbye. For good.”

The weight of the choice hung heavy in the air.

“I can accept those terms,” Jason said suddenly, raising his sake cup. “To [Y/N] - who got out and made something of herself.”

Slowly, one by one, the others raised their cups. Even Bruce, though his eyes remained troubled.

“To [Y/N],” they echoed.

As the night ended and they prepared to leave, Alfred hung back.

“I am proud of you, Miss [Y/N],” he said quietly. “Not for the path you’ve chosen - that is not for me to judge - but for your strength in walking it.”

You hugged the old butler tightly. “Thank you for not forgetting me, Alfred.”

“Never,” he promised. “And I shall visit for the wedding, if I may.”

“I’ll save you a seat in the front row,” you assured him.

When the Waynes had gone, Mikey pulled you into his arms on the rooftop, the Tokyo skyline sparkling around you.

“They still don’t deserve you,” he said, his fingers tracing the moon pendant at your throat.

“No,” you agreed. “But it doesn’t matter. I found where I belong.”

Mikey’s empty eyes filled with that rare warmth reserved only for you. “With me. Always with me.”

As his lips claimed yours with that familiar possessive intensity, you felt the last shadows of Wayne Manor finally fade away.

You were [Y/N], soon to be Sano. The Ghost of Tokyo. Strategist of Kanto Manji. The center of Mikey’s obsessive universe.

And you wouldn’t trade this life for all the wealth in Gotham.

A/N: OMGGGG I hope you loved this as much as I did!!! Mikey is literally the PERFECT yandere boyfriend and the Bat Fam finally realizing what they lost is EVERYTHING!!! Let me know if you want more from this universe - maybe the wedding? Or a mission where the Bat Fam has to work with Kanto Manji? I’m obsessed with this crossover!!! Enjoyyy!!!

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[firstdivisiongirl]

can i request headcanons for Tokyo revenger; draken, Mikey, mistuya and baji in a scenario where they're walking and a random girl (reader) walks up to them and begs them to pretend they know her because she thinks shes being followed?

(Bonus if reader isn't from japan and just moved there so her language skills aren't that great)

Hi there. This was so cute! So, the only one I did not write for is Mikey. I might eventually write one for Mikey and maybe a few other characters. I made the reader for Mitsuya and Draken foreign, but not Baji's. Idk why I did that but it kind of happened? Anyways, sorry for rambling. Thank you for the request and please enjoy!

Trigger Warning: Stalking

Baji, Mitsuya and Draken Helping Out a Female Reader When They Feel Uncomfortable

Baji:

Baji is a true gentleman

I know right!  Shocker

You were walking home late one night from the supermarket because you needed something to eat and you had nothing at home

You felt these eyes on you

Out of the corner of your eye, you saw a man following you

He walked a little faster and faster, but you still felt like you were being followed

Suddenly, you saw this guy, about your age with beautiful long black hair

You walked up to him and asked him quietly if he would just pretend to be with you

You explained that you felt like you were being followed and were scared

Baji immediately looked around and then grabbed your hand.

The man walked away thinking you two were a couple

He asked where you lived and he took drove you home on his motorcycle that was parked not far from where you two were

When you arrived home, he gave you his number

He said if you ever needed to run an errand late at night or felt uncomfortable ever to just call him and he would be there for you

Mama Baji would be proud of her son

And you were happy to have a new friend

Mitsuya:

Another gentleman in Toman

You were new to Tokyo

Really Japan in general

Ever since you moved to Tokyo, you worked late at night at a convenience store so that you could earn extra money to help out the family and take care of your younger siblings

One night on the way home, you just had this bad feeling

You felt like you were being watched

Which was only made worse when you saw a mysterious figure behind you

But suddenly, you saw this boy

He had silver hair and an earring in his left ear

You walked up to him and tried to tell him what was going on

Sadly, your Japanese wasn’t great

He tried to follow, but he was having trouble

Suddenly, a few words clicked and he figured out you were being followed and you wanted him to pretend to know you

He grabbed your hand and smiled at you, kissing your cheek

You were bright red at this point

So was he

Eventually, he noticed the figure walk away

After that, he told you who he in the best English he could speak

Thankfully, he was a good student in English class, so he wasn’t too bad

He apologized for the kiss and walked you the rest of the way home telling you about himself as you did the same

Turns out that was the start of a beautiful friendship

And eventually a really cute romance

Draken:

All these Toman boys are just gentleman

I swear, they are

But anyways

You were on your way home from cram school and you saw a man out of the corner of your eye

You kept walking hoping you were just freaking out for nothing

Well, you weren’t

Eventually, you saw this guy with a dragon tattoo on the side of his head

He looked scary, but you were desperate

You walked up to him and in your best Japanese, you begged him to help you out and pretend to know you.

Well, Draken was a bit confused at first but he saw the look in your eyes and decided to help you out

He walked with you until he saw the man leave

He handed you his number and asked you to meet him after school the next day

After that, he introduced you to all of his friends, including the boys and Emma

That one act of kindness helped you to feel more comfortable not only that one night, but for the rest of your life in Tokyo

They even helped you learn more Japanese and you helped them with English

You were thankful for Draken’s kindness

And Draken was happy to help someone in need

Please do not copy, modify, translate or repost my writing on other platforms. Comments, reblogs and likes are highly appreciated!

[ttkinnie]

Tokyo Revengers characters as animals 💖 (for no reason)

Kazutora: let's start with the most obvious one, our resident tiger. Which is funny considering he gives 0 tiger vibes. Or maybe rescued declawed tiger from an abusive circus. Wait a sec... Hanma and Kisaki have a circus theme going on... why did I never notice this? This starts well. Saddest tiger pic I could find

Baji: A black gray wolf of course. 'nuff said

Chifuyu: A cat. Kitty kitty meow meow. Not crazy enough to be orange, but he's gotta have green eyes and a kind face. This tuxedo:

Koko: Talking about cats, here he is. Most obvious choice I've ever made. Black cat of course, very fancy, will knock shit off the counter and eats only the most expensive wet food

Inupi: second most obvious one because you've gotta pick the race of the dog too. I say he's the only serious golden retriever you've ever seen.

Takemichi: A mouse. He is squeaky and scared, looks like he eats cheese. Very cute. Big eyes.

Hinata: A doe, beautiful and kind but will ram into you if you touch her loved ones

Naoto: a buck because I am unoriginal. he does give off buck vibes tho

Hanma: I know the official art makes him a caracal but I love being contradictory so maned wolf it is. Plus look at its long legs and creepy demeanor, it's him

Kisaki: Listen, I am not the most partial person when it comes to him. He's my little meow meow, I wanna put either cat or bunny ears on him and squish his cheeks. But! Let's be honest, that boy is a snake. The deadliest snake in the world, the saw scaled viper, not the most venomous but highly aggressive. He eats mouse Takemichi for breakfast. Also look at its scales, they remind me of his adult hair.

Mikey: A honey badger, small and cute but will bite your balls off and kill your family for fun.

Draken: A lion, beautiful mane and a symbol of strength. Lives among a tribe of lionesses (lucky him)

Mitsuya: I do not like spiders. At all. But an animal literally producing silk is the only choice for Mitsuya. However I am not masochistic so i won't put a spider image, just the web

Taiju: Great white shark. Very smooth skin. Anyone who tells you they have sandpaper skin is lying.

Hakkai: A seal, same eyes, same innocence, favorite prey of the great white shark

Yuzuha: An orca, beautiful but deadly. Only predator of the great white shark. Also eats seals but let's not comment on that. I support women's wrongs.

Pah-chin: it's too cliché to put warthog here, so i won't. He's a cane toad, one of the stupidest animal on Earth, one of their most common cause of death is eating shit they shouldn't because they stuff their mouth without thinking. They also hump anything, including dead animals from another species, and lay their eggs anywhere, which leads to a high mortality rate among their offspring. Why did I give so many facts? I don't know. Look at it.

Peh-yan: A tarsier. it's the eyes.

Sanzu: Arctic hare, crazy eyes and a gift for divination if you can understand his language

Senju: a cutie baby. Bunny x2, will kick you.

Takeomi: a rat. I am not a hater, rats can be cute, but this guy definitely gives off rat vibes

Wakasa: So very pretty. White leopard of course.

Benkei: A bull. I always thought his tattoos were a bull, but I was wrong I just looked it up. Still a bull.

Shinichiro: This one was though, but I'd say a koala. I'm partial about it, but I feel like he would give his children poop to eat, and their reproductive habits are also not a good look on them.

Emma: Japanese dwarf flying squirrel because I play favorites and that's the cutest little furball ever. it looks like it's wearing eyeliner

Izana: Another small but deadly thing, the Australian box jellyfish, found notably along the coast of Malaysia (I feel so clever right now)

Kakucho: Fiercely loyal dog, he's a Rottweiler. Don't tell me Izana and him don't have some kind of puppy play going on.

Ran: Secretary bird. Canonically hates Kisaki which explains why he stomps snakes to death. Wears killer eyeshadow and looks like they hate your fashion style

Rindou: Did you know a group of male Pacific tree frogs is called a chorus? me neither, which is why Rindou is a Pacific tree frog. Peace of music, yeah

Mucho: Polar bear, cold and aggressive. Plus arctic hare and polar bear, there's a theme

[tokyo-daaaamn-ji-gang]

Hello! If it's not bothersome, there is something I wanna ask, and sorry if somebody has ever asked this before. I've seen fanarts of Kazutora's design in original timeline (where Mikey is in coma if I'm not mistaken) - he has short black hair and wears buttoned-up gakuran like typical japanese male student. But I don't remember Kazutora ever appeared in original timeline, I only remember Baji and Haruchiyo's appearances there. So I'm wondering where that comes from. Is it from the anime? Is it from other sources of official arts? I only read the manga (the main one, not side stories) and not active in the fandom so my knowledge is limited. Thank you in advance 🫶🏻

That's right, Kazutora never appeared in the original timeline! We actually haven't gotten up to that point in the anime yet and there's been no official art released of Kazutora in that timeline either. I haven't seen the fan art myself so it's a little hard to say but it sounds like it's just a popular design, possibly based on Kazutora not meeting Baji since that's a popular theory some people have for that timeline. I'm guessing the design is somewhere between these two.

[lackablazeical]

If everyone (hamatos and miyamotos) was a what type of insect, which one would they all be? also I love your au it's so well thought out

I love bugs let me tell you

Raph - Black ox beetle/rhinoceros beetle

Leo - really any type of wasp, I lean towards paper wasp tho

Donnie - any centipede (Donnie would insist he's the Amazonian giant centipede lol)

Mikey - scorpion fly or termite

April - locust

Chizu - ladybug <3

Ishida - beetle, Japanese beetle probs

Usagi - dragonfly or damselfly

Kenichi - spongey moth 100%

[literallygeeway]

intro post!!

name: just call me elliott

age: dont wanna disclose but i am a minor so please dont be weird!!

pronouns: he/they

gender: kind of unlabeled, kind of transmasc, kind of genderfluid

sexuality: also unlabeled. i kind of just like anyone in any way it doesnt really matter idk

favourite artist: my chemical romance!!!

other favourite artists: bikini kill, mommy long legs, mitski, bratmobile, hell baby, dazey and the scouts, wet leg, the muslims, voodoo church, crass, chumbawamba, panic! at the disco (specifically afycso), picture me broken, pierce the veil, fall out boy (from under the cork tree)

other artists i just generally like (yes i love music): le tigre, the julie ruin, x-ray spex, pleasure venom, olivia jean, necromancy, catholic spit, a little bit of ado, cat valley, some vocaloid

hobbies: music (i can play bass, guitar, drums and piano), writing, photography, filmmaking, cinematography, drawing, making bracelets

some other stuff i like also includes: heathers the musical (off broadway) (its the only musical i really like), studio ghibli, the sims 4, omori, undertale, deltarune, stardew valley (I LOVE SEBASTIAN), ddlc, mouthwashing, sally face, DEATH NOTE!! (im obsessed w L), doctor who, the umbrella academy, arcane, the owl house, bojack horseman, adventure time, good omens, scott pilgrim (the tv show, movie, game and graphic novel :3), hatsune miku and KAGAMINE LEN!! (him, miku and vflower r my fav vocaloids :3)

more stuff under the cut - dni, fun facts and some more stuff :3

fun facts!!!

my favourite colour is dark red

my favourite food is sushi/poke bowl

im learning japanese and french

my favourite movies are parasite, everything everywhere all at once and isle of dogs!! my favourite tv shows are i am not okay with this and the end of the f***ing world

i love wes anderson movies!!

i had two fish called flamey and sir bubbles the fishington when i was younger but they both died so i flushed them down the toilet

i collect bottles and cans, funko pops (i have two gerard way funko pops - the black parade with the facepaint and revenge red tie), figures (i only have L and blind box stuff b still...) and vinyls!!

dni!!!

basic dni like homophobic, transphobic, ableist, racist, pro-isreal, islamophobic, etc

mcr haters!! /hj

shipping irl people unless its a joke

transmeds and terfs

people who think trans men cant present femininely and trans women cant present masculinely (im a trans-ish guy who wears skirts sometimes so suck my toe)

people who unironically think gerard way is a trans woman... guys he's said they use he/they pronouns and if he was a trans woman he would probably say something!!

please interact!!

mcr fans

riot grrrl fans (not problematic)

alternative people!!! (emo, punk, goth, scene, decora, etc)

just cool people in general :3

other stuff:

no need to use tonetags with me, dont worry about it

i use !!! and :3 and stuff like that a lot, and i also swear more than the average human should

im alternative but dont have a specific label as i dress in a mix of ways and listen to many different genres of music :3

on here i'm mainly gonna post about mcr, so if you dont like them you probably wont like most of the stuff i post :<

i will probably edit this as i think of more stuff to add and as my interests change but yeah <3

pinterest: literallygeeway

instagram: killj0ysneverd1e (i only use it to look at mikey way and frank iero's stories)

spacehey: killj0ysneverd1e

fav user: @patronsaintofbrokenstrings (go follow her rn she is awesome!!)

I DID NOT MAKE THE PNG THAT APPEARED EARLIER!!

current song obsessions:

okay thats all, have a great day, bye bye :3!!!!

[ichigopanhpff]

Translation: Toman Tengoku Showdown from the “Tokyo Revengers Exhibition The Final World Line SILVER” Book

In Roppongi’s TR exhibition, they had a section where they had an installation of the final timeline story drawn by Wakui-sensei. This installation had a mix of the printed manga panels and voiceover drama to cover more backstory and content because the man can only draw and cover so much.

Luckily, they included the transcript to the voice overs and are divided up into chapters with titles, which I'll mark with --.

I was lucky enough to my my hands on the book directly from their limited time merch site (https://mikey-mart.online/); unfortunately, they ended all online orders by 2/4.

Out of respect for the exhibition and the hard work put into this entire thing by Wakui-sensei and the staff, I will not be posting any images of the panels from the booklet and will post whatever the official exhibition's Twitter account have posted. I’ll do my best to put scene descriptions where I see fit. I have seen there are some JP vloggers who've done content on the exhibition itself, but don't know how much they were able to film.

They also have an interview with the artist who made the statue installation of the Tenjiku arc scene where Takemichi raised his fist up when Mikey appeared, an interview with the Japanese VAs and Wakui-sensei himself. If there’s enough interest in any of those sections, I’ll do my best to translate them.

Note: Translation isn’t 100% and I may take some liberties in translating certain things for a more colloquial approach. Anything in brackets are my personal notes.

Intro: This is the story about our final time leap and battle.

Kisaki: The Toman Tengoku Battle will take place one week from today. It will take place at the Roppongi 3rd multi-story Parking Lot.

Panel Card: Tokyo Roppongi Manji Tengoku Summit Meeting

[This is the panel they teased in the YT video where Toman, Tenjiku and Black Dragons were sitting in a private room in a Chinese restaurant].

Kisaki: There are three rules: No weapons! No retaliations! The gang that wins will absorb the other gangs! No objections?

Takemichi: None.

Taiju: There’s nothing left to say at this point!

Izana: This’ll be a festival to decide whose fist will rule over the biggest gang in all of Japan; a huge feud between the three of us.

Kisaki: This concludes the meeting!!

(Each respective gang make their exits)

Takemichi: The next time we’ll see each other will be at the battlefield.

Mikey: Get ready to be beaten to a pulp.

Taiju: Ha! Back at you!

Izana: Hmph.

Kakucho: Are you okay with this, Izana?

Izana: With what?

Kakucho: Isn’t Mikey Shinichiro-san’s younger brother? Are you gonna go all out?

Izana: … Haha. Idiot Kakucho. This will be the second time Mikey and I go at it.

Flashback quote: “Even if we’re not related by blood, Shin-nii is my brother!!!”

--Get blood out of a stone--

Young Hanagaki Takemichi CV: Watanabe Akeno Young Sano Manjiro CV: Fairouzi Ai Young Kurokawa Izana CV: Tanezaki Atsumi

Takemichi: This is your hardest mission, Mikey-kun.

Mikey: Got it.

(Takemichi and Mikey are standing in front of the orphanage talking to each other secretly)

Takemichi: I don’t know what kind of scary thing will happen if we tell Izana-kun suddenly. That’s why I thought of this strategy.

(Takemichi starts shaking as he opens his hand with a piece of chocolate)

Mikey: Chocolate?

Takemichi: Yes, chocolate. [Oh you sweet summer child…]

(He begins to explain his strategy with confidence.)

Takemichi: This is how you’ll lure Izana-kun in and with time, you two will slowly start getting along and gradually tell him the truth.

(Takemichi clenches his fist, immersed in a monologue)

Takemichi: This is a perfect plan, if I do say so myself… With this, Izana-kun will also…

Mikey: Yeah.

(Mikey runs in before Takemichi realized)

Takemichi: Mikey-kun…?

(Mikey punches Izana and sends him flying, landing firmly on the ground.) [Good job following the plan.]

Mikey: You’re Kurokawa Izana!

(Takemichi is so surprised, he’s rendered speechless)

Takemichi: Mikey-kun?!

(Izana stands up)

Izana: What the hell’s up with you?!

Mikey: I’m Sano Manjiro!

(Takemichi noticed Izana is surprised by Mikey’s words)

Izana: You said you’re Shin-nii’s… younger brother?

Takemichi: Mikey-kun…

(Mikey throws another punch)

Mikey: You and Shinichiro aren’t connected by blood!

Takemichi: Mikey-kun!

(Izana returns the punch)

Izana: What the hell are you goin’ on ‘bout, y’bastard?!

(The fist fight between the two turn into an argument)

Mikey: There’s no way you two are siblings! Why would you trust my idiot older brother like that!

Izana: What?! The hell’s wrong with you? Are you an idiot for comin’ here?!

Mikey: You accepted Shinichiro’s words without even questioning it ‘cus you’re lonely, right?! That guy did some digging, but now he can’t take back what he’s said and didn’t even mention he had a younger brother!

(The two face each other)

Mikey: I bet you must’ve noticed it too.

Izana: … Shut uuuppppp! What do you know?! My parents threw me away… I’m here while you have a warm family to raise you. You understand nothing! What if we are blood related?!

Mikey: Is it really that important to you?!

(The two start their fist fight again and eventually lay on their backs on the ground)

Mikey and Izana: Haa haa…

Izana: … Shin-nii is my brother! Even if we’re not blood related, he’s still my brother!

Mikey: … Shinichiro said the same thing.

--End--

Taiju: Mitsuya. Is Hakkai gonna go at us seriously?

Mitsuya: … Stop calling on the enemy to check up on your baby brother. You and Yuzuha are a pair of spoiled siblings. Hakkai’ll end up that way too.

Flashback quote: “No matter how violent you get on us, mom will never come back!!”

Taiju: Hmph.

--Let’s drop it--

Young Shiba Taiju CV: Tomozaku Sugita Young Shiba Yuzuha CV: Komatsu Mikako Young Shiba Hakkai CV: Hatanaka Yu Young Sano Manjiro: Fairouzi Ai

(A door forcefully bursts open into a room, where an angry Taiju enters in)

Taiju: Who forgot to turn off the bathroom light?

(Yuzuha and Taiju become frightened)

Hakkai: A… A--

Yuzuha: It’s me!

(Yuzuha protects Hakkai)

Taiju: … Why are you lying?

Yuzuha: Eh?! I’m not lying! It was me!

Taiju: The toilet seat was up. Only men do that.

(Hakkai’s hand clenches tightly at Taiju)

Taiju: Hakkai! Come here!

(Yuzuha interferes to stop Taiju)

Yuzuha: Wait! Don’t beat Hakkai anymore! Let me take his punishments instead! Please!

Hakkai: Sis…

(Hakkai hangs his head down, unable to say anything)

Taiju: You said it. From now on, you’ll take the beating for two people. Is that fine with you, Yuzuha?!

Hakkai: …

(A mysterious voice flashes in Hakkai’s memory!)

Mysterious voice (Mikey): Hakkai!

Hakkai: …!

(Hakkai stands up and faces Taiju)

Hakkai: Stop this already, Taiju!

Yuzuha: Eh…

Taiju: !

(Taiju gets violent with Hakkai)

Taiju: What’re you tryin’ to do here, Hakkai.

Hakkai: Don’t beat up sis anymore! This is ridiculous at how crazy you keep going at us.

Taiju: As I thought, you’re the one who forgot to turn the lights off. How many times have I told you to fix that?

(Hakkai gets hit and falls down. Yuzuha stands and goes beside him)

Hakkai: … I’m sorry for everything up to now, sis.

(Yuzuha is surprised)

Yuzuha: Hakkai.

Hakkai: … My friend told me.

(He recalls Mikey’s voice)

Mikey: It’s okay if you lose. Fight him.

(Taiju turns toward Hakkai)

Hakkai: Cut it out already, Taiju! No matter how violent you get with us, mom’ll never come back to us!

(Taiju is surprised)

Taiju: !… Hakkai.

(Hakkai starts crying)

Hakkai: ‘Cus I’m… I’m lonely…!

Taiju: You…

--End--

Kokonoi: Inupi. How’s Akane-san doing?

Inupi: Yeah. I’m gonna go for it.

Kokonoi: … I see.

Flashback quote: “Leave Inupi-kun to me! Hurry up and go back to save Akane-san!”

Inupi: Well, didn’t you say first loves usually don’t go as planned?

Kokonoi: Shut up.

--Every cloud has a silver lining--

Young Inui Seishu: Koichi Makoto Young Kokonoi Hajime: Igarashi Hiromi Young Inui Akane: Ueda Rena Young Hanagaki Takemichi CV: Watanabe Akeno

(The house is burning with a roaring sound as Kokonoi runs toward it)

Kokonoi: Haa haa… Akane-san!

(Kokonoi desperately addresses someone)

Kokonoi: Fire trucks… Have you seen anyone leave the house?!

Old Lady: I… I’m not sure. I haven’t been able to see anything. I’ll call for the ambulance and fire truck right now!

(Kokonoi turns and suddenly decides to run into the house)

Kokonoi: Akane-san! Akane-san! Haa haa… Akane-san! Akane-san!!

(A mysterious boy suddenly shows up inside the house)

Mysterious boy (Takemichi): Leave Inupi-kun to me! Koko-kun should hurry up and find Akane-san!

Kokonoi: O… Okay.

(Kokonoi continues his search)

Kokonoi: Akane-san! Where are you?! Akane-san! … Akane-san!

(He finally sees her and rushes over. Akane looks like she’s about to pass out)

Akane: … Hajime… kun…?

Kokonoi: I told you I’d protect you, right?

Akane: … Thank you…

(He carries Akane on his back and staggers out)

Old man: Hey! There’s another person who came out!

Old lady: Two people were able to be rescued out of that house. Thank goodness!

Kokonoi: Haa haa…

Seishu: Koko! You were able to save Akane?

Kokonoi: Yeah… But someone else saved you, Inupi.

Seishu: Huh… I was sure it was Koko who saved me. Then… Where are they…?

Kokonoi: … ?

--End--

(Scene is the night of the fight and Toman members are gathering.)

Chifuyu: Baji-san!

Baji: Yo, Chifuyu. It’s finally time, huh.

Chifuyu: Our third big battle! I got Baji-san’s back so you can go all out!

Baji: Oh! I’ll leave it up to you.

Chifuyu: Please leave it up to me.

Kazutora [He a jealous boi]: … Hey, anythin’ goes with you huh? Eh? Eh? When did you join Toman?

Chifuyu: Um… 2004.

Kazutora: Is that right now. And when did I join?

Chifuyu: Um… you’re a founding member, right?

Kazutora: Exactly! This is a photo that only a founding member has!

Chifuyu: Whoa, awesome!

Kazutora: You don’t have this right? Which means I’ve been with Baji much longer, right?

Chifuyu [Poor thing is confused at Tora’s ire]: Ye...ah…?

Kazutora: Baji definitely likes me more, right? You get what I’m gettin’ at, right?

Chifuyu: Yeah.

Takemichi: They’re trying to justify something dumb again.

Kisaki: What are they, kids? I’m surrounded by idiots in Toman.

Takemichi: Idiot. It’s fine as long as you’re the one who’s got it together.

(Takemichi puts his arm around Kisaki’s shoulder and pulls him close)

Kisaki: Stop that. You’re suffocating me.

Takemichi: Rely on me a bit more, partner!

Flashback quote: Do you like Hina? I like her too.

--It takes two to tango--

Young Kisaki Tetta CV: Ozora Naomi Young Tachibana Hinata CV: Waki Azumi Young Hanagaki Takemichi CV: Watanabe Akeno

(Some middle school kids are bullying a cat)

Cat: Nya-!

Hina: Hey, Kisaki-kun. That group is bullying the cat! Hina’s gonna complain about this!

(Hina steadily walks toward them)

Kisaki: Ta-Tachibana?!

(Hina faces the middle school boys [MSB])

Hina: Stop that! What’s so fun about doing something like that?!

MSB A: Huh?

MSB B: I hate kids with a strong sense of justice.

MSB A: Hey! The cat ran away.

MSB B: Then you take the place of the cat.

(Hina resists crying)

MSB: Aww, you’re gonna start cryin’? Did you think we’ll let you go if you started cryin’ like this?

(Kisaki watches from afar)

Kisaki: This is why I said stopping them’s useless.

(Takemichi suddenly appears and takes Kisaki’s arm)

Kisaki: Eh?!

(Takemichi brings Kisaki in front of the middle school kids, stepping onto the gravel)

Takemichi: Stop that!

(Kisaki panics)

Kisaki: Wh-what?

Takemichi: We’re the super hero partners! How dare you middle school kids pick on a young girl. That’s unforgivable!

MSB: Huh? What’s up with you guys?

(Kisaki continues to panic as Takemichi neither cries nor trembles)

Kisaki: W-Why are you including me?!

Takemichi: Shaddap! Let’s go Kisaki! You’re a man too, right?!

Kisaki: Wh-What…

(Takemichi dashes)

Takemichi: Ooooohhhh!

(Hina cries)

Takemichi: I didn’t think too much on my actions before and after.

Hina: (crying noises) Hic… I’m sorry…

(Takemichi’s wounds throb from pain)

Takemichi: Ow ow ow…

Hina: Ah, Hina will go buy some bandages!

(Hina’s running footsteps fade out, leaving Takemichi and Kisaki alone together)

Takemichi: … Do you like Hina?

Kisaki: Eh-Um, uh, I--

Takemichi: (smiling wide) I like her too.

--End--

The night before the Toman Tengoku Showdown at Musashi Shrine…

Toman’s finally gathered, with Mikey facing everyone

Mikey: Tomorrow will finally decide who will be Japan’s top gang! Everyone, are you ready?!

Toman: Yeah!!!

Mikey: Is there anyone scared of tomorrow’s battle?! No one right?! Let’s take the top spot!

(Toman chants)

With the call of Mikey’s voice, Toman’s morale is at its peak. The climax of an alternative future where they continued their revenge.

Mikey: This’ll finally put an end to our revenge.

Takemichi: The final battle.

It’s time to head to the battlefield. Roppongi 3rd multi-story parking lot!

Mikey: Let’s go!

Takemichi: Okay!

Tensions rising! Tokyo Manji Gang, Tenjiku and Black Dragons Gather!!

Tokyo Manji Gang, Tenjiku, Black Dragons A Fight that Lasted One Night to Decide Japan’s Strongest Gang

[cursedcatchild]

Speaking of abilities aside of creating pearls, this is mostly ‘H2O just add Water’ knowledge I have on mermaids, but does he have powers involving water (freeze, boil, simple control waterbending)?

Does he get influenced by full moon? Does he have siren voice (I know sirens and mermaids are not same species, but they do share same abilities and I don’t know how to describe it better)?

Can he not turn back to normal by drying himself (or just wearing a cloaking brooch or that won’t work)?

Can he talk to underwater creatures? Maybe even water itself?(What? It can be possible since we saw water like ocean acting like a living being (*cough*Moana*cough*), it’s not that farfetched)

@cartoonfriend

Although mermaids can control the water like in H2O they use super secret mermaid spells to do so and they definitely do not share them with Leo.

A very neat power of mermaids is the ability to speak underwater. LOL

 Yes he is heavily influenced by the moon. In fact the full moon turns Mermaids into Sirens. What I mean here is that during the full moon mermaids will get this maddening hunger ( like literally painful hunger) for fresh meat, they are also more prone to be in a mentally bad place during it and they are just generally miserable and need their tribe’s love and support more than ever. To satiate the hunger they will use their Siren voice ( which they already possess) to drown their “food”. At his point everything that can be drowned is food, even loved ones ( I am looking at you Leo). Also the Siren voice does not necessarily need love or sexual attraction to enchant someone. Any strong emotion will bewitch the target. It can be anger ( certain mermaids will piss up sailors so they jump in to kick the mermaid’s ass only to end up as their food) or pretend to be hurt and use pity as the emotion for their hunt. But familiar love will do the trick too. So during the full moon a hunger crazed Leo will try to say things like “I’m so lonely here.” “ Come play with me in the water!” And there you go ready to drown his bros. Except Donnie’s headphones are good at filtering the magic out so he’s just like “WTF?”  They figure it out though. Like as long as Leo has access to raw meat ( usually it’s sashimi and sushi because the whole family can enjoy it and since they are Japanese it’s ot even weird or gross for them.) he’s manageable. Nothing more than a miserable ball of merturtle curled up in someone’s lap waiting for the night to pass.

I actually got some doodles about this:

Mikey getting lured:

And Donnie cuddling poor poor Leo during a full moon ( Of course only with the protection of headphones and when Leo is full with meat):

Drying is a big no no! Mermaids can only breathe out of water if the air is very moist. In case if they are not near any water source the water on their skin/scales will evaporate and provide them with moisture for a while, but as soon as it runs out they will choke on air.  But they actually can turn into a “normal” form with their pearls. So yea, that’s why they are so concerned with their pearls.( it still grows back in 3 weeks tho) It works like a naturally grown cloaking brooch. If used they also avoid the whole need of moisture to breath problems.

Mermaids can’t talk to sea creatures, but they can talk to water sorta. If they touch SALT water which is connected to  the sea or ocean they can ask about it. Like location of a certain object that been sunk, or the whereabouts another sea creature/mermaid, they can also track ships and find underwater structures like hidden caves ooor they know the exact dept of any part of the ocean. They can also communicate from a distance with the help of it. It’s the mermaid version of google. But it must be connected. If they take out a bucket of water or they're trying to get information from seas that don’t touch like how the Black sea and the Sea of japan are not connected at all they can't get information. It’s like when there is no wi-fi signal.

[glubby-guppiez]

*Random TMNT 2012 (mainly side characters) hc's bcuz hyperfixation

*(this is the best divider to ever exist btw)

*Warnings: Spoilers for TMNT 2012 ofc, mentions of gender dysphoria and trans related insecurity, transphobia, accidental arson, bullying, manipulation, ptsd, also the tone of the headcanons shift randomly also also typing quirk

*Chris Bradford is trans. )(e did a full transition, he did hormones, voice training, top and bottom surgery, a few different surgeries to make him look/feel more masculine, all the bells and whistles, even went the extra mile to do procedures to hide his surgery scars. )(e's closeted and does about everything in his power to make sure no one even question that he was assigned female at birth because he's scared of his social image of being the great macho man, Chris Bradford, crumbling.

*Leo mainly or solely uses fandom and fanfic socials like Wattpad, AO3, Amino, Tumblr, and maybe Twitter. She mainly interacts with Space )(eroes and Crognard The Barbarian fan posts and shows a special interest in gender swap aus.

*Later on, post show with Muckman's help the mutants are actually able to freely walk around humans without them completely flipping out and starting a mob to witch hunt after them.

*Speaking of walking around humans, Napoleon and the frogs down in Louisiana are considered local urban legend and humans get really excited when they spot the frogs in the woods.

*Dr. Rockwell is a very big coffee enjoyer and used to secretly steal coffee from the nearby shops around the mighty mutanimals hideout and on the rare occasion when someone caught him and called him out he would always use the excuse of the shops being owned by big corporations.

*Don Visioso is a deadbeat father of 5. )(e also has had multiple wives and many divorces.

*Mondo Gecko will call people posers if he's jealous enough of them.

*Ivan Steranko is also trans but has only had hrt and face masculinizing surgery and refuses to get top and bottom surgery.

*Anton Zeck is incredibly smart and performed extremely well in high school and even got free scholarships for how well he did.

*Shinigami is a big video game nerd and will geek out if anyone mentions one of the games she plays.

*The reason Anton hated the mutant name Mikey gave him at first is because it either sounds a lot like or straight up is a nickname old bullies of him gave in order to make fun of him.

*Premutation, Chris acts transphobic towards Xever (despite Xever being cis) out of jealousy and insecurity.

*Baxter Stockman is either a gay aroace trans mspec nonbinary man or a cishet ally. No in-between.

*Mini April cluster!!!:

*April has a deep love for literature and writes poetry in her spare time.

*She almost burned down the culinary class in her school once.

*She's questioning aroace.

*She felt extra empathy for Muckman because he reminded her of Kirby a little bit.

*She likes to hide stickers around the lair whenever has them on her person.

*She thoroughly enjoys having long conversations with each of the individual turtles. (It's her favorite way to spend time with anyone tbh)

*April does eventually take some time to properly learn Japanese and becomes pretty decent at speaking and reading it.

*)(er and Donnie often like to geek out together whenever they find anything new about aliens (both species they haven't seen yet and ones they know well like the kraang).

*End of the mini April cluster!!!

*Kirby O'Neil is a pretty decent cook. That man can make a mean chicken stew.

*Shinigami actually owns multiple cats. 2 ragdoll, 1 sphinx, 1 Persian, and 3 British shorthairs (I could name them all, but I don't wanna). Also, the majority of them are black cats. She feeds strays, too.

*The last headcanon is much to Karai's dismay because she is somewhat allergic. She gets headaches, her skin gets slightly irritated and she gets the sniffles if she's around cats for too long.

*Casey's younger sister wants to be a hair stylist when she grows up, so Jones let's her do his hair every once in a while and he flexes it to every one at the lair like: "Oh? My hair? Yeah, my sister did it for me. Pretty metal, what she did with it, right?"

*Tigerclaw is the only Foot Clan member to not bully Baxter Stockman.

*Someone manipulated and lied to Alopex in order to make her hate and hunt down her brother.

*After season 4, Baxter Stockman leaves New York and takes over Stockman Industries. (If you're unaware of what that is, it's on billboards that the turtles pass throughout the show the most notable appearance being in the ending scene of the final season 4 episode, 'Owari'.)

*Slash deep down still misses The Newtralizer.

*Leatherhead kind of freaks out (apologies for the bad wording) when someone fully wraps their arms around his neck when hugging him because it reminds him of the restraints the Kraang put him in.

*Pigeon Pete learns how to bake so he can make his own bread.

*The turtles get a Wii (or whatever the universes equivalent is).

*Mondo Gecko gets an old Xbox and plays Tony )(awk games, Bully, and Twisted Metal on it.

*Ivan and Anton actually move out to New Jersey post show.

*Alr, that's all for now, toodles!!!

[layer-10-love]

Lady Moon.

2012 leo x reader-

As the leader or the team, Leo tended to be more focused in leading and less interested in other ‘lesser’ hobbies. So it’s a bit of a surprise when you find a romance novel underneath his pillow.

aka, boy fail cringe leo (affectionate) also i wrote this like in 40 minutes so apologies for bad writing

As the appointed leader, Leo tried to be serious and mature about his role;with no help from his brothers. Strong, calm, confident, stoic and mature was what he was supposedly was. Unfortunately, anyone that knew him for more than a few minutes would know that he is none of these things. At least to a certain extent.

Truth is, Leo…was a big fat nerd. No surprise there. He liked watching space heroes and often gushed about it to the nearest living creature, giving them new meaningless memories and a massive headache. He liked making stupid jokes and god awful puns. It was honestly sorta cute to you.

What was a surprise was the book that was underneath his pillow. You technically weren’t supposed to be going through his things, but he technically should’ve given back that black cat plushie you let him borrow for Halloween. Picking up the book, you glance over the title.

‘The Man and the Moon.’

From the looks of it, it was a romance novel.

…Leo? Leon? Leonardo? Fearless?

You never pegged him for the type to read romance books, hell, you never pegged him for the type to read things other than Japanese literature or comic books.

‘A classic romance novel tells the story of two star-crossed lovers, Max and Luna - both literally and figuratively. Max is a successful businessman who has dedicated his entire life to making his dreams come true, and Luna is a quiet and mysterious woman who seems to have a special connection with the moon. Despite coming from different backgrounds, Max and Luna quickly find themselves drawn to each other, and they must navigate the rocky terrain of love and discover the true meaning of happiness.’

You read as you skimmed over the summarization of the novel. It seemed like a good read! But, if you talked to Leo about your little discovery, you’d probably be in for another classic Leo Lecture about not snooping. Again, it was fair in your humble opinion.

And if you shared this information with his brothers, he would be ridiculed and mocked by his brothers, despite them having weirder hobbies. Aka, Mikey and his weird obsession with boiling pizza. Ah, brotherly love.

You made a mental note on the book and carefully stored it away underneath Leo’s soft pillow.

He doesn’t need to know.

——-

Leo seemed to be busy more often than usual, with the lame excuse of being occupied with meditation and training in his room.

Which was a bummer since tonight was a movie night with everyone. Raph, Mikey, Donnie, April and even Casey were here!

You huffed and sat on the floor in front of Mikey who was sitting on the couch.

“So, what shitty slasher flick are we watching tonight?”

Raph grinned menacingly while holding a dvd and standing in front of the television.

“It’s not a slasher film, god knows Mikey would have nightmares again. Not that I’m against the idea of Mikey suffering, but I don’t want to have to let him sleep in my bed again.”

Mikey cheered from the back,

“I knew you cared about me! See, Casey? Raph likes me more than you.”

Casey frowned and groaned.

“C'mon! Do we really have to watch a baby version of scary movies?! What happened to entertainment and morality?”

“I’m surprised you know the word, ‘morality’”, teased April.

“Nah, I think he’s just throwing out random words and hoping that one of them will make sense. Remember when he said that we should ‘photosynthesis’ and ‘equilibrium’ with the enemy?”, you add mockingly, “You almost made Donnie pop a blood vessel.”

Speaking of Donnie, he rushed right through his lab door carrying multiple blueprints and plans for whatever new project he was working on.

“Hey four eyes! Gonna join us for crappy baby's first horror flick?”

“Why do you call me four eyes, Casey? I’ve never even worn glasses before, so why would you nickname me something that doesn't make any sense?”

“Easy.”, started Casey, “Glasses make you a nerd. YOU are a nerd without glasses, therefore you need glasses since you’re a nerd.”

“Casey connecting the dots? Hell must’ve flown over and pigs must’ve learnt to fly.”, you snickered.

After a whole debate between Donnie and Casey, the pizza was brought by Mikey and the rest of the snacks were laid on the floor by April and Raph. Monthly movie nights were truly a miracle.

But, there’s something missing.

“Where’s Leo?”, Mikey questioned while taking a disgustingly large bite of his pizza.

“Fearless? Eh, he’s probably in the dojo training like always.”

“Probably, but usually everyone joins for these types of things! Do you think he’s training or doing something else?”

“If you care so much why don’t you ask him for yourself, [Name]?”, Raph says, really not caring about anything else other than the movie that he picked.

You grumble and reluctantly head over to Leo’s room, hoping that he wasn’t doing teenage boy activities. Ugh.

You considered knocking on his door, but then you remembered the plushie he never returned and slammed the door open.

Leo scrambled off the bed and onto the ground, holding a familiar book before throwing it off into the distance, praying you didn’t see. He chuckled nervously while leaning suspiciously on his bed.

“Oh! Hey, [Name]…! Uh…do you need something?”

He seemed so anxious and nervous…it was actually kinda cute! It’s like you have two little creatures on your shoulder, each one trying to give you a way to navigate this whole situation.

‘Leave him alone and give him space! That’s the nice thing to do.’, says the one on your right shoulder.

‘Get the book and make fun of him!!!’, giggles the one on your left shoulder.

…it’s obvious who won.

“What were you reading, Leo?” You ask with a teasing grin, watching him squirm under your gaze.

“Oh…uh me? Uhm…comic books! Yeah comic books! I was reading a really weird part so that’s why I was surprised when you came in and…”

Whatever other words that were being soren from him was ignored, you only think about how oddly adorable it was.

You glance at where the book was hastily hidden and chuckled.

“What comic was it?”

Before Leo could make another desperate and obvious lie, you quickly snatched up the book from where he tossed it and read the title. It was the same one as before.

“The Man and the Moon?”, you teased.

“That isn’t mine! April just asked me to hold on to it for her!”, he blushed as he tried to regain his confidence and composure.

“Cmon, Leo, we both know you can’t lie to save your shell.”

He paused and looked away, blushing furiously and fidgeting with his fingers. You sighed and took his hand.

“Hey.”, you look into his eyes. “I pinky swear that I won’t tell your brothers. You know how they are.”, you think back to the time Raph was found playing a dating simulator, and how the bickering lasted for weeks.

“Plus,”, you continued, “it’s not the worst thing you've ever done.”

“…You don’t think it’s weird?”, he asked cautiously.

“Why would it be weird? Like, people read romance all the time.”

“But, y’know…I’m a guy…and a mutant turtle…and well…”

You shrugged and climbed onto his bed, leaning against his plastron once you had sat down next to him.

“Romance is nice, I guess. It’s just another genre in a variety of genres.”, you felt and heard his heart thump faster as he gulped nervously.

“So…”, You started, “Are you gonna go to movie night or what?”

Leo’s eyes widened as he seemed to have a revelation.

“The movie! Crap, I forgot about that!”

[arctic-space-penguin]

Tenth BTHB fic - Thrown Down The Stairs [Kaidan Kara Nage Otosa Reta] - 9981 words

Neko means cat and Raion means lion in Japanese

Hope Sterling Thorne - Leo Ace Yarrow - Donnie Neli (eagle mutant) - Mikey Olive Asato (Hope and Dove's cousin) - Raph [Dove Sterling Thorne - Hope's sister]

also as for ages: Hope, Leo, Donnie, and Olive are 29; Raph and Ace are 30; Mikey and Neli are 28; Casey is 33; April and Cass are 31; Dove is 37

Tw: IMPLIED/REFERENCED sexual assault (which means it's NOT shown explicitly!), non-con, rape recovery, drinking, self-harm

(makes a rating system and doesn't use it, couldn't be me)

Me: *mentions someone getting thrown down the stairs once and never again* this is fine :)

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Hope woke up with a groan.

"Finally awake, hm?" an unfamiliar deep voice asked.

She tried to get her arms under herself, but they gave out before she could get into a less vulnerable sitting position. The man chuckled, bent over, and lifted her up by her arms onto the bed nearby.

"Where am I?" she demanded weakly.

Her question went unanswered. The man, revealed to be a lion, was glancing her up and down as if in a trance.

"What are you doing?"

"Admiring your form," he replied. "You are surprisingly lithe for a cat mutant. Normally only yokai are like that."

She narrowed her eyes. "One, I have a husband creep. Two, I do something called exercise everyday."

He got closer to her. Close enough that she had to lean back to not be so close.

"You don't have anyone but me anymore, Neko."

She snarled, lifting her arms up to shove him away. He simply grabbed her wrists and held them above her head. She eyed her legs, but he had thought ahead, having them pinned down by his already.

"You do anything to me and you will regret it later," she warned.

He chuckled. "I'm sure I will. Wait here, I have something for you."

She launched herself to her feet as soon as his weight vanished from on top of her. She silently assessed her situation, tail flicking back and forth in agitation.

She was taking a walk with Leo in the Hidden City market when something in an alley had caught her eye. She had told Leo to wait while she checked it out, but she never did come back out did she?. That stupid lion's chloroform worked too fast.

He had this planned.

That was her last thought before the door to whatever room she was in opened again. But it wasn't the male lion that opened it, it was a younger female one. Before Hope could say something, she closed the door and left. A few seconds later, the male lion came back in.

"Here." he held out a black collar studded with small agate and amethyst stones. "It matches how pretty you are."

She resisted the urge to gag or flinch at that comment. He came closer and clipped it closed around her neck.

"Perfect. Now. There is an outfit ready for you in the closet by the door."

Hope kept her eyes on him as she made her way over to the closet (a walk-in one, cool). Hanging from the ceiling was a kimono. Not too short and not too long either; white decorated with a cherry blossom flower design.

"What's the occasion?" she asked hesitantly.

"I am having people over and you're going to be present wearing that. But..." he explained.

She rolled her eyes and approached the kimono. He came up behind her to rest his hands on her shoulders.

"You cannot say a single word even when addressed. You cannot lay a hand on any of the guests. You must obey when asked to do something. And if you don't..." he trailed off to slowly circle her mouth with a finger. "You'll get something less than pretty on your face."

"You'd muzzle me?" she took the sleeve of the kimono in her hand.

He leaned down to get close to her ear. "Or some other punishment worthy of your body," his hands previously on her shoulders trailed down to her legs as he spoke.

She swallowed down fear a snarky comment and finally removed the dress from the hook it was on. He smiled, walked to the door, and turned back around to say something else.

"One hour until they arrive. There's a bathroom across the hall with makeup you can use."

With that, he was gone. Hope took a deep breath and prepared herself mentally for the night. She slipped her arms into the sleeves and pulled the (admittedly beautiful, don't tell him she said that) kimono down to cover as much as it could. She took another deep breath before heading to the bathroom.

The young female lion from before was inside. Hope froze at the entrance, but was beckoned inside.

"Koko," the lioness handed Hope a mascara bottle.

"Arigatō," Hope took it gratefully.

The lioness finished the lipstick she had been doing and popped her lips. "You don't have to speak Japanese to me. And sorry for walking in on you earlier." she continued when Hope didn't speak. "They aren't here yet, you can talk. My names Fumiko."

"Hope," the cat said. "Not your fault I was naked."

Fumiko hummed. "Yeah, Dad's not the greatest. You're the fifth one he's brought in like this. Sometimes I can see why he brought in one, but most I can't. You are definitely one I can."

Hope put the bottle down and grabbed the lipstick. "That's reassuring."

Fumiko titled her head curiously. "I have a feeling you won't be as quick to break as they were. Yokai normally are quick to go, but mutants last longer if I've learned anything from the one other he brought in."

Hope sighed and tossed the lipstick down haphazardly. "Well, thank you Fumiko, but I should be going."

"Wait, you have thirty minutes," the lioness reminded her. "Let me do your hair?"

"Neko."

The lion's voice interrupted anything Hope would have said. Fumiko slammed the bathroom door closed before he could poke his head in.

"I'm going to do her hair, Dad! It'll only take a few more minutes!" She shouted.

"Fumiko, young lady, you are not doing this again!" he growled.

"I am and you can't stop me!" the lioness locked the door under her voice to disguise the click it made.

Hope had to admit she was kinda impressed at this girl's bravery against her father. Fumiko sat her down on the toilet after he had stomped off.

"I'm quite curious about your life before... this whole situation," Fumiko whispered, tone matching her words, pulling a brush from one of the sink drawers. "Tell me, how old are you?"

"Twenty-nine," Hope replied.

Fumiko ran the brush through her hair slowly. "Oldest so far. Most don't have family other then their parents. Do you have family like that?"

"...yes."

Don't reveal more than necessary, Thorne, don't reveal more than necessary.

The brushing continued and finished in silence.

"When my dad comes to get you, call him Raion. If he calls you Neko, it's only fair."

Hope nodded. "I'll... keep that in mind. Thank you."

Fumiko didn't acknowledge Hope when Raion got the door unlocked and open.

"Ah, Neko, good, you're done," he greeted enthusiastically. "Everyone should start arriving in about ten minutes and I want you with me."

Hope nodded again. "Hai."

He smiled, grabbed her wrist, and tugged her from the bathroom to the front door. Fumiko appeared on Raion's other side when she was ready, but he sent her to the kitchen to get the food ready instead.

Her legs were starting to get tired from standing from so long when it finally opened to reveal a bird yokai. Raion welcomed him in eagerly.

"Ay, Kenzo!" the bird playfully punched the lion's shoulder, sparing her a glance. "Got a fifth now, did you?"

"Sure did. Much stronger than the last four, I just know it," Raion nudged the bird back.

She flinched every time piercing eyes landed on her as the night went on. Raion had made her stay by him most of the time unless drinks or other were needed. But during the third trip to the drinks, a dog yokai resembling Ace approached her.

"Kenzo told me you couldn't speak tonight, pretty," he spoke lowly as if he didn't want anyone to hear. "Right?"

She grabbed a wine bottle but didn't say a word. The dog chuckled, catching Raion's eye for a split-second for permission. When he got it, she was whisked away into the room she had woken up in. He quickly locked the door and she suddenly feared for what would happen.

What she wasn't expecting was for him to turn to her with wide eyes. "What are you doing here?"

She raised an eyebrow in question, trying to keep to the silence rule. He started pacing.

"I won't tell Kenzo you talked. Please, what are you doing here?" he pleaded.

She straightened her back in surprise. "Why do you want to know?"

His gaze snapped to her. "Do you know who Ace is?"

"You are his father!" It was her turn to widen her eyes. "I could ask you what you're doing here too!"

"Shh! I know it looks bad, but I promise I'm only here because I was invited," he explained.

"Yeah," she hissed. "By the one that kidnapped me when I just wanted to spend time with my husband."

He muttered a few somethings to himself before a knock came from the door. He jumped away like he had been shocked.

"Why do I hear Neko talking in there?" Raion asked. "She knows what will happen if she talks."

Hope snapped her mouth shut, teeth clicking. The shepherd kept looking between her and the door nervously.

"She wasn't talking! We were just... playing a game to see if I could guess what her voice sounds like! ...I guess I got it right," he shouted back eventually.

She facepalmed. This was not the dad that Ace had told her so much about. This one was too nervous and fidgety, not confident at all. Raion audibly rolled his eyes on the other side of the door.

"If that's it, get her back out here for someone else. And we still need more drinks!" Raion added before he went back to his seat.

Ace's dad turned to her with a much more calm expression. "I will tell my son about this. You will--" He broke off and one of his ears lifted, voice dropping so low she could barely hear it. "We will get you out of here. I've seen what he does to people he kidnaps, but I need you to bear through it like the strong person Ace said you are. Please."

She nodded resolutely. She could handle herself for now. Raion crashed the door in right as the shepherd finished talking, stormed right up to Hope to grab her wrist, and dragged her out of the room.

"Get. The. Drinks," he snarled.

She got the wine bottle again and swiftly obeyed, praying he wasn't mad because she had talked. She had half a mind to let a thought of he shouldn't be telling me what to do float through her head. When she was able to return to Raion's side after putting the bottle down, the collar started to feel too tight on her throat, reminding her of its existence. All the feeling in her left side went to where his hand rested on her waist.

Any command thrown her way she followed, no matter how embarrassing it was. She just really didn't want to get punished more than she knew she would for talking. No words while doing them, just like Raion's rule she pretended to not have broken already. Eventually, everyone got tired and left, making Hope realize that she hadn't seen Ace's father exit the room.

Raion took her right back into that room when no one was left in the house except for them and his daughter. The lion jammed and locked the door before whirling on her.

"You talked," he pointed an accusatory finger at her. "I warned you what would happen," he shredded his shirt and pants, pieces falling to the floor. "Now let's see how long you can last, little kitty."

"Please please please, I'm sorry!" she cried, backing away quickly. "He said he wouldn't--"

Raion picked her up and threw her onto the bed. He was on top of her a second later, pining her arms above her head just like before. She whimpered, screamed, and cried desperate tears as he pounded into her in any way he could, but no one outside could do anything to help her.

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"Ace! Ace, hey!" Leo waved his hand to get the shepherd's attention.

Ace straightened at the sound of his voice and turned in his direction. "Leo?"

The slider leaned over once he reached Ace to catch his breath before standing back up and beginning to explain. "Hope said she saw something in some alley and went to check it out, but she never came back out, so I went in too to see why she wasn't coming, but all I saw was an abandoned cloth and--"

"Woah, woah, slow down," Ace put his hands on Leo's shoulders to ground him. "You're saying Hope's gone?"

Leo nodded shakily. Ace glanced behind him right as a customer left his restaurant and pushed Leo inside to the back, sitting him down in an empty seat.

"Look, um, maybe we could tell the police about this?" Ace suggested, earning a flat stare. "I know they might not be that reliable, but they're the only choice we have!"

"Even so, there is no way we're getting them involved in this. Are you able to close right now?" Leo asked.

"Uh..." Ace paused to think. "I suppose I could..."

Leo leapt up from his chair. "Great! I'll even help you!"

Ace scrambled after him out of the small office. They managed to get everyone in the place out (without yelling) in two minutes. Then they headed immediately for the lair to tell the rest of the family. And by the rest of the familly, they mean the rest of the family.

Raph, Mikey, Donnie, Olive, Neli, April, Draxum, Casey. Heck, even Cassandra and Dove came over as quick as they could.

"Where is she? What happened?" Cass demanded.

"She just vanished! I swear I don't know where she went!" Leo held his hands up in surrender.

Cass backed off after April calmed her down a little, but she was still suspicious because her best friend doesn't just vanish. Olive took the initiative to speak next.

"How are we going to find her if what you said was true?" she asked timidly.

"I don't know, but--"

"Wait, my dad!" Ace interrupted suddenly. "He's friends with a yokai that's works in close quarters with the Three Heads! He could try to convince him to help!"

"That's an... idea," Leo agreed.

"What's the friend's name?" Neli wondered.

Ace sighed and tried to remember. "Oh! It's Ke... Kenzo! That's right!"

That made Draxum narrow his eyes. "That lion is bad news. He was accused of kidnapping someone's daughter when I was still living down there."

Leo flicked his eyes to the goat. "Was there any evidence?"

Draxum shook his head.

The slider pinched the top of his beak. "If there wasn't, then he might not be guilty. We have to try."

"I'll ask my dad when I get home," Ace said.

"Home..." Leo held his breath. "I gotta get home! Inari, her kits! We'll talk more about this later!"

In a split second, he yanked a sword out, had a portal, and hurried through it. The five foxes greeted him with hungry and furious barks. He sheathed his sword back and headed for the cabinet that held their food.

"Sorry, Dad got distracted."

They made excited sounds when the food was dumped into their bowls. He settled on the couch anxiously and watched them eat without really registering anything. The only thoughts and images going through his head were ones of how to get Hope back. He didn't notice when Flicker had approached him until she was curled up comfortably in his lap.

Her soft fur calmed him down a little. He slowly ran his hand down her back. Falcon crept up and nosed open his pouch to pull out the cloth with his teeth and whine. He faced the orange fox and gently tried to take it back, but Falcon didn't let go.

"Mom's gone right now, bud," he whispered. "I need the cloth."

Falcon growled, tore it from his grip, and rushed to their bedroom. He sighed and got up to follow. The sight he walked in to made him decide to not take the cloth back. Falcon had gotten it on his head and put his paws over it. Finch trotted in behind him and found a position next to her brother. Leo stared for a few seconds before he felt paws grapple at the back of his shell. He helped whichever fox it was by reaching his hands back.

Pads hit his palms. A head rested on top of his. Then his legs were headbutted. He twisted his head to glance back and see Flint and Flicker do it again, which left Inari to be the one he was holding. Flint and Flicker headbutted him for a third time with added barks.

"Okay, okay, I'll go inside," he chuckled.

When he reached the bed, Inari got off him. He was pushed onto the bed and adjusted himself to be more comfortable. The foxes all found spots around him and closed their eyes. He cast his gaze over each of them.

They don't deserve to have their mom disappear like this.

Meanwhile, Ace had walked home the long way.

"Mom, Clem, I'm home!" he called when he got there.

His mom came rushing out from the kitchen. "Oh, Ace, thank goodness, there you are!" she captured him in a hug. "Where were you?"

"I was at my restaurant all day," he replied, tilting his head. "Leo came by and said that Hope went missing, so I had to go to the lair."

She took a deep breath. "That's right, I'm sorry. Clem is in her room if you want her."

"I was actually looking for Dad," he told her.

"Oh, your father left for Kenzo's a while ago for some party or other," she waved dismissively. "He'll be back soon, I'm sure."

He huffed. "I was going to ask him to convince Kenzo to help us find Hope."

She registered his words this time. "When did she go missing?"

"Also a while ago, give or take," he replied.

"Hopefully you find her soon!" his mom exclaimed. "She was always really nice! Speaking of coming over, you should invite that turtle you like to dinner again sometime!"

"I will when she's found, Mom," he laughed.

Back to Leo, when he woke up in the morning, it was to Inari dropping his phone on his face and many, many distressed texts. The most concerning one was from Ace.

Guys, my dad didn't come back home last night from a party at Kenzo's

Leo was out of bed in a blink, sending an be at the lair in a sec and jostling the still-sleeping foxes around him. "Sorry, guys. Looks like we have to go back to the lair."

The slider snatched his swords from beside the bed where Inari had probably put them and made a portal. The five foxes happily went through before him for him to follow. Everyone was gathered in the living room when they appeared.

"We need to go to Kenzo's to see what's going on," was the first thing he said.

Draxum sighed. "If we all go, he'll know somethings up."

"Then only one or two of us should go," Raph suggested.

"I have to be one of them that does, since my dad's there," Ace added.

"Just because your dad didn't come home from this Kenzo's house doesn't mean he's there," Cass broke in quickly. "But I want to be the second to go."

Leo shook his head. "Ace and Draxum are going. If Ace's dad is still there, then what Draxum mentioned earlier about the kidnapping thing is true, making Kenzo a possible reason for Hope's disappearance unlike I previously thought, in which case we should send two people least likely to try and pull a rescue attempt then and there."

Cass grumbled, but everyone else seemed to agree.

"If she's there, but not Ace's dad, then what do we do?" Mikey wondered.

Leo turned to his little brother. "I'm glad you asked because that wouldn't be true. If he's still there, then-- wait. Wait, if he went to the party and she was there then he would've seen her! Ace, does your dad know what she looks like?!"

Ace's eyes brightened in realization. "He does!" his excited expression fell immediately. "But if you're going where I think you're going, then he's probably hurt or tied up or both."

"I know, but it's a probable scenario. Okay, Ace and Draxum go to Kenzo's and ask if he's seen Ace's dad. The rest of us will wait for a confirming call from either before coming up with a plan to rescue anybody, got it?" Leo glanced at everyone in turn.

He got collective nods.

"Perfect. In the meantime, how about some movies to get our minds off of this clearly dire situation?"

The movie marathon made a few fall asleep. Leo couldn't sleep, however, mind too crowded with different way this could all go down (most weren't great). In one, Kenzo decided to kill Hope and Ace's dad. In another, Hope was forced to do many things she wasn't allowed to protest on. In a third, Hope was punished for something oh-so menial.

The shepherd and goat had left for the Hidden City as soon as the plan was decided and movie started.

Ace had almost never been alone with Draxum before, but the walk was less awkward than he thought it would be.

"I don't believe I was told how you and Donatello met," Draxum whispered eventually (so no one would call the cops on him).

Ace was admittedly startled, but conversation was conversation. "Oh, uh, we met when Leo and Hope dragged Donnie to my parent's restaurant make him try something new."

Draxum hummed and went silent. Ace nervously wrung his wrists as they got closer and closer to Kenzo's house.

When it finally came into view and they reached the front door, Ace took a deep breath and knocked. Muffled curses and stumbles could be heard from the other side. Ace and Draxum exchanged a quick glance before the door opened to Kenzo.

"Ah, the Great Baron Draxum himself!" the lion greeted. "Please, come inside both of you!"

Ace and Draxum exchanged another understanding glance before stepping into the large house. Kenzo shut the door behind them.

"I wasn't expecting guests, but I'll get someone to clean the place," He told them. "You can sit or do whatever you would like."

Draxum cleared his throat. "We came to ask if you had seen Ace's father."

The shepherd nodded. "He came here last night for a party and didn't come home."

Kenzo stiffened and turned to them with a carefully neutral face. "Oh, well, I'm sorry to hear that. I have not seen him since he left, unfortunately."

Ace glared after the lion as he left for a different room.

"Don't do anything rash," Draxum reminded, noticing his expression. "If the way he was speaking was any indication, she might be the one he was talking about."

Sure enough, as if on cue, the familiar figure of Hope exited the room Kenzo had went into on shaking legs. She had gotten on step out of it when she looked up and saw them, making the lion run into her and have to push her on.

"Move it, Neko. Our guests and I expect a perfectly clean house," he commanded.

Ace watched her with wide eyes. The kimono looked nice at least, if one ignored the blood stains and rips. Kenzo suddenly got between Ace and her, blocking his view.

"Neko is mine. She belongs to me now," he warned.

"No, sorry, I wasn't--" Ace awkwardly cleared his throat. "Sorry."

Kenzo seemed satisfied with that and backed off. "But she is a beauty isn't she?"

Ace paled, not at all in agreement or wanting to answer that. "Uh, y-yeah. I guess..."

Fortunately, Draxum had obviously had enough.

"If Kenzo doesn't know where your father is, we should be going. Ace, come on."

Ace gratefully scurried for the door, but Kenzo wasn't done. The lion smirked with their backs to him.

"I'm afraid I cannot let you leave."

"And why not?" Draxum demanded without turning around.

"You two are companions of N--"

He didn't get to finish. Vines had sent him flying across the room. Ace grabbed onto the doorknob, but it wouldn't open. They were trapped.

A lioness came hurtling down the hallway with the rooms, unbeknownst to them all. She gaped at both what was happening and at who she saw.

"Ace?!"

The shepherd startled and spun around. "Fumiko!"

"What are you doing here?!" she asked.

"Trying to find my dad!" he replied.

"Liar."

Ace didn't have time to react before he was roughly grabbed by the arm and dragged to a door. Fumiko tried to get her father to let him go, but Kenzo merely smacked her away, opened the door, and threw Ace down the steps.

Thankfully the lights were on, otherwise the door slamming and locking would have been the tiniest bit more terrifying than it was to make him start panicking. He scanned the small basement, but nothing caught his eye before he got away from the stairs.

As soon as he spotted his dad tied up, a yelp came from the top of the stairs. He caught Fumiko in a blink, helping her steady herself. She huffed and yanked away when she was able to stand again to sit in a far corner of the room. He sighed and a thought floated through his head.

Where had Draxum gone?

Back at the lair, Leo (and the foxes) was the only one left watching the movies. Everyone else had gotten too anxious.

All his attention was on the projector screen. Only when a magenta glow illuminated him from behind did his concentration break. Inari and her kits leapt to their paws, ready to defend him before realizing who it was.

"Leonardo," Draxum rumbled from above.

"Draxum," Leo tilted his head back. "Where's Ace?"

The goat took a step back, making Leo sit up and twist to keep his eyes on him. When Draxum didn't answer, someone else did.

"Oh, the shepherd was captured by the lion who thought he could take my sister and get away with it."

Leo flicked his gaze to the ceiling where the voice came from. A cloaked figure fell and landed skillfully before removing the hood and mask. Dove glided forward, clicked the projector off, and casually leaned against the wall that appeared behind her.

"I'm not one to meddle in other's business, but it's hard not to when your sister was kidnapped," she leaned to the side and was about to hit the floor before vanishing in a blink. "Especially when she also has a family outside of me and mom," she appeared again in front of Leo and pressed a finger to the tip of his beak, then was gone again. "And Draxum too as a replacement dad that I also may or may not want."

The goat and slider finally caught up with her. Dove waved cheekily from where she had stopped.

Leo sighed. "So Ace has also been kidnapped. Third person we know that has. At least we know for sure that this Kenzo guy was the one we need to go after."

Dove nodded and hummed in a teasing way. "You know, I probably could've told you who had done this."

"Wha-- Then why didn't you?!" Leo sputtered.

"Like I said, not one to meddle in other people's business," she shrugged. "I can tell you have a plan, though. Who would you like me to get? I recommend the strongest fighters like Cassandra or Draxum here."

Leo groaned. Dove was always so... ugh, he didn't even have the right word right now. "We only need the ones who are prepared to fight to get Hope out of there now. Cass is the only other one I can think of besides us."

"Olive may not look tough, but she can be when she needs to. Plus, she's our cousin, so I don't see why--"

"No," Draxum interrupted. "Olive would only get killed if she went. Kenzo fights dirty, he'll go for whatever or whoever he thinks is the weakest first."

"Fine, I suppose you're right, I was watching too," Dove relented. "Just Cassandra then?"

Leo nodded and she blinked away with a smirk. He glanced at the foxes around him, an additional idea sparking up in his mind.

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Hope woke up in the morning to Raion waking (he had apparently fallen asleep on top of her).

He pushed himself up and smiled down at her. "Didn't mean to wake you too, pretty," he punctuated his words with a kiss she didn't have the guts to push him away for.

She remained frozen on the bed even as he got off. He left the room in silence and she released a breath she hadn't realized she had been holding. She brought her hands up to cover her face and sobbed. It was her fault that last night had happened. She shouldn't have talked. If Ace's dad had just left her--

Wait.

Ace's dad!

Where had he even gone? She had never seen him leave this room after Raion had dragged her out. She really hoped he was safe and okay so she could get out of here soon.

A distant knock echoed through the house. Raion stumbled out of the other room had gone into, trying to get pants on at the same time. The sight only made her sob more.

She heard him open the door and say something. Two more pairs of footsteps joined his a second later as whoever it was entered the house. She curled her hurting legs closer to her chest and turned her back to the open door before resolving to get up in case he came back.

When she tried to stand up, her legs almost gave out, forcing her to grip the bed tight to stay on her feet. She was given a few minutes to adjust before he inevitably reentered the room.

"Come, the house needs cleaning, we have guests," he commanded.

She hurried as quickly as she could to do the door so he wouldn't get her out himself. It seemed to work... until she turned the corner to see Draxum and Ace standing in the living room, making her freeze right there.

What were they doing here? They were just here for Ace's dad, right? Surely that had to be it! There's no way they would come here to save her without everyone else, right?!

Raion nudged her from behind. "Move it, Neko. Our guests and I expect a perfectly clean house."

She mouthed an "Hai," no one could see or hear, then scrambled across the room painfully slowly to reach the kitchen. She felt eyes on her the whole way until they were blocked.

"Neko is mine. She belongs to me now," Raion told whoever had been watching.

"No, sorry, I wasn't--" She heard Ace awkwardly clear his throat. "Sorry."

"But she is a beauty isn't she?"

"Uh, y-yeah. I guess..."

Her hands slipped off the handle of the cabinet she had reached down to open.

"If Kenzo doesn't know where your father is, we should be going. Ace, come on."

Footsteps all-too-eagerly went for the door. She grabbed a bottle of cleaner from the cabinet.

"I'm afraid I cannot let you leave."

Oh no, he knew. How did he know?! He hadn't heard what Ace's dad told her last night did he?!

"And why not?"

"You two are companions of N--"

A crashing sound interrupted whatever Raion would've said. Hope startled, poking her head over the top of the counter behind her to get a better look. Her view of the purple vines made it obvious what had happened. That's when Fumiko came running from her room at the commotion. Hope saw her widen her eyes at Ace.

"Ace?!"

The shepherd practically leapt through the roof and spun around. "Fumiko?!"

Hope paled and slid to the floor with her back against the counter. A rough, yet soothing hand on her face and whispered words calmed her down a little, but vanished as quickly as they had appeared. The next sounds she heard were yips and a shout a minute later.

Raion loomed over her, hauling her up by her arm. "Stay in your room for the rest of the day. I might be in there later to keep you company in my way, but don't count on it."

She nodded stiffly and obeyed as soon as he released her arm. It still wasn't easy with aching legs, but it would stop soon, she knew that much. If only his words hadn't suggested reversing that process too early.

An idea flashed quickly through her mind.

Raion would be in his room, right? He wouldn't be able to see if she left her room? Maybe.

With that small reassurance, she headed for the door. She had accidentally left it open a crack, but that made it easier. She slipped out and darted for the closest door that wasn't the bathroom.

She closed the door as quietly as she could, starting down the stairs slowly in case she stepped on one wrong. She heard the voices of Ace and Fumiko below, which made her trip. She covered her head to protect it from the concrete at the bottom of the steps and closed her eyes, but no collision ever came (why would someone leave concrete as the floor of their basement?).

She felt herself being moved in a hurry to be sat against a wall.

"--pe! You're okay for now, what are you doing down here?"

She slowly peeled her eyes back open to see Ace and Fumiko staring down at her with concerned eyes. Hope's face scrunched up and tears flowed down her face like waterfalls. Ace shifted himself to be sitting next to her. Fumiko did the same on the other side.

"Leo has a plan," Ace whispered. "He's coming and you are going to get out of here."

Hope lifted her head and wet her lips to try to speak before her gaze landed on what she wanted to ask about. Ace and Fumiko glanced at each other nervously. Ace's dad was tied up on the wall under the stairs, bloody with a few scars. He tried to give her a reassuring smile, but it only looked like it hurt, which made her sob more.

"Hey, hey," Ace got in front of her. "Hope, you're okay. I need to know if my dad promised to help you."

No, no, she couldn't talk. Raion had said he would punish her if she did, and she didn't want to have that done to her again. Ace's father coughed, readying himself to rasp something out.

"Kenzo made a rule... that she couldn't speak. I thought it was just for the p-party, but he might have applied it outside of that too. But I--" he broke off to cough again. "I did try. Kenzo approached me when the night was over and brought me down here."

I'm so sorry.

Hope curled in on herself. That's when the door to the basement was slammed open and almost came off the hinges from the force alone. She couldn't help the high pitched whine that tore itself from her throat. Raion had found her and know her life was over.

She was never getting out of here.

Raion stormed angrily down the steps towards them. Ace and Fumiko stood defiantly in between her and him, but he was much stronger and got past them easily. Hope slowly craned her neck up to look into his eyes.

"I thought I told you to stay in your room for the rest of the day."

She turned her eyes back down and they glazed over. He narrowed his eyes.

"I might just punish you in front of your pathetic friends."

There was a long beat of silence before she was being hauled up unforgivably and pressed into the wall.

"NO!"

The air became tense the second that word was screamed. She didn't know who had done it, but her throat was extra sore now and everyone's eyes were on her.

"What did you just say?" Raion growled.

She wet her lips again, but words left her like before. She wasn't allowed to speak, so why did--

Her mind erased all thoughts when the punishment started. She was reduced to screaming and crying within moments, just like the first time. Ace and Fumiko were too frozen to do anything but watch.

Then everything happened oh-so quickly when Dove teleported in like planned. Hope was shoved impossibly further into the wall one second and the next she fell to the floor like a ragdoll or a puppet cut of its strings.

"Move!" Hope heard distantly.

Familiar barks filled Hope's ears, making her sit upright and try to stand. Raion toppled to the ground, drowned in orange, black, and bordering-on-white fur. The smile that would've normally come at seeing such a thing would have appeared, but it was prevented by fear of punishment.

In Hope's hurry to get as far away from him as she could, she didn't notice the three new people who had joined the scene until she had run into them. She heard her fox's yips behind her as they were tossed off of Raion so he could stand. Leo, Cass, Draxum, Dove, Ace, Fumiko, and (finally untied) Ace's dad all blocked Raion's view and path to Hope. Her five fox babies squeezed between their tight line to get to her side and cover her in frantic, frightened licks.

"You're never going to touch her again," Leo growled. "Dove."

Hope's sister took the steps it took to reach Raion and place one finger on his nose. "Oops."

The lion only had time to widen his eyes before he vanished in a haze of multicolored dots.

Dove spun back around. "Leo."

The slider completed the swing of his swords he had started. A portal big enough to fit all of them opened under their feet. Hope hugged the closest fox even closer as she fell through. Only when she was on the metal floor did she register how close everyone was.

And that made her scramble backward, releasing the fox in her grip. Her breaths grew faster as she dragged her gaze over everyone before her. Dove pushed herself off the floor and swept her cloak back behind her. The six others took a step back to avoid it hitting them.

Dove slowly took the two steps to reach Hope, sank to her knees, and gently reached her hands to grab her sister's.

Then leaned forward and started crying.

Dove never cries.

Why is Dove crying?

"I am so sorry," Dove sobbed. "I should have been there to stop you in the first place."

Hope's eyes squeezed together and tears began to fall from her eyes too. Dove raised Hope's hand to slip her fingers in between hers.

"I know I haven't always been there for you, and I'm sorry about that too, but you got hurt this time," Dove used her free hand to cup Hope's cheek. "I will never leave your side again, you can be sure of that. Make up for--"

Hope interrupted Dove's apology by yanking her into a hug. The older accepted it easily, burying her face in her sister's shoulder, staining the bit of kimono there with tears. Dove realized Hope still had it on and pulled away, lifting a hand to use her mystics.

"Let's get you out of this thing then watch a movie you like or whatever."

Leo started to follow after them, but that was when the entire rest of the family left their places of solitude to see what was going on. Olive in particular almost burst into tears at the sight of her cousin back home. Dove offered Olive a smile and beckoned her to join them.

Leo let a smile of his own grace his face at the sight of his wife happy again. Mikey threw his arm around his neck.

"Guess you're stuck with us, Lee," the box turtle sighed.

"I guess so," Leo agreed with a chuckle, casting a final look over his shoulder before willingly being pushed along to who knows where.

Hope let Dove shred the bloodied and torn kimono into strips then take a step back to make a better outfit. Olive approached from behind Hope to unbuckle the collar and let it hit the floor.

"Oh, I got the perfect thing!" Dove exclaimed.

A black shirt with a white outline of buildings and baggy jeans adorned with sown stars appeared in Hope's arms.

Dove nodded confidently. "Yeah, that should do. And you'll never have to see or wear another kimono again if that's what keeps you from remembering."

"What are we going to do with this?" Olive held the collar as far away from herself as she could.

"Same place I sent him," Dove snatched it away and they watched it vanish.

(Somewhere in a really dark cell, Kenzo was pelted with the stones previously on the collar.)

Dove dusted her hands off victoriously. Hope finally got the clothes on after getting distracted. Her older sister seemed to remember something and faced her excitedly.

"Ready to not be in your mutant form again for a really long time?"

Hope nodded eagerly. Oh boy, was she. And she probably wouldn't wear it into Ace's restaurant for a long time either. But, just as the cat features returned to being human ones, her face crumpled and she cried again. Movies sounded terrible now; all she wanted to do was take a shower, but she couldn't say that, just had to do what she was told or risk being punished.

Dove and Olive were quick to wrap her in a hug, whispering that it would be okay.

It won't be okay.

Hope pushed them both away. Prolonged contact like that made her skin prickle.

Just like Donnie.

She tossed her head side to side, looking for something. Someone perhaps.

Leo.

Hope ran out of wherever they were. Her eyes landed on Leo's train car. He would be in there, wouldn't he? Doesn't hurt to try. Right before she reached the door, however, Dove was blocking her way in a blink. Hope tried to push past her, but Dove didn't budge.

"Tell me what's wrong," Dove begged.

"Just get out of my way!" Hope shouted.

Dove widened her eyes. Hope did too when she realized what she had done.

("What did you just say?")

She scrambled backwards before spinning around and hurtling for the bathroom.

(She needed a shower.)

Something stopped her from closing and locking the door. She stiffened, praying it wasn't Dove. Thankfully, it was who she had been searching for before she had shouted. Leo's eyes were only filled with concern for her.

She grabbed his forearm and yanked him into the bathroom, going to lock it, but he still stopped her.

"Leave it open for now," he murmured. "What's wrong?"

She lifted her eyes to stare into his and shook her head firmly. He frowned.

You know no one here will hurt you.

She shook her head again to clear it. Leo sighed and took Hope's hands in his.

"Say something, anything," he pleaded.

Let him hear your voice again, Thorne.

"I'm sorry."

He straightened his back in surprise.

"I went into that alley."

He opened his mouth to protest, but she continued anyway, suddenly eager to make herself hurt later.

"I made you worry about me when I was fine."

He shook his head. "You were kidnapped, that doesn't make you 'fine'."

"I was fine," she repeated. "I only want to go home and take a shower right now."

"I agree with the slider, you were not 'fine'."

They both blinked up at Dove dangling from the ceiling. Hope's older sister stood up from the sitting position and circled them, cloak dragging on the floor.

"I saw what happened, sis. I wouldn't have cried if I did not," Dove stopped with her face in Hope's. "The question is when you will be ready to tell him about what really happened in that basement and maybe somewhere else too."

Hope turned her head to the side and glared at the floor. "I never will be. He doesn't deserve to know what happened there."

Dove sighed and finally descended from the ceiling to stand in front of Hope. "He's your husband, imōto. He loves you no matter what, and you love him too." Dove spun Hope around to face Leo. "He won't blame you and you shouldn't blame yourself either."

Hope let Leo cup her face with both hands and raise it. He searched her eyes for something before slowly bringing their faces closer. Dove turned the other way, but a small smile curved her mouth upward.

The kiss they met in wasn't heated like usual, but rather soft and meant to be comforting. He was the one to end it after a half a minute.

"You can tell me. Please. I don't you to think you can't tell me whatever is."

She hesitated a second too long. Dove stood on the ceiling once more to be closer to his tympanum. Whatever she was saying (it wasn't good, run, he's going to blame you) made his eyes widen. Hope avoided his gaze when it turned angry and dangerous.

"I'm going to kill him," Leo snarled.

"Unless you'd like to try to find him in a cell that totally doesn't exist at the spider's new Sports Nexus, I don't recommend doing that," Dove said.

He shrugged.

"Can we please go home?" Hope asked timidly. "I just want... to..."

Whatever strength she had gained in her legs vanished in a blink and she sank to the floor. Leo caught her under her arms before she could hit the floor.

"Okay," he took a deep breath. "We'll go home."

He lifted his free hand up to his mouth to whistle. Inari and her four kits came hurrying into the bathroom. Dove offered them all what she hopes was a reassuring smile, raising her hand to hold it out palm up. He paused before pressing a finger to it.

"Thank you for everything you've done so far."

"She's my sister," Dove reminded him back. "I'd do anything for her. ...Even if it came down to destroying the world."

"I don't doubt it."

With that, Leo put his finger into the center of Dove's palm and the group in front of her disappeared in a mix of purple, black, and white spots.

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A week following, Hope was doing better, breakdowns becoming few and far between. Or at least it would seem that way.

{Family Group Chat - 

[DonnieH: I need a willing test subject.]

[WifeST: I can do it]

[HusbandH: anyone but her]

[AceY: come on, this is the first time she's wanted to do something since she came home Leo!]

[DoveST: what he said]

[HusbandH: how did you even get on here?!]

[OliveA: I invited her on, she's family too]

[HusbandH: oh, and Raph just invited you on too]

[RaphH: Raph did]

[DonnieH: I wanted someone to help me, not start an argument, prolonged sigh.]

[HusbandH: whatever Hope can do it but if she ends up getting hurt again then I will personally pay you a visit Dee]

[WifeST: hey, I can handle myself, thank you]

[HusbandH: I didnt say you couldn't]

[WifeST: it was implied]

[HusbandH: maybe but I can worry about you all I want]

[DonnieH: Can you two fight literally anywhere else?]}

Nobody expected what she did the night after that conversation.

She crept out of the bathroom once Leo had fallen asleep, to the kitchen and knife display before hurrying into the bathroom. Inari and Falcon tried to follow her in, but she closed them out to prepare herself for what she was about to do.

She pressed the cold steel to her arm and took a deep breath. The knife tore through skin multiple times before the pain from the cuts overturned that of the burning sensation that had been between her legs for two days now.

Unbeknownst to her, Inari and Falcon had caught the scent of her blood and went back into the bedroom to paw and lick Leo awake. The slider grumbled and attempted to push them away, but they didn't give in.

Leo was paid back with more slobber on his face when the other foxes woke up and smelled the same thing. The smell only got stronger the longer she was in that bathroom by herself, which was what got her husband to finally stumble out of bed and let the foxes lead him to the door.

"Hope?" he knocked twice. "What are you doing in there?"

When he reached for the doorknob, it clicked with the lock. He sighed and strained to get the small key on the top of the door.

"I'm coming in whether you want me to or not," he warned.

"Don't you dare!" she shouted back.

He twisted the key in the lock, but something stopped him from opening the door. She pushed back against him and it shut again.

"Go back to bed," she ordered weakly.

"Not until you let me in."

She threw her hand back against the door. "No."

Leo felt a snout nudge his leg and looked down. Inari held his sword up for him to take. He readied for a portal as the door finally opened; Hope stood in the doorway to block whatever he would see, but it was open.

"Put this away first," she handed him the knife.

He nodded calmly despite the new swirling of emotions. He took it, hurried to the kitchen, and hurried back.

"Can I come in now?"

She hummed, hanging her head and slowly sidestepping. He mouth fell open and his face paled at the sight. She walked backwards until she hit the wall and slid down to sit.

"I-I'm sorry," she whispered. "I just couldn't take the pain between my legs anymore."

He cast his gaze over the blood splatters and puddles before turning to her. Cuts and stabs littered up and down her bare arms, hands, one or two were on her face, and there had to be some on her leg he couldn't see. He crouched in front of her and brushed a finger over one on her cheek, making her hiss and pull away.

She gestured at the bathtub. "Can you get that ready please? I'll clean the blood later."

He silently complied, filling it to the near brim, leaving just enough space for her to fill. She scrambled eagerly over to it and started to lift her leg over the side when she remembered he was still there and her clothes were still on.

"Could you, um..." she trailed off.

"Oh, right, yes, of course!" he passed her a final wide smile before clicking the door closed.

She took a deep breath, stripped her clothes, and melted into the heavenly warm water. Not ten minutes later, Leo snuck back into the bathroom and closed his eyes to lay his back right outside the tub. She sat up and made sure it was only her head poking over the edge.

"Leonardo."

He hummed in acknowledgement, keeping his gaze on his phone. She rolled her eyes and returned to the water. They let the silence reign for a few more minutes before he couldn't take it anymore.

"You better be done by the time I come back for the surprise I'll have."

She opened her eyes quickly (when had she closed them?). He smiled and tilted his head at her curiosity before vanishing out the door. As fast as she's ever done, she jumps up and runs around getting dry. Every time a part of her dried, she put clothes on.

Seven minutes later, he was back and she was ready. He put the bag he had on the kitchen counter.

(She swore she heard it clink.)

"What's the surprise?" she asked.

"Oh, you'll love it," he winked. "It starts with covering those cuts and ends with being surrounded by our babies."

Hope let him grab her arm to hold it out while he wrapped the cuts with bandages from his pouch. Then he moved onto the other arm before crouching and tentatively pushing up the pant leg. She bent over to help him the rest of the way. He got the bandage up as far as it could go before ending it by attaching it to the wrap under it and pulling away. He stood back up and applied two smaller pieces to the ones on her face.

"There. Now! Get one of the four bottles and join me on the couch."

She obeyed easily. He watched her curl up beside him on the couch before turning the TV on as mere white noise.

"Feel up for a would you rather game?" he wondered.

She rested her head on his shoulder and nodded, lifting the bottle to her lips. "Sure, why not."

"Would you rather have wet gloves or wet shoes every time you go out in the snow?" he asked eventually.

She hummed in consideration, returning the bottle to her side. "Gloves. They'll get wet anyway, and you can always put something on under them. ...would you rather spend a year on an island with someone who never stopped talking or completely alone?"

"With someone. At least I'd have someone to talk to. Okay, um, would you rather not have knees or not have elbows?"

"Is that because I lost a leg? I would choose to not have knees. Would you rather be able to hear all the positive things people say about you or all the negative things people say about you?"

"Positive!" he answered with a wave of his hands as the beer he was drinking started kicking in (how was it possible he had already had more than her?). "Would you rather go a year without combing your hair or a year without deodorant?"

Hope drank a bigger sip to make up for what he had. "My hair's pretty short, so a year without combing. Would you rather be bored all the time or too busy all the time?"

His voice got high and pitchy when he decided, drawing out the words. "Busyyyyyyy. Dance or... make ouuuttttt?"

She sighed and got off the couch, hearing the whine of protest that got. "One of has to stay sober, you big drunk baby. Can't believe it has to be me. Let's go, come on, to bed."

"No, wanna stay... uuuuuppp," he stumbled to his feet anyway.

"As soon as you hit that bed, you're going to pass out, believe me I know. You need your sleep," she told him.

"Prettyyyyy," he smiled down at her.

She pushed down the bad feelings that surfaced to tug her stupidly drunk husband to the bedroom. She shoved him toward the bed and watch him tumble onto it without her aid to keep him up.

"So soft..." he murmured, crawling under the covers and curling up.

She shook her head fondly, heading for the bed, waiting for the inevitable when five barks called for her attention at the door. She turned to face their foxes.

"Hey, babies," she knelt down for them to come closer.

Falcon managed to get the best spot of having his paws on her head. Flicker, Flint, and Finch made jealous little sounds while finding good enough replacement spots. Inari sits in front of her and lifts her paw to put it over her hand gently.

She rubs Inari's black paw with a thumb slowly. Sometimes she swore this fox was a human with how she acted.

"Momma's been through a lot in the last week and a half," Hope whispered. "But I'm sure you could all tell."

She got small barks in reply and chuckled, feeling them get even closer. She leaned her head back against the bed, making Falcon have to move and get in her lap instead. They didn't realize Leo had heard and gotten onto her side of the bed until he spoke.

"You know, when I said the night would end with being surrounded by them, this isn't exactly what I had in mind."

She startled, also spooking the foxes. He flashed her a smirk when she twisted to glare at him.

"You were faking, you faker," she accused.

He shrugged and adjusted to be upside down. "I'd call it acting. Plus it was so worth it to get here. Who knows how long we would've gone if I hadn't."

She rolled her eyes and pushed to get into the bed with him. Inari, Flicker, Falcon, Flint, and Finch leapt up as well and got into their usual spots. Leo and Hope let themselves relax, but her phone ringing (that was still in her pocket, oh convenient) rang.

She tugged it free to see who it was.

It was Ace.

Without an ounce of hesitation, she hit the answer button. "Hello~"

Ace responded in kind. "Hey! Sorry it's so late, but I couldn't do this until now. My mom wanted Donnie to come over, so I told her I would invite him after you got back, and since now you are, I was wondering if you two would come too. As a double-date-but-with-my-family kind of deal."

"We'd love to come!" she exclaimed. "What time tomorrow?"

"Um... I was thinking around four, but whatever works for you," he replied.

Leo moved his head to be in the camera. "You don't have work at the school do you?"

"Oh, no, I shouldn't. They didn't call me in at all," she dismissed. "See ya at four tomorrow then, Ace."

She was about to hang up when the shepherd stopped her.

"Wait, I actually wanted to say something else," he paused. "I'm glad you're doing better after what happened. Just proves how strong everyone knows you are."

She smiled. "Thank you. I'm sorry you and Fumiko had to see it the second time," she suddenly remembered something. "Wait, how did you and her even know each other in the first place?"

"I'll answer that later, okay byeeee!" Ace quickly hung up.

She laughed and stretched to put her phone on the bedside table. Leo hugged her close when she turned back.

"Twenty bucks says they used to date," he offered.

"Make it thirty and you're on," she bit back.

"Deal."

Inari put both her front paws over their mouths. They laughed quietly together before the black fox decided to squeeze herself between their faces and get them quiet that way.

Seriously, there had to be a way to prove Inari was secretly a human, right?

About an hour later, Inari deemed it fit to move away again. Hope used the opportunity to move her top half closer to her husband and hug him back. Whichever fox(es) were in between them moved to the outside so they could be pressed together.

"I missed nights like this," she murmured wistfully.

"We do it almost every night," he reminded softly.

"The one we didn't made me realize how much I would miss it."

He huffed. "Don't mention that ever again, please."

"I would want to do nothing else..."

She drifted to sleep as soon as those words left her mouth. He took her hands and rubbed them gently, making her smile softly in her sleep. He sighed, got a final look at her, then fell asleep himself.

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I struggled with writing Kenzo nearing and during the rescue :(((

The texting scene is labeled how Hope would name people btw (she changed hers and Leo's after they got married)

fair warning, Hope had lost her right leg in a previous incident you can read, but I forget to write it in sometimes, so if I do and you see it, no you didn't

don't ask about Fumiko's relationship with Ace bc she was only meant to be for this and I needed something else interesting. but if Fumiko wasn't just for this, then I'd tell you that they did used to date :333

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告白 (Kokuhaku) - Sano Manjiro 'Mikey' (AU)

pairing : mikey x fem reader

summary : based on my first story's '告白' (kokuhaku). after her feelings were rejected by her first crush, then she faced with her first heartbreak.

warning(s) : based on manga, spoilers from chapter 123, 269, 270, 271 (i hope you guys finished reading the manga already), angst, rejection, death, original timeline.

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author's note : first of all, i was scared of posting this because i have no will of writing 'on my way' anymore and for this one it might just be a one-shot. i don't know yet but let's just see where it goes. i had to re-read the manga chapters that have shinichiro on it to make it more relevant lol. like multiple of times back and forth. also if tokyo revengers could have a spin-off like for takemichi and hinata, this song would fit them i believe because it is such a beautiful story in song form. for now i just use it here instead hehe.

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1996

the sound of children shouting as they are learning karate in sano dojo. an old man decided to visit his old friend after years of not seeing each other for a while. sano mansaku looked towards a silhouette's way, eyes widen as he recognized the face. gesturing him to wait. right after he left the children to train by themselves, sano mansaku retreated from the class for a while to meet his friend properly.

"yoshida-san, what a delightful to have you here." sano mansaku said, smiling.

yoshida junichi, an old friend of sano mansaku from the day they were children. sano mansaku inherited his family dojo name while yoshida junichi proceed into inherit his family's wealth and pursued his academic in england. the two friends then separated until one day, a familiar name acrossed yoshida junichi's eyes and decided to pay a visit.

yoshida junichi smiled at his old friend, taken a look at the scenery of his friend's house. "it has been a while and i saw a familiar name so i decided to gamble on it." sano mansaku chuckled at yoshida junichi's statement.

same ol yoshida-san.

"my granddaughter, hoshiko, my only family." yoshida junichi said, making sano mansaku looked at him in wonder. "she's all i have left but one day when i die, she will be left alone in this world, not knowing what would happen to her without anyone taking care and guide her to the right path in life." continued by yoshida junichi, sano mansaku becoming more confused than ever. "sano-san, my lawyer will be coming for you once i die and i want you to promise me one thing." yoshido junichi requested.

-

being left alone with a room full of kids practicing their judo, hoshiko felt awkward. raised by grandfather all alone in the states, hoshiko, felt like she was an alien of not knowing what are these kids doing. "hello, who are you?" hoshiko turned around to see a yellow blonde haired girl. hoshiko, who knew a bit of japanese, was flustrated. "i-i, hoshiko yoshido." hoshiko said, giving out her given name first as how it was living in america. "your name is yoshido? how weird." the girl said, making hoshiko stunned by the statement. looking down, hoshiko felt hot on her face.

hearing the girl giggled, the girl held out her hand towards hoshiko's way, making hoshiko raise up her head. "i'm emma, guess we both have weird names." emma said, smiling at hoshiko warmly. hoshiko shook emma's hand.

"emma, who's this? your friend?" hoshiko looked up at the new voice entered the room to see a black haired guy, who is way older for her. emma looked at hoshiko, smiling brightly as she nodded at the guy's question. the guy smiled. he kneeled before the two girls, smiling at them. "i'm shinichiro but you can call me shin-nii." shinichiri introduced himself, grinning. "shin-nii." hoshiko muttered to herself.

"SHINICHIRO!" the three shocked by the loud shout only to see sano mansaku and yoshido junichi entered the room. shinichiro stood up straight and ran out of the room. yoshido junichi laughed at the comedic duo of the sano grandfather-grandson. yoshido junichi knew well the eldest sano grandson, as he once met the boy when he was visiting japan few years before. "he never change." yoshido junichi commented, making sano mansaku grunted. "always loitering around and never coming to the dojo to practice." sano mansaku said.

since then, hoshiko knew that she would be a family to sano family one day. she knew it as she eyeing shinichiro smiling one last time before leaving the house.

-

the friendship between emma and hoshiko blossomed quite well since they are the same-age friends and attending to the same school, a year after yoshido junichi relocated the two of them permanently from america. at first hoshiko felt alienated since she's a japanese with foreigner face as to having american mom. due to that, hoshiko has been deserted from her classmates and emma being her only friend and same to emma.

as usual, right after school, hoshiko would come to sano residence because of her grandfather would be in the office room all day and she would feel lonely at home. also, yoshido junichi knew hoshiko would be at the sano residence even if hoshiko didn't tell him about it. one thing he didn't know was hoshiko's huge crush towards the eldest sano grandson despite the reason why hoshiko loves coming to the sano residence.

as entering the front gate entrance, hoshiko could see a motorbike being repaired and there he was. sano shinichiro, in his regular white shirt and black pants, accompanied by two of his 'friends'. shinichiro looked up and saw the two girls. shinichiro smiled and hoshiko could feel her face getting warm. "i'm going in first okay?" emma told hoshiko and left her to enter the house. hoshiko went towards shinichiro's way. the two 'friends' that stood before shinichiro were eyeing hoshiko that walking her way towards shinichiro as shinichiro told them to chill as to she's being his sister's friend.

"hi shin-nii, what are you doing?" hoshiko asked as she kneeled next to shinichiro, making him chuckled. "repairing bits here and there. wanna ride right after i fix it?" shinichiro offered, as he swore he could see hoshiko's eyes gleamed at the offer. nodding her head yes, shinichiro smiled and then continued on fixing his motorbike. then hoshiko heard shouting of children from the dojo. "go watch it hoshiko, maybe you could ask grampa to teach you next." shinichiro encouraged.

hoshiko stood up and heads to the sano dojo, with shinichiro watching her back. "she seems to take an interest of you, shin-chan." one of the 'friends' commented. shinichiro chuckled.

"she's just one of my sisters."

-

the shoutings became louder as hoshiko approached the dojo. hoshiko watched from the side of the martial art in front of her. all her life, the only martial art she'd ever watched was boxing. because she used to have an older brother (non-blood related, just acquaintance), who did boxing. "good, that's enough." sano mansaku said to his students and then he saw hoshiko. he waved for hoshiko to enter the hall. hoshiko entered as she looked down at her feet while walking. "everyone find a partner and begin your free time training." sano mansaku said and the children began to find a partner to spare. as hoshiko stopped right next to sano mansaku, he placed his hand on her head. "don't be shy to them, they are your friends." sano mansaku said and hoshiko nodded her head yes.

from afar, a boy with black hair watched the interaction with a girl with foreign face and his master. then he heard thuds from his behind to see a light haired boy swinging kicks upon crash cushion held by one of his master's assistants. koshiko watched from where she stood, mesmerized by how cool he was. "wow." was all that came out from her mouth.

"sensei! how come he's so good even though he never practices?" the boy shouted and sano mansaku chuckled. "he's a prodigy." replied sano mansaku and walked towards where the boy stood. "what?! that's no fair, how come he gets to be one?" the boy questioned again, and this time sano mansaku smugged.

"because he's my grandson."

the boy grunted and approached the light haired boy. "oi sano, be my sparring partner!" the boy invited, approaching the light haired boy. "i don't want to get all sweaty. so pass~" the light haired boy replied, making the black haired boy grunted. "then why are you here?"

"because i want to show off." the light haired boy replied, as he turning his head towards where hoshiko stood at. hoshiko watched him.

"manjiro-kun."

-

1999

two years passed and hoshiko has become the unofficial sano family member. her feelings towards shinichiro hasn't fade even before this hoshiko has confessed but declined politely by shinichiro.

"shin-nii, not even 1% of your feelings for me?" hoshiko asked. it was dinner time at the sano residence and hoshiko's grandfather was away for his business trip in china. hence the reason why hoshiko was at the sano residence. shinichiro who was unbothered by the question, wrenching his motorbike as hoshiko stood behind him. "hoshiko-chan.." shinichiro sighed. "i took you as my sister, nothing more and nothing less." shinichiri continued as he could hear faint sobbings from his behind. "i'm sorry hoshiko-chan, maybe you will find someone from your age instead of me." shinichiro said as he turned back, facing hoshiko, her face was already redden up. "you will not like to take care of me when i am older, i will be an old grumpy oldman like gramps there." shinichiro said jokingky, trying to light up the mood. before she could let out a sound, hoshiko took off and ran out of the house, making shinichiro shocked. "hoshiko-" "that's enough shinichi." it was manjiro, coming out of his hideout. "you don't get girls at all shinichi, leave it all to me." manjiro said and followed where hoshiko went off to.

"hoshiko!"

"hoshiko!"

"oi hoshiko!"

then manjiro heard a faint cries coming from a nearby playground. manjiro turned his head to the left and saw someone in one of those construction cylinders from doraemon. approaching to the cylinders, manjiro could see that someone in it clearly. it was hoshiko herself. "hoshiko." manjiro called and hoshiko refused to look at manjiro. manjiro sighed to himself and took a seat on the ground, next to where hoshiko sat in.

"one time, i followed shinichi to one of his gang meetings." manjiro said as he looked up to the sky. "i was mesmerized on riding motorbike that i ask shinichi to teach me but he told me that i was too young so i got devastated." manjiro continued. "to say, i understand the feelings of being too young for anything." manjiro ended and then he stood up. "but you don't understand it." manjiro heard hoshiko said and looked at her. "what is?" "love. you don't understand love." hoshiko stated. "then i am, i don't understand love but do you?" manjiro questioned and hoshiko got out of the cylinder. "i do. it is a heart-thumping feeling when you meet someone you like." hoshiko explained and manjiro chuckled. hoshiko squinted her eyes in anger as she gritted her teeth. "what's so funny?" hoshiko asked, getting annoyed by his action. "then, i do have the same feelings as well for you." manjiro stated, and hoshiko felt like someone has punched her gut.

"you don't know that." hoshiko told manjiro. "then so do you." manjiro said. "maybe one day in the future, i will make you love me." manjiro continued as hoshiko could feel warm in her body and her heartbeats go faster than usual. "how certain are you?" hoshiko challenged. manjiro just grinned. "you will fall for me." manjiro told her and hoshiko just scoffed.

"i will wait for that day then."

-

july, 1999

"sano emma, your grandfather is in the office room." a teacher called, sliding open the front door of the class. hoshiko just watched emma left the class with her schoolbag. 'i wonder why ojii-san is here?' wondered hoshiko as the class goes on without emma.

after school, hoshiko saw her grandfather's assistant, mr ichigo. usually mr ichigo will pick up hoshiko after staying at the sano residence after school since she and emma went to the same school and also the school distance is much closer to the sano residence than the yoshido residence so that yoshido junichi don't have to worry about hoshiko went home on herself and also that she doesn't have to stay at home alone with butlers and maids. a same age friend could accompany her since she is a growing child that wants to be with her friends (read: emma, manjiro (mikey), keisuke-kun, haruchiyo-kun and shin-nii).

"ichigo-san?" hoshiko asked as mr ichigo opened the door of the car. "quickly young mistress, we need to go to the hospital quick." mr ichigo said and hoshiko entered the car without any further questions. all her questions will be soon answered as she see it for herself.

once arrived at the hospital, mr ichigo lead their way along the hallway until they saw some familiar face. "grandpa! ojii-san!" hoshiko greeted as she saw both her grandfather and sano grandfather. then she saw her friends and emma and shinichiro. all of them had crying face on. everyone except manjiro (mikey from now on). "where is mikey?" hoshiko asked as she couldn't the light haired boy anywhere. until she saw him through the glass window of a room, connecting to wires here and there with his head wrapped in bandages.

tears soon coming up and release through her eyes as she couldn't believe of what she had saw right in front of her. "w-who is t-that?" hoshiko asked as she refused to believe what she saw and that she need confirmation. "hoshiko, that is mikey." yoshido junichi answered as his voice weren't the same, it's like he had been forcing himself to not cry. hoshiko shook her head no as she backed herself until she felt a flat, soft surface on her back. she looked up and it was shinichiro. "shin-nii, grandpa is lying right?" hoshiko asked and immediately shinichiro wrapped his arms around her and instantly, hoshiko cried, wailing.

"he promised that he will love me!"

-

2003

entering the sano residence, hoshiko slipped off her shoes and put on her indoor slippers. it has been four years since mikey was confirmed to be in vegetative state and that is no cure for him to be normal again. it also has been four years and now that mikey is 14 years old and hoshiko is 13 years old.

sano grandpa died during the four years duration and emma left due to the stress after sano grandfather died. and that hoshiko has been taking over emma's role in the household as for shinichiro taking care of mikey only.

"shin-nii, have you eaten yet?" hoshiko asked as she entered the kitchen to see a pile of plates and bowls from yesterday right after she left the sano residence. since taking care of mikey, shinichiro hasn't been himself. he sometimes skip meal time and just pay attention to mikey's needs since mikey is sort of incapable of doing things himself. also mikey just dripping himself with vitamins to keep his nutriens in check by shinichiro. not hearing a reply from shinichiro, hoshiko assumed that he didn't eat anything yet.

as hoshiko preparing a meal for shinichiro, she was brought back to the time where mikey confronted her right after her confession to shinichiro.

"maybe one day in the future, i will make you love me."

sobbing to herself, hoshiko placed the knife down before wiping her eyes with her sleeve. "you lied mikey-kun." whimpering, hoshiko slid down to her feet.

-

one afternoon, while shinichiro went out to fetch haruchiyo from juvie, hoshiko took care of mikey for a while and took him for a walk for fresh air. "mikey-kun, remember that time where i called you manjiro-kun? it was when before you told me and basically everyone you knew to call you mikey because of emma-chan." hoshiko started as she keeps walking while pushing along mikey's wheelchair. "well, i miss calling you manjiro because that is your name." hoshiko confessed. "i hope you can forgive me for calling your real name, manjiro-kun." hoshiko said as she halted her steps to go in front of manjiro.

looking into his lifeless eyes, hoshiko felt like she wanted to tear up. he used to be such a lively boy but why is this happening to him?

"i love you manjiro-kun, i hope you will feel the same." hoshiko confessed as she placed a kiss upon mikey's forehead. smiling, hoshiko grabbed mikey's boned hand and carrassed it. "maybe in another life, you could return the same feeling and maybe we could be happy together." hoshiko said as she smiled weakly, kissing mikey's hands.

on july 20th, 2003, sano manjiro passed away.

every night, tears has been a friend to hoshiko as she couldn't move on from mikey's passing. one night after mikey's funeral, hoshiko saw shinichiro's hands bleeded out causing hoshiko to attend to his injury. "why are you doing this shin-nii?" hoshiko asked right after she's done attending to the wounds. shinichiro just stood silent.

"my life isn't worth living anymore." shinichiro confessed and tears start building up. hoshiko sobbed. "what are you saying shin-nii, you still have me." hoshiko said as she grabbed shinichiro's hands and placed on her face. "see, i'm still here." hoshiko said as tears coming out and flow along her cheeks. "i'm here shin-nii. i'm going to take care of you." koshiko confessed between between the sobbings and tears.

shinichiro stood up and left the house, leaving to someplace he knew by heart. hoshiko followed behind him, worrying that he might do something that could harm him.

the graveyard.

sano family grave.

watching from afar, hoshiko just looked at how sloppy shinichiro is. he hasn't been himself since mikey's death. he became disorientated.

"manjiro, gramps, pops. i'm here again." shinichiro started. "life hasn't been well. i have no will to go on anymore and i killed someone for some stupid reasons." shinichiro continued. hoshiko gapsed silently behind one of the grave tombs. 'shinichiro killed someone?' hoshiko thought to herself. "there's nothing for me now so please wait for me." shinichiro said and hoshiko gasped as she felt a hand placed on her shoulder. she turned around to see, mikey?

"manjiro-kun?" mikey smiled. "what are you doing here hoshiko, it's time to go to our happy place now." mikey said as he held out his hand for her. "what do you mean manjiro-kun?" hoshiko asked, not understanding why mikey is here when he's already dead. then she looked at grave tomb and gasped.

yoshido family grave.

yoshido hoshiko.

Confession my love once in a lifetime, afraid afraid afraid

I wonder if I can be with you forever, afraid afraid afraid

Still Love wins again and again

I love you seriously

Afraid afraid afraid, I feel you

my first story, '告白' (kokuhaku)

[britt-kageryuu]

A bit of a trigger warning for some mental health talk.~~

A stream has been on Mikeys Starting Soon graphics for a few minutes. Mikeys screen shows him in his Graffiti Gear, looking over his shoulder at the stream, and the area he 'working on' says "Experimenting with Art Today!". The chat box is in a 'light beam' next to the 'work'.

The chat is spamming MikeyHeart! emotes, while trying to guess what it means by Art Experiments.

The scene switches over to Mikeys model in the same Graffiti Gear on top of a Art Studio background.

"Hey Guys! Okay I can see many are wondering what we're doing today~" He says all sing songy, "Well I found this amazing YouTube channel where they do traditional art, and I wanted to try some of their challenges. Though since traditional stuff means physical media that means~" Mikey trails off as he switches to a different scene.

The new scene was an overhead shot of a work table with lots of pencils, pens, papers, and other crafty stuff. His model is off to the side with a 'desk' infront of it.

The chat goes nuts with 'Mandarin Hand Reveal!' and similar reactions emotes.

"Before you guys get too excited, it took me a while to get custom arm sleeve gloves for this idea." Mikey explains while bringing his hand into the camera range. The hand has green three fingers with black paint splattered wraps going a little above the elbow.

"Okay, what I'm going to do is try coloring with some Copics, give me a sec." Mikey move a drawing of himself in summer clothes, "I have the most colors picked out, but from what I've seen Copics can be a bit tricky with bleeding and blending, so wish me luck!"

Mikey moves a stack of nice looking paper, and multiple boxes of pens. The top of his head unintentionally gets into frame, but all anyone can see is a orange paint stained bandana covering most of his hair, though a couple braids with multiple colored beads swing beside his head.

A good number of people are asking about the gloves, with some asking if they're uncomfortable to wear.

"Hmm?" Mikeys model turns following him to look at the chat, "The glove? They're not that uncomfortable, you just have to get used to having your fingers. Well separated into 2 fingers with a thumb."

He demonstrates by wiggling his fingers in the gloves. With a slight awkwardness to the movement.

"Now, I have a couple sketches that I don't mind testing this on," He slides a drawing of a little kid Leo, and a drawing of little kid Mikey, "These still look good, but I got the proportions off, and that's annoying me. So they with be my test subjects!"

Mikey spent a good chunk of time testing on a spare paper before moving onto the actual drawings.

"Fun fact, well depending on how you look at it, our Dad didn't really notice when Blue announced he was a boy. He just walked into living room where we were looking at different names to fit our name pattern," Mikey pauses his story to grab a white Copic to fix a spot on Leo's picture, "And Blue picked his new name, Dad just went with it. We think he wasn't in a really awake state to care."

Mikey goes a bit quiet, his model looks sadly contemplative.

"A bit of a warning, our Dad had a hard time mentally when we were younger," He pauses to take a deep breath, "He got custody of us shortly after a bad breakup, and well he gained alot of weight, and had bad dysmorphia all the way up 'til recently."

Mikey gives a slight cough, "Well it definitely helped push me more into my Psychology studies. Because that man refused to get therapy!" The audience can hear a mumbled 'Stupid stereotypical Japanese stubbornness.' picked up by the mic, "He's gotten better, but we practically dragged him to every session he had."

After a topic change and watching Mikey do a fairly good job of coloring with the pens, he grabbed a big sheet of paper and asked the chat for little things to draw, within reason.

Mikey explained that he was going to submit it to a charity auction for school art programs. Though he wasn't going to say which place he was going to submit it to just yet.

This got the chat hyped, and they attempted to make a nice work, but a few were planning to find the piece to try buying it themselves. Mikey just told them "Good Luck with that!"

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Masterpost

The Splinter part was a very last minute addition to this.

[woke-turtle-brainrot]

rottmnt human au Donnie^^

pushing the transfem Donnie agenda #swag

heacanons in undercut > <

knee length wavy hair, like REALLY long (you can see I actually marked it on the full body drawing)

like 75% Japanese and 25% black (basically I headcanon their mom was half Asian and half black, also splinter is 100% Asian)

lilac boy fan (she's a music artist, one of her songs is below)

16 years old (post-krang)

came out as trans at like 7 years old (early bloomer 😌)

transfem demi-girl (she/they)

bisexual

asexual

anorexic

autistic (duh)

spent like 1 month in a mental hospital when they were like 13 (suicide attempt, you know how it is)

ever since the attempt when they were 13 it is mandatory that they have at least one dr feelings sessions per month (which may seem like not a lot, but it is for Donnie)

English is technically their 3rd language (learned ASL and Japanese first despite none of her family knowing either other than Leo knowing ASL)

EXTREMELY bilingual (got like 7 languages on her roster, not including morse code and nerd shit like that)

INSANELY sensitive hearing (has to wear special earplugs always or else they fucking die)

insomniac plus somniphobia (fear of sleep)

emetophobia (fear of vomiting)

arachnophobia (fear of spiders)

atheist

loves baking (Mikey taught her it as coping mechanism)

love language: gift giving/acts of service

twins with Leo (fraternal, not identical)

dating Kendra (because fuck you that's why)

touch averse 99% of the time but makes exceptions occasionally

fucking emo

dark reddish-brown eyes (like in 2012)

electives: computer science and engineering (also took a few art classes in middle school and genuinely enjoyed them)

strangely good at drawing (prob cause of like, drawing blueprints and the 3 art courses they took in junior high)

could easily skip like 3 grades but chooses not to because Leo would be sad

Kuromi-core (Sanrio)

goes as a simple sheet ghost every single Halloween

sensory issues

hates change

loves the "vampire blood" scent from bath and body works, it is literally the only perfume they use

still in touch with birth mother (visits her with Leo every weekend)

fucking woke, if it wasn't obvious

e-girl vibes

doesn't watch anime (other than dan da dan and the ghost stories dub because they are funny as fuck)

horror movie night every Friday with Leo and Kendra

Lexapro

lilac boy song ^