TMNT Oneshots

Raph x reader- Blooming Love Pt.1

Hanahaki disease: Condition where a person coughs up flower petals and eventually flowers if they have unrequited love for another.

Symptoms: Trouble breathing, coughing or vomiting flowers or petals.

If not dealt with properly, will inevitably result in death.

"Oof," grunted Raph as you swept his legs and straddled his shell. You grinned in victory.

"Good job Y/n. Using Raphael's pride as a distraction," praised Master Splinter. You smiled at him then looked at Raph's emerald eyes that were playfully frowning at you.

"Who's the best now Raphie boy?" You smirked. He put his chin on his hand and groaned.

"I'm never gonna live this down am I?"

"Nope," you said, popping the P and getting off him. You reached down a hand to help him up before a tickle in your throat made you freeze.

"No. Not right now." You turned away and tried to cough as quietly as you could into your arm.

"Are you alright?" You heard Donnie ask, his tone gently concerned. You brushed off the small leaf that you had coughed up and turned to face them all again, faking a a smile.

"Yeah. Just some-... dust. Yeah. Got some dust in my throat." You said. "I'm just gonna go get something to drink," you said quietly before leaving the dojo.

When you reached the kitchen, you sighed but that brought on another coughing fit. You looked at your arm to this time find a small, but full, white dahlia sitting in the crook of your arm. You stared at it. Raph had mentioned once that he didn't mind dahlias because he found a discarded bouquet as a child. He liked that they didn't really have a smell so they didn't make him sneeze.

"Hanahaki disease. Of course it had to be that." You just threw away the flower but let out a small yelp of surprise when you saw a familiar face staring at you. It was Donnie. His hazel eyes were sad and he just looked at you.

"Oh-..." you said, putting on another fake smile. "Hey Donnie. You startled me."

"Why didn't you tell me?" He sounded hurt. Your smile dropped. Donnie was the closest to you of all the brothers, but it wasn't him that caused this. It was Raphael.

"I-I don't know what you're-..."

"Seriously, Y/n? Hanahaki disease? Why wouldn't you say something?" Then he stopped. "Wait-... who-... who caused it?" You looked at the ground. "Y/n," he said, more stern this time. "This-... it was Raph, wasn't it?" He finished softly. You looked back at the ground, feeling tears well up in your eyes. "Oh Y/n," he sighed and he opened his arms, which in turn you ran into and started to cry.

"Shh, shh. It's okay. It's-... it's going to be okay." He hushed you gently as he hugged you. You sniffled into his plastron.

"D-Donnie. W-what am I g-gonna do?" You sniffles out. You felt him sigh.

"I don't know." You stayed like that for a while until Donnie snuck you into his lab, avoiding Raph especially. Leo caught Donnie eye but Donnie just shook his head and gave him an "I'll explain later" look. You sat on a table as he flopped down into his chair.

"So-..." he started.

"So," you said back.

"How long has this been going on?" He grabbed a notepad to write stuff down.

"I don't know. I would say almost a week? It started off just coughing but then I coughed up a white flower petal. I searched it up since-... it's not normal to cough up fucking flowers-... and I found this Japanese legend." You said. He wrote some stuff down.

"Okay. And is it getting worse?"

"Not really. It didn't change much since it started, but today was the first full flower that I've hacked up."

"What flower?"

"What flo-... how the hell is that important?" You asked impatiently. He just raised an eye ridge. "Fine. It was a dahlia."

"That's right. Raph actually doesn't mind dahlias," he mused. Then he rolled over to his computer and punched some stuff in.

"So what's gonna happen to me?" You bit your lip nervously. He sighed after a while and rolled back to you, grabbing one of your hands and squeezing it reassuringly.

"Well, according to legend, there is two possible ways to fix this. The first is to have the person return your love, which means getting Raph to truly admit he loves you as well." Then he stopped.

"And the second?"

"Well-... the second option is surgery." He said. You sighed in relief.

"Why didn't you just say so? I should make an appointment and just get this done and over wit-..." you froze when you saw his expression. "Donnie?"

"Y/n-... if you get the surgery-... it will fix this. It will remove the flowers from your lungs and make sure they don't come back," he rubbed the back of his neck. "But the thing is-..." he stopped.

"Donatello. What aren't you telling me?" You started to get worried, making your breathing pick up.

"The thing is-... the feelings that you had for him-... they'll never exist again. It will be as if they never existed. And no matter what-... you will never feel that way towards him even if he feels that way towards you. If you don't do either of those-... it will become fatal." He finished softly. You blinked back hot tears.

"So-... what you're telling me-... is that either I get him to love me-... I get surgery that means I'll never love him again-... or I'll die?" You choked out. Donnie gave a short nod. You putt a shaky hand over your mouth as Donnie pulled you in for another hug.

"I'm going to die." You thought to yourself.

The lab door squeaked opened and in walked the leader in blue, a concerned look on his face.

"Are you alright?" He asked. You wiped away your tears and let go of Donnie.

"Umm-... no? No. I'm-... I'm not okay. I have some explaining to do to you." He blinked at you.

"Why does it sound like you're dying?" He tried to lighten the mood, not knowing what was going on, and the mention of death made you start crying again. Donnie promptly walked over and slapped him on the back of the head.

"Ow!"

"You don't just walk into a lab and mention death you idiot," scolded Donnie as he walked back over to you. Leo looked between you two. You sniffled and started to cough, covering your mouth. When you drew back your arm, another dahlia sat on it, a few petals falling to the floor. Leo looked at you, a horrified look on his face.

"Wait-... you aren't actually-... you're-... no-..." he started to panic and looked to Donnie. "She's-... this isn't-... she isn't really-..." Donnie blinked back his own tears.

"Yes. She is."
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Part two coming out tomorrow!!

XX Shadow