TMNT: 2003 Boyfriend scenario - Love Is Blossoming.

Rainbow night - Raphael

Funny, as it is, every date you and Raph went on seemed to have to end up with a fistfight of some sort. Even your last day in Japan, apparently had same destiny as your last couple of  dates: Someone knocked out.

After a home-cooked dinner, made by Mikey, on your last day on vacation, you and the rest of the Hamato family had decided to celebrate your limited time on the local festival near Anicent One's house. And beside the smug smirk Raph send you, the first time he saw you in your new kimono, everything was well and fun.

Like any other festival, this one was filled to the rim with people, games and seas of fried food. Everywhere you looked, a bunch of Japanese people in either kimonos or odd costumes walked around to the various booths, attending the awful lots of games, where luck was the only real key to success.

Going through the mass, with a around your shoulders, Raph led you past the narrow street of booths, sending bored looks towards the "entertainment". Simple games like these wasn't his kind of fun, you knew that much, but yet still he occasionally asked if there was something you wanted to try out.

"Want to try out some scoop-goldfishing?" he questioned, as you passed a stall giving goldfish out as rewards.

"I'm not in a exact need of a fish," you responded, shaking your head.

"I doubt anyone is in need of a fish."

"Then why did you assume i needed one?"

Giving you only a shrug as answer, you and Raph continued you little stroll, searching for something actually meaningful to do in silence. It wasn't because you hated to go around with no destination in mind along with your hotheaded boyfriend, but if you had to stay like this until midnight, when the fireworks were shot, the future of your poor feet didn't look well. Getas, very uncomfortable, traditional Japanese shoes, weren't specially easy to walk long distance in.

After plenty minutes more of walking, your stroll came to an end at the sight of a tightly gathered crowd before you. Although, already bewildered, your confusion only grew, as the crowd made a collective cheer, like some sort of audience at a baseball-match.

Listening closely to the shouted Japanese, Raph's eye-ridges raised in interest and his expression lighted up a little. "That sounds like something..."

"What does?" you asked, but we're left without a answer. You repeated your question a couple of times, since you were unable to gather the information yourself, but soon became irritated, as you know response received. "Are you gonna share it with the rest of the class or not?"

Finally reacting, Raph looked at you surprised, before a confident grin showed up on his features, not at all adding up with his prior mood. "You know, why don't I show you?"

Instead of giving you a straight reply, like any other normal person, he let go of your shoulders and replaced his grasp by taking a hold of your hand and led you into the ocean of cheering masses. After pushing, and pushing and even more pushing, you at last ended at the center of uproar, only to be greatly shocked by your discovery.

Rather than finding a simple game like the others, you had passed, in front of you now was a boxing-ring and inside of that two largely over-sized men in diapers were hugging each other. Like a bad copy of a pair of babies, the two men, rather than hugging, in reality were pushing and pulling in one another roughly, while they balanced themselves on their feet in order to keep standing.

"Sumo?!" you exclaimed utterly taken aback by how this and Raph's grin could be connected. "Of all sports, and it had to be sumo?"

"It's not exactly a thrilling sport, but it's better than the sissy games the rest of the booths offer," Raph told, pointing towards the two wrestlers. "They're coming at a close."

Supplementing this judgement, the largest of the two men grabbed his opponent and lifted him up, before tossing him out of the ring. You winched slightly at the crashing sound as the poor guy smashed into the ground, but flinched even more, when the winner of the match, turned his gaze in the direction of you and Raph.

"Tiny turtle," the man cackled with a triumphantly smile plastered to his chubby and hairy face. "Only sissies are in such little size like yours."

His accent was even worse than the Anicent One's broken english. This almost shouldn't be allowed to be english. His thick voice made the pronouncement sounds so wrong in any possible way that you doubted even Raph could understand the insult he just had been given.

Apparently he could.

Huffing, Raph crossed his arms, gazing up at the sumo wrestler bored. "Buddy, I can throw you off your title in under 30 seconds."

"WHAT?!" By the declaration, you grabbed your reckless boyfriend's arm, before he could continue his stupid plans. "No, you can't! Don't you remember, we said, we'd watch the fireworks at midnight together?"

As much as you were confident in Raph's brute strength and that he actually could win in under 30 seconds, it didn't make you very happy to let him ditch you in the middle of your date. Specially when the person he swapped you with was a full-grown man in over-size..

"Say, tiny turtle, if you win over me in under 30 seconds, I'll give you both my title and lead you and your girlfriend to the best spot of firework." Stomping in the ground a few times, the wrestler grinned. "Deal?"

"Raph! You don't dare, stepping into-...!"

Raph passed you and entered the ring, cracking his fingers.

"...-What an idiot."

As anticipated, he didn't listen to you. Instead he left you on the sideline, cracked his neck and set into a stance, which the wrestler soon enough took too.

"Time start, now."

And that exactly what happened.

The two of them grabbed each other and joined into a pull-and-push fight. Much to everyone's shock, however, did the way larger and monstrous wrestler not get the better of your trained boyfriend. Even with obvious size-difference, Raph didn't move an inch, while his opponent used all his energy.

A couple of seconds with tucking and dragging, and the fight came to an end. The wrestler tried to swipe away Raph's legs under him with a kick, but the exact opposite happened. As soon Raph gave another strong push, with only one leg to balance on, the wrestler lost his footing, Having lost his balance, Raph with a roar hoisted him up, into both arms and tossed him over the ring's barriers and into the crowd with a crash. A collective gasp was heard, as people quickly emerged away, before they'd end up like a pancake under the large man.

Silence followed.

Just like the rest of the audience, you were stunned by the sight, Outside the ring, the wrestler was sprawled out on the ground groaning while in the meantime your boyfriend stood proud in the center, a awfully smug smirk plastered onto his face.

Like in a movie, the silence turned into booming chants of cheers, and your body on its own crawled into the ring and rushed towards Raph whom greeted you with open arms and lifted you into the air, as he swirled you around. At the same time doing so, the clock hit midnight, and the sound of explosions and 'aw's were heard everywhere.

You could see some of the colorful fireworks reflect in Raph's eyes, from your position above him. Instinctively you smiled, which he returned with one of his own. Maybe Japan hadn't been what you had expected of a vacation, but it certainly had given you many opportunities to create memories just like now: Because the wrestler waa right.

In your new-titled boyfriend's victorious embrace was the best spot to watch the fireworks illuminate.