Stolen by Love

Chapter 3

My hand starts to shake all the way down to my legs from fear to frustration. I turn around and face Raph, frowning.

"I'm tired. of this. I'm tired of all of this!" All you guys ever do is fight over me, nothing else but ME! If this carries on, then...then..." I close my eyes shut, letting out tears, shouting. "THEN OUR RELATIONSHIPS WILL BE OVER!"

Leo and Raph gasp at the same time, with horrified expressions of the insulting confession I made.

I run past both of them, on my way to get some air in the surface. It's chilly, though, but worth the time to think this over in situations such as this one.

I opened the sewer lid once I'm out of the underground layer, getting up and closing it lightly and run to my favorite rooftop that's four blocks away.

When I climb a ladder, I reach to the top of the third building right next to my spot. I try to catch my breath from so much running and humiliation inside of me.

I take a few steps, stumbling to get close to the bridge that was connected to the third and fourth building, but I stumble down on my knees full of exhaustion and burst out tears.

"What have I done?! All I ever do to my family is make them feel jealousy and pain. If only..." I pant and choke on my breathing and try to speak up, but all of a sudden a shuriken swooshes the right side of my hair, letting out a thin scratch on my cheek.

I turn around and see a female in her teens, with black and blonde hair, hazel eyes and a mask covering up her mouth. She walks up to me.

"Someone ruin your day?"

I get up wiping my tears with my fingertips and study her descriptions.

"Sorry about the cut.." She says with a hip with her right hand and pointing her cheek with the other.

"..Thought you were someone else."

"I-It's alright. And yes, someone did make me a little upset." I face my head down twiddling my fingers of embarrassment.

"Sorry for the intrusion, but do you happen to be familiar with a girl named 'Claresa Shimada'?" She asked holding her katana base behind her back in a hip pose.

I start to shake with my head still down, squeeze both of my hands together and close my eyes.

"Are you.... from the Foot Clan?"

Her eyes widened and runs up to me.

I look up in hesitation and duck, blocking the strike of her knee cap. She lands on her feet holing out her katana.

"Claresa Shimada, you are hereby taken into custody with the Foot Clan along with my master. Please do not make me use force.

Her eyes squint, meaning that she must be smiling. "Don't want things to get messy, don't we?"

My teeth start to chitter feeling goosebumps all over my body head to toe. Not by the fear, because this damn weather makes every situation horrific and risky.

I take a huge deep breath with my nose and make a boxing position, feeling the air sooth my freezing skin.

She chuckles a few times. "First time fighting a kunoichi?"

"No," I said raising my right hand, moving all my fingers to tell her come here. I smile with my eyes closed, feeling the drip of warm blood go down to my chin.

"Just the weather."