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yellowhollyhock · 1 month

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fireworks!!

gonna try writing the mutant mayhem kiddos! this one’s a fluffy piece none angst ❤️

tw embarrassing teenage crush and teasing about it (Leo’s on April).

Raph banged on the bathroom door. “Come on, Leo, we have to go now if we want to get a good seat.”

“This is our first time watching in person,” Leo called back. “I wanna make a good impression, Raph!”

“A good impression on who?” Donnie glanced up from his phone. He’d thrown on a hoodie hours ago and camped out on the couch while the rest of them got ready. “People don’t go to firework shows to watch each other.”

Mikey poked his head out of his bedroom. “He just wants to make a good impression on April.”

Raph grinned, reaching over to give Mikey a fist bump. Donnie ooohed.

“That is enough, boys,” Master Splinter fussed over Mikey’s crooked beanie. “I know the humans are nicer now, but we still have to be very careful how we present ourselves.”

Raph didn’t care. He didn’t care if by some bizarre twist of fate humans hated him after tonight.

He was going to see fireworks in person for the first time ever. Usually they’d watch Time Square on the tv for New Years Eve, but tonight April had invited them to to watch with her from the pier.

Finally, Leo came out if the bathroom. He wore a tucked in button up shirt and a bowtie.

He rubbed his arm nervously. “Do I look stupid?”

Raph and Mikey exchanged looks.

It wasn’t that he didn’t value Leo’s dignity, but there’s only so much you can do, you know?

“You look great,” he lied. “Let’s go let’s go let’s go.”

“I don’t know what the big rush is,” Donnie finally out his phone down. “There’s already gonna be a crowd, you know.”

“We gotta have time to get snacks before it starts!” Mikey bounced excitedly in place.

“April’s expecting us in,” Leo checked his phone, “Fifteen minutes.”

With a little more arguing and a lot more chaos, they were out if the sewers walking through the streets. The little family huddled close with hats and hoodies pulled snug—except for Raph. He couldn’t help bounding ahead a bit, and let his unzipped jacket flap in the cold wind.

“What took you guys so long?” April demanded, shifting from foot to foot to keep herself warm. A crooked smile kept them from taking her impatience too seriously.

Raph scurried to get a spot on the blanket she’d set out. “Have they started yet?”

“It’s not even dark yet, Raph,” Donnie settled down next to him.

He groaned. “First Leo and now the Sun? Why does everything take so long?”

He got a few scattered laughs instead of an answer. Leo sat down on his other side—next to April, which would be why he was sitting so stiffly—and Mikey plopped himself behind them, leaning on their shells.

“Who’s gonna come with me to get snacks?”

Raph let the world shuffle around him as snacks were obtained and the family repositioned. He half-listened to April and Donnie exchange stories about school. He distantly sympathized with Mikey’s noises of disgust and alarm when Splinter greeted Scumbug. His eyes were on the sky.

It was worth the wait, when Leo pointed and Mikey grabbed his wrist. He stood up for a better view, hearing it whistle but seeing nothing. It rose in pitch, and he followed the sound, until

BOOM

Gold and red scattered across the sky, crackling like cereal and slowly fading until only smoke was left.

Raph cackled. Splinter smiled fondly at him. Mikey laughed with him. Donnie leaned against him in silent solidarity.

“This is nice,” Leo said softly.

And it was nice—sitting together in the nighttime air, unworried about the groups gathered around them. But it was so much more than nice. The variety of colors, the smells of smoke and popcorn and traffic, the ultimate satisfaction of hearing and watching the buildup and inevitable release—

It was exhilarating.

#ngl i don’t know how firework shows operate in big cities #tmnt #mm tmnt #mm raph #march for raph #yellow writes

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ranmanjuu · 4 years

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Me again sorry if I’m spamming can request how the boys react to going to the future with mc be everywhere’s in lockdown thank you and stay safe love you~ (๑ゝω╹๑)

there’s probably a shit ton of them hcs around these parts and i feel like i’m just re-wording a lot of things so like,, ahaha i’m sorry. also the character cast is u-t forces cause ngl we have a lot of oda forces request previously and the coming requests dw just showing love to my kasugayama boys

—shingen:

the moment you stepped into the good ol’ modern times, the first thing you realized was that there’s a pandemic going on and with shingen being immunocompromised, it’s surely a danger more than ever. without a word, you quickly drag him into your apartment first thing’s first.

you quickly told him to take a shower (to which he’d probably jokingly invite you in, but to be fair, he doesn’t really know how bathtubs and shower heads are used). you didn’t have men’s clothing, not for his size so to say, so you just settled with your big, stretchy jackets you had.

after explaining the situation, you did consider going to the hospital for his treatment,, on one hand, if shingen doesn’t do it, he’ll. . .you know. and if he does, there’s a chance that he could get infected (with hospitals being a breeding ground for the virus).

in the end, you decided to do it.

even after that, you were always careful with things like going out, mostly you taking care of the shopping and everything. you kept reminding him to wash his hands, social distance, etc.

and frankly, while he understands social distancing, he doesn’t like it. he just wants to hug and kiss his deity lover! prepare for the man to just recite poems so damn dramatically for this.

(^ this includes the amount of pickup lines increasing by a lot. the fact that he can now search some up from google doesn’t help.)

there’s a lot of things you do in quarantine, and you’ve found that the amount of carpentry has increased significantly prior to this.

said carpentry ranges from tables and chairs, to small decoration carvings of birds and the likes. the smell of wood now wafts in the air more than ever.

you’ve now replaced yukimura for his dieting of sweets. his illness may be gone, but teeth problems could still arise! but shingen can have some modern candy once in a while, as a treat.

as for the reaction of the future in general—shingen finds it so, so warming how relatively peaceful it is compared to the sengoku. yes, protests are happening and there’s practically a new type of war going on (he most certainly advocates for human rights, etc), but it’s a step to a new light. a world he wants.

—kenshin:

you’ve had conversations of the future before—most of them on a,,, bizzare note, with the topic being on swords and war (or lack thereof), etc. a silent agreement was made between you two to not have kenshin be in the future since he’s missing one of the things he ‘needs to live with’ (them being war, sake, and you).

but a lot of improv had to be done when the wormhole was much more stubborn and managed to pull you through.

right after you figured out what happened, a security guard immediately came and told you to wear a mask (considering it’s a must). you had to haul kenshin back to your house before he attacks the guard with his sword.

after cleaning the two of you from any virus, you began running things over to him about the future. aaaand he’s already thinking about keeping you in your house by any means so you don’t get caught by it.

but you managed to convince him otherwise, you did have to go shopping and the thought of kenshin doing it with all the foreign technology around him made you sweat nervously.

no, kenshin, sake isn’t a need but you will buy it for him cause he won’t be able to survive, you feel.

you thought a peaceful modern world was bad enough for kenshin to reside in, ohoho, wait until you realize he can’t even go outside and fight sasuke and all that jazz.

a thought crossed your mind to learn how to duel and fight using mop sticks but he shot down that thought.

in the meantime, most of your days were spent in the garden with his sea of bunnies (how they got there, you don’t know) and mostly tending to them so they don’t contract the virus (kenshin almost flipped when you told him that rabbits could do that).

and by night, you spent it by looking out to the city skies (but the light from the buildings doesn’t hit like the stars do) and drinking sake.

he’d also be against social distancing, but—unsurprisingly—only to you. after a while that rule goes out the window as he cuddles you to death from being touch-starved.

i feel like he’d be interested in the past (or future, to him) wars just because. he’d read up about the wars from all sorts of places. and sometimes, you’d catch him with a deadly smile and say, “that sounds like a great idea, i should wage one like that.”

you had to remind him no, you can’t start a war cause you want to.

—yukimura:

he’d flip straight up by the idea of there being a pandemic in your time. you never talked about this when you told him you came from the future!

he’d probably groan at first with the thought of having to hole up for a long time, but he’d quickly understand. it’s for the benefit of the immunocompromised and the old, he’d like to help by following the rules.

besides, he has you. he’ll cope.

at first, his plan was for you to just let him do all the work during lockdown, like going out and stuff. he was non-chalant, if a bit stubborn.

until you mention groceries.

you start firing him questions, do you know what we need? do you know how much of it we need? or which one is which at all?

he shuts up after that.

yukimura will definitely do those workout things on youtube, and you’ll probably be roped into it. rip to you but you’re gettin’ buff during these lazy times.

small, silly arguments would most likely be the norm for you. it’s a bit of spicy bickering back and forth, you both find it amusing and it’s a way to stimulate the brain, no matter how stupid the topic is.

it can range from if mugwort mochi is better than chestnut dumplings, and you’ve even gone out to search for light topics to have small debates over.

occasionally, he’d invite you outside to watch the skies. the colorful lights from the tall buildings kind of reminds you of the loud fireworks during the festival back in the sengoku—only if they became stars instead.

much like shingen, yukimura is thankful of the positive changes in the future. horrible things may have stayed, but as long as there are people advocating for a fair and peaceful world, he can spend his days beside you.

—sasuke:

as any situation, sasuke was prepared as ever. the second you went to the modern days, he pulled out a spare mask (dw it’s clean) from his pocket and handed it to you. remembering the rule of mandatory masks, you quickly put it on.

you couldn’t really have a discussion about time-travel in the open, so you both went to your apartment.

sasuke is definitely well-versed in the virus, dumping most everything he knows unto you to better arm you with it yourself.

somehow, he could calculate how much groceries and overall shopping in any timeframe. a month, two, etc. so you find yourself bringing him out shopping with you.

since he’s now in the modern world, the amount of him being holed up kinda increases. if he’s learnt so much from a youtube tutorial, imagine the absolute machine he’d be by the end of it.

yeah he’s that guy who learns 45 million skills.

sasuke might seem unbothered by having to keep distance from you, but he really isn’t. you can tell; by the way his lips tighten, or the way his eyebrows furrow sometimes.

would regularly remind you to wash your hands, and would always say to take a bath each time you go home from the outside. if you’re ever sick, he’ll somehow have the perfect medicine ready.

you binge watch shows all the time, it’s another form of bonding cause you two already know about them. you’d spend nights on the couch with a blanket and snacks, discussing about things ranging from theories to crack cotent.

you really wouldn’t trade it for the world.

—yoshimoto:

honestly, yoshimoto isn’t even much interested in the future. mostly just how far art’s gotten (and trust me, it’s gotten so far). such is the situation when the wormhole caught you two.

he probably got sidetracked from the first art he could see (probably street art in this scenario) after you barely identified you went to the future.

again you must haul this pretty man after being told off by a security guard for not wearing a mask.

your biggest problem is probably his massive fascination with modern art. endless hours were used to have a talk that, no, he can’t go to an exhibit right now.

so you improvise.

you gave him a hand-me-down phone, or just share a laptop, and teach him the concept of digital art, along with how to operate certain social medias so he can browse around.

downside is he is currently—and unknowingly— planning to get you broke by commissioning artists. also he may or may not’ve been doing posting questionable things on his accounts (you really shouldn’t’ve given him one,,)

and so to fix the problem created to solve a problem, you decided to take it into your own hands.

popping out all the drawing supplies you’ve ever had, you began to doodle anything and everything, every day. and each one, you’d show it off to yoshimoto like a child to their parent.

and each time, he still looks at them so lovingly, no matter if it could hypothetically be classified as chicken scratches. as long as you make it, in his mind, it’ll be something worth cherished for.

but your strong suit has always been stitching, so you start a lot of projects of art on clothing. it counts as the one above.

oh—you know those pretty cloth masks? you now have about 100 of these at least, courtesy to yoshimoto.

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