Mike sat in the front passengers side seat of the mini van as Raphael drove down the road towards the school, smiling as he drove down the quiet road turning off to the main road glancing at his mirrors, it was a calm day for driving, only a few cars were seen.

"Nervous Mike?" Raphael asked as he checked his mirrors before signalling to turn right down another road to the school, taking the quiet roadway to avoid any traffic.

He looked at him, "a little, I don't really know what people are gonna be like and what the teachers are like," he replied before looking back out the window watching the trees pass by, "what if they don't want another one there and stuff?" he asked.

He chuckled, "don't be silly Mike, the teachers there are quite nice and don't mind how many new students they have to teach, besides I'm sure they'll like you and enjoy teaching you," he replied smiling as he pulled up to the drop off, "here we are, would you like me to come in with you?"

Mike looked at him giving a small smile, "yes please....If you don't mind?" He said not wanting to be a burden to him already.

Raphael smiled at him, "of course I don't mind Mike," he replied turning off the engine and got out of the mini van, he walked to the passanger side and opened the door, helping Mike out and closed the door before taking his hand in his own and walked into the school grounds as he kept Mike close by his side, "it's a big school isn't it?" He chuckled, "was the town school as big or bigger?" He asked glancing at him.

He looked up at him smiling a little, "not as big as this one, probably one top window less," he replied giving a chuckle and looked at the building more, "you're sure the teachers are nice here?" He asked looking at him a little unsure about going inside.

"Yes, they're quite friendly, there's no need to worry Mike, you'll be fine," he replied smiling at him as they walked into the school building, Raphael looked around as he walked Mike down the hallway passing a few doors marked by numbers before getting to the 324 door number, he glanced in giving a knock.

James looked up from his desk while sorting his paperwork and smiled looking at them, he got up and made his way over to the door, "may I help you sir?" He asked, his long purple hair styled in a evenly spiked style.

Raphael smiled, "yes, I would like to enroll Mike into this school, it's his first time in the country from living in the city," he replied gently placing his hand on top of Mike's head stroking his softly.

He smiled at him, "of course, we'll be happy to have him here," he said and looked at Mike giving him a warm smile, "would you please go and stand next to my desk please, so I may introduce you to the class once the bell chimes," he asked.

Mike looked at him giving him a small smile in return before slowly letting go of Raphael's hand and walked over to James's desk and stood beside it and glanced at him as he looked at Raphael biting his lip wondering if it was too late to change his mind and to quickly go straight home.

He looked at Mike and smiled, "I'll come to pick you up once school is over," he said, "you'll be fine Mike," he added leaving the room and left to his mini van and drove back home.

James looked at him and smiled, "you're father seems very nice doesn't he?" he said giving a warm smile at him.

"W-well he's..he adopted me with his fox wife, I think she's a desert fox," he replied giving a small smile at him, "that's okay right? I don't have to have um..." He asked trailing off a little slowly.

He looked at him a little puzzled at first before walking over to him, "oh no nonononono, of course not Mike, I think it's very nice of them to give you a loving home," he replied smiling at him and looked up once the bell chimed, watching the other students walk in slowly and took their seats at the desks. "Everyone," he began placing his hand on Mike's shoulder gently moving him to stand in front of him, "this is Mike, a new student. I would like you all to be especially nice to him, I'm sure you all remember what is was like starting a new school," he smiled at them before looking at Mike, "there's an empty desk by the window right there," he said giving his cheek a kind stroke and gently gave him a soft nudge forward.

Mike glanced around a little before looking at James giving a small smile before walking over to his desk and sat down, he looked out the window seeing the school fence before looking back at James.

"Alright now, let's have a fun lesson shall we?" James smiled at them, "let's go over fantasy things, for example a unicorn or shall we can call it a unihorn, it only has the one horn on it's forehead, since it's a horn do you think it can play a tune?" He chuckled, smiling as the class chuckled, "ever wonder why they don't call it a unicorn horse or a unihorn horse?" He asked looking around seeing no hands up, "no? none of you know?" He said, "well that's alright, I don't know why they don't call it that either," he chuckled.

He smiled chuckling and slowly raised his hand up, looking at James a moment and bit his lip at the question that was rolling around in his head.

James looked over at Mike and smiled, "yes Mike you have a question for me?" He asked putting his hands on his desk as he leaned back a little against it.

Mike slowly placed his hand back down, "um...what fantasy thing looks kinda like a shadow and kinda like maybe lives in a forest and can vanish?" He asked looking at him.

He looked at him and tapped his chin thinking a moment, "well I'm not sure if it lives in the forest, but if it can look like a shadow and can vanish I would say it's a boogieman, since that fantasy being can move through the shadows like fish through water," he replied smiling at him, "but no one really knows what it looks like since I believe no one has had the chance to properly look at it," he added chuckling.

"Is it dangerous?" he asked biting his lip, "what does it do?" he added biting his lip more looking at him, hoping that what he saw before Raphael and Nei took him into his new home was really his imagination and not what it could be that what they were talking about now.

James smiled, "well not that I know of Mike, well as far as I know, boogieman likes to eat bugs," he chuckled, "I don't believe it would hurt people as far as it goes it's pretty peaceful, perhaps a little curious maybe but wouldn't do anything to anyone," he replied.

Mike smiled feeling a little relieved knowing it was peaceful and only ate bugs, he looked at him giving a nod at him, "umm can I ask you something off topic?" He asked looking at his hair a little.

"Of course go right ahead," he replied smiling at him, waiting for whatever off topic question he was going to ask.

"Um...how have you got hair? I thought turtles didn't have hair," He said and bit his lip a little hoping he didn't ask something too personal.

He chuckled, "ohhh that, well I guess you can say I'm a unusual case, since I don't know either, I guess it just decided to sprout, but not all turtles don't have hair, some do some don't we're all different and special in our own way," he replied smiling at him.

He smiled at him nodding, "yeah I guess we are," he said smiling more, starting to feel comfortable in class as the lesson went on. He smiled glancing around the room looking at the books of math, geography, history and art, Mike smiled more and looked outside his tail slowly starting to wag watching as a few butterflies flew passed the window.

James looked at him and smiled, "enjoying seeing the butterflies fly passed?" he asked giving a chuckle looking at the colourful wings fly by the window it was like watching a rainbow flowing by, it was quite a lovely sight, he smiled walking over to him and tapped his head gently with his finger, "hey, earth to Mike~" he chuckled

Mike blinked and looked at him, "huh?....Oh sorry, I've never seen so many butterflies at one time before," he replied giving a small chuckle.

He chuckled, "try not to let them distract you, they distract me sometimes," he smiled as he walked back to his desk, "so as I was saying, art comes in many different forms and styles. There's the realistic style, cartoon style, picasso style and so on, as well as sculptures, some from rock, ice and clay, paint, colouring pencils and chalk, you can have a lot of fun with art, it doesn't have to be accurate or perfect, as long as you are happy with what you've sketched, painted or sculpted then it's perfect," he said smiling at them. "So for this lesson you can do whatever art you like, but no rocks just clay for sculpting it's a whole lot easier" James chuckled.

He smiled as everyone went to get their art supplies to what they wanted, Mike smiled getting up and walked over to the paper and pencil section, got what he needed and walked back to his desk and sat down as he began to sketch from memory, Raphael and Nei's portrait from the shoulder up, softly colouring in their skin and fur tones before doing their eyes. The coloured sketch looked rather lovely, capturing both their smiles and kind eyes, Mike decided he would show them once he got home, what they would do with it he didn't know, but he hoped they would like it.