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For those of you who do not know, Oyuki Mamisha was a character in the Archie series who showed up at the same time as Ninjara. In my opinion, Oyuki did not get enough attention in the series.
Her story is basicaly this: she had been living on the streets of Hiroshima for a long time and had to steal to survive. We first see her on a stoop, smoking a cigarette - she is pretty and young, in her mid teens. Her hair is short but hangs in front of her left eye - too bad, 'cause she has nice eyes - oddly, they are blue.
Ninjas kidnap her and take her to Chien Khan who wants to sacrifice her in order to bring a demon to Earth. The turtles save her with Ninjara's help - it is Mike's nunchuck that knocks the knife out of Chien Khan's hand as it is about to run her through. Mike and Oyuki strike up a fast friendship. She teaches him how to fly a Japanese kite and they trade haikus -
MIKE:
"Rickshaws of pizza
Yin Yang crust upon My brain
Turning Japanese"
OYUKI:
"Green friends and mad dogs
I'm Alice in Wonderland
Metamorphosis."
Oyuki goes back to the States and moves in with April. April gets fired from the station and goes freelance, Oyuki becomes her camera operator. She can be tough, opinionated, naive, or seductive - all depending on what she needs to be. She always seems to be focussed on Mike's well-being, though.
An illustration from the comic that truly hit home the Mike/Oyuki relationship for me was the one in ish #59, after Mike had been rescued from the USCGS Dator, where he had been tortured. At the end of the comic Oyuki is standing by Mike with her hand either in front or on his face (it is hard to tell) and it looks like his hand is under her jacket. It may have been my imagination, but the way they were smiling....
Anyway, the M/O relationship was never developed beyond friendship - thus my afinity for a slight M/O content in my stories. I think that they could have grown closer if she had been given more time on the pages of the comic.
In a 1994 ish there was a flash-forward to 2000. By that time Oyuki was a reporter, herself - and had become quite beautiful. In that time line she was in her early twenties.
I know that the M/O relationship is unfamilliar to most of the fanfic readers out there, but as my favorite (kinda-not-really-but-could-be...)couple, I'll use them from time-to-time...
