Hamato Yoshi

Hamato Yoshi (also known as Splinter) is a mutant rat and the adoptive father and ninja master of the Ninja Turtles.

Childhood and Future Rivalry
Hamato Yoshi lived and practiced ninjutsu with his best friend, Oroku Saki in Japan. Yoshi's father found Saki as a baby and raised him as Yoshi's brother. When they were older, they both had the same love for a woman named Tang Shen. This sparked a rivalry between the brothers. Tang Shen eventually married Hamato Yoshi and gave birth to her daughter, Miwa. Saki, mad with jealousy and hatred, attacked Yoshi in his home, wanting to kill him. The house caught on fire during the battle. Tang Shen ran to protect Yoshi, but Saki killed her with his blades. Saki's face was half burned from the flames. While Yoshi survived the fire, he left Saki to die, but he also survived.

Leaving Japan
As Yoshi was devastated about the demise of his loving wife, he left Japan and moved to New York City where he was under the alias "Splinter". During one day, he bought four baby turtles from a local pet shop. As he was walking home, he walked into a suspicious man, who he followed into an alley. He watched as the man exchanged a canister of mysterious ooze with another. He stepped onto a rat, which gave away his hiding location. A fight began between the two men, the canister broke and him, along with the turtles were covered in the ooze. He instantly became a giant rat and the turtles grew larger in size. For the following fifteen years that passed, he raised the baby turtles as his students and children and trained them with Ninjutsu.

Present Day
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