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The duo shoved at each other angrily. They separated, scrambling off the other, pulling their limbs to their sides and standing at attention, new blushes staining their jade complexions an odd brownish green.
Kagome rubbed her exposed stomach and sides with her left hand, trying to sooth the laugh pains, and knuckled her eyes, rubbing away her tears with her right. "I wish I had you around all the time! This is so much fun!" She sniggered for a few more seconds before taking a huge, calming breath.
Raphael moved fluidly, folding his arms over his shell covered chest once again while turning his head away from her, letting his eyelids slide closed to cover his emerald irises. "Glad we can be your personal clowns." He sniffed, though there was no real malice in his tone.
He peeked at her through his lashes when she snort-laughed. He couldn't help the faint upturn of his lips at the sound.
Leonardo glanced between the two, his cerulean eyes narrowing slightly. "Raph, lay off. She doesn't mean any disrespect." He paused and looked at her flushing face. "Right?" His hairless eyebrows pushed together under his mask in concern.
She held up her hands, palms towards them, in the universal 'I-mean-no-harm' pose, waving them side-to-side jerkily. "Oh! Of course not! It's just… It was a valid question!" She glanced at the perturbed turtle quickly before focusing on his older brother. "And, I don't have any friends here yet, so…" Suddenly feeling mortified for even letting that tidbit slip, Kagome curled her hands to her chest. "Ah, that is to say-!"
Leo held up his hand, smiling reassuringly at the flustered female. "No need, it's not every day that we meet a human that can handle us." He reiterated and watched Kagome relax, another gentle smile crossing her face.
"We can't let the others know, bro." Raphael said, cutting off whatever Leo was about to say to the pretty girl and the blue-masked turtle frowned at him.
"I know that."
"Well, what do you think we should tell them?"
A short silence. "Dunno. That we found some Purple Dragon boneheads and smashed 'em good and leave it at that?"
Another break. "Think Donnie'll buy that?"
"Probably. It's not a lie."
A sigh. "True."
There was a low rumble, making Leonardo glance at his complaining stomach in embarrassment. "Ah, sorry." He looked at Raph's stomach when it followed suit, rumbling quietly in the night.
There was a pregnant pause as Kagome rubbed her palms up and down her arms. It was getting chillier as the night wore on. She seemed to be debating, arguing in her head from the way her eyes seemed to take on a far-away look.
They could see the stern resolve enter her eyes as she came 'back to the land of the living' as Mikey liked to call it when Donnie lost himself in his own mind. "Wanna come over and have a late night snack?" She offered, surprising the two.