9. Animal

From her position in the main room, April could see into Donnie's lab and watched as he walked around, muttering to himself about chemicals and some other words that she didn't quite understand.

April would smile occasionally at something Donnie would do that was so uniquely him, like when he paused to think and the tip of his tongue pointed out of the side of his mouth. April would be lying if she said she didn't think that was cute.

Sometimes Donnie would feel eyes on him and look over to where April was sitting and smile at her, receiving a smile back from the young redhead, although he never stopped what he was doing, never came out to see her, like he would usually if April was all on her own and clearly wanting attention from the tall turtle.

It took everything in her to hold herself back from acting the way Donnie used to, she didn't want to be hovering over him all the time and constantly spending time with him, suffocating him with her affections.

With Donnie too engrossed in his work to come out and spend time with April, she spent her time studying the turtle. There had been something itching at her brain, something that hadn't bothered her at all in all the time that she had known the turtles, until she started seeing one in a more intimate light.

Donnie was a turtle, an animal, his mutation had changed him so he was different from nature's own but wasn't very human. He had no ears or nose, at least not ones that could be seen, his skin was green and leathery to the touch, he had three fingers and toes and a shell!

Some of April's more erotic dreams had lead to some confusion as to where Donnie's genitals were and how they looked and worked. Would he have the same genitalia as a normal turtle? April wasn't even sure that Donnie and his brothers had tails, she had never seen them and if he was the same as a normal turtle...he was going to be huge and that frightened her slightly.

She couldn't just go up to Donnie or one of his brothers and ask them about something so intimate, so she would have to keep guessing.

Donnie being an animal still bothered her slightly and she didn't have anyone to talk to about that, she didn't want to offend her friends, so turned to someone who might understand and be able to help her.

"Karai, are you busy?" April asked as she looked at the girl sitting on the floor in lotus position.

"Not anymore." Karai sighed as she exhaled and slowly opened her eyes to look up at the redhead. "What do you want?"

"I wanted to talk to you about something." April stated as she walked into Karai's room and closed the door.

"Okay, what is it?" Karai asked as she stood up, stretching as she did so.

"Does that fact that Leo and the others are animals freak you out slightly?"

"What do you mean?"

"Well, does it bother you that the person you're into is an animal?"

"Why would it?" Karai smirked, raising a brow and April gave her a worried look. "Listen, yes the guys are turtles, animals, whatever, but they are half human, like me...apart from I look human instead of like a snake, most of the time...it's just the other way round for the guys."

"I guess…"

"They're human in every other way but their bodies April, if we're disgusting for being attracted to that, so be it...I don't care and neither should you."

"I know that…" April said, although she still didn't feel any better.

"April." Karai said, resting a hand on her friend's shoulder, a gentle smile on her face but a wicked gleam in her eyes. "If you're worried about what their 'male' parts are like…" she began and April's face turned pink. "I have been told they are very human like."

"What? How do you...who told you…?" April began to stutter as Karai laughed at her.

"I was curious about their tails, so I asked Donnie who told me that they did have tails but they keep them hidden most of the time so that they don't get hurt and when I asked if that was were they kept their penises...he got very embarrassed and told me no, the human side of their mutation had changed that to a more human like penis, I'm assuming around the crotch area because he walked away after that."

"I can't believe you asked him that!"

"I wanted to know and he seemed like the best person to talk to." Karai shrugged.

"Oh my god, poor Donnie."

"I'm sure he's over it already, so...does that make you feel any better?" Karai asked.

"Well, a bit, but-"

"Good...trust me April, you shouldn't let stupid things get in the way of your feelings, and if this is something that is really, really bothering you maybe you should talk to Donnie about it?"

"Donnie doesn't even know that I...return his feelings."

"Well then maybe start with that first, the two of you need to be more open with each other."

"What like you and Leo?" April countered and Karai glared at the redhead.

"Me and Leo are none of your business." Karai replied, becoming defensive.

"Sorry...maybe I should talk to Donnie."

"Yeah, you should." Karai replied, returning to her position on the floor to continue meditating.

"Thanks Karai." April said as she left the room to think more about what Karai had said and whether or not she should talk to the purple banded ninja.