Kira sat at the breakfast table with her new 'family' eating her piece of toast with all the enthusiasm of someone being forced to eat cardboard. Her bites were small, and measured as she listened to everyone at the table talk all at once about their plans for the day. "I say we start with the fox and the hound." Mikey said as he stuffed a third of a pancake in his mouth then grabbed the maple syrup on the table and downed half of it then swallowed.
"Ew, Mikey. Use your table manners, geez-" Don said before saying, "I'd rather have my right arm amputated than watch the fox and the hound again. How about something else? Anastasia maybe?"
"Oh come on Don- We want Kira to have fun. Not be bored to tears." Raph growled around a mouthful of his breakfast.
"Well excuse me," Don hissed in a miffed tone that Kira had never heard before from the usually quiet turtle. "But I happen to like the history surrounding the story."
"And it helps that it has music to entertain Kira-chan." Splinter said, finally deciding to add his two cents to the conversation. Don grinned at his sensei and propped his chin up on the heel of his hand and said,
"That too."
"How about the little mermaid?" Leo suggested, figuring that it was a safe enough movie for Kira to watch when Raph said.
"You wanna show a movie to our baby sister where some girl swims around the ocean with sea shells on her breasts. Are you insaine? What sort of message would that send to her?"
"That having boobies is awesome- Ow!" Mikey yelped as Splinter struck him on the head with his cane before growling.
"You will never say such a thing again! You're sister is a young lady and we will not sit here and discuss her- er, future attributes."
"Calm down sensei, it was just a joke... Man, I can't say anything without getting hit." Mikey groused as Kira finished off what was left of her breakfast and licked her fingertips clean before scooting back in her chair, noting that everyone had gone deathly silent as she collected her dishes and started to stand when Mikey stood up and took the dishes from her and said awkwardly,
"Sorry Kira. I wasn't trying to be a pervert or anything. It really was just a joke-" He said as he leaned down and kissed her on her forehead then turned and headed for the sink. She sighed and rubbed the place he'd kissed her for a second before feeling a large three fingered hand on her left shoulder and glanced to the side wondering which one of her 'brothers' wanted her attention this time.
As it would turn out- it was Raphael. The red masked turtle gave her an expression that was part smile part grimace, a look that would have scared most people to tears if she didn't already know that like Mikey, Raph was awkward. Both physically and emotionally.
He was one of the strongest of his three brothers- yet at the same time he seemed crippled. The same could be said for his emotions, he had passion, a fierce need for independance- to be his own person, but with no direction. And without direction those things were useless.
Well, sort of anyways.
He could still be his own person and he could put his passion to great use in his work and with his family. She just wondered if he realized that yet as he scooped her up and held her at eye level and said something. But she was so deep in thought that she didn't hear him until Don, Leo and the others were all on their feet crowding Raph- Don's hand waving in front of her face.
She twitched then blinked and looked at him, her eyes boring into his skull as he asked, "Kira? Kira you okay?" She nodded her head slowly. She hadn't meant to scare them. She was just thinking.
Raph sighed and started to hand her off to Mikey, figuring that maybe she had froze up because of him or something when he felt her little hand wind around one of his mask tails and tug on it lightly.
Pausing for a second he frowned and let her play with his mask tail. When she showed no signs of distress or wanting down, he held her a little tighter. bringing her just a little closer and wondered why it was that a small child- a human no less- would be the only female to ever look past his frightening exterior and see that maybe there was more to him than just a brute.
The only other person he'd known that looked that deep (aside from Splinter) had been Casey. "And now there's you..." He said more to himself than her, his voice drifting off to a low churr that seemed to absolutely facinate her if the way she placed her little fingers against his throat was any indication. He smiled at this and churred a little louder, the sound vibrating in his chest and was more than a bit surprised when he heard a faint churr like sound come from Kira's throat.
Behind him he heard and felt his brothers close in on them even more and wanted to snap at them to back the fuck off, but kept his mouth closed and continued to churr while Don asked, "Is she churring?"
"She is." Mikey replied looking outright stunned.
"I didn't know human's could churr." Leo said.
"They can't. Some might be able to mimic certain sounds. But they don't churr."
"Then how do you explain this?" Mikey said pointing to both Raph and Kira who seemed to be off in their own little world.
"I think she likes Raph."
"No shit."
"No shit."
"Huh. Who would have guessed that she'd like the hothead before you Leo- OW!" Mikey yelped, loudly enough to nearly cause Kira to jump out of her skin and piss Raph off at the same time as Mikey hopped around on his uninjured foot. "What the hell did you do that for Leo?" Mikey demanded between breaths. It felt like his foot was broken!
Leo gave him a cold look. "Do what?" He asked calmly, already planning to drop his heavy katana's on Mikey's foot again if he didn't shut his mouth, while Splinter took hold of Kira and carefully pried the child from Raph's arms before she wound up crushed or something by his second eldest son's grip.
Well, this day was quickly spinning out of control for his children.
What had happened to Leo's suggestion of good will and family bonding? Suddenly Mikey let out a whoop and jumped on Leo and started throwing punches- This unbelieveable spectacle was then joined by Raphael, much to Splinter's disbelief as he pulled Kira tighter against his front and eyed his three son's warily and sighed.
Damn, looks like the three would be stuck running laps around the lair instead of bonding with their little sister. "Donatello, please take Kira-chan and start the movie marathon without us." Splinter said as he gently pushed his daughter against Don's legs. Don doubled over and wrapped his arms around her waist and lifted her up out of the way as Splinter rolled up his sleeves and then jumped into the pile of children in such need of discipline, allowing Don to leave the kitchen with Kira- thanks to a small opening Splinter had made for them.