After the breakfast fiasco, Splinter had dragged Leo, Raph and Mikey out of the kitchen and into the training area where he then got them started on running laps. A thousand of them. In an hour or less. So to say that the three literally fell to their knees exhausted and dripping with sweat an hour later, wouldn't be an understatment.

After all running that many laps tended to push their bodies harder- made it more difficult to breathe... Their muscles burned with fatigue, their hearts pounded so hard it felt like they were trying to punch they're way through their shells, they could literally feel the ebb and flow of the blood in their veins.

All three of them either sat or lay on the cool stone floor trying to catch their breath when Mikey asked, "Do you think Don listened at breakfast? Ya know, about not playing the movie he wanted for Kira?"

Both Leo and Raph looked at him tiredly before Raph replied between pants. "I don't think he did. All he can think of is the story that inspired the movie. He's probably forgotten about the bad stuff that happens at the beginning of the movie. He's stubborn that way."

Mikey made a noncommental sound and flopped over onto his back and closed his eyes before saying between breaths, "But it would upset Kira to see something like that. Especially so soon." Mikey sighed, "Maybe we should have just played tea party or dress up with her."

"I ain't no girl. I'm not playing tea party." Raph growled as Leo reached over and smacked him in the back of the head and snapped.

"If Kira wants you to play tea party or dress up with her, consider youself a damn girl and deal with it."

"No!" Raph snarled back at Leo, earning a dark look from his elder brother before Mikey said.

"I would. But then, I'm a good brother." To which Raph slowly turned his head to gape at him in slack jawed disbelief. Of all the things he could imagine Mikey saying, that hadn't been one of them. Was he trying to point out that he was a bad brother? Raph wondered in irritation. Cause if Mikey was trying to say that he was a bad brother, then the next time he saw him sewer skating- he wouldn't save him from any possible bone breaking injuries like he had last time.

The jerk.

"Just do it Raph," Leo said in a gentler tone catching his hot headed brother off guard a little bit. "Kira is the only female down here in a home belonging to nothing but bachelors. Growing up here will be difficult for her as she gets older. She won't have any girlfriends to talk to. Friends to hang with. We were lucky. We had each other. We still do. There will be times when Kira will be so lonely that she'll long to be a part of the world above again- and when that happens, we have to be there for her."

Mikey rolled over onto his side facing his two older brothers and blinked his pale blue eyes rapidly to keep his eyes from stinging with tears. He didn't want his new baby sister to feel lonely. Ever.

But he knew that Leo was right.

There would be times that Kira would long for the surface and everything it offered despite the fact that they had taken her in. It would only be natural for her to want those things. To go to school. To make friends. Fall in love and marry and start a family of her own. To do everything that they couldn't do... He frowned for a second as a feeling took root in his heart.

Could he maybe be jealous? Mikey wondered as he tried to place his finger on the feeling, but it was difficult to place when he felt so many different things at once.

"I think we should go see what Don and Kira are up too." Leo finally said after a moment or so. Both Raph and Mikey nodded and carefully pushed themselves up so that they were standing as Leo climbed to his feet.