One month later-

Kira peeked into the dojo to find her brothers all engaged in their morning training and saw her father, Splinter turn his head just a bit to look at her and squeaked and ducked back behind the door a bit. Splinter smiled kindly and slowly rose from his position on the floor and spoke in a strange language- stopping her brothers from their attempts to pummel each other into the ground before Splinter said, "Kira-chan. Would you like to come sit and watch your brothers train?"

Kira peeked back into the room in an almost shy manner, her dark hair falling partially in her face as she considered her father's question.

It had been over a month since she had been taken in by her new family and while she still had nightmares about her biological family at night, she rather liked her new family. They were a mite on the odd side, sure, but at least they took care of her and tried to include her in everything they did.

Except for the fighting.

For some reason that she couldn't really fathom, they had tried to hide it from her at first. (Even though she could more or less guess why they had such powerfully built bodies and carried weapons on them all the time) It was as if they had been worried that having her know that they went out every night to fight bad guys was a bad thing.

To be honest it was perhaps a little naieve of her, but she didn't see it as a bad thing as long as they came home okay.

Though there had been several times over the past month or so that one or more had come back to their home suffering from stab wounds, gunshots and so on- and though she hated to show it, she always fell apart when that happened. Embarrassing herself and taking away from her brothers the attention they so desperately needed.

She felt a large hand on top of her head and jumped a little bit in response. Crap, she must have spaced out for so long that one of her brothers had managed to sneak up on her.

She tipped her head back and looked up to see who was ruffling her hair and saw that it was Mikey. The orange mask and pale green skin along with the huge toothy smile giving him away. "Hey, wanna come watch us? We shouldn't be much longer and Master Splinter is going to get in on the action." He said coaxingly.

Kira tilted her head to the side a bit and thought for a moment before Mikey gave a frustrated huff and simply grabbed her wrist in a firm but gentle grip and started to pull her into the dojo.

She yelped and kicked out a leg automatically in reflex, not liking the fact that she was being forced into the room when she could just walk in herself, and managed to hook her foot behind one of Mikey's ankles. And shifted her body so that his leg went out from under him while slamming her tiny shoulder against his side between his plasteron and shell and sent them both sprawling to the mats at Splinter's feet.

Splinter looked down at his two youngest children, his eyes wide in surprise (he hadn't known that Kira was capable of doing such a thing to one of her brothers) as the others came over to help both Mikey and Kira up.

"Mikey!" Donatello nearly shouted as he and Raphael rushed over with Leonardo right on their heels.

"Kira!" Raph exclaimed in a slightly horrified tone as he took in the sight of his baby sister partially draped across Mikey's shell looking more than a little dazed from the fall. "Mikey, what the hell!"

"Ugh... I'm the one who got my foot kicked out from under me for no reason and you decide to scream at me. Dude, there is something so wrong with you." Mikey groaned as he shifted under Kira's slight weight and turned his head to glare up at Raph who was reaching down to help Kira to her feet, his expression worried.

"Something wrong with me- You're the ninja dropout that just had your ass kicked by a teeny bopper." Raph sniped back at him as Master Splinter and Leo both watched the exchange from just a foot or so away. It seemed that little Kira had been picking up some moves from watching Raph and Mikey rough house or something.

It was astonishing really since she usually seemed to be busy checking out the books that Donatello had collected over the years, or watching soaps with Splinter. Seemingly ignoring all else that happened around the lair.

Once she was on her feet Kira made the churring sound to thank her brother for his help, earning a silly looking grin from Raph before she looked over at Mikey who was now back on his feet and studying her. His blue eyes partially calculating and partially concerned as he asked, "You okay Kira? You didn't get hurt when we went down did you?"

She made a chirping sound that she had picked up from Klunk to let him know that she was okay along with a bashful smile as he let out a breath and said playfully, "Whew, dodged that ass kicking." Kira chirped again and Mikey laughed as he reached down and scooped her up. "That was a nice move you pulled just now. You know not many people can knock me over like that..." Turning to Splinter Mikey then asked, "Sensei is Kira going to be trained to fight when she's older?"

Splinter looked at his two youngest children for a moment, considering his options before saying. "She will. But only the basics so that she may defend herself if the need ever arises. She will not be a ninja as all of you are."

Mikey gave Splinter a 'Huh' look while his other sons all gave him a disbelieving look as he suddenly said, "Practice is over for today-" And made a quick beeline for the door. No doubt his son's would wonder about his desicion not to train Kira to be a ninja, and right now he didn't want to try explaining himself.