To Lillian,

You're the sick one here.

If you had been paying any attention to previous chapters you would realize that Splinter does have his reasons for not training Kira to be a nin. And aside from that, he does plan to train her in basic self defense.

She isn't going to be forced to do anything she doesn't want to do.

And besides this is a harem story. Of course she's going to be taking each of the turtles at one point or another but not until she's older and decides that it's what she wants.

I've said it before kittens and I mean it, if you can't give constructive criticisim- then don't read or review.

This is fanfiction people. A place to exercise our minds and be creative. I honestly don't give a damn about the rules of the site or the feelings of who whines about my stories. But I'll be damned if someone is going to tell me what to write or try to make me feel bad for what I write just because that person wants to be an ass.

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Several days later-

Leo was walking through the lair. Attempting to gather everyone for lunch when he saw Splinter standing outside of the dojo. His body frozen as he watched something or someone through a small opening in the doors. The blue banded turtle quietly walked up to his father/master intending to ask him to reconsider training Kira to be a ninja when Splinter, without turning his head- held up a hand and motioned for him to stay silent.

Curious Leo blinked and moved to stand next to his master/father, and peeked through the door and bit back a small sound of surprise. Or perhaps it was alarm.

Both pairs of eyes noting, and never leaving the small figure in the training area.

For the past several days since Splinter's refusal to train her- Splinter had noticed that Kira would disappear from where ever they gathered as a family and would lock herself in the dojo and go over kata's that she had learned from watching his son's, before she would walk over to the weapons wall and pick a weapon to work with for the day.

And then she would work with it and do more kata's until she collapsed.

Today she had chosen to work on throwing kunai and shuriken at the target that she had set up across the room, inbetween doing the same kata's that Leonardo did everyday. And so far she had managed to hit the target dead on twenty times. Not bad. Not bad at all.

It was amazing how easily she picked up the skill when his son's had practiced everyday since they were ten just to be half as accurate. He glanced at Leonardo out of the corner of his eye and saw the look of pride on his eldest son's face as his face split into a brilliant smile And Splinter suddenly felt torn between feeling pride himself, in his youngest obvious ability, and going into the dojo and sternly telling Kira that she should give up.

He would not train her and he expected her to obey his wishes however unreasonable they may seem to her.

He did have his reasons.

Kira finished her latest set of kata's and then stretched so that she could try doing gymnastics using some of the pipes overhead. It was upon realizing this that Splinter nearly tripped over his feet trying to get into the dojo just as she started to climb up.

The sound of the door slamming open causing her to look over her shoulder then suddenly lose her grip and slip and fall. A frightened scream made it's way from her throat as her small body hit the training mats with a loud thud. Her head, back and chest suddenly aching so badly that she couldn't breathe as Splinter and Leo both made their way over to her- calling her name.

Her vision blurred as she tried to catch her breath.

Splinter dropped to his knees beside his daughter and carefully slipped an arm under her shoulders and lifted her up as he shot Leonardo a look and barked out, "Get Donatello!"

Leo faltered for a second in his trek to see if his little sister was alright as his father bared his fangs at him for a moment and for the second time in his life, raised his voice to him. "Stop standing there and go get Donatello!"

"Wha? But-"

"No 'buts', go now-" Splinter nearly shouted as he gathered his wheezing and crying daughter up in his arms and settled her in his lap and spoke to her in a low soothing tone as he gently wiped the tears from her face with his thumbs, his dark brown eyes sad as Leo barreled out of the room to get Don. "Hush don't waste your energy crying. Just try to breathe little one," Splinter said in a gentler tone as he looked over his daughter.

Her face was pale, and her lips were starting to turn a faint bluish tint from lack of oxygen- alarming him.

Just how had she landed to cause such problems breathing? Had she somehow damaged her neck or her internal organs? Splinter wondered as Donatello came running through the dojo doors, in one hand he carried the old leather satchle he kept many of his first aid tools in and in his other hand was some strange looking device with a cleave mask attached to it and right behind him were his three brothers.

Each one came into the dojo and quietly took up positions around the room as Don opened his satchle and pulled out several things as Kira's wheezing got weaker and weaker and finally went silent as her eyes fluttered closed, and the room fell eeriely quiet aside from Donatello's rapid movements.

"Kira!" Splinter and his son's all cried out in alarm as Don quickly worked to figure out the problem. After listening to Kira's heartbeat and lungs it was easy to duduce that Kira's fall had somehow caused her neck to become injured in such a way that her throat had closed up and her lungs couldn't get any air.

After feeling of her neck, Don found the problem area and looked at his father and said in his calmest tone, "Put Kira down. I need to brace her neck and put a plastic tube down her throat to help her breathe or she'll die." Splinter tightened his hold on her for a moment, his expression helpless and perhaps hurt, but he quickly did as Donatello bid him and then moved back as Don called Leo over to help hold Kira still just in case she awoke when he was putting the tube down her throat.

Don explained that having a tube snaking down ones throat could be a rather unpleasant experience and fighting against it was a perfectly natrual reaction unless every bone in one's body was broken.