First Words

Donatello

It had been 5 months since Hamato Yoshi and his four pet turtles had been mutated because of the mutagenic ooze.

Hamato Yoshi had to adapt quickly to this new change, because he now had four mouths to feed in addition to his own.

The turtles, now the size of human infants required attention, which Hamato Yoshi lovingly provided, for these four turtles were all that were left in Hamato Yoshi's life.

It was now play time for the turtles and Hamato Yoshi had brought his sons into the lair's dojo. After baby proofing it and removing any sharp objects within it of course.

He provided them with toys to play with and observed them.

Donatello was sitting on one of the rugs in the dojo, assembling some wooden blocks into an unknown structure, as of yet.

Hamato Yoshi watched his third eldest son with interest.

After some time, Donatello had assembled the wooden blocks into a small house.

Hamato smiled at the result, and approached his son.

"A formidable effort Donatello, I am proud of you." Hamato praised his bright son and then not expecting a reply, turned away from Donatello to tend to Michelangelo who was struggling to fit a cylindrical wooden shape into a star shaped hole in one of the wooden toys.

"Da..." Donatello murmured.

"Hmm?" Hamato asked, unsure as to what he had just heard.

"Dada." Donatello said clearly this time.

Hamato's eyes softened, touched by his son's gesture and felt sad simultaneously. Donatello's first word reminding Hamato of his daughter's first word that had never been spoken.

Hamato picked up Donatello gently and hugged his son.

But this tender moment would soon be interrupted as Michaelangelo had grown bored of the wooden shape toy and had crawled over to Hamato and hugged his leg tightly, as children often do.

"Michaelangelo, please release my leg." Hamato asked patiently.

Michaelangelo did not comply and simply giggled.

Thank you very much for reading my story, up next will be Michelangelo's first word.

This is is just for my personal use and memory storage: 2 DAYS 'TILL I MEET GREG CIPES! OMG!