rottmnt oneshots

nailed it 🧡🐢

summary: mikey paints his brothers nails their representing colors
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i drew the picture at the top! 😊

mikey hummed to himself as he painted the last coat of red paint on his pinky nail. well, i mean he only had three fingers, which he called his thumb, pointer, and pinky. he held his hands out in front of him with his fingers spread to admire his work. he had painted each of his nails for his brothers - red pinky and thumb for raph, blue pointer and pinky for leo, and purple pointer and thumb for donnie.
as he admired his handiwork in the sewer light, an amazing idea dawned on him. what if they painted all of his brothers nails to match the others colors??
he immediately jumped up and ran to raph's room, knowing that he would be the most chill of the three.
"raph! raph! raph!" he called, running into the room with his nail kit. it was filled with his large assortment of colors and accessories.
he was sitting on his bed, and immediately looked up from what he was doing, smiling at mikey. "hey, lil bro, wassup?"
mikey sat down in front of him, looking up at raph with stars in his eyes. "can i paint your nails??"
raph didn't even question it, smiling bigger and holding his hands out towards his brother.
mikey was bouncing up and down as he flipped open his nail kit, pulling out all the colors needed. "so basically i painted my nails as all of our colors, and i thought i'd do it to everyone!!" he said, showing off his nails.
"great idea mikey! can't wait to see it when you finish!"
mikey rambled on about anything and everything as he worked, making raphs match his but replacing red with his orange.
"aaaand done! hope you like it!"
raph held up his hand to admire them, the colors popping even more as they contrasted with his white hand wrap. "wow i love it! thanks lil bro"
"yayyyyyyyy!" mikey said, hugging his older brother and quickly packing up his things. now to find leo.
mikey found him skateboarding on their ramps they built.
"leo! leo, hey. do you want me to make your nails look ✨fabulous✨👀👀?"
leo immediately looked up and ran towards him with stars in his eyes. "um, YES"
he ripped mikey's nail kit from his hands and started pulling out all the blues and glitter.
"wait wait! um... i kinda had something in mind already," mikey said sheepishly.
leo froze, caught with 20 bottles of nail polish in his arms. "right right of course," he said, throwing them all back in the case. "what did you have in mind?"
mikey showed leo his hands and explained what all the colors meant.
"ahhhhhhh good thinking hermanito! that way every time they look at their hands, they'll think of me." 😏✨"buuuut could i have the brightest glitteriest of the colors?"
mikey laughed, expecting no less "of course,"
he began to paint his pinky a vibrant but soft orange, adding gold stars and glitter overtop. purple, which he chose to have on his pointer finger for "pointing and laughing at donnie", was the same, but the stars and glitter were silver. lastly he painted his thumbs a blood red and added (per request) small sparkly 3d spikes. then mikey added two smiley faces on his pinkies. mikey asked if he wanted to add any accessories to donnie's, but leo just wanted his to just be glittery.
after two hours (it needed to be perfect!) he was done.
"oh-ho-ho-ho! now i'm riding in style!" leo exclaimed, holding his hands out at different angles to see it in different lighting.
now all that was left was donnie, which could be a tad more difficult. he was very sensitive about physical touch and sensory things. mikey wouldnt force donnie to do it of course, but he really wanted his brother to join in on it.
he tentatively walked into his lab, doing his best not to suprise him or interrupt his work. he didn't say anything until he saw donnie in front of him, who was still turned away and didn't look up from his work. he still knew mikey was there because he heard the footsteps. "yes, dearest brother?"
mikey took in a deep breath in and began frantically rambling. "hey, uh, donnie! ummm... so me and our brothers... well i mean it was my idea, but they were in on it and i thought you'd like to be too... but basically..."
"get to to the point, michael." donnie drawled, turning around in his swivel chair to look at him.
"um... can i paint your nails??"
a stunned silence filled the room and donnie just stared at him baffled and confused.
"I ONLY ASK BECAUSE LIKE so you see iwaspaintingmynailsallourcolorsandiwaslikeawthisissocuteishoulddoeveryonesbutifyoudontwanttothatstotallyfineiunderstand-"
"mikey! mikey, it's alright. i'm not entirely sure why you're doing this, but it means a lot to you. plus if all of our brothers are participating i don't want to be the odd one out."
and donnie didn't say it, but he thought it would be kind of cool to have his nails painted.
mikey smiled and pulled out his nail kit, opening it slowly. "buuuut could the colors be muted? i don't want them to be too flashy."
mikey wanted to make a witty comment back like "noooo my razzmatazz! flashy is my thing, baby!", but instead just nodded and pulled out the muted orange, blue, and red.
"and i've noticed that your colors are all spread out willy nilly. could they be in some sort of organized manner to match my beautiful organized persona?" donnie said, lightening the mood a bit.
"you got it!"
donnie wanted his to be (out going in) red, blue (so he could point and laugh at leo in his own color), and orange.
"aaaaand done! what do you think?"
"i think... im going to look SO COOL while working on my inventions and that my genius is further ENHANCED."
"ahhhh omg wait wait we need to take a picture of them together!"
mikey ran out into the living room with donnie following close behind. mikey grabbed his other brothers and held his phone out, trying to get a picture of all their nails but was struggling.
"here, my good man. allow me," donnie said, claw retracting from his battle shell. it grabbed the phone and held it above their hands.
mikey beamed and enthusiastically stuck his hands in the middle with the rest of his brothers. he looked around at all of them, unique and beautiful in their own ways. he became sentimental and whispered"i love you guys," as the camera flashed.