This one will be a little bit short, I have to say. Besides, I'm gonna make more of Kenji's journey, like 10 stories about it, so don't worry. Hope you guys like this one.

Chapter 1

Depression and Reunion

It has been three days ever since I left the Jade Palace and it has been a great depression during those days. In the forest of bamboos, I was eating some dumplings slowly as I kept thinking of Tigress.

I'll come back, I promise... My word echoed through my head.

I opened my eyes and saw Shadow holding and dropping a pile of wood on the floor.

"Where in the heck did you find these woods?" I asked eating my dumpling.

"Like I had to fly around to find and chop down some trees to make fire." Shadow said, "That's a pain."

"Stop your whining." I said, "I had worse."

"What did you do?" he asked.

"I had to carry 500 iron wood per time with Telekinesis back and forth on the thousand steps." I said as I continue to eat my dumpling.

"Was that training?" he asked.

"Er... Yes and no. Shifu wanted me to carry them to replace the training room walls since I keep on crashing the sandbags out of the room and leave a hole in the wall." I said, "And I do it for training, yes."

"I guess." he said unsure.

"Anyways, did you see any port nearby while flying?" I asked.

"Hmm... why do you ask?" he asked.

"Because if we're going to find my memories, I'm not doing that by walking. So I'm going to find them in boat." I explained.

"Why didn't you say so?" he asked.

"I just did." I said, feeling already annoyed.

"Well it's not far from here." he said, "I'm going to check."

He flew up in the air and came back down a few seconds later.

"Yea, it's not far. It's just up north." he said, pointing North.

"Thanks." I said getting up after done eating my dumpling.

I grabbed my bag, placed it on my back, and began to walk up north. A few moments later, I saw gooses, pigs, and one wolf.
The wolf looked at me and widened his eyes and gave me a surprise face.

"Kenji! My best friend!" he exclaimed.

"Hey, Tenzen." I said waving.

We approached each other and gave a hug.

"It's been too long, my friend." he said.

"Yes, it has." I said, "Like... 7 years actually since the last time I saw you."

We slapped our hands left to right, clashed our knuckles and made a explosion sound after we fall back our hands.

"So what brings you here?" he asked.

"Well, I came here to find my memories and uh, I was wondering. Is it okay if I can borrow a small boat?" I asked.

"A small one? Nah, you don't need them. You'll need a big one with a crew." he said as he gestures his hands as a big boat.

"But I need to-"

"Aw come on, Kenji. Don't always go off places by yourself." he said putting his arm around my shoulder and leading me somewhere, "You'll need backup."

"But I can't have people risking their lives just for one conduit." I said with a light complaint.

"Did I say that people are risking their lives for you?" he asked as he raised his eyebrow.

"No, but I'm just saying that I don't want them to come." I growled in annoyance

"Well ask you and me this, why do you go places by yourself?" he asked, pointing at sea.

"It's simple. I don't want people to die for me." I said, shrugging.

"Gosh, Kenji, you're over-thinking." he sighed, "You will have the crew, and no-one will get hurt because they'll just stay at the boat and you can go by yourself going off treasure-hunt. Hmm? How does that sound?"

"Errr... As long as the crew doesn't die, fine by me." I guessed while shrugging again.

"Great! Now, what boat will you have?" he asked showing me like 10 big boats.

"Maybe I'll have... that one." I said pointing at the white and tan boat with white sailing and dark purple outlines.

"Well that one is a beauty and the fastest out of them all." he said.

"Here." I said as I threw a pouch of money behind me.

"Whoa there, fella. It's on the house." he said as he threw the pouch back to me.

"Seriously?" I asked, catching the money.

"It's the least thing I can do for a best friend." he smiled with a shrug.

"Thanks, Tenzen." I said as I hugged him, "You are my best friend and a lifesaver."

"You're welcome. Do you mind if I can come?" he asked, pulling away after.

"Sure." I nodded

As soon as I went in the boat, I saw a lot of gooses and pigs in the boat. They all look at me and exclaimed, "Hey, It's Kenji!"

They all cheered for me and I was happy that they knew me. I followed Tenzen when he told me that he'll show me to my room.

"Here you go." he said, gesturing.

I looked around the room and the walls were beautiful with flowers.

"This is really nice, I have to say." I said, smiling with acknowledgement.

"Well, I'll be outside talking to the crew members if you need me." he said closing the door.

"Okay." I nodded.

I lied down on my bed and sighed in relief.

"How do you feel?" Shadow asked, slowly appearing out of nowhere.

"Still depressed." I said closing my eyes.

"Come on, master. Cheer up. You said that you'll come back and you will." he said.

"But I miss Tigress." I said getting up as I start to worry, "I haven't been away this long from her before. I'm worried. What if she-"

"Calm down, master. You're overreacting." Shadow said taking my shoulders, "Take deep breaths and calm down."

I started to calm down as I took deep breaths and opened my eyes slowly.

"Better?" he asked.

I sighed and nodded, "Yea... So where am I heading?"

"Well... I don't know, really." he said.

"Seriously?" I asked, "You don't know where should I start?"

"Like why are you asking me?" he asked, cocking his head.

"Because you know my past, so you should know where are places I should go." I said as I pointed at his chest.

"Hmm, good point." he said scratching his head.

It was silent as Shadow began to think.

"All I can say is, good luck." he said.

"What?" I exclaimed with my jaw down a bit.

"My council is calling me, so I'll see you soon. Bye." he said as he just disappeared.

"Wait! Sha-" I shouted.

But he was already gone.

"Dammit!" I cursed.

He isn't even helping. I thought.

I went outside and we were at nowhere. I looked at my hand and summon a little bit of lightning. But then I saw lightning moving. It seemed like it's being attracted by something or someone. It was going to the west. I looked to my left and looked back at my hand.

"Tenzen!" I called out.

He came in running and approached me.

"What?" he asked, breathing a bit heavily.

"We head West." I said, looking ahead of me.

"Where are we even going?" he asked.

"To find my memories." I said, walking past Tenzen.

"What, you had an Amnesia or something?" he asked as he stopped me.

"Yea." I said, "Something like that. But we head West."

"How do you know?" he asked.

"Look at my hand." I said with a energy ball in my hand, "See where the energy is flowing."

"Yea, it's flowing to West." he said.

"Which means something powerful is there. I'll need to investigate there." I said, "So we head West."

"Aye aye, sir." he said as he saluted me, "Everybody! Let's head West!"

He was going up to the crew until he looked at me.

"It's good to see you again, Kenji." he said smiling.

"You too." I said smiling back.

Then he went running to the crew and talked to them while I looked at the ocean. But then a voice inside my head chuckled. I close my eyes and saw that fire from before.

"You're getting close." he said.

Is that good or bad? I thought.

"It's both for me and you." he said still chuckling.

"Shut up..." I growled.

During his childhood, he met Tenzen. Pretty shocking that he hasn't seen him for 7 years. Shadow went to his Council and leaves Kenji. Very weird about that. Kenji has been wondering why Shadow has this 'Council' ever since he said Council back at the Peach Tree. Yet, he cares for Tigress so much, that he wants to go back, but Shadow was all like 'Get a grip of yourself'. More shocking will come. But this story is the only own and the other stories that I'm going to make, besides the characters from Kung Fu Panda. Tenzen is the one I own, by the way.

Hope you guys like this one. X)