Decided to do a Thanksgiving fic...mostly because Musaki has never celebrated it before and the opportunity comes with him celebrating it with his relatives along with Arizona, Ruiz, Shing, Kazuo and Zeke. Hope ya'll like!


Thanksgiving with Musaki's Relatives

by: Terrell James

Chapter 1: Invitation

It was a clear afternoon at the Jade palace and at the courtyard, near the Training Hall, Shifu goes through some yoga with Arizona and Musaki, teaching them his version of the technique. So far, Musaki's got a lot of progress into it and he excels better than his own, but Arizona still has a long way to go with Shifu's yoga. He keeps holding his foot, but is struggling to stay balanced throughout. He keeps grunting and straining to keep himself steady and he muttered under his breath, "And I thought that yours was so much easier."

Musaki grunts in effort as he stretched his back against the air and he looked at him and added, "It's kinda the same thing as my own. Seems kinda easier for me."

Arizona tries to keep his balance straightened, but he ends up falling down and landing on his butt. He groans in frustration, stands up and he told him, "At least one thing stays the same-falling down on my butt more than once."

Musaki rolled his eyes on that comment and he told him, "At least be able to keep your balance."

Shifu turned to Arizona and sees that he really is struggling to do his version of Shifu's yoga and he adds, "I see you're having trouble with my yoga."

Arizona chuckled nerviusly about that and he said, "It's just that...I'm used to Musaki's yoga and yours is kinda...what's the word I'm looking for?-difficult to learn."

Shifu could see his point, but he assured him that it's the same as Musaki's way of doing so. Arizona tries it again and he's trying his best not to suck at it and within a few minutes, he almost got it and Musaki could see that he got this down pat. He chuckled softly and he said, "And it only took 20 minutes."

Shifu looks at both of them and he complimented on their efforts and tells Arizona that he still needs to work on his yoga skills, which he understood perfectly. He takes a deep exhale and scratched his spiky mohawk and told him, "I guess that was a good exercise, but I do feel at peace."

All of a sudden, a voice came out of nowhere and shouts, "Master Shifu, an important message from someone named Xing-Fu!"

Shifu and the others-except for Musaki-seemed confused on who Xing-Fu is. Po stood up, looking extremely dim about who it might be and he looked at everyone else and asked, "Does anyone know a Xing-Fu here?"

Arizona was the one that didn't seem to get the whole gist of it and he replied, "I don't think I've heard of that name before."

Zeng landed on the ground, panting heavily and he said, "That's funny. I thought for sure he'd be here by now."

Shifu went over to him, looks at the scroll and he added, "Where did you get this from?"

Zeng took a look at where the location is and he answered, "It's from a place I've never heard of before-from Shanghai Secluded Valley."

Musaki immediately knew about that location because it was his relatives' home and he quickly went over to Zeng and said, "If it's from Shanghai Secluded Valley, it must be from me."

Zeng hands the scroll to him, with his beak dropped open and he asked in a shocked expression, "Y-Y-You're Xing-Fu?"

Musaki nodded his head and Arizona seemed kinda confused and in disbelief by that and he said, "I thought Musaki was your only name."

"Well, that's part of my birth name but you haven't heard the rest of my full name; Xing-Fu Musaki Ko-Kanji Bushido Akio-Meng Cheng Xi-Wang."

Everyone's mouth was gaped open in shock as Musaki gave out his entire name and Arizona was the most surprised and shocked as ever because he did not know he had such a longer birth name and he said, "That's a mouthfull."

"It consists of both Chinese and Japanese descent, because I'm kinda part Japanese and part Chinese at the same time. I kinda forgot about my entire full name until just a few months ago when I was searching for who I really am and where I came from and who my parents were." Musaki explained.

Musaki opens up the scroll and he began reading on what it consists of the message and he said, "Xing-Fu, how have you been? Are you a kung-fu master yet? I am writing you this message to invite you and Zeke to come over to my village for a Thanksgiving holiday with us. All of us were really excited that you were still alive that we decided to invite you over to Shanghai Secluded Valley for that little celebration and to see your entire relatives, most of which are dying to meet you. On your last visit, you've met most of them, but not all. Now is the perfect time to meet them face to face for this special occasion. You can bring a few guests if you'd like because the minute they come, they're automatically a part of us as a whole. Your uncle Mako and all of your cousins are invited to come as well and we cannot wait to see you. Oak Sung."

Arizona looked at the scroll and then he asked, "Who's Oak Sung?"

"The most wisest philosopher in the entire Valley...and my grandfather." Musaki answered.

That reaction shocked Arizona to the core and he never mentioned that to him before and he asked, "You have a grandfather?"

"Yeah. I lost a few memories of him after my parents died, but have since been regained back in my brain. As did my relatives and I guess I wanted to find out what my parents were like and who they were, I guess I did some soul-searching one day and actually went there with Po, Shifu and the Five and we met my relatives, some of my dad's old friends and my other cousins." Musaki explained.

Arizona seemed a little curious about that and then in a quick twist, Musaki turned to him and asked, "Would you wanna come and see my family?"

The young wolf was a little hesitant about seeing Musaki's relatives and he said, "I don't know, Saki. Are you sure they'd be cool with it?"

"Dude, you're the guest. They said to bring a few guests and me and Zeke will take you, Kazuo, Shing and Ruiz with us so you can see what it's like there."

Shifu and the others felt like it's a good time as any for them to see Musaki's relatives despite Arizona's hesitations and he told them, "Musaki's correct, Arizona. You have to see the aspect of what it's like to see what makes Musaki special and to meet his family for the first time."

"But...what about you guys?" asked Arizona.

"We'll be just fine." Shifu said, with a chuckle.

Soon enough, Shing went outside to get some fresh air and sees Musaki and the gang standing there and he said, "What's up, guys?"

"Not much." Musaki replied.

"What's this I hear about Musaki having relatives?"

"My grandfather invited me and Zeke to a little Thanksgiving family tradition in Shanghai Secluded Valley. You, Arizona, Kazuo and Ruiz are invited."

Hearing this, Shing was very amped up about this and he asked, "You have more relatives? We'd love to go."

Musaki turned to Arizona and he assured them that it'll be a great place and he said, "My old home has more species rather than us pandas. It has rhinos, monkeys, tigers and wolves."

Arizona lightened up a little when he heard that there were wolves loving there and he asked, "Are they cool?"

"Most definitely. Who knows, you might meet one that you'll want as your friend...in your species."

Arizona nodded his head a little and he looked at the others and he asked, "Is it cool if I go?"

"Absolutely." Shifu answered.

That brightened Arizona up as he let out a chuckle and said, "I guess I'm invited."

"Awesome. We pretty much leave tomorrow." Musaki added.

"Tomorrow?" Shing and Arizona asked, in unison.

"Yeah, but if you like, the six of us can spend the night at Uncle Mako's house and we go with them to Shanghai Secluded Valley."

"Sounds good to me...and I can't wait to see Max." Arizona said, with joy coming out of him.


Not much, but I'd say it's a good start. There will be more coming up!