Submissive
Chapter 4: Training
A/N: Hey guys just letting you know this will be a Po/Tigress story after thoughts of where I want to take Kai in my story it wouldn't feel right for Ti and Kai to be together so I think the hate relationship will work guess you could call it Tigress' intuition. Anyway won't ruin it for you guys so on with the story! –Cobra
Throughout the night Kai couldn't sleep not because of the other feline in the next room, he felt strange like he was empty becoming void of emotions and now and again as he thought of the path a howling wind would cut through him. When he was staring into the abyss like darkness he thought he heard something but put it down to the wind. Kai decided to try and get a few hours sleep while he could as he closed his eyes he found himself standing looking at the path that he was thinking of. No matter how many times tried to turn and run away his body wouldn't move like he had no control of it what scared Kai the most was that he was started progress towards the dark path as he got closer he could feel nothing but sorrow and despair. There was an eerie feel about the path just as his body was about to disappear into the darkness a soft voice spoke to him.
"Is this what your heart truly desires young Kai?" Kai's body stopped and turned to the sound of soft voice to be met with an old tortoise.
Kai had control of his body again before moving away from the path before looking at the old tortoise "What do you mean by is this what my heart desires?"
The old tortoise gave a weak smile before venturing closer "Does your heart desire for revenge? For vengeance? If so then I'm afraid only pain and suffering will be the result of your life."
Kai was getting freaked out "Revenge for what? No one has done anything bad to me."
The old tortoise placed his paw on his shoulder before looking into his eyes "Ahhh young Kai, you have to know that there must be balance in the world."
The old tortoise chuckled before walking away.
"Hey wait! Balance what is there to balance? I don't understand." Kai walked with the tortoise forgetting about the path.
"Are you familiar with Yin and Yang young one?" The old tortoise stopped and with his paw he drew the symbol of Yin and Yang
"I guess about polar opposites, if there is one of pure darkness there must be on of pure light I think?" Kai looked at the symbol that was drawn by the tortoise.
"In a simple way yes but as you can see one cannot live without the other as it would disrupt the balance." The old tortoise smiled weakly again at Kai
"I know what you are thinking young one how does this tie into what I said earlier. Because of the outcome I believe you should know. While the Dragon Warrior is a person who truly has a pure heart and can forgive anyone as you've already met him. Because he exists his polar opposite should exist someone who has a corrupted heart and unforgiving." The old tortoise then started to walk off again
"Wait! What has this go to do with me?" Kai couldn't move once again something was stopping him
The old tortoise turned before shaking his head "I'm afraid I have said too much already young Kai."
Before the old tortoise left Kai wanted to know who he was "Who are you?"
The tortoise stopped before simply replying "you may know me as Master Oogway." With that the old tortoise disappeared in a vortex of light.
The next thing Kai feels an extremely painful white hot pain on his head and everything went black before opening his eyes again to Master Shifu standing over him with his flute in his paw.
"I'm sorry but you weren't waking up even with us shouting so I had no choice, you look a bit pale are you alright?" Master Shifu looked closer.
Kai was deep in thought about what he just saw and decided it was best to keep it to himself
"Uh yeah I'm fine Master Shifu just had a...uh strange dream." Kai looked away from everyone hoping they would drop it.
Master Shifu wanted to know everything about his students so he never dropped attention away unless it proved impossible to collect the information but even then he would watch like a hawk to find out what was wrong.
"What made the dream strange?" Master Shifu was quite intrigued about this.
"It was about er..." 'Quick think of something anything!' "Noodles!" Kai cringed as he said that 'Noodles? Seriously that was lame'
The group obviously knew that he was lying and trying to hide what it was about Po and the others laughed except Tigress who just remained expressionless.
"Hmmm yes well dreaming about noodles is strange indeed but back to the day today is training."
Kai was thankful that Shifu stopped pestering him about the dream. Eventually they all left Kai's room and proceeded down the stairs towards the training area where they sparred throughout the day. As they went down Po, Mantis and Monkey were teasing Kai about the 'noodle dream' while Viper and Crane made small talk on the way down while Tigress was asking more like pleading Shifu for her to spar with Kai for the day.
"Master please he's laughing at us, noodles! He's lying. He has no respect for us and needs to be giving a lesson of respect." Tigress was using this as an excuse so she could pummel the young feline for the comments he made. No one ever insulted her and got away with it.
"Tigress what you're talking about is not teaching him respect plus I think you just want to hurt him for those comments he made about your age." With that Shifu snickered he knew Tigress the most.
"Even so he is a Tiger and I am a Master of the Tiger style so it would make sense that he should train with me." Tigress was running out of ideas so was now coming with all sorts.
"It does make sense yes, but this month I would like him to choose what he would like to learn. Don't let that get your hopes down Tigress as you said he is a tiger and we will have to learn that style." Shifu just smiled at the enthusiasm of his student.
"Of course Master." With that Tigress bounded down ahead of the group but as she passed Kai she sent him a glare.
Kai noticed the glare and just sighed to himself as he looked at Po he noticed that his attention was totally transfixed onto Tigress unaware of Kai he dreamily sighed.
Kai couldn't help but laugh at the gawking panda. That broke Po's stare on Tigress. "What?" Po looked at Kai who just smiled mischievously.
"You know you could ask her to get a painting done and keep a copy because it would last longer than staring." Mantis and Monkey overheard and laughed at Po.
"I wasn't staring! I don't know what you're talking about!" Po went on the defensive which made Kai laugh again.
"Dude its fine to have a crush on someone, just chill... even though she hates me I can tell she at heart is a person you want on your side. But Po stop lying to us and yourself it's pretty obvious you like her." Kai just smiled at the panda before laughing at Po's expression.
Po sighed before caving in. "Is it that obvious?"
Kai smiled once again and nodded his head "It wouldn't surprise me if Tigress knew as well considering I've been here for what like a day and I already know that you fancy Tigress and Crane likes Viper." Mantis and Monkey once again laughed quite loudly which brought Crane into the conversation.
"What's so funny?" Crane looked at Mantis and Monkey who was still laughing.
"Nothing Master Crane, nothing at all." Kai just smiled and quickly walked off before anyone said anything again.
As the Furious Five lined up Kai stood next to Master Shifu who started to inform Kai on what each of the masters would train in him. He passed on learning from Po, Viper, Crane and Mantis. As they walked to Tigress before Shifu could even describe what he would be taught Kai whispered pass into Shifu's ears which brought a chuckle from him. Tigress wasn't happy that Kai didn't even bother to listen about the style of his species.
"Finally we come to Master Monkey who specialises in weapons; you can't obviously learn monkey style as you don't have the requirements but I guess you can learn a weapon of some sort." Kai thought about the idea of swinging a sword around quite fun.
"Yeah I'd love to learn how to use a sword." Kai then looked towards Monkey and bowed showing his choice. Monkey just smiled before going into the training hall and bringing out a wooden sword and staff the he used.
"Okay we'll go through the basics like how to hold the weapon and how to effectively strike with it okay?" Kai just nodded he watched the other members of the Five go and do their training. Kai laughed at the sight of Po trying to talk to Tigress who just kept walking.
Monkey caught a hold of he was looking at and laughed too "You think he's got a chance with her?"
Kai kept laughing before looking at Monkey thinking about what he said for a few seconds before replying. "Yeah I can tell Po is a great person, he deserves someone to make him happy."
Monkey nodded before carrying on with the training.
"When you hold your weapon you should treat it like an extension of your arm like this." Monkey was a good teacher demonstrating everything he said before getting Kai to perform
With time passing and the sun setting Kai started to pick up the moves quite quickly and was becoming quite good with a sword.
"Wow, you learn fast Kai I'm impressed." Monkey was impressed at how quickly he learnt the art of swordsmanship though many months away from being a master of the sword he was learning quickly.
"Well I have a great teacher." With that Kai bowed to Monkey who just smiled at the compliment.
"Well Kai I think it's time for dinner. We'll carry on from tomorrow and blitz through the rate your learning you should be able to master the sword quite quickly." Monkey and Kai made their way to the Kitchen where Po was cooking food.
"So Cub about this morning what did you dream and don't lie to me." Tigress looked at Kai expressionless.
Kai shifted around "Why is it important to you? I-I mean why would you care you hate me."
Tigress expression hardened narrowing her eyes at him. "Why do you think that?"
Kai looked around "Erm...you've broken my nose and paw, you've given me the worst bruise on my back from where you've been grabbing me like a toy doll and how you snarl and glare at me every time. So if that isn't hate then I don't know what is." The others just gasped at how bold Kai was.
Tigress just smirked "You know what I've noticed about you? You're an arrogant little Cub that lies to his masters. That you act all tough when words are being exchanged and when it comes down to you standing face to face with them you are nothing but a coward." Tigress then waited for his quick witty comeback but she was met with silence.
"What got nothing to say?" Tigress just smirked at her verbal victory.
Kai just sat there not bothering to think of a response 'She only wants you to snap for an excuse, she's not worth it.'
Kai just lowered his head and ate the soup without looking at anyone. He eventually drifted off into deep thought as the conversation was starting to be drowned out by the memories of Oogway told him.
Suddenly Kai dropped his thoughts and turned his attention to the panda sitting opposite him. "Po do you think there is a person in the world that for cares nothing or for anyone, who never forgives and has a corrupted heart?"
Po stopped eating and thought for a second. "Erm there's a possibility but I doubt there could be such a person. Everyone has someone to care for I mean how could you hate someone for something they haven't done? Why do you ask?"
Kai didn't respond he just looked out to the snowy peaks as he looked towards the peak he once again felt the howling wind pierce through him making him shiver at the contact.
Tigress noticed him shiver again as he looked out the window. 'There's more to him than the others see.' As Tigress looked around she noticed Po staring at her. Instead of saying anything she just let him.
Kai decided he needed to be alone and get some rest. "Thanks for the meal Po, I'm quite tired from today so I think I'm going to call it a night." He noticed Po staring again at Tigress until his attention came back to Kai who was smirking. Before Kai left he walked up to Po and whispered "Dude just ask her, you won't know till you ask." With that Po blushed, Monkey overheard and chuckled. Kai made his way to turn in for the night leaving the Five and Dragon Warrior to themselves.
"So what do we all think of Kai?" Monkey was the first to break the silence obviously knowing Tigress' feelings towards him.
Viper just looked to see Kai entering the barracks to make sure he was not going to hear. "He's alright, quite observant but strange."
"Yeah he's incredibly observant" Po put his paw in his hands making Monkey and Mantis snicker.
"He's a good student learns quite fast." Tigress snorted at Monkey's comment about the good student.
"He's far from a good student that cub is hiding something." Tigress knew something was wrong with him her instincts were screaming at her whenever he was around to keep an eye on him.
"Tigress why do you call him a cub? He's like 17." Po looked towards Tigress who just glared back.
"He acts like one, I don't care what all you think it's just something about him, he just gets under my fur all the time." Tigress looked back to the barracks where Kai went.
"Well I'm going to bed you coming guys?" Mantis hopped off the chair waiting for the others Viper, Crane and Monkey all left leaving Tigress and Po in the kitchen alone.
Po got up clearing the empty bowls and taking them to the sink to wash up he noticed Tigress deep in thought staring at the barracks.
"You know Tigress, I remember you being this hostile to me when I first came and now you took a cannonball for me. Maybe it will take awhile to get used to him." Po kept on cleaning the bowls unaware that Tigress got up and was walking over to him she perched herself on the end of the table.
"Po, about being horrible to you when you first came here...I-I'm sorry okay..." Tigress looked down to the ground feeling bad at how she treated Po.
Po stopped cleaning the dishes when he heard her apologize something that was new to Tigress not once had she ever apologized to someone who wasn't her master. Walking up to the orange feline Po lifted her head up to meet eye to eye before giving one of his trademark smiles.
"Hey you never need to apologize to me okay?" Tigress looked into his jade green eyes.
"H-how can you just forgive me? After everything I did and said?" Tigress felt tears to well up she hadn't been this emotional before only after Po arrived did she start to loosen up at first it was rage that took her because he took what she worked so hard for...but in the end it proved to be right as he defeated Tai Lung, Then at Gongmen she hugged him her first show of affection and it was to him and then said that she could not watch him die inadvertently stating she had feelings for him. When she remembered him being blasted through the wall she thought her world was over that there was nothing to live for. Tigress didn't understand what she was feeling at the moment Po suddenly got her attention.
"Because...I eh Love you." Po blushed up when he said that he took the step that Kai told him to.
Tigress just gasped and looked at the panda before her. 'He loves me? After everything I did to him he still loves me? How could he love a monster...?'
"Po you don't mean that... how could you love a monster..." Tigress started to feel the tears come down her cheek as she called herself a monster bringing back the painful memories of Bao Gu.
"Tigress, you're not a monster, you're the greatest hero in China, the leader of the Furious Five not to mention incredibly beautiful and strong." Po said the last part quietly.
Tigress looked him straight in eye trying to find out he wasn't trying to trick her "Po if I find out this is a trick to make me look like an Idiot gods help you." Tigress then clenched her fist to make her point.
Po just gave give her a smile before taking her paws into his own. "Tigress I would never do that please look and tell me if I'm lying when I say this I. Love. You." With that Tigress felt tears come down her face but these were of joy she then leaned in closer until the lips met.
Kai was walking towards the kitchen trying to get a drink before finally getting some sleep as he walked in he noticed Po and Tigress kissing smiling to himself 'heh good on ya Po' as he walked in to get a class he decided it would be best to announce his presence.
"Congrats you two." Kai walked up to the cupboard and got a glass out before getting a drink.
Tigress and Po quickly broke the kiss as they heard Kai congratulate them; Tigress went from shocked to full blown fury. Po just blushed sheepishly and then rubbed the back of his head.
"Hey er Kai?" Po was going to try and diffuse the situation as Tigress looked like she was ready to rip his head off.
Kai turned around with the glass of water in his hand before replying. "Yes what can I do for you?" Kai acted totally casual not in one bit fussed about the thing between Tigress and Po.
"Could you keep er what you saw..." Kai just smiled before laughing.
"A secret? Of course Po. I won't tell anyone that's yours to do." Kai finished his drink and went to leave but an orange paw stopped him.
"Cub if you even utter this to anyone I mean ANYONE. There will not be a place in China for you to hide and once I find you... well use your imagination." With that her claws slide and nicked his fur to cause a little bit of blood to come out.
Kai felt Tigress' claws nick his fur and winced at the sudden pain spike. With that he nodded "Yes Master Tigress." He then left to get some sleep before his training with Monkey continued.
A/N: There you go Tigress is Po's or more Vice Versa considering I can see Tigress being the dominant one in the relationship. Two chapters in one night heh got nothing better else to do today nothing like a good old story to occupy one's self.
