Just wanted to give you insight on Musaki on doing yoga. Hope this helps.

Chapter 4: Morning Outing

The next morning, Musaki opened his blurry, heavy blue eyes and groaned softly, while he was getting up from his bed. Despite everything that happened the other day, he was suddenly feeling okay. He sat down on his bed, smacked both of his lips, yawned softly and took a little morning stretch. He soon got up and opened the door, exited the room and closed it softly, simply because it's still early in the morning and everyone else is sleeping.

He tiptoed out of the dorm rooms and the hallway to get outside to do some yoga. He ended up in the Valley of Peace and sat down to watch the sun rise, and then, he got started on his yoga. He started by spreading his arms out and lifted up his right foot and held on to his left leg. After, he got down to his knees, then lifted his body up and lifted his right foot.

He started to feel a little less tense and then, sat down on his foot and laid down flat on his back and lifted his arms again. After, he sat down the ground with his legs crossed and placed his paws on his chest and lifted them in the sky and released them together. He stayed in his position by inhaling the good air and exhaling the stress away. He closed his eyes and thought peaceful thoughts.

He opened his eyes and then, felt the wind blowing through his fur and suddenly feel relaxed from doing all the yoga as his morning exercise before he could do any kung-fu training. He stood up to go back to the palace, but he was unaware that he saw Monkey and Crane standing there. Musaki sighed exasperatedly and rolled his eyes, surprisingly unnoticed. He asked, "How long have you guys been standing here?"

"Long enough. We saw you do yoga and we never thought you could be this flexible." said Monkey.

"Well, when you're a panda like me, who's over 202 pounds, you just have this urge of being flexible for some reasons. I like to consider it my morning exercise, because it'll help me get rid of my depression and stress and a little sadness and let in all the good feelings. That's why I like to enjoy yoga, to feel good." said Musaki.

"Wow. That's a pretty cool thing, Lil' Saki. Think you can teach us?" said Crane.

"Maybe, if you're lucky." he said, laughing.

Monkey rolled his eyes, sarcastically and scoffed softly, while Crane took it from an amused level, simply just raising his eyebrows up and down. He followed them back to the palace, knowing that they're gonna start training. Musaki was curious to figure out how did they find out he was doing yoga, so he asked them both, "So, how did you find me here?"

"Well, one sound woke me up and I wanted to see where it came from and it was in your room. Then, I saw a shadow figure walking silently to our hall, but I thought it was Po, at first. I opened the door silently and after 6 seconds, I didn't see anything. Then, I saw Monkey standing in the hall and at first, he might've been making the noise, but I was proven wrong. He saw someone coming out of your room first and we thought we should investigate to see who it was and it turned out to be you." said Crane.

"You guys knew it was me?" asked Musaki.

"Well, from behind it looked like Po, but when we saw those blue eyes, we found out it was you. Crane and I were taken aback from your yoga moves and it has great force and graceful moves that makes us want to relax. I thought kung-fu would be the one to release negative feelings from you." said Monkey.

"It does. Martial arts, karate, yoga and kung-fu eases the mind and soul and they also help you take out all the negative feelings and anger away from you. They're just basic exercises to help build up your self-esteem and take out your frustrations so you can deal with them. That's what it helps me do, get out all my anger and any signs of grief that I have."

"What sort of emotions do you have that prompted you to do yoga, if you don't mind my asking?"

"Um, just... sad, hurt, angry, bitter, scared and somehow depressed and in denial. At that point, I have been coping with grief for 8 years and it's been, like, a year since I lived here. Most times, I sulk in silence in my dark room at Bao Gu Orphanage."

"How long has it been since you've been in there?" asked Monkey.

"From 6 to 12 years old."

"Are you serious?! It's been that long?"

"I have been getting out since then, but no parents came to adopt me, since they never see me."

Musaki pauses for a sec, and realizes that he just didn't feel like explaining the whole story to them, so he wanted to keep it to himself. He turned to them and said, "I think that's all I can pretty much give, so I just don't want to talk about that, at least for today, because it's too personal for me."

Monkey and Crane grew a little concerned about it, but they just didn't feel like asking more questions, so they decided to just skip the subject. Crane looked at Musaki and puts his wing on his shoulder and said, "I'm sorry, Lil' Saki. We didn't mean to just ask you everything about your past. We were just curious."

"It's okay, guys. I don't shut people out mostly, because that would mean isolating myself and out of my element. I would never do that to you guys."

"We hope not." said Monkey.

Crane laughed happily and Musaki let out a small chuckle and they continued walking and talking until they got to the training hall, where they showed up before everyone is here. They looked at the hall and Crane said, "Well, we got there early. Maybe Shifu wouldn't have a fit if we got here before the others."

"At least I hope he doesn't." said Monkey.

Musaki saw Po, Tigress, Mantis, Shifu and Viper arriving to the hall and wanted to keep it to himself that they're coming, but realized he just did some yoga, so he went back inside and awaited them to enter the door. Crane had a suspicious look like he knew they're coming over.

"They're coming, aren't they?" asked Crane.

"Yeah, they're coming." answered Musaki.

As soon as the door opens, Shifu was surprised to see Musaki, Crane and Monkey in the training hall before they showed up. He gave them a half-amused, half-exasperated look and said, "A little early to show up for training, isn't it?"

"Very early, master. Sorry we didn't hear you." said Monkey.

"No, no, no. I'm glad you came here early. And you brought Musaki along with you, too."

"Well, actually, I've been doing some yoga before training. Just want to get some morning exercise before those back-breaking kung-fu tricks. If I don't get any exercise, sometimes, I get a little cranky." said Musaki.

"Just like Shifu does everyday." said Po, coming from behind.

Shifu turned around and saw Po standing there behind him and look slightly annoyed by that comment and asked Po to lower his head down and grabbed his right ear. Po screamed loudly and exclaims, "Let go of my ear! Let go of my ear! I had a bad ear infection with this thing once!"

"Want me to give you another one?" asked Shifu.

"You wouldn't."

"Then, keep your mouth shut, panda!"

"Whatever you say, master. And by the way, my last ear infection, it was sore and it started bleeding because someone yanked on it hard."

Shifu quickly let go of Po's right ear and thought he wouldn't have any parts of that. Everyone else showed up and started to do some serious training. Musaki teamed up with Monkey to see what he got. Musaki got a stick and took him down with a stick fight. He was surprised that he didn't miss a beat and was focused on the training. Soon enough, he was impressed by those flips and moves he did.

Then, Tigress and Po were next to see if they can handle Musaki's kung-fu moves. She was up first and decided to attack him by doing her fancy moves and Musaki used to break-dance moves to keep him from being beat by a girl tiger. He leaned over backwards while Tigress tried to pounce him, but missed and made a swift move to the ground. Then, as she was running to him, she missed again while he leaned over the side, without letting his body fall to the ground.

She became suddenly impressed with his anti-gravity move. Everyone around the whole room was amazed by his moves. Po was next and decided to take him down, but Musaki already knows he's gonna beat his butt again. He tried to go for his moves as he did for Tai Lung, but Musaki made his own trademake footmove by doing a backflip, spinning in the air by 78 feet and landed straight down the ground, held on to the tree branches, spun around and around and flies off, lands at Po and kicks him to the ground.

Musaki winks at Po and said, "Who has some awesomeness now.... panda?"

Po was breathless, thinking that he created those moves out of nowhere and didn't know it. He asked, "How... did you... make these moves?"

"I can't tell you. It's a secret."

"Well, whatever it is, you sure impressed everybody in this room here. Think you can take me on one of these days?" asked Shifu.

"I can take you on any day." said Musaki.

"Perfect."

A few hours later, Shifu sent Musaki off to the town to get a few items in a food shop near the clothing store. He went in and found some stiff for tea, a few noodles, 3 new flutes and other stuff. As he was getting ready to bring them all home, one pig who works there, 35 years old, wearing a black and red robe with an apron, a little taller and has a tattoo of a dragon on his arm, saw all these items and thought that it was too complicated to bring all of these items to buy by himself.

He brought them out of the bags and the pig checkd on all of them. Musaki asked, "Are these almond cookies any good?"

"I don't know." the pig answered.

"I'll give them a try."

The pig looked at Musaki like he's being independent in an early age, which is strange for him. He looked at the bracelet with a tree in it, showed to Musaki and explains, "It's for a friend of mine."

He got all the stuff in a bag, even a rainbow necklace, thinking it might be worth a mint, but Musaki said, "That necklace, my parents used to have a necklace like that and I'm thinking that it would be amazing if I could get the same necklace."

He ended up putting in the necklace in the bag and he said, "I'm gonna need 31 coins."

Musaki reached in his pocket and gavce him 30 coins. As he pig saw all the coins, he looked at him and he gave him one more coin. He took a look at Musaki and asked, "Are you here by yourself?"

Musaki turned to the pig, thinking that he's too young to do all the things by himself, trying to hide the fact that his parents are dead and said, "Sir, I'm almost 14 years old. You think I'd be here alone? Not really."

"Where's your mom?"

"My mom's at home."

"Where's your dad?"

"He's at work."

"What about your brothers and sisters?"

"Yeah, I'm an only child."

That response was a true statement: he is an only child of two deceased parents. The pig nodded his head and asked, "Where do you live?"

"Yeah, I can't tell you that."

"Why not?"

"Cause you're a stranger."

The pig scoffed and then finished checking all the bags and Musaki brought them all home with him. He said, "Thanks, have a good day."

"You, too, kid."

He left the store and he saw Crane flying in, helping Musaki carrying all these stuff back to the palace. He turned to him and said, "You won't believe what happened at the store today."

"What happened?"

"Well, he saw me with all these stuff and soon enough, he asked me that I'm here by himself. I didn't want him to think that, so I didn't tell him about my personal answers about my parents, because he doesn't know that they're dead and live with you guys and I kept it that way."

"Think he knows you live with us?"

"Absoultely not."

Came up with the idea for Musaki to do the anti-gravity lean move, inspired by Michael Jackson's video for the song, "Smooth Criminal". Great idea, huh? It's in honor of MJ. As for that scene with the pig, inspired by 'Home Alone'. Pretty funny, I know.