"Alright, here we are…you ready?" liu asked,

"Yea, somewhat nervous but…im ready…" kitana answered. "Ive never done this before so…"

"Hey neither have I, so once again this is something new we can do together…" Liu assured his fiance.

"…yea" kitana nodded

"okay here's the guy" liu said as his sights shifted to an old Caucasian man in a brown suit with a cain walking to Liu and Kitana. He looked like he might have been in his 60s or 70s.

"Hello, you must be Liu Kang and Kitana Kang…"

"Yes that's us…" Kitana said.

"Okay, nice to meet you two, Im Mr. Ho" he gratefully shook Liu's hand, "Likewise" liu answered

"Alright, so who wants to go first?" the instructor asked

"Hmm…ladies first" liu said making a way for kitana

"…fine by me" kitana said, as she made her way inside the blue medium sized Vehicle.

The old man chuckled abit, "heh, its okay to be a little nervous, yep, I remember my first time…oheheheaa…you should have seen me afterwards, I was regular speedy Gonzalez,…uh well anyway, lets get started with the driver's test…"

Driver's License

Two days earlier…

Liu and Kitana were in China, in earthrealm, shopping for groceries for Liu's home when Liu saw a happy couple with a child who was in a car like shopping cart enjoying himself and having fun as he went every which way around the store.

It brought a small joy to liu's heart to see a nice married couple with a child doing family outings with each other. Liu wanted that in his life too. He thought it must have been nice to not have the weight of the world always resting on your shoulders. It was a life that he wanted following his victory over his long time enemies. A life that seemed to be in reach these peaceful days…

"Alright, so we have the stuff we need for tonight, did you get the meat?" kitana asked

"Yea, and the drinks…" liu answered

"Alright then I think we are done here, lets go check out"

"Alright, hey Kit…"liu started, as Kitana pondered back to him, "Yes?"

"You know…I was thinking about what Johnny said to me the other day and…well, do you want a car?" he asked her. She seemed a little caught off guard abit with the question, but soon responded,

"Well…I certainly wouldn't mind one, ill admit, it is getting a little frustrating walking around so much while I constantly see people getting to their destinations much faster in vehicles." Kitana answered

"Yea, I understand. Well Johnny said he would get us one if we both agreed to it" he told her, she nodded and smile, "That's very nice and considerate of him to do".

Kitana than thought out loud, "Don't we have to take some test in order to drive in this realm?"

"Yea, that's was my next thing, we have to set up an appointment at the DMV"

"Dmv?" she replied dumbfounded, "Oh…the Department of Motor Vehicles." Liu specified.

They what, we show up?

"In the next few days, I guess" Liu replied.

"Okay then, that sounds great, it will feel alot better to have a car instead of feeling envy for all the people who drive everywhere while we walk." she said which has Liu somewhat feeling abit

"Gee, I didn't know you felt about it that way, if so, I would have asked you sooner, how come you didn't tell me you hated walking around so much?" Liu asked his future wife,

"It's not that I hate walking; its exercise, but I want to take full advantage of things that this realm produces that makes the harder things a lot less hard. Driving is much faster than walking; you have room to put things you buy like food, equipment, things of that nature in it and that is much safer than walking around with those in your hands, I mean your practically begging to get mugged. Im still going to walk if the destinations are very short like here for instance, I don't want having a car to get me lazy, which by the way, I have noticed a lot people like that in this realm…"

Liu began to laugh, "Well that's what happens when people take advantage of things that make life easier, we for get about hard work and let people or their inventions do the hard work for us, besides , I don't think we are as bad as those in America…"

"Believe me, Ive heard…" kitana shook her head

The two lovers laughed alittle, just continuing to enjoy each others company as they went to pay for their groceries and headed home, walking…in the hot blazing summer sun, carrying all of their bags which made the trip much harder and slower than it was when they first arrived. Kitana and liu stared at the roads watching people speeding pass them in their cars blowing dust, exhaust, dirt and mud in their faces. Kitana had gotten a bit frustrated as shown on her face by each car that sped past them. Liu's mood was no better. It was getting to an evening sun as the heat died down a little but their journey home was still a ways to go, However this trip was sure to speed up rather quickly from what the two lovers encountered next…

"…im tired, do you have the water?"

"No…I drunk it all…"

"What? You didn't save any for me…?"

"I did…but I became thirsty…so…I drank it all" Liu said

"Thanks for the consideration…" kitana sarcastically remarked

"Im sorry sweetheart…its just so hot out today…"

"Aww, im thirsty now…" kitana moaned

"Well, don't worry…I think…I see the house…" Liu said glancing into the distance ahead

"Well than lets hurry…" Kitana shouted trying to speed up her walk but found it most difficult not only because she was tired but the groceries seemed to be getting heavier as well…

"Okay…I guess I don't have the strength or energy to go any faster than my pace…I guess thirst isn't motivation enough…" Kitana giggled to herself

As the two were walking they were suddenly confronted by four small figures in front of them. They had four legs and fur and sharp teeth as they bared them with saliva dripping profusely out of their mouths. Their sights were on Kitana and Liu…or maybe what they had in their hands…food. No doubt with the hot sun, it was probably cooking their foods. Perhaps the animals smelled it?

"Uh oh…" liu said looking to the animals in fear

"Okay so…what are we going to do…?" kitana asked him, while she too looked in fear at the vicious looking mutts.

"Hmm…fight?" liu suggested

"Be more specific liu"

"Hmmm…"

'Hmmm' is not an answer sweetheart…." Kitana told him, "You'll have to sacrifice the meat…" kitana said soon after coming with her plan of how to escape the dogs' fury

"What!" liu whispered loudly

"Don't worry we'll get some more…"

"Yea but…that was dinner tonight" Liu whined

"Ooh…I know, but unless we give them something,we will lose everything…" kitana explained slightly whining at the thought of giving up their food.

Liu sighed "…oh alright…" Liu slowly took the pack of meat out they were gonna use for dinner tonight, at the very sight of it the dogs barked menacingly.

"Okay on my mark…" kitana said as she got ready to run "Set…"

The four dogs got into a ready position each barking loud and viciously looking at their prey..

"THROW IT!" yelled kitana

Liu threw his slab of raw meat as far as he could to the left of them. The dogs made a run for it…as did liu and kitana , suddenly the burden of heat and tiresome limbs were no longer a problem as they took off like bats outta hell.

There escape didn't go by unnoticed as two of the dogs…the most vicious ones ran after them…

With a lot of heavy bags…the two lovers were slower than they needed to be. These dogs were like damn cheetahs. One caught up to kitana and jumped to bite her but narrowly missed her… much to kitana's relief.

That attempt at an attack slowed the dog down but he was not out as he went for them again…the other dog attempted to attack liu kang form behind but he dug in with his sharp clawed paws into some of the grocery bags Liu had on him which lead to a lot of their food being forced out…much to kitana and liu's anger and sadness.

These two realized that they were not only running for their lives but they now had to protect what food they had left, otherwise, the whole trip to the market would have been in vein.

The dogs were in hot pursuit as kitana and liu was racing against them, kitana then looked back as the dog behind her was about to jump and attack her but she had enough…

Kitana while running just threw down the groceries and quickly like a sudden reflex, got out her fans which she didn't go anywhere without and took the handle end to avoid killing he dog and jumped delivering an upwards slash like attack to the dog's month which led to a yelp from the dog's intense pain which put him down for the count. Kitana smiled briefly to her satisfaction as the dog had been put down for the rest of this dance. He wasn't dead but he wasn't a burden any longer.

Her attention then turned to liu who was still running from the other dog, liu then dropped what remaining bags he had left and did a backflip over the oncoming dog. Liu than shot out a small blast of fire from his hands that landed in front of the dog.. this scared the dog as it ran away.

By this time they had done so much running that they were only about a few feet away from Liu's house. But the damage was done…they didn't have nearly as much groceries as they had before and most of the things they needed for dinner was all gone and no doubt being feed on by dogs, bugs, and all critters who considered food like that a delicacy.

Liu and Kitana made it home finally after one hell of a trip to the market. They were out of breath, covered in dirt, mud, exhaust and on top of that, they had lost most of their food to greedy vicious dogs. Kitana dropped to her knees from exhaustion, as she was about to pass out, she was breathing heavily looking down on the floor,

"Honey….we..need a ..car…" kitana barely got out, still outta breath

"Liu?…liu?…" kitana repeated cause she had not heard her lover's voice

She then looked to the kitchen to see liu on the telephone..

" YES HELLO…..DMV? OKAY WE Need an appointment ASAP for the drivers test!"

"hold on a minute," Liu said putting the phone to his shoulder, and looking towards kitana, "okay hone, I need you to call Johnny and tell him we need that car, EXPRESS!"

"IM ON IT ALREADY!" she said getting up pronto to get to her own cell phone.

"OKAY IN TWO WEEKS…TWO WEEkS! You don't have something earlier?" Liu shouted to the phone, "Two days?…we'll take IT!"

"HONEY MAKE THAT DOUBLE EXPRESS! TELL JOHNNY THE CAR NEEDS TO BE HERE NEXT DAY SHIPPING! I DON'T CARE HOW, JUST MAKE IT HAPPEN" Liu yelled to his wife who was delivering the message to Johnny through her phone.

The car had indeed arrived the next day and it was a nice. Johnny spared no expense. Johnny had them shipped a 2011 blue Hyundai elantra. It was truly a sight to see, such a magnificent car, of course in their eyes, ANYTHING would have been good. Liu and Kitana had a friend of theirs take them to the DMV in their car since neither of them had their license yet and could not legally drive on the road yet. The two only had two days to look at a manual on the internet and figure out how the road signs and highway markings worked.

The two spent hours online looking a driving videos, accidents, and all. Since they could not drive yet and had no way of practicing in two days. The two went into deep study…studying that lasted all two days…limited breaks. The two lovers were determined to learn this driving thing and get it down packed before the big day…how would they do..?

Two days later…presently

At the DMV…

"Alright then, little lady… put the key in the ignition and start the car please" Mr. Ho asked s he got into the car.

Kitana looked at him confused ,"What key?" she asked

The old man looked back at her confused also"…the key that starts the car…"

"I don't have a key…we have this start button…" she pointed out.

"…oh…well then, umm, start the car then." Ho told her as he then started to chuckle abit, "Technology these days ill tell you, back in my generation we had keys and if we didn't have that, we had picks to make the car start…heh, oh yea, go ahead and start it now" the old instructor told her.

"alright" kitana said as she put on her seatbelt much to the surprise of the instructor who had not told her to do so but she did, this was good on her part.

Kitana pressed the button and sure enough, the car started…just like that, technology;its really something.

"You did that very well…now then show me…hmm, you turn signals.."

Kitana switched the left sided knob up and own putting both signals on one after the others as instructed.

"Alright now…I need you to flash me…" staring at kitana's nice rack.

"Excuse me…?" kitana glanced at him once those words came out his mouth

"UH, OH No I mean uh, flash your breas-uhh, BRIGHTS!…LIGHTS…hehah what you thought, I meant your boobs, ehaha…ya mind is in the gutta…{oh man, that was close}the man thought to himself after narrowly escaping that remark.

kitana did flash the bright lights on the car and awaited further instructions from her very perverted instructor,

After about 10 minutes of doing all the asked actions, kitana was finally able to start driving.

"Alright little lady, now uh…can you drive a stick…" the man looked at her grinning, which she saw right through like a window

"this is an automatic transmission…is it not?" kitana glared, realizing what he meant by that remark.

"Uhh, OH….yea yea, okay then lets go…"

"Okay…" kitana simply said shaking in disgust at her instructor

Kitana slowly went out onto the road into oncoming traffic, she certainly showed that she knew how to put the gears in which ever she needed them to be and knew how to control the vehicle; this seemed to be pretty easy for her…like second nature.

Liu was a bit worried once she got out into the road, who knows how she would fare when on the same roads as the more experienced…

Kitana was doing just fine however; as she did all that she needed to do with stunning ease. Her test was going very well…but her driving speed left a lot to be desired, she was driving like an old lady…going 30mph on a 45 mph road, which didn't go too well with the other drivers who taunted her and blew their horns at her, someone even told her that she needed to stay in the kitchen and off the road. Which kind of ticked her off a little bit but she didn't let the taunts of the other drivers get to her…nor did she let her driving instructor's subtle perverted sexual jokes get to her either, Despite this, Her driving test went very well, she passed it with flying colors, she performed her first parallel park the easiest of all the instructor's students. The instructor was really amazed at how well she did the test and gave her an A…. it was either that or an A because he liked her. Which ever, she got her license.

Now it was liu's turn…how would her fare..?

"So how did It go" Liu asked excited

kitana paused for a moment "…I passed!" she shouted hugging her lover

"Alright im so happy for you!" liu yelled in excitement

"The instructor gave me an A, though…he was a bit of a pervert…" kitana whispered to him with a disgusted look on her face near the end of her comment.

"Hehe, well at least you passed the test…" he smiled

"Yes, now its your turn…" she siled back

"Yes, im ready…I hope"

"Don't worry, it was a easy, Im sure you'll pass it." she assured him.

"Yea your right," liu nodded.

"ALRIGHT!" yelled the instructor trying to get their attention, "Your up next young man…"

"That's me" liu said boldly as he stepped forward

"Do your best, okay" kitana said to him kissing him on the lips, "I will"

"Heh you're a very lucky guy…why if I was ten years younger id have to steal that from you…hehee" the instructor joked...

"Uh yea…So can we start now?" liu said irritated

"Patience! Keep your mind on the task, Now then…Lets get started"

"First turn on the car" the instructor instructed

"Right…lets see, ah, here we are." Liu said pushing the start button on the car.

Mr. Ho chuckled as he began, "technology these days ill tell you, back in my day we had keys and if we didn't, we had picks to make the darn thing start…heh oh yea, now flash the head lights"

"Right..now…which ones were those…hmmm" liu said trying to remember which controls turned on the lights

"…im waiting…." The instructor said growing a bit impatient...

"Okay hold on…oh yea right, here they are." Liu said successfully turning on the lights

"Took long enough…now then the signals…show me the signals…"

"Alright…up right…down left…bring it back home…" liu said switching the handle to turn the car signals on, both sides.

"Very good…now then blow the horn"

"uh okay simple enough"

"okay good, good…" Ho nodded

Liu interrupted "excuse me I don't mean to be rushing you but, when does the hard stuff come in, I know all this stuff already, I want to drive on the road."

The instructor looked at liu kang sternly and snapped,

"Listen hear sunny, it aint easy driving on the road, there are DANGERS! You have to face some of the most menacing people you have ever met in your life! these people will bury you for making even the slightest mistake on the road, going to slow, not putting on your signals,…not putting on your windshield wipers when its raining cats and dogs! Thousands of people have died horrible deaths on these roads. You have no idea the kinda dangers you face on the highways and byways…you wanna rush to the streets, c'mon then, I guarantee you…you don't know what your getting your self into sunny…

"Oh cmon I can do it…" liu told him confidently

"You continue to be this eager to go on the road without proper guidance from me, you not only wont get your drivers license, you may not live to see 25!" He yelled. "Infact yes, why don't you go out into the road if you dare…let me make sure I have an ambulance standing by for us…im telling you, you go out now thinking you know It all…you will FAIL!"

About 20 mins later…

"Alright look towards the camera…smile" a DMV employee said to Liu as he stood in front of the camera taking his picture for his newly acquired driver's license.

"That was pretty easy" liu smiled at his companion.

"Yes, all that studying paid off" kitana nodded.

"UHH, well I must admit…for people who have never driven a day in their lives you two seem like pros at this…" the old instructor told them.

He continued, looking at kitana now, "Only thing is…YOU need to pick up the speed…old lady. Driving that slow will get you nowhere, and i mean that literally also!" The old man yacked, before giving a perverted grin, "actually uh, if you want…I can teach you a thing or two more a bout 'driving', you know, privately," he smirked.

Kitana gave him an icy glare as did Liu to which The instructor looked away in fear and turned to go outside the DMV building rather quickly.

Kitana and liu kang had managed to get their drivers licenses and had been so happy that they did. No more walking, no more getting chased by vicious hungry dogs, no more blazing heat, nope onto comfortable seats, a nice stereo system, air conditioning, and a relaxing ride in their new Hyundai.

"So my darling fiancé, where to now…" liu asked her taking the driver's seat as kitana sat back comfortably in the passenger seat now inclined. With the air blowing against her beautiful face and long straight brown hair.

Kitana inhaled that nice new car smell as she was laid back with her eyes clothes just smiling,

"…anywhere my love"

"It feels so great not having to worry about the heat and dust, all that, we can just relax in our car…" liu said calmly.

kitana's face of joy and comfort at liu's words turned into one of surprised and soon shock once the two lovers noticed the speed of their car getting slower…

"what's happening, why are we slowing down…" Kitana asked

"I…I don't know.." liu said panicking

Before long, the two were in a complete stop, luckily liu was able to bring the car to the side of the road before it stalled. Liu looked around confused at what was going on, why did their new car suddenly stop working? it was working all day during the test. It had not even been five minutes since they drove out of the DMV as licensed drivers, now all of a sudden their new car stalled out on them…

Liu looked and he was shocked to find out what was wrong finally,

"Honey…I think I know why we stopped"

"Why…?"

"…We're outta gas…" liu said letting out a lighthearted laugh

"What!, Are you serious!" kitana cried, as Liu slowly nodded.

"well, where is the nearest gas station?" she then asked.

"About 2 miles down the road…which means…" liu looked to his wife with saddened. Kitana just…sighed, she almost started to shed a tear…

The two lovers headed to the gas station…on foot, in the hot blazing sun, no comfy seats, no air conditioner, no music…just heat, dust, exhaust and the sound of cars zipping pass welcomed them as they made their way towards the gas station to pick up a tank of gas for their broken down new Hyundai.

The journey was long and hard but the two finally made it to the gas station and were able to get a few dollars in gas for their car, as the two walked out, they had in their hands two big jugs of water along with a red gas tank.

Liu and kitana prepared for a long walk when suddenly a few familiar faces caught their attention as they stopped in their tracks,

"Oh no…"liu sighed as he noticed three dogs in front of them…"oh, great..."

"We are not running this time!" kitana said boldly

"Then what are we going to do" liu asked

"Well, I want to take the one in the middle…" kitana said grinning, "he's kind of cute..."

The three dogs growled viciously as they rushed towards liu and kitana

Kitana took her fighting stance with her jug of water in her grasp tightly…

The dog in the middle jumped to attack her as she stood her ground and came up with a vicious right uppercut with the hand that tightly grasped the big jug of water, POW!

END

A/N: Okay here is another chapter, its a bit shorter but still enjoyable i hope

next one will probably be longer...

Thanks for reading and reviewing and stay tuned for more LiuXKitana!