A/N: Back again! Yes baby! I am back again!

I do not own Kung Fu Panda.

The Search For Golden Times, Spring Flowers

"So how did it…"

"Bad," Enlai cut Mantis off before he could finish his question. The tiger sat down and groaned in despair. "I just don't' get her! It's like she wants to be mad!"

"Where's she now?" Viper asked him, worried for her feline friend.

Enlai shrugged, "Somewhere in the tunnel. She kinda ran off."

"I guess it's time to some girl-talk then," Viper sighed and turned to Lu Chu who was sitting next to her, "Do you want to come with me?"

The mountain cat nodded and soon the two females had disappeared in the darkness.

"So what exactly is 'girl-talk'?" Po asked the other boys.

"Something we'll never fully understand," Monkey muttered and Mantis nodded in agreement.

"Got dumped by your girlfriend, Enlai?" Jie asked with a sly smile as he neared the group.

Enlai only smirked back, "And you are the one to talk, Jie? Of course you have never been dumped before because you have never had a girlfriend."

"Because I at least have some dignity," Jie snorted.

"What are you saying, Jie?" Enlai growled warningly while standing up.

"I am saying that I have something better to do than falling to my knees and beg a simple girl of taking me back."

"Hey, I am not doing that!"

"Oh yes, you are. It is just not working."

"I am with Enlai. It's Tigress we are talking about; not just some simple girl. Getting Tigress as a girlfriend requires a lot of hard work!" Mantis exclaimed, watching the two angry felines along with the others.

Jie gave out a taunting chuckle, "Too much for you to handle, Enlai? Can't you get a stupid, little tiger?"

"Don't you talk about Tigress like that!" Enlai roared and leapt at him.

Instantly Po and the others rushed forward, and stepped between the felines. "Slow down! No fights!"

"Yeah, if you want to beat him up then let Tigress do it," Monkey told Enlai while holding Enlai.

The tiger only shook his head, "Oh no. He's mine!"

"Okay, no more avoiding the subject."

"Viper, please."

But the snake didn't go away, "Tigress, this is ridiculous! You like him, he likes you; why making it so complicated?"

"I do not…"

"You can't lie about that, Tigress. Everyone can see that you have feelings for him."

The tiger groaned in despair, "I don't care about what you can see!"

"Master Tigress, may I say something?" Lu Chu asked, but not waiting for an answer. She had gotten the whole story while Tigress and Enlai had talked, and understood her friend's situation. "Mister Enlai hurt you and that was awful, but now you are hurting him."

Tigress blinked a couple of times, but Lu Chu just continued, "He is really trying to make things good again, but you keep rejecting him. That must hurt a lot."

That left Tigress stunned and there went minutes before she could speak again. Viper and Lu Chu waited patiently for her to start. "I just…" The tiger paused to find the right words. "I don't need things like that now. I already have enough to think about."

Viper nodded, understanding her friend, "But won't thing be easier if you forgave Enlai?"

"I already have. We can be friends, but nothing more than that. I can't handle romance right now. I need to keep my focus on our mission."

"Have you told Mister Enlai that you have forgiven him?"

Tigress shook her head, "Not yet, but… Did you hear that?"

Viper widened her eyes, "Hear what?"

A soft growl escaped Tigress' throat. "You just can't leave them alone in some few minutes," she muttered before turning around to run back to the camp.

"What's…?" But Lu Chu didn't get the chance to finish before she heard a loud growl.

"Take that back!"

"Or what?"

"You are so dead, Jie!"

"Then what are you waiting for? Waiting for your little girlfriend to do the work for you?"

"I do not need any female to take care of me!" Then Enlai froze as he heard the sound of someone clearing their throat. "She is standing right behind me, isn't she?"

"You are right, Enlai. You can take care of yourself just fine," Tigress said ironically, then paused and laid her glance over all of the boys that was either holding Enlai or Jie, "Now, who will get the honor of explaining all this?"

And they all instantly pointed at Jie, "He will!"

Jie only growled, "You should learn to control your boyfriend, princess."

"We have been gone for only ten minutes and this is what happens?" Viper asked, stunned.

"New rule; no fighting. The last thing we need is one of us injured," Tigress told them with a stern voice.

"But can you keep that rule, princess?" Jie snapped at her.

"You should worry about yourself. Now, rest is over," Tigress told them and picked up the torch.

Jie angrily walked after, "Don't you remember that I was the one to decide what to do?"

"And what would you have said?" Tigress asked calmly.

With some sneers of annoyance, the Shadow Warrior muttered out, "Rest's over."

Satisfied, Tigress held her head high and continued walking into the darkness.

"Oh, you dear sunlight, here I come!" Po yelled as he ran towards the light. The others were sharing his joy; after almost two days in the tunnel it was finally being outside. Just as she took the last step out of the darkness, Tigress let her lungs be filled with the fresh air.

Even Jie seemed to be happier. The frown that was nearly always covering his face seemed to be losing up. Though, Enlai was the one who let his happiness be showed to all of them. He simply ran as fast as he could away from the tunnel and let himself fall down in the soft grass. While he lay there, he started to roll around, letting himself be covered in grass and spring flowers.

Suddenly, he froze and with a devilish smile he turned to Tigress, "Try and come here."

The tiger only shook her head, "If I was you I would drop the idea right now."

But Enlai stood up and started walking toward her, "You know you want to."

"Don't even think about it," Tigress warned him, putting up her fighting stance.

Enlai only widened his smile and nodded to someone behind her. In a flash Tigress had turned around and grab Po's paw that was on its way to push her. "I warn you, Po…"

"Gotcha," Enlai yelled as he jumped at her. The tigers rolled down the hill before landing in a massive bunch of flowers. With a grin Enlai looked down at Tigress who now was covered in all of nature's colors. "You look good, flower-girl. Auch! And now you decide to punch me?" he asked her while rubbing his sore nose where her fist had hit. "So does this mean that you have forgiven me?"

"If you ever do anything like that again I won't be this nice. Remember that." She then noticed that he was on his way to embrace her, "No hugs."

"Please?"

"No. Forget it."

"Come on!"

Following Enlai's example the rest of the kung fu warriors were making their way down the hill with laughter and chuckles. Hesitating, Lu Chu looked at them before taking a deep breath and then let herself fall down in the grass. Not able to hold back the happiness she too let out laughter. But suddenly she smacked directly into something hard and warm. Though, she couldn't stop rolling, and she and Jie became a ball of fur.

When their rolling finally stopped it was hard to say who was most shocked. Lu Chu was lying on the top of him, her cheeks burning up. Jie just stared at her with widened eyes, his face just one big frown. Before any of them could say something, a certain antelope smacked into Lu Chu.

The two servants landed some meters away. Piao tried to stand up but could only stagger. "Ugh! I think I am going to throw up…"

"Not on me!" Lu Chu exclaimed and crawled away from him.

"Phew... That was fun!" Po panted as they all gathered together.

"So what now?" Crane asked as he landed, "Which way should we go?"

"I think I know where we are…" Enlai muttered mostly to himself. The he turned to the others, "I know I place where we can be at night. We can reach it before evening." It was only noon, but it was nice to know that they had a place to sleep when it became night.

Tigress crossed her arms, "And where is this place?"

Enlai gave her a big grin, "It's a surprise."

Lifting an eyebrow, Tigress glanced at him. The word 'surprise' made her stomach twist. She still, of course, hadn't forgotten Enlai's surprise when he gave him the soup. Just because she had forgiven him then it didn't mean that she had forgotten it at all.

Enlai noticed her frown and gave her a reassuring smile, "Don't worry. You'll like this surprise."

"Let's hope so."

"Ah, don't be so negative. You'll love it."

"And now I am just nervous."

"You will be glad when you see it. Trust me."

"This is a bad idea," Tigress told him as they watched the village from a distance.

Enlai glared at her, "And how can this be a bad idea?"

"Xi-Wang can have spies…"

"Not here. This is probably one of the most peaceful places in the world."

"Then we don't exactly fit in here, do we?" Mantis grinned.

The male tiger shrugged, "I guess we can be here one night without destroying the village."

"Does he even know that we are coming?" Jie asked, turning to Enlai.

"Wait! 'He'? You know who Enlai's surprise is?" Po asked as they all glanced at the Shadow Warrior.

But before Jie could open his mouth Enlai cut him off, "Don't you ruin the surprise!"

Jie glanced away, apparently not wanting a fight right now, "Fine. They are going to find out soon anyway."

"Can't we just get going? We are all exhausted!" Monkey exclaimed.

"Then I'll lead the way," Enlai grinned as he started walking.

Enlai calmly walked down the street while the others were making their way in the shadows of the houses. Even though Enlai said everything was fine they would still listen to Tigress who wasn't completely convinced. Finally they reached a little house in the outskirts of the town.

Without hesitating Enlai knocked hard on the door. After some seconds the door opened and in the doorway a big ox was standing. His kind eyes widened as he saw the male tiger in front of him, "Enlai! Didn't expect to see you. What brings you here?"

Enlai grinned, "I brought some friends with me. May we come in?" He stepped aside so Tung could see the nine other persons behind him.

Tung's mouth dropped slightly by the sight, "Looks like I am going to have to make some more dinner."

Tigress held up her paw to greet him with a big smile on her face, "Hi, Tung."

"Hi, kid. Long time since last, huh? Well, come in. You must all be tired."

"I must admit that I was pretty surprised when I opened the door and saw Enlai standing there with unconscious female tiger in his arms. Not a pretty sight, I must say. Half of her body covered in blood not to mention how frozen she was. But we got her warmed up and her wound bandaged."

"And for that I am thankful, Tung," Tigress said as the ox finished the story.

Tung smiled back at her, "How is your wound by the way? It must have healed by now."

Tigress slightly tugged down her shirt so a little part of her shoulder was exposed. She had gotten used to her scar now. Though, she avoided seeing it. If she did that, then she would be reminded of that horribly night when she lost her parents. She would feel the fear, the anger, the blame… No! She wouldn't think of that now! She couldn't!

She looked away from her shoulder. Tung glanced at her scar with kind eyes and then nodded, "It sure does look much better."

"Thank you for your kindness, Mister Tung," Viper said as he collected the now empty bowls of soup.

"You're welcome. It's nice to have visitors again. Now when the Shadow Warriors doesn't visit me anymore it can be kind of lonely. Well, except for the times when Enlai stops by. I am glad to see that someone still remembers me even after I moved."

They had all heard of how Tung finally had moved to the village after he had taken care of Tigress. He had told them that she gave him the last push he needed. Tung was only thankful for that, and Tigress could see that he was very happy for his new life in the village. Finally he had gotten some friends beside the Shadow Warriors.

Tung smiled as he noticed how Lu Chu's eyes kept staring at the closed door. "You should try again," he said to Lu Chu's surprised.

"If he doesn't want to eat then don't force him," Tigress said flatly, not agreeing with Tung.

"Come on, Tigress," Po said as he softly pushed the tiger's shoulder, "He is probably just trying to act cool. He actually reminds me of you."

"Excuse me?"

"Not on that way. I mean, keeping guard while we are resting is something that you usually would have done."

That made Tigress fall quiet and she didn't say anything more about Jie. Lu Chu stood up and grabbed the bowl they had left for the Shadow Warrior. Then she walked outside, silently closing the door behind her. She found him sitting on a nearby branch.

"Master Jie?"

The mountain cat turned around, glancing at her with small eyes. He didn't say anything which only made Lu Chu even more nervous. "I was sent to bring you this," she held up the bowl so he could see it. "I know you said before that you didn't want it, but I just thought that I could leave it here to when you becomes hungry."

He nodded shortly before turning around to stare into the darkness. He thought she had left until he after some minutes he hear her voice speak up again, "You can come in whenever you want. Master Tung says that there aren't any threats around here."

Again he nodded. "I'll see you tomorrow then," Lu Chu quietly said before putting down the bowl and turned to go to the door. After some hesitating she opened it and disappeared inside.

Jie remained still as he closed his eyes. Again he wondered if he had taken the right decision.

A/N: A boring chapter. Where's the action? It will come, believe me! But at least we got Tigress to forgive Enlai. Sort of….

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