Chapter 12- You only live once...

Inside Sayaka's bedroom...

"So...now what do we do?" Tigress asked Kuzon, giving of a faint worrying look. It had been a day since they're encounter with Tai Lung, everything that was restored had been tipped over.

"You heard what he said, the guy's name was boku sakuwa, and he was imprisoned for 5 years with Tai Lung and had worked as his master for over 4 years later after Tai Lung escaped from Chu gon prison..."

"But... why would master shifu not tell us this, I mean..."

Kuzon looked over to Tigress and sighed.

"Not to sound bitter... but I think inside of shifu's heart... he didn't want Tai Lung to go to prison again... he loved him to much... Apparently anyway!" Kuzon said crossing his arms.

"What's that supposed to mean...?" Tigress said narrowing her eyes.

"Nothing, it's just... nothing... forget I said anything..." Kuzon whispered, standing up with his ears flat against his head.

"You know since all this happened you've turned into this bitter little child... what's wrong? Are you scared of something?"

"I'm not scared of anything... I'm just trying to make a point that shifu has become a bit...unsettled with all of this... he blinded by personal feeling before his duty of grandmaster."

"So? He's only trying to make his life work. How is that bad?"

"By not taking care of his daughter for one!" Kuzon said, gritting his teeth, grinding his fangs.

"Oh that was low! You know you're starting to become a little over protective since we got married!"

"What do you expect?! We have a CHILD for fuck sake!"

"NO! We have a daughter! And I couldn't ask for anyone more than her!"

Kuzon was about to say something, but he shut his mouth before he did.

"Go ahead. Say it!" Tigress shouted.

"She's fourteen! Nearly fifth teen! She's near her puberty years now! I'm just..."

"You're just what?"

"...Scared..."

"But you just said..."

"I know... I just wish things were the way they used to be..."

"Are you saying...that you didn't want to get married?"

"What-NO! I LOVE YOU WITH EVERY FIBRE OF MY BEING! That will never change..."

Kuzon turned to his wife, she was close to tears and so was he. He was getting very frustrated and over what? he had to think this through... he had come so far in this life that it had finally dawned on him that he had almost every person's dream, he had a beautiful wife and a daughter that meant the world to him.

Kuzon walked over to Tigress, he lifted her chin up with his index finger and kissed her lips softly, it was the most sensitive and loving kiss they had had in a long, long, long time. As their lips parted Sayaka walk through the door and closed it softly.

Tigress bent down and hugged her daughter, giving her an extra squeeze, making Sayaka giggle.

"How you doing honey? You ok, I mean with everything that's going on?" Tigress said releasing her daughter.

"Yeah I'm ok; I just don't understand what was going on. I mean, who was that guy Tai Lung?"

Kuzon looked at Tigress and had a confused look.

"You mean we never told you?" Kuzon said looking back at Sayaka.

Sayaka just shrugged and sat on the side of her bed roll.

"When I was in the orphanage... I learned not to ask questions, there was no need to... the days went by and you just...waited for things to change... the only thing that was different was that every Saturday, couples would come in and pick a child..."

Tigress at next to her, she remembered the days. Never being picked, always judged by people, it was frustrating and her anger problem got worse, the memories pained her and its was just horrible.

"You never told us you were an orphan..." Tigress said, with a tear running down her face.

"I-i never thought it would matter..."

"It doesn't... at least not anymore..." Kuzon said, crouching in front of Sayaka.

Kuzon placed his hand on her knee and squeezed it a little, "You're our daughter now, and I will do anything to help you out, understand?"

Sayaka blinked and then smiled a cute smile; she hugged both her parents and kissed their cheeks.

"I love you two... can-can I ask you something?" Sayaka said sitting back.

"Sure Hun, what is it?" Tigress said, rubbing behind Sayaka's ear.

"It's kinda...embarrassing..." Sayaka said, blushing and rubbing the back of her head.

"Honey, we're your parents, whatever you say will stay between us."

"You-You promise?"

"Pinky swears." Tigress said, holding out her pinky finger, giggling.

Sayaka giggled and crossed her pinky with her mother's.

"Ok, I think... I'm dying... very slowly..."

"Wait... why..."

"I've been...bleeding..."

"From an injury? We can patch it up if you want?"

"No not an injury... from my..."

"You're..."

Sayaka blushed and took a deep breath... she whispered the word so slowly and shaky

"My...vagina..."

Tigress gave Sayaka a worried look but smiled at her.

"Honey, you're not dying." Tigress giggled out.

"How do you know?! It won't stop!"

"Honey calm down, it happens to me too. It's perfectly normal."

"Huh?"

"Honey, what you have is called a period." Kuzon said smiling.

"Can it kill me? Is there something wrong with me?"

"No honey, you fine, you're not going to die. Tigress? Care to explain?" Kuzon said, smiling at Tigress.

"Ok, do you know how cubs are made?" tigress said, raising her eyebrow.

"Yeah, a man umm... puts his thing into... umm..."

"Yes, you don't need to say if you're embarrassed. Even though you have nothing to be embarrassed about." Said Tigress. "What's happening is that your body is getting ready to make cubs. Every month you will bleed but its ok! All that's happening is that you are getting rid of dead eggs inside if your body."

"YOU MEAN I HAVE DEAD CUBS INSIDE OF ME?!" Sayaka said pulling her ears a little.

"No! You're just getting rid of the eggs, nothing to worry about." Tigress said smiling.

"Oh thank god, I thought I was killing cubs by accident..." Sayaka said sighing in relief.

"But this means we are gonna have to give you some herbs when you older."

"Why?"

Kuzon stepped in at this point.

"Just in case you meet your prince charming and decide to *cough* do some plumbing..."

Sayaka blushed; Tigress narrowed her eyes at Kuzon and slapped the back of his head.

"Don't scare her!"

"Hey! You never know!" Kuzon said smiling.

"Mom? How will I know if I like a guy?"

"You'll know honey. You'll know."

"No mean what if I don't like guys..."

"Then you'll be fine with girls too, no matter who you want to have sex with, we'll still love you all the same!" Tigress said giggling.

"MOM!" Sayaka said, blushing deeper.

"What? I don't know what goes on in your head." Tigress said, shrugging

"Well, I guess I better pack, unless you wanna go round naked I suggest you two do too..." Kuzon said, turning to Sayaka's wardrobe.

"Where are we going Baba?" Sayaka asked, confused.

"I'll tell you on the way, for now just worry about what you're gonna wear for the rest of the week."

Sayaka looked at her mother, who just shrugged and hugged her daughter. "Go and get ready, I'll speak to mister grumpy on the way there ok? I'll let you know Hun." Tigress said, and with that Sayaka kissed her mother's forehead and started packing.

12:00 AM, Location Unknown…

A door swung open, revealing a freshly showered tigress stood with a white towel around her body, hiding the top of her chest and the bottom of her ass. She was soaked in water and the patter of her bare feet as they hit the floor with very step she took. Her head rose to see three felines at her front door.

"Kuzon? Tigress?" said the feline

"Hey sis, can we come in?" Kuzon asked with a smile on his face

"Um… sure." She said with a smile across her face too.

As they all walked in, including Sayaka, Hana (Kuzon's sister… you know, they one who got planted on her ass… never mind…) noticed the little ocelot on Tigress' back and give a confused look.

"Umm… was I away that long?" She asked with a weird look, this made Kuzon narrow his eyes at his sister's immatureness.

"No! You just didn't see her when you spoke to us last time…" he said sitting down on the couch.

"Yeah, by all means, make yourself at home…" She said narrowing her eyes back at him.

Tigress glared eyes at Kuzon for his bad manners, Kuzon just shrugged and smiled, Tigress placed Sayaka on the couch next to Kuzon, she then walked over to Hana and decided to ask her something that was on her mind.

"Hana? How old are you exactly?"

"I'm almost 23, y?"

"You look like a teenager. No offence…" Tigress said blushing. Hana just giggled and put her hand on Tigress' shoulder

"Non-taken, in fact I'm kind of happy you said that! I'm so much happier!"

Tigress sighed in relief and looked over to Sayaka, her breath was slow, calm and relaxed, you could hear the purr of her voice as she exhaled and inhaled.

"So what are you all doing here, I'm pretty sure you didn't all come just to stare at my ugly mug." Hana said with a sarcastic voice. Kuzon just chuckled and shook his head, he stood up and faced Hana in a very worried way.

"W-we wanted to ask you something… we wanted to know if you could take care of Sayaka for a while…" Kuzon said, in a deep voice, scratching the back of his head.

"well.. we… umm…" Kuzon motioned Hana to come closer, as she did he whispered in her ear,m it took only a few seconds after he finished to find that his sister was now pissed, she looked over at Tigress with a fake smile.

"Could you excuse us for a moment?" Hana the turned with Kuzon with a glare that could kill; she then grabbed his left ear and pulled him to a different room, the bedroom.

"OW OW OW OW OW!" Kuzon shouted as he was dragged by his ear and lobed onto the bed.

"Your a fucking idiot you know that?" Hana said in a bitter manner.

"What?"

"What? WHAT?! YOUR PLANNING ON LEAVING TO GO FIGHT SOME GUY, WHO BY THE WAY KILLED OVER 300 OF CHINA'S ARMY, AND RESCUE A GIRL, WHO HAS NOT ONLY KILLED HER FATHER, BUT ALSO THE FUCKING KING OF EGYPT!" Hana screamed as she hit Kuzon with a pillow repeatedly.

"LOOK! If u must rant then yes, but it's important and I need you to be there for that girl if we never come back… please…" Kuzon was close to tears and was practically begging his sister. There was no person that he could have asked for as a better daughter than that teenage girl.

Hana sighed and threw the pillow to the floor, she almost collapsed at this all, it was all too much and there was nothing she could do… or was there… As she ran into the bathroom, she opened the glass cabinet with force; it had almost shattered at the force she opened it with. She then noticed something, a small bottle. It contained a dark, purple liquid inside of it; it was a very modern and very pretty bottle too. Hana grabbed it and walked over to Kuzon, she threw the small glass bottle at him. He caught it an analyzed it.

"What's this? Perfume?" Kuzon said with a smirk through his tears.

"No you dunce… it's a polar spark potion…" Hana said, sitting next to him on the side of the bed.

"What does it do? Make me turn into a fairy?"

"Look! Stop pissing around, it's supposed to make you go back to a desired time of your choice. It might give you a chance to re-do the mission if you fail. Or if anyone else fucks up…" Hana said, rolling her eyes. Kuzon saw this and gave a bitter look.

"What's that supposed to mean?"

"I mean that you know that she can't do this with you, look at her, you haven't prepared her at all!"

"As far as I'm concerned, my wife can deal with anything that is thrown at her."

"As far as I'm concerned, she has no right in this fight and you selfish for putting her through it!"

"As far as I'm concerned, YOU NEED TO DEAL WITH YOUR OWN PROBLEMS!" Kuzon was now at feral point and threw the bottle back at Hana and walked out of the bedroom. He was stopped by a body that clung onto his arm. The warmth was calming and it helped him to chill more. He turned his head to see Hana sobbing on his arm, clinging on for dear life.

"Please… don't go… i… I can't live with the feeling of being alone…" Hana said, tears flowing rapidly. Kuzon looked at the floor, he was prepared to risk his own life, but Tigress', what was he thinking?

"Alright, but I'm gonna go on this alone…" Kuzon whispered, he then opened the door and walked back into the living room, where Tigress had gotten out of her chair and walked over to Kuzon. She gave him a questioning look, before she could ask what was up, Kuzon answered.

"You're not going, I'm going alone…" Kuzon said, mono-like.

Tigress' expression on her face went really dark and bitter. She raised her hand and as it came down it collided with Kuzon's face, Kuzon blinked as the slap pushed his head to the side, he blinked again and moved his hand to his cheek.

"That's for being so stubbed…" Tigress said angrily and bitterly

"I-I just wanted you to be safe…"

Tigress then collided her shin with Kuzon's privates, it was a totally dishonorable move and hit hurt like hell, Hana winced at the scene and Kuzon was now rolling on the floor in pain.

"And that's for under estimating my abilities too, that is the most insulting thing you could have said to me Kuzon." Kuzon choked and coughed on the floor, his face was staring at the ground, trying to grasp air and rid of the horrible feeling. Tigress crouched and lifted Kuzon's head up to face her.

"I may be your wife, but I'm still Tigress. The master of the Tiger style and The leader of the Furious Five. Now get your ass up, be a man, get out there and fight for these people who love their families."

Now that was the breaking point, Kuzon had been told his wrongs and was just told to make them right. He knew he had to do it and that he had no choice. He slowly stood up, he still had the pain in his jewels but he was trying. He turned back to his wife, he had a very bitter look on his face and it kind of scared Tigress a little, Kuzon walked up to Tigress and was about 5 inches away from her face. Kuzon then did something that he thought was pretty appropriate, he grabbed Tigress by the back of her neck and… Smacked his lips onto hers. Tigress wrapped her arms onto Kuzon's neck and they kissed violently.

After the ten minutes of kissing, Kuzon let go and released the kiss.

"Let's go kick some ass…" and with that he ran out of house and to the north.

Tigress wiped her mouth and smirked, she spoke to Hana over her shoulder.

"I gotta hand it to him, he's got balls."

"NOT ANY MORE!" Hana shouted, laughing her heart out. Tigress ran out and was on her way to catch up with her husband.

At Gongman city towers, 2:00AM

Hiding in the bushes outside the building, Kuzon and Tigress could see rhinos coming back and forth, collecting boxes of cargo and taking it into the city tower of Gongman city, Kuzon analyzed with Tigress, remembering the patterns they were making, planning out their moves. There were also some more men, coming in from the side of the building. Tigress looked over at the cargo and the front door, it was all too familiar for her, she remembered last time she was here, the plan of bringing down the building the first time; she was with the furious five. Her heart started to pound as she started to remember, fear was coming over her and now she was scared of even going inside that tower again.

Kuzon looked to his side and went to say something, but as he tried, all he could do was notice Tigress' breathing was at a quick pace, he held her hand and give it a squeeze, getting her attention.

"You know that you don't have to do this? This is my fight, not yours." Kuzon said with a caring voice.

Tigress give Kuzon a pout and slapped the back of his head, it didn't hurt him but it was amusing to see her get annoyed now and again, as long as his privates weren't involved…

"This is my fight too, for my country; we need to get in there without being spotted…" Tigress looked over at the rhinos again, they looked like they were done with the cargo and had gone back to the tower entrance, then Tigress saw Kuzon running crouched, up to one of the guards who had his back turned, the guard was away from the others and he was hard to spot, Kuzon grabbed him by the neck and covered the guard's mouth, preventing him from shouting, he mumbled and grumbled, but it was all to no avail. As Kuzon's arm twisted violently, the guard's neck snapped, killed him. Kuzon then dragged the body back to where Tigress and he were hiding before.

Tigress looked over Kuzon's hands, his claws were out and were dug into the guard's throat, his claws had the guard's blood all over them. Tigress looked over the guard's pockets and bags; she found nothing but a money pouch and a key.

"Where do you think this unlocks?" Tigress said, examining the key.

"My guess is that he was supposed to lock the tower gates and the door." Kuzon said.

"well, I suppose that might come in handy if they come after us." Tigress placed the key in her pocket and stood up.

She and Kuzon ran to the entrance and hid on both sides of the front door frame. Kuzon looked over to see the rhinos walking up the stair, '20 stories of wooden stairs… yikes…' Kuzon thought to himself. Tigress and Kuzon started walking up the stairs behind them and made sure not to be noticed. Kuzon had two guns and both his left and right hip, loaded with 28 bullet magazines in both.

As they reached the top they could hear voices, some even seem familiar… Kuzon peaked over the pillar to see another Tiger and Tigress, both sitting in thrones. Kuzon analyzed the male tiger. Ripped, looked like he was in his 40's, and had very dark, green eyes. The tigress was very young looking, she was wearing a blue dress with golden dragon patterns on it, she wore high heel shoes that made her maybe 2 to 2 and a half feet taller.

Tigress was listening to the conversation they were having to the lead guard member. They were very formal and yet very angry.

"Sir, we have been informed that two tigers have been identified and that they are to arrive to us as we speak…" said the guard.

"Oh? Who are our guests?" said the male tiger

"It's… not good news sir…"

"Spit it out man! Tell me who these people you speak of are!" The tiger stood up and demanded with a fear striking tone.

"The male tiger is named Kuzon Takhashi; he is a former street fighter and is currently at allies with Shifu and the furious five."

The male tiger sat back down with a done found look on his face, something had ratted him, and maybe it was the name? Even the Female Tigress' ears perked up and she was sitting up with attention.

"B-But records say that he died in Hangzhou? After his village was burned down?" the tiger said.

"No sure, they say he had possession of the polar spark poison…"

"Wait… the polar spark?"

"Yes sir, it is a poison that is can send your body and soul to a time of your choice."

"I know what it is lieutenant! But what about the other Tiger?!"

"The Tigress is the leader of the furious five; she is apparently his wife now."

"Amazing… now what does this have to do with me…"

"It has everything to do with you… lord Takhashi."

Kuzon breath stopped as he heard those words, his heart missed a beat and he thought he might have just kicked the bucket. (A/N: Died… XD) But with his focus he managed to keep listening.

"Your son will be here soon, and he is after Madam Mei."

"She is not to leave this place, hold up all guards to fight this man and his wife and make sure miss Mei does not escape. DO I MAKE MYSELF CLEAR!"

"YES MY LORD!" The rhino saluted and ordered his men to go the entrance, if there was any time to re-hide it was now.

kuzon wasn't gonna take that chance though...

kuzon came out from his hiding place and grabbed one of the gaurd by the throat and lifted him up in the air, not keeping his eyes off of 'Lord' Takhashi, he was very cold in the eyes and very stiff in the body...

Kuzon through the rhino guard aside and walked up to Taihashi and was only 3 feet away from him. Tahashi had a face on him like he'd seen a ghost; his pupils were tiny and were shaking, as well as his jaw clatter against his skull.

"Tahashi sensei... my old master of my own art in fighting, some call you an unknown hero... some call you an enemy killed in war... me?... I call you a terrible farther..." Kuzon said, with a cold smirk across his face.

Tahashi said nothing, he was too dumb found that his lack of speech was repairable. at this point, the Female tigress next to Tahashi was smiling lustfully at Kuzon, Kuzon turned his gaze to her and scowled.

"...Don't even think about it..." Kuzon said to her, with a raw tone in his voice.

Her expression went from happy to scared in a millisecond, Kuzon looked back at Tahashi and grabbed him by the neck, and the guards aimed their spears at him. The commander started to shout at kuzon.

"SIR! YOU ARE BREAKING RULE NUMBER 259, I WILL ASK YOU TO SURRENDER OR I WILL ORDER MY MEN TO ELIMINATE YOU!" the commander shouted.

"You really think that is such a good idea to say when I have your ruler in this position...?"

Kuzon looked over to see Tigress grab a guard and smack his head against a wooden pillar, but a guard grabbed her by the arm and tied her hands behind her back, this was a mistake because Tigress used her legs to fight of the guard and another 4.

Tigress was fighting over 5 guards with just her feet, giving high knees and leg sweeps everywhere. Kuzon was still having words with Tahashi, who was choking because he was being held by the neck. Kuzon as digging his claws into throat, he lowed Tahashi to his level.

"Where were you on that night...?"

"I-I was in the army..."

"No you weren't... you were supposed to be dead!"

"I-I know, but it wasn't because of me that our family died, it was my boss..."

"Who was-" before Kuzon could finish his sentence, he felt something pierce his lower back...and through his stomach... Kuzon looked down to see the head of a spear in his abs... Then he blacked out...

In Mojang Forest...

Kuzon woke up in a grass area, he had pains in his lower abs, he looked at his paw... blood... and lots of it, he sat up with a painful grunt and looked around. Trees... as far as the eye could see...

He looked around to find Tigress layed out on the floor, Kuzon panicked he could see her entre body in blood, it was gross. But Kuzon had to do something, he placed his head to her chest.

'Come one honey, please don't be alive, and please don't be alive!' Kuzon thought

He could hear her hear beat, but it was very slow... he didn't have time, he picked up Tigress and headed west, via the stars...

His heart was pounding, he was becoming worried of tigress... his pride had gotten the better of him and he had gotten her hurt...

'The hell is wrong with me?! I wanted her to be safe, not like this... she doesn't deserve this... I want the best for her... maybe better than me...' Kuzon looked up to see Hana's house, it was close, surprisingly, but how did he get here? Whatever the reason... it wasn't important.

Kuzon got to the door, he kicked it open, the sunrise light lit the room, empty... no one was in the room... but there were voices of laughter in the bedroom, sayaka and Hana were having fun, while momma and baba were dying... very quickly...

Hana opened the door with a smile, but it dropped to shock as she saw Kuzon place Tigress on the couch and lob onto the couch himself.

"OH MY GOD! WHAT HAPPENED!"

Kuzon looked up with droopy eyes, his mental state was weak and he was really badly injured, he had very been this badly hurt, not even in S.F.A. He felt shit...

"I-I wasn't strong enough... I wasn't good enough to...to..." Kuzon's voice traced away and so did his mental sight, he was going droopy and he had to be fixed soon...

"I'LL GE SOME BANDAGES!"

"You do that..." Kuzon replyed, as Hana got back, she instantly got directed by Kuzon to heal Tigress first, so she healed Tigress' state of injury, she had cuts everywhere, like she'd been in some sort of torture chamber...

"Ok, now that she's..." Hana saw that kuzon was in the bathroom, looking in the mirror, this fight had taken a lot out of him... even his spirit... all he wanted was to keep safe, live a happy life as a family... but he couldn't even have that...

Kuzon opened a cupboard to see a bottle of pills, he took a few and was about to shut the door when he saw something... a small bottle... he picked it up and looked at the title...

'Polar spark potion'

He looked over it with cold eyes... 'what am I thinking... this can't work, how am I even going to choice a time if I can't control it... wait...' he pulled out a picture of him and tigress at they're wedding, it was a happy picture and the only time he was tigress in a dress, it was whit and very long too. He wore a tuxedo and a bow tie. Black and white rim and it was perfect.

He walked over to the sofa and look at the picture for a minute, it was like it was only yesterday he had walked into the jade palace, yet it was such an enjoyable time with tigress, and now... now she was injured and even near death...

He looked over at Tigress, the Hana, Hana looked at him worriedly.

Kuzon asked, "what's the matter.../"

"I...I..."

Hana cried a little, sniffing a few tears away.

"I don't think she's gonna make it..."

Kuzon looked at her in shock... 'That's...that's...' kuzon thought hard, he was holding a bottle of polar spark and was thinking it through, finally he made a decision

He pulled of the bottle cork and chugged the liquid down, it tasted vile and kuzon ran to the bathroom to throw up, the vomit was purple though... Kuzon felt very sick and was very drowsy... finally... he passed out...