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Even though everything was going well, and Tigress didn't experience any accidents during the past week her problems still made Shifus mind heavy with worries. It was not surprising after all, this was the Tigress he brought to the Jade Palace, their bond was the same as the bond which can be felt between a father and a daughter. At least that was what Baihu thought when he found the red panda standing at the doorstep of his room.

"How can I help you Master Shifu?"

"How did you know I was standing here?" he sounded a little embarrassed.

Baihu opened the doors with a reassuring smile.

"My ears might be smaller than yours but my hearing is not affected by this fact. Please come in."

"Thank you. It's about Tigress." Shifu said as he closed the door behind himself.

It was sometimes a little boring guessing everything right, but it was also great for ego of a certain tiger.

"What's wrong? Did something weird happen again?"

"No, I just think that she is still feeling what happened deep inside and that it's slowly eating her."

"What do you mean?"

"If you knew her, you wouldn't need to ask. She never cried, even when she was a cub and seeing her hurt like that just moves your hearth."

"I see, but isn't it weird? Little children often cry, when they don't know how to deal with their problems. How did she ventilate her anger and worries?"

"I don't know, she was just always training, to be honest it sometimes seemed as if she was spending more time with dummies in the Training Hall, since she left the orphanage, than with me."

"Wait, she was in an orphanage? How old was she when her parents left her?"

"I think she was just a cub."

"Were there any other tigers?"

"I don't think so."

It all made sense now.

"I believe you just led me right to the source of her problem."

"What do you mean?"

"Okay, imagine this scenario, you are in the most vulnerable part of your life, your parents left you, you are in a new place and you don't have anyone you can rely on. Do you think those feelings will all just disappear. No they will just stay there and block anything that tries to come through them, in other words I think she has some pretty bad suppressed memories and believe me those can hurt more than putting dislocated joints back into their place."

"But why now, why would those memories resurface now?"

"Has she ever met another tiger?"

"No one I know about."

"Well then that's easy, I am the catalyst of her problems."

"How do you know that?"

"It's easy when you think about it, I am the only thing that changed and in a past month and I have also been near her on both occasions when her symptoms showed up."

"What do we need to do?"

"Well, once again it's pretty simple I need to leave, once the source disappears, so will the problem." Baihu sighed and looked at his bag of supplies already making a mental shopping list.

"You can't leave, what would I say to them?"

Baihu smiled.

"You will have to face one of the hardest trials of your life and lie to those you love. It will be easier for her and also more believable if you make me the villain of this story, so she doesn't have to blame herself."

"But there has to be some other…"

When Shifu looked back at the white tiger, he nor his bag were already nowhere to be found.

-The next morning

To say that Tigress was angry would be an understatement, she was furious. First Baihu comes to her home to further anger her and then torture her friends with a weeklong training so hard they vomit under the promise of teaching them some of his "legendary" techniques which no one ever heard about.

She just had enough.

Maybe that's why, when she heard of his sudden departure and then saw the disappointment radiating from everyone including her beloved Master, when he told them, that Baihu left because he found out, they weren't good enough to continue. She packed her things and left to find him and make him apologize.