Author Note : Hi there everyone, quite a wonderful Sunday today is, isn't it? Been doing okay in both school and life and I'm glad that I've managed to finish and brought you guys/gals a new chapter as promised.

During the last week, I've been planning another arc and I'm thinking that this new arc is gonna be five chapters long and this chapter here is the first part of this arc. In the upcoming arc, I'll have our main protagonist Lukas going on a mission without any of the original characters as what the title of this chapter has stated, but he will receive some company with one of my other OC's.

Also, just to give you guys a heads-up, this chapter will contain a very common 'anime cliche' moment. Some of you might be able to guessed it or not, but just know that it's an 'anime cliche' which some of you guys have/might have seen it dozens of times.

Chapter 35 : First Time 'Going Solo'

After five days has passed since spending some fun time teaching and training the young lion cub Renshu from those two days of him staying. I'm just really hoping for the kid to get strong enough soon so me and him can someday eventually fight each other all day long. Anyway, since those joyful moments of having a kid around here is over. All I can really think of is hoping that he'll continue his training and soon be accepted as a student in the Jade Palace. Right now, I am taking a short break as I've done quite some amount of training at the Training Hall. Man I'm tired, punching a solid-made wooden dummy constantly without stopping at all, my knuckles sure does hurt a lot for a decent amount of time like more than half an hour now.

While I was sitting my ass here resting, the others were training as hard as usual today, which makes me wanna do something else quickly or else one of them might call me "lazy", which I don't want that to happen. I took a deep breath as I stood up from my ass and start stretching my tired limbs, earning some few satisfying pops and crack along with the ones from my entire back. I start walking towards the guys, but it soon interrupted as Shifu opens the big wooden double doors, clearing his throat loud enough to catch our attentions as he began announcing something.

"Students, I have received another assignment from the head of the Valley's guard post and security, captain Yun." Everyone perked up in interest and stood at front Shifu to hear this assignment he has.

"What is the assignment, master?" Viper spoke first. Shifu shifted his sight at the yellow scroll on his paw and start reading the content inside it. "There is a burned village not that far from the Valley Of Peace. Yun and his men has requested a 'guardian' to protect them from any unexpected threats as they'll investigate on what has caused the fire outbreak. This is just a common mission were it requires only one of you to embark on." Shifu explained the details of the assignment. Everyone seen locked their eyes on me. I merely pointed to myself with a confused display on my face.

"What are you looking at?" I asked, my eyes then widens upon realizing. "Don't tell me that I have to go-" I halted my sentence when Shifu nodded. I signed. "Alright, why me from all of you guys?" I quietly complained while pointing my extended hand at the rest of the others.

"This is great, or may I say a golden opportunity for to you learn and gather the utmost experience to learn of being a master." Shifu stated. "Sometimes it's doesn't required the whole Furious Six and the Dragon Warrior to do a single mission at once, some others missions requires only one of you all to fulfill." Come to think of it, the other side of me is also pumping in excitement for this assignment.

"S-Sure, alright, I'll go and do my best." I accepted the assignment. Shifu gave me a small smile that has some few drops of proudness within it.

"Good, you should arrive at the Valley's exit gate within the next three hours to meet up with Yun and his men, I suggest that you should get as much rest as you can Lukas, and be prepared for anything." Shifu motioned his paw for me to go take my time and rest for my upcoming mission within three hours. I bowed and made an exit through the Training Hall's double door.

During my preparations, all I've done is some average amount of sit-ups, push-ups, squatting, weightlifting and a calm, relaxing meditation just to make my body feels like it's active at all time and to prepare it for critical moments. After an hour has passed as I woke from my short nap, I got up from my leaning position on a chair and later on decided to ask Monkey again to train me on how to utilize the staff in combat, which he graciously agreed so.

Before we both can fight, both of us has bowed respectfully at each other and soon our hands are gripping the each of our staff tightly, Monkey then smirked.

"I hope you can do better than last time." He spoke. I chuckled from his comment.

"You'll see when this start..." I responded deviously.

I instantly made the first move as I swung my staff down left. Monkey easily blocked with a upper right swing of his staff and did a quick jab with the tip of the staff, aiming at my chest like back then. I leaned heavily back right as I avoided the fast jab and counter back with a lower right swing, yet still he was able to dodge that as he merely did a low hop to avoid my staff. I continue by launching more attacks and swung my staff much faster which this time he was seemed to be struggling from it and was slowly succumbing to my assault. The moment I saw the slightest opening, I instantly took it which I was able to land a clean hit on him as I did a very fast 360 degree turn and smacked him on his left chest with the tip of my staff, causing him to staggered slightly before he recovered and regained his balance.

"Damn... you've suddenly improved quite well than I thought." Monkey complimented while reposing himself. "Now's my turn!"

He sprinted at me and swung his staff with greater speed and force this time, making my whole body flinched as I was barely blocked that attack. I shrugged and ignore the force of he's and did a fast downward swing, hitting his left knee. With him like a few meters away, I've managed to recover my stance and focus. I charged at him while raising my staff and swung it down fast, he blocked it horizontally while countering back a large series of jabbing strikes, which got me in my right shoulder to my lower left abdomen and finally to my left side of my upper hips. After being struck three times, I staggered back heavily. I released a short battlecry and press on as I start running towards him. While running, I began spinning the staff on my hand as I can feel the air which being produced off by me spinning the staff swiftly.

Once I reached close enough to him, he did a heavy standing swing, which I barely dodged it as I was able to maneuver myself by ducking down as the thin tannish brown blur has missed my head by at least two centimeters. After dodging an attack filled with blinding speed like that, I quickly dashed behind him and did a two-handed strike with the staff on his upper back, flinging him as he'll soon fall on the floor. Suddenly when I thought this would be over soon once he fall on the wooden floor, Monkey placed his right hand on the wooden floor before using his left hand to swung his staff at my right knee while doing a singular spin on a low stance as he struck my ankles and then does a slight breakdance while hitting both of my feet with his staff, causing my whole body to immediately fall flat on my back. After few seconds of groaning in pain. He approached me by my right side and helped me up to my feet.

"What kind of move was that, especially at that last part when you did that little breakdance." I asked, while massaging my back and the parts of my leg where he struck me with his staff.

"Don't worry about it, I believe you'll figure it out someday." He gestured me to hand over my staff to him, which I did as he placed his and my staff back at a nearby weapon stash of the Training Hall. "You've actually managed to perform far better from before. Back then, you were barely able to land one hit on me, but look at you now, you've did quite a number on me." Monkey complimented while hissing from the burning pain on his upper back caused by me doing that two-handed strike on him with my staff. "Yep, quite the number." He added. We both soon shared our laughter before I head out of the Training Hall while giving a brief peace sign. While walking on a random hallway, I decided to smell myself before emitting an inaudible disgusted sound.

Pee-yew! I smelled like the inside of a freakin garbage can, guess I'll need to clean myself up...

After some few more turns at this hallway, I eventually found the bathhouse. Once I entered, the place is a big hall room filled with other rooms which all of are made out of polished wood maybe with some few bricks and also a strong looking roof on top of the hall room. There's also seemed to be several hot spring rooms. It's been more than seven years since I've ever used a hot spring during my previous life in Japan, the feeling of being dipped inside the hot water felt indescribably relaxing, even my bones were able to feel being relaxed. Before I could get in and enjoy the hot relaxing water, I first gotta washed these stinking clothes caused by me sweating like a bastard during that training sessions with staffs I had with Monkey recently. I exited the bathhouse or the hot spring or whatever you guys want to calls it.

When I've entered the medium-sized laundry room, which looks like any other rooms of the Jade Palace as usual. I dragged a nearby short wooden chair as I sat on it and began by taking off my long-sleeved white vest, dragged a wooden bucket which is pretty wide, turn on the tap valve as the sound of fresh clean water began flushing out. After the wooden bucket until the water reached more than hallway up. I turned the tap valve back as the water flow has been closed. While looking around for some soap, I found a white yellowish oval-shaped soap bar. I picked it up and began scrubbing my white vest while dipping it on the water in the bucket. Once I'm done, I put the white vest on a nearby cloth hanging stand for it to dry a bit. I then looked myself before signing before uttering to myself as my dark gray slacks would also required to be cleaned.

"This'll take a while."

More Than Thirty Minutes Later

After I've washed my clothes, I finally was to be able to went inside the bathhouse to washed myself clean in the hot spring and closed the running hot water while opening the drainage for it to drain all the used water away on the hot spring. I exited the hot spring room I was in, I took a quick glance around the bathhouse as I'm currently holding the rest of my clothes while wearing my grayish white boxers with a towel wrapped around my waist. My whole upper body, mostly my both hand are pretty much now shivering from the cold. Without wasting any time, I quicken my walking pace as I put my white long sleeved vest around my back with the both long sleeves wrapped around my neck a bit to kept me a bit warm from the cold. Before I could reach for the exit door entrance of the bathhouse, the temperature around me felt... a little warm? I took a few step inside a room with an opened door of a hot spring room while looking around who's in there.

"H-Hello?" I spoke reluctantly.

After few moments of dwelling, stood a very familiar figure in the hot spring of the room was... oh no... oh fuck... what was in front of me was a severely... no... a completely exposed Tigress... who had just finished washing herself and gotten out of the hot spring in the room she's in... my eyes were widen opened along with my jaw being dropped down in total shock.

At first glance, she looks like she had an average body build of a female human and ummm... kinda flat-chested if I'm being observant and honest here. But with her without any cover at all, she had displayed... quite a striking figure as it resembles the hourglass figure of a woman. She has very gorgeous curves on her waist and hips along with those fascinating-looking black strips on her orange fur while stopping at her white fur that starts from her snout and came down at most of her frontal body. She also had a quite a strong, healthy and athletic body as I can see some few muscular details on her body and abdomen, and the rest are overall strikingly human, both 'feminine' and 'beautiful'-

I soon felt my subconscious, who had immediately sucker-punched me in my guts as I can only felt that sudden pain in my mind. After receiving that sucker-punch from my subconscious, I managed to broke free from my dazed state as I shook my head and try to... reason and explain this super awkward and uncomfortable situation to her.

"So..." I began, briefly clearing my throat "... erm... hehe... y-yeeaah... just pretend that all of this... has never ever happened, while I," I pointed a finger to myself while began back away towards the exit doorway behind me. "am going to take some step back slowly with my eyes closed." Before I could closed my eyes, turned around and walked out of here. A low growl filled with aggression can be heard as it was emitted from her.

"I believe letting you go is not a good option neither for me or you, due to a following circumstance that has occurred a few seconds ago as you had laid your eyes on my whole exposed body." She spoke with her cold and spine-chilling tone. I gulped as fear began building up inside of me as sweat began raining down on my head.

"W-What are you talking? Let's just forget about this whole thing, now I'm just gonna turn around with my eyes closed and walked out of-" I tried to speak but she then cut me off.

"You've clearly saw my whole exposed body with your bare eyes and yet your still denying it? I bet you've burned that image deep down into that filthy mind of yours." I then produced a slight audible nearly high-pitch yelp.

"Come on, it was an accident, I meant it!" My words didn't even changed a thing in this situation I'm in as she's still glaring and scowling sharply at me.

"Even if it was an accident, I can't let you live with that memory sitting still in your mind." She soon grabbed a nearby white towel and wrapped it around her whole body while tying a small knot on her right hip and began cracking her knuckles, creating several intimidating popping and cracking sounds as it began drawing out a large amount of fear from me.

"Woah woah woah wait! What are you doing?!" I shrieked in complete terror.

"I'm merely gonna beat you senselessly until you forget what you've shouldn't have seen, even if it might cause you some permanent damage to your body." My whole body start shaking in fear, while I took a step back. "Don't worry, Master Shifu would happily agreed to fix you up with his techniques after I've done beating that burned image out of your thick skull!"

Tigress roared aggressively while revealing her sharp teeth and fangs as she lunges herself at me and does a crushing roundhouse kick, which I've barely blocked it with my forearm due to that immense force and velocity as it almost made me lost all of my balance. She started by sending a series of punches with unbelievable speed in such little effort as I blocked only four of those punches and the rest of them has landed on my torso and midsection, nearly flinging me back.

Should I fight back... ? No... I better find a way to tire her out until she could calm herself down in the matter of time and then I'll try my best to reason with her about this big, BIG misunderstanding...

I began by upping my defense more while continuing to block, dodge or counter any of her attacks. She did a spinning punch which managed to hit me on my cheeks, sending my whole body collided on a nearby wall of the hallway. Once I opened my eyes, she send out a fast forward palm-strike at me, which I swiftly leaned my head to the left as her palm crashes threw the wooden wall instead of through my head. I instantly stood up before running with everything I've got at another random hallway. After a short period of me running while turning at different directions has passed... oh shit, at front me, stood their was one of my old arch-nemesis... dead ends. I tried to stay still and make no sound at all at the corner of the dead end, but it was all in vain as she was able to follow my scent and eventually tracked me down. Tigress was walking slowly towards me as her both paws clenched hard. I turned and faced her with a defensive stance, yet fear was still presentable due to my current body language (shaking).

"Please, there's has to be another alternative way around this!" I pleaded, only earning a low and fearsome growl from her.

"There is, that is surrendering yourself and let me hit you at the back of your head." She replied aggressively.

"You'll crack my skull then!" I exclaimed, the tiger merely shrugged.

"Well it is not my problem that you've saw me." She cracked the knuckles from her right paw and dashed at me while preparing to deliver a speeding straight punch to my face. I ducked down as her straight punch missed me by one or two inches while passing her by dashing behind her and began running like hell again to another hallway.

Once I'm finally out of breath as I'm panting for air, I looked up and noticed I'm at the door entrance bathhouse again as I might have ran around in circles. I took off my towel, only wearing my grayish white boxer as I ran in between the hallway of the bathhouse, hid myself in a random hot spring room which I've just chose. I entered the hot spring room before shutting the door and later dipped myself inside the hot spring. Few minutes has passed, my heart is still beating like hell from fear and terror. As the sound of pair of footsteps can be heard from the outside of the bathhouse. I nearly gasped and eventually took a large deep breath before allowed myself to submerged deep into the hotspring's water as Tigress has entered the bathhouse to hunt me down by searching for room by room.

Once I've reached to the deepest depth of the hot spring, I closed eyes and start gathering Ki energy to further enhance my hearing, senses and also extended the duration of me holding the breath longer in my lungs. After that's been done, I can hear she's still around here looking for me. The moment I've sensed that she had turned her head at another direction, I swiftly swam underwater and silently peaked my head out of the water and grabbed a nearby yellowish soap bar. Luckily, all of the hot spring rooms in the bathhouse has no roofs for itself whatsoever, which I took advantage of this kind of environment I'm in and threw the soap bar from this roofless hot spring room across to another roofless hot spring room. With a splashing loud sound has been made, I sensed her both ears has perked up as she start walking to the other room of the bathhouse. I gently peeked my head out of the water while I silently pulled myself out of the water without making any audible water-based noises, opening the door before bolting my way out the exit.

After passing the exit doorway of the bathhouse, I made a quick swivel to choose where to hide. Oh wait, I remember there's a storage room around that right hallway, I might use that to hide until this is over. Before deciding to make a silent run for it, I felt a rather powerful force that has grabbed my right arm's wrist. I turned my head around and saw an orange fist coming at my head, I immediately leaned right to avoid it. The orange figure holding my wrist as it was none other than Tigress herself. She send another jab at my head again, but I was fast enough and catches it with my left hand while moving my right hand as now both of our hands/paws are fiercely holding one another. Soon, we both start overpowering on each other by pushing each of our own force and strength. Few seconds later, I began feelingtbsg I'm been slowly getting pushed down by her monstrous strength and brutal force.

"Just give up and let me erased that memory from you." She spoke, grinning devilishly. I then saw an advantage, her towel was beginning to loosen up, I might used that to distract her long enough for me to make a quick escape. Unexpectedly, during our struggle of overpowering one another, her towel has suddenly loosen up even more as it came down a bit, causing me to see a long and visible cleavage of her... erm... well... I guess, D-cup bosom-

Soon, my guts has received yet another mental sucker-punch from my subconscious of me stared at the cleavage of her chest... God, what freakin perverted bastard I am! After regaining complete focus and "control" of myself once again, I made eye contact with her before speaking.

"Hey Tigress, if you keep this up, your towel will eventually fall off of you." She gasped with an unexpected high-pitched feminine tone (which I'll admit it was kinda adorable to hear) as she lets go of her both paws, covering her chest area.

Suddenly, I felt one of my foot has slipped hard due to that moment when I bolted out of the hotspring from the bathhouse as the amount of water that was on my body has splattered themselves on the polished wooden floor. As I slipped on the wet floor, my whole body was falling forward at... oh no! Not her! Anything but her! I began by trying to muster out every ounce of force that body has to prevent me falling on her, but it was all too late since gravity is such a fucking prick and allowed me to fell on her as both of our forehead has collided on one another, causing us both to lost our sights and consciousness.

Once I reopened my eyes, I was in a complete whole new level of absolute shock and disbelief. I felt something very indistinguishably as it's indescribably soft, warm and squishy on the palm and fingers of my whole right hand along with my left cheek felt the same feeling as well. I then gazed down a bit and my body was severely frozen in utter shock. My upper body had fell on Tigress's whole body with her towel has completely fell and flew off somewhere as it completely exposed her entire body to my bare eyes up close while my right hand has grabbed her... no... no, no, no, no, NO, NO, NO, NO!

My fucking cursed right hand somehow had grab a hold of her left breast during that fall while the left side of my face is currently resting itself on her right breast as the amount of soft fur from her body had brushed across my face and my whole body. I froze, before my whole body start shivering insanely along with my heart pounding itself at an uncontrollably violent speed.

OH GOD NO... ! EVERYTHING AROUND ME... IT'S TOO SOFT AND SQUISHY... AAAAARRGGHHHH... !

Her eyes began opening themselves slowly, her eyes soon were shot completely open in an instant as her eyes was set on my right hand that had grabbed her left breast along with my left face were resting on her right breast. Her face immediately went completely almost red as a tomato and soon delivered an instantaneous punch with crushing power towards my sternum, flinging me towards a nearby wall of the hallway. When I reopened my eyes again, only to see a horribly red-faced Tigress who had covered her chest with her left arm while kneeling in an extremely embarrassed posture along with a flustered face. She then began standing up to her feet as I soon felt one of the most intimidating aura that she has ever produced. A low growl filled with high hostility and aggression that my ears has heard.

"Y-You..." She couldn't even speak properly. "H-How d-dare you?!" She shrieked while her whole body began to shake as she held her chest area tighter with her left arm.

"L-Look, I am incredibly sorry Tigress, seriously, please forgive me! It was ALL AN ACCIDENT! I SWEAR, I SWEAR!" I begged, cowering further back to the wall which my back is now touching it. She didn't even had a second thought at all as she decides to lunged towards me while grabbing me by my neck with her paw gripping tightly on it and lift me up with it. My breathing soon start going unstable as my eyes were meet with her lethal glares. Unknowingly, my head start leaning down as I accidentally saw her whole exposed "feminine" body again. A sudden fast orange paw has soon came flying across my face, once it lands on the left side my face and left, it produced a very loud and sharp slapping sound as I felt the burning pain on my left cheek.

"DON'T YOU DARE TAKE ANOTHER GLANCE AT DOWN THERE OR I'LL RIPE BOTH OF YOUR EYES OUT ONE BY ONE!" She threatened loudly, raising her other paw as she unsheathed her claws out while tightening her grip around my neck further, causing me to start wheezing for air.

"I-I'm sorry... *wheezing* i-it just that... *wheezing* I can't... *wheezing* help it." She growls and tightened her grip further. "*wheezing" It just that you look... absolutely stunning and beautiful!" I pressed on. Her face soon reddened even more from what I've said. Upon realizing of what I've spoke, I immediately shut my mouth tight. Tigress lowered her head, before making eye contact with me again. Once she averted her head up, her face was even more redder with a thin river of tears forming and slowly raining down from her eyes from that last sentence of mine.

"Y-You.. You... YOU... LECHEROUS BASTARD!" She screamed before launching a devastating straight punch to my face while an immense loud 'BAM' can be heard, causing my whole vision to blackened along with all my senses went utterly blank.

As I slowly began creaking my eyes opened, I felt a rather hard swelling pain on my left cheek, wait how in the hell did my left cheek felt this sort pain, like it gotten bashed by a metal pipe or something else. Wait a moment... ohh yeeeaahh... after I've remembered complete on how I got this sort of pain, it was because I've saw something that I shouldn't have ever seen. I just can't believe it. I saw Tigres... exposed. S-She was completely naked... and on top of that... I've... I've accidentally... g-groped her. I couldn't hold it anymore as I released a long and sharp shout filled with extreme embarrassment and felt absolutely guilt-ridden while covering my entire face with my both hands. Oh God, she must've felt insanely horrible at that moment, maybe it was the best option if I just surrender and let her beat me up instead, yeah... I totally freakin deserved that punch from her.

Oh Jesus Christ man... I'm literally the worst... the absolute worst fucking human being that has ever lived...

Before I could start cursing and condemning myself even more, I looked at myself and noticed that I've had all my clothes on. Wait let me see, I start patting my whole body to feel if I'm missing some few clothes. While patting, there's my white long sleeved vest and training t-shirt... check, my dark gray Shaolin slacks... check, my pair of sandals... check, and overall everything else... check. I soon noticed that I'm not in the Jade Palace or anywhere near it as I found that I'm on a medium sized transportation roofless cart with few small sized crates around me before I sat up. When I took a better look around my surroundings, I saw Yun along with exactly twelve rhino guards who were walking on a clear dirt path road with their spears on their hooves while the two of them are dragging the the transportation cart that I'm in. The bright environment that we're currently traveling on the clear dirt path that I've mentioned earlier while the air is quite enjoyable and fresh along with the place is surrounded by an enormous quantities of bright green and tall grasses, random trees, with of piles of beautiful flowers over there and some over there.

"Where am I?" I spoke groggily and tiredly, massaging while softly rubbing my left cheek. Yun's ears perked up and averted his gaze to me.

"We're currently making our way the burned village." Yun responded. Oh right, the assignment that Shifu and the rest of others strongly suggested me to take on.

"How did I get here?" I inquired as my vision and senses are becoming much more clearer as I continued rubbing my eyes.

"When we were waiting for one of you to show up at the exit gate of the Valley Of Peace, we saw Master Tigress who was carrying you on her back while approaching us and put you in this cart and said that you've chose to accept my assignment." Yun explained. "By the way, I also asked why you were unconscious, and she just explained that you've fell and hit your head like an idiot, right?" Yun added. My cheeks reddened a little bit as I imagined her carrying me on her back. I then released a sign. "What's the matter, Master Lukas?" Yun inquired, noticing my current facial expression.

"Like I said, drop the whole "master" thing and call me by my name Lukas instead alright." Yun nodded in response. I took a deep breath as I exhaled all those stressful air out of my nostril before explaining. "Something pretty bad happened between me and Tigress." My head then lowered in shame from the most embarrassing and uncomfortable moment in my entire goddamn life.

"I see, so something did happened between you two." Yun grinned. I then raised an eyebrow in confusion.

"The hell your getting at?" I questioned in confusion. Yun merely chuckled.

"Oh you know, did something happened between you and Master Tigress." Yun remarked suggestively. My eyes widens along with my heart skipped a slight beat as my whole body was stunned a bit of him reminding me of that 'horrible incident' that had just occurred today. "Uhmm Lukas? You okay in there?" Yun waved his paw at my face for a brief moment until I've snapped back to reality.

"Yeah I-I'm fine." I assured, Yun doesn't look pretty convinced from that assurance I gave him as he decided to keep asking.

"I believe you're not fine, something did happened between you two, what actually did you do to her?" I then release a loud groan in embarrassment.

"Yes! Something did happened!" I accidentally shouted out in sudden frustration, catching all the rhino guards's attention, I then waved my hand to them slowly while smiling nervously as they all return back to their own business.

"Then what is it?" Yun walked a bit closer to the transportation cart that I'm still currently on as he leaned his head a bit closer.

"I don't wanna talk about it." I spoke with an uncomfortable tone and expression.

"Alright, alright, but just tell me, how on earth are you planning to fix this problem between you and her when you return back to the Jade Palace after this mission?" My body tensed up a bit. I slowly leaned my head down to the cart.

"Wait! That's it! Why didn't I ever thought of something like that!" I exclaimed as an idea has unexpectedly struck my brain.

"Then what is it?" Yun asked.

"I'm gonna try finding a souvenir for her, to show her that how genuinely sorry I am to what I did to her today." Yun then snickered at my newfound idea.

"Pffhhhhh! That's like one of the most predictable move that most nerdy guys could ever think of to please a woman!" The cheetah guffawed suggestively. I then emitted a low irritated grunt.

"Then what more suggestion do you think that I must do, smartass?" I questioned annoyingly. Yun opened his mouth, and as expected, no words has came out. "Good, then keep your mouth shut, I think I'll need some time to think of a souvenir for her." The cheetah's ears drooped as he began sulking on and start walking back to his previous position. I soon then shifted my body to the middle section of the cart while moving some of the crates away to make a comfortable space for me to lied down as I stared up at the clear blue sky with calm-looking clouds floating on the air.

Once night has fallen upon us, all of us had set up a camp. They're were four tents and two campfire that is providing a good amount of light and warm which keeping us from cold in the night. Me and Yun are sitting on a chopped log as we both stare at the bright blazing flame of the campfire at front of us. Yun then stretched his back before speaking.

"So tell me Lukas, what kind of problem happened between you and Master Tigress." Yun spoke. Oh for the love of God, this persistent-ass cat just won't stop, isn't he? Well, here we go again with this.

"I've already told you, I don't wanna talk about it." I reiterated, shifting my gaze at the warm and bright flame. Yun's face soon has a scheming-look expression formed on it.

"Tell you what, how about I make a deal with you." The cheetah grinned.

"What kind of deal would you possibly want to make with me?" I then got curious as I inquired. Yun chuckled with his both eyes closed before reopening them.

"Here's the deal." He began. "I'm gonna help you find or I'll just buy a souvenir for you to give it your 'special lady'." My both cheeks flared up a bit from those two words "special lady" as I send a scowling glare to the cheetah's semi-suggestive remarks, which made him gulp and laughed nervously. Few seconds has passed, I motioned for the cheetah to continue. "And in exchange after I've helped you, you're gonna tell me everything EXACTLY what has happened between you two and how it all went down." He eventually extended out his paw. I took on a thinking posture as I began pondering. Once my pondering has stopped, I must say, it's a pretty good one.

"*long sign* Fine, I'll accept your deal." I shook his paw before a serious face has formed on me. "But under one very strict condition that you must follow and never break."

"Go on." He motioned for me to continue.

"Is that YOU, must NEVER. EVER. Tell this to anyone else even if it's your superiors, family members, longtime friends and even the emperor of China himself." To be more honest here, all I'm just very worried about is Shifu finding out that I've... t-touched the... exposed body of his adopted daughter. Oh God, I'm totally terrified of what he'll do to me if he ever knows as you all know how protective a father can truly be when he has a daughter that he truly cares for, especially when the daughter has reached to the "specific" age during in her lifetime.

Yun nodded on the condition of mine before flashing an inscrutably grin at me, giving me a slight feeling of doubtfulness about me accepting this deal of his. Hopefully it will go well and not make me regret that deal that I've made with this devilish cat.

Author Note : And that was the thirty fifth chapter, hope you all enjoyed this chapter and also hope that some/none of you guys didn't mind the 'anime cliche' that I've added in.

Well, speaking about that anime cliche, if some of you guys had guessed it right, well done and give yourselves a good pat on the back. Also, I would say I kinda have used this anime cliche in a slightly different way. Instead of making the male character getting instantly beaten down by the female character, I made the male character defending himself against the female character's wrath for accidentally seeing her 'exposed body'.

I don't really have much to say here since I've published this chapter in around at approximately 2:40AM or so and I really would like to get some sleep right now. Anyway, please Favorite, Follow and leave a Review if you would have some spare time left. If you have some questions or suggestions, feel free to send a PM for me and I'll read it and give our my answer in the first author note of the next chapter. If you don't want to do any of those, just enjoying the story is already enough. I'll be seeing you all in March, take care for now.