Author Note : Well well well, look who decided to show up after more than THREE months. As always, I am very sorry for making you all wait more than quarter of a year, especially when I left some/most of you readers at a bit of a 'cliffhanger' from the previous chapter. After when I uploaded Chapter 36, I decided to not write or produce anything for a while because the teachers in my school said that the final exams are going to hit very hard when the final exam week comes.

If I'm being honest, I also wanted to a long break instead of a short one. God, it felt good as the long break was quite stress-relieving and refreshing.

Also, the story has now reached over 30K views and has gotten like 3 or 4 new Favorites and Followers, which is crazy for me since my story hasn't been updated for more than three months and was deep in the list and KFP stories/fanfics.

With enough said, let us return to the story!

Chapter 37 : It's A Little Complicated

My eyelid slowly crept themselves open as I slowly lifted myself up, sitting up straight. Once my senses has returned, I looked around and noticed that I'm inside in some sort of a slightly shady-looking house, made out of ordinary wood as there was some few rays from the sun that's shining through the incredibly small holes of the roof. I looked down, noticing that I'm currently shirtless and my hair felt completely loosed as I couldn't find that hair tie. I decided to look around more, noticing that I'm sitting on an ordinary handmade wooden bed with soft covering on it while my legs are covered by soft blanket. Speaking of blankets, since I've been living in the Jade Palace for more than a year, I completely forgotten how bed with soft mattress along with a good blanket and pillow felt like. I shove that pointless thought away as I looked at my left side and noticed Yun who was asleep at another separate bed with the same soft and comfortable bed as mine as he's only about a couple of meters from me.

I smiled softly at his cute cat-like display of his sleeping posture from afar as I slowly got up from the wooden bed and walked closer to him before I began petting and rubbing around his head as the cheetah giggles groggily. This sensation of petting a big cat is completely from petting a normal average stray cat, though this is not the first time that I've petted a big cat. I once accidentally petted and rubbed around Tigress's head, which it felt incredibly soft and very comforting to rub around while it's... umm... okay, never mind that. Before I could continue scratching Yun's head, I stopped and pulled my hand away before remembering what Yun shouted me being incapable of saving at least one of his men who died brutally.

I shook my head as I threw that thought away. I tried moving out of this room I'm in, then I felt the same sharp pain in the back of my right shoulder.

Crap, it's still hurts like hell from being shot by that arrow during that chase from last night...

I put my hand on the back of my right shoulder and touched it. The pain intensified like a sting from a hornet for a short moment while I've grunted lowly from the pain, but didn't felt I've touched the flesh of the back of my right shoulder, it was wrapped completely around my right shoulder by bandages along with a smell of some sort of natural herbal medicine placed inside the bandages while there was more bandages wrapped on my frontal body and my back along with the same smell of the natural herbal medicine inside these wraps. I endured the pain as I managed to take around more than ten steps before I've found my pair of sandals as I wore them back on and opened the wooden door of this room.

What I can see after exiting the room was a small hall. I walked around before seeing visible steam and hearing sounds of water rumbling mildly close by. A sudden smell of a delicious aroma has soon reached my nose, I sniffed it before releasing a silent satisfying groan in my mind, probably the rescuers that saved me and Yun must be cooking something very tasty at the kitchen. I then stood by near at the bedroom before calling them.

"H-Hello?" I called out the rescuers with my voice slightly raised up. A pair of footsteps can be heard as a figure walked out of the kitchen. My eyes went wide open as the figure looks nearly identical as Tigress, but she looked more like to be in her mid-forties.

"M-Mingzhu!" A feminine voice came from the tiger who's wearing a green robe with pink vines patterns as she yelled stuttering. I quickly raised and waved my hands slowly to ensure her.

"Woah, woah, easy there, I'm not going to hurt anyone or anything!" I spoke assuringly while waving my hands.

Soon, a tall, muscular male tiger who's around six feet tall who was also appears to be in his mid-forties as well, wearing a brown vest and black pants with a gray waist wrap. He has a some sort of a handmade-looking wooden backpack on his back as it looks like it's carrying some large wooden logs on it and he's currently holding an average large hatchet for cutting down trees or woods. He growled in high caution as his both paws has gripped tightly on the hatchet's handle. The tiger roared aggressively as he lunges at me with his axe, preparing to split me in half with it. With him swinging the axe down, I was lucky enough to not be groggy when I left the bed as I was able to prevent the axe from splitting my head open by catching the near end of the handle without getting cut by the heel part of the blade. As I'm trying to push it away, the tiger has a lot of raw strength while he's slowly bringing the blade of the axe closer to my face as my body began taking on a kneeling posture to avoid letting the blade of the axe fall on my face.

"Please, I'm not an intruder!" I pleaded. He sharpened his glare at me.

"Quite, intruder! Wait till I chopped your head off!" The tiger growled. My body tensed up for a split second as I swiftly leaned my head and upper body rightward before while performing a lightning sweep kick with my left leg while yanking the hatchet away from his paws and slide it behind me as the tiger fell on his back. The other tiger gasped as she rushed to 'what I'll assume is' her husband by his side, placing one of her paw on his shoulder and the placing her other paw on his sternum as she kneel down and began helping him up to his feet. "Damn you, I swear I'll fucking kill you if you lay a finger on my wife, you son of a-" Before he could tell more, his wife cut him off.

"Mingzhu! He did nothing to me, he just woke recently." She assured him. I signed in relief before I turned around and kicked the hatchet gently back to him as he grabbed it, still holding tightly and intensely in his paws. I raised my both hands up to show that I've got nothing with me. He's facial expression soon softened as he loosen the grip of his paws on the hatchet and placed it vertically on a nearby wooden wall.

"Now I've remembered, I was the one who rescued you and your cheetah friend." He remembered. "I'm Mingzhu, and this is my beautiful and loving wife Mei." He leaned down while his wife leaned up as they both shared a kiss on their lips. "I am very sorry for not remembering you, my mind was being still tensed up and clouded as I was been attacked by those two thugs at the morning when I was merely minding my own business chopping and gathering woods outside of the village." My eyes widens before I could speak.

"What do those thug looks like?" I asked. Mingzhu took a moment to think.

"I think I'll tell you about it once my body stops hurting like hell." He then grunted in pain as he grasped his midsection of his body.

"Alright then." I awkwardly looked away as I took a quick glance around the living room of the house that I'm currently at before looking back at them. "By the way, how's Yun doing?" I inquired, worrying about Yun's wellbeing.

"Oh your cheetah friend? He has sustained only mere a minor concussion as it made him went unconscious." Mei answered.

"Despite how you look, how can you tell he has a minor concussion?" I inquired with my both arms wrapped themselves around each other.

"I suppose I could say that I've been studying on many medical knowledge and one of the village's finest healer." Well that explain how she knows. "If may I ask, how did your friend has gotten a concussion." I sheepishly began scratching my head by telling her the "experience" of me and Yun has gone through yesterday.

"Well you see, it's-"

"Let me guess, a fierce blow to the head? Did he suddenly trips down and hit his own head? A small jolt on his brain by either heavy movement or a sudden strong force or even a-"

"A very strong shockwave from a large explosion that hits me and him on the back side of our whole body, but I'm would say I'm completely sure he's fine, Yun only needs some-." I answered her the half of the truth as I cut her off before she could literally talked to a whole new topic. Upon hearing how Yun got a concussion, her eyes wide upon as she gasped in shock.

"Oh my God! Did he suffered any severe burns on his body, permanent damage?! internal damage?! Or worse, maybe all of them together! Please excuse, as the role of a healer, I must immediately go check on your friend right now!" She slightly panicked as she tries to get pass me, but I've blocked her way by stepping leftward.

"No, no, no, he's completely alright, he's just unconscious at the mean time." I assured.

"Do you have any proof?" She questioned with a serious and hasty tone. I then took a moment to process what to say.

"Uhmm..."

"Enough of this! Please! Let me-"

"I've carried him for hours yesterday! He did not suffer any other damage, only a minor concussion as what you've said." Despite what I said, I believe this won't change a damn thing in this pointless, yet silly little argument.

"But what if that "minor" concussion will soon get even worse, maybe it grew to a severe level! Might even become fatal if I don't-" Soon, Mingzhu placed his large, muscular paw on his wife's shoulder which it made her calm down. If she kept talking like that, she might even forget how to breath.

"You don't have to worry about the cheetah, honey. During the time when I've carried these two, I managed to do a quick check on them and they seemed to be fine, but you umm..." Mingzhu turned his gaze at me. "What's your name, kid?" He asked.

"It's Lukas Gilman." I replied.

"L-Lue...kas?" Mingzhu mispronounced. "As I was saying, Lukas was the only one who has sustained a threatening injury on the back of his right shoulder as he's been bleeding while it might form an vicious infection soon if he's not treated, the cheetah is just only being unconscious at that night till now." Mei soon grew relieved as she lowered her head a little as she began fidgeting her paws while blushing slightly from her previous behavior.

"S-Sorry, I tend to get carried away when someone's life is in danger."

"Nah it's nothing, without that kind of crazy worry you have, you might fail to save another person's life." She smiled. "By the way, how much long do you think that this wound on the back of my right shoulder might take up to heal?" I asked. She scratched her chin before giving me the results.

"Since your lucky the wound wasn't that deep, it'll take around from three weeks or so." My jaw nearly dropped.

"Damn... the others and Shifu would might starting to think that I've went missing or even better, think that I may have died under a strange or unknown circumstances." I muttered to myself.

"Hey, you okay?" Mingzhu asked.

"I'm alright, just thinking that my friends will think I've suddenly died."

"That's ridiculous!" He said before both tigers chuckled. Before we could grab a chair and start talking, my stomach released a booming roar.

"You must've been hungry?" She kindly asked.

"Yeah, speaking of hungry, how long was I out?" I asked.

"You've been unconscious for only around two days." Mei answered. Soon, another vicious growl had came from my stomach.

"I take that as an urgent call from your stomach, kid." Mingzhu chuckled. "Come on, my wife has prepared lunch."

"Wait, your making food for a total stranger that easily?" I questioned.

"Well yeah, it's not like this is the first time that has ever happened, during the last twelve years ago, our village managed to save eight lives of strangers in total, and none of them revealed the location of our village as they've promised to never tell anyone about it."

"That makes me the ninth stranger you've saved." Mei smiled.

"Actually, this is year is way more unique and surprising." I tilted my head slightly rightward in confusion.

"Huh?"

"Since your the ninth, it would seemed that you've forgot who's the tenth stranger we've saved." My eye widened in realization as I chuckled.

"Whoops, almost forgetten about Yun. Yup, there's no denying it, I'm just super hungry that my memory is getting pretty foggy right now." I made an excuse to cover my temporary short memory terms before scratched my head sheepishly.

"Come on, the lunches are gonna cool themselves down if you don't hurry." She motioned. Before we could head to the kitchen, Mei had brought me my gray training t-shirt, which I took it from her paw and quickly wore it back as my torso start feeling a bit chilly. Apparently, my white Chinese long-sleeved vest is still being hanged by a clothing stand at outside due to not being dry enough to wear as what Mei had told me along with the t-shirt and the long sleeved vest had a small hole where the arrow strike me as she assured that she sewed the hole up already.

Once we all reached the kitchen, me and Mingzhu were the ones who took a seat first at an average looking table while Mei is preparing lunch. She placed two colorless wooden rice bowl with warm, steamy rice in it along with two small wooden spoon in it. Mei soon placed another wooden bowl, but it was larger and has delicious smelling vegetables with flavoring herbal ingredients in them. I almost drooled and was already began eating. After I finished eating lunch, I placed the wooden bowl and spoon back to the sink before washing them all clean. Mei then approached me from behind.

"You don't really have to wash it, I'll-"

"Nah, don't worry, I'll wash everything up, this is just a way of me saying "thank you" after saving me." I assured.

"Aww, how kind, your like a son who's all grown up and being responsible." Soon after hearing that, my body seemed to froze a bit as I stopped washing, a slight frown later has been formed on my face. "Oh umm... I-I'm sorry, I didn't mean to uhhmmm-"

"Hey don't worry, it's nothing." I assured. Damn, the moment when she said the word "son", not even a second, it reminded me of my mother. She was-

I shook that distracting thought away as it felt it'll just keep growing inside my mind if I don't shove it away anytime soon. After I washed every dishes and bowl. Decided to exit the house to see some light outside.

"Where are you going Lukas?" Mei asked, by hearing the distance of her voice, she must be in another room of this wooden house.

"I'm only gonna take a walk outside, mostly for getting fresh air." I responded back with a slightly raised voice.

"Alright Lukas, don't be late and come back soon when it's starting to get dark outside!" Mei replied in agreement. Before I could leave, I smiled warmly at her protective "motherly-warnings" as it reminded me of how my mom that she used to says that line almost every time when I'm leaving the house.

I grabbed the doorknob and turned it rightward. As I step outside, I was in total awe. It was an average, yet medium to large village with an absolutely beautiful view of nature along with the representation of a crystal clear blue, loads of bright green grass, tall trees and mountains. The village itself has only tigers in it, there were farmers working on farmlands it's wet and were filled with lots of green plants and rice plants in it, cute little tiger cubs playing and chasing each other, tall and muscular ones who are doing the heavy work such as chopping woods, reworking it at the sawmill and etc. I left the near area of Mei and Mingzhu's house and began dwelling deeper into the tiger village.

While walking around this village and seeing how things are. I was too receiving those unpleasant glare from the inhabitants just like during the first day when I arrived or transported or...somewhat mystically and magically awakened in this world. Took a more than a week for the villagers in the Valley Of Peace to start taking a liking to me after when I was accepted to the Jade Palace. Afterwards, I've unknowingly came across of a dusted and soiled tiger-looking doll with feminine traditional Chinese clothings that's on the dirt path of this village. I bent down and picked the doll up, not long before a wondering tiger with her tiger cub who had unnoticeably approached me at front. The mother then widened her eyes opened while dragging her daughter behind her to protect the tiger cub with her other arm extending forward for further protection.

"Woah!" I stood with my both hands up. The tiger cub perked up. "It's okay, I have no intention of being a threat to anyone or anything!" The tiger's facial expression and posture softened after hearing my assurance. The tiger cub pointed her paw at the doll I'm currently holding in my hand.

"Mommy! Look, it's Hǔ! I knew she's not gone far!" The cub spoke with a squeaky voice as she stood out from her mother as she take some few steps towards me.

"Oh, is this doll yours, kid?" I asked soft and gently.

"She's Hǔ!" The tiger cub corrected. "And she's not a doll!" I then chuckled at her funny and kiddy behavior before crouching down at her height.

"Well, I think Hǔ is very scared and sad to be alone." I said, The tiger cub's face soon formed a frowned while lowering her ears. "But if you take good care and look after Hǔ more, she'll not feel alone anymore and be happy as ever." The tiger cub's frown went away, replaced by an adorable bright smile.

"Y-Yes! I will!" She enthusiastically said, causing me to smile and pat her head gently before stood up.

"Thank you sir, that was very kind of you for a stranger." The mother thanked.

"Oh, it's alright."

"No really, she lost that doll for more than-"

"Mommy! I told you like a million time! Her name is Hǔ! And she's not a doll!" Me and the mother laughed softly at the tiger cub's short outburst.

"Well," The mother cleared her throat. "She lost Hǔ for more than a month, she's been looking all over for Hǔ."

"Then I'm glad I could found Hǔ before anything could happen to her." I scratched my brown hair on top of my head. Later, the mother and her cub bid me farewell as I return the 'goodbye' gesture to them and continued on with my walking session.

Once the darkness of the night has taken over, I've headed back the house that I've woke up today. I approached the door of the house and knocked it a few. The door opened as Mei responded.

"Oh Lukas, so how was your day?"

"It went from bad to good." I then noticed Mei's face has some concern in it.

"I may think that everyone must be weirded out or maybe even be frightened by your strange appearance, no offense though."

"It happens all the time, but I could say that most of the people in this village here has gotten quite used to me by now." Mei was able to produce a small smile.

"That's a good relief to hear, frankly, I was so worried that I thought the villagers would be frightened by your appearances, causing them all to form a mob to catch and kill you afterward" Mei spoke with a hushed tone. I merely laughed at she had thought of.

"What an absurdly thought, which you may referred it as a 'witch-hunt'." Soon, she laughed as well.

"Y-Yeah, how absurd of me." She uttered with her head lowered before leveled it up. "Good news Lukas, your friend Yun has finally wake like two hours ago." My eyes widens in relief.

"That's great! I'll go talk to him right now." Mei then held paw up as She gestured for me to stop.

"I'm sorry but he's not in the house."

"By any chance, you know where he might be?" I asked, almost with a rushed tone.

"I'm not sure, he's maybe hanging around at the south side of the village from where I see he's headed to."

"Thanks, I'll be back soon!" I thanked, turning my direction and head to the south side out the village. After walking almost aimlessly due to the amount of darkness of the night that my eyes are seeing, I have no idea where to go. Luckily, I could now start seeing some torches acting as 'nightlights' for the village. They're were less villagers around here, but most out here were the adults having fun and having some conversations. I saw a group of tigers talking to each other, I approached and tapped one of their shoulder.

"Woah! So your the new guy around here?" The tiger spoke, surprised.

"Well that's me." I replied. "Anyway, have you seen a cheetah anywhere nearby?"

"Sorry, buddy, but I don't see any cheetah walking around here today or never see one in my entire life." He then looked at the other tigers. "What'bout you guys?" The other tigers stated silent and shook their head in saying "no". I signed.

"Thanks though, I'll ask the others then." I waved my hand at them. After asking like seven times, they're was one tiger guy who saw a cheetah wandering around this area and says that cheetah was looking for a "furless ape". I thanked him and continued on searching for the cheetah.

After countless minutes has passed, I was beginning to to be loss in the south side of the village. Afterwards, I exited the south side of the village and head to the east side where I first woke up today. Before I could reached the door of the house that's inhabited by Mei and Mingzhu while Mei is gonna prepare dinner for her husband and me along with Yun if I managed to find him.

I saw a very small campfire that's not to far. I turned and walked towards it. Then I finally found him, Yun... who just sat near at the edge a horizontally chopped log, staring blankly at the flame of the campfire. I gulped with nervousness began to grow before slowly approaching near to the cheetah as I sat on the same log as he's sitting while I only sat on the other side of the log.

"So, umm... lovely night isn't it?" I turned around and awkwardly began while feeling guilt is coming back. The cheetah did heard me clearly, but he remained silent. I signed before turning my head back. "I-I'm seriously sorry about what happened at two days ago, for letting your men be killed and I sorta need to knock you out." Yet, he still remained silent and kept staring at the flame of the campfire blankly. I groaned in frustration as I stood up from the edge of log. "Look Yun! I'm sorry alright!" I yelled, placing both of my hands my chest. "There was no other option left than play dead! Since you've finally cool yourself down, I hope you understand why I chose to say low instead." I then sat back on the opposite side of the log. Soon I heard an audible low sign filled with sadness.

"Yeah... y-your right Lukas." He spoke blankly, almost sounds emotionless. "There's no need to apologize, in fact, I think I was the one to be sorry for letting my anger gets the best of me and made me punched you. You were right about the part of you having no other options left." He frowned in sadness. "A similar moment like that has happened not long ago as I lost three of my most trusted and dearest colleagues that I considered them to be a family to me." Soon, I too frowned as well.

"I'm very sorry your lost of your friends." I spoke with a sincere tone. "What happened to them?" I asked. Yup pinched the temple of his forehead before telling. He remained quiet and was hesitating to tell, but he was managed to speak eventually.

"Five years ago, before I became a head captain of the Valley Of Peace's security, me and my three colleagues were merely sixteen years old when we join the Chinese Army. Four of us and the other soldiers were tasked to raid a notorious gang before the Red Fang Army has become the head of attention to China today. There was Ming, a cougar, he's a gentle giant as his height passed around two meters high, Ming is very caring, compassionate person and a complete softy out of us four. Next is Hui, a hyena who is the most loyal of us, always staying true to us and himself, will always watches over our back all the time no matter what. And then finally, Xiu, without her intelligence and wittiness, none of us wouldn't have made it this far or should I say I made it this far and is still breathing at this moment. She's also the most beautiful cheetah I've ever seen in my life and considered to be one of the most beautiful personnel in the army as few higher ranking personnel tries to flirt with her. Most of the guys in the army said that those attractive curves of her hips were the most beautiful and displaying part of her body." Yun later displayed a face as it looks like he's daydreaming, but he soon snapped out it. "She was also the smartest and most strategic of us four, due to her intelligence and wits, she was able to became a captain earlier than any of us four. After a whole year of serving the army, I kept feeling those odd feelings around her and soon, I eventually fell in love with her due to her strong-natured personality and kindness."

"So, did you tell her your feelings?" I asked curiously.

"Yeah, before the battle breaks lose during that raid on a base of the notorious gang, I was able to tell her about my feelings and a miracle just happened, she did felt the same, it was the most happiest and joyful moment in my life." He then wipes his nose, producing a loud snuffle. "But since life is fucking cruel and unfair, she was stabbed from behind by a sword of the a member of the gang and bled to death when raid began. During her last breaths as I held her while she's slowly dying, the last thing she said to me was that she hoped that one day that I'll find a woman just like her." Unexpectedly, his eyes has became slightly red and was start tearing while snuffling louder. "Fuck, and what makes it even worse was Ming and Hui... those two shouldn't even deserve to die at all." The cheetah gritted his teeth. "I was being held back by the higher rank soldiers during that moment while they've said that sacrifice needs to be made as I've watched my two best friends, kneeling down while being executed by the gang members with their throat being slit open instead of rushing in and make a change." Yun wiped the tears from his eyes. Damn... losing one important person in your life is unbearable already, but four? God... he must've suffered immensely from the feeling of lose.

"But why didn't you disobey them if you knew that would've happen?" I asked.

"I was apparently the most timid and submissive one int the four during my whole time in the army, I tried telling them, but those bastard kept barking orders at me and saying it some tactics that are considered to be illogical and bullshit. Holding me back and telling me that they've have no other option left than watching two of my best friends having their throat being slit open." Yun shifted his gaze at me. "Ever since that tragic day, I vowed to myself that I'll always put myself before my comrades no matter what. During that moment when you told that you let my men die, I thought you were too, like those heartless bastards who held me and blabbered about making a sacrifice while never cared for who the person is instead, they've only caring the success of the mission."

"But still, it was never your fault for letting your men died there, it was already too late, I can't just go out there and start lashing at them mindlessly, couldn't do anything but watch instead." I lowered my head with a frown, still feeling ashamed for not doing anything at that moment.

"So now you know the feeling of being useless, eh?" I almost gasped, I was gonna tell him "my" backstory, but I decided to keep my mouth shut and be quiet while rethinking what to say next.

"Yeah, it's the worst and shittiest feeling for anyone to experience." I spoke with a hushed tone, starring blankly at the bright flame of the campfire.

"Since I'm now calm and can think straight, maybe it was too late already to save them, guess I'll just let it slide and keep moving forward I suppose." Yun placed his paw on my shoulder. I was able to produced a weak smile.

"Thanks, I'm glad you understand my decision."

"Anyway, lets stop talking about this... dark and depressing topic and move on to a better topic to talk about." He suggested, trying to lighten the mood for us both.

"Sure." I nodded. "I think you should give it a go first?" I pointed my finger at him. Yun look confused.

"Huh?"

"Remember you promised to tell me about what you've just dreamed during that time when I'm carrying you." I reminded. Yun perked when he remembered.

"Well, about the dream, I was dreaming about..." He trailed off, I signed before gesturing him to continue. "I was dreaming about marrying a very beautiful and loving she-cheetah."

"So how did it feel."

"I was simply in complete bliss, I really like the part when we're at our new house while the bride scratched my head, it felt so good." Yun was at it again, daydreaming like a schoolboy, which made me snickered his daydreaming face. "Hey! The hell you laughing at?" Yun exclaimed.

"You said you've liked the part when the bride in your dream scratched your head?" Yun nodded, still doesn't know yet, but wait till he knows about this. "That was me in the real world, petting and rubbing your head while you were busy enjoying it in your dream." Yun gasped in disbelief.

"No, that's not possible!" He was now in shock.

"Yes, it's true, I was the one who scratched, petted and rubbed around your head, you've liked it so much that it made you giggled groggily." I then chuckled at the face that's the cheetah is making when he was asleep if I recall. He then took a deep breath before calming down.

"Now you've made me regret for apologizing to you when I've punched your in your forehead, and you know what, I think I now wanna give that forehead of yours another good'ol punch again for ruining my blissfully dream!" Yun then grinned playfully as he bent down on all four and start sprinting at me like a cheetah, I smirked. When he pounced, I managed to caught both of his biceps with my hands while it stops his whole body before I flipped him over, next, wrapped and restrained him with my right arm around his upper torso as I playfully began scratching his head. I felt the cheetah's body went numb not long before the cheetah start purring, until his eyes flashed open in realization of what he's in.

"N-No! Stop it you damn-" Yun's outburst was cut as I moved from scratching his head to scratching the behind his ears, he was now purring even louder and his body went even more numb. After a few minutes has gone by, I let go of my both my arms, he leaped out of me and failed to land on the grassy ground as he fell on his frontal body. Yun was breathing heavily.

"So, how does it feel?" I said. Yun stood up from the ground and looked at me with a face filled with discomfort.

"W-What are you fucking g-gay?" He exasperated. I then groaned loudly, covering my face with my hand.

"Oh goddammit Yun! Why did you have to bring that up!" The cheetah still remained in discomfort.

"You've literally rubbed your whole hand around a GUY'S head and you didn't feel weirded out about it at all?" Guess I better tell him something, maybe tell that I'm not from this country, yeah but I better not tell him the "whole details" of how and why I'm here, plus with me came from a different dimension.

"Alright, let me ask you this."

"What?"

"Which species do you think I am?" Yun rubbed his chin while lowering his eyes down a bit.

"Now when your talking about that, I have no clue of what species are you. All I know is that I sometime think the name Furless Ape is most likely to be the name of your species." I sharpened the looks of my eyes at him.

"Hhmmm... why am I getting feeling this feeling that your trying to insult me?" Yun stuttered as he couldn't make out any word from his mouth. I signed. "Anyway, my species's name is not Furless Ape as what you think, it is called Human."

"Hue... what?" Yun mispronounced.

"Human, a species that is related and belongs in the Primates family." Yun wasn't catching up until I remain silence for him to process up.

"Like you're related to monkeys, gorillas, gibbons and the rest of the apes?" I nodded.

"Yes, but not completely." He now look at me with interest.

"So, how tough are humans and where do they all lives?" Yun asked. And here's the hardest part, better not spill the whole details about how I got here.

"I would say my species lives extremely far away." I began, not wanting to say that I'm from a complete different dimension or something. "And I don't exactly know, but I would say we humans aren't that naturally tough compares to other big species, but through intensive training, they will be pretty tough, and if I'm being blunt here, human's true strength resides in here." I tapped the near top of my head.

"So you're implying that your species has far more intelligent than us?" Yun asked, feeling slightly insulted.

"No, not at all, it just really depends on who and which individual your talking about? And also, the rest of the other species like mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians and other more also resides in my country as well, all of them remained 'wild' and while showing extremely low self-awareness about themselves." Yun tilted his head.

"Alright, I can understand is the part where you said 'very low self-awareness', but what do you mean by 'wild'?" Yun asked. This conversation of ours might last a bit more longer than I expected.

"For us humans, the word "wild" is us referring how uncivilized, uncontrolled and untamed animals are while-." His ears straightened.

"Excuse me, but 'animals'? You can't say that word out loud, that's a very offensive and rude word to everyone." Yun interjected.

"I was already expecting and well-aware of the meaning of the word 'animal' to everyone else. But know this, we're all animals as well." I stated. "But not every other species in my country are 'wild', we humans had managed to domesticated quite a few species I suppose." Soon, curiosity is now the only thing I can see on the cheetah's face.

"What species?"

"They're cattles, horses, sheeps, but mostly of them are canines and felines, but only the "lesser cats" while the "greater cats" are still remained wild and are challenging to at least gain their trust."

"Alright, tell me more about canines and felines." Yun motioned, looking very excited to hear more from me.

"I don't know much, but most humans considered them as very good pets, especially dogs." Yun's face soon grew in disgust.

"P-Pets?!" The cheetah shrieked in disgust. "What the hell is wrong with you humans? Having them as pets, it... it just sounds... wrong."

"You don't have to worry about them, we humans also have laws that protects them which's called 'animal-abuse', and also without us, some of them all won't last much longer in the wild since the certain species needs our guidance and shelter to live out the most of their life. But we humans considered dogs are better pets than cats."

"Why's that and please stop using the word 'dog', it's a really strong word when someone intends to condemn a canine for his or her wrong doings."

"Okay then, I'll use the word 'canine' then instead." I began. "The reason why canines are considered to be a Man's Best Friend due to their incredible amount of loyalty to us, because of the amount of loyalty they've held for us, they were used able to guard and protect our houses while depending what species I'm referring to and were also to be used as 'police canines'. And for the lesser cats on the other hand, most humans considered them to be independent, lazy, introvert but can be very affectionate whenever they want and feel like it."

"Wait, you've forget to tell me about the purpose and benefits of 'owning' a lesser cat?" I rolled my eyes and let a long annoyed groan.

"Do I look a goddamn professor to you?" I spoke with an annoyed tone, wanting this long topic to end. Yun chuckled.

"Sorry, got carried away for a moment there."

"Well I can tell you one thing about both canines and felines." A small, yet devious smile has creaked open on my face. Yun raised an eyebrow and motioned for me to continue. "Is that both species love it when humans scratches their head." I moved my right hand with high speed, reaching to his head before I scratched with rapid speed while his fur brushing through my fingers as I kept scratching.

The cheetah again, went limp as he was slowly trying to lean away from my hand. Soon, his head began to lean on the direction of my hand, purring louder as I start scratching a bit more faster, which caused him to slowly fall leftward on the grassy ground from the log he was sitting on while I was continued scratching his head. I chuckled at his cat-like behavior when I began scratching the behind of his ears. Once I stop scratching, he began meowing groggily, sounding like whining as well, pleading for me to scratch the behind his ears more. Soon he managed to snap out of it. He then made a low growl when he realized what I've did to him.

"You son of a bitch!" He exasperated with a discomforting and embarrassed voice at his previous 'kitty' behavior as he placed his paw on top of his head while he later shook his head.

"Did you enjoy that?" I asked with a cheeky grin, amused at his reaction.

"E-Enjoy it? I think the word suffering would suit it right." Yun stuttered first at his respond to me.

"You know, I still believe you enjoyed that a lot, but try imagining if a she-cheetah does the same thing I did on you." I guffawed briefly. "Man! Your gonna lose your shit and go crazy on her, pleading for her to go even harder on you!" I teased while guffawing boisterously. Yun gasped.

"Y-Y-You... w-wretched furless ape!" He stuttered heavily while his whole face reddened from what I've said.

"Alright sheesh, quit gibbering already." I began, lending him a hand for him to stood back up. "Come on, Mei must've finished cooking dinner, she'll start worrying for us both like a hectic mom if we don't get back their soon enough."

Yun then calmed himself down and nodded. Before we could go back to the east side of the village, Yun puts out the fire of the campfire as we both start walking back the Mei and Mingzhu's house.

Author Note : And that's about it, and I hope this 7.5K word chapter was enjoyable. I hope I did alright about when Lukas was talking with Yun about the 'wild animal' topic. If any of you feel like I was missing or being incorrect about something, please tell me either through PM or Review.

Right now at this point, I have nothing else say but some very irritating bad news. Recently, I have injured my right hand as it got 2 stitches and is being wrapped all around and it almost covered my whole forearm. The wrappings literally made my right hand being trapped like shell. I am a right-handed person and this goddamn injury hindered my writing significantly and disabled my drawing skills. The doctor said that I'll make a good recovery in about two months.

But this won't stop make me from writing out new chapters and contents (I really hope so), though I now gotta start taking things more easier in my daily basis.

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