The first morning gong rung waking Tigress up.

She yells "Po, Shifu's going to stop letting us cuddle at night if you don't get up now!"

Po sighs getting up out of bed.

They walk out of Po's room.

Tigress stands outside her room across from Po's room.

Po and Tigress smile greeting Shifu "good morning, Master Shifu."

Shifu smirks "Tigress, when Po sleeps past the Morning gong, I'll leave it to you to wake him up."

Tigress smiles "yes Master, I think I'll enjoy waking my boyfriend up" grinning subductive at Po.

Po gulps "I get the feeling that I won't like how you wake me up."

Tigress smirks "you'll enjoy the teasing."

Po looks at Shifu and ask "would you, Oogway and Tigress be up for having breakfast at my dad's this morning? My treat."

Shifu smiles "we would have to see if Master Oogway would like to go to your dad's shop for breakfast."

Po smiles and follows Shifu with Tigress to the kitchen.

When they arrived at the kitchen Oogway was sitting at the table eating dumplings.

Po smiles "Master Oogway, I was wondering if you wanted to come to my dad's noodle shop for breakfast, but I see you were already having breakfast."

Oogway smiles "that was very thoughtful of you Po. Which is why you won't be part of the Furious Five, but another protector in time."

Po looks at Shifu and ask "do you want to come?"

Shifu smiles "I suppose I could come have breakfast with you two."

Po and Tigress follow Shifu out of the Jade Palace and down the thousand steps to the village.

Half an hour later, they reached the bottom of the stairs to the village.

Some of the villagers look at them walking through the village and whispers "are they going to become the new protectors of the Valley of Peace?"

Po smiles at that, becoming a protector.

Tigress sighs wondering if she would make a great warrior of the Valley of Peace.

Shifu sighs wondering how Po can become a protector of the Valley of Peace.

They walk inside Mr. Ping's noodles shop.

Mr. Ping was cooking noodles and dumplings for breakfast when he looked up to see Master Shifu, Po and Tigress walk in and smiles "Master Shifu, Po, Tigress, how are you all doing?"

Po smiles "we're doing good at the Jade Palace.

Tigress helps me with kicks and punches, plus tag team combat."

Mr. Ping smirks "your girlfriend is helping you train to become a protector, are you giving her a kiss as a thank you?"

Po sighs "no dad I can't do that because Jade Palace rules."

Mr. Ping smile "I don't think Master Shifu would punish you, for doing something to show her a sign of thank you."

Tigress blushes at the comment and sighs thinking about being shown a sign of a thank you for helping him with training and smiles "baba?"

Shifu looks at Tigress and ask "yes daughter?"

Tigress smiles "I think I would like Po to do something for me that I might like as a way of saying thank you."

Shifu sighs "as long as it isn't kissing right now, I think I could approve hugging or kiss on the cheek."

Tigress smiles "thank you baba."

Po looks at them and says "you can order what you want for breakfast now."

Tigress orders a bowl of dumplings with soy sauce on the side.

Shifu orders a bowl of noodles for breakfast.

Mr. Ping smile "okay Masters and Po can you help me inside the kitchen?"

Po smiles "sure thing dad."

He looks at Tigress and ask "for your dumplings would you like them spiced up some?"

Tigress smiles in a more loving look and says "a tinge spicy."

Po walks inside the kitchen to help his dad with cooking.

Five minutes later Po comes out of the kitchen carry a bowl of spicy dumplings and a bowl of noodles.

He sets the bowls down and walks back into the kitchen to grab a bowl of soy sauce and his bowl of noodles "one bowl of soy sauce for my girlfriend."

Tigress smiles and grabs his head and kisses his cheek in a second shocking anyone who saw her kiss him.

She whispers in his ear "I like you calling me your girlfriend when we're alone until I turn fourteen."

Po blushes at her comment.

They eat their breakfast and walk back to the Jade Palace through the village.

As they were walking past the villagers, they stop when they hear a villager whispered "are they going to be our new protectors of Valley of Peace?"

Another villager whispers "I hope they don't turn out like Tai Lung after they're denied the Dragon scroll. He destroyed part of the Village to make the villagers fear him and vowed to return to face the choosen Dragon Warrior."

Po and Tigress stop at hearing about Tai Lung and what he did.

They look at each other thinking the same thing 'what happened to Tai Lung.'

They continue following Master Shifu up the thousand stairs to the Jade Palace.

Half an hour later, they reached the top of the thousand stairs.

Shifu sighs "Po and Tigress, go train until lunch time then you can have the rest of the day to yourself."

Po sighs "Master Shifu, could you tell us about Tai Lung?"

Shifu ask "where did you hear Tai Lung's name from?"

Tigress sighs "we heard one of the villagers talk about him destroying part of the village and disappeared."

Shifu sighs "Tai Lung was a good warrior. He was the first person to master the thousand scrolls of Kung Fu in two months. I loved him like my own son.

Then one day he thought he was the person to be chosen as the Dragon Warrior, but he was denied the title and destroyed part of the village and disappeared from the village after vowing to return to face the choosen Dragon Warrior."

Tigress ask "who would be announced the Dragon Warrior?"

Shifu sighs "I don't know who would be announced as the Dragon Warrior."

Po and Tigress walk inside the training hall to train to become Kung Fu masters.

Shifu walks to the moon pool room.

Master Oogway was balancing on his staff meditating.

Shifu sighs "Master Oogway?"

Oogway lowers off his staff and smiles "awww, Shifu, my friend, how are you doing this morning?"

Shifu sighs "Po and Tigress heard about Tai Lung and were wondering who would be announced as the Dragon Warrior."

Oogway sighs "I will announce who the Dragon Warrior will be after Po and Tigress's twentieth birthday."

Shifu sighs "Po still doesn't know how he got to the Valley of Peace or that bandits wiped out his family. Po and Tigress are getting closer together as time passes."

Oogway smiles "it's okay if they get closer together, it will strengthen their teamwork in combat against villains."

Shifu sighs "yes Master."

He leaves to go check on Po and Tigress's training.

When he opens the door to the training hall to see Tigress assisting Po doing the splits.

He smiles "well I can see you two are training each other."

Po finally splits his legs but can't get up.

Tigress smiles "yin-yang roll forward."

Po rolls forward like a ball to laying on his back and rolls over and stands up on his legs, "thanks, Tigress."

Tigress smiles "your welcome Po."

Shifu looks at Tigress and says "Tigress I'm going to throw these discs in the air and your going to split kick them making them break to pieces."

Tigress sighs "okay Master."

Shifu tose two disc up in the air and Tigress jumped in the air doing a split kick shattering the disc.

She lands on the ground in front of them to see Shifu smiling while Po has a admiration written on his facial features.

Tigress blushes a little bit then ask "what's next to learn?"

Shifu smiles "combat training, lets see how you two do against each other."

Po smile "let's go, Tigress."

Po and Tigress walk to the center of the training hall and bow to each other, then enter their stances.

Po runs first to punch and Tigress catches his hand swings him around in a circle ten times then lets go and kicks him in the stomach sending him ten feet back away from her.

Po gets up slowly and dizzy and ask "Tigress, why do I see five of you?"

Shifu looks at Tigress and says "now attack then you both can rest for the day at least until Po is back to normal."

Tigress charges at Po punching him in the face then kicks him in the stomach hard.

Po falls on the ground for five minutes resting.

Tigress walks over to him and ask "Po, are you okay?" Po sighs "I still see five of you, Tigress."

Oogway smiles "Tigress, why don't you take Po to the healers, then to his room?"

Tigress sighs "yes Master" and helps Po to the healers.

Once the healer looks over him, he ask Tigress "how hard did you hit him? You gave him a minor concussion same as a major headache."

Tigress sighs "oh Po, I'm so sorry I gave you a concussion" hugs him tightly.

Po sighs "don't worry Tigress we were training to be Kung Fu masters."

The doctor sighs "well he will have to stay in bed for a day and no training for two days. I will go inform Master Shifu and Master Oogway."

Tigress puts Po's left arm around her shoulder and helps him to their room and stops walking and smiles.

Po ask her "why did you stop walking for?"

Tigress smiles "I was thinking about your room that we cuddle in and called it our bedroom since I cuddled in your bed at night."

Po smile "okay kitten."

Tigress purrs softly for a second and continues walking to their room. Once they reach their room.

Po climbs in bed and Tigress cuddles in his arms resting her head in his neck purring softly.

Po massage her back while resting.

She snuggles more into his neck while giving his face a lick as return affection.

Po whispers "I won't leave you kitten."

Tigress purrs loudly and sighs looking at Po and kisses his cheek.

Po kisses Tigress's cheek in return causing Tigress to mew a second.

An hour later, Shifu walks inside Po's room to see Po resting and Tigress sleeping in his arms purring softly nonstop.

He walks over to them and taps Tigress's shoulder whispering "Tigress, wake up it's noon, time for lunch."

Tigress yawns sleepy and smiles "good afternoon, baba."

Shifu smiles "good afternoon daughter."

Tigress wakes up Po by tapping his shoulder.

Po grabs her hand to stop her.

Tigress sighs "okay, if you don't want to get up then you leave me no choice" and lightly touch her teeth on his shoulder licking his shoulder with her tongue.

Po instantly opens his eyes and says "okay kitten, I'm up."

Tigress smiles cheerfully and gets up to go have lunch.

Po gets up and follows her to the kitchen to have lunch.

Shifu sighs wondering what he just witnessed.

He walks to the kitchen to see Po and Tigress eating dumplings from the chef.

Shifu sighs seeing them interact with each other. Oogway smiles at them becoming closer to each other.

After having lunch Po and Tigress walk outside to play tag.

Then walked down to the village to see Mr. Ping and help him with the customer orders.

Mr. Ping smile at Po and Tigress coming in the shop and greets them "good evening you two."

Po smiles "hi dad, we came here to help you out with the rush orders."

Tigress smiles at them and wonders why Shifu doesn't get over Tai Lung.

Mr. Ping pulls out Po's apron to help make noodles and dumplings while Tigress waits tables.

Mr. Ping ask them "how is it coming with the training to become Kung Fu masters?"

Tigress sighs "me and Po had our first sparring session, but he lost."

Mr. Ping smirks "Po, did you let your girlfriend kick your butt?"

Po sighs "no dad, I didn't let Tigress beat me."

Mr. Ping smiles "well I hope you are doing alright with her and never take her for granted."

Po smiles "I could never go on without her, dad."

Tigress blushes but her orange fur covers it up, then with a thought she walks up to Po and Mr. Ping and lick Po's cheek in front of customers that caught sight of the kiss.

Po blushes at the affection and in return, he wraps his arms around her waist in a hug and whispers "I love you, Tigress."

Mr. Ping smile at them and says "Po you better treat her right or I will bust you for breaking her heart."

Po nervously replies "if I break her heart, I think it would be her putting me in the hospital."

Tigress smiles "oh no Po, I wouldn't put you in the hospital, I would just torture you for a week."

Po gulps at her comment and sighs.

An hour later after finish helping Mr. Ping with orders, Po and Tigress walk back up the thousands stairs towards the Jade Palace after bidding Mr. Ping goodbye.

Po holds Tigress's paw causing her to purr quietly.

He lets go of her paw and wraps his paw around her waist bringing her closer to him causing her purring to become louder.

Tigress smiles at him and licks his cheek.

Once they reach the Jade Palace, they bid Master Oogway and Master Shifu goodnight and head off to bed.

Po laid down on his bed while Tigress cuddled in his arms.

Po smiles at Tigress.

Tigress paws his chest nuzzling his neck. Po licks her forehead.

Tigress turns her head to face him catching his lips in a kiss for a second and smile letting sleep take over both of them.