Po and Tigress clean up the restaurant so it looks good.

Tigress sighs "do you think Silas will come after me again?"

Po sighs "I don't know, but I would have to go into the Jade Palace hall of scrolls to find tiger law scroll."

Customers walk in Mr. Ping's restaurant to see Po and Tigress running the restaurant.

Po begins cooking noodles and dumplings.

Tigress grabs apron and writes down orders.

A couple of snow leopards walk in and sit down to look at the menu.

Tigress grins "my name is Tigress and I'll be the only waiter since the owner was attacked last night."

A snow leopard ask "is the panda working today because we would like a date with him?"

Tigress sighs "he's cooking the food and we are dating."

The other leopards exclaims "your the one who has her scent cake on him and is strong to smell like you two mated and now I smell his scent mixed with yours on you."

Tigress gape "you smell his scent mixed with mine on me?!"

The snow leopard grins "did you two mate?"

Tigress thinks about it, they been cuddling since they were five years old and widen her eyes, the time he accidentally entered her a tip through his underwear with her not wearing undergarments under her shirt and would be considered mating.

The day went on with Po and Tigress running the restaurant while Mr. Ping was in the hospital.

Monkey decided to help Tigress with waiting tables.

After closing time, Tigress walks in the kitchen and says "Po, I think I found out something between us."

Po ask "what did you find out between us?"

Tigress answers "earlier today, two snow leopards came in wanting to ask you out on a date when I told them that your dating me."

Po nods his head in understanding.

Tigress nervous continues "they smell your scent mixed with mine on each other and that it was strong enough to state we mated and then I remember that we accidentally almost mated through your underwear."

Po curious ask "meaning?"

Tigress blushes "we basically mated without going all the way."

Po widen his eyes "oh, if Shifu finds out about this, we won't be allowed to cuddle with each other when we want to."

Tigress nods her head "yeah."

After cleaning the kitchen, they head down to hospital to check on Mr. Ping.

When they arrive at Mr. Ping's room, they see he's awake.

Po smiles "hi, dad."

Tigress grins "hi, Mr. Ping."

Mr. Ping smiles "hi son and daughter in law."

Po sighs "dad, how are you feeling now?"

Mr. Ping grins "I'm doing fine, son."

Po smiles "me and Tigress ran the restaurant today after cleaning up the mess that tiger left."

Mr. Ping nods his head and says "that sweet of you two, Po and Tigress."

Tigress sighs "Mr. Ping, what did the doctor tell you?"

Mr. Ping sighs "he said that I won't be able to run the restaurant until my arm healed."

Tigress sighs "we would probably have to figure out a schedule to balance running your restaurant and training to be masters."

Mr. Ping nods his head.

After an hour, Po and Tigress leave heading back to the Jade Palace.

About an hour later, they reach the Jade Palace and walk inside.

They visited the Hall of artifacts to see Shifu meditating with Oogway balancing on his staff.

Tigress tells her master "goodnight, master Shifu and master Oogway."

Po tells them the same.

Shifu stops them "Po, Tigress, I found the scroll on tiger law and it said that male tigers do order females around and if the female is dating a male, another male can challenge that male for his mate unless she already mated with the male.

Then she is off limits unless the male that she mated with dies."

Tigress and Po gape at that law.

Shifu sighs "you two are too young to mate, so I'm afraid Po may be accepting many challenges for male tigers to want to claim you for population growth."

Tigress bows her head "yes, master."

They walk to their rooms and head to bed.

Tigress sighs "if we did mate fully, then no one would be able to challenge you for me and girls wouldn't be able to ask you out on a date."

Po sighs "yeah. We definitely are in a situation where we will be fighting many suitors to defend each other for our relationship."

They entered their rooms after telling each other goodnigh.

Two hours later in the night while everyone was asleep, Tigress woke up and walks across the hall to Po's room and shuts his door softly and tip toes over to the bed where Po was sleeping and shakes him awake.

Po stirs to see Tigress and ask "do you feel unsafe again?"

Tigress shakes her head "no, I was thinking about us and mating and suitors coming for us."

Po sighs "I don't want to make Shifu not trust us sleeping in the same bed without mating."

Tigress sighs "we may have to mate to claim each other in order to keep suitors from coming for us."

Po sighs "we should probably leave that as last resort."

Tigress curious ask "and if we can't?"

Po thinks about something and takes his blanket off and walks over to his trunk and moves stuff around and pulls out the scroll that his father gave him and skimmed through it, dating, female heat cycle, mating, claiming each other as life mates.

Tigress grins "that could work."

Po says "it's another way of claiming each other as their mates without mating and possibly getting the female pregnant. All you do is mark your mate with your bite mark on their shoulder."

Tigress reads "a couple does this after they finish mating while still connected."

Po comments "I think Shifu would let us mark each other as mates."

Tigress nervous comments "if that doesn't stop the suitors from coming after us, we would have to mate to prove we are mates."

Po nods his head "let's mark each other first."

Tigress comments "I think we better mate than mark each other."

Po shakes his head "I don't want to face the wrath of Shifu if he finds out we mated against his wishes."

Tigress sighs and bites Po's shoulder while Po bites her shoulder to mark each other as mates.

Tigress goes back to her room to sleep.

Next morning, the gong rings and everyone steps outside to greet their master.

Shifu nods his head and dismissed them to eat breakfast and train.

As they eat breakfast, they talk about their day plan.

Viper notice Po's shoulder to see a bite mark and ask "Po, who bit you last night?"

Po nervous answers "me and Tigress got into an argument and bit each other, but we worked it out and still dating each other."

Monkey and Mantis gape at they biting each other.

Crane sighs "at least you two worked it out."

They eat breakfast and walk to the training Hall to train.

As they train, the doors to the training Hall opened.

He watch them train until Master Shifu and Master Oogway joined him.

He sighs "they released me after my tribe came to my defense and I want to apologize to you masters of the Jade Palace."

Shifu sighs "you should leave before Po kills you."

Silas sighs "I come to court Tigress."

Oogway curious ask "why court a female tiger in your tribe?"

Silas sighs "they have been paired and young ones are too young for me and I been looking for a girl tiger that was taken by her parents to protect her from our laws. They found love in each other and made her and didn't want her to go through what they did."

Shifu ask "you been hunting this female tiger?"

Silas answers "yes, your daughter because I track her parents scent to an orphanage and lost their daughter's scent after it got masked by another scent and then I lost it around other villages."

Po stops training and says "you were tracking me."

Silas answers "I didn't know why your daughter was traveling around villages until I found her buying spices and was wearing a mixed scent that I tracked around China."

Oogway sighs "what do you want?"

Silas sternly answers "you must let me take the female tiger back to my tribe or I'll have my tribe come here for war."

Shifu gape "you want to bring war?"

Silas sternly comments "she is escaped member of our tribe and must be returned to our tribe to populate our race because she's single and hasn't mated with anyone to save herself from suitors of our race or other felines that would want her."

Tigress growls "I'm not single and I have a boyfriend and my father said I'm too young to mate!"

Silas ask "where is your boyfriend then?"

Po sternly answers "I'm her boyfriend."

Silas laughs "that's funny because in our tribe you have to be a tiger to date a female tiger and your a panda which means your her friend, but not her mate.

Now girl tiger, pack your belongings and let's go because I want to be back home by tonight."

Tigress hisses "I don't have to listen to you!"

Silas growls "actually, you do because you don't have a say against males! Now unless you have a boyfriend and mated with your boyfriend, you have to return with me to begin our dating ritual until you turn eighteen and then mating ritual."

Po stands in front of Tigress and scowls "I'm her boyfriend."

Silas growls "if you don't stop interfering in my business, then you leave me no choice, but to challenge you for her!"

Po grins "Shifu and Oogway, their law states that if I win I submitted my claim on Tigress as my future wife, right?"

Shifu answers "yes, Po, but if you do win would have to announce to the village that your both engaged and couldn't room in the same room until you two get married."

Po grins "I been wanting to fight you after you attack my father the other night."

Silas grins "your going to lose horribly."

Tigress nervous about losing Po and remembering that if Po wasn't wearing his underwear, they would of mated