And the news of Max and Saori's kissing spreads through the Bushido-Akio house...to his brothers, of course.

Chapter 7: Introduction to Adolesence

After getting an unexpected kiss from Saori, Max walks back to his house for a second as Blaze hangs around in the front porch talking with the palace masters, but it was the way that Max walked into the house almost as if he's in heaven as he silently entered the room, closed the door and just puts his head against the door, sighing in pure satisfaction that he and Saori kissed. Even though he's not at the age of 12 yet, he feels like he's in cloud nine and just began to feel what falling in love feels like.

Not long afterwards, Max came back to his senses and just walked to the house in a good mood and saw his brothers hanging out like everything is normal, but Max could kinda sense that they know something, but didn't want Max to figure it out yet and he walks to the kitchen and he said, "Hey, guys."

"Hey, Max. How's it going?" asked Samurai, reading his comic book.

Max picked up some fruit as he sat down on the chair and used his claws to peel off the skin of the apple and eats it and Tsunami looked at Max and said, "So...how are things?"

"Pretty good. You?" asked Max.

"Oh, just fine. Just great." Tsunami replied, drawing a dragon.

As Max was eating, he couldn't help but have this funny feeling that someone knows something that Max doesn't know, but is able to wait it out until he gets the gist of what's really going on, but at the same time, his panda brothers know that he's growing up with that first kiss they witnessed without his knowledge. Phoenix walks downstairs and he looks at Max with the most sly look ever and he said, "Hey, buddy! How's life?"

"Pretty good. Life is really, really good." Max answered, with a smile.

When Phoenix saw that smile, he could tell that something's up with Max that made his heart flutter up in the air, but he also spots the lipstick smudge on his cheek and tries to hold his laughter in so that Max doesn't know. When Phoenix got a chance to compose himself, he clears his throat and asked, "Can I ask you something?"

"Sure." Max replied, reaching in for a cup of water to drink.

"It's gonna be kind of a spur of the moment, but...how did you enjoy your first kiss with Saori?" asked Phoenix.

Max spat out his water in complete shock the minute Phoenix asked him that question and blinked several times, yet Samurai and Tsunami didn't flinch quickly and Max turned to Phoenix and asked, "How did you know that?"

"Let's just say we kinda...saw you kissing Saori on the front porch earlier." Phoenix replied.

Max froze for a second and then slowly turned to Phoenix almost as if they figured it out in the realest way possible and he asked, "How did you see us?"

"We were looking at the window upstairs. Me, Sam, Tsunami and Sage." Phoenix added.

Then, Max's shock grew completely higher as he turned to Samurai and Tsunami who were very nonchalant about this and he asked, "You knew, didn't you?"

"You're a stud, Max. We can tell you were kissing up a storm." Tsunami replied.

"I never thought that our little brother would be a kisser. I never would've thought...but hey, you got the Bushido-Akio genes when it comes to the ladies." Samurai said, smiling.

Max seemed very confused on what that meant and asked, "What genes?"

Samurai could tell that Max has no idea what it all meant, despite the fact that he's an adopted Bushido-Akio and said, "Maybe dad can help. He has more experience than most of us, but we're slowly figuring it out piece by piece."

"I hope dad doesn't know that I kissed a girl." Max replied, a little nervous.

"Oh, I wouldn't say that."

And from the minute he heard his dad's voice right behind him, Max felt a few chills go down his spine as Mako walks over to Max and said, "I think it's time I give you the talk, Max."

Mako gives Max the talk! Wonder how that will turn out!