The Story Behind Jin-Min

As promised by Tigress, she poured hot sauce into Po's breakfast resulting in Po screaming and jumping around fanning his tongue. The team got a laugh out of this. Then Tigress remember a question that Po had. So after the panda's flaming fiasco, Tigress took Po aside and spoke to him about it. "What did you want to ask me about?" she asked. Po looked confused, "There was a question that you wanted to ask me last night. What was it?" Po instantly became nervous.

"Oh! That! Um...You know what? I forgot it. Sorry about that" Po said nervously waving it off, but Tigress sensed he was hiding something.

"Po, what's wrong?"

"It's a silly question, really it is?"

"I thought you didn't remember the question."

"Well, I...um...darn it!" Po said making Tigress chuckle a little.

"What is it Po?" she asked. Po was silent for a moment.

"Well, have you ever been in love with someone?" Po asked awkwardly. Tigress's attitude dramatically changed from curious and light-hearted to...something that Po thought he would never see.

"You're in love? With who?" Tigress asked impatiently.

"Whoa, easy. I was just curious if you ever were in love with someone?"

"But why now? Here, who are you in love with?" She asked in a rather angry tone.

"No one. I'm not in love with...anyone," Po said only lying partially. Was that Jealousy that he was hearing from her? No, couldn't be. In any case, she seemed to settle down a bit.

"No. I've never been in love...much," Tigress said fibbing a little.

"What do you mean by that?"

"Well you know that I had a crush on Shifu when I was a teen. Then, I admit, I had a crush on the Midnight Stranger, and well...I don't think you'll like the other-"

"I know you had a thing for Yijiro," Po said calmly. Tigress looked at him. "You can't hide ALL your emotions." Tigress sighed defeated.

"Well. Yeah, other than that, I've never been in love. Well, True love. Now, why do you ask?" Tigress flipped the tables.

"I was just curious," Po said.

"Okay, then have you ever been in love?" She asked. Po looked around nervously.

"Well, yes and no. I mean, I had a thing for Song, then the girl who was trying to marry me. But I've come to the realization that I will never fall in love."

"Why?" Tigress asked a little disappointed that Po was giving up.

"Tigress, it's practically impossible for me to have a girlfriend, much less a girl who would like me. I mean it's a either: I'm a panda, I'm the Dragon Warrior, or someone's trying to kill me."

"I...don't understand," Tigress said confused.

"I'm a panda. Correction: I'm a quote "Big Fat Stinky Panda." People wouldn't exactly try to go out with someone like that. I'm the Dragon Warrior. Since I'm the Dragon Warrior, people just want me for popularity and riches. Then Someone's trying to kill me. If there's some girl that gets pass the first two, they're usually related to or involved with someone who want's to kill me or do something bad. Case and point: Song and Lin-shu (I think that's her name)"

"You can't give up that easily," Tigress encouraged.

"Tigress, I've been at this for a long time. You give up hope after a while," Po said sadly. Tigress unsheathed one of her claws on her finger and placed it sharply on Po's chest.

"Don't. Give. Up," She said VERY sternly, scaring Po a little. "So what certain girls don't see that you're a good guy? Doesn't matter. There's a person for everyone, Po. You just have to patient. Never forget that. Got it?" Po couldn't really argue at this point. He simply nodded. "Good. Now, I have to train with Leo. Don't forget what I said." She walked away. Po noticed she was swinging her tail and hips a certain way. Almost in an alluring way. Tigress looked back and smirked. Po's eyes widened as she turned the corner. Was she just flirting with him?! Po shook his head trying to brush it off. Nah! She would never do that. Would she? He didn't really know. But he liked thinking about it.

Meanwhile, Tigress had just walked in on Miwa and Leo talking to each other. They seem really relaxed. In fact, it was the first time that Tigress had ever seen Leo smiling around a tiger. She did a purposeful cough to get their attention. "I'm sorry to interrupt your conversation, but I need to train with Leo," Tigress said.

"Oh, um...of course," Miwa said blushing, "Well I'll leave you with Tigress, Leo. Goodbye."

"Goodbye," Leo said waving her off. As she went away, Tigress chuckled at Leo's daze.

"You really like her, huh?" Tigress said.

"Huh? What I...Um.. *sigh* let's just get back to your training," Leo said defeated, "Today, you'll just have to chase me around the entire palace."

"To be honest with you, Leo, I don't feel like chasing you today. Can't we do something else?" she asked.

"That's what I thought you would say. So I took the liberty of taking this from your room," Leo answered producing a tattered journal. Tigress's eyes went wide, "And I can tell you that the part about Po is very interesting," Leo smiled evilly.

"LEO! GIVE THAT BACK!" Tigress shouted chasing after him with redness in her face.

"You'll have to catch me first!" Leo said teasingly and dashing off. While the two were running around, Po and Tiger talked for a while.

"You see, after I was chosen Dragon Warrior, the Furious Five and Master Shifu were all against me. They didn't think I was the right choice for Dragon Warrior," Po was explaining how be became the Dragon Warrior.

"Did you think you were the right choice?" Tiger asked. Po's ears sank a little.

"No, I didn't. In fact, I was ready to go when they said they didn't want me there," Po shook his head trying to get rid of the memory, "But anyways, we've got to talk about how you got to be leader of this place."

"Well, I was able to rally a rag-tag team to overthrow the previous leader. I even got some of his own men on the conspiracy. But when I heard that Wong-Hu heard about the conspiracy, I had to move quickly. So we manage to invade the palace and seize it and killed the leader. But Wong-Hu got away. I thought that he wouldn't do anything else, but then.." A tear came into Tiger's eye, "Then he killed my wife in a dark alley. That's why I was so afraid for Miwa, because she would have gone the same way. She was suppose to go with an escort, but she's like her mother and stubbornly wanted to go low key."

"Um...no offense, Tiger, but that's your family as well. I'm sorry for your loss, though," Po said sadly.

"It's alright. I've been managing. So you and my sister seem to be doing very well," Tiger said in a teasing manner. Po rolled his eyes.

"It may LOOK like it, but at home we barely can sustain a friendship. I usually screw up or do something to make her angry. It's only now that I've seen her mellow some," Po sighed. Tiger patted him on the shoulder.

"She's Tigra's daughter. What did you expect?" Tiger replied.

"Well, I didn't know that until I came here and met her. Then I realized why she was this way. I guess I should count myself lucky," Po said while Tiger looked at him wait for him to speak, "She could be a lot worse."

"How?"

"She could be EXACTLY like Tigra," Po said making both of them laugh.

To be continued.